FRIDAY: >>> We know it’s Friday and you probably don’t feel like learning, but what if said learning was actually a BIG OL’ GRATEFUL DEAD PARTY AT A BOWLING ALLEY? Better, right? It’s Jerry Garcia‘s Birthday Party at North Bowl, and in addition to tunes and vibes and balls and pins, there’s… this: Learn about [...]

NOT RECOMMENDED, SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU: The failure (or just plain inability) of Zooey Deschanel to take on any meaningful film roles since Elf is not just something that affects her; you have a place in this too, you know. As adorkability turned into an industry, Manic Pixie Dream Girl is [...]

The Spinto Band covers Chris Stamey  As part of the AV Club’s Undercover Summer Break 2012, a summertime-themed miniseries of the AV Club’s regular bands covering bands series, The Spinto Band took to Chicago’s Goodman Theatre’s outdoor deck to play Chris Stamey‘s “Summer Sun.”

A lot of those galleries have air conditioning and beverages. That’s a win-win.

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Watch Preview: The Barnes Collection on PBS. See more from WHYY Specials. That new WHYY doc, The Barnes Foundation, that can (possibly?) be seen as a reply to The Art Of The Steal debuts tonight at 9 PM. When we first told you about it, we wondered if the whole thing would basically be an [...]

A few years back, former Inquirer music critic and present day real-deal jazz saxophonist Tom Moon crushed everybody in the world of possibly-meaningful music listmaking and published a little something called 1000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die. It is a book about the 1000 recordings you should hear before you die. Because you may [...]

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