Issue #2 of this biannual literary magazine APIARY Magazine launches June 3rd with a reading/performance showcase/live music event at the Painted Bride Art Center. The creators of APIARY have spent the last 6 months compiling the best creative writing in Philadelphia; from 37 local writers like Nina ‘Lyrispect’ Ball (founder of Spoken Soul 215) and [...]

The May 17th primary elections are fast approaching, and Philadelphia Community Access Media (PhillyCAM) offered candidates an opportunity to get their message out to voters. PhillyCAM produced a Video Voter’s Guide (VVG) for all contested races in the upcoming primaries. Thirty four candidates took advantage of the opportunity to record a 2 minute video message [...]

It’s common Philebrity wisdom: Echo & The Bunnymen are the only band in the world worth getting arrested for. New bands come and go, but The Bunnymen have stayed on the road consistently over the last decade and it’s become a near-annual ritual to check them out when they hit Philly. Why? Because they just [...]

· Save The Date: June 9th Is The Special Beer Week Edition Of Night Market · Zahav, Vetri Up For Beard Awards Tonight · (Happiest-Looking) Blogger (We’ve Ever Seen) Gets Year’s Supply of Free Doughnuts All this and more on Phoodie.info, the food and drink blog from Philebrity.

City Managing Director Rich Negrin announced at Philly Tech Week that a Philly 311 app is forthcoming within the next three months, Technically Philly reports. According to Rosetta Lue, director of Philly 311, “You can enter requests, track complaints and have a community calendar with what’s happening. You don’t have to wait for our call [...]

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 [...]

And that, frankly, we see both sides of the issue. On one hand, hey, fair is fair: T. Milton Street got his freak ass on that ballot fair and square and this is a democracy (albeit a very strange Philadelphia brand of it) and informed voters deserve to get to see their candidates debate, whether [...]

Ron Gallo – “E Blues Soup” from Fractal Circus on Vimeo. Ron Gallo is the singer in Toy Soldiers, one of the hardest-working bands in Philly. The folks at Fractal Circus caught Ron in performance at the Barbary recently, in a mellower mood.

In April of last year, Philadelphia Police Sgt. Robert Ralston (pictured) reported that he was shot by a “black man wearing cornrows” in Overbrook. Turns out, he shot himself in the shoulder, was suspended, and then fired shortly after for doing so and then lying about it. Even though, according to the Inquirer, Ralston would [...]

Can you please find out the parentage of the kid that does the local news/traffic breaks on WHYY on Sunday mornings? He has to be related to some bigwig because every week I root for him to get better and every week he can’t get through three sentences without stumbling all over himself. I think [...]

Dugout Phunnies is a new self-described underground comic that centers on, well, for us, the center of the universe. Penned by two locals, illustrator David Jablow and comedian Jon Goff, the first issue is available now. It contains “mild cartoon violence,” and hopefully, in the next issue, a plotline involving this guy.

View more videos at: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com. We want to care, we would like to share in their outrage, but… They just seem so unforgivably dumb.

· Amount in Mayor Nutter‘s campaign coffers for 2011 at present: Just over $2M · Amount the Nutter campaign donated to City Council incumbents Blondell Reynolds Brown, James Kenney and Maria Quinones Sanchez, and along with potential newbies Mark Squilla (1st District) and Marty Bednarek (6th District), plus amount donated to Frank DiCicco before he [...]

FRIDAY: >>> LAST FIRST FRIDAY BEFORE IT’S SUMMER AND NO ONE CARES! Get out there, people! Look at that weather! >>> We always put this in picks, and people always think we’re kidding: Dark Star Orchestra at Electric Factory. >>> Would you like to go out and dance and make friends? Well, if you liked [...]

RECOMMENDED: Forgive us, but Werner Herzog is one of our very favorite freaks, and each new doc he makes where he can’t help but insert himself into the action only endears this weirdo to us more. With that in mind, Cave of Forgotten Dreams promises tons: Not just good ol’ Werner snooping around, but Werner [...]

Remember that Front and Girard Jumbo Theater project that Avram Hornik proposed a few years back, only to be shouted down by neighbors “afraid” of hip-hop? Yeah, that spot is gonna be a Dollar Tree now.

We always imagined that, unless somebody went totally Gerald Ung on someone’s ass, reporting a Saturday night Old City douchefight to cops went sort of like that scene in The Big Lebowski: “Leads?,” the incredulous officer asks. “Yeah, we’ve got a couple extra detectives working on it right now! HA!” Apparently, this is not the [...]

You may not know it by the dribbling dreck we post here, but lately, we’ve really been getting back into poetry. (Currently reading: Last Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975–2010 by Gary Indiana.) Poetry’s at a strange impasse these days: We’ve got an attention span problem, we’ve got a medium problem, and [...]

We love pretty much everything about this little video the messenger bag company Tucker & Bloom made, profiling some of Philly’s finest working DJs. It’s a promo vid, sure, but tasteful and sweet, even. PS. If you dig that Sergio Mendes edit playing towards the end, DJ Apt One has been kind enough to leave [...]

Seriously, SEPTA? What will you say to riders who demand a refund for their May monthly trans pass? Spotted at 20th & Market. It figures that Angry Vengeful God would end the world on a SATURDAY. F you, AVG. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.