But don’t think that’s softened our stance on the statue, which we believe we said recently we “still loathe and in a consequence-free world would destroy with glee.” Yup, we stand by that. Yesterday, a British man ran as fast as he could up the Art Museum steps, emulating Rocky Balboa, and undoubtedly posed at [...]

AsheyMadison.com might be the website that skeeves out the most people online (which is strange, because have you seen the internet?). If you’re unfamiliar (suuuure you are), AshleyMadison is basically a hookup site for married people to hook up with people who are not their spouses. Well, they put together a list of the local [...]

Everyday readers of the site here have probably noticed that we’ve been longing for spring days — with their sunshine and warmth and barbecues and baseball — for a while now, but not without trepidation. You see, many people in Philadelphia (and a majority of people here at the Philebs) have some serious allergy issues. [...]

It’s been a long and winding road in recent years for the SS United States. The historic ship, which most people may know as “that giant boat down by Ikea,” has been said to be “the greatest American ocean liner ever built” and still to this day holds to record for fastest Atlantic crossing of [...]

While Mayor Nutter and Police Chief Charles Ramsey’s joint efforts on the national front have, as of yet, not brought any real reforms to gun laws nation-wide, it’s possible we’ll soon see a small change to gun laws locally. As CBS3 reported, City Council has “given final approval to a measure that authorizes the mayor [...]

>>> Mayor Michael Nutter, who loves creating offices, has created the Office of Immigrant and Multi-Cultural Affairs. The office, which will be led by executive director Jennifer Rodriguez, will … uh … aid immigrants. The goal will be “to improve access to city services for people whose English is limited. It also will help develop [...]

>>> If it turns out that Will Bunch is the man who brought down Governor Tom Corbett — who has, let us be honest, enjoyed a reign most foul, in so many ways that it’s exhausting to count them — well, it’s hard to know who will be happier: Us, his fans; the Daily News [...]

>>> We’ve been keeping our eye on designer Mark Willis’ blog as he’s been mocking up soccer jerseys for every baseball team in the MLB, and he’s finally made his way to the Phillies. The explanation for all of the design elements is over here, but if anyone wants to actually physically make those, we’re [...]

Fresh off of their moves to take full ownership of NBCUniversal, Comcast is making some other changes, starting with some burner internet. According to CBS3, Comcast is beginning to offer prepaid internet service for those with bad credit, no credit, or what have you. The Xfinity Internet Prepaid Service gives you a week of surfing [...]

The U.S. Olympic Committee has sent out letters to 35 Mayors in 35 U.S. cities saying, “Hey, what are you guys up to in 2024? Wanna work on something together?” According to CBS3, the USOC is just gauging interest from U.S. cities to see who would be interested for a possible bid, so they can [...]

>>> These are the ambassadors of our city: A woman is suing Delilah’s for $50,000, claiming she fell from an apparatus of theirs and severed her thumb while she was practicing for a “G-string competition.” The contest could have brought her a $10,000 prize, but she’s suing for the $50k for “pain and suffering, disfigurement, [...]

As if more people really needed to watch CBS: Last night’s local broadcast of the Super Bowl on CBS3 brought the affiliate its best rating for the big game since 2005, when the Eagles threw up all over the field and lost to New England. People who tuned into last night’s game were witness to [...]

Well it looks like you just can’t trust anyone anymore: City Councilwoman and Philebs favorite name-haver Blondell Reynolds Brown (or BRB) has been hit with more than $20,000 in fines for ethics violations. According to CBS3, BRB reached a settlement agreement with the ethics board, settling campaign finance violations going back to 2010. Ethics board [...]

Philadelphia geography lessons: CBS Philly needs them. The first item refers to an incident at 61st & Market, not exactly Southwest Philly. The error in the second item is fairly obvious. Oy, there’s nothing like The Worst News to give you those 14th Street Blues.

Planning on staying home alone on New Year’s Eve with nothing but broadcast television to keep you company? Two things: Jesus, man. And, a programming note: Celebrate 2013 — a live broadcast of Penn’s Landing’s New Year’s Eve fireworks spectacular — will air Monday, December 31st, 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on CBS3, aka the [...]

Now, a few things about this: Though it’s very true that Action News (RIP) has long had the market cornered on fear-mongering, anti-news, sheer stupidity, we have still contended for years that CBS3 is the very worst local television news available in the Philly market. Why CBS3 and not Action News? Because with Action News, [...]

>>> Voter turnout was high in Philadelphia this Election Day, and speaker of the state House Sam Smith thinks it was a little too high, because the guy he didn’t want to win won. Also, bonus points for the extremely racist and anti-semitic comment over there. Those dudes are still hanging on. [CBS3] >>> Post-election, [...]

As just about every person in your Twitter feed (and every newscaster on the news) has been telling you all day, most of the shore is underwater. How much is underwater? Meet us after the jump to see some of the pictures that came across our feed that show how much water is covering your [...]

Let no one say that the National Constitution Center doesn’t play to both sides of the aisle: The NCC hosted a conference on hate crimes yesterday at which Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, was the keynote speaker. Shepard spoke about her son and the Matthew Shepard Act, which President Obama signed into law, [...]

This is something we touched on last month when we blew a gasket over The Transplantadelphia Real Estate Scumfuck Mind Cabal that characterizes so much of the gentrified-neighborhood chatter generated by the Ori Feibushes and the Greg Meckstroths of this world: While it’s true that these freshly scrubbed go-getters are bringing something around to the [...]