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Featured Artists:

Title		Artist		Genre
Electric Hoe Down		Nat King Tron		Eclectic
My Name Is Tron		Nat King Tron		Eclectic
Tied		Bruce Torres		Acoustic Rock
CityGirl		Bruce Torres		Acoustic Rock
Canción Que Nace En Mi		Tribal Scream		Latin Rock
Te Podria Pasar A Ti		Tribal Scream		Latin Rock
Obey		T.P.D.		Indie Pop
Something Delicious		Stellarscope		Indie Rock
Cryogenic Sleep		Stellarscope		Indie Rock
Insomnia		Psylichon		Electronic
Broken Open		Psylichon		Acoustic Rock
Medicine		Jimbo		Punk

Philly Music & Nightlife:

 • Scout Niblett: A demeanor at odds with her dark music
    'Welcome to my self-made sweatbox" sings Emma Louise Niblett on her sixth album The Calcination of Scout Niblett. "This is where I take it all off." >> read more or comment


 • Moya Brennan on "Music of Ireland"
    At the Philadelphia Flower Show the crowd is snaking along the pathway through the Irish garden display their eyes intently raking the underbrush as if engaged in an Easter egg hunt for adults. >> read more or comment


 • `American Idol' pares down to 12 finalists
    And then there were 12 on "American Idol." >> read more or comment


 • New Recordings
    Pop Get off the Internet. Put the iPhone down. Joanna Newsom demands your time and undivided attention. And rewards it. Sure the 28-year-old unlikely indie-darling harp virtuoso and pianist has a small pinched soprano that often grates and she's guilty of >> read more or comment


 • Live music and more
    Story starts hereLive music and more tonight through Thursday compiled by Shaun Brady Tom Di Nardo James Johnson Sara Sherr and Jonathan Takiff. >> read more or comment


 • Concert Previews
    Janelle Monae A standout among the growing crop of future-funk outsiders Atlanta-based multi-hyphenate Janelle Monae meshes brainy sci-fi concepts with high-gloss genre diversions. Beholden to no one scene she has worked with OutKast and toured alongsid >> read more or comment


 • A singer with style - and some talented connections
    Joe Henry is a well-connected artist in many senses of the term - all positive. This includes the happenstance of family but it's evident from the quality of Henry's familial collaborations that there's no undue nepotism. >> read more or comment


 • Celtic rockers still doing it their way
    For 20 years now Black 47 has been delivering its own brawny and bracing brand of Celtic rock. With a song called "Celtic Rocker" on its new album the New York band takes an affectionately humorous poke at the musical style it has helped to popularize. >> read more or comment


 • Concert and club listings
    In Concert Annenberg Center Zellerbach Theatre 3680 Walnut St.; 215-898-6701. www.annenbergcenter.org. Habib Koite & Bamada. $20-$40. 3/14. 7 pm. Natalie MacMaster. $20-$50. 3/17. 7:30 pm. >> read more or comment


 • Casino shows and concerts
    Casinos Bally's Atlantic City Park Place & The Boardwalk Atlantic City; 609-340-2000. www.ballysac.com. Karaoke Night. 3/18. Borgata Hotel & Casino 1 Borgata Way Atlantic City; 609-317-1000. www.theborgata.com. Alice in Chains. $49.50. 3/12. 8 pm. Sold Out. Jay-Z. $150. 3/13. 8 pm. Sold Out. >> read more or comment

Philadelphia City Paper - Music Picks:

 • Music Picks: The Low Anthem
    

americana/folk

Oh My God Charlie Darwin the painstakingly hand-crafted second album from this Rhode Island trio is — evolutionary inspirations aside — about the furthest thing imaginable from the artily esoteric operatic take on On the Origin of Species recently released by Swedish synth-pop duo The Knife. OMGCD is warm familiar organic and unspeakably comforting. And yet despite its seeming traditionalism there is a certain otherness and singularity to the record's hushed solemn neo-gospel folk ballads (which are somewhat incongruously complemented by a trio of raucous haggard-voiced stompers) — a sparse aesthetic purity and an achingly forlorn beauty polished but faded which makes their music feel indeed both low-key and anthemic.

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 • Music Picks: Foreign Born
    

rock/pop

While not as overtly ethno-flecked as their multiculti kissing-cousins/alter egos Fool's Gold sunny L.A. denizens Foreign Born still ring true to their world-wandering moniker folding plenty of burbling high-life licks and perkily percolating polyrhythms into their indigenous guitar pop. It's a pleasingly fluid fusion more summer swelter than helter-skelter from a traveling troupe that feel less like vampish weekenders than fully naturalized citizens of indie's global village.

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 • Music Picks: Wild Beasts
    

rock/art-pop

It's not too often that you hear something genuinely joltingly unexpected on an indie rock record these days but the moment that comes three minutes into these vibrantly theatrical Brits' sophomore outing Two Dancers — when Hayden Thorpe declares "This is a booty call!" in a quavering quasi-operatic falsetto warble somewhere roughly between Kate Bush and John Cleese — definitely qualifies. It's about the silliest thing imaginable but he makes it sound almost stately and that's the sort of wildness we're dealing with here: more outlandish than savage but sublimely strange nevertheless.

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 • Music Picks: Surfer Blood
    

Ian Witlen

rock/pop

This fresh-faced Floridian crew — former hardcore types currently cresting on a sweet wave of 'net-hype — sure know how to pile on the attention-getting hipster tropes with a band name and album title (Astro Coast) referencing not only beaches (ultrazeitgeisty reportedly) but also outer space and violence. Beyond the schticky veneer though they're refreshingly nongimmicky; a classic no-adjective-needed rock band. Sure you might hear some Dick Dale echoes folded into their buzzy hazy rock'n'roll stew but they're just as apt to recall Television Built to Spill Real Estate or any band of any era who built a slightly left-field approach on strong hooks and even-more-potent electric guitars.

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 • Music Picks: Georgia Anne Muldrow
    

Alexis Maryon

soul/funk/hip-hop

Muldrow's a key player in the jazzy Afrodelic future-funk groove-world orbiting around SoCal labels Stones Throw and Ubiquity — count Sa-Ra Madlib Erykah Badu and Mos Def among her collaborators and fellow travellers — and one of several artists who've been smartly tweaking the neo-soul template swapping out drab tastefulness for grittily inventive sophistication. The vocalist/MC/producer/multi-instrumentalist's latest King's Ballad (Ubiquity) landed earlier this month right alongside round two of Snowpocalypse '10 but it's as summery as they come: the titular MJ eulogy'll swoon you right back to June '09 while fonky slow-burners "Doobie Down" and "Summer Love" (self-explanatory) are plenty simmering enough to melt this mess we're in.

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 • Music Picks: Sugar Town
    

rock/pop/showcase

Nine years in (with a few interruptions) Sara Sherr's monthly ladyfest remains one of the most reliable sources of new/underexposed music in Philly. This Saturday's a good one: brazen pop-punks She Ends All fiery grunge duo The Sky Drops sweet racket-makers Kitten Disaster and Maura Johnston (ex-Idolator blogger) who will read a little something and handle DJ duties.

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 • Music Picks: All Crazy
    

rock/pop/hip-hop/funk

Flagrantly radio-friendly but friendly nonetheless All Crazy is back with another album full of positive/positively unchallenging "Hip-Rock." Touting its multiracial/multigenre-ness the funk-forward fourpiece has called itself "the true face of Philadelphia." Nah. But if these guys scaled it back to "the true sound of Manayunk" I don't think they'd get a sober objection. It's party rock. Do you like to party in the general sense of the word?

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 • Music Picks: Daedelus
    

electronic

Beginning with 2002's marvelously whimsical Invention mutton-chopped multitasker Alfred "Daedelus" Darlingon has amassed a staggering catalog of releases (on a nearly as astounding number of labels) establishing him as among the most restless idiosyncratic and well inventive electronic artists around with a distinctively playful sample-based style mix 'n' matching cocktail jazz IDM golden-age Hollywood film scores Brazilian samba drum 'n' bass spy soundtracks lullabies nursery rhymes and Victorian-era haberdashery. This rare tour — spotlighting his semi-legendary live prowess on the Monome digital controller (hand-crafted here in Philly!) — celebrates the launch of his very own label the excellently named Magical Properties.

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 • Music Picks: VV Brown
    

pop/soul

Vanessa Brown stands apart from the UK's post-Winehouse parade of eyelash-heavy would-be divas — Duffy Adele Pixie Lott Gabriella Cilmi ad nauseum — not just for her hairdo (an ber-retro flat-top fringe) and genuinely refreshing spunkiness but also her range. She can do the brassy '60s girl-group thing with the best of 'em — check her irresistibly breezy summer smash "Shark in the Water" — but her debut long-player Travelling Like the Light (just out here on Capitol) also finds space for struttin' rockabilly Andrews Sisters-style boogie-woogie and on "Everybody" a savvy flashback to the house-infused early-'90s R&B of Soul II Soul.

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 • Music Picks: Mission of Burma
    

rock/pop

Since 2002 the resurgent Mission of Burma has lasted twice as long as its 1979 to 1983 heyday and doubled its original output. If nothing on their recent The Sound the Speed the Light (Matador) is as memorable as classics like "That's When I Reach for My Revolver" or "Academy Fight Song" at least it does no harm and their live show is a revelation.

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 • Music Picks: Memory Tapes
    

electronic/pop

Something is happening in South Jersey. Without a car without a phone reportedly just hanging around the house with his 4-year-old Davye Hawk (frontman of erstwhile Philly rockers Hail Social) has somehow cracked open music's gooey gushing heart. The weird tapes that have been spilling out — across the Web and all over last year's endlessly replayable Seek Magic — cast a spell that mere descriptions of their electro-indie-synth-gaze-disco-pop hybrid mangle can't hope to contain.

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 • Music Picks: Lookbook
    

rock/pop

If we set our time machine to 1986 and dropped Minneapolis' Lookbook into a junior prom their potential for slow-dance ubiquity would be as high as that of any number of synth-pop duos. Grant Cutler plays guitar like he gets paid per fist-pump and slathers every chord in wheezy blippy synth. And on the surface Maggie Morrison's exactly the kind of singer you'd expect to front such stuff with a strong sexy voice and the sultry look and feel for phrasing that Prince would cream over. But a closer listen reveals something less calculated: Morrison's passion comes off more like a bruised kneecap hidden beneath indestructible corduroy than the strategically ripped denim that reveals a pristine patella. Lookbook's come-hither record title might claim they're Wild at Heart but Morrison's lyrics are more ambivalent — more torn more vulnerable and more cryptic — than that.

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 • Music Picks: Leather
    

On last year's self-released EP Addicted to Suffering Philly punk four-piece Leather made a palpable sometimes painful case for their world-weary malaise. Choice song titles: "No Motivation" "Ejaculation Without Orgasm." That latter actually kind of rules its distorted guitar harmonics reverberating into your brain along with Jack Tar's primal groans and screams signifying well nothing. Exactly. Here's hoping their release show for the Anchorite EP brings more of the same.

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 • Music Picks: Jemina Pearl
    

rock/pop

Former Be Your Own Pet singer Jemina Pearl still rules the mic on her solo debut Break It Up (Ecstatic Peace) while ex-BYOP drummer John Eatherly plays just about everything else. The somewhat-less-rambunctious pace may reflect their relative maturity (Pearl's 22 Eatherly turns 20 in March) but it sounds like someone's been digging through old LPs by Suzi Quatro The Runaways and Kiss.

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 • Music Picks: Freeway
    

hip-hop

It wasn't so long ago that Philly rapper Freeway was throwing up the Roc-A-Fella hand gesture and adding to Jay-Z's net worth by rhyming on hits like "What We Do" "Flipside" and "Roc the Mic." Now those are the good old days. It's a new decade and Freeway has moved on. Partnering up with De La Soul and producer Jake One (50 Cent) he's releasing Stimulus Package on Rhymesayers. "This is my first album with no major backing" he says. "I went in to recording it with that mind state and believe it is my best album to date." Fans will be particularly interested in hearing his heretofore undocumented feelings on the Roc-A-Fella situation and so might be tempted to pass up the download for the creatively packaged CD and accompanying liner notes. At the release show on Monday expect a bit of the old a lot of the new and a few special guests. "I'm bringing real hip-hop back" promises Freeway. "I call myself the product — people need me."

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 • Music Picks: Pink Skull
    

dance/psych/electronic

What to expect when these veteran hometown DJ bros take the stage in full-band free-form freak-out mode: disco-punk acid-house psychedelia tropicalia glossolalia? Their latest vinyl/digital missive Endless Bummer (RVNG) which manages to be at once more unpredictable and more approachable than prior offerings cycles through most of the above along with a fair amount of droney ambience and — maybe weirdest of all — a pop song ("Peter Cushing" about the British horror/sci-fi actor) while always retaining a bright open newly chummy looseness.

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 • Music Picks: Taken By Trees
    

rock/pop

Since abandoning her post as frontwoman for The Concretes in 2006 Victoria Bergsman has busied herself into quite a valuable node for your six-degrees-of-indie-separation games: singing backups for Camera Obscura and Primal Scream getting remixed by The Tough Alliance covering Arthur Russell (on a Jens Lekman-curated EP) and Guns N' Roses and most notably starring as "cutesy teenybopper #2" in Peter Bjorn and John's worldwide smash "Young Folks (That Whistling Song)." For last year's East of Eden (Rough Trade) her second album under the Taken by Trees moniker Bergsman enlisted a different set of collaborators entirely traveling to Pakistan and working primarily with Sufi musicians who infuse her sweet gently melancholic compositions with dholak tabla flute harmonium and spine-tingling qawwali vocals. The resulting album a stunningly lovely mixture of field recording Eastern devotional music and low-key Western folk-pop (besides Bergsman's own numbers there's an Animal Collective cover a Swedish-translated Herman Hesse poem and a traditional Pakistani piece) offers a subdued but striking new slant on the recently rampant strains of indie-music globalization.

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 • Music Picks: Eat Your Birthday Cake
    

Quiet as a clam and quirky as a clam steering a Bentley down Frankford Avenue emerging Philly duo Eat Your Birthday Cake walks the line between silly and sublime. With a cascade of Juno keyboard loops and softly strummed acoustic guitars their debut I Know You Can has a lovely Grandaddy/American Analog Set vibe. But Bill Storck and Marc Neibauer are also professed Jens Lekman fans; they're not doing this without a wink and a grin. The tragicomic "Vegan Leather" concerns an overzealous eco-hippie ("Save the whales and maybe the walrus/ Global warming Al Gore will solve this") who has no qualms about say leather boots or cocaine. Aw too close to home? Flip ahead to the bip-bopping robot pop of "Peter Pan" and you'll be smiling with 'em in no time.

 

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 • Music Picks: Birdie Busch
    

folk/pop

Pattern of Saturn (Monotask) local sweetheart Birdie Busch's most recent album charms with clip-clop rhythms ("Tenderoni") antsy characters ("Bordertown") and gentle honky tonk ("Roll It"). What better way to soak it all up than at The Philly Opry an evening of country-and-Western flair hosted and headlined by Busch?

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 • Music Picks: Da Comrade!
    

rock/pop

Tune in at the wrong point and West Philly's Da Comrade! comes off as just another facepaint-smeared Man Man-inspired weird-for-the-sake-of-weird avant-garde troupe. But amid horn bleats and whispery bacchanalia these dudes (and lady) have obvious hooks and skill. Stick out the riffy rock coda of "Ghosts of Chernobyl" or the simmering midtempo "Doom Maiden" from 2009's The War From Your Living Room (Chernobyl Collective); they're enough to topple your high horse. Don't judge just dig.

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Phillyist:

 • CinePhillyist Reviews... She's Out of My League
    

And now introducing... your new Lloyd Dobbler and Diane Court. When we saw She's Out of My League last week we weren't really expecting much. Well that's not entirely accurate. We were expecting that a comedy starring Jay Baruchel a relatively minor player in the vast Judd Apatow troupe would be at least semi-funny/gross/entertaining. What we didn't anticipate was a charming and modern homage to Say Anything by the late great John Hughes with a few moments of over-the-top Apatow/Farrelly Brothers-style humor thrown in for good measure. Baruchel while not quite as absorbing an actor as John Cusack was adorable and perfect as the gangly hero with the heart of gold. And Alice Eve despite a few slips in her American accent was completely buyable as his dream girl.

The two meet in the Pittsburgh airport when TSA agent Kirk (Baruchel) plays the white knight saving Molly (Eve) from his obnoxious boss Mr. Fuller. In a Hughesian universe Fuller would have been the perfect place for an Eric Stolz cameo. Therefore we award extra style points to director Jim Field Smith for astutely casting Andrew Daly practically a dead ringer for the red-headed chiseled-jawed Stoltz. The beautiful and polished Molly and the geeky Kirk find themselves fated to meet again when Kirk recovers Molly's lost iPhone at security.

The mismatched pair (according to Kirk's misguided but well-intentioned group of friends Molly's a "Hard 10" but Kirk's just a "5" and ne'er the twain shall meet) navigate their way through a series of dating ups and downs. The only difference between Kirk and our main man Lloyd Dobbler is that Kirk doesn't ever truly believe himself to be worthy of the attentions of his perfect 10. After a horrifying tandem man grooming incident a big old-fashioned blow-up break-up and the potential of a dreaded trip to Branson with his family of buffoons and tart of an ex (as evidenced by her ever-visible undergarments) Marnie (Lindsay Sloane) Kirk finally grows a pair. But to get off the plane and back to his dream girl requires the help of his now enlightened friends who have realized: of course Kirk deserves to be with Molly. Kirk's the best guy they know. Molly should be lucky to be with him!

A witty script comprised clever of moments held our attention throughout while the fun and funny cast were aptly guided by a first-time feature director with a great sense character story and comedic timing. Real human emotions pull our hero and heroine through their admittedly predicable plot points. She's Out of My League isn't reinventing the wheel but it is telling a classic "boy meets girl" story in a fresh way. And for once it's nice to escape to a romantic comedic tale where the girl isn't a bitch. We're looking at you Judd Apatow.

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 • Asshole of the Week
    

We hope by the time we're old we'll be yelling for the damn kids to get off the lawn. And for them to stop skateboarding all over the sidewalks. And to stop playing with their robot puppies in the middle of the street. This is in part because we think robot puppies will be sweet and in part because this kid-caused misanthropy seems a little quaint and pleasantly old-timey.

Instead the youth of Philadelphia are yukking it up beating each other over color and beating adults over God-knows-what. Last week two brothers both Northeast residents were separately attacked by kids on the subway. In both cases kids came out of nowhere with fists and videotaped their gleeful and aimless violence.

This seems so pointless. Soon enough parents and politicians will be blaming the teachers for failing the children unrelated ministers will be blaming plagued city race relations the racists will be blaming color and hardly anybody will be preaching real personal responsibility.

Sure the kids have been let down. Hell they've been let down in almost every corner by (probably) disinterested parents a troubled school system and an overall decaying support system. But that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be held personally responsible. They are. They did it. They're attacking random people in the subway that most likely have got crap-all to do with their myriad woes. And parents ought to support love and punish their kids. Because they deserve it.

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 • Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
    

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 • Blogged Around Philly: Hopped Up Edition
    

Who needs an RSS feed when you have us? Bringing you the best of the week in the 215 blogosphere...

If you have two thumbs and like the Internet you couldn't escape the fury over our Commonwealth's puritanical Liquor Control Board conducting multiple raids on local bars for allegedly selling unregistered beer (first reported by Phillyist last week). Well many bloggers are all hopped up (sorry we couldn't help ourselves) about it especially with the unofficial Philly Beer Weekend (don't worry the full week will be back in June) events this weekend. What disappointed this Phillyist the most is that as Meal Ticket reported some brewers even canceled highly-anticipated launch events because of it. Thankfully some of the falsely-confiscated beers are now back on the shelves. Check out posts from Grub Street and Liquid Diet for more commentary on the matter.

With Stephen Wynn turning heads and pissing people off as the likely new majority shareholder in the Foxwoods Casino in South Philly Illadelph looks to Bucks County's Parx casino already in operation to see what we have to look forward to.

This week's "are you shitting me?" award goes to Philly Clout with its announcement that the City Inspector found $3.4 million worth of city wage tax payment checks from the U.S. Department of Defense that were never cashed. Sometimes there really are no words.

Philebrity gives us a peak at the latest Dr. Dog release including the song "Shadow People" an homage to West Philly that includes references to the neon lights of Baltimore Avenue and the backyard gatherings that characterize the neighborhood.

Philly Blunt gets to thinking about "right-sizing" Philadelphia as it observes Detroit having tough conversations about its shrinking population base and increasing budget deficit that limits the city's ability to fund vital services like ethnic parades. Warning: this could get heavy.

For something a little more uplifting let's talk about the Phillies. Thanks to The Fightins for calling out this Biden-esque gaffe by the Seattle Mariners as they rushed to get a Cliff Lee baseball card on the shelves. Something about the photo just doesn't look right.

And a big round of applause to 700 Level for honoring this special week in Phillies history: the week John Kruk had his testicle removed.

Shmitten Kitten was too busy this week planning events to have her boner killed. Sensitive studs beware.

And now we leave you with an image pure and beautiful: The Insider's video clip of beef burgers sizzling away on the stove top at 500º the new joint from the creators of Rouge. This is sure to make your taste buds go ballistic.

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 • Photoist
    

Title: Amaryllis Pollen
Photographer: moocatmoocat
Location: Philadelphia Flower Show
Camera: Sony DSLR-A700

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 • Phillyist Reviews... Larry Kane's Ticket to Ride
    

In 1964 Larry Kane was a young radio newsman in Miami who accidentally stumbled into a part of rock & roll history. When the Beatles prepared to begin their now-infamous 1964 U.S. tour Kane wrote to Beatles' manager Brian Epstein to try and arrange an interview. Epstein mistakenly thinking the letter came from one of the most important newscasters in America—for reasons best explained by Kane himself—invited the 21-year-old to accompany the band on the entire tour. Kane didn't want to but as a young pup in the business he had no choice—his boss made him go.

The rest as we noted was rock & roll history. The Beatles took America by storm and Kane went on to become the preeminent newscaster in our city—not to mention author of two Beatles books: Ticket to Ride which chronicles the 1964 and 1965 Beatles tours and Lennon Revealed. This month Kane takes the stories that began in 1964 and developed into an on-again off-again relationship with the members of the Beatles for 25 years and tells them firsthand in Larry Kane's Ticket to Ride at the Franklin Institute.

We attended the program last weekend and expected it to really focus in on those first U.S. tours but it didn't. Kane is a wealth of Beatles knowledge and anyone with an interest in rock history will enjoy his insights into the band's rise and—well the Beatles still haven't fallen but breakup. Those who may think of the Beatles only as musicians may be surprised at just the level of debauchery they engaged in when they were those clean-cut mopheads but then they were 21 to 24-year-old kids at that time so we shouldn't have been surprised. For those who idealize the Beatles as people maybe you don't want to have your illusions shattered. (Paul McCartney "never met a woman or a mirror that he didn't love.") But for a very real glimpse into what those four guys were achieving—even though they all expected it to end at any moment—Kane's program is a goldmine.

If there's a weakness in Larry Kane's Ticket to Ride it's the lack of a narrative focus. Kane jumps back and forth chronologically and occasionally interrupts stories about one member of the band to talk about another one then goes back to the original story with no apparent rhyme or reason for the interjection. If you're looking for a cohesive story Larry Kane's Ticket to Ride won't give it to you. But it will give you vignettes aplenty and a way of thinking about the Beatles that you probably didn't have before.

Larry Kane's Ticket to Ride runs every Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 5 and 8 p.m. through the end of March. Tickets are $33.50.

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 • Frugal Fun Alert: Weekend
    

Fun around town for $10 or less:

Friday:
Big Line Up for $7: The Parsnip Revolt with The Roddies Hair Rocket The Shade Bad Doctors and Duchampion at the Fire (412 W. Girard Ave) 8PM. $7.

Free Yourself: Inside Out In the Open a documentary about free jazz at Highwire Gallery. With a performance by Sonic Liberation Front (1240 Frankford Ave) 8PM. $5.

Dance Dance: Sorted brit-pop indie dance at the Barbary (951 Frankford Ave) 10PM. $5.

Saturday:
Mish-mash: Second Saturday on East Passyunk Avenue. Art exhibits on display at Sweet Jane Vintage B2 Cafe Black N Brew and Nice Things Handmade (East Passyunk Ave) 6PM. Free.

Man Vs. Nature: "Succession" artwork by Joan Wadleigh Curran opening at Seraphin Gallery. The artist combines natural and man-made objects to show the world in conflict (1108 Pine St) 6PM. Free.

Punny: Oh! Pears with Inlets and The Mural and The Mint at Johnny Brenda's (1201 N. Frankford Ave) 9PM. $10.

Sunday:
Games: Apparently Sunday is sexy game night. Porno bingo at 12th Air Command (254 S. 12th St) 10PM. Free. Kinky Quizzo at Valanni (1229 Spruce St) 10:30PM. Free.

Sing For Your Beer: Karaoke at the The Abbaye (637 N. 3rd St) 11PM. Free.

The Band With the Longest Name: Meddlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells at the Khyber. With The Hush Now and Tunnels to Tundras (56 S. 2nd St) 8PM. $8.

Got a frugal tip? Send it our way!

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 • CinePhillyist
    

Much went on this past week in the world of cinema. The Oscars crowned a new queen when Kathryn Bigelow beat out her ex-husband for both the Best Director and Best Picture Awards on Sunday Night. When we reviewed The Hurt Locker back in July it seemed way too early to call it a shoe-in come Academy Awards time. But the traditional season of award-worthy film releases came and went and it was still the best thing we'd seen all year. We had the good fortune of interviewing the future Academy Award Winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal way back in July when The Hurt Locker was first released. Now that you're a little more familiar with the product we were pushing take a look back!

In addition to all the Red Carpet nonsense we somehow managed to squeeze in a Sunday showing of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. We hate to say it but the critics were right: It's not stunning. The story is muddled and the 3-D visuals well once you see the Avatar technology it's mighty hard to un-see. Poor Alice just couldn't quite measure up. Bold acting choices (mostly by Anne Hathaway and Johnny Depp) fell flat all over the place and despite our immense love for the never-aging Crispin Glover we really didn't buy anyone as who they were supposed to be (except for possibly Helena Bonham Carter). We wanted a vibrant and edgy Wonderland. We got a sad and droopy Underland. But on to this week's flicks.

Green Zone
Matt Damon and Director Paul Greengrass (is that a great last name or what?) re-team for a military thriller that resembles the Bourne movies but just isn't as good.
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Our Family Wedding
Two people with crazy families attempt to plan a wedding. We ever mention we like escapist films? This is so NOT that. (Disclaimer: this Phillyist's opinion is clearly biased given her current entanglement in the preparations for her brother's upcoming marriage.)
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Prodigal Sons
A documentary about a set of siblings like you've never seen before. One is the grandson of Orson Wells and Rita Hayworth adopted into a rural Montana family. The other is his little brother who is now his sister. Directed by the younger sibling Kimberly Reed Prodigal Sons is a compelling peek into the life of an unorthodox yet very real family.
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A Prophet (Un prophete)
This Academy Award nominated French gangster film is garnering nothing but rave reviews as far as we can see. When the French get it right they really get it right.
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Remember Me
A role that calls for rebellious and brooding? Call Robert Pattinson! Remember when we expressed our skepticism that Zac Efron could actually act but we were eager to see if it was so? Repeat that sentiment here. At least here he's got a great supporting cast consisting of the effervescent Emilie de Ravin the underrated Chris Cooper Irina Derevko/Lena Olin and Pierce "James Bond" Brosnan.
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She's Out of My League
Saw it laughed at it liked it reviewed it. A modern romantic comedy with a retro vibe. Check back later for the full verdict.
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The Yellow Handkerchief
Interest in one Twilight star is enough for this weekend. If we want to see Kristen Stewart pout across the screen we'll wait until April for the Joan Jett biopic The Runaways.
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 • Yo Philly in the News
    

• A statewide child porn investigation has led to 44 individuals being charged. The defendants "[range] in age from a juvenile to a 70-year-old."

• Local favorite business Tasty Baking Company—makers of all those delicious Tastykakes—has a new home a huge bakery and warehouse facility at the Navy Yard in South Philly.
• Vince Fumo's former allies are now supporting Pat Meehan—the U.S. Attorney who indicted Fumo—in Meehan's Congressional bid.

• The U.S. Department of Defense has written a $3.4 million check to Philadelphia to account for uncashed wage-tax checks that have been lingering around since 2005. We know we'd leave $3.4 million sitting on the table for five years... (File under: Only in Philadelphia.)
• Villanova fell flat on its face in the Big East tournament against Marquette yesterday. Hopefully Temple will fare better when they begin their pursuit of a third straight A-10 tournament championship today against St. Bonaventure.
• Today's forecast: cool dreary rainy. But at least it's not a blizzard.

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 • Extra Extra
    

• "Forget the dog beware of the owner." That is what the sign on Old City gallery owner Rick Snyderman's door reads. Snyderman chased down a would-be thief and trapped her on a SEPTA bus. Her partner-in-crime is still at large.
• Do you get news from Philly.com? Well they have a message for you: they are aggressively investigating any instances of malware being distributed via their site.
• Another area citizen is linked to terrorism. Sharif Mobley the alleged al-Qaida member who tried to shoot his way out of a Yemeni hospital hails from Atlantic County New Jersey.
• Forces are combining to form a unified front against the $.02 per ounce tax on sweetened drinks. The tax's negative effects will be far-reaching.
• Think those bars that were raided got a skunked beer? We do too. More importantly it seems so does State Rep. Robert Donatucci. Dontatucci announced that the House Liquor Control Committee will hold a joint hearing regarding the raids. The hearing is set for April.
• All silly puns on Armageddon or the apocalypse aside this weekend's expected rainfall will pound the area with two to four inches. The heaviest rain is expected on Saturday. The rainfall will contain more water than any of the snowstorms we've experienced this winter.

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 • City Paper Roundup
    

City Paper loves Conan too! Meanwhile the Franklin Institute's hawks love them some City Paper.

The Food and Restaurants column fills you in on a 110-proof herbal liquor created by Carthusian monks as well as Philly Beer Week and PLCB raids.

More on beer. We like beer.

"Tucked away in a basement artists Mary Tasillo and Michelle Wilson are the pioneers behind Book Bombs one of Philagrafika's independent projects."

In CP's cover story PA Senator Arlen Specter: Survivor.

Find out why the Philly Flower Show wasn't green enough for some folks and what makes City Paper tingle in their naughty places.

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 • Tim O'Brien Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of The Things They Carried
    

I have a lot of friends who are writers. We don't agree on much. But we do agree on one thing: Tim O'Brien is a god. And The Things They Carried makes writers get down on their knees and bow to the prose that rules over the rest of us. If you haven't read this collection of short stories that follows soldiers in Vietnam get a copy tonight and don't make any plans for the weekend. If you have read it go back to it and re-read the water buffalo scene. I can't imagine you were able to ever get it out of your mind but if you were revisit this wrenching moment in fiction (or at least we hope it is fiction; O'Brien makes the reader question the veracity of the text for the entire book).

Then once you have done your homework plan on attending his reading to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this seminal work. O'Brien will visit the Free Library on Tuesday March 23 so you have plenty of time to finish your assignment.

And let us know what you thought of the book. We love to know you are reading not only Phillyist on your screen but also that you are reading the printed page as well!

Tim O'Brien and Twenty Years of The Things They Carried
Philadelphia Free Library Central Library Branch
Tuesday March 23 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $7 – 14

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 • PAWS Dog of the Week
    

PAWS is in constant need of support both personal and financial. Click through for information on volunteering fostering or making a donation. If you have specific questions about fostering you can e-mail the PAWS foster parent coordinator Robin at robin@phillypaws.org.

Gordon (ID# A09827952)

Gordon is a 12 week old red-nosed American Staffordshire Terrier mix who was found as a stray. Gordon is an affectionate guy who loves cuddling. He's also quite the playful one and he enjoys his toys. Gordon is a young pup so he is not yet housebroken or crate trained. He should go to a home that has experience with Staffordshire-type dogs and the patience to give him the training and upbringing for him to become a perfect gentleman. If you're interested in adopting Gordon please note that you must enroll in a positive reinforcement-based training program before he goes home with you.

If you'd like more information about Gordon e-mail alamond@phillypaws.org. You can find Gordon at the PAWS Adoption Center which is located at 100 N. 2nd Street (the corner of 2nd and Arch). Also make note of Gordon's ID number and bring it with you when you go to the adoption center. Adoption hours are Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and Sun. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

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 • Phillyist Playlist: Alkaline Trio The Dear & Departed at the Troc
    

Dear and Departed Photo Courtesy Equal Vision Records

Obviously influenced by The Clash and AFI (which totally makes sense because we've already told you about AFI's fresh take on the sound in "Veronica Sawyer Smokes") The Dear & Departed rocks out their new EP Chapters. "Matter of Time" reminds us of "It Hurts" from Angels and Airwaves. "Tambourine Love" makes us think something to the effect of: "snare snap clap—dance dance dance!" (For the record those are both Good Things.) Okay so it's kind of a silly lyric. But so is "Love Cats." The hook is good and so's the bridge. We're already in the process of constructing a new sunny day playlist themed around "Tambourine Love" and fun.'s "Barlights." Anyway if you're a fan of 80s Brit Pop-Goth-Punk and the products it spawned you'll probably want to make your way to Chinatown tonight where the boys from SoCal are opening up for old favorites Alkaline Trio.

The last time we saw Alkaline Trio it was with Saves the Day at Croc Rock. Despite being in Allentown we're pretty fond of Croc Rock. (What? It has multiple bar areas and expansive floor space. Go see and then judge.) Perhaps it's just because it was drummer Derek Grant's birthday but they absolutely killed their set there. To be fair we've been listening to Alk3 for a solid decade plus now and we can't ever remember a show where they've disappointed. However their seventh studio album This Addiction has us a little torn. With thirteen tracks of "back to basics" (plus four bonus acoustic takes of "This Addiction" "Dine Dine My Darling" "Dead on the Floor" and "Fine") Trio almost makes us want to just go ahead and listen to the real old stuff instead of the old-sounding new stuff. This Addiction just happens to be one of those albums that improves after a few listens. We're gradually growing attached to "The American Scream" and the synth-filled "Eating Me Alive." and we're hoping that old and new mixed results in the same great Alkaline Trio live set we know and love. We're pretty sure it will tonight.

Alkaline Trio with Cursive and The Dear & Departed
Thursday 3/11/10
Doors 7:00pm Show 8:00pm All Ages
The Trocadero (1003 Arch Street)
Tickets: SOLD OUT! (off to craigslist with you!)

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 • Philahealthia: "Sweaty or Not Here We Come!"
    

As promised in last week's column we come bearing the half-marathon rundown.

On Saturday after our crack-of-dawn flight to Orlando we checked in to the hotel and then hopped a bus to the Fitness Expo to pick up our race bibs and sweet Disney swag (goody bag t-shirt socks). We tried to mosey around the Expo (featuring vendors like Foot Locker to Nintendo Wii) to check things out. Us and about 2000 of our closest friends.

There was no shortage of commemorative half-marathon merchandise of course. This is Disney they know what they're doing. More presumptuous athletes could purchase their "I Did It!" t-shirt before they actually did it but we didn't want to jinx it.

Early bedtime was no problem after flying out so early. But it was still to our annoyance when the alarm clock went off at 3 a.m. To get to the race site you had to be on a bus no later than 4 a.m. We are not morning people and are particularly skeptical of morning before the sun rises.

We and our scowling faces got on a bus with 100 other half-marathon hopefuls some of whom were "real" athletes—all energetic and bouncy. We hated those women. We arrived and walked around a mile and a half to the starting line. (Alas this does not count toward your half-marathon total.)

We were herded into one of five corrals for a staggered start. Corral A started at 6 a.m. Corral B started seven minutes later and so on.

Leigh was in Corral C so she started at 6:14 and I was in D so I started at 6:21. At that hour in Orlando it was 42 degrees. A quick check on my iPhone told me it was 37 here in Philly. Awesome. Glad we went all the way to Florida for that.

It was mostly women gathered for the event along with a few men secure enough in themselves to don a tutu for their princesses and join the event. In Leigh's corral were two gentlemen decked out in full Evil Queen and Malificent costumes makeup and all. Something Leigh and I both noticed—there were women of all sizes shapes and fitness levels. Crazy athletes who were racing in costumes and fairy wings; big women; small women; it didn't matter. It was reassuring to see that it wasn't all super-fit women. Most of them were just normal women just like us which instilled in us a feeling that yes we could do this.

Fireworks kicked off the start for each corral of runners and so we began...

Follow the jump below the gallery for the rest of our story!

    

Current Exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art:

 • Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris
    February 24 2010 - April 25 2010: Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative and influential artists of the twentieth century Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881–1973) was at his most ferociously inventive between 1905 and 1945. Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris surveys his work during these crucial decades when he transformed the history of art through his innate virtuosity and protean creativity.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/354.htmlFebruary 24 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Marcel Wanders: Daydreams
    November 22 2009 - June 13 2010: The visionary and revolutionary Dutch designer Marcel Wanders (born 1963) is creating for the Museum a dreamlike multimedia installation of objects personally selected by the artist to represent pivotal points in his extraordinary career. Using shifting video images lighting and sound to illuminate the development of his boldly inventive body of work Wanders provides the visitor with a unique visual and sensory experience dramatizing the evolution of his designs over the past twenty years.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/368.htmlNovember 22 2009 >> read more or comment


 • A Purer Taste of Forms and Ornaments: Josiah Wedgwood and the Antique
    October 24 2009 - March 14 2010: In 1759 the young Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) who would become one of England’s most famous potters established his first factory at the Ivy House Works in Burslem England. A Purer Taste of Forms and Ornaments: Josiah Wedgwood and the Antique celebrates the 250th anniversary of this vastly influential factory and its extraordinary founder.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/369.htmlOctober 24 2009 >> read more or comment


 • Hans Memling’s Virgin Nursing the Christ Child and the Early Netherlandish Tondo
    December 19 2009 - March 14 2010: This exhibition brings together for the first time the two surviving tondos by the great Flemish master Hans Memling (c.1433 – 1494). These small round oil paintings of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus are peculiarly personal and affective devotional objects that could be held in the hand or hung on a wall.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/380.htmlDecember 19 2009 >> read more or comment


 • Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
    December 11 2009 - March 21 2010: Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms is the result of a close collaboration between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Conceived as an homage to the late Anne d’Harnoncourt former director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art the exhibition gracefully addresses time’s passing and the role that memory and memorials play in attending to the past.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/381.htmlDecember 11 2009 >> read more or comment


 • Notations/Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni
    November 21 2009 - April 4 2010: Days and Giorni Nauman’s compelling sound installations recorded in two languages English and Italian have traveled from the 53rd International Art Exhibition (La Biennale de Veneziato) to Philadelphia.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/375.htmlNovember 21 2009 >> read more or comment


 • PHILAGRAFIKA 2010: The Graphic Unconscious―Works by Oscar Muñoz and Tabaimo
    January 29 2010 - April 11 2010: The vital role of the printed image in contemporary art is the focus of the international festival PHILAGRAFIKA 2010 to be held throughout the city of Philadelphia January 29 through April 11 2010. The core exhibition of the festival PHILAGRAFIKA 2010: The Graphic Unconscious will be shown across five venues including the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Museum will display installations by two artists the Japanese artist Tabaimo (b. 1975) and the Colombian artist Óscar Muñoz (b. 1951) that explore the translation of printmaking into other mediums and expand the conceptual boundaries of printmaking.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/377.htmlJanuary 29 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Jun Kaneko
    September 5 2009 - April 18 2010: Jun Kaneko born in Nagoya Japan in 1942 began his formal studies in art in the United States at the Chouinard Art Institute and continued at Berkeley and Claremont Graduate School. These four sculptures represent a larger body of work called the Mission Clay Project which created a total of forty-one new sculptures. This project took three years to complete.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/371.htmlSeptember 5 2009 >> read more or comment


 • An Enduring Motif: The Pomegranate in Textiles
    February 21 2009 - Spring 2010: Artists have been inspired by the inner and outer beauty of the pomegranate since biblical times. The objects on view in this exhibition represent a cross-section of textiles from the Museum’s collection that feature this richly symbolic fruit.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/344.htmlFebruary 21 2009 >> read more or comment


 • Picasso in Context
    February 24 2010 - April 25 2010: This exhibition held in conjunction with Picasso and the Avant Garde in Paris explores American Modernism through artists such as Arthur Dove Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe. A selection of American photographer Paul Strand's portraits of Picasso and Georges Braque are also on view.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/392.htmlFebruary 24 2010 >> read more or comment


 • The Platinum Process: Photographs from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
    February 27 2010 - May 23 2010: An exhibition of some 75 works dating from the late nineteenth century to the present The Platinum Process showcases a selection of outstanding platinum prints drawn from the Museum’s collection. Highlights include photographs by early masters of the platinum process including Frederick H. Evans and Paul Strand as well as works by skilled contemporary practitioners such as Lois Conner.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/362.htmlFebruary 27 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Willem Kalf and the Sumptuous Still Life in the John G. Johnson Collection
    November 28 2008 - June 5 2010: John G. Johnson acquired many seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings including three by Willem Kalf; an early kitchen scene and two of the later pronk or sumptuous still lifes for which Kalf is best known.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/340.htmlNovember 28 2008 >> read more or comment


 • Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz and the Stella Kramrisch Collections
    December 12 2009 - July 25 2010: Stitching kanthas was an art practiced by women across Bengal a region today comprising the nation of Bangladesh and the state of West Bengal India. Lovingly created from the remnants of worn garments kanthas are embroidered with motifs and tales drawn from a rich local repertoire and used especially in the celebration of births weddings and other family occasions. This exhibition presents some forty superb examples created during the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/364.htmlDecember 12 2009 >> read more or comment


 • Arts of Bengal: Town Temple Mosque
    March 13 2010 - August 2010: The cities and towns of Bengal (modern Bangladesh and parts of eastern India) have long functioned as hubs of commerce religious activity and the arts where professional painters potters weavers and sculptors catered to diverse audiences. Through works from the Museum’s collections this exhibition explores the rich texture of the “sacredâ€� and the “mundaneâ€� in Bengal’s cities from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/385.htmlMarch 13 2010 >> read more or comment


 • Arts of Bengal: Wives Mothers Goddesses
    November 25 2009 - August 2010: Bengal (modern Bangladesh and eastern India) is a lush region of lotus pools fish-filled rivers and tiger-haunted forests punctuated by rice and banana fields rural villages and teeming cities. The domestic arts made by and for Bengali women during the 19th and 20th centuries include intricate embroidered quilts called kanthas vibrant ritual paintings and fish-shaped caskets and other implements created in resin-thread technique.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/374.htmlNovember 25 2009 >> read more or comment


 • The Two Qalams: Islamic Arts of Pen and Brush
    July 11 2009 - August 2010: The Two Qalams explores the relationship between calligraphers and artists through five exemplary works of calligraphy drawing and painting dating from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/366.htmlJuly 11 2009 >> read more or comment

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