YOUR SELECTION, “TWILIGHT,” IS PLAYING AT THE LOEWS CHERRY HILL 16. NEXT SHOWING IS! 4:15PM! THANK YOU FOR CALLING MOVIEFONE! Can you hear something that Donovan McNabb is trying to make a phone call about? Send it along to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Whosoever among us has not, at one time or another, cursed the foul god Ticketmaster to the heavens? Hatred of the ticketing giant has been so widespread over the last 15 years that there is now a dizzying array of ticket-buying and -selling options, from Brown Paper Tickets on the indie end to ComcastTix.com, which [...]

Completely disturbing (Darrenesque, even!) mashup of cuts from Diplo and Santogold‘s “Top Ranking” mixtape and this “Stairway to Stardom” aerobicize clip.

“They started talkin’ to us and I guess we’re probably gonna join the Army now!” “They started talkin’ to us and I guess we’re probably gonna join the Army now!” “They started talkin’ to us and I guess we’re probably gonna join the Army now!” “They started talkin’ to us and I guess we’re probably [...]

Oh, Latrice Bryant, much like herpes or music, you are The Gift That Keeps On Giving. When Michael Nutter — not Bizarro Nutter, who we are predicting that, with inauguration season upon us and the accompanying (ten-day) wave of positive vibrations, will be taking a short vacation — called a press conference to detail his [...]

Tina Fey, we remain hopelessly, blubberingly proud-a-ya. Fey and 30 Rock cleaned up — and rightfully so — last night. And sure, there was something about the honors heaped on Fey in 30 Rock‘s name that felt like the HFPA was really just trying to sneak in as many as possible as a way to [...]

The NFC divisional playoff between the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants was the first NFL game in history to end in a 23-11 score. Under Coach Andy Reid, the Eagles have played a full season’s worth of playoff games. They have a record of 10 and 6 in those matchups (Donovan McNabb is 9 [...]

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FRIDAY: >>> By any reasonable expectations, the January 9, 2009 edition of Philebrity Weekend Picks should be a complete and total lie. And they kind of are, but that doesn’t really kick in until tomorrow night. First you got the touring acts: Balkan-gypsy troubadour Franz Nicolay — who kinda reminds us of Thin Lizzy in [...]

Philebrity’s Film Sweat column — and our long-lost, totally screwed-up movie times — will return next week, but in the meantime, you could do no better than to check in with Roger Numbers, the cartoon alter-ego of former Fresh Air producer/Philly expat Ian Chillag, on the Good Magazine website.

Check out philebrity.com/firstfriday‘s freshened-up art listings to find out about the month’s new openings, plus ongoing shows, such as Bonnie Brenda Scott‘s work (pictured above), ongoing at Padlock Gallery.

These are heady days in the BTPOD, and maybe we’ll look back upon them fondly in a few years when the Inky and DN either change hands again or sink altogether, but right now? There is a soup kitchen in our minds, and Brian Tierney is spooning out heaping, hot helpings of WTF to a [...]

Director Minister Joshua Coates gives a little history and talks about the bipoic he’s working on about legendary Philly broadcaster/Civil Rights activist Georgie Woods. Part II here, Part III here.

FROM BRENDAN NEWNAM, HOST OF THE DINNER PARTY DOWNLOAD, DISPATCHING FROM LOS ANGELES: Alistar Cooke had one of the greatest jobs in the world. He gallavanted around America for decades and produced a weekly “Letter from America” for the BBC.The letter was usually a blend of observations and anecdotes about life in Cooke’s adopted country. [...]

President Bush presses the flesh at Kearny School in Northern Liberties yesterday. [Photo credit: Christopher Gabello]

Are you hungry? God, I’m famished. Qdoba maybe? Can you hear something that The Flesh-Eating Bacteria You Got While Working As A Prison Guard is trying to think about? Send it along to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Aww yeah, remember this Election Day smasheroo? Well, the federal government wants to let then men whom Michael Nutter dubbed as “just some guys in some outfits” that you can’t just dress up as a Black Panther and pretend to intimidate white voters in a neighborhood where there are none, get on FoxNews, and just [...]

Because that is all this old town has for you tonight. Luckily, Karaoke Obscura has the goods. Don’t believe us? Check out January’s listings and riddle us this: Where the shit are all the good times?

· La Bomba: Your Paella Is Not Paella Without It · Congrats, Horizons, You Rule At Life. But We All Knew That Already. (You Did Know That, Didn’t You?) · The Phoodies: Best Of 2008 All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink [...]

· Promises, promises: What exactly did that Obama transition team member mean when he said that Obama Inc. was pledging “direct support to cities?” And does this mean we can go back to burning money? [Clout] · Unemployment in Philly now rocking a sturdy 5.9%. But it’s even higher if you can string a paragraph [...]