>>> As mentioned earlier, The War On Drugs and Hunter Gatherer do Waterfront Wednesdays, weather permitting. And it looks like it might permit! Update: WW folks say it’s ON. >>> When’s the last time you saw Reservoir Dogs? We caught it on cable a few weeks ago, and it cannot be stated strongly enough how [...]

Because having lived and worked in Fishtown and Northern Liberties — the dark vortex of where mail goes to evaporate — over the last few years, we’ve been totally over the USPS for a while now. For years already, we’ve been asking clients and publicists to use anything BUT the U.S. mail when sending us [...]

I just totally subconsciously drew a giant pair of balls right next to Eddie’s head. God this week has been so weird. [via KYW]

KYW just broke the news that ALL of the Philadelphia City Council Members are opting to return the money from the cost of living pay raises from last month except for one guy … that one guy being City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. To which we say – really dude!? Really??!!?? After everything that [...]

· Lightning Round: Win A Picnic Basket For TONIGHT At Waterfront Wednesdays · Constructing Paula Deen’s Ultimate Meal · Rita’s Swedish Fish Is The Ish · Juliamania! All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

The War On Drugs play Waterfront Wednesdays at Penn Treaty Park tonight, with fellow locals Hunter Gatherer.

Hickey goes to pay his dowry to the Philadelphia Parking Authority, and finds a sterling example of PPA rage and entitlement and general batshit-ness. Off-white rugs were stained fruit-punch red, the temperature-controlled passenger seat bore six slices, the dashboard and console wore 12 Philips-head punctures, the middle-backseat headrest was gone and the grill sported kick [...]

Says our reader: “It’s a crappy cell phone photo, but i thought you might be interested in the 16 hard hats not working and standing around a large hole at 23rd and Passyunk.” Fear not, dear reader: For this is the 23rd & Passyunk way. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Perhaps the only thing your friends in New York have been able to legitimately rub in your face over the last 12 months is the opening of The High Line, a stretch of what used to be an old elevated railway line that has since been turned into an innovative and gorgeous urban park. But [...]

Who could have known a few months back, when we lamented the loss of Old, Weird Philadelphia, that our friends in Harrisburg would be helping us get back there quicker than we ever imagined? You might not have batted an eye when it became apparent that City would have no money to pay outside vendors [...]

THE GANG FROM ‘IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA’ TAKETH TO THE ROAD WITH A LIVE ROCK OPERA “THE NIGHTMAN COMETH” TO FEATURE ‘SUNNY’ CAST MEMBERS ROB MCELHENNEY, GLENN HOWERTON, CHARLIE DAY, KAITLIN OLSON AND DANNY DEVITO Tower Theater September 17th, 2009 Tickets for “The Nightman Cometh” show at Philadelphia’s Tower Theater go on sale this [...]

Remember how hard it rained on Sunday morning, with all the lightning and thunder and whatnot? Well, besides shutting down the Schuylkill Expressway and making everyone super-road-rage-y, the Garrett-Dunn House in West Mount Airy suffered a major lightning strike during the storm, causing it to catch fire and “rain debris” on the surrounding neighborhood which [...]

If you’ve ever wanted to peer deep into the hive mind of Philly.com to see how webspeak of the moment coupled with genuinely bad ideas conspire together in the city’s most shit-tastically awful online news resource, just follow Chris Krewson on Twitter. Krewson is the Inquirer‘s executive editor of online news and he tweets, tweets, [...]

A couple of weeks ago, in a (completely futile) effort to close the book definitively on Arthur Kade, we considered Richie Rosati (pictured), as something of “The Arthur Kade Of The 1990s” (which still didn’t quite fit as Richie actually did things and did not, as Kade does, exist solely in a blogging vacuum to [...]

Is there a new underground arts scene beginning to flourish in Bucks County? All signs point to ‘yes’: The area’s low cost of living and quaint sprawl are attracting increasing numbers of artists, many of whom happen to be black bears. Just today, a black bear (who presumably belongs to the postmodern school of artist) [...]

So, we just gave away a bunch of passes to see an advance screening of Paper Heart tonight at 7:30PM, only to find that… holy hell, we have a ton left over! So let’s do this: First 30 peeps to email us RIGHT NOW get ‘em. To enter to win, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “ALL YI [...]

Via Funny Or Die, Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins show you how the pros do it.

Just as we feared months ago, Philly finally seems to be getting our own version of the Real Housewives… sort of. The catch? Like the Chinatown-sourced handbags purchased by Real Housewives fans seeking to emulate their idolmoms, Philly’s Housewives show is going to be a knockoff. Philadelphia Weekly’s Style Blog reports that the not-Google-search-result-friendly Oceanfront [...]

The National Constitution Center just told the world that none other than director Steven Spielberg (pictured) will be given this year’s Liberty Medal — but President Bill Clinton, no less — on October 8th, thereby sending Gross/Klein into seizures that will require wooden spoons, epi-pens and no small amount of wetnaps. Spielberg, whom you may [...]