Fun around town, for $10 or less: Drive-In, City Style: The Lawn Chair Drive-In presents Buster Keaton in Seven Chances at Liberty Lands Park (3rd and Poplar), 8PM. Free Are You Experienced?: The Erotic Literary Salon invites you to share your original or favorite erotica at L’Etage (624 S 6th), 8:30. $10 (registration required: 215-840-5830) LAVA Feminist Film Night: This week: Bill Forsyth's Housekeeping at the LAVA Library (4134 Lancaster), 7PM. Free ARGH!: Classic pirate......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Are You Experienced?: The Erotic Literary Salon invites you to share your original or favorite erotica at L’Etage (624 S 6th), 8:30. $10 (registration required: 215-840-5830) ARGH!: Classic pirate movie The Crimson Pirate outside at the Independence Seaport Museum (211 S Columbus Blvd), 8PM. $4 New Music Series: Shanks and Kreme, Matt Gauss Band, Tim McGlone, Charlotte Littlehales, and Jamie Pannone at North Star Bar (2639 Poplar), 8PM.......

You know it's bad when the dry cleaning lady gives you a disapproving look and tells you she can't guarantee success on the first try. REAL PIRATES AT THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE Well, sort of. Their historically significant stories and wares are on display over at the Franklin Institute. The exhibit specifically features artifacts from the Whydah, including a full-size replica of the ship. The show runs until 8pm tonight, so you'll have time to head......

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The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Sam Raimi will executive produce a new syndicated, live-action weekly series titled Wizard's First Rule, which is based on Terry Goodkind's fantasy book series The Sword of Truth. Cooper Lawrence, the author who criticized Mass Effect on a now infamous Fox News segment, has finally actually seen the game and is admitting she made a mistake, and that......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Most Likely to Rule: Diva - The 1981 debut film from the director of the more recent Diving Bell and the Butterfly is about a famous opera singer who refuses to be recorded, and the fan who one night sneaks a tape recorder into her performance and tapes her anyway. Eventually the fan and the singer become friends, but there's also a labyrinthine plot involving two......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Here's the fascinating story of how amateur sleuths solved the mystery of the missing remains of Czar Nicholas II's family members. (Via Jill) Just because the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is over doesn't mean we're out of fun Thanksgiving-related links for you. First of all, turns out it's probably not the turkey itself that makes you sleepy after the......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Heh. We love the Beastie Boys. Check out some of the stuff they said at a recent press conference. Connecting the world and bringing people together through film sounds like a cool idea to us, and that's what Pangea Day is all about. It's coming up on May 10, 2008, but you can check out their YouTube site......

Remember to pack your bottled water and bug spray. Most of the concerts this week are outdoors. Thursday Pack a picnic dinner and hear the Lukens Band, Chester County's oldest continuous concert band featuring patriotic songs, show tunes, and marches. Myrick Conservation Center; 7:30 PM; FREE Friday The Byers Choice Family Concert Series presents an evening of Classical Music in its beautiful Byers' Choice gardens. Byers' Choice Gardens; 6:30 PM; FREE Saturday Want another garden......

Tuesday Join the Bucks County Choral Society for their open Summer Sing of Orff's 'Carmina Burana.' Trinity Episcopal Church (6587 Upper York Rd., Solebury); 7:30 PM; $10 Wednesday The Holy Trinity's brown bag lunch series continues with the Father John D'Amico Jazz Trio. Holy Trinity Rittenhouse Square; 12:30 PM; FREE Friday The Haddonfield Players continue their run of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. 957 E Atlantic Ave, Haddonfield, NJ; 8 PM; $18......

Wednesday The Holy Trinity Rittenhouse Square is going strong with their brown bag lunch concerts. This week features Tom Meany and Michael Simmons, Flute and Guitar duo. Holly Trinity (Rittenhouse Square); 12:30 PM; FREE Thursday The Philadelphia Orchestra recovers from their Free Neighborhood Concert series with an evening of Wagner, Beethoven, and Dvorak. Mann Center; 8 PM: $10-$50 Friday In case you need another dose of Gilbert and Sullivan silliness, the Haddonfield players give their......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. How about some political humor mixed with clips from The Godfather? Our favorite part is at the very end. (Via) Local aspiring filmmakers, be aware that the Big Bang Film Festival (also on MySpace) is calling for entries, and the deadline is approaching! Well, one of the deadlines. The regular deadline is June 1st, which is Friday, but there are "late"......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend Paris Je T'Aime - A love letter to the city of love, taking the form of a series of vignettes that tell stories of unusual encounters in the various neighborhoods of the city, each directed by a different famous director (including the Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven, and Walter Salles) and starring a different team of famous stars (including Natalie Portman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Elijah......

We all know where the quote comes from, and with a show going up that's centered around music of the Vietnam era, it seemed appropriate enough. Now, on with the listings! Hair - Boobies! Onstage! May 26-June 17. Tickets online. Pirates of Penzance - The very model of a modern major general. June 1-17. Ticket reservations online. War Songs II: More Songs of the Vietnam Era - Because who doesn’t dig 60s-era protest music? May......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Game|Life's got the logo and a screenshot from the next Katamari game, Beautiful Katamari. The Typing of the Dead is still probably the most ridiculous game we've ever heard of. We really thought it was a joke at first, but it actually exists! And to be honest, after we thought about it, we decided that learning to type by having to......

We admit that we shut off last night's Phillies game in disgust. (This seems to be turning into a pattern with us, although this should surprise no one, given the Phightin's 3-9 start - a start that makes "lackluster" look like "on fire." Seriously, they're off to their worst start since 1997, a season so bad that we gave up and started paying attention to the Pirates.) We are, however, absolutely kicking ourselves for......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Weren't we just saying something recently about how whenever something cool happens the big boys have to come in and ruin it for everybody? Case in point. (Via Editor Jill) India Today has some great details on our hero Wes Anderson's new movie, The Darjeeling Limited. As usual, it's packed with stars and sounds exceedingly weird. We can't......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Joystiq tells us how we could win a free copy of TMNT for the Wii. Sure, the game will almost certainly suck, but it'd be free, and it's relatively easy to enter, so why not? Nintendo talked about the Zelda franchise at the GDC, and also showed off the upcoming DS title The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, which actually sounds like a......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. The title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book has been announced, and it is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. J.K. wanted to make sure what we were in for and put "death" in the damn title! Pretty exciting and horrifying. The Movie Blog has what is apparently a real picture of Keith Richards in his outfit and makeup for Pirates......

...Hilarious: It's not celeb news, but dammit, click the (moderately NSFW) link anyway. (Via Gallery of the Absurd.) ...Heartbreak: Say it ain't so! (Via The Superficial.) ...Intestines: Farrah Fawcett should be a-okay. (Via E! Online.) ...Butt Pirates: As if Daniel Craig hadn't been mocked enough during the making of Casino Royale! (Via I Don't Like You in that Way.) ...Pretty Boys: Less vain celebrities just shave their heads. (Via Just Jared.) ...Making Eugenics Make Sense:......

This week’s quote comes from Bertolt Brecht, master of the stage himself. What you see above you is just the end of it; the full thing reads: “We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.” Now, on with......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. List! This time it's Tired Science Fiction Tropes That Must Be Retired. A lot of them are really more complaints about the poor science in science fiction, rather than complaints about the cliches of science fiction, but some good points are still made. (Via) 100 Pirates in 100 Days. That pretty much says it all, doesn't it? Arrrr. (Via) Heh heh heh. Now......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Here There Be Pirates: Independence Seaport Museum (211 S. Columbus Boulevard) presents an outdoor screening of Crimson Pirate (starring Burt Lancaster). Doors open at 8:15, the movie starts at 9:00. Tickets are $4. Concerts in the Park: The first of four free weekly concerts in Rittenhouse Square. This week, Carol Riddick & Unlikely Cowboy. 7-9PM. Headhouse Square Movie: Get your tissues ready; there's a free screening of......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate on......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. The Road to Guantanamo - "Part drama, part documentary," Road to Guantanamo is the story of a group of British Muslims known as the Tipton Three. They were on their way to a wedding when they were arrested by American soldiers and taken to the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison, where they were held for two years and then finally released without ever having been charged with......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. There were many rumors back and forth about whether or not Keith Richards would show up in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. The bad news is, it sounds like he's definitely not going to be in that one. The good news is, it sounds like he's definitely going to be in the third one,......

What's interesting on TV this week. Kyle XY (Mon; 8PM-9PM; ABC Family) - The first episode of a new series about a mysterious young man who's discovered and then taken in by a psychologist and her family. The teen has no memories, no emotions, and no bellybutton! $10 says he turns out to be some kind of robot. (Official site) How Art Made the World (Mon; 10PM-11PM; PBS) - The first episode of a new......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Pirates on the Waterfront: Enjoy an outdoor screening of Captain Kidd (complete with tasty Pirate's Booty) on the waterfront for $4. 8:15 PM at the Independence Seaport Museum (211 South Columbus Boulevard). These United States: At the M-Room (2nd and Girard): These United States with local talent Adam Arcuragi. $7 Pennypack Park Festival: This week's free show: Mike LeCompt's Tribute to the Who. Festival information here. Starving Artists......

A three-game winning streak? Could it be? We think so. The Phils took one out of three from the terrible Pittsburg Pirates and then won both in a set with the Florida Marlins. The Phils are coming home after a slightly better road trip than their last home stand. That's not saying much – they looked like dead men walking when they last took up residence at Citizens Bank Park. So how many fans......

Unless you've been hiding under the Internet equivalent of a rock (which, I imagine, translates to being on dial-up with a 2400 baud modem), you've no doubt heard of the Flying Spaghetti Monster - an alternate view of world creation that made itself known during the Kansas State Board of Education's Intelligent Design debates. Embraced by pirates, pastafarians, and pop-culture lovers everywhere, the Flying Spaghetti Monster will be a subject of a panel discussion at......