Ever since I saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind—the wildly imaginative, deeply moving, incredibly insightful sci-fi/romance/drama/comedy with Jim Carrey that came out in 2004—I've been pretty keen to see what else writer-director Michel Gondry can do. I found his next fiction feature film, The Science of Sleep, ultimately unsatisfying, but just as imaginative and affecting as ESotSM. So I was thrilled to hear about Gondry's latest project: Be Kind Rewind. This film—set over the......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: The Science of Sound: Music virtuoso Fiidla performs his World-Soul music at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut), 8 PM. $8 ($5 student/senior) Reading Comics/Comics Reading: Douglas Wolk will give a brief lecture on the state of comics today (among other things) and Hans Rickheit offers a slideshow of work accompanied by avant garde violin at the Kelly Writer’s House (3805 Locust Walk), 6 PM. Free Miro Dance: Miro Dance......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. We know there's nothing you love more than a fun web quiz, so check out Web 2.0 or Star Wars character? in which you are asked to pick out the weird names of fictional inhabitants of a far away galaxy from amongst the equally weird names of the latest internet apps. We're ashamed proud to say we scored a 38 on this quiz,......

This weekend, if you're a spoilsport looking for something non-Halloween related to do, you might want to head down to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for Treasures...From the Silk Road to the Sante Fe Trail - their first annual show and sale of 18th, 19th and 20th century art and textiles culled from the world over. Despite being called "Treasures," the show's itinerary is sadly bereft of pirates and maps where......