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Phillyist told you a while back about how Philly Car Share was gearing up to offer you more than just reliable transportation. If you were planning on looking into this, tonight is your night.

WQHS (Penn’s student radio station), is currently a steaming-only station. As part of an effort to help the station grow, there will be a show TONIGHT at the Pilam House (3914 Spruce Street). It will feature local bands Golden Ball, Creeping Weeds, Brown Recluse Sings, and Arc In Round.

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

I went to Penn. I knew people—male and female—who were "brothers" at Pilam. My freshman year, I even went to a few shows there. During Spring Fling, I danced (completely sober!) with my friends (probably less sober) on the window seat in the front room at the house, and a drunk passerby dove through the window, grabbed me by the legs, and said: "You're beautiful."

Update: Fixed a few typos and small factual errors, and added a more correct image credit. Thanks, Maria!

Robin Parry from Philly to New Orleans

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Movie on Penn's Landing: Commerce Bank presents a free screening of Peter Pan, which will be preceded by a series of related activities (including tours of the beautiful Gazela). Contests start at 7:30, and the movie starts at dusk (9ish).
Local Bands at The Balcony: Anger and Addiction, The Handsome Petes, Ryan Tigro & Lexington Down at The Balcony at The Troc (1003 Arch Street). 8:30PM. $7. 21+ Jodorowsky at The Rotunda: Andrew's Video Vault presents back-to-back screenings of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain and The Rainbow Thief at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street). Free. 8PM Got a frugal tip? Don't be stingy! Send it here and share the wealth!

The Yaris is a car made by Toyota, but most of the crazy stuff Toyota is doing to market it has very little to do with cars. For instance, this week - today through Saturday - there's something called YarisWorks going on in the city. Basically it's a whole bunch of fun-sounding free events, all focusing on D.I.Y. arts and crafts, as part of the Yaris's whole Drive It Yourself marketing slogan. You might learn how to make your own snow globe, vegetarian dinner, custom button, or time capsule. You might even get to make your own film and then watch it play while a band performs. It all culminates on Saturday with the Pool Party Jammy Jam at the pool at 13th and Carpenter. Various arts and crafts teaching sessions will be going on, as well as live performances by local bands, dancing, a BBQ, and a pool party. Of course, the best part is Ice Cream Man will be giving away free ice cream at all events. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal to us.

If you listen to WXPN, you already know all about this, but there's another festival coming to the area next weekend: XPN's All About the Music Festival. The title would seem to indicate that this is a festival that's not about high-priced snacks and memorabilia, or drugs and spirituality. It's just about music, and we like the sound of that. Of course, just because it's all about the music doesn't mean it can't also be for the whole family; it opens Friday night with two stages of performers, but Saturday and Sunday there will be a third Kids Corner Stage featuring tunes for the children. And if the kids get bored of just sitting around, there's always the nearby Camden Children's Garden to occupy them - the folks from XPN will apparently be taking it over.

Emergenza is bringing its battle of the band competition to the TLA Saturday night. Show starts at 7pm and local bands (and a few from DC since their show lost power in the recent deluge) will have their short spotlight to shine. Winners get a week on the Vans warped tour and five weeks in Sweden to record an album. Pretty sweet.

The Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit ended with a bang – or should we say a beat? After three days of talking up this new way of thinking of artists as talent that can drive the economy, conference-goers headed on down to World Café Live for a concert by two local bands. The first, Soulamite, is a soul group with two stunning leading ladies, one of whom has the coolest mohawk we’ve ever seen on a woman. The second was the invigorating Alo Brasil, which is a Brazilian-inspired band made up of 12 Philadelphia musicians spanning three generations. Their combination of excellent drumming, gorgeous dancers (if dancing gets a girl abs like that, sign me up!) and sheer enthusiasm had everyone on the World Café Live dance floor – including the wait staff, since they had no one to serve – dancing in what we hoped were our best Brazilian dance moves. Alo Brasil will be playing at World Café Live on Saturday night, and this time the performances - a 7pm seated dinner show and a 10pm dance party - will be open to the public. Needless to say, we recommend the later show. It’s a workout.

Local artists, local bands, and affordable artwork ($199 and less) to hang on your walls: that's what InLiquid is offering this Friday during their Art for the Cash Poor block party event.

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.