Just a quick thank you to everyone who made Saturday night’s show at The Fels Planetarium such a truly special night. If you’ve got photos/Flickr pages/recollections to share, please send ‘em along to tips [at] philebrity [dot] com; we’d love to run ‘em all.

Can you dig it? See you there. 50 walk-up tix still available.

Friday:
>>> BEAT THE SNOW! Come to Absolute Beginners TONITE and get so fiberglasted that you’ll spend the rest of the weekend in a hurtyhead hot chocolate bliss. Join Downtown Julie G. (Driz Horse) as she makes her Abso-Beg debut alongside DJ Sat 1600 (pro gear, pro attitude), while Kyle, Manny, Russell and Mike play raw [...]

Even so, ya gotta love that new-dad smile! Break it down for ‘em, son!
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>>> Deep down, aren’t we all racist cartoons? Oh, we’re not? Then picket away, I guess. [PhillyFuture]
>>> Because living in the big city isn’t all Cheese Steak Turnovers and sunshine, is it? [Becks&Posh]
>>> Oh, and son? I left your magazines and mail on the hutch. I think your friends
the Espers are in the new issue [...]

Just a quick note to get the word out: Tomorrow night’s show at The Fels Planetarium has sold out all advance tickets. However, we have reserved 50 more tickets for walk-up concertgoers. With the snow threatening to bear down Saturday pm, this means two things: (1.) Folks may have a decent chance of rolling up [...]

And here, we thought you was dead.
Philly.com: Major Dump Of White Stuff Just Made Weekend Potentially AWESOME.

PHILADELPHIA - A transit bus driver grabbed a woman by the hair, knocked her head into a pole, opened the door and tossed her into traffic after she yelled at him for missing her stop, police said.
On behalf of the city, SEPTA, we’d like to thank you for keeping us in the news.
Inky: Does [...]

Calling Ricky Coldhands. Calling Ricky Coldhands.
I’m at work so let’s keep the all-caps cuss words to a minimum.
You’re a right cunt, arrn’tcha.
Stop it!
Sorry. I couldn’t resist. So how long have you and DSTJ (he sure must have some crazy parents with a name like that!) been doing Jam It On The One now?
One year tonight. [...]

Ok, so they’ve got dogs now, at least. And also some weird neutron scanner thing that, you know, really seems like a wise buy:
SEPTA’s purchase has made the transit system a proving ground for the wares of a struggling California firm, one that is millions of dollars in the red and trying to emerge [...]

>>> Nobody saw this one coming: Diplo’s got a rekkid label! [Pitchfork]
>>> Post-grad indie bands/labels everywhere, you can start your weeping, kvetching, backbiting and bitching: A few months out of the gate, and the student-run record label at Drexel already has better distribution than yours. [Dragonfire]
>>> And somehow it all wraps up nicely: Hall & [...]

Alright, gang, Absolute Beginners, Philebrity’s Friday Nite Funfest at Metro Lounge, is back this week. And this one is gonna be special for a few reasons: One, it’s the Absolute Beginners debut of our very own Julie G. in the downstairs room. Some of you might remember Julie from such awesome times as Driz Horse [...]

Dear Philebrity,
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I was ecstatic to see “Philadelphia” and “Olympics” in the same sentence today in an earlier post. Then I read the fine print. How can the 6th borough not even get a shot at such a wonderful spectacle? I believe we need to let the IOC know just how great this city can be. [...]

New “corrections blog” Regret The Error reports on a Ryan Seacrest interview hoax ó†you know, because people are so dying for news about the dude that they have to make shit up ó†that felled even our own beloved Dan Gross of The People Paper. In the schminterview, Seacrest acts all cracked out when a morning [...]

>>> Loudest Standard Tap show ever? Could be. Ex-Three-4-Tens cosmonauts Himalaya and Phil Moore Browne take the stage to make the Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association very angry indeed. Yo: If it’s too loud, you’re too old. 9pm, free.
>>> Driz Horse: Party store bangers and guest Steven Bloodbath make with the J.A.P.-baiting. Upstairs At The Khyber, [...]

Chronic Philebrity readers/”World’s Local Band” Swearing At Motorists are pretty much the best band in town that only lives here like half the time. And while we were going Belle-crazy yesterday, we forgot to tell you that Last Night Becomes This Morning was also released, on Secretly Canadian. S@M are currently on tour right now [...]

Yes, they’re crazy, entitled, whiney and generally deluded, but damn it if the denizens of NorthernLiberties.org haven’t come up with a whopper this time. Oh, wait. It’s a joke. I guess it’s back to the no-supermarket-my-garbage-disposal-is-broken threads.
NorthernLiberties.org: It’s Only Paranoid If It Turns Out You’re Wrong

Greater Philadelphia has been named a community partner by the U.S. Olympic Committee. However, a USOC spokesman cautioned that the Community Partner program is not considered a step in bidding to be a host city. The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and other groups are pushing for Philadelphia to pursue the 2016 Summer Games.
Other [...]

With his flowing white hair and long, bushy beard, Joe Moderski looks like a cross between Santa Claus and Fidel Castro. For the last several years, he has lived in Bryn Mawr, but his speech and attitude still echo his South Philadelphia roots. When he was on top of his game - before news of [...]

Says David Dye: “This is better than not winning. I think.”
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