Lower backside of seat on SEPTA’s Elwyn regional rail line. Must be a relic from the PRR dining car days. You know, I was hungry. Not anymore. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

All we have to say is: Oh boy.

Four hundred student workers from such countries as China and Romania walked out of a Hershey’s Chocolates plant in Palmyra, PA this week. According to The New York Times, “The students … came to the United States through a long-established State Department summer visa program that allows them to work for two months and then [...]

Sculptor and all-around “guy we like” Claes Oldenburg‘s sculpture Paint Torch will be arriving in Philadelphia tomorrow. As you can see in the rendering to the right, Paint Torch is a 51 foot tall paint brush set at a seemingly impossible angle. The sculpture’s position will be right in the middle of PAFA’s future Lenfest [...]

The Awesome Fest, which is truly one of our favorite things, has a great screening coming up that we’re more than a little excited for. Beauty Day, a documentary about Ralph Zavadil and his pre-Jackass “The Cap’n Video Show,” we be screening at the Piazza this coming Sunday at 8:00PM. Zavadil spent five years making [...]

The War on Drugs – “Come to the City” (Official Music Video) from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo. >>>The newest album from Philly-favorites The War On Drugs, Slave Ambient, came out on Tuesday, but the record release show is tonight at Johnny Brendas. Slave Ambient is Adam Granduciel and crew’s second full length release on Secretly [...]

Our very own Intern Jim, in his college radio days, used to pitch shift Radiohead songs to make Thom Yorke sound like Sarah McLachlan (which works suprisingly well). But no matter how much he shifted Tom Waits, he still ended up sounding like the Cookie Monster. Maybe, as the video above from YouTube user cookiewaits [...]

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It was announced this morning that 94.1 WYSP would soon become SportsRadio 94 WIP, simulcasting the content already on 610 WIP. The switch will take place on September 6, with most of WIP’s programming staying the same (with the addition of the omnipresent Michael Barkann). The switch is due to many things: declining ratings, increasing [...]

Glenn Beck has not been a fan of Philadelphia in the past, and Philadelphia hasn’t been very keen on Glenn Beck either. But on his radio show last week, Beck laid some praise on Mayor Michael Nutter, saying, “If he’s sincere about what he’s saying here on the pulpit, if he’s sincere about that, he [...]

At the beginning of the month, it was reported that two people were being charged with endangering the welfare of children for leaving them unattended in hot cars in the Parx Casino parking lot. NBC Philadelphia is now reporting that officials for the Bensalem casino went to testify about the issue in front of the [...]

According to Mashable, our good friends over at NBC10 will soon begin reporting news via FourSquare. How will this work you ask? Well, “NBC 10 has promised to assign one reporter to use the station’s Foursquare account to report on a lead news story each day. He or she will check in upon arrival at [...]

As you know, Brad Pitt‘s World War Z, “based on” the book by Max Brooks (son of Mel), is currently filming in Glasgow, Scotland though set in Philadelphia. The Glasgow City Council has been tweeting out pictures of the city set, all Philadelphia’d up, from their official twitter account. On Location Vacations has gathered the [...]

I’m Gone (EP) (Preview) – Oct 11th. by City Rain >>> Um, anybody else getting a STRONG Drakkar Noir/Depeche Mode vibe from locals City Rain? We are definitely not saying that is a bad thing. Check them out for yourself when they perform live tonight at Lip Service at Silk City. >>> Meanwhile, that Bands [...]

According to an AP report, the School District of Philadelphia “will be offering teaching positions for the upcoming school year to 325 teachers laid off earlier this summer.” District officials said, over the next few weeks, the district will be filling 1,335 positions, and additional teachers may get an opportunity to return. The district said, [...]

How do you go from all kinds of goofy stuff in the lovely and bucolic Rittenhouse Square to… this? I mean, we know how (same reason the paper is now a paltry 48 pages per week), but still, seeing it all wind down like this is just awful.

Now, we must admit: Repeating the phrase “Chu Bykofskys” was definitely not the worst thing we’ve ever done, but it wasn’t the best either. And while, frankly, we were quite smitten with the notion of a brigade of Asian-Americans latching onto noted old-man-cloud-yeller Stu Bykofsky as superfans, adapting his ways, mores and hopefully fashion sense [...]

It’s a little tacky, sure, but like we were saying the other day: Any port in a storm. Also of note: Nutter’s “Mad As Hell” Sermon On The Mount is now living on his reelection site. We’re not saying it’s bad, it just is.

Here’s the new one from longtime Philly band Bells Bells Bells, directed by Andrew Bateman.

A Vegan Kids Dance for Adults with Nudity: full throttle dance theater at the Fringe Ouija Boards, Nietzsche and Audience Participation Idiopathic Ridiculopathy: Why Our City Is Burning Wawapalooza 5: Under Destruction For Immediate Release: KABBALAH : THE MUSICAL! Editor’s note: While we will be previewing events for the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & [...]