Many people in Merion are still bitter about moving the Barnes Museum from its current (and very serene) location. So if you’ve never seen the original Barnes, please go before it’s too late! We have to admit though that the new design does look pretty cool. The current location of this Gallery and Arboretum is a [...]

Despite our 21% Youth Unemployment Rate, Philly sure has a bundle of people who are out there crafting away and sustaining themselves. If you’re into supporting local makers, movers and shakers, check out all the participants in the http://www.designmake.org/phillyworks/. And be sure to visit PhillyWorks.net, they also have a great little book that they made [...]

Katy Perry, the week’s most valuable partyer, and Russell Brand are planning to fly 85 of her friends to India for their November 23rd wedding. The couple will tie the knot in the same hotel where Russell Brand proposed to Katy on New Year’s Eve last year. The traditional Hindu ceremony, 6 days in length, will [...]

We’ve been hearing it for years – Invest in gold. Its reliable, universal, infallible, even when our currency turns to crap. But what exactly is all this recent Hulabaloo about?  NPR just wrote an article on how “The price of gold has been going through the roof lately.” Some people think we’re just in the [...]

Some call me K-winks… Some call me Stinkler.. to most, I’m Katie Winkler. I am by no means bad, but this IS me dancing like an idiot, and I WILL be bringing you some fun on your weekends. Being the newest addition to Philebrity and soon to birth the first official Weekend Edition, I’ve been [...]

FRIDAY: >>> Truly an overwhelming weekend of things to do here, folks. First things first: Philadelphia Film Festival is now underway (see below for preview and picks), and DesignPhiladelphia is still happening. >>> Speaking of: Light Drift opens this evening at Judy Garland Park, and you’d be some kind of fool to miss this once-in-a-lifetime [...]

It’s a bear, but we’ve finally digested the entire 2010 Philadelphia Film Festival calendar and have begun to ferret out which of these films — more than 110 over the next 10 days — we’d like to check out. To say the least, PFF is back in full force this year, for the first time [...]

Probably not. But know this: His legion of old mooks who hate the youngs is growing: These hipsters always want what they want whether it makes sense or not. And the lamebrains who run the city give it to them because they’re afraid to look like they’re not trying to save the planet! (Mayor Nutter [...]

This “where-is-he-now-oh-that’s-right-he’s-in-JAIL” interview with onetime Philadelphia obsession Ira Einhorn in the Daily News yesterday promised a lot more than it gave, but it wasn’t a complete disappointment. Even though a five-hour interview with one of the freakiest freaks Philadelphia ever gave to the world produced a story that, more than anything else, provided Ronnie Polaneczky [...]

Remember Denim? God, that sucked. Whatever happened to it? Who cares! The self-same douchey mega-bar has just recast itself as Whisper, a venue that makes G Lounge look and feel tasteful (and not, say, “disappointed in humanity”) by comparison. Oh and look, it’s got bottle service, a VIP lounge called “Shhh” (lost an “i” and [...]

We love The Big Piece and all, but can he please stop shopping at the Macaroni Rascals Clothing Junction?

>>> Most people in and around the business know that Philly had a golden age in the ad biz, and then… it didn’t. But with the advent of the “digital agency” incoming, we were as surprised as anyone to see how many of Philly’s agencies are actually prepared for the now and iPhone-ready. (Although… really [...]

We’re pretty sure it did. Not, um, that there’s anything wrong with that. Also, an observation: Is Matthew Izzo the only gay in Philadelphia that anyone in the media knows? Update: No they didn’t! See comments. Still waiting on answer about that famewhore Izzo, though.

Coolrunnings – I am You from Panaframe ▲ on Vimeo. >>> We never ask you to do this, or even presume that you would, but maybe you might could brave the rain and roll out the welcome wagon for a bill chock full of lovable out-of-town weirdos tonight? The bill is Millionyoung/Sunglasses/Coolrunnings at North Star [...]

Apropos of very little, a reader passed us along this bit today, and we had to share: The truth I do not stretch or shove When I say the dog is full of love, And I have proved, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest. – Ogden Nash So go home and give [...]

We have, over the years, done very little to conceal our massive man-crush on longtime City Paper publisher Paul Curci; in a field of Dockers-clad Hold Steady fans — many of which he has presided over in his last 27 years at Philly’s oldest alt-weekly — he’s often struck us as someone who had some [...]

We were lucky enough to hear from Man Man frontman Honus Honus today, who’s currently decamped at this recording studio in Bear Creek, WA, putting the finishing touches on the forthcoming release from Mister Heavenly, a side project featuring Honus, “Nick from Islands (ex-Unicorns) and Joe (drummer for Modest Mouse/Shins/ex-Blackheart).” Though it’s been a while [...]

Peruse the Ryuichi Sakamoto Wikipedia entry, and this much becomes abundantly clear: Relatively speaking, hardly any of us have done anything with our lives at all, and Sakamoto is a superhuman brainiac who may have been sent from the space aliens in an effort to cool the rest of us out. What the Wiki entry [...]

Here’s the story, as best we can put it together: Brian Cain is a carriage driver. He may or may not have had a few drinks. He then encountered some PETA types protesting the horse-drawn carriages. He countered their NPR-ese with some real deal Philly shit. It was kind of hilarious, and kind of dark. [...]