· We took in both: Rittenhouse Square is predictably nuts, but also teeming with divorced dads and their kids. Single ladies with a Kramer Vs. Kramer thing, best to get over there straight away. Washington Square, though, as always, is really where it’s at. The vibe is just… better. · Even the homeless are in [...]

>>> We really like the idea for Miro Dance Theatre’s MASH UP Series, which the Miro company pairs up with a band for a few days, and at the end of four days, the pair perform what they’ve come up with. This time around, it’s the band Toy Soldiers and composer Craig Van Hise. Best [...]

Peep the schedule here. Tickets go onsale Monday, March 29, and you can bet Philebrity will have more coverage as the Fest draws closer.

Fastest Philebrity party to Letterman conversion ever! Sweet!

It may be worth noting that last year, the same year the City of Philadelphia to close many of its public swimming pools due to a massive budget crunch, was also the same year that brought us the whole #racistpool debacle. What did we learn, other than that racists like to swim, too? Well, nothing, [...]

Wake up, Philadelphia! While we’re all arguing about taxing the fat poor kids and bike lanes, our neighbors right over the bridge in New Jersey are figuring out NEW AWESOME WAYS TO GET BAKED LEGALLY LIKE THEY DO IN CALIFORNIA! This Saturday at the Collingswood, NJ Public Library at hiiiiiigh noon, the Coalition for Medical [...]

If doing this blog has taught us anything, it’s that every time PhillyCarShare changes up its rate plans, it’s confusing, people freak out and that it’s probably got something to do with the service’s ever-shifting business model. (We want everybody! No, wait! We don’t want everybody! Just these people over here!) So, here’s the new [...]

Like many others around the world last night, we were saddened to learn that Alex Chilton, who sang in The Box Tops and co-founded Big Star before embarking on a fairly wild solo career, has passed away. Chilton wrote some of our favorite songs — and sang a bunch of other favorites in his later [...]

Click to enlarge. We conclude our map blowout today with this one by Phileb commenter bhiladelphia, who sent his map in with the query, “Does this even count as a neighborhood?” Our answer is a resounding YES. We’ve discussed the Eraserhood before — it’s the bizarre no-man’s land east of Broad and south of Spring [...]

Click to enlarge. There’s definitely a lot of overlap between this map and the one of Norris Square/Olde Kensington we ran earlier, but you can beat reader Katie I.‘s eye for detail — also, she made a sweet little logo! Anybody else want to join in the fun? Send us your hand-drawn neighborhood maps to [...]

Click to enlarge. Pennsport: It’s more than just the awesomest titty bar in the city. In fact, it’s a whole neighborhood! And while we love reader Bobby D‘s map — and not just for the sublime accidental phrase “Chinese my Wawa gas” — we do wish he’d put the REAL Pennsport here. Anybody else want [...]

Click to enlarge. Says amateur cartographer Sara: “I’m submitting this map for your blog, but what I’m really getting at is trying to smoke Jenny and Adriana out of their hole and getting them to admit to the world when they are finally, at long last, going to open the 5th and Poplar burger joint [...]

Click to enlarge. Leave it to a Wash West-er to have their map be all pro and shit. But we gotta love any map that has Locust Bar on it. Reader Jen Bobbie, well done! Anybody else want to join in the fun? Send us your hand-drawn neighborhood maps to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com and we will totally [...]

When, on a lark last week, we asked for your hand-drawn neighborhood maps, we had no idea what we were getting into! In addition to the handful we’ve already posted, we have a grip of ‘em ready for your perusal. And tomorrow, we’re gonna run everything we have in hand by noon. Want some homework? [...]

>>> A protegé of the Outkast crew, Janelle Monáe comes off like some kind of crazy hybrid of “Hey Ya”-era Outkast, Grace Jones, and Jerry Lee Lewis. We’ll take it! Monáe begins a two-night stretch at Johnny Brenda’s tonight. >>> And also, Kiss Me, I’m Irish And Gay!

Those of you who had a bell rung earlier this week when Lisa DePaulo’s GQ interview with Rielle Hunter made headlines nationwide know your Philly media history well. DePaulo was nominated twice for a National Magazine award when she was at Philadelphia Magazine in the early 1990s — which many would argue was the struggling [...]

Via Failblog. Ouch.

Ever since we started doing the Philebrity Salon nights last summer — whereupon we were shocked to find out that it was the city’s only DJ night devoted to jazz records — we became tangentially aware of how simultaneously difficult and rewarding it must be to have anything to do with producing jazz and avant [...]