Every Philadelphian has a few stories. That they tell really loud. At fabulously inappropriate times.

"Complaining is a national pastime and a bonding experience. People really unite through negative energy."

That noodling is so addictive is perhaps the biggest surprise in Okie Noodling 2 — surprising because of the pained, contorted expressions on the fishers' faces when they reach underwater and struggle to pull out the small leviathans.

The mix of black-and-white and color photographs pay homage to a secret side of boxing that few outsiders are privy to. It's a side without the flashiness of prizefighting and its stereotypical violence, corruption and exploitation.

After writing herself a Valentine's Day love-note, Carr began filming a four-year video journal of her fuck-you approach to the disease doctors told her was incurable.

"There's a lot of punditry about illegal immigrants. People think they're all dark, poor and pick fruit. But the truth is no one really knows them. No one asks them who they are."

The message, sometimes implicit but often overt, is about self-empowerment.

It's over. Tuesday is over.

by Brian Howard

by Nathaniel Popkin

On 9/11, Bush went to that school to declare War on Illiteracy.

by Bruce Schimmel

What You Say

Greg watched the car while I ran back to the house to get a set of keys. At the very least, I was going to steal back my car from these mysteriously ballsy low-life thieves. In all likelihood, they were my neighbors. Untidy, law-breaking neighbors, but neighbors nonetheless. I was pissed.

Can we continue with some real fucking people? Like Danny Bonaduce?

by Tom Namako

You can barter your way in with silk and spikes.

"We were fighting to sit in the movies other than downstairs. To make sure that the people who worked in factories wasn't getting intimidated. Not to be accepted, but respected."

When news breaks in Philadelphia, we make jokes.

Fishtown voted. And Fishtown voted for Obama, big time.

This section of Bridesburg includes some of Philadelphia's most politically diverse wards. There are polling places here where you can't find a single McCain sign. There are others where Obama placards are nowhere to be seen.

by Amy Z. Quinn

by Mike Newall

by Mary F. Patel

F.A.N. Gallery | Gallery Joe | Asian Arts Initiative | Highwire Gallery | Twenty-Two Gallery

Under the Covers with Justin Bauer

by Justin Bauer

by David Anthony Fox

by Mark Cofta

The Pennsylvania Ballet

by Janet Anderson

by Deni Kasrel

Rubberbandance Group | Anna Bolena | Andrea Baldeck | Le Dindon (An Absolute Turkey) | La La La Human Steps

Bloom | Check Out My Junk | Invented Landscapes

A Collaboration: What's Mine Is Yours

by Rachel Whitkin

Another Tomorrow

by Kathryn Lipman

The movies made from Kaufman's scripts often suffer from a certain airlessness, plunging deeper and deeper into a world with no center. Synecdoche, which takes its name from a literary device in which a part is substituted for the whole, takes that centerlessness as its central theme.

"The character in the movie is basically how I would want to react to fans, not how I really do. I get to hide, so if anybody calls me out for being an asshole I just blame it on the character."

The film's noisily intergalactic score dates back to 1996's "Parking Lot Experiments," when 40 cars arranged in a parking lot would simultaneously play 40 different cassette tapes that Coyne made, creating a strange and carefully orchestrated sonic effect.

Send repertory film listings to molly.eichel@citypaper.net.

Spinning tales, singing songs, making us a laugh and giving us hope has been Guthrie's living and his way of life since the '60s. He swears that the story in "Alice's Restaurant" is 100 percent true.

That urge to pass his knowledge along to a younger generation is one of the reasons Roker is an ideal focus for this year's fundraiser.

M.J. Fine does it again

by M.J. Fine

J. Edward Keyes on Shuffle

by J. Edward Keyes

Dancer vs. Politician | Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs | The Shackletons | Philadelphia Orchestra | Partially Artificial Musicians

Sat., Nov. 8, 8 p.m., $10, all ages, First Unitarian Church chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

by M.J. Fine

Fri., Nov. 7, 8 p.m. $23, Gershman Hall, 401 S. Broad St., 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts.org.

by Shaun Brady

Thu., Nov. 6, 8 p.m., $10, with Meg Baird, First Unitarian Church chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

by M.J. Fine

Sun., Nov. 9, 8 p.m., $8-$10, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, ihousephilly.org.

by Shaun Brady

Has all this travel turned her into a road dog? "I'd like to think I'm a road bitch," Zavala replies.

Prohibition Taproom | Mikey's American Grill & Sports Bar | Bourbon Blue

If you think the name's a mouthful, wait until you see the portions.

What We Chew Is Secret

by Felicia D'Ambrosio

Get Out!

by Nikki Volpicelli

Henry Owings lays down the rules.

by A.D. Amorosi

Walking Fish Scooter Party

by Dianca Potts

Hudson Beach Glass

by Holly Otterbein

Jennifer Bang's Tabloid Art

by Nikki Volpicelli