2nd Annual East Coast Beard and Mustache Championship
Saturday, March 30
6 p.m. doors; 5:30 p.m. registration
334 South St.
$12 

The Philadelphia Beard & Mustache Club  is hosting its East Coast Championship at the TLA. Competitive categories include Full Beard Freestyle, Styled Mustache and, for the ladies, Fake Beard Most Creative. To compete, arrive at The TLA at 5:30 p.m. (Note that the only fair-game styling aides are mustache wax and hairspray.) 

Buy tickets to hang out with the beardsmen, and guest judges Andrew W.K. and Liam Wilson from The Dillinger Escape Plan. 

Sponsors Tattooed Mom and Narragansett are curating an entire weekend of rad beard-friendly events. Get started Friday by meeting up at 4 p.m. for the "Cheesesteak Crawl" at Ray's Happy Birthday Bar (1200 E. Passyunk Ave.). Attendees will be hitting up Philadelphia's favorite meat-cheese-bread purveyors and local watering holes on the way to the Championship Pre-Party (7 p.m. at Tattooed Mom). RSVP here. 

Love Mt. Airy Style: Final-ly Friday, the Pet Edition
Friday, March 29
5:30 – 9 p.m.
Ground Zero, 7119 Germantown Ave.
Earth Bread and Brewery, 7136 Germantown Ave.
Free

It's Final-ly Friday -- once again Mt. Airy businesses and restaurants will be staying open late on the last Friday of the month, offering special events and promotions. For March, it's all about pets.

Celebrate Ground Zero hair salon's one-year anniversary in the neighborhood with a special Puppy Love Booth. Adopt a puppy or get a photo with your pet (or a loaner puppy) for a $5 donation; proceeds support the Penn Vet Shelter Medicine Program.

Then head down Germantown Avenue to Earth Bread + Brewery where, in addition to their tasty menu of artisan flatbreads and handcrafted brews, you can grab a tasty homemade treat for your favorite canine. (For more on Earth, check out this recent Flying Kite story.)

Click here for the full list of participating businesses. 

Weavers Way's Urban Farming Basics at Awbury Arboretum
Saturday, March 30
10:00 a.m. - noon
Awbury Arboretum, 1 Awbury Road
$10; 10 percent discount for Awbury Arboretum members

Visit Awbury Arboretum's agricultural village and work with Weaver's Way farmer Rick Rigutto to learn the "Basics of Urban Farming." Get ready for spring planting season with lessons in drip irrigation, row cover, soil maintenance and transplanting. 

Rick Rigutto has been living and farming in Southeastern Pennsylvania for the better part of ten years. He is the farm manager of Weavers Way's Mort Brooks Memorial Farm. This program is part of Awbury Arboretum's Hearth and Horticulture Series. To find out more about the series and register for the workshop, click here. 

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