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While your mom’s friend from accounting curses on live TV, your brother’s girlfriend’s brother is falling off of a moving taxi, on the same channel, at the same time. And they say these things are simply coincidences.

Thought you’d wanna know – A buddy of mine caught wind of the whole Black Taco thing, and he was all about it. So much so, in fact, that he went right to MLB.com to order a coastal blue No. 6 Black Taco jersey. A day later, however, he was contacted by the site and [...]

Jim Henson’s work elicits giddiness in a way few other things can: Something about the shapes and primary colors of the felted heads, the expression they make when they aren’t speaking, and how the improvised banter of the actors achieves comic perfection. Rediscovering Jim Henson as an adult is equally rewarding for obvious reasons: You [...]

Let’s face it: The spit-shine false down-home-i-ness of most local TV news broadcasts quite often simply does not match up with the rough-and-tumble nature of actual Philadelphians when they decide to cut loose. So when the Phils won the NL Pennant last night for the second year in a row, you knew that local TV [...]

Did anybody else catch this? In the middle of on-the-field post-game celebrations at Citizens Bank Park last night, a ComcastSportsnet camera caught Brett Myers going in for a kiss with wife Kim Wickman, whereupon she fully gave him the gas face. Yeah, that seems about right. Hopefully it was followed by, “Really, Brett — you [...]

As evidenced by the Facebook grab above, Dawn Stensland is out at Fox29, and the People of the Faces are not happy! Bummer. One could guess that Stensland, who’s married to Larry Mendte, has had a rough few years, courtesy due mostly to her husband and Alycia Lane, who had that whole “I-spy-on-you/you-ruin-my-career” unpleasantness a [...]

THE MAYANS WERE RIGHT! HOLY SHIT! CONGRATULATIONS TO PHILADELPHIA AND YOUR PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES! SEND YOUR CELEBRATION PICS TO TIPS[AT]PHILEBRITY[DOT]COM! TRULY THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT!

>>> This much we can tell you: The polls are greased, and the game will be shown EVERYWHERE tonight, including the Piazza @ Schmidt’s ($15 all you can drink beer, $1 dogs, ComcastSportsnet on the scene for postgame); at the Spinto Band show at Johnny Brenda’s; at the Troc for the Dirty Projectors show; and, [...]

Friends, we have been truly humbled and stoked by the outpouring of Black Taco emails, photoshops and other Phillies-related… rally images? We’re not sure what to call them. After the jump, 22 images (and counting — we’ll be adding them as they come in) sent in by you, the Philebrity readers, designed to get everybody [...]

Hi! I just want you to know that I was at the Phillies game [Monday] night (UH-mazing). Being a true believer in the power of the BLACK TACO, I broke out my sharpies and made a sign AND a half-assed t-shirt so that I could spread the Good Word to the other 46,000 Phillies fans [...]

For the last five years or so, PhillySkyline has consistently been, along with Inga Saffron‘s Changing Skyline, one of the most interesting websites about Philadelphia architecture and development… well, ever. Headed up by photographer Bradley Maule (pictured atop Billy Penn at right) and author Nathaniel Popkin, Phillyskyline geeked out where few dared to go (or [...]

Pondering just what to do on Halloween? OK, folks, here’s what we’ve got: About $10,000 worth of crazy lights. A giant art installation, made with literally thousands of balloons, by internationally renowned artist Jason Hackenwerth (you definitely want to click that link). Simian Mobile Disco performing. The Making Time guys, rounding out to a total [...]

The more dig for Philly’s horror/novelty host legends, the more you readers find for us. Having already visited Stella and Dr. Shock this week, we just got hipped to Philly boy John Zacherle, who had a hit in 1958 with “Dinner With Drac.” (Think “Monster Mash” but with Dracula in there instead.) Above, he performs [...]

Philebrity received numerous tips last night that, after his show at the Merriam Theater, comedian David Cross stopped into venerable Philly dive McGlinchey’s for a drink or two. To which we responded: We’ve been to McGlinchey’s and seen the clientele — How can you even tell which one is David Cross? And then, the immediate [...]

Spotted on my block in West Philly- Phillies Phever is creeping across the Mason-Dixon. Sadly, I pondered what old-south colloquialism “hillie” could possibly mean before I put the whole thing together… Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

We mentioned this a little bit on Monday’s Phillies roundup, but as another Phils pennant win looms ever closer (LET’S DO THIS!), it’s clear that Philly law enforcement is perhaps sweating the victory. Via reader’s forward: Subject: Preparations for Spontaneous Phillies Fan Celebration To: “Center City District PCAN, Law Enforcement” Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009, [...]

We regard the release of Duece Poppi‘s “My White Friends” the most important development in Post-Racial America since we all agreed that we universally dislike light beer with lime-flavored Dorito dust in it. That is all.

Soon, this bold and exciting transporter of the future will… have head grease stains on the window and smell like McDonald’s. Hey, remember about a year ago, when we told you about those boss new Silverliner V SEPTA Regional Rail cars arriving at 30th Street Station? Well, that was just the model — you know, [...]

>>> Espers III, the long-awaited third album by Philly’s Espers, dropped today, so tonight at Philebrity Salon, we’ll be listening to the record in its entirety, and then launching into a FREAKED OUT FOLK-JAZZ EXCURSION from there. It’s gonna be… brown. Join us for an evening of Jansch, Drake, Thompson, Dylan, and so much more. [...]