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Browse This Issue: April 17th, 2008

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Art:
Paint it Forward
HeartWorks gives back to an LGBTQ health center that saved one artist's life.
by Mary Wilson
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HeartWorks is expected by its organizers to raise more than $130,000 and is generating a considerable buzz. How did a little-known health clinic inspire this act of generosity? For Christopher Veit, the answer is simple. "They basically saved my life," he says.

Culture Shock:
Things That Matter To People Who Matter
Spring Garden Market | SparkPeople.com | Micropedia Great Civilizations | Lindy Hop and blues dancing
Spring Garden Market James Saul If you work in nonprofit arts, you don't need the Fed to tell you that we're in an inflationary recession.

Theater Review:
Fire and Ice
Frozen draws from the power of simple, awful facts.
by David Anthony Fox
Director Whit MacLaughlin's production hardly ever wavers — it's an extremely masterful piece of craftsmanship that incorporates beautiful design and finds nuances even where Bryony Lavery's script is flatfooted.

Impractical Magic
Rag and Bone stumbles in the dark.
by Mark Cofta
All this fuss wants to add up to something spiritual, but VAT artistic director Aileen McCulloch's production tries to reach higher goals in the last five minutes, after two hours of dimly lit shtick.

Many Happy Returns
1812 Productions makes it better the second time around.
by Mark Cofta
Suburban Love Songs shows middle-aged, middle-class people finally freed to go for it — at least for an evening.

Dance:
Spacial Expressions
Tragedy is beauty in Jeanne Ruddy's Breathless.
by Janet Anderson
Beautiful black-and-white video images of watery waves served as the initial backdrop. As the dance unfolded, the images shifted to gorgeous (if eerie) shots of women floating underwater, hair drifting out.

Opera:
Gaul, Interrupted
Though inconsistent, Norma packs a punch.
by David Shengold
The overture — incorporating ever-loathsome slow-motion battle — spoiled the mystery of Norma's famously challenging entrance scena, when any prima donna would be better off calmly backstage.

Arts Picks:
Go, Dog. Go!
Through June 1, $14-$30, Arden Theatre, 40 N. Second St., 215-922-1122, ardentheatre.org.
by David Anthony Fox
It's a rollicking canine adventure that should translate ideally into musical vaudeville entertainment.

Dance Theatre X
Fri.-Sat., April 18-19, 8 p.m., $25, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.
by Janet Anderson
The piece is inspired by letters soldiers write to loved one. But which soldiers? Which war? Says Anderson, the piece refers to any or all of them.

ARTS AGENDA . Picks
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You're Not Afraid of Needles
by Annamarya Scaccia
Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention | Fri., April 18, 2 p.m.-mid.; Sat., April 19, noon-mid.; Sun., April 20, noon-8 p.m., $15-$35, Sheraton City Center, 17th and Race streets
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by Shaun Brady
Wed., April 23, 8 p.m., free, NEXUS Gallery, Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St., Suite 102, perpetualmvmtsnd.org
by Nadia Stadnycki
The routine is set to modern rock music, including songs by A Perfect Circle, Apocalyptica, Damien Rice and The White Stripes, while a multimedia projection of American streets juxtaposed with Sudanese desert terrain serves as the background.
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