So, Garrett Reid, son of Andy and he of the low-culture Pete Doherty-type saga (but with more carbs, less Hedi Slimane), is back in jail after testing positive for something or other, which was a violation of his parole from that time things got wayyyyy heavy a few years back, and he heroin-drove his SUV [...]

Remember how sad chick-lit titan/sage of the universe Jennifer Weiner got when her cute little neighborhood coffee shop — um, it was a fucking Cosi, Jen, are you really so friggin’ middlebrow that you thought this was some little Central Perk that just popped up for your own discovery? — shuttered its doors and forced [...]

Secret Pants present their Welcome To The Terrordome 3 evening of sketch comedy this Friday night at Johnny Brenda’s, and this is how it’ll all start — with the gang living as Great Depression 2.0 hobos in Center City. We are never swimming in that fountain again.

It is, perhaps, the ultimate Philly nerds-versus-jocks slam dunk, but can it possibly be true? Because it’s what Amy Murphy of the Arden Theater claims in this piece in today’s Metro. Now, Murphy has a point to make here, and whether the claim is apocryphal or not, the fact remains that the arts in PA [...]

Next weekend, Foggy Notion, Philebrity’s monthly rock ‘n’ roll dance party, is back, and this is gonna be a really special one, folks. Free Energy are gang of recent Philly transplants, some of whom used to be in a band called Hockey Night that you might have heard of. After woodshedding in their Fishtown basement [...]

There’s an old edition we have lying around of this book called Philadelphia Then And Now: 60 Sites Photographed In The Past And Present. Have you ever seen it? It’s fascinating, for two reasons: One being how fortunate we are to have so many historical sites and streetscapes in Philly that remain almost perfectly intact, [...]

You may have wondered, after reading our post last week on The Philadelphia Passion (Philly’s entry into the Lingerie Football League, which, we assure you, is a real thing that some asshole somewhere is pouring tons of money into), What Good does it all serve? What the hell is it all FOR? We wondered the [...]

We don’t know when we’ll be back again this way, so, until then, take care, friends. The weather’s kinda tricky, so don’t catch a cold. If you’ve got to fall, try to fall on the side of luck. And may you be surrounded by friends and family. And if this is not your lot, may [...]

Looks like somebody’s taking this Inky Boycott thing a little too far. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

OK, this one needs a little parsing, so let’s go: David Dye, of course, is the Philadelphia broadcasting legend behind World Cafe on WXPN — on their fund drive right now, donate ‘em if you got ‘em — and David has our eternal love and respect, even if he does get a little shoot-the-messenger-y with [...]

Says our reader: “Here’s a picture taken with Kelsey Grammar at the Comcast Center food court. I’m not sure what he is doing in town. Work for Comcast?” Works for us! Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Philly’s late, great Trauma Queens, terrorizing a bunch of poor old ladies playing bingo, sometime in 2003. Gosh, the early-aughts were a time! You can find frontman Jason Killinger in the Birds Of Maya these days, an altogether heavier proposition.

While we’re aware — Lord, how we’ve been aware — that part of this whole recession thing means that we’re all going to have to make sacrifices, the fact is, we never really thought we’d have to share the Shore, for Chrissakes, with anyone other than those hilarious French Canadians. But oh no: There is [...]

Here’s some lovely woman using everything she learned in the “voice” portion of her self-defense class, fully unloading on Donald Rumsfeld as he enters last week’s Correspondents Dinner in D.C. Check out how Rummy handles it. Why, he acts like he’s had some crazy shouting woman on his ass his whole life. A natural! [hat [...]

Mayor Nutter is spending the day, among other things, talking into microphones about all of this sweet, sweet stimulus money that’s starting to come into play in Philadelphia. (We used Bizarro Nutter in the graphic only because it just seemed more Wu-Tangian; maybe when this whole bad epoch is behind us, the BN graphic could [...]

Ours seems to be moving along just fine, thanks! Since we announced yesterday that, until the Philadelphia Inquirer drops John Yoo, we won’t consume OR distribute any Inky content whatsoever, a lot of stuff has happened. For one, the story became the lead item on Google Alerts for “Philadelphia” by early afternoonn (see above), it [...]

We’d been hearing rumors for months that LebowskiFest — that roving celebration that pays homage each year to the Coen Brothers‘s The Big Lebowski, the Citizen Kane of stoner films — would be coming to Philadelphia this year. And after much touch-and-go and “we’ll let you know,” well, finally, they let us know. And the [...]

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>>> The weather and web page alone for Independence Seaport Museum‘s “Skin & Bones: Tattoos in the Life of the American Sailor” should be enough to get you down on the Delaware tonight, but please also note how, as part of the exhibit, they’ll be screening Erich Weiss‘ doc Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry, followed by [...]

Number of BMX bikes used in New York-based artist Ryan Humphrey‘s Fast Forward installation coming to the Levy Gallery for the Arts May 29: 30 Students from the Greater Philadelphia region who received good citizenship awards today from the Youth Work Foundation: 343 Still-hopeful amount in the Philadelphia School District’s budget after City Council hearings: $3.2 billion Years the Mural Arts [...]