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Im looking for a venue that can reserve a spot for us and offer a drink special. Ideal night I will host will be on a Thursday. Last event had about 25 young professionals and the venue offered a drink special just for those who RSVP for the event. Any suggestion would help.
by Isaiah Thompson
9 hours ago
At Wednesday's School Reform Commission meeting, Suong Nguyen, the grandmother of Hao Luu – or "Guy," as you might know him from »»
by Drew Lazor
10 hours ago
Lee Styer, chef/partner over at Fond (1617 E. Passyunk Ave.), is in the process of overhauling his dinner menu for the spring season. While »»
by Drew Lazor
10 hours ago
-  First off, be sure to check out Team Meal Ticket's spring supplement! We crewed up to bring you this feature on Philly's regional pizza styles, »»
Fri., March 19, 7 p.m., $20-$30, Sexploratorium, 620 S. Fifth St., 215-829-4986, passion101classes.com.
Sexploratorium instructor Kira Manser believes openly exploring individual sexual needs may initiate an emboldened partnership that exudes honesty and communication.

Fri., March 19, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., March 20, 2:30 p.m., $22, Conwell Dance Theater, 1801 N. Broad St., 215-546-2552, danceboxoffice.com.
Imports hail from Minneapolis and San Francisco, presenting pieces inspired by the human nervous system and George Orwell's Animal Farm.

March 19-May 9, $35, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St., 215-496-8001, phillyshakespeare.org.
These plays are night and day, but since PST's hired the same actors for both productions, they might not feel so different.
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Editor's Letter
Is the PLCB creating a culture of beer fear?
by Brian Howard
"We play by the rules and whatever we perceived to be unlicensed, we immediately took off and sent back. We do everything by the book, no matter how irrational the book is."

Loose Canon
"We are perfectly situated to receive a wave of money."
by Bruce Schimmel
Liz Robinson has an interesting problem: She has a growing number of good-paying, light construction jobs with good benefits, and not enough takers.

Feedback
What You Say
"This group is the most inconsistent group of basketball players with high salaries that was ever assembled."


Environmental lip service takes a back seat to tasty a.m. fare at Green Eggs Café.
by Trey Popp
Quinoa porridge sounds like an attempt to out-vegan the staunchest eco-Samaritan who ever walked in hemp sandals, but Green Eggs turned it into a $4.50 bowl of luxuriant bliss.

REVIEW: Blood Into Wine
by Drew Lazor
With Merkin Vineyards and the associated Caduceus Cellars, Keenan and partner/mentor Eric Glomski are perched upon "the frontier of viticulture," setting out to prove that the soil can produce good grapes, a task described by one Napa Valley winemaker as "trying to make wine on the moon."

Get Out!
by Alexandra Harcharek
Thursday Night Tastings at Bar Ferdinand | Rosé/Cheese/Charcuterie Night at Mémé | Duvel Green Tasting at Devil's Den | Wine IQ Class at Pinot Wine Boutique | Philadelphia Real Ale Invitational at Yards Brewing Co. | March Madness at Le Bec-Fin

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Healthy Bites ToGo | 2521 Christian St.
Average entree $10 - $20 Wheelchair accessible Takeout menu Vegetarian options
Katie Cavuto Boyle's Healthy Bites meal-delivery service has grown out of its Philly Kitchen Share beginnings and into this storefront, a fresh/local market, café, Lancaster Farm Fresh CSA pickup spot and cooking-class venue. To go: a soup/sandwic »»
Hoof+Fin | 617 S. Third St.
Average entree $10 - $20 Wheelchair accessible Brunch served Vegetarian options BYO
Chef Lucas Manteca, who does Quahog's and Sea Salt down the Shore, has introduced this rustic BYO in the space that was Gayle. There are extensive raw bar, appetizer and entrée sections here, but the most interesting aspect of the menu is the "Fro »»
Garces Trading Company | 1111 Locust St.
Average entree $10 - $20 Wheelchair accessible Takeout menu Vegetarian options Liquor license
He already monopolizes your restaurant dreams — now Jose Garces is poised to dominate your every dry good-related thought! Garces Trading Company is the Iron Chef's foray into the gourmet market game. Bread, charcuterie, soups, salads, sandwiches, »»
Desi Chaat House | 501 S. 42nd St.
Average entree under $10 Wheelchair accessible Takeout menu Vegetarian options
A pan-South Asian comfort food, chaat can describe an array of savory snackies and condiments sold from street carts across the subcontinent. Hasan Bukhari — who owns the Desi Village restaurants in King of Prussia and West Philadelphia — opened »»

Art
Kathleen Turner comes to Philly kicking ass and taking names.
by A.D. Amorosi
Written by sister journalists Margaret and Allison Engel, the one-woman play takes on Ivins' brassy wit with a lust-for-life robustness that only Kathleen Turner could handle.

Dance
Fri., March 19, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., March 20, 2:30 p.m., $22, Conwell Dance Theater, 1801 N. Broad St., 215-546-2552, danceboxoffice.com.
by Deni Kasrel
Imports hail from Minneapolis and San Francisco, presenting pieces inspired by the human nervous system and George Orwell's Animal Farm.

Arts Picks
March 19-May 9, $35, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St., 215-496-8001, phillyshakespeare.org.
by Mark Cofta
These plays are night and day, but since PST's hired the same actors for both productions, they might not feel so different.


Agenda Lead
Tiny two-wheelers race through Fairmount at the Brompton Folder bike race.
by Julia West
"Monty Python meets Tour de France" is what Trophy Bikes co-owner Michael McGettigan keeps calling the Brompton Folder U.S. bike race. The more he talks about it, the more apt the term he coined seems.

Agenda Picks
Fri., March 19, 7 p.m., $20-$30, Sexploratorium, 620 S. Fifth St., 215-829-4986, passion101classes.com.
by Josh Middleton
Sexploratorium instructor Kira Manser believes openly exploring individual sexual needs may initiate an emboldened partnership that exudes honesty and communication.

Agenda Picks
Sat., March 20, 8 p.m., $5, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave., 215-387-3434, studio34yoga.com.
by Amy Strauss
Vandegrift, proudly unshaven for more than six months, invites fellows and females to contend in five non-gendered, audience-judged contests over natural and free-styled full and partial beards, 'staches, fakes and much more.

by Carolyn Huckabay
9 hours ago
Here's what you'll miss if you don't pick up a City Paper this week: FEATURES! A.D. Amorosi chats with sultry-voiced megastar Kathleen Turner, »»
by Molly Eichel
9 hours ago
We pity the fool who doesn't go to this Friday's Soul Food Cinema courtesy of the fine folks at Reel Black. This month's offering is Death Drug, featuring »»

The student the School District blamed for the violence at South Philadelphia High School shares his story. It's not the same one District officials have been telling.
by Isaiah Thompson
The Vietnamese student in the middle of the SPHS controversy has his own story to tell — and so far, it's one that hasn't been told, because neither Judge James T. Giles, the police nor any school official has ever bothered to ask him what happened.


That's how many victims Philly's only domestic violence shelter turned away last year.
by Holly Otterbein
"We had no idea it was going to be this bad." Keafer is not referring to the number of employees that WAA had to lay off, or even the crucial children's services that have fallen by the wayside. She's talking about the number of victims looking for an escape that WAA has had to plumb turn away.

Sports
Too soon for "Two Coreys" jokes.
by E. James Beale
While the true sports fan can fend for himself, the other 90 percent needs something to talk about. We're here to provide talking points on the two teams you're going to have to deal with most.

Soapboxer
It's time to grow up.
by Jeffrey C. Billman
We have a serious problem: that is, the absolute lack of seriousness in our discussions of how we solve these problems.


Ted Leo and the Pharmacists | The Delgados | Seabear | Gorillaz | Acrassicauda

Music Picks
Sun., March 21, 9 p.m., $12, with Blue Giant, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
by Brian Howard
James Mercer may be off doing his electro-pop thing with Broken Bells, but that doesn't mean you need to go without oblique, brainy, navel-gazing guitar pop.

Suite Spot
The Academy of Vocal Arts will congratulate itself with — what else? — a whole lot of singing.
by Peter Burwasser
The Academy of Vocal Arts' hall on Spruce Street, Helen Corning Warden Theater, is a most unlikely opera venue, but it is also a wonderful one. AVA will congratulate itself next Wednesday night with, what else, a whole lot of singing.


City Paper Grade: A-
by Shaun Brady
Mother plays similar is a gritty policier which also becomes a slapstick comedy, and both a melo- and psycho-drama without ever conceding its whodunit identity.

Your weekly guide to local film events, festivals and under-the-radar screenings.
Send repertory film listings to molly.eichel@citypaper.net.




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phillygrrl on
The Fall Guy
`So now this poor kid's parents have the added burden of paying private school tuition where they might have avoided it - simply in order to keep their ` »
Andy Cregar on
New spring menu items at Fond
`I Love Fond, they have the best risoto in Philly, Pa.. I Did really enjoy my dinner there about three months ago, it was great!! The Chef gets my hat ` »
Andy Cregar on
Chima Brazilian Steakhouse
`I think Chima and the other Brazzillian steak house are both tourist traps, selling mediocre food, at really expensive prices, and making drinks that ` »
AW on
The Fall Guy
`Ackerman should be fired. Racism is racism no matter what color you are.` »
Gretchen Cowell on
The Fall Guy
`This is a terrible story (I mean the content, not the reporting). It's still hard to know what happened in this individual case. I hope some outside ` »
KB on
The Fall Guy
`There are several problems here, first of which is why do High School students need interpreters? Is it possible that a first step to all of us getting ` »
Holly Otterbein on
4,671
`Fred, Thanks for the comment. Indeed, Tara wrote a great story in early '09 PREDICTING that this sort of thing may happen when the budget for WAA ` »
fred on
4,671
`I liked this story better when it was written by Tara Murtha and ran in Philadelphia Weekly more than a year ago. Way to go, CP.` »