Says our reader: “This has been created over a few nights near my place in Germantown. Not exactly yarn bombing but very interesting.” Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

>>> As ever, your Philebrity Salon returns tonight at the old 700 bar in NoLibs, where DJs Kyle & Jojo delve deep into the now-familiar catalog of Salon jazz classics, plus the odd bit of whathaveyou thrown in for good measure. Come join us. >>> Or: Health/Indian Jewelry/Gold Panda at the First Unitarian Church (great [...]

Those of you have been following The Courtship Of Buzz Bissinger and Philebrity can add a piece of the puzzle that will no doubt end some day soon in an entire afternoon full of sweaty manlove. It’s this piece Buzz just penned for The New Republic, wherein everyone’s favorite wearer of ball-hugging leather pants reveals [...]

· Starr Does It All, The Crowd Goes Wild · Adam Gertler is Back for Dessert · Update: This Is Why You’re Off the ‘Net, and More All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Hipster Trainwreck Anthems: A Broadzilla Classics Mix by BroadzillaDJs In the time that it has taken the Broadzilla kids to complete this mixtape — which bounces all over the place from the The Knife to Can to Junior Senior to Limhal — they’ve gotten cool, lost their cool, and then gotten cool again. Likewise, Sal’s, [...]

ATLANTIC CITY: After serving nothing but cheese sandwiches last April in retaliation for lunchtime cell-phone coordinated food fights, Atlantic City High School lunch ladies are now expressing solidarity in the face of more food fights through matching t-shirts. When two food fights broke out last week, cafeteria workers started sporting t-shirts with “A.C.H.S. Home of [...]

Ezekiel 25:17: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the Valley of Darkness; for he is truly his brother’s keeper, and the finder [...]

Trenton boy/master of the ad lib Ernie Kovacs got his break here in Philadelphia, where he was a pioneer of live television. Shot in 1952 at the old WPTZ studios at 1619 Walnut Street, Kovacs On The Corner was hodgepodge variety show that felt like it was going on in someone’s kitchen. Part one is [...]

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This may be a bit of inside baseball, for sure, but we pass it along for two reasons: 1) So that you can have a bit of a window onto the world of Philebs and 2) For all of our out-of-work-or-about-to-be-out-of-work writers and editors out there who almost inevitably will try their hands online at [...]

Oh, Susan Finkelstein: You know, we don’t regret being nice and saying what we said way back when we learned of her existence, but we have to say, the longer her renown wears on, the more we’re like, it’s great that you’re freaky, it’s great that you own it, it’s just that… we find all [...]

· Yep, they’re filming at Maggiano’s, which we can only hope means that there’s going to be a Maggiano’s episode, wherein the gang shamefully admits that, yeah, like the rest of the native Philadelphian population, they think the food there is kinda good. · And of course, Danny Devito reunited with his buddy Jnnnnphrhrhprrrr Frrrdrdrdrdckkkkk [...]

Let us investigate, then: Click here to check out How I Got Over, the new album by the Roots. Previously: New Roots Album Promises Return To Form Through Artwork, Collabs With Rock Dudes

>>> Gasland, the doc about Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling (which has made PA “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas,” as awful as that sounds) directed by Josh Fox and a handful of Philly expats, airs on HBO. >>> Plus: Mirah at the First Unitarian Church, and of course Phil Collins at the Electric Factory. [...]

Just like the Dodo birds and the bees, the yellow pages, Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs (oh wait, they’re back!), Blockbuster video, ham radio, personal checks, and Polaroid film, it appears that silence is going extinct. Silence doesn’t mean the absence of sound entirely. It’s just the absence of, y’know, sound that we (humans) are making [...]

Via Twitterer @ThePhaggot (not us, we swear), The Resident Philebrity Gay has learned that America’s Got Talent Season 3 runner-up DC Cowboys Dance Company will be a headliner for the Independence Day Parade on July 4, providing a sort of relevant-ten-years-ago gaygaygay prelude to the relevant-ten-years-ago Goo Goo Dolls concert on the Parkway later that [...]

What’s up, white people? You all got a case of the Mondays? Let’s turn that frown upside down: The New Pornographers are playing The Troc tonight with The Dodos and The Dutchess & The Duke, and we’ve got some last minute tickets for those of you that love these lovable Canadians so. To enter to [...]

Our pal Ralph Stollenwerk writes: So we made some Trestle Inn shirts last week, i will never forget the trestle, i ate lunch there once, just once…i was looking over the menu and a regular next to me said, “you want the fish sandwich” and i reply,”i’m not really in the mood for fish right [...]

This is from the Always Sunny shoot today at Harrah’s in Chester, though it’s more fun to believe it’s from the memorial service for Bros Icing Bros. [via @danny_devito and Crossing Broad] Previously: And Now, The Stalker’s Guide To Next Week’s Always Sunny Shoot

Well it is the first day of summer, you know. Contains moderately hilarious (and possibly NSFW) language.