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Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Slow: Opening event for sLowlife, featuring time-lapse photography and high-speed video footage revealing the secret life of plants, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (315 Chestnut), 5PM. Free Sing a Song: Steve Odabashian takes requests and makes it personal at Helium Comedy Club (2031 Sansom), 6-10:45PM. Free Mega: Release party for the 10th issue of Megawords Magazine at Juanita & Juan's/Smyrski Creative Studios (125 N 11th), 7-10PM. Free Love: Screening of I've Loved You So Long, with popcorn, at Little Theater (7141 Germantown Ave), 7PM. $6

NEXUS/foundation for today's art is a champion of local artists of all stripes; their commitment to maintain gallery space dedicated to local emerging and experimental artists has rightfully earned them a rep as a Philly art institution. The fruits of their mission will be on display tonight, as they present their new members exhibitions with an opening reception.

Let us say up front that we buy into Virginia Woolf’s theory about women artists: it was/is often lack of opportunity, rather than lack of talent, that keeps the gender imbalance in the classic art canon holding steady. Controversy still abounds as to the placement and display of female artists, particularly whether it matters. If art is good, it is good, right, and will be recognized as such, regardless of gender. Would that it were so. However, in the midst of arguing why women are underrepresented in the artistic pantheons, we can sometimes lose sight of those women who managed to break through those barriers presented by societal and cultural expectations. One is the subject of an exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Philadelphia native Cecilia Beaux, who was once described by painter William Merritt Chase as “not only the greatest living woman painter, but the best that has ever lived.”

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To say we like puppets is probably an understatement. What’s there not to like about talking pieces of wood? Or, for that matter, watching humans channel their emotions and desires through a manipulate-able avatar? Twilight Zone aside, it sounds like a surefire recipe for fun.