Just a day after it was revealed that roofied-up weatherdong John Bolaris had sic’d Chuck Peruto, Jr. on the poor, wayward soul who’d squatted (and hilariously used) the @johnbolaris Twitter handle, a phoenix has arisen from the flames: Behold! @FakeJohnBolaris. Whatever legal wranglings had taken place yesterday — the first fake was taken down by [...]

Whoa.

Now, we know this will sound rich coming from a site that’s put on an all-Belle & Sebastian night once a year for the last seven years, but c’mon, Irish Pol: All Pearl Jam? All night? Every Monday? And encouraging people to wear Pearl Jam gear? You guys must really, really hate getting laid.

The Reading Viaduct from Eric Jones on Vimeo. For those of you who’ve been wishing for a visual to go along with the ongoing debate about/quest for redevelopment of the Reading Viaduct, here’s a fresh video we came across by one Eric Jones. If you’ve missed our posts on this before, the Reading Viaduct is, [...]

From the singer in a local group that shall go nameless, unless you people really browbeat me into it: Our music is definitely influenced by the chili peppers, the mars volta, and coheed, but I’d say that our biggest inspiration will always be space, drugs, and sex. Oh dear.

No one, apparently, and that is beautiful. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

It sounds like Comcast will not be adding Al-Jazeera English to any more of its cable lineups, according to this post by Laura Goldman. Goldman says that the decision comes in the wake of Jewish activist pressure on Comcast; the activists contend that the network is anti-Semitic through and through. Mostly, though, we’re just entertained [...]

hip·ster pro·fi·ling · noun. Term used to describe the act of pre-judging a person on the basis of whether they are perceived to be a HIPSTER or not; if the subject in question is indeed perceived as such, a negative judgement is often delivered. Though our research indicates that the phrase HIPSTER PROFILING was possibly [...]

It was our very own Benjamin Franklin who once said “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” This year, Welcome America lasted for ten. And while we’re sure a report tallying tourist dollars pouring into the city over those last ten days is being prepared somewhere right now — and even in this [...]

FRIDAY: >>>See-I (featuring members of Thievery Corporation) & RK$TDY with DJ Ruder1 at World Cafe Live. Get your vibes on with some authentic Jamaican sounds from Philly’s own RK$TDY and DJ Ruder1 spinning classic reggae tracks. >>>R5 Productions presents Bomb the Music Industry!, Cheap Girls, Slingshot Dakota, and Spraynard at the First Unitarian Church. SATURDAY: [...]