>>>Author Paul Auster, who we are currently vibing on, is speaking at the Free Library tonight. You won’t want to miss this, but if you are going to, you might as well watch the video above. >>>Attn. People Who Want To Dance: Dragonette is playing Union Transfer with support from Made In America-alums The Knocks. [...]

Following a four-year hiatus without a new record, the four members of England’s Bloc Party released their fourth studio album this year, called Four. Yeah, it’s a bit much, and the songs themselves bare little resemblance to the angular post-punk of the band’s spectacular debut Silent Alarm, but they sound tight and focused (something that [...]

A local Eagle Scout has returned his Eagle Scout Medal to the Boy Scouts of America, according to NBC 10, due to their much-publicized policy against gay members. Philadelphia’s Cameron Kline told NBC that he and his father were, “pleased to add our name to the list of people who really don’t agree with this.” [...]

On September 22nd from noon to 8PM, musicians are gonna throw down Jets v. Sharks style in front The Institute Bar and PhilaMoca for the 12th Street Music Festival. Well, not really, but it’s a pretty cool image in our minds nonetheless. The Jets Stage (as we’ll call it) in front of PhilaMOCA will feature [...]

Paul Auster is an American treasure. If you’ve never read anything by the man, you are, quite simply, doing it wrong. A giant in both the novel game and the memoir racket — he could crush your corny-ass Augusten Burroughs into dust with one turn of phrase — he is currently on tour promoting a [...]

We here at the Philebs have a bit of a complicated relationship with Kickstarter, but when it comes to projects for improving people’s communities and public spaces, we’re all for that. That is why we’re on board with the city’s new Kickstarter-esque site for civic projects, Citizinvestor (nice merging of two words guys). The idea [...]

This was lovely, and if you missed it, well, courtesy of the BITBY gang, now you didn’t. Previously: Good Morning! Quentin Stolzfus Is Making Music Again!

You know the old saw: Back in the Mad Men era, Philly was one of the world’s great advertising centers, with scads of firms here in town that did work that was seen the world over. And, then, it stopped. And now, it’s like this. That’s the long view, of course, and it’s also a [...]

When we strolled through the National Constitution Center‘s election-based collection last week, the thing we enjoyed most (other than FDR’s hat) was the polling station set up in the middle. How it worked was like this: You walk inside a polling booth, select the issues that matter most to you, answer questions about how you [...]

Kiel Martin as “White Folks,” rolling up on The Dorchester; behind him, the pharmacy that would become Audrey Claire COOK. Trick Baby is a 1972 blaxploitation film set entirely in Philadelphia, and were it not for the hard times upon which Netflix has fallen in the streaming game, we might have never noticed it. But [...]

How? Well, having alienated whatever small part of the GOP establishment yesterday with this major foreign policy gaffe (and then, worse, doubling down on said gaffe in some of the most awkward soundbites we’ve yet seem from Romney), Romney’s last chance to take this thing home may lie in the outcome of the court ruling [...]

Neiman Labs, the people who brought you Philly Steakout, are bored with technology. Or, at least that’s how it seems since they’ve set up a Twitter-based game of Nerf-guns-meets-Duck Hunt that only the brainstorming during the most extreme cases of boredom could have invented. Tweet to Shoot, as it’s called is set up like this: [...]

A concerned reader asks: Who is the jerk that painted over the “Ben Franklin with a boom box” artwork on the 95 South on-ramp off Delaware Ave? We know not, but at the very least, his Foursquare check-in lives on. And for those of you keeping score at home, wondering how we can get indignant [...]