Tap dancing! Martial arts! Fire swallowing! S&M! Is it the latest show by the Peek-A-Boo Revue? No. It's the Lantern Theater Company's revival production of The Screwtape Letters, adapted from the book by C.S. Lewis by, and starring, Anthony Lawton. As with all of C.S. Lewis's works, Screwtape has a decidedly Christian slant— in this case, speaking on the ideas of faith and morality, and how their abandonment could mean eternal damnation— but the story......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. What Would Jesus Really Do? (Mon, 8PM-9PM, CNN) - A discussion of how Jesus might respond to various contemporary issues, like the war in Iraq, global warming, and the divide between rich and poor. Includes commentary from various "experts," including Jerry Falwell. Christmas Specials (Mon, 8PM-9PM, ABC; Mon, 8PM-11PM, NBC; Mon, 8PM-10PM, AMC; Mon, 10PM-11:30PM, WHYY) - Some of these have already played this month, and we......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Paranormal State (Mon, 10PM-11PM, A&E) - The debut of a new reality show featuring members of Penn State University's Paranormal Research Society investigating reports of paranormal phenomena. During this hour, they seem to be playing two episodes, one about a boy who can supposedly see dead people, and another about a supposedly haunted house where murders were committed. Independent Lens (Tue, 10PM-11:30PM, WHYY) - It's another Penn......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. All-Star Holiday Spirit (Mon, 9PM-10PM, Food Network) - The Food Network stars - including food nerd Alton Brown, freakish bird-woman Giada De Laurentiis, the hated Rachael Ray, Ina Garten, Tyler Florence, and obsessive lush Sandra Lee - prepare holiday party dishes. Should be a good time! Charlie Brown Christmas (Tue, 8PM-9PM, ABC) - The 1965 classic, accompanied by a behind-the-scenes making-of special hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, and......

What's creepy and interesting on TV this week. Horror Movies (All week, various channels) - If you're looking for something scary to watch to get you in the holiday spirit, AMC has you covered; they're playing classic and contemporary horror movies pretty much all day, every day, Monday through Wednesday. The Sci-Fi Channel is joining in with similar fare most of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday, and TCM and FX have some good stuff......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. This story is kind of horrible, but it's also kind of hilarious: a squirrel nibbling at the power lines in Bayonne got electrocuted, caught on fire, fell down, and blew up a car. The owners of the car have their house decorated for Halloween and are considering dedicating the plastic tombstone on their lawn to the squirrel. (Via Jason) Some crazy......

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. Foodzings, a blog we happen to read pretty often, submitted this gem to us a few weeks ago, along with an accompanying note (all sic): so ethnic restaurant menus should......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Creature Comforts (Mon, 8PM-8:30PM, CBS) - A new US version of the popular UK show created by Wallace & Gromit's Nick Park. It involves clay, stop-motion animated animals sharing their opinions on life. If it's anything like the original, the dialogue will consist of actual interviews with real people that end up being quite amusing when coming out of the mouths of gorillas and panthers. Unwrapped (Mon,......

I don't know nearly as much about poker as I thought I did. Apparently, watching the occasional episode of Celebrity Poker Showdown on Bravo does not make you an expert. Also, there seem to be more kinds of poker than Texas Hold 'Em and Five Card Stud. Who knew? (Answer: the producers of Lucky You.) That being said, I don't think I missed out on too much in Lucky You because of my lack......

Phillyist would like to take a moment to officially welcome Warren Longmire into the fold. (You may have already caught his inaugural post.) Warren, a fab spoken word poet in his own right, joins us to tell Phillyist readers about open mic nights around the city, as well as to be very willing to cover things that need covering, and to just generally be a lot of fun to hang out with at shows. Bands......

Landon Donovan continued to put ’06 in the past with a stellar performance against Mexico last night. He capped off USA’s victory with a blistering charge through midfield, in which he shed two defenders before deftly turning to the left to avoid keeper Oswaldo Sanchez and slamming the ball home to make it 2-0 at the 90 minute mark. In his last two games he has 3 goals after going 18 international appearances without a......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Show Me the Money (Tue; 9:30PM-11PM; ABC) - In this exceedingly long premier episode, the producers of "Deal or No Deal" present what they hope will be the next big game show hit. We're not sure why they chose as their title a catch phrase from an old movie that became annoying almost as soon as it became popular, but we do like their host: it's The......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Monday Night Football: Packers at Eagles (Mon; 8:30PM-11:30PM; ESPN or ABC [WPVI]) - The Eagles get a Monday night game. Here's hoping they keep up the good work and don't crack under the pressure. If you're not near a TV at the time, but you are near the internet, you might be interested to know that the game will be live-blogged at this address (thanks, Seth).......

- New York must have reached its quota of starving artists; a group of NYC advertising students designed an ad campaign trying to unload them on us. (via) - Representative Josh Shapiro is preparing to introduce legislation that would stop drivers from talking on their cellphones without a handsfree device. Bravo! Now if someone would just introduce legislation to stop people from using their cellphones on buses and trains; Phillyist can barely hear ourselves think......

What's interesting on TV this week. 2006 ALMA Awards (Mon; 9:30PM-11PM; ABC) - The American Latino Media Arts Awards. Eva Longoria hosts, and also receives the person of the year award! Sounds like a bit of a conflict of interest to us. Gloria Estefan and Carmen Electra perform, amongst many others. Although what exactly Carmen Electra performs is a mystery. And a mighty intriguing mystery at that. Maybe she'll do one of her pole-dancing workout......

What's interesting on TV this week. Alias (Mon; 9PM-11PM; ABC) - At long last, here's the final, two-hour long episode of "Alias." That's final as in last one ever, people. If you haven't watched in a while, like us, you might be curious to check this out, and yet you might also be harboring fears that you'd no longer have any idea what's going on. But fear not! The episode description says Sloane and Irina......

Bostonist experiences schadenfreude because of a stupid criminal. We experience schadenfreude every time we listen to the Avenue Q soundtrack. DCist wants to be more like Philly. LAist speculates on what was up with Paula Abdul last night. We wouldn't know, we were watching Bravo. Seattlest: "Over the last few months all 643 of Seattle's taxis have been outfitted with security cameras that snap a picture every few seconds." To which we respond: there......

It looks like we were a little premature when it came to announcing NBC's new series, The Law Firm. We were just so eager to see if the contestants were as prone to passionate eyebrow-scrunching as Law and Order's http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order/bios/Sam_Waterston.html">Sam Waterston that we announced it a week early. The Law Firm actually premieres this Thursday at 10 pm. And though it is nearly impossible to find a funny sitcom anymore, this week Bravo is offering......

Dear Mayor Street, Bravo for living up to your promise to have the city cleaned up after Live 8, and for making sure the Parkway was litter-free after all the Independence Day celebration activities. When those of us who work on the Parkway arrived to work on Tuesday, there was nary an empty paper cup or spare sock in sight. Congratulations. Alas, you seem to have forgotten something: the port-a-potties. And John (may we call......