April 29, 2013
Practice your best “gracias!” and get ready for this year’s 13th Street Cinco de Mayo block party. On Sunday, May 5 from noon to 9 p.m., El Vez is set to convert the block of 13th and Sansom streets in to an merry outdoor fiesta. The smells and tastes of Mexico will fill 13th Street [...]
Read more»April 26, 2013
Alright, Philadelphia. A blockbuster weekend is at hand. Starting tonight, welcome three seriously jam-packed days and nights filled with alfresco events and phenomenal festivals (PIFA! Science Fest! Tech Week! Arts Crawl!). This Saturday, the Avenue of the Arts converts from a busy thoroughfare to a giant outdoor carnival. Check out our complete PIFA Street Fair [...]
Read more»April 26, 2013
Put your dancing shoes to good use at Philadelphia’s fourth-annual World Dance Day celebration at The Piazza at Schmidt’s. Presented by the 954 Dance Movement Collective, World Dance Day celebrates it all — swing steps, fox trots, hip hop, salsa and more through professional performances and dance lessons at this free and family-friendly event. Local [...]
Read more»April 25, 2013
The Philadelphia Science Festival draws to a close this weekend — the final day is this Sunday, April 28 — but families still have plenty of opportunities to take part in brainy good times. Explore science this Saturday, April 27 at any of the Philadelphia Science Festival’s Discovery Day events. From the Please Touch Museum [...]
Read more»April 25, 2013
This Saturday is filled with sensational spring festivals, but there’s always room for a cocktail or two. Just a little south of Center City, Graduate Hospital bars and restaurants are putting on their drinking caps for a daylong bar crawl. Ten of the area’s most popular bars, like Grace Tavern, Bob and Barbara’s, Pub and [...]
Read more»April 24, 2013
More than 45 Fairmount businesses transform into pop-up galleries to showcase local art this Sunday, April 28 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Fairmount Arts Crawl. The businesses will host more than 70 art installations that include sculptures, prints, paintings, photography and mixed-media artwork. For the first time in the event’s history, food trucks [...]
Read more»April 23, 2013
Philadelphia’a global LGBT summit Equality Forum returns for its annual event next week, May 2-5. The four-day celebration includes a wide range of programming, from late-night parties to free panel discussions. The multi-day affair begins with two panels at the University of the Arts. First up, a National Religious Colloquy panel will be hosted by [...]
Read more»April 22, 2013
Philadelphia is lucky enough to call 10 cities around the globe its sister cities, and on Saturday, May 11 Sister Cities Park celebrates each one of its sister’s cultures with a daylong free festival. Philadelphia’s sister cities include Florence, Italy; Tel Aviv, Israel; Torun, Poland; Tianjin, China; Incheon, Korea; Douala, Cameroon; and Aix-en-Provence, France. Truly [...]
Read more»April 19, 2013
The arrival of steadily temperate spring weather — the mercury is slated to hover around 60 degrees all weekend — encourages Philadelphians to embrace the spring festival season, which is seriously underway with the roll out of festival after festival this month. The Philadelphia Science Festival is upon us, and its epic Carnival on the [...]
Read more»April 18, 2013
The Philadelphia Science Festival officially begins today, with more than 100 smart events scheduled through April 28, but we’re particularly stoked for this weekend’s festivities. This Saturday brings the annual festival’s awesome Carnival on the Parkway, a free five-hour science bonanza showcasing more than 140 exhibitors and continuous (and educational!) fun — from family-friendly experiments [...]
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