FRIDAY: >>>Soundtrackers-of-romance The Blood Feathers will be playing a slightly less intimate set at Johnny Brenda’s with Like A Fox and Matthew O’Neill. >>>That Shaolin Jazz thing we told you about a few days ago has a listening party tonight at Viviant Art Collection (60 North 2nd Street) from 7PM to 10PM. SATURDAY: Pure & [...]

Just drove through three huge and random puddles around the Race Street Pier area. It’s on both north and south bound sides. kind of random on this beautiful day: This has been going on for a little while now, for all kinds of mundane reasons. But really, let’s just ‘fess up and confirm what you [...]

Say hello to 3rd Ward Philadelphia, why don’t you? The popular workshop space based in Brooklyn will soon expand to Philadelphia, opening a massive 27,000 square-feet location in the NoLibsFishyKenz at 4th and Thompson streets. Slated to open Summer 2012, the Philly 3rd Ward — brought to you in part by local developers Paul Maiello [...]

Pop quiz! Q: How does one follow up the world’s most annoying idea ever for a live interview event? A: If you’re Dom Giordano, you and your Big Talker cronies rent out Valley Forge Military Academy and host Donald Rumsfeld in order to help the faded captain sell copies of his piece of shit book. [...]

Some of you may remember this Philebrity Cribs post from nearly two years ago, wherein we discussed one of these Rag Flats eco-party-palaces, built during the go-go ’00s Fishtown real estate boom, only to go tenant-less at the end of that decade when we all started living the deep, now-even-a-little-wheezy Heavy Sigh that extends to [...]

Mmmmm, those Catholic electrolytes are making me feel Dragonriffic!

Regular readers of this site will be familiar with our dark obsession with Fox29′s Good Day Philadelphia, the little morning show that, on a daily basis, brings a little bit of that Alabama morning news feeling to Philly. Well, just a quick note about that: Has anyone else noticed an increasing trend over there of [...]

Oh hey, we’re going to try doing a Daily Poll each morning now, wherein we ask you, the people of Philadelphia, random things about your life here, and on Earth. Got a question you want to see the people answer? Suggest it at: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

Our friends in East Hundred have released a new music video for their song “This Year.” The video plays like a home-movie love letter to the summer past, and was shot on Super 8 film by Justin Clowes, so enjoy it and look back on your summer with fond memories before we dip into 50 [...]

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The raspy-voiced folker Ray LaMontagne is coming to the Mann Center tomorrow night with his band The Pariah Dogs. Touring behind the Grammy-winning God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise, LaMontagne and his band can take you from whispered, soft, folk tunes to raucous, foot-stomping, folk-rock from one song to another. Support will be provided [...]

If you didn’t stay in and watch baseball last night, you missed what some are calling the most incredible night in the history of the sport. That’s a bit much, but here’s what you missed… 10:26 PM: The Cardinals defeat former Phillie Brett Myers and the Astros 8-0 to guarantee themselves at least a tie [...]

Years after the mash-up craze burned out in a generally thoughtless K-hole comes a project that just might remind you of everything good and powerful about the process of taking one piece of music and artfully syncing it up with another. Shaolin Jazz — The 37th Chamber is a project created by Washington DC’s Gerald [...]

The great Philadelphian expat David Lynch recently saw the opening of Silencio, the Paris nightclub he designed. And looking through the photos of the impressive space, we couldn’t help but feel a pang of what-if. For in a city that is thoroughly exhausted with what often feels like the bells and whistles (and often, straight-up [...]

Oh hey, we’re going to try doing a Daily Poll each morning now, wherein we ask you, the people of Philadelphia, random things about your life here, and on Earth. Got a question you want to see the people answer? Suggest it at: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

>>> Wow, it’s been a year already? Happy Birthday to our friends at Barbarella, who celebrate tonight with a lil’ shindig. May you have 100 more years of deep fried mac-and-cheese balls. (That’s what she said.) >>> Programming note: Mogwai at Union Transfer ain’t happenin’, for the Mogwai tour has been postponed. Listen to Mogwai [...]

The guy who threw a banana at Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds the other day in London, Ontario (which you guys, and common sense, said was “totally racist“) has been found. According to NBC Philadelphia, London police have arrested 26-year-old Chris Moorhouse of London, Ontario. Moorhouse was served a summons, not for a hate crime or [...]

According to the Delaware County Daily Times, a 70 year old man was carjacked outside of his Buddhist congregation in Landsdowne at 8:50AM on Sunday morning. The man had left the congregation to get something from his car when two men approached, held him at gunpoint, and took his cash, cell phone, and Nissan Murano. [...]

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