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This Issue 09/22/2005

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• Ego of the week
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• Wine Snob 101

Pennsylvania Ballet's Thursday Night Jumps

World Cafe Live

3025 Walnut Street

Thu, 5:30 p.m - 7:30 p.m., free

(215) 551-7000

Being a Quaker is full of stress. Luckily, our friends at The World Cafe understand and have graciously offered their facilities for us to relax and unwind for a magical evening of free jumps with the lovely Pennsylvania ballerinas. And what better night to see all these ladies' (and hopefully spandexed men's) moves? By Thursday, Collegers and Whartonites are done with classes, engineers are studying, locked in their dorms safely removed from society, and if there are any nurses out there ... never mind, there aren't.

Joanna Pascale

Art After 5

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Benjamin Franklin Pkwy & 26th Street

Fri, 5 p.m. - 8:45 p.m., free

(215) 763-8100

www.ucnet.com/pma/

So you're from New York, you love the Met, and you think that the appeal of the Philadelphia Museum of Art pretty much ends with the steps from Rocky. You already climbed those during NSO, so there's no reason to go back ... right? Clearly, you haven't heard of the museum's jazz series, Art After 5. You want to hear the best part? On your way to listen to this week's performer, Philadelphia native Joanna Pascale, you can run up the Rocky steps yet again, and then you can still go out afterwards because she'll done before 9 p.m. Cultural fix, exercise, party time ... talk about the best of all worlds!

The Badass Girls

Poker Party

Penn Bookstore

3601 Walnut Street

Tue, 7 p.m., free

(215) 898 7595

Have you ever felt left out of a game of strip poker? Now is your chance to join the fun, and next time you play, your clothes might actually stay on. Join the Poker Party with Toby Leah Bochan, author of The Badass Girls Poker Party Kit, at the Penn Bookstore and get poker savvy.

Linda Wolfe

Kelly Writers House

3805 Locust Walk

Wed, 5:30 p.m., free

If you're interested in, well, just about anything, check out Linda Wolfe's reading and conversation at the Kelly Writers house. She's a novelist -- her 1989 novel Wasted: The Preppie Murder was a New York Times notable book--editorialist, essayist and every other-ist that involves writing. She has written about a wealth of subjects ranging from sexuality to medicine. The woman has simply got to learn how to form an opinion.

Saturday Night /

Sunday Morning

African American Museum

701 Arch Street

Everday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sun 12 p.m. - 5 p.m., through Sun, $6

(215) 574-0380