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Rockin' Round the Recycle Bin Banging on a trashcan
Rock and RecycleNOW Whole Foods Market 929 South Street Saturday, 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m., $15 (215) 567-4004 http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/fundraiser.html It's Saturday afternoon.
Your Guide to. Decorating your room so that People think you're cool
They say that first impressions are everything. Were you a Magic-playing Trekkie in high school? Or a cheerleader known for her spread eagle (on and off the field)? If so, and you want to trade in your high school persona for a newer, cooler and obviously better one, then having a well-decorated room is the key to your success.
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sloshing good time Sippin' by the River, wine and food tasting Penn's Landing, Columbus Boulevard and Spring Garden Street Sunday, 1-5 p.m., $40 www.sippinbytheriver.com Take Restaurant Week, soak it in specialty wines and imported beers, miniaturize the food portions, throw in a little live music and a great cause, and you've got Sippin' by the River, an annual benefit for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.
Your Guide to. an Easy Fast
As any Rabbi (or Jewish grandmother) will tell you, Yom Kippur is a time when millions of Jews ask the man upstairs for forgiveness.
Dear guides,
Dear Guides, My roommate always brings girls home at night when I am trying to sleep. The problem is that he doesn't seem to notice that I'm awake, and keeps at it without giving me a chance to escape.
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KISS KISS, BANG BANG Assassins Arden Theatre Co. 40th N. 2nd St. Today, 8 p.m., $27 (215) 922-1122 www.ardentheatre.org You love music.
September new shows
Private Practice, Wed, 9/26 at 9 p.m. on ABC Don't know if you've heard about this one yet, it's kind of flown under the radar.
Contempory art is temporary smarts!
Just three times each year, something magical happens at the Institute of Contemporary Art, that futuristically boxy building on Sansom Street: the old exhibits disappear, and abra kadabra!
That's Amore
With genuine hospitality reminiscent of a Southern diner, an extensive menu that's uncharacteristic of generic pizza joints, and a casual yet sophisticated decor, Mama Palma's is several notches above your ordinary neighborhood eatery. The menu boasts 34 pizzas (not to mention the create-your-own option), over a dozen breads and salads, plus panini, calzones and pasta.
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Paint Yourself Navy Blue Man Group Wachovia Center 3601 S. Broad St. Thu, 7:30 p.m., $46.50-89.50 (800) 298-4200 www.comcast-spectacor.com What do you get when you combine rock music (with an emphasis on the percussion element), kooky props, sophisticated lighting, magic and blue paint?
Girls Gone Wild
In our efforts to bring to you, the reader, the best Philadelphia has to offer, we decided to skip out on Fling and head to the Zoo.
Old city, old world
What many pizza places in Philadelphia lack is the brick oven to make their pizza authentic - and that's why Soho Pizza, between 2nd and 3rd on Market, stands alone as the best brick oven pizzeria in the city.
Pizze al fresco
Philadelphia's barren pizza scene has long needed some manna from heaven. For a city steeped in Italian heritage - not to mention red-and-white-checkered tablecloths - the lack of quality pizza is strange.
Bringing Up Billy S.
The Taming of the Shrew Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival 2111 Sansom St. Until June 20, various (215) 496-8001 www.phillyshakespeare.org Cue the overture, a peppy number like something out of an old Hollywood movie.
Daytripper: Literary Philly
New York may have Edith Wharton, but Philadelphia has . a lot of libraries. Despite the apparent dearth of writerly genius (Kelly Writers House notwithstanding), that's no reason not to grab your reading glasses and dust off your favorite bookmark. Rosenbach Museum & Library 2008-2010 DeLancey Place Tues, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Wed, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Thu-Sun, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; $5-8 (215) 732-1600 www.rosenbach.org Got rare books on the brain?
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Because TGIF was cancelled in the '90s First Friday Old City, between 2nd & 4th Sts. and Race & Market Sts. Fri, 5 p.m., free (215) 625-9200 www.oldcityarts.org It's the first weekend of the month ... and in Philly, what does that mean?
Roadtripper
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom 3830 Dorney Park Rd., Allentown, PA (610) 395-3724 www.dorneypark.com Originally, we were going to tell y'all bout Hershey Park.
Ice ice (cream), baby
Capogiro 117 S. 20th St. (215) 636-9250 www.capogirogelato.com If you've ever been roaming the Rittenhouse area on a summer night and spotted an outlandishly long line, chances are you found yourself within a stone's throw of Capogiro, Philadelphia's answer to the gelateria.
Golden girls go under the tuscan sun
Enchanted April Walnut Street Theatre 825 Walnut St. Until April 29; Thu, 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.; Fri-Sat, 8 p.m.; Sun, 2 p.m.
