Guys, Buzz Bissinger hates political correctness. He hates it so much, that he purposely threw in non-politically correct (read: racist) comments about semi-superstar Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks in a piece for The Daily Beast, Bissinger wrote: WARNING ALERT: THE FOLLOWING MAY BE CONSIDERED POLITICALLY INCORRECT AND INAPPROPRIATE ON SEVERAL LEVELS. REPEAT THIS [...]

>>>This Tuesday needs hip-hop to get its Phat back. And that’s just what it’ll get, tonight at Silk City’s CD release party for Dewey “Decibel” Saunders’ #BOOMBOXBOOKWORM mixtape (download FREE here), with Zilla Rocca, Has-Lo, Curly Castro, and DJ PHSH spinning. >>>Store (formerly known as Space?) 1026, the warehouse arts collective right by the Troc, [...]

Because you just can’t get elected enough: Mayor Micahel Nutter is apparently still running for Mayor, even though he was re-elected already. Please join Mayor Michael A. Nutter Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Del Frisco’s- The Vault 1426 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 General Admission: $1,000 per Individual or $5,000 per [...]

A little while back, when Little Bar seemingly cut all ties with a lot of the people who did cool things there (thus more or less creating the current incarnation of The Level Room) it seemed to many like the beginning of the end. Well, it turns out they were probably right. Little Bar’s Facebook [...]

Apple joins the ranks of megashops like Free People hosting local events in exchange for dibs on the indie nature of Philly’s arts circuit. It’s an understated promotional strategy that slaps a familiar face on a corporate logo. Case in point: Ricky Radio, AKA local singer-songwriter/producer extraordinaire Rick Friedrich, played the Apple Store on Walnut [...]

Caution: Soundtrack is, in the parlance of the lady down the street, “all of that rap shit with that rap cursing.”

You know, people may not really want to go to Camden, but at least they’re actively working on their waterfront. What has it come to, where Camden is actually working to set an example? We may have woken up today in the Twilight Zone.

PGW only falls a few steps short of PMN on the “most dysfunctional things for sale” list, but of course, the pending sale of PGW will attract big time buyers. According to Business Week, King of Prussia’s UGI Corp. (which ran PGW from 1961 to 1972) is considering a bid, but said, “It sounds like [...]

So, this happened: And you can either read our little rant/meditation on the nature of microcelebrity in Philadelphia after the jump, or you can simply join us in this plaintive cry and be done with it: Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people?

If memory serves, this would be the longstanding Keith Haring mural, over where South Philly bumps into G-Ho, painted by the late artist himself along with some neighborhood kids in the mid-1980s. This mural has been in danger before, but it’s always survived somehow, through weather and gentrification and what have you. Ridiculously and sadly, [...]

In the great American tradition of, er, frothy mixture rising to the top, Rick Santorum has been kicked upstairs to the tune of ten points. What this means for us here at Philebrity is that we can no longer ignore the man. Stay tuned, as today we begin daily posting on The Man From Nope, [...]