It’s a known fact that Guided By Voices are and were one of the best things America ever created. They’re right up there with the railroads, Coca-Cola, and the Weber grill. And you also probably know by now that, GBV — in the classic lineup form, no less — will be playing tomorrow night at [...]

In reference to this little bit of what-have-you yesterday, one reader helpfully suggests: Elijah Anderson, former Penn prof in Sociolgy (now @ Yale), addressed the issue of white people keeping large dogs when they move into black neighborhoods in his famous book, Streetwise. Streetwise was written about Powelton Village, but might as well be any [...]

Watch live streaming video from rosenbach at livestream.com The Rosenbach Museum’s world-famous Bloomsday is officially underway, and we encourage you as literate Philadelphians to stop by at some point stop by, or check in with the live stream above. If you can’t get over there until after work, though, don’t fret, as they save the [...]

Hey Philebs, Buried in the middle of a pretty garden variety gentrification article about Grad Hospital, there was this beauty of a quote: His friend, Niesha Dupree, 23, who lives on the same block, added that with the large influx of white residents, there are “too many goddamn dogs around here. It’s like every person [...]

All of Monday’s First Person Arts “Do the Right Thing” StorySlammers were on fire last night, but there was one storyteller who really got down. That is…on one knee. Witness the first-ever First Person proposal in the video below. Congratulations to Rodrick and Kendra! AWWWWWWW! First Person StorySlams take place every second Monday at World [...]

Even though dodo-bird GPTMC website Uwishunu was still giving Travel + Leisure tweetlove yesterday, after the mag posted The Dumbest Listicle Ever which declared Philly the second dirtiest city in America, don’t get it entirely twisted: The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp. has, in fact, grown a set and pulled its ads from the magazine, [...]

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (118-128 N. Broad Street) is presenting Urbanism: Reimagining The Lived Environment. The exhibit featuring contemporary works by Philadelphia artists Arden Bendler Browning, the Dufala Brothers, Ben Peterson, and Amy Walsh, will be on view from July 2nd to September 4th. That’s Ben Peterson’s pretty amazing looking piece above, [...]

Much props to the O’Jays. Just once, we need to make this happen on the Market-Frankford Line.

We could get into a big long thing about how Guided By Voices was one of the top five rock and roll things we’ve ever seen (cemented at the secret Khyber show they played under the moniker “Burning Assholes” sometime in the mid-1990s and never, ever forgotten), but if you’ve read this far, you must [...]

This Wednesday, Philebrity is proud to be teaming up once again with Waterfront Wednesdays @ Penn Treaty Park to present two acts we’re pretty stoked about: Blayer Pointdujour & The Rockers Galore, and El Malito (click on either for Soundcloud goodness). We’ve written about both here before, but on Wednesday evening, you’ll have the chance [...]

Dayve Hawk, the main man behind Memory Tapes, will be hitting the road with a more expanded band this time around to support Memory Tapes’ upcoming album Player Piano. Memory Tapes will be playing Johnny Brenda’s on August 10th behind the album being described as “keyboard-based psychedelic girl group songs, a sort of Motown suicide [...]

Our very own intern Jim has spent his last ten years living in the strange, distant land of Delaware County. Every day, he comes across strange and confusing places. Here is one of them. The Lee’s Hoagie House on MacDade Boulevard in Folsom used to have one of the better steak sandwiches in Delco. When [...]

We here at the Philebs love summer just as much as the next guy, but we don’t get to go to the shore as much as we’d like, so we’d like to live vicariously through you. Send us your stories of whatever strange, funny, wacky, embarassing, or amazing thing happened to you at the shore. [...]

As usual, we will be at the 700. You know, in case you get lonely.

>>> If you’ve been listening to Philebrity Radio over the last few months, you might have noticed that we’ve played different tracks by the Nashville band Natural Child nearly every week. This is because they are great, a strange curio somehow living in the now, doing some weird Creedence Clearwater Revival as told to Jeff [...]

Store manager Louis Zanni shows a cologne to Mrs. Linda Piszek at the Caswell-Massey store, May 2, 1978. Photo: Barbara Pachter, The Philadelphia Bulletin/Temple University Archives. TU’s Urban Archives (follow them on Facebook, we won’t rest until you do) has uploaded some 4,000+ images from the “Business & Industry” category of Bulletin photos into their [...]

Oh God, this is a truly sublime Twitter account. [Via Buzzfeed]

We totally forgot: We have 15 pairs of passes to an advance screening of The Trip, a comedic foodie adventure starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, opening June 17 in Philadelphia. The screening is tonight. You wanna go? To enter to win tickets, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “THIS IS HOW MICHAEL CAINE SPEAKS” in the subject [...]

We’re Getting There, a new Septa transit viewer, has gone into its beta stage. The Transit View, put together by a local hero, has been tested to run on iPhone and iPad but not yet on Andriod. As of yet it’s quasi-functional, but go test it out and see for yourself. Keep your eyes out [...]

Down The Show is a new, Philly-made web comedy show that draws upon the burgeoning indie comedy scene here, pulling together both solo comedians and members of local sketch groups. The first episode, for instance, features America’s Got Talent sweetheart Doogie Horner, voice actor Billy Thompson, Meg and Rob’s Ron Baniewicz, and Comedy Dreamz duo [...]