Like we were saying last week, this new Philebrity Happy Hour @ OCTO on the waterfront is pretty much gonna be sweetest hang of ever. There’ll be sun, sky, water, DJ Kyle Miller playing soul and reggae, drink and app specials from the Octo kitchen and… friends. Hanging out. Doing their thing. Every Friday from [...]

· The Best Thing I’ve Eaten All Year · In The Kitchen At The Institute · This Week’s Cornerstone/Phoodie/Waterfront Wednesdays Picnic Giveaway: Ladybugs Not Included All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Is there a woman alive who inspires more frenetic devotion and “right on”‘s than Neko Case? If there is, we’re not in a rush to know about her. As you are probably aware, Ms. Case is on tour promoting her new album, Middle Cyclone, and she hits Philly tomorrow night, where she’ll be playing a [...]

WXPN‘s highlights reel from last weekend. We would have loved to have seen more Los Straitjackets wrestling-mask-and-dance routines, but that’s just us.

We know that a lot of you were really broken up when when the Penthouse Club near Second and Callowhill closed down after about a year of we-know-not-what and then turned into Another Place You’d Never Go To In A Million Years, Fuzion. (See what they’re doing there with the “Z?”) Well, all is not [...]

Because really: What recession? May your bidding be blessed with luck, may the DJ Apt One edit of the Tommy Tutone classic be the wind beneath your wings.

In uncertain economic times, or all times for some pursuing art, one finds ways to make their own entertainment at the lowest cost. While this 1972 video from a French television program reveals that The Pentangle reached at least a modest level of commercial success, at least in Europe, it evokes for me a certain [...]

Right now, Vice President Joe Biden (pictured) is over in the Mayor’s Reception Room at City Hall with Mayor Michael Nutter, Guvs Rendell & Corzine & The One From Delaware and bunch of other people who like to hold big checks to announce a big juicing from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act coming our [...]

While yesterday’s post about the savage killing of a 22-year-old by a gang of Fishtown thugs (pictured) drew a pretty heated discussion in the comments here, that was nothing compared to what’s been going on over at Fishtown.us, the neighborhood messageboard with soul to spare but, uh, not so much with the spellcheck. There’s been [...]

Says our reader: “Tuesday morning el walk. It’s already so hot I almost asked him for a drink.” We’re right there with ya, buddy. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Crystal Stilts, one of The World’s Top 25 Most Interesting Bands Right Now (source: The Philebrity Book of Totally Arbitrary Claims Made To Entice You To Go To Things) play Johnny Brenda’s with Caves of Mercury and The Ladybug Transistor. Also, Weeds is on.

>>> Hey Philly music scene, when the chips are down and Agnew’s not calling you back and Heyday is bitching about your violation of the 30-day-no-local-play rule, you know who’s got your back? Philly Boy Roy. Roy showed up at the big Merge Records fest in North Carolina over the weekend, and, well… Mac McCaughan [...]

Saw this outside the Keswick. Dude was wearing a wife beater with the phrase written in sharpie: “Dedicated to michael jackson, king of molestors” on the back. On the front, also handwritten in sharpie, was the Korn logo with the words “rock monsters” under it. He was looking for a Metro PCS store because his [...]

Before we get going here, let us just tell you this: This is gonna be an utterly insane week for ol’ Captain Freeb. We’re giving away stuff left and right, Oprah-style. So check in often. Anyway, Funny People is the new Judd Apatow movie, and rattling off the cast should be impressive enough: Adam Sandler, [...]

Director Derek Moench‘s wayyyyy freaky clip for the track “Sudseyfuss,” off Gemini Wolf‘s latest, Synchronized Eyes. Previously: MP3 Of The Moment: Gemini Wolf, “Sugar”

We just wanted to take a moment to send much props out to PA Congressman Patrick Murphy, who’s just engaged in probably one of the riskiest moves of his political career. Earlier this month, Murphy, an Iraq war vet, announced that he was leading an effort (along with other veterans and gay rights organizations) to [...]

Saturday’s Cards vs. Phils game (we won 14-6) was quite a thing to behold and, thanks to J-Roll‘s grand slam and lots of other fireworks, one of the more exciting games we’ve taken in all year. But that routing of the Cards will be forever marred by two things: Some asshole with a laser pointer, [...]

And it would be called I’m A Philebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. (Hmm, sounds familiar.) Hot on the heels of our connect-the-generational-dots post on O.G. Butabi brother Richie Rosati, some cheeky monkey (we’re looking in your direction, King Carl, and just for the hell of it, you too, Rosati) “tipped” Gawker off that: I [...]

It’s been a good long while since Philadelphia’s most genteel and honorable city department, Licenses & Inspections, went on a good old fashioned Saturday night tear to see who they could shut down. (Which frankly always struck us as rather jive/bullying tactic, since in most cases, anything you could shut a bar down for on [...]