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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.

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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 her medicine and offered their own suggestions to how the city should capitalize on the local music scene. And everyone thinks that a suggested tax on bottled water is a great idea.

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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 for it very much. Country, after all, is one of our least favorite music genres. But H&H aren't just country. They're part alt-country, part folk, part roots-rock. And during our second listen to their disc, we noticed that our feet were tapping and our head was bobbing uncontrollably to the music. This is catchy, fun stuff with strange, intriguing, and sometimes silly lyrics, as well as a hand-clapping, foot-stomping beat that's undeniable. We're particular fans of the songs "Abattoir Altar Boy and Girl" and "Two Hearts, a Snake and a Concubine," and not just because they have awesome titles. Hoots and Hellmouth weren't named WXPN's Artist to Watch in July for nothing!

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.

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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.

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.

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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 will be released.

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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 church, for reasons that remain, to us, a mystery.)

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Last night's show at the TLA was a sojurn through our personal musical history. Opening act People in Planes, a rock band from Wales, put Phillyist in mind of the grunge bands we never warmed to in the 90s (see: Pearl Jam, Nirvana) and how they might have sounded had then been influenced by the pseudo-metal bands of the 80s we were far too fond of. They were harder rocking than hair bands (see: Poison) but not quite heavy metal (see: Motorhead) A wailing vocal here, a power chord there, and the occasional interesting drum riff...but all-in-all uninspired.

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.