>>> Were you pissed off when that limey bastard Steven Wellslumped you in among the UK’s worst football hooligans? So was Will Bunch, especially when it turned out that half the shit that came out of Wellsy’s gob was wrong, wrong, wrong. [Attytood]
>>> James Capozzola: Erm, not exactly bending over backwards to stop the advancing [...]

DR. SLOB WINS WIP’S FIRST EVER WING 5
December 8, 2005
Contact: Dan Fein, Marketing Director at WIP - [redacted]
DR. SLOB WINS WIP’S FIRST EVER WING 5
Wing sauce dribbled off of the engorged faces of the hopeful students vying for Wing Bowl glory. Hundreds packed University City’s New Deck Tavern for the first ever WIP [...]

Friday:
>>> We’re kind of digging Diagram . Check them out at an early-ish show at South Philly’s The Compound. It’s a part of this whole “Art At Sophi” thing that’s happening, and which so eloquently podcasted-about this week on WHYME. Can you dig it? You definitely could.
>>> Oh, the weather outside is frightful/but the cocainesexjams [...]

>>> Do know how, every once in a while, you’ll be at a dinner table full of people, and everyone will be sitting around riffing on some funny thing or other, and it’s your turn to throw something into the pot, and whatever it is that spews out of your mouth just totally bombs, like [...]

Seriously. Come up and give us a great big kiss. Your invite to the office party is on the way.
Inky: Why God Why [mp3, the sound of a rock critic losing his shit.]
Philebrity’s Greatest Hits: The Dan-chives

[...]Schools CEO Paul Vallas was satisfied that the school followed the proper protocol. But what is stunning to him - and me - is that school officials have beome practiced in the drug detox drill.
“Welcome to my bizarre world,” Vallas told me yesterday. “What’s scary to me is that we even have to have a [...]

Scouse-git-turned-Philly-scribe Steven Wells sells us out to his countrymen in an article for the Guardian on hooliganism here in the US of A. While his dentally challenged fellow Englishmen enjoy a hooligan career of fence-crushing and gobbing, he claims, it’s Philly fans that really put the hoo! in hooliganism:
In 1981, the Eagles faithful bombarded the [...]

>>> For years, we thought French Kicks were jive. Really jive. And then, like two years ago, out of nowhere, they got awesome. Really awesome. They went from being this puerile NYC angular nonce business straight into being sexy, like Bono-sexy or Eurotrash sophistico-sexy, and it was good. So good, in fact…
French Kicks: “Following Waves” [...]

Floetry, the London-born, Philadelphia-based hip-hop/soul duo, were nominated in the urban/alternative performance category for their song “SupaStar.”
Among the other Philadelphia-area nominees are pianist Bill Cunliffe, an assistant professor of jazz studies at Temple University, who’s up for “Do it Again,” in the jazz instrumental arrangement category from his album ImaginaciÛn.
Hezekiah Walker, the gospel-hip-hop preacher based [...]

Everybody who knows, knows pretty damn well that Marah and the birthday of Jesus Christ for some unknown reason go together like peanut butter and jelly. [Editor's note: Yes, we just bolded the name of JC as though he was a celebrity. What, he's not?] Maybe it’s Bielanko brothers’ permanent prodigal-son status. Maybe it’s the [...]

‘Cause the handsomest, smartest dude on death row has been there for years! But… maybe? This bit of breaking news will be sure please any fans of the sequel genre:
PHILADELPHIA†Dec 8, 2005 ó†A federal appeals court has agreed to hear an appeal from death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther convicted in the [...]

>>> Attention Northern Liberties mail carriers: The internet just allowed everyone to figure out that you’ve been fucking up the mail there since the dawn of man. Might wanna put in for that transfer right about now. [NorthernLiberties.org]
>>> SEPTA, could it be possible that we hate you ó and I mean really, really hate you [...]

Oh, don’t we know it: It was 25 years ago today, that, well, it’d be a sin to make it rhyme. But it almost wouldn’t be off-limits if the Inky’s no-holds-barred/no-new-news “PLEASE BOOMERS, COME BACK!” coverage of the anniversary of the death of John Lennon. And so we get the whole craven package: Larry Kane [...]

>>>Oh, how excited we’ve been for Feytality 3: the semi-annual ponce-fest hosted by Julia Factorial and Greg C, in which the many (but not too many) flavors of “fey” are served up: Belle & Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, The Smiths and so on. Oh shut up, you know you love it. This year, there’s a special [...]

Dr. Philebrity,
I’m struggling with a dilemma and I hope you can shed some light on it for me.
Why, on a snowy Monday night, would you go to an all-ages show of dance-punk bands and not dance?† I am referring to last Monday night’s A-Sides/Hail Social/Islands show at the Church.† My friend and I counted a [...]

From our friends at Badminton Stamps comes a rather compelling analysis of last week’s Philly baby crack kingpin. Pitting the story against Notorious B.I.G.’s Crack Commandments, we only begin to realize how far gone this hard-reppin’ toddler really is:
Number Six: That God damn credit, dead it
He gave the crack to his teacher without compensation.
And [...]

>>> If it’s PalarÈ’s world, then why all of a sudden is Fabric (with its shit newly together, natch) living all over it?
>>> Attention Hy Lit: Jerry Blavat has moved his annual dance-on-your-grave-a-thon this year to ó holy shit! ó†The Kimmel Center!
>>> And for the rest of us, according to Philly author Zachary M.C. Harris, [...]

We hear Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony will be a surprise guest at tonight’s DeBella DeBall at the Cherry Hill Hilton (2349 W. Marlton). The party, hosted by 102.9 WMGK’s John DeBella, starts at 7. Tix are available today at the station: One Bala Plaza, Suite 339. Also today, from 11 a.m to 2 p.m., [...]

Thereís no news like (or on) the11pmlocal news.†
The lead stories on NBC10 and KYW3 were the next winter storm and a violent bank robbery in Upper Darby, respectively.
But 6ABC says no-no to flagrant snow watches and bleed-it-leads headlines.††As Jim Gardner exclaimed: The Big Story on Action News?†A black bear caught hibernating under a familyís house [...]

And we’ve got a scoop for all you Kenzo rubbernecks out there:
They are filming part of Rocky Balboa at Happ’s Luncheonette across the street from the Kensington South Forum the week of January 9th. They just installed a huge new Happ’s Marquee.
Meantime, here’s your fix:
IMDB: Rocky Balboa (2006)
Ain’t It Cool: Leaky Rocky Pics