The holiday isn't celebrated much north of the Mason-Dixon. Which is a shame. Because its tale of freedom delayed is universal, and is in some ways more poignant than the Fourth of July.

"They're providing awesome bonus materials with the already incredible tunes."

Next Thursday at 11:59 p.m. All Star voting for Major League Baseball officially closes. As things stand now, only two Phillies will be selected. That's not enough.

In 2003, Pigford left his job at a hip, lucrative graphic design company to make fine art. Weird fine art — the kind that buzzes and moves and asks you to touch it. "Art shouldn't just be something you look at," he says. "It's something you experience. It's an interface."

Martin McNamara is excited to host the newest crop of fine art photographers at his gallery, without the responsibilities that come with representing artists long-term. He also likes taking a step, albeit a brief one, so far beyond the boundaries of what a commercial art gallery exhibits.

Five months ago, Darla Jackson created "A Miniature Ocean," inspired by a book she read that compared the growing belly of an expecting mother to a miniature ocean.

History comes into play when Group Motion Dance Co., as part of Hidden City Philadelphia's closing weekend, collaborates with abstract, site-based choreographer Wally Cardona and innovative performance composer Phil Kline.

Artists Ed Looram, Isaac Ramos, Jeremy Dean, Lorin Brown and Nick Hans remember a time before the words "iPod" and "Internet" were crammed into their vocabularies.

Dylan Vitone, in capturing the dreariness of depressed urban landscapes, utilizes ultrachrome prints produced from eight disparate images to render a 360-degree view.

You can say this for DMB: They persevere, whether that means preparing Under the Table and Dreaming while their frontman dealt with the murder-suicide of his sister and her husband or pressing on without the GrooGrux King.

Violent Kin does make music, and it's dreamy, catchy, spooky rock and roll.

Brooklyn duo Telepathe will tell you: Bad dancing is better than no dancing at all.

Don't lump in The Most Serene Republic with Arcade Fire, Stars and Broken Social Scene and then call it a day.

The Liberty Belles want revenge. To get it, they'll have to do well at this weekend's derby.

This Sunday, the A-Space is doing something just for the fat-bottom girls: a plus-sized clothing swap.

Philly's monthly dance party is flying from the floors of Pure to a giant, airplane-shaped pool in South Jersey.

The exhibit features vintage, folding and hand-built bikes; photographs and videos of the Philadelphia International Cycling Champion Race and Neighborhood Bike Works; and the unveiling of the bicycle prototype for Bike Share Philadelphia.

"I'm fine with being the Cash Cab guy, but I really wanna show them that I'm more than the Cash Cab guy. That sounds really Afterschool Special, doesn't it?"

Dame Darcy will show students how to mold, sculpt, paint and sew their very own Lenores, Virginia Clemms and Madeline Ushers.