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We know this is short notice, but tonight's Community Night at the Franklin Institute and with dozens of great exhibits open gratis it's certainly worth the extra effort of a weeknight out. In what is, essentaialy, a sceince extravaganza, the Franklin is opening up the doors to all of their hands-on exhibits (including the Sports Challenge and the Giant Heart) as well as the IMAX and Planetarium for free. That's right. Tonight, starting at five o'clock, you can visit this awesome muesum and take advantage of all the extras for no charge. Live science shows, 3D movies at the Franklin Theater, access to the fancy observatory, it's all free. Just show up at 5:00, register at the desk, and you're in. Commuinty nights are monthly, so if you can't make this one, there's another coming up in mid-November. Visit the website for more information, and check back here with Phillyist for a reminder!

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We are impressed not only by this pup's equilibrioception, but by his infinite patience.

Free is wonderful.

Whether you think Marcel Duchamp's Fountain is brilliant or bullshit, there's no denying that it takes a special kind of somebody to come up with this idea.

It smells wonderful in the Azalea Garden. Located just behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the garden is chockablock with azalea bushes, rhododendrons, lilacs, different kinds of trees, and various other plants I can't identify. Azaleas are early and quick bloomers—they peak in May and by now, their blooms have, for the most part, faded away. However, the rest of the garden is still going strong, attracting many people for a picnic or a tour on a Segway. Thanks to the Segway tour that rolled through the garden last time I was relaxing there with a book, I learned that the tree I was sitting under was a "weeping willow on the top and a cherry tree on the bottom." Also thanks to the Segway tour, I had the strange feeling that I was about to battle robo-humans.

How about, instead of running, we dance? And instead of Bill Conti, we get Michael Jackson? Awesome.

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

CineFest/Philadelphia Film Festival time is upon us, and some reviews, including a few of local-based documentaries, are in.

We agree.

...that we finally run the actual clip, rather than some asshole running up the stairs at the museum.

We're taking one more day off for the holiday season before we launch full into 2009 content. See you tomorrow!

Well then, this might be the video for you.

HOW MUCH: Tickets are $8. You can get 'em here.

Halloween is a special time of year. It's even more special when it happens to coincide with the World Series parade.

Friday nights are always something to celebrate at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Art After 5 brings the top names in jazz and international music to the Museum’s elegant Great Stair Hall.

Sure, we'd all like to be carried up the stairs of the PMA. But if you're gonna do the Rocky run, you've gotta do it right—even if you are only a toddler.

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

We've seen a lot of these videos, but this is the first one we've posted from this vantage—and now we know why.

It's been quite some time since we showed one of these videos—and this time, the runners aren't just any old tourists.