The Independence Hall Tea Party is a loose affiliation of locals all flying whatever flag the ad-hoc Tea Party movement can fly at any given moment. At present, it is comprised of Joey Vento, listeners of Dom Giordano‘s knee-jerk radio hour, any number of astroturfing groups as outed on the Rachel Maddow show, angry old [...]

FRIDAY: >>> In honor of this week’s change in how weed possession charges will now be processed in Philadelphia, we’d like to offer you the following suggestions: Cinderella at the Electric Factory, and/or Acid Mothers Temple at Johnny Brenda’s. That is all. SATURDAY: >>> Two big, big things that we’ve touched on earlier, both related [...]

And with that, Philebrity would like to cordially welcome THE PHILADELPHIA UNION to town this weekend, as they play their first home game tomorrow. UP THE UNION! Previously: From The Desk Of Ed Farnsworth: UP THE UNION!

Celebrity boxing promoter/hero to publicists Damon Feldman, shown above with two women whose identities no reasonable person should admit to knowing, has been arrested and charged with fixing celebrity boxing fights and promoting without a license. In related news, Jesus wasn’t white. [Photo credit: HughE Dillion/Philly ChitChat] Previously: Someone Famous Went Somewhere Once: Michael Lohan [...]

RECOMMENDED AT THE PHILADELPHIA FILM FESTIVAL SPRING PREVIEW: The Square is an Australian film by director Nash Edgerton who lays on a kind of Hitchcock-by-way-of-Neil-LaBute suspense so thick that, no lie, I gasped like I’d been stabbed at one point during the movie. And it felt fantastic. Edgerton’s movie is populated by nice working-class/suburban Aussies, [...]

Now ain’t that a vibe.

Click above to view full schedule. We got a good one here for ya, folks: As you may know, The Philadelphia Film Society’s Spring Film Fest Preview starts tonight. Now, while tickets to the Fest are free, many of those have already been snapped up and what remains is “rush line” seating for screenings. We [...]

Click to enlarge. Reader o b did us a solid by mapping out one of our thus-far neglected ‘hoods, where we spent some of our high school years traversing on the way to Electric Playground and trying not to get beat up. “Not too many sites of note,” he says, “but perhaps a posting of [...]

From a letter to the editor in yesterday’s Washington Post: On Monday, I went to Nationals Park, thrilled that the season was opening and hoping for a victory. But my enthusiasm was dampened quickly. After the Phillies fans cheered loudly for their team (which I do not begrudge), they booed the whole time our team [...]

JobVent is a review site for employers, and it is… fascinating. The site runs on a pretty simple concept, as described in the moniker: People go on, vent about their jobs, and then rate the company accordingly. And it’s fascinating not just because, even in these funemployed times, people hate their jobs (actually that is [...]

Nothing gold can stay. Meanwhile, with Wynn stating that he’d be into it again if the state revoked Foxwoods’ license — which could in fact totally happen, as the Foxwoods tale gets worse and worse all the time — all signs point to a power play/taking-my-toys-and-going-home situation here. Is Wynn gone forever? Probably not.

Once again, we asked and you delivered. Whilst listening to an episode of American Routes last weekend, it hit us: Why isn’t there more of a canon of traditional and real, present-day songs about Philadelphia? So many of the great musical cities of America through the ages — we’re thinking New Orleans, New York City, [...]

Suffice it to say that we picked up what this guy was putting down. Rest in peace, you wild genius.

Er, ah, that’s what she said.

Despite its lenders’ continued pissing and moaning about their lovely (and mostly likely ultimately ignored) credit-swapping possibilities, Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. is still on course to go up on the auction block on April 27th, a federal appeals panel has ruled. The decision might go some of the way towards explaining Brian Tierney’s Big Weird Press [...]

Gosh. The old scene in Philly was so much more straaaaange and wonderful than the current one.

HughE has been trying to explain to us how this dark vortex of celebrity boxing, fameballs and gross dads came to land in South Philly, but really, we need not wonder: The South Philly business community has been inviting this kind of rapture for years now. And while we could opine about how much better [...]

Click to enlarge. When we ran this clip yesterday of artist Steve Powers speaking about his “Love Letter” mural project in West Philly, one commenter noted that, as awesome as Powers and his project are, how come there’s still been no submission for a hand-drawn map of West Philly? (We were a little bit stymied [...]

Pop Corn téléphone portable micro-ondesUploaded by sassiere. – News videos from around the world. Because I have to be honest: This is one of those email fwds from my mom, which usually scare the hell out of me in a far more abstract way. First yarn bombers, now this. The world isn’t just a vampire; [...]

Because many of today’s young, first-time homeowners want to know that their realtor isn’t the kind of person who eats houses. As seen on the Honey’s Sit-n-Eat placemat. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.