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Featured Artists:

Title		Artist		Genre
Electric Hoe Down		Nat King Tron		Eclectic
My Name Is Tron		Nat King Tron		Eclectic
Tied		Bruce Torres		Acoustic Rock
CityGirl		Bruce Torres		Acoustic Rock
Canción Que Nace En Mi		Tribal Scream		Latin Rock
Te Podria Pasar A Ti		Tribal Scream		Latin Rock
Obey		T.P.D.		Indie Pop
Something Delicious		Stellarscope		Indie Rock
Cryogenic Sleep		Stellarscope		Indie Rock
Insomnia		Psylichon		Electronic
Broken Open		Psylichon		Acoustic Rock
Medicine		Jimbo		Punk

Philly Music & Nightlife:

 • Pixies: Reunited and it feels so right
    A leisurely ride home from vacation with his wife and five children is not the vision you imagine when interviewing Frank Black or rather Black Francis as he's known in Pixies. >> read more or comment


 • Here's the music lineup on Philly stages tonight & in the coming week
    Live music and more tonight through Thursday compiled by Shaun Brady Tom Di Nardo James Johnson Sara Sherr and Jonathan Takiff. >> read more or comment


 • Concert Previews
    21st Annual Neighborhood to Neighborhood Festival Best known to West Philadelphians as the N2N Fest this free annual all-day block party starts off holy and ends on a hot and sexy note or two. Hosted by State Sen. Anthony H. Williams (rumor has it he's e >> read more or comment


 • Concert and club listings
    In Concert Congress Hall 251 Beach Ave. Cape May; 888-944-1816. www.congresshall.com. Darin MacDonald. 9/4. First Unitarian Church 2125 Chestnut St.; 267-765-5210. www.r5productions.com. The Breeders. 9/3. 8 pm. Sold out. Live Arts Festival/ Philly Fringe - L'Heure Exquise: The Exquisite Hour. $10. 9/3. Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe - Casual World/Intimate H >> read more or comment


 • 'In the Mix'
    Inquirer critic Dan DeLuca writes about pop music and culture at http://go.philly.com/inthemix. >> read more or comment


 • Music critics' picks
    POP . . . plusRemember "Here Comes Your Man"? "Debaser"? "Wave of Mutilation"? "Monkey Gone to Heaven"? All come from the Pixies' landmark 1989 set "Doolittle." Now singer/guitarist-extraordinaire Black Francis (Frank B >> read more or comment


 • Casino shows and concerts
    Casinos Atlantic City Hilton Boston at the Boardwalk Atlantic City; 609-347-7111. www.hiltonac.com/. Sebastian Bach. $25. 9/3. 10 pm. Nervous Beach Party. $25. 9/5. Noon-8 pm. >> read more or comment


 • Miranda Lambert tops CMA Awards with 9 nominations
    Miranda Lambert made history Wednesday morning when she was nominated for nine CMA Awards the most for a female country music artist. >> read more or comment


 • A cascade of CDs DVDs about Leonard Cohen
    We're deep into Leonard Cohen territory this week and also touching on newsworthy music releases from Heart Jesse Harris and one of the Radiohead blokes. >> read more or comment

Philadelphia City Paper - Music Picks:

 • Music Picks: Hot Hot Heat
    

[ rock

These B.C. punky-poppers hit one out of the park way back in the "return of rock" heyday of 2002 with their Sub Pop debut Make Up the Breakdown which still feels impossibly urgent. Since then it's mostly been a long downhill slide up the milquetoast major-label mountain but a recent demotion back to batting in the indie leagues has done them good: The new Future Breeds (Dangerbird) is more fun and more fierce than they've been in ages a throwback to the jittery dance-punk firepower that earned them their name.

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 • Music Picks: Best Coast
    

[ indie pop

"Fine fresh fierce" doesn't quite hit the mark — I mean Best Coast's frill-free sunny-indie-pop m.o. is definitely none too novel and that is a kitty cat collaged onto the cover of Crazy for You (Mexican Summer) — but Bethany Cosentino sure has got it on lock in terms of the blog buzz love cruise and it's not hard to hear why her band's strummy simplicity and the richness of her Kim Deal/Liz Phair flashback vocals invite such a consensus of good will even if it's hard to picture anyone getting truly amped about this stuff. Bonus points for the refreshing scarcity of fuzz.

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 • Music Picks: Marina & The Diamonds
    

[ art-pop

So yeah: Yet another entrant in the U.K. quirk-pop princess parade (q.v. Lily through Florence et al.; the dubious heirs of U.K. quirk-pop queen Kate Bush) who hearkens to piano-pounding pixie-mavericks like Tori and Regina without quite mustering the former's innate gravitas or the latter's insouciant charm. Also Marina Diamandis has a habit of singing in a hammy lip-twisted sometimes faux-operatic wail that makes her dime-store feminism and pseudo-deep social commentary (sample rallying cries: "Guess what I am not a robot!"; "American dream is the American queen") feel as overwrought as they are clunky and awkwardly affected to boot. But you know melodies ... plenty of 'em strong enough to make The Family Jewels (Chop Shop) a borderline compulsive listen. Plus a genuinely fun sub-Gaga fashion sense. And a willingness to trick out some of her best tracks as glitzy synth-pop barnstormers (check "Shampain.") Did I mention the melodies? Aw shine on you kerrrazy diamonds.

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 • Music Picks: Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival
    

[ roots/bluegrass

Lest you get overwhelmed let's take this day by day: In addition to pure bluegrass from legends like Dan Paisley Friday offers a treat for kids: Riders in the Sky. Yes from the Cartoon Network. They're actually exceptional musicians and comedians delighting adults as much as kids. Later see Cherryholmes who went from inexperienced bluegrass fans to headlining family band in very few years. Saturday: Several of Kathy Mattea's biggest country hits were written by her thoroughly bluegrass fellow West Virginian Tim O'Brien so she's always had that leaning. Now Mattea's voice roars over the fiddle and the banjo frequently focusing on the biggest topic of her home state — coal. There is no more passionate soulful voice in bluegrass today. Even if Sunday is your only free day it's worth the trip. The Seldom Scene despite many lineup changes remains true to its progressive bluegrass charter. Michael Cleveland closes the festival with the best traditional Appalachian style fiddling ever.

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 • Music Picks: Queerchannel
    

rock/pop

Everybody should have a problem as good as Steph Hayes. As the longtime poetic centerpiece of Stargazer Lily and Cory Hayes knows her way around emotive lyrics and temptingly contagious (but never obvious) roots-rocking melodies. Plus she's a damn fine guitarist; dobro dude Mike Brenner don't let no slouches into his sacred-steel hip-hop ensemble Slo-Mo. Still it's Hayes' current band The Good Problems where she sounds most at ease — and productive. There was Dirty Hearts in 2006 and Mostly True Stories in '08 and by year's end we'll also have Made to Change a live recording of 12 new songs. This Thursday Hayes and Chris Schutz (with whom Hayes also plays in The Tourists) bring together a host of local gay talent — music arts film everything — for QueerChannel: Aiden James Puppett Rastello Nicole Reynolds Dangerous Ponies Liberty City Kings Lulu Lollipop of Peek-A-Boo Revue and more. A percentage of the night's take goes to the Attic Youth Center the only independent LGBTQ youth center around.

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 • Music Picks: Scissor Sisters
    

pop/dance

From the ass-tastic 1980 Robert Mapplethorpe cover shot to the entendre-riddled lyric sheet and the gleaming greased-up disco grooves contained within Night Work (Downtown) finds Jake Shears and co. returning from a too-long absence in revitalized deliriously hedonistic form. This is their gayest sexiest simultaneously campiest and most earnest outing to date. It's got space for wiry new wave rock ("Running Out") and strutting pop-metal ("Harder You Get") — though not the eyebrow-raising twang of their recent Kylie Minogue cover — but they've streamlined their sound for the dancefloor throughout with an able assist from retro-electro savant Stuart Price (Killers Madonna Les Rythmes Digitales) on instant classics like "Whole New Way" — a bouncy delightfully chipper paean to butt sex — and the searingly anthemic "Skin Tight" which is at once a thinly coded meditation on condom use and a totally gorgeous love song. Don't worry too much about whether they're smirking or sincere just be stoked that they're back. These scissors swing both ways.

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 • Music Picks: Conversations with Enemies
    

rock/pop

CwE is a shaggy Dr. Dog-like West-Philly-to-Fishtown quintet that makes easy breezy summery pop with a rough-and-tumble feel. There's lots of screeching girl/boy harmonies and squelchy rhythms and blaring trumpets. On occasion you can hear waves under the old-school surf pop. And the live shows are shambolic. On their debut concept album Nowhere OK they sing raw-knuckled tales of zombie love vampires and devils' doings like nobody has since the first Roky Erickson and the Aliens album. Add in some rich full-moon gypsy folk interludes and you can almost see the wolf bane blooming over F-town.

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 • Music Picks: Bells Bells Bells/Acres of Diamonds
    

rock/pop

This Friday at JB's is all about living in the moment: Yesterday be gone tomorrow be damned. For stormy spooky rockers Bells Bells Bells it's the last hometown show of the summer. Let 'em rest on the lovely laurels of January's A Ghost Could Live Here. Reverbing guitars and Amandah Romick's operatic vocals make every second tense desperate and darkly beautiful. Meanwhile dreamy pop architects Acres of Diamonds should be in a sweet and sour mood. On one hand they're dropping their first 7-inch and it's a moody pretty slice of rock 'n' roll. On the other this is their last gig with drummer Kathryn Doherty-Chapman before she moves back to Portland. Case you didn't know she's been a fixture in so many righteous things in this city: Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby Lady Fest Girls Rock Philly Neighborhood Bike Works. Kat's one of the all-time greats.

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 • Music Picks: Angel Band
    

roots

Philly's bluesy bluegrassy Angel Band has been touring madly of late which is probably why Nancy Josephson ordinarily a very chatty sort has been hard to get on the phone. Or maybe she just wants the songs on their just-released CD Bless My Sole (Appleseed) to speak for themselves. Except for the one Beatles cover she wrote them all. As ever she takes a clear-eyed look at tough situations like the urban purgatory of "Black Tar Sway." Clear-eyed doesn't preclude hope and encouragement however; "Same Boat" reminds friends and neighbors that we would be well-advised to pull together. The Angel Band's sound continues to focus on the tight trio of women's voices — including Kathleen Weber and newcomer Aly Paige — with acoustic support from stellar players like Josephson's life/music partner David Bromberg.

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 • Music Picks: Dragonette
    

dance pop/rock

Canadian retro-wavers Dragonette want nothing more than to come off as total wanton sleazeballs. They've got the backstory for it — the band's genesis was an adulterous tryst backstage at a musical festival — and plenty of deliciously impious refrains ("I say yes when I oughtta say no"). But their Go-Go's-grade spunkiness and the sweetness of Martina Sobrara's melodies combined with their adorable habit of injecting their hook-perfect electro-pop songs with gratuitous handclaps banjos Bollywood beats or Tin Pan Alley twinkle makes them just too cuddly to spurn.

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 • Music Picks: Dâm-Funk Master Blazter
    

electro/funk

Toeachizown last year's lavishly decadent entrée into the freaky world of Los Angeles cyber-funk maestro Dâm-Funk was a properly brain-blazing accomplishment: For its length for the audacity of its single-minded aesthetic vision but mostly for the way it resembled an all-night turn-of-the-'80s talkbox radio station.

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 • Music Picks: Bill Kirchen
    

rock/pop

"I know in the morning that it's gonna be good/ When I stick out my elbows and they don't bump wood." Those are the first of many nuggets of original philosophy Bill Kirchen spins on his new Word to the Wise (Proper American). The man has come through the rock meat grinder; he provided the guitar sound for Commander Cody's '70s hits and lived the road life. ("Too Much Fun" was one of his songs from that era.) Now he's grateful for every day and always looking to make converts to his sunny outlook. This is a rare family-friendly (non-bar) gig so here's your chance to let the shorties hear how rock guitar should twang and roar.

 

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 • Music Picks: Rihanna/Ke$ha
    

pop/dance

This double-bill features one of pop's current reigning sovereigns plus one of its brashest snottiest new faces. Each has put plenty of effort lately into projecting a singularly unpalatable persona — one a harsh hard-bitten violently moody woman scorned; the other a gleefully trashy obnoxious brat. Both halves of this remarkably incongruous duo are easily as fascinating image-politics-wise as say Lady Gaga. Rihanna's Rated R (Def Jam) was a dark daring curveball from a hitherto featherweight-seeming (albeit zillion-selling) diva flush with dense turgid overwrought productions and Gothic melodrama — the effervescent "Rude Boy" sounds basically nothing like the rest of it — but impossible to look away from. As for Ke$ha (pictured) of brushing-with-Jack infamy: If you're repulsed by the singles — which constitute a strong second front in electro-pop's Gaga-led assault on U.S. charts now with extra Euro-bosh jolliness — feel free to steer clear of Animal (RCA) but it's a surprisingly solid yuk-filled (both kinds) brainless-pop pleasure cruise that actually winds up making her seem sorta endearing.

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 • Music Picks: Here We Go Magic
    

rock/pop

It would be overstating it to say Here We Go Magic's new album has a "sedative" or "hypnotic" quality but I'd put it on a road-music mix only under controlled circumstances. Pigeons (Secretly Canadian) is some of the gentlest dreamiest boy-based indie pop out there. Even when the snare drum's chugging along at break-Twix speed Luke Temple's moussey voice and those chiming synths keep your pulse slow and steady.

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 • Music Picks: Post Post
    

Neal Santos

rock/pop

Don't let the friendly faces fool you these Bryn Mawr kids are sly and hot-blooded. Their first studio recording the brand-new Residents EP is a little angsty a lot fiery and somehow totally wide-eyed and haunted at the same time. The heartache and desperation ("How'd I get so good at losing?" repeated for emphasis) are so snugly wrapped in jangly guitar and dreamy keys you might dance the pain away. And lines like "Sometimes I try to light a fire just to see how you'd react" — well they're just psychotic. In a really charming way. Driven by Michelle Zauner's breathy-then-belting vocals Residents continues Post Post's impressive skyward trajectory. Four songs of coy catchy indie-pop.

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 • Music Picks: Susana Baca
    

folk/world

Before Susana Baca drew attention to African musical traditions in Peru they were little acknowledged inside the country let alone beyond. Baca's most recent CD Seis Poemas (Luaka Bop) is a tribute collection of songs by late Peruvian nueva cancion singer/songwriter Chabuca Granda Baca's colleague from the early days. Fragile but insistent peaceful and hypnotic her voice makes you understand the songs whether or not you speak Spanish.

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 • Music Picks: Fol Chen
    

Juliana Paciulli

art/dance/pop/rock

The Residents had some good ideas but I wouldn't call them "fun." Los Angeles band Fol Chen seems like the next evolutionary step an art-pop project you can groove to. They're coy with their faces and identities. (There's at least one lady and one dude and they wear Chucks.) The music is shrewdly odd but catchy maybe even dancey. Their lyrics stitch the pretty to the apocalyptic. This is exactly what I thought we'd be listening to in 2010: trancey clangy absurd half-hopeful over-processed pop for the bombed-out/beat-up/4channing/music-stealing post-Lost endless-war generation. I miss Lost.

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 • Music Picks: Robyn/Kelis
    

pop/dance

Despite some parallels with the Rihanna/Ke$ha tour that'll be passing through town in a few weeks — apart from the corresponding initials and rampant mononymity both pairings highlight the rapidly crumbling divide between electro-pop and R&B circa 2010 — this is truly the dance-diva double bill to beat this summer. Two uncommonly well-seasoned pop-world vets Robyn and Kelis (pictured) both debuted way back in the 1990s. Each can boast at least one bona-fide classic ("Show Me Love"; "Milkshake") and plenty of close contenders; each has seen her share of label woes and fan-base fickleness; each embodies a strong sexy funny distinctly noncomformist persona all her own. And each is currently making arguably the finest work of her career. Robyn's Body Talk Pt. 1 (Cherry Tree) is a brief but unmitigated earworm-crammed delight with more on the way while Kelis' Flesh Tone (A&M) may be the real stunner: a full-on plunge into hard-edged dance and tribal house with heart-tugging inspirational lyrics addressed to her son Knight who turned 1 last Thursday. Aww.

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 • Music Picks: Arcade Fire
    

Eric Kayne

The Suburbs (Merge) won't be released until the day after Arcade Fire plays the Mann but that's not important for two reasons: 1) The phrase "omg the new arcade fire just got leaked" popped up across the web last weekend around the same time music critics got their review copies (watermark protection — activate!) so maybe you've already heard it you thief. 2) You already know these songs anyway or you'll feel like you do. Win Butler's pretty-pretty words? Check. Dreamy strings and grandiloquent crescendos? Check check. The long and lovely Suburbs won't blow you away with new tricks. It'll just blow you away in the normal way.

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 • Music Picks: Wailin' Jennys
    

roots

How the Wailin' Jennys' latest album landed on the Billboard bluegrass chart is a mystery to anyone who knows what bluegrass sounds like. Was it the close harmonies — albeit more sweet than high lonesome and biting? Their label Red House guessed it was "all those acoustic instruments"; there's plenty of banjo fiddle and guitar. Despite the misfiling people are still finding the Jennys. Live at the Mauck Chunk Opera House has been on that chart since its release — last August. As in 2009. Right now Heather Masse and Ruth Moody are also working solo recordings while Nicky Mehta is raising young twins on the road so the Jennys' schedules are harried. Still somehow when they sing together it's a pristine and peaceful thing.

 

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Phillyist:

 • Asshole of the Week
    

It's the economy stupid.

While we at Phillyist vacationed we hoped the folks steering the fate of our city state and nation would stay true at the helm to guide us through the bleak and cloudy night of the recession and into a sweet new day. Instead our voyagers have been acting out Odysseus for Dummies.

Tom Corbett our no-eyed Cyclops Republican candidate for Governor thinks unemployed Pennsylvanians don't want jobs. The jobs are there! We're awash with opportunity! Cast your line fools and you can snare one. Pity the rest of us with eyeballs to see reality.

Carl Greene the suspended executive director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority didn't even need Circe. He abdicated responsibility for his job his mortgage his ethics for piggishness without a witch. Meanwhile folks still need houses.

The national unemployment rate is 9.6%.

We've had enough of this crap. While public servants dicker and argue and pontificate people are trapped inside this economy. The guy who sets an alarm but doesn't have a job who writes resumes that never receive responses. The woman who must feign gratitude at having any job at all cleaning or serving for the fortunate while knowing that this is not the life she'd worked and studied and dreamed for. The children who've learned better than to ask for desserts toys or a trip down the shore. Everyone who believes that nothing better is coming. That this mire this sinkhole this ocean of despair has no end.

Find land guys. We're not faithful Penelope and we hate waiting.

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 • Phillyist Playlist: Hey Rosetta! 22-20s and Hot Hot Heat at North Star Bar
    

We hope the pieces that make up Canadian indie rock band Hey Rosetta! [MySpace] don't split off anytime soon.

Why would I even suggest something so blasphemous? Well ever since Panic! at the Disco we are wary of the curse of the exclamation point. Everyone's favorite Fall Out Boy discovery was walking on air for a while there cracking the Billboard Top 20 and chilling with Carson Daly but controversy around the placement of their punctuation shot ripples through the band until two original members left the band in 2009 citing "musical differences." We all know what really went down. However we think that the placement of the exclamation point at the end of the band name instead of in the middle will help Hey Rosetta! live a long and peaceful life.

This is good timing for Hey Rosetta! to be touring in the United States with similarly layered outfit Arcade Fire perched at the top of the charts. Hey Rosetta! ups the ante on garage rock by incorporating cello violin and piano into the mix resulting in music that is refreshingly light and poetry that lingers like the aftertaste of a good beer. Tim Baker's vocals are out of this world and the band provides melodic yet explosive rock keeping that fuzzy garage feel that fits nicely with the tour headliners and Canadian counterparts Hot Hot Heat. They even have a tune called "Bandages" though it sounds very different than the manic hit that we know from 2002.

If you want to hear it straight from the horse's mouth check out two of Hey Rosetta's tracks online: "New Goodbye" from the Into Your Lungs album and the more somber "Red Song" from the new Red Song EP.

Rounding out Sunday night's indie guitar-fuzz bill at North Star Bar is England's own 22-20s. 22-20s' biggest exposure in the United States was opening for Jet and Kings of Leon back in 2003. They were on hiatus for a couple years but reunited in 2008 played a couple festivals together and started stealthily writing new tracks together under a pseudonym. The band is out of the closet now having released the full-length Shake/Shiver/Moan this past June. Suffice it to say Philly indie lovers will not be disappointed at North Star this Sunday.

Hot Hot Heat with 22-20s and Hey Rosetta!
North Star Bar (2639 Poplar Street)
Sun. 9/5/10
8:00 p.m. 21
Tickets: $15

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 • Of Meatwad and Morgan: Philly Sports Summer Round-Up
    

You're here for the sports news right? That means you have no idea what happened between July and September in the world of Philadelphia sports right? You're in luck. While we may have been on hiatus we still paid attention to our beloved teams. Here is our rundown of the summer of 2010 sports-style.

We'll be taking a look at each of our four major-sports teams (sorry Union but you get enough press elsewhere on this site) in alphabetical order—mostly so the Phillies come last because they are the most fun to write about.

First up our plucky and charming round-ballers. But Phillyist! Sixers starts with an S S should be at the end of your list! No no they are the 76ers and numbers come first like how 311 is first in your iTunes. (BURN!)

The Sixers have had a relatively quiet summer. Andre Igoudala made an impassioned run at the Team USA squad surviving the cuts and chipping in. Currently Iggy and Team USA are heading to the elimination round of the FIBA World Championship as the top seed. Our favorite summer Sixers news though was the revelation that our charming and talented first draft pick Evan Turner sounds exactly like Meatwad.

The Eagles spent their summer gearing up for a new season. News around camp focused on Kevin Kolb taking the reigns from Donovan McNabb. Elsewhere top draft picks were impressive at camp and have earned starting jobs. Also Leonard Weaver tweeted.

It has been a slow summer for the Flyers as all area ice has melted. Still since losing the Stanley Cup to a bunch of dorks the Flyers have made some roster moves. Notably management saw it fit to trade away the much beloved Simon Gagne and bring in the loved-by-no one-not-even-his-mother Jody Shelley.

Being the only team currently in action the Phillies have been the busiest of the bunch. After bearing witness to the greatness of Roy Halladay the Phillies wanted more. More Roys that is—and they got a good one. Oswalt has been his typical late-season-dominant self.

The Phillies have also played in important part in one of the most bizarre and compelling baseball stories of the Summer. Phillies fans seem to have touched off the downward spiral and personal self-destruction of Nationals center fielder Nyjer Morgan. Morgan has been suspended for an incident at Citizens Bank Park in which he allegedly beaned a fan in the head. Before he began his suspension Morgan decided to up the ante. In a game against the Marlins Morgan injured Florida's catcher in a tough and debate-ably necessary play. The next night his actions set off the best basebrawl of the season. All of this is mere set-up for the real story here: Nyjer Morgan's life-altering Wikipedia page. You're welcome.

There you have it. You are now all caught up on Philadelphia sports since the beginning of July. Now get out there and root for some home teams!

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 • Blogged Around Philly: West Philly Time Travel Edition
    

Who needs an RSS feed when you have us? Bringing you the best of the week in the 215 blogosphere...

Welcome to the return edition of "Blogged Around Philly." For what is typically a downtime for news there have been some surprisingly scanda-licious updates this summer but we'll put the past behind us and show you the best of what came across the e-wire this week.

Though this project was unveiled earlier this year we thought we would give a nod to University City Off the Grid for posting this time-lapse video of the construction of the "green" public art display at 38th and Powelton. Yes it is true that this Phillyist works in the neighborhood and happens to be friends with the artist but all that is purely coincidence: the piece rocks and you should definitely check it out if you haven't already.

We like dark humor as much as the next guy but Philebrity out-douches itself with this week's posting of an "Asian American Suicide Mixtape." Welcome South Philly High freshmen! The harder they come really?

Ladies and gentlemen we present to you the greatest Philly blog this side of Phillyist: Nachodelphia.

Philly Insider reports that a current Penn graduate student ate her weight in tacos. We really hope she is studying to be a nurse.

700 Level shows us the first glimpse of AT&T Station at the southern terminus of the Broad Street Subway line. Stay tuned next week for drawings showing the station shaped like the new iPhone.

BOOBS! Thanks Shmitten Kitten. Warning: put headphones on if you work in a cubicle.

Grub Street gives us yet another reason to hate Joey Vento and another reason to love Masaharu Morimoto.

Politi-blogs like Philly Clout are abuzz with talk of Sam Katz making a run for Michael Nutter in 2012. Apparently he has the support of former opponent Sleaz-osaurus Rex John Street who has showed us a new level of negligence as chairman of the board of the Philadelphia Housing Authority.

Speaking of juicy news about inappropriate actions by public officials Clout also interviews Mayor Nutter about PHA's recent turmoil and the move to eliminate the DROP program.

Brownstoner has some great coverage of the bike sharing demonstrations from interviewing the project leader (via PlanPhilly) to Mayor Nutter explaining the concept to some doe-eyed newlyweds. Who needs a limousine?

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 • 10 Earls Cooler Than a Stupid Storm
    

Even as a weakened Hurricane Earl veers away from the Jersey Shore high winds and light rains along the coast are casting a wet blanket over the beginnings of potential beach weekends. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has banned swimming and surfing on certain beaches today although the sun is supposed to show up on Saturday.

Philly on the other hand is expected to stay completely dry (but hardly sober) through Monday. That's not to say those of us staying in the city can't dream of a little Earl-related excitement. In fact we can think of a whole slew of Earls with whom we would rather share our holiday weekend.

So without further digression here is our top-ten list of non-hurricane Earls:

Earl "The Pearl" Monroe (aka "Black Magic" aka "Black Jesus" aka "Thomas Edison"): With this Philly-born professional hoops superstar and street basketball legend we would run courts all over the city.

James Earl Jones: Imagine the prank calls we could make! First up: umpire Scott Barry's house at 517-639-4321 (Thanks Twitter!).

John Montagu (aka the Fourth Earl of Sandwich): He invented the sandwich in the 18th century. What would he come up with at a Wegmans?

Earl Heiskala: An enforcer on the ice and one of the original Broad Street Bullies. Oh don't like this choice? Bring it up with our man Heiskala.

Tie: Earl Simmons (aka "DMX") and Earl from ToeJam & Earl: From Philly to Funkotron hands would be in the air for the super-galactic battle between hip-hop star and actor DMX and Earl an alien rapper crash-landed on Earth.

See above.

Earl Warren: With this guy we're running a different type of court (see Earl Monroe). Plus getting the head of the commission on JFK's assassination drunk off of Kenzinger could yield some interesting revelations.

Gene Chandler (aka "Duke of Earl"): Soulful jams like "Get Down" and "Does She Have a Friend?" are going to set the mood right for some last-minute summer loving.

Earl Woods: If the father is anything like his son then this weekend is about to get wild! And if Tiger were to join fore! would take on a whole new meaning as balls start to fly around heads in the Philly area. To Club Risque!

Earle Mack: Ok so we wanted another Philadelphian and the city's roster of famous Earl(e)s extends about as far as Joey Vento's hospitality toward immigrants. Still this former ambassador to Finland and namesake of Drexel's school of law could probably get us out of some serious shit after we rock Helsinki like a hurricane. Juhlat!

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 • Proofreading Philly
    

Reader Susan snapped this from I-95 in Northern Liberties. Apparently the first way one can reduce one's carbon footprint is to omit unnecessary letters in enormous non-recyclable vinyl banners.

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos wordos and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone and show the city that you care about good grammar.

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 • Photoist
    

Terrain Outside Philadelphia
Photographed by: Gerald Stewart
Terrain at Styer's Glen Mills PA.

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 • How I Spent My Summer Vacation
    

I used to love giving these speeches in elementary school. Mostly because my family had awesome summer vacations. At first we'd go camping down in Cherrystone Maryland (where the tasty tasty crabs come from) or stay at my uncle's house in Ocean City New Jersey. As my brothers and I got a little bit older and more able to tolerate long car trips we ventured into the wilds of Canada staying on a Native reservation on the French River in Northern Ontario.

As an adult this summer was filled with a day job and Phillyist relaunch prep but it had its fair share of seasonal fun too. First off (here's where you can feel free to be insanely jealous): I spent six minutes with Sir Paul McCartney. Okay so that might be a stretching the truth a little bit. I did however get to take some pictures of him at the first of his two Philly shows.

Here's where I won't stretch the truth: I was a bad friend to Geekadelphia. I'll admit it. I went to Piazza purely for the free OK Go show and maintained my firm "no foursquare" stance during their valiant yet failed attempt at a Super Swarm. I regret nothing. OK Go was amazing. (Sorry Geeks. I still love you).

In complete contrast to wanting to stay and watch the entire two-to-three hours of Sir Paul McCartney's concert or wanting OK Go to go a little longer I literally ran away screaming from the hipsters at the Mann Center during MGMT. A sea of glow-stick-carrying marijuana-smoking kids swarmed the stage in their short-shorts and cowboy boots and I bailed. Hard. MGMT is not good enough live to be worth hanging in for all that nonsense.

As for the rest of the summer—I hit up a couple of Phils games dos Union games too. I got my culture on in Clark Park with a the hilarious cast of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Note: just because a play is performed in open air does not mean you should talk through it!) and went on the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Store to score a $1 ticket to a fall preview of a Curio production. And blissfully almost every weekend I jetted down the Expressway to lounge on the beach at Ocean City New Jersey the shore town of my childhood. All in all just as summer should be.

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 • Daily Distractions: Friday Fries
    

Covered in bacon chili and cheez these links will put you in the coma you need to procrastinate your way into the weekend.

• The producer of The Office wants to cast Harvey Keitel as Steve Carrell's replacement. We're not making this up.
• Have you fed your pet website today?
• How'd Glenn Beck's rally speech score on the Truth-o-Meter? Take a wild guess. [Via]
• Win free Star Wars comics by coming up with a badass comic book character/Star Wars character fight. Contest runs til 5:00 p.m. today. [Via]
• The premiere of "Wretches and Kings" a new track from Linkin Park's forthcoming album A Thousand Suns. [Via]
• Demi Moore is forty-seven. No really. No matter what those camera phone bikini pictures would lead you to believe.
• It is totally acceptable to kill a spider by blowing it the fuck up. But you might want to not be in the room when it blows. [Via]

More calorific—but tasty—links after the jump.

Carstaches. Because you need yet another way to piss money away. [Via]

Awesome time-wasting quiz: Harry Potter Character or Hideous Skin Disease?

The trailer for AMC's forthcoming The Walking Dead.

Drinks. Cold. Are ya ready? Here we go. [Via]

J.J. Abrams is heading to jail ... errr Alcatraz ... for his next TV show.

Jesse James will probably cheat on Kat Von D with a clean-cut cheerleader type.

In retrospect neither Intellivision nor Atari baseball is very much like the real thing.

This guy's chest is super.

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 • Phillyist Goes to the Festival: Philadelphia Live Arts & Philly Fringe 2010
    

It's the most wonderful time of the year—and no matter what Burl Ives would tell you we're not talking about Christmas.

No what we're referring to is the first two weeks of September annual occurrence of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe that magical fortnight of theatre dance performance and visual arts concerts and myridad other opportunities for the Philadelphia Culturati to get together and geek out.

As always Phillyist will be all over the concurrent festivals giving you quick reviews of the shows we're able to take in. After the jump we'll give you a sampling of the shows at which you might be able to find a Phillyist staffer or two:

Live Arts

• Cankerblossom: With the exception of that unfortunate naked corpse-Shakespeare performance a few festivals back the shows put on by Pig Iron and folks affiliated with it are typically amongst the Festival's most successful. We hope this year's contribution a multimedia fairy tale will be another mark in the "win" column.
• Romeo and Juliet: Remember how a few years ago that everyone (including us) was sharing the video of Star Wars explained by someone who's never seen it? The version of Shakespeare's classic love story by the Nature Theater of Oklahoma operates much on the same idea: ask people to tell the story of R J and make art out of what happens.
• Sanctuary: Urban Scuba was by far one of the most visually interesting shows in last year's festival so we look forward to seeing what Brian Sanders' JUNK has in store this year. The description in the Festival program has us thinking Robert Frost: "Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
• The Sun Also Rises: Several Phillyists reviewed Elevator Repair Service's last contribution to the Festival Gatz quite positively: little wonder that we're excited to see what happens when they turn their attentions from Fitzgerald to Hemingway.

Fringe:

• Hello from Children of Planet Earth: There's something incredibly appealing and a little sexy about two really smart NASA scientists falling in love. Who us? Nerds?
• Between Trains: We've really grown to love Gas & Electric Arts plus this show apparently involves nudity. WIN.
• Jester's Dead: The first four words of this show's synopsis in the festival guide are "Top Gun and Shakespeare" so we're kind of already hooked.

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 • Red Bull Gives You Wings ... and Then You Crash Into the Delaware River
    

That's right. It's taken nearly twenty years but the Red Bull Flugtag has finally come to Philadelphia. And what better way to spend a Saturday afternoon than watching people with far too much time on their hands propel themselves into the Delaware River in homemade "flying machines?"

The basic idea of Flugtag (which essentially translates from German to "flying day" ) is for contestants to design and build unique and crazy flying contraptions powered by muscle gravity and imagination. They then pilot these off a thirty-foot high flight deck and ultimately crash into the water. Let's face it "flying machine" is a bit of a misnomer considering the flight record is only 207 feet.

There are 34 teams competing and you can even vote for the "People's Choice Craft by texting your favorite team number to (ex: "Team12") to 72855. Crafts will actually be launching from Pier 1 on the Camden Waterfront but if you have something against Camden or are too lazy to cross the river there is a Red Bull Flugtag Viewing Party at the Great Plaza at Penn's Landing. If you do head over to New Jersey the RiverLINK Ferry will be running express service between Penn's Landing and the Camden Waterfront every 30 minutes beginning at 10:00 a.m. Alternatively you can take the River LINE (Warning: irritating circus music.) Watching this spectacle is free and open to the public but leave your weapons alcohol glass containers pets and tents at home.

Red Bull Flugtag Philadelphia and Viewing Party
Camden Waterfront (Pier 1) / Great Plaza at Penn's Landing (Columbus Blvd. at Chestnut Street)
Sat. 9/4/10
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
FREE!

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 • How is a Penguin like a PennDOT worker?
    

Even in a zoo as street as the Philadelphia Zoo things must get a little boring for the exhibits. Their job is well to like uhm wake up and...eat maybe? Then putz around being...y'know animals. If they want to satisfy some deviant zoologists they might consider putting on a free show breeding in captivity.

So it's pretty awesome if you're a penguin and a butterfly wanders into your fastidiously recreated eco-zone. Ever see penguins try to creatively solve problems as a group? It looks something like hardcore grizzled Yunkers leaving Pitcher's Pub after last call plus a metric ton of cuteness.

Check it:

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 • First Friday Fun
    

• Part Time Studios (2031 Frankford Ave.) celebrates the opening of Wherever You Go I’ll Always Be Your Neighbor the new solo exhibition from local artist/musician Keith Warren Greiman. 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
• The Fresh! 2010 kicks off the exhibition season at Proejcts Gallery (629 N. 2nd St.) tonight. Fresh features eleven emerging artists who live and/or were educated in the Philadelphia area who work in a variety of styles and media. 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
• Pinot Boutique's (227 Market Street) First Friday festivities will include tastings of two wines from Chester County's Paradocx Vineyard an end-of-summer sale and a preview of the shop's incoming fall merchandise. 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
• If Pinot isn't boozy enough for you the good folks from Drink Philly are opening up their office-gallery (239 Chestnut St. Suite 2-B) for a reception featuring cocktail tastings art music and free food from the Continental. What's not to like? 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. 21 .
• Artspace Liberti at the Liberti Church (2424 E. York St.) hosts an opening reception for its new exhibit In3s which showcases experimental painting by artists Stephen Evans Timothy Gierschick II and Matthew Sepielli. Good Dust performs. 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

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 • CinePhillyist
    

The American
Look at George Clooney all James Bond. But he's not a good guy he's a deadly trained assassin. And this is not an action film it's a mildly-paced drama. Oh who cares did we mention George Clooney sexy anti-hero?
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Centurion
Roman soldiers must claw their way out from behind enemy lines after a fierce ambush dwindles their numbers. The film features rising British star Michael Fassbender.
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Going the Distance
No offense to Justin Long but he's no George Clooney. Leading man qualifications: occasionally sleeps with the producer/mega-watt leading lady of this long-distance relationship rom-com. Verdict: Meh.
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Lebanon (Levanone)
Based on the director's real experiences Lebanon is an army drama trapped inside a tank. Four Israeli soldiers become imprisoned in their own mobile armor while in Lebanese territory during the First Lebanaon War.
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Machete
What started as a fake trailer for Roberto Rodriguez's Planet Terror has been birthed into a genuine B-thriller full of blades bullets boobs and badassness.
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Soul Kitchen
One German brother attempts to wrest back control of his mediocre restaurant from his other German brother and he circle of criminal friends.
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The Tillman Story
NFL player Pat Tillman turned his back on a large football contract in order to enlist in the Army Rangers with his brother Kevin. While on a mission in Afghanistan he was shot in the head and died. This documentary examines the military and government cover-up of the circumstances surrounding his death.
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 • New Kid on the Block: Hawthorne Community Acupuncture
    

New Kid on the Block aims to be an occasional feature that profiles new (or relatively new) local businesses. Please feel free to bring any new local businesses to our attention by emailing us at editors@phillyist.com.

Yes acupuncture—in South Philly no less. Don't roll your eyes. Read on.

Right around the corner from the High School for Creative and Performing Arts in an old warehouse building at 1241 Carpenter Street you'll find Hawthorne Community Acupuncture a brand new business operated by nationally-certified and state-licensed acupuncturist Eva Zeller.

Zeller has had a significant interest in wellness since she was a young adult. While most of us were probably doing predictably embarrassing and unhealthy things to our bodies and minds she was practicing yoga tending to her medicinal herb garden and reading about traditional medical systems of the Far East. Eventually Zeller earned her Master's in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and spent some time in Japan studying at the Morinomiya College of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. (Don't be ashamed to click the link; we didn't know what the hell it was either.)

We recently had a chance to chat with Zeller who is probably one of the nicest people we've met here in Philly.

What are the most common misconceptions of acupuncture?
That it hurts! I promise that it's not like getting a shot. The needles are very fine and flexible and many people don't even feel them going in. Once they're in it doesn't feel like there's a needle in you. It feels more like just pressure heaviness or a dull ache.

Also there seems to be this idea that for an acupuncturist to be any good they need to be Chinese. Everyone who practices acupuncture in the United States has to take the same national certification test—Chinese or otherwise.

What common problems or ailments are good candidates for acupuncture?
The World Health Organization published a list of conditions that based on reviewing clinical evidence they saw as being responsive to acupuncture treatment. Generally pain is what I treat the most. But I also treat anxiety and insomnia; hormonal problems such as PMS infertility and hot flashes; autoimmune conditions; digestive disorders such as IBS and acid reflux etc. Essentially anything that is made worse by stress is going to improve with acupuncture because acupuncture helps normalize the body's response to stress. Almost everyone experiences it as very relaxing.

Once you start how often do you need to keep up with it?
People are often surprised to hear that it's probably going to take multiple visits to help them. Acupuncture can occasionally work a "miracle cure" but more often it's a gentle gradual process—a lot like going to the gym. If you go once or twice it will feel good but if you want to get in shape you need to go regularly and frequently. It's the same with acupuncture. Generally a person will need around five to fifteen visits although that number can be more or less depending on the nature and severity of the problem.

What are the costs involved and what about health insurance?
In this country treatments average from $65 to upwards of $200 per visit. For five to fifteen visits that can really add up. Some insurance companies cover acupuncture but in Pennsylvania most do not. We have a sliding scale at Hawthorne Community Acupuncture that makes it incredibly affordable. This is one reason why I joined the community acupuncture movement and started the business—I want my neighbors to be able to experience and afford acupuncture because it really works!

Hawthorne Community Acupuncture will host a pot luck launch party this Friday starting at 5:00 p.m. (It's address again is 1241 Carpenter.) You''ll have a chance to meet Eva as well as the other wellness practitioners who operate out of the space including Reiki masters massage therapists and yoga instructors. (If you're moved to bring something to the potluck we suggest perhaps you err on the vegetarian/vegan side of things. Just guessin'.)

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Fun around town for $10 or less:

Friday:
CD Release: for Arrah and the Ferns with Wissahickon Chicken Shack Lady and Funkslaw at the North Star Bar (2639 Poplar St.). 9:00 p.m. $8.

For the Kids: Mugshots Coffee House (21st St. and Fairmount Ave.) screens Scooby Doo. 7:00 p.m. free.

Saturday:
Melodic: Donovan Rice with Seann Branchfield and the Unnamed Band and Sunday's Best at M Room (15 W. Girard Ave). 9:00 p.m. $5.

Northern Liberties as a Board Game: The Philly Fringe and Brothers Cromie present Afoot! a walkabout Northern Liberties (map). Every 20 minutes from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. $10.

England Belongs to Twee: DJs HTSHELL McKee Ziga & Labuda spin early Brit punk pop Oi and twee
at Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.). 10:00 p.m. free.

Sunday:
Punk Movie: Screening of Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains at Wooden Shoe Books (704 South St.). 7:30 p.m. free.

Heavy Music: Young Widows with Helms Lee and Zann at Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St.). 8 p.m. $10.

Monday (Labor Day):
Party in the Park: Hang Free a semi-annual picnic/party in Fairmount Park. (West River Drive just past the Strawberry Mansion Bridge). 1 p.m. free.

Alien Vs. Creditor: with DJ Def Janiels and Hulk Hoagie at Johnny Brenda's (1201 Frankford Ave). 8 p.m. free.

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 • The Labor Day Low Down: Slow Down in Lower Delaware
    

Driving down to the Delaware beaches for Labor Day? Not so fast. This weekend is the last best chance for ticket-writers to collect out-of-towners' cash contributions.

"Lower slower Delaware" is an apt moniker for the beach-side stretch bifurcated by US Route 1 which cuts through the state's popular summer destinations and runs on into Ocean City Md.

After the Rehobeth Beach outlets the speed limit—with scant signage to serve as warning—dips from fifty miles per hour to forty and quickly thereafter to thirty entering Dewey Beach. State patrolmen meanwhile watch motorists like umpire Scott Barry staring down Phillies slugger Ryan Howard waiting for the slightest scent of defiance. (Aside from pulling over cars with non-Delaware tags excitement for the men and women in blue ranges from arresting jaywalkers to going all search-and-rescue for inanimate objects posing as people.)

Clocked speeds even five miles an hour above the delineated maximum can lead to flashing lights in rear-view mirrors (and $50 in court costs tacked on to every fine). But you were only going twenty-nine right? Tough. Instant replay (or a printout of your radar reading in this case) is unavailable. Ticketed drivers must appear before a judge to see documented proof of their delinquency. Those opting to contest violations in Dewey furthermore face waits up to four days while the town enters speeding tickets into its computer system (to reiterate they take that "slower lower" business seriously). And be mindful of parking manners on your day in court—filling out parking tickets is another favorite pursuit for beach police.

The First State's coastal towns pay major portions of their operating expenses with revenues from traffic and parking fines. These penalties account for nearly twenty percent of Dewey's Fiscal 2010 budget for example. (One can only imagine the roadway gridlock if Dewey Beach were ever to implement a DROP-like pension program).

Representatives for the Dewey Beach Police Department failed to return multiple calls for comment.

Despite its plodding facade and Wayne Campbell's potshots Coastal Delaware knows how to boogie in the summer summer summertime (had to get that in there once before the unofficial start of autumn). Young professionals from along the East Coast Philadelphia included flock to the Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats in Rehobeth and Dewey's debaucherous bars (Bottle & Cork Starboard Rusty Rudder Northbeach etc.).

Besides those $50 in court costs might be more than worth avoiding the alternative.

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 • Yo Philly in the News
    

• From the Department of Bullshit: Major League Baseball has put the kibosh on a Red Bull Flugtag team's bid to fly a vessel that looks like the Phillie Phanatic citing trademark restrictions. [Philadelphia Daily News]
• Another child was left alone in a car in the Parx Casino parking lot. For those of you keeping score at home that's the seventh one this summer. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• Stray bullets from a shootout in West Philadelphia struck a day care center. Fortunately no one was injured. [CBS 3]
• Looks like the hits will just keep on comin' for Carl Greene. Two more women have accused the embattled PHA director of sexual harassment. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
• The Phillies fought back from a 4-0 deficit and exploded with nine runs in the seventh inning en route to a 12-11 victory over the Rockies. [ESPN]
• If you're going down the shore this weekend be extra cautious about when and where you go in the water. Hurricane Earl will cause larger-than-normal swells and moderate riptides. [WPVI]
• For those of you staying in the city the weather will be quite pleasant. It'll be 86° and breezy today and getting even cooler through the weekend. [AccuWeather]

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Current Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art:

 • Late Renoir
    June 17 2010 - September 6 2010: Late Renoir follows the renowned painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir through the final—and most fertile and innovative—decades of his career. At the height of his creative powers and looking toward posterity Renoir created art that was timeless enticing and worthy of comparison to the greatest of the old masters such as Raphael Titian and Rubens.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/359.htmlJune 17 2010 >> read more or comment


 • An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew
    July 23 2010 - January 9 2011: Acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academyof the Fine Arts in 2007 after a stirring public campaign to keep the painting in Philadelphia Thomas Eakins’s masterpiece Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic) of 1875 has been cleaned and restored for the first time in almost fifty years. The painting emerges from the conservation studio as the centerpiece of this exhibition which throws new light on a work acclaimed as the greatest American painting of the nineteenth century.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/400.htmlJuly 23 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Pleasures and Pastimes in Japanese Art
    January 9 2010 - Fall 2010: From classical Noh theater to poetrycompetitions to the joys of fishing thepleasures and pastimes depicted inJapanese art are many and varied. Thisexhibition features masks and gorgeouscostumes of the Noh theater as wellas libretti and musical instruments thataccompany the Noh performances.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/361.htmlJanuary 9 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Inspiring Fashion: Gifts from Designers Honoring Tom Marotta
    September 12 2009 - September 6 2010: The diverse examples of contemporary special occasion and evening wear in this gallery obtained through the auspices of Saks Fifth Avenue are a welcome addition to the Museum’s outstanding collection of costume and textiles. These gifts showcase the individual designers’ creative flair and serve as a lasting tribute to the esteem and affection that Tom Marotta inspired.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/372.htmlSeptember 12 2009 >> read more or comment


 • Arts of Bengal: Town Temple Mosque
    March 13 2010 - September 19 2010: The cities and towns of Bengal (modern Bangladesh and parts of eastern India) have long functioned as hubs of commerce religious activity and the arts where professional painters potters weavers and sculptors catered to diverse audiences. Through works from the Museum’s collections this exhibition explores the rich texture of the “sacredâ€� and the “mundaneâ€� in Bengal’s cities from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/385.htmlMarch 13 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Arts of Bengal: Wives Mothers Goddesses
    November 25 2009 - September 19 2010: Bengal (modern Bangladesh and eastern India) is a lush region of lotus pools fish-filled rivers and tiger-haunted forests punctuated by rice and banana fields rural villages and teeming cities. The domestic arts made by and for Bengali women during the 19th and 20th centuries include intricate embroidered quilts called kanthas vibrant ritual paintings and fish-shaped caskets and other implements created in resin-thread technique.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/374.htmlNovember 25 2009 >> read more or comment


 • The Two Qalams: Islamic Arts of Pen and Brush
    July 11 2009 - September 19 2010: The Two Qalams explores the relationship between calligraphers and artists through five exemplary works of calligraphy drawing and painting dating from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/366.htmlJuly 11 2009 >> read more or comment


 • Plain Beauty: Korean White Porcelain/Photographs by Bohnchang Koo
    June 19 2010 - September 26 2010: Plain Beauty brings together exquisite porcelains made in Korea during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) Joseon-inspired ceramics by contemporary artists and large-scale photographs by Bohnchang Koo (Korean born 1953).http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/388.htmlJune 19 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Hanging Around: Modern and Contemporary Lighting from the Permanent Collection
    July 17 2010 - October 10 2010: In the early twentieth century with the introduction of electric light designers began to focus on lighting fixtures hanging lamps among them. Interest in lighting design experienced a particular surge in the decades after World War II when many young artists the American George Nelson among them responded to a demand for fixtures that were both functional and modern in their aesthetic. Drawn from the Museum’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary design this exhibition features some twenty hanging lamps.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/390.htmlJuly 17 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Picturing the West: Yokohama Prints 1859–1870s
    August 28 2010 - November 14 2010: The landscapes and scenes of Japanese life and culture depicted in ukiyo-e color woodcuts made in Japan in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are widely known and admired. Less familiar are the “Yokohama Printsâ€� portraying Westerners who came to Japan after the island nation opened its borders to international trade in the late 1850s. Picturing the West showcases approximately ninety of the latter woodcuts selected from the Museum’s extensive collection of nineteenth-century Japanese prints that reflect the Japanese fascination with their newly arrived Western visitors and the transformation of Yokohama as a trade port.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/407.htmlAugust 28 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Revisiting the Centennial: Resources from the Library and Archives
    June 14 2010 - December 2010: The invaluable resources in this exhibition--including books pamphlets scrapbooks and ephemera--document an extraordinary civic event as well as the broader aesthetic and manufacturing forces at work in the Victorian era which drove considerable social and economic change both here and abroad.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/441.htmlJune 14 2010 >> read more or comment


 • To Love Honor and Obey? Stories of Italian Renaissance Marriage Chests
    July 3 2010 - July 2011: In Renaissance Italy betrothal and marriage were celebrated with a variety of events as well as commemorative works of art. Often elaborate these objects marked the joining of a couple while symbolizing wealth and demonstrating alliances between powerful families.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/405.htmlJuly 3 2010 >> read more or comment

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