This is from my colleague, Steve Volk. If you're in town, we'd love to see you.

A few years back Rolling Stone music editor, book author and New York Times contributor Anthony DeCurtis started teaching a course on writing about the arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He's been quite pleased to see former students landing full-time employment at PW, as well as a whole lot of them turning up as interns and freelance writers. In an effort to thank us for that and publicize the relationship in some small way, he asked us to give a reading this Thursday, at 6 p.m. So the lineup is: staff writer Cassidy Hartmann, blogger D-Mac, Liz Spikol and myself. Anthony has asked me to play host, which means reading my own work as well as introducing everyone else. The event is free.

What: A Night With the Writers of Philadelphia Weekly
When: Thurs., Nov. 30. 6pm.
Where: Kelly Writer's House, 3805 Locust Walk, on Penn's campus

If you need more info, get in touch. Here are the bios of the people reading:

Cassidy Hartmann graduated from Penn in 2005 and has been working at the Philadelphia Weekly for a year and a half. She began as a staff writer, but is now also PW's film editor. For her weekly column "Out of Towner," she interviews real and quasi-celebrities of her choosing.

Daniel McQuade is a 2004 Penn graduate. While majoring in English, Daniel spent nearly 50 hours a week at the offices of the Daily Pennsylvanian, eventually serving as the paper's Sports Editor and later the managing editor of 34th Street Magazine. Daniel, now a staff writer at Philadelphia Weekly, writes the award-winning blog "Philadelphia Will Do" for the paper. He is also a member of the Society for American Baseball Research.

Liz Spikol, a Philadelphia native, is the senior editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the column "The Trouble With Spikol" as well as the (cleverly named) blog "The Trouble With Spikol," which focuses on mental healthcare issues. As a writer she contributes to the news, music and arts sections on a regular basis. As an editor, she corrects her mistakes.

Steve Volk is perhaps the one person left at the Philadelphia Weekly who did not graduate from the University of Pennsylvania (though he is planning to pick up a UPenn sweatshirt when he gets around to it). [Hey! I didn't either!] He writes mostly about drugs, crime and the courts, but he sometimes veers into the ether, including a recent cover story about a local demon hunter. He has also been published in Rolling Stone, Men's Journal and Vibe magazines.