Sometimes, though, we do miss it. But not today! THE HUSH SOUND AT THE TLA Join The Hush Sound, The Cab, Steel Train, and The Morning Light tonight at the Theater of the Living Arts for their Dance Across the Country Tour. Sure, the tour name is über-lame, but the bands promise a decent live show. With an 8:00pm start time, the show will let you get the rock out and still leave you some......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Well, Not Really the Last: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade at Historic Headhouse (2nd and Lombard), 8PM. Free (free dance lesson at 6:15PM) Meander, Youander: Stroll along the Schuylkill and take in Boathouse Row, the sculpture, and the Water Works starting from the Art Museum (26th and the Parkway), 4PM. $6 Action: Johnny Action Figure, Hammer No More the Fingers, The Tressels, and City Veins at the......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Hop on the Ferry: Sunset Jazz Series presents Spyro Gyra at Wiggins Park (Mickle Street and Riverside Drive, Camden), 8Pm. Free Tuesday Night Raw: Comic Energy hosts the weekly standup and open mic at Tori’s (119 South), 9:30PM. $5 Look Up: Yoga with Kristin Shipler every Tuesday and Thursday at the Unitarian Society of Germantown (6511 Lincoln Dr), 6-7PM. $10 Saint Joan: Weekly free feminist film featuring The......

Poor Philly. We've been named the city with the most unattractive people, the fattest, and the most miserable. But, finally we've caught a break. Walkscore.com—an online tool to help people find great neighborhoods to live in—named Philadelphia the fifth most walkable city in the country. San Francisco was number one on the list, with New York and Boston coming in second and third, respectively. Although, one has to wonder how San Francisco is so walkable......

Some of you have work tomorrow. Others do not. To the former, our condolences. To the latter, our congratulations. TWO STAGES AT DOC WATSON'S This is one of our more basic but to-the-point event names. Yes, there will be two stages rocking tonight over at Doc Watson's Pub. We Are Castles, Domi, The Orange, Conversation with Friends, Common Crave and Bodega will be playing. Also, enjoy $3 Magic Hat #9 and a late-night Happy Hour......

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"No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful..." - Ellie Arroway, talking about the amazing spring day we have here in Philadelphia. OPEN STAGE NIGHT AT COMEDY CABARET You know the deal. Show up and pound a few so you can convince yourself that people want to see you try to sing or be funny or do that weird thing where you put......

There are few things we love more in the world than food. And when it's good food that comes cheap, we love it even more. That's why we're excited for 8 Days of Eats, the South Street Headhouse District's answer to the Center City District's Restaurant Week. There are fewer restaurants to choose from, sure, and most of those restaurants don't have menus posted on the event website, but 8 Days of Eats has a......

We are going to work all day, keeping quietly to ourselves. We can't wait for the Flyers game tonight. You might have read all the reasons why, but most of all, we're just excited that they have rock and rolled this far, and we're willing to stick with them until the end. PHILADELPHIA'S LARGEST SINGLES SPRING FLING AFTER WORK PARTY Okay, so we went a little overboard on the image today. But when we......

Tonight is a surprisingly robust Tuesday night. We're fairly speechless about the breadth and depth of our trio of events for the evening. Or we are just running out of witticisms to pepper throughout our intros. MINUS THE BEAR AT THE FILLMORE Why? Because they're awesome and you're not. Well, maybe you are (after all, you certainly have excellent taste in blogs), but we bet you haven't played the Fillmore (yeah, we know it's......

Happy Saint Patrick's Day! We don't pretend to include everything there is to do today in this post, because let's face it: this city is already crawling with drunkards and it's only noon. Some of us took the day off today, to continue a weekend full of Irish-themed debauchery. Others are sitting in our cubes, sad and alone. Not to mention sober. And working. Not that we would have started drinking already if we......

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Our very own state could actually be of key importance in the Democratic presidential primary, so the campaigns for both Clinton and Obama will be opening offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the coming days, and expanding their staff by recruiting local pros. The Inquirer takes a look at the battle going on over a proposed state-wide ban on smoking in Pennsylvania. A woman leaped from her third-floor apartment window on South Street near 2nd......

Wednesday is named after the Germanic god Woden – god of gods in the Anglo Saxon pantheon, who was swallowed up by generations of cheeky Christian settlers who gradually morphed his religious stature into that of a folkloric king for the sake of proselytizing those who once believed in him. He is the basis for a primary character in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods. THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE LUNAR ECLIPSE EVENT We wanted to toss......

Strange and amusing stories are already pouring out of Milton Street's trial. Yesterday Philadelphia Airport Services official Gregory Taylor testified that Milt's "financial problems and apparent affinity for debt had led Street to bounce three checks for $133,000 each - part of an alleged kickback - that he had written to PAS. And that Street had asked for personal loans and demanded that PAS hire a politically connected minister for a no-show job." Today,......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Small Changes: Smells Like Teen Spirit and Building a Broken Mousetrap, two films by Jem Cohen, presented by the Small Changes film screening series at the International House (3701 Chestnut), 7PM. $7 Solstice Film Series 07: Third installment of the Solstice Film Series, a showcase for short independent films, at National Mechanics (22 S. 3rd), 8PM. Free Single Mingle: Perfect Pairings Tasting Event, benefiting Philly PAWS (the Philadelphia......

So just what is it that makes Thai food special? Most likely it is the combination in each dish of the four basic flavors -- sweet, sour, salty and spicy. Over the centuries, Thai cooking has borrowed freely from the culinary arts of China, India and Malaysia, blending these different influences to create something that is truly unique. While Thai food has a reputation for being spicy, in reality most dishes are not. The spiciness......

The weekend is still barely visible over the horizon, but that doesn't mean you can't have some weekendly fun upon this unseasonably warm eve. Here are a few things to do so you can tell your friends how immersed you are in city life. A BOB MARLEY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION! Bob Marley was a class act from the start, and identification with the marijuana counter-culture did nothing to dampen his image as one of the most......

One of several "gum trees" on the 300 block of South Street. Photo by author, SkyscraperSunset.com, January 26, 2008.......

Emotion and linguistics immortalized on the South Street walkway. Photo by author, SkyscraperSunset.com, January 26, 2007.......

Philadelphian Karen Kilimnik has been selected as one of the artists for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, an exhibition of recent American art at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. (Via Jill, via Lenny) Frank Funaro, who runs a nightclub and a real estate business on South Street in Philadelphia, was robbed of $40,000 yesterday morning at his home in Washington Township, New Jersey. A gunman, apparently deliberately targeting the family, was hiding in......

Gotta love it when assholes from out of town try to punk Philadelphians. Warning: This is probably NSFW at some points.......

Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! Quite a few of my favorite concert memories came from festivals that weren't in Philly—Austin City Limits and Virgin Fest—but next year, it looks like we might have our own sick festival to......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Try Not to Get Sick on Your Shoes: Positively Sick on South Street, featuring Jukebox Zeros, The Victims, and Women, all to the backdrop of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians at Tritone (1508 South), 9PM. $6 Philabundance Benefit: Featuring Lizanne Knot, John Conahan, the Hustle, and Kuf Knotz at Upstairs at World Café Live (3025 Walnut), 7PM. $8 + a canned good SATURDAY Could You Hold the......

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When our friend first played a track for us by The Go! Team we thought it sounded like The Electric Company meets Nintendo music meets cheerleaders on crack. And that was only the first album. Their new CD, Proof of Youth, is back with a tighter version of the band, creating music that is even more bonkers. With guest stars ranging from Chuck D (wha!?!) to Bonde do Role's Marina Ribatski, you have to......

Devendra Banhart and his gang of merry revelers will ascend the stage at the TLA tomorrow night. When someone asked us to describe his sound, we immediately pictured Ray Lamontagne having a psychedelic experience, backed by a traveling band of gypsies. But that's only our opinion. Check out the video, above, from Wednesday's show at the Roxy in Boston and see for yourself. Touring after his new CD, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, which hit......

Sure, you can wander through art gallery after art gallery tonight. The same places you always go, with the same cheap wine you always drink. Or, you can take advantage of the fact that there's always a First Friday during the Live Arts and Fringe Festivals, and there are plenty of free or pay-what-you-can PLAF events you can hit tonight and for the next week. A few that we think sound interesting: Sonic Dances A......

Looking to quench your indie rock thirst? Tonight at TLA you can have a double-shot of Midlake and dawn Landes. Midlake, the critically acclaimed band hailing from Denton, Texas, continues to tour in support of their album Trials of Van Occupanther. They have received accolades from such rock critics as Parker Posey, Adam Goldberg, Minnie Driver, Ian MacKaye, and Wayne Coyne. Supporting Midlake tonight is dawn Landes (pictured left), the singer-songwriter hailing from Louisville, Kentucky,......

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