This coming Friday, the American Benefactor Foundation will be recognizing manager, producer, and community volunteer Charles “Charlie Mack” Alston for launching the new Charlie Mack Cares Center in West Philly. ABF will be honoring Mack at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, where the proceeds from the ceremony will, “fund scholarships for students [...]

>>> Philebrity Salon checks in once again at the 700; this week, Sweeney’s holding it down solo, and don’t be surprised if you hear a lot from the album above, Shintaro Sakamoto’s How to Live with a Phantom, just released last week on Other Music’s new record label. It’s kind of the dream record for [...]

Watch Fast Times at West Philly High Preview on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Tune into PBS tonight!

We here at the Philebs aren’t exactly boxing experts, but we’d like to wholeheartedly congratulate North Philly’s Danny García for defeating England’s Amir Khan this past weekend and taking his WBA title. Whether he snuck in a few lucky punches, Khan was too overconfident, or García officially arrived in boxing, we don’t know. But the [...]

Sophy Ziss is one of the summer interns here at Philebrity right now. Last week, we sent her on a fact-finding mission to find out everything at the intersection of Philly and 2012 Summer Olympics we were too lazy or busy to find out for ourselves. And she found out tons of stuff! To get [...]

What is summertime if you can’t get to some great parties? A long season of sweat, delusion, and more sweat; that’s what. So party it up. And it just so happens, one of the summer’s biggest parties is happening this coming weekend. The Making Time Summertime HYPER-RAGER is taking place this Friday at Penn’s Landing [...]

Hot-off-the-presses new clip from Philebrity faves Market East. Check ‘em out this Friday at Johnny Brenda’s, when they play the Broad Beauty Tapes launch party.

NoMoJoPa, which ponders what to do with the PSU JoePa statue — tagline: “You can’t leave him there, but you can’t just throw him out, either” — is a salve for Nittany souls. At least it should be. Also, this Onion piece. Brutal.

We know, we know, you are still all kinds of messed up about the end of Daffy’s. But there may be a silver lining, and that silver lining might be could be a Uniqlo, the Japanese chain that makes very nice basics at affordable prices. (Like H&M, however, NEVER WEAR ALL UNIQLO; you will look [...]

This flyer is so nice, it roofied John Bolaris twice. Related: Places We Can’t Understand: Zee Bar

>>> The wave of anti-hipster sentiment that has characterized a whole swath of popular debate over the last few years is growing. So much so that it is now reaching out, Blob-like, to include the creative class and the cities that host them. Here, one man attempts to stem the tide. Good on ya, son. [...]

Just a few weeks back in these pages, we sang the praises of Freedom Taxi, Philadelphia’s newest cab company, which boasts friendly drivers and roomy new cabs that are also eco-friendly (though a compost program now seems unlikely). As you now know (most likely, even local TV news led with this last night), the city [...]