We’re hearing that either The Oprah or The Producers That Do The Bidding Of The Oprah are in North Philly today at Mastery Charter Schools‘ Pickett Campus? Anybody know what they’re doing?

Responding to this post on his proposed Fishtown music venue and the notion that he might be trying to “replace” the Electric Factory, developer David Grasso (pictured) became one of Philebrity’s newest commenters last night. His spin? I Think Whoever wrote this article is trying to cause a fight between me and the Electric Factory. [...]

Whoopsie: The City Of Harrisburg is about to default on a a $3.29 million municipal-bond payment because it blew all of its money on a big incinerator. Some local officials have raised the idea of the municipality declaring bankruptcy, but Rendell has made a poo-poo face to that idea. Really, it’s time for Harrisburg to [...]

Do you dare to deny our Steve Powers? Over at the Huffington Post, Philly, Chicago and Berlin have been pitted against each other in a fairly random, arbitrary “Which City Has The Best Street Art?” poll. Frankly, we’d like to see more, but if this is anything to go by, Chicago isn’t even a contender. [...]

Republican Riding Association Date: 2010-09-01, 5:33PM GOP Riders, MC is a politically oriented motorcycle club who’s mission is to promote both the love of motorcycles and our Republican Political Ideology. Like-minded people tend to work better together when their goals are similar in nature. Our Club will work hard to start chapters in every county/parish/district [...]

· Mouthwatering Menu Of The Moment: Barbuzzo · From The Dept. Of Bygone Carbonated Beverages We Also Miss: New York Seltzer · Are You Man/Woman Enough For The All Come At The Same Time Salad? All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink [...]

From the Hanover, PA Evening Sun, where Satan Himself just went to rile up the old and weird: Toomey’s speech was occasionally punctuated with shouts of enthusiasm from the crowd. Perhaps the loudest came when he mentioned his stance on gun control, saying: “My idea of gun control is a steady aim.” You know, we [...]

Mark Michael, of course, would be the city’s leading (only) scary JackoClown. And you definitely wanna click through to his YouTube channel. And send him to our new office. We promise we won’t freak out and stab him.

It’s official: HOTTEST SUMMER EVER IN PHILADELPHIA. Gross. But what to call it? For after the Snowmageddon, there must be… what? Your nominations in the comments, please. Also, let’s have your summer superlatives: Best concert? Best scandal? Worst vibe? Out with it.

DC/Philly party staple DJ Stereo Faith, who’s recovering nicely from his recent brain surgery, thank you, will be feted/benefitted at the above upcoming party. More info/Facebook invite here.

Four Loko punchline Das Racist, who really should have quit while they were ahead, are releasing a mixtape with Diplo, and this is the fully cringe-inducing trailer. Seriously, Diplo, do you work with anyone who can complete a full sentence anymore?

It would be the perfect end, really, to the Unforgiving Summer Of 2010: All-out hurricane armageddon at the beach! Well, it’s not really very likely, but it is on the table: Deputy director of emergency management in Atlantic County, NJ, Ed Conover says: “It’s not going to do them any good if they come down [...]

Asian American Adolescent Suicide by chuhuicha Last weekend, our friend Chu Hui was knee-deep in writing a paper on “Asian American Adolescent Suicide.” Because we are borderline-insensitive freaks, our first reaction was Oh, my God, that should be a mixtape. For some reason, Chu Hui took this as a dare and actually made it! And [...]

Where, we ask you? But no matter: Even with last week’s Terminix-funded list of America’s Top 10 bedbug cities — which put Philly at number two — actual tales of Philly bedbug horror elude us. (Then again, we alienated a lot of our friends in West Philly a long time ago.) Nevertheless, we do now [...]

This, then, will be the nadir of Ryan Howard‘s early career: Appearing on the finale of Entourage, the Mark Wahlberg-produced HBO show about douchebags who wear a lot of “designer” silkscreen, currently (finally) in its next-to-last season. You could draw lots of parallels between how both Entourage and Howard have been dragging ass for a [...]

This went just about how we thought it would: Fishtown neighbors voted 57 opposed and 38 in favor of David Grasso’s proposed 2,600-capacity live music venue at a neighborhood zoning meeting held last night. Early reports had suggested that zoning for Grasso’s venue had been grandfathered in, with a City Council/Frank DiCicco-led exemption from a [...]