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I’m at the @TheFranklin’s media event announcement for the Harry Potter exhibit and we all had to choose a house scarf when we registered and this may be the best media check in ever. ImageImageImage
Benny F is already watching out for a little magic. Image
Also, there is tea and crumpets. ImageImageImage
The Philly Pops are on hand and wearing house scarves and I may get weepy if/when they play the Harry Potter theme. Image
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😭😭🧙‍♀️
Franklin CEO Larry Dubinski announces the exhibit will open Feb. 18, 2022.

More than 21,000 pre-sale tickets have already been sold. Tickets go on sale to the public today. Image
It was just announced that this giant sculpture and giant snitch will travel around the region. People can interact with it through a QR code and have a chance to win the first 4 tickets into the exhibit when it opens. These Hogwarts students demonstrate.
Mayor Kenney is a Ravenclaw. Says he thinks Ben Franklin would have loved Harry Potter. Image
Going to write up info about how to get tickets and what to expect at Harry Potter: The Exhibit next year. One way is to chase the Golden snitch across the region (spoiler: I got him). ImageImageImage
They also had golden snitched flying about the great hall over Benny F’s head.
I’m just going to say it was really hard not to climb on this broomstick during a press event. I’m jelly of the people who did. Image
I think Mayor Kenney even smiled a little today! #magical Image
Finally, I will leave you with this, my muggle friends. May you all always stay up to no good. 🧙‍♀️

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I’ve written about a lot of weird Philly stuff - it’s my favorite thing to write about - but the Yamatorium in West Philly may be among the weirdest.

Come with me on a surreal journey through this cabinet of curiosities & panoply of the peculiar… 🧵

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Here, you see the Yam Boy I mention in my column and you see Steven pretend to take a call on his yamophone (it was a wrong number).

He was on from the minute we walked in the door and never turned off. He broke into song 5 times, had 3 costume changes and many personas.
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Two weeks ago, I posted a thread on Twitter about a Philly community center that found a locked mystery safe and needed help (for free) getting it opened.

Today, because of the help of lots of awesome Philadelphians, the safe was cracked open and I was there (a thread)
The tip about the safe came to me from my colleague @ByChrisBrennan, who saw the Old Pine Community Center post about it on Nextdoor & sent the post my way.

"Saw this on the Nextdoor app and immediately wondered what a Farr report about this would read like," he wrote me.
I called the center's executive director, Mark Atwood, who told me they'd sought locksmiths to open the safe, but all estimates were out of their price range.

I offered to put the word out on Philly Twitter to see if they could find a volunteer. Atwood approved.
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Nov 19, 2021
I JUST GOT THE CALL THAT THE MYSTERY SAFE OPENING IS HAPPENING TODAY AND YES I AM YELLING THIS!

I have dropped everything (will worry about that anxiety later) and will be attending.

cc @LeviFetterman
They were able to connect with people (keeping the who on the DL for the moment) to open the safe as a result of someone seeing my previous thread and DMing me a suggestion so yay for Philly Twitter!!!

Updates to come.
I feel like I should maybe bring a fake mustache with me in case I turn out to be Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's empty vault.
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Nov 5, 2021
A Philly community center has an old-fashioned mystery on their hands and they're seeking someone in the Philly area with the knowledge and devices (blow torches? industrial drills?) who would be willing to volunteer their time to bust open a safe (a thread):
Staff at the community center (which for now shall go unnamed so people don't show up at their door with blow torches) discovered the safe in the back of a closet last month. Nobody knows how long it has been there. It'd been turned around so people couldn't see the front...
....so nobody knew it was a safe. They just assumed it was a rusted mechanical device with wheels they couldn't move for many years.

But when a junk removal company came in & a very large man finally got it to budge, the staff realized they had a mystery safe on their hands.
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