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Hippiefied shopkeepers dole out good vibes and daisies
When you wanna prowl a Real City, it's heartening to encounter a neighborhood that's nailed its identity -- Little Vietnam, say, or Gay Bar Intersection, or Block of Funky Indie Cafes. And when cultural fragments reach critical accumulation, the forecast calls for a festival, like the "first annual" Love MannaFestation in the somewhat hippiefied Seventh Street ’hood just north of Camelback Road.
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The free fiesta features beaucoup arts, music, and poetry, along with playground games, prizes, and free daisies for all -- plus (because our anarchist utopia remains uninstalled) opportunities to trade cash for such goods and services as tarot and tea-leaf readings, food, beverages, didgeridoo therapy, and hookah time.
The fledgling event, sponsored by merchants including Two Hippies Beach House, Hookah Lounge, Go-Kat-Go, Urban Baby Exchange, Ticoz Resto-Bar, and Samurai Comics, is unaffiliated with San Francisco's venerable Lovefest, so don't expect an epic parade of aging ravers dancing in the streets -- yet. As we like to say here in the PHX, just give us time.
Proceeds and donations benefit Packages from Home and The Peace Alliance.
Sat., April 25, 12-6 p.m., 2009
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