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I'm angry enough having been towed from Baltimore Avenue for the Chaka Khan show this weekend, but at least unlike this guy, I was towed to support a bonafide diva. For anyone else whose car disappeared from that street this weekend, while you're wandering West Philly mumbling, "Dude, where's my car?" you can stop off for six weeks' worth of free Nutrisystem food. Good luck on the willpower, though. Speaking of good health, who doesn't......

For those of you on the left side of the Schuylkill, it’s time to give a warm sun salutation to your new neighbors on 45th and Baltimore: Studio 34 founders and longtime West Philly residents Angela Norris, James Peniston, and Stephen Fisher. With their respective backgrounds in Eastern practices, nursing, and community arts, these friends spent the past year renovating the huge, gutted space above Fiesta Pizza into a wellness center designed around the needs......

Like the orchestra but hate the scene? Now you have no excuse not to get some culture. Saturday night the Philadelphia Orchestra is putting on a free neighborhood concert in Clark Park. All you have to do is bring a blanket, some friends, and a juice bottle filled with your favorite wine. Kick back and listen to world class musicians playing Chabrier's España, Bizet's Suite No. 2, from Carmen, Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol, Marquez's Danzon, Barber's......

I still hate Valentine’s Day. I’m still bitter and I will still want to throw brightly colored, probably already stale Necco hearts at anyone who wears pink or red today. But, I’m lazy. And bitterness requires more energy than a general acceptance, so Philadelphia, here’s my Valentine of sorts to you (feel honored, I’m not even sending one to my parents): 10 Things I Love About Philadelphia (In no particular order) 1. Brunch at Sabrina’s......

It is not unusual for Phillyist to hear that a band is coming through town...but it is unusual to hear a band is coming through town by boat - which is why The Sailboat Tour caught our eye (and our fancy). Indie musicians Peter and the Wolf, Castanets & Jana Hunter have recently embarked on a 3-week tour in a boat captained by eye-patched, erstwhile DJ, Dan Gaeta. This weekend, they'll be docking in......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Movies in the Park: Free screening of Way Out West in Clark Park (43rd Street & Baltimore Avenue) 9PM. The Free & Concious Concert: The Cutbacks, Stiff Middle Finger, Son of Nun, Brain Drain & Cypher:Dissident are playing The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street) at 6PM. Presented for free by Philly Red and Anarchist Action Network (RAAN) . Animation at The Franklin Institute: As part of their ongoing......

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......

It's been a bad year for West Philly dining. First we lost Betty Rastelli, former owner of the Marigold Dining Room, then legendary deliman Bobby Koch, and now Phillyist is sad to report that Solomon Amare, owner of Dahlak Restaurant, passed away of a sudden fatal heart attack earlier this past weekend. Solomon, known around the neighborhood as the "mayor of Baltimore Avenue", was a hard-working, community-minded family man whose restaurant garnered international acclaim. He......