Buried in an item about the new, uh, shot-in-Philly Lou Gosset movie… Expect a slew of stars such as Vivica A. Fox, Loretta Devine, Lou Gossett, Mya and Billy Baldwin to pass through in the next couple of months. They’ll be featured in the 20th Century Fox movie Cover, which is a week or so [...]

Repeat: NOT running for Mayor. PHILADELPHIA, PA — John J. Dougherty, business manager of the powerful International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 98 and a presumed Democratic candidate for mayor of Philadelphia in 2007, today announced that he is exiting the 2007 mayor’s race, citing family health problems as the primary reason for his [...]

It was with much trepidation a couple of months ago that we finally launched comments on all Philebrity posts, and so far, so good. But there’s one guy on there ‚Äî Cheesesteak The Impaler ‚Äî who, frankly, well, we just fucking hate him in his face. Cheesesteak is a commenter of the anonymous-yet-ubiquitous variety, not [...]

Want to be a “champ” in the business ring? Feeling like, as an entepreneur you’re “gonna fly now?” Um, okay. Then check out Forbes’ tips on how to drop your businesss like it’s Rock(y): 1. Be An Early Riser. [...] 2. Light It Up. [...] 3. Sell The Story, Not The Person. [...] 4. Plan [...]

In case you missed it, the 2007 Coachella Valley Music Festival announced its lineup yesterday, and the prestigious fest has no less than three Philly acts gracing its bill. Which, let’s be fair, is kinda just passable, considering. (No Espers/Man Man/Dr. Dog? Then respectfully, sir, your modern-day Isle Of Wight is no kind of Isle [...]

>>> Got some new kids on the block today, people: Facedelphia is a much-needed addition to the street-style blog category that Philly hasn’t quite nailed yet. (Spare us the obvious reasons, that we’re all fat and ugly, because that’s your Philadelphia, old man; The New Philly is like a Thai sex tour, baby!) Anyway, Le [...]

Click To Play Our pal Mark Schoneveld ‚Äî of The Poverty Jet Set, Fishtown, and the soon-to-be video.philebrity.com ‚Äî has been out at the Sundance Film Festival for the last week. He’s been videoblogging about it over at the PJS; in this episode, he dishes on meeting none other than Kevin Bacon, as well as [...]

Oh man, this whole let’s-get-a-new-mayor thing just got waaaaaay crazier: Bob Brady is the guy who pretty much runs the Democratic party in Philly. It also just so happens that Bob is muy simpatico with the unions in town that, in previous years, tell everybody in the neighborhoods who to vote for and, whoosh, it [...]

>>> Yo, you gettin’ the cabin fever what with all that January out there? Movie Monday at The Troc has The Shining, you know, just to put you in the right frame of mind for another month and a half of this. >>> As mentioned below, Guitarded! Guitar Hero II Dueling Rock Challenge is back [...]

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We don’t mean dashing into 7-11 on a coffee rummage. If you’re going to be inside, be on the inside with these defunk-your-week ideas: ¬? The Tax Filing Fiesta: Invite all of your working stiff friends, BYO spirits, notebooks, and W-2s, smuggle in somebody’s mother or accountant, and you’re all ready to mass E-file. Money-hungry [...]

I thank the good Lord for giving me 47 years of exciting challenges, stimulating experiences, many happy occasions, and, most of all, the finest wife and children any man could ever desire. Now my life has changed, for no apparent reason. People who call and write are exasperated and feel helpless. They know I’m innocent [...]

“If we didn’t have this uptick in shootings and homicides, we just wouldn’t be talking about having this increase in police,” he said. Inky: Busting On Street’s Crime Plan Is The New Ugg Bootz Related: Meddling Kids Break Into Wikipedia After Dark, List Street’s Previous Clowning Career

Back in the day, we’d all hop in the back of Butch Sweaters’ sweet ancient Beamer and go see American Music Club anywhere they were playing we could get to. Gas was cheap, nothing was going on, jobs were a distant nightmare and since everyone looked the exact same kind of awful, it was pretty [...]

A sneak peek at the new Adult Swim show from our most warped expats.

¬? Saint Joe‚Äôs rank as local university to ban trans fats: 1st ¬? Non-vegan friends you can make with Philly Cheesesteak Casserole and t-fat peer pressure: 10 ¬? Amount foot fetish robber stole from latest victim: $40 and 20 degrees (Farenheit) of warmth from her toes ¬? Sections of Sunday Inky put to new use [...]

You could have knocked us over with a feather last week when the new issue of W showed up and featured none other than Fox29′s Kerri Lee Halkett. (Yes, we subscribe. Best $16.95 we spent last year.) Halkett appears in the February issue as part of a female-anchor fashion spread by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, donning women-on-the-go [...]

>>> The Eagles, perhaps feeling a little light in the loafers after last week’s heartbreaker, went down under to hire the manliest man in all of Mandom (known to you and I as “Australia”). Say hello then to punter Saverio Rocca, formerly of the, erm, Kangaroos. Enrico’s got the lowdown, but I think we’ll all [...]

PRESS CONFERENCE January 24, 2007 THE INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR BRITISH REPARATIONS WILL HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE TO KICK OFF THEIR CAMPAIGN DEMANDING COMPENSATION FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN RESPONSE TO PRINCE CHARLES’ VISIT TO PHILADELPHIA. THE ICBR WILL HOLD THE CONFERENCE IN ORDER TO FURTHER THEIR CAUSE OF COLLECTING REPARATIONS FROM THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN [...]