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Shakespeare for ADD Kids and Crack Addicts
When SparkNotes just isn't funny enough, try The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), playing at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival.
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JS Bach Vocal Competition German Society of Pennsylvania 611 Spring Garden St. Fri, 7 p.m., $15 (215) 627-2332 www.bach-fest.org This vocal competition will feature people from all over the country singing arias from Bach's works, including selections from the Mass in B Minor, the Magnificat and the Weihnachtsoratorium (now say that 10 times fast). The panel of judges will be comprised of experts on Bach's arias.
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Pan Asian Dance Troupe: "Hot off the Wok" Irvine Auditorium 3401 Spruce St. Sat, 8 p.m., $5-8 dolphin.upenn.edu/~panasian It's time for the annual show performed by the Pan-Asian Dance Troupe, which, despite the name, will not include food.
Spring Theatre Preview
Although Philadelphia isn't home to the white lights of Broadway, it still showcases a thriving theatre scene.
Day Tripper
North of Spring Garden and south of Girard, this former industrial neighborhood now boasts one of the city's up-and-coming hipster scenes.
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The Fray Theatre of Living Arts 334 South St. Fri, 9 p.m., $10.50-12 (215) 922-1011 www.theateroflivingarts.net Following the craze of bands that start with the word "the" comes The Fray, a Denver-based pop-rock group that came out with their debut album, How to Save a Life, in September.
Your Guide to ... a local spring break
If your exotic spring break plans fell through, never got off the ground or were rendered impossible by your lack of funds, you needn't fret.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
