This Weekend: Happy Mexican Jewish Christmas, Everybody!
FRIDAY:
>>> Hey, it’s First Friday, so hit up the many, many worthy openings (lots of good ones this month). If you’re in the Fishtown area, don’t miss the Holiday Art Walk.
>>> Fact: The only people who do Christmas better than the Jews — oh, come on, Christians, don’t act like you haven’t been fantasizing about Chinese Food & Movie Day for years now — are the Mexicans. (The holidays get a lot better, you’ll find, when you’re wearing a wrestling mask and jamming out to surf music.) To that end, Viva Christmas! with El Vez and Los Straitjackets at World Cafe Live should give you what you need.
>>> Elsewhere: Do your monthly duty to keep Philly weird with Sex Dwarf at Fluid, and oh, and how did we almost miss this? A rare screening of Jean-Luc Godard‘s Sauve qui peut (la vie) at International House.
SATURDAY:
>>> Early style: The Philadelphia Independent Craft Market is also a 941 Theater Benefit this time around, and it all takes place on Saturday afternoon here at 2424 Studios.
>>> Then, under-appreciated (at least in these parts, anyway) Canadian rock legends Sloan (see video above) play an early show at Kung Fu Necktie, at 7PM.
>>> Attention all readers who once owned ox-blood Doc Martens (or still do): We know you’re not truly over your ska phase, not ever. It is for this reason we tell you that Ruder Than You is playing some big ska bill at the Khyber. Tangentially related, though we’d need the space of a thesis paper to explain why: England Belongs to Twee with guest Puerto Rico Flowers is also at KFN, later. Also also! Boy, those Docs are gonna see more action in one night than they have in 15 years: Ten Commandments, the reggae/soul night at the Barbary, celebrates two years of feelin’ irie.
>>> And, as an anti-pick, the Bacon Brothers are doing their sad Save The Mummers shit at the Electric Factory. People wonder why we’re such snobs. This is why.
SUNDAY:
>>> We’re not sure if the The Big Pink are some kind of awesome in-joke or not — Jesus & Mary Chain meets the Rutles — but we must embarrassingly admit: We’re totally into it. They’re at Johnny Brenda’s.
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