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Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

To state the obvious: Spiral Q Puppet Theater is a Philadelphia institution. Combining social activism with larger-than-life puppetry has made the organization a neighborhood favorite in, well, many neighborhoods in the city, seeing as how their folks partner with the community to put on fantastic parades and pageants.

- Are local Dems concerned about the proliferation of untried candidates running for office? Albert Yee thinks so. Here's why.

Try not to panic - but the dreaded pink, red and doily-clad holiday, St. Valentine's, is only a week away. If you're on the lookout for something to do other than you traditional dinner and a movie, Philly's got some less-than-ordinary Valentine themed attractions going on. (And to our single brethren, these events are also singles friendly):

Let's face it: for most of us, Halloween is just an excuse to dress like a slut. Slutty nurse. Slutty cop. Slutty cat. Slutty nun...

The Rosenbach Museum and Library and The Spiral Q Puppet Theater will be joining forces again this year for the Dracula Puppet Parade (which we'll tell you more about next week) - and in preparation this weekend they are inviting kids of all ages to come to the Rosenbach (2008 DeLancey) for a hands-on costume workshop.

Art Spiegelman, author and artist behind the ground-breaking, best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel , will be speaking about the history of comics and their changing role in society and popular culture. (And, we hope, explaining why he insists on spelling the word "comics" as "comix." Phillyist is a fan of Speigelman and has great respect for him as a storyteller and innovator - but we're not altogether sure that his Pulitzer gives him the right to change the spellings of words willy-nilly.) The program starts at 8PM, and costs $8 ($5 for students).

For nearly ten years, Spiral Q has been a vibrant community arts and social justice organization in Philadelphia, devoted to bringing art to community members who might never be exposed to it otherwise. You’ve probably seen some of their beautiful giant puppets around the city, either at protests, museums, or schools. But what they’re best known for are their pageants and parades, which seek to bring people together in celebrating their neighborhoods and their city.