Philly Weekend Preview: 2/20/15
Get to The Winter Lodge at RiverRink on Penn’s Landing for ice skating, cocktails, smores and fire pits. This is every weekend….for a few more weeks.
We’ve been lucky with good music the past couple of weeks and that continues this weekend. SWEARIN’, closing music for this week’s Jawnville podcast, is a Brooklyn band that has relocated to Philly. They play PhilaMOCA Friday night.
ST. JAMES & THE APOSTLES are at the North Star Bar Friday night. Tickets are $12. This band has been described as “Saucerful of Secrets” era Pink Floyd meets Mudhoney. They proudly wear the fan-given moniker Psychedelic Stomp. All the band members might be cousins, too. Here’s a track:
DISCO BISCUITS are playing the Electric Factory all weekend. These guys are a touring machine. The University of Penn band, who have their own style of music described as trance-fusion are even offering a 3 day pass for the weekend at a discounted price.
The Venetian Social Club in Chestnut Hill has 3/4 Time: 3rd Friday Big Band Jazz Friday from 8-10:30. It’s $25 to get in. Where else can you get Big Band Jazz? Admission even includes light refreshments.
Plays and Players Theater is hosting the Philadelphia premiere of HOLD THESE TRUTHS. This theater usually hosts great productions. The play is showing through March 1st. The premise of the play is: a story, buried by history, of one American’s attempt to reconcile his love for a country that labeled him a second class citizen. Gordon Hirabayashi’s real-life 50-year journey brings us the astonishing facts of Japanese Internment, the US government’s orders to forcibly remove and mass incarcerate all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast, through the eyes of a Quaker college student who was simply looking for love and the American Dream.
CHINESE NEW YEAR was Thursday. It’s the year of the Goat. The Philadelphia Please Touch Museum is celebrating all weekend with activities for the kids to celebrate the New Year, storytimes, and much more.
Get your nerd on Saturday at Johnny Goodtimes’ 11th Annual Quizzo Bowl at World Cafe Live. Think you and your friends are smart? Put together a team and battle for the grand prize which is usually a nice stash of cash. I think it’s $800 this year? This annual event features some of the best quizzo teams in town, as well as out-of-state ringers from Jeopardy. York Street Hustle provides the live musical entertainment between rounds. Doors are at 7. Quiz starts at 8.
The third East Passyunk Avenue Restaurant Week starts Sunday and runs all week. Here’s the opportunity to enjoy a 3-course prix fix lunch and/or dinner at one of 28 award-winning restaurants
The film METALHEAD is showing at PhilaMOCA Sunday and Monday at 4:30 and 7:30. This is an Icelandic film about a 12-year old girl who loses her brother in a farm accident. She starts listening to his Motorhead and Iron Maiden records and then has a rough time in life. Just check out this trailer:
That’s what we have for the weekend! Have fun and be nice to one another.