The Philadelphia Orchestra continues its Global Concert Series, live performances with enhanced and interactive content, transmitted in HD to multiple remote largescreen venues on college and university campuses. The Orchestra has transmissions scheduled for the remainder of the 2007-08 season: March 7, April 10, May 3 and May 16, 2008.

From the time porcelain arrived in the West from China during the 15th century, Europeans fervently sought the expensive Asian ceramic, and even attempted to fashion their own versions in different, less expensive mediums. In England, these attempts quickly evolved to ceramic production on an industrial scale, supplying markets throughout Europe and the Americas.

The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial presents the fourth exhibition in the 30th season of the four-part Wind Challenge Exhibitions at Fleisher—the Delaware Valley’s premier juried artist exhibition program. This season’s twelve Challenge artists were selected from a field of 273 applicants to exhibit in one of four three-person exhibitions. Challenge #4 features photography by Judy Gelles, installations by Erica Zoe Loustau, and Shelley Spector.

Between 1770 and 1772, Philadelphia was home to an ambitious, complex commercial and artistic undertaking that mirrored the spirit of independence taking shape throughout the city and the American colonies.

Music and dance of Africa and the African diaspora, storytelling,arts and crafts, timely talks, culture and cuisine—it all comes together at the 19th annual Celebration of African Cultures Saturday, February 16, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. throughout the galleries of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Tickets for the Philadelphia debut of the "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination" exhibition at The Franklin are now available for public purchase in preparation for the February 9 opening.

Joey Chestnut becomes the winner of 2008 Wing Bowl.

There may be no better way to beat the winter blues than to catch a live performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Art After 5, where the blues is jazz and the scope is international. The winter 2008 program schedule includes acclaimed favorite performers as well as innovative emerging artists.

A massive Philadelphia Home Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center is starting this Saturday at the Philadelphia Convention Center where visitors and homeowners can go and borrow home improvement and remodeling ideas from 500 experts.

Sunday, February 10, 2008, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology offers it’s second annual Darwin Day and Evolution Teach In, a free event held in honor of the 199th birthday of Charles Robert Darwin, the world-renowned author of On the Origin of Species—and the originator of the modern theory of evolution.

People born in the Year of the Rat are noted for their charm and attraction for the opposite sex. They work hard to achieve their goals, acquire possessions, and are likely to be perfectionists. They are basically thrifty with money. Rat people are easily angered and love to gossip. Their ambitions are big, and they are usually very successful. They are most compatible with people born in the years of the Dragon, Monkey, and Ox. from The Chinese Zodiac.