We’ve been completely remiss thus far in not posting about this year’s Xponential Music Festival, WXPN‘s annual vibe-a-thon that you might think you are too cool for, but really, you are not. Sure, The Hold Steady, the 4th Worst Band In Philly circa 2006, are playing, and that’s annoying, but by the time they go [...]

Happening nowish. Thanks to reader eskepe for sending this in!

Yesterday, Comcast and Time Warner announced that they are in the process of building their own answer to Hulu, called TV Everywhere. The fundamental difference? It only works if you’re already paying for it. The two companies just signed on with Turner Broadcasting System Inc.‘s various television stations to feature what, to us, sounds like [...]

Where else, but our local repository for all things absurd, but The Gallery. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Maybe it’s just our long-repressed inner goth acting out again, but we have to admit to already being pretty stoked for this fall’s Haunted Poe, a production that will take the form of a haunted house tour where the audience gets to experience scenes from several of Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous works. While that [...]

And it’s a thing of beauty.

On one hand, you could argue that, if you do in fact really, really dislike children, you just shouldn’t live in the suburbs period; after all, these are, and have always been and always will be, the eye of the child-rearing, kids-are-always-at-the-center-of-every-conversation storm. On the other, give it up to Phoenixville‘s Michael Buck for finding [...]

Somewhere in the long canyon of WTF that was The Digital Transition, a weird little network called THIS TV appeared in the Philly area; for many former antenna/analog TV viewers, it was one of the few benefits of their new DTV converter. For here was a channel that shows the kind of TV that mom [...]

The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival (hereafter referred to as PIFF) kicks off this Thursday the 25th, and will run until Sunday the 28th. PIFF will showcase the work of locals as well as out-of-towners and will be jam-packed with round table discussions, meet and greets, and panels, not to mention a ton of great independent [...]

In case you’re just joining us, yesterday, we began the day by wondering what the hell was up with Gary Barbera’s Obama Trade-O-Rama ads, and if these advertisements were A) mutedly racist B) just disrespectful overall or C) just really, really weird. After we made the post, debates and claims of wonderment went on in [...]

Says our reader: “Or just a really ugly piece of roadkill on 20th Street. Or if you have to tie it into your current theme, this is how I picture Arthur Kade‘s soul.” Either way, we say, it’s nasty. And curious at the same time. So, yeah, we definitely get your Kade/roadkill vibe. Whoa. Seeing [...]

This morning, we posted about the mixed feelings and general cosmic confusion brought on by Gary Barbera’s Obama Trade-O-Rama. Well, if this helps at all, thanks to Philebrity’s crack team of interns, we now know that we are not alone. The good people of Pueblo, Colorado had this to deal with before Obama was even [...]

· Stop, Drop, And Lobster Roll · St. Jean Baptiste Day At Grey Lodge · Vetri Does Anthro · The Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co. Is Not Kidding Around All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

>>> Oh, hey, remember A Sunny Day In Glasgow? It’s been a long (too damned long!) time since we checked in with these guys, but good things come to those who wait: The dreamy-droney, poppy-avant-garde groop (pictured) has just announced that its sophomore full-length, Ashes Grammar, will be out in September. Fun facts: This time [...]

Oh, look at you, acting like you don’t already know: The latest chapter in the Jon-&-Gate-Plus-Eight-Gate scandal unfolded last night, with the Gosselins announcing that they are filing for divorce after ten years of marriage. What’s bad for the Gosselin family is apparently good for Southeast Pennsylvania, as the influence of Kate’s golden touch extends [...]

At 2PM today, your Philadelphia 76ers pulled the ultimate throwback move and went back to their old logo and brand (seen at right). You know, the one they had when they were great. The one they had before their mascot was the weird bunny from Donnie Darko and instead, Big Shot called the shots. The [...]

Uwishunu just went ahead and broke the news that The Roots (pictured) have just been added to the July 4th Welcome America festivities, thereby making things kinda rough on previous headliner Sheryl Crow as well as you, because up until now, you were totally planning on saying “Hells NO” to the insane migraine in waiting [...]

If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you know that the grand experiment that is Yelp!, where anyone at all can post a review of any business at all, has done little else but prove two things: 1) That the Fourth Estate, as loathsome as you’ve been trained to regard it, exist(ed/s) for a [...]

You may not know this, but Boston and Philly share a common scourge: They’ve both had dumb, glossy Metrocorp magazines bearing down on their respective cities as the last word in Stuff White People Like for years and years now. Both Boston and Philadelphia magazines are owned and operated by Metrocorp — run since the [...]