On the wings of yesterday’s post about Squilla’s Finnegan’s Wake fundraiser, comes a reader fwd from a Squilla campaign email list, containing another beg: We still have a sizable campaign debt to retire. I continue to work hard to raise money for my campaign fund but I can still use some help. Checks can be [...]

Raise your hand if you feel a pang of recognition upon viewing this photo. (Raises hand.) I feel you, dawg. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Philadelphia certainly doesn’t have a lack of creative citizens, be they musicians, writers, painters, sculptors, or anything inbetween. In the interest in showing this off in as many ways as possible, The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy is presenting The Department of Alternative Affairs as part of the ongoing [...]

In the aftermath of the passing of Ryan Dunn, Roger Ebert took to Twitter to say “Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive” in what could be considered a generally good sentiment that was very poorly timed. After TMZ reported on Ebert’s tweet, Bam Margera tweeted in response “I just lost my best friend I [...]

Have you ever wanted to eat dinner with the leader of the free world? Well, here’s your chance. Obama For America (the President’s re-election campaign) is sponsoring a “Dinner with Barack” contest. All you have to do is contribute at least $15 to the campaign at Obama’s website, or submit without contributing here. The official [...]

Even Bowie gives up on Tuesday >>>As a pre-game for the Philly Independent Film Festival (starting tomorrow) why not get out of the humidity for a bit and catch a flick. It’s one of those rare periods of time where there are multiple great options in theaters and you should really capitalize on that. Check [...]

Please Join Us For A Fundraiser In Honor of Mark Squilla Democratic Nominee for Philadelphia City Council – 1st District Thursday, July 7, 2011 5:30 – 7:30 PM Finnegan’s Wake 3rd and Spring Garden Sts, Philadelphia, PA Host $500 – Sponsor $250 – Friend $100 Personal Checks Payable to “Squilla for Council” No corporate checks. [...]

All seventy of the City’s public swimming pools will open this summer!!! Starting tomorrow!

WHO: Mayor Michael A. Nutter David Eisner, National Constitution Center President and CEO Jim Gardner, 6abc Action News Anchorman WHAT: Will reveal the recipient of the 2011 Liberty Medal in a special press announcement. WHEN: Thursday, June 23, 2011. 10:00 a.m. In case you forgot, recent previous recipients have been Steven Speilberg, Bono, and, last [...]

The tab came for Comcast’s lobbying costs in its efforts to get its NBC Universal merger approved, along with God knows what else: It’s $5.7M. And that was just for the first quarter! And to think: Your Game of Thrones dollars paid for it. Sheeee-it.

Cone-ing. Previously: Philadelphia’s Dirty Boobies

We know we got up on a soapbox about Kickstarter a few months ago, and talk about Portlandia (see Weathervane post below), but “Wheat Paste Your Heart Out” has a few things going for it: It’s not a band (it’s not a band!), it’s throwing a light on wheatpasting (an under-appreciated street art form, we [...]

Here’s the local hook on motorcycle-ridin’, Obama-appointed-China-ambassadorin’, Joseph Smith-believin’ new GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman: He was a Penn kid! Yep, after he did time in proggy cover band Wizard and got his GED, he went and got a BA in international politics at Penn in the early 1980s. Now, we rag on Penn kids [...]

It’s been a rough few years for the Philadelphia Police, with corruption scandals abounding, but turn around, bright eyes: The good news is that, on Ramsey and Nutter’s collective watch, a lot of Philly five-oh nastiness has been exposed, and maybe even some real change in the rougher element of the Philadelphia Police might start [...]

Somebody needs to start making spoofs of these things.

Every day, we get emails like this, from a mysterious land where nobody learned your/you’re and its/it’s. Seldom, however, are they simultaneously a political liability and a screeching cry for better spelling and grammar education in this broken-ass country. Look alive, Vivant, the boss is coming.

In what is probably the least appropriate follow-up to the post below, the first real trailer for Disney’s The Muppets hit the internet today. After rolling out multiple “spoof” trailers, this is our first real look at the Jason Segel/Nicholas Stoller written film, which features music written by Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie and [...]

“Philadelphia ranked 10th in sex frequency at 99 times per year, but was No. 1 for satisfaction level at 82%.” If we’re getting the math on this right, this means that you people are having 82% of your brains fucked out roughly every 3.6 days. And that’s counting the strain the married people would be [...]

The U.S. Conference of Mayors, at their 79th annual meeting in Baltimore, MD, elected Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter as their Vice President. According to a press release, “The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,204 such cities in the country today. Each [...]

Here’s El Malito laying it down last Wednesday at Penn Treaty Park’s Waterfront Wednesdays, which we were proud to be a part of. (Also, we totally want to hang out with Malito’s strange and awesome hipster Village People-type posse.) PTPWW is back this week with North Lawrence Midnight Singers and Acres of Diamonds.