We know what you’re thinking: “New Year’s Eve: Who gives a shit?” You can rattle off any number of reasons why people have come to loathe NYE — and of course, there are many — and you can bet we’ve heard ‘em (or uttered them ourselves) before. As a holiday, New Year’s Eve is in [...]

In case you missed it, last week’s episode of This American Life was all about our bizarre neighbor to the west, State College, PA, and more specifically, the main campus of Penn State, which was recently named America’s #1 Party School. And the episode, which was also called “#1 Party School,” revealed something we’d never [...]

As if The Year Of Things And People Dying needed an extra charm in its crown, we are saddened to tell you that Philadelphia’s legendary big-leg-woman/dive bar, the J&J Trestle Inn, at 11th and Callowhill Sts., has closed its doors. According to a source close to the owner, the Trestle has died of natural causes: [...]

Here’s a little News of Whatever for you: On Christmas Eve, the story quietly broke that both The Bridge Cinema in West Philly (that’s the one with the crazy spaceship seats and nacho smell) and the RC Ritz Center 16 in Voorhees, N.J. (that’s the one that people talk about when talking about how South [...]

How did we miss this one? Oh, thinly veiled Motorola Promotional Video, you tell us sweet lies.

We know, that as you peruse the year-end wrap-up news packages this week, that one big story of 2009 will already seem quaint to you: Teabaggers. Remember them? For the casual peruser of pop culture phenomena, it might seem like the teabaggers’ moment in the sun has already come and gone. But you know, they [...]

Got something going for NYE that’s off the beaten path and not too late to get in on? Tell us about it, as we’re currently compiling Philebrity’s Procrastinator’s Guide To New Year’s Eve. Send us tips at tips[at]philebrity[dot]com with “NYE” in the subject header.

Let’s count ‘em down!
5. The Night Before on XPN: For 16 years, DJ Robert Drake has been blowing off his loved ones, holing up in a booth at WXPN and providing the XPN listening area — now bigger than ever before and reaching deep into Pennsyltucky — with as much holiday joy as one man [...]

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, the retrospective of Philly-born painter Barkley L. Hendricks, will be on view at PAFA until January 3rd, which means that, if you want to see this utterly cool exhibit, you must hurry. After the jump, a quick slideshow containing oh-so-many reasons why you don’t wanna sleep on this [...]

Name that last cocktail over at Phoodie.info and drink whatever that thing is for free tonight! And click here to invite friends on the Facebook tonight. This is gonna be a great one.

With a Kurt Vile soundtrack? It’s a goddamned Christmas miracle. Shot by Nick Zegel.

We have to admit, even we couldn’t have predicted how badly Comcast’s handling of the whole bit-torrent throttling affair was going to go for them. Because let’s be honest: The overwhelming majority of people who use bit torrenting P2P technology are doing so in an effort to download copyrighted material, and yes, it does work [...]

Hey Ridley Township, it’s your time to shine! When a male off-cuty cop punched a female Wawa clerk on December 15 after he didn’t like the way she carded him for his chew, you knew there was gonna be more to this story. As it happens, the offending officer, Brian Decker, was fired yesterday, and [...]

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If you are a regular reader of this site, you probably already know what we think about Yelp: It is, without sounding too old fart about it, a living testament to how the great unwashed know next to nothing and that, ‘lo these many years, we have had professional restaurant critics and such for a [...]

OK, gang: Starting tomorrow, Philebs is gonna be on Holiday Break for the rest of the week. With that in mind, we’re gonna try and clear out the inboxes with things that are fun and good, sort of like how that one cool teacher in grade school would bring in a Beatles record or something. [...]

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Hey everybody: After the holidays, we’ll be telling you all about Goodness Gracious, the new album by Blood Feathers and the first release on Philebrity Label. (It’s already out on iTunes, and CD and thick-as-a-brick LP formats will be available shortly.) But as an extension of holiday goodwill from both us and [...]

Even during a year where the PA Film Tax Credit was in limbo and the city of Philadelphia actually lost some lucrative film productions as a result, The Greater Philadelphia Film Office has announced that 2009 was its biggest year ever. A grand total of 11 films and TV series shot here this year, creating [...]

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs: The Fox29 gang knows how to (pizza) party.
On Saturday, while the snow fell, Fox29 pretty much abandoned all regular programming and did nothing but snow “coverage,” which often consisted of on-air pizza eating, lots of on-air looking at Facebook and people playing with their Blackberries. It made for some [...]