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Ultimate Summer Fun Guide 2007

"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer."


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Published: May 23, 2007

"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer," wrote Violette Leduc in her 1970 autobiography Mad in Pursuit.

Violette was on to something. You see, when you're walking through a burning cathedral, literal or metaphorical, flinching's not gonna do you any favors.

That's why it's best to have a plan.

And why our Ultimate Summer Fun Guide is the perfect blueprint for navigating the buttresses, flying and aflame; the pews reduced to embers; the sparking candelabra that will no doubt come to symbolize Philadelphia Summer 2007.

For those of you new to this, what we do here is find something for you to do every day of the summer, from today through Sept. 22, when the season (and, incidentally, Yom Kippur) ends.

We'll print it all here in this handy-to-keep-around-the-apartment guide. And then we'll give you daily updates at citypaper.net. Because we here at City Paper know you work hard all year long. Filling your down time is supposed to be easy. So consider yourself officially relieved from thinking this summer.

And if Violette catches you sweating or fretting, she'll give you two for flinching.

Illustrations by Jeffrey Bouchard

CP Summer Fun Specialists