Key member of MFSB/co-author of the Sound Of Philadelphia Vincent Montana, Jr. has been on a YouTube uploading spree lately, and well, frankly, his backlog of weird material is fascinating. Today’s vibe, indeed.

Sure, it wasn’t the slave trade, it wasn’t Nazi Germany, it wasn’t even the goverment’s dirty tricks during the civil rights era, but, hey, it was close enough: It was The Goo Goo Dolls, who should have hid from the stage after The Roots BURNED IT THE FUCK DOWN on Sunday night. But no. They [...]

And, well, we suppose it did. And if this quick panel of thinkers taken by The Observer in the UK is anything to go by, the Brits are every bit as nonplussed as we are that Blair gets this year’s nod. On the other hand, argues one panelist, writer/editor Barbara Gunnell, perhaps “liberty” itself is [...]

“So here is the message to all of you who owe us money. We want our damn money. You owe it. We want it, and I plan to collect it.” That’s The Dude, wrapping up his tax amnesty business, somehow sounding more angry about city taxes than Obama has sounded about anything related to BP. [...]

Jay Ingersoll of South Philadelphia, congratulations: Your race-baiting video and tip fed the Action News monster for about 180 second this weekend.

Sweeney got iced over the weekend. And there wasn’t anything anybody could do about it. Welcome to your special END TIMES HEAT WAVE EDITION of Philebrity, where nothing makes sense, and the wavy world has gone positively psychedelic.

FRIDAY: >>> Don’t despair if you’re stuck here for the weekend with all the tourists and stuff, we guarantee (not like, money back or anything) that you can have a righteous Ameri-Birthday here. First off, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, in honor of the Fourth, they are going to be showing anyone who comes by [...]

RECOMMENDED: If you have not had a chance to interface with a theater full of screaming girls and the people who pay their mobile bills, riveted — positively riveted, I tell you — by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, then you really don’t know anything about what America is about in 2010. First, let’s get the [...]

BY MIKEY IL/SPECIAL TO PHILEBRITY: If you felt your ankles swell, blood pressure rise and a burning desire to lose yourself in “Cosby” reruns on Wednesday, you can relax, it wasn’t boobquake-related. Wawa Hoagie Day returned to Philly on June 30th, after being absent for a decade. Celebrating its epic return, the (less and less) [...]

Nothing will ever be the same. Update: It’s back! But we swear it was down. God, that was terrifying.

Are you sick of eating at nice restaurants yourself? Tired of trolling the missed connections on Craigslist in hopes of finding your new best pal? Frustrated from trying to persuade randos that you met on Face/Space that a real-life hang out is the move? Discouraged from attempting to strike up conversations with strangers on the [...]

Judd Apatow, the man who brought you Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin, will be producing an as-yet-untitled (and hopefully not R-rated) movie starring everyone’s favorite bow-tie-wearer (no, not Tucker Carlson): Pee-wee Herman. The movie will be co-written by Pee-Wee himself, Paul Reubens, and Paul Rust, star of I Love You Beth Cooper. [...]

In this Thursday Styles article, we learn that it’s not just weed that grownups are making legit — it’s also Silly Bandz. Robert Croaks, the president of the company that makes the viral neo-raver rubber bands, reveals that when they were “developing” (the creative process must have been a doozy) the bands, they always thought [...]

The Committee of Seventy – local nonpartisan research and election information source/political watchdog group/all-around good guy – urged Governor Ed Rendell on Thursday to put an immediate hold on state funds allotted for a new Family Court building and to appoint an independent investigator to rake through all the muck that has accumulated on the [...]

Here’s something fun: It’s the cease-and-desist letter the Making Time kids got from Wawa‘s attorney in exchange for naming their party this weekend “The Making Time Welcome America Pool Party.” That party does not exist anymore. In fact, it never existed. There is, however, THE MAKING TIME YOU’RE WELCOME AMERICAS 4TH OF JULY FREAKOUT @ [...]

With Tiger Woods in town for that golf thingy, it’s only appropriate that one of the false or true “mistresses” should follow him here. Devon James (pictured, turning me all the way gay forever) drew the short straw, apparently, in a variety of ways. Among them: She’ll be at the South Philadelphia Bar & Grill [...]

Right-click here to download. This just in: Dude who quit Dr. Dog might actually be better than Dr. Dog! Well, A) it’s not a horse race; B) but it’s probably true anyway; C) but only if you’ve been wishing for a while now that Dr. Dog would throw off the shackles of Beatle/Band-amania and get [...]

So, you’ve opted in to stay in Philly this weekend while the rest of the world sits in traffic, dines at restaurants filled with crying babies, and generally celebrates this old thing we used to call “America.” LET US COMMEND YOU ON A GREAT DECISION. Over at Octo, JERSEY DAN, one of our tightest bros, [...]

Coming soon (today at 3:30 pm ET) to a YouTube near you: a live interview with Bob Dudley, president and CEO of BP’s Gulf Restoration Organization, conducted by YouTubers worldwide. The livestream grilling session will be moderated by PBS Newshour’s Ray Suarez. While you’re preparing questions, think about this: Yesterday, the BP spill became the [...]

Via Defamer, The Last Airbender‘s whopping 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch.