Attn. Coen Bros. fans: We’ve got a stack of passes for you to see the duo’s new/as-yet-unreleased adaptation of the classic True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin and Matt Damon. The screening’s Saturday night at 10PM in Center City (note the weird time), and to enter, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “TRUE GRIT” in the subject [...]

Totally intense and amazing furniture designer Matthias Pliessnig (pictured) and Pig Iron Theatre Co.‘s Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel, Dan Rothenberg, and Dito van Reigersberg. were named USA Knight Fellows at a celebration Tuesday night at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The Pig Iron collaborative and Pliessnig will each receive an unrestricted $50,000 grant [...]

As you may have heard, Greatest Living American Willie Nelson was arrested Thanksgiving weekend for possession of marijuana. Rather than take his charges lying down, though, Willie is politicizing his arrest. How? According to a press release issued yesterday… Rather than stay quiet about the 11/26/2010 bust, Willie sent an email to Steve Bloom of [...]

The Kensington Strangler, who apparently got an iPod and shaved his soul patch and may or may not have revealed his name to be “Anthony,” is sadly still very much at large, as police continue to scramble to parse out which crimes are his and which aren’t. Neighbors in the Kensington area where many of [...]

Well, hello, old friend.

English folk guitar legend/total vibe sherpa Bert Jansch is playing Johnny Brenda’s tonight. He is a living inspiration to all that aspire to greatness. That is all.

A quite happy reader indeed writes to us: Ok, so it isn’t world peace, and won’t benefit starving puppies or anything, but I had my faith in humanity restored last night… I came off the El at Girard St. to find that someone had removed the rear wheel to my bike (a feat that is [...]

Someone purporting to be Stu Bykofsky sent us screenshots of the sadly short-lived (and now wiped) fake @StuBykofsky Twitter account. Containing such tweetgems as “Just saw parent teaching toddler to ride bike on streets of Philly. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MY CITY?,” the account seemed to be a pretty dead-on parody of The Man We [...]

So please, don’t let anyone tell you different.

Pomplamoose, of course, being the cloyingly hip/dumb band in those Hyundai holiday commercials. Turns out, the duo has made tons of tracks, and they all basically sound like this.

You will pardon the old-man-yells-at-cloud nature of this post, we hope, because real talk: Now that it’s the holidays and all the white-flighters are trickling back into the city for their Nutcracker this and their old-favorite-restaurant that, we’re finding that nothing makes us wanna HULK SMASH more than the sight of an entire family gathered [...]

Fraught with meaning, 12th & Arch. The text of the confiscation notice reads: Maintenance – feces on honor box Submitted without comment. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

New video from Philly’s Nightlands, which debuted this morning on Pitchfork.tv.

Teo, Pius, and Willie Lanzetti: Three of the nastiest motherfuckers South Philly ever created. If you’ve been watching Boardwalk Empire — as we have, obsessively — you may have noticed the characters called “The D’Alessio Brothers from Philly” who (no spoilers here), have made things quite difficult indeed for A.C. boss Nucky Thompson and his [...]

Hallowed be thy name. By brokedick Kingdome come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is over by Claudio’s and DiBruno’s. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who butted in front of us in line at Lorenzo’s. And lead us not into that one [...]

PhillyCarShare will be adding 16 Electric Vehicles (EVs) to their fleet as part of a partnership between Mayor Nutter’s Greenworks program, a $140,000 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and themselves. EVs are muy-muy green, and they’ll be docked at little charging stations throughout the city, courtesy of participating local businesses and [...]

1. The straight women of Philadelphia who only watch(ed) baseball because of him convinced him through dogwhistlebrainwaves that he was good enough to just have his very own baseball team and — look! — now he does! 2. Got too high, thought it might be funny to sign that contract. 3. The Disco Biscuits were [...]

You can tell it’s built for people who are tripping because it only lasts five minutes long (which, at the time, seemed like an eternity). In related news, Anthony DiMeo (just nod if you don’t remember him) elfed himself. Happy Monday, Phile-elf-rities! Groan. Stay with us today, lots to get to…

· Snappy Holidays From Art In The Age · Today Is The Anniversary of Repeal Day. Drink In Thanks! · Good Dog Is Over The Hill… In Dog Years. All this and more — plus the Phoodie Restaurant Guide and Phoodie Calendar on Phoodie.info, the new food and drink blog from Philebrity.