FRIDAY: >>> You wanted the best, you got… that Killers song! Philebrity Presents: The Songs That Save Your Life with DJ Dennis Wolffang and MC Eddie Austin at The Barbary is ON, and we’re pretty excited. For one, we will be making history with the most over-30s in the Barbary forever, and for two, it [...]

RECOMMENDED: Is anyone up for some WHITE HOT ARGENTINEAN POLICE THRILLER ACTION this weekend? I bet you didn’t know you were until just now. The Secret in Their Eyes won this year’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and now, Argentinean writer/director/editor Juan Jose Campanella‘s potboiler about a decades-long manhunt hits these shores. ALSO NEW [...]

This just in: State Senator Daylin Leach (D-17) will introduce medical marijuana legislation into the PA Senate on May 4, 2010. Prepping for a press conference he’ll give on Tuesday, Leach issued a statement today saying, “It’s long past time we move beyond the misinformation and ancient wives’ tales and allow people to have the [...]

Hoo-boy: Make that the second time this week Sweeney has driven someone batty by not feeling like giving a quote to some faccacta story. First, it was negging a piece on whether all hipsters stole all their fashion sense from all gays (really?); now, the dude has invoked the ire of none other than formerly [...]

Says reader Ben: “Looks like somebody is having fun post-purchase.” We’re not seeing the warning, though — are you?

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PBJ has a nice write-up on the particulars but won’t touch the layoff question with a ten foot pole.

And like some Chekhov family drama, it’s been going on like this for years. How, in the neverending cycle of all things “alt,” this eventually got spat out as this, though, is particularly interesting, as if it took five years for “We hate hipsters!” to be whispered down the lane into “Hipsters, come garden with [...]

Right now, in Philebrity HQ, we’ve got the windows open, we just had a big ol’ Tex-Mex BBQ lunch, and Here’s To Taking It Easy, the new album by Phosphorescent is breezing through the office like the inviting smell of a not-too-distant jazz cigarette. It is spring. We made it, everybody. And just yesterday, we [...]

Hey, remember City Lights?

As we mentioned last week, Comcast was in the final rounds of running for Consumerist’s Worst Company In America. Well, good news, everybody: They won! All that awaits us now is for Consumerist to hand-deliver the Golden Poo award to the Comcast Sex Toy Tower. It’s a proud day in KableTown®.

But unlike the rest of the world, the way that this was decided in New Jersey was so bizarre and jughandle-fucked that it could make you question whether or not New Jersey is really wrong here and that we should all re-examine our earlier, non-New-Jersey-influenced opinion.

Real talk: A lot of us just resisted. So when City Controller Alan Butkovitz issued a press release on Monday decrying the fact that Philly’s participation in the 2010 Census ranks eighth among the top 10 populated cities, we got to thinking: Does this say something about who we are? We have no way of [...]

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If you watch one meme-video thingy of Hitler saying “Foobooz” this year, make it this one. Also, MediaComedians, whoever you are, we think we love you.

File under: Things so fucking weird they shouldn’t even be illegal and the cops should be like, “Yeah, bro, do your thing.” Also — the lady who says that alligators are catching on as pets? WE LOVE YOU. PLEASE PARTY WITH US ON FRIDAY.

Nothing gold can stay. OK, so we’ll just post the immediate fallout of today’s PNI sale here, as it comes in, along with random thoughts and questions: · Ladies and gentlemen, our first link to the Inquirer since we began our boycott of that paper almost a year ago: “We didn’t make it,” Tierney said. [...]

Via Bloomberg: Philadelphia Inquirer Lenders Group Wins Bankrupcty Auction 2010-04-28 19:35:55.26 GMT By Carlyn Kolker April 28 (Bloomberg) — Lenders to Philadelphia Newspapers LLC, bankrupt owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, won a fight for control of the company against a group led by billionaire Ronald Perelman. Developing…

Hey, remember last week when we were trying to crowdsource a theme for our party this Friday night at the Barbary? THIS is the result! So come on down — there’s no cover, cheap drinks, and nice big dancefloor — and in the meantime, tell us in the comments below the songs that saved your [...]

Tremaine Johnson was a bitter, lying third grader. When he wasn’t coveting his classmate’s pepperoni and provolone sandwiches, he was deceiving his mother and grandmother in attempts to avoid eating his regular lunch: Oscar Mayer bologna sandwiches (a.k.a “Pig dick in my best friend’s corpse”). At last night’s First Person StorySlam, the theme was Whoppers [...]