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First Friday Focus:
Holly Otterbein's First Friday Hit List
Bambi Gallery | Artspace Liberti | Slought Foundation | Space 1026
by Holly Otterbein
Candace Karch, the owner of Bambi Gallery, "won't talk shit" on Tower Investments, but it doesn't sound like they'll necessarily be exes who are friends.

Kaleidoscope
N'awlins-Style!
The Wild Bohemians | New Orleans: 1920s Mardi Gras | Mardi Gras Gala | PAFA's mask-making workshop

Arts Picks:
Photographs from the Streets
Artist talk with Ron Corbin, Sat., March 5, 2 to 4 p.m., free, exhibit through April 17, The Light Room, 2024 Wallace St., 215-765-0262, thelightroom.org.
by John Vettese
West Philadelphia photographer Ronald Corbin studies people and their environments, but not necessarily at the same time.

Swan Lake
Through March 12, $30-$150, Academy of Music, 1420 Locust St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.
by Janet Anderson
Originally created and choreographed by New York City Ballet's Christopher Wheeldon in 2004, this Swan takes the story out of the woods and into 19th-century Paris.

Theater Review:
Gut Check
Through March 13, $25-$32, Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey St., 215-218-4022, theatreexile.org.
by David Anthony Fox
Though a couple of McDonagh's more recent plays are not set in Ireland, there remains something profoundly Irish about his sensibility and style.

Arts Picks:
Pterodactyls
Through March 27, $5-$30, New City Stage Co. at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-563-7500, newcitystage.org.
by Mark Cofta
It's about dinosaurs, both literal and figurative, just before the meteor hits.

Marc Chagall
Through July 10, $8, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Perelman Building, 2525 Pennsylvania Ave., 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.
by Julia Askenase
It's safe to say the exhilarating colors and whimsical reveries of Marc Chagall's modern-folkloric art stand perfectly well on their own.

Shelf Life:
Amber Alert
Hannah Pittard's The Fates Will Find Their Way and Sarah Braunstein's The Sweet Relief of Missing Children
by Justin Bauer
Both books hinge on children who go missing. For Pittard, it's Nora Lindell, a red-haired, golden-skinned high school junior who disappears on Halloween. For Braunstein, it seems like half her cast acts out a cascading multigenerational procession of recurring runaways and kidnapping.

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