If you’re seeing this, that means Philebrity is back up! Yay! But we’re having some technical difficulties today, so the site may be acting wonky, or temporarily down. But fear not: After a about a week and a half of some seriously wavy gravy, our IT team — strong and devoted and proud men, one [...]

>>> The Philadelphia Film Festival opens up tonight with the premiere of Law Abiding Citizen starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, shot here and including a quick cameo from, no shit, Mayor Michael Nutter. It’s followed by the opening night party at the Warwick Hotel. We’ll have Festival Picks tomorrow as the Fest really begins [...]

In case you had not heard, out in Colorado, a six-year old boy climbed into this weird UFO-looking balloon thing his parents constructed and is now, RATHER TERRIFYINGLY, FLYING AT AN ALARMING SPEED OVER RURAL COLORADO. Insane streaming video here. Oh. My. God. UPDATE: Balloon lands, boy not in it! WHAT? And the family was [...]

Gawker has the why and wherefore on the final, triumphant moment happening right now that is the cancellation of Jon And Kate Plus 8. And we’ll make no bones about it: The very fact that this show — and the culture that produced it — even existed for as long as it did stomped on [...]

Just on the off-chance that anyone was planning to go to this, THE PHILEBRITY AWARDS HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO SO MANY THINGS WE CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU. And also, there’s no way in hell we’re going up against the Phils. Look for a new date in late November/December soon. Readers Poll launches [...]

· We Can’t Stop Drinking This: Paul Jaboulet Aîné’s Côtes du Rhône Parallele 45 · Brain Trust: Who Else Is Having A BLACK TACO Party Tonight? · Wine School To Get Actual Smackdown By The WWE? All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and [...]

Nutcracker 1776 is the Rock School For Dance Education‘s unique (and uniquely Philadelphian) take on the holiday classic, and above is the trailer they just released for it. It’ll play at the Merriam Theater on December 5 and 6, and it really does look awesome.

Those Broadzilla kids truly are on a roll. Their most recent poster for their Oct 30th show usurps the Chemical Brothers‘ Block Rockin’ Beats album cover, transforming the grenade and feather into the weapons of cheeky end-of-October vandals. As you no doubt know, October 30th is traditionally celebrated in the UK (and Fishtown) as Mischief [...]

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· If you’ve by some chance never heard it, or haven’t listened to it all the way through in years, Darkness On The Edge Of Town is an absolute motherfucker of an album. Sure, Born To Run and Born In The U.S.A. have more name recognition — fair enough, they’re far more populist works — [...]

IT DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER? REALLY? THEN WHY BOTHER LIVING? Because, look: I’m not a self-hating McDago. I love that one side of my lineage has imbued me with an iron liver and a love for literature, while the other knows what gravy is and how good hugs can be, and that they both unite [...]

We’ve been through this a bit before, so at the risk of repeating ourselves, let’s cut to the chase: Those Examiner.com sites, where they let pretty much anybody write as an “expert” in one field or another, are a teeming cauldron of insane cat lady types, would-be freelancers who lack the acumen or talent to [...]

THE FUTURE! >>> Tiesto, doncha know, is pretty much the biggest DJ in the world. Whole swaths of the former Soviet Union feature his patented TiestoBurger® restaurants, where customers can enjoy the finest beef Russia has to offer in an upscale, progressive-house music setting; in the Cayman Islands, the First Unified Church Of Tiesto has [...]

It’s true: The McSweeney’s gang is starting up a broadsheet in Sam Clam’s Disco. And when we read about it, all we could think was: Damn, this totally sounds like the late, great Philadelphia Independent (pictured). Which is funny, because back when the Phindie was around, people would always rag on it for its shared [...]

Screw the Mayan Calendar: Bill Maher is our nation’s newest Nostradamus. This last Friday on his HBO talk show Real Time, Maher disclosed a pertinent bit of advice for Barack Obama, saying that the President should call for a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in his upcoming speech to the Human Rights Campaign. The [...]

In case you were still unsure of the location of the single coolest collection of manuscripts and original documents in all of Philly, let there be no mystery: It’s the Rosenbach Museum & Library. As the hype on Spike Jonze‘s Where The Wild Things Are builds — we’ll be running our review on Friday — [...]

Speaking of ghoulish: MTV has begun to air Gone Too Far, the reality/intervention series the network was working on with Philly’s DJ AM before his death by overdose in August. In the premiere episode, AM returns to his native Philly to help a young female addict.

Every day, scads of tourists wade into the Comcast Center to catch a glimpse of the impressive display of technology permanently on display in the building’s lobby, where the far wall serves as an ever-changing screen/public art display. If you’ve never been, it really is something worth checking out. Later today, however, that place where [...]

Since Grub Street ran their piece yesterday on bartender Colin Shearn — one of our favorites in the city, by the way — in which he reveals that fameball Arthur Kade was summarily dismissed forever from The Franklin Mortgage and Investment Co. (also a favorite spot), people have been asking us, “WHAT DO YOU KNOW [...]

As we suspected it might, video has surfaced of the Melee At The Milkoff — also known as The Great Kensington Milk Riot Of 2009 — which we told you about yesterday. And like all pieces of history glimpsed on the fly, it is grainy and strange and scary. Barbarians crash the gates; the people [...]