When we saw the flyer for Nick Paparone‘s Rent Time at Copy Gallery (viewable after the jump and at philebrity.com/firstfriday), we had to ask: What is up with this? “It’s a performance in a lecture series type format that surveys the constant rituals brought forth everyday, every month, every year until our demise,” he said. [...]

“Hang In There: Great Depression 2.0 Edition” Says our reader, who happened upon these lovely creatures at the Lombard-South stop on the Broad Street Line: “Last night, I witnessed first hand what happens to a major city when an economic meltdown causes basic services to be ignored. SEPTA tunnels are now over run by rabies-infected [...]

So you’re super bummed that you didn’t get an invite to Mercedes Fashion Week. Don’t fret. It’s only twice a year and über pretentious. But thanks to the master minds of Veronica Paige and Kelly Louise (pictured), Philadelphia has it’s own fashion event for every echelon. It’s called Fashion Voyage and it’s held every first [...]

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When we first introduced you to Arthur Kade, The First Person To Ever Follow His Dreams Ever, last Friday, we had a feeling this cat was going places. Possibly weird places where it’s hard to tell who’s laughing at you or what you’re doing there in the first place; places where you wonder if you [...]

Dave’s list last night was “Top 10 Reasons to Watch the World Baseball Classic.” And Jimmy Rollins got it all underway. It was kind of a lame Top 10, but whatever: We’d listen to J-Roll reading the phone book, if it came to that. [Hat tip to 700 Level]

Electroclash bands kicking off their their first North American tour in five years in Philadelphia: 1 Ceramic works of art that maybe you couldn’t have made in your ceramic arts class on display and UPenn’s Institute of Contemporary Art: 78 New Sifaka Lemur Babies at the Philadelphia Zoo: 1 Closing Philadelphia-area branches of British megabank HSBC Holdings: 17 Maximum sentence, in months, [...]

>>> For longer than you and I have been alive, there has been someone, somewhere complaining about how “safe” rock’n’roll — if not any form of popular music at all — has become. This is an easy parlor game to play, because you can almost always be right. Not a lot of virtue there, and [...]

Word comes today that NBC will begin shooting a pilot for a TV version of the 1989 Steve Martin film Parenthood… right here in Philly and the ‘burbs! No word on cast just yet, but original Parenthood director Ron Howard is listed as an executive producer. But back up a little: Wasn’t there already a [...]

Being a site that at least partially trades in gossip, we are pretty much forced to keep an eye on Dan Gross‘ column and its accompanying website, Philly Gossip. Now, those of us here at Philebrity — or “cocksuckers,” as Gross likes to call us — have a very different view of what constitutes gossip [...]

This is a lot cooler than French Connection ever was. And that would be a spot called “Purpose/Repurpose” at 333 South St., just across from the TLA. The space is a project helmed by a group called SAGE, the first of which to take advantage of that effort by South Street business owners and realtors [...]

In lieu of the lack of submissions for “GOOD MOTHERFUCKING NEWS” posts this week — and in an effort to hold you people over a barrel until you send us some — we now present Bobby McFerrin‘s crazy-making 1980s classic, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” No local hook, unless you count the inherent Cosby/80s recession vibe [...]

Urban Outfitters, your handy index of shark-jumped pop culture memes (ie., if they’re selling it, it’s done and gone and coolhunted within an inch of its life), seems to have had just as shitty a fourth quarter in ’08 as the rest of American retail. Despite opening 49 new stores last year, the PBJ sez: [...]

Get your betting pool together, and pick your phrase: There’s cold hard cash on the table, people. “lock ‘n’ load” · “user engagement” · ”social media” · ”stickyness” · “value added” · “net-net” · “Web 2.0″ · “blogosphere” · “Joey Sweeney” · “union-busting” · “transparency” · ”Bruce Toll” · “stop the bleeding” · “slight decline” · “convergence” · [...]

By all accounts, Allen Iverson could well be at the beginning of the end of his career: Ongoing back problems just benched him for at least two weeks, and he’s enjoying a career-low 18-point-average this season. Sic transit gloria, indeed. And we’ll just say it: We miss The Answer. Shit was just so much more [...]

Whether you loved that movie Juno or profess to hate it (just like my baby sister and all her friends do, but dress just like and listen to all the same bands as the Juno kids), you can’t deny that those Kimya Dawson-penned deadpan acousti-punk love songs fairly anchored the movie. (At right: Michael Cera [...]

This morning, we woke up to this missive in the inbox from a dear reader: heard on the radio today that nutter is going to scrap the $5/week idea and have us buy special trashbags from a special vendor. is he insane? at least if you charged $5/week to every house regardless of trash pickup [...]

What a long, weird year it’s been for the Popped! Festival: First, Alexis Rosenzweig‘s festival of national and local indie bands parted ways with partner AEG. Then, reports came that Live Nation had stepped in, while plans for a giant summer festival down at South Philly Lakes — also known as FDR Park — were [...]

>>Urgh! A Music War is showing tonight at at The International House in West Philly. This influential 80′s documentary feature performances from punk rock, new wave, and post punk greats. It was actually run on the USA Network in 80′s, then disappeared until 2006 when it appeared as a VH1 Rockumentary. You best check this [...]

>>> Ever heard of local pop-punk band Officer Roseland? Up until just now, neither did we. But if nothing else, they’re notable for out-Radiohead-ing Radiohead and actually paying people to download their album, to the tune of $1 per DL, which can be delivered to you via PayPal, or donated in your name to Mr. [...]