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We always get a ton of stuff that doesn't make it into the official agenda for one reason or another. Or sometimes it does! Anyway, this is some of the stuff that CP staffers are attempting to get to this weekend their own selves. You have no excuse for boredom.
FRIDAY 5/3
- This First Friday promises to be weirder than most with artists showcasing their obsessions with monsters, dough and the color black.
- Cheap, dirty rock 'n' roll at the Ric-Rac: Sinking Ocean Gods and Dead Tenors. $5.
- Film buffs have been wondering when Upstream Color, Shane Carruth's new flick (kinda) about parasite-assisted hypnosis, would make it to Philly. Well, it's finally arrived, and of all places, it's playing a limited engagement at the Franklin Institute.
- The Ladyfest ramp-up is on. Tonight, check out the art at Satellite Cafe.
- Grandchildren will run wild with their new album at Johnny Brenda's tonight.
SATURDAY 5/4
- Maybe you're sick of hearing about Lentil (this week's CP cover story subject) and maybe you don't want anything to do with the multi-day festival that carries his name, but you've gotta admit that the related event happening at The Fire has a respectable line-up (Mike Slomo Brenner will be playing, people).
- Not only is the Franklin Institute screening Upstream Color it's opening a new espionage exhibition meaning we might spend most of our weekend there. On display: Insectothopter (an insect-sized intelligence-gathering device), the actual ice ax that was used to kill Leon Trotsky and other things to make us wish we worked for the CIA.
- The Khyber Pass serves frozen mint juleps every day (that the slushy machine is working) but it's all preamble for their Kentucky Derby viewing party. Get drunk. Watch animals get spanked and run a race they don't know they're in.
SUNDAY 5/5
- The Breeders at the Troc is all sold out.
- Good seats are still available for the Shooting Wall film fest at PhilaMoca. Totally free.
We always get a ton of stuff that doesn't make it into the official agenda for one reason or another. Or sometimes it does! Anyway, this is some of the stuff that CP staffers are attempting to get to this weekend their own selves. You have no excuse for boredom.
FRIDAY 4/5
- The large-scale, walk-through art installation Song of the Silken Mermaid at 2424 Studios. Plastic-sheeting caves: not as creepy here as they are on Dexter! (Fishtown)
- On the verge of Fluid's closing, the final Sex Dwarf dance party will likely have end-of-the-world energy. (Queen Village)
- Allison Weiss plays an early show at the Barbary tonight. Starts at 5:30 p.m., but there are five acts on the bill, so. (No Libs)
- Some of us at CP have an illogical hatred of the new Dolphin (because we fear change!) but Juan MacLean is DJing there tonight. (Newbold)
- Local rock band Restorations plays the Church. (Rittenhouse)
- Tonight's the first night of the Empty Air project, in which you download an app and walk around Rittenhouse Square triggering different musical cues from the Mural and the Mint. (Rittenhouse)
- Nothing Is Rather Do looks like a typo but it's a show at Space 1026. (Chinatown)
- Two sister art events about copyright, the internet and piracy, TAKEN at Practice Gallery and REPEAT at Little Berlin. (Eraserhood, Kensington)
SATURDAY 4/6
- It's supposed to be at least vaguely spring-like for Pilam's Human BBQ. (University City)
- Yeah, it's really silly, but we have a soft spot for the really silly. Therefore: Giant Pillow Fight in Washington Square Park. (Society Hill)
- Ex-City Paper staffer and esteemed poet Daisy Fried will read from her new book at Arts Parlor in the afternoon. (South Broad)
- How about 24 straight hours of Indian music? Raga Samay is a rare occurance, people. (University City)
- If you were not aware that there is a Stoogeum dedicated to the Three Stooges out in the 'burbs, there is, and it is this morning the curator is giving a presentation on Larry Fine as part of Cinedelphia (which has a lot of other cool stuff going on for its opening weekend). (Ambler)
- Brother JT fronts the Original Sins at Johnny Brenda's. (No Libs)
- And of course we will go to basically anything involving Skeletor and karaoke, ever. (Chinatown)
The force is strong with this one. In case you somehow haven’t heard, George Lucas sold the Star Wars franchise to Disney, who announced new films are on the way. The guys at Locust Moon Comics are pretty pumped and are celebrating the announcement with a full-on extravaganza. Attendees can fulfill their longest-held wish with Drexel’s own Dragon Jedi — a choreography group that uses light sabers and stage combat — who will be hosting an introductory lesson (“So you want to be a Jedi?”), and performing. Star Wars films will be showing in the Locust Moon Theater and anyone who comes in costume is promised to leave with “something cool.” If that isn’t enough, how about enjoying it all while sipping on some Obi Wan Kenobieers (National Bohemian) or a Jedi Mind Trick (Bacardi 151, Kahlua, Grenadine)?
Fri., Nov. 16, 7 p.m., free, Locust Moon Comics, 34 S. 40th St., 267-403-2856, locustmoon.wordpress.com.
FirstGlance Film Fest just released the lineup of flicks that will be shown at the 15th annual Philadelphia festival, taking place Nov. 9-11 at the Franklin Institute. Congrats and good luck to the Philly-connected offerings, which are bolded in the full list of films below.
Click here for the full list of 2012 Philadelphia FirstGlance offerings. »
DJ Deejay, John D and friends will feed you with guilty pleasure and help you indulge in sappy, love-drunk jams this Sunday at the pool-party edition of their MakeOut Club dance party, where, they say, emo kids can get sweaty, get wet and "finally get some sun."
Mario Manzoni, a.k.a. Fame Lust, Philly's fabulous party photog, will be there to capture the debauch. He'll make a celeb out of you with his keen eye for kinky dancefloor romping.
"MakeOut Club isn't like any other party you've ever been to," says Manzoni. "It doesn't have the same "party people" crowd that you find in so many other places, probably because of the music. What you wind up getting with is part dance party part sing-along part make-out session." The party will be followed by a MakeOut karaoke after-party at the Barbary.
Sun., Aug., 12, 5-10 p.m., $6, Bamboo Bar, 927 N. Delaware Ave., bamboobarphilly.com. Confirm on Facebook.
View galleryThe Mad Decent Block Party used to be just like an actual Philly block party, with a real neighborhood vibe, and cookouts and forties out the yang. The past few, however, have been decidedly different, morphing into a soulless ravehead-,dupstep-, ecstasy-soaked marathon.
A couple hours into this year's event, however, it became apparent that this year's bash would take a few hints from the good ol' days of yore: Dance-offs and booze were shared, cigarettes were bummed and lifelong (or 20-minute) friendships were formed. It was a good day.
Oh, yeah, Diplo even got in a giant hamster ball and rolled around in the crowd.
This Thursday marks the first Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll of the summer, at which 42nd to 50th 
streets along Baltimore erupt into a bounty of $1 deals from a range of University City businesses. It all goes down at 5:30 p.m.
Lentil wraps from Dahlak, patch kits from Firehouse Bikes, craft beer from Dock Street Brewery, vegan cupcakes from Green Line Cafe and yoga coupons from Studio 34 are just a few of the options offered along the West Philly promedade — all for a single Washington each. Walkers can also purchase one dollar memberships to the University City Historical Society and Cedar Park Community Association as well as various raffle tickets and coupons. The streets will be filled with live music, a farmers market and various other rogue vendors looking to cash in on the festivities.
In addition to July 19, there will also be Dollar Strolls held on Aug. 19 and Sept. 20, from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Though Philly’s day to shine is indubitably on the Fourth, many locals extend brotherly loving arms to the French to pay celebrate fourteenth, aka France's Bastille Day. After all, Philadelphians have plenty to thank the French for — from the design of City Hall to the Champs-Élysées-inspired Ben Franklin Parkway.
➤ The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.) begins the weekend celebrations tonight at 5 p.m. with a Bastille-influenced Art After 5, which coincides with the reopening of the Rodin Museum. The evening will include confetti cannons, go-go dancers, a cardboard version of Parisian attractions and a bawdy performance by experimental cabaret group The Bearded Ladies, who will undoubtedly be dressed in their Marie-Antoinette best.
➤ Cinephiles will get their fill tonight at International House (3701 Chestnut St.), where there will be a screening of Jacques Tati’s legendary 1958 film, Mon Oncle, at 7 p.m. Following Monsieur Hulot, the flick hints at the evils of consumerism as it flashes through his family’s lavish ultramodern home and prosperous hose factory. In spite of the message, there will be plenty of wine to consume afterward.
➤ When you're good and pre-gamed, get set for plenty of Francophilian shenanigans on July 14. At 4:30 p.m., Eastern State Penitentiary (2027 Fairmount Ave.) will also play home to The Bearded Ladies, who will take bystanders on a two-hour musical history lesson of the French Revolution. Expect beheadings, stilts, Ben Franklin, a bigass catwalk and a tempest of Let-them-eat-Tastykakes.
➤ At 6:30 p.m., London Grill (2301-2303 Fairmount Ave.) will host a block party complete with performances by The West Philadelphia Orchestra and The Hot Club of Philadelphia. Meanwhile, its neighboring sister restaurant, Paris Wine Bar, will pacify tamer attendees with a chill set by Philly guitarist Mike Kennedy.
Viva La Revolución, bitches!
Of all films ever made, some are deemed “classics,” available on Netflix and endlessly rebroadcasted on ABC Family, while others — due to low-budge production, scandalous scenes and/or amateur acting — never make it beyond their initial screening, falling to the wayside and effectively exiting from the repertoire of seeable films.
Film collector Jay Scwhartz has set out to remedy the situation, screening B-, C- and even D-list movies for curious audiences who don't want to go through all the trouble of finding old VHS tapes for what could end up being a diamond in the rough. They leave that to Schwartz, whose Secret Cinema project began in 1992, showing films anywhere from private living rooms to vaudeville-style theaters. Not suprisingly, the films range from “quirky” to outright bizarre, and Schwartz has been finding more and more appropriately strange venues in which to show them.
Tomorrow's edition might be his most eccentric setting to date: In honor of Friday the 13th, Secret Cinema will screen outside at 9 p.m. in Philly's historic Laurel Hill Cemetery (3822 Ridge Ave.). Sitting high above the Schuykill River, the 176-year-old graveyard provides a deliciously spooky setting. Come prepared with a blanket, a brewsky and and $10.
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Snap out of that summer daze with sunny sing-alongs during Summer Film Series 2012: The Great American Musical. Every Wednesday from July 11-August 1, Philadelphia Theatre Company will screen a classic American musical at 7 p.m. inside the air-conditioned Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard streets). The series kicks off with Funny Girl, chirps along with Bye, Bye Birdie (pictured), rock and rolls with Grease and ends on a high note with Dreamgirls. Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for children, so bring the whole family. Keep the snacks and refreshments at home though — you can get those at the theater.
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