FRIDAY: >>> Hey, you. C’mere. Give us a hug and kiss, why don’t ya: WE MADE IT. Remember when this was going on and we all just kept trying to be like this? We made it. Proudaya. >>> So! Let’s frontload this Memorial Day weekend, since we know that by Sunday, it will all be [...]

Let me start out by saying this: There were a lot of things I was going to start out saying. I wish I could tell you I went home and languidly flipped through the current issue of Vogue or Marie Claire or even Details, then looked up, distractedly stared out my open brownstone window, then [...]

Classy. Previously: Neighbourhood Watch: Please Tree-lease Me, Let Me Go

The American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter, was awarded a $45,000 Pew Center For Music & Heritage Music Project Grant for SoundExchange, a three-day residency with Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Steve Reich. The project will culminate in a performance by the Argento Chamber Ensemble of Reich’s Double Sextet, for which he received the [...]

So by now, you may have heard about M.I.A.’s bitchfit over Lynn Hirschberg’s New York Times Magazine profile of her, in which she publicly disclosed Hirschberg’s phone number as a means of retaliation for what the Sri Lankan post-pop star obviously deemed a hatchet job. To be fair, Hirschberg does go out of her way [...]

MAYOR NUTTER, MAYOR DALEY BET ON STANLEY CUP Philadelphia, May 27, 2009 – Today, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Mayor Richard M. Daley announced that they would bet on the outcome of the Stanley Cup between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Chicago Blackhawks. Should the Flyers win or lose, Mayor Nutter will volunteer in a [...]

In a piece about the waning nature of the Great American Gayborhood, Inky scribe Matt Katz lowers the boom on the awful wages of “Midtown Village”: As I walked home one night, a man in a Mitsubishi Eclipse and Jersey plates tried to pick me up: He rolled down the window and cruised slowly passed, [...]

>>> I just heard Fang Island for the first time and already I forget it, but years from now, when they compile the Big Book Of Bands With Names That Reference Wolves And Vampires, I will be able to say: I was there! They play the Barbary at 7pm. >>> Q: What is the grand [...]

At this point in the game, Philly soul — specifically “The Sound Of Philadelphia” aka TSOP — compilations are a dime a dozen, with most offering up well-worn Gamble & Huff classics with a few obscurities here and there. But Dimitri From Paris’ Get Down With The Philly Sound (BBE), which came out on May [...]

When City Paper launched their in-house Askadelphia blog a few months ago, it felt like the directive was pretty clear: The blog had obviously been seeded by a marketing department desperate to develop a Yelp-like base of info and “reviews” that could, at some point down the road, become a cash cow of unreliable information [...]

Musical chameleons Of Montreal, known for their whimsical on-stage antics and outfits (or lack thereof), promise all of that and more (or less) when they play the Theatre of Living Arts Saturday with fellow Georgia natives Noot d’ Noot. Of Montreal’s newest album, tentatively entitled False Priest, is due out in September 2010. To enter [...]

FISHTOWN: Ten bundled evergreen trees were left untouched in a nearby lot for nearly a month, resulting in a custody battle between their original owner and local residents who started taking the trees and planting them elsewhere. The trees belonged to self-proclaimed urban farming leader Greensgrow Farms, located at the 2500 block of E Cumberland [...]

The latest from Philly’s own Reef The Lost Cauze features likewise Philly up-and-comer Ethel Cee.

We were wondering where that dude who sings in Marah had gotten to. GO FLYERS! [Image courtesy Fresh Design & Media]

Hard to believe that Greenworks, Mayor Michael Nutter‘s program to make Philadelphia the number one “green city” in America, is already a year old. But it is; and yesterday, Nutter released the Greenworks Philadelphia 2010 Progress Report, detailing everything that’s been done over the last year in the name of making the city a greener [...]

Well, that sounds like a stretch, but surely, $1.3B — that’s billion, y’all — is nothing to sneeze at. That’s what Google says it generated in economic activity for PA businesses last year. NJ bested even that with a $1.4B jolt.

Now, we know that the bar has not been set particularly high — that’s your problem, Philebrity Wack Pack — but in response to this post about yesterday’s immigration reform march in Philly, Rev. Nate Walker of First Unitarian Church left his account of yesterday, and quite frankly, it got us. Right here. He said: [...]

Poor Marty Moss-Coane. Sometimes, people (who, going in, seem like more or less reasonable human beings) go on her show, start spouting crazy bullshit, and it’s all she can do to just nod, take it all in, and like a psychiatrist who’s just been told that the only way their patient feels whole is to [...]

We’re really pleased to feature Party Photographers, one of our favorite new Philly bands, this Friday as the first-ever group to play Philebrity Happy Hour @ Octo. Party Photographers operate in a grand tradition of fuzzy pop bands that essentially started with The Shangri-Las, got re-injected with The Jesus & Mary Chain in the 80s, [...]

>>> We like the raw, early-Echo & The Bunnymen swagger of the one track we’ve been able to hear thus far from new Philly band The Midnight Sounds (pictured), comprised of members of Gildon Works, Native Black and Ink & Dagger. They open a bill at 8PM sharp tonight at Kung Fu Necktie that also [...]