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With a crafty event happening every day this weekend there's no reason to stay inside, so take your pick or hit up all three of these excellent events.

We could've gone with a YouTube clip of the video for Love Is A Battlefield (totally one of the best videos ever), but we went instead for the Benatards doing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" at the Eagle Tavern -- that's right, Pat Benatar's playing a show tonight! If you can get up to the Marin County Fair in San Rafael, Ms. Benatar and her husband Neil Girardo will be performing hits like "Heartbreaker," "Invincible," and "We Belong," among many others starting at 7:30 tonight. Concert is free with fair admission ($13), at 10 Avenue of the Flags.

Who saw Pearl Jam this week? With three sold out shows at Bill Graham Civic Center, at least a few of you must have been there. We braved the packed, sweaty, drunken crowd on Sunday night to remind ourselves why we’re really no fan of large venues. It was hard to see from any vantage point on the floor if you weren’t over six feet tall, and even if you found yourself a decent sight line to the stage, you were inevitably bumped, tripped over or in the worst cases groped every few minutes as people either lumbered toward the stage or away from it. We thought the band’s performance was great; Eddie Vedder has one of the strongest, most distinctive voices of our generation and he sounds fantastic both live and on record. A highlight to the nearly three-hour set was when Eddie and Stone talked about some of the old punk songs they’d been covering because the political messages were still current and meaningful. They called Penelope and Greg up from The Avengers to play their song "The American in Me" with the band. We found this photo of Eddie and Penelope from Phil H's site, but it's also part of the show download from the official Pearl Jam bootleg site. If you went to any of the shows, please tell us about your show experience in the comments!

Time when newspapers only meant two things to dogs – either they were laid out flat in the kitchen or rolled up in the palm of someone’s hand. Neither use was particularly attractive.

Ohmigod. This weekend is looking AWESOME. Not only is UPN44 broadcasting one of our favorite movies, "Airplane," with no commercial interruptions this Sunday at 2pm, but the commercial-free showing is being sponsored by The American Cash Flow Corporation! What, you haven't heard of the ACFC? Well then clearly you haven't been watching local late-night infomercials. Or maybe you're just confused, since the Better Business Bureau indicates that the Fresno-based company goes by a handfull of different names. In fact, on their own site, they sometimes call themselves ACFC and sometimes ACFA. So confusing! We wish them the best of luck figuring out what their own company is actually called.