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When Phillyist went on the Unemployment Diet, we lost fifteen pounds. While it probably wasn't a terribly healthy way to lose weight, we were a lot closer to our target weight than we had been in the months prior, and we looked and felt better than we had in some time.

- Identity fraud seems to be the hot crime this week. The feds shut down SIX separate id-theft related crime rings this week, and a would-be rapist got access to a building by claiming he was an FBI agent (allegedly). It's enough to make Phillyist paranoid. - July has gotten the dubious honor of being the deadliest month of the year. Let's hope none of the remaining month's in 2006 attempt to steal that title. - Speaking of dubious honors (and switching to a much more light-hearted vein) - according to Forbes magazine, Philadelphia just missed making the top 10 list of cities for singles - ranking 12th. The criterion: "nightlife, culture, job growth, number of other singles, cost of living alone, online dating and coolness." When did Forbes become the arbiter of cool? - When Phillyist stumbled across Steven Perry fan fic, we thought we'd reached the scariest fan fic place on the Internet...until we got the news from Philadelphia Will Do that there's Barbaro/human stories out there. Ah, the Internet. It truly is a bottomless pit of terrible, terrible wonders. Traditional style slash fic image by Flickr user joeltelling

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Philly Roller Girls

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

Phillyist has already told you how we feel about using cell phones on public transit. But there are other times when cell phone usage is, if not completely inappropriate, utterly irritating. What follows here is a partial list of bad times and places to use your cell phones, as well as suggestions to how to handle calls if/when they’re made. It’s not a full list, by any means – but trying to do that, this column would never get finished!

Congratulations to our -ist parental units and siblings on garnering nominations for the 2006 Bloggies!

When Phillyist heard about Vox Lumiere The Hunchback of Notre Dame, we thought it sounded way cool. The 1923 silent film, projected above a stage, with live musicians and singers and dancers performing along with it. How friggin’ cool is that? Old and new, sound and silence - we loved the idea. We couldn’t wait to go.

It’s no secret that Phillyist loves beer. Therefore, Phillyist loves Abbaye, the welcoming Belgian bar where the beer list is written on a blackboard above the dark wooden bar and the selection changes regularly. Fortunately, the wait staff are always helpful in choosing the perfect beer. When Phillyist asked for something light and crisp to counter the heat outside, we received an Allagash White, which was sharp, sweet, citrusy, and exactly what we wanted.

When Phillyist returned a truck to 12th & Washington not long ago, bright colors caught our eye as we crossed Carpenter on our way home. As we walked over to check out what turned out to be a mural on this building, something much more rare and more beautiful emerged from a abandoned lot: genuine graffiti pieces. Phillyist doesn’t mean the mural wall in the playground (which isn’t half-bad, actually) - if you’re there, wrong spot. Walk east about 200 feet, look across the street to the lot next to the orange eyes, and feast your own. Now, we have nothing against the Mural Arts Program, or permission pieces - they make Phillyist feel warm and at home. And we don’t pine for the days of Yes Yes Y'all even though we think the 5 train in New York could use some Krylon. But the creativity that’s shown in challenging or unexpected places is the heart of graffiti - where it is and what it is can't be separated.