Remember when we discovered Constitution Geek Joseph Torsella and instantly hooked him up with Cute Boy Alert status? Well, like many other Cute Boy Alerts, his cuteness and sweetness has only grown. And now it’s about to go man-sized into proper Grown Up Awesome Guy Emergency territory. Yesterday, Torsella filled out paperwork to start raising [...]

Yeowe, youse guyzzz! I’m just loike yewe! Hear I am, juss chillin’ in da Norfeast! See? Talk about taking one for the team: We just spent nearly 30 minutes delving into the darkest heart of the Internet, a place worse than child porn sites and online terror cells combined: American Idol fan forums. Yeah, you’re [...]

AP just ran a not-funny-haha-but-funny-WTF story that seems like it was handmade for the forthcoming media kit for the American Commerce Center, that big crazy (and right now, still imaginary) building called The French Tickler. The piece seems to be advocating that, even in this downturned economy, The French Tickler is right on time — [...]

Just another moment here at Philebrity when we don’t know whether to to be very, very proud or hang our heads in utter shame. Previously: Has The Vanquishing Of Bizarro Nutter Begun?

This one hurts the heart a little bit: Blossom Dearie, one of the greatest lady singers and wits of Ever, passed away over the weekend. She was truly a class act.

Here’s what we can’t figure out: While our Twitter feed does us a great service by allowing the over one thousand people who follow us instant access to our headlines, what the shit is everybody else’s excuse? No matter, we’ve already spent too much time thinking about this: Twitter is the annoying Tracey Flick of [...]

Holy gold rush! Fleeing felons collectively owe the City of Philadelphia over $1 billion in skipped-on bail money. Which is amazing on a whole host of levels, but let’s not get bogged down in that right now. The point is, GET THAT MONEY! Bounty hunters far and wide, get at us! Imagine what the city [...]

After the jump, Dan Murphy‘s shots from last night’s sold-out Pains Of Being Pure At Heart show at Kung Fu Necktie, plus a tune from the band.

We’ll have more Vince wrapup for ya later in the day, but we just had to pass this one along.

Philly-bred comedian Brendon Walsh, from his recent Troc gig opening for Doug Stanhope.

Can’t help but wonder how long they can get away with this. We’re cheering ‘em on.

NOTE: We’ll be updating this post as more texts come in throughout the day.

It’s probably too soon to tell — and the thing about comic book villains is that they never truly die — but evidence is starting to pile up that maybe The Dude is getting his sea legs back. Saturday night, we caught Mixmaster Mike working the room at the opening party for Union Trust at [...]

On Thursday, veteran Daily News half-empty-bottle-of-Old-Spice Stu Bykofsky delivered a reply of sorts to Steve Volk‘s Philadelphia Magazine story about the awful fates of the DN and Inquirer. Which, on the face of it, is a welcome thing — but in the offing, Byko sadly revealed the insane disconnect between longtime PMH rank-and-file and reality. [...]

So apparently, all it takes to make an inspired Grammy moment is slapping around Rihanna and hoping like hell that she doesn’t sprout a machine gun leg. Because this freed up just enough time to have Justin Timberlake, Al Green, Keith Urban and Boyz II Men do a version of “Let’s Stay Together” that just [...]

FRIDAY: >>> You know that song “The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing?” Between the 80s-deep-cuts vibe of Sex Dwarf at Fluid, and Robotique‘s decadent old-school lost disco over at Kung Fu Necktie, you’ve got truth in song. If you didn’t check out Billy Werner of Robitique’s mixtape below, you absolutely should. We [...]

RECOMMENDED: Coraline, of course, is the latest in Henry Selick‘s growing Scary Animated Kids’ Films For Adults ouvre. In this adaptation of Neil Gaiman‘s children’s book of the same name, a bored tween named Coraline finds a secret door in her bedroom and discovers a bizarro world that sometimes looks better than the real thing. [...]

First Friday can still offer up goodies from time to time. This month’s instructions: Start at basekamp, which has been showing this nifty exhibit “An Atlas,” featuring work from a group calling themselves “radical cartographers” who are trying to leverage mapmaking for social change. Buy their atlas, which is gorgeous and only thirty bones. Next, [...]

How’s that for timing? NYC’s The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, whom Philebrity is proud to present on Sunday Feb. 8th @ Kung Fu Necktie, just rocked an 8.4/Best New Music on the ‘Fork. Please join us on Sunday eve, and consider this your last chance to win free tickets and some sweeeet vinyl [...]

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