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At the opening night of Live Arts' A.W.A.R.D. Show! Jumatatu Poe. choreography competition last month, my money was on His piece, Alibi, explored the difference between shame and guilt through a haunting, open-ended plot — the narrator finds a dead woman in his house, and though he doesn't know who she is or how she got there, he starts to question whether maybe he's to blame. Storytelling comes naturally for Poe, who'll present new works this weekend at the Performance Garage. Then and now, he's got my vote.
—Carolyn Huckabay
This Friday's Why show at the Church is sold out, and that's great. Just get your money's worth, sniffling indie-hoppers. Go early and tune in to the spooky-beautiful folk-pop of Minneapolis/New Orleans/NYC band Dark Dark Dark. It sounds like your best nightmare, where you get to kiss the girl and then you find out she's really an alligator but still it was a good kiss.
—Patrick Rapa
Sure, it's got the traditional features and shorts programs — including a screening of Lower Merion-bred Bajir Cannon's The Distance Between the Apple and the Tree — but Project Twenty1 insists it's more than just a film festival. Case in point: the 21-day Film Competition, which charges teams to make a short film in a mere three weeks. Root, root, root for home team movies, like Team Spook Buggy's In Vivo and Team Sickening Thud's Battle Nun: Key to Heaven. The fest is at I-House through Sunday; go to projecttwenty1.com for a full schedule.
—Molly Eichel
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For Flyers fans of a certain vintage, the name Pelle Lindbergh sill summons a moment of hushed reverence. The young Swedish goalie was a Vezina winner, an All-Star and a bona fide phenomenon in the early '80s — until, at the age of 26, he drunk drove his Porsche into a wall in Jersey and died. Pelle Lindbergh: Behind the White Mask (Middle Atlantic Press, $16.95), the meticulous biography by Thomas Tynander and Bill Melzter, is already a best-seller in Sweden and will surely get some local old heads thinking about what could have been.
—Patrick Rapa
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