Bitch and Animal
The Point
880 West Lancaster Avenue
Thu, March 27, 8:00 p.m.
$12
(610) 527-0988
For those of us who continue to cringe every time we see the Billboard Top 10 and who still spend our drunken nights lamenting the fate of music, hope may have arrived.
This weekend I learned a very important lesson: irrespective of the words of a noticeably frightened cab driver pulling over on 54th street, "Historic Bartram's Garden" is not the same thing as "Bartram's Village." One is a beautiful pre-revolutionary home and botanical garden set in 4 tranquil acres of Fairmount Park -- the other is a housing project, where nothing whatsoever could be described as "scenic," unless gutters full of syringes and empty 40s of Olde English appeal to you.
Coca-Cola NHRA LUCAS OIL NHRA Drag Racing Series Divisional
Maple Grove Park Raceway
30 Stauffer Park Lane
Mohnton, Pa.
March 27-May 26, Various Prices
(610) 856-7200
"Dem nascars go fast!" exclaimed the man standing next to me.
If you're sick of Subway sandwiches and Kung Pao Chicken, look toward 40th Street for salvation. The place we fondly remember as Bitar's has been revamped and renamed Simsum.
Photographs by Jennifer Karady, Christopher Pekoc, and Joel-Peter Witkin
The Print Center
1614 Latimer St.
Exhibit through October 20
Free
(215) 735-6090
The Print Center explores the peculiarities of human nature and form with three
simultaneous exhibitions by Jennifer Karady, Christopher Pekoc and Joel-Peter
Witkin.
Jay-Z
Electric Factory
Seventh and Willow streets
8 p.m. $40 (SOLD OUT!!!)
(215) 627-1332
There's no doubt that Jay-Z stands alone atop the rap game right now.
Sigur Ros
TLA
334 South St.
8:00 p.m., $17.50 adv./ $20 at door
(215) 922-1011
Screw French. With 95 million languages taught at Penn, why oh why is
Icelandic not one of them?
Bacon Brothers
TLA
334 South Street
8 p.m., $20
(215) 922-1011
Give yourself a better chance of being one of the six degrees of separation in
the Kevin Bacon game.
Smashmouth
TLA
334 South Street
8 p.m., $15 adv./$17 at door
(215) 922-1011
Everyone sing along: "Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on, whoa!" Oh
yes, the one-hit wonder that should have been, Smashmouth is back and ready
to floor you with such hits as "I'm a Believer" and "Walking on the Sun." Although
"All Star" just may be the most overplayed song in the past few years, here's
your chance to hear it live.
Vickie Nam, Olivia Chung, and Alaina Wong
University Bookstore
3601 Walnut Street
7 p.m., free
(215) 898-7595
Nam, editor of Yell-oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and
Growing Up Asian American, along with College junior Chung and College
senior Wong, read and sign the collection of writings from various
Asian-American females.
You may not have been to 2 Goodfellas yet, the recently renovated bar and
restaurant on 41st and Walnut streets, but the minute you enter you'll feel as
though you've been there before.
Patience
Wilma Theater
Broad and Spruce streets
Through October 21
(215) 546-7824
Whoever wrote the book of Job in the Bible probably did not foresee it becoming
Archibald MacLeish's novel J.B.