Recent Entries in Arts & Events
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Snowventure along the Wissahickon
Photographed by: Julia Rowe
Wissahickon Creek
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5:365 Good Morning Snow! Photographed by: bennings89 Like to see your photo here? Submit it via the Phillyist Flickr Group!...
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(Untitled) Photographed by: Julia Rowe Fairmount Park Like to see your photo here? Submit it via the Phillyist Flickr Group!...
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ArtIST: Mami Kato
Image Credit: Mami Kato, All Rights Reserved As this is Phillyist's last ArtIST post, we're pleased to be ending the series with artist Mami Kato. A Japanese citizen, Kato was born and raised in Japan before coming to Philadelphia to attend the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) on a transfer program. After moving back to Japan for a spell, she relocated to Philadelphia permanently eighteen years ago. For more...
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This Week In Philadelphia Theatre
Image Credit: alancleaver 2000 Love Lessons From Abu Ghraid, a one woman show that opens at Interact this week, looks pretty compelling. Opening Love Lessons From Abu Ghraib - Healing. Jan. 29 – Feb. 13. Tickets Uncle Vanya - Dysfunctional family? Jan. 28 – Feb. 13. Tickets The Fall of Troy: Troilus and Cressida and The Trojan Women - Euripides collides with Shakespeare. Feb. 3 – 20. Tickets Waiting for Lefty - Will he...
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Capogiro
Photographed by: cheshire smile eats (and drinks)
Center City
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Phillyist Reads... Eleanor Brown at Chester County Book & Music Company
Shakespeare fiends, this one's for you! Eleanor Brown, author of the new novel, The Weird Sisters, will be reading from and signing copies of the book tomorrow night at Chester County Book & Music Company. It's the story of the Andreas family — a Shakespeare professor, his wife, and their three grown daughters: Rosalind, Bianca, and Cordelia (see what she did there?). The girls return home to care for their sick mother, and to...
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Phillyist Playlist: Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield at World Cafe Live
Photo courtesy of Big Hassle Media What better cure for the Monday blues than a little alt-rock fantasy soap opera of sorts at the World Cafe Live? Tonight we have Evan Dando [MySpace] and Juliana Hatfield [MySpace], two former poster children of the grunge movement with a lot of history together. Both from Boston, Hatfield and Dando have gone through various iterations of living together, rumored knocking boots (Hatfield says she belongs to "a...
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Icing
Photographed by: Jana Shea
Philadelphia
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Frugal Fun Alert: Jan. 24 – 27, 2011
Fun around town, for $10 or less: Monday: Alien Monster Thing: Movie Monday screens Predator at the Balcony. (1003 Arch Street). Doors at 6:30 p.m, film at 8 p.m., $3. Metal Monday: Carousel with Cow Pals and Bamboo Houses at Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front St). 8 p.m., $5. Tuesday: Tell a Beastly Tale: First Person Arts' Story Slam at L'etage (624 S. 6th St.). 7:30 p.m., $10. New Music: Starving the Tsunami...
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Zoli's Sunset
Photographed by: Julia Rowe
Fairmount Park
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Frugal Fun Alert: Jan. 21 – 23, 2011
Fun around town, for $10 or less: Friday: No Nukes?: Tad Daley, author of Apocalypse Never: Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free World reads/lectures at Moonstone Arts Center (110A S. 13th St.). 7 p.m., Free. One Man Band Capstan Shafts with St. James and the Apostles, The Jolly What! and Bulletproof Tigers at M Room (15 W. Girard Ave). 9 p.m. $8. Saturday: An Actor's Life: Speaking Parts screens at International House (3701...
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ArtIST: Ben Volta
Image Credit: Benjamin Volta, All Rights Reserved This week's ArtIST is Benjamin Volta, an artist who takes a collaborative approach to art, as he works with "public school teachers to develop creative methods that link art to specific areas of learning." A lifelong Philadelphia area resident, Volta was born in Abington and moved to Center City in 1998. There, he studied sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Art History and Art...
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Phillyist Interviews... Bethenny Frankel
As a rule, we're not fans of any show that has "Real Housewives" in the title, or of the word "skinny." But we are fans of low-calorie cocktails. So, when introduced to Bethenny Frankel's "SkinnyGirl margarita," a drink that doesn't use any fake sugars but manages to clock in at a delightfully drunken 100 calories, we fell in love a little. Frankel is coming to the Merriam Theater as part of her speaking tour,...
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Samuel Machinery Company
Photographed by: MK Grandison
Old City
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