We heard it was going to happen, but now a friend of the Philbs sent us pictures of the sign going up, so there is no denying it.

The Jason Gay penned article in The Wall Street Journal is really only talking about sports, but anytime we can upstage the big apple is fine by us.

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Earlier this year in Toronto, Canada at a York University safety forum, a Toronto Police constable said, “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized.” In response, the first SlutWalk was born in Toronto “to spread the word that those who experience sexual assault are not the ones at fault, without [...]

Bearded troubador and member of Kanye West’s speed-dial Justin Vernon is bringing his Bon Iver collective to the Tower Theater in Upper Darby tomorrow night, and we want you to go. To enter to win tickets, email ihopeiwin[at]philebrity[dot]com with “Tower(s)” in the subject header. You’ll automatically be subscribed to the forthcoming new Philebrity Reader weekly [...]

The War on Drugs – “Come to the City” (Official Music Video) from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo. Meanwhile, Slave Ambient, out August 16th on Secretly Canadian, is streaming in its entirety on the Urban Outfitters website.

Ronald Kessler, author of The Secrets of the FBI, was on NPR‘s Morning Edition this morning, and this was totally fascinating.

But there’s no Byko robot or #planbvomitbabystroller, so we’re not really sweating it or anything. (Click on graphic above.)

Dear Old City Taxi, When I first began taking you in the year 1990, Philadelphia was an entirely different city. Fishtown was completely un-Death Cab For Cutie’d, and you’d often take 45 minutes to get there, if the driver didn’t just give up altogether. But that was OK with me. As a non-driver, and someone [...]

Corner of 5th and Spring Garden, across from Silk City: Could it be? No! It couldn’t be! Maybe? Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Urgent press release came over the transom last night: EVERYONE in Philly is invited to the Wine School tomorrow (10am, Tuesday, August 2nd) to witness a historic moment in the fight for the abolition of the PLCB. Join former PLCB chairman Jonathan Newman, House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, and myself at this major press conference. [...]

We’re a big fan of the cheap arts here at the Philebs, so this story jumped right out at us. According to The New York Times, the Museum of Modern Art is raising its admission cost to a steep $25, up from the $20 it’s cost since 2004. Membership costs are also going up from [...]

This is like one of those Gambling Addiction PSAs come to life. This past Saturday, at Parx Casino in Bensalem, a six year-old girl was found in the parking lot, left unattended in her father’s sweltering car, for at least “17 minutes” according to The Inquirer. Michael Roytman was found in the casino after his [...]

Philebrity’s own Schoolly D spoke to City Paper and NBC Philadelphia recently about being quoted in the manifesto of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik. Brevik’s manifesto quoted Schoolly’s “PSK What Does It Mean,” and Schoolly responded to City Paper with this: People who use Schoolly’s music to justify their own actions are saying that I [...]

Happy Birthday guys! Congratulations on fifteen years of Music Television and fifteen years of whatever the hell you’ve been doing since then. You did it! Great job! In all seriousness though, head on over here and read former VJ Dave Holmes‘ retrospective of the network, it’s a worthy read.

It seems that in recent years, due to the increasing accessibility of technology, there have been more and more cases of people getting arrested for filming or photographing the police. On July 14 in Rittenhouse Square, a journalism student from the University of Cincinnati was arrested for photographing a police officer moving a homeless couple [...]

The first mate of the tugboat that collided with a Duck Boat last year, killing two, is expected to plead guilty to charges of “misconduct of a ship operator causing death.” Matt Devlin, who was supposed to be working as a lookout when the two crafts collided, will put himself at the mercy of the [...]

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Death Cab for Cutie have successfully travelled their way out of the dying emo camp to become one of the biggest bands in “indie-rock” today. Ben GIbbard and co. will be playing their second Philadelphia show of the summer this Friday at the Mann Center, and we want you to [...]

LIAR (live) from Busses on Vimeo. Local indie-rock guys Busses recently shot a music video for their song “Liar” in their rehersal space. We don’t know why, but we really enjoy a good minimalist music video every once in a while, and this one gets the job done. The video premiered last week on YVYNYL [...]