Notable this month for LOTS AND LOTS OF PICTURES!

· Cinco De Yo! · Starr’s Fishtown Beer Garden Just Days Away All this and more on Phoodie.info, the food and drink blog from Philebrity.

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This is one of the more accidentally unsettling things we’ve come across on the daily YouTube crawl in quite a while.

It’s a pretty magical place. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

We know this has been keeping you up at night, so we’re happy to say: They’ve located and arrested the homeless person who broke into City Council chambers overnight the other night, and they’ve also located the two stenography machines that he/she pilfered. Which is great, mostly because, as we heard from one tipster, the [...]

Then again, people who know people can sometimes be the loveliest people in the world.

Office of Public Affairs U.S. Department of Homeland Security May 5, 2011 NEWS RELEASE Philadelphia CBP Seizes $11k of Clean Concealed Currency PHILADELPHIA – Money launderers are known to “clean” or “wash” currency for criminal organizations to avoid suspicion from authorities, but one Jamaica-bound passenger’s currency that Customs and Border Protection officers seized Saturday was [...]

As part of the kind of belt-tightening all of us have been experiencing these last few years, the Philadelphia Soul will be holding football practice today on Market Street between 16th and 17th Streets, during the hours between 11:30am and 2pm. The team’s management kindly ask that you not touch or poke the players, or [...]

>>> Go see Kath Bloom — yep, she’s the lady who made that song that was in Before Sunrise — with Meg Baird and Ember Schrag at Kung Fu Necktie, and just quit all your worrying, baby. >>> Or check out Rock Tits’ Cinco Eve at the P.O.P.E. I’d go and hang with you, but [...]

We don’t actually care about this enough to finish writing this post. Plagiarize THAT, Naked Philly! Also, while you are at it: Please address your slogan — “We’ve got nothing to hide” — in light of the fact that your entire operation, down to who owns the URL, is anonymous. Actually, scratch that: We don’t [...]

Allow us to direct you over to this Newsworks story about the Free Library of Philadelphia‘s rollout of something called Freegal, a free download service directed at library users. Boasting the entire digital catalog of Sony Music — a hefty piece of digital property, to be sure — Freegal allows holders of a library card [...]

A lot of you may have already seen local filmmaker Ted Passon‘s new videos for Comcast‘s kids’ TV offshoot Activity TV — mostly in the form of Let’s Eat, starring Plastic Little’s Kurt Hunte and plenty of other Philly scenesters. We were just looking back at some of the clips, and the above, “Shadow Magic,” [...]

You may have the same question we had when perusing Philadelphia Weekly‘s 40th Anniversary cover package: How in the hell is this paper 40 years old? It’s not. Someone up top thought it’d be cool for PW to count the paper’s years as the Welcomat in that 40, which we’re sure people who worked at [...]

Everyone working around Center City who’s beginning to freak out about how streets are being closed and cops are moving cars around and such: Breathe. It’s just the Philadelphia Police Department’s Homeland Security Unit, running some drills. Although, today, they probably have a decidedly “retro” feel.

Found this gem at 18th and Federal: Going down that list, we’d have to say that this buyer is in the right place. And by that, we mean the whole of Philadelphia. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Well, sort of: Come on out this eve as DJ Kyle Andews pulls from the stacks that perfect spring serenade. Bonus points if you rock this and Smile at El Bar.

Slated to take place next month, the SoLow Festival is “an eleven-day experimental art event” that seems to be a homespun response to the kind of overblown (and often undercooked) festivals that have been ruling your calendar with an iron fist since the fall. With an emphasis on non-traditional venues and even house performances, SoLow [...]

>>> Remember that Newsworks radio theme contest we were telling you about? Well, they picked a winner, and it’s BC Camplight, fresh off that crazy Nilsson show of theirs last week. We’re pretty sure the winning track is actually the instrumental of a BC tune called “Your Daddy Is A Little Girl,” but don’t tell [...]

Emily by Creepoid from Big Ugly Yellow Couch on Vimeo. Ascending Philly indie faves Creepoid did one of of those Big Ugly Yellow Couch sessions, which just dropped yesterday. Creepoid plays Kung Fu Necktie on May 9th.