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Good afternoon everyone. After a cool morning...

Good afternoon everyone. After a cool morning, most locations have warmed into the upper 40s to near 50. Saturday morning lows will also be quite chilly but we will rebound to an even warmer afternoon. Freeze warnings are in effect tonight for Berks, Chester, and Montgomery Counties in Pennsylvania and Cecil County in Maryland. For a specific forecast, enter your location on our webpage: https://www.weather.gov/phi/.

Still looking for weekend plans? TOMORROW NIG...

Still looking for weekend plans? TOMORROW NIGHT is Lightbox Film Center 's first birthday! 🎉 Come on over at 7:00PM for a screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's film Before the Revolution, and stay for refreshments and hot Euro beats spun by DJ Silvia at 9:00PM. Learn more: http://bit.ly/lightbox1year Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/lightbox1yearTix #lightbox1year #HBDLightbox #Lightbox #film #italiancinema And of course, thanks to our sponsors, SSD Technology Partners Yards Brewing Co. Tito's Handmade Vodka

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Join us as we celebrate our first year as Lightbox Film Center, following the rebranding of International House's 40 year-old film and media arts program in Spring 2017. Guests are invited to celebrate this milestone with food, drink, and music in our beautiful Galleria after the screening of famed Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning second feature Before the Revolution.
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*TONIGHT* #GetNerdyPHL at the West Philly Sta...

*TONIGHT* #GetNerdyPHL at the West Philly Star Party with experts and family crafts from the Penn Museum and enjoy treats from Lil' Pop Shop! Mini chats will take place INSIDE the Hamilton Mansion! University of Pennsylvania West Philly Local University City District

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Congrats to @Drexel University on their recen...

Congrats to @Drexel University on their recent grants to improve early childhood education in West Philadelphia.

Vanguard and William Penn Foundation Award $2.6 Million in Grants to Drexel's Early Learning Initiative - DrexelNow
Two grants totaling $2.6 million will help support Drexel University's efforts to improve early childhood education in West Philadelphia. They are the first significant grants to benefit early education in the West Philadelphia Promise Neighborhood. The grants will support Drexel's West Philadelphia Action for Early Learning Initiative during the next three years.
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Still a little cool and breezy today but it w...

Still a little cool and breezy today but it will be dry with plenty of sunshine. Fair weather with sunshine persists through the weekend into early next week with a gradual warming trend. For local forecast details specific to your location please visit weather.gov/phi and enter your city or zip code in the upper left.

Catch-22 is an adaptation of the Joseph Helle...

Catch-22 is an adaptation of the Joseph Heller novel about endless military bureaucracy. Catch previews at Curio Theatre Company on April 25 and 26th, with opening night April 27th.

Catch-22
Artwork by Elizabeth Gallagher
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Showers are currently moving into the area fr...

Showers are currently moving into the area from the west. Temperatures will remain warm enough for rain but some snow is likely to mix in for the Poconos and extreme northwest New Jersey. Rain and snow showers should move out of the area by mid afternoon. Winds will pick up as showers move through and will remain blustery through the evening with lows in the mid 30s throughout much of the region and near 30 for the Poconos and northern New Jersey.

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Showers are currently moving into the area from the west. Temperatures will remain warm enough for rain but some snow is likely to mix in for the Poconos and extreme northwest New Jersey. Rain and...
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Drexel University Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Drexel University Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships is live now.
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Thank you to our special guests including Dre...

Thank you to our special guests including Drexel’s Andre Carrington, Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse’s Ariell Johnson, Lil’ Filmmakers’ Janine Spruill, and the moderator Drexel’s Vincent Williams for making Tuesday night's Diversity in Cinema discussion a great one!

Theatre Exile’s new “Sing the Body Electric,"...

Theatre Exile’s new “Sing the Body Electric," the “Mendelssohn Medley," Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe’s “Our Few and Evil Days” and more this week. http://philadelphiafreepress.com/notes-on-music-p7251-95.htm

Notes on Music ♫
A roundup of musical and cultural events in Philadelphia this week.
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Meet candidates for 3rd Congressional seat and Lt. Governor Thursday at USciences
Here's a chance to meet and hear from some candidates up for election in next month's primaries. The 27th Ward Democratic Executive Committee is hosting a candidates forum on Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m.
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"Grays Ferry’s Pennovation Center is getting ...

"Grays Ferry’s Pennovation Center is getting a couple of new tenants. Biorealize, makers of a desktop bioprototyping platform, and ZSX Medical, makers of a medical device focusing on minimally-invasive surgery, are the latest companies to join the Penn-run, 58,000-square-foot tech transfer hub."

Pennovation Center gets two new biotech startups - Technical.ly Philly
Grays Ferry's Pennovation Center is getting a couple of new tenants. Biorealize , makers of a desktop bioprototyping platform, and ZSX Medical , makers of a medical device focusing on minimally-invasive surgery, are the latest companies to join the Penn-run, 58,000-square-foot tech transfer hub.
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Here are today's expected high temperatures. ...

Here are today's expected high temperatures. #mdwx #dewx #njwx #pawx

If you have $99 and a hankering for leafy gre...

If you have $99 and a hankering for leafy greens, Just Salad has a deal for you.

Just Salad Is Really Pushing Salad With Its Unlimited Bowl
Just Salad's new University City restaurant, located at Penn at 3728 Spruce Street, opened its doors last week. It's the second Philly location for the chain; the first started serving last summer at 1729 Chestnut Street. The fast-casual eatery does sell more than salad, with wraps, hot bowls, smoothies, and avocado toast on the menu.
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Join Mural Arts Philadelphia and Internationa...

Join Mural Arts Philadelphia and International House Philadelphia for a discussion on how public art and wellness can go hand in hand, and how you can be part of Philadelphia's transformation.

Rippling Moon: Conversations on Public Art and Wellness
Rippling Moon: An Urban Fairytale is a powerful new mural project built on principles of trauma-informed care. Renowned artist Meg Saligman's dramatic theater-inspired designs illustrate how healing begins with a single point and then ripples out through a community.
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John Kirby served as a panelist representing the Dornsife Center at Think Tank hosted by Promise Corps last week, where students from four local West Philly high schools presented a challenge they regularly face in their community and their attainable and actionable solution!

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Several great events this weekend to celebrate the Philadelphia Science Festival!

West Philly Star Party, Science in the Park and more Philly Science Festival events
The Philadelphia Science Festival kicks off on Friday, April 20 with tons of fun and educational events being held around the city. The goal of this annual event is to "educate, inspire, and engage the region with the science and technology that surrounds our everyday world." Several festival-rel
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Developer Ori Feibush has acquired the site o...

Developer Ori Feibush has acquired the site of the former Frankford Chocolate Factory on the north side of Washington Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets in South Philadelphia, with plans to raze most of the historic structure to make way for apartments, townhouses and stores.

Ori Feibush plans homes and shops at Chocolate Factory site in South Philly
Developer Ori Feibush says his proposal would be a big step toward transforming Washington Avenue, west of Broad Street, from a strip of warehouses and blighted industrial buildings into a dense commercial and residential corridor binding the revitalized neighborhoods to its north and south.
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The University City Garden Club spring plant ...

The University City Garden Club spring plant sale is Saturday May 12th in Clark Park. Pre-order plants by April 29th and help support University City Greening Projects including the Grave Gardeners. Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/2vshdLy

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Drexel University Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships
Drexel University Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 732 likes. The Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships is Drexel's urban extension center - modeled...
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Good morning! A chilly start to the day with ...

Good morning! A chilly start to the day with temperatures generally in the 30s at this time. However temperatures will moderate to the mid 50s to low 60s by this afternoon under partly to mostly sunny skies. A system will bring some rain and showers tonight into Thursday, mainly north of the I-78, I-80 corridors, but the good news is that dry weather with sunshine is expected for this coming weekend into early next week. For the latest forecast details specific to your location, please visit weather.gov/phi and enter your city or zip code in the upper left.

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Some minor flooding will continue on the Passaic River at Pine Brook and on the Millstone River at Griggstown. Do not drive around barricades and do not attempt to drive through flooded areas.

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The Dornsife and Lindy Centers' table at EarthFest earlier today. #DrexelEarthWeek Lindy Center Lindy Center

Technically, it has been warmer in April than...

Technically, it has been warmer in April than it was in February. Despite a few warm days last week, it hasn't felt that way!

The Penn Relays return to University City nex...

The Penn Relays return to University City next week! Do you have your tickets?

Penn Relays
The official website for the athletics
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“These programs unite neighborhoods and help ...

“These programs unite neighborhoods and help increase neighbor engagement in their communities.” http://philadelphiafreepress.com/civic-and-businesses-groups-come-together-for-phillys-annual-cleanup-day-p7248-1.htm

Civic and businesses groups come together for Philly's annual cleanup day
Residents and businesses owners across Philadelphia took to the streets on Saturday. Armed with brooms, shovels, gloves and trash bags, they were united around a single cause: Taking out the trash. This weekend was the 11th Annual Spring Clean Up.
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International House Philadelphia shared OMAR ...

A week ago OMAR OFFENDUM gave a beautiful performance here at the Ibrahim Theater, and now he's at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a #CitizenArtist. Congratulations! We can count on Offendum to #HustleOn (listen to that track here: https://offendum.bandcamp.com/track/hustle-on)

A Freeze Warning is in effect from 2AM thru 8...

A Freeze Warning is in effect from 2AM thru 8AM Wednesday (4/18) for portions of New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania (areas in purple). Temperatures are expected to drop to or below freezing overnight. Take appropriate steps to protect sensitive vegetation. #njwx #pawx #mdwx

We Need You! Something big is happening on Ma...

We Need You! Something big is happening on May 1. Join the Dornsife Center team of Contenders at http://drexel.edu/24 #Drexel24

Andrea Modica's new photography book comes ou...

Andrea Modica's new photography book comes out on Thursday with a launch party at The Print Center. http://ucreview.com/in-january-a-new-photography-collection-casts-mummers-in-a-different-l-p7778-86.htm Book Launch | Andrea Modica, January 1

In "January 1," a new photography collection casts Mummers in a different light
For more than a decade, Andrea Modica has been documenting a long-standing Philadelphia tradition in an old-fashioned way. She's spent more than ten New Year's Days photographing Mummers on black-and-white film using an 8x10 large-format camera.
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In their new web series "Flame to Table," Phi...

In their new web series "Flame to Table," Philadelphia Gas Works visits restaurants celebrating the excellence and variety of Philly's food industry. Their first episode features Dining Days participant Dim Sum House!

Dim Sum House
Situated in University City, Dim Sum House has wonderful selection of Cantonese and Shanghai dim sum as well as wonderful dishes from the Jiang Nan region of China. Not familiar with dim sum? Watch the episode to find out what dim sum means and how it is traditionally prepared.
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The Woodlands updated their cover photo.

The Woodlands
The Woodlands updated their cover photo.
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This weekend the Penn Museum celebrates the o...

This weekend the Penn Museum celebrates the opening of their new Middle East galleries with a two-day celebration featuring the sights, sounds, arts and cultures of the region! Included in the festivities: musical performances, puppet shows, Arabic calligraphy workshops, a zoo on wheels featuring Middle Eastern animals, a special menu at the Pepper Mill Cafe, and much more! The opening weekend celebrations are included with museum admission.

Middle East Galleries
Middle East Galleries will take you on a journey, exploring how ancient Mesopotamian societies gave rise to the world's first cities-cities not so different from our own.
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There is some lingering flooding in NJ early ...

There is some lingering flooding in NJ early this morning. Most of the flooding is minor. However, moderate flooding is occurring on the Millstone River in Somerset County. A Flood Warning is in effect. #njwx

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There is some lingering flooding in NJ early this morning. Most of the flooding is minor. However, moderate flooding is occurring on the Millstone River in Somerset County. A Flood Warning is in...
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Hope everybody is safe and dry this evening. ...

Hope everybody is safe and dry this evening. As additional rainfall and flooding reports come in, we will update the Public Information Statement (PNS) and Local Storm Report (LSR). Feel free to pass any reports on to us. Although the rain has ended, many of the smaller rivers and streams are still elevated, and in some cases, are flooded. Continue to exercise caution out there!

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It's raining it's pouring don't eat something...

It's raining it's pouring don't eat something boring! Stay dry and have some of Philly's tastiest food delivered to your door. Order Caviar and a percentage of your payment will benefit Chester Arthur. Use this link instead of the ap. http://foca.withcaviar.com/

Friends of Chester Arthur
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Good things come in trees. As many of you ...

Good things come in trees. As many of you know, East Point Breeze Neighbors participates in the PHS : Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Street Tree planting twice a year, in November and in April. This Saturday, April 21, is the day! We, along with our friends at Newbold CDC and West Passyunk Neighbors have a total of 25 trees to stick in the ground, including 10 in the EPBN service area. We need a few more able-bodied neighbors to help dig some pits and plant some trees. If you can volunteer on Saturday morning (around 9:30am), comment here, PM us or email clean@epbneighbors.org. BONUS POINTS if you happen to have a heavy-duty digging shovel, a pick-ax or a push broom that you can bring along! This is a regular Tree Party, and as a great poet once said: After the Party is the Afterparty! All volunteers are invited for pizza and beer post-trees at Brewery ARS! NOTE - our newest neighborhood Tree-Tenders group, Point Breeze Tree Tenders is also planting trees on 21 April. Their "zone" is WEST of 18th street, so if you live closer to that side of the Breeze, give them a shout -With their trees added, we're up to almost FORTY NEW TREES! ANOTHER NOTE - The deadline for November trees is MAY 7! Too much information for this post, so watch this space next week for more info!

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Enjoy a great night and support Saint Mary's Nursery School at Annual Fundraiser on Saturday, April 21 (Sponsored post)
Do you want to support early childhood education and have a great night out? Would you bid on a Cape May vacation or some original artwork? How about a birthday party package to University Family Fun Center or a new bike?
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DEADLINE EXTENDED! If you live in the communi...

DEADLINE EXTENDED! If you live in the community and want to vend food at the June Dollar Stroll, applications are due by Monday, April 23rd.

Now Accepting Community Vendors for the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll
University City District (UCD) and the Baltimore Avenue Business Association are excited to announce the return of the Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll on Thursday, June 7 and Thursday, September 13, 2018. The event draws thousands of neighbors and visitors to enjoy $1 specials from participating vendors.
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Lightbox Film Center turns 1 this Saturday! Get ready to party 🎉 More info: http://bit.ly/lightbox1year Tickets: http://bit.ly/lightbox1yearTix #lightbox1year #HBDLightbox #Lightbox #film #italiancinema #italopop

ENNIO MORRICONE -"Fermateli!" (1965)
From, "MENAGE ALL'ITALIANA" (Italy, 1965) -"MENAGE ITALIAN STYLE" (USA) An Ugo Tognazzi film, maybe a sex comedy. This galloping surf number is great for getting the clubs hopping! The band may be the MARC 4, the crack studio band who often backed all the Italian composers; the guitar then is possibly Carlo Pes.
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