This Weekend: Everybody Sleeps With The Sexy Older Professor At Least Once
FRIDAY:
>>> Gotta say: For the second weekend in a row, not a lot of notable stuff is going on this weekend. Sure, you got your regular DJ nights, your local bands and so on, but if you’re looking for once-in-a-lifetime or even just brand new types of shenanigans, you will not exactly be suffering from option paralysis. (Although food events are a whole ‘nother story.) Which is kind of good, even if it does mean that next weekend or the weekend after that, there will be so many competing great events that you’ll just wind up staying home watching ABC Family’s Countdown To Christmas anyway. Ah, screw it, it’s all good. So tonight, pick between one of the two: Jam Rock at Arts Garage, where DJ Kenny Meez plays fast and loose with all of the reggae musics, or Mad Decent + Subdivision = MAD DIVISION at The Mausoleum, whereupon the Mad Decent folks bring in a bunch of dubstep DJs from London and Bristol and try to help us forget that any of that Major Lazer shit ever happened. Let the healing begin.
>>> Or, LET’S GET ADULT UP IN THIS PIECE! Chuck Prophet is a singer-songwriter playing at World Cafe Live who you’d probably be fine ignoring were it not for two notable factors: Dude truly is a fantastic songwriter, and, not for nothing, he’s like the sexy WXPN version of Hank Moody from Californication. And like Hank says, “Every woman sleeps with the sexy professor at least once.” Not your thing? Steely Dan is at the Tower Theater. Please see the video at right for cheap nostalgia of a time you probably did not even live through.
SATURDAY:
>>> Every year, we say that we are going to experience the full-on Heavy Metal Christmas Experience that is Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Wachovia Center; every year, we miss it. I don’t know what that’s about. Maybe it’s just because, I dunno, every day at Philebrity is the goddamned Heavy Metal Christmas Experience . We carry it in our hearts.
>>> And, as we mentioned yesterday, Ray Davies at the Tower Theater.
SUNDAY:
>>> And finally, say what you will about Northern Liberties — you hate the hipsters, you’re puzzled by the lifers, you can’t understand why there’s no La Colombe there, yes, you’re a regular urban anthropologist — can you name us one other neighborhood in the city that unites annually for its own variety show? And no, the annual Two Street Celebration Of Pissing In The Street does not count (that’s not “variety,” folks). And so, the Northern Liberties Variety Show at Johnny Brenda’s is once again upon us. Let one thousand fire-eating folksinging standup comic tapdancers bloom!
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