>>> Congrats to our friends at the P.O.P.E — or Pub On Passyunk East if you’re not into the whole brevity thing — for three years of beer, more beer and their part in crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s on East Passyunk’s recent heartwarming transformation. They’ll all be celebrating tonight with a special [...]

At the risk of going all Middle-Aged White Male Record Nerd That Nobody Cares About on you, we have to admit, we started listening to The Church again out of the blue recently, and we love them. The Church, of course, formed in 1980 in Australia and have pretty much done everything that U2, for [...]

You’ve gotta wonder: Just who (or, rather, how many people) did G Lounge have to blow to become the ne plus ultra of Philly’s Douche Culture and Somebodies Famous Who Went Somewhere Once? With Strongbox out of the way for the moment, G is having its way with you, all over you, right now: There’s [...]

Like a train that is always on schedule, the NorthernLiberties.org thread about Saturday’s double murder is going to seed right… about… now. Meanwhile, the Daily News details Rian Thal’s rather seamy backstory, and Philly Police have released security camera footage depicting the suspects. Fox29 clip after the jump.

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Did you know that, in Chicago, you can take out a “museum pass” with your library card for free? The pass is good for like every museum in the whole city, and it’s not just the “free” part that makes us love, love, love this idea. It’s also great because it takes museums out of [...]

Hold the kids’ ears while we tell you this: Kallie and Bette, the Philadelphia Zoo‘s last two elephants (shown at right), are moving out after the July 4th weekend. The Zoo says it’s because they don’t have enough money to keep them anymore, but kooky animal people say it’s because the zoo just wants to [...]

I bet that tree isn’t even registered in this city. I bet it’s registered to its parents’ house in the suburbs so it has less expensive insurance. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Whether it’s the guy who you also buy bootleg DVDs from, or the kids at Print Liberation, it would seem that MJ’s last loving gift to this recession-logged world would be his own image, unlicensed and reproduced on thousands and thousands of t-shirts. You know, just like in the 1980s. Personally, though, we think the [...]

On one hand, it’s good to know that The Thinker isn’t gone from the Parkway, it’s just being moved while renovations are being done at the Rodin Museum. On the other, while we knew that there were other Thinker‘s around the world, we had no idea just how many there were. Damn you, Internet. Damn [...]

>>> Did you know that when the members of Blood Feathers aren’t making rustic, classic rock ‘n’ roll tunes of their own, they’re moonlighting as a cover band called The Big Jangle? The Big Jangle (pictured) have spent much of the spring and summer playing various weddings, covering lots and lots of Tom Petty (as [...]

Like us, a lot of you were pretty shocked by the raw data that came out of today’s report released by the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, which says that over half of Philly’s available work force lack the basic literacy skills to get any kind of job whatsoever. The difficulties this presents to the person [...]

One night in 1993, in an apartment in Queen Village, a group of friends were sitting around, late at night, flipping through the channels between bong hits. Tucked in between infomercials and MTV and the late rebroadcasts of the evening news, the friends settled upon some kind of public broadcasting outlet, the identity of which [...]

No doubt the Philadelphia Museum of Art had its work cut out for it when it went about searching for a replacement for previous director Anne d’Harnoncourt, a figure both beloved and essential to the PMA’s growth during her long tenure there. This morning, the Museum introduced d’Harnoncourt’s successor, Timothy Rub, who comes to us [...]

Just a quick addendum to our post last week on the tragic passing of writer Steven Wells (pictured): Friends and family have scheduled a memorial this Wednesday, July 1st, at 4pm at Smokin’ Betty’s (11th & Sansom). Donations are being accepted by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Meanwhile, friends of Wells have also launched TheStevenWells.com, [...]

We can say without hesitation that this might be the greatest Noontime Nugget ever run. It’s hard to imagine how much of a stir Kenn Kweder (and, back in the day, his band, The Secret Kids) caused in Philly in the late 1970s. This clip proves it. Shot at The Hot Club (now the home [...]

There is a rather stunning story in today’s Philadelphia Business Journal detailing how more than half of the city’s potential work force lack the literacy skills to fill available jobs. We’re going to say that again: More than half of the city’s potential work force lack the literacy skills to fill available jobs. Is your [...]

By now, you may have heard about Saturday’s tragic muder of Philly party promoter Rian Thal, along with friend Timothy Gilmore, in the Navona building at the Piazza at Schmidt’s. We didn’t know Rian, but she was our neighbor back when Philebs was based on Hancock St. in Northern Liberties, and she was also, apparently, [...]

“This isn’t really as fun as writing bubble mortgages, but that just might be because I can’t afford drugs anymore.” The same sense of duty that propelled us to tell you about the burping contest and The Brutaltron Bicycle Booze Cruise makes us want to let you know that Cardboard Tube Fighting Leagues are coming [...]

Look: We’re all about spontaneous expressions of joy. I mean, isn’t this site nothing but that? But something about this whole flash mob dance thing on the Art Museum steps struck us as kinda naff the moment we heard about it. The dance seemed too cheerleader-y, it invoked friggin’ Rocky straight outta the gate (isn’t [...]