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Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'fundraiser'

August 18, 2008

(Text by Debra A.F. Seiz, photos by Karen Cornell.) Wicked Jezabel, an award-winning, DC-based, all-lesbian cover band, ROCKED a small, but enthusiastic crowd at Sisters in Philly Saturday night, as part of an event called The Rock Your Boobs Bash, held to raise money to support teams walking in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day 60-Mile Breast Cancer Walk. (Sisters will have 3 representatives in the walk.) The crowd filled the dance floor as WJ showed......

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August 8, 2008

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Be a Champ: Kick off the Summer Games with food and entertainment at the Evening of Champions in Chinatown (10th and Arch), 5:30PM. Free Last Chance to Help teh Aminals (by Watching Naked Ladies, That Is): Last Suicide Girls PAWS benefit of the summer at Raven Lounge (1718 Sansom), 9PM. $5 080808: Chiptune Party with No Carrier, 8GB, Nullsleep, Animal Style, Cheap Dinosaurs, Auto Da Fe, and......

Continue Reading "Frugal Fun Alert: Weekend"

July 11, 2008

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY: They Most Certainly Do: Screening of Girls Rock! The Movie, following girls enrolled in The Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls in Oregon, to benefit Girls Rock Philly (coming August 4-9) at 941 Theater (941 N Front), 7PM reception, 8PM screening. $7 Music on the River: Sounds of R&B Series featuring Fertile Ground at the Great Plaza on Penn's Landing (Chestnut and Columbus Blvd), 7:30PM. Free From......

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June 27, 2008

When skateboarding was banned from Love Park... it didn't really change much. Walking through the other day, we caught a couple of guys on boards jumping off one of the high planters, and wondered if they knew about the ban (a surprising number of people don't, but a bigger number just don't care), or about the very cool Paine's Park Project. The Paine's Park Project is a 2.5-acre skatepark, originally commissioned by Mayor Street......

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May 26, 2008

Gothamist was enraptured by the Telectroscope, supposedly developed from a "forgotten tunnel connecting New York to London."SFist, after providing a practical map of liquor stores near the historically naked/tipsy Bay to Breakers marathon route last week, saw itself this week get blamed by the San Francisco Chronicle when the race devolved into an even messier urine and booze free-for-all.Torontoist featured some amazing time-lapse videos of their city—from their skyline during Earth Hour, to a......

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March 28, 2008

Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Bring Your Own Tank: SCUBA National Touring Dance Alliance at the Conwell Dance Theater on Temple’s campus (Broad and Montgomery), 8PM. $10 (also on Saturday) Last Friday: Celebrate March’s last Friday with poet Matthew Dickman, singer/songwriter Irene Molloy, and extended gallery hours at the Philadelphia Art Alliance (251 S 18th), 7PM. $5 SATURDAY Free Classical: The Six, performing Bach and Monteverdi and conducted by Matt Glandorf at......

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February 22, 2008

This weekend there are several cool dance events going down, most of them on the cheap. We were going to front-load (dance-load?) Frugal today, but then thought it might be better to devote a little more space to each. Besides, with all this slushiness, wouldn't you rather watch other people move than do so yourself? If you need a little something tomorrow afternoon to make you forget about said slush, consider heading over to the......

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January 28, 2008

For the Love of Pig Iron, Pig Iron Theatre Company's fundraiser, only happens once per year, so we're not going to trouble you with a full review that might make your mouth water and your jealousy rise. If you weren't there, try to make it next year. That's all. Highlights you may have missed from this year's benefit, "The Swining": An opening dance-comedy piece choreographed to iconic "scary movie" music (like the scores to Jaws......

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January 23, 2008

Last year's For the Love of Pig Iron benefit show, "PIG FEAT!" was one of the best performances we saw all year. This one-night-only variety show featured drag acts, dancing, music, and the most spirited, competitive, live auction we've ever seen. We knew we'd be back in 2008. And now, after over a year's wait, For the Love of Pig Iron returns to raise more money for the folks at Pig Iron Theatre Company. This......

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