RECOMMENDATIONS // DESTINATIONS
Your Move
Games on boards, the stage, and the page
by Lauren Earline Leonard
EXCERPT //
For more than 20 years, the Bingo Verifying Divas (BVDs) have hosted monthly (drag) bingo on North Broad Street. Players can expect a dressed up, musically inclined, and irreverent evening of gaming. Say yes (and…) to spontaneous, improvised comedy classes and workshops with Philly Improv Theater. With classics like Jenga, Monopoly, and Trivial Pursuit and new games like Mysterium, Splendor, and Wingspan, Philadelphia’s game cafés offer hundreds of ways to stave off boredom. Trivia-lovers and their aggressively competitive friends can play Quizzo at bars in nearly every neighborhood. (Johnny Goodtimes, the Godfather of Quizzo in Philly, hosts Monday nights at Loco Pez.) Tick a few off your Birding Life List at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum where 300+ species of birds are waiting to be watched. Bocce, a sport with deep Philadelphia roots, is popular again at both traditional clubs (private; men-only) and more relaxed (social; day-drinking) leagues. See the real deal on Sundays at Bardascino Park. Relieve your glory days with Heyay Athletic’s adult rec leagues which include basketball, bowling, dodgeball, hockey (field, floor), kickball and more.Try for a hole-in-one at the mini-golf course at historic Franklin Square, one of the five public squares William Penn envisioned as part of his “greene country towne.” Anywhere in this towne where there’s a sidewalk and chalk, there’s hopscotch and anywhere there’s green, people will be tossing beanbags, ladder balls, and Frisbees and hula-hooping and tight-rope walking. For the racket-set, enjoy public, free tennis and pickleball throughout the city. (Compliments of the city’s Rebuild initiative, some facilities are newly or soon-to-be renovated.) //
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