>>> If you like to laugh at people in advertising ‚Äî seriously, and who doesn’t ‚Äî you may do no better than this “we-just-reinvented-the-wheel” press release that Kanter International sent out about… wait for it… Daffy’s. [PRNewsire] >>> And then, if you are really bored, you could go clown Red Tettemer’s magnetic poetry page. Hey, [...]

One man can only take so much. And the Posi Guy, God love him, has taken a lot: Trying to put a silver lining on our sports teams, our insane talk radio and the like for the last year and so on, well, folks, you know the deal: It can take a toll. Even on [...]

Ah, yes! Halloween in Philadelphia. Given our very well-documented predeliction to parade around each New Year’s Day in the world’s most bizarre form of blackface, is it any wonder that we’re also, like, totally Boner City when it comes to celebrating All Hallow’s Eve? No, it isn’t. And the amount of Halloween parties we’ve come [...]

Would you welcome them please, Berlin/Dayton/Philly’s finest, also known as “The Two-Man Who,” they are, without a doubt, Swearing At Motorists. And they play the North Star tonight.

>>> More signs that Philly really is on the move! We’re finally on a terrorist hit list, according to an FBI bulletin obtained by City Paper. That the bulletin also comes on the heels of yet another Pony Pants tour diary is all the more terrifying. [TheClog] >>> As Inky and DN prepare for strike, [...]

From the mailbag: HOLY SHIT !!!!!!! A HOLLOWEEN LOFT PARTY WITH DAFT PUNK !!!! ** SATURDAY OCTOBER 28TH, 2006 @ The Klip Collective Studios (an amazing loft space overlooking the entire city!!!) 201 N, BROAD ST. 8TH FLOOR (@Broad and Race Sts.) Philadelphia, PA WITH A SPECIAL GUEST 2AM PERFORMANCE BY…. DAFT PUNK !!!!!!!!!! A [...]

New Jersey school district cancels its Halloween parades because of concerns tied to the Amish school shootings. Gloucester Township has called off eight outside Halloween parades for elementary schools because school superintendent Thomas Seddon believes the traditional pageants can’t be safely guarded. In a recent letter sent home to parents, Seddon wrote, “since the October [...]

>>> It’s cold out there, but to true cold fetishists like us ‚Äî “COLDER! COLDER!” ‚Äî it simply isn’t cold enough. Luckily, there’s the Taste Of Iceland Film Fest at the Ritz at the Bourse. Screaming Masterpiece, a doc about the rather impressive icelandic music scene over the last bunch of years, kicks it off, [...]

We don’t quite know what to make of this: Two stories by Josh Cornfield in today’s Metro, both of which would lead one to believe, if one were to draw conclusions from related stories in the same newspaper on the same day, that the paper has launched a program to keep everybody apprised of the [...]

I mean, now that the coast is clear, who’s gonna hop the PATCO and break the cherry, as it were? ¬? V.I.P. and their own mirror reflections? ¬? Butch Cordora and whoever he can drug? ¬? Lynne Abraham and another man? ¬? Sue Serio and… oh, we just made that joke. ¬? Dave P and [...]

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Wait, they have a dentist up there?

Okay, so first things first: as Rufus pointed out, there were no wall-sized, full-color come shots projected onto the wall of Courtroom 1701 today. This was, as you can imagine, a major bummer, both for Rufus and for me, an ex-phone-sex operator who got out of bed at 5 a.m. and dragged herself to the [...]

Part of a series about conceptual artist Ellie Brown‘s Lover’s Books. RomanBlog: It’s An Ellie Brown Kind Of Town

>>> We know what you were thinking: “Hey, where’s Philadelphia’s bi-annual black eye? You know, the shitty Philly news item that makes us seem like fucking inbred slobs with Stallone-y speech impediments and gets passed around all over the AP Wire?” Yeah, yeah, we know. Ladies and gentlemen, your Bi-Annual Philly Black Eye (Second Edition) [...]

RockClubBigWig: bands who we hate: VivSavage1984: yes, names! RockClubBigWig: The Bones Royal, they’re like these 16 year old kids who are nice but way too “professional.” They’re sixteen and they have a publicist. RockClubBigWig: This band Trouble Everyday from Philadelphia…they’ve already been trashed on the Internet enough RockClubBigWig: but they are dicks RockClubBigWig: They are [...]

So it doesn’t bother me that Joe Vento buys his beef from South America. Indeed, if I were a cheesesteak eater, I’d consider it a plus. No, what gives me indigestion is the hypocrisy. I don’t see any signs in Geno’s windows saying “We Proudly Sell Uruguayan Beef.” After all, it’s grass-fed, hormone-free beef–why not [...]

>>> We are very much digging Ted Passon‘s Small Change Screenings. Tonight, he brings us Cartune Exprez, an “animation party”/multimedia show with all kinds of projection and performance. Check the site for a full run-down, but know overall, this looks as fun as it gets. Space 1026, 1026 Arch St., 8pm. >>> Fellow NoLibbers, we [...]

They’re legends, and tonight might possibly be their first Philly gig ever. And we’ve got two pair to give away. But first, some tunes: The Slits: “Ping Pong Affair” [mp3] The Slits: “FM” [mp3] Believe. To win tickets, send an email BY 5PM to ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “THIS WILL PROBABLY BEAT THE PANTS OFF THE BOW [...]

We don’t use this phrase much around here, but hey: Shoegaze, nugaze, dreampop, whatever you wanna call it, Connectivity! by Mahogany is an instant classic. And we’re super-psyched that it’s this week’s record on The Philebrity Player. But you say you’ve been a lifelong phobic of the genres we just mentioned? Listen anyway. Because while [...]