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By PW Staff

Calendar: March 10-16

What to do in Philly this week.

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Posted Mar. 9, 2010 | Comments: 0

NEWS AND OPINION

By Peak Johnson

From G to Gent

The game has a way of turning on its players, and within a few years Jamal Nasir’s choices started him down a 20-year path of crime and prison stints.

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Posted Mar. 9, 2010 | Comments: 1

MUSIC

By Michael Alan Goldberg

Superstar RADvice: Henry Rollins

You know when I sleep? From 1 a.m. to 1:15 a.m. You know what I did this morning? I bench-pressed 500 pounds for three hours. Then I wrote 12 poems. Are they any good? Fuck no. But I did it.

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Posted Mar. 9, 2010 | Comments: 0

ARTS AND CULTURE > ART

By Roberta Fallon

Home Is Where The Art Is

Now in its 75th year, the Whitney Biennial is still the big kahuna—the show every American artist wants to be in and every art lover wants to see. This year, the career-boosting show includes no Philadelphia artists.

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Posted Mar. 9, 2010 | Comments: 2

ARTS AND CULTURE > STAGE

By J. Cooper Robb

Family Feud

Directors typically bend over backward to make Shakespeare seem fresh and contemporary but director Matt Pfeiffer takes a different route.

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Posted Mar. 9, 2010 | Comments: 0

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