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If you were a cool girl, you had a crush on a New Kid. If you were a nerd girl, you had a crush on a graphic artist. Phillyist fell (who are we kidding, falls) into the latter category with a decidedly loud thud. So it is with the drooling affect of an oversexed pre-adolescent that we greet the news that Adrian Tomine, our very first comics crush, will be reading tonight at the Free...

Tower Records has been sold to a liquidation firm, which means - liquidation sales! Now, Phillyist has become accustomed to purchasing music online, generally only purchasing physical CDs direct from the artist at shows (er...sorry, Tower), but we may make an exception in the face of a sale. (We made out like a musical bandit when the HMV on Walnut closed down a few years back.) The only real question is where we're going to find a place to store the CDs.

Guster will be doing an in-store performance and signing today at Tower Records (100 South Broad Street) at 1:30 p.m. Ping pong balls not required (and if you don't get that, then you probably won't be coming to Tower Records today).

In our never-ending quest to restore civility to Philadelphia, we bring you the first installment of Monday Manners. Although we’ve briefly touched on the subject before, but we decided that the easiest place to start would be door protocol.

Gang of Four is a great band. Did you not know that? If not, go get 1979's Entertainment! You won't regret it. And if you do, well, we're just going to delete your e-mail.

Alex Scott started a lemonade stand to raise money. It took off, but not because the lemonade's all that good: Alex, a cancer patient, was raising money for pediatric cancer research. Alex passed away, but the stands have not: they rocketed to fame thanks to the success of racehorse Afleet Alex, who won the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes.