First Friday Fun

What is it about First Fridays that makes the weather come? It really does seem like every fourth Friday, the weather turns to crap, just in time to descend on art-loving urban hipsters traveling from gallery to gallery to imbibe free wine. If we feel like trading the Film Festival for First Friday, here's where we'll be imbibing:

Pinot Boutique, an Old City shop that could only be improved upon if Pennsylvania laws allowed it to sell wine and not just wine accouterments, will be teaming with PAWS to present Wines, Canines and Felines, featuring wine tastings at the former and wine gadget demonstrations at the latter. Animal adoptions will take place at both. Seeing as this event combines two of our greatest loves in life—wine and dogs—we consider it an absolute must! Pinot is located at 227 Market Street, between Second and Third Streets. PAWS is located a few blocks away, at the corner of Second and Arch Streets.

InLiquid, a local arts nonprofit that usually focuses their energies on their online collection, will be hosting a real live exhibition, Amze Emmons' World Headquarters, at the Painted Bride starting tonight, complete with opening reception. Emmons' work is both visually and contextually interesting, and the Bride's openings tend to be a lot of fun, so we highly recommend this particular First Friday stop. The Painted Bride Arts Center is located at 230 Vine Street, between Second and Third Streets.

The Snyderman and Works Galleries are technically two different galleries occupying the same space, but once a year for the last six years, they've united forces for their annual Fiber Biennal, this time tied into Fiber Philadelphia, which we've mentioned before. We caught the Fiber Biennal a few years ago and found it absolutely fascinating, and we're sure you will, too. The Snyderman and Works Galleries are located at 303 Cherry Street at Third Street.

Photo of Paws, the coincidentally-named dog that PAWS brought with them to The Barking Beauty last month, snapped by Ross Currie and located on the Phillyist Flickr account.