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Not Your Average Frat boy
Aaron Karo may be a 20-something comedian, but he's still a guy with his finger on the college pulse.
Daytripper: Chinatown
One of Philadelphia's oldest neighborhoods is now becoming one of the city's most unique cultural hotspots.
Drew carey is a four-eyed beast
It's Sunday night. All the work that you should have been doing all weekend now stares you in the face and you'll do anything to ignore it.
Guides
Comedy Night: Cruise to Nowhere Ulana's Restaurant 2nd and Bainbridge Sts. Fri, 9 p.m., $14, $20 per couple (215) 514-7508 www.comicenergy.com The annual Comedy Night is an event to remember.
Bling Bling
Tucked into a quiet residential block of Center City, Halloween's treasures wait to be discovered. The outside may look unassuming, but your local mall's Zales has got nothing on this one-of-a-kind jewelry shop, so named for owner Henri David's favorite day of the year.
Guides
Phresh Girls DJ 101 workshop Painted Bride Art Center 230 Vine St. Sat, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., $15 (215) 925-9914 www.paintedbride.org Have you ever been at the club and looked at the DJ and thought about how you wanted to do that?
Daytripper
This week Daytripper takes you to the Ben Franklin Parkway, home of the Franklin Institute, the Art Museum and asinine traffic patterns.
Encore
Playwright Michael Hollinger is a classically trained violinist, and his knowledge and background in music wonderfully envelops and reverberates throughout Opus. The play follows a string quartet as it prepares to perform Beethoven's Opus 131 at the White House.
Daytripper
Sure, University City has a ton of stuff for the idle college student to do, but all too often, the scant seven blocks of Penn's campus can be all too limiting.
Great Taste, Less filling
Love it or hate it, modern art stands boldly on the art scene, both in general and at Penn. In a city dominated by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, modern art must eke out its own existence from in between the likes of Cezanne and Winslow Homer.
Guides
Hiro Sakaguchi: Away Center for Emerging Visual Artists The Barclay, 3A 237 S. 18th St. Fri, 5:30-8 p.m. Free (215) 546-7775 www.cfeva.org Starting this Friday, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists is presenting a solo exhibition by Japanese born Hiro Sakaguchi entitled "Away." The exhibit will feature the usual paintings and drawings, but the real draw is Hiro's sculptures of miniature cell phones.
Super Mondo Kim's
So, you're the trendsetter, the style maven. You think that Vogue is two months behind the fashion trends.
Guides
26th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia Museum of Art Secret Life of Buildings Thurs-Sun, 10 a.m.
LSD Soundsystem
Once upon a time, a bunch of overworked frazzled IT guys decided to have a wild night out which consisted mostly of dropping acid and hanging around on bean bags at one guy's place, probably his mom's basement.
Food for Thought
For most of us here at Penn, finding good food is a bit of a challenge. Either we are bound by a meal plan, a stringent budget, and the alluring glow of the computer touch screens at the Wawa hoagie counter.
Enslaved by the bell
For years we watched them stroll down those familiar halls, sans hall pass. We were there as they were stuffed in lockers, snuck out of detention, and scarfed down burgers at The Max.
Go cuba diving
Known by its 11 million residents as "el patio de recreo de Fidel" (that's "Fidel's Playground" for those of you unversed in the ways of the Spanish language), Cuba has become the most popular vacation destination since the Rwandan tourism boom of 1987.
Guides
induction of beyonce knowles into the communist hall of fame Kimmel Center 260 S. Broad St. Thu, 10 p.m., free www.kimmelcenter.org Beyonce sure has made her fair share of bling over the years.
Ducks skate together
Though Philly isn't necessarily known for cold weather, if you've ever taken a stroll down Locust Walk in the winter, you know that it gets pretty bitter outside.
