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The world famous Mannheim Steamroller is giving what we are calling a "Christmas sneak peek" concert at the Academy of Music this Saturday, November 14th. As this is their 25th anniversary tour, the world famous instrumental group is bringing out the big guns and getting ready to rock your Christmas Tree sweater right off. Featuring both their incredibly popular Christmas music and a pretty impressive multi-media show, Mannheim Steamroller, or as we friends of the group like to call them, "Steam," offers a great way to kick off the beginning of that seemingly endless, but nonetheless magical, two month run up to Christmas awesomeness.

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Barring any breaking news (or a legal agreement stating that we won't run a review of a movie until today, which is why there's one other entry dated today on the site), Phillyist will be taking December 25 off to spend time with our loved ones. We'll also be rather content-lite tomorrow.

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Happy holidays, everyone. And if you're out and about in Center City today, do catch the show at Macy's. It starts every hour, on the hour.

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And once you've loaded up on the fun, inexpensive pieces that Absolute POP! has to offer, step through the interior door to the owners' original store, Absolute Abstract, where you can find larger sized gilcee prints ranging in many styles, including some fabulous shots taken of Philadelphia landmarks by photographer Erin Clark for their Absolute Philadelphia collection.

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There's something really magical about the Dickens Christmas Village at Macy's—even if it really is dated. (We do hope you have a better request for Santa than a new sweater, though.)

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I'd like to say that I'm an easy person to shop for, but I'm not. It's not that I'm picky, or that I have everything I could possibly want—it's that I rarely get around to making a list, so nobody has much of an idea what to get me. Besides, in my adult life I've discovered that (at least where family is concerned), I usually appreciate a gift that comes in an envelope (read: check or gift certificate) more than one in a box (read: another flannel nightgown). But, sometimes, when you're doing your more obligatory gift shopping (for your mail person, for instance, or your intern or next-door neighbor—those other people who are historically difficult to shop for) it would be inappropriate to give somebody a check, and a gift certificate seems either too impersonal or too transparent (enabling the recipient to know exactly how much you think your relationship is worth), so you're stuck having to buy... something. But how do you figure out the right gift in these situations? When you're buying somebody a token rather than making a sweeping gesture, what should you do?

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Foodies aren't always easy to shop for. I know this because I am one. Usually, they'd rather buy their own food-related stuff, or else they take the joy of shopping completely away from you because they have very exact lists of what their kitchens are missing. Going off-list could mean getting a pan they don't like or a knife they already have or a cookbook they absolutely do not want, nor will they use. So instead of running the risk of getting the wrong food-related gift, why not buy the foodie in your life a gift s/he wouldn't've even thought of? It's food-related but doesn't go in your kitchen and will show the giftee how fully you, too, embrace the epicurean way of life: a City Food Tour. Through December 15, City Food Tour gift certificates are 15% off for all three regularly scheduled tours: gourmet food tasting, beer tasting, and evening wine tasting. Whether your Philly Phoodie loves fine wine or good beer, decadent chocolate or rich cheese, it's a gift destined to please. And it's not even on the list!

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Let's face it: the economy is in the shitter and there's not much we can do about it, other than go on with our day-to-day lives and hope that our places of employment will still be standing when it's all over. The front page of the paper is filled every day with the state of our savings accounts, with monsters of the industry no longer able to pay their employees, with sub-prime mortgages. This is not the sort of thing we want to think about, let alone talk about, so close to the holidays. And so it's time for a bit of a refresher course on what to avoid when talking to polite company—specifically, any talk of money.

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