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Listings: Film
Philadelphia Film Festival Various Locations in Center City and University City April 3 - April 17, various times $8.50, $6.50 matinees www.phillyfests.com/templates/home.cfm I hate movies.
Listings: Quilting
Art Quilts at the Sedgwick Sedgwick Cultural Center 7137 Germantown Avenue April 6-May 4, Various Times Free (215) 248-9229 Maybe instead of having to make a quilt for your special loved one, you can simply steal from the quilt exhibition.
Listings: Concerts
Particle/The Ally Theatre of the Living Arts 334 South Street Thurs - Fri, April 3-4, 9 p.m.
Listings: Wrestling
3PW Wrestling Electric Factory 421 North 7th Street Sat, March 29, 8 p.m. $17-$30 I know nothing about wrestling except that once there was a Ric Flair in the industry.
Listings: Penn Events
The Films of Philip Dick: Blade Runner, Total Recall Minority Report Graduate Student Center 3615 Locust Walk Thu, March 27, 7-9 p.m. Free www.upenn.edu/gsc The paranoid short story writer is fascinated by concealed identity and totalitarian controls on society.
Listings: Arts/Culture
The Marriage Proposal and the Bear by Anton Chekhov Gershman Y 401 South Broad Street March 27-30, Various Times $12 Anton Checkhov is one of the best playwrights of the modern era.
Listings: Concerts
Bitch and Animal The Point 880 West Lancaster Avenue Thu, March 27, 8:00 p.m. $12 (610) 527-0988 For those of us who continue to cringe every time we see the Billboard Top 10 and who still spend our drunken nights lamenting the fate of music, hope may have arrived.
Listings: Television
America's Most Talented Kid Fri, March 28, 8 p.m. NBC My little sister really wants to be on this.
Listings: Appreciation
Teacher Appreciation Week Borders 8701 Germantown Avenue Fri, March 28, 10 a.m. Free (215) 248-1213 This week is teacher appreciation week.
Hanging Gardens of Bartram
This weekend I learned a very important lesson: irrespective of the words of a noticeably frightened cab driver pulling over on 54th street, "Historic Bartram's Garden" is not the same thing as "Bartram's Village." One is a beautiful pre-revolutionary home and botanical garden set in 4 tranquil acres of Fairmount Park -- the other is a housing project, where nothing whatsoever could be described as "scenic," unless gutters full of syringes and empty 40s of Olde English appeal to you.
Listings: Fast Cars
Coca-Cola NHRA LUCAS OIL NHRA Drag Racing Series Divisional Maple Grove Park Raceway 30 Stauffer Park Lane Mohnton, Pa. March 27-May 26, Various Prices (610) 856-7200 "Dem nascars go fast!" exclaimed the man standing next to me.
The French Invade Lebanon
If you're sick of Subway sandwiches and Kung Pao Chicken, look toward 40th Street for salvation. The place we fondly remember as Bitar's has been revamped and renamed Simsum.
Friday, September 21, 2001
Photographs by Jennifer Karady, Christopher Pekoc, and Joel-Peter Witkin The Print Center 1614 Latimer St. Exhibit through October 20 Free (215) 735-6090 The Print Center explores the peculiarities of human nature and form with three simultaneous exhibitions by Jennifer Karady, Christopher Pekoc and Joel-Peter Witkin.
Monday, September 24, 2001
Jay-Z Electric Factory Seventh and Willow streets 8 p.m. $40 (SOLD OUT!!!) (215) 627-1332 There's no doubt that Jay-Z stands alone atop the rap game right now.
Saturday, September 22, 2001
Sigur Ros TLA 334 South St. 8:00 p.m., $17.50 adv./ $20 at door (215) 922-1011 Screw French. With 95 million languages taught at Penn, why oh why is Icelandic not one of them?
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Bacon Brothers TLA 334 South Street 8 p.m., $20 (215) 922-1011 Give yourself a better chance of being one of the six degrees of separation in the Kevin Bacon game.
Sunday, September 23, 2001
Polywumpus The Point 800 W. Lancaster Avenue 7:30 p.m., $5 (610) 527- 0988 If you think about it, life is just improvisation.
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Smashmouth TLA 334 South Street 8 p.m., $15 adv./$17 at door (215) 922-1011 Everyone sing along: "Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on, whoa!" Oh yes, the one-hit wonder that should have been, Smashmouth is back and ready to floor you with such hits as "I'm a Believer" and "Walking on the Sun." Although "All Star" just may be the most overplayed song in the past few years, here's your chance to hear it live. Vickie Nam, Olivia Chung, and Alaina Wong University Bookstore 3601 Walnut Street 7 p.m., free (215) 898-7595 Nam, editor of Yell-oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian American, along with College junior Chung and College senior Wong, read and sign the collection of writings from various Asian-American females.
Get a Nightlife: Here's a Leg, Here's a Wing
You may not have been to 2 Goodfellas yet, the recently renovated bar and restaurant on 41st and Walnut streets, but the minute you enter you'll feel as though you've been there before.
