Sure, there’s a few yuks in here, no doubt. But real talk: The longer this shit goes on — and the more of it is that’s out there — the more it just begins to make us sad. Mark our words, Philadelphians: That accent is quickly becoming your goddamned watermelon.

On Saturday night, as sheets of rain fell down upon the city, we were lucky enough to take shelter in a near-empty Liacouras Center, where despite it all, Temple’s Alumni Weekend raged on. On the stage was one of Temple’s more famous alums, Daryl Hall, currently in the middle of a pretty inspired new phase [...]

Those of us getting a sneak peek of the forthcoming Race Street Pier Promenade yesterday had to use our imaginations a little bit: With less than a month to go before a gala premiere, the park, nestled right next to the Ben Franklin Bridge, has a ways to go. But between what you could see [...]

… or something like that. Like many of you, we were (semi-shamefully) fascinated with the now-infamous “I’m From 5th & Washington” clip on Youtube, which depicts a very brief altercation between two men. And when we say “brief,” we mean very brief. Nevertheless, the altercation left a lot of mystery: What was this all over? [...]

Aw, Cookie! Where’s your whip?! Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Ye olde Philebrity Salon is back tonight in one of NoLibs’ finest haunts. Immediately following the Brewers at Phils game this evening (which indeed will be on in the bar), DJ Kyle Andrews‘ vibe tonight will be: EXPANSIONS. We asked him, and that was what he said. We said, “What do you mean?” He just [...]

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Almost as if to make up for the Ride The Ducks announcement (see post below), Mayor Nutter just announced the summer lineup for the City-run Dell East, and, um, you’ve heard ?uestlove’s Babies Making Babies mixtape, right? The whole lineup is pretty much like that: The 2011 Dell “Essence of Entertainment” Concert Series is as [...]

Weren’t you people listening when we told you to call your Councilperson and raise holy hell until the Ducks got banished forever? Well, even if you were, it apparently didn’t work. City officials have just announced that Ride The Ducks will be returning to the Delaware, with a new set of safety measures, as well [...]

The endless and irrelevant saga of All Things Snooki continues tomorrow, making an appearance at Old City haunt you’ve never heard of/wouldn’t be caught roofied in 879 Lounge. But look on the bright side: This time, someone associated with the Jersey Shore star is going to get decked in the face. (As opposed to Snooks [...]

Over the last week or two, we’ve made no bones about our problems with currently happening PIFA clusterfest: Not to put too fine a point on it, it’s infuriatingly sprawling and unfocused, and it’s also possibly a little out of touch and even more possibly the wrong thing at the wrong time. Reacting to our [...]

Les ‘el Malito’ Rivera is Philly-based rapper getting ready to blow the doors off of a genre of music that, for now, we can only call “Puerto Rican grime.” He’s currently working on tracks with Grammy-award-winning producer/our tight bro Aaron Luis Levinson and noted DJ Starkey; we were lucky to hear some of this music [...]

On the heels of last week’s temper-tantrum-disguised-as-political-endorsement that saw the Philadelphia Fire Fighters Union endorse the one and only Milton Street — raise your hand if you lost a little respect for folks you always thought you’d regard as heroes — comes even crazier news: Milton’s brother/two-time former Philadelphia Mayor John Street has switched his [...]

Sugarhouse gets what it’s always wanted: Its very own pawn shop. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Seems like some aspiring street artist has been paying attention to the comings and goings in the Philly School District of late. Posters like this one, spotted at Broad & Federal, have been cropping up around town, clearly giving props to unfairly dismissed Audenried teacher Hope Moffett and dissing she who is clearly the enemy [...]

First District City Council candidate Jeff Hornstein first popped on our radar about two weeks ago, when he fired a shot across the bow towards tackling Philadelphia’s long-standing political-economic “weirdness.” We got what he was saying, even if his message got a little garbled because in Philly, hey, most of us like weirdness. But in [...]

From the rumor mill, regarding THE CASE OF THE MISSING BILENKY! Some messengers saw it at Moore and Passyunk locked up and got bolt cutters and grabbed it back. No word on whether or not they got to re-enact the “Don’t Steal Bikes, Bro” video, though. Previously: And They Say These Fixed Gear Types Aren’t [...]

Get Schoolled: A weekly dispatch to the city of Philadelphia from the original gangster, Schoolly D. Philadelphia native Schoolly D is widely considered the original gangster rapper. Schoolly has recorded nine studio albums, including PSK, Saturday Night, Smoke Some Kill and Welcome to America. He has scored numerous films, such as King of New York [...]

Much daps go out to author Jennifer Egan, whom we interviewed last year; she just won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, A Visit From The Goon Squad. Also notable in this year’s Pulitzer wins, in the category of “Breaking News Reporting”: No award! Which is probably just a very tasteful way of saying, “We [...]