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1. New Casino Controversies for the holidays!

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Sure, you can wander through art gallery after art gallery tonight. The same places you always go, with the same cheap wine you always drink. Or, you can take advantage of the fact that there's always a First Friday during the Live Arts and Fringe Festivals, and there are plenty of free or pay-what-you-can PLAF events you can hit tonight and for the next week. A few that we think sound interesting:

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

You may not have heard of G.B.H. We hadn't heard of them before we got a copy of their recently released box set, Race Against Time: The Complete Clay Recordings. But they're a pretty popular band in England. And they're now one of our favorites.

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico.

Surprisingly, its not the usual bouquet of aged urine, fecal matter, and assorted garbage left to ferment. The Subway actually smells nice. In the last week and a half, I've seen crews at work at 30th, 11th, and 8th street stations actually mopping. Other times I've come across a slowly drying non-urine film accompanied by yellow signs telling me "Caution Wet Floor" and something or other in Spanish. Yes, they were mopping the subway. Not quite as shocking as the time I saw a pantless homeless woman cleaning her vagina on The Union League Steps (now that would be a great photo for their website—if only I had a camera phone then) but still, it takes one off guard. Isn't it supposed to smell awful? What's next, killing off all the rats? And it's not just pine I'm smelling down there, it's some exuberant pine scent mixed with something exotic—perhaps jasmine or goddammit, maybe even eucalyptus. Did they consult Bed Bath and Beyond prior to this?!

I spent my lunch break this Monday buying an umbrella at Macy’s. Before the employee helping me showed me where it was, she was stopped by a man who asked her if she had kids. "NO!" she yelled, "I’m a VIRGIN!" She then proceeded to show me a display of titanium umbrellas, explaining that she knew they’d hold up in severe weather, because her "spine is made of titanium, and it hasn’t given out during sex yet… virgin? HA!" I can’t say that when I asked her for help I expected to learn about the duress her spine experiences during sex, but if that little lesson meant assurance my umbrella will hold its own in the rain, then all right.

MMJ/Slip Giveaway
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As soon as we ascended to the upper level, the brawl broke out. We leaned over the railing and joined the fans’ roar, volume oscillating with each flurry of punches thrown. Grabbing each other’s uniforms at arm’s length, the two skaters-turned-prize fighters continued to take swings until the refs intervened. With the fight quelled and the crowd subdued, we took a chance to survey the scene around us—and quickly realized that thirty collegiate males are not the Philadelphia Phantoms typical fanbase. In fact, we were probably the oldest people there without children.

Normally we wouldn't be particularly interested in a kids' cartoon movie about a sheltered pet rat getting flushed down the toilet only to land in the middle of a whole city of rats, and a dangerous adventure he never could have imagined. But this movie was made by Aardman Animations, and we love Aardman Animations. These are the guys responsible for the classic stop-motion, clay-animated "Wallace & Gromit" shorts, as well as Chicken Run, and the recent Wallace & Gromit movie. They have a wonderful visual style and sense of humor, and even though Flushed Away is done using computer animation instead of the classic clay, both their style and humor come through effortlessly intact. Sometimes the characters even seem to be made of some magical, digital clay.

Sometimes, it's too easy to make the obvious association. If you're already tired of Saumel L., scroll past the first two cities.

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

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…just ask Comcast. According to Inga Saffron of the Inquirer, the new Comcast Tower has dreams of being not only the tallest and most environmentally friendly building in Philadelphia…but in the whole US of A. What's holding the building back? The Plumbers Local 690, who are allegedly put out by the plans to install waterless urinals in the building.