FRIDAY: >>> Start it off right, wouldja? Philebrity Happy Hour @ Octo, from 6-8PM, this and every Friday. It’s the last time we’re going to tell you (this week). But while you are down by the river, you may smell something mellow and illegal on the wind: Snoop Dogg is at Festival Pier. Between that [...]

RECOMMENDED: Oh, look, there’s two movies out this week about people with Asperger’s! I know, I know. Not nice. Sensitivity training. Yes, of course. We talked about Charlene Yi‘s Paper Heart (trailer at right) earlier in the week; it’s a mockumentary about love and falling in love with Michael Cera, which we bet is probably [...]

Lovely weather we’re having, no? That’s only part of the reason we’re stoked for today’s Philebrity Happy Hour @ Octo. The other parts are, in no particular order: DJ Kyle Miller, beer and drinky-drink specials, and getting one of you $50 drunk. We’re gonna pick a winner at 1PM on the nose today, so if [...]

Found on a faceless 7″ record — no sleeve, scant information — in a record shop in Bristol, the Sky Brady Band‘s 1990 single, “Philly Girls,” kinda gets us where we live. And you too, since Brady and his backup singers name pretty much every neighborhood and nook and cranny in the city throughout the [...]

Listen to Eddie. He really does know people. EPIC GOON.

Hopefully, they’ve got a cot in the back for Owen Wilson, who was spotted last night again at Parc with manfriend Paul Rudd. Ol’ Eli Cash must really like the baguettes. Meanwhile, says our tipster — we swear these have all come from different people, it’s bizarre — “Arthur Kade was in the bathroom primping, [...]

Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, but we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us… In the simplest terms [...]

It’s nice to know there’s a little goddamned justice in this world, folks. We just talked to our new favorite person in the world, and guess what? She didn’t get fired. Above, Ol’ Paul plays the best song about waitresses ever written. To our friends in the service community (and to our friends in community [...]

If you’ve been paying attention to Old Media Vs. New Media wars over the last few years, you’ll know that Associated Press has been getting hot under the collar for a while over the matter of bloggers — not to mention Google — reposting their content. In the journo racket, AP is basically as close [...]

Cold Cave: Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press) Over the last year, Cold Cave — led by Philly-based poet Wesley Eisold — have been quietly releasing 7″ and 12″ singles that take early goth aethetics, New Order and the Jesus & Mary Chain and throw them into a dirty synth pop blender. These have been weird, [...]

This here is a likeness of the Sweet Mudder O’Gawd, the Virgin Mary herself, holding a heart and keeping vigilant watch over the entrance to the Old City media outift that employs me. If you help me lure tourists to this holy miracle, I’ll be happy to split the donations with you 80/20, and the [...]

How, you ask? Well, as you may remember, Arena Football shat the bed back in January, Great Depression 2.0-style. (Who would have ever thought Arena Football’s fortunes would be tied up in bubble economics and that, without a bubble, it might cease to exist at all?) Today comes the word that the AFL is on [...]

Remember that “Bonsai Kitten” meme from earlier in the decade? The hoaxy website that provided detailed instructions on how to “grow” a cat inside a container, much like the ancient Japanese art of growing tiny, strangely-shaped trees? Unfortunately, an elderly Germantown woman appears to have remembered the website but wasn’t in on the joke; she [...]

From Wikipedia: Nobles grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and began singing in high school as a member of a local group, The Delroys. He moved to Philadelphia and recorded three singles for Atlantic Records, none of which charted. While living in a commune in Norristown, Pennsylvania, he formed a group, Cliff Nobles & Co., with [...]

Attn. PECO: Please book an Obscured By Clouds-era Pink Floyd cover band to play up here. Thank you. PECO has been going all out in its latest green initiative: First, it replaced the incandescent bulbs with LEDs atop its offices last month to much fanfare. That signage is nice to look at, but its measurable [...]

According to our tipster — note: it’s not the Arthur Kade Dirty Glass Girl, though we really do need to check in with her to see how things worked out — Owen Wilson and Wayne Rogers both dined at Parc on Rittenhouse Square last night, though not together. That is all. But as we started [...]

East Fallowfield! Glenolden! Hatfield! Malvern! Norristown! Paoli! Royersford! Valley Forge! Wayne! You’re all in there, supposedly. The rest is New Zealand. [Source: IMDB] More teasing of Peter Jackson‘s newest here. Opens December 2009.

By rights, we should — and we’d like to be — heaping the love on Joe Queenan. He grew up in East Falls, graduated from St. Joe’s, and tries to shoot props back to Philly whenever he can, even if he is sometimes woefully off the mark. But if those were the only kinds of [...]

For today, we are all that guy.

Like we were saying last week, this new Philebrity Happy Hour @ OCTO on the waterfront is pretty much gonna be sweetest hang of ever. There’ll be sun, sky, water, DJ Kyle Miller playing soul and reggae, drink and appetizer specials from the Octo kitchen and… friends. Hanging out. Doing their thing. Every Friday from [...]