A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. The new trailer for Max Payne is very, very cool. (Via) Cinematical lists seven good ideas for bad Shakespeare sequels. Alex Proyas says no, he's not directing Silver Surfer, and he would never consider doing so, because it would be for Fox, and he will never work with them again after his experience on I, Robot. Ah, so maybe it's Fox's fault that......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Invincible: Outdoor screening of Invincible, part of the City Hall Film Series in the City Hall Courtyard, 8:30PM. Free Improv: The N Crowd present a double feature of improv comedy at the Actors Center (257 N 3rd), 8PM. $10 SATURDAY Three Bands at Once: Rooftop CD release BBQ featuring Controlled Storms, Toy Soldiers, and Power Animal on top of the Whole Foods Parking Garage (929 South), 4PM.......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. What We Do Is Secret A musical biopic telling the story of Darby Crash, the Los Angeles punk icon and lead singer of The Germs who took his own life in 1980. Reviews are mixed, but there's no misunderstanding how Phillyists Ross and Jill felt about the movie when they saw it at the Philadelphia Film Festival—they hated it! This Phillyist is going to take their......

Former Phillyist, now full-time blogger and author, Jen A. Miller made it to the finals of the Hot Blogger Calendar contest. You're next, Jill! Ladies and Gentleman...The Beatles...I mean, The Jonas Brothers! Philly Comedian Doogie Horner teaches Things To Say During Sex over at Comic Vs. Audience. (Buzz Feed picked up the post yesterday. Of course they did, it was about sex.) The Bicycle Chef shows us how to make and can Summer Garden Salsa.......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. America, in the person of San Francisco native Craig Billmeier, AKA Hot Lixx Hulahan, has won the Air Guitar World Championships. We are swelling with patriotic pride. Our sister site LAist reports on a woman who continued Twittering even while having a baby. That's dedication. Looks like no Preacher on HBO after all. The new head of HBO felt the adaptation was just......

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we'll be posting events that are going on sale during the current week. This Thursday post only collects the latest announcements, so definitely check the Tuesday post for any you may have missed. COMEDY Comedy Stop Tropicana Casino, Atlantic City Mon, 9/1/08 - Tue, 9/30/08, many dates and times $23 On sale: Fri, 12PM, Ticketmaster Brian Regan Borgata Event Center, Atlantic City Sat, 11/15/08, 8PM $42.50 On sale: Sat, 10AM, Live......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. This is pretty hilarious: Denny's just started offering a new Rockstar Menu, featuring dishes created by actual rockstars when asked what they like to eat late at night. We're particularly excited about the Heart on a Plate created by Jesse Hughes from Eagles of Death Metal. (Via Filter) Director Mathieu Kassovitz says a troubled production and some bad editing have turned......

7:59 Assembled my ingredients: 1 1/2 cups bittersweet chocolate chips (about 9 ounces), divided 3 large egg whites, room temperature 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar, divided 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 Keith Olbermann 1 Chris Matthews 3 hours MSNBC Convention Coverage 8:05 Tonight is all about Hillary Clinton and making sure my eggs are room temperature before I try to whip them! 8:12 Melting ½ cup of......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A very amusing comic which imagines how Tarkin got the funding to build the Death Star. Well, Obama's victory is assured now: the lucky UFO alien supports him! (Via Sarah) Check out the very cool opening credits sequence for RocknRolla. (Via) Kristen Bell has signed to voice the female lead in the feature film adaptation of Astro Boy.......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. NME profiles an American teen who quit school to work on perfecting his Guitar Hero game. His skills have already netted him prizes, and he hopes to go professional eventually. Oh, and don't worry—his parents have hired him a tutor so he can continue his education. (Via Ross) On September 1st, you can go into any participating Chik-Fil-A wearing a sports......

Sometimes, though, we do miss it. But not today! THE HUSH SOUND AT THE TLA Join The Hush Sound, The Cab, Steel Train, and The Morning Light tonight at the Theater of the Living Arts for their Dance Across the Country Tour. Sure, the tour name is über-lame, but the bands promise a decent live show. With an 8:00pm start time, the show will let you get the rock out and still leave you some......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Supposedly Abbie Cornish will star with Jake Gyllenhaal in a film about a private expedition to the moon to create a Lunar colony. Which could be a bit awkward, as Cornish is Jake's current girlfriend Reese Witherspoon's ex-husband Ryan Phillippe's current girlfriend. We don't know about you, but this Phillyist's head is spinning. The release of Quantum of Solace has been pushed back......

Can you believe Labor Day weekend is right around the corner? We can't either. Here's what's going on this weekend. Wildwood Block Party & Festival is on Saturday. It has the usual: games, crafts, food, entertainment, etc. Stone Harbor Merchants' Day Sale is on Saturday. The town, with its normally expensive shops, opens its doors to some great discounts. Heading to AC? Here's what's going on: Comedian Andrew Dice Clay is at the Borgata on......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Another unique and fascinating website, London Bananas features pictures of discarded banana skins found throughout the city of London. (Via Sarah) PC Magazine lists the top 100 undiscovered websites of 2008. (Via Scott) Dude was fishing with his granddaughter recently in a private pond in North Carolina when she gave him her Barbie-branded rod and reel to hold while she went to the......

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we'll be posting events that are going on sale during the current week. This Thursday post only collects the latest announcements, so definitely check the Tuesday post for any you may have missed. COMEDY Margaret Cho Merriam Theater Fri, 10/3/08, 7:30PM $32.50-$48.50 On sale: Sat, 10AM, Ticketmaster MUSIC Relient K with Ludo, This Providence and House of Heroes Electric Factory Wed, 10/15/08, 7:30PM $17 ($19 day of show) On sale: Today,......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. The boys at Penny Arcade really outdid themselves today. But... ahem... well, not to get even nerdier than usual on you or anything, but... they also spelled wookiee wrong. It's two e's at the end. Everybody gets that wrong. Cinematical picks seven romantic comedies actually worth watching. The three main stars of the original The Greatest American Hero TV show have......

I have a rock-solid, two-week reason to watch NBC round the clock! I get to read and hear about sports I never knew existed. Like fencing! Wow, who made that up? The Opening Ceremonies made me feel glad to be alive and totally inadequate as a giant-sphere-run-arounder. It is the first and last time I will ever hear the name Michael Phelps. Someone will mess up his body, realllly badly! I get to have Olympic......

Looking back on a week's worth of local Craigslist hijinks... Nothing's really funny about this except the title. Because, really, who doesn't want to beat up someone in a suit? Something sounds... fishy. Or maybe we're just paranoid from watching too much SVU and Forensic Files. Yes, it is too bad... you could've taken pictures and posted them. This has chick flick written all over it. This one, too. This, on the other hand, has......

And no, it's not Larry Mendte. Comedian Kent Haines, an almost certain underdog, battled valiantly and hysterically through 139 other comedians to be named Helium's "Philly's Phunniest Person" for 2008! Our good buddy Dave over at Comic Vs. Audience has the recap. While Kent has been doing comedy in Philly for less than a year he has been comedically busy elsewhere, like LA, where he and his partner wrote, sold and star in the Crackle.com......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. The Olympics (All week, 8PM-12AM, NBC) Apparently this whole thing is still going on, even though Michael Phelps already won every single gold medal he possibly could have. Into the Unknown with Josh Bernstein (Mon, 10PM-11PM, Discovery Channel) This is the opening episode of a new series which, as you might already have guessed, is hosted by Josh Bernstein. First up, Bernstein investigates the true story of......

Torontoist featured video of an absolutely insane series of explosions at a propane facility in the north end of the city last weekend.Despite an eventful week at the Olympics, Phillyist focused on local, Philadelphia teams.Seattlest, freshly aware of their "Junior High Readability Level," implemented a new weekly feature spotlighting a local they’re totes crushing on. First up, a guy they met at the Seattle Tattoo Expo.LAist reported on a protest by bicyclists in Santa......

Just in case there was any doubt left, yes, Robert Downey is in blackface for almost the entirety of Tropic Thunder. And no, I didn't feel guilty about laughing at him. That's because Downey, who plays the Russel Crowe-like Kirk Lazarus, is laughing at himself. It's a ridiculous premise: a multi-time Oscar winner, Lazarus undergoes controversial (you don't say!) skin pigmentation-altering surgery to play the African-American sergeant of the American platoon featured in the Vietnam......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. A gallery of photos of San Fran's annual "Altered Barbie" exhibition. Some could theoretically be considered NSFW, but c'mon, it's just a doll. (Via Sarah) Three men have scheduled a press conference this afternoon in Palo Alto, California where they say they'll reveal the details of their discovery of what they claim is a dead Bigfoot. But apparently even other Bigfoot hunters doubt......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Experimental Happy Hour: Kick back every third Friday with the experimental electronic music of Tantrum Tonic at Random Tea Room (713 N 4th), 6PM. Free Keeping It Local: Movies@ City Hall presents Unbreakable in the City Hall Courtyard, 8PM. Free SATURDAY Festival of India: Celebrate Indian heritage at the Great Plaza on Penn’s Landing (Chestnut and Columbus Blvd), 12-7PM. Free PHIT Special: MakeOut Clinic with Velvet Helmet......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Henry Poole Is Here Luke Wilson plays the Henry Poole of the title, a man shattered by circumstances beyond his control and determined to live out the rest of his life in isolation. But his plans are complicated when a neighbor discovers a stain on his wall with seemingly miraculous powers, and invites her pastor (George Lopez) over to check it out. And meanwhile Henry finds......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. A recent xkcd features a pretty hilarious send-up of Google Maps. (Via Star) Paris Hilton is being sued for not promoting a comedy she starred in recently, Pledge This! We were only vaguely aware the movie existed, so maybe they have a point! If you fear not the spoilers, then click through for a look at the true face of Rorschach from Watchmen.......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Guardian altered some photos of our president from the Olympics and created LOL Bush. Enjoy! (Via Sarah) Ooh, remote control zombie! (Via Sarah) Cinematical lists seven men gone too soon. It's been a rough year. The poorly named site Galactic Binder picks the top 31 bad-ass Star Wars moments. Some of these aren't exactly "bad-ass," but most of them are pretty......

It shouldn't surprise anyone to know that we watch food shows. And so we'd be remiss if we didn't mention a new show on the Fine Living network featuring the inimitable Martha Stewart. Well, "featuring" is a bit of a stretch: the show, as the New York Times reports, will be more like a spin on Mystery Science Theater 3000, starring Stewart's daughter Alexis and Jennifer Koppelman Hutt, whose father, Charles Koppelman, is the......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Dude, Mountain Dew cupcakes! Brilliant! (Via Sarah) Oh no! What have they done to our beloved Clue? Now there are nine rooms, nine weapons (and no lead pipe), and the house is modernized (apparently the new version is more like a mansion from Cribs). Argh! (Via Sarah) Forbes lists the top earning celebrity chefs. We can't believe that......

Every Tuesday and Thursday, we'll be posting events that are going on sale during the current week. This Tuesday post only collects the early announcements, so definitely check back on Thursday for the latest ticket news. COMEDY Daniel Tosh Tower Theater, Upper Darby Sat, 10/25/08, 9PM $30 On sale: Sat, 10AM, Live Nation MUSIC Mary J. Blige with Robin Thicke Susquehanna Bank Center, Camden Fri, 9/26/08, 7:30PM $59.75-$115.75 Pre-sale: Today, 10AM - Fri, 10PM, Ticketmaster......