When we last checked in with The Roots That Is A Real Band (as opposed to The Roots That Does Bits And Plays Thirty Second Snippets Of Tunes As Jimmy Fallon Walk-On Music), they dropped a heavy bummer of an album and then rode off into the latenight sunset. It was a quizzical move to [...]

Flyers advance to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1997. Fishtown, try not to burn yourself down tonight.

In honor of Knitting Factory’s just-out reissues of the Fela catalog, we’re gonna spend Tuesday night SERIOUSLY GETTING INTO IT, as we check out Fela: The Best Of The Black President at our weekly Philebrity Salon night at the 700 in Northern Liberties. Please join us: As always, there’ll be drinks and friends, and this [...]

Because actually, we are already there, and what we need is a goddamned hovercraft to better navigate the miles and miles of D-minus-rated PA roads that not even a $600M federal stimulus investment will not do much to fix. But you already knew that because you read Byko. Wokka wokka. Good luck getting home.

Even though we know Andrew spun there last week, we have literally no reason to believe that this wasn’t from, like, this morning. Also, we like that the one girl is dressed up as a banana for no apparent reason. [h/t Somewhat Shameless]

So don’t ask him to! He’s up in arms! And he’s quick to remind you! He’s not anti-bike! He’s pro-bike! He’s pro-mass transit! He just doesn’t want these bike lanes all over the friggin’ place! Because that will cause more traffic jams! But he doesn’t want people biking on the sidewalk, either! On this we [...]

It’s still difficult to know what we say years from now, when we look back upon Mayor Michael Nutter‘s first (only?) term as mayor. But one thing is for sure: Nutter’s term has largely been spent trying to put out one fire after the next, to the degree that it’s caused him to lose political [...]

Thea Gallis and Kevin Musselman (pictured) won “Best 1-2 Person Sculpture” in the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby on Saturday. Got more pics from the event? Share links in the comments. [Photo credit: Bicycle Coalition Of Philadelphia]

We should really bring The Philebrity Index back. The Atlantic: The Future Of The City/Philadelphia By The Numbers

[H/t Boing Boing.]

Former Arsenal star/devastatingly handsome Frenchman Robert Pires has declined an offer to play for the Philadelphia Union thusly, according to FanNation: “Pires explained that he would prefer to retire than move his family to a city that wasn’t ‘beautiful.’” With all due respect, Mr. Pires, we think you’re wrong about Philly. But we can totally [...]

We’d like to begin this post by saying HOLY SHIT PHILADELPHIA FLYERS! (We’ve refrained from covering the NHL playoffs thus far because the one guy we thought to ask to do it couldn’t; if you’d like to cover the Flyers on Philebrity if and when they do advance to the MOTHERFUCKING STANLEY CUP FINALS, please [...]

Just before dusk last Thursday, an impromptu crowd gathered in Fishtown where the small Ritter Street meets Norris in Fishtown. Standing in formation around a parked SUV, clutching cameras, it could have easily been the scene just prior to a prom or a wedding; only, this wasn’t about a departure, it was about an arrival. [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Listen: As soon as I finish this, I’m going OUTSIDE because I can. It’s what they call “sweat equity” in that, yes, I have no health insurance, but on the other hand, I own the company so I can drink sweet Miller Lites in the sun on Friday afternoons: Is this not a [...]

RECOMMENDED: We can’t lie: We saw MacGruber and it was fucking funny as hell. HOW? We know not. ALSO NEW IN THEATERS: Mother And Child, director Rodrigo García‘s drama about three estranged women, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Naomi Watts; Kites, a melodramatic Bollywood extravaganza being marketed to U.S. audiences; and Shrek Forever After, the [...]

Ah, 1982, when Philly was weird and you were, too. [h/t PhithyBlog h/t msdanika]

Turnaround Vs. Immediate Summer 2010 Mix by rocktits! Now what you got right here is a big ol’ funky mess, courtesy of the Turnaround Vs. Immediate guys, whose monthly night at The Barbary really does make life a little more worth living. Some of these dudes will be spinning the Making Time 10th Anniversary Party [...]

After debating whether or not to oust him more than once, we were a little bit shocked to find that, apropos of seemingly nothing, longtime Philebrity commenter jburnside signed off from our comments section forever late yesterday afternoon. Or at least, so he says. Here’s Burny’s Dear John letter: ************BURNSIDE’S LAST POST!!!********************** Kindly refrain from [...]

Question #1: Pineapple Express James Franco, Gucci ad James Franco, General Hospital James Franco, or Milk James Franco? Question #2: How do the “mostly evening hours” work into this rather broad idea of “service industry”? Hrm… Question #3: Does “Uniform is required and will depend on the occasion” remind anyone else of this (NSFW)? Question [...]

In a find that we’ll be forwarding to anthropologists all over the world shortly, Philebrity is pleased to announce that we have recently learned that we are in possession of what appears to be The World’s Oldest Living iPod (pictured). As you may remember, the iPod was a thing you put your music on, complete [...]