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Year 32, No. 45
Celebrating 32 Years of Community News
Ardmore Restaurant Week Returns “T IM Featuring Specially Priced 3-Course Meals and Happy Hour Discounts at 18 Restaurants July 17 to July 30 rdmore Restaurant Week, the two-week celebration of Ardmore’s innovative and delicious dining scene, invites you once again to experience unique and won-
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derful dining opportunities! Join participating Ardmore establishments Monday, July 17 through Sunday, July 30, 2017 for happy hour specials or prix fixe dinner menus. Happy hour specials will be available, in general, from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. and will feature 25% off a selected menu. Dinner participants will offer a prix fixe menu at either $25 or $35. Diners can expect a wide variety of cuisines and will have an opportunity to try out specialty menus created by Ardmore chefs specifically for Ardmore Restaurant Week. Sam’s Asian Cuisine, a newcomer to the Ardmore dining scene, has chosen to participate with an outstanding dinner menu featuring items like roti canai – a popular Malaysian crispy style pancake and curry chicken with potato dipping sauce as one of their first course offerings. Tired Hands Fermentaria, a local favorite popular with the craft beer crowd, will feature a selection of their famous tacos during a 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. happy hour. View restaurant offerings, detailed menus, and make reservations at www.ArdmoreRestaurantWeek.com. “Ardmore Restaurant Week is becoming one of our most popular events,” said Christine Vilardo, Executive Director of the Ardmore Initiative. “Ardmore has a reputation on the Main Line – and beyond – as one of the fastest growing dining destinations in the area. Ardmore Restaurant Week gives us a chance to celebrate established Ardmore favorites and introduce the ‘new kids on the block’. With choices from Mexican to Moroccan, you can eat somewhere special, and try something new each night!” Happy hour specials will be available, in general, from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. and will feature 25% See Ardmore Restaurant Week Returns page 4
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Healthy Living Page 11
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Owner Cira Elena Ferreira and daughter Jana Brcek Ferreira of Pala’a (18 West Lancaster Avenue) are excited to make their Ardmore Restaurant Week debut, July 17 - July 30.
Upcoming Arts & Cultural Events Pages 2 & 3
Education News Pages 6 & 7
July 12 – July 18, 2017
See the “Tim and Eric 10 Year Anniversary Awesome Tour” on Thursday, July 20 at 8 p.m. at the Merriam Theater, in Philadelphia, PA. n honor of the momentous 10 year anniversary of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!,” Tim and Eric are hitting the road this summer for a special “10 Year Anniversary Awesome Tour!” In the words of Tim and Eric, “It’s been 10 years. We are heading out to see our chips across the USA and celebrate this incredible decade of Tim and Eric with a number of new spoofs and goofs, riffs and bits, songs and dances and hope to create memories to last a lifetime.” See them on Thursday, July 20 at 8 p.m. at the Merriam Theater, in Philadelphia, PA.
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18th Annual Blobfest Set for July 14 - July 16 along with Ghoul A Go-Go and he Colonial Theatre’s The Patient Creatures. Friday eighteenth annual BLOBevening culminates with the FEST will take place Fricrowd favorite, the reenactday, July 14 through Sunday, ment of the “Run Out” scene July 16 at the theatre, located at 227 Bridge Street, in the Friday evening, July 14, heart of Phoenixville’s historic culminates with the crowd business district. This year’s favorite, the reenactment of theme is “Blob Warming,” a nod the “Run Out” scene from the to the recent opening of The movie, at approximately 9 Colonial Theatre’s new wing p.m. Tickets for this event in the former Phoenix newsare sold out, but fans are paper building. The kitschy, encouraged to gather across family-friendly event salutes the street from the theatre the 1958 classic sci-fi movie to watch the “Run Out.” The Blob that was filmed in BLOBFEST continues and around Phoenixville. The through July 16. Colonial Theatre plays a key role in the film. from the movie, at approxiBLOBFEST is sponsored by mately 9 p.m. Riverworks Phoenixville, The Tickets for this event are sold Mainstay Inn, Chester Counout, but fans are encouraged ty’s Brandywine Valley and to gather across the street from Shorty’s Sunflower Café. the theatre to see the “Run Out.” The event begins Friday, July BLOBFEST continues Saturday, July 15, at 11 a.m. with the Streetfair fea14, with a Stage Show and “Run Out” reenactment at the theatre hosted by horror host Mr. Lobo. Doors open at 7 p.m. BLOBFEST’s own Dr. Frank N. turing live music by rockabilly band Dibbs Preston and the Detonators. At Stone, Dr. Ima Hack and Dash Daring will be part of the night’s shenanigans See 18th Annual Blobfest page 5
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