Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY: Last Friday: Last Friday featuring author Samara O’Shea and musician Gina Kaz at the Philadelphia Art Alliance (251 S 18th), 7PM. $5 Free R&B: Sounds of R&B series finale featuring Ledisi and Lalah Hathaway at the Great Plaza on Penn’s Landing (Chestnut and Columbus Blvd), 7:30PM. Free City Hall Film Series: Showing this week: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in the courtyard at City......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Money Folders II: Second installment of series featuring the Philadelphyinz, DJ Gravity, and more at the Arts Garage (1535 Ridge Avenue), 10PM-3AM. $10 (women free before 10:30PM) Sing, Sing a Song: Choral Concert with Organ presented by the Delius Society at St. Mark’s Church (1625 Locust), 7:30. Free Art Is Primary: Opening reception for Red Yellow Blue, a solo show of artist Vincent McLoughlin, at AXD Gallery......

Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! I'm a music guy. I listen to a ton of music, and because of Phillyist, I've been able to hear a lot of great stuff I never would have heard otherwise. But, no......

This year's DanceBOOM! closes tomorrow, but true to form, The Wilma theater. made sure that its final week of programming was its best. The dancers, singers, and percussionists of Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas, a nonprofit group dedicated to "increasing public awareness of the beauty and diversity of Latin American culture through music and dance performances" greeted DanceBOOM! patrons and Broad Street passersby alike, fully ready to embrace, and able to prove, their organization's mission. I......

Citizen Cope takes over the Electric Factory Friday and Saturday night with his Rubik’s Cube-style mix of folk, rock, and R&B. We first became acquainted with Cope (aka Clarence Greenwood) back in 2001 when Nelly Furtado was “Like a bird” and he opened for her at the Troc. There he sat on a stool, hair pulled back under a hat, armed only with his guitar and his drawling, slightly scratchy voice. At first we......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Last Love: Psychedelic sounds from DJs Chetena, Pearl and More. Free at 9PM at The Khyber (56 S. 2nd Street). 21+ Classic Harmony: Perform R&B from decades past at North by Northwest (7165 Germantown Avenue). $10 - or $7 with a SEPTA Discount (wait - SEPTA is good for something?) Tin Angel: Anne Heaton and Buried Beds play the Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd Street) at 8:30. $10......

Dear Philadelphia, We love you. We hate you. To be all Dr. Phil about it, we love-hate you (we’re not full of self-righteous fundamentalist bullshit, but you get the picture). You’re rude, crude, and don’t hesitate to yell at us when we take, in your opinion, too much time shuffling our black stiletto-ed selves across Broad Street to take in the Kimmel Center’s latest fare. Yet, like that “totally deep” Goth kid we liked in......

by Neil McGarry Dominiquinn Supastar, founder of Dreality TV, is filmmaker, musician and artist, has worked on the music scene for years, and is now preparing to release the short film, Victim. In an Old City coffee shop, we took a few minutes to explore the creative world of this Philadelphian artist. What is Dreality? It’s a concept I came up with in 1998 when I decided to stop working a regular job. I was......

by Neil McGarry Robert Drake is DJ, producer, and radio host, and has been involved in one way or another in the Philly scene for two decades. Nevertheless, Phillyist managed to get him to talk for a few minutes about what he does. You're probably most widely recognized from your work at WXPN. When did that start? I began my stint at WXPN almost 18 years ago, in January of 1988. I volunteered my time......

If you tuned into 100.3 FM on your radio dial a few months ago, there was a good chance you would have heard Modest Mouse or Queens of the Stone Age. There was also a chance that you would hear that “Closing Time” song that has somehow survived as a jukebox legend (we point the finger at drunk sorority girls). But, that’s the tradeoff, as is the case with almost every radio station: take the......