F.O.D., The Freeze, Y-DI, Total [Effin] Destruction
First Unitarian Church, 22nd and Chestnut
Up the punx, because seriously, they’re old and need help being upped. Sike, they’re actually still killing it. Check out Tony’s
thing on this!
7:30, $10.

Jack Rose, Black Twigs, Glenn Jones
JBs, 1201 N Frankford
Local guitar mage Jack Rose, Southwest Virginia zoner folk sometimes- quartet Black Twigs and visiting guitar mage Glenn Jones. Get serious and stare into your Yards at this one.
9pm, [...]

This weekend you’ll be able to catch Ryan Creed, a writer for the City Paper, and Aryon who runs operations over at Space 1026, swap places with Rose and Thom of the band Sweat-heart, on TLC’s famous television program, Trading Spaces. Enjoy the hilarity that is sure to ensue as these hipsters alter each other’s pads.

This special Philly hipster episode airs at 10PM on TLC.

Ryan blogged during the filming. You can check that out on Philebrity.

Ryan Creed’s Trading Spaces [...]

The MC, graffiti, the dj and the b-boy are the four elements of Hip-Hop. Battling should be the 5th. As a former b-boy (before I discovered chicken wings) I’ve had my share of battles, but I never really won street cred, since I spent most of my time entertaining as a bat mitzvah dancer. Well tonight, 16 crews of b-boys will earn not only respect but a chance to win 3,000 dollars as the Kings of the [...]

F.O.D. aka Flag of Democracy will be playing their 25th anniversary show at the First Unitarian Show on Friday November 30th. FOD formed in 1982 and played their first show with Minor Threat! FOD have never broken up and have been churning out aggressive but tuneful hardcore punk rock all along FOD do their own thing, their drummer used the marching grip and the bass player plays with his fingers for god’s sake! While FOD [...]

If you’re like me, you have some holiday shopping left to do. Strike that. If you’re like me you have ALL of your holiday shopping left to do. It’s just so darned stressful. We’ll here’s a possible solution for you. Traveling Wares is going to be hitting a series of Philly bars in the next few weeks, selling giftables from some of the area’s finest crafters. Their motto: [...]

When I was in high school my friend brought me to The Drum Circle a few times. The Drum Circle was a weekly gathering of teens and twenty somethings where hippies would sit around banging on their djembes as their patchouli scented girlfriends would dance the night away. The location of the Circle had changed a few times but when I went it was at a magical location along Kelly Drive. An open field [...]

Post by Brittany Brouse

If you want to have a laugh and support local theater, take in the Lantern Theater Company’s production of Moliere’s “The School for Wives,” extended through December 9th. Moliere is a fifteenth-century French playwright, best know for penning “The Misanthrope” and the subject of a recent rom-com biopic. “The School for Wives” is a bawdy tale in which a pompous older man, Arnolphe, tries to avoid cuckoldry by raising a young [...]