“I’m Peggy Olson and I did not smoke marijuana last night, although I did sleep with a community college senior WHO LOOKED JUST LIKE PETE CAMPBELL and in all likelihood WILL smoke marijuana next week.” Do you like TV? We do. And we especially like it on Sunday nights, when the whole world watches with [...]

From: REDACTED Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:13:59 -0400 To: Subject: [theatrealliance] can you use a real gun legally for a show? hi- a friend has offered his own gun for me to use in my show…is that ok for me to legally? obviously i will be using it empty. anyone know about this? thanks! [...]

You may have been wondering, lo these many years, where all of you wondrous hammertimes of yore have gone. We’re pleased to tell you that they’re at Street Rd. & Huntingdon Pike, and they are exactly as you remember them. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

FRIDAY: >>> Will Philebrity Happy Hour at Octo get rained out? Well, Dude, we just don’t know. We’re keeping our eyes peeled. UPDATE: Crooked rain, crooked rain. Sigh. Next week. >>> I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that And The Money Notes (pictured) at the M Room might be the most unfairly-slept [...]

RECOMMENDED: If you see one Holocaust Revenge Fantasy movie this summer, for the love of all that is right and unholy, make it Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino‘s 155-minute-long, blood-filled romp through Nazi-occupied France. And if it takes convincing someone who still cares about Brad Pitt to go with you, so be it: Pitt acquits himself [...]

You know, when all of this Great Depression 2.0 stuff shakes out, and we’ve all figured out how to get what we need to get by and be happy with it, we’re gonna take The Recession out for a beer and thank him for all the good stuff he’s done, whether he meant to or [...]

Hey Philebrity- Thought you might be interested in this screengrab. The god-awful new NBC 10 website randomly generates (at least I hope they’re randomly generated) these cutesy mastheads based on how readers have rated certain stories (not rated based on content or quality, but by your “reaction” to the story). Which could kinda work on [...]

Like many of you, we were absolutely shocked yesterday when Mayor Michael Nutter revealed the City’s “Plan C”/Doomsday Budget scheduled to go into effect in mid-September should the State of PA continue its inaction with regard to the city budget crisis. And while the plan is being widely characterized as a political gambit to light [...]

Ramon Martinez, host of Y-ROCK Internacional, wrote to us yesterday, detailing a story we all know all too well: Struggling indie band rolls into Philly, plays their gig, finds a place to stay, then wakes up to find… All of their gear has been stolen. In this case, the band was Satellite District, and their [...]

Thursday, August 20, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAYOR NUTTER DETAILS NECESSARY STEPS TO IMPLEMENT PLAN C BUDGET CUTS, TRANSMITS REVISED BUDGET TO CITY COUNCIL Philadelphia, August 20, 2009 – Today Mayor Michael A. Nutter Today transmitted to the Philadelphia City Council a revised Five Year Plan that, if implemented, will result in the largest lay [...]

Someone please tell me they’re coming out with a Parappa The Rapper: Michael Vick Edition for the Wii.

Remember the time before the world completely went to shit and somehow, someone came up with $68M to keep Thomas Eakins‘ The Gross Clinic here in Philly? First World Problems old-style, hoss! But we’re glad it happened when it did: Can you imagine what a movement to raise $68M to keep a single painting in [...]

HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request In related news, it’s the dead of August and nothing matters anyway. UPDATE: Twitter is back. The news cycle, however, does not seem to be responding to any forms of resuscitation.

God, remember Alycia Lane, the saucy newsanchor who single-handedly brought down Larry Mente, Dan Gross and gave ol’ DMac a John Hinckley-esque patina from which he never recovered? That was… something. Like you always knew she would, Lane has moved to Los Angeles — where the news is even more fake! — where she is [...]

There’s a whole bunch of wrong happening in this piece Philly advertising scion Marc Brownstein wrote for Ad Age about how Michael Vick may or may not be just the thing for an advertiser looking to align their brand with that of the new Eagle/Most Insincere Human Being Alive. For one, Brownstein’s pic is apparently [...]

So, our buddy Brian Hickey went ahead and showed up to document the fine specimens of humanity attending Vince Fumo‘s going-away party in South Philly last night. He shot a bunch of video — above is Joey Vento, making the skin crawl like it’s made of worms — and whilst watching them, we had an [...]

>>> The Espers (pictured) play their home turf at the next-to-last Waterfront Wednesdays at Penn Treaty Park. TOTAL VIBE HANG, people. >>> Getting stoked for the opening of Inglourious Basterds this Friday? Prep thyself with a re-screen of Pulp Fiction at Ritz East. >>> Meanwhile, there’s a great Philly indie hip-hop bill at Silk City [...]

Philly rapper Beanie Sigel simply cannot catch a break these days: Over the last few years, dude has been shot, in and out of court, possibly maybe dropped from his label, and on top of it all, earlier this year, he somehow even wound up rapping on that dumb choad Asher Roth‘s album. Add to [...]

And lo, it was good. As you know, though, the rats totally won this one. [Hat tip: Topless Robot's "The 20 Best Public Service Announcements of the Last 30 Years"]

With layoffs even hitting the once-bulletproof IT field these days, one of the best industries for developers with lots of time and little start-up cash to start a business is in the iPhone application field. Last year, sales of apps in the first month of the iPhone App Store’s inception exceeded $30 million, and Steve [...]