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Ready for soothing tunes to warm you up? Singer/songwriter Alexi Murdoch is playing tonight at The North Star Bar.

I re-watched The Big Chill between screening this film and writing this review, and I think I've solved the mystery. Although the stories have nothing in common, The Big Chill and Last Kiss are thematically similar: they both deal with milestones in our lives that cause us to look back and take stock of who we are and what we were, the relationships by which we definite ourselves, and the age-old practice of trying to relive our past when we're not prepared to face our future. There are several crises in the picture - most of which involve being on the cusp of 30 and realising that heteronormal, affluent adulthood (and the baggage that goes with it - careers, parenthood, home ownership) is not the future, it's the now. (There is only one same sex couple in the film, and they are disappointingly only present to offer mineral water.) It should be noted that the angst of adulthood is pan-generational in this picture: Blythe Danner and Tom Wilkinson both give outstanding performances as parents whose roles (and relationship) changes as a result of the change in the life of their adult daughter.

Looking ahead at your Monday night and seeing nothing but watching re-runs or scouring Myspace for high school classmates?

In a post last week, we directed you to the Philadelphia livejournal community, where the posters were fondly remembering the not-quite-dead Dave Roberts and his, as it turns out, not-quite-dead weather board. Phillyist reader Jen Miller writes in to tell us: