Right now and all day (until 7:00PM) auditions for America’s Got Talent are happening at the Convention Center. As the webpage reads in red: NO NEED TO PRE-PREGISTER. JUST DOWNLOAD PAPERWORK AND COME RIGHT TO VENUE. If you’re in the 12th St. area and you Don’t have talent (or forgot your guitar/pogo stick/rubber chickens), you [...]

But no one told them that tickets only cost $5. In related news, the world is still a vampire and iMovie comes installed with every new Mac.

A friend who works as an art handler at MoMA was once asked, “What’s the most difficult part of your job?” His response: “installing the work of someone you went to art school with.” And that’s the case for many of the ex-RISD students, current URBN employees now here in Philadelphia. Ryan Trecartin, 28 year-old [...]

Starring Mike Z, being all “not like other guys,” and Spank Rock as a dancing Michael Jackson zombie. No, really. The Halloween Making Time Rager @ 2424 Studios will feature Simian Mobile Disco, a massive art installation by Jason Hackenwerth and, of course, Game 3 of the World Series projected in two different rooms. Tickets [...]

Hey, remember SnuggieGate, where we pulled the Snob Card on a bunch of dumb Penn grads who thought it would be funny if they wrapped themselves in a blanket that has arms and visited a bunch of bars and then afterwards gave those blankets to the homeless Because It’s Really All About Giving Something Back? [...]

Just look at this beautiful sentence: “Union leadership says the strike vote coming the same week as a World Series game here in the city is just a coincidence.” Uh, whatever, SEPTA. Because even though Transport Workers Union 234 has been working without a contract since March, now they decide They’ve Had All They Can [...]

Thanks everybody for making this a really great, just epic week on the ol’ Philebs. And NeeKo, please get at us. We won’t be satisfied until this track blasts from every bodega and automobile and bedroom window in the city. The city needed a Phils anthem BAD, and you just did it, son!

FRIDAY: >>> Hey everybody! Let’s pretend that NO NEW MUSIC HAS BEEN MADE SINCE 1985! First, you’re gonna go see that band The Beatles in their hot new film, Let It Be, which we told you about earlier this week. From there, you’ve got a bevy of choices: Get The Led Out, who are quite [...]

Editor’s note: Please enjoy this expanded edition of Film Sweat, including last week’s recommendations that were unpublished due to technical difficulties. RECOMMENDED: An Education stars Carey Mulligan as a wise-beyond-her-years British schoolgirl who becomes the apple of businessman Peter Sarsgaard‘s eye. And like Mad Men, it’s a window into that time before the 60s really [...]

It would be safe to assume that the Brain Drain was not going on at this point in time, Stephen Girard be damned. Image via Shorpy, but at the risk of stating the obvious, you could do this kind of thing all day at PhillyHistory.org.

Whatever we said about Leonard Cohen last time is still as true as ever. He did not come to Philadelphia just to fool ya. Hallelujah.

Clearwire — the high-speed Wifi service we told you about back in September 2008 — has at long last soft-launched in Philly, it would seem. It’s claiming speeds of 3/6 megabits per second, which computer people tell us is fast. We have no idea. Philebrity is powered by a dial-up AOL connection from 1998.

Aw man: Former Temple Owls star Dionte Christmas (pictured) got arrested for driving without a license — but with a gun — at Broad and Nedro last night. This just a day after he was cut from the Sixers. Could it be Brett Myers’ bad marital mojo that rubbed off on him, in some kind [...]

You know, it’s funny: For weeks now, we’ve been thinking of starting a band called Dick Bass & The Sad Trombone. And we’ve already got The Sad Trombone. Also, if you pay $1000 for a dick bass, you’re either a Communist genius or you just don’t know what money even is. In either case, wanna [...]

If you watch the news, you know that ACORN is famous for, among other things, providing FOX News with an absolutely sexual level of excitement when it came to pass that a few wayward employees of the longstanding advocates for the poor were so stupid as to fall into some weird GOP version of Candid [...]

So, believe it or not, since we ran Black Taco: The Slideshow a coupla days ago, SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL POURING IN. We’re gonna wait until next week until we let the next batch go, but this one — the first Mayor Nutter Black Taco Photoshop we’ve seen (the Black Taco as tri-corner hat is a [...]

>>> Tell the truth: You never heard of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele. And now look: You’re in love with the man. I can’t say I blame you. Good vibes on this cat. Anyway, Dent’s show with Tickley Feather at Kung Fu Necktie is just one of a bunch of great shows going on [...]

>>> Here at Philebrity, we’ve known for a long time that the local music scene is cyclical: The quality of local music tends to follow a pattern of boom and bust that perhaps Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, could explain a lot better than we ever could. In general, though, this pattern seems [...]

As you may know, because the Philadelphia Police now live in a state of abject panic/glee over the prospect of rioting Phillies fans, yesterday, newspaper boxes — known in the biz as “honor boxes,” which is funny on a lot of levels — were removed from Broad Street. One question: WHERE DID THEY GO? And [...]

Who They Are: Generally, these Breakout Philebrity posts are reserved for a single human being, but since just last May, local shirtmakers Commonwealth Proper have established such a strong brand and following that, hell, in a city notorious for its failures in producing celebrities, Commonwealth Proper somehow counts. To answer the “who” question, though, CWP [...]