To celebrate the benevolent St. Patrick today, loyal reader Brendan O’Riordan decided to pick ten clips to some good authentic Irish songs/videos. Thanks, Brendan! Everybody else — enjoy! And ERIN GO BRAGH! Thin Lizzy, “Whiskey In the Jar,” Top of the Pops (1973). Like the Norman invaders, Phil Lynott was “more Irish than the Irish.” [...]

Don’t blame him: Like SEPTA itself, he was just trying to get there.

Have you been to Parx yet? Of course you haven’t. It’s a shithole slots parlor in the Norfeast lit by pension-sucking deathclouds. But all of that could change come summer, when Parx debuts 39 blackjack tables, four craps tables, five roulette tables, five three-card poker tables and four baccarat tables. That’s because state regulators gave [...]

We liked Philadelphia managing director Camille Barnett (pictured) from the jump street: She knew her stuff, she had a passion for the gig and throughout all of the nonsense weather we’ve had over the winter, it was Barnett who, along with Mayor Nutter, helped manage expectations and limited funds for a snow-crippled city. So it’s [...]

The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee harumphed its way through a vote on legalizing a same-sex marriage ban in PA on Tuesday morning, and, hey, good news: It was an 8-6 vote, voting down the ban. And some of the state senators that voted against same-sex marriage were actually Republicans. PA Republicans, even! To us, this [...]

Says our reader: “Wonder who the Clean Air Council crossed…all windows broken, all tires flat.” This is right down the street from our office! NOT THAT WE ARE CLAIMING RESPONSIBILITY! I mean, recycling is kind of a sham and all, but… oh dear, I’ve already said too much. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone [...]

It is insane outside and as your therapist, WE STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO START BLOWING THINGS OFF RIGHT AWAY AND GO OUTSIDE. As a side programming note, Philebrity Salon will not occur this week, as we told them the same thing. If you’re itching to get into a band/bar scenario, go see In Grenada at [...]

A little birdie is telling us that someone has finally purchased the legendary (and infamous) R.U.B.A. Hall in Northern Liberties. Since 1913, the spot has served the local community in a mostly thankless manner — first, various and sundry Russian immigrants and later, hipsters/burnouts/addicts and so on. The R.U.B.A. has been on and off the [...]

Sammi Won’t Do The Dishes, 3-color letterpress print, 8″ x 11″ by Robin McDowell Who could have every thought that this right here could lead to this up there. So we’re saying kudos to Philly-trained artist Robin McDowell, who’s offering a series of (pretty hilarious) numbered prints on Etsy, each insprired by a different, memorable [...]

Everyone keeps asking us if we’ve yet seen The Runaways, the biopic starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning about the infamous all-girl rock band of the same name. We haven’t. But we’re fans, and we’re stoked. So, um, wanna go see it with us this Thursday night? Let’s do it! To enter to win, email [...]

All this talk about soda has made us kinda thirsty. POPPIN’ WITH FLAV-AHHHHHHHHH!!!

… but sadly, it’s not to give a bunch of ladies cars. Rather, a federal judge has ruled that Oprah must come to Philadelphia to defend a defamation suit filed by Nomvuyo Mzamane, the ex-headmistress of her girls’ school in South Africa. The trial is slated to begin on March 29. In related news, here [...]

Yesterday, we goofed on The Dude a little, thinking maybe he was a little bit paranoid about this whole “soda lobby” that’s come to Philly to kill his soda tax bill. Turns out, he was right. Here’s an email forwarded to us by a reader from something called StopThePhillyBeverageTax.com: What a load of horse shit. [...]

Some of you may know The Disco Biscuits as the jam band/electronic rock outfit that had themselves better defended on Philebrity that one time than perhaps any other local band, and others among you, of course, recognize the “Bisco” lifestyle as the only true path to enlightenment. But to a group of kids who go [...]

We won’t lie: Seeing Ryan Howard traded — this year, no less — would make us and lots of other people very sad. And while lots of fans can point to stats they don’t like about Howard’s performance last year, we like to consider all of that bumps in the road. Still, though, one of [...]

Ever wonder what’s on the other side of the Berks El Stop? It’s THIS! 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 run them. And check out more neighborhood maps here on Philebrity.

We think we got the gist of what the Mondays Upstairs At Elena’s party was like the second we clicked play on the G.C. Cameron clip of “It’s A Shame” that adorns the party’s Facebook invite. With DJs Apt One (fresh off the dizzle!) and JJC manning the decks, we’re expecting lots of Double Dutch, [...]

The dude says that the all-powerful soda lobby is doing everything it can to sack his proposed soda tax. As a public service, here’s some things to look out for: 5. Beware of any councilpeople or aides with new love interests named “Seven.” Don’t ask them what they are doing later. They are feeling Seven [...]

After years of searching for this on YouTube, here, friends, is the motherlode: Nearly ten full minutes of Dancin’ On Air — the WPHL 17 version, before it went national to ultimately become Dance Party USA. Even though many of us who grew up here remember watching this after school, solid footage (like this) of [...]

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