>>> Time was, you could walk outside your $400-a-month (totally illegal and not zoned for residential use) apartment in Old City and go hear DJ Aaron Luis Levinson (pictured) spin a mind-blowing array of old Latin records at the Five Spot, like once or twice a week. Well, The Five Spot burned down, that apartment [...]

Our buddy/Phileb contributor Brian Hickey has been fairly obsessed with the various people that were duped into appearing in the movie Brüno since we all went to see an advance screening of it on Tuesday. Yesterday, he tracked down karate instructor Danny Shirley, who, spoiler alert, can disable anyone who tries to attack him with [...]

Hoo-boy! Are you ready for the football, I mean, #racistpool? The story’s already made it to This Week In Blackness (see clip above). Meanwhile, Michael Smerconish interviews an eyewitness club member, who really just complains about how the club was too “crowded,” which seems to please The Smerc greatly. The Litigation & Trial Blog considers [...]

Because that will be a job for the investigators. Our learned friend Conor Corcoran bumped into the Phillie Phanatic at the Union League, of all places. (Surprising that they let him in, for fear that his green fur might change the “complexion” of the place. We’re talking about Conor, of course.) We’re not sure, but [...]

As pointed out by the City Paper today, a new Allstate report claims that amongst cities with more than a million residents, Philly has the worst drivers, who average a mere 6.4 years between collisions (for comparison, drivers in the “best” million-plus city in the study, Phoenix, average 9.2 years between collisions). The safest city [...]

Bastille Day is officially on July 14, but as usual, most of the fun is taking place this weekend in Fairmount, with some choice events beginning tomorrow. Eastern State Penitentiary’s website will tell you most of what you need to know. On Thursday, the Fairmount French Fling Bar Crawl will take place at The Belgian [...]

Oh, 1986. If you could only see yourself now.

A recurring thought — I know you are not the CP or PW, but even one day’s notice would serve some of us well. (I know I’ll get lambasted for this due to weekend stuff that is trumpeted, but that’s not what I mean.) Unless that’s just not the point. Which brings me to a [...]

So, a question: Is the Huntingdon Valley Racist Pool Hullaballoo our next great civic shame? Oh, you betcha. Do a search for the Twitter tag “#racistpool” and you’ll quickly find out that there’s a protest at the pool later today, and yep, this story has exactly the set of legs you thought it did, and [...]

We’ve been staring at this rendering of the St. John the Evangelist House — announced yesterday, and to be built at 13th & Market Sts. — for an hour now, marveling at just how cool it looks and wondering why we can’t live there. Although, to be fair, this recession is young, so by some [...]

Remember two springs ago, when the cast and crew of Transformers II came to Philly and indulged UPenn in its long-held shame-fantasy of even being mentioned in the same breath as Princeton? That was awesome. Another awesome thing the Transformers II folks did was donate a whole palate of outdoor café gear to City Hall, [...]

Alright, Philadelphia, let’s do this: If last night’s performance by Shane Victorino didn’t hammer home why this guy is truly an all-star, then nothing will. VOTING FOR THE ALL-STAR GAME CLOSES AT 4PM TODAY. Let’s show The Flyin’ Hawaiian how near and dear he is to this city.

· The Edible Vince Fumo · Vivid Sense To Hold Inaugural Event · And Now, Zoe Lukas’ Amazing Jack Daniel’s Cake All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

>>> If you’ve not yet seen The Zombies since they got back together a few years ago, you’re just gonna have to trust us when we say this is probably the best nostalgia-reunion gig we’ve seen in the last few years; singer Colin Blunstone is in fine, fine voice, and Rod Argent wears tight black [...]

Jerkfaces-disguised-as-good-people PETA have this whole new campaign going on to save the baby harp seals (pictured), which is kind of a no-brainer, since these things are so cute you just wanna stuff them in your mouth like you’re a big dog and they’re your little toy and NO! NO! YOU KILLED IT! WHY? HOW COULD [...]

Click photo to enlarge. A reader sent us in this snap of the “West Philly” side’s salvo to chant down the babylon that is the University City District‘s loathsome-to-some claiming of Baltimore Ave. as “University City,” which, to be fair, it is not. On the other hand, the copy on this poster is so “sassy” [...]

You know, for the longest time, we’ve been tiptoe-ing around what is really a pretty sensitive issue: How Heidi Hamels, wife of Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels, has been utterly ruining Cole for us as she drags him around from one dumb Cashman event to another in her quest to be the 215′s very own Angelina [...]

While we were at lunch, like a hundred of you sent in this link to an NBCPhiladelphia story about the very possibly and, yeah, almost 100% certainly racist-as-fuck Valley Swim Club in the Grayt Norfeest. To which we say: You interrupted our delicious Wendy’s for this? What are you, new? Sure, ejecting 60 kids from [...]

If, by chance, you missed The Philebrity Photography Invitational when it opened last month, you’ve got one more chance to check it out: Tomorrow — Thursday, July 9, from 6-8PM — we’ll be hosting a closing reception here at 2424 Studios. If you like pictures — and what kind of monster doesn’t? — stop on [...]