Chances are, you’ve come across Aziz Ansari in your basic cable or Internet travels. He’s one third of the Human Giant show on MTV, pops up all the time on those VH1 shows, and for us, will be forever beloved as “Clell Tickle, Indie Marketing Guru,” as shown above. He is, in the parlance of [...]

“Listen, The Snow Is Falling” just kills us every time. Sure, Galaxie 500 went for it, but come on.

Lissy Trullie is the kind of dirtball Bushwicker that we’ve been hoping would show up on The City all season; someone who could finally, decisively give Whitney Port the New York welcome you know she really needs. (Eightball, out until noon, wake up on a floor somewhere, sticky, in love with a girl.) But by [...]

Recently, we started uploading all of the videos for Philebrity and Phoodie.info to Vimeo (which, by the way, is definitely the best-looking and best-playing video sharing site we’ve found). Because Vimeo is geared directly towards filmmakers — amateur or pro — there’s a lot less outright crap on it than YouTube. One of our favorite [...]

We stand corrected. And in honor of all Philadelphia public and parochial schools being closed today, we’ll be posting under “SNOW DAY” rules today. In other words, whatever random crap we want. Let the games begin!

Philebrity is proud to announce that we’ve relaunched our weekly picks-n-tips mailer, The Philebrity Reader. The Reader comes out weekly, and features exclusive content, event picks and giveaways not featured on the main site. It’s good. Holler here if you wanna sign up for The Philebrity Reader now. And if you’re already signed up for [...]

>>> We dig the studious, Phillip Glass-ish thinkmusic put out by Portland’s AU, even though we seldom bother with this type of music. Which is, we think, a ringing endorsement. Either that, or we just made AU the scorned-upon teenybopper version of whatever all this stuff is that only employees at Other Music actually listen [...]

Hey, remember when JC Dobbs was gonna open back up and put the WEIRD and AWESOME back on the east shank of South Street? Well, that happened for like a second, but it all seems to have gone pear-shaped. Even though we have a few listings for ‘em comin’ up and there’s no note on [...]

No big whup, we just noticed something cool: During this new phase of bleaker-than-bleak winter, the stars would seem to have aligned and given us three straight nights of awesome nerdy white dudes playing weird records at bars. Add in a Crippling Snowstorm That Will Never Actually Happen, and mid-week just got a little drunker, [...]

AS TOLD BY OUR LEGAL CORRESPONDENT, J. CONOR CORCORAN, ESQ.: The observation of Philadelphian politics is conducive to strange similes, metaphors and empathies. Circumstances and facts may differ, but visceral concurrencies abound. As the Fumo trial trots out its defensive durge, standard operating procedure concerning the character of Philadelphia politicians is exposed to the light [...]

NYT: Run, Rabbit, Run Philebrity mourns the man who is unquestionably the finest writer to ever emerge from Berks County. After the jump, Updike’s classic short story, “A & P.”

We’ve always been surprised by exactly how compelling we find Antony and The Johnsons. Probably because we, like everybody else, expect our chanteuses to be both beautiful and women, neither of which descriptors quite fit Antony. But holy crap, peep the beauty that is his cover of Leonard Cohen‘s “If It Be Your Will” in [...]

Filmmaker Ted Passon‘s story for the First Person Arts Story Slam last Saturday night on why one should never go to Fiji just because some dude said you should.

>>> Remember when we told you that Shirt Corner was going under and was going to become an Applebee’s or something? Well, it might be — if you can fathom this — worse than all of that. Like, knock-it-down-and-put-in-a-Kohl’s worse. [Inky] >>> Then, ‘member when we said that it doesn’t snow in Philadelphia anymore? Well, [...]

If you totally missed the Seth Williams Dance Party on Friday night, you could be forgiven: Candidates for the District Attorney’s Office are still filing in and declaring. Add to the list: One Brian Grady (pictured) who saw fit to deliver his announcement in front of the Dunkin Donuts on North Broad where Police Officer [...]

We feel shame.

There are, increasingly, what we shall call these “McFly Moments” within the Nutter Administration; moments when you’d like to knock on the noggins of all present (hopefully at least one of them has a slick hair helmet that makes the great sound that George McFly’s did) and say “Helllloooooo, you’re the Mayor’s office now, McFlys!” [...]

Tickets go on sale on Monday Feb. 2 at 10AM. Above, Springsteen at the Spectrum on October 25, 1976.