Archive for October, 2010

North Bowl: Lobbing Heavy Spherical Objects Like Whoa!

October 1st, 2010 No Comments
North Bowl

A former mechanics garage transformed into a bowler’s pipedream, Northern Liberties’ very own North Bowl provides a hang out space unlike any other. Instead of drab, commercially carpeted walls, greasy fast foods and dingy lounging areas typical of bowling rinks of old…

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Mütter Museum: Heavy on the Umlaud, Light on the Living

October 1st, 2010 No Comments
Mutter Museum

BY AARON STELLA Philadelphia’s abundance of erudition of culture endures in Rittenhouse with the Mutter Museum. Originally founded to educate future doctors about human anatomy and the various anomalies therein, today the erstwhile College of Physicians of Philadelphia provides the public with a history of Philadelphia’s medical past as well as exploring what it means to be human from the inside out. Various attractions include an original cast of the first recognized Siamese Twins, Joseph Hyrtl’s collection of skulls, the

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Washington Square Park: Idyllic Park, or Grazing Plots for Livestock?

October 1st, 2010 1 Comment
Washington Square

Philadelphia boasts of “Penn’s Five”, parklands that were plotted on the city’s grid by William Penn’s surveyor and architect, Thomas Holmes—one of which is Washington Square, located in the heart of Washington Square West.

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