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

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a disturbingly effective visual aide that brings together the homicide data from last year - data we are quickly on our way to surpassing in 2007.

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on.

It's a good time to release a documentary about a rockstar activist speaking out against the President and his administration for continuing a costly and unpopular war in a foreign country. And indeed in some ways The U.S. vs. John Lennon is about current events; a number of the interviewees make comparisons to contemporary figures and occurrences, and comparisons not voiced out loud in the film were voiced out loud by audience members in the theater. There were even some modern anti-war activists on hand at the screening I attended, handing out posters and leaflets and so forth - even WMGK, the local radio station at the screening, was giving out buttons reading "War Is Over! If you want it" (the text of a poster that John and Yoko put up one Christmas in cities all over the world). This gave a fresh relevance to the film and brought its thirty-year-old subject handily into the present.

We got your Philly news right here:
• You know that citywide wireless internet service we've been hearing so much about? In theory, you only need to hang on to 2007 to get it. Earthlink has pulled out a ten year service contract to provide the service and charge $9 per month to providers who would then resell the service to the public. City officials estimate the final price to Philly residents would be less than $20 per month, and service would be available next year. Unfortunately, the service isn't really aimed at internet users who value speed - the Earthlink wireless service would be "at least 1 megabit per second, slower than the speeds typically offered by telephone and cable companies."
• Despite the recent balmy weather, this time of year is traditionally the time when Phillyist craves soup. Beware: if you shop at Giant supermarket and dig that canned Progresso soup, there's a recall afoot. A rusty sewing needle was found in a can of minestrone out in Wind Gap, PA - so return that soup to the store before you become a cautionary tale.
• Some of us are old enough to remember the "worker bee, use your stinger" campaign last decade that encouraged corporate whistleblowing, but the latest law enforcement campaign is a little less business casual than that. Police and community activists had a rally yesterday to encourage people who have seen a crime to report it. The campaign is called "Step Up and Speak Up". Organizers hope to counteract the message of the "stop snitching" tshirts so popular with the juvenile delinquent crowd these days. Phillyist hopes this isn't the big plan to decrease gun violence in Philadelphia.

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