Halloween 2, Eaten Alive
International House, 3701 Chestnut
October freakout styles with the Exhumed team. John Carpenter’s ‘81 Voorhees sequel and Tobe Hooper’s followup to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 9pm, $10.

Marisa Olson Break-Up Album (Demo)
Vox Populi, 319 N 11th.
A ton of other First Friday stuff happens this weekend, but for my no-money I’d be sure to check out Olson’s piece Break-Up Album (Demo) in the new Vox show. It’s “a four-channel ‘video album’ about pain as a [...]

David Katz’s cooking is enough to make a Mémé proud. That’s Moroccan for grandmother, you know, the person who in your family who actually did real hands-on cooking? My grams could heat up a swell bowl of Campbell’s Chicken & Stars, but that was about it. She served it in a ceramic bowl the same subdued saffron color of the walls in Katz’s softly lit open kitchen. He’s already running with rustic American flavors. Expect a [...]

This is a friendly call to participate in a formal, organized dialog about the future of arts funding in the Delaware Valley, and a friendly warning that less participation from artists and others actually in the trenches means that decisions about your future will be made without you. At that point, you’ll wish you’d known… so here comes UWISHUNU to the rescue!

The Big Canvas is a worthy and noble effort from Great Expectations, a joint [...]

Post by Dana Vachon

Naked Chocolate Cafe is renown for making delicious treats. On Tuesdays, you get a little something extra. Tuesday nights at Naked Chocolate hosts some great live music. You can have your cake AND eat it too. Enjoy a great pot of tea, and a raspberry bar, sit back and relax. Ok, you could also have any number of tasty desserts (my friend Alex got a chocolate and caramel covered piece of waffle and [...]