· your fears of being shot are almost calmed by the comforting smells of Ben Gay and Old Spice. · you’ve got to help the poor old guy across the street with his bag of money afterwards, and — pressure! — do it all before the dye pack explodes. · if you don’t respond to his demands at [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, Ry-Ho, newly minted organic foods enthusiast. Like the man says, “Oh, snap, son!” [Hat-tip: Ecorazzi]

In about an hour or so, Mayor Nutter will drop details on the City’s new streets repaving program, funded in large part by $12.7 million from the Recovery Act. (The City kicked in another $2M, making the final tally of pothole money closer to $15M.) All of which is great news for anyone who drives/bikes/lives [...]

Watching new Phillies pitcher Antonio Bastardo go up against the Dodgers last night was one of those things that could remind one of everything there ever was to love about baseball in the first place. Consider, for instance, the simple reversal of fortune: Just a week ago, Bastardo — a 23-year-old kid from the Dominican [...]

Babies. Aleksandra Mir is this really great Swedish/American artist whose work often includes playful (and sometimes downright funny) social commentary. But employees at the Inquirer building didn’t think it was so funny when one of Mir’s most recent pieces, Newsroom 2009, was installed in the building’s lobby last week as part of the equally awesome [...]

Says our reader: “Thank god for solar trash cans.” Says us: Where we come from, this is a solar trash can. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

FRIDAY: >>> You may find yourself, sometime tomorrow morning, staring at yourself in the bathroom mirror in a moment of plaintive longing, wondering why the hell you’ve filled your life up with hoppy beer and fried food and low culture whose only value comes from the semi-satisfying act of simply sneering at it all. This [...]

RECOMMENDED: In case you are too young or too old to recall the dippy wonderfulness that was the original Land Of The Lost Saturday morning television series, brighten your day and get familiar here. Will Farrell‘s take on the time-travelling camp classic seems to give the original a post-ironic update, where everyone is in on [...]

I could tell by the way the drain and toilet were looking at me that they knew I was someone important and that I do everything at the highest level. Ah, yes. Commenter ICantBelieveIAteTheWholeThing captured the wit and spirit of both the Arthur Kade milieu and this particular photograph in this, our first-ever Arthur Kade [...]

Remember when punk rock was something edgy and dangerous and not some sad overweight 14-year-old in raver pants and a Staind t-shirt? We kinda do, and that memory was jogged this morning, when the following alert went out via alertphila.com, a community service listserv from the Philly P.D. and the Center City District: On Saturday, [...]

Back when the Internet was young and so were we, there was a thing called Digital City and, for a time at least, it seemed that it employed nearly half of Philadelphia. It’s almost easy to forget now, but in the late 1990s, Digital City Philadelphia — a cityguide-type offshoot of AOL (which, even crazier, [...]

One of the interesting things to come out of this whole teenage mutant violent tweetmob thing that rampaged through South Philly last weekend was the fact, apparently, a large part of the evildoings were coordinated via a social networking site called Ourspace. Which we didn’t even know the kids were using! Because aren’t Facebook, Myspace, [...]

Check out our art listings to plan your route tomorrow. And stop by The Philebrity Photography Invitational @ 2424 Studios if you’re in the neighborhood!

>>> Let us amble down memory lane a bit this evening, shall we? X, the legendary Los Angeles punk band who accidentally invented alt-country, play World Cafe Live this evening, while Dean & Britta, the ghost of Luna (which was itself the ghost of Galaxie 500) check into Johnny Brenda’s. Pay close attention to the [...]

· Video: Philly Gal Katie Cavuto Of The Next Food Network Star · P.Y.T.: Can We Get Some Fries With That Shake? · Dept. Of Tall Orders: Octo’s Opening Weekend Grocery List · The Oyster House Six Shooter All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new [...]

Controversial opinion time: Cole Hamels is, we are quite sure, an amazing talent whom we hope will be a part of the Phillies organization for as many winning seasons as the fates will allow, but he is not really quite ready for the status as a media darling he’s being pushed into. And that’s for [...]

Dear City Paper, While we are totally down with this Biketopia in Philly that you speak of, there’s just one thing: Unless said Biketopia includes eco-friendly disposable bike saddles, please do not do ANYTHING to ever make any of us have to think about bare genitals on bike seats ever again. Thank you. Love, The [...]

Yeah, sure, we razzed him the other day about what he did on his first day with the new ankle, but tell the truth: Having Larry Mendte back out on the street, hungry and lean like a gazelle, feels pretty fucking great. The latest news, of course, is that Larry just let rip a lawsuit [...]

As you are no doubt aware, Saturday night is Philebrity’s Fifth Annual Belle & Sebastian Dance Party, an event that we look forward to each and every year with hands on hearts, while the Steven Wellses of the world can do nothing but look on and wonder why B&S get this kind of treatment while [...]

Oh hai. Parkour is that thing where free thinkers with a Spiderman fetish put on bike shorts and sneakers you’d never wear in a million years and climb/jump on stuff in a feeble effort to combine the futility of rock-climbing with the utter lameness of hacky sack. And guess what, it works!