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Center City Arts & Culture Week Now through Sunday, Oct. 30, take advantage of half price tickets to many of Philadelphia's best exhibits and shows as part of Center City Arts & Culture Week.
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Curator's Tour of The Real Thing and Why It Matters Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia 15 S.
Wanna play dress-up?
With Halloween just around the corner, it's time to stop studying for midterms and start thinking about your costume.
Hello Kitty
You probably walk past it all the time on your way to Monday night Quizo at New Deck, but you never actually stop inside.
"I'm not a very good-looking guy"
It's your guilty pleasure, your Tuesday night fix. It is MTV's The Real World, and in its 16th season, the show has mastered sucking in audiences to follow the famed "seven strangers" -- seven strangers who must be interesting if you're willing to watch them get wasted week after week, right? In response to this burning question, Street caught up with Wes, the strawberry-blond from The Real World: Austin, who stopped by Tiki Bob's Cantina in Northern Liberties last week.
Finian's folly
Seeking to appeal to a wide audience, Finian's Rainbow cloaks its complex themes of racism, political corruption and economic inequality beneath a whimsical, almost childlike, surface.
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From a Seed to This: A History of Fairmount Park International House 3701 Chestnut Street Thu, 7 p.m., Free (215) 387-5125 www.ihousephilly.org Ah, Fairmount Park; the verdure of the green trees, the proximity to the Schuylkill.
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Australian Wine Tasting Independence Seaport Museum 211 S. Columbus Blvd. and Walnut Street Thu, 6:30 p.m.
BAM! ('s Uncle)
MTV has created a monster. The monster stands about five-foot-six and weighs a generous 260 pounds.
Don't drop the soap
It's that time of year again, when the disgusting, frightening and plain old spooky demons of the night come out of the woodwork to scare the bejesus out of us normal, well-adjusted citizens.
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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.
Hobo couture
You know that feeling. That feeling you get when you wear that new sweater wrap, and everyone keeps asking where you got it, and you simply don't want to tell?
Girl-on-girl action
Get merry, get naked. Bras and Beaters Fergie's Pub 1214 Sansom Street Fri and Sat, 7 p.m., $10 (215) 413-1318 Odds are high that if you're past puberty, you've been scorned once or twice by the opposite sex.
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Patio Plastico Cinemagic 3925 Walnut Street Thu-Fri, 7 p.m., Sat-Sun, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., $20 (215) 413-1318 Seriously, what clown decided to shut down Cinemagic?
Taxidermist's delight
Where else can one find a real mummified human corpse, stuffed pandas, and a full fledged T-Rex skeleton besides the Academy of Natural Sciences?
WoodChuck Chuck
Although it sometimes seems as though Wharton gets all the glory around here with their billion dollar facilities, P.I.M.P.
Have yourself a good cry
The sign on the door of the unassuming Walnut Street gallery reads "exhibit may not be suitable for children," and a dark blue curtain hides the display from any passerby that may be disturbed by its content.
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Andrew's Video Vault The Rotunda 4012 Walnut Street Thu, 8 p.m., free (215) 573-3234 Every second Thursday at the Rotunda, Andrew's Video Vault serves up free screenings for your enjoyment.
Disappointments of the world unite
It's 3 p.m. on a Friday and your friends are planning a trip to the wonderfully trashy Atlantic City (A.C.
