If you’ve stopped by Olde City art collective/local clothing boutique/alcohol producer Art In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction lately, you may have seen the new exhibit in the back gallery space. Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: Photographs and Objects from Factories Here and Gone provides a throught-provoking look at Philadelphia’s history as a manufacturing capital. Through a [...]

Which, we suppose, is a hell of a lot better than having these jagoffs show up at your wedding.

You kind of have to love (and by “love” we mean “usually not take seriously at all”) the content-Ponzi scheme that is those Examiner.com sites where anyone, anyone at all, can become “Philadelphia Atheism Examiner” or “Philadelphia Online Relationships Examiner” or “Philadelphia Otherwise Unpublishable But For A Chain Website Examiner.” But today comes an idea [...]

We were a little skeptical about the reasons behind the recent cabbie strike, because, seriously, is it that hard to accept credit cards and not be a dick about it? After reading the Metro‘s recent expose on cab driver’s average earnings, however, we are starting to change our tune. Someone over there figured, hey, if the [...]

Remember when we told you that if the State of PA did not sign its budget by August 15, then you’d have to worry about Mayor Michael Nutter making scary, wide-reaching cuts across a host of city services, from libraries and rec centers on down to trash collection? Well, surprise, it’s August 17! And here’s [...]

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 [...]

If someone has a business card or booking contact for this entertainer, we request that you please pass it along. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

FRIDAY: >>> Kick it all off at Philebrity Happy Hour At Octo, this and every Friday, from 6-8PM. >>> Meanwhile, as we mentioned the other day, your vibe sherpa awaits you at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Don’t make him wait. He’s already been waiting too long. Get in the car. Grab some energy bars. Don’t [...]

Stereogum just premiered the debut video from Philly band Free Energy. We heart this band so much. See if you can spot people and places you know. Big things for this Free Energy, big things…

RECOMMENDED: It’s been a long time since a movie has made me want to kill all humans as much as District 9 does. Finally, a mockumentary about alienation featuring marginalized aliens in which we human beings are such an awful species, total annihilation would have made for a happy ending. I’ve been waiting so long [...]

DR. SEAN WARD, CARPENTER AND FATHER, REPORTING: So, last night’s first preseason game against the Patriots was what you might have expected: Some sloppy football from both teams’ starters, and a whole lotta rookies beating each other up while trying to compete for a spot on the roster. In the midst of these typical preseason [...]

The City of Philadelphia has just annouced the launch of a new website developed with the US Forest Service, Erase Your Trace, that allows households and businesses to calculate what levels of carbon emissions they’re sending out into the environment. By inputting information such as the number of people in your household, the amounts of [...]

Took this while driving on West River Dr. today. I can picture a conversation going something like this. Me: Nice license plate. Philly Girl: Yea I used to live in Germantown but now I live in Camden just had to let people know where my roots is. Me: That’s cool Philly Girl: What chas wants [...]

Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor of modern music as we know it, has passed away. He is survived by everyone in the world who records on more than one track. The people of planet Earth cannot thank him enough.

And you all acted like we were so crazy for even suggesting it. Now, lo and behold. Newsflash: Football is fucking moronic and base. Sorry. Can we all start getting psyched for the Philadelphia Union already? Really, it’s the world’s sport. Let’s be a part of the world.

Now is the time of the week when we remind you that Philebrity Happy Hour @ OCTO is just 24 hours away! (That would be every Friday from 6-8PM at Octo Waterfront Grille.) Last week was the first installment, and it couldn’t have been a sweeter time. We thought we’d show you a bunch of [...]

We recently asked ourselves why Philadelphians seem so loyal to Ed Rendell when the rest of the state was shitting all over him re: budget issues, etc. Then, we saw this video today and we remembered why. To be perfectly honest, we’re feeling torn about the whole Birther thing because, on the one hand, it [...]

· Object of Our Undying Affection: The Tomato · Brain Trust: Explain To Us How All Of These Menus We Keep Getting Are Legal · Breathe Easy, Fishtown, You May Finally Get A Decent Cup Of Coffee · Meritage Remodeled, Reopening Tonight All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar [...]

Congrats, quasi-local quasi-celebrities Hank and Kendra Baskett! You’re having a baby boy! While you make the necessary preparations to welcome your little one into the world, we’ll devote some attention to the bigger picture: What sorts of crazy adventures will life hold for this youngster given the most promising of starts? We were planning to [...]

Congratulations, Southpaws! Today is your day, given to you by the righties of the world, the one day when you can feel like you, too, belong! According to the Wikipedia on Left-Handedness, it has been associated with being clumsy, awkward, and generally evil since, um, forever! But just think – since 1976, August 13th has [...]