May

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May

Ultimate Summer Fun 2011

Photo by Neal Santos

"May gives me spring fever. I just blossom like a tiger lily." —Omyra Lynn

27 Friday

If you like the idea of mini-golf but not, well, children, head to Franklin Square before Historic Philadelphia's Memorial Day weekend shebang hits full-tilt. The park should be peaceful enough to enjoy a few holes without getting thwacked by some toddler's errant putter. Sixth and Race streets, historicphiladelphia.org. —CH

26 Thursday

Most of us have to work at it, but fierceness is a cakewalk for Omyra Lynn. See for yourself at her weekly Rainbow Thursday parties, where her divafied performances drip with enough ferocity to send Whitney crawling back to the crack. 8 p.m., free, Toxic Fish, 6041 Rising Sun Ave., 267-745-4517. —JM

28 Saturday

Peep Playing Leni at Madhouse Theater Co. The dark comedy by David Robson and John Stanton about Nazi propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won Theatre Alliance's small theater developmental award last summer. Through June 11, 2030 Sansom St., 267-571-9623, madhousetheater.org. —MC

29 Sunday

Take the train to Manayunk for Three Potato Four 's last-weekend-of-the-month Barn Sale. You'll be sure to find a summertime-entertainment showpiece among this creaky old warehouse's rousing collection of antiques, industrial furnishings and "oddities." 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 376 Shurs Lane, 267-335-3633, threepotatofourshop.com. —JM

30 Monday

Varga Bar's black cherry margarita is to-die. Have one with friends, and bring a copy of Chuck Klosterman's IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. The hypothetical questions within make for titillating drunken conversation. Example: Would you rather eat a dead baby or a dead elderly person? How much would it bother you if either was delicious? 941 Spruce St., 215-627-5200, vargabar.com. —KJ

31 Tuesday

Pop into "Resonance and Reflections" at AxD Gallery to spy the mutual inspiration that manifested itself in the works of Dolores Poacelli and Paul Davis Jones. The abstract artists became inspired by each other's work when they shared a studio space in the Italian Market. Through June 18, free, 265 S. 10th St., 215-627-6250, a-x-d.com. —JM