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The Twitterverse and 6 ABC are reporting that another building facade has crumbled onto the sidewalk at 11th and Chestnut. No one was reported injured, but the facade hit a few cars. iPhillyChitChat has the photos on twitter. Similar events happened earlier this summer at two other buildings downtown. We can't help but feel like Chicken Little over here.

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.

Yesterday, in a speech to the AFL-CIO, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton endeared herself to the citizens of Philadelphia by comparing herself to Philly’s Phavorite Phictional Phrized Phighter, Rocky Balboa:

Despite their name, NYC four-piece Vampire Weekend (MySpace) is not a shoe-gazing, emo goth band. In fact, their self-titled debut LP, just released at the end of last month, is perhaps best described as "sunny" - the very antithesis of a vampire's idea of a good weekend. This band, beloved of many blogs (including us), performs bouncy, funny, clever, retro indie/punk/pop/New Wave songs about love. Their music is so fun it feels like there has to be something wrong with it, but nothing is. It's been a while since we listened to an album the first time through, and loved every song on it instantly. (Although of course we did love some more than others; the head-bopping "A-Punk," which they performed live on Letterman just the other night, is the best, and "One (Blake's Got a New Face)" is the worst.) If you haven't got your copy of the album yet, hit the R5 Productions website to download some free MP3s.

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With a preliminary hearing for the case scheduled for tomorrow, the Inquirer takes another look at the 41-year long murder of Police Officer William Barclay. Pennsylvania officials will decide soon whether to spend $45 million to build a stadium in Chester as the final step toward securing a Major League Soccer team for the Philadelphia area. Right now, Philly is second behind St. Louis for the remaining expansion slot, its chances contingent on a stadium...

Tuesday The Academy of Vocal Arts opens its season with Mozart's witty and timeless Così fan tutte. Academy of Vocal Arts (19th and Spruce); 7:30 PM; $48 Yo-Yo Ma comes to the Kimmel Center with Kathryn Stott, piano for an evening of Schubert, Shostakovich, Piazzola, Gismonti and Franck. Verizon Hall (Kimmel Cetner); 8 PM; $38-$94 Thursday Temple University faculty members Lawrence Wagner, clarinet, Jeffrey Solow, cello, and Charles Abramovic, piano give a concert of...

As we're sure you've heard by now, Officer Charles Cassidy, who was shot during the attempted robbery of a Dunkin' Donuts in East Oak Lane yesterday, passed away this morning. Officer Cassidy, who was 54, leaves behind a wife and three children.

Pianist Gary Graffman turned a right hand injury around into a brilliant career performing repertoire written for the left hand alone. Hear him play works by Bach, Brahms, Scirabin, Corigliano, and more.

The Opera Company of Philadelphia finishes its run of Verdi's timeless and tragic Rigoletto.

Yes, it's back! Classical music concerts have returned to Philadelphia after a much-deserved break. Get excited for the upcoming year.

We'll probably feature this again in tomorrow's CinePhillyist column, but we wanted to give it a quick mention today because it starts tonight: it's the International House's three-day double feature program, Beyond Leone – Lost Spaghetti Western Classics! "Spaghetti Western" is a term used to describe the series of low-budget Westerns shot in other countries - usually Italy - during the '60s and '70s. The most popular and well known entries in the genre are probably the Man with No Name Trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone (that's A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, all excellent films). But the I-House's program is something really special: a double feature each night, tonight through Saturday night, of really rare, hard-to-find Spaghetti Westerns. Tonight's screening, for instance, includes Quentin Tarantino's personal print of Day of Anger, which stars genre veterans Lee Van Cleef and Guiliano Gemma as an experienced gunfighter and an outcast orphan, respectively. Friday, meanwhile, features two films with the famous Spaghetti Western character Sartana as the main character, including the original Sartana film, If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, as well as a cross-over film where Sartana meets another famous genre character: Django Challenges Sartana (like most superhero cross-over stories, this one starts with the legendary gunmen at each other's throats, but ends with them working together to beat the real bad guys). Finally, Saturday will see a screening of a Magnificent Seven rip-off called Five Man Army, co-written by infamous horror director Dario Argento, with a score by the great Ennio Morricone, and starring Peter Graves, Tetsuro Tamba and Bud Spencer. The last film is screening under the name They Call Me Hallelujah, but we don't know why, because its alternate title is one of the best movie titles we've ever heard: Heads You Die, Tails I Kill You.

The weather forecast has changed, and it's no longer supposed to rain today. Good thing, too, because that means that it should be nice and dry (okay, maybe nice and sticky, what with a daytime high in the upper 80s and humidity to spare) for tonight's First Friday goings-on. Here are a few of our picks if you're out and about tonight.

The Philadelphia Orchestra begins this week of concerts with the unforgettable Beethoven 9.

Philly's classical music community seems to be back from its Memorial Day break as well.

by them. (This Phillyist definitely didn't write the plays she was acting in, that's for sure!)

UrbanPromise is an independent, faith-based non-profit in Camden. For the past eighteen years, the organization's mission has been to provide after school programs, summer camps, and job training for youth in Camden. It also runs two schools - one is kindergarten through eighth grade, the other is a high school.

Wandering through Liberty Place this Saturday afternoon, Phillyist came across the statue pictured to the right, as well as a bunch of others created from canned goods.

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Can non-foodies write foodie reviews? We are not a foodie, but if there's one thing about us, we love to eat. So this is less a review and more a puddle of drool translated into words.

Since winter has finally decided to grace Philadelphia with its presence, let's be real: You're going to be cold if you head outside no matter what you're wearing. With that in mind, you might as well dig out your best nearly-naked ensemble and head over to the Mandell Theater to party with a "Sweet Transvestite."

Tonight at 7, the International House will be showing the premiere of Precious Places, a documentary put together by Scribe Video Center's Precious Places Community History Project. That's a mouthful, but what it translates to is local folks from largely non-touristy areas of the city and some parts of Camden were given cameras and asked to record the goings-on of their community. There are interviews and looks at out-of-the way historical and cultural sites; Scribe says, "For the first time in Philadelphia history, the people in the neighborhoods are telling their own stories about vital neighborhood issues and the people and places that make their communities unique." That's a great idea, but maybe should be ammended to say "on film." Phillyist hasn't met many Philly-ites that are shy about telling you what's what. But what a great opportunity for a look into parts of the city that often get overlooked when someone thinks of "Philadelphia."

I have a crush… on a song. This is actually a common occurrence in my life. I love music. I have music playing at all times. I cannot be in my apartment without it on. I can’t drive without music (or be driven somewhere without it). Even when I hate the CD we have to listen to at work, I want it on. This need, coupled with my innate neuroses, means that I often find songs I just can’t stop listening to.

Every so often a friend of mine invites me to some art opening or closing that a friend of his is having somewhere in the city. For one reason or another I haven't made it out to any of them yet, although I'm hoping that changes on January 20. From 6pm to 10pm this Saturday, the local artist's collective known as Basekamp is hosting a reception for muralist Eric McDade. His installation is titled "More of the Same" and opened on December 16, 2006. It is going to be in the Basekamp space located on the second floor at 723 Chestnut Street in Center City for another week.

It’s Wednesday night and you find yourself in Old City. You’re tired of your old haunts (read: Eulogy is boring and nothing's doing at the Khyber) and you’re looking to do something a little different. We suggest flamenco.

Although this time it's the fun kind, not the kind you stay up all night biting your nails and watching John Stewart for.

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less: