Vintage Connection, a cute little shop on the corner of 9th and Bainbridge, will be celebrating First Friday with a trunk show. You’ll be able to score 20% off your entire purchase. Stop by to nibble on cupcakes, sip on champange, and be the first to view their entire new Spring collection.

The event runs this Friday, April 4th, from 5PM to 8PM. For more information, visit their website, or add them as your [...]

Me? I’m 28 years old. I can remember a time I watched television in black and white, people still made calls on pay phones, and Return of the Jedi was in theaters. It’s impossible to forget that epic battle between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Seriously, could have pleaded with my mother any more to get a light saber? Alas, it was just special effects and the Toys R Us didn’t exactly have working ones in stock. [...]

Photo by B. Krist for GPTMC

I spend a lot of time reading techie and geek blogs, one of which happens to be Neatorama. Recently, they did a write up of eight interesting museums through out the country that, for one reason or another, stand a little above the rest in terms of entertaining. The Mustard Museum, The International Clown Hall of Fame, The Museum of Bad Art… quite an impressive list.

Coming in at number [...]

XPN Free at Noon: The Raveonettes
World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street
The much-loved Danish pop duo play for free at high noon.

Art After 5 with Ari Hoenig
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
The jazz drummer my college roommates most-regularly flipped out about who used to shout at people at Chris’s Jazz to shut up so his audience could better pay attention when he was rolling. Snacks and cocktails will be on [...]

Don’t worry, Studioscopic is still here! We had a little email / blog trouble here in the uwishunu office, so David Kessler’s awesome video on Zoe Cohen got posted a little late, but trust us, it is worth the wait. Just click on the image, and it’ll take you to a page on Blip.tv, with the video.

Kessler [...]

Sunday is going to be a great day to go diggin!! - a.k.a Record Shopping. So all you vinyl junkies come on down to The Rotunda on University of Pennsylvania campus for the Vox Populi Record Fair.

Organized by Vox Populi Artist- Jamie Dillon, The Rotunda will be turned into a record paradise with over fifty vendors attending specializing in a broad variety of music. Doors open at 12 noon and will be wide [...]

Originally known as the Philadelphia Print Collaborative, Philagrafika is an organization based in Philadelphia that promotes printmaking by providing programs for large-scale printmaking endeavours. Part of their mission is to enhance Philadelphia printmaking by creating critical dialogue for and by print-makers, hosting an international arts festival and an armature invitational portfolio show, and providing special projects for participants throughout the year. “Philagrafika 2010” is an event produced by the organization that represents the culmination [...]