FRIDAY: >>> HAPPY GORGEOUS WEEKEND EVERYBODY AND I HOPE YOU LIKE TO DOUGIE! Like an infection, The 2010 Live Arts & Philly Fringe Festival rages on. As does Festival Bar. >>> Rockists, take note: Birdie Busch and Hezekiah Jones at Johnny Brenda’s, Pavement with Kurt Vile & The Violators at the Mann. >>> Drinkers of [...]

RECOMMENDED: A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop is acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou‘s adaptation of Blood Simple, the directorial debut by the Coen Brothers. Yimou, however, takes the film’s basic gist — a screwball noir about a cuckolded husband who engages a bounty hunter to rub out his wife and her lover — [...]

Yes, we’ve run this before, but we just wanted to remind you: LAST CALL FOR PAVEMENT TICKETS. We’re picking winners in exactly 30 minutes. Bon chance!

The Daily Beast has uncovered that frigid Delaware Senate candidate/underemployed Cashman girl Christine O’Donnell paid her mom $3,500 in “consulting” fees from campaign funds. To which we say: STOP PUTTING IDEAS IN MY MOM’S HEAD. Previously: Beyond The Valley Of WTF: Your Christine O’Donnell Cheat Sheet

From that bastion of choad culture, NBCPhiladelphia: See that baby unicorn, baby? That’s us. 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.

As a result of this week’s Inky/DN sale collapse, the papers go back on the auction block next week. (Just when we thought we’d never have to write another one of these posts that none of you care about ever again. Damn you, saltyballs union truck drivers.) And as hard as it is to imagine, [...]

In the immediate aftermath of the murder of Sabina Rose O’Donnell this summer, friends and neighbors immediately committed to the notion of transforming the spot where her body was found — the 1200 block of Orianna near 4th Street — into The Sabina Rose Gardens. Last weekend, those friends and neighbors got together to clean [...]

In reply to New Republican Motorcycle Gang Just The Thing For The Teeny Tiny Joey Vento In All Of Us, Sept. 2nd: I’m a member of the GOP RIDERS,you want to show your age the Rolling Stones at Altamont happend Dec.6,1969,I was 3,so before you start talking about my club and its members get the [...]

>>> But the big story on Action News tonight is the new season of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, which debuts on idiot boxes everywhere tonight at 10PM. Watch it with fellow drunkards at National Mechanics and PYT. >>> Also: Screaming Females play an in-store at Long In The Tooth record store at 6PM; The [...]

Via PhillyDeals via Gizmodo, this thing is absolutely nuts and will certainly be assassinating political figures around the world once the shit goes down.

… we must say, Yoga Bear is fucking spectacular.

We’ve got a wrap-up of last night’s big Feastival fundraiser on Phoodie.info, Philebrity’s food and drink blog.

Authorities cite this marketing campaign in particular as an example of the mixed messages street urchins are receiving regarding the effects of smoking marijuana. The way we live now: High, all the time. The annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health just came out, and in 2009, illicit drug use rose almost a full [...]

Back in 2008, Avenue A/Razorfish gave Philly.com one of the worst redesigns we’ve ever seen of a major, widely-read publication. Two years later, Philly.com is still wearing this hairshirt even as the web space it travels in has become more competitive — but not for long (sort of). Philly.com is presently giving readers a “sneak [...]

If you’ve been reading the comments on last night’s “This Evening” post, you already know: Jon Brookes (pictured), drummer for Charlatans UK, collapsed onstage last night as the band was early on in their set at Johnny Brenda’s. Although Brookes is said to have stopped breathing for a moment, a message from the band indicates [...]

Saw this at City Hall. Where’s my Guv’nt cheeze!?! Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

>>> Lady Gaga is back on Craigslist for one more night. Oh, wait, the show is at the Wells Fargo Wachovia Best Western Parkominium? Really? Nah, it’s on Craigslist. >>> Plus a whole grip of other noteworthy touring acts: Of Montreal with Jannelle Monae at the Electric Factory, Charlatans UK at Johnny Brenda’s, Cake at [...]

philebrity.com/ihousephilly This fall, Philebrity has partnered with our friends at International House Philadelphia, West Philly’s independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the presentation of film, video and live performance from around the world. This year, IHP is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and has an amazing array of programs — many of which we’ll be talking about [...]

As you may have heard, Tea Party-endorsed/Hitachi Magic Wand-hating marketing consultant Christine O’Donnell became the primary winner in Delaware’s U.S. Senate special election on Tuesday night. Everyone is freaking out about this, but mostly what troubles us is: Once everybody finds out what a sunbeam of hilarious WTF-ness O’Donnell, is, everybody in every state is [...]