Good news for all you college kids and outskirts-dwellers: Three of SEPTA’s grizzled Regional Rail lines stand to get later weekend hours. The difference may be less than 90 minutes, but that’s three more drinks (at least). It’s like Daylight Savings for the non-driving suburban set. So who are the lucky lines? R5, R6, [...]

What, you thought he would go quietly into the dustbin of Philadelphia history? Nah, whether you like it or not — or even whether he likes it or not — the local media just can’t get enough John Street, especially now that he’s donned those dapper professorial robes at Temple.
Everyone’s getting in on the [...]

He’s sure settling comfortably into this talking head role, huh? And after 30 minutes of back-and-forth and fun facts, yes, he’s still sticking with Hillz.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Nutter’s next hat trick: Getting tougher gun laws for Philly, regardless of resistance at the state level. To wit, a City Council committee today gave a thumbs up to NINE NEW GUN LAWS without so much as casting a glance towards H-Burg. (They’re suing them over it all anyway.) Final passage [...]

This here’s the video for “Summer Grof,” from the forthcoming new album by Delaware/Philly’s Spinto Band. Directed by the always-enchanting Albert Birney.

Internet dungeon master Comcast is dismantling the ethernet rack and finally de-shackling all you BitTorrent users: The cable superpower and San Francisco-based file-sharing company BitTorrent have put down their maces, defrocked their armor and are embracing each other as techno-lovers. Comcast will no longer seek out and obliterate BitTorrent users during peak times, in exchange [...]

>>> Philebrity’s deepest condolonces go out to the friends, family and co-workers of Sean Conroy, the man beaten to death on the 13th Street el platform yesterday afternoon. This was a savage crime that frankly gave us chills, and there’s not a lot that we can say about it other than wishing that Philadelphia, as [...]

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You know what’s weird? We didn’t even know we cared about this until JUST NOW. This has to be some kind of cosmic gay penance for Clinton/Etheridge (see below). PS. We also just discovered that sending the link of [...]

It our belief that: A) Yes, we’re pretty sure this is real and that B) One day, in the not too distant future, Chelsea will re-embrace her inner punk rock, have a wayward phase (she’s suuuuuch a good kid, she totally deserves it) and pen a tell-all that will make Mommie Dearest look like Everybody [...]

Now, we here at Philebrity, being of sound mind (sorta), take the agnostic view on the time-honored Mumia Abu-Jamal affair: That he most likely did it, but that there are things we do not know and in fact may never know about how the crime went down because the City of Philadelphia bungled the crime [...]

>>> First let’s get the DJ nights out of the way. As flyered at right, The Break Off will bring queer dance magic to Barbary with no cover. And across town in South Philly, our pal Jersey Dan (aka DJ Next Door) is setting a mellow mood at POPE.
>>> But seriously, tonight’s about the [...]

When she’s not reporting the news or doing yoga, sharp-featured Fox29 anchor Kerri-Lee Halkett cuts loose with KerriLeeTV, a sort of one-woman slumber party where instead of a pillow fight she treats us to goofy news items. The latest? A feature on how Obama is George Bush’s cousin (Kerouac’s too) and Hillary is Angelina [...]

Meet Megabus. Don’t mind the splashy advertising and British accent. This bus may just get you to NYC for as little as a buck. From KYW:
Seats on megabus.com are going as low as $1.00, according to the company. You can book your spot up to six months in advance. There is a reservation [...]

So we’ve been getting warm and fuzzy lately over The Devil Wears Brook Brothers, the flighty personal blog of legal assistant Sarah Klem. Blogging for just about two years now, Klem has a sort of thinking-aloud quality that’s refreshing, even if her worries are exaggerated a bit. (It’s okay to work part-time for a [...]

· Clothing designer and Drexel graduate Liza Goncalves (clothing pictured to the right ) is excited about trying tea bagging. But not in that way. “I want to try using teabags to stain the shirts to give them that real vintage feel”, she says when discussing ideas for her new line, Vintage Blue, inspired by [...]

>>> Philly’s best surf-garage girl group circa the ’90s, The Friggs (pictured), will see their vinyl singles and rarities hit CD May 6 via the Pittsburgh label Get Hip under the title Today is Tomorrow’s Yesterday. For anyone too young to remember the ladies, you heard their song “Bad Word For a Good Thing” [...]

Fresh off Earthlink’s monorail-esque hosing of our wi-fi hopes, folks are abuzz today over the idea of a nationwide wireless network. For those keeping score at home, the fun new word here is Wi-Max, an expansive high-speed clusterfuck currently being massaged into tentative existence by Time Warner and our own Comcast, who’ve earmarked a [...]

We first ran this video as part of our big post recently on the new album by The Roots, Rising Down. It seemed like a fish out of water then, but yesterday, OkayPlayer confirmed it:
We told you a few weeks ago that “Birthday Girl” could easily get dropped off of Rising Down. We received word [...]

It was all over the news yesterday: Philadelphia “born and raised” nonprofit PhillyCarShare is facing competition from Cambridge, Mass. based ZipCar, which has put in a bid to replace PhillyCarShare as the city government’s car-share provider — and your go-to source for last-minute car needs. Oh no they didn’t! We did a little compare and [...]

>>> In case you haven’t read between the lines on this yet, allow us to put a fine point on it: The prospect of having Johnny Doc in Senate scares the living fuck out of us, and unless you’re on his payroll (HI BRIAN!), it should have you quaking in your boots, too. But oh, [...]