Willie Brown, the embattled and unloved blob/leader of Transportation Workers Union (TWU) Local 234, went on a bit of a media tour this week, speaking with Philly’s two alt-weeklies. In Philadelphia Weekly, on Wednesday we learned what we pretty much already knew: Dude has a conspiracy theory about possibly underfunded pensions at SEPTA, and has [...]

Good morning! Remember all of that bike stuff we’ve been talking about all week? Well, in lieu of that new proposed bicycle legislation, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and the po-po have met up and decided that, effective today, pretty much all bike traffic laws already on the books. Which means… tickets and fines [...]

>>> Look at all that gray out there. Seems like a perfect night for GROG. As a matter of fact, we’re gonna dip out a little early today for the first of Philebrity’s Sailor Jerry Grog Parties, which we’ve been telling you about. Goes from 5-8PM, admission is free, and Sweeney will be playing mellow [...]

Ya’ll remember back in the day when the Sixers were cool? In fact, the hierarchy of Philly Sports used to rank the them the third coolest team behind the Kelly Green Eagles, and of course the Phillies. That was back when they were hotter than the Flyers and well before Bon Jovi tried to poison [...]

In case you were wondering, Cornershop still exists. And for some of us out here, who’ve been missing the UK band’s wild and infectious take on international rock and pop, this is, like, really big and amazingly great news. The band’s most recent record, Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast, came out in the UK [...]

As this film shows, even in 1947, people throughout the rest of the country regarded Philly as an unrepentant cesspool. Dig the bargain-basement James Mason narrator, too. From the utterly amazing Travel Film Archive, which also gave you yesterday’s mindblowing nugget. Dig that boy-versus-rat fight at 3:45!

Dave Roberts, who’s been piling on the foundation and anthropomorphizing clouds since you were in short pants, will do his last broadcast on December 11th. Roberts joined the station in 1978 for the long-gone AM Philadelphia show, but he’s spent the bulk of his career doing weather. Action News did a nice little fare-thee-well that [...]

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It has come to our attention that Rittenhouse Square ladies’ clothing store Leehe Fai has announced its plans for political insurrection. And while we here at Philebrity applaud just about all non-violent agitprop political actions — especially in these intellectually and politically lazy times — we find that Leehe Fai’s platform may raise more questions [...]

Put on your helmets, people: The ride is about to get bumpy. After yesterday’s controversial news regarding a slew of new fines and regulations for bicyclists being proposed by City Council, The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia has issued a formal statement on the matter. Their take? The new regulations would be eight kinds of [...]

Is there no end to the havoc SEPTA has caused us? First they tried to destroy the World Series, only to destroy the Mr. 12th Air contest. On the plus side, it’s nice to know that you could in fact meet the future Mr. 12th Air Command on the bus. Seeing something around town of [...]

>>> Who could have known, after all of these years, that I would still be the one person in the world that just totally fucking HATES The Jesus Lizard? You could say that neither have aged well. But here’s the ol’ “crazy” Liz, David Yow in tow, being all “wild” and “edgy” on a reunion [...]

As an addendum to yesterday’s “Nanny In Manhattan” on Top Of The Pops post, we were quite pleased to know that Philadelphian-in-exile/Lilys bandleader Kurt Heasley now has a Twitter account. As you can see from the post above, he mostly uses it FOR TRUTH.

SEPTA (which has a brand spanking new website that links to Google Transit (which still doesn’t, of course, have bus times)) has their Transpass refund info page up. It ends: “Customers receiving passes through Employer Programs or through Pre-Tax mechanisms must submit their pass by mail to the following address to receive credit.” Of course, [...]

We’ve been sitting on this one for a little while, and we’re psyched to finally tell you: We’re giving away over 100 seats to see Wes Anderson‘s new film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, next Tuesday evening in Center City. It’s gonna be a lot of fun: Anderson’s first animated feature — based on the Roald Dahl [...]

So, because the Inky and its creditors are engaged in a byzantine battle over what ACTUAL MONEY is, the scheduled auction of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.‘s media properties has been moved from its original date, which was to be held next week, to Dec. 15. Should the Inky, Daily News and Philly.com fall out of the [...]

From The Travel Film Archive. We defy the folks at GPTMC to splice some 30-second spots out of this and put it on the air nationwide.

Says he’s Scottish, and this wasn’t Scottish, and IF IT’S NOT SCOTTISH, IT’S CRAP! To which we say: Aye, sonny. Ah pure techt, whit kin’ ay warld is it whaur a cheil wi’ a cest — a guid Scottish cheil — cannae fly oan an airplane withit bein’ accosted by some whiny Yank? It’s a [...]

Oh, SEPTA The Hut, I mean, Willie Brown! Everybody knows that, in all likelihood, SEPTA is probably doing right by your pension — it’s you guys in the Transportation Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 with whom we’ve all got major trust issues. But whatever: Now that the strike is over, Brown and His Distinctly Un-Merry [...]

One of the most baffling things we’ve noticed on this site over the last year or so is just how much of hot-button issue anything to do with bicyclists in Philadelphia is. On one hand, the amount of bike-positive progress we’ve seen over the last few years in Philly has been something to behold; as [...]