With news breaking that Sugarhouse, after literally years of protest, class warfare and God only knows what kind of backroom dealing, is slated to break ground on October 8th, here comes the part where it all starts to get ugly. Really ugly. This morning, a dozen protestors were arrested after blocking the gates at the [...]

There is a powerful life lesson somewhere in this video. Perhaps several of them.

How very Leo Buscaglia. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

John Keats (1795-1821), autograph letter signed to Fanny Brawne, Kentish Town, 5 July 1820 From the Rosenbach Museum & Library: “A hand-written letter by poet John Keats to his beloved, Fanny Brawne. The letter is part of the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s collection and can be seen on the museum’s popular Love Letters Hands-On Tours [...]

Earlier this morning, the brass at both the Kimmel Center and University of the Arts announced a join partnership that will see Broad Street’s Merriam Theater — a property belonging to UArts — now booked and managed by the Kimmel Center home office. The five-year-deal was hatched with the intent being, so far as we [...]

Behold, Autumn’s bounty! More –including hi-res, printable poster-size versions of Joe’s work — at his blog. Previously: From The Desk Of Joe Boruchow: OxyPercoXanodin From The Desk Of Joe Boruchow: Lesson #1 In Becoming A Fine Artist. From The Desk Of Joe Boruchow: City Inlet From The Desk Of Joe Boruchow: Be Kind, Lest We [...]

>>> Alec Ounsworth, the once and possibly future frontman for that Clap Your Hands Say Yeah band, debuts his new band, Flashy Python (stream the album here) at Johnny Brenda’s. Who’s in the live configuration of the Python? We’re hearing it’s almost entirely members of the late, lamented Teeth. And opening up for Flashy Python [...]

Hi Britty, I saw Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccione (pictured), judging the first-ever Gayborhood Games on Saturday night. I was competing in the stand-up comedy category, for the chance to be the funniest person in a six-block radius. For all the effort and Philadelphia soul I put into my performance, Christopher Ciccione gave me the finger [...]

After 57 years perched on Spring Garden Street, James Colosimo should have a lot to be proud of. His store, Colosimo’s Gun Store, has weathered lots of ups and downs on the street over the years (actually, mostly downs), and when he closes the store’s doors for the last time ever on Wednesday, it won’t [...]

The ‘hood today has been besieged by Verizon trucks, laying line for the company’s forthcoming Fios service (a story we’ve been covering for a while now). The Fios story isn’t big news so much because it’s a new Verizon product as it is because of the fact that Fios will represent the first real challenge [...]

Anybody got any intel on whether this is real or just a mockup? The track, by the way, is “Freeway,” which we’ve discussed before. UPDATE: The KV Management Team has sorted this out for us: “The Toyota ad that you posted is a rough director’s cut of an ad that got accidentally posted to YouTube [...]

Yes, we are still boycotting the Inky and Philly.com — though not the Daily News, because that would be like kicking your dog — but we just wanted to remind you, in a general metaphorical and cultural way, just exactly why all that is. This video sums it all up perfectly. In related news (and [...]

You probably know Cisco Adler from things you’d rather not admit doing: Watching his short-lived VH-1 Celebreality show The Rock Life — think The Hills but with more dudesmell — or from his circus-freak-like elongated ballsack, which itself has become something of an Internet meme. Anyway, he was at P.Y.T. in the Piazza @ Schmidt’s [...]

· Hey, remember a few weeks back when it rained for like two whole years straight through? We all went batty. In years to come, though, the Philadelphia Water Department will take all of that crazy rain via “green capture,” thereby taking stormwater and running it off to a variety of end purposes (like green [...]

Princess the Camel of the Popcorn Park Zoo in Forked River, NJ has been making football predictions for the past four years with a surprising amount of accuracy. This season, much to the dismay and desperation of sports gamblers, she will not be predicting any games for the Eagles. She is officially protesting Michael Vick. [...]

If you’re a Philadelphian who hasn’t been driven to distraction by one city department or another — be it L&I, the Streets Department, or really, just take your pick — you just haven’t been living here long enough. And while we sympathize with the plight of Vamsidhar “Victor” R. Vurimindi — who, as best we [...]

There once was a cat in the city from a part of the town that is shitty He got wrapped up in tape by no simple mistake so the spca named him sticky Answer: APPARENTLY YES! Here’s the bad news: If found guilty, the perp only faces 90 days in jail and a $750 fine. [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Some days, we think that there should be some kind of international decree whereupon the nations of the free world decide that, for one half of each decade, the production of dance music should be left exclusively to the French. Which sounds weird, but whatever. The French have this Pilooski cat, for instance, [...]

RECOMMENDED: Sure, Jane Campion‘s Bright Star is slow and dreamy, but then again, so is Romantic Poetry of the 1800s. So granted, this languid costume drama — and here’s predicting that the costumes here will garner an Oscar nom for all of their handmade period-strangeness — is either your thing or it isn’t. But even [...]

Dear Friends, Real Summer is gone. And two weeks ago, we had False Autumn. And now we are back in that familiar place: Unreal Summer, also known as “The Lingering.” But let us not go gently into any weird season, fake or real, and please make Philebrity Happy Hour @ Octo this Friday from 6-8PM [...]