Have You Seen Johnny?
Monday, July 26th, 2010He’s been missing since 1982, although that positively will not stop you from enjoying the hell out of the Facebook group “Philadelphia in the 1980s. A glorious decade.”
Archive for July, 2010Have You Seen Johnny?Monday, July 26th, 2010He’s been missing since 1982, although that positively will not stop you from enjoying the hell out of the Facebook group “Philadelphia in the 1980s. A glorious decade.” Aw C’mon, DrexelMonday, July 26th, 2010College Day continues on Philebs! Now, look, Drexel: We’ve been doing some really great work defending you over the years, pointing out how you’re more urbane than the schlubs (like us) who went to St. Joe’s and Lasalle and Vanillanova, and leaner/meaner/hungrier than the bougie fucks who go to Penn, but real talk: How ghetto [...] Pennsylvania’s Finest Party Schools To Cost 4.5% More Per YearMonday, July 26th, 2010Bummer, man. On the plus side, though, we were kind of shocked to learn that, at $5,804 per year (sans room and board), PA schools are kind of a bargain — even at America’s #1 Party School. Our Nation’s (Not Quite) Newest Victims: KIds Dumb Enough To Take Canvassing JobsMonday, July 26th, 2010Back in the day, it was hard enough for a college kid to find a summer job; we can’t even imagine how tough it must be these days, when you’ve got hordes of Actual Adults hungry enough to jump in front of you for a barista gig. Always, however, there’s been those flyers in said [...] Open Thread: Weekend PicksFriday, July 23rd, 2010Ack! Between some technical difficulties, getting ready for Happy Hour at Octo today and the Belle and Sebastian Dance Party (scroll down) AND the fact that it’s going to be 100 degrees tomorrow, we’re giving up on weekend picks today. Tell us what you’re doing in the comments. P.S. Please talk about the Photon Band [...] Readers Cameraphone: Please Remember That Even The Copy Editors At SEPTA, Uh, Still Work At SEPTAFriday, July 23rd, 2010Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. This Evening: Just Get It Started AlreadyThursday, July 22nd, 2010>>> I cannot tell a lie: Lately, I just like smushing my Friday and Saturday night straight into Thursday night’s butt so that I can get blotto enough on Thursday to act like a human being and not an animal for the rest of the weekend. (Suck it, Dr. Drew, this is an amazing system [...] National Beat: You Kids And Your Rock And RollThursday, July 22nd, 2010i-Dosing, the most recent musical drug craze sweeping appearing in small waves on the Internet, has got teenagers across America (but mostly in Oklahoma) writhing and convulsing underneath their headphones in an imagined state of digitally induced high while parents, officials, and doctors just shake their heads in disbelief. The legally available and readily downloadable [...] From The Desk Of Will Pym: Some Words On The 6th Annual Philebrity Belle & Sebastian Dance PartyThursday, July 22nd, 2010Hi Joe, So, I figure that everyone who came to this party last year, who can come to the party this year, will come. Maybe run that video from last year’s party of what appears to be a festival but is actually just the inside of National Mechanics, a sea of people stretching off into [...] Making NoLibs Safer, Through Advertising?Thursday, July 22nd, 2010In light of recent (or shall we say, decade-long) crime headlines in Northern Liberties, seemingly concerned citizen and elected member of the Democratic City Committee from the 5th ward, 21st division Robert Capella is calling for a public/private partnership between interested business people and the residents of NoLibs in hopes of making the neighborhood safer. [...] Noontime Nuggetz: Will The New Fresh Prince Krump Take The City/Nation By Storm?Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Needs a little work, but it could be something. Also, actual caption accompanying this video: “Da New Dance Dat Will Take Ova This Country! PHILLY STAND UP! Dey Not Fuckin With Our ‘Fresh Prince’.” Umm, yeah. Fellas, We’ve Got Some Good News For YouThursday, July 22nd, 2010Mark Segal is single! Not sure what the motivation is for the editorial about it, though; I mean, everybody knows that Dan Gross is really the preferred medium for media breakup news. Gross, at least, has the courtesy to write about it five months later and get most of the details wrong. Hiyo! Intra-Office Memo: Do NOT Accept The Free Camaro & Lilith Fair Tickets!Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Bitchin’ Camaro, indeed. Because if experience has taught us anything, it’s that other people clearly don’t have the same sense of humor about shit like this as we do. More Readers Cameraphone: And Speaking Of Tokey, The Hammer-Pants’ed Token, SUCK IT, TOKEY!Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Have we discussed this unannounced load of crap? After a long day. With precise change on hand. Surrounded in city hall. TEN CENTS MORE?! NOT COOL, TOKEY. NOT COOL AT ALL. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. Readers Cameraphone: SEPTA’s Ethnic Stereotype Guide To Passenger EtiquetteThursday, July 22nd, 2010Angry white men like to yell at people, recent-immigrant asian women talk too loudly on their cell phones, and, well, we all know about black people and their music, right? We wonder if these peeps party with Tokey, The Hammer-Pants’ed Token. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com. Raw Video: NoLibs Bike Thief Sure Is One Cheeky MonkeyWednesday, July 21st, 2010It gives us great, great pleasure to help put this guy on blast. This Evening: Budos Budos WoweeWednesday, July 21st, 2010>>> All the way from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, give it up for Konono No. 1, who you kind of have to hear to believe. Fashioning whatever materials are at hand into weird little thumb piano thingys and percussion, they have a McGuyver-goes-to-Carnivale that is pretty much unstoppable. They’re at the World Cafe [...] Right Now On Phoodie.info: Near And FarWednesday, July 21st, 2010· Belgian Independence Day Means Cheaper Belgian Beer In American · Locavore365 Wants You- To Stop Buying Food From Far Away · Wanted: Idiot’s Guide to Food Trucks All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity. PSA: Your Support For Jay & Tobias’s Wild Selfless Ride Would Be Greatly AppreciatedWednesday, July 21st, 2010They were badasses with hearts of gold, the legend will go: Philly boys Jay Hardman and Tobias Canfield who are about to embark on a charity motorcycle drive to the very bottom of South Africa. The ride is called Enduro Africa and the money goes to UNICEF, Sentebale- The Princes’ Fund for Lesotho, the Nelson [...] Captain Freeshit: Win Tickets To See Chromeo Tuesday Night!Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Hopefully every one of you has put on your headphones, selected the track “You’re So Gangsta” and proceeded to strut down Broad Street with an embarrassingly large smile on your face. But if you somehow have missed the French Canadian, Arab/Jewish, electro-funk/synthpop/shamelessdancemusic-making duo Chromeo up til now — or if you are trying to peep [...] |