There’s not a lot of new info in this reportdetailing the various lags and drags that have stalled the South Philly Foxwoods casino, but on the eve of SugarHouse‘s opening, it’s an interesting study in squeaky wheels, grease and just plain old luck.

Maybe. Earlier this month, we told you about developer David Grasso’s proposed music venue in Port Richmond, and wondered aloud who in the local/national booking scene might wind up handling the space. Since that post ran, we’ve learned a few things, most of which lead us to believe that, if nothing else, it probably won’t [...]

Just a quick heads up: The always-charming Fishtown Jazz Odyssey will be taking the edge off your weird summer tonight at Philebrity Salon at the 700, with sets at 10PM and midnight. If you dig Grant Green/Wes Montgomery-style drinkin’ music and have yet to make the pleasure of FJO’s acquaintance, you really should. Other than [...]

Oh God, it’s actually happening: The Broad & Pattison subway station has begun its morph into “AT&T Station,” a piece of marketing so dumb it actually does disservice to the AT&T brand, SEPTA (such as SEPTA can even be considered a “brand”) and any asshole dumb enough to say the station’s name out loud. And [...]

This is nowhere near as bonkers as the “Joe Sestak Hates Israel” ad, but it’s nice to know someone on the Dem side is at least trying.

You would think that if your job is to copy edit something called the Intercourse News, you’d do well to avoid headlines about families “doing things together.” But you would be wrong. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

The SEPTA Silverliner: The regional rail train promise that is almost as old as this website is. But this time, SEPTA means it, and they’re saying that the Silverliner regional rail cars will go into service in October. To be fair, the rail cars have come all the way from South Korea and have taken [...]

Temple U’s Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project — which studies job and wage change in the areas in and around Philly — just released a new policy brief, loaded with info about how Philly has fared during the recession. And the news is good-ish: In the deepest yearlong period of the recession (the year between the [...]

Remember all that jive a few years back from the vehemently pro-casino mouthbreathers in Fishtown who believed that SugarHouse was going to swoop down and employ every last one of us? Well, hitch up the wagon, mama, thar’s gold in them thar hills! Fast Seamstresses Needed! (Philadelphia) Date: 2010-08-26, 7:35PM EDT Reply to: gigs-mscdn-1921160249@craigslist.org [Errors [...]

The way we lived last week: Everybody freaking out about a “blogger tax” that wasn’t a tax and had nothing, really, to do with most people’s blogs. And we’re all a little more stupid for having lived through it. But help is on the way: In case you still believe that The Ground Zero Mosque [...]

>>> Now, here’s a sentence you always wanna include in your bio if you can: Rainbow Destroyer is an integral part of the zombie community in Philadelphia – a community fueled by the growing popularity of zombie crawls and proms, as well as George A. Romero’s recent return to directing. That said, the tunes are [...]

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With a tentative opening date of September 23rd, the construction of SugarHouse at Delaware & Frankford Aves. is all but finished. Today, they’re loading in the table games. And after all of the shitty things that happened in the entire casino process here — from the shady-ass PA Gaming Control Board to the way SugarHouse [...]

Can you even believe it’s already been almost six years of this Philebrity nonsense? Neither can we. Seeing as how a little celebration is in order — and completely in line with our longstanding love of Scottish indie rock – on Friday, October 1, we’ll be celebrating in the Balcony of the Trocadero before/during/after the [...]

TAKES – 2minute trailer from Nichole Canuso on Vimeo. We’re beginning the arduous task of sifting through the massive Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe lineup to find out what’s worth going to and what is worth dismissively ridiculing. One of the easy choices in the former category seems to be Nichole Canuso Dance Company’s [...]

We moved in over the weekend to find this full outdoor-wrap promoting the Red Bull Flugtag completely covering the 2nd & Market El stop. The humorless SCRUB is predictably already crying foul, to which we say: Real life is not like Fugazi. Real life, in fact, is like Flugtag: Some shitty little flying boat that [...]

Weird news for The Dude this morning: According to this poll conducted by Municipoll.com, Nutter could already be in a heat with a candidate who’s not even officially running. (H/t PhillyClout.) That would be Sam Katz of course, who ran twice against John Street and lost both times; but with Nutter’s term floating away quickly [...]

While we were moving, we totally missed the part where PHA exec Carl Greene was suspended from his post (when Jannie Blackwell votes you sketchy, you know you’ve got problems) and HUD announced they were going to audit PHA. Then, Greene apologized to “the world,” which means, I think, that I just won 50 bucks [...]

I have not received a response from PhillyCarShare or ZipCar on how they are handling Toyota’s recent recall of Corollas and Matrix vehicles, which both companies have in their fleets. This should be information that members of both companies should be aware of as they make reservations. Whoops! OK, maybe “deathbox” is a little strong. [...]

Merrill Wagner, Small Oasis #1, 2010, Rust preventive paint on steel. Currently on view at ‘THIS COOL’: Jun 14 – Sep 19, 2010, Larry Becker Contemporary Art. Even though the story could have been written more or less the same at any time in the past decade, Richard Rys’s “What The Hell Happened To Old [...]