Your quick Carl Greene/Wyclef Jean update: It would seem that those around Greene have all but given up on even hearing the man’s defense — PHA’s insurance carrier will pay out $250K to a woman who said that Greene tried groping her in exchange for a promotion. (If true, grossburgers. Don’t co-workers just randomly hook [...]

Ted Leo And The Pharmacists – “Bottled In Cork” (Official Video) from John Hodgman There is so much win in the new Ted Leo & The Pharmacists video — including a star turn from Philly native Paul F. Tompkins — that we can hardly stand it.

· It’s about time the universal directive “Fuck You” got its day in front of a gospel choir; there’s been so many times where it’s been needed, and that choir was just nowhere to be found. If Cee-Lo ever runs into some Willie Nelson-type money problems, he can probably run a whole side business going [...]

Check it out here. While this is nice and all, we’d still love to compile that list/tour of Worst Murals In Philly we keep talking about.

No, really. Here’s Mayor Nutter and Rina Cutler crossing streams on what a “good” job the City of Philadelphia did removing snow during this year’s epic winter, and pondering how they can do as good or better this year. But if you recall, the real work that City Hall did was in managing expectations — [...]

Philly girl Kristin Haskins Simms got the ol’ Heidi Klum Salute on Project Runway the other night and while, on one level, we appreciate her sass, we always hate it when somebody does that shitty, shitty Philly thing of blaming other people instead of reflecting on why you really got bounced and how it’s all [...]

So killer.

The Bike Philly ride is back this year, on Sunday, Sept. 12. The ride, which winds through Center City and hidden corners of Fairmount Park (and with an option to extend all the way out to the Main Line), benefits advocacy and education programs of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and the Police Athletic [...]

Last week, Joe Sestak picked up an endorsement from independent Mayor Michael Bloomberg, which was seen as something of a “get” for Sestak, who’s in a dead heat with GOP senate candidate Pat Toomey and has had some trouble impressing even the most dyed-in-the-wool Dems. (Present company included.) Today, though, Sestak got an even more [...]

Over the weekend, a bunch of you forwarded us links to stories about the City of Philadelphia’s new efforts to force bloggers to fork out $300 for a business privilege license. The best piece on the matter, which ran in City Paper last Thursday, outlined some of the dividing lines between playing like grownups and [...]

Some people take the whole dog going on their lawn thing WAY too seriously. Spotted down the shore, where we had no idea the Canine Fecal Death Act was already in play. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

FRIDAY: >>> Well, look at you, mid-August, and with lots of things to do! The 49th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival got underway in earnest last night, and as we said earlier this week, the lineup this year is really, really strong. If you’re looking to get out of town for the weekend on the cheap, [...]

RECOMMENDED: When Turkish director Fatih Akin was finished shooting his fourth feature, Head On, in 2004 at the age of 30, he was financially wiped out. In a panic to get paid for something, Akin, along with friend and actor Adam Bousdoukos, quickly wrote a light-hearted comedy that roughly paralleled Adam’s life in the restaurant [...]

Right-click here to download. Indie rock bands covering Bruce Springsteen have nearly become a genre unto themselves, but don’t let that sour you, Forkmaster: As the last few years have shown, there’s plenty of Boss to go around. “My Love Will Not Let You Down” is an outtake from Born In The U.S.A., and in [...]

31 Oct 1960, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — Senator John F. Kennedy talks to Temple University students here October 31st, including an overflow crowd in the windows of one of the campus buildings. He told the students that he would like to have a fifth TV debate, and that he wouldn’t care if Nixon brought President [...]

And now, today’s really quite bad news: In 2009, one out of every 94 Philadelphia children (birth–17) experienced homelessness, and the number of very young children (age four and under) who experienced homelessness grew by 12% between 2008 and 2009. That’s from a report being released today called “Philadelphia Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Practical [...]

“8 men and 8 women will be living in a house in the Philadelphia area and the Celebrity Judges will eliminate 1 person each week until the next Philly area star is voted and that person will get there [sic] own show!” Come, come, NUCLEAR BOMB.

Goodish news: SEPTA just applied for $29M of federal money to finally introduce a SmartCard system! Actual news: That would only go towards putting SmartCard readers on busses and trolleys, and there’s no guarantee that the money is coming, and besides, to introduce the system across all of SEPTA would cost $77M. Also, it’s SEPTA, [...]

>>> It’s really, really nice out: Capitalize and go see the free screening of Fantastic Mr. Fox at Penn’s Landing! Yeah, news to us, too!

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