>>> Them kids Julia Factorial and Art Andrews are spinning punk rock, of all things, 7-10pm on WPRB. Wonder if they’ll revisit that most immortal of questions: If we can walk together, why can’t we rock together? >>> The oh-so-huggable John Vanderslice comes to JBs with Bishop Allen, whose new-ish The Broken String qualifies squarely [...]

That’s right: Smog! Philly is no L.A. but it’s by no means immune to the grimy, forbidding trappings of citydom. And smog, if you didn’t know, can wreak havoc on our city’s asthmatics, right down to those of us hacking away here at Philebrity HQ. But that doesn’t exactly put a human face on it, [...]

Confidential to KYW: Few words in a news headline grab our attention quicker than “whoops” and “scofflaw.” Well done. In this case, it’s due to our Mayor Street just plumb forgetting to pay some back property taxes. To make matters worse, this comes just weeks after Street’s very public effort to reign in delinquent tax-payers. [...]

Holy hell, that is one sexy grandma.

>>> Shadow World is in a laze maze as we kick it with local Kensington residents kicking back, pumping tunes and playing Dominoes. It’a all very leisurely, you see. Surrounded by food and loved ones, these guys know how to do it right! >>> Clips We Love unearths the craziest clip from back in the [...]

Ain’t no press like J-Press press. After a round of Frankie Says Relax t-shirts and charity collection quotes from gentrifRied hip-hop MCs, she lets the Times’ Style Section into Silk City’s pants. For how much longer must one remark on Northern Liberties and the proper usage of “jawn”? “The jawn is a Philly word,” said [...]

>>> Philly.com quietly rolled out its redesign over the weekend, and among the many design crimes committed here, the most egregious has surely got to be its use of a “Fajita” style font, in which the words “anything & everything Philly” appear to be scrawled in crayon — you know, just the way Philadelphians do. [...]

SPECIAL TO PHILEBRITY: When we heard that our pal Ryan Creed, along with Thom Lessner and Rose Luardo of the band Sweatheart, had been selected for an episode of perennial cable classic Trading Spaces, our brains nearly melted. People this cool (or thin) just usually aren’t on this show. And given Sweatheart’s penchant for the [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Bols and jawns everywhere wanna know: Is the Steven Bloodbath Nation strong enough, hard enough, gully enough to fill up Transit? This is the challenge posed by Turbo Station, which we believe is the last of these Vice/Colt 45 blowouts. Bloodbath and Strawberry Mansion DJs man the main floor; the cats from Hurrah! [...]

When we got a email entitled “Robin’s Bookstore 18th and Chestnut to close doors forever,” we got sad and scared all at once. But it turns out the venerable shop — sole owner of the bragging rights “oldest independent book store in Philadelphia” — is simply leaving its beloved 1837 Chestnut location behind and consolidating [...]

>>> Clips We Love is giving you a head’s up about some art happenings around town this weekend at Vox Populi and Space 1026. We’re telling you, it’s a veritable carnival of videos, film projections, and art installations goin’ on over there. Even puppets are throwing their hat in the ring! For a list of [...]

SPECIAL TO PHILEBRITY: When we heard that our pal Ryan Creed, along with Thom Lessner and Rose Luardo of the band Sweatheart, had been selected for an episode of perennial cable classic Trading Spaces, our brains nearly melted. People this cool (or thin) just usually aren’t on this show. And given Sweatheart’s penchant for the [...]

Here’s an idea: Don’t go to a bar called The Empty Glass and forget to tip. We’re not sure exactly what a group of patrons at the North Philly drinking hole did to warrant being locked inside the bathroom and robbed of $1,000. If there was indeed a reason beyond a desperate man in a [...]

And we all know how safe high school can be, right? Perhaps last but not least, City Hall will finally take the Kick Me sign off its back and ramp up security with metal detectors and x-ray screenings at each of the four entrances. When this futuristic approach will be enforced, we do not know. [...]

Not satisfied with his new local-music blog, XPN honcho Bruce Warren has issued a punchy list of (mostly) new Philly songs on his mainstay Some Velvet Blog. (Not to be confused with the ancient image at right.) True to its name, it’s 96% indie rock, with little surprises, but The Lowlands and Orphan Family should [...]

Wherever you fall in the casino debate, surely you’re not adverse to “urban parks surrounded by restaurants, rowhomes, and shopping.” So hopes Penn‘s Praxis consulting division, whose just-released preliminary recommendations paint a rosy picture of the Delaware River‘s redevelopment potential: Threaded along the new streetscape would be three acres of new greenspace – Praxis hopes [...]

KYW this morning reported the arrest of 200+ felons in our area, thanks to a six-day national manhunt codenamed FALCON. “Those arrested locally were nabbed for crimes including armed robberies and assaults, sex assaults and narcotics offenses.” Good work, guys. But really, we just can’t stop staring at that graphic. It’s so mighty and authoritative [...]

>>> Prison Jazz newbies New Motels release their spotless new EP, which is streaming at Citypaper as we speak. At Khyber. >>> The Fleisher/Ollman Gallery reopens at long last with exhibitions by Anthony Campuzano and Anissa Mack. 1616 Walnut St., Suite 100. 6-8pm. >>> But the big event of the night, and seriously maybe the [...]

This has been hovering over us all day, ghost-like: SEPTA has declared that a fare hike is needed if we’re not gonna let them kill transfers. Saw it coming, yes, but that doesn’t make the pill any less bitter. The recommended hike at this point: from $1.30 up to $1.45 for tokens and from 60 [...]

Uh oh: Daily News and Inky TV critics Ellen Gray and Jonathan Storm have seen the fall TV season and they are not happy about it. They get a chance to vent in a long chat with readers that turns out to be way more interesting than Craig LaBan‘s last one. What do we learn? [...]