The horrible truth: Old old media kicks the living shit out of new media. The problem is, present-day old media still thinks it has a lot in common with old old media (newsflash: it doesn’t), and therefore thinks it still deserves things like a union pension, excellent access and a feather-on-de-ballz even though most present-day [...]

· Oktoberfest Roundup · Adam Richman vs. Tony Luke’s 5lb. Cheesesteak · R.I.P. Blue In Green, Hello Philly Cupcake All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Sonny Rollins has been playing jazz in front of audiences since 1941, when he was 11, and “Saxophone Colossus,” his nom du jazz, is well earned to say the least. At 79, when many of the players he came up with are either dead or dying, Rollins, not unlike Bob Dylan, remains a true road [...]

Think Fast! was a game show originally taped at WHYY studios in the late 1980s that aired on Nickelodeon. It featured children opening lockers that hid punk rockers and chickens playing saxaphones and to this day, it remains one of the finest broadcasts to ever burst forth from this great city.

And while addressing the U.N. Assembly this morning, Negro-dhafi-amus was heard to say, “White people love Wayne Brady because he makes Bryant Gumble look like Malcolm X.”

Hooray! The Dude opened up those much-debated bike lanes on Pine and Spruce Sts. early this morning, using the Pine Street lane to ride his own self back to work at City Hall. (We like that it takes like zero effort to get Mike on a bike. Classy move, Dude.) Anyway, now that we are [...]

Do you guys watch this show called Flipping Out on Bravo? It’s all about this sociopathic realtor named Jeff Lewis (think Dexter but a little more femme), who gives funny names to every house he works on, constantly eats junk food yet is somehow totally buff, and is basically the gayest Patrick Bateman type we [...]

Hey, let me ask you something: Remember the Revolutionary War? Well… we won that, right? We only ask because — and I know that we’ve touched on this before — it seems strange to us that the National Constitution Center (did you get the part where it has “CONSTITUTION” in the name?) is going all [...]

· Just a quick heads up: Tables are still available if you’d like to sell records or other music-related wares at The Philebrity Record Fair, this Saturday at 2424 Studios. If you’re interested, email tips@philebrity.com with “RECORD FAIR” in the subject header, and we’ll get you sorted! · Also: We have about 20 pairs of [...]

Please check out Philebrity Label to find out about our first signing and cop some free tunes. UPDATE: We’ll have more on today’s momentous occasion tomorrow (including video), but if you’re curious, Goodness Gracious, the new album by Blood Feathers on Philebrity Label will be played IN ITS ENTIRETY tonight at 10:30PM at 700, at [...]

[Via HuffPo via Something Is Going To Happen]

So, last night, around 10:30PM, a few of us pull in to the drive-thru of Wendy’s up on Aramingo Avenue. (Don’t judge. It was late, and we needed to eat.) So we’re sitting there — there’s an oddly long line in the drive-thru for this time of night — when an SUV pulls up next [...]

For the longest time, we’ve been hearing tell of Philadelphia director Tigre Hill — whose last film was the bristling, eye-popping The Shame Of A City — making a documentary about the ongoing saga of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Hill’s resulting film, The Barrel Of A Gun, is nearing completion, and as the trailer above shows, it [...]

Ork Posters’ Philadelphia literally gets us right where we live. And while some people might bristle at having their city mapped out like cuts of beef, for us, yeah, that feels about right.

Bright Star is the new film by director Jane Campion (The Piano, Holy Smoke, Sweetie) which tells the story of the romance between between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats’ untimely death at age 25. To paraphrase The Magnetic Fields, how fucking romantic! But seriously, this looks [...]

The Design Center at Philadelphia University‘s “Lace In Translation” is an exhibition opening up later this week that makes use of the Design Center’s historic Quaker Lace Company collection. Three contributors — European designers Tord Boontje, Demakersvan, and Canadian artist Cal Lane — were commissioned to create site-specific installations, using the Quaker Lace Co. collection [...]

You can stop freaking out about the UFO you saw for 30-40 seconds on Saturday night that looked like a “leaking star.” And the Google UFO logo. Both have been (conveniently) explained today. According to an article on the NASA website, on Saturday night, a Black Brant XII Sounding Rocket was launched off the NASA [...]

Totally counting down the days until November 4. More Girls at The Fader.

This trailer was made for Meg & Rob‘s Fringe show last week, but in reality, it is a timeless hell that we all know too well.