Lizz Winstead (who co-created The Daily Show with Madeleine Smithberg) will be putting on her solo comedy show, “Planned Parenthood, I Am Here For You!” tomorrow night at William Way Community Center (1315 Spruce Street). The tour’s goal (other than making you laugh) is to bring awareness and support to the oft-misunderstood in the political [...]

Hey, remember THREE YEARS AGO, when we were talking about Louis Kahn’s Esherick Jawn In Ches-Hill? Well, it’s still on the market. Crazy. It’s the best thing you can do with $1.9M, and none of you are even doing it.

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The Awesome Fest is one of our favorite purveyors of all things weird and cool, and coming up at the end of the month, they have something pretty special planned. On Friday, July 29 at 7:30PM, The Awesome Fest celebrates the North American gallery premiere for Dutch artist Christiaan Zwanikken, featured in Jarred Alterman’s documentary [...]

Fave Philly phenomenon of the moment, Spread this shit around! We know what dawg is talking about: It’s not so much about The Tea Man, it’s about that sweet catchphrase, which we are officially adopting. Yo, is cuz in the house? Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

This year’s Pew Fellows were just released, and on first glance, it’s looking like a pretty awesome bunch. Each Pew fellow is awarded $60K to do their thing over a period of one or two years. The 2011 Pew Fellows in the Arts are: • Charles Cohen (electronic musician and composer) • CAConrad (poet) • [...]

Tonight, Tritone celebrates 10 years of being in the business of rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, “other music,” and pierogies. And we’d like to wish them a super happy anniversary — we don’t give this place enough love (we promise, we’ll get on that), and in the Philly venue biz, a decade officially makes you an [...]

Which, when you think about it, is really saying something. But with a whopping 51 health code violations and lots of other sordid crap, it seems like Downey’s has worked very hard to earn the honor. Nice work, guys!

We here at the Philbs enjoy a good beard, and we think everyone who wants to grow one should grow one. But for Philadelphia’s School Police, facial hair creativity is shunned. According to an Inquirer report, Philly’s School Police are only allowed to have “neat” and “well trimmed” mustaches or beards. Soul patches and goatees [...]

Some brave soul dug through a stack of videotapes and compiled this clip of Phillies TV ads circa 1986; they are a window into not just another era of the Phillies — the Phils did alright that year — but also into one of advertising’s darker periods, when omnipresent soft focus and creepy voiceovers made [...]

You may have noticed the above banner on 676 this morning, hipping you, Philadelphia, to the fact that you support the Pelican Bay Prison Strike, currently happening out in California as prisoners in that state’s penal system are hunger striking to protest unfair treatment. One question: Do you? According to the Philly IMC, this was [...]

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy You might remember Daniel Denvir from his reporting on segregation in Philadelphia Weekly and Salon.com a few months back. Daniel’s been kind of owning this beat lately, and here he is on MSNBC the other day talking same with Tamron Hall. He’s also [...]

Dear Philebrity, I have been a resident of Philadelphia since December 2006 and an avid Philebrity reader since March 18, 2008 when I was hipped to the fact that a photo of me was on a slideshow after a Black Lips show. (follow link and look for the shot of a very happy girl with [...]

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FRIDAY: >>> RebelBingo, which we discussed earlier this week, is going to be nuts. >>>Taking Back Sunday, back with their original line-up (someone’s excited about this, right?) are playing the Tower Theater. On the road supporting their newest, self-titled release, TBS will be bringing out the high-school Freshman that still lies dormant inside hip kids [...]

RECOMMENDED: Let’s table the whole “death of narrative cinema” debate for a moment and simply assume that, yes, this notion is at least passingly true: Does this mean that the Harry Potter franchise is the last thing most of us could all, at once, ever truly agree on? If it is, it’s a pretty great [...]

>>>If musical respect was given out based on longevity, the band above would be near the top of the list. The Bouncing Souls, who’ve soundtracked more than a few of your teenage years we’re sure, are playing the First Unitarian Church tonight (and tomorrow). Tonight they’ll be playing the albums The Bouncing Souls and Hopeless [...]

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