In December, Sullivan learned she was nominated for five Grammy Awards. But while we have to wait until Feb. 8 to see if she'll need to clear space above her fireplace, Sullivan, who won't turn 22 until April, is already a bona fide threat.

by Brian Howard

Working the phones at Philly's Energy Coordinating Agency

by Bruce Schimmel

What You Say

Recently, SEPTA seems to be making sincere efforts to give weary passengers a break: This week marks the midpoint in its QuietRide pilot program, a two-month experiment that uses the R5 Lansdale/Doylestown line to examine how a quiet car might work on heavily populated commuter trains.

Here's where we contemplate the navel of a discontenting winter that won't end, a junked-up football team that blew it, the forgone conclusion of our Obama love affair gone sour and the dreaded nothingness that is our eternity. In this vacuum I only hope somebody else names their kid "Hitler" or that Vince Fumo cracks during trial, starts naming the guys behind the guys and gets a job singing at Victor Café.

by Rob Brezsny

It's a little-known fact that they were actually the first two politicians to debate via Twitter. (It was ruled a tie and later settled via Rock Band.)

Gardner Cadwalader has a dream for the Delaware River — four islands topped with condos, hotels, a tram from Philadelphia to Camden and a Ferris wheel.

It isn't illegal to favor campaign contributors — though it might strike taxpayers as slightly audacious for Kelly to freely admit that his contributors are his friends, and that his friends have his ear in this manner.

by Amy Z. Quinn

When news breaks in Philadelphia, we make jokes.

Who's the best guard in the Big 5?

by E. James Beale

Ice Box Project Space, Clay Studio and the Painted Bride Art Center are all things to check out, featured in Lori Hill's First Friday Hit List.

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers | Peter Weibel: Rewriter | The Seven | Subcircle | Extended Views: Tetsugo Hyakutake and Daniel Lobdell

Under the Covers with Justin Bauer

by Justin Bauer

by Mark Cofta

by David Anthony Fox

The parallel universe full of attention and dessert and elaborate production numbers staged solely for Coraline's benefit seems ideal, but as she digs deeper she finds that it's more a trap than a wonderland.

One automatically associates eye-popping effects with digital technology, but the vast majority of Coraline's wonders were created by hand. It would have been easier to create effects with a computer, but had they compromised, Selick says, "There wouldn't have been anything valuable in those scenes."

Send repertory film listings to molly.eichel@citypaper.net.

Talk to any Philadelphia musician for more than a few minutes and the conversation is bound to lead you to the same place: DYNAMITE KIDS.

Tavo Carbone | Dawn Landes | Murder By Death | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Radio Moscow

Stay Out All Night

by Patrick Rapa

The Pretenders

by M.J. Fine

Sun., Feb. 8, 3 p.m., $33-$115, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

by Peter Burwasser

Thu., Feb. 5, 8:30 p.m., $25-$27, with Heartless Bastards and Patrick Sweany, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-336-2000, electricfactory.info.

by Dianca Potts

With food this good, Izumi could pour you water out of the singing fountain and you would hardly care.

No one should leave a wine bar thinking, "Man, I need a drink."

Valentine's Day Edition

by Nikki Volpicelli

Wit or Witout | Miel Patisserie | Strongbox

Get hands-on Philly at the Rosenbach.

by Natalie Hope McDonald

Penelope Rakov Trunk Show | End of Season Sale at Vagabond | Immortal Uncommon Resale 12th Anniversary Sale | Pre-Valentine's Day Lingerie Trunk Show at TONY

Benjamin Long's "Mini-Portraits"

by Jakob Dorof

You always thought Tori Spelling was a man

by Katie Karas

Glass Bead Studio Valentine's Day Open Studio and Show

by Lauren Fleming

All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?

by Natalie Hope McDonald

He's Not That Into Ewe

by Lauren F. Friedman