Bouquets of tulips and lilies wrapped in thin sheets of paper, or in clear plastic. And stuffed animals %u2014 brown teddy bears, pink apes. An American flag, draped over some of the flowers. You don't often see a makeshift memorial at an ATM machine.

Samuel R. Caldwell and Moses Baca thus became the first of millions of Americans arrested and imprisoned because of marijuana prohibition. Caldwell was sentenced to four years of hard labor in Leavenworth penitentiary; Baca received 18 months. Both men served every last day.

In the gray light of this clanging old paper mill near Tacony along the Delaware, I imagine that Jabba the Hutt is hiding nearby, hoping someone will fall into the cauldron.

It's intriguing to note how Poe's life and Guy de Maupassant's life were similar. | Obama clearly stated he would bomb Pakistan of all places. | There are gay-owned and -operated businesses beneath the coded rainbow banners on street signs who won't display a rainbow flag decal, yet they strategically located smack-dab in the middle of the gay ghetto. | I still have mine and I surely intend to keep them.

"The thing I needed most," explains Williams, a former regional head of international sales and marketing for the BBC's North and South American consumer products division, "was to get out and see adults, even if we didn't talk, just to be in their company."

"Hopefully, down the road, this won't be a story about a kid who did something great to escape a bad life but wasn't able to in the end."

City Councilman Jim Kenney immediately squashed rumors that he was interested in becoming chief of staff to Michael Nutter.

He's explaining why the plays he mounts frequently contain silent scenes, and why some are wordless from start to finish.

French director Jacques Rivette's 1974 masterpiece Celine et Julie Vont en Bateau (Celine and Julie Go Boating) is the tale of two women who meet by chance and end up trying, through fragmented hallucinations of the future, to save a young girl from a murder that hasn't happened yet.

"There's an angel at the bottom of the well."

Three characters rarely mention God but seek absolution, and the play is performed in Curio's West Philadelphia home, a church sanctuary.

Education can come by way of someone teaching us a thing or two, but it's also great to learn by doing.

In Europe these days, Rigoletto %u2014 Verdi's classic drama of misfired vengeance against a callous aristocratic seducer %u2014 is keen for reinterpretation.

When a young female soldier named Numi shows up at his taxi stand and tells him his long-estranged father may have been the victim of a suicide bombing, he's not quite sure what he's lost.

You might not expect to catch a good photography exhibition at a place named for drawing.

Education can come by way of someone teaching us a thing or two, but it's also great to learn by doing.

Starting on Oct. 11, there's going to be a new face on the block at 40th and Walnut streets %u2014 specifically on the facade of the Fresh Grocer garage.

Listen closely, though, and you can hear how the Jewish taam (Yiddish for "taste") found its way into both their work and the work of non-Jewish composers.

Laureen Griffin wants to take your picture. Not only that. She wants to have a conversation about gender norms and stereotypes while setting up the shot.

The recent announcement by the British band Radiohead that they would bypass traditional corporate music distribution channels and sell their new In Rainbows directly to consumers at pay-what-you-wish pricing is astonishing and exciting.

Just to answer the weird, lingering question in your mind: This Austin-based band does share a name with the Allentown-based punk label who brought you Pissed Jeans.

It's unclear whether the honorees provided before-the-fact inspiration or are simply being provided post-facto shout-outs (probably safe to say that the ode "Pity," for Mary Cheney, falls squarely and sarcastically into the latter category).

The late, great Pavarotti probably could have been a heldentenor (literally, heroic tenor), had he gravitated toward the German opera repertoire. All of the elements were there: power, agility and innate dramatic sensibility.

Northern Liberties Rib Cook-Off | Singles Martini Tasting at Bleu Martini | The Great Philadelphia Coffee Taste-Off | Ask the Sommelier | Harvest Festival at Reading Terminal

1 Artisanal Cheese Plate, Mercato | 2 Strawberry Vinaigrette and Gorgonzola Signature Salad Meridith's | 3 La Panoplie La Crêperie Café |4 Pork Tenderloin with Granny Smith Apple Stuffing The Hilton Inn at Penn | 5 Insalata Spinaci with Gorgonzola Ernesto's 1521 Café

Two wines that fit Salento's menu are the Vigneti Reale Negroamaro Noire 2005 I.G.T. and the Taurino Salice Salentino Riserva 2001 D.O.C.

Greg Giraldo has this "American Dream" stuff down. The son of immigrants, he went to Harvard Law, then left his career as a lawyer for an even more successful gig as a comedian.

The mothership of cosmetics, perfumes and hair products, Sephora ensures that your pout will be the prettiest and your wallet, well, the emptiest.

Put away the socks. Spiral Q is looking to up your puppet game.

What started as an outdoor festival in Oregon and California has flown its way eastward, bringing along its affinity for mythical creatures, homemade costumes and David Bowie circa Labyrinth.

Philly is no stranger to crime or controversy. In addition to a notoriously high murder rate is the large number of local inmates who are awaiting trial.

The building has become a source of ghostly interest after the Sci-Fi Channel's Ghost Hunters captured an eerie black apparition moving quickly through the darkness in a second floor walkway.

Clean, classic and expensive-looking: We want it in boyfriends and we sure as Kate Spade want it in handbags.