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Full disclosure: Yes, tonight is game one of the World Series, in which the Philadelphia Phillies battle the Tampa Bay Rays at 8pm Eastern Time. However, if you're not a baseball fan, there are some other options for this evening.

Many of you may not know that Philly is home to the notes Bram Stoker developed as he wrote his acclaimed classic Dracula. The bragging rights are cool enough, but it turns out that the notes, housed at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, drew the attention of HBO while they were filming a documentary about the nocturnal blood drinkers. The doc itself is playing second fiddle to an hour-long series about vampires called True Blood from the minds behind Six Feet Under.

Did you see that "Battlestar Galactica" season finale on Friday? "One year later?!" C'mon, how many people thought that was going to turn out to be a dream right up until the last scene?

This is sheer speculation, but we're guessing his method was a bit more thorough their our own personal research into vampire lore, which focused largely on the Hammer Horror catalogue of films. (Did you see the part in the latest Star Wars when Anakin fought Count Dracula? It was awesome.)

The Rosenbach Museum and Library and The Spiral Q Puppet Theater will be joining forces again this year for the Dracula Puppet Parade (which we'll tell you more about next week) - and in preparation this weekend they are inviting kids of all ages to come to the Rosenbach (2008 DeLancey) for a hands-on costume workshop.