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Fold-Up Follies
Tiny two-wheelers race through Fairmount at the Brompton Folder bike race.
"Monty Python meets Tour de France" is what Trophy Bikes co-owner
Michael McGettigan keeps calling the Brompton Folder U.S. bike race.
The more he talks about it, the more apt the term he coined seems.
Tom Wilson
IcepackWed., March 24-Sat., March 27, 8 and 10:30 p.m., $10-$15, Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St., 215-496-9001, heliumcomedy.com.
Before he became Biff in Back to the Future,
Tom Wilson was just a normal Philadelphia lad. What drew him away? "I was unable to develop a love of Izod sportswear," says
Wilson.
Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.
You'll see The Runaways and wonder what the chicks from Twilight and I Am Sam are doing wearing shags in an un-ironic fashion. They're acting.
Queer Bait
Josh Middleton on the LGBTQ scene
Same-Sex Ballroom Dance Competition | Pink Pub Crawl | Flyerse Gay Community Night
Philadelphia Beard and Moustache Competition
DIY Quick and Dirty Printeresting Swap
Yelp's Philly Homegrown Party
Celebration of Our Blessings with Gro Mambo
Navigating Open Relationships
Sat., March 20, 8 p.m., $5, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave., 215-387-3434, studio34yoga.com.
Vandegrift, proudly unshaven for more than six months, invites fellows
and females to contend in five non-gendered, audience-judged contests
over natural and free-styled full and partial beards, 'staches, fakes
and much more.
DIY Quick and Dirty Printeresting Swap
Sat., March 20, 2 p.m., free (e-mail evandenberg@printcenter.org to register), Print Center, 1614 Latimer St., 215-735-6090, ext. 1, printcenter.org.
Nothing in life is free, but if you know how to work it, you can score
an interesting trade. That's the theory behind Printeresting's DIY swap.
Yelp's Philly Homegrown Party
Sat., March 20, 8-10 p.m., free, CITYSPACE, 2200 Walnut St., 215-626-3650, yelp.com.
User review site Yelp goes Philly-centric at its party of all things
"artsy, crafty and creative," featuring farm-to-table restaurants and
galleries highlighting area artists.
Celebration of Our Blessings with Gro Mambo
Sun., March 20, 3 p.m., free, Le Peristyle Haitian Sanctuary, 5629 N. Warnock St., 215-276-3633, leperistylehaitiansanctuary.com.
Mambo is holding a traditional Haitian voodoo ceremony, which doubles
as a fundraiser for those not feeling the love from aid distribution
centers.
Navigating Open Relationships
Fri., March 19, 7 p.m., $20-$30, Sexploratorium, 620 S. Fifth St., 215-829-4986, passion101classes.com.
Sexploratorium instructor Kira Manser believes openly exploring
individual sexual needs may initiate an emboldened partnership that
exudes honesty and communication.
Thu., March 18, 8 p.m., $40, with AM and DJ Justin Paul, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 610-784-5400, livenation.com.
Air first struck library-lounge gold more than a decade ago, and
they're still digging that same vein they mined to uncanny perfection.
Sun., March 21, 9 p.m., $12, with Blue Giant, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
James Mercer may be off doing his electro-pop thing with Broken Bells,
but that doesn't mean you need to go without oblique, brainy,
navel-gazing guitar pop.
March 19-May 9, $35, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St., 215-496-8001, phillyshakespeare.org.
These plays are night and day, but since PST's hired the same actors for both productions, they might not feel so different.
Thu.-Sat., March 18-20, 8 p.m., $25, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.
The piece relates the four elements of calligraphy: ink, brush,
inkstone and paper, to the four elements of dance: body, energy, time
and space.
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