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You’ll have to pardon us: Our aversion to all things football kept us from Jason Fagone’s enthralling story in GQ about Marvin Harrison (pictured), and the whole pantheon of WTFs it inspires. For the uninitiated, well, just read the story: It’s about the North Philly born-and-bred Harrison, who holds several pretty impressive NFL records, and [...]

Eternal Philebrity hatecrush Jennifer Weiner is used to bossing people around, making them shill for her and humiliate themselves in the workplace. It’s just how she rolls. But who could have ever known that those skills — alternately known in the Weiner household as simply “Things Mommy Likes To Do” — would one day have [...]

Unless you’re in Monaco, where a bit of roulette is just something you do whilst waiting for Grace Kelly to put on her face, a casino is almost by definition a sad place. It doesn’t matter how loud you make the bloops and the bleeps and the bells — every moment that passes in a [...]

It was announced today that the Department of Justice will finally approve the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger after a year of investigation. The new company will be called Live Nation Entertainment and has agreed to “strike a ticketing licensing agreement with AEG.” Despite concertgoers’ worries about outrageous ticket costs, entertainment lawyer Allen Grubman claims, “Ticket prices [...]

As evidenced by that scene in It’s Complicated where Steve Martin and Meryl Streep spark up a doobie, it’s been so long since smoking weed was cool that there oughta be a goddamned Time Life infomercial for it already. But you know what? We don’t care. Weed is beautiful. Weed keeps you out of trouble. [...]

We mentioned last week that the “Love Letters” project, by artist Steve Powers aka ESPO, has got to be one of the coolest things the Mural Arts Program has ever been involved in. We stand by that statement, and we also wanted to hip you to this crazy project that Powers will be doing in [...]

“In Philadelphia, an r-pronouncing city, there’s a certain amount of r-lessness among Italian-Americans.” – William Labov, the father of sociolinguistics, as quoted in “The Medium: Speech Therapy” by Virginia Heffernan, Sunday New York Times Magazine, January 21, 2010 This was an article about how Jersey Shore is a valuable tool in preserving the regional accents [...]

Douchebar dress codes: Everyone knows they are magical documents, clad in beefy flesh enforcement, and designed more or less to say everything but the thing they intend to say most. It could be “NO BLACKS,” it could be “NO HISPANICS,” hell, it could be “NO HIPSTERS” (not really, it’s almost always more of a racial [...]

FRIDAY: >>> The Temple kids who make up Toy Soldiers — there’s eight of ‘em — have this great modern troubadour collective thing happening that is both heartening (they’ve got a horn section and three singers!) and classic all at once. And to think of all eight of ‘em rambling back into Philly after a [...]

RECOMMENDED: Having just nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, director Michael Haneke‘s The White Ribbon now begins a victory lap in U.S. theaters that, if all goes according to plan, will see it vying for an Oscar in the same category. Set in a small German village on the eve of World [...]

Last seen running a campaign revolving around the premise that here is a wildly rich man who nevertheless agrees with you that your PECO bill is just too damned high, Tom Knox will be dropping out of the race for PA governor. Many will recall that Knox famously once ran for mayor in Philadelphia in [...]

Perhaps this could best be described in a limerick: There once was a farmer who had got into a fracas, Tending to Fumo’s farm under the guise that he was a senate jackass. But he got caught doing no work, And when Fumo got his 55 months for being a perp, Farmer Mike had to [...]

Oh, you know, he’s just been doing guest spots (scroll to 2:09 if you’re impatient) dressed as a priest on random awards shows on Swedish TV. No big whup.

>>> Jazzheads, take your pick from two pretty reputable contemporary way-out acts playing tonight: Sonic Liberation Front at Tritone, or The Inbetweens at the Rotunda in West Philly. >>> Meanwhile, over at Johnny Brenda’s, Adam & Dave’s Bloodline celebrate their new online single with the Tough Shits and Drew Mills of Blood Feathers. All proceeds [...]

seriously, i made fundraiser shirts for my cat’s vet bill, Shreddy Krueger, he has to pass some crystals, which are not “magic” crystals like i was hoping for, nor were they magic the last 2 times he passed crystals. A day here at Philebrity would just not be complete without talk of magic crystals passing [...]

· Phoodie Desert Island: Jennie Hatton · Douchebag Zen: There’s A Situation At McFadden’s And O.N.E. · Phoodie Exclusive: The Who And The What Of Stephen Starr’s Fishtown Bier Garten All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

We love Charlotte Gainbourg. Everything about her: Her acting, her tunes, that fabulous lineage, her style, the whole magilla. We’re streaming her newest album, IRM, in the office now, and it has a lot of that cold artsy vibe of 5:55, her last one, but this time, with a little more organics. It is, like [...]

Hey remember that time somebody posted a very realistic-looking “SEPTA announcement” that was secretly hilarious and also perhaps the truest series of words ever spoken in a row about Philly’s public transit? This is that. Delivered by a robot who would appear to be riding the Broad Street line.

Where the down-on-its-luck Pike Lanes became so obsessed with talking smack on its self-appointed rival, Loyle Lanes, that eventually, smack talk was not enough and the Pike Lane guys allegedly (probably) burned Loyle Lanes to the ground and were immediately arrested. And since we’re ordering up a screenplay, we might as well do a little [...]