FRIDAY:
>>> Start it off right: DJ Wild Kyle aka Ashy K DJs Johnny Brenda’s; the only reason we mention this, really, is because of the HALF OFF OYSTERS FROM 4 to 6. We know you don’t care, but we plan on slurpin’ on the slizzurp with maximum savings.
>>> The ID6 Scooter Rally takes off for [...]

You didn‚Äôt hear it from me‚Ķ but‚Ķ WXPN FM has supposedly bought y100rocks.com. But, we sorta knew that was part of Jim McGuinn’s plan from the start. Anyway. Starting in August, the Y100 gang will be broadcasting Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at night on WXPN, while continuing to stream online all the time. Look for [...]

PW: We Can’t Make Heads Or Tails Of It Either, But The Weird Beards Seem To Like It

According to CEO and President Bill Marrazzo, tough decisions have to be made to keep the station viable. “Our goal is to keep all these good people on the payroll,” he says. “Our goal for the community is to keep WHYY in a fiscally sound condition.”
At a time when the U.S. House considers slashing public-television [...]

>>> Inky photo department finally joins the Age of Interactivity: Duly deputizes citizen shooters for saturation coverage of floody-floody. C’mon in, the water’s fine. And full of prizes! [Inky]
>>> Muddy water changes everything: Many switching holiday weekend plans from grilling dead mammals and blowing off fingers with fireworks to dredging dead trees and scraping muck [...]

Our very own A-Sides open up for Cheap Trick at the Borgata tonight. If you’re down the shore, stop by and say hello.

Let it never be said that the Tribe Of Ignoramuses were afraid to go west.
Casa D’Ice: Y’All Come Back Now, Ya Hear?

Shit. There goes our whole plans for the Brett Myers cover of “Rag Doll” smash single we were going to produce.
Dan Gross: From The Same Great Minds That Brought You PhillyEdge, A Lesson In Unfunny Satire
PhillyBurbs: Yep, Sucks To Be Us Alright

>>> Philly Daily Candy gets a welcoming tea party. Enjoy it while it lasts, hon: A month in, and you’ve already written about the same 3 Old City/Rittenhouse shops like five times a piece. [Gridskipper]
>>> Quite frankly, here’s some video of Inky sports columnist Stephen A. Smith being heckled mercilessly at the NBA Draft. Apparently, [...]

The good folks at the city-promoting Center City District point to the corresponding surge of locally owned eateries and suggest there’s nothing to fear.
But even their own figures show the number of national chain restaurants close to doubling – from 7 percent in 2000 to 13 percent today.
The fact that it only seems like more [...]

>>> For once, believe the hype: It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia returns for season two with ‚Äî what? ‚Äî Danny DeVito. It’s obvious that IASIP is being groomed as the next Arrested Development (the TV show, not the band, goofy) and shit, who are we to argue. 10pm on FX. Need to catch up? Then [...]

In a shocker, more than 40 news staffers at CN8 in New Castle, Del., were laid off yesterday, effective Aug. 28, as part of Comcast’s plan to move away from regional programming and establish a more national presence.
CN8’s weekday newscasts at 1, 7 and 10 p.m. have their final telecasts Aug. 18, a network rep [...]

From: email@lordwhimsy.com
Subject: recherche du bunnymen perdu
Date: June 29, 2006 2:11:14 PM EDT
To: tips@philebrity.com
How cruel you are, Philebrity—to at last take your pound of flesh from my Bagginsian frame when most I need it. This week of all weeeks, mad as a red lemon for six days with a 104 degree fever, [...]

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has almost singlehandedly brought about the end of America as we know it — and judging by his Congressional testimony about it, he feels fine. By greenlighting torture, and redlighting due process, habeas corpus, the Geneva Convention and the 4th Amendment, Gonzales, as much as anyone at BushCo, pushed us through [...]

Rumors continue to fly that the Celtics are still trying to land Allen Iverson, and may be using [Sebastian] Telfair in a trade to get the longtime Philadelphia star. Danny Ainge has proven to be a very capable GM, so unless he sees something in Telfair that the rest of us don’t, he’ll probably be [...]

Having been acknowledged by everyone from us to Craig LaBan, it seems that not all of the residents of G-Ho ‚Äî the neighborhood in and around the Graduate Hospital (think of the area roughly squared in by Bob & Barbara’s, Rittenhouse, Fitler Square and Grays Ferry Ave) ‚Äî are happy about their newly minted name. [...]

On one section, water so deep that only the top of a parking meter could be seen.
Houses along Main appeared to have water at least four feet up their exterior walls.
Throughout the morning, though, the stretch of Main Street south of the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge remained mostly dry. A small snapping turtle perched defiantly on [...]

So here’s the deal: Longtime readers of the site will know that after all these years, Philebrity still swoons like a teenage girl over Echo & The Bunnymen. The group is back in town tonight at the TLA, and even though we’ve seen them about 4 times in the last year alone, we are [...]

Oh dear! Photo credit: Peter Parker. Whatever you say, Snappy!
Two more after the jump.

Why are we losing people? After all, Center City looks a hell of a lot better than it did when John Travolta was racing down Market Street, almost running over Mummers, trying like hell to find his hooker friend before she fell victim to John Lithgow’s scary-ass watch.
The answer: It’s not about Center City.
It’s the [...]