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For awhile there, it was looking like this column could be retitled "Educators Gone Wild," as one of our winners and a number of our runners-up work(ed) in the Philadelphia area's schools. There was the ecstacy-dealing high school basketball coach, the "abstinence education is the only appropriate sex education" administrators at Archbishop Ryan, the elementary school teacher who wrote threatening messages throughout her school and the pedophile special ed teacher. But it's not just educators who are endangering kids' welfare (and, we should note, by extension, the future of mankind). We'd be remiss if we didn't point out that there are some pretty dreadful parents out there. We're not just talking about the parents who humiliate their children (and themselves) in public. Oh, no. They're just the tip of the iceberg. When we look deeper, we find that there are much, much more disturbing parenting practices out there. Like the Trenton couple who sent their seven-year-old son to school with seventy grams of crack. Our favorite part of the story is that, when the police were searching the parents' house following the discovery of the crack on the kid, two guys showed up to purchase drugs. Oops! The parents had twenty-two grams of crack in the house, which made us wonder – why would they send more crack with their kid than they would keep for themselves? Is the seven-year-old really a better pusher than his parents? But we digress. The kid probably doesn't stand a chance in life, and it makes us sad. So unto his parents (whose names we don't know because authorities are not disclosing the names, so as to protect the boy and his sister), we bestow the title of Parents of the Year Assholes of the Week.

Scary fact: There are 17,000 petrochemicals available for home use, but only 30% of them have been tested for exposure to human health and the environment. Nobody likes scrubbing the bathroom – that in itself is scary enough. But if you stop and think for a minute, you really won't want to do another second of cleaning when you realize the potential damage you could be doing with the products that you've selected. So step away from those Scrubbing Bubbles and try something a little greener.

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The act I went to review last night, Black Mountain, totally killed it from song one of their set. At first I wasn't sure how well Vernon's stripped down aesthetic was matched with Black Mountain's bombastic psychedelic rock. Yet the common thread between the two was the sense of something spiritual, not in the sense of religion, but in terms of being in touch with spirit and that which lies beneath the surface.

Maybe you're all indie'd out and you're tired of the minimalist, navel gazing shite that got you through this bi-polar winter. Maybe you're tired of smacking yourself in the head, realizing that you could've seen a kick-ass band in the cozy comfort of Johnny Brenda's rather than the hips-to-asses crappy acoustics Electric Factory a year from now. Or maybe, it's Wednesday night and you want to tie one on and rock the hell out like it's Friday.

Did you ever imagine yourself getting paid to be a food critic? Most of us have at one point. (We bet that food critic is on your dream job wish list right below travel writer.) Surely most of us will never reach Craig LaBan status, but here's a way that we can all rate our favorite restaurants and receive something in return. Zagat's is calling for reviews of Philadelphia area restaurants in their online survey. They are offering a free copy of the resulting Philadelphia Restaurants guide book to all participants in the survey. The only catch is that you have to create a login for their site, and will most certainly be bombarded with emails in the future, but that's nothing unusual. Once you sign into the Philadelphia Restaurants survey, you will be asked to rate the restaurants, which are listed by neighborhood. Or you can just dive right into the full list comprised of restaurants in the city and also many suburban spots. Warning: if you dine out as often as Phillyist, this survey might be a little bit of a time suck. But instead of mindlessly searching the internet for celebrity gossip during your next lunch break, devote twenty minutes or so to this task. We think that the payoff of a free guide is worth it. Even if you don't have time to complete the whole survey in one sitting, you have until March 23, 2008 to submit your votes. So get voting and get your free book!

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Last week, I was invited, through Phillyist, to an RSVP-only event. The invitation indicated that there would be a 7PM reception prior to the 8PM event.

Take a cursory look at the release history of Blade Runner (which originally came out in 1982) and you might begin to think that Ridley Scott has caught a George Lucas-sized case of Special Edition-itis - you know, that terrible disease that afflicts some directors and causes them to keep tweaking and re-editing and re-releasing their films in different versions, over and over and over. Wikipedia lists seven different versions of Blade Runner, for...

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and veggies in South Central. On the entertainment front, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are suing Showtime over the show titled Californication and Rami Kashou of Project Runway chatted with LAist about his Palestinian heritage and, of course, designing beauty.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains - A documentary by director Jonathan Demme following Jimmy Carter on his recent book tour for his controversial book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. A great director and an interesting subject should make for a good film. Trailer Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten - Another documentary opening at the Ritz at the Bourse this weekend...

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Walking into the Wilma Theater's transformed auditorium, draped in white fabric with cardboard chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, all drawn aside and covered in artificial cobwebs, it's impossible not to feel completely immersed in the world of Peter Shaffer's , thanks equally to set designer Robert Pyzocha, costume designer Janus Stefanowicz, and lighting designer Jerold R. Forsyth. Soon enough, you'll discover that it's intentional: you feel a part of the play because you are. Antonio Salieri (Dean Nolen) will be addressing you this evening, invoking you, his visitors from the future, to bear witness to this, his final night. It's only fitting that you should be attending on his whims from within his decrepit home.

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If you're a regular reader of the site - well, then first of all, God bless you, and we love you. But secondly, it should be obvious by now that this Phillyist is a bit of a video game fan. We definitely try to keep up with the latest, cutting edge stuff as best we can, but the old NES titles still have a strong, nostalgic glow to them. Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda,...

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Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week!