The Athens Soundies crew caught up with both Dr. Dog and Pattern Is Movement during their recent respective swings through the beautiful and storied little city of Athens, GA. Click on the link for more.

We mentioned a few weeks ago how bad we’ve had it for Clive Owen since, oh, we first laid eyes on him. How lucky for us, then — and you too, should you share our fever — that Clive Owen is now in every third movie that comes out of Hollywood these days. (The people [...]

Don’t get us wrong: Over the last year or so, what began as a lark has quickly blossomed into a Philebrity staple — and each day, we totally look forward to what will pop into our inbox as a Readers Cameraphone submission. As often as not, they promote great discussion or even, at the very [...]

Anyone who’s spent any time poring over the Foxwoods/Sugarhouse/anti-casino saga over the last few years knows this much: In the years to come, there may not be a place left in all of America that does not have some form of sadsack legalized gambling, which almost by design keeps the poor poorer and the dumb [...]

Sorry, folks, but ya gotta bear with us today — the core crew both have colds, and we sent the interns home because we’re germophobes as it is, and aren’t college kids always getting meningitis or something? Gross. We’ll get some posts up as soon as we’ve pounded a quart of OJ, snorted up two [...]

>>> The New Time are decidedly old-timey sounding band from Philly, and so are Wes Matheiu & The New Way Down. And along with The Defibulators from Brooklyn, they’re all cookin’ up a beard-n-western-shirt stew at Silk City. Yee-haw! >>> Elsewhere: Pissed Jeans at Johnny Brenda’s.

Notice anything similar? Last week, we posted about Comcast‘s new ComcastTown ad campaign, noting the very pronounced similarities between the music used in those spots and that of Kimya Dawson‘s music, which was used in the film Juno. Now, courtesy a reader, we’re seeing that even the visual of ComcastTown is a blatant rip of [...]

When we ran this post on Monday about CNBC financial analyst/spittle fountain/native son Jim Cramer, we had no idea what kind of itch we were scratching: Apparently, you people LOVE to talk about this kooky leprechaun, so now we have to watch his show all the time to see what kind of nonsense he’s getting [...]

This has something to do with the Backseat Film Festival’s “Strip For Pain” Party, but we’ll be damned if we know just what.

Hey, remember Making Time? That party that kinda heralded New Philadelphia nightlife in this kind of all-inclusive Britpop/dirty soul/disco/techno way and, for a time, defined an entire generation of us? As we’re sure you know, Time is still Made — about once a month, in fact — but it’s taken a strange turn in the [...]

So, the Philadelphia Boat Show went down last weekend in Oaks, PA. And it featured this guy. Whom I love.

This week, Philly ad agency Red Tettemer has launched something called ScapeNation — which is, in the broadest strokes, a kind of Second Life for kids. Tweens, in particular. And to be frank, we’ll be shocked if it stays up for more than a year. Most of the reasons why are detailed quite well in [...]

Once-beloved Inky columnist turned pompous-as-fuck novelist Steve Lopez is on “Radio Times” right now, and Marty is all over this guy like white on rice. Which would be fine, if the whole thing wasn’t a rehash of his “new” book The Soloist, which has been out for more than a year, and much like Third [...]

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Girl #1: And she was like, “Come to Philly!” Girl #2: Ugh! Nobody goes to Philly. Not even Will Smith goes to Philly. –Jenny Lewis Show, The Apollo Theater Once again, New Yorkers, we’d like to congratulate you all on living in that city during the very least interesting phase in its entire history. OverheardInNY: [...]

An Open Letter to SEPTA employees who support a strike: A strike? A six percent raise during what very well might be a depression? Are you serious? My husband was almost laid off last month and instead, must forgo a raise and his usual year-end bonus indefinitely. Many of my friends, several who were unionized [...]

Maybe it’s because they just discovered the self-absorbed, sad-life-affirming, personal “at-the-grocery-store-picking-up-some-peas!” update device, or maybe it has something to do with this: Either way, a flood of Inky/DN newsies have been signing up for Twitter today, and executive online editor Chris Krewson (@ckrewson) was kind enough to Tweet each of their Twitter accounts. We, now, are [...]

· Old City‘s Topstitch Boutique announced on Friday that they’ll be moving — right around the corner, to the spot that used to be Deep Sleep. That won’t bring Deep Sleep back (God we loved that spot), but it’s nice to see that with the Exit and Matthew Izzo moves we just noted on Friday, [...]

· Foie Gras Week Is Back; Protesters, Probably Not So Much · Beer Week: The Brewer’s Plate · Beer Week: Uncanny Canners · Beer Week Picks: Sifting Through The Suds · Stuff That Matters: Personal and the Pizzas All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food [...]

Steal this graphic, brah. · Heaving sighs of relief are going out all over the area today, and not just because the Philebrity Art Department finally got us a “Good News” graphic we can get behind. The Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative (PCMI) at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage just announced they’re handing out [...]