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Performances: Chlamydia dell'Arte: A Sex-Ed Burlesque (Gigi Naglak and Meghann Williams) (Future performances sold out); Urban Scuba (Brian Sanders/JUNK) (Future performances sold out)

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Due to the ridiculous weather, we've included more contact info right up front- best to check in later in the afternoon to make sure these events are still on.

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Phillyist has been known to run with an older crowd, maybe because inexplicably we were/are the youngest by at least 10 years at most of our places of employ. A fun game to play if you have a good decade to work with is “what was different?” This sometimes devolves into discussions of Slinky (yes, we are old enough to remember when they were exclusively made of metal). When working with a more serious bunch, though (sexual health clinics can be trying), we realized that, perhaps more than anything else, the fact that we do not remember a world before AIDS informs our perspective and marks us as belonging to a particular generation, one that doesn’t really remember a world without crack, either. Growing up in the thick of the early days of the epidemic, back when most people were still worried about sharing a water fountain with a positive person, made us appreciate the enormity of the crisis. It did not, however, have the same devastating impact upon us that it had on many people who had to watch as staggering numbers of friends and colleagues succumbed to the mysterious syndrome. Harvey Fierstein commented once that AIDS nearly killed Broadway—and he wasn’t kidding.

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Having grown up Catholic, this Phillyist's early experience with bingo (besides the dog song, of course) consisted of the school gym being converted every other Wednesday afternoon into a downmarket The Price Is Right (if The Price Is Right had legions of older folk sitting at long folding tables littered with markers, enough bingo cards to paper said tables, and ashtrays. And if Bob Barker was a priest). It was not really appealing so much as darkly fascinating, but still none of us sat around dreaming of the day when we'd have markers of our own.

, only with more sexy, shirtless, dancing gays (okay, and a few straights too—maybe).

You may or may not have heard that The Philadelphia Free Library is working with architect Moshe Safdie to renovate and expand the Beaux Arts building. (And if you hadn't heard it before, you've heard it now.) If you're curious about the plans (or just dig architecture), stop by the The Gershman Y (Broad and Pine Streets) between December 4th & January 29th, where they'll be exhibiting "Safdie’s models, photographs, renderings, and videos" so you can get an idea of what the Beaux Arts is in for. Personally, we don't care too much what they do with it so long as they put all those lovely, lovely books back when they're done. (Or, we could hold on to them if there's not enough room in the 160,000 square foot addition. Either way.)

We're not really Wal-mart shoppers. The creepy greeters, the surly clerks, the crappy way they treat their employees, the cheap, mass-produced merchandise made by Guatemalan 5-year-olds that puts mom and pop stores out of business -- it's just not Phillyist's style. We're not militant about it or anything. We just choose to shop elsewhere.