Running Numbers

A scholarly look at the digits that matter.

by Nick Norlen

1 Amount that Philly band Officer Roseland will pay you to download their new album, Stimulus Package. Visit mystimuluspackage.org and choose between "take," which will send $1 to a valid PayPal account, along with a link to download the album, and "give," which will provide the link and donate $1 to the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation, an organization that donates instruments to music programs. Officer Roseland? Is paying me to download music? Is this some kind of sting operation?

$10 Amount that volunteers will get paid to referee games for the upcoming spring season of the Philadelphia Kickball League, which holds fives games each week at Starr Garden, Sixth and Lombard, Sundays from 4 to 8 p.m. Player registration is due to phillykickball@yahoo.com by March 13. Visit myspace.com/philadelphiakickball for registration forms and details. Between kickball reffing gigs and Officer Roseland downloads, we'll see our way through this recession yet!

$30 Amount of the donation that is "suggested" for those who receive trees during the fall tree planting that will be held by Philly Tree People, an organization devoted to bringing tree coverage to East Kensington, Kensington and Fishtown. Application forms for property owners to receive trees during the fall planting are available at phillytreepeople.googlepages.com and are due by March 15. I've always said, umpiring three kickball games is definitely worth getting a new tree.

70 Approximate number of plots in the Schuylkill River Park Community Garden at 25th and Spruce. The gardeners' annual meeting will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m. March 19 at the Trinity Center for Urban Life at 22nd and Spruce and will include official business and a welcome to this year's nonmember lottery plot winners. Visit srpcg.org to find out how to obtain a plot without that guerrilla gardening scheme you've been hatching.

153 Number of works in the VOOM Portrait series, a collection of high definition video portraits commissioned and produced by HD channel provider VOOM HD. One part of the series, "VOOM Portraits Robert Wilson," will be shown at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch St., through March 22. Artist Wilson's subjects include Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt and the artwork is accompanied by original musical scores. I've always said, nothing beats High Depp-n-Pitt-shun. I'm fired.

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