Repo Men — not to be confused with the 1980s Emilio Estevez/Alex Cox classic — is a new film starring Jude Law and Forrest Whitaker as dudes who repossess body organs in a not-too-distant future where the health care system is even more fucked up than it is now. It’s both funny ha-ha and funny [...]

Lebanon, PA — made by Philly filmmakers Ben Hickernell and Jason Contino — will be premiering at SXSW this week.

After months of speculation and its editors acting like they didn’t know it was gonna happen, Philly sportsblog The 700 Level has finally announced that they’ve officially partnered with Comcast SportsNet and CSNPhilly.com. Now, if five years in the blog biz has taught us anything, it’s this: Frequently, the moment blogs/bloggers get “picked up” by [...]

Celebrity Apprentice 2010: Find the actual celebrities here! In case you missed the season premiere last night, here is a relatively spoiler-free roundup on this bizarre show we have come to love, fully and unironically: – Bret Michaels is raising money for “DIABEETUS” which, even though he has had it since he was six, still [...]

Click to enlarge. Congrats to Jon K., who just coined “People on bikes that ride on sidewalks” as our new favorite euphemism for… Mexicans! Hiyo! Thanks, we’ll be here all week. No, really. Also: Nice hand lettering! Anybody else want to join in the fun? Send us your hand-drawn neighborhood maps to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com and we [...]

From the progressive blog Balloon Juice comes a heads-up about Broadband.gov, the Obama Admin’s FCC collaboration that, among other things, wants to help you make sure that you’re getting what you pay for when you buy Internet connectivity. To that end, they’ve put out a Consumer Broadband Test, that’ll test things like upload and download [...]

There’s a pretty interesting interview in Fast Company with Josh Kopelman, managing partner at First Round Capital, about why one should go ahead and start up a new company in Philadelphia. Now, before we get to the various and sundry elephants in the room, let’s ponder what Kopelman has to say: There’s an inspiringly scrappy [...]

Let’s not pretend that last weekend was anything more (and nothing less) than a furtive glimpse into the raw future, where we shall one day frolic in the sun and eat out of doors all over again, like the humans did in ancient times. And let us also regard what we’ve got this weekend — [...]

IN THE FUTURE… SEPTA fares will cost 5-6% more, leaving everyone scrambling for pennies and nickels as they rush out the door each morning, wondering why it all goes so smoothly for their friends in NYC (in the future, there won’t be SmartCards in Philly, either), while we are all scouring around like a bunch [...]

“How could a company from Philadelphia buy a company from New York? That would be like Vietnam defeating the United States in a ground war.” – Jack Donaghy (played by Alec Baldwin), 30 Rock Well, yeah. Welcome to our world, Jack.

Wow. In about 24 hours, we received submissions from over 50 local acts, all of whom wanted to share their tunes with you, the good music lovers of Philadelphia (and beyond). Some were from acts we knew, and lots were from people we’d never heard of at all before. And if this shock-sampling was anything [...]

>>> Henry Rollins will be at First Unitarian Church tonight talking about his recent world travels, which is almost de facto (probably) a talk about how fucked up America is. Which, if you haven’t been paying attention, is our national pastime. >>> Congrats to our lady friends who do The Rag, the monthly girls-getting-drunk-and-blasting-ELO night [...]

Click to enlarge. @rachelriot has the right idea here: It’s all bars. 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.

Says mapper Jon Goff: “I made this for some friends moving to Fishtown last year. Please note that it references ‘Secret Fishtown.’” OK, but, well, isn’t the first rule of living in Fishtown that there are no secrets? Ahem. Anybody else want to join in the fun? Send us your hand-drawn neighborhood maps to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com [...]

Holy wow: We’ve gotten a TON of submissions already for this new Thursday MP3 Dizzle thing we’re gonna try out. We’re still sifting through them, but have already heard some really great stuff. Nice going, Philadelphia. The first-ever Philebrity’s Thursday MP3 Dizzle will go live at 7PM tonight, so be sure to check back in [...]

Here’s the trailer for director Steve James‘ No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson. If timing is everything, well, James, who directed Hoop Dreams, has it all. The movie will premiere next week at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX.

… or at least so says The Daily Beast. Paging Liz Spikol!

… it’s all just too fucking creepy for words.

Spoilers be damned! This was, without a doubt, the best single episode of any new dramatic TV show in a long, long time.

Click to enlarge. Responding to our call the other day for hand-drawn neighborhood maps, here’s the first submission by @thedaveclarke. His chosen ‘hood? Old City, the very cradle of liberty. Things to love here: That he ran out of green marker so park areas are both green and white, Charlie’s Bar (and Cafe Ole) in [...]