Following the on-again-off-again relationships between Philadelphia’s film festival producers is kinda like trying to keep up with the status of that one couple in every circle of friends that repeatedly experiences global thermonuclear war-level break-ups to the point that everyone’s just glad they’ve finally agreed not to show up to the same parties ever again. [...]

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>>> Do you, like us, find the heat psychedelic and weird and that its only possible good use is for the purposes of EXPANDING YOUR MIND? OK, cool: Nels Cline Singers at Johnny Brenda’s will clear your chakras or whatever out real nice. >>> Call it “Hipster Bikram”: Bouffant Bangout is back at The Barbary [...]

>>> Donte Johnson, currently in custody for the killing of Sabina Rose O’Donnell, sobbed in court today as he waived his right to a preliminary hearing. [Inky] >>> As you’ve probably heard, Stephen Benford, 23, has been charged with the exceptionally grisly murder of Gina Schickling, whom we mentioned yesterday. This will not be Benford’s [...]

Man, Sestak doesn’t stand a chance when Toomey‘s got Santorum, or He of the Dramatic Pauses and Outstanding Drug References, on his side. Check this video where he blasts Obama for not understanding “what it means to be an American” and for being as tricksy as your local schoolyard drug dealer, all in the name [...]

Shut The Duck Up, eat your heart out. A little over an hour ago an 800-foot barge rammed into a duck boat with 30some passengers (more on this in a second). Fox29 reports that passengers actually saw the barge coming at the duck boat, and some  jumped off the boat before it submerged.  There’s a [...]

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA OUTLINES HEAT EMERGENCY PLAN Philadelphia, July 7, 2010- Today the City of Philadelphia outlined measures to be implemented in response to the current heat wave. Since the start of calendar year 2010, five heat related deaths have been reported in Philadelphia. The National Weather Service [...]

It’s a big month for afrobeat in Philly. Femi Kuti this weekend at TLA, Antibalas later this month. All that’s left is a Philly take on Fela! Whether you’re a die-hard afrobeat fan (who somehow doesn’t already have tickets) or you just wanna get a feel for the scene, no strings attached, we got you. [...]

We’re breakin’ all kinds of records here this summer. Yesterday’s overnight low (83º) was the highest in Philly since record keeping even began (and before those times, well, it doesn’t matter). Meanwhile, also yesterday, PECO recorded the third-highest peak demand for electricity, only 100 watts short of the record set in August of 2006. It’s [...]

Philly punk historians, enlighten us, please.

Right-click here to download. We liked him so much we contacted his booking agent! So we’re pleased to announce that Juston Stens & The Get Real Gang will be headlining the Philebrity Rock ‘N’ Roll BBQ on Wednesday, August 4th at Penn Treaty Park as part of the Park’s annual Waterfront Wednesdays series. We’re still [...]

Wow. Speaking of tired gays, we’ll have our QFest 2010 preview up a little later today!

On one hand, having worked with community groups who can never quite crack the codes to get the funding they need for neighborhood events and promoters who work outside the realms of pop music, we have to look at the $1M in public money the West Oak Lane Jazz Festival got this year and say, [...]

“Without the ad revenue we generate from Heat Deaths, we wouldn’t be able to bring you such programs as Puerto Rican Panorama or Mary Talks Money or Sunday Mass. (Wait, we still show Sunday Mass? That is weird.) But that’s not all: We also feed Jim Gardner the bones of the old so that he [...]

In some regards, this is the very worst way to have your bike stolen because you could have prevented it if you only LOOKED UP. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com Related:: A (Moderately) Populist Call To Bike-tion.

“Look, we know times are tough, but we also know that you understand that programming like this costs money to produce. So here’s what we’re going to do: If you give our News Van a tip on where someone might have died from the heat, we’ll give you this amazing mug, and this super cute [...]

Or watch internet porn. Or get their “news” from Philebrity. Wait, what? Anyway. Philly was just awarded a $6.4  million stimulus grant from the government for a new public computing center project. This means that Philly’s Division of Technology, along with Parks & Recreation, the Free Library of Philadelphia and four other organizations, including the Media [...]

From the same great mind (we assume) that brought you BLIZZARD PARALYSIS during the winter comes the above gem from AccuWeather. And of course, Action News proves once again that nothing is worth doing unless it is done in the most hyperbolic/accidentally comedic style possible. (And also, not for nothing, a little Abercrombie & Fitch [...]

A frantic, holiday-weekend-long search by friends and family of 22-year-old Gina Schickling (pictured) has ended, sadly, in tragedy. According to earlier reports and reposts on Facebook, Schickling had gone missing last week, and was last seen on Wednesday, June 30th, at The Fire in Northern Liberties. Earlier today, her father posted on FB that she’d [...]