Filly Friday

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,

Sunday:

First off, 34th Street's brand new Dining Guide can tell you where to brunchify yo overworked, hungover ass. But if you need a pick-me-up later in the day, check out...

THE CIRCUS! The Ringling Brothers are coming to Philly! Squeal like a child and shovel popcorn into your face as you watch animals, clowns and assorted tomfoolery unfold before your $15-ticketed-eyes. When's the last time you went to the circus? (Not including that frat party last weekend amirite?)