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

Lane Savadove of EgoPo theatre ensemble

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

Movie Monday Wednesday at The Troc: X-Men 3: The Last Stand. Doors open at 6, admission is $3 (applicable towards foodstuffs), and the Troc is located at 1003 Arch Street.

Robin Parry from Philly to New Orleans

by Jen A. Miller

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have been making enough Philadelphia appearances to prove that local product and lead singer Alec Ounsworth is correct when he says that they're not a New York band. (They're a sixth borough band, duh.) The band, whose self-titled debut is easily one of the year's best albums, will play another show tonight, this one at the TLA.

Last week Mayor John Street announced a ten year, $10 million plan to eradicate homelessness in the City of Brotherly Love. The $10 million for the project is already accounted for, having been earmarked from city, state and federal funds. There's a plan, devised by city officials meeting with homeless advocates and other experts.

The Roots brought down the house at the Kimmel Center on Friday night, bringing a rather stagnant crowd to its feet for a two-and-a-half hour set that spanned the entire Roots discography.

Wandering down Locust Walk at Penn tonight like you always do on a Friday night? Stop by Van Pelt Library for an outdoor performance of Love's Labour's Lost, a play from William Shakespeare that may possibly be popular and well-known. We don't know, we're not the literary types, unless literature includes flipping through Philadelphia magazine.

This weekend, artists in the City of Brotherly Love will begin a series of benefit events for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Fringe Festival Cabaret will host the first event, a FREE show featuring Fringe favorites the Brothers Suggarillo with Dito van Reigersberg, Dirty Diamond, Rich Wexler, BINGO, Lidia Kaminska, and more.

It looks like the big push for volunteers and donations for Philly's expected share of Hurricane Katrina survivors was premature. While Mayor Street is still committed to hosting up to 5,000 survivors from the affected region if needed, 38 people and one dog arrived yesterday, but no more are expected.

Living up to its moniker of the City of Brother Love, Philadelphia welcomes Hurricane Katrina survivors today. City officials expect 600 survivors to arrive later today. Philadelphia's newest residents will go to two buildings converted to shelters -- one located at 1701 N. 11th St. in North Philadelphia and other at the Palumbo building at 11th and Catharine Streets in South Philadelphia.

While some might consider Johnny Knoxville playing water football with a kid to be breaking news, we're not that kind of publication. Nope, we were merely pumped up to see Knoxville sporting a Wawa tatoo on his left shoulder, goose and all. There was this one time that we saw Pat Ciarrocchi in a Wawa getting coffee, but I think that Knoxville sporting the Wawa tat totally overshadows that in terms of Wawa-related celebrity bullshit.

Dan Buskirk of WPRB 103.3 FM, based in Princeton, will be hosting a New Orleans jazz program today from 11 am to 1 pm. Plain Parade's Maria T. Sciarrino writes, "As a friend aptly pointed out yesterday, in between the loss of life and physical destruction that is happening in New Orleans, another kind of death is occurring -- one of the south's major cultural capitals."

Local raving lunatic Michael Marcavage of Repent America (headquartered in Lansdowne, Delaware County) is once again bringing honor and prestige to our area by blaming the Southern gay community and those in New Orleans who put up with that kind of "wickedness" for the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. Apparently, being one of the few extremist religious nutjobs in the Philadelphia region means out-crazying the big boys.