04-04-2025
Your Philadelphia weekend: Metal and Beer Fest, Play-a-Palooza
🕺 Get jiggy with it at the Barbary in Fishtown. The dance club is back open and better than ever. They've added new lighting, a sound system, a lobby and an upstairs outdoor patio.
🍸Longer hours mean more time to sip! The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's pop-up gardens are back on South Street and in Manayunk.
🎺 Check out the Jazz Cultural Voices Concert Series. Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Nabaté Isles hits the stage at the Philadelphia Clef Club on Saturday from 7:30-10pm.
Stop by the Stenton mansion and learn about the Quakers' fight to abolish slavery.
The museum has a 2,700-volume library once used by people like Benjamin Franklin. Public tours: Tuesday-Saturday, 1-4pm. Admission: $8 adults; $6 children
YOWIE, the hip South Street store and hotel, is hosting a free exhibition of piggy banks from dozens of artists, most of them local. Friday, 6-9:30pm.
🖼️ Elfreth's Alley, the city's colonial landmark, opens for the season Friday. The museum opens this week, too. House tours, plus a free First Friday: Poetry on Elfreth's Alley.
