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Live Radio

For those old enough to remember (or young enough to Wiki), Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!'s TV forebear, To Tell the Truth, asked celebs questions about which they knew absolutely nothing. NPR's Wait Wait has taken that vibe across the country, landing live in Philly for the first time tonight. Jersey playwright Peter Sagal hosts the sold-out Kimmel show, with ex-Morning Edition man Carl Kasell as scorekeeper; NPR's keeping mum on the "Not My Job" contestant, so you'll have to tune in the old-school way — to WHYY 91 FM, Saturday at 4 p.m. — to find out which Philebrity got duped. —A.D. Amorosi

Jazz Master

If there's one thing Dave Liebman learned from his early-'70s stint with Miles Davis, it's an open-mindedness to jazz's range of possibilities. The 2011 NEA Jazz Master revisits compositions from his long career with a new 18-piece big band, Saturday at Chris' Jazz Café (Oct. 30, chrisjazzcafe.com). Typical of the saxophonist-flautist's strategic restraint, the ensemble is a beefed-up version of his smaller groups, enhancing the contributions of long-running collaborators without overwhelming them. —Shaun Brady

Birthday Present

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) has one simple first-birthday wish: Take a picture. For its inaugural Philly Photo Day, PPAC is asking City of Brotherly Lovers to snap a pic somewhere within city limits, sometime today, Oct. 28. Photos can be submitted to philaphotoarts.org; in November, they'll be compiled for an exhibit at Crane Arts. Says PPAC founder Sarah Stolfa, you needn't be a pro to participate: "We don't care if the pictures come from a cell phone or a high-end digital camera." So grab that iPhone and get snapping, y'hear? —Daniella Wexler

Children's Book

Want your kid to be the next Jackson Pollock (minus the alcoholism)? Start him early with Katy Friedland and Marla K. Shoemaker's Art Museum Opposites (Temple, Nov. 2), a perceptual picture book in which "sunny" and "rainy" are variously muddied late-19th-century oil paintings; and a "hard" piece of armor juxtaposes a "soft" Balenciaga hat. Sure, the difference between "realistic" and "abstract" may be too much for your tot to take in, but little van Goghs gotta start somewhere. —Carolyn Huckabay