>>> Even the gang at WXPN is apparently not immune to Alycia Lane fever. Guess the theme for today’s Top 5 at 5: Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne (ok, kinda goofy, but what did you expect, Layne Staley?) Police – Truth Hits Everybody (and won’t it!) Strokes – New York City Cops (a nugget from [...]

After a long, hard road of lobbying and awareness-raising, it looks like Christmas is coming just a bit early for the peeps at Paine’s Park Project, the group that’s been working to build a skate park on the Schuylkill River Trail since 2003. Later today, Mayor Street will be hosting a press conference to announce [...]

One of the nicer parts about living in New Transplantadelphia ‘lo these last few years has been the city’s wonderful, if accidental, Adopt-A-Band program. Bands that might have otherwise been languishing in places like Dayton or Washington, D.C. — much less New York, which we won’t even get started on here — have somehow been [...]

The Comcast building is open for business, and the small numbers of creative types who were formerly housed in dark corners of anonymous buildings now live a scant few floors below Brian Robert‘s balls. TEXT RECEIVED AS FOLLOWS: It’s horrible. So very corporate. At new comcast building. Hate it hate it hate it hate it. [...]

After the jump, Brian James Kirk gets down with the Make: Philly posse.

Can anybody understand what this little Italian fella is saying?

We know what you’re thinking: After watching the Flyers pummell the fuck out whosoever that would be so insolent as to cross them at the Wach, you cannot bear the commute to, say, Ruth’s Chris or Capital Grille. Then say hello to The Cadillac Grille, the new General Motors-sponsored “upscale chophouse” within the Wach. Weird, [...]

OK, so we’re almost almost through with our marathon of Alycia Lane coverage that we started up in a fit of pique yesterday, and today we turn our heads to the true victims of this affair: The Gays. One of the most baffling parts of this all, as we mentioned yesterday, was Lane’s go-to insult [...]

>>> Let’s talk about Philly Balls for a moment, shall we? You know, the BIG ones — the ones that start out like, “yeah, taxpayers, y’all’s my BITCH” and end in the inevitable extortion charges. Used to be, this was a councilman/state rep/senator’s game, but not so anymore. In this new version of Le Balls [...]

We know you’ve been thinking about it: Performing a little comething at the FIRST EVER NON-DENOMINATIONAL, COMPLETELY SECULAR PHILEBRITY CHRISTMAS PAGEANT THIS SATURDAY DEC. 22 @ JOHNNY BRENDAS. Perhaps it’s a song; perhaps you wanna drop a lil’ bit o’ Suess; perhaps even HOLIDAY MAGIC. We have no idea. But we do know this: Philebrity [...]

We’ll tell you this: Though we have tons of friends, enemies and frienemies in the media world, nothing can really top the ridiculousness of the people we’ve met in broadcast TV news. Nothing — not even the Inky/Daily News people, hemmed in by antiquated guilds and God knows what else. With a few notable exceptions [...]

>>> SIKE! Girlfriend is OFF THROUGH NEW YEARS! Does this mean that if I walk up to a Philly cop and call him a fag and punch him in the nuts that I can stop having to write Philebrity for the rest of the year so that I can get deeper into the ABC Family [...]

Here at Philebrity, we are no strangers to reaching for the telephone in a cold sweat, fingers trembling in fear, punching in a few numbers and asking as soon as someone answers, asking “Fuck! Are we gonna get sued for this?” Always, on the end of the other line is one Conor Corcoran, Esq., our [...]

Zen riddles like whoa this weekend, eh? Hat tip to Philly Chit Chat, who actually had the temerity to be there in person. You poor thing.

Of course, you know, this whole Alycia Lane thing has too many facets, really, to cover in just one post. So we’ve dispactched our team to track down and ask real-life experts about the Lane situation and cut through the fog to get REAL ANSWERS. So check in this afternoon for: Ask The Lawyer: What [...]

They wanna know. Before you open that Dutch Umbrella, which is basically the PhillyCarShare of umbrellas that can be picked up at 8 different locations in case you find yourself ill-equipped on a stormy day, know that you’re being tracked. It turns out that protecting customers against the elements is not the main idea. Each [...]

It’s usually 2:04 AM in NYC when angry straight women attack. A cop will always get punched in the face and the boyfriend is the innocent voice of reason that nobody pays any attention to. When it’s Alycia Lane in the hot seat, it’s no different. If claiming to be “a fucking tv reporter, you [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Wildly schizophrenic weekend, folks: Tonight, there’s such a melee of parties and shows that it’s frankly confusing and option-paralysis-inducing. And that doesn’t even take into account holiday party season swinging into high gear as well. Then, tomorrow, kind of the same thing but just not as much star power. We can only tell [...]

We first met Daniel Ralston during the first year of Philebrity, when we bought a used digital camera from him off Craigslist. Back then, he was very active in the Kensington South CDC and its accompanying short-lived music venue, the Kensington South Forum. In the last year or two, though, Ralston has been focusing on [...]