Oh man, you'll never believe it. This week we've got a profile on a hardcore liberal who believes his staunch progressivism is going carry him all the way to the governor's mansion!

Philly's flash rages are an innovation in intergenerational warfare, one that renders brute force practically irrelevant.

"You should not play with the TRUTH and then accuse others of doing so."

This spring, just a few months after the Philadelphia Phillies' season ended with their second consecutive World Series appearance, a funny thing happened: No one was there to cover them.

You might say it's an odd position to take for a guy who cares so much about our pocketbooks that he just sued the federal government for passing health care legislation. But that's the beauty of democracy: Where were the cancer victims' and diabetics' checks the last time Corbett passed the hat?

Gabrielle Zevin's The Hole We're In | Lionel Shriver's So Much For That

Hedgerow Theatre's got a good thing going with playwright-director Nagle Jackson, whose sixth play there, At This Evening's Performance, was also his first professionally produced work. | This star-driven play by journalists Margaret Engel and Allison Engel restrains Kathleen Turner as Ivins to a few tepid swipes.

Badu doesn't do outright jubilation so much as prolonged, hazy-eyed ecstasy, and much of Ankh aims for a kind of mystic transcendence.

Ain't no half-stepping with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.

One of the surest clues to Vampire Weekend's staying power, to my mind, is that they really know how to end an album.

Florence Welch gets it right, smartly building music around booming toms and commanding rhythms.

Bethany Cosentino's new band is raw, free and from the heart.

Word that The Bronx were recording an album of traditional Mexican music definitely raised eyebrows, but last year's Mariachi El Bronx is neither jokey gimmick nor overreaching oddity.

Now established as formidable post-rock, Pilot Cloud has become relaxed and adventurous.

The PLCB Cucumber Crush can be assembled with just two stops — one to a liquor store nd another to a market.

For his Twin Peaks-themed art show "The Black Dog Runs at Night," Piranha Betty's Art Market will be decked out as locales from Lynch's surreal mystery set in Twin Peaks, Wash., where everyone knows everyone and nothing is what it seems.

Pat Morris, a retired University of London professor, will speak about the strange history of the practice that goes way beyond hunting trophies, and why he's made collecting dead animals his lifelong hobby.

Organizers Urban Playground Movement are asking Philadelphians to stand together wearing blue, in a moment of "stillness."

Enjoy a marathon reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby at Kelly Writers House to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the great American novel's publication.

This event marks the first time Termite has invaded NoLibs' Media Bureau, and it's somewhat of a nontraditional venue, which explains the structure.

Packed with free-verse poetry and prose, doodled sketches and photography shot from a disposable camera, Miss B.'s "half anecdotal" masterpiece outlines the ups and downs of her commitment to flip genders.