Scott Schuman, the creator of the fashion photography blog The Sartorialist, is adding Philadelphia to his usual rotation cities. For the unfamiliar, The Sartorialist has become a widely-read and influential blog since its inception in 2005, recently being named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 Design Influences. On his blog, Schuman noted that he would [...]

SOLARSONIC from In Secret Agreement on Vimeo. In the video above, NoLibs artist Ray King puts the finishing touches on Solarsonic, a sculpture to be installed at Taoyuan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan. According to King, “Solarsonic is a series of 14 lenses suspended within the terminal’s exterior glass canopy structure. The lenses – a tensile [...]

UPenn’s Kelly Writers House recently launched its latest endeavor: The Blacktop. The site is an online literary platform for student work. Blacktop is hoping to attract the aspiring young writers in Philadelphia and is open to all public and charter school students in elementary, middle and high school; the goal is to give a place [...]

Meet Truman Lijek. He’s a dog. He’s running for mayor. And we’ll have more on him soon.

…on a parking sign… Better than pants on the ground? Worse than pants on the ground. We’re beginning to think that the entire city is pranking us with all of these wayward pants. Previously: More Readers Cameraphone: At The Very Least, Philly Spring Cleanup Addressed At Least One Pair Of Pants On The Ground Seeing [...]

Hey Guys. We are pumped for the Sixers and Flyers here, and taking it slow with the Phils before total madness sets in. Wanted to pass along a link to a new Spinto Band cover song. Hopefully you are all well and enjoying the changing of the seasons. With the exodus of winter here in [...]

Christ on a cracker: In some sort of brokedick Frost/Nixon reprise, Larry Mendte is presently en route to Libya to interview Muammar Qaddafi. Note the date: Not an April Fool’s joke. Mendte is insisting that Qaddafi initiated the idea because Mendte continues to believe that everyone in the world besides himself is a complete idiot [...]

Stay tuned. We have it on good authority that in classic Nutter-micromanagement style, he’s firing himself. UPDATE: Commenters nailed it: Ramsey stays. We’re not really convinced this is necessarily a good thing.

And they actually did a great job. That’s Peter Serafinowicz as Rock, by the way. [h/t BoingBoing]

As of today, the City of Philadelphia is still mulling over whether it should allow Ride The Ducks to be back on the streets of Philly and attendant Delaware River. If you live here in Center City, there’s a pretty good chance that you hated the Ducks with the heat of one thousand suns even [...]

Cape May, NJ: Second best beach in the U.S., ninth best on the planet.

Ok, so yeah this might be the end, but it’s worth watching. It’s funny — all the shit we made fun of over the years summarized in one awful video. Is this what The Journey amounted to? Oof. Here lies Arthur Kade. We hardly knew him. Thank Jebus.

Since it launched only two years ago, the website Kickstarter — a catch-all fundraising site where anyone can pledge money to a variety of projects in the works, so long as they are approved by Kickstarter — has dramatically and quickly changed the fundraising game. And the effect it has had on community projects cannot [...]

Like he always does, dude took it in stride last night. [h/t The 700 Level]

Juliet Hope Wayne – Roof (scrub) by philebrity We’ve made no secret of our admiration for storyteller/artist/hilarious person Juliet Hope Wayne, whom you may have heard on The Moth podcast. Juliet was kind enough to share with us this recording of a breakup story she told a few nights ago at Southpaw in Brooklyn. It [...]

The gold rush is over. No one fucking cares.

I can’t figure out if this is a symptom of the problems or the cause of them. Either that, or it’s a balls-to-the-wall deconstructivist take on the Black Flag logo. Or, er, maybe not. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Have you seen him? Where? Can he predict the future or sort out your love life? Does he have words of consolation regarding Hamels shitting the bed last night? Will he let you cuddle him? You must tell us everything you know. Right now.

Hello, hello, fan of lo-fi/shitgaze/neu-garage rock ‘n’ roll. We have something you may be interested: On Saturday night, three bands of your chosen microgenre, Black Lips/Vivian Girls/Moon Women, will be playing at the Troc. You wanna go? We can help. To enter to win tickets, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “MOPED GIRLS” in the subject header. You’ll [...]

Tomorrow evening, the Center for Environmental Policy is presenting an Urban Sustainability Forum with candidates from Districts 1-5. The forum will be moderated by WHYY’s Denis Devine, and will be held at 6PM at The Academy Of Natural Sciences. Register to attend here.