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There's a reason why I don't fry things, and it has nothing to do with health.

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! 10. Cross – Justice While this debut album by French duo Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay leans heavily on the discography of fellow Parisians, Daft Punk, it breaks out on its own...

by Jon Brouse After one month and three suspensions, the Flyers sit atop the Atlantic division for the first time since the ‘05-‘06 campaign. With production coming from the top three lines and a hot goalie, the team is showing a winning finish that was clearly lacking last year. Jeff Carter has stepped up his game and is developing into a quality second-line center. Joffrey Lupul is looking more like the budding star from the...

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This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities.

I had the pleasure of attending the 2007 Philadelphia Flower Show in the final of its 8-day run from the 4th to the 11th this past Sunday. I use pleasure in the most sensuous sense; walking into the Convention Center in the final throws of all its horticultural splendor, one is met by a kind of photosynthetic explosion with colors, fragrances, textures, palpable earthiness, and the sound of hundreds of other people expressing their feelings on all manner of things botanical; no sense is left un-bombarded for very long.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week.

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost.

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.

Now that I've seen it, I'm not surprised at the bad reception Darren Aronofsky's new film The Fountain received at some of the film festivals it played at and, indeed, at the screening I attended. A lot of people are not going to like it. A lot of people are going to be puzzled and confused and irritated by it - as many of my fellow audience members were. And if you go expecting a straightforward film, that you can sit back and enjoy without paying much attention to, you will be disappointed, as well. But if you go willing to do serious work putting the pieces together and interpreting the repeating themes and metaphors, you'll be rewarded with a beautiful, moving, sumptuous, intelligent, well thought out, and really amazing film that will open and unfold before your eyes like a blooming flower.

Right on the heels of last Thursday's PECO-related, underground explosion, another underground explosion left many residents without power...this time in Northeast Philadelphia. Flying manhole covers may well become a new thing to watch out for when you're ambling about town.

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Jason Forrest is pretty clearly a music junkie. He used to record, confusingly enough, under the name Donna Summer (although, don't worry, there was indeed a real Donna Summer; she wasn't just an elaborate conspiratorial creation of the record companies, so you can stop thinking that right now, you paranoid weirdo), so she may have had some influence on him, first off. (The decade of her heyday certainly did, as the website for his self-owned label, Cock Rock Disco, is smothered in '70s era photos and style.) And his latest album, Shamelessly Exciting, features samples from artists as diverse as The Ramones, Steely Dan, Yes, Genesis, and Blood Sweat & Tears - and those are just the ones we recognized. All of this wildly different music is sometimes layered over with fresh performances (the disc features collaborations with contemporary acts like Laura Cantrell), then chopped and pasted and molded into something entirely new, and incredibly rocking - an exhilarating postmodern fusion that may indeed be the future of music, or at least the music of the future.

, no matter what people may tell you to the contrary.) And, more importantly, why hadn't we been warned about the possible need for ear protection? Ah, well, we suppose with a bill that includes three bands who embrace distortion and feedback rather than avoid it, earplugs should have been a no-brainer.

This was the kind of win that makes you think, "Hey, the Phils can do this." Granted, we still don't think they can do it - it being making the ever-elusive MLB playoffs - but we were hopeful, if only for a little while.

On July 14th, Phillyist sat down with Joel Gibb, lead singer of the Toronto-based group The Hidden Cameras. When we arrived at First Unitarian, Gibb was in crisis mode: his amp wasn’t working, and he was having trouble finding anyone able to repair it at the last minute. But Gibb isn’t the type to stress. He asked a friend to keep looking for repair shops and led us from the sweltering basement to a bench outside so we could sit and talk about him, his music, and the subject that excites him the most: semiotics.

At least 40 people are dead and 300 injured in a series of blasts around London, effectively crippling the city. There have reportedly three explosions on the tube and one explosion on a double decker bus, and an al Qaeda-affiliated group has claimed responsibility. British Prime Minister Tony Blair interrupted his work at the G8 Summit to make a statement, calling the attacks "barbaric". Blair will leave the G8 Summit and return to London later today. The conference will continue in his absence. President Bush's response to the tragic events has been to encourage U.S. residents to be vigilant. Hey, way to go with the fear mongering. Our heartfelt prayers and good wishes go out to all of you in London and at our sister site, Londonist, which is providing up-to-the-minute coverage of the attacks.