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This year at Sundance Film Festival, which began yesterday and continues through the 25th, The Greater Philadelphia Film Office along with Cashman & Associates will be representing our ripe-for-the-filming city at the The Philadelphia Industry Lounge. Luring festival-goers with Tony Luke’s Cheese Steaks, Tastykakes, Peanut Chews, Bluecoat Gin & Pravda Vodka, the invite-only PIL will [...]

>>> Quickly now: RSVP for the Flight of the Conchords screening at 7pm at the 941 Theater in NoLibs, if it’s not too late. Free food and drink, and a sneak peek of the new season. Sweet. >>> OR, head over to Kung Fu Necktie to see blogrock sensations of the moment, The Soft Pack. [...]

Phila.gov: City Of Philadelphia Updated Budget Forecast [PDF]

As always, we’d like to congratulate you on residing in The Greatest City In The World, now that it is firmly embedded in its Least Interesting Epoch Ever. Good work. Listen: The only group of people more surprised than you about us consistently housing your sports teams is — surprise! — US. As we speak, [...]

· Worst Rumor Of Ever: Shirt Corner To Become Applebee’s? · Jonathan Best Comes To Reading Terminal · Great Moments In Menu-Making: Paesano’s Shot Across The Bow In The Sandwich Monotony Wars All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

It’s Christmas in January, guys. Forget about how you and your live-in boyfriend just lost your jobs and have to decide between eating and having wireless Internet, and check out these awesome winter-time sales! · Since opening his store in 2002, Matthew Izzo has been a favorite of Philebrity and Philadelphia phashionistas everywhere, and this February [...]

OH HAI. Just a friendly reminder that Foggy Notion — Philebrity’s monthly rock and roll dance party — is back this Saturday at The Barbary. 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, the Fog is FREE, [...]

If only more of us took fashion cues from Cedric The Entertainer.

That would be the 80s Philly all-girl punk band Trilogy Of Terror (Anee Luv, Loreal, Phenie Phoenix and Elaine Insane) performing at the Bacchanal on South Street in Philadelphia, 1988. Keep Philly weird. Saying.

We’re still pulling together a handy guide to Inauguration Day events here in Philly — if you have one, send it to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com STAT — but we thought we’d pass this Obama whistle-stop info along: Who: President-elect Obama and his family, and everyday Americans traveling on the Whistle Stop Tour Where: North Waiting Room, 30th [...]

Remember this piece of shit? While the jury still seems to be out on whether merely naming your children Adolf Hitler (pictured), JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie is enough to get Youth and Family Services to come around and remove your kids, that’s just what happened to proud parents Heath and Deborah Campbell [...]

What? And when I say “what,” I mean, “How could this possibly be any different from, you know, the daily crime parade between NoLibs and Kenz?”

One, one, one billion dollars! Two, two, TWO BILLION DOLLARS! You vant I should keep counting? Can you hear the number that the Count is trying to count? Send it along to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. On second thought, don’t. We don’t wanna know.

We’ve been cramming to understand this post on The Clog since late yesterday; as you know, we are muy muy fluent in A.D. Amorosi-ese, but when there’s a story with this many moving parts, Angelo gets even more confusing than when he’s trying to punch his way out of the paper bag that is a [...]

>>> You can probably relate: The late 1990s left us with a wild, almost-shellfish-like allergy to anything you might today hunk down into the dreaded “alt-country” category. But tell you what: The all female trio Those Darlins remind us of the simple beauty of anything that ever possessed us to by a western shirt. Simple, [...]

Today’s big question is: Will Brian Tierney be able to convince Chinese state-controlled media that his papers will provide them with enough power projection to make it worth the large financial losses they’re likely to incur if they buy him out? We know that sounds INSANE, so we are going to ask it again: Will [...]

If you are a native Philadelphian of a certain age and are or once were of a certain social persuasion (pick: art fag, goth, punk, prep, skinhead, burgeoning drag queen/house music diva), when we say the words Revival or Memphis, we don’t need to say more. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, both of [...]

>>> Both Bizarro and Real Nutter plan to announce an updated deficit figure that promises to blow the puny $1.5B deficit out of the water. In a bad way. “It’s a combination of weaknesses in almost all of our tax revenues and in our pension earnings,” he said. “That weakness, driven by the continuing downturn [...]

At this point, Eagles Fever in Philly has reached such a deafening pitch that it’s forced even us to write about football! Daily! Can you even imagine? But after a week or two of twisting in the wind, being certifiably the most ill-fitting football commentators IN THE KNOWN WORLD, we here at Philebs are proud [...]