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Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Ah, love. Though we may not have an overflow of the brotherly variety, Philly is offering plenty of options for those happy couples looking to sanctify said happiness with boxes of chocolates and a night on the town. We’ll tackle the latter here; we've given you some chocolate-related goodness already.

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

We'd heard Matt Duke's name before (like when Phillyist Meghan's sister covered him for us), but this Phillyist's first encounter with the young Jersey-bred singer-songwriter was a few months ago at the WXPN-hosted Philly Local Lonely Hearts Club Band. Duke, in a pair of crazy patchwork-embellished stovepipe pants (each leg was probably wider than his whole body – you can kind of see them here), completely stole the stage with his performance of "When I'm 64." We left the World Cafe Live that night sure of two things: that we'd had an awesome time, and that we needed to see more of Matt Duke.

We here at Phillyist love throwing a good party almost as much as we love running a contest. Having both at once makes us positively giddy!

By his own admission, Michael Penn isn’t a song-and-dance man. (His stage presence is, one might say, subdued.) Twiddling his strings at his Friday night show at World Café, he confessed “I’m a chronic tuner with no gift of gab,” and encouraged showgoers to grab the audience mic between song breaks to offer up “a really good joke, a fun fact, even a well placed heckle!”

On average, women and children in developing countries walk three miles a day to provide clean drinking water for their families. This Saturday, Philadelphia’s acknowledgement of the World Water Crisis will continue with the city’s Third Annual Walk for Water.

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.

This suburban Phillyist was felled by the twin terrors of a flooded basement and strep throat (no, really. We're loving March so far) Friday night, and couldn't venture into the city to catch Local Boy Making Good Matt Duke's show at the World Café Live. Fortunately for us, Sister of Phillyist is both a Drexel student and a total Matt Duke fangirl, so she agreed to cover the show for us. What follows is her guest review of last night's show.

Phillyist has always loved us some Philly Car Share. Easily accessible rental cars at a reasonable price that you can reserve on short notice? Yes, please! But today, as Phillyist went hunting through the wilds of the World Wide Web for Philly-based hip hop acts, we discovered a new reason to love them: Philly Sound Clash.

This past Saturday, I was walking east over the Walnut Street Bridge. Just as I passed World Café Live, I heard trombones. Or at least one trombone. I assumed it was coming from inside, but the further east I got, the louder the music became. I was entirely exhausted and assumed that perhaps I was just losing my mind. No, I’ve never imagined brass instruments before, but, hey, I’m weird. Anything’s possible… including playing the trombone while rollerblading, which was exactly what I finally saw a gentleman doing directly across the street from me.

Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP) is coming to town tomorrow night. When they take over World Café Live (upstairs), you want to be there. Trust us, it will be hard to resist their Jenga-style tower of funk, jazz, and world music.

“That should dispel that this is the geekiest tour in America,” said John Roderick, lead singer for The Long Winters. He was more than half way into the band’s set last night at World Café Live when he said this, and the “that” he’s referring to was using the phrase “that’s what she said” sans sexual reference.

Big music night coming up. On Thursday, a slew of acts signed to the Barsuk music label are taking over Philly. World Café Live will play host to The Long Winters with Menomena and What Made Milwaukee Famous, and Mates of State with the Starlight Mints will be playing at the Starlight Ballroom.

Looking ahead at your Monday night and seeing nothing but watching re-runs or scouring Myspace for high school classmates?

Singer/songwriter Ari Hest

The Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit ended with a bang – or should we say a beat? After three days of talking up this new way of thinking of artists as talent that can drive the economy, conference-goers headed on down to World Café Live for a concert by two local bands. The first, Soulamite, is a soul group with two stunning leading ladies, one of whom has the coolest mohawk we’ve ever seen on a woman. The second was the invigorating Alo Brasil, which is a Brazilian-inspired band made up of 12 Philadelphia musicians spanning three generations. Their combination of excellent drumming, gorgeous dancers (if dancing gets a girl abs like that, sign me up!) and sheer enthusiasm had everyone on the World Café Live dance floor – including the wait staff, since they had no one to serve – dancing in what we hoped were our best Brazilian dance moves. Alo Brasil will be playing at World Café Live on Saturday night, and this time the performances - a 7pm seated dinner show and a 10pm dance party - will be open to the public. Needless to say, we recommend the later show. It’s a workout.

By Jen A. Miller

By Jen A. Miller