History buffs and fans of a camera moving over pictures very, very slowly should get a charge out the fact that they’ll be able to get a look at Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s upcoming film, Prohibition next week. The film, which is the Burns take on America’s least favorite (or effective) law ever, will [...]

Really. Really. And really. It’s like Angry Vengeful God is taking a long hard look at teenagers and Center City and retail and saying, “I do not like any of you all that much.” Previously: If You Still Work At The Broad & Chestnut Borders, You Should Probably Start Looking For A New Job Now [...]

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN LIVE VIA XPN.ORG AND CLICK HERE TO LISTEN VIA ITUNES ON THE BIG SHOW TODAY: A special ALL IRISH edition with special guest/Irish music expert Brendan O’Riordan! A man of many hats — from farming intern to band manager to documentary film producer — frequent Philebrity commenter/reader Brendan will don a [...]

The L’Etage Songwriter’s Salon thing continues tonight, but with a pretty unique guest act among the usually great grip of performers. That would be Ragged But Right, making a pretty rare appearance, well, anywhere in the world, basically. Salon curator Ben Reisman explains: “Ragged But Right is Jeremy Brecher and Jill Cutler, two New England [...]

par·ty rick·etts · noun. Previously undocumented — though much discussed — disease found in humans, typically in those who overindulge in the consumption of ALCOHOL and/or CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES. Coined by our good friend THE KOSHERICAN (who, it must be noted, has not suffered from PARTY RICKETTS in quite some time but has no doubt borne [...]

Happy St. Patty’s Day, everyone. And if this is your bag…

… guess who came out on top. Twice over.

Some of you may recognize Michael Galinksy‘s name from the late, great love rock band Sleepyhead, who played up and down the East Coast all through the lazy, hazy 1990s. But while he was at it, Galinsky also managed to document young America circa then, both the mall rats and the true blue indie kids. [...]

Spotted at a storefront near Sixth and South: It’s a fitting tribute that even in this far-flung message of grief, if you look close, in the lower left hand corner, you can see the ghostly visage of a shop dedicated to sexy rubdown oils and other what-have-yous, all for the business of Making Love. God [...]

Here’s the latest in The Continuing Saga Of Bill Cosby Is A Cranky Old Fucker With Very Little Respect For Anyone Or Anything (And Though It Pains Us, We Love Him Anyway): He’s still like that. Attending the Jackie Robinson Awards gala at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York last week, Cosby bumped into hip-hop mogul [...]

Yes, this actually happened, and yes, we know because we’re actually Facebook friends with Larry, and yes, this is at last incontrovertible proof that God wants Larry Mendte to get off the Internet forever. And we cannot disagree.

You’re going to want to tune in tomorrow for a special ALL IRISH edition of Philebrity Radio, from 3-5PM. A man of many hats — from farming intern to band manager to documentary film producer — frequent Philebrity commenter/reader Brendan O’Riordan will don a stereotypical Jeff cap and be our guest, playing a selection of [...]

It’s not just the French who love you. It’s the people like us, who are likely to love the French who love you, too. Oh, and the folks at Little Berlin, who’ve turned your birthday into something meaningful and fun this year. You’re welcome!

We were pleased to hear from Philly filmmaker Jamie Moffett today, whose doc, Return To El Salvador, has scored loads of accolades and festival play. But soon, the film, which was narrated by Martin Sheen and endorsed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will see a quite impressive second life. For one, it’s [...]

In times like these — where politicians are trying on the idea of, as Chris Matthews put it yesterday, “knowing nothing like it’s as good as knowing everything” — we just might need the merry pranksters who are The Yes Men more than ever. Luckily, academia at least is taking notice. On Thursday March 24th, [...]

Last night on a random stroll down the too-sprawling Netflix streaming queue, we happened upon the directorial debut of Hal Ashby (who’d come to cult fame later with Harold & Maude). That film, The Landlord (1970), is a moody satirical drama starring a young Beau Bridges alongside two strong black women from Philadelphia, Pearl Bailey [...]

In May, WHYY 90.9FM will be launching a new program called “Newsworks Tonight” — an extension of their new-ish website of the same name. (And also, holy wow! First new piece of WHYY programming in how long? Look at you, Bill Marrazzo, earning that disgustingly obscene and ridiculous paycheck.) And because all of us are [...]

Ten minutes before the deadline to do so passed yesterday, the Nutter campaign propped up three voters seeking to challenge the candidacy of Milton Street, on the grounds that he didn’t pass the three-year residency requirement and that his signatures contained many, many forgeries. Now. On one hand, to say that the Milton Street campaign [...]

Just thought I would fill you cats in on the totally rad new video game coming out this Spring thats based in Philadelphia! You play as Mayor Nutter. Level 1: A thundersnow/apocalyptic/blizzard/epic/shitstorm hits in April. With no budget left for snow removal you have to personally plow every street in the city south of Washington [...]

Cal Jones‘ slice of life in Philly circa 1955, “Miracle On The Delaware,” has been on this site before, in all of its schooltime filmstrip glory. However, we just discovered that it’s now also available on archive.org in a host of downloadable formats, which can only mean one thing: It’s a race for local bands [...]