· The Music Fountain: Pretty Much The Cutest Thing Ever
· Coming Soon: More Food — Our October Openings Roundup
· Do You Koozeedoo? If This Menu Is Anything To Go By, We Koozeedoo, Too
· Fair Food Farmstand Celebrates Grand Opening On Friday
All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, [...]

>>> Straight up: We fucking love the French. We love them more than you, we love them more than puppies, and we’re sick of acting like this is some kind of secret shame. So come on down, La Cinematheque: New French Films from the Philadelphia Cinema Alliance, you’ve got our number. Tonight begins the PCA’s [...]

Yes: Philadelphia Fashion Week — which begins on October 8th — does indeed seem like a contradiction in terms, but we’ll overlook that for the moment. Here’s the fun part: Kelly White – yes, that Kelly White — is RETURNING TO PHILEBRITY just for the occasion! And my God, we are stoked. Philly Fashion Week [...]

>>> Those wondering where in the hell ex-Hail Social frontman Dayve Hawk has been were probably as surprised as we were to see this morning that not only does Hawk have a new project — Memory Tapes — but that said project outta nowhere scored a “Best New Music” on the ‘Fork. Kudos, brother: We [...]

Following last year’s very public split between TLA Video and the Philadelphia Film Society, you’d be forgiven, perhaps, if you expected the Philadelphia Film Festival to shrivel or be something less than it once was. But kudos to the Film Society — in just a manner of months, they’ve rebooted the PFF (TLA’s Cinefest will [...]

Somewhere, Bikini Kill is weeping; or maybe not. Because who could have ever predicted that the Riot Grrl movement’s opening cry for “GIRL POWER” in the early 1990s would result in, among other things, a national roller derby scene and, mon dieu, the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore? In any case, I think we could [...]

As you may have read here earlier, at the last minute, the State of Pennsylvania has snuck a performing arts and museum tax that would add 8% for tickets purchased in the city and 6% for those purchased outside into House Bill 1828. And for about a week and a half now, arts organizations have [...]

Frankly, this might be the best video by a local band we’ve seen in a long time. And it’s definitely the best Swimmers video… since the last one. The Swimmers, as it happens, have a new album out called People Are Soft, and they’ll be playing tunes from it this Friday evening at The Marvelous [...]

We know, we know: We’ve been totally lax lately in writing those Monday Morning Sunday Night TV Roundup posts. They’ll be back soon, we promise. But in the meantime, Peggy Olson, even though your struggle is our struggle, on Sunday night, you totally grossed us out. I mean, like, swallowing-puke-lumps grossout. We don’t even know [...]

On Sunday afternoon, in front of the James A. Farley Post Office at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street in midtown Manhattan, 20-year-old Christopher Gutierrez was stabbed to death in broad daylight, following an altercation wherein Gutierrez and another passerby bumped into one another and argued. The next day, the NYPD released the photo above, taken [...]

It’s been a coupla weeks since we last checked in with outsider artist/gender agitator Darren Finizio, who, for us, at least, represents so much of what is weird and wonderful about the City of Philadelphia. First up, a reader forwarded us the separated-at-birth mockup you see above, which makes a good case that perhaps, possibly, [...]

KYW1060 has a little piece about the first event ever held at the Spectrum, the 2nd Annual Quaker City Jazz Festival in 1967. As you no doubt know by now, the Spectrum is slated for demolition at the end of this year, and as such, a double wave of nostalgia and last-ever-performances have been booked. [...]

On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Jethro Heiko wrote:
Joey,
Normally I think your posts are great. But how about asking me/us before regurgitating false claims about who we employ. Did Dan Fee crawl up your ass lately? Right now we employ one organizer, Lily Cavanagh. We have always been a city-wide group and our goal [...]

>>> Plus, there’s a trifecta of good R5 shows happening tonight: The aforementioned Krautrock legends Faust, at International House; Wavves and Ganglians at First Unitarian Church; and Great Lake Swimmers at Johnny Brenda’s.
>>> And that ain’t all! Dancers, dance on at 2099, a party at the Barbary built around older dance music that still sounds [...]

So now is the time on Sprockets when we dance. To enter to win, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “WE ARE GOING TO PLAY YOU SOME KRAUTROCK NOW” in the subject header. You’ll automatically be subscribed to the forthcoming new Philebrity Reader weekly newsletter and win chances for other exclusive free stuff. First two emails get ‘em. [...]

And for the love of God, if so, WHO GETS DIBS ON THE SIGN???
[Photo credit: Flickr user Amber Dorko Stopper]

Friends: Over the weekend, Philebrity — raggedy-ass ol’ dirty Philebrity.com — will turn five. I know. Insane. To say we never thought we’d make it this far is both a grand understatement and cursed, unfulfilled wish. And this much we know: This is an anniversary the requires celebration. And we’d like you to help. As [...]

So, Jon Gosselin finally got his wishes: To never have to look that curious mane in the eye in the boudoir ever again, to never have to be on camera with his kids again, and to live the life of an Ed Hardy-clad douche somewhere other than the town he went to high school in. [...]

Like we were telling you a few weeks ago, the 215 Festival, Philly’s annual literary festival, is back — this weekend, in fact — and no lie, it’s one of our favorite fall things to do. This year is something of a rebuilding year for the Festival, as there’s a new board in place (populated [...]