Ashraf will have to play an Islamic terrorist, complete with fundamentalist values and an AK-47. Does he honor his heritage or go for the cash grab?

Sweetheart punks Comet Gain have been thinking up intellectual lo-fi since the early '90s.

Faris isn't used to playing this type. Usually she plays characters like The House Bunny's Shelley — the ousted Playmate who, in trying to make over a pack of ugly sorority sisters, earnestly says things like, "You must highlight the eyes. The eyes are the nipples of your face."

It wasn't until Moran chastised Ouma for smoking weed too close to fights that Ouma began to share his experiences. "When I snapped on him, that was the first time he ever cried in front of me and he cried his eyes out and he said, 'You don't understand. How do you think a 7-year-old survives being in a war?'"

One review calls Explicit Ills "The Wire without any of the grit." But Mark Webber says his intention was to show his own experience. "I hate films where they show a bad part of town where there are four dudes standing around an oil can wearing tattered clothes," says Webber. "That's not real."

Fri., Feb., 27, 1 p.m., free, Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St., 215-898-7595, upenn.bncollege.com

Thu., Jan. 15, 7 p.m., free, Wooden Shoe Books, 508 S. Fifth St., 215-413-0999, woodenshoebooks.com, jasondelgandio.com

Winter Bird Census | Sat., Jan. 3, 7:30-11 a.m., free, Schuylkill Environmental Center, 8480 Hagy's Mill Road, pre-register at 215-482-7300, ext. 110, schuylkillcenter.org

"Classics" begins Sun., Dec. 28, 9 p.m., free from 9 to 11 p.m. (includes popcorn and movie glasses), $5 after, Silk City Diner, 435 Spring Spring Garden St., 215-592-8838, silkcityphilly.com

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