>>> At long last, Waterfront Wednesdays begins tonight at Penn Treaty Park at 7PM, and we’re pretty stoked. Our friends at NKCDC have put together a really great series — six Wednesday night concerts, spanning from tonight’s, featuring the salsa band Charanga, to the grand finale with Espers — and Philebrity is proud to be [...]

· Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka: Lighten-ing In A Bottle · Hip To Be SquareBurger · Grand Opening Festivities At The Gold Standard Café This Weekend All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Has the following scenario happened to you in the past few weeks? You’re cruising in your car and flipping through the radio stations, when suddenly a pleasant female voice catches your ear. “Oh, Dutch Country roads…” You listen for a few seconds, hoping against hope that this time it’s a real song, but once again, [...]

Exhibit A in Philly’s Long Nineties and Why We Need To Keep Philly Weird.

Somewhere, there’s a Phillies fan who loved Harry Kalas like we all did, like he was our own blood relation, who maybe has $625K laying around and can turn Harry’s humble four-bedroom Ridley Park rancher into a kind of living museum, a testament to the genteel old soul Harry was. Not to be like that, [...]

>>> It was bound to happen: Conshohocken’s own Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is releasing his long-rumored solo album. And we have a sneaking suspicion that it’s going to be great, for two reasons: One, we’ve had an earlier version of one of the tracks, “When You’ve No Eyes,” on our iPod [...]

Screw Boston, screw D.C., and screw the ad campaign that you totally lifted from Amelie. Just hand over the gnome so we can get him totally wasted, and nobody gets hurt.

RECOMMENDED: Having only seen bits of the other Harry Potter films on TV, we were pretty surprised at how dark and lyrical Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince, which opens today, was. Unlike lots of kids’ movies, The Half Blood Prince is slow, and heavy. If, like us, you’ve not seen the other Harry [...]

A text message is making the rounds amongst the local teen and tween scenes (as if you hadn’t heard already). And it’s scary…because it claims to come from a ghost! And not just any ghost, mind you, but the ghost of 7 year-old Jenny, who has red eyes! And she’s looking for trouble: The text [...]

Lil’ Herbie spent the 4th of July at the big Teabagger Party on Independence Mall, decrying mainstream media (which, by the way, employed him right up until the point when it didn’t anymore) and bigging up his homeslice Dom Giodano. Everything he says here is totally solid (for me to poop on).

Don’t tell us about Ardmore, bro: We lived in Ardmore, for a spell back in the late 1990s when shit all got just a little too real down here in town. And we loved it. We loved the Farmers’ Market (although the new one is even better), we loved MILFspotting at Ruby’s, we loved the [...]

It’s only been since January that Philadelphia has offered both weekly recycling pickup and “single stream recycling” (saving people from having to separate paper, plastic, glass, and metal), but these added conveniences are already showing some positive results. The amount of trash recycled in the past twelve months is 50 percent higher than it was [...]

While it must be said that if you’re dumb enough to get mugged via Craigslist, you pretty much get what you deserve, today we ponder a different, but related, matter: Has Craigslist become such a magnet for bottom-feeders of every sociopathic stripe that, at least in Philly, it could just be altogether over? Consider, for [...]

Says our reader: “Spotted: Reid from The Bachelorette @ Tria on 18th and Sansom… looking very tan and still glowing from his 15 minutes…” which prompts the obvious question: Does Someone Who Was Only Famous Once (Very Briefly) qualify as Someone Famous Who Went Somewhere Once, even if the place where they went was somewhere [...]

Within hours of yesterday’s Vince Fumo sentencing, Mayor Michael Nutter issued a terse statement on the matter. And it was one of those quick shots that kind of told us more about the Mayor than it did about the sentencing, or the widespread effort now going on to find any logic behind it: “In light [...]

4:50PM: Judge said he will “impose a just and fair sentence” and the room erupted in applause. Fumo is making a statement. He’s crying. He says he’s given his life to his job and it was fun to help people. Ruth [Arnao] was wonderful and he’s sorry to her. He feels bad for Lenny and [...]

>>> So, even if you haven’t been paying attention or don’t care about baseball (shame on you), here’s why tonight’s All Star Game is exciting and possibly even important: No less than five Phillies will be in the starting lineup, the National League team is being managed by Charlie Manuel, and the NL team hasn’t [...]

From the folks at SCRUB comes the news that Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Idee C. Fox — she of the Great Library Liberations of ’08 — has given the gas face to Callowhill Center Associates, who illegally erected the very tasteful building wrap you see at right, and then tried to take it all the [...]

From: nlna-town-watch-bounces@nlna.info [mailto:nlna-town-watch-bounces@nlna.info] On Behalf Of Richard Bowley Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:56 PM To: nlna-town-watch@nlna.info Subject: NLNA Town Watch: Please consider for the good of the neighborhood! Neighbors, I know surprisingly little about Arthur Kade. I know nothing about his background or lineage. I do not know where Kade was educated or what [...]