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Films New this week: Julie & Julia ***1/2 Like Nora Ephron's captivating film about Julia Child and her influence, Meryl Streep's performance is cuisine disguised as comfort food, a complex preparation yielding effects both broadly entertaining and subtly moving. With Amy Adams as Julie Powell, the cook-blogger besotted by Julia. With Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina. PG-13 (profanity, implied sex.)

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New this week: Julie & Julia ***1/2 Like Nora Ephron's captivating film about Julia Child and her influence, Meryl Streep's performance is cuisine disguised as comfort food, a complex preparation yielding effects both broadly entertaining and subtly moving. With Amy Adams as Julie Powell, the cook-blogger besotted by Julia. With Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina. PG-13 (profanity, implied sex.)

- Carrie Rickey

Music

SneakerPimps Presents the Clipse and J. Cole.

After the 2002 album "Lord Willin'," the Clipse - Virginia Beach, Va.'s, grittiest, most happening hip-hop duo and best friends of the Neptunes - got lost in the ozone. Weird label deals. Mix tapes such as "We Got It 4 Cheap." Sad, that. When the waters parted in 2006 and the gods granted us another Clipse full-length album in "Hell Hath No Fury," all was back to fine with MCs/brothers Malice and Pusha T. But before the chants of "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)" could be processed, they were gone again. Now it's 2009, producer du jour Rick Rubin is helming their third album, and all's right with the world. See the Clipse before they disappear again. And get there early, to catch not only SneakerPimps Presents' array of kicks and soulful soles (the biggest touring sneaker show on Earth, they say), but J. Cole, too. Young Mr. Cole is the first signee to Jay-Z's new label, Roc Nation.

- A.D. Amorosi

Family

Storytelling.

GriotWorks, an organization that aims to bring communities together through storytelling and folklore, will present Stories in Service Day of Neighborhood Storytelling today. At noon, groups of storytellers will perform simultaneously in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia with a one-hour interactive program for adults and children, along with drummers and African dancers.

- Monica Peters

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