Good old Toll Brothers and their Naval Square enclave–Philly’s first large-scale (and hopefully only) gated development… when life gives you a big Odunde African-American street festival, there’s only one thing to do — chain a chunk of fence to your front gates and let the Schuylkill neighborhood know this is a private “community” in case [...]

This is a short film Ted Passon made about Philebrity Award Winner/internationally famous photographer Zoe Strauss, who, it must be said, seems like the cosmically appointed Artist Laureate of this city. (Someone non-cosmic should go ahead and appoint her and make it official already.) If you’re familiar with Zoe’s work (and many already are), you’ll [...]

There are a sticky handful of aggravating things about this WaPo piece by Michael Smerconish about cable news (and the political environment that it covers) and the way it’s swung the debate into a cartoonishly polarized place where basically everyone sucks and no one listens to each other anyway. He’s right about that — and, [...]

Pop quiz: It’s Independent Retail Week here in Philly, which means… a) shopping with a cocktail in hand. b) donating broken umbrellas to be re-imagined into “fashion items” and sold to benefit Haiti relief efforts. c)  attending a sustainable fashion show in Love Park. d) all of the above. If you guessed d, you’re too good. Get [...]

Whoa, we’ve never seen this one before! And you know how Professor Nuggetz likes his Intruders, yo.

Do you love the Fox29 morning show with Fred Willard and the tranny and the nice lady from Community but sometimes can’t watch because you are already at work? Behold! The FOX29 Ustream feed. Holy crap, I think this might mean we get to watch the Wendy Williams show at work now, in a bizarre [...]

But then again, if they’re hawking ad space to Bud Light on their flight attendants’ aprons, I suppose they have much larger problems than having some blogger question their existential status.

Did anybody see this? Was anybody there? Was it just a bunch of cops chasing a bunch of black kids out of the park? We saw a blip of footage on the news about it, and, well, it looks shenanigans-y. We want to know more. We want a YouTube freestyle rap about it. This is [...]

We only mention it because April Margera is probably (maybe) (extremely doubtful) the only woman in the world who deserves such an act of primitive release. Or, at least, the woman who, if such a privilege was being passed out as a one-time, consequence-free cosmic gift, would most deserve the right. But no! It wasn’t [...]

FRIDAY: >>> We’re pretty psyched for this week’s Philebrity Happy Hour at Octo with special guests East Hundred: The weather is perfect, the vacation-y vibes down there are unstoppable, and man, this “Slow Burning Crimes” track (at right) hits that nougat-y core of the getaway vibe that lurks in every corner these days. Band hits [...]

RECOMMENDED: While it’s true that, yes, you need to divorce yourself from roughly 30 years of celeb-news headlines to do so, believing Michael Douglas in these aging-Peter-Pan complex roles he does so well every few years is a really fun thing to do. Solitary Man would seem to pick up a bunch of the threads [...]

The Philadelphia Police, as you may have read or heard, are in search of a person of interest in the case of Sabina Rose O’Donnell’s murder. They released this video last night; more info here.

· A two-day hearing begins in Washington Thursday to consider lifting a 27-year FDA ban on blood donations by gay men. The lifetime ban – inspired by the 1980s AIDS epidemic – excludes any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 from ever donating blood. · In the anti-discrimination corner: heterosexual men [...]

Hey, remember that mysterious Bryn Mawr art dealer who thunked down a record-breaking price for Jasper Johns’ Flag? Prior to being in the possession of Michael Crichton, it had only been shown once before in exhibition, and now, from June 26 through September 12, it’ll be on view at the Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine [...]

And not a moment too soon.

>>> More good live shows: Quintron plays The Barbary early/all-ages style at 6pm; The Asteroid #4 and High Dials play Johnny Brenda’s; and West Philadelphia Orchestra does their monthly Balkan dance party thing at Tritone. >>> And in DancingTown, there is Time Warp versus Night Train. WHICH GANG OF DISAFFECTED THIRTYSOMETHINGS WILL WIN?

With renovations now underway on the Ben Franklin Parkway, the Parkway Council is seeking public opinion on various redesign plans for Eakins Oval and the area around 25th and Pennsylvania Ave that aim to improve driving, walking, and bicycling routes. The council has been plastering surveys (like this one) on online community forums, local org [...]

As mentioned in this post the other day, “Future Primitive” by the band Papercuts was a favorite tune of Sabina Rose O’Donnell, and in one of the nicer things we’ve seen anyone do lately, Papercuts dude Jason Quever re-recorded an acoustic version of the song for Sabina. You can download it here, and we imagine [...]

Hey guys: Due to some unforeseen circumstances, we’ve had to move Philebrity’s Sixth Annual Belle & Sebastian Dance Party to Saturday, July 24th. It will still be at National Mechanics, it will still be a sweaty mass declaration of love and possibility, and it will still be that which we live for all year round. [...]

BUCKS COUNTY: A husband and wife drug-dealing duo was arrested yesterday after police found 24 pounds of pot worth more than $125,000 in their home, proving that the family that sells copious amounts of drugs together stays together. [KYW] CENTER CITY: Two LUSH employees protested U.S. consumption of tar sands oil from Canada on Wednesday [...]