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• A proposed ban on plastic bags was defeated by City Council today.
• An early Rasmussen poll has Arlen Specter defeating Joe Sestak in the 2010 Democratic primaries for the US Senate.
• A series of armed robberies continue in West Philly. The most recent was at the liquor store at 49th and Baltimore.

A column about how we Philadelphians can start thinking about controlling consumption and protecting our world in small increments.

It's like ist, and like that, and like ist, huh? Here's your weekly wrap-up of what's going on across the world, courtest of the Gothamist network.

Dear Trader Joe’s of Philadelphia:

If you ever visit the Ukraine, you can only hope you’ll have a tour guide like the Alex, the hipster American-culture junkie and the “very premium” narrator of Everything is Illuminated, adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's award-winning novel by the first-time director Liev Schreiber (who already has a substantial resume as an actor). Eugene Hutz, front man of the Brooklyn gypsy-punk outfit Gogol Bordello, plays Alex with an easy hangdog charm, beleaguered by his domineering father but savvy as the translator for his family’s tour company, catering to American Jews looking for their heritage.