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Gentleman, start your engines: Power Boat Show
Do you like boats? I mean really, really like boats? Get ready to venture a little ways out of Philadelphia and make your wildest dreams come true – well, maybe not your absolute wildest dreams but it’s still pretty good. What am I talking about? The 2009 Atlantic City International Power Boat Show at the [...]
Be vewy, vewy quiet: Safari Overnight
Experience the Academy of Natural Sciences Safari Overnight when you sleep in the museum. I know what you’re thinking, “I seem to remember that it didn’t work out so well for Ben Stiller.” Click here if you don’t remember the movie Night At The Museum which, by the way, has a sequel arriving shortly. Somehow, [...]
Go ahead, make her day: Annie Get Your Gun
It ain’t exactly in Philadelphia but it’s close.
Annie Get Your Gun is a musical that tells a fictionalized version of the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her husband Frank Butler. This bona fide Broadway classic is resurrected by the Broadway Theatre of Pitman, now entering its third season. You can catch performances of Annie [...]
Beware errant aerial mammals: Groundhog Festival
Spring’s a coming, sometime soon…isn’t it? Please? Pretty please with sugar on top? Well, regardless of what the temperature outside says, spring will be here one day. How can you tell? Because on Monday, February 2, 2009, at 1:30 PM the Lower Merion Conservancy is hosting Celebrate Groundhog Day at Rolling Hill Park. This event [...]
The blues just speaks to me, brother: Stuff White People Like
Author Christian Lander wrote a book called Stuff White People Like , based on a blog of the same name. His simple explanation, “This is a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff left wing, upper middle class Caucasians like. They are pretty predictable.”
Well, speaking as a lifelong white person, except for that year I [...]
Umm, could I take that Lamborghini for a spin? Philly Auto Show
If you’re into cars, I mean REALLY into cars, you might want to sit down and take a nerve pill if you haven’t heard the news yet – the 2009 Philadelphia International Auto Show is almost here. The festivities take place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, beginning January 31, 2009 and running all the way [...]
Long live the play: Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Sizwe Bansi is Dead premiered in 1972 in Cape Town, South Africa. A year later it debuted in England and then won the London Theatre Critics award for the best play of 1974.
By then, playwright Athol Fugard was beginning to think he might have been onto something when he sat down to write a fictionalized [...]
