Friday:
>>> Cootie Shot is BACK! Get the And Dim Sum whump-whump on lockdown, as Fugee-approved Phil Moore Brown breaks necks and thyself in a race to the earth’s molten core of bubbling awesomeness. At Silk City. (And yes, all the weekend picks this week will be written in a hipster patois so deep you’ll need [...]

>>> “Hey, my Espers are all up in your Nico! And it doesn’t taste half bad!” [Pitchfork]
>>> Hollertronix caught in Mike Jones/Britney Spears daisychain shocker! Film at 11. [Fluxblog]
>>> And lastly, One Star Hotel calls it quits. Sad to see you go, dawgs. [OneStarHotel]

So, yesterday we asked readers to identify the 3 bands pictured here; in exchange, the first person to get it right would win a fabulous prize as part of a new contest we’ll be doing over the next few days, The Philebrity 3-Way. The correct answers were:
1. Gang of Four, who play the TLA next [...]

While we were sleeping it off, Cap’n Obv. reports that Lil’ Kim is in good spirits and keeping busy in the federal pen at 7th and Arch. She’s releasing a record! She’s sending out press releases! And for the love of Christ, she’s blogging! (Maybe.) In any case, if you were wondering, all past, present [...]

Jeff Love of The National Eye shaving with Evan Dando last night.

>>> Personally, yes, we are this infantile and ridiculous: We’re wearing our high school uniforms to High School Confidential, the partystorecultjam thrown every whenever by the The Town Jewelrz. Click on flyer for the new awesomeness.
>>> Two, count ‘em two, flavors of flakegenius tonight: Lemonheads at the TLA; and The Lilys (with Holopaw at the [...]

>>> Ain’t a goddamn thing easy in this life when you’re a hustler: Beanie goes back to court on Monday. [Beanie Blog]
>>> PW contributor/Philebrity party cop Doug “Cool Doug” Wallen used to run a fanzine called Skyway. It was great. And if you need a somethin’ somethin’ for the bathroom, the Douger sez:
with fair autumn [...]

Something is happening and you don’t know what it is. First email to guess these 3 bands correctly wins a fabulous 3-way prize. Trust us, it’s good. Email to tips [at] philebrity [dot] com with the subject line “3WAY LIKE WHOA” to get all menage-ish and stuff. GO!

Today’s Table Talk in the Inky reveals a curious/spurious item: After nearly 100 years of catering exclusively to the old and decrepit, suddenly Georges Perrier is all Dance Dance Revolution and shit, going so far as to even offer $39 and $85 prix fixe plates at Le Bec-Fin. Why?
“Business is OK,” Perrier says. “But [the [...]

>>> Jack Rose gets crazy with the beard whiz at The Standard Tap. Groovy? Thoust can rely on it. With Micah Blue Smaldone and Alec Redfearn. 9:30pm, free as the wind.
>>> Meanwhile, over at the Kensington South Forum, they’re putting the K back in the Kenz. Oh, you didn’t notice it was missing? Wolf Colonel [...]

Everybody knows that Philebrity + Plain Parade = true love. And this Saturday’s PP show at The M Room ain’t no dif. On the bill? We-ell, how about a heaping spoonful of National Eye? A dollop of Spinto Band? And equal parts lolly-lickers Pas/Cal and Illumina? In case you’ve been living under a [...]

First Sixth Borough Status, now this. A recent article in the October issue of travel-for-nerds mag National Geographic Traveler deems Philly the Next Great City. It must be a slow news day, because CNN reports that Traveler editor Keith Bellows had a hard time convincing staff of his choice.
Impressed by Philadelphia in recent visits, [...]

I’ll say it outright. Noel Weyrich [pictured at left with Byko] is a racist who thinks black life is cheap. He may not think he’s a racist, but few people do.
He would have never described a white victim in such a way, never in his life. He can cheapen Figeroa’s life precisely because [...]

For the last few months, the articles of Philadelphia Weekly contributor Steven Wells have totally perplexed us. He rages against a machine that is essentially dead already ó†rock ‘n’ roll ó†but he tackles it like it’s a flaming dragon with a plutonium heart that’s about to explode. In classic smash-a-bug-with-a-30-lb.-hammer style, today the Wellster takes [...]

“It’s going to be a damn travesty,” said the 31-year-old All-Pro, speaking to reporters months or even years before the hypothetical contract is drawn up. “A travesty. I’m one of the best receivers in this leagueóhell, after the incredible, record-breaking season I’m sure I’ll have had when I sign this next contract, I might be [...]

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For a while, we were kind of worried about this whole Philly Wifi deal. It didn’t really seem corrupt enough. And the prognosis didn’t look good: old school Philly contractors, crooks and council people still don’t really know what’s up with the internet. They’re still using payphones, stealing cigarettes off the backs of trucks and [...]

Hot on the heels of a PhillyMag story in which Noel Weyrich gets all hot under the collar about why bloggers suck ó yawn ó Will Bunch at Attytood blasts the very poor man’s Andy Rooney right back. Weyrich’s argument? Cloaking his bitchfit in the hoopla surrounding the Latoyia Figueroa story, he (almost enviously) claims [...]

So much for pudding pops. Today the The Daily News that Temple alum/Jell-O shill Bill Cosby is being charged with multiple counts of sexual harrassment and abuse. In today’s tackily named DN article, “Physical evidence against the Cos?, DN scribe Nicole Egan notes that:
One of Bill Cosby’s 14 accusers has “physical evidence” [...]

After we posted yesterday about our spotting of the pretzel dog, we were shocked and amazed at the amount of pretzel dog interest there was, and how helpful people wanted to be in spreading their own tales of pretzeldoggia. Among them:
? “You need to cover the ‘pretzel-rella,’ the pretzel covered mozzarella stick that they serev [...]