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

The National Team

Finally, more than six months since the last World Cup, team USA is going to return to the pitch Saturday against Denmark. While squads all over the world have been active in international play numerous times in recent months, we have remained dormant, oblivious to the mistakes of the past. European football came back to life not too long after the World Cup finale with the start of European Qualifying in August. Adding to that play, Wales even took on mighty Brazil in a friendly. In comparison to team USA's lethargy, Brazil has played 5 international friendlies since August 16th, 2006. Their next match comes Feb. 6th against powerhouse Portugal.

Though MLS hopes to create a revolution in American sports with the signing of David Beckham to the L.A. Galaxy, it's more likely the move will have much more modest results. Über-celebrity that he is, one has to keep in mind that Beckham’s best playing days are behind him. As of today, it seems doubtful he’ll see any playing time with Real Madrid’s first team during the remaining 6 months of his contract with the Spanish side. Though it was growing ever more unlikely that he could ever play for England again, this move finalizes his international career with absolute certainty. A veritable elephant graveyard for former world superstars, the US is where great soccer players come to die. Though this was done before, one has to remember that it was with far greater footballers than Becks. All time greats Pelè and Franz Beckenbauer played on the all-star studded New York Cosmos in the 70s and despite their ability, stardom, and combined World Cup wins, soccer never quite took off here.

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

To make up for not having Elite -ist yesterday, we decided to bring you an action-packed one today. How can you tell it's action-packed? Action verbs, of course!

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We need to remind ourselves that we're not in school anymore and that Thursday night is no longer a big party night. But reading our sister -ists after a few libations is kinda fun.

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

Looks like it'll be wet the rest of the week and part of next week, to boot. Good thing Phillyist can stay dry while visiting all our sister sites. It never rains on the internet.

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there.

Although this weekend probably won't be much fun (we to finish unpacking all those boxes), Friday is still a day of promises. Our promise? Letting you know what our brothers and sisters in -ist land are up to!

With barely a thud, the United States' World Cup campaign came to a depressing end today with a 2-1 loss to Ghana. Our national team's final tally in Germany reads as follows: three games played, no wins, one tie, two losses, two goals scored (of which one was an own goal), six goals against, two red cards, and four total shots on goal.

Elite -ist is still unpacking boxes. But we unburied ourselves from the pile o' cardboard just long enough to check in with our sister -ists.

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LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other.

And so, after lots of posts on the subject on Phillyist and a ridiculous amount of hype across the planet, the World Cup begins today. The first game kicks off today at noon Eastern, with hosts Germany taking on Costa Rica. Every match will be broadcast in high definition on ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC, with Spanish-language (but standard definition) telecasts of each game on Univision or Telefutura.

Okay, so you might be wondering at this point why we keep writing about the World Cup. We are well aware that the Philadelphia sports landscape rarely extends beyond the Eagles, Flyers, Phillies and 76ers unless something really weird happens (like St. Joe's going undefeated in basketball in a regular season).

Phillyist woke up this morning and could not help smiling. The World Cup really does start this week. It seems like it was not long ago at all that Phillyist's alarm clock went off at 4:45 a.m. on June 5, 2002, and we were rousted from our too-short slumber to watch the United States play its first game of the last World Cup against Portugal. We had no idea while still bleary-eyed that just over two hours later, the U.S. would be celebrating a shock 3-2 win that began the team's historic run to the quarterfinals.

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Phillyist is, of course, just as patriotic as all of our other Ist brethren out there. And while we might not go crazy flouting it the way we suspect our friends at Londonist will over the next few weeks, we'll still be rooting hard for the good ol' U-S-of-A. Specifically, we'll be rooting for two players on the U.S. roster who hail from Philadelphia: Bobby Convey and Chris Albright.

Phillyist spends a lot of time (more than it should, honestly) reading a range of British and American soccer magazines to keep up with the latest soccer news. Specifically, we read three publications from each side of the Atlantic.

Phillyist is well aware that even though Philadelphia sports fans are the most passionate in this country, they tend to also be quite parochial. But next week, the single most important sporting event on the PLANET, the soccer World Cup, kicks off in Germany.

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers.