>>> This may be an all-time Philebrity first: We’re actually recommending you go to Doc Watson’s. Whyfor? Oh, it’s the Philadelphia University Fashion Show After Party with DJ Bushy and Dave P, plus garage stylo courtesy Dark Horse and the Carousels and the perfectly shoegazey, hella baggy (and also shaggy) Robes.
>>> And over at Silk […]

SIXERS: BREAKING: Samuel Dalembert (pictured) has joined Phil Moore Brown and was last seen shotgunning a Sparks outside the Barbary. Says basketball is bullshit and he just wants to skateboard, enroll in UArts and hang with Saul Williams. Damn. [DN]
PHILS: The continuing crunchy-granolafying of Citizen’s Bank Park never fails to bring a smile to our […]

The Roots‘ newest album, Rising Down, was just released yesterday. And on the heels of a clutch of great videos, we here at Philebrity have been hotly anticipating the record — although it’s a dark one, to be sure. Much like we did with Man Man’s Rabbit Habits, Philebrity regulars Joey Sweeney and Doug Wallen […]

“What you are advocating here is that we take away the rights of a minority. And I don’t think that’s right,” Fumo told Gilbert Coleman, Jr., senior pastor of Freedom Christian Bible Fellowship in Philadelphia, during the hearing. “. . . If we introduced a bill on slavery, it might pass. That doesn’t make it […]

>>> SEPTA cries, “Don’t hate the player, hate the game” in the regard to the Grand Theft Auto IV bus ads going up all over the place, and for once, we can get behind something SEPTA does; this is manufactured controversy at its weakest. Plus, SEPTA secretly reasons, “How the fuck do you think most […]

This is the clip for the group’s song, “Old Ways,” but the bigger news is that Dr. Dog just announced they’ll be playing at Johnny Brenda’s on Wed, May 28th with Pepi Ginsberg and Seth Kauffman. Tickets go on sale at noon, get ‘em here, and hurry: We’re told that there’s only 150 to go […]

Real talk: The more The White Man’s Media tries to railroad both Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama with him, the more we grow to really, really like Rev. Wright and think, shit, maybe this guy should be running for president. Watch the C-Span clip at right. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen […]

Aww, yeah, Philadelphia, by the end of the year, we’re gonna have some SOLAR POWER UP IN THIS JAWN! Exelon is putting a solar station in down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, in one of the brownfields currently not used by Urban Outfitters to rip off other people’s designs and stockpile the Vice Do’s & […]

· ”Cobra/ObamaGirl NightVision Sex Tape”
· “Cobra-Strangled Baby’s American Idol Audition Tape”
· ”Cobra’s Ex-Girlfriend Tells All About Cobra’s Micropenis”
· “Patricio’s Video Love Letter To Baby’s Cobra-Bitten Bare Ass”
And finally:
· “Season One Preview Of ABC’s Wife Swap: Cobra Versus Kardashians”

Regular readers of Philebrity know that we’ve been mildly obsessed with the Shut The Duck Up movement for a while now. STDU, of course, seeks to have the City of Philadelphia come down hard on the popular-with-tourists-but-hated-by-Philadelphia Duck Boats. And while they’ve had some success in bringing to light the noise ordinances routinely flouted by […]

It’s so early in the week, and already, we are heading for a J-Press/Doree Shafrir/Moe Tkacik expat trifecta! This just in over the wire:
A mere month after a book based on popular website Stuff White People Like was sold to Random House for a rumored $350k comes word of another blog-to-print deal. Postcards From Yo […]

Today at 11:30am there was a bomb threat at the Bicycle Coalition Office at 100 South Broad Street, forcing everyone to evacuate. Anti-bike forces (aka cab drivers) getting violent? Is everyone going MAD??? Gosh, I wonder if this has anything to do with the Philadelphia City Council reviewing the Philly Bike Share program tomorrow at […]

>>> Question: Even when people are completely in earnest and have lovely things to say, doesn’t it still annoy the hell out of you when people from North Jersey and New York are like, “OMG did you know about this city called PHILADELPHIA and that it is TOTALLY GREAT?” Here, WFMU does precisely that, but […]

Check out the video about 1 minute 35 seconds in for Ben Franklin and George Washington inventing the “bro-code” in Philly in 1776. Important shit people.

Q: Baby Mama is set in Philadelphia, and it deals a lot with issues of gentrification and the changing face of the city. How important was the setting to the story?
A: Philly just felt like the right town, a place where you could get a sense of both Kate’s and Angie’s worlds. But we faked […]

Here is how the top 25 daily papers performed in today’s FAS-FAX report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
It covers the six-month period ending this past March 31 and is subject to audit.
Total Paid Daily Circulation, Average Monday-Friday
Newspaper Name — As of 03/31/08 — As of 03/31/07 — % Change
[…]THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: 334,150 […]

Dearest Neighbors To The North,
It has come to our attention that you intend to claim one of this city’s most well-known icons as your own. While other Philadelphians are in the first stages of tragedy (anger/denial), we here at Philebrity shall welcome you as liberators. It has long been our feeling that, well, and we […]

Related: NYT: “There’s No Anxiety In The Transference”

After the jump, Dan Murphy’s shots from last night’s Feist show at the Academy Of Music, plus an mp3 from the artist.

Éric Rohmer and Jean-Luc Godard’s 1957 short film, presented in two parts. Second half after the jump.