Hey party promoters/DJs/bands/secret grog societies: Send us your info for what’s happening tomorrow night! We’re working on putting together the definitive package for what to do on The Biggest Drinking Night Of The Year, and we are kinda surprised that we’re not seeing more stuff already. Send your info to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com with “TURKEY LURKEY” in [...]

Oh, quit rolling your eyes: You love the music in the Wes Anderson movies. Hopefully, we can get our man Anders to come up with drinks all named after the films: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr. Fox. Immediately follows that screening of Fantastic Mr. Fox [...]

Here’s an elegant little time-lapse movie of this weekend’s Philadelphia Marathon, made with iTimelapse, an iPhone app made by Philly’s own Laan Labs, whom we’ve written about before.

As you may have read, a suspect was arrested in Philadelphia on Saturday after trying to purchase enough missiles and machine guns to take down, well, a lot of things. It was all part of a sting that began way back in ’07, in which a Philly-based FBI agent began a relationship with a Lebanese/Slovakian [...]

Yeah, I think so. This guy makes Snow look like Malcolm Fucking X.

Have you seen that ominous greasy cloud gathering towards the south? It actually has stink lines! Thousands of modern-day hippies (read: people who buy Kashi everything and read a book about Eastern philosophy once) have converged on the Wachovia Center, where their mobile mecca has descended upon Philly for two relentless days of full of [...]

Ohhhh, no wonder I have that weird rash on my dick…it’s cause I’m bad at math! We like how, in the beginning, Syphilis Guy #1 is all smirking, like, “Naw, baby, Syphilis isn’t really that bad, in fact, it’s kind of awesome.” But then at the end, he’s like, “I’m sorry, sweetums, I lied. Syphilis [...]

Fact: Almost no one cares about the Dad Vail Regatta, and the people that do seem to mostly agree that it should remain in Philly, on the Schuylkill, where it has been since all the way back when the Catholic mass was still in Latin. Mayor Nutter, as it happens, knows a thing or two [...]

Clinically obese students at Lincoln University are finding themselves in a problematic situation upon matriculation: To have a body mass index below 30, otherwise be forced to take a Physical Education class that meets three times a week for a semester before they can receive their diploma. Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of [...]

The 2009 Philadelphia Thanksgiving Parade, presented by 6abc and IKEA, is happening on Thursday morning from 8:30am-noon. The parade begins at 20th and JFK and circles back down the parkway, ending at Eakins’ Oval (in front of the Art Museum). Some balloons this year will be: Super Grover, Mr. Potato Head, and Garfield dressed as [...]

Featuring the incomparable Steve Gadd on drums. Today’s vibe.

Once again, Camden, NJ is America’s most dangerous city. The standing, based on FBI-compiled crime data and population figures, reprises our immediate neighbor to the east’s chart-topping in ’03 and ’04, and comes on the heels of a movement for Camden to wrest back control of its local government after a failed revitalization plan by [...]

Hey, remember when a bunch of 18-year-olds all gave themselves “scary” Transformer names and then hacked the shit out of Comcast.net? (That’s one of them, pictured at right.) My God that was awesome in almost too many ways to count. Of course, they did get caught, and now, they’re being formally charged. And how is [...]

· Has Mayor Michael Nutter been weathering shitstorm after shitstorm, just sitting on the fact that he’s about to roll out millions in ObamaCash? On the heels of recent successes like the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Program and Creative Industry Workforce Grants, say hello to another $30 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [...]

I did a double take when I saw this scene at the Market-Frankford EL stop at 8th and Market this morning. The handwritten sign that is cut off on the right of the photo says “window closed.” It appears that closing down that window has given this SEPTA employee plenty of time to work on [...]

Alright, Old Heads: Remember back when Philadelphia was weird (like way weird, like Skinz and Eraserhead and Lee Paris and Gary Heidnik weird), and The Khyber Pass was just some old bar where indie-rock bands didn’t play, because INDIE ROCK WAS NOT INVENTED YET? If you frequented the Khyber in those pre- David & Steve [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Gotta say: For the second weekend in a row, not a lot of notable stuff is going on this weekend. Sure, you got your regular DJ nights, your local bands and so on, but if you’re looking for once-in-a-lifetime or even just brand new types of shenanigans, you will not exactly be suffering [...]

THEY WILL WELCOME US AS LIBERATORS. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

The sooner we can all admit that today’s breed of vampire-obsessives are the new cat ladies, the better we will all be able to understand this phenomenon. And the better we understand that, the sooner we can all admit that this is everyone’s fault. Women like these vampire jerkoffs so much because, in some very [...]

It’s been a rough month over at The Fire/Philadelphia Bar & Grill: After a harrowing incident earlier this month, the Girard Avenue bar and music venue found itself shut down by L&I earlier this week. Neighborhood scuttlebutt indicates that the shutdown was due to a “public nuisance” complaint, but according to Fire booking agent Derek [...]