That would be our esteemed Mayor and one DJ Too Tuff, mugging for the cameras at yesterday’s first-ever Philadelphia DJ Day in Forrest Hill. Note how dude is sending props to DJ AM. Get well soon, dude! We’re working on more Philly DJ Day coverage presently… Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: [...]

>>> Hey, have you done anything yet to celebrate Philadelphia DJ Day? This morning, we did our part and: A) took Steven Bloodbath to the Please Touch Museum; B) had a potato sack race with JHN RDN; and C.) flew a kite with Cosmo Baker. OK, we didn’t do any of those things, but we [...]

Hey Dan Gross! Alycia Lane is suing you. And your corporate overlord. And Larry Mendte and CBS3 and blah blah blah. Did you conspire with Mendte? Was your price merely a look at the bikini pics? Sigh. In what we hope is (but know could never be) the final word on the matter, Broadcasting and [...]

This is something we’ve touched upon many, many times on Philebrity, but until now, there’s never been a proper primer on it: Large sections of the hipster population you wade through daily in Philadelphia contain a dark undercurrent of young people (it always seems like transplants) who’ve been sucked into this weird emo/hipster variety of [...]

Remember a month or so ago when I was talking about how we must kill the Making Time musical microgenre so that we can save Making Time? Well, a few things about that: 1.) Though I can offer you no proof whatsoever of it, I believe that progress is being made on this front. I [...]

So, for the last two weeks, we’ve been sending Philebrity intern Caitlin Welge to the Just Friends party, now weekly on Wednesday nights at Pearl. This was by far both the best piece of footage she got, as well as being quite possibly the least self-aware person we’ve seen… in quite some time. Enjoy.

But don’t get too psyched, because we’re not talking about the sandy beaches and hot molten lava and grass skirts part. We’re talking about the “sick of babysitting racists” part: Due to flagrant abuse of the privilege – including continual name-calling, crude language, profanity, slander, threats and racism – The Maui News will no longer [...]

And please note I already said “musty crotch.” Also, sorry, the answer “A Fucking Festivus Of Shit I Do Not Care About” is already taken. But because we live to serve, we must share this with you: Hugging Harold Reynolds is pretty damn sure that the brunette posing for drunken MySpace pictures (so far as [...]

Before we all (hopefully) go down this road again together, let’s learn from the mistakes of last year. And I’m not even talking about on the field. No, I’m talking about the wild card fever/playoff emotional mess we were all in here around this time last year. Symptoms include: · spending every last dime you [...]

Teetering between genuine humor and weird racial tension, heeeeeeere’s Philadelphia! Wait, no, it’s the Uncyclopedia entry on Philadelphia. Today, we came across this for the first time. Uncyclopedia is a humor wiki, which, as the phrase “humor wiki” implies, veers wildly between some things that are actually quite funny, and some that, well, push some [...]

>>> Saxby’s to buy Bucks County Coffee Co. chain; wants to make their coffee less shitty, but makes no promises. [PhillyBurbs] >>> McGillin’s gets a writeup in Gourmet as one of the coolest bars in America, will trick new Philadelphians into getting construction jobs and then loaded at 11:30 am. [Klein] >>> Narnia exhibit coming [...]

>>> If you were one of the house full of tech geeks, entrepreneurs, thinkers or even just passersby who went to the last IgnitePhilly, then you already know that this thing basically represents the future of Philly’s creative economy and NUTTER IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU SHOULD SHOW UP. It’ll give you talking points [...]

So, for the last two years or so, we’ve been utterly obsessed with the Glasgow, Scotland band Glasvegas. Over that time, every month or two they’d post a new demo on their MySpace page, and we’d snap it up as quick as possible, with every new track revealing a different facet of their Phil Spector/Jesus [...]

So, we got an e-mail from a reader who claims he’s run into some interesting found art around town recently. “Hey Philebrity, I’ve been seeing these puzzle pieces around Philly, two last week and one today, and I went to the site at one-one-one.net and it redirected to a flickr pool with the directions to [...]

SIXERS/KICKBALL: The next time someone brings up Philadelphians’ lack of athleticism (and lack of recent titles), we’ve got something to kick back with: This weekend, former 76er Kyle Korver (pictured at right in high-school uniform bobblehead form) hosted a charity kickball game at Capitolo Playground in South Philly near Cheesesteak Row. And boy howdy, friends, [...]

Have you ever wondered what might have become of the Kevin Spacey character in American Beauty had he lived? This says perhaps more about me than I’d like you to know, but I think about it all the time. Because, not for nothing, the dude was on an interesting track: Dumped his uptight, frigid spouse; [...]

When we sit down to do 2008 superlatives in a few months, no doubt we will look upon Santi White aka Santogold with wonder and pride. It takes hooks like flypaper to have your music infiltrate pop culture the way the songs from Santogold’s debut have, from radio to Internet to TV to advertising. And [...]

Hailing from 18th and Sansom, The Liberty Bellows Accordion Ensemble perform the surf classic, “Wipeout.”

Why is it that people who really have no business having better-looking or easier-to-navigate websites than philly.com keep making websites that are better-looking and easier-to-navigate than philly.com? No idea, but I fucking love it. Even THIS total piece of shit — handily titled totalphilly.com — is easier to get around on than the Brown Hornet [...]

We’re not gonna lie to you: People cling to animals and care about “the animals” and do everything “for the animals” most often do so because they’re simply freaked out and don’t know how to deal with other people. But you know what? People pretty much suck, so if you can deal with, you know, [...]