If so, here ya go: Heery Casting is having an OPEN CALL for Background players for the new feature film, ³THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK². ³The Silver Linings Playbook² will be directed by David O. Russell (³The Fighter.² ) Shooting will begin October 10, 2011 through the end of November in the Philadelphia area. We are [...]

That way, we could make all of Port Richmond, Fishtown and Grays Ferry look like my bedroom when I was 8. [h/t 700Level]

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. Yesterday’s Poll: What Do You Do When You Come Across Union [...]

>>>Tonight is a night of big debuts for Live Arts. Traces, which if you’ve been in the city in the last month you have seen advertised, finally debuts at the Merriam Theater (250 South Broad Street) tonight. Montreal-based acrobatic troupe 7 Fingers will put on a show “suitable for all ages show includes traditional Chinese [...]

Go and get them. However, there’s no discussion over there of why, exactly, people who plan parties like this have decided to set up acrobats and dancers as the new slave class. It’s so creepy. But that is probably a discussion for another time.

Last night, The Smiths Social went down behind enemy lines at The Grape Room in Manayunk, which acted as the embassy for the cool kids. Hosts The 18th Pale Descendents played two strong sets of acoustic The Smiths/Morrissey solo tunes, doing surprisingly well for a two-piece. Lead guitarist Kivmars Bowling does as good of a [...]

Magnet, the Philly-based indie rock magazine that was a print publication throughout the 1990s and early part of the 2000s before going web-only, has announced that it will return to print in October. Philebrity suspects that this news has rocked the offices of both Jump and Cowbell to their respective cores, while the rest of [...]

View Larger Map The incident we told you about a few days ago finally got the media coverage it had been asking for with a report from 6 ABC’s Dann Cuellar, a story in Philadelphia Weekly, and a post by Daily News/Spirit Newspapers writer Patty-Pat Kozlowski. The trifecta of coverage brings to light more information [...]

Or click here to listen with iTunes. Got an HD radio? Tune in to 88.5-2 FM HD! ON TODAY’S BIG SHOW: Steady Eddie Austin takes it solo, as Jojo’s stuck in the office making widgets.

Last week, just after we ran this post about what will likely be the prelude to the first round of Daily News layoffs of the Larry Platt era at the paper, we got an interesting tip which read, quite simply: There are people who believe for real that [CEO and publisher of the Philadelphia Media [...]

Chicago based “intellectual” rapper (and as far as we know, the first rapper to sample a Modest Mouse song) Lupe Fiasco is coming to the Mann Center Saturday touring behind his recently released L.A.S.E.R.S.. Support will be provided by Tinie Tempah, Miguel, and inventor of hashtag rap Big Sean. To enter to win tickets, email [...]

It was only in July that GQ (probably correctly) identified us as The 6th Worst Dressed City In America. (Judging by Feastival alone last night, we’d still say, “Yup. And angling for 5th!”) But in the newest issue (the one with Leo DiCaprio on the cover looking all Simba-as-Fonzie), Philly — specifically NoLibs and Old [...]

Last week, after we posted about Good Day‘s Mike Jerrick poking some light-hearted fun at the Kardashian sisters, the clip went viral, appeared on The Soup, TMZ (the site and the TV show), and even in international news outlets like The Sun and The Daily Mail. Reportedly the sisters thought it was funny, and will [...]

Many of us often forget that just outside of our little city there is a strange, often confusing place called Delco. Inside of the mysterious land of Delco there is a place called Broomall, and it must have angered the gods. It seems that Damon Feldman basing his operations out of Broomall (he’ll even be [...]

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.

FRINGE FEST >>>Secret Room Theater presents Lickety Skits at 2nd Stage at the Adrienne (2030 Sansom Street). Lickety Skits is a show for the internet generation’s attention-span. The show is a series of plays all under 5 minutes long featuring a “new location, plot, and set of characters every 300 seconds.” >>>At the Mascher Space [...]

Tim Simmons’ “Los Angeles Boulder Drive 2004″ Last night, photographic artist Tim Simmons presented, in conjunction with the MuralArts Program, his Urban Land Project at The Philadelphia Navy Yard. The show, hosted in the Navy Yard’s Building 543, showcased natural scenes in unnatural light. In addition to the the works shown last night, some of [...]

It is with great pleasure that, with a whole new season underfoot, your Philebrity.com has some new blood. Well, that’s not totally accurate, as both of our new hires started here as interns, and have, in the last week or two, gone pro! Let us tell you about them: Jim Adair came to us last [...]

Philebrity Label, our side piece/evangelical musical platform, is proud to introduce the newest artist we’re working with, Blayer Pointdujour. A first-generation Haitian-American, Blayer is a singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist whose work incorporates a globe-trotting array of influences, from reggae and dancehall to 1977-style punk rock and many, many points in between. Over the years, Blayer has done lots [...]

The day after launching their new tablet program, it’s been announced that the Philadelphia Media Network will be laying off about 20 workers, according to The Associated Press. That’s some Criss Angel-style sleight of hand right there. The reason given for the cuts was a drop in ad revenue. The AP report said, “2011 advertising [...]