Update: The Khyber’s New Concept, Which Is To Be The Khyber And Not Be The Khyber Simultaneously, Yet Retain That Khyber Charm, Is Looking For Pretty People To Work At The Khyber That’s Not The Khyber

Oh look, it’s Zach Galifianakis as a mental patient. It’s Kind Of A Funny Story is a One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest update for the Judd Apatow/Bucket Brigade generation, and it looks not so bad. The film opens Friday, but we’ve got a grip of passes to see it tomorrow evening in Center City. [...]

Yer old pal Sugarhouse, new home to the toothless and the overdosing alike, raked in almost $5M in its first week. That’s a lot of money you people could have been spending on drugs. Just saying: Don’t forget about the people who kept you in vices before you became Jonny Dice-For-Teeth.

It’ll be like a monorail for retards. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

This is downright bizarre: At a book party in London, someone stole Jonathan Franzen’s glasses, left a £100,000 ransom note (that’s like five million dollars in American money), then jumped into a lake and was chased by a police helicopter. The icing on the gravy, as always, has been commandeered by one Jennifer Weiner (pictured), [...]

Via WIP MIddays w/ Anthony Gargano & Glen Macnow via Zoo With Roy. And courtesy The 700 Level, here’s Wednesday’s NLDS Forecast.

It finally dawned on us: Christine O’Donnell is not real. She is a viral marketing ploy for the next season of Big Love, wherein Margene Heffman breaks free from the clan and begins a new life in the First State, where she runs for office and it goes about as well as her stint on [...]

Little birdies are telling us that this year’s Pew Fellowships In The Arts went out on Friday, and among this year’s recipients are video artist Kara Crombie (see her work above), whom we’ve loved from the jump street, and musician/audio dude/actor James Sugg, whose work with Pig Iron Theatre Co. is legendary in Philly theater [...]

· JG Domestic To Open This Month · New Food Crush: Smoked Potato Gnocchi at Le Virtu · Meritage Debuts New Fall Menu All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.

The Philadelphia Underground from klipcollective on Vimeo. An installation called The Philadelphia Underground will be live from Friday, October 8th to Monday, October 11th, 2010, 6-10pm, at Dilworth Plaza as part of this year’s DesignPhiladelphia programming. It’ll feature works by video artists Ricardo Rivera, Peter Parker Brodhead, Adam Carlton Carrigan, David Dunn, Katya Gorker, David [...]

>>> Best thing we’ve (non-ironically) read on Philly.com in a lonnnnnnnggggg time: The Idiot’s Guide to How Pennsylvania Could Give Bart Blatstein $100 Million, or, Don’t Hate The Player, Hate The Game! [It'sOurMoney] >>> And here’s some dickbags in Harrisburg stalling a… what? A hit-and-run law. [Metro] >>> Oh, and look: Teamsters finally came to [...]

In case you haven’t partaken yet, HBO‘s Boardwalk Empire is absolute must-see Sunday night TV, and not least because of the local hook: The show’s producers have meticulously re-created the Atlantic City of yore, where our great-grandparents got hammered on illegal booze, oppressed immigrant classes/were oppressed immigrant classes, and talked each other into having uninspired, [...]

We just lifted up a sandwich container and found a pair of tickets to see The XX at the Merriam tonight! You want ‘em? (Not really, your tix will be at will call, free of turkey remnants.) Email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “XX OO!” in the subject header. You’ll automatically be subscribed to the forthcoming new Philebrity [...]

File under: We’ll do anything to get you to vote for Sestak.

The Inky made small mention of the retirement of Cathy this week, failing to note it still has among its staff a veritable army of chocolate-mongering, sexless office drones without noses. Way to appeal to the base, guys.

As we speak, Mayor Nutter, Chief Technology Officer Allan Frank, lots of other City Hall brass and academics are playing host to more than 60 mayors, chief information officers, and other government and nonprofit representatives from across the United States for the Mayors’ Technology Summit. According to the Mayor’s office, “the two-day Summit [...] will [...]

Thanks to The Tough Shits, DJ Eddie Austin, Teenage Fanclub, everyone at the Trocadero, and all of our friends and readers who came out to our anniversary jam on Friday night. We’re still hungover! More pics of the Shits et al on Dan Murphy’s Flickr page.

Hey Philebs. I just wanted to tell you about my trip to SugarHouse this past weekend. If you use any of this, please don’t use my name. But I figured you’d find this really entertaining. The place is absolutely horrifying. Every type of drifter within a 50-mile radius of Philly was there — dudes with [...]

FRIDAY: >>> We’re lucky. We’re lucky that we get to do this website every day and that you read it. We’re lucky that we live in this city during a time of rebirth and newness where, if we are even luckier, we will be able to pick and choose among the old things here and [...]

RECOMMENDED: Well, out of the box, we can say this: Jesse Eisenberg has completely nailed that mildly Asperger’s-entitled-fuck thing that’s always made us wanna smack Mark Zuckerberg. But is Aaron Sorkin‘s The Social Network based on anything more than a hammed-up version of how you and me and everyone we know came to be unrepentant [...]