Fall Guide 2006 Autumnatic For The People Tomorrow the World The AVA gears up for its biggest, most ambitious season

It's a wet, miserable day. Wind pulls tree branches to the sidewalk. Cars honk and nudge at each other while

Paul Taylor Dance Company 'Danco on 'Danco Philadanco's presentation of works created and performed by its apprentice company offers dance

Puccini: La Boheme Puccini: La Boheme Yes, it's "that opera" again. A whole bunch of people will happily attend to

Twelve Angry Men Yup, the guys are still mad — and given the judicial system, who wouldn't be? The acclaimed

PARK LIFE: Chris Watson (bottom left) with members of The Teeth, Dr. Dog, Capitol Years, National Eye, Mike Visser, Sabrina

The deal: Stalwart Philly mods under the leadership of Shai Halpern find a new home on Park the Van. Their

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Van Hunt This Ohio soulman cites influences expected (Sly Stone, Prince) and less so (Richard

Jeffrey Foucault Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands Don't let anybody tell you that if the band is from California,

Uri Caine Khan Jamal/Grachan Moncur III Trio Two quiet men of the avant-garde, Philly vibist Jamal and trombonist Moncur both

There's no gimmick to the Academy of Vocal Arts' upcoming season. No round-number anniversary. No dedication of a new building.

The Painted Bride is primed to pump up its schedule with XL, a music series featuring large ensembles presenting an

1807 and Friends with Ricardo Morales, clarinet This venerable chamber ensemble garners great guests. Morales, the superb Philadelphia Orchestra principal

Myung Jin Choi: Incipience Choi records signs, symbols, silhouettes and mysterious personal ideograms in clay slip, commenting on the intertwined

by Duane Swierczynski

Now is the time to push for better open-records laws in Pennsylvania.

by Susan Schwartz

by Bruce Schimmel

Beer, delivered right to your doorstep. It's the idea that countless people have dreamed of, and thanks to one Philadelphia

2003 We're catching up to ourselves, so let's make this quick. 2003: Homeland Security. Columbia disaster. Great White. Elizabeth Smart.

6 Number of full-time employees of Philly's Pig Iron Theater Company, according to a Sept. 6 article in The New

Students. My name is A.D. Amorosi. I'm the creepy funny guy what writes Icepack as well as a bunch of

by Rachel Frankford

by Rachel Frankford

STILL FIGHTING: Now a free man, Harold Wilson has a civil suit pending against the city. Harold C. Wilson walks

by Brian Hickey

by Mary F. Patel

    THE COUNCIL THEATER OF WAR: Santoyo (right) and other activists will go to City Hall today to lobby

The Rocky statue is officially situated by the Art Museum steps. They could've just put Kim Catrall up — already

When President Bush admitted that the CIA has been keeping secret prisons and using "alternative" interrogation techniques, John Dean couldn't

Self-publishing Jamaican-born author Andre Porter pounds the pavement.

by Zach Mortice

by Mark Cofta

by Lewis Whittington

by Rachel Frankford

by Billy Kekevian

Sony Pictures Classics' eight-film Pedro Almodovar package manages to get it right by getting it gloriously wrong. The director, whose

Head Trauma (Tue., Sept. 19, 7 p.m., County Theater; Wed., Sept. 20, 7 p.m., Fri.-Sat., Sept. 22-23, midnight, Bryn Mawr

AMC Orleans 8 , 2247 Bleigh St., 215-722-4262. Beer League (R) fri: 12:35, 2:30, 4:30, 7, 9:20; sat: 10:10, 12:35,

Send repertory film listings to tami.fertig@citypaper.net. AMBLER THEATER 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-345-7855, www.amblertheater.org. Head Trauma (2006, U.S., 84

You've seen this movie before. It's the inspiring sports saga, wherein the earnest and beleaguered team is moved to unlikely

When Mervon Mehta, the Kimmel Center's vice president of programming, went searching for a jazz artist to christen the new

They've got synthy songs for dancing and a spooky folk ballad about Typhoid Mary. They've got a tinny soul number

by M.J. Fine

by Shaun Brady

by Mary Armstrong

It's not so much a festival as a daylong summit of synth lovers. Now in its third year, PopNoise is

If you've never heard of West Philly's Pony Pants, you're missing out — they're a gritty, freaky dance punk trio

The first octopus I ever bought was an Indonesian beastie frozen into the shape of a discus. I'd wanted a

Filosophy Mon., Sept. 18 or Tue., Sept. 19, 6:30-9 p.m., $70 Paper-thin filo, aka the stuff that flakes all over

There's an upstairs and a downstairs at Tio Pepe, a Portuguese restaurant in the Northeast that serves two demographics at

Crow Bar at Robin's Nest Restaurant, 2 Washington St., Mt. Holly, N.J., 609-261-6149 The historic Robin's Nest will debut its

Castle Roxx Cafe 105 Shurs Lane, Manayunk, 215-482-9000,www.castleroxx.com Sick of pouring your paycheck into your gas tank? Pour it down

1 Dirty Frank's 347 S. 13th St., 215-732-5010 Sundays at Dirty Frank's are special—it's during these precious brunch hours that

Radical collectives explore the future of art

by Rachel Frankford

Rudy Giuliani

by Billy Kekevian

PigFest 2006

by Zach Pontz

You're Too Perverted for Blow-Up Dolls

by Rachel Frankford

by Shaun Brady

by A.D. Amorosi

Message Board Party

by Alex Richmond

by Ashlea Halpern

Dreaming in Black and White Dumpster Divers: The Secret Garden of a Fertile Mind Runs through Sept. 15, Journey Home

You Podcast Your Therapy Sessions

by Drew Lazor

Martin Short Interviewed by Dick Cavett

by A.D. Amorosi

ALVIN S. FELZENBERG The principal spokesman for the 9/11 Commission signs his new book, "Governor Tom Kean," a biography of

Ayun Halliday

by Amanda McKenna

Talia Greene's "New Works"

by Amanda McKenna

Please call the phone number listed with the venue for specific dates, times and ticket information. dance 'DANCO ON 'DANCO

ABINGTON ART CENTER, 515 Meetinghouse Rd., 215-887-4882. SOLO SERIES 2006: DRAWINGS BY AMY LIN, Features color pencil drawings exploring interactions

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