HELLO SUMMER! GOODBYE SERVICE FEES!
“NO SERVICE FEE JUNE” FOR ALL TICKETS AT FESTIVAL PIER & RIVERSTAGE AT GREAT PLAZA
EXCLUSIVELY AT LIVENATION.COM

 Live Nation today announced “No Service Fee June” with the elimination of service fees on nearly 8 million tickets, more than 700 shows and 110 artists at all 50 Live Nation owned and operated amphitheaters for the entire month of June.  This includes all shows at Susquehanna Bank Center, Festival Pier and RIVER STAGE at Great Plaza for the entire month of June!

“A fan in every seat is our mission this summer,” said Michael Rapino, President and CEO of Live Nation.  “We know that’s tough in this economy, so it’s our job to find a way to make concerts more affordable.  Starting June 1, Live Nation and the world’s top artists are offering live music fans the experience of seeing their favorite bands with no service fees on more than 8 million tickets at LiveNation.com.”
 
Tickets for “No Service Fee June,” available only at LiveNation.com kicks-off Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 12:01am ET and will remain in effect until 11:59 pm ET, Wednesday, June 30.

For a complete list of all artists, venues and on sale dates, please visit www.LiveNation.com.

Festival Pier – Philadelphia, PA:
• June 5, 2pm: The Roots Picnic 2010 ft. The Roots, Vampire Weekend, Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, John Legend, Clipse, Mayer Hawthorne & The Country, The Very Best, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Jay Electronica, Nneka, Tune-Yards, Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew, MM Jamboys, Memory Tapes, Das Racist, Pattern is Movement, Foreign Exchange, DJ Diamond Kuts and more to be announced
• June 11, 7pm: Q102 Presents 3OH!3 and Cobra Starship ft. Travie McCoy and I Fight Dragons.
• June 17, 7pm: XPN Welcomes John Butler Trio and State Radio with Angus & Julia Stone
• June 20, Noon: The Bamboozle Roadshow ft. All Time Low, Boys Like Girls, LMFAO, Third Eye Blind, Good Charlotte, Simple Plan, Forever The Sickest Kids, Stereo Skyline, The Ready Set, Vita Chambers, Great Big Planes, Mercy Mercedes, Cady Groves
• July 13, 7pm: 311 with The Offspring and Pepper
• July 17, 7:30pm: Sublime with Rome with Matisyahu and The Dirty Heads
• July 24, 7pm: XPN Welcomes O.A.R. with Citizen Cope
• July 30, 5pm: WMMR Presents Carnival of Madness ft. Shinedown with Chevelle, Puddle of Mudd, Sevendust and 10 Years
• July 31, 7pm: Slightly Stoopid with Cypress Hill and Collie Buddz
• August 4, 6:30pm: Radio 104.5 & Q102 present Honda Civic Tour presents Paramore with Tegan & Sara, New Found Glory and Kadawatha
• August 14, 6pm: STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) with Lotus and The Album Leaf

RIVER STAGE at Great Plaza – Philadelphia, PA:
• June 28, 6pm: Radio 104.5 Summer Show ft. Silversun Pickups with Against Me!, Metric and The Henry Clay People
• July 2, 8pm: XPN & Y-Rock Welcome She & Him
• July 29, 7pm: XPN & YRock Welcome The Gaslight Anthem with Chamberlain and Tim Barry
• July 30, 7:30pm: XPN and Y-Rock Welcome The Black Keys with The Morning Benders
• August 8, 8:30pm: Something Corporate
• August 14, 5pm: Gov’t Mule with Jackie Greene and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave
• August 29, 7:30pm: XPN & Y-Rock Welcome My Morning Jacket

It Sprang from the River! Everyday Objects with Maritime Secrets
Fun Family-Friendly Exhibit Premieres March 26 at Independence Seaport Museum

It Sprang from the River! Everyday Objects with Maritime Secrets, an original, engaging, and interactive exhibit featuring great maritime inventions, discoveries, and ideas that have crossed over into everyday life – including the ever-popular Slinky® toy – opens Friday, March 26, at Independence Seaport Museum.

The exhibit, which illuminates in whimsical and thought-provoking ways the connections between the maritime and landlubbers’ worlds, will run through January 3, 2011. While the ubiquitous Slinky is an exhibit highlight, visitors will be amazed and amused at the watery beginnings of so many fashion, health,electronic, language, transportation, and popular culture items.

The exhibit is designed as a house where visitors will walk from room to room, each populated with everyday objects paired with the “secret” maritime artifacts illustrating their origins. Entertaining interactive opportunities include knot-tying, Morse code, weather folklore trivia, loading cargo (blocks) onto a “container ship,” and more. “The idea is that as people explore this ‘house’ they will discover just how closely connected their livesare to the sea,” says Seaport Curator Craig Bruns.

The many secrets from the sea revealed in It Sprang from the River! include bell bottoms (sailor garb),cell phones and GPS systems (wireless communication at sea), perfume fixative (ambergris aka whale vomit), automobile taillights (Fresnel lens originally used in lighthouses), the toy View-Master (used to train sailors to identify enemy planes), and weather forecasting.
Weather forecasting at sea was not just about deciding whether to bring an umbrella, but rather a matter of life and death. Telling this story on the television in the exhibit’s “living room” will be a “weather forecast” by NBC 10 Philadelphia Chief Meteorologist Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz.

“I am delighted to participate in Independence Seaport Museum’s exhibit about everyday objects with maritime beginnings and am especially pleased about the emphasis the exhibit places on the importance of weather forecasting on land and on sea,” Schwartz says. “I really enjoyed telling the story of forecasting’s maritime beginnings in the video weather forecast we made for the exhibit.”

The Slinky Story Slinky was the serendipitous byproduct of naval engineer Richard James’ tinkering with tension springs at Philadelphia’s Cramp Shipyard in 1943. A wire coil tumbled playfully off his desk, and the rest, as they say, is history. Slinky in still made in the same Hollidaysburg, PA, plant, using the equipment created by James more than 60 years ago.

Slinky has been featured on a U.S. postal stamp, starred on the silver screen, used in experiments aboardthe Space Shuttle, and inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. More than 300 million Slinkys have been sold worldwide since its creation in 1943 and debut at Gimbels Department Store in Philadelphia in 1945.“The Slinky is a piece of Americana that is popular in countries all around the globe,” says Ray Dallavecchia, President of Poof®-Slinky®, Inc., of Plymouth, MI. “Its universal appeal lies in its simplicity. There is no instruction book.”

Dallavecchia says people always ask him to tell the story of the toy’s discovery.
“That is why this Museum exhibit starring Slinky is so wonderful,” Dallavecchia says. “Although Slinky is on permanent display in a number of museums, It Sprang from the River is the first to highlight its beginnings in maritime engineering.”

Sprang Events
It Sprang from the River! will be complemented by a series of public and educational programs, and the Museum Shop will be stocked with exhibit-related items for both adults and children.

On Saturday, March 27, 1-3 pm, visitors can meet Tom James, the son of Slinky inventor Richard James and the first kid to play with a Slinky at a “Slinky Birthday Party Family Fun Day.” The event will feature Slinky races, a “Happy Birthday” sing-along, and cake, and the winning creations in a Philadelphia School District “What Can YOU Make with a Slinky® Art Contest.

NBC 10 Philadelphia Chief Meteorologist Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz will be at the Seaport on Saturday, May 15, 12-4 pm, for a “Weather Forecasting Family Fun Day.” Visitors will be able to enjoy a deluge of fun hands-on weather forecasting activities, including make-your-own “Hurricane” bow tie.

The Seaport Starlight Cinema will feature the sci-fi classic “Creature from the Black Lagoon” at sunset on Saturday, August 14, in the Seaport’s outdoor amphitheatre, and “Seafarin’ Saturdays” will highlight objects with maritime secrets from It Sprang from the River! during the exhibit’s run with hands-on family activities the third Saturday of every month in the Museum galleries. It Sprang from the Archives!, a complementary exhibit of maritime secrets lurking in the J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library will be showcased in the second-floor Small Crafts Gallery, also during the exhibit’s run.