Tonight at the Merriam Theater, local director Tigre Hill will premiere The Barrel of a Gun, his long-in-coming doc about the case of that most divisive of Philadelphians, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Hill has characterized his doc as being some kind of final word on the case, even going so far as to hint as some big [...]

Punk rock heirs and indie rock progenitors Superchunk will be playing at the Trocadero tomorrow night, Wednesday, Sept. 22nd, and as always, we here at Philebrity have your hookup – free tickets, which you can have if you’re lucky. Doors are at 7:00 and the show starts at 7:30 – nice and early for all [...]

Shaking Through: Twin Sister from Weathervane Music on Vimeo. The new season of Weathervane Music/Shaking Through officially launches today, and the first spotlight artist happens to be one of our favorite new bands, Long Island’s Twin Sister. (Please begin the campaign to get them to move here in the comments.) This season is being curated [...]

Around the beginning of the month, we wondered what Oprah’s producers were doing over at Mastery Charter Schools’ Pickett Campus. Turns out they were filming a segment profiling the school for yesterday’s episode, on which she also awarded Mastery $1 million! Thanks, Oprah.

Wait, what? I heard this morning that “Redman” went out on the field at last night’s Phillies-Braves game, and I immediately thought, you know, Redman. No? Whatever, we’ll leave the picture up anyway. Actually, it was a 17-year-old who apparently thought it was time to update It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Green Man in a [...]

View Larger Map The longer this all drags out, the more it begins to feel as if African-American-on-Asian violence is something that’s just been sickly built in to the culture of schools in South Philadelphia. With the school year only just a few weeks underway, a report of attacks on Asian kids has already surfaced. [...]

Do you find this as funny as I do? The woman looks like she’s in severe pain. And those men….I don’t know what they’re up to, but I can tell you, it’s not good. It’s not funny. They want their country “back.” Have you accidentally seen the hole in local media that acts as a [...]

Because we know you are all about movies about Facebook, here’s Catfish. It’s screening in Center City tomorrow evening (Tuesday), and we’ve got 50 pairs of tickets to give away. Wanna? To enter to win, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “I LOVE MOVIES ABOUT FACEBOOK” in the subject header. You’ll automatically be subscribed to the forthcoming new [...]

>>> No Age performs tonight at the First Unitarian Church. It will be a lot like this, except it will smell like college, too. >>> Plus, Holy Fuck plays Johnny Brenda’s with Indian Jewelry.

Mario Kart bike lanes would’ve been cool, and the Spruce-ical Musical was good fun, but Spruce and Pine Streets are getting something even better: an actual asphalt-and-concrete repaving! Instead of fun little flights of fantasy, we get an actual road! One we can ride without threat of death! The road to repaving has felt more [...]

Um, yeah… football.

This map from Eric Fischer represents the Philadelphia area by the race of its inhabitants. Red is white, blue is black, green is Asian, orange is Hispanic, and each dot represents 25 people. The concept comes originally from Bill Rankin in Chicago. For perspective on this, Brown v. Board of Education was decided 56 years [...]

On November 12th, the National Museum of American Jewish History ( or NMAJH if you’re into the whole brevity thing) will reopen in its new location at Independence Mall. The weekend of celebration will feature performances by Jerry Seinfeld and Bette Midler at the NMAJH’s Grand Opening Gala on November 13th. The museum’s core exhibit [...]

Ida Blankenship, parting is such sweet sorrow. Nucky Thompson, we like the cut of your jib. What did you guys think? Discuss in the comments. Spoilers allowed.

So much to love about this band.

Have you accidentally seen the hole in local media that acts as a portal to the truth The Man slavishly tries to hide from you? Fuck yes you have. Send your screengrabs of these stolen moments to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Is This Moment In Christine O’Donnell Nonsense going to become a daily feature on Philebrity? Will we have to provide hourly updates? Should we just liveblog the entirety of this woman’s campaign so we don’t miss a thing? The newest thing revelation about Christine O’Donnell is a 1999 clip of O’Donnell talking about her past [...]

You know, because they did such a bang-up job of preventing SugarHouse from coming in the first place. But no matter: With SugarHouse set to open this Thursday (good day not to be in Fishtown, BTW), Casino-Free Philadelphia has announced its “Campaign to Shut Down SugarHouse Launch,” which will consist of a nice lunchtime meeting [...]

Then again, we get the feeling that every week is Frienemies Week for Joe Sestak, the man who would be Not Pat Toomey. Obama — whose administration, you will recall, offered Sestak “an unpaid presidential advisory position” in return for not running against Arlen Specter in the primary, whom he then beat which, if nothing [...]

Someone please alert PhillyMag and Tim Furlong: YOUR CHILDREN could be DYING from FAKE WEED, and YOU MAY NOT EVEN KNOW IT. But maybe not for long: State Representative Bryan Lentz and Jennifer Mann are trying to get legislation on the boards as soon as possible to put a ban on K2. K2, as you [...]