there were purportedly (water cooler talk) 2 separate bike accidents today at Broad and Spring Garden where the ibx, cbs, cw and other companies are located at 1500 spring garden. happened between 8:00- 8:45 and in both cases bikers were carted away in ambulances[...] everyone in my office seemed relieved to see me today- and [...]

Lately, we’ve been thinking about this whole Larry Mendte/Alycia Lane thing. Well, not so much about the various controversies themselves, but the way they’ve played out in the local media. Not to get too heady about it, but suffice to say that watching Larrygate play out has represented not just the spiritual nadir of our [...]

Now that we’re knee-deep in the midstream of Wedding Season — three weddings, two new engagements in our immediate circle, with seemingly more on the way — we’re getting to be bona fide Wedding Critics. As the season wears on, we’re becoming not unlike TV golf announcers, lowly intoning commentary over the chicken piccata in [...]

So when you’re perusing the listings for this year’s Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, which starts on July 10 BTW, and you get to thinking that it’s all processed drag queens and Aberzombies, stop yourself and know this: The freak flag flies, um, hard with Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel [...]

ImpactoLatin: Say Hello To My Little Friend

Summer in Philly. It’s a strange and beautiful time.

After the jump, Tony Carpenter wonders why anybody at all still has a job.

Says our reader: “Just saw this. Dimitri is fuckin weird looking in this pic. His head looks like a skull wearing an afro wig & lipstick.”

How this one slipped past us is, well, obviously, beyond us, for it involves fakery, trickery, and public funding — all Philebs staples.
City, state, and federal officials will roll out a program aimed at getting drivers in Philadelphia to heed the speed limit. One part of this involves 3-D images that will look like [...]

Let us tell you, the little backpacker from the ’90s in us is one seriously neglected inner child, but today, he’s thrilled, because we just played him a couple of tracks off the debut Hustle Simmons album, released just yesterday. But it’s not just that lil’ guy who’s still stoked on the Black Star album [...]

We’ve made our opinion on the whole Rick’s Steaks vs. Reading Terminal Market thing known well enough: It’s bullshit. Even if Rick Olivieri really did do something to royally piss off the Terminal brass, everybody knows that the Ghosts of Philly Patronage Past still haunt the place, and that alone makes the whole hullaballoo [...]

Jenkintown native Nancy Spungen in the infamous “heroin interview” with Sid Vicious.

philly wireless was right. on it.
already – shit was up and running last night! very fast too!
the page that used to be the earthlink page had a big “open free account” sticker on it and i was like, alright, since my earthlink log in doesn’t work anymore. i wasn’t expecting [...]

Here at Philebs, we don’t take it easy on the interns. We make them run the site(s) while we go on three-Bloody Mary lunches, we read their personal blogs out loud in funny voices for cruel sport, and when we get bored, we feed them raw meat sprinkled with gun powder to make them mean [...]

You can have your Segways and your 4-wheelers (remind us to do a piece on the Kensington 4-wheeler off-roading scene some time, it’s mind-boggling), but back in the day, from here to Reading, it was trolleys, trolleys, trolleys. Yesterday, trolley enthusiast/Trolleyvox principal Andrew Chalfen sent around this clip at right depicting the trolley/streetcar fleet in [...]

For years, we’ve been secretly wondering what Grandpa Philebrity’s comeuppance was going to be for buying all his gifts, Christmas after Christmas, at Kohl’s. Now, before you sling your bougie arrows, we will admit that Kohl’s is good for some things: Men’s boxer briefs, those gloves that are like half glove/half ice-scraper, and gifts for [...]

>>> Gather round Philadelphians, it’s story time! First Person Arts’ Story Slam goes down tonight at L’Etage. Enjoy a crepe while hearing amateur story tellers go all Homer like on your ass.
>>> Thee Make Out Party is playing at the M Room tonight, promising memories of junior high spin the bottle sessions. [...]

Out here in the neighborhoods, it used to be that the only thing hipsters and native populations of the working poor had in common were air and drugs. And even that was uncomfortable. But during the summer months, and Lord knows we’re in them now, there is common ground. And I mean really common ground. [...]

>>> We’re sorry, Feminists Young & Old, if today’s earlier post about the Marty Moss-Coane show stung a bit. We only mention it because we care. Here is our olive branch to you, in the form of the fetching and talented, and sure, why not, empowered Maggie Siff (pictured) and Bryn Mawr College who are [...]