I was just walking my dog back from running some errands and passed by this treasure left underneath the bridge onramp next to 4th and Callowhill (that would be my buddy Franklin in the blur on the right). It appears to be a table (maybe?) constructed from department store display models. I think it has [...]

Occasional gentle teasing of the Live Arts Fest aside, September is already shaping up nicely in the local arts scene, and we are already getting pumped for the new semester of the Headlong Performance Institute. The program takes 14 young artists from across the country and puts them through a rigorous semester-long creative boot-camp [...]

We’ve been closely tracking (stalking) the goings on related to the mysterious Untitled James L. Brooks Project, and now we are hearing about One More Place Paul Rudd Has Been. A reader, who also happens to be a proud former math major, wrote to tell us that Paul is currently filming inside the David Rittenhouse [...]

· Field Report: Tomato Time At Barclay Prime
· Breaking News: Marcie Turney To Open Bar Bucco
· The Once-Over: Kong
· Tragedy At Monk’s
All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

>>> Bummer: All 25 of the Pennsylvania Board of Education’s “persistently dangerous schools” are public schools located in Philadelphia. Here’s hoping that Tony Danza will be able to turn it around with a mix of tough-guy attitude and a heart of gold. [KYW]
>>> FBI agents busted into two local charter schools to kick ass, take [...]

They still make the Britney Spears? And if they really do, who in the hell goes to see it? WHAT IS THE SOUND OF ONE HAND CLAPPING? I have questions, God!

Do you like TV? We do. And we especially like it on Sunday nights, when the whole world watches with us. So we’re gonna try a little experiement here. Every Monday — until or unless we know you hate it — we’re gonna do a quick round-up of what we caught the night before, and [...]

Let us take this moment to also wish our student readers good luck on school as it reconvenes over the next few weeks.
Previously: The Way We Live Now: South Philly Couple Wants $400-A-Week BiLingual Super-Intelligent Ombuds-slave With No Self-Esteem Whatsoever And A Fantastic Immune System

It was awesome.

Philebs,
First time long time here. Just about every picture covering the wildfires in the Los Angeles area is an AP photo. I took this one from the roof of my apartment with my cell phone. Feel free to use it like you own it. If you look closely you can see [...]

As you may already know, DJ AM — born in Philly as Adam Goldstein — was found dead in his apartment in Manhattan on Friday. AM existed within an enclave of celebrity and DJ cultures that was known, and often derided, for being vapid and banal; but his story was neither. His Wikipedia entry reads [...]

FRIDAY:
>>> Oh gosh, look at this forecast. And look at that calendar. Nothing doing. This is going to be a fantastic weekend to… sleep. But if you must rage against the dying of the light, there definitely is some stuff to do, at least. Go check in with dance troupe Club Lyfestyle at PIFAS, where [...]

RECOMMENDED: If the events of the last few weeks have taught us anything, it’s that sports fans are capable of taking no small amount of abuse and, in fact, they seem to thrive on it: In Philly at least, the more indefensible the player’s actions, the more fuel there is to go on the never-ending [...]

>>> Workplace morale is down. [PBJ]
>>> When New Yorkers visit Philly, they think it’s exotic and crazy. [NYT]
>>> Philly has already embraced Michael Vick like he’s just a kid that blew up a frog one time or something. [USAToday]

The broken door stood open, revealing the horrifying interior of the house: bags of rotting garbage piled 4 feet high, rats and mice and feral cats everywhere, flies swarming around piles of human feces.

And yes, people were living in there, too. But that’s not the half of John Davidson’s tale of neighborly woe in this [...]

We’re gonna be taking it easy next week, but don’t freak out: Each day, we’ll be dishing out various Fall Previews. And then drinking in the afternoon. Without you. In the sunshine. Laughing at you. And avoiding the Labor Day Week news cycle. Trust us, it’s a good thing.

Says Michael McGettigan of Trophy Bikes: “We were angling for the sun-block sponsorship–but our dreams were dashed; the ride reportedly starts at dusk.” That’s cool. There’s gotta be a leather sanitizer out there that’d be a willing sponsor.
Previously: Philadelphia’s Summertime Love Affair With Bikes, Everything Conceivably Bike-Related: Part 47
Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone [...]

Okay, look alive, because this is a little confusing: In the beginning Foxwoods was to be built down on Delaware Avenue in South Philly. But then nobody — from pols to neighbors — liked that. So sometime last year, Foxwoods began planning to build in Chinatown — specifically, in the old Strawbridge & Clothier building [...]

So, someone took footage of the SEPTA R5 route and synched it up, Wizard Of Oz-style, with Pink Floyd’s “Atom Heart Mother.” It is in three parts and it is pure genius. It starts at Overbrook Station and ends AT THE HEART OF THE SUN. After the jump, parts II and III.

We’ve been wanting to do our take on a record fair forever, so it’s with much stoke that we ask you to put aside the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 26 for The First-Ever Philebrity Record Fair! There’s going to be refreshments and entertainment as well (more info on this soon), but in the meantime, if [...]