With public outcry already quite loud on the subject, the PA state House Liquor Control Committee addressed the recent beer raids on Resurrection Ale House/Local 44/Memphis Taproom today. And to that end, the Committee agreed with, well, anyone who’s heard about this: That to go into these bars with guns blazing because they might have [...]

· New Cafe In Fishtown Brings Grand Total Of Decent Cups Of Coffee Around Here To A Whopping 2 · Holy Mother Of God, Did You Just Say There Will Be 21 New Philly-Area Krispy Kreme Locations? · Dept. Of TMI: Thanks For The Pizza Glue Trap News, PETA! All this and more — plus [...]

The theme of “Perfect Storm” at last night’s First Person StorySlam at World Cafe Live took many forms: Sometimes, they were literal squalls with wind gusting and rain gushing, even raining on one storyteller while inside her car. Other times, they symbolized the convergence of events leading to something perfectly wonderful or perfectly horrible (often [...]

Here’s Philadelphia Union forward/newly minted hero/local sex icon Sebastien Le Toux on his hat-tricking ways that led the Union to a 3-2 win over D.C. United on Saturday. But honestly, we can’t understand anything he’s saying. We’re just getting lost in that accent and those dreamy shoulders. What? Oh, right: Yay soccer!

Well, probably not. But as this New York Times piece explains, the age of going on to your favorite local news site and spewing whatever your flavor of anonymous bile is could be coming to an end. Man, Philly.com just cannot catch a break these days. Zing.

The Franklin Institute Awards are the Franklin’s annual, self-identifying celebration and wolf call of all that it is to be NEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Man, look at all them nerds! We don’t even understand what half of them do. But we know a little bit about the recipient of The 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership: His name [...]

Jonbenets, Jonbenet-mommys and Arthur Kadelings alike, rejoice! The Wilhelmina Agency is setting up shop locally in order to better help you with your dreams of modeling, acting and finally, imploding your life after you’re caught snorting crushed-up Oxys off of Andy Dick’s ass and TMZ won’t even pay attention. Hey, we even got a kiss-assy [...]

Via a press release sent out by Wawa yesterday: On Wednesday, April 14, at 10:30 AM Wawa’s Billion Dollar Savings Parade will begin! The event fittingly comes during tax month, when saving is more top of mind than ever for everyone across the country. [Wawa brass] Stoeckel and Mills will lead the savings parade from [...]

Is there a takeaway from this awful tale of a man dying Sunday morning aboard the Market-Frankford NiteOwl bus? In fact, there’s a few: One is, if you think you might die, don’t get on the bus. No one will help you. Two is, after you die, SEPTA employees will do what they do best: [...]

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting! SUCK IT, INKY!

With the Phillies home opener slated to begin in about half an hour, Phileb wonders: Will Cole Hamels get booed today? Our money says yes: Just a week into the season, Hamels is already throwing like a chump and that sniveling attitude we saw during the post-season last year doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. [...]

DO NOT WANT! Says reader Erik: “Here are some camera phone shots of 19th and Market after being transformed to look like 52nd and 6th in NYC for the filming of The Dark Fields. I also saw Mr. Hangover himself getting whisked away into a car but did not react quickly enough to get a [...]

For the last six years, every spring, Philebrity has celebrated an evening of dancing and drinking with nothing but the music of Belle & Sebastian, whom we (and many of you) regard as being the greatest pop group of our time. Each year, it is an astounding event on many, many levels. We’ll have more [...]

Debuting in November! Personally, we would have liked to have seen him go to Fox, but whatevs. Conan is Conan. We’ll take it.

Pride of Upper Darby/Phileb soulmate (even if Date Night is kind of an unapologetic prole fantasy) Tina Fey hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend and killed. One of our favorites was this bit, in which the “caramel surprise” was simultaneously gross and hot at the same time. How this episode went off, though, without a [...]

Philebrity is saddened to learn that the Rock ‘N’ Roll Exxon, which severed its relationship with the Exxon corporation last year, has been painted over (beige!) and is no longer a Rock ‘N’ Roll Anything. Though gas is not presently available and all transactions must be paid in cash, the business is survived by Grilladelphia, [...]

When we received an email with the above subject header, our first instinct was that it was going to look something like this guy. But alas, no. As you can see, though, it’s a far more manageable situation. As long as you kids make sure not to put your hands in there. Well, same with [...]

Oh, Philly Clout: We love you so, but did you really have to go all the way around the block and invent some ruse about how “sometimes we enjoy going through the old Daily News archives” to do a post about The Great DeBarge Flash Mob Riot Of 1985 that we’ve been referencing since February? [...]

Click to enlarge. Reader Sean Callahan graciously filled in another gap in our ever-widening hand-drawn neighborhood map project with this map of Fitler Square. It’s a bit food-and-drink-heavy, and there’s no mention of the late, great Judy Garland Park but hey, that’s gentrification for you. These maps, we suppose, are more about as we are [...]