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Celebrate the spirit of Fishtown at the third annual RiverCity Festival (Oct. 2, rivercityfestival.org), a nod to the Delaware River-adjacent neighborhood's rich history. Watch a presentation by the Lenni Lenape Indians; listen to talks by local historians; get down with performances by bands like the folk-jamming West Philadelphia Orchestra; grab some homemade sausage from Mandi's; or throw yourself at the Velcro Wall. SugarHouse, you can't hold us down.
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Taking one page from The Clientele and another from New Order, Virginia impresario Jack Tatum offsets aching songs with an alluring bed of dots and loops. His one-guy outfit Wild Nothing spun tasty, textured pop into a summer blog hit on its debut, Gemini (Captured Tracks). Get to the Troc early tonight (Sept. 30, thetroc.com) and let Tatum ease you into the full-bore anthems of Canadian pop stars Stars.
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Two critically beloved authors from the Darkly Comic School of Fiction will read at the Free Library this Thursday (Sept. 30, freelibrary.org). First there's Scottish-born A.L. Kennedy, whose latest short story collection, What Becomes, was called "funny, angry [and] brilliant" by the Guardian. Then comes Russian-born American Gary Shteyngart, who's got a hit on his hands with Super Sad True Love Story, a futuristic satire lauded as "supersad, superfunny [and] superaffecting" by the NY Times. See that, big-shot book critics? I added those [and]s!
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