>>>The Mummers and Sugarhouse join together to present this year’s Mummers Parade, or: our nightmare. How did these two bastions of greatness meet? It had to be at some weird meeting right? Like “gross things anonymous” or something. We’re on board with this only if you allow the Mummers to gamble with their fancy outfits [...]

Santorum Surges From Behind In Iowa. Congrats Will Bunch, you’ve earned it.

If Zoe Strauss on Philebrity Radio is taking away from your Eddie Austin fix this Thursday, have no fear and check out the Eddie-directed clip above for (as far as we know) Philly’s only surf-punks Dry Feet‘s “Hard Workin’ Woman.” Dry Feet will have a cassette out on Burger Records soon, so you can blast [...]

Internationally acclaimed photographer and previous winner of the Philebrity Award For General Fabulousness Zoe Strauss, who is getting her own show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Zoe Strauss: Ten Years, running from January 14 through April 22, 2012) will be our special guest on Philebrity Radio today at 3PM on XPN2. And lest you [...]

Her Word As Witness: Sonia Sanchez speaks. from Hanif Abdur-Rahim on Vimeo. Mayor Nutter announced today that poet Sonia Sanchez will serve as Philadelphia’s first Poet Laureate, her term beginning in January. Poet Laureates will serve a two-year term, and will be involved in, “the Inauguration of the Mayor, spoken word and poetry events at [...]

The most-clicked on stories round-up can more or less be summed up in two words: yarn bombing. Check out the whole countdown over at Streets Dept.

If you’re going out on New Year’s Eve, and you have a bit too much to drink, but you drove, have no fear: AAA is offering a free tow/ride home with their Tipsy Tow service. Just call 1-800-222-4537 (1-800-AAA-Help) between 6 PM New Year’s Eve and 6 AM New Year’s Day and ask for a [...]

For those headed down to the Winter Classic, or just heading down to the tailgate, or just have somewhere to be along the Broad Steer Line that day, the Broad Street Line will be free from 11 AM to 6 PM. According to NBC Philadelphia, “SEPTA will add eight extra Sports Express trips that will [...]

According to The Inquirer, and the video above, Sen. Arlen Specter showed up at the open mic at Helium last night and did some stand-up comedy. Surprisingly, Specter did pretty well (or maybe not surprisingly, he did after all come up with the hilarious single-bullet theory), taking shots at both Republicans and Democrats, as well [...]

This was always our dream in that weird “I don’t actually have a grasp on what being an adult is like” way from our childhood, but now it’s a reality. United Social Sports is bringing adult skeeball leagues to East Falls and Center City, at Franklin’s and Buffalo Billiards. USS claims to take care of [...]

Philly legend Patti LaBelle will sing the pre-game National Anthem while usual anthem singer Lauren Hart will sing “God Bless America” at some point during the game. Also, if you are super bored, you can watch the live stream of the CBP prepations here, but there really isn’t much going on.

The good people at Bands In the Backyard were at Johnny Brenda’s back on the 16th with Attia Taylor, Pink Skull, and Summer Fiction. Above, you can see a video of Summer Fiction’s Bill Ricchini playing backstage after the show for the BITBY cameras.

The Man Behind Ilya’s Mask: MyFoxPHILLY.com For the upcoming Winter Classic, Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov will be donning the mask above, airbrushed by Bucks County’s Franny Drummond. We think we’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: we’re not the biggest hockey fans, but for some reason we love the Winter Classic. And when [...]

Like the party in Trading Places where Eddie Murphy eventually kicks somebody out for putting out their Kools on his rug, last year’s Philebrity/Johnny Brenda’s NYE Snowflake Ball At JB’s Party Mansion was a STOOOOONE GROOOOOOOVE, man! So we’re doing it again, this time with some of your favorite local freaks each taking turns on [...]

Well, this is the part where all of us here at Team Philebs wish you a Merry Christmas. We know we say a lot of things, but we love you guys and gals, and we really hope your Christmas, or Hanukkah, or weekend is as great as it can possibly be. We’ll see you next [...]

Occupy Philly, who have (other than winning a coveted Philebrity Award) been kinda quiet lately, are looking to thrown down at an absolute banger on New Year’s Eve, and that’s where they need help from everyone. Donations are needed for venue, food, drink, music, lights, sound, bartenders, and security. No word if they need help [...]

Hence why he is not being singed in the picture above David Boreanaz (Valentine) has penned an essay about his love for the Flyers that will be printed in the game program of his year’s Winter Classic. You’ll have to wait until the program comes out to read the whole thing, but Entertainment Weekly has [...]

Well, this was very anti-climactic. After submitting surprise guilty pleas in October, Francis Kirchner, James Groves and Charles Bowers were sentenced to prison terms much lower than the possible 40-years. According to NBC10, “Kirchner got consecutive terms of nine to 16 years, Bowers was sentenced to consecutive terms of five to 10 years behind bars [...]

Here it is, the closest thing we have to a Christmas tradition, our yearly post of “Christmas On the Block,” by the late, great, Alan Mann.

We had a laugh about it, sure, but last week’s mega-disturbing Byko column about him going to Thailand to see his creepy college buddy left one question hanging in the air for us and some fellow colleagues in the local media with whom we spoke about it: Could this be the end of Byko? As [...]