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View galleryMillésimé, the self-defined "lifestyle store and showroom featuring collections for the modern home and person," has a new home on 41 S. Third St.
Open since July, this new location replaced the NoLibs birthplace of Jinous Kazemi's conglomerate of contemporary household accessories. Employee Jillian Collins explains that the store was looking to "focus more on furniture" and seek a new, older crowd. The overwhelming construction nearby is seriously cramping Millésimé's style, but thus far the sleek design store is holding its own. Business hours are Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Remember The Silver Linings Playbook? David O. Russell, Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker and Jennifer Lawrence were in Philly filming it last year. It was based on a novel by Matthew Quick — full disclosure he was my college housemate way back when, and he has this weird affinity for Swedish lawnsports — which was excerpted by City Paper back in 2008. Anyway, the trailer is out there now:
Green space isn't common in Center City and landmarks around Rittenhouse Square are slow to change. So don't be surprised when walking down Walnut Street that the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has taken over that odd vacant lot right across the street from Rittenhouse Square and turned it into a garden focused on growing food for the City Harvest program. City Paper went to the opening and took a few pictures.
Yesterday University City unveiled The Dirt Factory, its new trash-to-treasure composting facility that will convert organic neighborhood waste into compost with the help of fallen leaves, worms and a high-capacity Earth Tub system. The facility will be open for drop-off every Wednesday from 5 to 6 p.m., and UCD and the Pedal Co-op will also provide collection services for bagged leaves, wood chips and other organic material. The Factory held a party for its grand opening, filling the air with bluegrass music and the scents of locally sponsored refreshments, and we took some photos.
The jogger's haven along the Manayunk canal known as the tow path will be graced for the next six weeks by a twisting mass of tubes, over 50 feet in total. The art installation Escaped Infrastructure at Canal View Park (4430 Main Street) was created by Lucy Begg and Robert Gay of the Austin-based design firm THOUGHTBARN and funded by the Manayunk Development Corporation and the Mural Arts Program. As people pass by, motion sensors activate a series of hidden pumps to send the waters of the canal through the tubes, which LED lights will set aglow by night, and splashing out the other end, adding some life and movement to the still (and occasionally sickly green) waters.
Local indie rockers The Quelle Source just released a video for "The French Rapture," a song from their 2011 EP of the same name. The band's playing the Goodnight Lights CD release party at Johnny Brenda's (1201 N. Frankford Ave.) Sat., June 16 at 9 p.m. along with "Gothic Americana" folksters The Bailey Hounds.
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