Philadelphia, day by day

Philadelphia's tracked calendar has two engines. The first is a university: Temple University accounts for 72 of the 213 listings we follow, the bulk of the page's 78 community listings. The second is the city's rooms: the Xfinity Mobile Arena with 13, Punch Line Philly with 12, the Keswick Theatre with 11 and MilkBoy with 10. By category, music leads at 86, then community programming, sports at 16, comedy at 15 and live theatre at 11, a mix that suits a city where the campus calendar and the club calendar overlap.

The weekend digest does the sorting; the month view carries Temple's long tail of talks, sessions and campus events alongside the arena runs. Philadelphia sits between two bigger pages in the Near row: New York is 130 km north, Washington DC 198 south, and the three calendars share tours constantly. If a show skips Philadelphia, it is worth checking both neighbours before writing the weekend off.