Fun around town, for $10 or less: Comedy in Crisis: "World Crisis," a night of sketch comedy by The Sixth Borough as part of Philly Fringe at the Adrienne (2030 Sansom), 10PM. $10. Cheap Art: Fall Opening Reception of four new exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art (118 S 36th), 6PM. Free Jazzy: Philly guitarist Monnette Sudler performs tonight as part of the Summer Heritage Jazz Series in Malcolm X Park (52nd and Pine),......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Onstage Philadelphia: Philly Fringe Preview Series featuring Aboveground Theater, IdRatherBeHere, Malleable Dance Theater, and more at Plays and Players (1714 Delancey Place), 8PM. $10 Comedy Show: The Comic vs Audience at the Shubin Theatre (407 Bainbridge), 8PM. $5 Open Mic: Free at The Fire (412 W. Girard). Sign up at 8:30PM. (21+) Sing Your Life!: Karaoke With DJ Sara Sherr Mondays upstairs at the Khyber (56 S. Second),......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Metal!: Iron Maiden and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal DVD screening at the Khyber (52 S 2nd), 8PM. Free Yoga in U City: Vinyasa Yoga with Maryte Curran every Monday at the Rotunda (4014 Walnut), 7PM. $10 Open Mic: Free at The Fire (412 W. Girard). Sign up at 8:30PM. (21+) Sing Your Life!: Karaoke With DJ Sara Sherr Mondays upstairs at the Khyber (56 S.......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Hope They Leave a Light On: Screenings Under the Stars presents Hitchcock’s Psycho at the Great Plaza on Penn’s Landing (Chestnut and Columbus Blvd), 8PM. Free On the Organ: Scott Montgomery performs Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "Sonata No.1 in F Minor," Gringy's "Ave Maris Stella," Bach's " Prelude and Fugue in C Major,” and more at the Kimmel Center (300 S Broad), 7PM. $10 Bring a Glove: Michael Jackson Tribute Night......

Why did the Phillyist cross the road? To get to... ANI DIFRANCO AT THE MANN CENTER She is Woman. She is also Musician and spoken-word poet. She's at the Mann Center tonight and you can still get tickets. She is Ani DiFranco. WHO: Anyone! WHERE: The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Broad and Sansom Streets (map) WHEN: 8pm HOW MUCH: Prices vary, but the sooner you get 'em, the better. SWANWELDER, LANDSCAPE PAPERWEIGHT, HAPPY......

Fortune cookie: Friday brings hope. THE FIRE PRESENTS: CROOKED LOOKS New York descends on the Philly music scene tonight in the form of three acts. Headliners Crooked Looks, Renminbi, and The Everybrothers hail from NY and are joined by Philly's own Rotosonic, a reggae outfit. Crooked Looks has an intense shpiel on Skin Radio that does the job of whetting your sonic appetite very well. Also, bring your dancing legs. WHO: 21+ WHERE: The Fire,......

As the race for delegates remains hot, all eyes are on Pennsylvania—and The Fire (412 W. Girard) is getting involved. You can too! From now until March 24, volunteers will be on hand during live shows to register voters as Democrats to participate in the the April 22 primary. (Full disclosure: Pencopal is actively involved in Philadelphia For Obama, but had no hand in the organizing of this event.) Mix activism with alcohol by taking......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Philly Music on the Parkway: Local songwriters perform original works; hosted by Dan Collins at the Central Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library (1901 Vine), 7PM. Free A Streetcar Named Desire: Staged reading of the classic Tennessee Williams play with reception following at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia (1906 S. Rittenhouse Sq), 7:30PM. $8 Open Mic: Free at The Fire (412 W. Girard). Sign up at 8:30PM. (21+)......

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Fun around town, for $10 or less: Combat Footage: “Steven Spielberg, Special Effects, and the War Film,” a workshop examining Spielberg's use of special effects in Empire of the Sun and other works, at Scribe Video Center (4212 Chestnut, 3rd Floor), 6PM. Free (Part of One Film, One Philadelphia) Die Actor Die: Die Actor Die, comedy of many stripes, standup, sketch, and “other silly brick-a-brac” hosted by (Phillyist) Don Montrey at the Khyber (56 S.......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: The Shame of a City: Inside the Filmmaker’s Studio, a film screening and discussion series showcasing local artists and benefiting Gtown Radio, shows The Shame of a City at the Video Library (7141 Germantown Ave), 7PM. $5 Brassy: Chestnut Brass Company performs works by Krzwycki and Higdon at the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia (1906 S. Rittenhouse Sq), 8PM. Free Honky: Full reading of Honky by Greg Kalleres,......

The Northern Liberties Winter Music Festival at The Fire is finishing up this weekend with two big shows tonight, another tomorrow night, and the climactic Radiohead Tribute Sunday night. It all sounds awesome to us, but we wanted to give a particular heads up to you guys about one of the many bands playing Saturday night: Peasant. Peasant is actually less a band and more a guy: Damien DeRose of Doylestown. We've been listening to......

Tuesday brings us several events chosen only on the merits of their names. While this is not always a wise principle by which to live, it will certainly serve to spice up an otherwise Snoozeday Tuesday. Yup. We made that up, right on the spot. What? We don't care if you've heard it before! We haven't, so it's ours! PHILADELPHIA PHANTOMS VS SYRACUSE CRUNCH Okay, okay, we'll admit it: We're not the biggest Phantoms......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: What?: Discussion of What is the What, led by Elizabeth Adler, at the Walnut Street West Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library (201 S. 40th), 5:30PM. Free Open Mic: Free at The Fire (412 W. Girard). Sign up at 8:30PM. (21+) Sing Your Life!: Karaoke With DJ Sara Sherr Mondays upstairs at the Khyber (56 S. Second), 9PM - 2 AM. Free (21+) Got a frugal tip? Don't......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Local Shots Live: Shannon Cole, Your Best Friend, and Desoto Jones at Doc Watson’s (215 S. 11th), 8PM. $5 Open Mic: Free at The Fire (412 W. Girard). Sign up at 8:30PM. (21+) Sing Your Life!: Karaoke With DJ Sara Sherr Mondays upstairs at the Khyber (56 S. Second), 9PM - 2 AM. Free (21+) Got a frugal tip? Don't be stingy! Send it here and share the......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Stealing Klimt: Showing of the documentary Stealing Klimt, part of the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, at the Gershman Y (401 S. Broad), 7PM. $10 Does That Mean… Nevermind: Animal Style, Porktamer, and Joe Not Joe at Tritone (1508 South), 10PM. $5 Movie Monday at the Troc: Bring your balls to polish and come to the 10th anniversary party for The Big Lebowski at The Troc (1003 Arch), 7:30PM.......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Mechanics Karaoke: Karaoke at National Mechanics (22 S. 3rd), 9PM-1AM. Free In Flux: Flux Capacitor at Tritone (1508 South), 10 PM. $5 Which One?: Certain Tragedy, 9 Crown Monarch, and The Siren Thesis at Grape Street (4100 Main St), 8PM. $5 We Used the Glass Houses Joke Before: Marc Silver and The Stonethrowers, mixing Bluegrass, Americana, and Roots Music, at The Fire (412 W. Girard), 9:30PM. $7 Got......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Really, It’s Comedy: Die Actor Die hosted by Don Montrey and Juliette Pryor at the Khyber (56 S. 2nd), 8PM. $5 Double Feature: Two Hands and Beethoven’s Hair, part of the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, at the Gershman Y (401 S. Broad), 7PM. $10 Fitting Tribute: The Philadelphia Orchestra, with the Philadelphia All City Choir, perform at Martin Luther King Jr. High School (6100 Stenton Ave), 7PM. Free......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: If You Work Out There: Free Chowder Day (with possible entertainment) at Legal Sea Food’s takeout counter (King of Prussia Mall, 680 W. DeKalb Pike), 11AM-1PM. Free From Chowder to Chicken: Wissahickon Chicken Shack, Jeremy Hollis, Lach, and Mason Porter at The Fire (412 W. Girard), 9PM. $7 Elementary: Laura Lea, Ike, Stellarbelly, and Even the Res at Doc Watson's Pub (216 S. 11th), 8PM. $5 Bring a......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Support the Young Ones: Philadelphia Young Playwrights presents staged readings of two plays, both winners of its 2007 Annual Playwriting Festival, written by William Penn Charter students at the Philadelphia Art Alliance (251 S. 18th), 7:30PM. Free Movie Monday at the Troc: Eagle Vs. Shark DVD release and costume party (come dressed as your favorite animal and get a free drink), 7:30PM. The Troc is located at 1003......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: You've Heard of Her Now: Judy Toll: The Funniest Woman You've Never Heard Of, presented by the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, at the Gershman Y (401 S. Broad), 7PM. $10 CD Release Party: Nicole Reynolds performs from her new CD at Tin Angel (20 S. 2nd), 7PM. $10 Suddenly Last Summer: As part of a reading series of Tennessee Williams, Lantern Theater presents Suddenly Last Summer at the......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Hootie!: Hoots and Hellmouth, Super Humble Country Band, Andre Lipke, Papertrees, Cat and Mouse, and Hezekiah Jones at The Fire (412 W. Girard), 9PM. $7 Quizzo: Test your knowledge with Johnny Goodtimes at Good Dog (224 S. 15th), 8PM. Free All That Jazz: Fathead at Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus (847 N. 3rd), 8PM. Free Got a frugal tip? Don't be stingy! Send it here and share the wealth!......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Movie Monday at The Troc: A holiday screening this week: Elf. The Troc is located at 1003 Arch Street. Doors open at 6PM, feature begins at 7:30PM. $3 admission is applicable towards concessions. (21+) Open Mic: Free at The Fire (412 W. Girard). Sign up at 8:30PM. (21+) Sing Your Life!: Karaoke With DJ Sara Sherr Mondays upstairs at the Khyber (56 S. Second), 9PM - 2 AM.......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Allen M. Hornblum: Allen M. Hornblum reads from his latest book, "Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America," sponsored by Robin's Bookstore at The Broad Street Ministry (320 S. Broad), 7PM. Free Movie Monday at The Troc: Superbad DVD release screening. The Troc is located at 1003 Arch Street. Doors open at 6PM, feature begins at 7:30PM. $3 admission is applicable towards concessions. (21+)......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Movie Monday at The Troc: Donnie Darko. The Troc is located at 1003 Arch Street. Doors open at 6PM, feature begins at 7:30PM. $3 admission is applicable towards concessions. (21+) Open Mic: Free at The Fire (412 W. Girard). Sign up at 8:30PM. (21+) Sing Your Life!: Karaoke With DJ Sara Sherr Mondays upstairs at the Khyber (56 S. Second), 9PM - 2 AM. Free (21+) Got a......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Play Reading: Philadelphia Theatre Company reading of Map of Heaven by Michele Lowe at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard), 7PM. Free, but RSVP (215-985-1400 x311) Dysfunctional Family Night: Board games, music, crafts, drinks: It's the holiday all over again (sans drama) at the Manhattan Room (15 W. Girard), 7PM. Free Movie Monday at The Troc: The Simpsons Movie. The Troc is located at 1003 Arch Street.......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Robbin Hayward: Robbin Hayward with Anthea Caddy and Newton Armstrong at the Community Education Center (3500 Lancaster Ave), 8PM. $5-$10 Like Us After a Weeknight out Drinking: Slo and Shakey at Tritone (1508 South), 10PM. $5 Die Actor Die: Comedy show Die Actor Die featuring Pat Barker, Mike Berkowitz, Fred Siegel, Kate Bambi, Doogie Horner, Meg and Rob; hosted by Don Montrey at the Khyber (56 S 2nd),......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Friday: Shohei Imamura Retrospective: The Making of a Prostitute, part of the Shohei Imamura Retrospective, at the I-House (3701 Chestnut), 7PM. $5-$7 Oslo: Oslo, at Upstairs at World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut), 8PM (doors 7PM). $6 cash, $8 credit Beretta 76: Beretta 76, Dirty Sweet, the Donuts, and Foxy Contin at The Fire (412 W. Girard), 9PM. $8 Saturday: Damage is Fun: Freaks of the Beat and Freshout......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival: Happy Hour with the Bard at the Rotunda at The Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia (10 S. Broad), 5:30-7:30PM. Though there’s a cash bar, admission is free. Bunny Grunt: Bunny Grunt, Art DiFuria, the Besties, and Scary Monster at the Khyber (56 S. Second), 8PM. $8 Movie Monday at The Troc: Transformers. The Troc is located at 1003 Arch Street. Doors open at 6PM, feature begins at......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Did He Say Hamster?: As part of the American Playwright Series, award winning playwright and disability rights activist Mike Ervin will read his new play Hamster in the Jungle at the Playground at the Adrienne (2030 Sansom). 7PM. Free. It’s a Good Night For Free Play Readings: The Philadelphia Art Alliance (251 S. 18th) presents The Tempus Project, featuring professional actors reading from “potential” new works. 7:30PM. Free.......