>>> Fans of the new school of American psych-pop like Crystal Stilts and Vivian Girls will find lots to like in Oakland, CA’s Cryptacize (pictured), who just got off tour with Ariel Pink and play a last minute show at the Saint March Collective pop-up art space at 406 South St. (Check their new video [...]

GS Wonderland, which stars Chiaki Kuriyama (Kill Bill Vol.1), details the Beatles-inspired GS (Group Sounds) phenomenon that took hold of Japan in the 1960s. Through the eyes of pop group “The Tightsmen,” in which Kuriyama plays the role of a young boy, we see the rise and fall of the group’s incredible popularity — a [...]

The two Drexel University interns we have here were both mortified when we noticed this full-page ad for their Media Arts & Design College in the Cinefest ‘09 program. Mostly though, we’re just hoping this is a dude’s back.

Buckhead Saloon, you’re kind of like a terrarium for lesser humans. We mean that in a good way.
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· Truffle Hunting With Phoodie
· You Wish You Had This Dish: Bar Ferdinand’s Gambas Y Cangrego
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All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

We promise we won’t let this interfere with any Cinefest ‘09 giveaways — check in with us tomorrow for one of those — but for all of you Philistines out there whose idea of classy cinema is, say, Meatballs or Wet Hot American Summer, we got a good one for ya: Adventureland is the latest [...]

What the shit, people? Only one person in the shower at a time? The windows don’t open? Closets can only hold one “Real Housewives of Center City”’s wardrobe? Fuck it, we’re moving to The Scorechester.
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Just in from the neverending shit machine that is the tips[at]philebrity[dot]com inbox:
Was hoping you could use this – the women (and men!) of Philly must know about the opportunity to head to Hollywood Tans this Saturday for a free tan to get ready for the warm weather that we know is just around the corner!!! [...]

What does it say about the networks that two of the most riveting pieces of television this season have been Dancing With The Stars, where poor Steve-O seems like he’s been in the fight of his life to merely assimilate into normal society, and Celebrity Apprentice, where the pathos surrounding Dennis Rodman’s obvious and howling [...]

· Top speed at which DelCo’s Gary A. Mayo led police on a chase from Chester, PA to Center City: 100mph
· Time chase began: 2:30AM
· Number of local highways Mayo led police down in the wrong direction*: 2 (I-676 and I=95)
· Number of gates Mayo crashed through at Lincoln Financial Field during the chase, before going on to [...]

Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful. Hate me because I’m the exact kind of asshole
who’d pay $2M for an apartment with no opening windows.
One of the only really fun things about Great Depression 2.0 — besides the chance to wear barrels, of course — is that it has people talking (both intelligently and non-intelligently) about [...]

Lots to love in this CNBC clip with Brian Tierney and Walter “Micropayments” Isaacson: Tierney says some things word for word from his BBC interview, floats the idea of both raising printed paper prices and charging around $5 per month for online content, and also maligns the Metro as doing “very, very poorly.” (Um, really?) [...]

In case you missed their packed-out Philly debut back in January, Philebrity is frickin’ STOKED to let you know that Brazil’s one and only Garotas Suecas will be back in Philly on Friday night at Kung Fu Necktie. For those of you who love (as we do) the music of Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, and [...]

Set in the rural town of Salem, North Carolina, a happy-go-lucky cab driver is left as a moral agent to decide whether to talk an old man out of suicide or take the money the old man has given him and do as he’s told. Goodbye Solo is incredibly poignant, bleak, and yet beautiful as [...]

When we mentioned Saturday night’s Phosphorescent show as one of the standout shows of the weekend in Weekend Picks on Friday, we had no idea that the actual show was going to reduce us to madly grinning, newly minted megafans, people who finally “understood” what people who’ve followed Phish and the Grateful Dead around for [...]

Which is kind of a bummer. Because if you put together all of the currently existing photos and video footage in the world of young people doing drugs — be they Michael Phelps or your moron cousin with the sparkly MySpace layout — you’d have enough content to wrap an American Apparel rainbow suspender around [...]

This morning, lawyers and brass from Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. — the Inky/DN wing of Philadelphia Media Holdings, currently in the midst of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filings — held what’s called an unsecured creditors’ meeting. Basically, it was kind of sideshow to the Chapter 11 proceedings in which PNI rings up anyone who’s got a [...]

Because if he did, they might be gone by now.

We know a lot of you are big fans of The National, and this Thursday at The Rosenbach Museum & Library, National guitarist Bryce Dessner will be performing a set of songs inspired by Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln seems to everywhere these days — from TV commercials to the thoughts of those pondering the comparisons between [...]

You know, the Wildcats might be the ones getting all the love right now, but those in the know know who ‘Nova’s real heroes are. These guys. The guys wearing pajama bottoms and singing N’Sync a capella.