Fun around town, for $10 or less: Friday: N It: Enjoy some improv with The N Crowd at The Actors Center (257 N. 3rd), 8PM. $10 Ashley Deekus: Ashley Deekus, Jesse Sparhawk, and Eichen Oaks at Brickbat Books (709 S. 4th), 8PM. Free. Why Do You Build Me Up: Drink Up Buttercup, Moneynotes, Jukebox the Ghost, Modern Skirts, and Madi Diaz at the Khyber (56 S. 2nd), 9PM. $8 Saturday: It’s International Women’s Day: Celebrate......

Let's get all the holiday news out of the way first: the Inquirer has coverage of the 88th annual Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, which mainly focuses on the great weather. They greet Black Friday by reminding us of the many toy recalls, and by pointing out that there could be lots of great deals to be had out there due to a yearlong sales slump and tons of extra inventory. Now that the Mayoral......

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we'll be posting events that are going on sale during the current week. This Tuesday post only collects the early announcements, so definitely check back on Thursday for the latest ticket news. COMEDY Lisa Lampanelli Sovereign Performing Arts Center, Reading Fri, 9/14/07, 8PM $32.75 Pre-sale: Fri, 10AM-5PM, Ticketmaster On sale: Sat, 10AM, Ticketmaster Jerry Seinfeld Resorts Atlantic City Sat, 9/8/07, 11PM $150 On sale: Sat, 10AM, Ticketmaster MUSIC As Cities Burn,......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

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If you're hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs "so are you nakie" to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor......

ABC 6 seems to have had way too much self love over its Thanksgiving Day Parade. Wednesday night at 11 PM they dedicated a large chunk of the first part of the newscast to the parade. Especially ridiculous was a poorly produced Dann Cuellar piece where he spent several minutes previewing the parade and “visited” the “North Pole” with some of the most awful green screen work you will ever see. If you are......

Hey, look, we're back visiting blogs! And we're linking to some of the same blogs! And some new blogs! Wowee! This blogging thing truly is going to change the world. >>> When the Kimmel Center blog launched, we were cynical and assholes about it (not that it's out of the norm for us), but it turns out that they're really into the blogging thing. Here's a post about Antony and the Johnsons. And Antony and......