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.......

What would Tom Shillue have thought of the "Philly's More Fun When You Sleep Over" campaign?......

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What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. College Football Bowl Games (Mon, 7:30PM-11:30PM, ESPN; Tue, 5PM-9PM, ABC; Tue, 8:30PM-12:30AM, Fox; Wed, 8:15PM-12:15AM, Fox; Thu, 8:15PM-12:15AM, Fox; Sun, 8PM-12AM, ESPN) - The Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Auburn vs. Clemson, The Rose Bowl: Illinois vs. Southern California, The Sugar Bowl: Hawaii vs. Georgia, The Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia vs. Oklahoma, The Orange Bowl: Kansas vs. Virginia Tech, and The GMAC Bowl: Bowling Green vs. Tulsa. Dick Clark's New......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Paranormal State (Mon, 10PM-11PM, A&E) - The debut of a new reality show featuring members of Penn State University's Paranormal Research Society investigating reports of paranormal phenomena. During this hour, they seem to be playing two episodes, one about a boy who can supposedly see dead people, and another about a supposedly haunted house where murders were committed. Independent Lens (Tue, 10PM-11:30PM, WHYY) - It's another Penn......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. All-Star Holiday Spirit (Mon, 9PM-10PM, Food Network) - The Food Network stars - including food nerd Alton Brown, freakish bird-woman Giada De Laurentiis, the hated Rachael Ray, Ina Garten, Tyler Florence, and obsessive lush Sandra Lee - prepare holiday party dishes. Should be a good time! Charlie Brown Christmas (Tue, 8PM-9PM, ABC) - The 1965 classic, accompanied by a behind-the-scenes making-of special hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, and......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Dueling Philly cheesesteaks as political metaphor. Thank you, Comedy Central. (Via Debbie) Dude: new trailer for Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. It will rock your face off. Cross your fingers, folks! A new Entertainment Weekly article suggests a Peter Jackson-directed movie of The Hobbit is closer to becoming a reality. We think the Scream movies made up a great trilogy, and that they should......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Colbert Report (Mon, 11:30PM-12AM, Comedy Central) - We rarely mention this show in this column, because it's understood to always be worth watching, but we wanted to point it out in particular this week, because tonight, Stephen's guest is a LEGO sculptor named Nathan Sawaya, and LEGO sculptors are cool. On the Lot (Tue, 8PM-9PM, Fox) - This week sees the end of the season for this......

This Phillyist first became aware of Mike Birbiglia when my younger sister was in high school. She signed up to be on his street team. She kept putting his posters up on my door. She'd corner me until I listened to clips from his albums. People, she found audio streams of his appearances at venues across the country and wouldn't let me out of the house until I admitted that, yeah, the dude was kind......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Modern Marvels (Mon, 8PM-9PM, History Channel) - Tonight's modern marvel is chocolate, so obviously this episode is required viewing. Included is the history of chocolate, the chocolate-making process (including the manufacture of M&Ms), and the many properties that chocolate is thought to possess. LA Ink (Tue, 10PM-11PM, TLC) - Fugitive from Miami Ink Kat Von D is opening her own tattoo parlor - High Voltage Tattoo -......

What's new and/or interesting on television this week. Victoria Beckham: Coming to America (Mon, 8PM-9PM, NBC10) - It's the British invasion all over again in this reality show-type special which follows Posh Spice as she moves from London to LA. Secret Life Of... (Mon, 8:30PM-9PM, Food Network) - This time they're taking a look at superstitions surrounding foods - so, stuff about New Year's Day foods, spinach, garlic, and carrots. Cities of the Underworld (Mon,......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Road Tasted (Tue, 9:30PM-10PM, Food Network) - Guess where Road Tasted is going this week? That's right, our very own Philadelphia! They'll be sampling cheesesteaks at Campo's Deli (uh, what about Pat's or Geno's??) and sweets at Franklin Fountain, amongst other things. Lil' Bush (Wed, 10:30PM-11PM, Comedy Central) - This is the debut episode of a new animated series following the adventures of a prepubescent version of......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A brilliant fan submission to the Grindhouse trailer contest: Hobo with a Shotgun. (As you might expect, it's rather bloody, and there's some profanity.) And while we're talking Grindhouse trailers, it looks like one of the ones in the movie is going to become its own direct-to-DVD film: Machete. It will be made by Robert Rodriguez and star......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Barbarians II (Mon, 8PM-9PM, History Channel) - It's Barbarians Week on the History Channel, and that means lots of shows about barbarians! This particular one is the first part of a four-part history of the Barbarians who swarmed all over the corpse of the dying Roman Empire (how's that for a metaphor?). This episode covers the Vandals and their invasion of northern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa.......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Amazing Grace - The tagline ("Behind the song you love is a story you will never forget.") is absolutely awful, but the movie sounds like it might actually be pretty interesting. It's directed by Michael Apted, written by Steven Knight, and tells the true story (dramatized, of course) of the life of William Wilberforce, a British politician who successfully wages the first modern political campaign, and......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Golden Globe Awards (Mon; 8PM-11PM; NBC) - During the 64th annual occurrence of this TV and movie awards show, Warren Beatty will receive the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award. The winners of the other awards are, of course, still a secret. (Check E! at this same time Tuesday night for the inevitable run-down of the clothing and fashions.) (Link) American Idol (Tue; 8PM-10PM; Fox) - Oh,......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. We've got two awesome new Guitar Hero controllers for you to consider: the official Red Octane wireless guitar controller, and the 10 fret button Flying-V controller from Ant Commandos, in both wired and wireless models. Um, HAWT. Wondering what the extra 5 fret buttons are for? For showing off, duh! Cinematical celebrates Halloween with the Seven Worst Horror......

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 Comedians of Comedy, featuring Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, Eugene Mirman, and Morgan Murphy The TLA Wed, 9/13/06, 8PM $20 ($22 day of show) On sale: Wed, 12PM, Live Nation Richard Lewis and Kevin Pollak Music Box at the......

Even though its first season is come and gone, I haven't fully formed an opinion of Dog Bites Man on Comedy Central. I wanted to like it more—it was produced by Ali G's team—but maybe my expectations were too high. One episode, though, rang quite true. In it, Kevin Beekin—the middle-aged, balding, chubby network correspondent—is confronted about his Bluetooth problem: he's constantly using his little Bluetooth headset and it's gotten to the point where nobody......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Tue; 11PM-11:30PM; Comedy Central) - This is already one of the greatest shows on TV, full of sharp, clever, hilarious satire of contemporary media and politics. But Tuesday's episode has all that, plus Samuel L. Jackson (who will come, no doubt, bearing clips from his upcoming movie, Snakes on a Plane), so you have to watch. (Link) Mythbusters (Wed; 9PM-10PM; Discovery) -......

What's interesting on TV this week. Dirty Jobs (Tue; 9PM-10PM; Discovery) - One of the filthy tasks Mike takes on in this episode is in Philadelphia - he's helping restoring a church's antique pipe organ. (Official site) Eureka (Tue; 9PM-11PM; Sci-Fi) - An interesting-looking new series about a top-secret town in the US populated by scientists and their families. In this debut episode, an accident lands a US Marshall and his daughter in the town;......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. It turns out, chimps can have monkeys on their backs, too. Xiku the chimpanzee learned to smoke from mimicking people back when he worked in the circus; by the time he got to the zoo in northwest China where he is now, he was up to 20 cigarettes a day. Zoo keepers there are now trying to help him cut back,......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Sometimes we get tired of having to spend time on things like sleeping and eating, so we can sympathize with this fellow who got fed up with all the money, time and effort that goes into acquiring, consuming, and cleaning up after regular human food. We're pretty sure we would never have come to his solution, however, which is to try to subsist......

If you enjoyed Jon Stewart's recent interview with Bernie Goldberg on The Daily Show, you might be interested in checking out tonight's show. Pennsylvania's own junior Senator, Rick Santorum, will be sitting down with Stewart at the brand-spanking new studio. We're sure it'll be a rip-roaring fun time for whole family. Tune in Monday, July 25 at 11pm on Comedy Central to hear what our beloved Senator has to say for himself. After all, people......