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With weekends getting rainy and cold and just...horrible, the good city of Philadelphia has given anyone with children dozens of good reason to stay inside.

The Doylestown-based online gaming community Gamervision is serious about fun. Co-founded by the producers of The Buddy Holly Story (seriously), this start-up brings the power of user-generated content to the gaming world. From their offices only a SEPTA-ride away from Center City, this team of programmers, reporters, and video bloggers has made an unusual editorial decision—that is, they don't make as may editorial decisions as you'd think. They have big plans this year, and they've got over $8 million in the bank to make those plan reality.

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The Northern Liberties Winter Music Festival at The Fire is finishing up this weekend with two big shows tonight, another tomorrow night, and the climactic Radiohead Tribute Sunday night. It all sounds awesome to us, but we wanted to give a particular heads up to you guys about one of the many bands playing Saturday night: Peasant. Peasant is actually less a band and more a guy: Damien DeRose of Doylestown. We've been listening to his latest release, On the Ground, and we're pretty impressed. He's got the whole folksy, singer-songwriter, indie pop thing going on, but not in an annoying way. His work is compared to that of Elliott Smith, and while we understand and agree with that comparison, we actually enjoy this album more than most of the stuff we've heard by Smith. Every one of the thirteen tracks is lovely, melodic, catchy, and deeply felt. Peasant isn't really going to help you get your rock on, but he might warm you up on a cold winter's night.