>>> At tonight’s episode of Philebrity Salon, the venerable Fishtown Jazz Odyssey returns for some fine, fine drinking music. No cover, sets at 10 and 12, your Anders pours the drinks. >>> And around the corner at Silk City, it’s good ol’ garage rock like they used to (and still do) make all over the [...]

Via the Inky: “Camden will lay off nearly half of its police officers and a third of its firefighters while eliminating positions in every city office, according to a layoff plan approved Tuesday by the state.” It’s not like they were doing anything anyway. Bobby Baccala, you cosmic prankster, you.

Well, HD Radio and Internet stream, that is. Philebrity and WXPN are proud to announce that starting this Thursday, December 2, Philebrity Radio will air on Thursday afternoons from 3-5pm on both the Y-Rock on XPN Internet radio stream and in HD on 88.5-2FM. What will it be? Two hours of all kinds of music, [...]

Even Irony-Free HughE is starting to get pissed now. Previously: There’s No X-M-A-S In V-I-L-L-A-G-E

The Discovery Channel just announced that they’re releasing a “Top 10 Deadliest Sharks” comic book — the first of a new line. The partnership to produce the comic is with Philly’s own Zenescope Entertainment who, from the looks of things, now have their first title that does not involve big anime-style titties. Nice work, guys!

· Reward amount currently being offered by the Citizen’s Crime Commission for information leading to the arrest of the so-called Kensington Strangler: $3000 · Amount per hundred cubic feet PGW has announced it will be lowering its charge for residential gas: 10¢ · Number of cases currently being tried for adults who left children unattended [...]

Nutter was on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, where he just managed to squeeze in his “Mike’s doing great work off the field” talking point. Again. You know, it’s 3PM and I haven’t killed a single dog yet today, either. Where’s my kudos, Mixmaster Mike?

The Count Walks Into a Bar from Secret Pants on Vimeo. You definitely need to watch this now, before the cease-and-desist from Sesame Street arrives. Possibly the best Secret Pants video ever made (shot at Connie’s Ric-Rac, natch). By the way, Secret Pants perform next on 12/23 at Johnny Brenda’s.

This makes us a little crazy: City Managing Director Richard Negrin has requested that the German Christmas Village outside City Hall have the word “Christmas” removed from its title. It will, of course, be replaced with the word “Holiday,” which is fine we suppose, but real talk: It’s hard not to feel like this is [...]

For those of us who are increasingly obsessed with The Old Weird Philadelphia (see also: Trading Places, Blow-Out, Public Wall Writing In Philadelphia and “Memorial Day 1983″), the above video is a brief glimpse into a time when something as simple as a Rolling Stones concert could bring the city to its knees.

Many a bearded transplant singer-songwriter has, as a kind of natural extension of the various waves of gentrification around the city ‘lo these last ten years, taken up their own neighborhood as subject matter. We can’t lie: A lot of these songs are absolutely cringeworthy, and we won’t dwell on them here. Rather, we’d like [...]

Be still, my dogs of war! And gather ’round the hearth, for as we begin to moon-howl down another year done gone, it is time for decisions! Whereas up until now, city School Superintendent Arlene C. Ackerman (pictured) could be seen to be incompetent, lame, or just cheesy, there is now mounting evidence that Ackerman [...]

Shopping for your favorite guys and gals can be tough, especially if your wallets are as weightless as ours. No worries! Philebrity is here to help! Though we told ourselves we wouldn’t go out on Black Friday, which apparently turned into Black Friday Weekend, we couldn’t stay cooped up all day, so we spent some [...]

Wissahickon Valley park is experiencing erosion, sedimentation, and, in some cases, trees are just falling over! This is all from the treading of our feet, our bike tires, our horse hooves, and our doggie paws. People have stomped out paths where there weren’t supposed to be any, which alters the parks terrain and is actually [...]

When this came to our attention last week, we were in a room of five people, three of which had a parent who came to America aboard the S.S. United. That was a pretty huge revelation to us, and we’re super stoked about Stephen Varenhorst Architects‘ proposal to incorporate the S.S. United into Foxwoods, even [...]

Note: “Security guards stepped in to help, once they heard screaming.” No trampling in Philly this year, but did you know that the name “Black Friday” originated in Philadelphia? Go us! Starting in 1966, “Black Friday” is the name the Philadelphia Police Department started calling the Friday following Thanksgiving. It was never meant to be [...]

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For those of you that went to the Tim & Eric show on Thanksgiving Eve, we hope you enjoyed it. If you missed a glimpse the tour bus, here she is in all of her glory. We’d like to think that the reader just caught this on the way to mom and dad’s for Turkey [...]

We come to you this Black Friday with a memory of local retail past: Upper Darby’s Bazaar Of All Nations, which is the subject of a new documentary of the same name. Bazaar Of All Nations runs November 26 through December 2 at Cinema 16:9 in Lansdowne, PA.

>>> The ancient wisdom, of course, is that Thanksgiving Eve is the biggest drinking night of the year. We have a suspicion that, if you really did the numbers across a wide sample, this might not be true, but hey, if you’re willing to go with it, so will we. As far as we can [...]