As far as March birthdays go (when the saints come marching in), everybody knows about St. Patrick's Day, and Saturday's celebration certainly took care of the liquid refreshments. Well, Monday is the March birthday of the second saint - and that will take care of the food part.

VINELAND, N.J. - For 75 years, the ornate art deco Landis Theater has reflected the fate of this Cumberland County agricultural center.

A CHINESE-TAKEOUT owner, confined for more than 21 months to hospital beds since he was viciously attacked outside his West Oak Lane business in 2010, died Thursday.

THE BRUTAL economy - paired with the rising cost of human-hair weaves and extensions - has led to some unbeweaveably brazen thefts at salons and beauty shops in the city and around the country.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Before the tip-off Sunday night, the students and alumni of Lehigh University already were floating and sweaty and hoarse and still high from a weekend they will never forget.

On a sunny Friday afternoon, Chinese artist Huang Rui opened his black-and-white umbrella at 40th and Walnut. During the next 64 minutes, 63 others picked up umbrellas and joined him in the performance-art piece. Soon, the 64 handmade umbrellas, each emblazoned with a Chinese character and its English translation, filled a stretch of sidewalk a block long.

Some people look at Isaac A. Sheppard Elementary and see an antiquated building that's cramped, costly, and stuck in the middle of a neighborhood marked by boarded-up buildings and daylight drug sales.

Manuel Flores noticed the front door of his neighbor's Camden home ajar on Saturday night. He went inside and saw a man on the living-room floor, bleeding from a gunshot wound.

"THAT IS the last goddamn straw!" roared Dr. Albert C. Barnes.The long-dead Dr. Barnes was complaining about the stark, stainless-steel sculpture commissioned to "grace" the exterior of the new Barnes Foundation Museum that is racing toward a May 19 opening (in time for the tourist season). The sculpture, by Ellsworth Kelly, is a 40-foot Popsicle stick with a zigzag center.

A COURTSIDE KISS between Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett Smith was caught on the "kiss cam" at Friday's Sixers game at the Wells Fargo Center.