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Guides
Pain-Fashion Slought Foundation 4017 Walnut Street Thu, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m., free http://slought.org/content/11267/ This discussion will address various forms of expression in the fashion world including anorexia, drugs, alcohol and food.
Choco Taco
Situated on South Street between a porno and a florist shop is Guacamole, a more urban and less expensive version of Urban Outfitters.
Rocketman in flight
Situated nicely on Philadelphia's most colorful street sits one of the city's most eclectic record stores.
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John Pompetti B Square Gallery 614 S. 9th St. Thu, 1:30 p.m.-7 p.m., Fri-Sat, 12 p.m.-6 p.m., free (215) 625-0692 I don't know about you, but my favorite art is the kind that's plain and simple, with none of that pseudo-intellectual horseshit.
Hypocrisy Democracy
Envision the town of Sanctimony as perhaps a modern-day Pleasantville, where superficiality is one's savior, everyone feigns composure to avoid the town's scrutiny and nobody has a damn clue where life is going.
We heart the amish
It's almost hard to believe that only 10 minutes from campus, tucked inside an old train station downtown, is a culinary treasure that can rival any farmer's market in the country and put Penn's food cart collection to shame.
Sex, freud, and disney
What were you doing when you were 14 years old? Possibly spending your days playing a little GoldenEye on N64 until your new bedtime at 11 p.m.? Or girls, were you experiencing the joys of puberty and adolescence?
Guides
David Bunn: Double Monster Temple Gallery 45 N. Second St. Thu, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., free (215) 925-7379 Like art?
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Aaron McGruder: The Boondocks Free Library of Philadelphia 1901 Vine Street Thu, 8 p.m., $6 215-686-5322 Who doesn't love the Sunday comics?
Get addicted
Females at Penn are always on a mission. They're on a mission to use every tool at their disposal to get free drinks and to find just that one nice boy at Penn who is not so metrosexual that he knows the layout of Kiehl's better than she does.
Debauchery in the city
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf indeed? Well, one may think, "Hey, I'm not!" from looking at the small stage of the Walnut Street Theater located between 8th and Walnut.
Heart-shaped bikini wax
Take a break from class and treat yourself to a day at the Body Klinic. Obsession is not an overstatement when referring to this place.
Ziggy Stardust this
Down a back street in (almost) North Philly, you'll find a locked building with bars on the door. Ring the buzzer, state your purpose, climb four flights of parking-garage quality stairs, hang a left and you've found it.
Guides
Claymobile Creations The Clay Studio 139 N. 2nd St. Fri, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m., free (215) 925-3453 www.theclaystudio.org Remember when you made arts and crafts for your mom in third grade, and even though the sculpture of your pet dog you made her looked like a cow that just got out of rehab, she still said that she loved it?
Love your African jewlery
With the Philadelphia Museum of Art within walking distance, other museums and exhibits in Philadelphia are often taken for granted by Penn students.
Dragtime
Mask and Wig is a group that really needs no introduction. Their clever mix of intelligent wit and college humor has made them legendary both on campus and beyond for over a century.
Guides
Through Her Eyes: works in the photopoetic University City Arts League 4226 Spruce Street Mon-Thu, 1 p.m.
The real Urban Outfitters
Even in the glorious neighborhood of Old City, one reaches the point of excess vintage shops. With so little time, one must pick and choose, and choose well.
Arts and farts and crafts
If you think that the earrings at Anthropologie are pretty but absurdly overpriced, or if you broke your favorite necklace and have lost all hope, have no fear!
