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Music's still streaming out of the headphones around 25-year-old Macha O'Brien's neck.

Obrien: I just came back from a run and seeing people give you fist pumps and being like "Hey Go Phillies!" It gives you a sense of community.

O'Brien moved to Northern Liberties from San Antonio, arriving just before the Phillies' World Series win last year. She says it's been a long couple weeks watching night playoff games, then waking up early for her job as a Barrista in Center City.

Not long ago, critics blasted baseball as a slow game with little appeal to the young. There's little evidence of that problem now in the city that worships Chase Utley and Shane Victorino.

Even bars better known for hosting rock shows got onboard with Phillies' fever..

Self: We've been showing it here at work so I've been working and watching the games while working. Fiedler You guys don't usually have a TV do you? Self: We don't we just put it up for the World Series and the games before.

Dea Self moved to Fishtown from Arkansas a year ago. She works at Johnny Brenda's restaurant and bar.

She says the team makes her feel differently about the city,

Self: Kind of gives you a sense of like being proud you know? Pride for the city, pride for the team and I live here and the Phillies are doing great. I've never really paid attention to Major League baseball so it's um I don't know now everyone's into it so I feel like I've been getting into it too.

A few blocks up Frankford Avenue, Kensington resident Caleb Auston is grabbing a noontime coffee. The college student moved here from Miami three years ago. He says it's been a blast to be part of a city mesmerized by baseball.

Auston: Sometimes it's hard to enjoy the city because there's so much violence and thievery and all sorts of swashbuckling. But when you can go out and can high five a stranger for watching a baseball game, it's a lot of fun so you start to enjoy the city a little bit more.

And for Phillies fans, new or old, who are still feeling down… there's always next year.

As the Phillies crept closer to Game 7 of the World Series, most people spent their evenings glued to a TV instead of going to plays. Now with the strike, theater have gone from the frying pan to the fire.

Seth Rozin is the Director of Interact Theater near Rittenhouse Square. He says people are putting off theater-going until after the strike.

Rozin: There is a significant drop between Thursday and last night coinciding with World Series and the strike. I don't know how much either one is a factor, but we are hearing across the city from our colleagues that are all having trouble selling tickets this week.

Rozin says even in the best of times many people wait until the final weekend to buy theater tickets.The strike may compound that effect to the point where they will be forced to turn people away.

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They go to Indonesia. In preparation for a win, thousands of Championship shirts and hats are printed for both teams. For the losing team, Major League Baseball donates that merchandise to a relief organization, World Vision. First the shirts will get shipped to Pittsburgh, where they are packed with other relief supplies on their way to the site of a recent earthquake in Indonesia.

Karen Kartes, works for World Vision and has helped distribute the supplies.

Kartes: Some of the apparel and hats have Major League baseball stickers and holographs, and they'll take the stickers off and put them on their forehead, and they'll dance around, and some of the kids will wear the shirts as dresses and they just absolutely love having new clothing and when you see what they're wearing some of them have never had a piece of new clothing in their lives.

Kartes says the organization also gets all the counterfeit merchandise seized by customs agents, as well as the losing team's gear from the Superbowl.

"I think could be big." said Governor Jack Markell.  "It's gonna generate money for a hotels, and our restaurants, and our stores and that's a big deal.  It provides opportunities for kids to meet other kids from different areas in competition which is good for their development.  So, I think its a great combination of what's good for kids and what's good for our economy."

The Delaware Sports Commission's executive director Matthew Sparks says Delaware has missed out on the opportunity to host events previously by not having a single entity to coordinate recruiting and bidding for those events.

"What the commission can provide is the conduit between the local communities and the particular event." Sparks said. "What we're looking to do is create a collaborative effort throughout the state that can really come together and create a positive experience for the event."

The DSC' will pursue regional, national and international sporting events, both amateur and professional, but the initial focus will likely be on youth and amateur events.

"We're never going to host the Super Bowl or the NCAA Final Four in Delaware, but there's are a lot of events out there that are looking for sites" said DSC President and University of Delaware sports management professor Matt Robinson. "We're going to be finding those events that are really driving hotel stays, and again the youth events are very profitable because a 12 year old can't come by themselves, they're bringing the family. So yeah, we're definitely looking at that niche."

"Families travel and the will spend two, three, four days, a week sometimes, at these tournaments." added Governor Markell.

State officials point to the success of one event already in Delaware, the Senior Little League Softball World Series in Roxanna.

"This is big business" said Alan Levin, Director of the Delaware Economic Development Office, citing the  6,000 room nights the Softball World Series generates, which alone bring an 1.6 million dollars to the state, according to DEDO.

The first Delaware Sports Commission sanctioned event will be the 2010 Eastern Sectional Championship for the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the University of Delaware Fred Rust Ice Arena.

Long term, Saprks  feels the Sports Commission will be able to move beyond recruiting events.

"Our goal is to help with managing sporting events, coordinating volunteers,  but also working with youth sporing organizations and that push to bring  possible to facilities into the state that could open up and open the door for more opportunities that maybe weren't there before."  said Sparks.

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The festival opened with a Depression Party – with regional food of the 1930's, a photo documentary about a homeless community in Chicago, and music provided by Woody Guthrie's granddaughter. A festival trafficking in spoken-word memoir can hardly avoid the ravages of economic hardship.

Director Vicki Solot says the first staff meeting about programming ideas was a bit bleak.

Solot: After I read the list, we all looked at the list and said, "Oh my god, that's so depressing!" And it was. We have to be careful – because we don't want people to have a gloomy night out, on the other hand it is a tough time and we don't want to be insensitive to that.

Solot, who has programmed the festival during economically flush yester-years, says the memoir work during the recession has tended toward comforting themes of home and family and hamburgers.

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In the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, River Phoenix plays the adventurer as a young man who stumbles upon archeological looters.

Phoenix: That cross is an important artifact. It belongs in a museum!

That notion has fallen from favor as more scholars say artifacts should belong to the people whose culture the object represents, and not a foreign institution halfway around the globe.

But Jim Cuno feels differently. He's the president of the Art Institute of Chicago and he's been invited to the Penn to argue that local laws governing the ownership of antiquities are not in the service of culture and history.

Cuno: Culture is always a dynamic hybrid form of human expression, and that kind of dynamic flow that has been interrupted by the imposition of nationalist borders and political agendas is something we need to think twice about.

Cuno says museums are better suited to protect the physical object and its cultural context.

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This was the scene at the Pattison Avenue subway station Sunday afternoon as Eagles fans ran into their baseball brethren.

"….lets go Phillies….woooohh…."

By the time Phillies fans began to show up, a full moon shone down on the parking lots of Lincoln Financial Field and Citizen's Bank Park.

Muldoon: We have our TV set up, our generator, plenty of food, plenty of drinks….

Carolyn Muldoon and Alicia Shrado had been tailgating since noon in the shadow of the Spectrum. Shrado says a lack of tickets couldn't keep her away from the game.

Shrado: I grew up, my grandma was a Phillies fan and I used to run over next door when Mike Schmidt played, Steve Carlton, back in the '80's and we used to watch the Phillies games together, she may have fallen asleep now and then but I grew up liking them because she did.

I asked the two what makes a true sports fan.

Muldoon: Like as corny as it may sound, you have to believe that at the end of the day you're gonna be there in the standings, you're gonna make the playoffs and you gotta stand behind your team good or bad…

Shrado: Ya gotta keep the P-H-aith…the faith…laughter…yeah.

Phillies fans will be back at Citizen's Bank Park tonight for game five of the World Series.

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Some of the action in the 1923 silent film The Hunchback of Notre Dame takes place in the Gothic cathedral of that name. However, the Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia is nowhere near the size of the cathedral in Paris and its organ, however impressive, will never get the kind of reverb that comes out of a huge stone nave.

But organist Don Kinnier says he can tease eerie voices out of the pneumatic instrument.

Kinnier: It's a very, very, a romantic instrument – and that doesn't mean that people will be kissing in the balconies here at the church, it's a very, very, smooth sound. It's a nice organ for this film because its easy to capture some of the 14th century sound with a 19th century instrument.

The film features monster film legend Lon Cheney as the grotesque Quasimodo.

So far, sports betting has been turning out better than expected for the state. Early returns show estimates of how much the state would make with parlay bets on the NFL seem to be on the low side.

Fort Delaware (45 Clinton St., Delaware City, DE, 302-834-7941) (website: www.destateparks.com) – was used as a Civil War prison for Confederate soldiers, and is one of the most actively haunted locations in Delaware. Situated on Pea Patch Island, the only way to get there is via ferry. It is now part of the Delaware State Park system, and there are ghost tours available through October. A female apparition was captured on camera walking through a wall in the Officer's Kitchen. It is believed it is the same woman who has been known to address people by name, angrily telling them to "get out!" TAPS researchers captured shocking activity when they filmed their Ghost Hunters Halloween Special last October. It is impossible to go and not feel as if some serious stuff happened there and maybe is about to happen. It is definitely a place worth visiting for its historical significance as well as for the potential to get the scare of a lifetime.

Rockwood Museum (610 Shipley Road, Wilmington, DE 19809, 302-761-4340) (website: www.rockwood.org)

Woodburn (151, Kings Highway Dover, DE 19901, 302-739-5656) (website: http://woodburn.delaware.gov/)

Newark – Cooches Bridge – http://www.visitdelaware.com/attraction.htm?a=64&s=history – First Battle of the American Revolution where the Stars and Stripes was flown in Battle. Delaware militiamen were delaying the British forces who landed at Turkey Point in Maryland so as to give General Washington time to escape from Philadelphia. One legend states that during the initial skirmish between the militia and the Redcoats, a British soldier got his head shot off. On foggy moonless nights people claim to see a Headless British Soldier walking along the roads in the area. There are many other stories associated with the area.

Newark – Deer Park Inn and Tavern – Main Street- http://www.deerparktavern.com/ -Has been remolded several times, but back in the 1800s slaves were traded on the porch. It is said that Edgar Allen Poe wrote "The Raven" there. Once a popular dive for the college kids, the wait staff used to tell stories of sounds on the stairs(which were closed off at the time) when opening or closing the bar. Of course no one was there. Often the front doors would swing as if someone entered, but again, no one was there.

Newark – Lums Pond State Park – http://www.destateparks.com/park/lums-pond/index.asp – In the early 70's a runaway girl was taken into the woods and killed here. The killer was never caught but sometimes a pleading high pitched voice and muffled screams can be heard from the woods just off the Swamp Forest hiking trail which goes around Lums Pond.

Smyrna – Belmont Hall – http://www.belmont-hall.com/ – one of the most historic buildings in the state. During the American Revolution a guard was fatally shot on "the Captain's Walk" while guarding the building. His spirit is said to remain in the building and legend has it that his blood is still evident where he collapsed, and then later died, on the second floor.

Wilmington – Dead President's Tavern – http://www.deadpresidentspub.com/ – This tavern is a very old building (200 years or so) and has had many waiters/waitresses complain of dishes being thrown at them, screaming, dominoes floating from the game boards in the recreation room, and other poltergeist-like incidents and activity, all supposedly related to the ghost of a former customer who was a big prankster (circa 1950's) named lemonade Mullery, who ended up having the last laugh as he slipped in a puddle of urine in the men's room and broke his neck in the late 60's. An odd but true tale, and a strange presence can fairly easily be felt in Dead President's, even by non-psychic individuals.

Wilmington – Rockwood Mansion – http://www.rockwood.org/home/webpage1.asp – balls of light and strange sounds are observed here.