Reader Alex writes in with a photo of our one-day obsession from yesterday afternoon: I saw her [yesterday] around 3PM standing across the street from TD Bank repeatedly singing the song with purpose. Most people that saw her seemed to think it was either beautiful, funny, or obnoxious. What I gathered from some onlookers that [...]

You know, we bitch about our home base of Fishtown on here a lot (Rocket Cat, we hear you switched to La Colombe; is the peace process beginning?) but on the real: It would have been a total bummer if it exploded into millions of tiny pieces of white flesh and Arctic Splash containers. (Not [...]

Hey, remember the 1,000 of these things that the Philadelphia Police bought last year? You probably know this already: One of them was used last night when a fan rushed the field at a Phillies game. 52,000 fans saw it happen; people who were watching the game on TV didn’t. And now, millions, including you, [...]

When those new parking kiosks — rely on customers placing receipts on their dashboards for verification — appeared in the last few years, we had to know it was only a matter of time before some enterprising souls started faking them. And so, in the grand tradition of licking your hand and pressing it to [...]

Our crack team of city analysts have confirmed: Collectively, due to a combination of humidity and the overall modern condition just hitting the wall, Philadelphia has gone insane today. Are you seeing evidence? Please tell us at tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. We don’t want you to do our jobs for us, we just want you to point us [...]

We know what you’re thinking, because it was the first question we asked: She was singing the Alphaville version and not the Bob Dylan version. According to our photographer on the scene, “she had a gentle, confident smile,” and seemed to be aware that she was, in fact, singing “Forever Young” with a megaphone at [...]

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View Larger Map Philebrity has just learned that Philadelphia police, fire and bomb squad have responded to a reported bomb threat here in Fishtown, on Berks St. near the corner of Frankford Avenue. According to neighbors, a suspicious object had been spotted on Berks; currently, fire trucks and police have the area taped off and [...]

Et tu, Ritz Bourse?

Perhaps the shining star of the entire “Angry/Cocaine Joel” canon, captured right here, back in the day.

Remember Pia Varma, the Tea Party-infused wannabe GOP Congressional candidate with the funky fresh season-one-of-the-Real-World flava? Well, sadly (because watching this is fun), the State Supreme Court went ahead (and against precedent) and said, “Yeah, no, sorry Pia.” As you can see from her Facebook post over the weekend, Pia is all like, “Pfft, WHAT-evarrrrrrrrrr” [...]

Some of you might recall how, at the end of last year, local ad agency The Star Group caught a bunch of hell for designing perhaps the biggest turd of a city logo this side of Shafter, TX. Good to see, then, that they came out swinging for their next city project, Philly Tax Amnesty, [...]

It used to be like this. But now, it’s like this. >>> While we are sure that the Brian Tierney Pentagram Of Doom won’t truly be out of our lives for years and years to come — there is, for the moment at least, still an Archdiocese of Philadelphia that could employ him, and not [...]

We begin today with a simple question: What the hell are these things? All of a sudden, they’re on every telephone pole, new and old, and we can’t for the life of us figure out what they’re for. Do you know? Well, tell us already! UPDATE: They’re reflectors! It’s hard not to align this with [...]