Philly expats Fern Knight have a new record coming out, and this is what they’ve made to freak everybody out into buying it. Nice work.

I just heard you make $23.53 per hour on average. What’s up, baller?

Now, granted, streaking the President accords a certain level of media coverage, but still, somebody threw a book at Obama at Sunday’s “Please, Please Vote For Joe Sestak” rally in Philly… and nobody’s really talking about it. What was the book? (Our gut reaction was, duh, obviously, it’s got to be Atlas Shrugged, right?) Who [...]

Generally, those “Vows” stories in the New York Times make us wanna hurl. But see if you can’t dig into this one about Kelly McGillis and Melanie Leis (yes, that Kelly McGillis) getting civil-union’d in Collingswood, NJ last month without thinking to yourself, “Finally. What love is really like.” It’s also quite an epic tale, [...]

The Penn Museum‘s Righteous Dopefiend exhibit — by anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer-ethnographer Jeff Schonberg, who chronicle the daily lives of homeless drug addicts — has been extended through May, and, to be sure, has now been seen by a lot of people. Inside the exhibit, curators have set up a chalk board wall to [...]

It’s insulting, and they didn’t even apologize!

We promise we’re taking the day off, but this is, just, wow. We’ve got to think about this for a bit. But in the meantime, a question for discussion: Is it impolite to a sitting president to keep shouting “Yes We Can!,” only so you can try to drown out the sounds of people booing [...]

Native son of Philadelphia/soul music institution Solomon Burke has passed away. We’re not likely to see his kind again soon, but we really, really wish that we were.

Hey! Philebs is taking off this Monday in honor of Columbus Day (YAY ITALIANS WHO MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HAVE “DISCOVERED” THINGS!), so we figured we’d take a quick moment to tell you about all the fun stuff we get to do this week: Our annual Belle & Sebastian Dance Party comes but once a [...]

It was hard to see through all the black blazers and square-rimmed glasses, but this past Friday night during Design Philadelphia‘s Kick Off Event, The Hacktory teamed up with graffiti artists Jurne, Jedi5, and Curve to explore the intersection of Space-Time and Techno-Art. On three tyvek screens, a video installation enabled viewers to watch art [...]

Design Philadelphia and the Old City Business Collective is hosting a window design competition ending on Oct 17. Some of these windows (mainly along 2nd and 3rd Streets) display some really curious works. Window shop for your fave and help choose the winner! Text the 4 digit ID number displayed on the poster beside the [...]

It’s true.. we’ve come upon an age where kids don’t know what Back To The Future is!  (Not a problem for us, though.) Saturday, Phileb spotted a Delorean and beautiful baby blue 3.0 CSI Bimmer amongst the about 2 dozen other sweet rides that had full reign over the two blocks between 2nd and 4th [...]

Just another weekend in Old City with the Macaroni Rascals.

FRIDAY: >>> NLDS game two, 6PM, TBS. Have you heard of this amazing thing called the Fucking Miller Lite Fucking Vortex Bottle? >>> DesignPhiladelphia rages on! Philebs tipsheet here. >>> Attn. fellow tribespeople of the late 1980s: Inconceivably, Hoodoo Gurus (video above) are playing World Cafe Live. Sadly, the Wishniaks are not opening. WTF, WCL. [...]

RECOMMENDED: As we mentioned earlier this week, It’s Kind of a Funny Story stars Zach Galifianakis as a mental patient in a One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest update for the Judd Apatow/Bucket Brigade generation. It looks not so bad. ALSO NEW IN THE THEATERS: Life As We Know It, part of God’s great plan [...]

With the Phillies now in their fourth consecutive post-season run, many a sports-and-music fan has had to make some hard decisions these last four falls. Philly promoters who are in the business of putting on both local and touring talent on stages here have an even tougher time once the whole city gets swept up [...]

Spotted at the brand-spanking-new Kensington CAPA. And totally unenforceable. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Anybody else seen this bullshit floating around? It’s the Philly Crackhead hat, designed to make the people of this city look like even bigger assholes than they are on televised sporting events. They’re having a rally at Mac’s Tavern (the Bennigan’s that the It’s Always Sunny people got guilted into buying) this Saturday. Come, come, [...]

Back in July, we told you about Northern Liberties ward leader Robert Capella‘s efforts to make the infamously gentrified-yet-crime-riddled neighborhood safer… through advertising. Promising things like lighted sidewalks, emergency call boxes, safety cameras, a police mini station, front step residential lighting, a police mobile station and more, paid for with a portion of the ad [...]

One of the really sad things about The Wire ending a few years ago was that the show weirdly told us so much about ourselves and how shit rolls downhill that now that it’s gone, it’s hard to gauge things that happen in the city without any contemporary Wire reference. Inky editor Bill Marimow, a [...]