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BIG DEALS

Home Show

Second (and last) weekend to wander among cabinets, chutneys and home improvement TV personalities. Next weekend, cars roll in.

PA Convention Center, 12th and Arch streets, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. today & tomorrow, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, $13, $3 ages 6-12, free 5 and under, 855-856-SHOW, phillyhomeshow.com.

New Hope Winter Festival

North Wales native John Oates comes home-ish during a long weekend of ice sculpting, gallery openings, canal walks, history tours, parade, and eating - lots of eating. Oates' gig tonight is one of few big-ticket items (Stephen J. Buck Memorial Theater, 182 W. Bridge St., 8 p.m., $50). Others, like Sunday morning's pancake breakfast at New Hope Solebury H.S. ($3.50-$6.50), are budgeted for families.

Various locations (New Hope and Lambertville), times and prices, today-Sunday, 215-862-5067, winterfestival.net.

WWE's Royal Rumble

Pro wrestling gets extreme when 30 burly dudes hop into the ring in a battle royal. The winner gets into WrestleMania 31's WWE World Heavyweight Championship match. Look for Roman Reigns, Daniel Bryan and Dean Ambrose, who chats with Molly Eichel in tomorrow's Daily News. Sold-out show's on Pay-Per-View.

Wells Fargo Center, 3601 South Broad St., sold out, 8 tonight, 215-336-3600, comcasttix.net.

Orchid Extravaganza

If your fantasy greenhouse contains Cattleya, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, Paphiopedilum and Oncidium, you'll dream you way through Longwood's annual 4-acre display of fickle, magical orchids. Open through March 29.

Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square,

9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily, $10-$20

(free under 5), 610-388-1000, longwoodgardens.org.

FOR KIDS

'Ants'

Kiddos take to odd things, such as Aussie mimes in insect costumes who require help gathering giant crumbs while turning those crumbs into moving art.

Commonwealth Plaza, Kimmel Center, 10:30 & 11:45 a.m. tomorrow, free, kimmelcenter.org.

MUSIC

Philadelphia Orchestra

Yannick Nezet-Seguin continues the Russian festival with Rachmaninoff's magnificent Second Symphony. Piano wizard Marc-Andre Hamelin plays the 2013 Piano Concerto written for him by eclectic British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.

Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce streets, 8 tonight, $56-$150, 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

Reverend Horton Heat

A whole lotta shaking's going on at this rabble-rousing rockabilly feast billed "Baddest of the Bad," featuring cult legend Robert Gordon, outlaw country man Dale Watson and Tex-Mex rodeo gal Rosie Flores.

Underground Arts,

1200 Callowhill St., 8 tonight, $22, undergroundarts.org.

Marilyn Manson

The drama. The pain. And a brand new album ("The Pale Emperor") to flog, too.

Electric Factory, 421 N. 7th St., 8:30 tonight, $62.50, 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com.

Radio 104.5 Winter Jam

Chill (seriously) outdoors with the Gaslight Anthem, Cold War Kids, Andrew McMahon, Walk the Moon plus lucky locals We Speak in Sounds, CRUISR and Cheerleader.

Xfinity Live, 1100 Pattison Ave.,

10 a.m. tomorrow, rain or shine, free with ticket, radio1045.com.

Fleetwood Mac

The upside to A.C.'s downswing: There are still a few tix left to catch rarely reunited British rockers from the (but not yet in their) Seventies.

Boardwalk Hall, 2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, 8 p.m. tomorrow, $49.50-$179.50, 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com.

Jerry Blavat's Early Days

of Rock and Roll

The Geat hits the mother lode: Uptown house band leader Lloyd Price ("Personality"), Gene Chandler ("Duke of Earl") and Chuck Jackson ("Any Day Now"), plus Jimmy Clanton, Maxine Brown and the Philadelphia debut of Mel Carter ("Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"). Better still, a 30-piece orchestra backs 'em up.

Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce streets, 8 p.m.

tomorrow, $41-$81, 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

Curtis Symphony Orchestra

Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska is the podium guest, leading works by his compatriot Jan Sibelius: the haunting "Swan of Tuonela" and the Fifth Symphony. In between, he'll conduct the Concerto for Orchestra by Polish master Witold Lutoslawski.

Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce streets, 3 p.m.

Sunday, $5-$50, 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

- Compiled by Tom Di Nardo,

Lauren McCutcheon, Jonathan Takiff