Action News, of all people, has it. Related: What was up with Jerry Mondesire on Radio Times this morning [mp3], all not wanting to throw SPHS admin under the bus on this? Really, Jerry?

· Not only did some people go to Aramingo Diner and NOT GET SHOT, but also, an anonymous couple started a wave of Christmas cheer by paying the tabs of strangers, which went on throughout all the night until the Baby Jesus wandered in at midnight, hella stoned and wearing a DeSean Jackson jersey, and [...]

This year’s Golden Globes nominees were announced this morning, and as you might have expected, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, directed by native son Lee Daniels, was all over the noms. Precious got nods for Best Motion Picture, Best Actress Drama (Gabourey ‘Gabby’ Sidibe) and Best Supporting Actress (Mo’Nique), so take that, [...]

>>> At the risk of repeating ourselves: New York City is a shell of its former self and is going through the least culturally interesting era of its entire history, and at this point, if you move there, you deserve whatever G-rated, totally predictable fate you encounter. We bring this up because, to our shock [...]

As the holidays draw near and City Council’s proposed new bike bills prepare to die in quiet desperation (or at least that’s what we’re predicting, since nobody in City Council seems to actually have any kind of fundamental understanding of the issues at hand and the proposed bills were only made to capitalize on headlines [...]

As widely speculated, Sports Illustrated is reporting that the Phillies have acquired pitcher Roy Halladay. And in the process — a three-team trade between Philadelphia, Seattle and Toronto — it is looking like we’ve let go of Cliff Lee, who will go to the Mariners. None of us have any idea how to feel about [...]

Over the weekend, we were reading about the current Parisian trend of vide-greniers. Vide-greniers — “attic emptiers,” roughly translated — are mini-garage sales that people have at bars they like, mostly focusing on books, records, clothing and the like; basically, you get a handful of folks with a few crates of stuff to sell/swap, have [...]

All of this joking we’ve all been doing about the incoming 1990s retro wave is starting to have utterly horrifying effects: It’s like we think it, then it happens! First, Pavement got back together — real talk: we’re embarrassingly stoked about this, but also have the requisite ironic distance from it (AGAIN, THE GODDAMNED 1990s) [...]

Under the heading Other Business, a repurposing of yes, another factory-to-luxury-apartment complex in Northern Liberties was discussed on Thursday’s monthly meeting of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission (video footage courtesy of Plan Philly). The buildings to be gutted, painted, and beautified are the two massive 8-story 1930s-era solid concrete behemoths at 800 N. Delaware Ave [...]

Late Friday afternoon at the PMA, the explosion event for “Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms” went off and, we have to say, was pretty much worth not having a Christmas tree up there this year.

Your next cab ride around Philly may be inside a Velo-parkcab. The Philadelphia-based company happily announced that pedicabs in Philly are now legal, having received a stamp of approval (a signed bill allowing for regulation recognition) by Mayor Nutter. The Velo-parkcab looks like the combination of a Smart Car and a bike, pedaled by manpower [...]

A reader passed these snaps along, wondering what is going on with a movement to ban horse-drawn carriages in Philly: Sure enough, this is one of the stated goals for the new PA chapter of Friends of Animals, the non-profit, international animal advocacy organization. To be honest, we’re of several minds about this: One the [...]

WTF Comcast is a Tumblr blog that takes screen shots of the particularly weird/messed-up program descriptions you see on Comcast cable that are obviously punched in by someone whose job it is to write like 3,000 of these per day. It was bound to happen.

RUNKLE! Over the weekend, it was announced that Kathleen Turner, who has been so entertaining us all though this last season of Californication, will be starring in the Philadelphia Theatre Company‘s world premiere production of Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Opening in March, Red Hot Patritot will see Turner starring as [...]

Since last week — when a group of Asian-American students walked out of South Philadelphia High School after being targeted in a series of attacks that have been escalating now for months if not years — many of us have been watching and waiting, hoping that somewhere along the line, someone in the School District [...]

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in the Awards Poll and last night’s event. It was pretty much the funnest thing we’ve ever done. You can see the other nominees and how folks voted here. Philebrity will return bright-eyed and bushy-tailed on Monday. Looking for things to do this weekend? Check out our listings.

Four selected archival pigment prints by Rebecca Westcott have been released in commemoration of her exhibit in The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC on view through July 5, 2010. Westcott came to Philadelphia by way of The Rhode Island School of Design where she met and befriended a group of artists with whom she [...]

Fans of Harry Kalas have been collecting donations to build a statue in his honor. They need a total of $80,000 to erect a seven foot high brass monument that will be donated to the Phillies upon it’s completion. The monument will be sculpted by Philadelphia ex-patriot Lawrence Nolan who has already created the pose; [...]

Looking to meet that special someone with whom to share this holiday season? How about just someone to share a sweet simple two-hour layover makeout session? According to this study conducted by Sperling’s BestPlaces and commissioned by AXE, due to “some of the nation’s longest and most frequent flight delays (32 percent of all flights, [...]