¬? Philebrity TV News gets sucked in by Locally Localized Gravity and comes out to tell the tale!
¬? Despite an inferno, Peek-A-Boo Revue Burleque also lives to tell the tale.
¬? Morning Music eats a ton of cake with Low and lives to tell the tale.
¬? Just breathe. Watch yr Daily Affirmation.
ALL THIS AND MORE [...]

¬? Cost of Phillies home opener tix on Craigslist: $110 each
¬? Cost of Justin Timberlake tix for last night’s sold-out show, from a Penn student, natch: $400 a pair
¬? Number of cherry trees donated to Fairmount Park for annual Cherry Blossom Festival: 100
¬? Box office ticket sales for Pride’s opening weekend: $4 mil
¬? Degrees of [...]

MANDY MOORE…From movie star to best-selling pop princess and now . . .
a high school graduation performance in PHILADELPHIA?
PHILADELPHIA has 4 more days to Demand Mandy Moore come to your city for a once-in-a-lifetime performance! The top ten most Demanded cities will get the opportunity to have Mandy perform at their graduation! And your [...]

Danger! Danger! owes its existence to crackdowns by the Philadelphia Department of Licenscing and Inspection (PDLI). After the major venue South Philadelphia Athenaeum was shut down in September, 2005, a number of its regular acts moved to 900 W. 47th. “The Lieutenant Inspector of Licensing and Inspection was there with the South Philadelphia police,” Brodie [...]

Popped! Festival gets a nod from Pfork and Spin, and NME, respectively, with a slew of mentions from other music blogs but we’ll leave ya to it if you care that much. Now if only they could fix that broken link. And OH YEAH, check those pics of the Cap Years rocking the casbah de [...]

Listen, vote for whoever you want, but we didn’t make any secret about how we feel about Bob Brady last time we wrote about him, so let’s not dance around things now: We’re kinda psyched about the beating this dude is taking. In the last few days, in no particular order, Mr. Brady:
¬? managed to [...]

>>> Holy shit, spring just sprung. So here’s what you do: Fill up that wineskin Tucker gave you forever ago, get on thine bicycle and head on down to Big Jar Books where Meg Baird is playing with Blues Control at 8pm. We ran this Meg Baird mp3 before, but it bears repeating; her solo [...]

¬? BiG TeA PaRtY drink up their 40oz before working on crafts…
¬? Shadow World gets metaphysical about Valentine’s under the El.
¬? The Amateur on UToob Classics
¬? Morning Music shows you how to leash your lover on a long, long scarf
¬? What if you spent your whole life getting strong for one reason? Watch yr Daily [...]

>>> Good news for NoLibbers: For one, we’re getting the Philly Sports Hall of Fame. It’s a small hall. And also? WE’VE GOT HOMOS! [DN/NoLibs.org]
>>> Here’s one way to stem that whole overpopulation problem: Close down the maternity wards! Stupid breeders. Oh, pardon, not you, friend, YOUR baby is delightful and genius. Please do go [...]

Is there any doubt that Ted Leo + The Pharmacists have been fighting the good fight since you were in short pants? (Say “no,” son.) That their politico-punk for the working man has not been the salve for many a crushed dream? Well, that’s not ours to say: We’re driving around in an Infiniti-G6900, crushing [...]

Informed observers speculate that Philadelphia Media Holdings, which owns the Daily News and Inqwaster, is among bidders for the Philadelphia Weekly, which has quietly gone on the market.
“All I can say is no comment,” PMH CEO Brian Tierney told us yesterday when asked if the company was bidding on the paper. A recent Inqwaster report [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) — America’s national emblem is nesting in Philadelphia for the first time in more than 200 years but it may be on a collision course with developers.
A pair of bald eagles, a species that has recovered from the brink of extinction in the last 40 years, has built a nest in a [...]

Patti Smith: Complete 1975-2006: Lyrics, Reflections and Notes for the Future and Auguries of Innocence (Ecco Press)
Godmother of punk and 2007 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Patti Smith returns to the Free Library to sing and recite poetry from her collection Auguries of Innocence.
Date and time TBA, but we’re psyched. And Patti, [...]

>>>Fox29 News discovers Liberties Walk after you know, just about every last tourist from the Ozarks and your grandmother. Listening to Kerri-Lee Halket smugly say “NoLibs” is lesson number one on why we don’t call it that. [Fox29]
>>>Michael Nutter takes a leap of faith and does his first TV ad!!! And high time, too. Handing [...]

>>> We know this sounds crazy, but for real: The time is right for a Robyn Hitchcock comeback, and in a big way. Think about it: On Hitch’s first go-’round, the Reagan youths were so disillusioned with an America out of whack that they turned to this weird English dude for psychedelic escape. If it [...]

You may think I’m comparing two unrelated things, but this really isn’t so crazy when you consider that many women, myself included, sleep with their dogs on the bed. In fact, in my own case, three of my dogs sleep on what used to be my husband’s side of the bed. Plus, dogs do [...]

No one showed up to Miss Shapes on Saturday. It was AMAZING. I’ve never been more proud of Philadelphia. I guess its really hard for Philly people to be impressed with something like Misshapes when everyone here has/had a DJ night and/or bad hair. Who needs Miss Shapes and flat-ironed bangs when we have Sorted [...]

¬? Philly Jazz gets in the know with Trudy Pitts (part 2)!
¬? Father Loomis Enchilada debuts his new short film all in French.
¬? Libby and Roberta get jiggy with craaazy video installation art.
¬? Morning Music brings you the excellent black and white music video from The National
¬? Team Philebrity brings you their SXSW wrap-up episode, [...]