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Don’t give the kids away to random strangers: Sleep At The Seaport
I know a place in Philadelphia you can send the kids for a sleepover so you can have the house to yourself for one night. Wouldn’t that be great? Imagine the uninhibited sex you’d have! Oh yeah, the kids might also have a fun and educational time as well.
I’m talking about the Sleep at the [...]
Save a life. Tell a Harry Potter fan: Family Day Celebration
Harry Potter fans looking for things to do in Philadelphia before you lose your will to continue existing?
Now that the last book has been written and the last potion concocted, they mope listlessly around the planet by the millions, searching for a reason to take the next breath. Here’s a good one – Penn Museum [...]
There is something for kids to do after all: Kids/Interactive Museums Guide
Sometimes you get the sinking feeling that you’re letting the kids watch way too much television and play way too many video games. Get of that feeling once and for all by taking them to one of the many great kid-oriented museums in the Philadelphia area. Heck, you don’t even have to find them by [...]
Who wants to win a Van Gogh? Anyone? Anyone? Art After 5
Things get a little bit different at the Philadelphia Museum of Art after 5 PM on Friday evenings. By ‘different’ I mean a little less sedate, a little more wacky. This unique brand of entertainment called Art After 5 is held in the Great Stair Hall until 8:45 PM each appointed eve. Have you looked [...]
Walk, run, crawl for a cause: AIDS Walk Philly
AIDS Fund sponsors AIDS Walk Philly, the Delaware Valley’s largest annual HIV/AIDS public awareness and fundraising event. Period. Without events like this, the 30 partner organizations who receive funds to provide critical HIV prevention education and care services would find themselves scrambling just a little harder to make ends meet.
This year the AIDS Walk Philly [...]
Psst! Hey kid, wanna buy a treasure? Treasure Show
The very word ‘treasure’ seems to make people sit up and take notice. We can’t help it. There’s a bit of wide-eyed avarice and greed in almost everyone. To paraphrase Homer Simpson , “Mmm, treasure.” At the Timeless Treasures From World Cultures show October 23-26, 2008, at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and [...]
Don’t call it a lecture: Evening With Joyce Scott
The Philadelphia Art Alliance has been promoting the careers of emerging and established artists since 1915, which makes it the oldest multi-disciplinary arts center in the United States. Promotion takes the form of providing exhibition and performance space for visual, literary, and performing artists. Since 1926, the Art Alliance has been located in the historic [...]
