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Your faithful Phillyist Proofreader caught this Florida-plated Hyundai on Germantown Avenue, just north of Girard, in that neighborhood nostalgically and perhaps misleadingly called "Olde Kensington."

A little over a year ago, I wrote about a solid meal Ross and I shared at a place in Northern Liberties called Isla Ibiza. Unfortunately, the fact that the restaurant was empty was a bad sign, and the place was closed just a few months later. Fast forward to last Saturday night. Ross and I have since moved quite near the old Isla Ibiza space, now occupied by a restaurant called Q-Ba. Since the move, we'd passed a few pleasant evenings sitting at the bar there, and had become friendly with a couple of bartenders and one of the managers. We figured it was high time we tried the cuisine that the staff had been bragging about.

innerpartysystem Ticket Giveaway
11.29.07 - 11.30.07 (ENDS AT NOON!)

Fellow blogger and frequent commenter Phillybits found this one for us on Girard Avenue last week. All we can say is: "oops..."

For a band with only a three-song EP to its name, Vampire Weekend sure has polarized the indie rock blogs. It’s like a cage match between hype and backlash: on one side you’ve got a long line of critics and fans hailing the New York band’s refreshingly polyrhythmic, Afro-pop sensibilities, while on the other, there are just as many people resenting the mounting hype or their sunny tunes or both. (You can sample some of that criticism, which ranges from “What’s the big deal about this band?” to “They’re the Jimmy Buffetts of indie rock,” here.)

Friday night, the boy and I were seeing a show at Johnny Brenda's, and we decided that, rather than the usual food downstairs, we'd branch out and explore the neighborhood. A little bit of internet searching led him to Isla Ibiza, about five blocks down Girard from our final destination for the evening.

From the creative pursuits of the local public artists to the Mural Arts Program, you can pretty much count on seeing some form of street art no matter where in town you go. But in an artform where what goes up today could be covered by tomorrow, permanence is never guaranteed.

Improv with the N Crowd: The N Crowd performs at The Actor's Center (257 North 3rd Street) at 8PM. $10

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Did you know that slightly less famous than his go-getter younger brother, the Comte de Survilliers (aka: Joseph Bonaparte) once lived in Philadelphia? (That's right, we're not just a hot bed of American history - but of world history too!) Why do we mention it, you might be asking? Because we thought it'd be a nice segue towards telling you that The Bonapartes, a favorite of our big-brother site, DCist , is playing The Fire Sunday night, along with local bands Air Duvall, Bamshire, and Suburban Missile.

The black cat, the bat, the spider and the armadillo: All are staples of scary movies and Hallowe'en fun, and all can be found at the Philadelphia Zoo. On Saturday, October 29th, the Philadelphia Zoo is having their annual kid-oriented "Boo at the Zoo" event, which features song, dance (by Dance Fusion!), costume contests, spooky games, and free candy. That's right! Free candy! Oh, and there are some animals on display or something. We're not really sure, and frankly, we don't care. Free candy! Well, free with admission, anyway.

This Saturday night the folks of Plain Parade will be packing the intimate The Manhattan Room (15 W. Girard) full of indie music. Performing will be Philly's own post-rock National Eye , as well as pop-rockers (and bloggers) The Spinto Band , popsters Pas/Cal, and Illumina - " a collective of eight musical friends " who, according to their domain, love you (or maybe they love us; that part wasn't clear). Whether Illumina (and the other bands) love you personally or not, you can see them all for a mere $7. And although our affections can't be bought, we must admit a $7 cover charge with no drink minimum kinda makes us love them, and Plain Parade too.

Art Spiegelman, author and artist behind the ground-breaking, best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel , will be speaking about the history of comics and their changing role in society and popular culture. (And, we hope, explaining why he insists on spelling the word "comics" as "comix." Phillyist is a fan of Speigelman and has great respect for him as a storyteller and innovator - but we're not altogether sure that his Pulitzer gives him the right to change the spellings of words willy-nilly.) The program starts at 8PM, and costs $8 ($5 for students).