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It’s kind of like the Death Star meets the Hudsucker Proxy. Today’s place we cannot understand comes to us via a reader, who asks,”Is the Wanamaker building entrance from the Walnut/Locust-13th/Market SEPTA hallway some kind of a Philly native secret?” We’d say it was beyond being merely just a Philly native secret — a la [...]

I guess if I was a South Philly Deal Err, I’d have this vanity plate too. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

OK, so maybe it’s not exactly what you were thinking as you completed your program of gender studies with a concentration in the works of Lemony Snicket, but hey, at least somewhere around here, there’s some new jobs: The Carlisle and Lewisberry PA Amazon.com fulfillment centers are now hiring hundreds of new workers to help [...]

The Better Blocks Philly project, touted as a “weeklong celebration of community-driven design,” is looking for your help. BBP was inspired by the first ever Better Block in Dallas, TX. The idea is to create, for one week, a “living/functioning exhibit of “Complete Street” concepts, with temporary traffic calming and streetscape installations, as well as [...]

>>> Dayve Hawk’s increasingly eerie and luminescent Memory Tapes returns to Philly for a show at Johnny Brenda’s with Instamatic and Keep It Casual DJs. >>> Or, check out the laughing stock — for once, we mean it in a good way — that is Ministry of Secret Jokes at Fergie’s.

Next thing you know, dogs are going to start living in fear of teenagers and complaining about events at the Piazza. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Hey: You know those passes we’re giving away to see Senna, the doc about Brazilian motor-racing champion Ayrton Senna? The screening has been moved to the evening of Monday, August 15th; as such, we’re keeping the contest open thru Friday. Get on it!

Before you go any further, we’ll say it for you: Fuck you, America.

I’ll even get you started with a Cliff-as-Fonzie photo for you. Why yes, of course we can. It’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

It’s a real head-scratcher, this one: There’s Dan Gross, pitiable/non-pitiable for obvious reasons; hack-ass Morning Zoo-style comedian Danny Ozark, who got beaten and robbed in Germantown; and NBC10′s LuAnn Cahn, who essentially says he had it coming because he looked at her underwear once. Before you decide, please know that there will be a benefit [...]

Dirty Water EP by Royal Shoals Oh, there is a lot to love about Dirty Water, the debut EP by Philly’s Royal Shoals. Boasting exes from The Ropers, Saturday People, and Public Record, the Shoals dive deep into a pool of post-punk influences that we wish more bands would feel comfortable in — we’re talking [...]

You know, when the rubber hits the road in this dirty old town, it’s always nice to know there’s an extra hand around. (You know, to go with that loose penis you found in Rittenhouse.) Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

For those of us who still feel the sting when we pass by the still-empty site of the old TLA Video on 4th Street, here’s more: The TLA Video at 1520 Locust St. — the TLA franchise’s last holdout in Center City — will cease rentals on Sunday August 21, close for a few days, [...]

Bands and booking agents and the like are, at this point, well-acquainted with R5 Productions impresario Sean Agnew‘s jealousy-inducing email/voicemail auto-responses at various times of the year, which usually go something like, “I’ll get to your email when I can but please be patient as my email access is limited because I’m currently eating monkey [...]

We still haven’t ascertained when exactly Sweeney will start wearing pants again. At least this week, he’s actually showing up at his own DJ night. We regard that as “a start.”

We mentioned last summer that PhillyCarShare was looking for lawyers to help convince the state that PCS is not a car rental company, and therefore should not be taxed as such. Well, that didn’t work out so well, so now PCS was sold to an actual car rental company, Enterprise. According to The Inquirer, PCS [...]

Because all the cool kids get their bikes at UO right? The Levi’s and Urban Outfitters National Bike Shop Tour goes across the country from Philly to Portland, OR (of course it does) offering bike maintenence, advice and service. This is all fine and dandy, but it kinda seems like it’s pandering to your image-over-function [...]

Like, probably before Barcade even opens.

Unless “doing it rhino style” is code for “Guy Fieri extreme fantasy roleplay,” we’re afraid there will be no “rhino style” here today. Good day to you, sir. From Dave Magroghan, the chiropractor who brought you Kildare’s comes Do It Rhino Style. Where Kildare’s was a beacon for suburban douchebaggery, Do It Rhino Style is [...]