SPOTLIGHT ON: Puppy, Australia, 92 min. Director: Kieran Galvinuld
[Festival Page]
You’d lose your current job as professional screw-up to Liz (Nadia Townshend) in a sweet heartbeat. Girl manages to get kicked out of her sisterís house after their brother dies and she pawns sisí necklace to pay for a surgical operation on her dog that she [...]

Friday:
>>> What with last weekend being a total washout and whatnot ó oh, stop your moaning already, BC Camplight ó the pressure is on this weekend to make it count. Sadly, if for you that means live music, Friday night is a fucking wash. The only show of note is A-Sides at The Khyber, but [...]

Just a few minutes ago we were pleasantly lazing on this sunny afternoon, sweet sweet lemonade in hand, when we fell off our toad stool and it suddenly occurred to us that this guy is currently blowing smoke rings through our frickin’ mind. He does the inexplicably-titled Kime Agine comic strip that showed [...]

Three adventurously clever and melodious indie-pop/rock bands plus DJ-host Doug Wallen equal “Somebody’s Baby.”
That’s funny, we thought three adventurously clever and melodious indie-pop/rock bands plus DJ-host Doug Wallen equal “Sausage Party.” Ah, we keed, we keed.
Inky: She’s Probably Somebody’s Baby Alright
IceHockeyHair: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Cool Doug But Forgot To Ask
Philebrity’s [...]

Flickr: More Chimp In The Monitor, Please!

Used to be, not a week went by in this dirty olí burg that the Internetz and cellies alike blazed with the exploits of singer/musician/DJ/bon-vivant Gregg Foreman. As the leader of what we can now regard as the seminal Philly modfuck explosion group The Delta 72, Greggers ó aka ìThe Roosterî ó pretty much filled [...]

>>> Organ harvesting in Kensington: You say, “Gross!” We say: “Economic GROWTH!” [Inky]
>>> St. Joe’s students: Standing in the way of economic development or should they just go along for the ride? [WPVI]
>>> Fake tits in fake Northern Liberties: He stabs, he scores! [DanGross]

Hey kids! Remember the flash-mob-esque pillowfight that (gently) rocked Union Square in NYC a few months ago? Yes, we had almost comfortably forgotten, too. Here’s the bad news: This pantywaist situationist-lite nonsense is coming here, too. But the good news? Almost certain Action News footage of people with pillows being arrested in Love Park later [...]

Tonight, as most of you surely know by now, is the kickoff of The Philadelphia Film Festival! Throughout the fest, Philebrity will be posting our festival picks as well as reports from the fest. Tonight, everything kicks off with one film: Akeelah & The Bee, starring Laurence Fishburne, who will also be in attendance. We [...]

>>> What do you think of when you hear the words “HAVERFORD FREESTYLE BATTLE?” We think of hilariousness incarnate. So with that in mind, we are telling anyone within listening range to go to the B-More Club Showcase at Haverford College. It doesn’t matter if you’re 33 – we’re all the exact same kind of [...]

And here’s the thing: We’re pretty sure this profile is for real. How can we tell? Not a single fucking hottie in his Top 8.
Myspace: The King Of Bling
Myspace: Philebrity’s FunZone

Collin Flatt, you complete us.
Previously: That’s-A-Futuristic Meatball!

Hi.† I am Steve Odabashian.† I am best known in town as the Andy Reid impersonator.†And well, now that he’s losing weight, I had better too (and for other more important reasons – looks, health, etc).†I am in this month’s Philadelphia Magazine on page 91 (for what I earn as an Andy Reid impersonator).
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I’ve been [...]

Tell the truth, grupster: Yes it will.
CP: Deez-igns
Designadelphia: Soon To Merge With Celebridelphia, Thrilladelphia To Form ‘Celebrithrilladesidelphia’

Well, you all know how we feel about the proposed smoking ban, but for those of you without Fishtonian Iron Lung constitutions, we submit the following:
April 5, 2006: Kick Butts Day rally at City Hall
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Every year on Kick Butts Day, America’s youth stand up in the fight against tobacco use and draw attention to [...]

Laurence Fishburne: “You take the blue pill, you wake up in your own bed, and you believe what you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I’ll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”
Marty Moss-Coane: “Red pill! Red pill!” [Radio Times]

>>>Now It Can Be Told: Local man invents safe sex, shoots Madonna nude, eats yogurt out of her ear, and afterwards, around 1985 or so, it is mutually agreed they should go fuck themselves. [Klein]
>>>With friends like this, who needs Kevlar?: “Late Tuesday night, Christopher Reddick-Johnson, 17, became one of between 1,700 and 1,800 [...]

>>> Your ride home and mine, The Capitol Years warm up the stage for the dangerously-close-to-dadrock supergroup The Minus Five. Weirdly, this show is at World CafÈ Live so go ahead, shawty, get your rock ‘n’ roll Cosi on! It’s gonna be squagel-riffic! Also on the bill: The Silos. 7:30pm, $12.
>>> Karaoke Smashdown! at Silk [...]

? Starting tomorrow, Philebrity will be assisting you in your Herculean task of navigating The Philadelphia Film Festival! Check us for daily festival picks and on-the-scene reportin’ and testifyin’!
? Also FYI: We’re not drawing winners for Spinto/Teeth/Eye tickets until tomorrow morning! So get those entries in directly, hoss.
? And OMG, it’s bizarro Philebrity! Not quite, [...]

Dear Dr. Philebrity,
Seems like these days, I can’t even get close to a water cooler, coffee shop or bar without somebody bending my ear in 20 minute chunks about that movie Loose Change, that basically says the government pretty much staged 9/11. Have you seen this movie? How can it be? And if you don’t [...]