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Philadelphia: Shave Your Head
Go downtown to Irish pub chain Fado (where, reportedly, a "No Green Beer" sign hangs in the front window), and you can celebrate a truly alternative holiday: St. Baldrick’s Day, March 13, a made-up saint who inspires people to shave their heads to raise money for children’s cancer research. It was started as an alternative to drinking green beer on St. Paddy's Day, and one could argue that you might end up looking like U2's The Edge. If you’d rather donate than shave your pate, move on and take a peek at the original manuscript of James Joyce’s Ulysses (a few pages of it are even in Joyce’s handwriting), on display at The Rosenbach Museum & Library, and then go pay your respects at the Irish Memorial National Monument at Penn’s Landing, which honors those who died in the Irish Famine of 1845-1850. For More Information: St. Baldrick’s events.
