I know the Sixers aren’t the Eagles or anything, but apparently they still have some hardcore fans — check out the guy in the picture — because tonight is Fan Appreciation Night at the Wachovia Center. Come out early for the team’s last home game before the playoffs and enjoy a Bud Light Block Party with food, games and local bands.

In the mood for a little artistic expression? Try tonight’s 10 p.m. open mic at the Trocadero for A.D. Amorosi’s “Monday Night Club.” The event features “local comedians, poets, rappers, and confessions.” If you are a “performer” of any kind, e-mail host Danny Ozark from 94 WYSP so he can add you to the list of other “performers.” I think that defeats the purpose of “open” mic, but oh well. The event is free to enter.

Catch modern rock band The Bravery at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster tonight. You may remember “An Honest Mistake” off their first album, or “Believe” from their latest, The Sun and the Moon. They are headlining with Fiction Plane — fronted by Joe Sumner (Sting’s son!) and great band in their own right — and Your Vegas. If you can’t make tonight’s show, try again on April 27th at the Crocodile Rock Café in Allentown.

Because the Jeopardy Teen Tournament just isn’t holding your interest, I give you …

HATG (that’s Hovering Above The Gutter) Theatre Company’s Starving Artists’ Monologue Slam, upstairs at Fergie’s Pub, where local actors, drunks, and ne’er-do-wells drink large amounts of dark beer and read three-minute monologues in the hopes of winning $100 cash, which they will undoubtedly drop at the bar anyway.

And if that’s just far too unrefined for your tastes, Lantern Theatre Company is offering $15 tickets to their 7 p.m. showing of David Hare’s Skylight, which everyone has been raving about. You’ll have to lie and say you’re a Theatre Alliance Listserv member to get the discount. Call 215-829-0395.

Because you lost your TV remote and just can’t bear to get up to change the channel, I give you …

The weekly Fancypants Cinema at North Third, featuring short, locally made films. Some memorable. Some not. And you can BYO (movies, not booze … after all, it’s a bar). Starts around 10 p.m., and Chef Peter Dunmire keeps cooking until midnight.

Because you have just been given the secret knowledge that the world is about to end — as in tonight — meaning that you no longer have to rush home to watch the Super Tuesday results, since they are meaningless, and can, instead, spend your evening doing something really stupid, I give you …

Helium Comedy Club presents 20 amateur comedians, all trying desperately to make you laugh. I’m no statistician or oddsmaker, but I feel like the law of averages must hold that if you get 20 amateur comedians together in one room, one is bound to be funny enough to make it all worth it. Right? Okay, well, it’s a free event, so drink up and stop being so picky.

It’s Monday in Philly, the day after the Super Bowl. The theaters are dark, the air cold, and there’s just not a whole hell of a lot going on. Here’s what is …

OPEN MIC
If you still have any voice left after screaming your head off in the final seconds of last night’s game, there’s World Cafe Live’s Philly Rising open mic, or a much more casual and heavy-drinking version at Fergie’s. And if that all sounds a little too singer-songwriter-ish for you, Milkboy in Ardmore does their weekly jazz open mic, albeit without booze.

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Because you just don’t want to go home after work tonight …

• Bawdy puppet musical Avenue Q opens tonight at the Forrest. Excellent seats (10 rows from stage) are available.

• Indulge your inner musician self at MilkBoy’s open mic in Ardmore. Alternatively, you could just sit there, sip your latte, and listen to others indulge.

• 27-year-old Jonathan Biss, one of the country’s most accomplished concert pianists, joins the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s Mendelssohn Quartet for a bit of Haydn and Bartok at the Kimmel.