It's Friday night... is the feeling right? It doesn't really matter either way, considering the blog hasn't been updated since Monday. Instead of apologizing, I'm going to encourage blog members to post more often. Extensive lists are not necessary, but if you're going out to do something, why not post about it? And if you haven't joined yet, what are you waiting for? No more whining, it Friday. Here's what's up:

+ Today is Meredith Kendrick's 20th birthday. If you see her, wish her a happy one. I promise she'll be friendly.

* First, because I'm in it and this blog is the least democratic thing ever. *

+ At Haverford tonight, in Stokes, you can catch the Lighted Fools and The Throng in the BiCo's first-ever... IMPROVATHON! It starts at 7pm, and it goes until both groups simply collapse from exhaustion. It will probably go until early Saturday afternoon, so stop by when you can, stay for however long, leave, come back. You get it. And bring a couple bucks for the Philadelphia Food Bank. (Donations are being collected throughout the night.)

* There's a wide selection of theater tonight, if you're into that. *

+ In the mood for a musical? Carousel, a Rodgers & Hammerstein staple, is about as classic as it gets. The Penn Players (professionally directed) and Intuitions (experimental group) have collaborated on this adaption of the well-loved show. It starts at 8pm at the Annenberg Center Harold Prince Theater.

+ 7:30 tonight is your second-to-last chance to catch the BiCo theater production of Antigone in Goodhart. This Sophocles play has been updated and alterna-rized for your theater-going pleasure. Come watch a sassy girl stand up to her father, Greek style.

+ Penn's Arts House Theater Company (student-run) is presenting John Guare's play Six Degrees of Separation tonight at 7 and 10pm in Houston Hall Auditorium. While I've never seen it, I know John Guare is a most excellent playwright, and that I've heard at least that the movie version of this play is pretty awesome.

+ Stones In His Pockets, which was nominated for three Tonys, was possibly the most popular play in New York before The Producers (yech!) came to town. And now it's come to Philadelphia (Stones, not The Producers). You can see it tonight at 8pm at the Zellerbach Theater at the Annenberg Center.

* There's also plenty of music, for your listening pleasure. *

+ Come catch the BiCo orchestra concert at 8pm in Marshall. They will be playing Haydn's Symphony 103 in E flat and movements from Holst's The Planets.

+ Penn's nationally-recognized a capella group, Off The Beat, has its fall show tonight starting at 8pm in Dunlop Auditorium (off 36th & Spruce, in the med school complex). Off The Beat is a "cutting-edge" group that travels all over the place, has supposedly awesome percussion, and strives to sound more like a band than an a capella group. They're charging $7 for this show, so it'd better be damn good.

+ O.A.R. ("Of A Revolution"), the now hyper-popular roots-rock jam band is playing The Electric Factory tonight at 8:30. I've heard they do a really high-energy live show. Call the Electric Factory to make sure it's not sold out before you truck on down there -- they've got a pretty faithful following.

+ SONiA (of Disappear Fear) is playing The Point tonight at 7 and again at 10pm. If anyone caught her when she was here last year for the RAWA Benefit concert, you'll want to check her out again. She rules. She sounds a little like an Indigo Girl, but her songs tend to be more political. Tickets are $12, and well worth every penny.

* How about a movie? *

+ Grease is being shown tonight at "Uncommon Grounds" (that's the Campus Center cafe's official moniker, if you were wondering). Who doesn't love that movie? It starts at 8pm.

+ The classic film Dr. Strangelove is showing tonight at Swat, at 7:30 and again at 10, in the Lang Performing Arts Center. It's one of those flicks that you just have to see, but I suppose you can always rent it.

* Two more options, just cause not everything is theater, music, or cinema. *

+ 8pm, you catch cheer on our basketball team in Schwartz at their first (?) home game of the season. They're playing Lancaster Bible College. Lancaster Bible College?! Come on. You want us to win extra-badly this time.

+ La Fiesta is tonight in Founders, starting at 11pm and going until three. It's some crazy dance party/drink(?) thing, but that's really all I can tell you. And maybe that's all you really need to know.

Have a fun Friday! And stop by the Improvathon for a little, maybe in between activities? Cool.

Like live music? Me too. Check out the BMCB's new concert calendar. It'll be cooler later, with links so you can buy tickets, get directions, and read info about the artists, and without a blurry ugly photo on the left. But for now, it is what it is. Leave a comment if you like it/don't like it/have an idea.

Mondays don't have to suck. Not ever! Not even when it's freezing rain outside and you didn't get any sleep!

+ Considering law school? Thinking of maybemaybe becoming a public interest lawyer? It's never too early to get some info on some career (any career!) so you feel like you're being proactive about your future. Or something. Anyway. At 4:30 in Thomas 224, the pre-law club is sponsoring a talk by the Assistant Director & Public Interest Specialist in the Office of Career Services at the Washington College of Law, American University.

+ At 7pm in Thomas 110, the Spanish Language and Literature Cultural Series is presenting a lecture entitled: "Ribera's 'Disputation between Sts. Peter and Paul:' Crypto Judaism in the Spanish Mind in the Seventeenth Century," if that sort of thing is up your alley.

+ Women's Center meeting is tonight at 9 in (surprise!) the Women's Center. On the agenda for tonight is a discussion of whether or not the Women's Center as a group and as a space is best serving the needs of the broader Bryn Mawr community. If you have an opinion, get it heard. (I have a feeling this meeting might, in part, be a response to this article that appeared in Sage, the newest member of Bryn Mawr's Jolt-BMCB-Sage web trinity.)

+ If you're in the mood for a (free) movie, you have a few options.
      - At 7pm in the cinema room of the Lang Performing Arts Center at Swat, the Gender and Power in the Middle East class is showing the 1998 Egyptian movie Date Wine, which has won and been nominated for several awards at various international film festivals. I quote (from a random movie-goer): "If you are someone who loves symbolism and likes to think for yourself, rather than be spoon-fed by Hollywood style films, then this film is for you." I must warn you though -- this film is being shown for a class, and, assuming you're not in said class, you might have to be stealthy and sneakysneaky as you slip into Lang. Best of luck, comrades.
      - At 10pm, in the Kirby Lecture Hall in Martin (at Swat), SWIL is showing Artificial Intelligence: A.I., that Steven Spielberg film with Haley-Joel Osment that struck me as some futuristic Pinocchio-esque "I want to be a real boy" drivel. ("His love is real. But he is not."?! Bleh!) But I didn't see it, so I'll shut up. (And, if it's really awful, you can always just stare at Jude Law, who, in my humble opinion, is a rather perfect human specimen.)
      - 21 or over? Yeah, that rocks for you. That means you get to go to Movie Monday at the Troc (1003 Arch at 10th), where tonight they're showing Creature From The Black Lagoon, a 1954 cheesey horror flick. 3-D glasses are only $2!

+ Up for some funky new music? Ozomatli is playing tonight at 8 at the TLA (334 South). Tickets are $14. Citysearch describes the group as: "A multicultural musical jambalaya with a sound as diverse as its members and as unique as its name."

Happy Monday. You know you can make it through this week -- you made it through last week, after all.