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>>> There was a point, about 48 hours ago, where we were convinced that this week would not end without death, flames, and utter destruction. The fussing. The fighting. The bad news. The good news. Well, we were only right on one count: things are always fuh-LAY-ming here at Philebrity. To anyone we pissed [...]

RECOMMENDED: The Scopitone was a kind of early video jukebox that was common in Europe — most notably France — in the 1950s and 1960s; it was basically a jukebox that played 16mm films instead of records, and while prevalent, loads of artists of the time produced what amounts to the earliest instances of what [...]

So, for those of you wondering who exactly Philly’s Great Depression 2.0 Douchelord Icon is going to be — aka the person to take the place of Anthony DiMeo III, who achieved near urban-myth status a few years back — we’d like you to meet actor/model Arthur Kade. Arthur Kade is a guy who, from [...]

Just 40 columns? And no Sunday edition? We don’t think the Guild
is gonna be too happy about that, Mr. Tierney.
WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD—A Selective Guide to the Industrial Archeology of Philadelphia was originally published in 1990, and adapted for the web back in 2007. Somehow, we just stumbled onto it. And although we’re not even [...]

Explicit Ills hits local theaters on March 13th. Shot in Philly, it stars Mark Webber, Tariq Trotter from the Roots, and Rosario Dawson — and it seems like it’s really swinging for the fences. We’re stoked to check this one out.

We’ve seen a slight downtick in our “GOOD MOTHERFUCKING NEWS” submissions, but it’s nice to see that some of you are still keeping an eye out. One reader takes the words right out of our mouths, regarding today’s episode of Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane:
Men are hugging each other more. Just warms the cockles [...]

fyi – there are union guys hanging outside NBC10 right now handing out anti-management fliers because of all the changes they’re implemeneting there
Ruh-roh: While the Electricians Local Union #98 I.B.E.W are not striking yet, they could be soon. Back in November, the Union had already voted to strike if contract talks hit a stalemate. At [...]

Poor HughE Dillon stayed up all night snapping pics of a loooooong shoot of Law Abiding Citizen, the Gerard Butler/Jamie Foxx vehicle that we are very much hoping is like Lethal Weapon, but is probably not. He’s got loads more pics up at PhillyChitChat.com, including one of Danny Bonaduce, who hung outside the shoot like [...]

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Cezanne & Beyond” exhibit, the GPTMC (Greater Philadelphia Marketing & Tourism Corporation) commissioned a few local artists to try their hand at Cezanne — in 90 seconds. This Space 1026-er Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s entry, and it’s not bad! This guy should really consider applying to art school or something [...]

The events of the last six days surrounding Philadelphia Newspaper’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection have been a whirlwind ride — and one that, frankly, this writer thought he wouldn’t see for another few years. Which is to say that anyone close to the newspaper business, whether they’re actually in it or merely write [...]

>>> If you grew up indie in Philly in the 1990s, you’ll remember the Swirlies as being part of an underground railroad of bands that included lots of others along the Eastern Seaboad — Unrest, Tsunami, Lilys, Velocity Girl, Small Factory, Versus, Helium, Sleepyhead among them — that basically took the DIY ethos of hardcore [...]

Mike Newall has a nice piece in today’s City Paper, chronicling the immediate aftermath at the Daily News offices, as he goes door to door, collecting a little bit of batshit-crazy from each stop. First, he checks in with Byko as the old codger bites the head off of a bat and screams, “THIS IS [...]

· Kanella: The 37th Greatest Breakfast In America
· Delivery Of The Gods: Asia @ Cafe
· They Call Him ‘The Roaster’
· Local 44 To Host Russian River Brewing Afternoon During Beer Week
All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Mar 02, 9:00 pm (60 minutes)
Rampage! Riot Rampage 2
TV-PG (LV)
A holiday sale turns to chaos as the crowd stampedes; a championship celebrations [sic] turn into a street war; angry and drunk fans spill into the streets during a power-outage; A rapper fights for his life after being crushed by a car.
Set your Tivo’s, fellow [...]

For exhibitions in the past, artists Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala have made a giant tank/ice cream truck/performance space that alsoe featured a kitchen and toilet, and a cardboard tank, flanked by images of exploding people. For “Trophy,” their first solo exhibition at Fleisher/Ollman, the brothers explore “concepts of consumption, use-value, sentimentality, exaggeration, efficiency, and [...]

Percentage less that Philadelphia suburbanites will have to pay for natural gas: 10%
Amount of death threats made by Delaware County Assistant Principal: 1
Number of existing Philadelphia-area houses that were not sold this year as compared to last: 990
Expected amount of flower puns in upcoming Flower Show coverage: 346
Video games in which Philadelphia is used as a backdrop: [...]

Ummmm….

That would be Mike Taris, aka Mr. Motion, of Allentown. Dude got busted perpetrating a slip-n-fall fraud, doing his usual stuff, oh, you know, just doing the whole massage therapist and male escort thing. Sometimes humanity is more than we can bear.
Pro Wrestling Insider: He Seemed Alright To Me

Pop quiz: Who is still sweating the Phillies — and Philadelphia fans — harder than Christian Bale after a lighting fuck-up? Answer: That would be the New York Mets, and all who sail in them. Even though the Phils don’t even face the Mets again until May 1, the Mhetoric is already heating up. Our [...]

Look: We’re not taking back a single word of what we said about Jay McCarroll’s superdumb movie last week. It’s going to be awful, a raw 90 minutes of cringe scraping across the blackboard, and in this regard it will be truly, truly awesome. (Although, as we noted in the earlier post, we’ll watch Kelly [...]