· Can there also be an experimental nasty-ass-hair-grease-smudge-window-free SEPTA car? · Is this some kind of direct reaction to prevent SEPTA from going all kinds of Riverview on us? · If one cannot boil with seething hatred as one overhears an inane conversation just three feet away, how will we even know we are humans? · [...]

>>> Hey, I bet you thought there wasn’t gonna be Evening Picks, did you? I mean, what could possibly be happening on a cold, rainy January night that could pull you out the house? I can think of something, mang: Garotas Suecas, this Brazilian psych band that speak very fluent Os Mutantes, who somehow have [...]

Unisys announced today that it would not be relocating to Philadelphia and that its headquarters would remain in Blue Bell, Pa after all. Unisys denied the decision had anything to do with The Zoning Board Authority‘s rejection of the atrocious sixteen foot signs the company wanted to hang at Two Liberty Place. Unisys cited “purley [...]

Our sister site, Phoodie.info, runs down the year in restaurants.

Here’s a message I think we all can get behind. Not sure when these babies will hit the streets, but we’ll let you know.

Oh, the memories: Speeding back from the Peter Gabriel concert on the Schuylkill in the mid-80s, hanging out with the Georgetown basketball team, cramming for the theology final, all of us gakked out of our minds at Peace-A-Pizza. So wild, so free, so… Catholic! Mercy! Oh, wait. Shit. This isn’t about that. Sorry everybody! Well, [...]

Suh-weet! We’re happy to announce that at this Fog, our very special guests will be Philly’s own The Sounds of Kaleidoscope, who’ll be celebrating the vinyl release of their latest, All This Heaven. As always, Foggy Notion — Philebrity’s monthly rock and roll dance party — is FREE, and we’ll make it easy for you [...]

On the eve of the new year — and just in time for your back-to-work economic doomsday light reading — PlanPhilly posted a piece by Thomas J. Walsh wondering aloud which development projects currently on the books in Philadelphia will or won’t fall prey to This Thing We Are In Now. And while Walsh doesn’t [...]

If you think it’s too soon for us to run another Darren video: A) You’re trippin’, fool. And B) Well, this, Darren’s description that accompanies the clip:

obamaramamentum · shopportunities · jobortunities · obamaños · mavericky · recessionista · frugalista · car czar · obamaramamania · madoff as a verb Dear God make it stop.

Also file under “Things We Totally Forgot To Post About During The Christmas Rush”: OMFG! Morrissey is playing The Academy Of Music! On March 22nd, to be precise. We have no idea when tickets will be going on sale, but here are a few things we do know: · As evidenced by the picture at [...]

It’s a sin, really: When we think “Tampa Bay Rays,” we don’t think about the team the Philadelphia Phillies so righteously sent packing in October, giving this city its first World Fucking Championship in decades. No, we think about the mohawked asshole at right, taking a full bottle of Grey Goose to the head as [...]

This may be before your time, whippersnapper, but back when Philebrity was just a gleam in our eyes, The Philadelphia Independent was an oft-overlooked bible for a younger (and probably far, far better) New Philadelphia. Within its over-broad sheets, there contained multitudes: A young Lord Whimsy, a cast of regulars including Christine Smallwood, Nathaniel Friedman [...]

While we were on break last week, there was a pretty good piece in the Wall Street Journal concerning the gambling industry both as we head into Great Depression 2.0 and the changing public perception of gambling, which seems to grow less favorable with the average American each time he or she is surveyed. With [...]

The City, the greatest American television show since Mad Men/The Sopranos/The Wire, is back on MTV at 10pm tonight. But please: Avoid Bromance at all costs.

So much for rolling into 2009 free of Joey Vento posts. The skit featured Vento popping out of the top of a float labeled “Gewizno’s Steaks” with a “When ordering, speak English” sign. Vento waved a poster reading, “What?” and tossed fake cheesesteaks into the crowd. Then an announcer for B. Love Strutters cried out, [...]

What might might have gotten lost in the story of Judge Fox’s injunction against the library closings last week might have been just how eloquent the decision itself was. We’ve heard a lot of people talk about these closings in the last two months, but we’ve seldom heard this kind of clarity of thought about [...]

New for ’09: The Twitter Spam Virus! Weeee!

Look: We’re not even gonna act like we understand/care about/pay much attention to The Football — it’s like war and math all in one sport, yuck — but we will say this: That Asante Samuel is ONE! PRETTY! MAN! Samuel, it turns out, is something of the Jimmy Rollins of the Iggles — that is, [...]

· PBC Unleashes Joe · Smells Like Recession Cuisine: Salt Pepper Ketchup Coming Soon · Azul Cantina Closing? All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.