We told you in June that Nexus was planning a delicious exhibition, and the time has arrived: YUMMY: a celebration of craving, compulsion and culture opens tonight with a reception at the Nexus gallery from 6-9PM. The exhibit is designed to inspire "contemplation about the emotional and psychological nature of food as it impacts the individual experience of life especially within American culture," and seeks to do so through a combination of artifact (read: art......

When a performer is a standard bearer and larger than life in his or her field, it's hard to escape knowing who that person is, even if you only have a passing interest in his or her art. This Phillyist isn't particularly interested in cinema or dramatic theater, for example, but still knows who Orson Welles and John Barrymore are, if only vaguely. Similarly, one cannot be familiar even in passing with modern dance and......

...Faux Pas: Jerry Lewis? You, of all people? (Via Actress Archives.) ...Interventions: We're not sure if it's really fair to blame someone for another person's drug relapse, unless that person was the one who brought the coke. But it's happening anyway. (Via The Superficial.) ...Explanations: Honestly, even if Bill Murray was drunk, it was an effing golf cart. And here we thought the Scandinavians were supposed to be nice... (Via Yahoo.) ...Ewww: For a good......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. The headline (Creepy Dog Robot Planned for the US Military) almost says it all, but watching the embedded video will complete the picture. *shiver* (Via Jill) More funny scans from scans_daily. Included this time is an amusing comic strip and one hilarious panel from The Tick. Celebrities are taking over the web! Run for your lives! (Uh... any celebs lurking around......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Broken English - This romantic comedy by first-time writer/director Zoe Cassavetes, and starring Parker Posey and Gena Rowlands, already hit Philly a while back during the Film Festival; you can read our review right here. Trailer Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse Brooklyn Rules - The story of three life long friends set against the backdrop of mobster John Gotti's rise to power in the '80s.......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Philly is world famous... for being the home of that one guy who wants you to order your cheesesteak in ENGLISH ONLY PLEASE. Sigh. (Via Jason) Cracked provides us with an amusing list: 9 Superhero Powers That Would Be More Trouble Than They're Worth. (Via) Wired asked Transformers fans to send in cool photos of their beloved toys, and the result is this......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The lolcats thing continues to explode in popularity, and we will no doubt get sick of it very, very soon, but for now, enjoy some lolbats. As you might have guessed, that's the same thing as lolcats, but using images from Batman, instead of photos of cats. Our favorites are here and here. Wow, iTunes Music Store is now selling high quality (256......

By his own admission, Michael Penn isn’t a song-and-dance man. (His stage presence is, one might say, subdued.) Twiddling his strings at his Friday night show at World Café, he confessed “I’m a chronic tuner with no gift of gab,” and encouraged showgoers to grab the audience mic between song breaks to offer up “a really good joke, a fun fact, even a well placed heckle!” The crowd didn’t really comply, but no matter. Here......

Films: 638 Ways to Kill Castro, Suffering Man's Charity, VHS - Kahloucha Future Screenings: 638 Ways to Kill Castro - None Suffering Man's Charity - None VHS - Kahloucha - Sat, April 14, 2PM at the NCC I'm probably jinxing myself here, but I'm pleased to say I have yet to see a bad movie at the Film Festival this year. Did I make better choices, or am I just lucky so far? It's hard......

Monday New York native Richard Goode, piano, comes to Philadelphia (thanks to the PCMS) for an evening of hits: Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and Debussy. Perelman Theater (Kimmel Center); 8 PM; $22 Tuesday Feel-good concert of the week: NPR’s Classical music program, From the Top, hosted by pianist Christopher O'Riley, returns to the Kimmel Center to showcase the next generation of Philadelphia’s classical musicians. You’ll be sure to leave the hall uplifted and awed. Verizon......

Weekend's here, so most bloggers will be taking it light for the next two days. That's because most people blog from work while they're supposed to be getting things done. Yeah you. You know you do it too. So you're reading blogs at work. So? Then it happens, that funny headline or article at which you laugh just a little too hard, then minimize Firefox so the people glancing over don't see. So yeah, you......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. 'Til Death Do Us Part (Mon, 10PM-12AM, CourtTV) - Normally we ignore CourtTV altogether, but we saw a great ad for this new show and knew it had to go on the list for this week. It's not another reality show, thank god, but a drama based on true stories about married couples, one of whom always ends up killing the other (or they both kill each......

Happy birthday Bach! Well, it's a little early (3/21/1685 was his actual birthday), but Philly likes to kick things off a little early. We've included a bit of the Bach fun below, but you can find a full list of the Bach Festival of Philadelphia events here. Tuesday The Juilliard Quartet comes to town, sponsored by the PCMS, to play a program of Mozart and Bartok. Perelman Theater (Kimmel Center); 8 PM; $22 Thursday Leonidas......

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A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. This video is pretty brilliantly made. It looks like it's going to be your typical home-made teen party video, but then... well, let's just say drunkenness and lightsabers don't mix. (Via Steve) Battlestar Galactica season 3 gag reel, complete with political commentary, clips from random other shows and movies, and a BG rap! If you're not caught up, stay away, as spoilers abound.......

Who doesn't love cartoons? We know we do. We particularly love rare and vintage toons. On the other hand, we're not a big fan of doctors and medicine, but we're still pretty jazzed about The Cartoon Medicine Show, a little event going down at the Mütter Museum Thursday and Friday night this week. The museum will be open for special evening hours beginning at 5:30PM, with a reduced entrance fee, and the screenings will begin......

No one wants to spend Friday night at home watching television. That’s what your TiVo or DVR is for. Set it for the Sci Fi channel at 9. Why? Because we know what’s missing from your life. You need some Battlestar Galactica. Need to see the good guys win? Check. Like it when the bad guys win? Check plus. Want hot chicks and sexy guys? Got it. Interested in moral gray areas? There’s plenty to......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Streamers: Staged readings of Streamers start tonight at the Triangle Theater (1220 N. Lawrence) and continue each night at 8PM through the weekend. Supports Operation Helmet. $10 admission. Includes wIne and cheese reception. Andrew's Video Vault: Tonight at the Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street), local film fanatic Andrew Repasky McElhinney presents free back to back to back screenings of Boarding House Blues, Kansas City & Moon Over Harlem. 8PM......

Or, at least, not putting up any new ones for now. In a victory for Philadelphians and all Americans, on Friday the National Park Service announced that a proposal to enclose Independence Hall within a security fence has been scrapped [Philly.com]. If realized, the plan would have cut Independence Square in half with a six-foot tall black iron barricade, hypocritically restricting access to one of the world's most important symbols of freedom. After releasing the......

DJ Shadow - who's playing the TLA tonight - is not a band: he's a man. His name is no cutesy moniker, either; he's really a DJ. Thus his latest album, The Outsider (released last month), is not really an album: it's just a set of tracks he's helped compile and spin for us. From track to track, it's often hard to believe you're listening to the same CD; it sounds more like a very......

Performance: Neighbors and Friends (Part of Vagabond Acting Troupe's Journeys to the Edge.) (Future performances.) Sometimes, I wish I'd studied engineering. I don't think I'd be any good at it. But I'd like to be in charge of developing more comfortable theatre seats. After nearly two weeks, my back is killing me. But I'm having a helluva lot of fun. Neighbors and Friends Neighbors and Friends is a set of three one act plays by......

It's become cool to watch family slideshows, thanks to the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players. As we explained in our ticket giveaway post (congrats again to the winner, btw!), this band is a real family of three - which includes a talented twelve-year-old girl on drums - who add their own bouncy indie pop musical commentary to a live slideshow of real photos taken by other families and collected by the band at yard sales and......

Mission of Burma is back in Philly this weekend, playing the Church with NYC rock outfit Pela. That's right, Mission of Burma. If you don't know who Mission of Burma is, you need to go. If you do know, you already know you need to go. MoB is indeed, as it says on their website, "one of the most important American rock bands of the last 20 years." This is despite the fact that the......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Here's another fun Flickr group (you know, besides this one): The Secret Life of Toys. (Via) Today's list is from Entertainment Weekly and it's the 25 Most Controversial Movies Ever. It's hard to disagree with most of their choices (and believe us, we were ready to!); these are all indeed quite controversial movies. The coveted (?) top spot......

Phillyist spends a lot of time (more than it should, honestly) reading a range of British and American soccer magazines to keep up with the latest soccer news. Specifically, we read three publications from each side of the Atlantic. From over here, we like Soccer America, 90 Minutes and Striker. Soccer America is the longest established American soccer magazine, and it deals as much with youth and collegiate soccer as it does with the......

We try, we try hard, but sometimes, we just can't come up with a headline. And so we'll save the commentary for later and just leave you with the other -ists. Austinist: Austin has a new green screen. John Walsh may or may not piss on it. Bostonist: It's amazing how effective a moustache can be when attempting to go incognito. Houstonist: What? We leave suitcases full of money in our cars all the time!......

- The Illadelph complains about strip club discrimination. Clearly, men and women should be objectified equally! - From the Philly LiveJournal Community, This is the City of Brotherly Love, we learn about two events taking place this very weekend: a straight-edge, vegan-friendly Scavenger Hunt and the local manifestation of the 2006 Global Cannibis March. - Akkam's Razor notes that society has been turning our social commentary over to comics and cartoons. (And, of course, Colbert.)......

...Anarchy: Apparently, the Clash were really just advocating terrorist attacks. (Via The BBC) ...Skank: Lindsay Lohan. Just look at the (possibly NSFW) pictures, and see why we don't feel any commentary is necessary. (Via The Superficial) ...Fan Base Betrayal: Katie Couric is leaving NBC's Today Show for the anchor seat at CBS's Evening News. Soccer moms everywhere plan protest. (Via CNN.com) ...Surprise! Eminem and his wife are getting divorced again. Gee, we saw that coming......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Today's DIY Nintendo mod - an NES zapper mouse. Now you can navigate your PC the same way you used to play Duck Hunt! There's nothing else quite like point-and-shoot computing. (Via) Somebody took a 1972 filmstrip of a documentary on ARPAnet (the earliest predecessor of the internet that you're on right now) and put it up on Google Video. It's......