· New size (thanks to a lack of tenants and a blundering economy) of the anticipated 350,000 square-foot Philly Live complex of shopping, restaurants, and bars set to replace the Spectrum: 40,000 square feet · Age of a man who literally drove through a NE Philly Burger King: 80 years · Number of parking tickets [...]

Philebrity wack pack regular/insider-outsider artist/force of nature Darren Finizio apparently went to audition for America’s Got Talent and somehow got on. That’s him freaking out and screaming and writhing on the floor in the first ten seconds of the above trailer. Not sure if his segment will air tonight or tomorrow night, but either way, [...]

>>> Hey Tuesday night, let me relax up inside you with friends and vibes. Hang The DJ, Dennis Wolffang‘s new Smiths/Manchester sounds night, is at The Barbary; Philebrity Salon is back at 700 (just Jojo on DJ duty night, wielding a mint copy of the soundtrack to Woody Allen’s Manhattan); and if you want Tuesday [...]

Our friend Tommy Up writes: A message from Sabina Sabina was an otherworldly, magical little sprite. She & my girlfriend would take our dog to Liberty Lands, the gorgeous park in Northern Liberties, and spend hours playing in the nature there that Sabina loved so much. They would play with ladybugs and pick up ants [...]

Reader Sara snapped this on the way to her studio. Check these images on Philly Fire News. It looks like it’s under control at this point, but Vox Populi, Print Liberation, and several smaller artist studios are just 2-3 doors south of there at 319 North 11th Street, so here’s hoping there’s no smoke damage [...]

After a Marcellus Shale natural gas well erupted in Clearfield County last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has suspended drilling operations until an investigation is complete. Industry officials say that accidents like this one are very rare, but another Marcellus well exploded in West Virginia this week, a Texas natural gas pipeline exploded [...]

We’ve just received word that beloved titty bar J&J Trestle Inn, at 11th & Callowhill, is presently on fire. The Trestle closed last December, but was said to be undergoing renovations currently. And we suppose, in a manner of speaking, that it still is. Sorry, Trestle. Hope it all works out for you. [Photo credit: [...]

This Thursday on the National Geographic Channel’s World’s Toughest Fixes, host Sean Riley turns his attentions to SEPTA, where trains take on water, 12,000 volts of electricity are flying through the air, and… oh yeah, it’s SEPTA, also. WTF indeed.

As I walk my unemployed ass to my local coffee house through my hometown of fishtown, I come across this lovely display of our wonderful tax dollars hard at work. It seems in Michael Nutter‘s uber determination to pass the music/performance tax he has the City of Philadelphia in our local neighborhoods tearing down any [...]

As you know! Like we were saying! Byko doesn’t like bike lanes! And he will not shut the fuck up about it! Which is funny! And we can laugh at it! Because anyone who actually takes Byko seriously at this late date will be dead soon! So the Bicycle Coalition Of Philadelphia had this great [...]

Well, sort of. Last week, we updated you on the highly controversial “Promoter’s Bill” (gov’t name Bill 100267) introduced by Councilmen Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee, and how it had been largely de-fanged. As the bill is set to go before Council tomorrow morning in what is more or less its final form, it turns [...]

Hall & Oates, whose Wikipedia page you really ought to read, have once again shown us that they are leaders among men, and generally sweet bros. Reacting to the state of Arizona’s recent reactionary and draconian immigration legislation, the group has pulled out of a gig in Phoenix on July 2 following an Arizona Diamondbacks [...]

Although, to be fair, one day they will come out with mapping technology that can register the general outlook and disposition of the people on the ground, and that will look like this, too. [via ifitwasmyhome.com]

Hey, Conan fans: We just got word that a bunch of seats have been released for Coco at the Tower Theater tonight. You should look into that.

On Thursday, the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program will officially dedicate RE:flect, the city’s first-ever “green wall” project, created by environmental artist JEFRË (good lord, these people with their upper-and-lowercase and umlaut nonsense) with some assistance from the kids at Mural Arts Program’s Mural Corps art education program. According the folks at Mural Arts, [...]

As part of a long-range plan to redevelop the Central Delaware Waterfront since 2007, an as-yet-to-be-named park is set to open this fall at the foot of Pier 53. As reported on PlanPhilly.com, a brief planning and design update occurred last Saturday at the site of the future park (shown). Thanks to $570,000 in funding [...]

>>>Drexel University’s new student-led “Social Graffiti” system lets Twitter users slather the wall of Nesbitt Hall with seven-story tweets. Anyone with a Twitter account can turn a 140-character message into a 36×62-foot animation projected onto the building by tagging tweets with @digmGraffiti. Profanity or other forbidden words trigger a third-party filtering system. Tweets so far [...]

· Philly Beer Week: Relieving Your Case of the Mondays · Attention Beer-Loving Homosexuals: Unprecedented! Local Homo Bar Does Beer Week! · Mac’s Tavern Has Officially Cometh to Old City All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

Corey-Haim-in-waiting/noted lesbian style icon Justin Bieber will play the Wachovia Center on November 14, it has just been announced. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10AM. In related news, does this post make my ass look fat?

Last week, World Cafe Live hosted the annual NONCOMMvention, a secret meeting of triple-A format radio programmers where it is decided each year what the next “Welcome To My Barbeque” will be. (It’s usually just “Welcome To My Barbeque” again.) In addition to Mayer Hawthorne (above), the Roots and Jon Legend also played, but we [...]