With controversial NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker having announced on Friday that he’ll be leaving his post once Comcast transitions in as the new boss, it was announced today that Comcast COO Stephen Burke (pictured) will take Zucker’s place — thus bringing to life things first seen on 30 Rock. You may recall Burke’s name [...]

In the first week of October 2004, we started this website. We thought we’d do it for a year or so and either get real jobs in media or sell the thing off and go on vacation. None of that ever happened. So over the last six years, it has been our exquisite pleasure to [...]

Seen at yesterday’s Eagles/Jaguars game in Jacksonville. You see what he did there with the name and the jersey and the whole play on the words thing there…….. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

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FRIDAY: >>> Check here for our earlier preview, but also check out these Philadelphia F/M Festival picks: Blood Feathers and Field Music at Johnny Brenda’s; Dirty Hands showcase at El Bar; and this alt-country bill at the North Star. >>> Making Time with LCD Soundsystem at the Naval Yard is sollllllld out! Enter the Craig. [...]

RECOMMENDED: See that headline? ACTUAL PIECE OF DIALOG FROM THE ABOVE MOVIE. At this point, most of you know that Oliver Stone is a chronic “intellectual” masturbator whose carbon footprint will now never be justifiable in any way with the art it has left, like a dead lizard skin, upon the Earth. What you don’t [...]

You know, between the Diplo backbiting and the truffle fries controversy, we never even bothered to check out the new MIA album. But we know this: The live show — which hits the Electric Factory this Sunday and features Rye Rye opening — is bound to be a spectacle. We’ve got some tickets to give [...]

RIP Eddie Fisher: The original Philadelphia hipster (South Philly High/Simon Gratz represent!) who really showed us all how to get a lot of ass.

So listen: Next time the Brain Drain gets you down, or some asshole in-law from the suburbs gives you the hairy eyeball when you talk about how urban dwelling is the past and superfuture of America, lay this shit on them: A new report by the Center City District may not name names, but it [...]

We like this, we like this a lot: Yesterday, Major League Baseball, the Phillies and the City of Philadelphia announced a nearly $3 million project to build the first-ever, multi-site MLB Urban Youth Academy, to be located in Philadelphia at Richie Ashburn Field Complex in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, and at the Marian Anderson Recreation [...]

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While we have indeed vacated the dark caverns of Fishtown, it should come as no surprise that whole chunks of us remain there, like so many scattered Arctic Splash containers. Which is why we consumed @FishtownChatter like it was a dixie cup full of broken-up pretzels, American cheese and squeezey pizza sauce (yes, they eat [...]

A loyal reader presents a modest proposal: If it’s not too cheeseball, you should post an item polling the readers for their proposals for this year’s Phillies playoff anthem. Do we really want to get stuck with the Black Eyed Peas? No. My vote would be for “Right Back Where We Started From,” with apologies [...]

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>>> As previewed yesterday, The Philadelphia Film and Music Festival gets underway tonight with a truly intimidating heap of shows: Check here for our picks. Not in the preview but shoulda been: A Sunny Day In Glasgow/East Hundred/Honeychurch at Johnny Brenda’s, and Slow Animal (check em out above) at El Bar. >>> And remember how [...]

Muwhah-ah-ah-ah! And just for shits and giggles, Raymond Perelmen drove up the price so nobody could grab the bag for the $50M that it’s actually worth.

We were beginning to imagine, in the not too distant future, a Lord Of The Flies-type tribe of children brought up in the SugarHouse parking lot, but then we remembered: That has always been what it’s like to grow up in Fishtown anyway. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Inside Job, director Charles Ferguson’s documentary about the late 2000s financial meltdown, named the best single film at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, will open in Philadelphia later this fall. With narration by Matt Damon and much of the same subject matter covered in This American’s Life exceptionally great work on the topic last year, [...]

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