We’re sure they meant it all innocently enough with this “Where Chefs Eat” piece, but after staying up all night last night reading Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, it would seem that these are the only places in the city not run by a legion of five-foot rats. Thank God they spared Vietnam.
Inky: The Clean And [...]

Our buddy Deep Pockets is what we in the biz call a man on the inside. He’s always either doing or at some thing that we got way too jaded for long, long ago. But actually being at things has one benefit: You overhear things. And man o man, does this motherfucker have some big [...]

No one listens to Thievery Corporation anymore. Also, you waited about three years too long to jock this whole restaurant mix CD thing. Also, Coldplay called: They want their empathy back.
PW: Wikiwikiwiki! Mixing It Up With Uncle Steve [scroll down]

We just got word that negligably cheesy local band Pepper’s Ghost is about to start a 40-date tour opening for Ashlee Simpson, sending our plus/minus meter into a frenzy of snark. We have spit collecting in the sides of our mouths and we’re gnawing on old dog bones trying to figure out the exact nature [...]

The Daily News is dying to know! Developing.

Hi there, reader! Did you come across this site while researching Philadelphia? Say, can we ask you a question? Are you a fledgling rapper planning to come to Philly and commit a grisly homocide? You are! Oh, I’m so glad we asked! Because you really should consider one of our finest long-stay residence hotels:
The suites [...]

Why? Because you just froze it off. Loving all those new flavors of Channel 10 weather gum! Mmmm, arctic blast!

FBI reveals it videotaped the dude during their patronage/corruption/same-old-shit probe in ‘03, and here’s the shocker: None of it is useable in the trial. Confidential to White: Dude, if you are gonna bilk the system, please just don’t be so god-damn pedestrian about it. Bang some whores! Do some blow! You only go around once. [...]

Hip-E-Chick, one the first early-adopting new-hipster-Fishtown businesses suffered a big fire on Sunday; most merchandise was destroyed, but nobody was hurt.
KYW: Something We Don’t Understand BURN and Go Bye Bye!
Related: Hip-E-Chick Official Website

>>> Lit & Whimsy, PW’s reading series, is back, and this month’s theme is crime. Hear Inky lion George Anastasio wax crime-etic alongside Angela Valdez, J. Gabriel Boylan, Maureen Tkacik and Christopher Smith (aka DJ Mental Feelings, thus making him the first man to ever get This Evening-ed two days in a row! Heavy.). At [...]

Restaurant Week is next week; that means you can get your cheap ass laid for, ok, let’s do the math:
– $30 for you
– $30 for your date
– $28 for drinks
– $16 for tip
Oh, wait. That’s not that different from normal. You’re not getting laid. Thanks, Center City District!
CCD: Clean Out The Cobwebs, Skinflint!

>>> Go see ex-Ty Cobb-ers Mad Action dig in at Lush Puppy and Ryder’s Monday night sesh at Silk City. Mad Action are one of those bands that tour England all the time to cope with the evil pain of having to play in Philly on Mondays. They maintain. Believe:
Mad Action: “Smile” (mp3)
>>> Movie Monday [...]

But don’t think the DN TV columnist has let all the bright lights go to her head.
My companion and I never made it to the NBC party, the only other of the multiple parties at the Hilton to which we’d scored an invite. Halfway through the snaking line, we learned that the fire marshal had [...]

Hell’s Angels vs. Pagans! Amazing. It all feels so Altamont. We are so hoping this creates a homemade roach clip and meth price war, to say nothing of a resurgent trend of travelling ’round town with a leather wineskin. Benny, are you reading this? We should totally book a Steppenwolf cover band for our party. [...]

Ok, so, we’re a few minutes late on this, but word is, Y-100’s Preston and Steve are going to take their daily morning potato sack race for witless cripples over to WMMR in some kind of feeble effort to bring back the golden era of the Morning Zoo. What’s next, Sniglets? Jesus. No word on [...]

Oh, it’s true. This one is going to be a humdinger; it’s at the Metro Lounge at Front and Fairmount. Details are still being ironed out, but know this: We’re doing it with HurryDate. Yes, the Dating On Demand people. See? We’re giving something back to the community! We’re a little stumped as to DJs, [...]

>>> Hollertronix fans, get krunk: The new Low B mixtape is up.
>>> The dudes at GhettoCrown are calling for artists to join them in “creating a book/zine/dvd made by artists to help the relief effort in South Asia due to the Tsunami on top of already 3rd world conditions that existed in many areas before [...]

So, yes, we went to the Puma/Chromeo party at the Puma store on Walnut St. on Wednesday. We were able to snap a few shots before the batteries that we swapped out from the vibrator died. Oh, well, we tried. Anyway, it could have been a total bust: Chromeo was held in Canada due to [...]

Fucking Goths. There goes our cred. Next time you see us, don’t be surprised if we’re rocking this look. Thanks a lot, Dave.

From: Sless-Kitain
Date: Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:45:49 AM US/Eastern
To: tips@philebrity.com
Subject: you suck
I can’t believe you wrote this shit today:
“Some of you have surely noticed the lack of evening
picks during the week as of late. There is no
mysterious reason for this: It?s just that there
hasn?t been much good stuff to send you to. Ah,
January.”
JC [...]