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Agenda Lead:
Damn Fine Pie
Twin Peaks-inspired art and a pie-tasting contest? Like Fishtown needed to get any weirder.
by Emily Currier
For his Twin Peaks-themed art show "The Black Dog Runs at Night," Piranha Betty's Art Market will be decked out as locales from Lynch's surreal mystery set in Twin Peaks, Wash., where everyone knows everyone and nothing is what it seems.

Agenda Picks:
A History of Taxidermy
Wed., April 7, 5:30-7 p.m., $5-$8 suggested donation, Wagner Free Institute of Science, 1700 W. Montgomery Ave., 215-763-6529, wagnerfreeinstitute.org.
by Alexandra Harcharek
Pat Morris, a retired University of London professor, will speak about the strange history of the practice that goes way beyond hunting trophies, and why he's made collecting dead animals his lifelong hobby.

Peer-to-Peer
Brian James Kirk geeks out
by Brian James Kirk
Movie Monday: Black Dynamite | Locust Moon Opening | Heritage Day

Icepack
Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.
by A.D. Amorosi
There'll be nothing funny come April 1 if some flash mob runs rampant through City Hall, or punks Donovan McNabb about trading him to a third-rate team in Cali.

Agenda Picks:
World Pillow Fight Day
Sat., April 3, 3 p.m., free, Washington Square Park, Sixth and Walnut streets, stealthyelephant.org.
by Emily Currier
Organizers Urban Playground Movement are asking Philadelphians to stand together wearing blue, in a moment of "stillness."

Marathon Reading of the Great Gatsby
Fri., April 2, 3 p.m., free, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, 215-573-9748, writing.upenn.edu.
by Tom Tiballi
Enjoy a marathon reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby at Kelly Writers House to celebrate the 85th anniversary of the great American novel's publication.

Termite TV Collective's The Basics Trilogy
Fri., April 2, 6 p.m.-midnight (Trilogy screens at 6, 8 and 10 p.m.), free, Media Bureau Networks Studios, 725 N. Fourth St., termite.org.
by Sam Kaplan
This event marks the first time Termite has invaded NoLibs' Media Bureau, and it's somewhat of a nontraditional venue, which explains the structure.

Leah B.'s ---- And Her Brain
Thu., April 8, 7 p.m., free, Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South St., 215-413-0999, woodenshoebooks.org.
by Josh Middleton
Packed with free-verse poetry and prose, doodled sketches and photography shot from a disposable camera, Miss B.'s "half anecdotal" masterpiece outlines the ups and downs of her commitment to flip genders.

MUSIC . Picks
RSS
Sat., April 3, 7 p.m., $10, with Reading Rainbow and Creepoid, Barbary, 951 N. Frankford Ave., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.
by Patrick Rapa
Bethany Cosentino's new band is raw, free and from the heart.
Mon., April 5, 8 p.m., $20, with Holy Hail, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, livenation.com.
by John Vettese
Florence Welch gets it right, smartly building music around booming toms and commanding rhythms.
Sat., April 3, 9 p.m., $13-$15, with The Bronx, Violent Soho and Dead Country, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488, northstarbar.com.
by K. Ross Hoffman
Word that The Bronx were recording an album of traditional Mexican music definitely raised eyebrows, but last year's Mariachi El Bronx is neither jokey gimmick nor overreaching oddity.
Thu., April 1, 8 p.m., $8, with The Atomic Square, Glowfriends and The Defog, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488, northstarbar.com.
by John Vettese
Now established as formidable post-rock, Pilot Cloud has become relaxed and adventurous.
Wed., April 7, 8 p.m., $14, with Obits, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.
by Brian Howard
Ain't no half-stepping with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.
 
 
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