Fun around town, for $10 or less: Swinging: John Clark Big Band sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Community Association at Pastorius Park (Abington and Lincoln Drive), 7:30PM. Free Local Flavor: Wednesday Night Out, featuring 15 local performers including Bunny Sigler, MFSB, Soul Survivors, and others on the Avenue of the Arts and in The Kimmel Center (Broad between Locust and Pine), 6:30PM. Free Quizzo Mania: Get your Quizzo on at 12 Steps Down (831 Christian),......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: We Can Yap With the Best of Them: Inaugural Yappy Hour featuring a full dog menu for your furry friend and specialty cocktails for you, proceeds of which benefit the PA SPCA, at Tavern 17 (220 S 17th), 5-7PM every last Thursday through September. Free + food and drink Nice Way to Wind Down: Music on the Mall, a free summer concert series, featuring local four-man vocal group......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Whenever Wednesday: Bardo Pond performs, and horror-film aficionado Trenton Doyle Hancock presents The Driller Killer, at the ICA (118 S 36th), 7PM & 7:30PM. $6 Local: Local singer-songwriter Jeff Kessler and Sarah Marie White at World Café Live (3025 Walnut), 9:30PM. $8 By R5: Grails, Nadja, and Serpent Throne, brought to you by the fine folks at R5, at Johnny Brenda's (1201 N Frankford), 9PM. $10 Quizzo Mania:......

We didn't make it to Can't Miss This! yesterday, but it's not because we don't love you. We were testing you. Did you notice we weren't here with our daily trio of evening derrings-do? We hope so. MARY SCHOLZ AT TRIUMPH BREWING COMPANY Scholz will play tonight at Triumph Brewing Company. The combination of bar, brewery, restaurant and intimate live performance from a excellent local musician will give your arid May evening a decidedly smooth......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: The English Patient Guy: Author Michael Ondaatje discusses his latest novel, Divisadero, at the Central Branch of the Free Library (1901 Vine), 7PM. Free Yuck It Up: Helium Comedy Club (2031 Sansom) presents twenty up and coming comics at 8PM. Free New Music Tuesdays: Young Gene Buffalo, Goodbye Etc, Beyond The Black, and Bushbomb at the North Star Bar (2639 Poplar), 8PM. $5 Local Shots Live: WMMR and......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: OM: Vinyasa Yoga with Maryte Curran every Monday at the Rotunda (4014 Walnut), 7PM. $10 Monday Night Club: Baptist Preachers and Knife & Fork Band at the Balcony at the Troc (1003 Arch), 10PM. Free (21+) Open Mic: Free at The Fire (412 W. Girard). Sign up at 8:30PM. (21+) Sing Your Life!: Karaoke With DJ Sara Sherr Mondays upstairs at the Khyber (56 S. Second), 9PM -......

It's so nice out that we decided to find you three things to do indoors. You know, so you wouldn't get too used the warm weather. In case it decides to get down to 40 fu#%ing degrees again. We hate Weather's attitude. It acts as if it owes us nothing. As if it were some force of nature, free to do as it pleases without input or intervention from humanity. Oh wait, we warmed......

Local music, a film screening with the director and an open casting call for a scary new reality show with a devilish prize. Tuesday is no longer the plain-Jane it has been wont to, uh, be, in the past. And the price tag is pretty nice, too. FOOLING APRIL AND WMMR AT DOC WATSON'S PUB We mentioned Fooling April in our Countdown to 2008 because they're an incredible local band. And the bar tends......

Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist's decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration rights should just take......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Shatner has confirmed that he won't be in the new Star Trek movie, and Leonard Nimoy will. He seems kind of pissed, but he's got a sense of humor about it, too. Sci Fi has got a fun video from the red carpet outside the premiere of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, featuring interviews with the director, screenwriter,......

You can worship local music down at the church this Friday when local boys Hoots & Hellmouth (MySpace) take the stage, along with Rocky Votolato and Langhorne Slim (a Pennsylvania-born defector to New York). It promises to be a good old-fashioned country-inflected hillbilly ho-down. Which normally wouldn't be our cup of tea. And indeed, the first time we listend to Hoots & Hellmouth's recently released self-titled album (their first), we weren't sure we cared......

Girls Rock Philly, the organization, is gearing up for Girls Rock Philly, a week-long alternative music camp for girls aged 10-18. This is the first time Philadelphia will host such a camp (we're slightly behind Chicago, New York, Portland, and Murfreesboro, TN), and they need your help to make this debut really, well, rocking. The Camp will take place from August 6-10 at Girard College, with a final matinee performance on Saturday the 11th.......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Ooh, a great big documentary on David Lynch is coming! Sweet. Well, we'll be damned. Grindhouse kind of tanked at the box office this weekend (probably because we forgot about the curse on CinePhillyist and accidentally predicted it would do well; sorry Robert and Quentin!). Admittedly, we should have figured the South and Midwest wouldn't get it, and that there would......

Lately, it seems like there are so many new things going on in Philly, it's next to impossible to stay on top of everyhing. Luckily, Hot Kangaroo Pie is one of those new things. This “Urban Lifestyle” blog was started with the goal of keeping readers up to date on what’s going on in and around town, and concentrates specifically on local music, art, restaurants, bars and shopping. New though they may be, the folks......

Yo, Philly Orchestra rocks, man! It received "one of four MetLife awards for Excellence in Community Engagement.... for its Camden Community Partnership Initiative, a three-year-old partnership committed to using musical engagement as a means to improve the economic condition, emotional health, and future outlook of the city." Very nice. Speaking of cool local music stories, check out this article about an 11-year-old sixth-grader who's a talented and accomplished jazz pianist, with his own band......

As we sat down to write this week's Best of the -ists post, a car blaring "21 Questions'" passed by our house. And that started us thinking about how some of the best -ist posts out there have at their hearts questions, some of which are answered, and some of which are left open. Check out the Best of the -ists from this week, and see if you agree. Londonist answers the questions "How......

Tuesday is as good a day as any to take a tour of the local music scene, so why not head out tonight and catch a couple of Philly-birthed acts performing? First up, enjoy the lovely indie pop of The Capitol Years as they play a show inside the AKA Music store at 27 North 2nd Street at 6PM. Once that's over, head on down the street to the Khyber and check out "the worlds'......

More local music news: Dr. Dog has a busy autumn ahead. On September 14th, they'll begin touring with The Raconteurs and on September 12th, their new EP Takers and Leavers will be released. Alas, Phillyist has not yet mastered the manipulation of time, so we can't do anything about speeding up their Philly show date with Jack White & company, but if you're the impatient type, you can at least get your hands on......

Robin Parry from Philly to New Orleans...

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Some Like It Hot: Free outdoor screening of the comedy classic, Some Like it Hot at the International House (3701 Chestnut Street) at 8PM. $3 will get you into the Latina Block Party at the White Dog after. It's a Stick up!: "On the Last Friday in July, join in Tattooed Mom's second annual sticker show by having an arsenal of your own stickers in hand, for......

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there's a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! Austinist starts us off right by filling the famous person quota by interviewing Lewis Black, covers the social cause with a non-profit car sharing company, and gives us more wacky local facts than we can handle with Austin by......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Local Music at the Angel: Betsy Spivak and Todd Young play the Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd Street) at 8:30 PM. $8 Pennypack Park Festival: Rolling Stones tribute band, HOT ROCKS with Southern Rock tributers, Tuesday's Gone at Pennypack Park from 7 - 9:30 PM. Free Center City Sips: "$4 cocktails, $3 wine and $2 beers with free appetizers" at numerous Center City bars and restaurants. Arrgh Movies!:......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY: The Northbound Band: Philly's The Northbound Band play The Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd Street) at 10:30 PM. $8 Phillly Songwriters Project: The Philadelphia Songwriters Project presents Tania Alexandra, Ron Chelsvig, Karen Gross & Brooke Fox at Milkboy Coffee (2 E. Lancaster Ave). Show begins at 8:30. Tickets are $10 - $12 (yes, we know it's $2 over the $10 mark - but come on - what's......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Free Movies at the Rotunda: This month, Andrew's Video Vault presents 4.48 Psychosis, a screening of L'annee Derniere a Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) & Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf). The show begins at 8PM at the Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street), and the movies screen back to back. Free Shindig!: DJs spin "60s Soul Garage & Europop" at The M-Room (15 W. Girard). $3 (21+) The Good Problems:......

Adam Arcuragi is a Philadelphia singer/songwriter, an award winning poet and playwright, and has recently released his eponymous debut album. To commemorate this career milestone, he's having a cd-release performance at St. Luke and the Epiphany (330 South 13th Street) tonight. (We were about to register surprise at how churches are becoming a hip place to play these days, but in Arcuragi's case it makes some sense; he attempted to record this album in a......

By Jen A. Miller It was the show that didn't almost happen, which would have been a damn shame because the combined lineup of Bruce Torres/The Smyths/The Silence/The Adam Monaco Band put on such a great show at World Cafe Live on November 30 that it lasted five hours and was quality the whole way through. The place had sound problems, and doors didn't open until fifteen minutes before The Smyths, the sister-duo first up,......

Note: In this review, Phillyist is going to make some musical and pop culture references that we understand some of you may be too young to understand. For those of you, Phillyist would like to say two things. (1) We're including some helpful keywords so you can do follow-up research on Wikipedia, at your local music store, or in your parents record collection (see: LP or Long Playing Record) (2) the fact that some......

Alex Scott started a lemonade stand to raise money. It took off, but not because the lemonade's all that good: Alex, a cancer patient, was raising money for pediatric cancer research. Alex passed away, but the stands have not: they rocketed to fame thanks to the success of racehorse Afleet Alex, who won the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. This, of course, is old news to most Philadelphians. The new, um, news is that......