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.

>>>Grunge-guy turned folk singer A.A. Bondy, touring behind his third record Believers, is playing the First Unitarian Church tonight with support from Gold Leaves. >>>Real Estate, whose album Days is one of First Mate Jim’s stand-outs of the year, are playing Johnny Brenda’s tonight. Big Troubles will open. >>>You only have three more nights before [...]

From Friday night’s episode of Fallon. Why this isn’t on the Fallon website is a complete mystery to us, as it’s the best thing to happen on the show pretty much ever.

Here, then, is the first Readers Cameraphone submission ever, WITH NO PHOTO: I totally should have shot you a photo of it but I was with others and we were behind schedule. If you go way up broad any time soon, though, keep your eye out on your right. There’s a church with a HUGE [...]

Here is a testament to the majesty of the songwriting catalog of one Ray Davies, who appeared with a rock band, a 40-person choir, choir director David Temple, and himself on Saturday night at the Temple Performing Arts Center: He played for two hours and he didn’t even really make a dent in getting to [...]

Third Eye Blind, known more for their “doot doot doo“‘s than their lyrical prowess, have penned an Occupy Wall Street “anthem,” according to the Huffington Post. The tune, entitled “If There Ever Was A Time,” sounds less anthem for the 99% and more Hanson b-side. The lyrics are posted in full at the Huffington Post, [...]

Some of you may remember our old friend Mattathias Schwartz who, for a time in the last decade, ran the wonderful periodical The Philadelphia Independent, which inspires us (and makes us feel periodic pangs of tremendous loss) to this day. Since the Phindie folded, Schwartz has gone deep into long-form journalism, and today, his piece, [...]

The movies were great. And by “great,” I mean, “great.” But we must all recognize at some point that there is a darkness within the Rocky DNA that tells humans to exploit the fuck out of Rocky, even when it makes no real sense to do so. (Like, say, for instance, that fucking monstrosity on [...]

The whole NJ-trash-who-named-their-baby-Adolf-Hitler story is like some kind of urban myth/modern parable, except it’s real and, so so sadly, actual children with no control over what happens to them are attached to the situation. In the latest update, Hons Campbell, the literally just-delivered bay son of Heath and Deborah Campbell, was taken into the New [...]

>>>In another edition of “at least that didn’t happen here,” we present the pepper spray incident at UC Davis. According to Time Magazine, the students were protesting tuition hikes at UC Davis, and when they refused to leave the exit of the quad, “officers marched up to the protest line, one brandishing a can of [...]

Oh! Pears, led by former Pattern Is Movement guitarist Corey Duncan, sat down with Bands In The Backyard for their November episode. Oh! Pears can next be seen at Johnny Brenda’s on December 10th.

Louis Freeh, who served as director of the FBI from 1993-2001, has been brought in by the Penn State board of trustees to investigate the conduct of PSU personnel in response to the child abuse charges against Jerry Sandusky. According to NBC Philadelphia, “retired Air Force Col. and astronaut Guion Bluford will [also] be part [...]

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.

FRIDAY: >>> Here, then, is a quick cold water blast of reality for you: This is the last weekend before the entire collective consciousness of America shifts into Holiday Mode. The last weekend before you begin your month-long slide into food, drink, anxiety and, ultimately, depression. The last weekend before ABCFamily and B101 go ALL [...]

The New York Observer has an image of the aforementioned retired Philly PD Captain Ray Lewis being arrested at OWS yesterday. According to the Observer, Capt. Lewis was charged with, “One violation of local law, and two counts of disorderly conduct including disrupting traffic and refusing to move on.” He is reportedly out of custody [...]

RECOMMENDED: What a different world it was the last time Antonio Banderas and director Pedro Almodóvar made a movie together: After starring in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Banderas went Hollywood, eventually making you forget everything there once was to like about him. Meanwhile, Almodóvar went along in his own quiet-loud way, steadily putting [...]

A while back, we posted this Readers Cameraphone unaware of the backstory, but now, thanks to The Daily Mail of all places, we have that backstory. The man behind the mask is Eric Smith, a man who may be known better as the dude behind Geekadelphia, and his story begins in the harshest of ways: [...]

Came across this stop sign today in Fishtown. Pretty sure it was around Hancock and Cecil B. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[at]philebrity[dot]com.

We told you yesterday about a vote that was going to take place on whether or not to allow fracking in the Delaware River Basin. In fact, we even called on Joe Biden (Senator Amtrak to some) to stop the whole thing from going down. Well as it turns out, the vote itself was cancelled [...]

According to NBC Philadelphia, they have all been named to the Top 20 Americans of the Year by Esquire magazine. Only 14 of those Americans have their content up on Esquire’s website (Nutter is not one of them), but according to Philly.com, “the magazine gives him praise for the budget-cutting that reduced his local popularity. [...]