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Sandra Faber, the recipient of the 2009 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, is taking a survey. She's examining more than 65,000 galaxies looking at them, measuring the heavy elements in them, determining how old they are all to find out if they've got the right stuff to make life. Her and a bunch of other brainiacs, including Michael Fall, Jeremiah Ostriker, Scott Tremaine and David Weinberg, will ask the big questions that Faber's work is pondering tonight Are we alone? Do we have galactical homies out there? And if we don't, how is it possible that in that big mess of a universe we're the only frickin ones?
Tue., April 21, 7-9 p.m., free, Franklin Institute, 20th St. & the Parkway, 215-448-1329, fi.edu.
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Most of you have been to Bob & Barbra's Drunken Spelling Bee before, but to paraphrase John Stewart in Half Baked have you ever been to the Drunken Spelling Bee high? 'Nuff said. (And, yes, that was the third 4/20 reference made on The Clog today.) It's also worth noting that the $5 cover charge gets you a free PBR. And that they're also playing Grandma's Boy and Pineapple Express tonight at the Troc.
Mon., April 20, 9:30 p.m., $5, Bob & Barbara's, 1509 South St., 215-545-4511, drunkspelling.com.
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Depending on how uptight your boss is, the clip above may not be safe for work. It shows the burlesque star Annie A-Bomb purring, stripping and doing things that one generally would not do in a cat costume (unless it was Halloween and you were a Penn freshman). She'll be part of the ragtag bunch of cabaret performers at L'Etage tonight, with The Abinsthe Drinkers, Gina Izzo and Nicki Jaine also presenting their strange, freakish arts. The Absinthe Drinkers are a lit-pop band that frequently attends shows with alien masks on, and projects images on the wall to coincide with their music. Gina Izzo is a photographer, and Nicki Jaine sings like an old-timey European girl and plays the fiddle. It's a variety show, essentially but darker. Darker and better.
Thu., April 16, 8 p.m., $10, L'Etage, 6th & Bainbridge sts., 215-592-0656, creperie-beaumonde.com/letage/index.html.
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| The story slam is somehow going to involve this guy. |
I'm not sure how seriously to take Painted Bride's Anti-Poetry Month. Celebrating the absence of poetry sounds like a very Zen way to show people how much verse pops up in our daily lives. (Unless PB means Anti-Rhyming-Poetry Month, which I can definitely get down with.) No matter. Their Anti-Poetry Month Story Slam promises to mesh Henry Rollins with Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and will force attendees to do improv writing with each other. Winners get a free notebook, cash and other prizes perhaps a Black Flag album? The latter would be cool, but it better not be the only way Rollins is involved.
Tue, April 14, 7:30-10 p.m., free, Bubble House, 3404 Sansom St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.
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Yo Night Movers and Shakers have you given love to (or, more accurately, been loved by) the "Do It Today" feature on our site yet? No? Get on it. It's like Night Moves times three. OK, now you've seen it and you still want more? Fine, fine. This one's for the Shakers especially dance/electro/Cursive-but-way-happier band The Faint will be at the Troc, along with Ladytron. I'm far more excited about the latter performers, who somehow make ethereal, very pretty music that I actually want to dance to (as opposed to lie in bed to). Or you could do this. Or this. Or this.
Mon., April 14, 7 p.m., $21.50-$23, the Troc, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-5483, thetroc.com.
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You know that Larry David sure as hell doesn't write half of Curb Your Enthusiasm's script down, and that most of it's improvised. Which means this golden scene, in which J.B. Smoove (or Leon Black, as he's known on the show) tells Larry to open up a man's asshole, step into that asshole, spray paint on its walls and eat a Snickers bar in it, is right out of his ludicrous mind. Hopefully his live show is just as disgustingly funny. And hopefully no one pisses Smoove off, inspiring him to step into their assholes that would totally hurt.
Fri.-Sat., April 10 & 11, 8 & 10:30 p.m., $20-$25, Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St., 215-496-9001, heliumcomedyclub.com.
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| Hi, future. You look kinda wet. |
Unfortunately, the whole living-on-the-moon thing that Scientific American and NASA have been teasing the world about for years now is, well, at a standstill. (A four-legged robot named Roony will be moving in soon, though, which is pretty cool.) Thankfully, the fringies have thought up another unexplored place to inhabit in our very own backyard! I'm talking about the seas, people. The plan is to start a nifty little government system, too, which they describe as less like the cell phone industry and more like Web 2.0. It goes something like this: "Many small governments serve many niche markets, a dynamic system where small groups experiment, and everyone copies what works, discards what doesn't, and remixes the remainder to try again." Huh. S0 one part of town tries open borders, the other tries closed borders, and whichever works out best becomes the law of the land. Doesn't sound so bad in this day and age, now does it? They're accepting applications for the next boat out er, holding a lecture on seasteading tonight.
Thu., April 9, 6-9 p.m., free, Temple University Tuttleman Hall, Room 301, 13th St. & Montgomery Ave., seasteading.org
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| For some reason, they didn't have a flier for tonight's event. But this one is cool enough to feature twice, no? |
Feeling a bit interdisciplinary? Scatterbrained? Like one event won't satisfy you, but maybe a hodge-podge of a few will? Me too. Which is why I'll be heading to Copabanana's twice-monthly event, The Exchange, tonight. Its title is literal it features a bunch of musicians, spoken word artists, comedians, live painters and dramatists getting together to do their thing and swap ideas. The folks over at the Community Cultural Exchange, which put this on, suggest bringing your own talent with you, whether it be improv or knitting. The latter, we worry, may be a bit too quaint for such an overstimulating event.
Tue., April 7, 7 p.m., free, Upstairs at The Copabanana , Fourth & South sts, 215-923-6180, communityculturalexchange.org
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Baz Luhrmann wasn't the first to do it. From long-winded author Charles Dickens to psychology star Sigmund Freud, artists, philosophers and writers have been aping William Shakespeare's works for more than 400 years. But why him? Why not get inspired by Hemingway or Aristotle? (Well, OK, so people copy them too. But with such fervor, so that even The Lion King mimics their themes? Didn't think so.)
Villanova and NYU profs, including William Electric Black and Paul Spiro, will wonder why we can't help but look up to Shakespeare at tonight's lecture on his far-reaching influence. Coinciding with Lantern Theater's production of Hamlet, they'll especially focus on the our obsession with his freaky-deaky Oedipal work.
And while we're on the subject of Shakespeare, have you heard all the hoopla about how he might be way hotter than we'd originally thought?
Mon., April 6, 7-9pm, $5-$10, Lantern Theater, 10th & Ludlow sts., 215-829-0395, lanterntheater.org
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Back in February, we told you about the Rosenbach's funky, interdisciplinary Web site celebrating Abe Lincoln's 200th birthday. In addition to amassing all sorts of weird interpretations of the president that exist today, like a "Rose of Lincoln" ringtone and a Lincoln E-card, the museum is putting on a slew of 16th President-inspired events.
Tonight's is especially neat Bryce Dessner of The National, a band that's influenced by Dylan, Petty and post-punk, and is the sort of group you'd like to see outdoors at a festival while drinking an ale, is collaborating with other instrumentalists to create the "Lincoln Shuffle." It's a piece of work that reflects the music from Lincoln's time, including songs inspired by his inaugural address and his favorite song "Dixie." Hopefully the event's coordinators will also show guests what a "Lincoln Shuffle" is, exactly it has to be a dance move or a type of beard, right?
Thu., April 2, 6:30 p.m., $12-$20, Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2008 Delancey Place, 215-732-1600, 21stcenturyabe.com.
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