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>>> Oh, spring fever, what the hell is up: Tigerbeats at the Barbary, Souled Out soul 45s party at The Raven, Sherlock Holmes for Movie Monday at The Troc, and Rock Band Karaoke at P.Y.T. Related question: What is “a job?”

From a press release just sent out by D.A. Seth Williams: We are not decriminalizing marijuana — any effort like that would be one for the legislature to undertake. The penalty available for these minimal amount offenses remains exactly the same. What we are doing is properly dealing with cases involving minimal amounts of marijuana [...]

A reader tells us that the infamous Frank Rizzo mural in the Italian Market is being painted over today. As he put it, “I am all for defacing Il Duce, just curious how this even got approved, and why there aren’t goodfellas protesting as I type.” Anybody know anything about this?

… even if it was the President. Because even the President should know that Nationals don’t actually have any fans. So it’s more like one of those “boos” that eventually morphs into a laughing/pitying “awww, hahaha.” In related news, the Phils are currently pantsing the Nats.

What? That is fucking weird. A reader spotted this on eBay. Everyone’s Racquet exists today, but at a different Center City location. Tellingly, they no longer offer this t-shirt.

Sigh.

If nothing else, the current abuse scandal raging around the Catholic Church — in which Pope Benedict XVI is accused of looking the other way as myriad of abuse charges ran by his desk — is a study in how not to handle a scandal in the modern age. But being raised Catholic (and now [...]

Rejoice, Potsmokers! D.A. Seth Williams announced plans to start treating possession of small amounts of marijuana as a summary offense — and thereby punishable with fines and not jail time. It’s an effort, of course, to unclog a court and penal system already jammed up with weed offenses that, real talk, don’t need to be [...]

Gigabit City is our way of rallying the communities who applied for gigabit around a simple idea: that our communities deserve gigabit with or without Google. We’ve renamed our website from Gigabit Philly to Gigabit City to be more inclusive to members of other gigabit communities. We’ve also changed the way we’re framing our goal [...]

As regular readers of this site no doubt know, here at Philebrity, we just don’t believe in football. (We could talk for hours about this, but suffice to say that football is like war and math all in one, with the added reminder of idiocracy everywhere one turns.) And in much the same way that [...]

War is hell. FRIDAY: >>> For once, the Big Story on Action News tonight is not a fire in Kensington but rather, the amazing weather we’re having that almost makes you want to make plans only so you can break them if they don’t include drinking in the out-of-doors. Bearing that in mind, please remember [...]

RECOMMENDED: The remake of Clash Of The Titans may not have Harry Hamlin in a loincloth, but it does feature slapdash after-the-fact 3D effects and a strong, strong chance that it’s the worst movie both Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes have ever been in, so we don’t really see how you could go wrong. ALSO [...]

We’re not even gonna pretend like we haven’t been creaming our jeans over Girls for months now. They’re playing Making Time at Voyeur with Dum Dum Girls on Friday night, and if this doesn’t mean anything to you, we give up. Maybe you should start reading Phillyist or something, I dunno. Before you leave, though, [...]

>>> Philly-born Free Jazz legend Giuseppi Logan — more, including audio and video, here – returns home tonight for a show at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, which could really be the beginning of a perfect night. Do that. Seriously. >>> Elsewhere: Comedy troupe Rare Bird Show does an all-out April Fool’s special at The Khyber; [...]

Says reader Timothy Lorber: “I was there with my ipodphone and managed to capture the real truth about what happened. The Fire Rats started to attack and the PPA came rushing in and took care of the issue. I have heard that due to the city’s current budget crisis they are having the PPA double [...]

At this point, it’s kind of impossible not to feel like the kids are winning this, whatever “this” is. More from City Hall here.

The Temper Trap is like this world-famous band that we only just found out about because we are very, very old and still distracted by Kraftwerk. But apparently, they are huge and it’s a big deal that they are playing the TLA this Saturday, and we’ve got some tickets here to give away so that [...]