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Somebody please get Elwood a tissue: Super Pet Expo

If you like your pets better than your kids, or even exactly the same as your kids, the Super Pet Expo at the Valley Forge Convention Center is a dream come true. Stop by February 13-15, 2009, to join in with animal lovers from all over the Philadelphia area.
Heck, you can even bring Barney or [...]

The yellow brick road puppet style: Wizard Of Oz

Puppets are running wild in the Philadelphia area.
Bet you’ve never seen The Wizard of Oz done with…ta da…puppets! You have? Oh. Never mind then. Obviously you’re life is more exciting and self-actualized than the rest of us. But if you haven’t seen this classic tale spun in all its glory by professional puppeteers, get ready [...]

Godzilla – #1 bad ass: Japanese Pop Icon Film Series

The Center For East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is taking a whole different approach to studying the Japanese culture – this time through a film series prism that examines popular culture as shaped by landmark films like Godzilla, Happiness of Katsukuris, Ultra Man 2006, and Kamikaze Girls. First up is Godzilla on [...]

Mike and Leo get in a slap fight: There’s Something About Mona

The Mask and Wig Club has been bringing Oh, The Humanities to you for 121 years. Well, probably not to you personally unless you got started going to the theater very young and have lived to be very old. This time around the story focuses on Florence, Italy during the Renaissance and is called There’s [...]

It’s limbo time: Dancing With The Stars

Get ready to re-hash seasons 6 and 7 of Dancing With The Stars on Sunday, February 8, 2009, at 7:30 PM at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia. If you’re a fan of ABC’s #1 rated reality competition program, hold onto your ears ‘cause it really is coming.
Get all giddy at the prospect of seeing your [...]

Don’t wanna be a tub of goo no more: Sports And Wellness Expo

The upcoming Sports and Wellness Expo has so much going on they couldn’t pack it into one day. This embarrassment of riches in the fitness and nutrition industry had to be stretched out into a second day just to make it all fit. So get ready to stub out your cigarette and do some arm [...]

Get your heart in it or suffer the consequences: Valentine’s Day Guide to Philadelphia

Life simply ain’t fair and part of this inequity is that it’s going to be up to you guys to think of something special for your best girl for Valentine’s Day. Yep. V Day. Ready or not, it’s coming up soon. Whatcha gonna do? Stop at the convenience store on the way home for Hershey’s [...]

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