>>> Surprisingly, there’s some stuff to do in Philly tonight other than, you know, Weeds and lamenting this Godforsaken humidity. Naeem Juwan, I mean, Spank Rock has a loaded B-more-centric line-up for his weekly Jang House party at Barbary tonight: Cullen Stalin, Apt One & Skinny Friedman, Leeroy Jetson aka Nareem Hanks Johnson, and Emily [...]

After the jump, some humble suggestions — lookin’ pretty bleak, but nonetheless — for those of us lacking a way out of the city this weekend and looking to plan in advance.

After the jump, Caitlin Welge’s shots from the Paine’s World Benefit For Paine’s Park Project on Saturday night.

>>> First off, let us all tip our Mountain Dews to City of Philadelphia CIO Terry Phillis, who tendered his resignation earlier today. Phillis will be out by July 31 — an interim director will be appointed by end of week — and goes out on the tremendous high of having had a huge hand [...]

We figured we might as well warn you: Come Wednesday, this gigantic Eddie Murphy head will be invading LOVE Park. It’s 15 feet tall, 20 feet wide, 10 feet deep, its neck is 17.5 feet around, and inside, there’s a 5×7′ room where you can ponder why you’re not sneaking a lunchtime drink and instead, [...]

Previously: We’ve Sensed It. We’ve Seen The Signs. Now, It’s Happening…And It’s A Bloodbath
The Happening Reviews Are A Bloodbath: Part Deux (But Not Why You Think!)

Yes, it’s in New York, but what are you trying to say? That Philadelphia lawyers aren’t good enough to be waterboarded?
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LAWYERS WANTED FOR NYC WATERBOARDING EVENT
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Step Up And Ride the Waterboard of Terror
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An Experimental Art Event Presented by Steve Powers and Creative Time
Yep, that Steve Powers. Full press release after the jump. We’re looking [...]

It’s been over a week since the friends of rittenhouse square held their private fundraiser (after putting up the tent and a week early and blocking access to much of the park) and the baracades still litter the park. Perhaps they have not had a chance to get back into the city from the western [...]

In general, it is recent Philebrity editorial policy to look upon lists of cities with a shrug and a firm look that says, “This’ll make it into Rumblings… if we’re desperate.” But here’s one we can, um, get behind: Philly is the third most obscene city in the U.S. And for once there is hard [...]

After the jump, Loren Hunt peers into the greatest cosmic zeitgeist truth-telling device of our time. What she finds there may frighten and amaze you. Or, it could be a clip from Steel Magnolias. For the heavens say what they will.

FRIDAY:
>>> Philosophical/etiquette question: In weather like this, is it acceptable to have open scorn for all bands and DJs who would rather drag you into their 4-tiered bill/night than leave you to your vodka lemonades on the roof and long, air-conditioned marathons of Real World XX, rocking the water ice with the one you love? [...]

RECOMMENDED: Why, they go to see movies like When Did You Last See Your Father? at the Ritz, of course! And lo, I go with them. This tear-jerker starring Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth is the kind of Mike Leigh-ish meat-and-potatoes English kitchen-sink drama that’s been keeping the Ritz flush with old people for decades [...]

Who hasn’t got mad love for John Oates? Nobody, that’s who. He is a living testament to both The Second Fiddle and Tight Bro From Way Back When. Also, need we say it? He had the sweetest fucking ’stache in the business for probably longer than you’ve been alive. The stache is gone these days, [...]

Inky: You Are Sleeping, You Do Not Want To Believe, You Are Sleeping

Over the last few years, R5 Productions‘ Punk Rock Flea Market has become a biannual tradition that brings together a vast array of the Philly art/music/hipster/whatever populace, selling everything from Junk Nobody Wants to hand-crafted clothing and wares to records you’ve been looking for since forever. And when it hits the Starlight Ballroom this Saturday, [...]

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Ugh. It’s just too hot. I came here to the Rocket Cat Cafe in Fishtown this morning in the hopes of catching some cool, cool, freon breezes, but is it any surprise that it’s as sticky and unforgiving as the summer of 1994 in here? Rocket Cat, man. Don’t even get me started. My point: [...]

Philebrity is proud to be the new media sponsor for Paine’s World, the fundraising event for Paine’s Park Project, to be held this Saturday at the Urban Outfitters HQ at the Naval Yard. For the unfamiliar, Paine’s Park Project is deep into the process of building the city’s first skate-friendly public park, just off the [...]

If you are a male UPenn student who is terrified of women and you pay people to fix your problems, there’s a good chance you know Steve Dingley. For those of you not living in fear of the female population, Dingley is a Penn graduate who passes himself off as a love guru of sorts. [...]

While we here at Philebrity are very keen on the notion that all music should be free, perhaps a bit of clarification is in order: When we say that, we’re talking about digital music, as it has no physical shape, is art in its purest, most unadulterated form, and you need to put something into [...]