Friday night, and the big story on Action News was this mannah-from-stay-classy-heaven report on a FLASH MOB! that was THWARTED! in EAST TIOGA! Now, we’ve already voiced our concerns that both the local media and the police could be conflating “black youth out on the street, any street” with “POSSIBLE FLASH MOB AND YES WE [...]

FRIDAY: >>> WXPN’s Xponential Music Festival is back this weekend, and it’s a pretty great lineup this year. Our picks for today: Free Energy, Toy Soldiers and Alejandro Escovedo. It’s always a great vibe over in Wiggins Park, and you can’t really beat the price for a weekend pass. >>> Philebrity Happy Hour is taking [...]

RECOMMENDED: One could hardly be blamed for going into a Leo DiCaprio summer blockbuster, at this point, with low-to-moderate expectations. But here’s what’s great about that: By walking in with a bar set so low — both by other DiCaprio disappointments as well as this summer’s lackluster blockbuster fare — Inception is able to, in [...]

Are these two great tastes that you believe taste great together? (If so, how on Earth did you wind up here?) Anyway, this Gamervision trailer, made by some locals, is pretty damned cute.

>>> We swear to you this is not a sentence we made up: “While singing ‘So What,’ Pink fell out of a harness which was supposed to carry her toward the crowd.” [Yahoo] >>> THEN, out of nowhere, G-N Kang gets shitcanned from Wired 96.5! [PhillyMag] >>> And like they say in the beginning of [...]

Miwa Matreyek is a contemporary video performance artist from California who blends animation, projected arts and live performance into this fantastic form that is unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Think of her, perhaps, as a Lotte Reiniger for our time. Ever since blowing minds with her CalArts Experimental Animation thesis project, Matreyek has been creating [...]

The way we live now: Everybody, broke, all the time. Major institutions and local governments and non-profits and mom-n-pops and freelancers and lifers, all sharing the same existential funk and very deep, very real cash crunches. (Next up: Broke animals!) Well, it’s looking like you might be able to add good ol’ Pennsylvania to the [...]

Oh, dear God: The Naked Bike Ride is coming back. Sun., Sept. 5th is the magic day, says organizer Clifford Greer to The Clog, who really bought into this thing big last year when they stood up for your American rights to chafe your ass out on a leather bike saddle and then (hopefully) throw [...]

Ah-ha! Sent from his nutterformayor.com address, consider it one of Michael Nutter‘s opening moves in firing up his re-election campaign. And not, as a phila.gov email would indicate, part of the City’s new Stop ‘N Frisk ‘N Friend Request crimefighting policy.

According to an article in The Village Voice, not all the kids offering you drugs in the parking lot at shows or in the campgrounds at festivals are just fellow dirty hippies trying to stay on tour. If you are buying nitrous balloons, odds are they are coming to you courtesy of an unofficial organization [...]

Tuesday is the 27th Anniversary of the “Modern Love” video shoot at the Tower Theater: I’m not big on Flash Mobs, but I am a Bowie fan. A spontaneous dance party in Love Park with that song on blast might be comforting. Now, normally, we wouldn’t go in for this sort of thing, either. But [...]

Pop’s Playground, winner of Philebrity’s 2009 Collaboration of the Year, turns one this summer and the X Games are coming to party. So on Thursday, July 29, from 4-6 p.m. get over to 2135 E. Hazzard Street. On the docket: Skate demos by the X Games and Gears for Groms skate teams, guest appearance from the [...]

Remember the Reading Viaduct Project? It resurfaced in today’s NYT in a piece about how other cities are taking cues from the hugely successful High Line. There’s optimism about the project: “Our viaduct is much wider, which gives us more opportunity in some way,” said Paul R. Levy, the president of a business improvement group [...]

So says The Khyber’s calendar, and little birdies are confirming it for us. Meanwhile, rumors regarding the Khyber’s purported sale to Glen and Mike Naessens suggest that said sale may not happen after all. We’ll be following this one. Update: We just spoke with present Khyber owner Stephen Simons, who was quick to say that [...]

In honor of Bastille Day, tonight at L’Etage, Philly indie pop band Le Fits, led by their bilingual singer, Ben Riesman (he lived in France as a child), will play a entire set made entirely of French Pop songs (Gainsbourg, Dassin, Ferrer, and others) and celebrate the anniversary of the French Revolution. Dan Sofaer, the [...]

Rep. Daryl Metcalfe is really pumped. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released today, 52% of Pennsylvanians support Arizona’s recent legalization of racial profiling, or immigration law (whatever, potato, potahto). The poll also found that six in ten Pennsylvanians think Obama needs to back up off of Arizona. Metcalfe, who introduced this Arizona-esque bill in [...]

The kid also has a good heart, don’t hate. He’s auctioning off a meet and greet after his November 14 Philly show. It’ll benefit Russell Simmons and co.’s Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. Estimated value of shaking Bieber’s hand? Or touching his face? (Will they let you do that?) $10,000.

Sorry, everybody: But the gut instincts are telling us that when Joe Sestak defeated Arlen Specter back in May, it wasn’t really a “message” to Washington or anyone else within distance of these ol’ aluminum foil rabbit ears — it was just some shit that happened. Now, a new poll shows that Sestak and his [...]

Waterfront Wednesdays, the free Wednesday night summer concert series brought to you by the New Kensington CDC, begins its 2010 season, and we couldn’t be happier to be involved. Please take a gander at the program for this year, and join us down by the river! UPDATE: Wanna make God laugh? Plan an outdoor event! [...]

>>> Spike Jonze‘s Where The Wild Things Are screens for free in Penn Treaty Park at dusk. >>> And as mentioned, Philebrity Salon @ 700 as usual (MLB All-Star Game will be shown).