Hey guys, have we mentioned it's Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe time? Despite being a good recycler, you're still a little trashy. We'll admit, we didn't know what khat was, but apparently ICE doesn't like it. The guards at the Art Museum are asking for paid sick leave. It's like talking to a statue. A peek into the Democratic National Convention… and getting there. While in the political mood, get involved with a worthy cause. It's......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Slamming: The theme of this month’s First Person Story Slams: “Worst Ever.” At L’Etage (624 S 6th), 7:30PM. $10 Two-Step Program: Folk dancing lessons sponsored by the Fairmount Park Commission at the Art Museum Steps (26th and the Parkway), 8-10:30PM. $3 Game Night!: Game night every Tuesday at The Dive (947 E Passyunk), 8PM. Free Only Beach We’ll See This Week: Bob Beach Trio and friends at Upstairs......

It's been quite some time since we showed one of these videos—and this time, the runners aren't just any old tourists.......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Bordellos Are Good: Opening reception for “Peep Show,” featuring work from five interdisciplinary artists examining eroticism, set in a space resembling a 19th-century bordello at Airspace (4013 Chestnut), 6-10PM. Free Firk It: Get to the only Friday the Firkinteenth of 2008, featuring 13 or more firkins of cask conditioned ale, at the Grey Lodge Pub (6235 Frankford), 12PM- when the firkins run out. Free + cost of......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Medicine and Rats: Authors William Frankl and Harris Cohen read from their respective works The Merger and Rat Tales and Other Stories (the latter set in West Philly) at Robin’s Bookstore (108 S 13th), 6PM. Free Folky: The Fairmount Park Commission sponsors a folk dancing session with instruction (no experience or partners needed) every Tuesday on the Art Museum Steps (26th and the Parkway), 8-10:30PM. $3 White Rabbits:......

Looking for a new way to start the weekend? Head on over to the art museum for its Art After 5 series. This week's Art After 5 concert features up-and-coming jazz trumpeter Sean Jones. This 29-year-old has been making a name for himself as the lead trumpeter for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (with Wynton Marsalis). True to their name, these concerts (free with museum admission) go from 5 PM until 8:45 PM on......

The Inquirer takes a look at the political landscape on the morning of Super Tuesday. If you're from New Jersey or Delaware, remember to vote! As long as you've done your research, and you care at all. If neither of those things are true then please, don't vote. A federal lawsuit filed in December says that President Bush's housing czar, Alphonso Jackson, pressured the Philadelphia Housing Authority to transfer land worth $2 million to Kenny......

Rocky and Rambo have sided with the soldier: Sylvester Stallone told Fox News yesterday morning that he is backing John McCain in his presidential bid. We find his justification reasonable, though perhaps less elegant than it could be: "I like McCain a lot. A lot," Stallone said. He called the Republican the right character for the times. "The script that's being written - and the reality - is pretty brutal and pretty hard-edged like a......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY On the Highwire Tonight: Fire Museum Records presents MaryClare Brzytwa, Dominique Leone, and Ashley Deekus at Highwire Gallery (2040 Frankford Ave.), 8PM. $5 The Other New Wave: Screening of Francois Truffaut’s 1959 The 400 Blows at Molly’s Bookstore (1010 S. 9th), 7PM. Free Oh the Drama: The Drama Club, The Grundles, The Peace Creeps, and The Miners at Grape Street (4100 Main St.), 8PM. $10 We'll Remember:......

It's that time of year folks, when we all lay down plans for the new year before promptly "forgetting" about them a month later. I'm hoping that making mine public will force me to stick to them... but check back with me in February. Get more active: I know, I know, isn’t this everyone’s resolution, even if it is most often tacked with the perennial favorite, “lose weight?” But I already have the daily gym......

While I would hate to date myself…oh, what am I saying, I date myself just about every time my wife leaves the house for 15 minutes: I am a member of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Being a member of the Art Museum has many benefits. Tops on the list includes getting to see tons of filthy rich white people doing their best Rocky impersonation, the privilege of being serenaded by a sketchy guy......

The Philadelphia Marathon is fast approaching (ha!), and those fleet-footed folks are looking for volunteers to help support the thousands of athletes who will converge upon the Art Museum on November 18. Tasks range from stuffing runner bags two weeks out to distributing blankets and Gatorade on race day. You can sign up for a specific job or offer your services as a general volunteer to be dispatched where you're needed most. You can also......

CultureGrrl points out that the architects just selected to build the new home for the Barnes Foundation apparently had trouble keeping water from dripping down into one of their recent buildings: the American Folk Art Museum. D'oh. 63-year-old retired policeman "Osvaldo Torres walked into the emergency room at Albert Einstein Medical Center yesterday morning, sat for a few moments, then went to a nearby restrooom and shot himself to death." A suicide note was found......

Ma Phillyist is visiting later this week. We're totally psyched to see her—it's been since the holidays—but unfortunately, her visit coincides with the BlogPhiladelphia "unconference," which we do plan to be at. Mom assures us that it's okay, she can keep herself busy on Friday. But the problem is, she's done most of the busy-keeping activities in the city that we can think of: she's been to the Art Museum, Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell,......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Animal Battlegrounds (Tue, 9:30PM-10PM, Animal Planet) - Are the parts in nature shows where the animals eat each other your favorite bits? Then this show is for you! It seems to look exclusively at such conflicts. This episode focuses on wetland environments, particularly Africa, and features archerfish shooting their prey down out of the trees, and black egrets catching fish by tricking them with shadows. Globe Trekker......

As part of Sunoco's Welcome America! series, you'll be able to watch Rocky go the distance tonight on the steps of the Art Museum. And you'll get to watch it for free! This now annual event is a good time for all-- just be sure to bring a blanket. Those steps are hard whether you're pounding 'em or sitting on 'em. Sunoco Welcome America! Philly @ The Movies Rocky Thursday June 28, 9 pm Philadelphia......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Reader Nick from Pro Cycling Tour sent us a photo of the sign you see above, found above a urinal at a pizzeria near the Art Museum. At first glance,......

Okay, we admit it: we kinda like Katie Couric. So we were super excited to see her visit to CBS3 yesterday. Even if she didn't run up the Art Museum stairs.........

Monday The Philadelphia Art Alliance's New Music Mondays series presents works by Jan Krzywicki, Professor of Composition at Temple University. Philadelphia Art Alliance (251 S. 18th St.); 7:30 PM; $20 Wednesday The Philadephia Chamber Music Society Presents the American Quartet with Lydia Artymiw, piano, in a program of Haydn, Shostakovich, Dohnanyi. The pianist will even give a free pre-concert lecture at 6:45! Perelman Theater (Kimmel Center); 8 PM; $22 Thursday The Academy of Vocal......

A Penn State football player and his girlfriend got into "an altercation" with some guys on the street, and then later called up his other football-playing buddies and they all went and broke into the apartment building where the guys lived, where "a melee ensued." All of this is allegedly, of course. Anyway, half a dozen Penn State football players are facing charges ranging from criminal trespass to burglary. (Via reader Ross) A senior......

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Ah, Valentine's Day: refuge of the uninspired lover and bane of the singleton's year. Fear not! We present our annual offbeat V-day guide, guaranteed to add some flair to the red-heart holiday (whose idea was it to put a celebration of love and relationships smack in the middle of the great gray beast February anyway, we ask you?). Ancient Girls Gone Wild The Young Friends of Penn Museum present their second annual look into......

Phillyist would like to introduce you to the newest member of our team, Sharon Cole. Sharon used to walk other people's dogs when she wasn't walking her own, and now she'll be sharing her stories. Additionally, we are looking forward to reading her thoughts on Philadelphia's Youth Aid Program. A quirky column about dog walking adventures in the City of Dog Owning Love... True. When I moved to Philly from Delaware just over six years......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Heroes (Mon; 9PM-10PM; NBC) - As we mentioned in Whiz last week, Christopher Eccleston - Doctor Who himself! - is joining the cast of the show this week as an invisible man named Claude (tee hee). Meanwhile, Nathan and Simone try to help Peter, Hiro goes looking for a samurai sword, Horn-Rimmed Glasses works on taking care of Sylar, and the police hold and question Niki. So,......

The police have caught one of the city's most dangerous killers - although they didn't know he was one of the city's most dangerous killers when they arrested him. They were booking him for stealing a cell phone when they realized who they had. Two police raids this past Friday and Saturday turned up a bunch of drugs (including especially large amounts of cocaine), guns, and wads of cash. The Board of Ethics is......

Philly cops are being bad again, and sometimes on video. First we've got a narcotics lieutenant who crashed into a car while driving a city vehicle drunk; he could lose his job. Also, the Daily News let's us know that a Philly policeman was caught drag racing in a police vehicle on YouTube - we tracked down the video here. If you know the identity of the racing officer, or anything else about the incident,......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Let's get the sad news out of the way first: Jack Palance, Western star and all-around tough guy of the movies, died on Friday at age 87. His grizzled face and growling voice will be sorely missed. Joystiq got the Wii, the PS3, and the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive this weekend, so they were testing and posting like crazy - even......

This week’s classical music events seem to cluster during the weekend, but no matter. There’s plenty to see and hear with the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s La bohème and an assortment of chamber music concerts. Friday Puccini’s La bohème, put on by the Opera Company of Philadelphia, is not to be missed. One of opera’s most famous and most tragic love stories (the inspiration for Rent) continues to move us to this day with......

So long as there are no follow-up questions, Phillyist would like to say that we are the intended recipient of the mysterious $1,072,989 recently found by the police. No need to give it to us in cash - we take cashier's checks.. All those folks who thought Lincoln Financial Field was swaying during the Eagles/Dallas game must have merely been swooning with Anti-TO rage, because two engineering firms have declared the stadium "safe." Ah......

Yesterday we told you the disturbing details of a domestic dispute, wherein a woman attacked her boyfriend with a knife. But today we have a perhaps even more disturbing story: an Erie, PA woman was having a fight with her boyfriend and decided to strike him with the only weapon she had handy - her own 4-week-old baby boy. She swung the child through the air and hit her boyfriend with the baby's head. The......