It's safe to say the exhilarating colors and whimsical reveries of Marc Chagall's modern-folkloric art stand perfectly well on their own.

BUST magazine has maintained an independent voice for smart, passionate women known to let their freak flags fly.

"Illuminating Graffiti," part of this year's DesignPhiladelphia, is a two-pronged multimedia affair involving projection onto buildings from The Design Lot across from the Kimmel Center.

It's no secret that we overuse plastic bags. At best, we recycle or store them in our closets for years; at worst, they make their way into our oceans, strangling and choking innocent creatures of the sea. Enter FABLASTIC: Upcycled.

Ellen Lupton wrote her 2004 guidebook Thinking With Type out of desperation: She simply couldn't find a book that met her teaching needs for design courses at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

In their joint show at AxD, local artists Nancy Sophy and Christine Stoughton explore, through several mediums, what's most erratic and captivating about natural and found materials.

But unlike the old days of late-night meetings on subway platforms to hand off 8-track tapes, they now e-mail MP3s as ideas develop. "Not seeing each other hasn't really slowed things down at all," Leithauser says. "Maybe it has sort of streamlined the process."

The project has 20 artists in 20 communities — in Philadelphia and abroad — collecting visuals and interviews to share stories of local change dealing with everything from gentrification to health.

In the minds of many, the Anything But Clothes party still denotes an excuse for sorority girls to ditch formal threads for skin-tight, DIY getups.

In partnership with local organizations Casa Monarca and Juntos, Philadelphia's Magic Gardens will celebrate El Dí­a del Niño, the holiday for children.