Volunteers are needed to accompany crime victims to court, sit with them during hearings and explain court procedures. Call Jane Borgerhoff at 215-665-9680.

Volunteers are needed to spend time with hospice patients. Activities can include gardening, painting, playing games, watching sports and talking. Hair and nail specialists are also sought to give patients some pampering. Call Terri or Colleen at 215-956-5110, e-mail terrid@crossroadshospice.com or visit crossroadshospice.com.

Mingle with friends, watch a drag show, and shake your boom boom to the sounds of DJ Goddess. Drink specials will be available all night.

Doggies are cute, so are kitties. Usually, cuter than most roommates you might have. You know it as well as the next guy, so give a lost, abandoned or abused animal a second chance by giving it a place to live. Visit delcospca.org.

Hop on your bike or rent one of theirs before taking off on a 6 1/2 mile tour of Center City.

Run 6 1/2 miles through Center City. Each group contains eight or fewer people and the run lasts 90 minutes.

Want to feel like Paul Blart Mall Cop for a day? Well, join DeTours for their very special segway tour. Guests can roll for 6 1/2 miles, stopping at spots to learn more about the history of Philadelphia.

Features the only permanent display of dinosaurs in the state. The gallery's Science in Action Lab allows visitors to watch volunteers prepare real paleontology specimens.

Take a walking tour through the only Edgar Allan Poe house that's still standing today.

The pomegranate has long been a symbol of health, fertility and resurrection. See how it has been depicted in centuries of art from a variety of cultures.

Take a guided tour of three routes that prisoners used to escape the Penitentiary and discover how the routes have changed over the years.

Feel the rhythm feel the rhyme, get on up its South Philly time! Take a tour with Philadelphia Urban Adventures as they guide you through the best of South Philly. Make sure to ask the tour guide to stop for a cheesesteak.

Features photographs of filling stations from the '20s to the '60s to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the American oil industry.

Get a taste of the town. This food tour takes the research out of dinning out. While tasting some of Philly's famous musts (Cheesesteaks and cheesewiz fries, soft pretzels, tomato pie, 4th Street Cookies and chocolate covered pretzels) you'll also get all the insider tips to classic Philly dinning. There's nothing tourist about this local's immersion tour.

Features model and life-sized airplanes, a flight simulator and sound effects that are designed to make you feel as if you're in the middle of a live air show.

Features a variety of Benjamin Franklin's belongings and inventions, including a lens, lightning rod and bifocals.

Players in the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire drop character to bring you head-to-head style improv.

All are invited to seek greater understanding at the Meditation Center's Friday night "insight" sessions.

A weekly potluck during which open discussions are held with artists, writers, curators and anyone interested.

Features a massive model of a human heart that you can walk through, and which has interactive stations that pertain to blood, health, anatomy and heart ailments.

Channel your inner hippie and take a walk through gardens.

Features bird specimens and nests on display. Highlights include an extinct passenger pigeon and 3-D dioramas of the birds in their habitats.

Get to know Philadelphia's frightening favorites from Mr. Poe to Mr. Franklin himself on this tour through Old City and Society Hill.

Tour includes history of our nation's first leaders — Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Absalom Jones — who worshiped at the church.