While the story does revolve around an incident between Officer Kevin Corcoran and drunk reveler Michael Foley, at the heart of the piece is the always-tricky business of police accountability — the old trope of "Who watches the watchmen?"

"Evidently the government is under sway of pragmatism akin to nature."

A March 2009 memo warned that too much leasing would "scar the economic, scenic, ecological and recreational values of the forest," and that "a rush to drill threatens the certification of our state forests as sustainably managed." They did it anyway.

Suddenly those "Nova Nation" T-shirts that fill Radnor aren't so ironic.

Euripides dramatized issues that still resonate today.

Golden Age, receiving its world première at Philadelphia Theatre Co., never really arrives.

Next by James Hynes | Eat When You Feel Sad by Zachary German

Elizabeth Streb takes dance out of the studio and into realms reserved for athletes and daredevils.

In 2007, after complaining of headaches for weeks following a water-skiing mishap, Charlotte Gainsbourg was rushed to a Paris hospital where it was discovered that she'd suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Emergency surgery pulled her back from the brink, but the incident impacted her so deeply that it informs the entirety of her third record. The album is called IRM, an acronym for Imagerie par Résonnance Magnétique.

No one stays tied to one place too long in Pepi Ginsberg's songs.

This Swedish trio is on a Stateside tour culminating with an appearance at New York's Unsound Festival, but there's little that's palpably electronic about their music

Amid horn bleats and whispery bacchanalia, these dudes (and lady) have obvious hooks and skill.

Writtenhouse's hot-off-the-presses new cut, "Mic Check One Two," hints that they've graduated from Midnight Marauders to Beats Rhymes and Life.

Whether their band name is some sort of scene-preservational obfuscation or just a silly, impractical choice, Band Name/Bandname is great.

Chocolate and Sparkling Wine Dinner at Le Bec-Fin | Pairing Events at Chaddsford Winery | Valentine's Day Brunch at Bistro St. Tropez | Vegan Five-Course Dinner at Horizons | Turkish Buffet at Café Fulya

Where many developers once saw an opportunity to cram as many high-paying tenants into a building as possible, others are beginning to see potential anchors of communities — just what those industrial buildings were in the first place. The Philadelphia Center for Architecture's upcoming exhibit, "Retooling Industrial Sites," reveals this new creed borne out.

Finally, a chance to reuse that crusty, beer-soaked Mummers costume you toiled on all year long.

Every Sunday this month, Neighborhood Bike Works is teaching folks of all experience levels how to construct a custom ride from their own spare parts or ones purchased on-site.

Lowell recognized that the brilliant, pleasantly sentimental murals Powers created around Philly in conjunction with the Mural Arts Project would translate beautifully into flash tattoos.

Allison Heishman, has been poring over 150 pages of City Paper's I Love You, I Hate You posts — and it's starting to drive her bonkers.

Tonight, the beloved hootenanny will be broadcast in sound and video live from its home theater in Minnesota to the entire country.