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Longtime Vetiver fans, please pardon us: We just got hip to Vetiver’s newest album, Tight Knit, over the weekend. And we loved it so much that we kicked the Philebrity Player into high gear yesterday, getting permissions and files and what not, all so we could bring it to you AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Part [...]

Well, folks, sadly, Arthur Kade‘s audition for QVC is not online yet, but here’s a glimpse of the man in full, at home, pondering the big issues. And no, you will not get the following two minutes and 48 seconds back, so don’t even ask.

What does the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Emergency Management know that we don’t? No, wait: Before you answer that, do we really wanna know? Back in January, we reported on how the OEM has harnessed just about every piece of social media it can in an effort to get word out to people in [...]

Check out this Phileb post from Tuesday, October 21st, 2008. At 11:07AM that day, we wondered what the hell was gonna happen once the World Series and the Election were over. In other words, once whatever happened happened, would we all spend the next five months in a crushing depression that shits on every point [...]

So, will this be how it ends, with Gov. Ed Rendell making good on a threat to prevent the flow of any casino dollars ever, if Philly doesn’t get off its duff and start building Foxwoods and Sugarhouse? Strangely, this is basically what Rendell said yesterday. It’s not a realistic tactic — he’d be villainized [...]

>>> First things first: Time magazine opines that the Daily News is the next to go under in its daily newspaper death pool. Time left? 18 months, tops. The good news? Is there any? Well, Time also thinks that Philly.com would swallow up most DN staff, forcing Byko and Gross to do those oh-so-informative bikini [...]

Says our reader: “SEPTA of the future much like SEPTA of the present.” Which is cool because, like, finally, we have conclusive proof that Confucius reads Philebrity. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. Previously: Readers Cameraphone Extra: “I Named My Rabid SEPTA Raccoon ‘Patches!’”

· Message To All Philadelphia Bars And Restaurants: Don’t Be Such Cheap Bastards When You Make Mimosas · Larry Bell’s Eccentric Jazz Brunch · Beer Week Picks: Sifting Through The Suds All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

When Philly lost Brian Dawkins last week, we all kinda felt the pain. (Even here at Philebs, where we are gradually beginning to understand that the game involves a leather oval and the wearing of tights and not, as we had believed earlier, a warlike ritual designed to sap the hopes and dreams of the [...]

For the longest time, we kinda liked being able to claim CNBC Mad Money anchor Jim Cramer as a native son. He had the funny accent, he was batshit crazy, he had a lot of big buttons that made sounds. And you always kinda got the impression that he was just like you in a [...]

· The 2nd Philly Spring Cleanup will take place on Saturday April 4, 2009! If you live here, you know that littering is something of a bloodsport, especially in certain neighborhoods; so to see the whole city get together again this year, brooms and medical waste containers in hand, and make it look a little [...]

If you’ve ever been to The Gallery and really had to use the bathroom, you have surely found yourself faced with a difficult question: Do I sacrifice my dignity and use my pants or do I sacrifice my dignity and use the bathroom? If you’ve never found yourself faced with that situation, count yourself blessed [...]

The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy were one of those first-wave Creation Records bands that nobody ever listened to, like ever. But if nothing else, they proved that Dobbs could, every once in a while, be a totally groovy place.

Fame is a prison; the good thing is, there’s a lot of hallways, so you can always keep moving. 1. OK, so first of all, Bacon seemed to be there for the same reason I was — to drink in peace. I think he was with his sister. And in that weird twilight between Saturday [...]

Did anybody else notice how every news outlet in the United States did another “Oh, hey, Twitter exists!” story last week? You know, even though Twitter launched in ’06, so there’s your time hook fucked, and most news outlets have already been hawking their own Twitter feeds for at least a year already. So why [...]

Press releases — we get ‘em. And oh, how we get them. And sometimes, it’s all we can do to stare at them and think about how amazing it is that “things” are happening in Philadelphia every day, even though they may not be “things” you would actually ever want to, like, go to, and [...]

Because each time we’ve posted about Bizarro Nutter‘s kooky pay-for-trash-collection proposals, one thing quickly becomes clear: People are UP in ARMS about this. And as the rhetoric surrounding the issue ramps up, we just had a hilariously awful, damn-nigh-on-apocalyptic mental image: Hordes and hordes of people, on Dilworth Plaza in the cold light of day, [...]

FRIDAY: >>> If it hasn’t already, a kind of festival-fever should prevail all around you any minute now: The opening tap of Philly Beer Week is at 6PM, kicking off over 600 gatherings of beers and the people who love to make them go away. Check out our picks for the massive, dizzying Beer Week [...]

RECOMMENDED:Watchmen — the film adaptation of Alan Moore‘s mid-80s dystopian Cold War nightmare series of comic books — might be getting panned, but that doesn’t stop it from assuming the posture of a big, monolithic slab of Hollywood action movie that kinda feels like just the right amount of escape right now anyway. Expect loud [...]