In the '80s, Stella "the Maneater from Manayunk" hosted Saturday Night Dead, a late-night program that honored B-rated horror films like Bluebeard and Sugar Hill. This weekend, Stella will pay homage to another horror flick — The Blob. The 1958 film not only gave young Steve McQueen his start but put a small Pennsylvania town on the map. Joined by her butler, Hives, and the Blob itself, Stella will kick off the first event of Phoenixville's Blobfest with its yearly "Running Out" scene re-enactment. The weekend fest is Phoenixville's way of thanking The Blob for terrorizing its residents (most of the movie was filmed on their streets). To honor the role the town played in its production, Blob fanatics run frantically out of the same theater featured in the film — the Colonial — as if the purplish, gooey villain were after them. Other weekend festivities include several screenings of The Blob; an amateur short film contest; a Blob trivia contest; a Q&A with director Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.'s wife, Jean; performances by the monster musical kiddie show Ghoul A-Go-Go; and a Fire Extinguisher Parade. After all, it was the weapon that finally defeated the small town's worst nightmare.

Wanna' screw the Man? Then excite the revolution with some radicalized sex, courtesy of NYC's Fuckin' (A) Collective. No, we're not talking kinky revolutionary hardware. Instead, this radical sex workshop will expose how every erotic interchange can be an exercise in nonconformity, opposing our non-consent-driven society. Basically, once we start saying, "Yes, we can" and asking, "But what about you?" in the bedroom, we can take on, and maybe even turn on, the powers that be.

If you're sick of your usual gym rotation or spinning class, then you best hit up the free Hula-Hoop Taster Class presented by Pop Fizz Academy. "All of my cares and worries were silenced as I fell into the meditative mantra of equilibrium and inertia that hooping provides," says Grace Baldino (pictured), Pop Fizzie and hoop-dance teacher, of her initial attraction to the form. Under Baldino's instruction, you'll learn the basics, set to energetic music, and burn serious calories in the process. Unplug the treadmill and roll up the yoga mat: Hoop-dance could be your new routine.

If you're a comedy nerd, you should already know the name Aziz Ansari. He's doing the hipster doofus thing as Tom Haverford on NBC's much-beloved, little seen Parks & Recreation, he did the sketch comedy thing on MTV's brilliant and undervalued Human Giant series, he recently took the reins of the MTV Movie Awards, and he's been doing standup this whole time, too. If you want more, you'll get it soon — he and alt-comedy director extraordinaire Jason Woliner inked a three-picture deal with Judd Apatow and Universal at the end of last year. Translation: Aziz Ansari will, knock on wood, soon be a damn movie star. Which is awesome because, as you'll see at the Tower on Thursday, the dude is funny as hell.