So all that Foxwoods stuff is just a ruse, right? An intrepid group of investigators over on Fishtown.us have discovered that the window-front at 1802 Frankford Ave. is now advertising the location as Jackpot Internet Cafe. So what exactly will go down at this sparkling addition to the neighborhood? Well as the window shows, internet [...]

It’s love! After the show’s fantastic season finale on Sunday, it is going to be some time before we see Richard Harrow again, but if you’re down by 8th and Ellsworth, you can spot his face on a wall (above). This really makes us wish there was a Boardwalk Empire book in the style of [...]

Class it up for Christmas by bencady In our third Holiday Jam of the season, Ben Cady not only offers a short and sweet holiday tune, he also throws out some sartorial advice. And you know what, he’s right, why not wear a tie or a sweater this Christmas, maybe then your family will stop [...]

Philebrity Award nominees Nothing played an acoustic set at the Little Berlin Art Gallery, and the video above is proof from our friends at BITBY. Remember, you can still vote for the awards here, but the polls close tomorrow.

According to a survey conducted by Living Social (the pseudo-Groupon), Philadelphia has ranked #1 in the nation in obesity, #2 in worst-dressed, and #4 in vanity. The survey asked people from the US’s top 20 media markets to rank themselves on their own attractiveness on a scale from 1-10, which is where the vanity vote [...]

Philebrity Award nominee Daniel Denvir has pointed out what he thinks is the worst article ever written by a Philadelphian. The article is, “If I Were A Poor Black Kid,” written by Gene Marks, and it can be seen over at Forbes.com. The article includes such gems as, “If I was a poor black kid [...]

NBC Philadelphia reports that a 14-year old Allentown teen was tased by an Allentown police officer after resisting arrest. The video above shows the incident (which happened back in September) but as you can see, the part where whatever it is that happened to cause the officer to try to arrest the teen is missing [...]

On the tail of the phenomenally-reviewed undun, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah at Capital New York talks about her time working for The Roots, Black Thought and ?uestlove’s childhoods, and why undun is a “generation-defining” record.

Man, those Foxwoods people just don’t know when to call it a day. After nothing really going their way for a long time, the backers of the proposed casino filed an appeal with a PA high court to save their South Philly casino project. This is Foxwoods’ last chance, for about the fifth time, let’s [...]

No. When the Sixers first made public their three options for a new mascot, most reactions were a mixture of “huh?” and “ewww.” But Jerry Rizzo was thinking ahead. The 23-year-old and a friend created twitter accounts for two of the three mascot options (Phil E. Moose and B. Franklin Dogg), and began using them [...]

We’ll be burning the midnight oil getting ready for Thursday’s Philebrity Awards, but do drop by the 700 in NoLibs, as tonight’s very special guest DJ at Philebrity Salon will be the one and only Aaron Luis Levinson aka The Kosherican. Says the Kosh: “I will be spinning salsa tonight and every other kind of [...]

Fortune 50 retail giant Lowe’s Home Improvement maintains several stores in the Delaware Valley region. They also maintain an active presence on social media sites. The company’s Facebook page proudly sports thousands of bigoted posts, most of which advocate hatred of – and occasionally violence toward – Muslims. Despite numerous calls for the company to [...]

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 [...]

As you’d imagine, we are currently being inundated with press releases about things you can buy people for Christmas. Most of it’s crap, but the above promo for helicopter tours of Philadelphia by Independence Helicopter actually got us doing the whoa-that’s-an-awesome-Xmas-present pee-pee dance. Independence offers a variety of tours, and prices range from $175 to [...]

Ugh. This fucking state. When can we secede already?

The submissions are beginning to pile up, and we’re gonna start posting local holiday jams on the daily now. But before we post some of the newer ones, we’d like to present this one, unearthed by a YouTube-digging reader. The Dead Milkmen‘s “Christmas Party” first appeared on their 1984 cassette-only album, Someone Shot Sunshine. This [...]

Still, that’s some awesomely good news. Via Deadspin: ————— Forwarded message ————— From: “Killian, Kathy” (KKILLIAN@phillies.com) Date: Dec 12, 2011 11:20 PM Subject: Fw: Dontrelle Willis/confidential To: “[redacted]@gmail.com” Sent from my BlackBerry wireless Handheld Device ——- Original Message ——- From: Amaro, Ruben (Jr) Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 11:19 PM To: Baseball Administration; Vice Presidents; [...]

Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams is a goddamned Philadelphia institution. For those of us who came up during the lean and weird Philadelphia 1990s, Maxx and his hip-hop group The Goats stood as a towering monument to all of us; they completely embodied the “fuck it” attitude that has always characterized the Philly scene, and the way it’s [...]

Um, no. The correct answer is that there is a special room in hell for both of these men.