The G.O.P. convention in Philadelphia this week has been planned down to the last balloon-drop. However, there are some attractions that won’t make many event planners’ schedules. Here’s an inside guide for go-getting G.O.P.-ers:
1 VENERATE the Reagan legacy by checking in on Nancy’s and Ronald’s old footwear (and that of Mamie Eisenhower too) at the Shoe Museum
2 DEMONSTRATE about the death penalty at the corner of 13th and Locust, where death-row inmate and liberal icon Mumia Abu-Jamal exchanged gunfire with slain police officer Danny Faulkner
3 CONTEMPLATE as you gaze at a tumor removed from the jaw of President Grover Cleveland, and the thorax of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, at the Mutter Museum
4 MASTICATE on the pesto grilled Brie at the White Dog Cafe. Try not to snicker at the liberal peacenik literature or the eatery’s rep for “award-winning cuisine and social activism”
5 POSTULATE what life would be without a housekeeper at the Insectarium, which features an exhibit modeled on a kitchen stocked with 100,000 live cockroaches
6 RECRIMINATE at Oxford and 26th streets, site of the recent videotaped police beating of carjack suspectThomas Jones
7 CELEBRATE the Mario Lanza Museum–just because it’s there
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