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This weekend, don't miss showcase work from the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts. Rumor has it the show is spectacular, sometimes sweet and and in the case of the aerial dance choreographed by renowned Louise Gillette, positively primordial too. (Think a dance without gravity, and just feet from your face.) Both faculty and students (and there are 250 of them) are represented in the show, which has changed daily throughout the week. Also look for Kyle & Kravitz, the delightful new partnership of emerging juggler Kyle Driggs with seasoned percussionist Ron Kravitz. More than a delight. More than rhythm. More than you think. Gillette's work is the closing act of the evening shows. All shows last one hour, and kids are welcome. To get more excited, check out our photo gallery below!

Bob Mould has never shied away from raw emotion in his songs. From his Hüsker Dü days, through his group Sugar and his solo work, he's tackled tough topics like suicide, love gone wrong, and one very bad car crash.

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For those of you who are still reeling from the news that Scarlett Johansson is off the market after marrying Ryan Reynolds, it's time to move on. That's yesterday's news, literally. And today, we have another celebrity wedding update—this one with some local flavor. Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson, known and loved by us as Mac and Sweet Dee in , have gotten hitched after two years of dating. For those of you keeping score at home, this means that four of the show's six regular characters are married to each other. (Charlie Day is married to "Coffee Shop Girl" Mary Elizabeth Ellis.) No word on when Danny DeVito will announce that he's split from Rhea Perlman to elope with Glenn Howerton.

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And we mean that literally. Tonight, for one night only, Zamora the Torture King brings his amazing sideshow stunts to 941 Theater in Northern Liberties with the Zombie Sideshow. If you didn't get enough of the undead at the Philly Zombie Crawl, now's your chance to rectify the situation while sitting slack-jawed in amazement, no zombie makeup required.

Perhaps we're a little biased, given our close proximity to the Italian Market and our obsession with delicious things like cheese, sausage, pasta, and cannoli. Still, we think this is pretty much the best weekend of the entire year. There's food, beer and wine as far as the eye can see, plus music, games, crafts, a kitschy-yet-serious parade of saints and plenty of great people watching.

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To say we like puppets is probably an understatement. What’s there not to like about talking pieces of wood? Or, for that matter, watching humans channel their emotions and desires through a manipulate-able avatar? Twilight Zone aside, it sounds like a surefire recipe for fun.

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Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! As I've mentioned once or twice before on Phillyist, this year I went from being distantly fascinated by comic books to being a seriously obsessive weekly comic book collector. So here are my...

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said, "Wouldn't a kinder, gentler Gawker be hideously unreadable? No, we never talked about that. It would be hysterical but we haven't."

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Although The Golden Compass is being compared to the Narnia Chronicles in some of the ads, the series that the book it's based on is a part of - Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy - is really the anti-Narnia: equal but exactly opposite to C.S. Lewis' saga of Christian allegory. Some people are saying that The Golden Compass is anti-Catholic - and they're right. The movie doesn't emphasize it as much as the book...

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. You know what your cat needs? A wig! Ah, the internet and its fascination with doing strange and terrible things to cats... (Via) Dude, a dinosaur mummy. Scientists have found the remains of a hadrosaur that have been mummified by a natural fluke of time and chemistry. It's one of only five dinosaurs to be found in this...

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. This is one of the most awesome news stories we've ever read: a ring of guerrilla restorers spent a year secretly fixing an antique clock inside the Pantheon, only revealing themselves and their work to officials when they were done. They were cleared on Friday of breaking in. They are totally our heroes now. (Via Mike V.) Wired takes a look...

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Here's the fascinating story of how amateur sleuths solved the mystery of the missing remains of Czar Nicholas II's family members. (Via Jill) Just because the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is over doesn't mean we're out of fun Thanksgiving-related links for you. First of all, turns out it's probably not the turkey itself that makes you sleepy after the...

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and veggies in South Central. On the entertainment front, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime over the show titled Californication and Rami Kashou of Project Runway chatted with LAist about his Palestinian heritage and, of course, designing beauty.

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Game|Life managed to get their hands on some early screenshots from the upcoming Ghostbusters video game. The winner of the Doritos Unlock Xbox Contest is Mike Borland's Dash of Destruction, the game where you run around as a T-Rex chasing a Doritos truck. And while we're talking contests, Scott Adams had one on his blog recently to choose...

Love in the Time of Cholera is a good example of a bad adaptation. Garcia Marquez fans realize, I hope, that the man’s strengths don’t easily translate to film, so you shouldn’t be shocked to learn that the film Love in the Time of Cholera feels more like an adaptation of a GGM-inspired Saturday morning cartoon than of the novel itself. Cholera the film is a fairly ordinary Hollywood period piece; it’s the sort of...

Paris Hilton, former celebutante/party girl/homemade video star and now alcoholic elephant advocate (thanks to Jim, Ross, and Sarah for that one) is releasing a new perfume called CAN CAN. (Get it? Because that's something they do in Paris. But then, so is this.) To celebrate, the formerly constipated jailbird will be at Macy's Center City today – and you can meet her! All you have to do is be one of the first 200...

Local student Dan Magro wears many hats. He is (as mentioned) a student, at the University of the Arts. He is a Starbucks employee in Southampton. He is a writer/filmmaker. And tonight, he will add to that hat-list "philanthropist." Magro's movie, Portraits of Sari, premieres tonight at Gershman Hall (corner of Broad and Pine), but you'll be getting more than just a movie with your attendance. It turns out that the lead actor in Portraits,...

Phillyist still isn't used to it being pitch black when the work day is over, but the folks at the Center City District are giving us a night light, for this evening at least. Five buildings along the Avenue of the Arts (from City Hall down to Pine) will be lit up like a movie starlet's makeup mirror. These "murals of art" aren't all though: there will be entertainment on the Avenue as well as restaurant booths selling their wares at reduced cost (which is really the only way we'll be eating at Bliss on a random weeknight). The kick-off ceremony takes place at 5:30 in front of the Bellevue, but the food and entertainment run from 5-8.

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Michael Clayton is a wonderful example of learning to walk before you can crawl. Tony Gilroy, as a writer/director, evinces an offhand sense of authenticity and cool intelligence that has served the Bourne franchise well. It feels very much like the sort of old-Hollywood adult entertainment that, according to cranky movie critics (like, um, me), They Just Don’t Make Anymore. The title character, played by George Clooney, is a complex mixture of nobility, cynicism, and self-destructive tendencies, a man whose complicity in corruption does not go unremarked upon. And speaking personally, I’m always up for a movie that suggests that most of my law school classmates will be receiving not only big firm jobs and six-figure salaries but also entrée into a moral quagmire that will eventually drive them insane. (I expect that my student loan debt will follow me into the grave, so allow me my small pleasures.)

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