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Browse This Issue: February 18th, 2010

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Full Exposure:
Lust in Translation
John Vettese sees what develops
by John Vettese
Aged and succumbing to Parkinson's disease, Edward Weston set up his camera on the rocky California coast in 1948 and framed up his final photographs.

Arts Picks:
Philly Rocks Your Playlist
Mon., Feb. 22, 6 p.m., $25, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 267-987-9865, 11thhourtheatrecompany.org.
by Mark Cofta
Don't wait till the 11th hour to buy tickets for Philly Rocks Your Playlist, the fifth annual fundraiser for Barrymore Award-winning 11th Hour Theatre Co.

Ancient Rome & America
Feb. 19-Aug. 1, $12-$20, National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., 215-409-6700, constitutioncenter.org.
by Shaun Brady
visual art Having just overthrown a king, America's founding fathers were understandably averse to monarchies, shunning the trappings of royalty while laying the groundwork for

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Art:
Fever Pitch
One Philly dance troupe lets imagination carry it to the farthest corners of reality.
by A.D. Amorosi
Picture this: Frenetic, sweaty lonely-hearts swarm a dancefloor, propelled by steely club music.

Web Exclusive
Theater Review:
Every Little Brit
by David Anthony Fox
For all of Hare's airs, The Breath of Life is the stuff of a Lifetime movie.

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Buddy System
by Mark Cofta
A palpable feeling exists in the audience of a Bruce Graham play: the tingling sense of people eagerly awaiting reasons to laugh.

Kaleidoscope
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto | Black Dynamite | Bonfires on the Heath

Arts Picks:
Jimmy Heath
Thu., Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.
by Shaun Brady
The title of saxophonist/composer Jimmy Heath's new autobiography, I Walked With Giants (Temple University Press), is typically self-effacing, seemingly ranking his achievements somewhere below the jazz legends with whom he's worked.

Red Heroine
Fri., Feb. 19, 8 p.m., $12 (screening)-$15 (screening plus 6 p.m. Chinese New Year celebration), Ibrahim Theater at International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org.
by Molly Eichel
The ass-kicking heroine is more fanboy fantasy than actualized female. But Yun Ko ain't one of those gun-toting busty babes.

New Edge Mix
Fri.-Sat., Feb. 19-20, 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 21, 3 p.m.; $12, Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-1911, cecarts.org.
by Janet Anderson
For 25 years, the Community Education Center's New Edge Mix has provided experience "for performers who have had few performing opportunities."

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