FRIDAY:
>>> It is crazy, and awesome, to think about how The Yah Mos Def (pictured) has evolved from almost a gag band — “ex-hardcore dudes rap about… hardcore!” — to something approaching, you know, a real thing, with seven inches, 12-inches and now, an album. Meanwhile, the duo — Bryan Trackstar and Ricky Coldhands — […]

RECOMMENDED: We appropriately gushed about City Of Men — the sort-of-but-not-really sequel to the towering Brazilan drug epic City Of God – earlier this week when we gave away tickets to a preview screening of it, but it really is so good that we’re going to do it again. The plot: Two dirt-poor Favela teens […]

>>> Remember Soupjam Stevens? You know: little guy, likes banjos and Jesus? He’s currently working on an ode to the New Jersey Turnpike. This should most likely follow his latest release, Soupjam Stevens Sings The Phonebook Aloud While That Broken Social Scene Album Plays In The Background. [NYMag]
>>> Let’s bring it even closer to home: […]

Featuring the young, bearded Henry Rollins. We do believe that this is the LOUDEST Noontime Nugget of all time.

Check this out: if you call Comcast and ask them to stop sending you anything other than your bill, they’ll agree but quietly slap you with a $1.99 “change of service” fee.
Sayin’: You kind of have to love that Roberts Family hustle.
Consumerist: Wait, You Actually Get Mail In Your Neighborhood?

EVENT: TWO “LEAP DAY BABIES” FROM SAME FAMILY TAKE TO WACHOVIA CENTER TURF AS THOUSANDS SING HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEFORE WINGS GAME
UNDEFEATED WINGS (5-0) LOOK TO USE EXTRA DAY TO REMAIN UNBEATEN

DATE: Friday, February 29 at 7:40 p.m.
PLACE: Wachovia Center turf, 3601 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia
DETAILS: […]

>>> Was “Pigs Fly” a lie? Or is it all some kind of misunderstanding, Officer? Hard to say for sure, and for the many out there that wondered if the Inquirer was cooking the numbers on their much-celebrated circulation boost last year, here is your lone gunman. An independent audit that just came out says […]

Happy February 29th, everybody.
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>>> Sean Agnew. Honus Honus. Val Kilmer. What do these men have in common? Come to our TLA Philebrity Screening of Real Genius and find out. 7:30pm, National Mechanics, 22 S. Third Street. It is free. There is beer. That is all.
>>> Something like 800 people signed up for the London Calling/Y-Rock & WXPN dance […]

After the jump, photographer Ryan Collerd’s shots from last night’s show.

Philly boy Eric Weiss - last seen doing craaaaay videos for Spank Rock and Plastic Little — just got into the SXSW Film Festival with his debut documentary, Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry, about tattoo legend Sailor Jerry. Weiss just dropped the trailer on the Hori Smoku website, and it looks absolutely great. Dig it.
HoriSmoku: Official […]

This just in from Sean Agnew:
Ryan (Honus Honus) from Man Man [pictured, center] and myself have created an ever lasting bond about our love for the film REAL GENIUS. We can quite the movie for days and are giant fans of the soundtrack . We even own shirts that the characters wore in the […]

Variety’s reporting that the creepy, beloved graphic novel Black Hole by Philly’s own Charles Burns is the next project for maverick director David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, Panic Room, Zodiac), a dream pairing if there ever was one. Or maybe a nightmare pairing, considering Fincher loves to mine the murkiest of depths in his […]

Diplo and DJ Sega’s “Action News” mashup.

>>> The King Tut Exhibit at the Franklin Institute had the highest attendance for a temporary art exhibit in the world for 2007. Think about that for a moment. If the Frank really wanted to soup up its money game, A King Tut vs. Darth Vader Battle of Hoth Hologram Laser Light Show could not […]

“I’ve got your Bill Berry right here, pal.”
It’s looking like June 18, with Modest Mouse and The National opening. National onsale date coming soon. Scope new (rumored to be not horrible) album here.

Here at Philebrity, we care. Senile gossip columnist/medium through which the dead speak A.D. Amorosi has been writing his weekly “Icepack” column since the early 1940s, when he arrived in Philadelphia, fresh from Transylvania with nothing but a pack of clove cigarettes and the clothes on his back. Given the reformed vampire’s long tenure, Amorosi […]

UNIVERSITY CITY: Penn and Drexel are looking to expand their target market, a lot. Both universities are trying to set up specialized high schools in University City. Get em while they’re young. [KYW]
NORTHERN LIBERTIES: “You got a lot more wrong than the zipcode. The street is SANSOM.” OK, OK!!! [NoLibs]
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: People of this city, […]

PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Trying to find an open parking spot in Philadelphia is often an effort in futility. So on a recent trip into Center City, Jackie and Henry Geis thought it was their lucky day!
“Henry saw the parking meter open so he pulled right in,” said Jackie.
But the couple says that they […]

>>> I’ve just gotten into this band called My Bloody Valentine, have you ever heard them? I think they could be the start of something really beautiful. That’s a horrible way to lead in to talking about Silk City’s Perfect Prescription monthly night of shoegaze musics and those that are friends to them. But we […]