This Weekend: Attack The Bloc
FRIDAY:
>>>Get totally gabba and glow hard in the paint at GLOW HARD at PYT, featuring plenty of neon fun along with cheap drinks and good vibes.
>>>Need some offbeat hip-hop for your Friday night? That’s why WHY? is here, playing at Union Transfer with Serengeti and Doseone. This is where people with thick glasses will be.
>>>Or, if the THUMPTHUMPTHUMP of house music is more your thing, The Shakedown at North Shore is your chance to get down and dirty to two rooms full of the best local house DJs around. And of course, some poolside reggae to kick it all off. We can pretend it’s summer again.
And your Live Arts/Fringe picks:
>>>Do you like short films, plays, and a free drink with admission? Well Wawapalooza 6: The Great Almost offers all of those things.
>>>The Philadelphia premiere of Love/Stories is being presented by Round Table Theater Group at Plays and Players Theater, if you’re into self-aware theater.
>>>And the Philly Song Shuffle is hitting World Cafe Live, where bands play 4 minute sets, separated by only 4 seconds in between acts. A full list of participants can be found here, and our good friend Adam Brodsky had this to say about the event:
I usually play this event, but will be missing it for the first time since Truman sent troops to Grenada. I dig this event, and though the best act of the night is watching stage manager Stephen Marmel herd the cats. The show itself is usually very entertaining and very informative. Seriously, this one night could save you hours of time and hundreds of dollars in cover charges simply by knowing who to see and who to never ever ever see again.”
SATURDAY:
>>>Go shopping: Finders Keepers at the Boom Room. All the info you need is on that flyer right there. You want us to describe it? We can’t compete with a flyer.
>>>Creator of smooth grooves and summer jams Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti are playing Union Transfer. Fingers crossed for this jam.
>>>Sure summer is over, but it’s still beautiful outside. Don’t go spending your whole Saturday indoors like some kind of dork, get out in the sunshine at the 5th Annual Lehigh Avenue Arts Festival , where there will be food, drinks, music, and a goddamn moon-bounce.
>>>If you didn’t win the free tickets, don’t fret, Bloc Party will still be playing The Troc if you want to … you know … pay for your tickets. First Mate Jim will be there, if you care, which you don’t.
And your Live Arts/Fringe picks:
>>>FREE STUFF!: The Last Mummer by zacherle is going down at Connie’s Ric Rac, and the show is described as “A remembrance of things that have not yet come to pass. In the future, after the Great Calamity, after everyone you care about is dead, you’ll find a way to care about those who are left. And as they, too, die off, one by one, the usual ways of saying goodbye won’t be enough anymore.” You know, in case that wasn’t obvious by the title.
>>>The MacKnight Foundation presents a double-bill of Hate Monologues and The Alphabet Plays at the Shubin. One show involves Richard III, and the other is a series of 26 short plays each involving dialogue beginning with only one specific letter of the alphabet. Can you figure out which one is which? Oh, and the Alphabet Plays features male/female frontal nudity, which is followed by an exclamation point in the summary. So it’s that kind of nudity.
>>>And it’s Saturday, it’s been a long week, and sometimes you just want a few drinks. The Pub Theater Company understands that, and they want to drink with you, with Bye Bye Liver, a part sketch-comedy show part pub trivia game.
SUNDAY:
>>>Head out to Ardmore to check out The Clover Market where there will be (and this is a scientific term) a shit-ton of vendors.
>>>If you didn’t get the free Bloc Party tickets, you probably didn’t get the Bon Iver tickets either, but they’re still hitting the stage at the Mann Center, with or without you.
>>>Jack of Hearts, Spacin’, Super Vacations, and Residuels are closing out the weekend with a good old fashioned Sunday Psych-out at Kungfu Necktie.
And your Live Arts/Fringe picks:
>>>The Spruance Theater at Arcadia University (Beaver College Forever!) out in Glenside is getting in on the action with Larry Loebell and Seth Reichgott‘s Dostoyevsky Man, based off of Underground Man, and shot entirely on an iPhone. So, if you had that idea, it’s already been done.
>>>In a post-gay-marriage-is-legalized-future, a couple takes ballroom dancing lessons in advance of their nuptials, and learn that gender issues still come into play in Ballroom Dancing Ain’t For Sissies, which it totally isn’t.
>>>There will be dance and an after show pot-luck (so bring some food ya dum dums) at Headlong Dance Theater‘s This Town Is A Mystery. The show takes place in multiple neighborhood living rooms, which you are led to by email after buying a ticket. So yeah, bring food, cause you don’t wanna feel like a jerk in some stranger’s home.
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