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Browse This Issue: September 23rd, 2010

This Week's Issue
Last Chance
Catch it or regret it
by Holly Otterbein
Bridgette Mayer Gallery | Bambi Gallery | Jolie Laide

Agenda Picks:
Ted Rall
Tue., Sept. 28, 7 p.m., free, Wooden Shoe, 704 South St., 215-413-0999, woodenshoebooks.com.
by Josh Middleton
There's one concept that writer Ted Rall believes has everyone concurring — the current political and economic system is two inches from busted, and there's nothing the boobs in D.C. can do to save it.

Shopping Spree
Fashion > Forward
by Julia West
The Philadelphia Collection 2010 | Shopping With An Objective | 1600 Below Vintage Open House | Taking the Streets

Icepack
Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.
by A.D. Amorosi
If Joe Paterno can come back year after year like a death phoenix in a Krass Bros. sports jacket, surely you could love this city’s favorite sports-theater-comedy The Philly Fan again.

Agenda Picks:
Elixir of Love
Sat., Sept. 25, 2 p.m., free, Italian Market piazza, Ninth and Montrose sts., 215-238-1555, operatheater.org.
by Josh Middleton
Imagine — Italian Market: The Musical!

Light and Honey
Sun., Sept. 26, 1-6 p.m., $5 donation, University City Arts League, 4226 Spruce St., 215-382-7811, theapiarycorp.com.
by Eric Schuman
In an era when magazine after magazine is meeting an unfortunate demise, the launch of a new publication is certainly a cause for celebration.

Birth of Separation
Fri., Sept. 24, 9:30 p.m., free, Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St., 215-569-9700, phillyfilmfest.com.
by Eric Schuman
If you're in need of a good freak-out, Birth of Separation should do the trick.

ARTS . Picks
RSS
Through Oct. 16, $25-$45, People's Light & Theatre Co., 39 Conestoga Road, Malvern, 610-644-3500, peopleslight.org.

by Mark Cofta
The film's 35th anniversary has inspired productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest all over the country, a nice reminder of how Dale Wasserman's play stays much truer to Ken Kesey's novel than the movie.
Wed., Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.

by Eric Schuman
Every September since 1982, bookworms have commemorated how narrow-minded The Man can be by celebrating a host of damn good reads that have either been challenged or banned from public view.
Through Nov. 6, free, Gallery 339, 339 S. 21st St., 215-731-1530, gallery339.com.
by John Vettese
"I want to think seriously about what I can accomplish with what's left of my life."
Through Nov. 18, $10, Brandywine River Museum, Route 1, Chadds Ford, 610-388-2700, brandywinemuseum.org.

by Shaun Brady
Observing people examining the paintings in the Brandywine River Museum's new show is more like watching visitors at a funhouse hall of mirrors than patrons at an art exhibition.
 
 
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