Also this issue: Bad for the Business A trio of showbiz books walks on the mean side. -A.D. Amorosi Wozzeck -David Shengold ComedySportz Cares -Juliet Fletcher "Martians and Motorcycles" -Andrew Parks "Privacy Writes: Public Lives, Personal Letters" -Juliet Fletcher Fourth Of U LIE Rebel Party -Ainé Ardron-Doley PII Gallery | Stedman Gallery | And Then Thereâs · -Lori Hill Neal Barnard -Vance Lehmkuhl

July 3- 9, 2003

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More stuff going on this week...

Books

Candace Bushnell unveils the latest exploits of the NYC elite in Trading Up (Hyperion), this time with a trip to the Hamptons and the empty-headed escapades therein. Tue., July 8, 7 p.m., free, Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341.

Theater

The French Revolution-themed musical The Scarlet Pimpernel comes to Bucks County July 9 with lots of pomp and love-struck circumstance -- and the threat of the guillotine for good measure. Through July 20, $20-$24, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 S. Main St., New Hope, 215-862-2041.

Art

Get Ben Franklin's recipe for brewing beer from the black spruce tree. Find out why the hemlock and 46 million tree species have been lost since the 19th century. Trees rare, common and extinct are illustrated in a new exhibit, "Philadelphia Trees and Botanical Art in the 18th and Early 19th Centuries." Through Oct. 1, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th St. and the Parkway, 215-299-1000.