Will Philebrity host Mayer Hawthorne or Benjy Ferree or other awesome acts here this summer? Time will tell, son, time will tell. Earlier today, a press release went out announcing the Piazza At Schmidt’s birthing into the world soon, very, very soon. Located on the site of the old Schmidt’s Brewery at Second and Germatown [...]

Click to enlarge. Back in September, Philly comedian Doogie Horner ran his flow chart of heavy metal band names (above) on the local comedy blog Comic Vs. Audience. Because life is beautiful and the Internet is weird, the chart has recently gone viral (BoingBoing/Fark/etc.) and now, Doogie is That Guy Who Did That Awesome Chart. [...]

In case you missed it, Ira Glass‘ appearance on Saturday night at the Kimmel Center was one that will stay with us for a long time — and if by some chance, you are reading this from out of town and you’re on Ira’s list of dates, by all means, drop everything and get tickets. [...]

After the jump, Dan Murphy‘s shots from Friday night’s Honey Brothers show at North Star Bar, plus a track by the band.

Collateral News — hey, remember them? — comes correct with a great take on Our Civic Shame, the annual WingBowl, this Friday. Paging Sean Agnew please…

So, very shortly, all your friends who work in the set-dressers’/film crew union in Philly will embark upon the semi-annual local ritual of working very, very hard of helping to make an M. Night Shyamalan film that will almost unquestionably be worse than the one previous. But given that Night’s last movie was The Happening, [...]

Oh wait, I think it’s supposed to be the other Natural Light. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Clipped from The Dude’s itinerary today: 6:30 pm- 7: 30 pm Philadelphia Sports Writers Assoc. 105th Annual Awards Dinner Mayor Nutter to deliver remarks Note: Brad Lidge, Charlie Manuel, Phillies radio personality Harry Kalas, Sheldon Brown, Bernie Parent, Army-Navy game MVP Shun White, LSU’s LaTavia Thomas, Comedian Joe Conkln and NFL Films’ Steve Sabol are [...]

So, Fletcher Street — home to urban cowboys for about a century — got raided again. (Last raid of note was in ’07, whereupon PA SPCA inspectors found the rotting corpses of three dead horses. Gross.) Reacting to a report that horses were being housed in squalor-like conditions (you’ve all been to this part of [...]

Jamie Foxx receives a Liberty Bell from the City Of Philadelphia on Friday for his very valuable work in being completely friggin’ vexing to all come within electronic earshot. [Photo credit: HughE Dillon]

Dear Friends, There won’t be a Foggy Notion party this month — we’ll be back in March for sure — but please join us on Sunday February 8 at 8PM at Kung Fu Necktie for a show we are honored to be presenting. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are an NYC band we’ve [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Having weekend picks at all this week is a total joke. The crop of worthy contenders for shows and DJ nights is so anemic or sold out that there’s really only one thing of note each night. These are the weekends where we’re like, damn, we shoulda scheduled a party ‘cos looking at [...]

RECOMMENDED: We have had deep, lovelike feelings for Michelle Williams ever since we first spied her in The Baxter: There, she was fragile, smart, beautiful, otherworldly, even. Then, Heath Ledger died, and we wanted to take her in, feed her tea and biscuits, and babysit Matilda Rose so that Michelle could go out and get [...]

Holy shit, it’s 52 degrees outside. Time to make the most of it. 1. Lie, say whatever you have to say, to get the hell out of wherever you are right now and out onto the city sidewalks. 2. Skate/bike/walk from wherever you are to wherever you want to be. If you have no particular [...]

The Honey Brothers, featuring one Adrian Grenier on drums, play the North Star Bar tonight.

Philadelphia — Thousands of workers stream down Benjamin Franklin Parkway after evacuating their offices and factories following an air raid alert during a practice atomic raid in Philadelphia November 23rd. The mock Air Raid, called Scream, was a public participation drill. (1954) [via If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger, There'd Be A Whole Lot Of [...]

It may be hard to fathom now, since the day-to-day plod of the Vince Fumo trial has often been less exciting than watching paint peel, but one day, when we can look at it all at once, and summarize, the trial will very likely come to look like the time when finally, Old, Corrupt Philly [...]

Local metal fans already know that NJ/Philly’s Dillinger Escape Plan are loved the world over, and make music that can simultaneously loosen one’s bowels and raise blood pressure. (Philebrity readers, on the other hand, might recognize DEP bassist Liam Wilson as the subject of our first and only Cute Vegan Alert ever.) But the band [...]

We hadn’t posted on the new parking meter rate hikes now in effect last week, because at first, it just seemed like a sign of the times. But in practice, we noticed last night the reality of what is going on here: Large-scale entrapment on behalf of the Philadelphia Parking Authority and The City Of [...]

Thank you, George W., for successfully molding a stupider nation. Nearly half of incoming college freshmen going from Philly high schools and into state and community colleges were placed in remedial classes this school year, also known as (if you remember your high school lingo) the sped English and Math courses. Oof. We saw this [...]