For many newshounds and media industry watchers, it seems like an inevitability that Al Jazeera English, the English-speaking wing of the controversial-here/massively-popular-everywhere-else news network based in the Middle East. As we told you, reps from Al Jazeera met with execs from Comcast here in Philly last week, to discuss picking up the channel in the [...]

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Some of the Mayor’s FY12 spending proposals include: $6.4 million for a new class of 120 Philadelphia Police Officers. $4.4 million to fund the Office of Property Assessment’s evaluation of properties. $4.4 million to purchase new equipment and fund overtime for the Philadelphia Fire Department $4 million for snow removal efforts. $2.4 million to restore [...]

Not content with merely one episode of nothin’ but Lady Singers on Philebrity Radio, Joe and Ed from Philly return to the airwaves at 3PM today on Y Rock On XPN/88.5-2 FM HD with PART DEUX! Trust us, we barely scratched the surface last week. You’ll definitely want to tune in. Above, Philly natives The [...]

A flash mob is when a bunch of quizzo dorks or something all decide that they’re going to have a pillow fight in a park or do a choreographed dance to some Gnarls Barkley song you hate, and then they all Tweet about it, and then it happens, and you want to kill yourself. It’s [...]

She is, and has always been, a well-known Democrat.

Apropos of nothing, Philly.com ran a completely random slideshow of ads that were in the paper during the 1960s (and filed it under “News”). Among them, this ad for a Lenny Bruce gig over the bridge in Jersey, proving that there was indeed a time at Broad & Whatever before The Dump set the tone.

Updated art listings at philebrity.com/firstfriday — get ‘em while they’re hot!

Not content with having ruined Christmas for the Dude, the Philly chapter of AIDS activist group ACT UP is bracing for the worst and getting ready to attend Nutter’s budget address to City Council today. The budget Nutter will deliver today is in some ways a theoretical one in that it could change completely based [...]

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Will someone buy this kid an ice cream? She just found out that her daddy got kicked off the stupid box. But, of course, it wasn’t for saying something stupid. (This is FOX. They don’t suspend people for saying stupid shit. They just make whoever says the stupidest shit President of Stupid America, like they [...]

We want to believe this is going to be cool, really, we do, but the whole thing just feels so much like some rich old lady’s fantasy. We’re going to try and get over it. Not for you, PIFA organizers, but for Tom Kaiden.

A reader forwarded us some crazymaking email from something called Americans for Limited Government, which details how Fuckface Nation is in the process of turning its attentions to defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: “In an exclusive interview with Americans for Limited Government, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), the original House sponsor of CPB-defunding legislation, has [...]

Also, is this thing going to be worth a damn? Seems like goofy rich people shit if you ask me.

In case you hadn’t yet heard, Philly’s constant hitmaker Kurt Vile will be playing just down the catwalk from where we make the Philebrity every day, at AKA Music at 7pm this Friday. You can hear KV’s latest record, Smoke Ring For My Halo — which, frankly, we believe to be his best yet – [...]

PEX Summer Festival 2011 from PEX Video on Vimeo. … that really doesn’t stop us from thinking it is. In any case, get your fire tongs ready! (And put a bird on it.)

>>> How truly magical Elfreth’s Alley and its related arteries are. [LordWhimsy] >>> What a bummer it is that Open City has ceased publication. [NYObserver] >>> How A Bigger Splash — David Hockney’s early 1970s, pre-Joaquin Phoenix I’m Still Here move — is literally the coolest thing on Netflix streaming right now. [Netflix]

There is a coming caliphate in the West, and it is dedicated to redefining masculine bravado for an entire generation of young, disenfranchised and impressionable males. Look at it this way: Charlie Sheen’s recent and radicalizing liberation from the tyranny of sanity is much like the recent political overthrow in Egypt; his mind has been [...]

As of press time, a representative from the influential Upper Darby PAC Citizens For The Advancement Of No Fat Chicks was not available for comment. Upper Darby pizza shop owner Nickolas Galiatsatos, now free on $10,000 bail after being accused of planting live mice in competing pizza shops, appeared in court yesterday “wearing jeans, socks [...]

Tom Kaiden of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance appeared on Philly.com’s “One Great Idea” series with a simple but beautiful notion: Each one of us could stimulate Philly’s arts economy by just going out of their way to attend one more event or purchase one piece of art that we wouldn’t normally otherwise. It’s a [...]