For someone whose relatively brand-spanking new company — Philadelphia Media Holdings — is already in the throes of bankruptcy proceedings for its lead property, Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc., the last two weeks have oddly been the season of Brian Tierney behaving badly. First, there was the debacle surrounding his salary raise last year (followed by his [...]

For nearly 17 years, Tindersticks have been making impossibly cool, smoky albums, filled with longing and malaise and sex. (That picture might also be 17 years old, too, come to think of it.) And chances to see them in Philly have been hard to come by. So if it hadn’t been on your radar already, [...]

Says our reader: “This is what the entire city is going to look like after Dude starts charging for garbage removal…” Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

We ran the old KYW “Direct Connetion” advert from the 1980s about three years ago in its original form, which has since been removed from YouTube. But somewhere along the line, a guy named Jimmy Michaels got his hands on the track — and before you ask, yes, this really was a piece of music [...]

And if you haven’t marfed yet, you definitely will after the jump.

You know, even though there’s still ice and slush and wintry nastiness all over the place, the sun is shining today, and if you close your eyes, you can just about feel the the thaw. Not in the weather, silly, just in the catty bitchfight between yours truly here at Philebrity and fading reality television [...]

In case you didn’t pick up on this during our liveblog the other night, Roots drummer ?uestlove has been looping in the world on the progress of their gig at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon via Twitter. (His tweet handle: qoolquest.) Though the show’s been getting a light pan here and there — mostly because [...]

Says our obviously Flight of the Conchords-obsessed reader: “Spotted in the background video during Bret’s Korean Karaoke song ‘Oh, Happy Dance’ during the latest episode.” We’ll see what we can do to dig up a video clip of this. What the? UPDATE: Clip after the jump.

If this is a dream, don’t wake us: The Philadelphia Film Festival & Cinefest ’09 just made their program available online — which is quite a ways away from the “we’re-not-having-a-film-festival-at-all-this-year” news we were hearing just a few weeks ago. We haven’t poured through the program at necessary length just yet, but here’s some bullet [...]

We mentioned yesterday that Philadelphia Will Do blogger Daniel McQuade was probably-not-very-mysteriously dismissed from his post on Friday afternoon. (Where will you get your huzzahs? Where will you get your daily dose of OMG-the-newz-is-funny/hangover excuses? Shh, my child, don’t speak, for we are all heading into a dark and mysterious place.) But we must give [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News “Hawkers” will receive some “World Famous” assistance from Wun “The Shot” Versher of the Harlem Globetrotters on the corner of Broad and Lombard in celebration of their six area games including two at the Wachovia Center on Sunday, March 8 (12 noon and 5 p.m.) Versher will show off [...]

Starting this Friday, March 6, and continuing through the 15th, Philadelphia’s 7th annual rock-n-rolling, beer-drinking, stuff-smashing, and boob-loving Backseat Film Festival is back in action! The BFF will be screening 14 features, all of which are philly premieres, and over 50 shorts and music videos from all over the world.  Main screenings will taking place at [...]

The British Police are so, so cute: They’re not as fat and ugly as American police (or, for that matter, Americans in general), they generally don’t carry guns (but will, if provoked, beat the hell out of you with those old fashioned Extendable “Asp” or fixed Monadnock PR-24 batons) and… THOSE HATS! The English also [...]

Isn’t it weird how you don’t wanna totally punch the third guy from the left? The print edition of Sunday’s New York Times featured the above photo of U2 at the Bijou Cafe as part of this piece about how the band is the last rock band of ever and, to paraphrase Maude Lebowski, proud [...]

Everybody has a story about Dirty Frank’s; from his HBO special, here’s Paul’s. Previously: Talk The Talk: Paul F. Tomkins

>>> What with New Jersey very possibly turning into a weed-friendly hamlet where cheeseburgers and video games on sale at Cherry Hill Target conspire to make a Harold and Kumar Heaven, you’d think that longtime marijuana advocate and cavalier smokefiend NJ Weedman aka Ed Forchion (pictured) would be stoked. Well, he is, but as Monica [...]

Artist Gene Davis putting finishing touches on his 414-ft-long ptg. “Franklin’s Footpath,” painted on street in front of Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photographer: Henry Groskinsky, 1972. We’ve mentioned the awesome fun that is Google’s LIFE magazine image archives at least once before: Why haven’t you spent some time with them already? Good stuff awaits you, [...]

· Beer Week: Sifting Through The Suds Our man Collin Flatt has sifted through more than 600 Beer Week events to come up with the cream of the quaff for you, the discerning reader, who like us, has a hard time believing that more than 600 Beer Week events can even exist. All this and [...]

“Didn’t I tell you last week? Get me a fish sammich, dammit!“ No, it’s not because we’re such huge fans of Fever Pitch, silly! It’s because Philly legends — yeah, we said it, LE-GENDZ! — The Roots are the house band on Fallon’s new show, which begins tonight in the spot where Conan O’Brien used [...]

Lest you wander into the thicket of tweets that seemed to be issuing forth from Daily News and the Inquirer staffers as the news was being broken to them, this is what we know: Around 5PM today, Brian Tierney called a staff meeting. In it, he informed those assembled that, at some point in the [...]