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Enjoy this extra-long weekend whether you're a Philadelphia resident sticking around, or visiting the city for the holiday, by partaking in any of our top picks for weekend events, below. (Photo credits, clockwise from top left: Photograph © 2012 The Barnes Foundation, G. Widman for GPTMC, courtesy Longwood Gardens, courtesy Sixers)

On account of the long holiday weekend, we’re going to be ducking out a little early today, but we wouldn’t leave you without our Memorial Day Weekend edition of Weekend Picks.

It’s shaping up to be another excellent weekend in the city and we can’t tell you how excited we are to kick off summer… It’s truly going to be a blockbuster summer in Philadelphia. (And we’ll be here as your guide all summer long.)

Check out our top picks for Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, below — and most importantly, everyone have a great Memorial Day Holiday weekend!

Friday, May 25

Fairmount Restaurant Week With Art Philadelphia (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Reasons To Be Pretty (Fri, Sat, Sun) — Opening Night!

Morgan’s Pier opens

Martinis On The Portico at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Arden Theatre’s Robin Hood (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Bistrot La Minette Movie Under the Stars

Maya.2012: Lords of Time at the Penn Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Saturday, May 26

Sixers vs. Celtics: Game 7 in Round 2 of the NBA Playoffs! GO SIXERS! ***

Longwood Gardens Fireworks & Fountains 2012 — Opening Day!

Morris Arboretum’s Garden Railway — Opening Day!

All Together Now at Moore College of Art & Design (Fri, Sat, Mon)

“Free at the Kimmel” Series

Act II Playhouse’s My Fair Lady (Fri, Sat, Sun)

PAFA and Dr. Barnes (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Continue reading, below.

“Run! The Super-Athletes of the Sierra Madre” at the Penn Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun)

From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen at the National Constitution Center (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)

Free Live Music and Fireworks at Sugarhouse Casino

Narberth Clean Sweep

Philadelphia Soundtrack Series at L’Etage

Summer Wind sailing tours (Fri, Sat)

Sunday, May 27

U.S. Women’s Soccer To Face Off Against China At PPL Park

Paddle Penn’s Landing (Sat, Sun)

Salvatore Pinto: A Retrospective Celebrating the Barnes Legacy at the Woodmere Art Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Laurel Hill Memorial Day Parade

On My Honor: 100 Years of Girl Scouting at the National Constitution Center (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)

Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb, 1945-1965 at the Mercer Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)

Offering Of The Angels: Treasures From The Uffizi at the Michener Art Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Inis Nua Theatre Company’s The Walworth Farce (Fri, Sat, Sun) — Closing Day!

The Walnut Street Theatre’s The Buddy Holly Story (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Materials Transformed: The Art of African Sculpture at the Free Library of Philadelphia (Fri, Sat, Sun)

Pop-up Trunk Show at Kembrel boutique

Monday, May 28 — Happy Memorial Day!

It’s National Burger Day; check out our roundup of the Best Burgers in Philadelphia

Barnes Foundation Memorial Day Weekend Round-The-Clock Activities (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)

Memorial Day at the Mercer Museum

116th Annual Devon Horse Show (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)

Memorial Day at the Academy of Natural Sciences

Craft Spoken Here at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon); museum is open specially!

Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times at the Franklin Institute (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)

Memorial Day Weekend concerts, drink specials and free parking at Xfinity Live

Memorial Day Weekend Celebration at the National Constitution Center (Sat, Sun, Mon)

Historic Philadelphia Memorial Day Weekend events (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)

Memorial Day Weekend at Chaddsford Winery (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)