If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or get FREE updates by e-mail. You can find over 800 events each month on our event calendarHas everyone out there heard of Greater Tuna, a legendary show based on a political skit envisioned 20 years ago in Austin, Texas by creators [...]

Learned something today – the shortened version of chrysanthemums is mums. Who knew? I didn’t! I now stride more confidently through the world of flowers secure in the knowledge I am no longer quite the ignorant idiot that I once was. While there is still much knowledge I don’t possess regarding flowers (like practically everything), [...]

Remember the movie The Sixth Sense? I think one of the reasons it was so wildly popular was that it relied on good old fashioned creepiness that wiggled its way down into your bones as the story progressed. For my money, this has a much more powerful effect on the human psyche than the fifth [...]

What is it with this unhealthy compulsion to close down bridges and let thousands of people run across them? Down in the Keys it’s Seven Mile Bridge. Here in Philadelphia it’s the Ben Franklin Bridge (BFB). What’s that in my earpiece? It’s for a good cause? Oh. Sorry. Make that a HEALTHY compulsion. The important [...]

Only in America can someone as truly and deliciously weird as John Waters have a smash Broadway hit like Hairspray, which is preparing for a two month run November 4, 2008 through January 4, 2009, at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia.
This all-new stage production is based upon the script for the original 1988 film [...]

It’s a Philadelphia area tradition.
You must be over 21 years old. You can’t bring your babies. You can’t bring your pets. And you better not EVEN try to slip in with an underage baby pet. They hate to be party Nazis about it but it’s the 11th Annual Kennett Square Brewfest in Kennett Square on [...]

It’s not like you need another good reason to hang out at the Walnut Street Theatre but here I go anyway. How about to see a top rate production of a classic American musical comedy? This time around its Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair!, running through October 19 but, in case you have a hard [...]