“We have never been more excited,” Moore said last night. “We couldn’t be more excited. Allen is very excited to be part of the team, and is looking forward to training camp.
Which should also be, you know, exciting.
DN: No, No, It’s Better This Way. Seriously.

>>> This week’s featured band on The Philebrity Player, Midlake. We simply cannot say enough good things about these guys. We need to stop. It’s gross. (Along with Brightblack Morning Light and Mojave 3, it forms a three-headed BEST RECORDS OF THE SUMMER megabeast. Shhh.) With Sound Team and Cold War Kids. North Star Bar, [...]

More late-breaking stuff: We’re reporting that Philly vampire-core legends Ink & Dagger have settled their lawsuit with Microsoft. The skinny: One day, I&D drummer Ryan McLaughlin discovered this really cool snowboarding game for X-Box called “Amped.” To the extreme! Anyway, he’s playing and he’s like, wow, this is kind of funny, there are THREE INK [...]

Two late-breaking indie rock items of note, the first of which concerns Beatle-loving longhair Philly faves Dr. Dog. After apparently pussyfooting with the entire record industry for roughly 18 years (or 2 in people-time), the band has just inked a deal to release the group’s sophomore album early next year (to be preceded by an [...]

Monster Worldwide Inc.’s (MNST) flagship brand and privately held Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC agreed to form a joint Web site to deliver recruitment services to employers and job seekers in the Philadelphia area.
MarketWatch: If There’s A God, Monster Is Paying The Inky To Do This And Not The Other Way Around

It’s going to be hard to get across to you just how excited we are about this week’s record on The Philebrity Player, The Trials Of Van Occupanther by Midlake. See, lots of times, the records on the Player are known quantities to us at least ‚Äî they’re artists we’ve heard before, or records we’ve [...]

All these years, and David Johanson is still the ugliest girl at the county fair. How does he do it?
On second thought, best not to wonder.
Some Velvet Blog: Pushing 60, Still Playing With Dolls
MP3.Com: Streaming The New One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
[Photos by Lisa Schaffer]

Dancin’ On Air as it damn well should have been. Stay with it. Gets real weird towards the end in a Wizard Of Oz/Dark Side Of The Moon steezo.

>> Be prepared: To vacate the premises. City tells Boy Scouts they can have their homophobic cake, they just can’t eat it on city-owned property, too. [Inky]
>>> Israelie-Palestinian conflict does not prompt withdrawal of local exchange students. Coming from Murderdelphia, a warzone feels like home. [Inky]
>>> Improv kills: Comedysportz founder Michael Young succumbs to brain [...]

>>> Ooh, this is a good one: Session man to the Gods Mark Boyce’s dark funkjazz trio, The Krass Brothers, hit A.D. Amorosi’s Monday night session at Bar Noir. Brothers from other mothers (what is it with the word “brother” today?) round out the bill: The Brothers GRIM and World Famous Crawl Space Brothers, to [...]

An answer in four parts:
1. No. [DN]
2. Especially when he comes back to the hood. Note to planners: When booking celebrity guests at an anti-violence rally, think at least once before you book a guy who literally got out of here the first [...]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Lynn Swann brought donuts and coffee to an American Legion post in South Philadelphia this morning for an informal chat about crime.
About 25 community members and organization leaders gathered in the doggedly Democratic home base of Gov. Rendell, whom Swann is trying to unseat in the fall.
[...]
Reporters were not permitted in the [...]

I heard the song “Say Something” while watching MTV2’s “Subterranean,” the indie rock show, and I saw Dr. Dog’s video, which was the coolest video I’d seen on that show. I was immediately intrigued, and I bought “Easy Beat” (Future Farmer) the next day. It’s real poppy and sometimes a bit spastic. They have really [...]

Hot off the heels of The Smoking Ban You Can Smoke Along To, Michael Nutter announces his candidacy:
But the event was hardly as grandiose as the one held by John F. Street on a Tuesday in February 1999 - when the then-Council president’s announcement that he was running for mayor drew the presence, and immediate [...]

An Atlantic City man has been sentenced to three years of probation and community service at an animal shelter for beating a duck.
Donald Chapman pleaded guilty to animal cruelty a few months ago, saying he kicked the mallard and beat it with a broom March 15 in the parking lot of the Fox Chase development [...]

The best of Soul Train’s line dance, set to “TSOP.”

TerribleImages: All Hail The New Fancy Brigade [Flickr]
Inky: These Young People And Their Favela Krunk!
51:51: Mummertronix!
[Got a slideshow from any of the various weekend doings? Send a link to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com and we’ll add it here.]

It’s rare, dear Reader, that we would ever ask you to bother reading an entire article from the Inky sports page, but bear with us ‚Äî if only because it demonstrates the degree to which Phillies management has no clue. It concerns the dismissal of Sal Fasano, the Phillies catcher whom many Philebrity readers will [...]

>>> M. Night’s Lady In The Water tanks out of the gate, prompting what could be the easiest, cruelest headline of the summer. (See above.) [USAToday]
>>> Truly: This item on the editor of the Evening Bulletin walking out would have merited its own post… if we knew anyone, anyone at all, who either read or [...]