Do you like wine? Of course, we all do! Then you’ll love Rum Bar!!! Every Tuesday from now until Labor Day, Rum Bar is slashing the price of all their bottles of wine in HALF! Clos du Bois, Kendall Jackson, Chateau St. Michelle, House. It all has to go, Go, GO!!!! That’s right! One bottle for half the price or two bottles for the whole price. Of ONE bottle! Rum Bar is making way for......

There is only so much to be said about Monday. We are running out of metaphors, puns and descriptive analogies. So, let's make a brief mention of walking etiquette. You can read a more in-depth discussion via a past edition of Monday Manners. The people who can't walk a straight line must be corralled into maintaining a steady course. Often, as was the case this morning, these people are not homeless or drunk: they......

The weather is causing a flare-up in our SADS and we aren't too optimistic for much improvement before the big V-Day tomorrow. It's a busy day in IstVille, and we can't promise the same amount of wit (we are witty, aren't we?) and substance we usually offer to our Can't Miss This! readers, but we hope you find something below to keep you busy tonight. Here are a few things to do inside, away......

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......

The Price is a play by Arthur Miller, which pretty much means it's about half an hour too long and a little dated, especially when you get to talking money (which, let's face it, most of his characters outside of The Crucible do). That being said, when you can embrace the fact that this is what you get from Arthur Miller, you have to admit that he's a helluva writer. There's a reason that his......

We are torn. We are not usually torn. Usually, when something makes us rather uncomfortable, we use our prerogative as a (unpaid) blogger to ignore it. We have taken great license with our Phillyist byline, in that we write about what we like and think is important; we don’t pick up on the stuff that is out of our league or seems boring to us. Hence you’ll find a lot of arty stuff, charity......

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......

We love puppets. We really love puppets. In fact, the only thing that we may love more than puppets is pasta. So how happy are we that we’ll be able to combine both of our loves this weekend when Great Small Works rolls into town, bringing their famous Spaghetti Dinner/Toy Theater evening to the Rotunda. Puppet Uprising hosts the New York natives for two shows, Friday and Saturday night at 7:30PM. Okay, so they......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Philadelphia Premiere: ITVS Community Cinema presents Mapping Stem Cell Research at WHYY Independence Foundation Civic Space (150 N. 6th), 6PM. Free (RSVP requested, 215-351-0511) A Soulful Night: Laurin Frierson and Monica McIntyre at World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut Street), 7PM doors, 8PM show. $6-8 The Chance Trio: The Chance Trio, Tim Conley Trio, and Blivit at Tritone (1508 South), 10PM. $7 (21+) Quizzo Mania: Get your Quizzo on......

Back in Middle School, I was all about competing in speech tournaments. One of my favorite events? Readers' Theatre. One of the scripts that my middle school used for Readers' Theatre? Greater Tuna. Not in its entirety, of course. Readers' Theatre, according to the rules we went by at least, could only be ten minutes long. Also, it probably wouldn't do for a bunch of twelve-year-olds to talk about cross-dressing, animal poisoning, and philanderers. What......

What is there to say about Peter Pan that hasn't been said already? It's a fifty-three-year-old musical with a storied past (Veronica Lake even cut off her signature locks for the chance to play the title character) and familiar and memorable songs. The show is always staged the same way (in fairness, it kind of has to be), and so any differences from production-to-production occur in the set and the cast. The former, designed for......

Mike Doughty Ticket Giveaway
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It's been a while since we've had the pleasure of adding a new writer to the mix, but today we get to do it again. Please help us welcome John K. Frisbee, who among other things is the Director of Development at Pig Iron Theatre Company, to our cadre of writers. John's primary interest is in covering Philly's outer neighborhoods – but we're going to let him start with University City. Werner Herzog's increasing popularity......

Wednesday The Opera Company of Philadelphia finishes its run of Verdi's timeless and tragic Rigoletto. The Academy of Music (Broad & Locust Sts); 7:30 PM; $7-$205 Acclaimed concert pianist and teacher Seymour Lipkin gives a solo recital of Bach, Brahms, and Debussy presented by the Philadephia Chamber Music Society. American Philosophical Society (427 Chestnut Street); 8 PM; $25 Thursday The Slought Foundation presents Vincent Royer and Philadelphia-based ensemble Noamnesia in an evening of music by......

Fionn Regan Giveaway
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A West Deptford High School student jumped into the Delaware River Wednesday night to help three friends whose boat was stuck on an island off National Park. Sadly, authorities now believe he drowned, though searching will resume for him this morning. Divers will also resume searching the Delaware River, in this case off Chester, for another missing person this morning: Floyd Nelson, the father of NBA player and former St. Joseph's University star Jameer......

Guilt By Association CD Giveaway
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This is going to be a short post. We basically just wanted to tell you that there exists in the world an all-girl Led Zeppelin tribute band called Lez Zeppelin, and that they're playing World Cafe Live tomorrow night. If you don't already want to see them, we're not sure we understand you. Lez Zeppelin may be one of the best band names ever, especially given the fact that it's being applied to four women......

A few years ago, we fell in love with afrobeat. Maybe it was the brass, perhaps it was the percussion, but the politically conscious lyrics definitely drew us toward the music. Plus we can't resist a good party, and an afrobeat show is always, without fail, a kick ass party. Saturday night Seun Kuti takes over World Cafe Live with Egypt 80. Kuti is the youngest son of afrobeat's creator, Fela Kuti. He performs his......

On principle, I cannot arrive more than thirty minutes in advance for anything (exceptions: flights, booze, or physically being dragged). So, when I arrive at the Ritz Five at 7:00 pm, I am under the impression that I am in the driver’s seat to secure padded luxury and a screening of Ocean’s 13. This is not the case. I stroll up to the main entrance where I see a line that stretches to the end......

Editor's Note: Due to a scheduling error, this ran yesterday. The event is tonight Started in 1999 as a collective underground effort to launch DJ Logic, Ropeadope is an online clothing company, indie record label and news source. Tonight, at the World Cafe Live, the launch of Ropeadope Digital, an exclusive label imprint, is being celebrated with performances by BurnDown All Stars, Electric City, and Aunt Jessica. Ropeadope Digital offers full length albums that are......

We here at Phillyist like to think that we've got pretty good taste in music. (Most of the time, at least.) As such, we also like to think that when we hear a song that really hooks us, we should pass our discovery along to you, our readers. Our latest discovery came in the form of Gran Bel Fisher's single, "Moment," from his debut album, Full Moon Cigarette. For half a second, we thought we......

"Well," my companion said to me as we left the Walnut on Friday night, "I don't think those women were domesticated." "No. No, they were not," I agreed. "In fact, I think they were positively feral." My companion didn't mean this as a bad thing, however. Domesticated, tamed women are boring. Which the women in Straw Flower Productions' The Domestication of Women definitely are not. Instead, the play (written by Straw Flower's Co-Artistic Director, Jackie......

Today is World Water Day. To kick off Philadelphia’s celebration of this, tonight, at The Bridge, Starbucks, Brandywine Valley Association and Water for People will sponsor screenings of three documentaries about the world water crisis. The films shown will be One Water, Running Dry, and a piece about a water program in Kenya that is run by UNICEF. A question and answer session will follow the screenings. Starbucks, Brandywine Valley Association and Water for People......

Philadelphia’s premiere sketch comedy troupe, The Waitstaff, will be performing at the World Café Live this Saturday evening. The Waitstaff has been performing locally for years, and has also garnered acclaim following a variety of national performance engagements. Most recently, The Waitstaff was one of fifty groups to compete in The Great Sketch Experiment, which was held at Duke University, and sponsored by JibJab.com. Their performance this weekend is made up of entirely new......

On Tuesday, cops and local FBI agents tracked down and eventually caught one of three suspects in a series of (heavily) armed robberies of fast food restaurants and convenience stores in Philadelphia, Yeadon, and Upper Darby - but not until after the guy ran from them across a series of rooftops in West Philly, occasionally jumping across gaps of 10 feet or more, just like in a movie! The cops followed a trail of......

A Quirky Column about Dog Walking Adventures in the City of Dog-Owning Love I ran into an old friend the other day who said she wouldn’t mind dropping her full-time job to, instead, walk dogs. In an almost valley girl way, she said naively, “Dog walking sounds like such a great way to earn money.” But she said it in a kind of I’m-from-a-wealthy- home-and-don’t-even-realize-how-fake-this-sounds way, knowing full well there was no way in hell......

Looking over the Walnut Street Bridge, Schuylkill River, Interstate 76, and part of the Penn Campus. Photo by author via SkyscraperSunset.com, August 4, 2006.......

Phillyist told you a while back about how Philly Car Share was gearing up to offer you more than just reliable transportation. If you were planning on looking into this, tonight is your night. Philly Sound Clash will take place at the World Cafe Live. The show features six local bands, as well as DJs King Britt, Josh Wink, and Making Time's Dave P. It starts at 6PM and goes until 2AM. And it's......