There's a really cool art exhibit near Trenton right now through April at the grounds for sculpture. It's a light/projection artist collective (in fact, the same collective that lights up city hall at xmas) setting up their work to interact with the sculptures. Its called night forms: infinite wave. So cool! people of all ages were "oooh"-and-"awww"-ing.

I always buy my mom a 3-show subscription to the arden theater for Christmas, since she likes theater and it's on the more affordable side. She's taken me with her to see a lot of wonderful shows. Recommend.

University city is sketchy? I don't personally feel that way at all. It's basically on drexel's campus, and all those schools have their own security patrols and those phone boxes with the blue lights are set up so you can call for help of you need them. I went to school at drexel, went to world Cafe live many times at night, never had any sort of issue. I guess maybe they think "west philly" and associate with neighborhoods that are much further west.

Add a group called Sip City on Facebook (I think they're on Instagram too). They organize queer womens' happy hours and other events at bars around the city.