WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU PEOPLE BEEN DOING??? While we are surely not the first people to notice this, it must be said: Now that the snow is gone, Philadelphia, we can see your soul. It is a thin, greasy smear of weeks-old dog feces and a truly obscene amount of cigarette butts. AND IT [...]

Philebrity Salon @ 700 (corner of Second & Fairmount in NoLibs) is quite literally the only DJ night in the city devoted to the playing of jazz records (plus other music). And you need us just as much as we need you. Come on down for a rainy night with our barkeep Anders, some warm-hearted [...]

It’s cool. They’ll wait.

Some organization called the Philadelphia Eagles has dismissed some football player called Brian Westbrook. Seeing as how we’d eventually like to see no football whatsoever in the City of Philadelphia, we’re just gonna have to guess that is a step in the right direction. Now everybody go get all male and shit in the comments.

You know, say what you will about Philadelphia, but at least (most of) it doesn’t smell like piss, hair grease and maple syrup. (No offense to maple syrup.) So next time you launch a marketing campaign here, could you do one that doesn’t conjure the brain drain and insult the great Robert Indiana? That would [...]

Just a quick note: Blood Feathers, whose new album Goodness Gracious is the debut release on Philebrity Label, are set to perform at WXPN’s Free At Noon concert series this week. The concert will take place and be broadcast live Friday, February 26th at noon ET from the World Cafe Live in Philly. All XPN [...]

Does anybody know anything about this cat? Says here he was a Philly native, did the whole Laurel Canyon folk thing in the late ’60s, and then… we don’t know. And yes, he does remind us a little of the “I gave my love a cherry” scene in Animal House, but you know, that is [...]

Yeah, we know you know, but really: KYW’s half-ass version of Accuweather is hedging, real Accuweather says it’s going to be a “MONSTER,” and good ol’ SallyAnn Mosey says it’s going to be mashed potatoes! To which we say…

Sorry, but all of the shit that is wrong with this website is fucking fascinating. Previously: If Chris Krewson Cannot Stop NBCPhiladelphia From Large-Scale Rewriting/Folgering Your Stories, No One Can We Think We’ve Finally Parsed Who’s Behind NBCPhiladelphia’s “Mood” Readers Write: Stay Classy, NBCPhiladelphia

Dear Point Breeze or G-Ho or whatever it is you wanna call yourself, As both residents (native and, somehow, transplant, too) and small business owners here in Fishtown, a neighborhood that has been struggling to pronounce “gentrification” for 5-10 years now (depending on who you talk to), we’d like to welcome you to this very [...]

Reacting to the news of a “suspicious” fire at their longtime (and fairly legendary) Broad Street office, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (pictured) will step into the fray with the media this afternoon to speak out on the fire, currently under investigation. This is some kind of damage control, to be sure, but its exact [...]

Hey everybody: KYW would like you to know that Brian Tierney is booooooooooored! This whole bankruptcy nonsense is taking forevvvvvvver! Even the office dog, Franklin, is all like, whatevvvvvvverrrrrrr! CAN WE ALL JUST GET TO THE NEXT ROUND OF LAYOFFS PLEASE! Hold on a second, says Brian, I’m on the phone! But when he gets [...]

Viral-via-computer-but-in-an-unexpected-way Lower Merion teen Blake Robbins, who’s still at the epicenter of everybody’s favorite high school Internet privacy scandal, has finally broken his silence on what offense precipitated Harriton High School Assistant Principal Lindy Matsko to confront him in the first place. No surprise: It’s hilarious. School officials thought they had captured an image of [...]

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Today’s Philadelphia Business Journal highlights a Portfolio survey of 420 US cities, which found that based on per capita income, median household income, and median home value, Philadelphia checks in at a relatively low 360, far below number one-ranked Newport Beach, California. The worse news? Our neighbors in Camden are ranked in the bottom five. [...]

Even though she was sentenced to jail time, do you still get angry when you think of how taxpayers essentially footed the bill for last year’s Bonnie Sweeten abduction hoax fiasco? State Representative Scott Petri, R-178, feels your pain. Outraged by the way Sweeten’s case squandered emergency response and investigation funds, Petri’s proposed legislation, House [...]

We have loved The Clientele dearly, ever since we heard their first damp, weird 45s and saw them in the student union at Bryn Mawr College at the ass end of the 1990s. Why? Oh, a hundred reasons: They are the definition of gentility and taste. They make psychedelia literate and intelligent, which can be [...]

We’ve all been waiting on these new SEPTA Silverliner regional rail cars since… 2007. Well, here they are, in action. Here’s the bad news: This was filmed in South Korea. Hey, whaddya want? They’re getting there!

At first, we were like, “OK, calling a blaze at the headquarters of the legendary Gamble & Huff ‘suspicious’ is totally racist,” but when you add in the following: · Random man who was not Chuck Gamble (Kenny’s nephew) hanging outside of Gamble’s office at 7:28AM screaming for help · Others seen running from the [...]

We know you’re sad that Daddy died. And as dog lovers — and devout believers in the cult of Cesar — we’re sad, too. In case you were unaware, Daddy was the 16-year-old pitbull owned by Cesar Millan, aka The Dog Whisperer. But he was much more: Daddy was something rarely seen or discussed — [...]