Archive for August, 2010

Noontime Nuggetz: New Always Sunny Teasers!

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

The Always Sunny gang just released a bunch of teasers for the new season on YouTube. Season six begins airing on Thursday, September 16 at 10PM.

Dept. Of Self-Incriminating Moves: Ackerman Restricts Access to Salary Data

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

But Superintendent Ackerman, your secret is out! Nonetheless, one of our favorite school district villains did some backwards damage control when she cut hundreds of employees’ access to the district’s payroll system. She even dared to mess with City Controller Alan Butkovitz (most recently of the BigBellyGate investigation), cutting his office’s access as well. We [...]

We’re Pretty Sure Rodney Dangerfield Invented This In Back To School

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

It’d have to come from the mind of a Penn student, right? Ultrinsic.com is a new site where students can pretty much bet on each other’s grades. It’s what happens when Generation Overachieve! meets the cultural acid rain brought upon by all of that late night poker TV. Kids these days: They’re such grown-up, weird [...]

Wrongful Death Lawsuit Arrives In The Wake Of Duck Boat Accident

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

You can click your stopwatch now: A wrongful death suit has filed by attorneys for the families of the two victims who perished in the July 7th Ride The Ducks accident in the Delaware River. Named in the suit: Ride The Ducks’ parent company, Herschend Family Entertainment Corp., the owner-operator of the tugboat that crashed [...]

PA At Least Going Through The Motions With Medical Marijuana Legislation Process

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

As much as we believe in State Senator Daylin Leach’s proposed medical marijuana legislation — and for as much as we believe that medical marijuana is an issue that Pennsylvanians of all stripes can and will get behind — we just don’t have a lot of faith in how it will all play when one [...]

And Now Begins The Campaign To Get Chooch A Cameo On Always Sunny

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

A reader brings this to our attention: What’s it gonna take to get Chooch a cameo on It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia? If Betty White can get a host slot on SNL on the sheer power of Facebook, and we’re already half-regretting the Utley/Howard come-up on the show, the fact that there has, as of [...]

Captain Freeshit Overnight Round: Win Passes To See An Advance Screening Of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Michael Cera, you might be beginning to annoy us all, but whatever: Movies you are in are still air-conditioned. So we’ve got a bunch of passes to see Cera’s new one, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, tomorrow (Wednesday) night in Center City. You wanna go? We can help you with that. To enter to win, [...]

This Evening: Jobims For The Jobimless

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Philebrity Salon is back at 700 tonight, with a new pre-game: Taco Tuesdays at the Barbary. What?

Unearthed! Vinyl Evidence Of The Troc’s Striptease Era

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Frequent Philebrity Salon guest Jeremy Grites uncovered this curious bit of Philly/Trocadero history over the weekend. “Bald” Bill Hagan and His Trocaderons were the house band in the Troc’s burlesque days, and this LP, Music To Strip By, was apparently the band’s calling card. Filled with trombone-heavy thumpers/pastie classics like “The Stripper” and “Girdles Aweigh,” [...]

New West Chester Power Couple: Eddie Munster & Ex-Eagles Cheerleader

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

We’re not gonna lie, there’s a lot of weird things going on in this article about the romance between former Eagles cheerleader Donna McCall and her little girl crush, Eddie Munster (real name: Butch Patrick — almost as good as his TV name, but since it’s not, we’ll stick to Munster). Like how Munster, who [...]

The Way We Live Now: Odd Jobs Pay For Rock ‘N’ Roll Lifestyle

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

We will say this in the way of a silver lining about both the recession and the death of the music industry: It’s brought about something of a renaissance when it comes to musicians getting entrepreneurial. And it runs the gamut of ideas, from the 360 deal to the pay-what-you-will to now, where local band [...]

Keeping Up with the Delaware Waterfront

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Last year, we shut our eyes and daydreamed about everything the Delaware Waterfront could be, with a little help from the masterminds at Penn Praxis, who have taken the lead in the thought process about what will happen to our languishing-far-too-long waterfront. While the Action Plan for the Central Delaware is a 10-year project, the [...]

Attn. Local Crazy Rich People: Build Us One Of These

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

There’s a pretty great piece in this week’s New Yorker about Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron‘s 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami. This is the accompanying video, wherein architecture critic Paul Goldberger discusses why this is the most awesome parking lot ever produced. C’mon Bart: You know you want one.

At Monk’s, August is the Cruellest Month

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

We love Monk’s. We love their frites, we love their Belgian beer, hell, we even know what hot dog toppings co-owner  Tom Peters would take to a desert island (and they’re wild). That’s why we were pained to hear that a SEPTA bus crashed into the pub (after being hit by a Delaware River Port [...]

Where Is Your Outrage For The Jersey Shore Obama Arcade Claw?

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Spotted in North Wildwood, which is much, much more civilized than Seaside Heights. Supposedly.

Philadelphia: The Most Funemployed Town You Know

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Confidential to all those who’ve been told to go get a box and put your things in it: You may soon be the dominant cultural group in Philadelphia. (And out of anticipatory deference, we’ve begun Furlough Mondays — and, uh, Furlough Mornings — on Philebrity.) But goddamn: 12% of us are now unemployed. To give [...]

This Weekend: Let’s Get Lost

Friday, August 6th, 2010

FRIDAY: >>> It is a fine, fine time to get lost. I say this with a grand appreciation of how intense blasts of post-apocalyptic heat have timewarped Philly, spiritually, back to the summer of 1982, where the going had been weird for so long that the weird went beyond pro — a sort of golden [...]

Film Sweat: Dregs

Friday, August 6th, 2010

The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, The Rock and Samuel L. Jackson in a smash-em-up, slapstick cop romp. By default and nothing else at all, it’s probably the best movie opening this week. Sorry! ALSO NEW IN THEATERS: Or maybe we spoke too soon: The Concert is one of those Ritz films old [...]

That’s About Right: Lil’ Adolf Hitler To Remain A Ward Of The State Of NJ

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Remember this unfortunately named youngster? Good/bad news: An NJ appeals court has ruled that his parents shouldn’t have him back. Tongues are still wagging about whether or not it’s all over his name or, rather, neglect or abuse, but one thing is for sure: New Jersey is about ten years away from having the most [...]

UnionLULZ: Reacting To Study That Says DROP Is Wasteful, City Union Reps Ask…

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

We can has new study that says differents? Says union rep Carol Stukes: “I don’t feel comfortable with the documentation that is used for this report.” Previously: This Just In: In A Strange Twist Of Fate, Bizarro Nutter Aligns With Forces Of Good To Stop City Hall’s Undead Minions From Sucking The City Dry Via [...]