June 8, 2012
Weekend Picks: Philly Beer Week Ends, Longwood Gardens’s Light Installations Opens, Fishtown FestivALE, Prison Break Weekend At Eastern State Penitentiary, Race Street Pier Summer Film Series, Art For The Cash Poor And More

There's so much to do this weekend, we don't even know where to start... Actually we do; start with our Weekend Picks, below, including everything from the closing of Philly Beer Week to the final night of the With Love Beer Garden to the grand opening of the long-awaited Lights exhibition at Longwood Gardens. (Photo credits, clockwise from top left: T. Scheid for GPTMC, M. Kennedy for GPTMC, courtesy Morgan's Pier, courtesy Longwood Gardens)
Philly Beer Week kicks it up a notch for its closing weekend, while a few awesome openings take place as well. Check out all our top picks for this weekend, below:
Friday, June 8
9th Annual National Lemonade Days (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Heart & Soul: The University City Public Piano Project (Fri, Sat, Sun)
With Love Beer Garden — Closing Day! **Philly Beer Week
Friday Nights Under the Stars at Brandywine Polo Club
11th Hour Theatre Company’s The Marvelous Wonderettes (Fri, Sat, Sun)
InLiquid’s Art for the Cash Poor (Fri, Sat, Sun)
South Philadelphia Beer Festival at Xfinity Live
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
Saturday, June 9
Light Installations by Bruce Munro at Longwood Gardens — Opening Day!
Frankford Hall And Johnny Brenda’s Team Up To Host Fishtown FestivALE
Old City Sidewalk Sale (Sat, Sun)
Race Street Pier Summer Film Series
Brandywine Food & Wine Festival
Top Picks for Beer Gardens in Philadelphia
Lefthand Arm Wrestling at South Philly Taproom **Philly Beer Week
Fleisher’s 6th Annual ARTspiration Festival
Second Saturday on East Passyunk
Music Fest, Flea Market, & Cleanup at Liberty Lands Park
Elfreth’s Alley Fete Day Open House
Paddle Penn’s Landing (Sat, Sun)
Prison Break Weekend at Eastern State Penitentiary (Sat, Sun)
Beermuda Triangle Run at the Kite & Key **Philly Beer Week
Keep reading, below.
Il Divo & Orchestra at the Mann Center
Kimmel Center Celebrates 2nd Annual Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ Day
Bird Fest at the Academy of Natural Sciences
KidsinCenterCity.com Saturday Playdate with the Phillie Phanatic
Philadelphia Magazine’s Be Well Boot Camp
Maya.2012: Lords of Time at the Penn Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Morris Arboretum’s Garden Railway (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Act II Playhouse’s My Fair Lady (Fri, Sat, Sun)
PAFA and Dr. Barnes (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Arden Theatre’s Tulipomania (Fri, Sat, Sun)
“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)
On My Honor: 100 Years of Girl Scouting at the National Constitution Center (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living with the Atomic Bomb, 1945-1965 at the Mercer Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Offering Of The Angels: Treasures From The Uffizi at the Michener Art Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Sunday, June 10
“Reggae In The Park” at the Mann Center
Retail Roundup: Top Picks For Vintage Shops In Philadelphia
InterAct Theatre Company’s Etched In Skin On A Sunlit Night (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Salvatore Pinto: A Retrospective Celebrating the Barnes Legacy at the Woodmere Art Museum (Fri, Sat, Sun)
The Walnut Street Theatre’s The Buddy Holly Story (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Craft Spoken Here at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times at the Franklin Institute (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Transit of Venus Celebration at American Philosophical Society and Franklin Institute
2012 LGBT PrideDay Parade And Festival
Moonstone Arts Center’s Spring Celebration
Valanni’s “Gay Beer Week” (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Dock Street Philly Beer Run & Music Fest **Philly Beer Week
Lantern Theater Company’s The Island (Fri, Sat, Sun) — Closing Day!
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Reasons To Be Pretty (Fri, Sat, Sun)












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