So listen: We’re still hard at work on That’s So 2005: The Year’s Most Philebritronic Moments ó well, OK, we’re actually just eating leftovers, popping Zoloft like they were Pez and thinking about the year’s most Philebritronic moments. But you know, it’s all part of the process. Meantime, please do join us at the spankin’ [...]

God damn, we listened to a lot of music this year. And while we don’t pretend to be scientific, well, we like what we like and we’re right about everything. So here it is, warts and all, and in no particular order. Rockers of the world, when you weren’t sucking, you, um, rocked us. Good [...]

It took us a while, as Americans, to learn what our European friends have known for years already: Text messaging is the shit. But in 2005, text messaging in America broke out by 154%. People who never thought theyíd bother were suddenly poppiní thumbs in the night like a Bryn Mawr sleepover party when they [...]

Philebrity will return on Tuesday with our full complement of That’s So 2005 year-end coverage. From us and our families to yours, may you have the most wondrous of seasons.

Friday:
>>> This, friends, is the calm before the storm. Strangely, it doesn’t seem like there’s a hell of a lot going on tonight. But you know what? Every bar in town is going to be totally packed, because people simply cannot get enough of the sauce this time of year. It’s as if the very [...]

As you may have noticed, with the holidays in full swing now, this has been one of the slowest news weeks ever here at Philebrity, and to be sure, in the city itself. It’s okay by us. We’ve been at home, mulling cider, adopting refugees and drawing pictures of Jesus. But we’re also pragmatists, and [...]

Nanos. Video iPods. Pink little Minis. All of ‘em, gone, says Metroblogging Philadelphia. This surely puts lots of people in a tight spot: Alcoholic fathers who’ve already told their teenage daughters that they got them one. Old folks who only half sort of know what an iPod is. And good God, what about the children? [...]

Ah, Christmas: the candied canes; the last-minute presents; the carols on the radio; and the anti-semitic literature on the front porch.
Every year with this shit. What the hell is wrong with people?
PhillyFuture: That’s So Aryantastic

But less than it being one of those “Holy shit, the world IS round” moments Rick Santorum so desperately needs, it’s more of a “Wow, I could actually lose this race if I keep it up with this holy-roller-God-hates-fags-darkies-and-fornicators nonsense” moment. You know what, Ricky? Here’s a Christmas wish hoping that there’s lots more where [...]

>>> Have you run out of back issues of Vogue and The New Yorker with which to wrap your gifts this year? Poor thing! You should have subscribed to W! Lucky for you, though, The Philadelphia Recycling Office ó don’t laugh, apparently there is one ó†is giving away free wrapping paper. And no, that wrapping [...]

To: Philebrity
We give you a dial that goes to 9. We appreciate your enthusiasm, but all that snark and slang is too much first thing in the morning.
First, everybody bitches that there’s no early-morning posting. So then we start doing some, and everybody’s [...]

Seriously, guys. What were you thinking?
Gridskipper: You’ve Got Boner-Energy I Mean Wait What Was It Supposed To Be Now?

Allen Iverson and Chris Webber might consider car-pooling, now that they are new neighbors in Villanova.
C. Webb went to settlement last week on a brand-new, 8,300-square-foot five-bedroom down the block from AI’s mansion – and the five-time NBA all-star paid $2.6 million.
In cash.
Hide your daughters, and please bone up immediately on both “trill” and “crunk.”
Michael [...]

Space is the motherfucking place. Let’s set this one off right.

While I was walking the gym, I passed several very excited Hipsters. They were chain smoking their cloves and one even offered to buy his three hipster friends coffees. Now when Hipsters volunteer to buy things, you know something is amiss. Thinking nothing of it, I continued on my way to the gym, passing the [...]

Christmas snow in Philadelphia is rare as well but trace events are more common. Philadelphia has received a trace of snow on Christmas or Christmas Eve about once every 3 years.
Man. That one buddy from college who comes back like every three years or so. He’s really something.
PhiladelphiaWeather.Blogspot: White Lines

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“The act of a coward today in Bella Vista has made all of us Jewish.”
Vern Anastasio! Thanks, Vern! You took a regrettable incident in your community ó†vandals messing up a 4-ft. lighted menorah ó†and spun out of it a quote so portentious and frankly funny (“OMG! Look! I just grew a yarmulke!”) that we all [...]

>>> It’s like we told you yesterday: For the last 5 years, Dryw Scully and the lads have been doing The Melange, and it is what it sounds like: Friends hanging out upstairs at 700, digging on a frankly dizzying array of (mostly new) music. And tonight marks 5 years. When’s the last time you [...]

A few months ago I was having a drink at Anna Marie’s, a bar on 7th & Oregon, here in South Philly. People in the bar were dicussing an incident that occurred down the street at the Fireside Tavern. This incident is part of the local folklore, an urban legend – or so [...]