>>> Bad news: Northern Liberties, you are hemorrhaging cool like a hemophiliac in a pushpin factory. These days, you can’t even squat a garden for 21 years and call it yours anymore. Stop this madness. Think of the children. [CP] >>> Good news: A Clay Aiken concert is actually so much more awesome than you [...]

Last Sunday the Philadelphia Phillies lost their 10,000th game, an infamous feat that can be only partially mitigated by the sheer longevity of the franchise. Later rather than sooner, this same milestone will be reached by several other long-established teams like the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals and both Chicago ball [...]

September 3–10, 1998 pretzel logic Waiting To Explode Is Philly a prime target for terrorists? Ask the Bomb Squad. by Howard Altman Richard Fehrle doesn’t hesitate even a little bit when asked if terrorists will ever set off some kind of explosive device in Philadelphia. “It’s gonna happen,” says Fehrle, a sergeant in the Philadelphia [...]

It’s gonna get you soooooo fired.

>>> HUGE night of shows tonight, not least of which is The Police at Citizen’s Bank Park. Now, a couple of things about this: 1. Sting is an asshole. That has to come before anything anyone ever says about The Police. 2. It doesn’t matter. It’s still The Police. 3. But based on horrendous reviews [...]

Party people, this Friday, Philebrity is proud to bring you “CREW LOVE”, our first-ever West Philly partyjamexplosion. Fun things to know about Crew Love: It’s BYOB, it’s in this massive warehouse/VFW type thing, and it’s gonna be a sweaty mess. We’ve also compiled this handy busman’s guide to our willing participants and partymasters. Dig: Philadelphyinz: [...]

WMGK was running Alice Cooper’s excellent syndicated radio show “Nights With Alice Cooper” for a while. A great mix of semi-obscure classic, garage and glam rock, with a bit of new and more obvious classic jams sprinkled in. [...] They eventually stopped carrying the show. As if that didn’t suck enough, they’re replacing it in [...]

· Holy frijoles, the award for “Most Vicious Pan Of A New Restuarant In Fishtown Since 1980″ goes to… Hot Potato! Yes, that’s right, HP, hang that shit on your wall! Diners will thrill at the descriptions of “rubbery, too-chewy” pierogies and the “charred, gummy mess” that is your Asian green beans. Look on the [...]

If you are looking for STOLEN BIKE*S come to my neighborhood!!! 2400&2500 WEBB STREET, THESE KID*S ARE ON A DIFFERENT BIKE EVERYDAY!!! THEY DON*T HAVE JOB*S ,SO THEY MUST BE STOLEN!!!!!!!!!! Are you brave enough to confront bike stealing kids? Yes? Right on, to Webb Street we go! Craigslist: I Got My Eye On YOU!

Firefighters have controlled a Tastykake oven fire at its Hunting Park and Westmoreland bakery in North Philadelphia. The fire was reported just after 5am Thursday in a butterscotch krimpet oven in a sixth floor bake kitchen. Flames quickly spread to a portion of the roof through the duct work. A near miss! Thanks firefighters, for [...]

Readers of DMac‘s Philadelphia Will Do blog may have noticed something creepy this week — and we’re not talking about the puppies, the dead-horse beats, or the Kerri-Lee/Alycia fetish. (Theoretically, I guess you could call ‘em all dead-horse beats, but whatever.) Rather, for the last however many days, a commenter by the name of “GFC” [...]

>>>You might want to learn some self-nav, or be adventurous and up for some twists and turns on your commute to…whereever it is that you go. Do you know how to read road signs? It really helps. Great, now we can steal your GPS for drug money. [NBC] >>>Don’t steal from the people who cook [...]

>>> Tonight is the first show at the new Silk City. Hometown favorites The Cobbs will be showing you the fun that is in your future at the pretty new club. We already gave away the free tickets, but take a free listen here. A.D. Lawless sets the tone before and after the band. >>> [...]

1. Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John 2. Streets Of Philadelphia – Bruce Springsteen 3. Philadelphia – Richard Stoltzman 4. Sailing To Philadelphia – Mark Knopfler 5. Fall In Philadelphia – Hall & Oates 6. Philadelphia – Joshua Meltzer 7. Philadelphia Is Cryin’ – Alan Kelly 8. Off To Philadelphia – The Irish Tenors 9. Sound [...]

>>> Avenue A/Razorfish, the big web-dev agency currently hard at work on what we’re guessing will be an instantly rejected redesign of Philly.com, has a new recruitment video out. And it makes us want to punch 1998 in the face all over again. [AgencySpy] >>> Still waiting on that Philly-Beijing direct route? The wait is [...]

Just think of what could’ve been… The Arctic Splash Factory. Our bev of choice isn’t produced close enough. This will mean extra jobs, and imagine the revenue from tours. Our own Amish Village. Reading Terminal Market just isn’t authentic. It’ll be cheap, they won’t need electricity and can raise their own houses and barns. Tourists [...]

Dear Steven, Look buddy, this is probably the last time we’re gonna talk you down from the ledge. We saw that you revisited the whole Philebrity-is-a-sellout meme today, but some recent shit has come to light that suggests maybe you should, well, maybe you should stop writing about us altogether. To wit: · We heard [...]

>>> World of Stak introduces us to Johnathon, the most outrageous, severe, committed filmmaker you’ll meet. His hobbies include wearing bandanas, framing things between his fingers, and humping parking meters. Here, he explains to us the philosophy behind his art of making advertisements. It’s funny stuff, trust us. >>> Shadow World is back with their [...]

State Supreme Court Affirms Gaming Board’s License Awards From The Legal Intelligencer By Asher Hawkins July 17, 2007 In a lengthy decision today, the state Supreme Court effectively cast in stone the Philadelphia-specific casino licenses awarded by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board at the end of 2006. Various neighborhood associations and anti-gaming groups had asked [...]

July 17, 2007 – There is an indication that Philadelphia has been, or at least was at one time, among possible targets for terror in this country. Has anyone else been verrrrry skeptical about the whole “I have a gut feeling al-Quaeda might strike again” line that’s been pumped out by the TV news over [...]