As part of the Philebrity Lifestyle Brand (PLB), participation in certain activities results in more cultural capital (and less eye rolling) ‘round these parts than others. For example, watching a Grey’s Anatomy marathon will score you far fewer points than spending hours crafting a charming Grey’s Anatomy-themed Crustacean Wonderland that adroitly subverts the hegemonic messages [...]

Just this morning, we were half-lamenting the disappearance of Domelights, the single worst publicist the Philadelphia Police Department ever had. As you probably know, the messageboard — a frequent steam vent where cops would deliver the Robert DeNiro speech from Taxi Driver over and over again, in dulcet tones, until everyone fell in love/asleep — [...]

We have been closely following the progress of the Save The SS United States Campaign, funded in part by Local Awesome Philanthropists The Lenfest Foundation.  Now, from the other side of the Delaware River, more old ships are making headlines!  This time it’s the Battleship New Jersey, a highly decorated battleship that was in WWII, the Korean War [...]

Seriously: What is wrong with us that we’ve never walked through Isaiah Zagar’s Magic Garden and we had to watch it on Vimeo to realize just how stunning and insane it is? Tsk.

Did you hear? Unemployment’s down-yet-still-far-from-great, but productivity’s way up! That’s good news, right? Let’s break it down: Productivity refers to how much output each worker produces hourly. Could it be that people are busy being so productive because they’re afraid of, ya know, losing their jobs? Psssh, it’s probably just that these days, everyone’s all [...]

While we are still mystified at how what we considered to be a pretty uncontroversial (and even good) thing — new bike lanes to be installed on Spruce and Pine Streets, and in point of fact, bike lanes altogether — became fodder for all-out war in the comments, one thing is clear: The bike lanes [...]

Did Mayor Nutter’s chain email blitz warm the heart of his longtime foil in budget battles, State Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-Chester County)? Perhaps. While Pileggi had previously announced that he would not introduce Nutter’s House Bill 1828 to the PA Senate until the state budget issue is settled, he has now dangled a [...]

>>> I know, you’re shocked, right? An all-Eagles rumblings? So are we. But there is news. With the news of QB Kevin Kolb getting hurt breaking yesterday, no less than two Bleacher Report columnists are strongly suggesting that the Eagles look into… Michael Vick! Their reasoning: Philadelphia fans are basically animals who deserve to die [...]

At the risk of repeating ourselves: What’s it gonna take to have the Goon Squad mentality rampant in the Philly Police Department examined in any meaningful way? And at what point does the disconnect between Philly cops who have brains and Philly cops who have none get addressed and the quality of discourse over policing [...]

>>> In case you missed our post last week on late summer/early fall local releases that we’re digging, know this: There’s plenty more where that came from. Take, for instance, The Sky Drops, a ridiculously slept-on shoegaze band hailing from the great state of Delaware. Though they’ve been around for a few years (Skydrop Rob [...]

In some kind of ribald old-man-in-a-bar joke come to life, three guys who’ve been running around robbing “massage parlors” (was there ever a time in history when a massage parlor was simply just that?) got caught trying to do a job on a Chinatown rub-n-tug, when someone inside managed to call 911. A SWAT team [...]

Philebrity has learned that longtime Philadelphia Weekly columnist and editor Liz Spikol (pictured) has just left the paper, after God only knows how many years. We’re still waiting on a call back from the lovely lady, who will inevitably tell us what we already know: Nothing gold can stay. Spikol’s departure comes on the heels [...]

Which will most likely teach us a valuable lesson of the Web: At this point, the only people who are bigger douchebags than Kade are those that seek to piggyback off of him and launch webjunk that adds literally nothing to what once was a kind of funny and interesting discussion.

· Drink once every time the news reminds old people not to kill themselves by leaving all of their windows closed with no AC. · Drink twice every time this happens anyway, for truly, they were The Greatest Generation. · Pound a lite beer every time someone jumps in front of the El. (Note: This just [...]

Oh, Teddy. It’s hot enough already today even without your G.I. Joe haircut. From Soul Train, circa 1972.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Andrew McNitt of Penn State’s Center for Sports Surface Research. has come up with this LED tarp thing to put over the grass at Lincoln Financial Field to keep it from dying. If only such a tarp could be made for the hopes and dreams of Eagles fans.

They’re part of a nationwide campaign paid for by an anonymous donor, and you can see them all (thus far) at Recession101.org. (There’s also a Recession 101 Twitter account.) Created by Charlie Robb of Charchin Creative (same guy who did the God Speaks campaign, which we find a little scary), the billboards are… kind of [...]

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 [...]

That’s right, a cabbie picked me up on Saturday night to take me on a hot date. Little did I know I’d get the chance to watch Armageddon with him while driving on 95 and 676. That’s Vehicular Armageddon if you ask me. Lucky thing is that Bruce Willis always makes me feel cozy and [...]

Here is the thing about The Death Of Print: It really does make for great newspaper stories. And so long as its co-dependent companion, The Death Of Print Media Cycle, continues to eat and then reproduce itself like some kind of mutant fish the Internet makes ever-more-dangerous sushi rolls out of, Brian Tierney will re-appear [...]