•West Philly Tree Planting • Various locations • 10 a.m.
UCGreen will be planting trees today. Write Winnie Harris at wharris [at] ucgreen.org or call 215-573-4684 for locations. Tools are provided and no experience is necessary. Free t-shirt for volunteers.
Arts and Music
• Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango • Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (3680 Walnut St.) • 2 and 8 p.m. • Tickets: $38-$58.
For tango lovers, or even tango likers. This show features all the extravagance that is tango and Argentina.
• Aloe Blacc • World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut St.) • Doors open at 10 p.m. • Tickets: $17 (21 and over).
A first-generation Panamanian, Blacc credits its soulful sound to a range of influences both musical and non-musical – from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Marvin Gaye. Here’s a taste…
The brewery will be hosting a party for Mariposa to help fund the co-op’s move into a new space. A raffle will be held at 3:30 p.m. The raffle tickets are sold out. The event will also feature live music.
Clark Park Farmer’s Market • 43rd Street between Baltimore Ave. and Chester Ave. • 10-2 p.m.
Certified therapy dogs Dandie, Gus & Milo return to the library to listen to kids read stories. For more information, please call the Children’s Department at 215-685-7422.
A teenage would-be robber was twice chased off by potential victims earlier this week near 47th and Baltimore, the Metroreports. A 38-year-old man told police that a young man approached him at about 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday armed with a knife and demanded money. After being punch in the face, the victim responded by brandishing Mace.
About 10 minutes later a woman reported that a young man approached her near 46th and Hazel and demanded money and her cell phone. She refused. The man fled after saying, “You’re lucky you’re a f—— female.”
UC Green will be out doing what they do best tomorrow – planting bare root trees and generally greening things up. They need help. Planting will run from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at various locations. All tools, gloves and lunch will be provided. There’s also a UC Green t-shirt in it for you. For more information write Winnie Harris at wharris [at] ucgreen.org or call 215-573-4684.
If you have ever had a tinge of regret after hearing about a show at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts that you would love to see but couldn’t afford, then you should read on.
The West Philly Rush Hour program makes a limited number of $10 tickets available two hours before every show (except the Dance Celebration performances) to West Philadelphians. The tickets will be available at the Center’s box office two hours before each show for one hour. So, for example, if a show starts 8 p.m., then tickets will be on sale from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets are available on a first come-first serve basis and they only can be purchased in person. There is a two-ticket maximum. Seating will be located throughout the venue, subject to management discretion.
To get the tickets you must show proof of residency (valid driver’s license or non-driver’s license photo ID) in one of the following zip codes: 19104, 19131, 19139, 19142, 19143, 19151 and 19153.
The main item on the agenda is a discussion about “aging in place” – how to assist senior members of the community to stay in their homes. Several guest speakers will be on hand to talk about everything from housing plans to simple repair and maintenance assistance.
Arts and Music
• Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango • Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (3680 Walnut St.) • 7:30 p.m. • Tickets: $38-$58.
For tango lovers, or even tango likers. This show features all the extravagance that is tango and Argentina.
•Camerata Philadelphia • University City Series at West Catholic Conservatory Recital Hall and Auditorium (4501 Chestnut St.) • 8 p.m. • Tickets: $20 general admission, $10 students/seniors.
The orchestra will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quintet in E-flat for Horn & Strings, K. 407, Dmitri ShostakovichChamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a,Franz Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, Op. 101, Hob. VIIb:2.
The beer and whiskey man will be signing updated copies of his literary beer tour of the Commonwealth. Dock Street and Four Worlds Bakery will also debut a new bread, Dock Street Beer Bread, which will be available for tasting during the signing.
Diners and pedestrians at the McDonald’s at 40th and Walnut Streets felt the wrath of PETA first-hand at lunchtime today when a pink stretch Hummer limo unloaded a small chanting, dancing troupe of little people dressed as chickens (and one had a mustache) at the restaurant to protest suppliers’ treatment of chickens.
Each of the four performers chanted, “Cluck you McDonald’s, I’m not a nugget” while other protesters held up signs. One even did a robot dance to the loud music coming from a boom box sitting on the sidewalk. Similar protests have been done in New York, including one at a McDonald’s on Times Square.
The brewery will be hosting a party for Mariposa to help fund the co-op’s move into a new space. A raffle will be held at 3:30 p.m. The raffle tickets are sold out. The event will also feature live music.
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