May 16, 2013
If you haven’t marked your calendars already, do so now. Starting this Saturday, May 18, PHAIR, a giant, open-air market arrives at 23rd and Arch streets and is slated to fill the space every Saturday well in to the fall. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., more than 100 vendors sell homemade goods and treats [...]
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Sensational street food festival Night Market Philadelphia returns tonight with the first event of its 2013 season, transforming Fairmount Avenue into an alfresco eating and entertainment destination from 6 to 10 p.m. Tonight’s Night Market is set to take over Fairmount Avenue between 19th and 22nd streets, Corinthian Avenue between Fairmount and Brown, and 22nd [...]
Read more»May 15, 2013
Raise your glasses, folks, the sweet summer happy-hour series Center City Sips is back for the summer of 2013. The fun meter on your Wednesday nights is about to improve exponentially. Every Wednesday evening beginning on June 5, tons of Center City bars and restaurants offer awesome deals on drinks and food from 5 to [...]
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Hear, hear! Clark Park hosts a merry gathering (and its first beer garden!) this Saturday, May 18. Enjoy local beer from Dock Street Brewery and food from The Cow and the Curd, MiniTrini, Taco Angeleno and Lil’ Pop Shop. Be sure to raise your Dock Street brews to the first-ever (legal) beers consumed in Clark [...]
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Who’s ready for another weekend jam-packed with festival fun? The terrific Trenton Avenue Arts Festival and supercool Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby roll into Kensington and Fishtown this Saturday, May 18, noon to 5 p.m.. Lining the historic cobblestone Trenton Avenue, the arts festival spotlights the area’s diverse artist communities, and includes more than 200 [...]
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Wine and jazz make beautiful music together this weekend at Penns Woods Winery. The annual Wine and Jazz Festival returns for its third year of flowing vino of all varieties and plenty of live tunes. From 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, enjoy your favorite Penns Woods Winery varietal while listening to jazz [...]
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Parks and playgrounds in all corners of the city host spring open house events this weekend in part with Park and Recreation’s spring open house day. On Saturday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., 40 parks all over Philadelphia are welcoming guests with family-friendly activities, refreshments, volunteer opportunities, giveaways and more. For the [...]
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This week, make a promise to yourself to check out (or return!) to The Porch at 30th Street Station in University City. The space that was once 34 parallel parking spaces is now a lively public space, chock-full of springtime fun. On Wednesday and Friday afternoons through September, four Philly mobile food vendors will park [...]
Read more»May 14, 2013
The Barnes Foundation has a lot to celebrate this month. Not only does May mark the one-year anniversary of the Barnes’ residency on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, but this month also sees the opening of the museum’s first contemporary art exhibition in 90 years, Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture on the Wall. This Friday, May 17, from [...]
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On Friday, May 17 and Saturday, May 18 some of the best high-school crews from all over the United States and Canada compete along the Schuylkill River at the annual Stotesbury Cup Regatta, the largest and oldest high-school regatta in the country. Look for teams from 194 schools racing along the Schuylkill this weekend. Cheer [...]
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