As you may have noticed, Philly talk radio staple Dom Giordano has been nominated in the always-fun “EXCOMMUNICATION” category in this year’s Philebrity Awards Poll. The Dom has noticed this, and he wants to know why. (Maybe because of this? Or maybe this? Nah, it’s probably this.) At any rate, tune in to “The Dom [...]

Hair’s What We Do. Because awful pun-names for mom-and-pop hair salons is pretty much the only thing left that’s made in America.

We’ve never had this impulse before, so it feels weird to say it, but… Go Arlene! Go Arlene! Get your paycheck! Go Arlene!

>>>As we mentioned in the wee hours of this morning, the Occupy Philly eviction took place last night around 1AM. One arrest was made at Dilworth Plaza and when the protesters marched away from Dilworth and through the streets, police and sanitation employees began work at breaking down and cleaning up Dilworth. According to a [...]

According to our recently exploded Twitter feed, the eviction/raid/crushing of hopes and dreams at Occupy Philly is happening now. Police are currently giving their last warnings before they move in to remove protesters. Keep track of the live events here and here. ABC has live video here.

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>>>Philly.com is reporting a splinter group of homeless from Occupy Philly has set up camp, “on a dirty, hilly, wooded section of the old Conrail yard in Port Richmond.” The camp was set up with help from homeless advocate Dennis Payne and features about 20 tents, and as the headline says, “It’s A Tents Situation.” [...]

… Arlene Ackerman applied for funemployment. Holy fuck.

This is the new one from Philly’s much-buzzed-about Work Drugs. Says the band: “This song was written as a response to the state of Philadelphia (Occupy movement, Philadelphia sports, flash mobs … etc) when we returned from our recording session in Argentina.”

A reader paid a visit to Occupy Philly last night after we posted about a possible eviction (so did we) and his reaction was basically the same as ours: After reading your post that OP might be evicted I went down to Dilworth on my way home last night. I have checked it out a [...]

While we know that real life is not like Fugazi, on the other hand, do you want the city to look like Philebrity? It looks like we’ll find out this week, when Council votes on a little something called Bill 110563, which would allow 7 story digital wall wraps along the Vine Street corridor. This [...]

… and surprisingly, with no racist connotations! VisualThesaurus explains: [...] in the early 1960s, “Black Friday” came to be used in Philadelphia to describe the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush. Taylor-Blake discovered an article in a public relations newsletter from 1961 that uses “Black Friday” in its current meaning: Santa has brought Philadelphia stores a present in [...]

Some of our more show-going readers may know Jamie Getz and Jeff Ziga (pictured), who hold down jobby-jobs working in various capacities for R5 Productions when they’re not flipping out in a very loud stylee as the punk rock band Gods And Queens. Today, they could use your help: While doing a self-booked tour 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.

Join us at the 700 in NoLibs on Tuesday night as a Philebrity Salon favorite returns: Grog Cabin, in which we play all kinds of longhair music and Tracy makes real-life GROG that will peel the paint off a wall and make a party in your soul.

Occupy Philadelphia’s twitter feed is reporting a “heavier than usual” police presence taking shape at Dilworth Plaza. Is the eviction about to happen? Is anything about to happen? It would be great is just something happened. Anything really.

When it comes to music that is aesthetically “American,” few songs fit that bill more than Don McLean‘s “American Pie.” Well now, according to Don McLean himself, we know that the song was written here. According to Salon, a bar in Sarasota Springs, NY had been claiming for years that the song was written on [...]

Author, minor television celebrity, and mustache-wearer John Hodgman recently released his third compendium of world knowledge entitled That Is All. As with the previous book in the series (More Information Than You Require) Hodgman has a page-a-day calendar at the top of each page, detailing world events from that date. However, in That Is All [...]

>>>While awaiting eviction at Dilworth Plaza last night, some OP protesters did a song-and-dance lap around the block. We feel like we’ve seen those dance moves somewhere before. >>>Occupy Philly’s eviction deadline was 5PM last night, though no real police action was taken to remove the protesters. With Mayor Nutter out of town for a [...]

We know it’s the longest-running Turkey Day parade in America and all, but holy shit, this is just embarrassing.