>>>Cursive/The Good Life frontman Tim Kasher is playing Johnny Brenda’s in support of his first solo album, The Game of Monogamy. Kasher will be playing with a full band with support from Aficionado, and Laura Stevenson & The Cans. >>>The 180 Gram Listening Party with: Blayer Pointdujour, Midnight Beat, FACTS!, and Juggernaut Drunk is going [...]

The Inquirer is reporting that “Officials … issued a mandatory evacuation order late Thursday that begins at 8 a.m. Friday morning for all of Cape May County.” Frank McCall, the county’s emergency management coordinator added, “the National Weather Service has indicated that there is a 90 percent chance that Cape May County will take a [...]

Um…ESPN has got some ‘splainin to do. (Image courtesy of Doug Sell)

Le Herisson (or The Hedgehog in english) is opening up at the Ritz 5 this Friday. A winner at the Seattle International Film Festival, is inspired by the New York Times best-seller “The Elegance of the Hedgehog” by Muriel Barbery. The film tells the story of Paloma, “a young girl bent on “ending it all” [...]

The American Commerce Center (or French Tickler as it was known around these parts) has officially been scrapped. According to Philly.com, “A buyer represented by Liberty Property Trust on Aug. 3 paid $40 million for the 1800 Arch St., ending a longshot proposal by developers to build the tallest building in Center City Philadelphia, according [...]

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We were kind of brushing Irene off like she was no big deal, but Irene don’t play that. According to a press release from the Office of the Managing Director, “The official track has moved to the west and Hurricane Irene is expected to track closer to Philadelphia. This potential track means heavier rain and [...]

Huggie strikes again. Not the most mature form of protest, but slander rarely is. This picture makes us wonder: separated at birth? Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

We usually reserve the GOOD NEWS title for societal change or cultural intelligence, but we just think this thing is gonna be awesome. Resurrect Dead, a documentary for which West Philadelphia’s Jon Foy won a directing award at Sundance, will be screening at the International House from September 8th to September 12th. The synopsis is [...]

5th and spring garden loves/hates dogs? If this is pro-dog, great. If this is anti-dog, still great. Our only concern is who has to empty that at the end of the day. Actually, we have one more concern, WHAT IF IT’S FOR PEOPLE?

And it’s just about what you would expect. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com For those of you who can’t watch Fox News for taste reasons, here are some choice quotes: “His call to bring America back to its English-speaking roots found support in a just burgeoning Tea party movement that welcomed his English-only policy.” [...]

The video above, which begins as the opening credits to many zombie-films do, was originally up on the School District of Philadelphia‘s website, then it was removed. It was also on the district’s Youtube channel, then it was removed. But now, the former Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia herself, Dr. Arlene Ackerman, has [...]

Pink Skull – Bee Nose (Put Yr Face On) from RVNG Intl. on Vimeo. The guys in Pink Skull have released a new video that harkens back to the days when green screen was the most advanced technology music videos had at their disposal. Pink Skull‘s newest release is Psychic Welfare, and they can bee [...]

As we told you before, Kristian Almgren and Aaron Fisher-Cohen, two Philebrity alumni, are going to bring their Jimmy McMillan documentary DAMN! to Philadelphia. This coming Monday the film will be screened at the Trocadero Balcony with Jimmy “The Rent Is Too Damn High” McMillan himself. RSVP to the event here, and the show starts [...]

Claes Oldenburg‘s Paint Torch went up in Lenfest Plaza the other day, the New York Times‘ Art Beat did a little write-up about it. That was nice of them. The art even inspired a commentor on the page to write a little poem: It’s a work of great moment, that’s clear, Philadelphians are bound to [...]

You’re doing it wrong. With the news of Joey Vento’s passing, Photographer Ryan Collerd shared this story with us: Last summer I attended an anti illegal immigration rally at Geno’s steaks. I stumbled upon a scene where a young guy had confronted Joey Vento calling him a racist. Vento shot back with whatever canned bullshit [...]

Who doesn’t love the idea of cleaning up an area that is a blight to a community and adding a nice little space for pedestrians, dogs, lunchers, or whoever. Well University City District loves these kinds of things, and they want to involve you in it, isn’t that nice? As a press release says, “The [...]

It looks like the quake did, in fact, have one casualty: In addition, AWellRespectedMan tweeted this photo of the aftermath on Old City: Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Don’t mess with Martha, last night’s First Person Arts “After Hours” StorySlam winner. She is from Philly after all. Check out the video of her winning story below. Since this is her second Slam win in a row, and she’s already scheduled to compete in this year’s Fall Grand Slam, last night’s runner up Nathan [...]

Joey Vento, dead at 71 of a heart attack. Update: Following this on Twitter is strange indeed. (Exhibit A. Exhibit B. And so on.)