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Dia de los Muertos On Saturday, Nov. 1 stuff your pockets with calaveras, put on your favorite skeleton costume and head over to Shampoo's Day of the Dead celebration. The holiday, also known as Dia de los Muertos, is a Mexican tradition honoring the dearly departed. Who better to represent the dead than Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the master of assisted suicide? Kevorkian's paintings will be proudly displayed along the club's walls. "Dark" art by Moore College of Art students will also add to the "festive" decor. In addition to the deadly decorations, Michael Radyk of the clothing store Ercoli will host a fashion show. Plan on writhing to the sounds of house, hip-hop and disco with DJs Randall Jones, Gigi and Kenny Meez. On Saturday, Nov. 2 - the official date of Dia de los Muertos - Spiral Q Puppet Theater will lead a boisterous, incense burning, puppet-filled parade from Headhouse Square (at Second and Lombard Streets) to the Star Garden Playground at Seventh and South. Star Garden is where the party will really get started. "This is a place where you can dress up like the freak you are and scream and yell and dance in the street," says Mattiboy, Spiral Q's artistic director. A Mariachi band and Mexican folk-dancing group will be part of the entertainment. Mattiboy promises to unveil a few surprises at the celebration, including the one he calls "the burning secret." Day of the Dead Celebration, Saturday, Nov. 1, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., at Shampoo, on Willow between Seventh and Eighth Streets, $10. Call 922-7500 for info. South Street Parade on Sunday, Nov. 2, 4:30 p.m. at Head House Square, Second and Lombard Streets. Free. Call 545-2127 for info. - Sue Posternock
A swirling tornado of dance and madness touches down at the Annenberg Center this November. It begins with The Montreal Festival Dance featuring Margie Gillis (left) and special guests from the New York City Ballet. Gillis, described by the New York Times as a dancer with "flamelike intensity," uses her flowing mane of hair as an accessory, making her movements appear almost liquid. Maria Benitez, the high priestess of Flamenco, gyrates into town soon afterwards. She looks every bit as sumptuous and dramatic as a high priestess should. Rounding off this cultural explosion is the third piece of Philip Glass' trilogy based on the life and work of Jean Cocteau: Les Enfants terribles, or Children of the Game. The production couples Glass' music with Susan Marshall's choreography. Margie Gillis, Nov. 10 at 8 p.m.; Maria Benitez, Nov. 13-15, call for times. Les Enfants Terrible, Nov. 18 &19 at 8 p.m. All performances at the Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 898-6791. - Sarah Armour Edward Eberle Edward Eberle is primarily known for his ceramic vessels that recall Middle Eastern and Asian architectural design. He paints these hand-thrown pieces with characters of all shapes and types: old men, pretty girls, complacent dreamers and horrific crones. A little confused? You should be. Eberle's work combines traditional and modern art, technology and fine arts all the while maintaining a thin veneer of calm over a multitude of chaos. Gamma-ut (1994), for example, has a rounded shape with a central finial resembling a Russian Church. The walls of the vessel are covered with overlapping images of adults, children and the elderly, mostly naked and in the throes of a crazed moment. You have to see it for yourself. The gallery will be showing three of Eberle's porcelain pots and a series of his drawings. Edward Eberle's exhibition runs through Nov. 26 at Temple Gallery, 45 N. Second St. There will be a reception for the artist Friday, Nov. 7, from 5-8 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesday- Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Call 925-7379 for info. Eberle will give a lecture on Monday, Nov. 10, 12:30 p.m. in President's Hall at the Tyler Campus, Beech and Penrose Avenues, Elkins Park. - Maggie Garfield
We all know Philly bands, who normally have excellent taste, carry a torch for corny pop songs close to their hearts. So, in honor of this "Worst Ever" issue, earSHOT will be sponsoring a "Tribute to Cheese" night at the Pontiac Grille on South Street. Tentatively scheduled bands include the Rolling Hayseeds, Wastoid (right), Nancy Falkow and the earSHOT, uh, house band Rockula (featuring a few members of the earSHOT staff). As they dust off their old K-Tel records, who knows what songs these bands will dare to cover? Duran Duran? Rick Springfield? Kajagoogoo? Watch as local bands interpret, in their own inimitable style, the Limburger of rock and roll. Bring earplugs. A Tribute to Cheese, Sunday, Nov. 16, 9:30 p.m., Pontiac Grille, 304 South St., 925-4053. Steely Glances Calling all industrial fans out there. If you really love industrial things, go see Joseph Elliott's photography exhibit entitled Big Steel. The series features 30 of Elliott's large format black-and-white prints taken during Bethlehem Steel's last year in operation. Elliott captures the four-mile long plant in its entirety and the beauty of this dying industry. Recently featured in the August edition of National Geographic, his photographs are both documentary and artistic and a natural descendant of the machine age and cityscape styles produced in the '20s and '30s. Joseph Elliott's Big Steel is on view through Nov. 22 at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Whitehead Campus Center of Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave., Haverford. Meet Elliott at a reception on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 3 p.m. Admission is free. Hours: weekdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and weekends from noon to 4 p.m., (610) 896-1333. - Sarah Armour
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