LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Things look a bit light this week, with the Philly Orchestra on a well-deserved break, Easter on the horizon and Passover beginning tonight. Wednesday Tanglewood-born Beaux Arts Trio comes to town via the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society for an evening of chamber music by Schubert, Shostakovitch and more. Perelman Theater (Kimmel Center); 8 PM; $22 Thursday Radovan Vlatkovic, horn, Hyunah Yu, soprano, and Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano join together for chamber works by a wide variety......

On Saturday night, Philly-based Alo Brasil brought their drums, their beats, their vocals and many many dancers to World Cafe Live for two shows. This Phillyist was at the first show, which was a sit-down dinner, and it made us wish that we'd gone to the second show, which was an all-out dance party (hey, we're not a spring chicken anymore, and we were at the Alexi Murdoch show late the night before). Alo Brasil......

We get it -- it's cold. You don't want to move, let alone take a jog or a run in this freezing weather. It's oh so easy to turn into a lump on your couch watching Extras on DVD. Snap out of it. After all, it's Carnaval, and you don't need to go to Brazil for a taste of the colorful holiday. Alo Brasil is doing not one, but two shows on Saturday at World......

Have you voted yet? No? What the hell are you sitting at your computer for then? Note to our readers: if you don't vote, you're not allowed to complain about politicians in the comments section. Austinist: Other cities' Craigslist Missed Connections are so much better than ours. Parisist: Ah, so that's why it's a city for lovers... Bostonist: This is not a reason not to vote for someone. No, really. SFist: Embrace your inner......

The Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit ended with a bang – or should we say a beat? After three days of talking up this new way of thinking of artists as talent that can drive the economy, conference-goers headed on down to World Café Live for a concert by two local bands. The first, Soulamite, is a soul group with two stunning leading ladies, one of whom has the coolest mohawk we’ve ever seen......

Jamie Cullum's come a long way since playing Zanzibar Blue. Back in 2004, the tuck-away restaurant was his Philadelphia venue of choice to perform his modern jazz and pop stylings. Talk about moving up – last night, he, along with song bird Brandi Carlile, sold out the Kimmel Center. The show's only flaw was its length: the performers had a curt 11 p.m. curfew, which cut Carlile's set down to five songs, and even Cullum......

By now you’ve probably heard of Nouvelle Vague, the French band covering songs of the English new wave in the loungey style of Brazilian bossanova. They’re on the stereo at your hipster friends’ parties, they’re showing up on every list as one of the best breakout albums of the summer, and most recently, they’re on the soundtrack for a T-Mobile commercial. And now the band is bound for World Café Live, the Philadelphia stop on......

Fernando Meirelles' new film, The Constant Gardener, is about watching and being watched. The previews may fool you into thinking it's a movie about scandals involving the pharmaceutical industry in Kenya, or about a multinational murder mystery, or a love affair starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, or the exploitation of African poverty by a collusion of powerful government and corporate forces. And Meirelles, working from a screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, adapted from a John......