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Because it's Memorial Day, Phillyist is taking a much-needed holiday today. Check us out tomorrow for all your favorite content!

We don't know about you, readers, but we plan on spending our Memorial Day weekend doing a lot of what this appropriately named sloth bear at the Philadelphia Zoo is doing: napping.

Like free movies? Like our state capital? Well then you're in luck! This weekend marks the 2009 Harrisburg Arts Fest Film Festival, held in conjunction with the city's annual Memorial Day Weekend Arts Fest. With dozens of films screening for free at three separate venues in Harrisburg, new films will join classics (Eraserhead, anyone?) on the four-day bill. So come on! Less behind-the-scenes drama and less expensive than some other film festivals we could mention? We think it's well worth the gas money.

We were happy to hear from @vboykis in the comments of yesterday's inaugural Twiitterist post. But we know that there are a lot more of you out there with your own Twitter account.

We're gonna keep this one short and sweet because, let's face it, it's 4:00 pm on Friday before the Memorial Day long weekend. Most of you probably aren't at work anymore anyway... if you even bothered to go to work today at all. But, if you're reading this post right before heading leaving the office, getting into your car, and heading for the Jersey Shore, man oh man are you in trouble.

Pepper is summer beach music. So we weren't sure how they would play out on a cool October night in the northeast. When summer-style music is played indoors in the autumn or winter, it can bring a touch of warmth to a cold night, or it can just sound horribly out of place, like Bing Crosby at your Uncle Jon's Memorial Day barbecue. So we were a little apprehensive, but still excited for the show.

...Lindsay Lohan: Last week, we swore we'd never trust Lindsay Lohan again. Here's why: Lohan was booked last week after a Memorial Day drunken-driving incident, but released almost immediately on bail. Only a few days later, and not long after being released from rehab, she was arrested again for DUI and cocaine possession. (Mugshot here.) How was she caught? Oh, by chasing her newly-former personal assistant's mother. Surprise, surprise: Lindsay is professing her innocence, so she's checked back into rehab, probably to try to stem a potential six-year sentence. Needless to say, producers of Lindsay's current projects are not happy – at all.

Philly's classical music community seems to be back from its Memorial Day break as well.

It's Memorial Day. Banks are closed. The post office is closed. We can officially wear white. We're barbecuing. We're honoring our wounded and fallen soldiers.

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing!

A Quirky Column about Dog Walking Adventures in the City of Dog-Owning Love

Memorial Day weekend is filled with block parties, barbecues, picnics and family. If you get tired of your perverted Uncle or nosy Aunt, then head over to Tower Theatre to see Rocco Deluca and the Burden opening for Keane. Rocco Deluca and the Burden hail from Long Beach, CA and just released their debut album I Trust You To Kill Me. "Colorful," their new hit single, has wowed critics in both the magazine and...

Memorial Day is next Monday. This means very little in the scheme of commercial holiday celebrating, of course, except for the fact that it means a day off and, for whatever reason, official permission to wear white. And how, whether clad in white or not, do most people celebrate Memorial Day?

- Most of us were off this past holiday weekend, but gun violence failed to take a holiday. Shootings over Memorial Day weekend resulted in six injuries, and two fatalities (both shot in the head).

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On Memorial Day Weekend, Americans all over the country gather together to remember those who have died in service of our nation...by getting a really good deal on a pair of shoes, and then going outside and partying in them. Hey, we're Americans; buying and partying is what we do. Oh, and eating a lot of barbecue. Anyway, here's some stuff you can do in Philly to celebrate your Memorial Day Weekend - some of it even vaguely appropriate to the holiday! (We're sure we didn't get everything, though, so check here for even more, or if you have some cool weekend events of your own to share, let us know about them in the comments.)

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