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Fun around town, for $10 or less:

The festival begins this weekend with a black-tie Gala at the Union League on Saturday, then continues at venues around the city with events including: taiko drumming, sake tasting, story hours, tea ceremonies and a visit from the Cherry Blossom Queen herself. Cherry Blossom fans can also visit the trees in Fairmont Park, or help to sponsor The Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia's Cherry Tree Planting Project.

Tonight the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia will be screening Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers on the 7th floor of the Bellevue (Broad and Walnut Streets) at 6:30 PM. If we're reading this right - the film follows three wildly different homeless characters as they care for an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. Hmm. Not exactly your traditional holiday story...but the tag line, "Meet the ultimate dysfunctional family," is something people of all cultures seem to relate to around the holidays. (Phillyist, of course, does not refer to our own family, who is a paragon of normalcy, and whom we never, ever complain about when they're out of earshot. And we didn't just roll our eyes either. Honest.)