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Good lord, it is a beautiful day! Spring in Philadelphia means festivals, baseball, water ice and a quick and terrifying change in temperature and humidity. Ahh, humidity. Smell it in the air.
Friday: It’s the First Friday of the month, meaning free art gallery openings all over town (with free wine.) Get thee to Old City!
Saturday: Le Viet, a South Philly pho joint, is turning 3 years old. This Saturday, for the low low price of $3.33, you can score a delicious steamy bowl of Pho to celebrate from 11 AM to 3 PM.
And if you’re suuuuper into South Asian celebrations after you’re done with Holi, head over to Drexel’s main auditorium, where the Raga Samay Festival will be putting on 24 hours of North Indian music.
Sunday: If you are really fast at shucking oysters and love aphrodisiacs, you should try your hand at this shucking contest.
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Another weekend, another set of wondrous and wacky Philly happenings!
Friday: There’s a pretty interesting looking talk about human rights and AIDS in China going on over at A-Space.
Saturday: The East Coast Beard and Mustache Championship at the Blockley is bound to be some good people-watching. And even if you’re not that into facial hair, trust us, it’ll grow on ya.
Sunday, after the jump!
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Now that it’s Spring (statistically speaking,) we must all lift the iron curtain of hibernation and leave our cozy Rosengarten carrels for the light of a SEPTA stop. Go off campus, baby!
Friday: Head over to World Café Live (so close!) to see Freshly Ground, an Afrobeat funk band that’ll make you want to get up off of that thang. Tickets max out at $18, so the beat won’t break ya bank.
To Saturday and Sunday!
Artwork c/o Britt Miller at http://www.brittmillerart.com/
The weekend is here, and with temperatures still a lil’ chillier than our brain-clocks would prefer, here are some mostly indoor ideas for your metropolitan weekend.
Friday: Eastern State Penetentiary is free today. It’s a historic/haunted prison, so take that chick from your history honors seminar. You can squeal and hold each other in the darkness.
At The Rotunda tonight, there’s a free concert by musicians that the New York Times calls ”deft and boomy, ragged and precise.” What does that mean? Whatever! Free concert!
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Hey, it’s your weekly reminder that you live in Philadelphia! Midterms are stressful, but hanging around other stressed people can be like getting sneezed on when you’re already sick. Here are some reasons to leave the bubble:
Friday:
Philly Fashion Week comes but once a year, and if you don’t spend it smizing and accessorizing then you’re wasting your time.
Or, go see comedian-slash-angry-old-man Lewis Black grace the the Academy of Music with his shouty take on current events. It’s tonight, but tix are available, and he has, like, totally touched Jon Stewart!
Saturday and Sunday, after the jump.
Welcome to UTB’s first Filly Friday post, a feature designed to get you out on the town this weekend! Obviously there’s lots of great stuff happing on campus, as usual, but sometimes you need to get away.
Tonight:
Throat Singing at the Rotunda: The Rotunda isn’t technically OFF off campus, but it’s a real live West Philly institution, and this event will take you pretty far outside the Penn comfort-bubble. Throat singing, kind of like human-bagpiping, is weird and wonderful. This event is one of the Rotunda’s most popular each year, and it’s pay-what-you-wish!
Saturday:
Paleopalooza: Do you love dinosaurs so much that you want to marry them, and sometimes wish that you were covered in scales and had a walnut-brain so that you could understand what they WENT through? Then you’ll love this Academy of Natural Sciences event, which includes robotic trilobite races and a bunch of lectures from famous Paleontologists. Miss Frizzle would be proud.
Northern Liberties’ Winter Music Festival : Yeah yeah, hipster scum, etc. But How often can you say that you actually get to see real Philly-based live music? We’re not going to pretend we know who Brick + Mortar are, or how Ruby The Hatchet got their name, but with World Cafe-based radio station WXPN as a sponsor it’s guaranteed to be worthwhile. Protip: This event is 21+.
Sunday, after the jump!
