>>> PhilaMOCA‘s Tuesday Tune-Out continues on with Katie Frank & The Pheromones, along with Thee, Idea Men each playing a set in front of a projected film of their choosing. >>> For fans of heavy metal and cartoons, the band from Metalocalypse, Dethklok, are playing The Electric Factory tonight in human form, in a show [...]

Dearest Komrades: In an effort to further illustrate how Komkast is Kabletown and Kabletown is NBC and NBC is Komkast and Komkast is Xfiniti and all of this is infinite and good, Komkast has added the new PA state bird to the flag of Komkastlevania. So please welcome: The Komkock.

We enjoy a good Christmas tree as much as the other guy (in fact, probably a whole lot more), but what do you do when Christmas comes and goes and that tree just ends up on the sidewalk? Well, why not treecycle it? The people at greenlimbs will be collecting Christmas trees at multiple locations [...]

After already being pulled into her piece on friendship last month, Philadelphian and Paris Review contributor Jessica Chiu has done it again, this time talking about an idea near and dear to our hearts: The Reading Viaduct. Chiu discusses the possible plans for the viaduct’s future as she takes a walking tour: The Viaduct carries [...]

Certainly the flashiest of all Philebrity Awards, and the one that people seem to really rally people to vote for, is the award for New Music Artist of the Year. Last year’s race basically came down to Bleeding Rainbow (née Reading Rainbow) and Nothing, who have both had stellar years this year, but Nothing pulled [...]

MIKE TYSON’S ONE-MAN SHOW TO HIT THE ROAD ON NATIONAL TOUR Spike Lee Directed “MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH” To Launch February 2013 COMING TO PHILADELPHIA’S ACADEMY OF MUSIC THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013 TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14 @ 10:00AM Philadelphia, PA (Dec. 7, 2012) – After a highly successful bout on Broadway, Mike Tyson [...]

Produced by the Mabel and Les Beaton Marionettes for Bell Telephone in 1950, The Spirit Of Christmas is a local holiday television classic. It also, still, to this day, scares the living hell out of us.

As anyone who has ever lost a foot race will tell you, they would’ve run faster if something was chasing them. Well, now they can put their money where their legs are, with the Zombie Run at FDR Park. The 5k run takes place April 7, 2013, and is the brainchild of Wharton School student [...]

The CW Philly (WPSG-TV) will broadcast 121212: The Concert for Sandy Relief this Wednesday, December 12, 7:30 p.m. The show is expected to last more than four hours. A line-up of legendary artists — Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street [...]

Philebrity has learned that, after 20 years of faithful service, Fergie‘s bike has been stolen. (Which is especially insane around this time year because who of us can really say that Fergie isn’t Santa Claus?) If you see it, as depicted above in a recent issue of Philly Beer Scene, do please ring up Fergie’s [...]

In which Gang, the city’s premiere lady singin’-rappin’ group in the general genre of WTF, take on the time-honored holiday classic and, yep, it’s totally nuts! Well done, kids. Previously: The Philebrity Call For Holiday Jams 2012

We got excited, you got excited, lots of people around here got excited last year when it came to light that Noah Baumbach was set to direct a film adaptation of Jonathan Franzen‘s The Corrections — much of which takes place in and around the Philly area. This was less because of some shared major [...]