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Playing Dead
Shopping SpreeDon't know what to do this Halloween? Why don't you start with zombie hunting?
Undead Invasion | Hallowen & Day of the Dead Dance Party | Nosferatu Screening (with live organ music) | Yellow Fever Tour | Day of the Dead Festival | Burlesque Barbarian From Beyond Infinity
Fashion > Forward
As I surveyed the selection, Tricia Fleishman, who owns the business with her husband, Stanley, approached. "If you have time, I have a thousand more costumes on the third floor." Say what? How many?
UniverSoul Circus
Philadelphia Comedy Festival
Afro-Punk Festival
Michael & Michael Have IssuesThu., Oct. 29, 8 p.m., $24, with Kumail Nanjiani, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com. Postponed until Feb. 2010
Runs through Nov. 15, $12-$28, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 52nd Street and Parkside Avenue, 800-316-7439, universoulcircus.com.
Along with the traditional circus lineup of clowns, tigers, acrobatics
and magic, UniverSoul features hip-hop dance, the "Soul Train Line" and
ringmaster Aunt Maggie's gospel music.
Philadelphia Comedy Festival
Wed.-Sun., Nov. 4-8, various times, $15-$25, Laff House, 221 South St., 215-440-4242, laffhouse.com.
In addition to showcasing brand-name comics like Paul Mooney, Michael
Blackson and Teddy Carpenter, the fest will also hold a "New Faces of
Comedy" competition, whose winner will receive a trip to Jamaica.
Afro-Punk Festival
Fri., Oct. 30, 9 p.m., $18-$21, all ages, Theatre of the Living Arts, 334 South St., 215-922-2599, afropunk.com.
This music/literature/sometimes sports tour, which promotes a more
diverse interpretation of the word "punk," is touching down in Philly
for the first time ever.
Michael & Michael Have Issues
Sun., Nov. 1, 6:30 p.m., $34.50, with Converge and High on Fire, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-336-2000, ticketmaster.com.
Gods of hellfire, fans of Viking helmets and crunching prog-metal-ites, unite!
Tue., Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $10, with Growing, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.
Fuck Buttons have a way with paradox, an uncanny aptitude for smoothing over uncomfortable juxtapositions.
Wed., Nov. 4, 8 p.m., $9-$11, with Julie Doiron, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.
Ostensibly, this Parisian outfit (yeah, it's a duo, not a person; weird, right?) plays anti-folk, but that's pretty much the only thing "anti-" about them.
Tue., Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $12-$13, with Tori Y Moi, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.
Jamie Thompson and Nick Diamonds' new Vapours is all rich anthemic pop hooks, mood-swinging attitude and drum machines.
Sun., Nov. 1, 5 p.m., $12, with Dum Dum Girls and Teenage Whore Moans, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.
Doo-wop garage rock with a little bit of soul.
Sat., Oct. 31, 8 p.m., $25-$30 (includes open bar), with Simian Mobile Disco, Skybox/2424 Studios, 2424 E. York St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.
My fraidy sense isn't tingling at all about this weekend's big huge Halloween monstrosity.
Sun., Nov. 1, 3 p.m., $20-$25, Settlement Music School, 416 Queen St., 215-848-7647, networkfornewmusic.org.
In the quarter-century since Network for New Music has emerged as a world-class ensemble, they've attracted many world-class composers.
Tue., Nov. 3, 9 p.m., $10 ($22 includes signed CD), with Javelin, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 866-468-7619, johnnybrendas.com.
Very best album you'll hear all year? Highly probable.
Tue., Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.
David Sax celebrates Jewish food and chronicles his visits to more than
140 surviving Jewish delicatessens in six countries and 16 states in Save the Deli.
Fri.-Sat., Nov. 6-7, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 8, 3 p.m.; $12, Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-1911, cecarts.org.
Like punch at a prep-school party, this mixer's most definitely spiked.
Through Nov. 14, $10-$12, Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St., 215-545-4400, pjff.org.
Leave it to a Jewish festival to shoulder the burdens of the world before allowing itself to enjoy a little pleasure.
Nov. 4-22, $16, Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Ave., 215-427-9255, walkingfishtheatre.com.
Not all puppets are innocent — but Walking Fish hopes you can trust them anyway.
Through Nov. 20, $10-$15, Curio Theatre Co. at Calvary Center, 4740 Baltimore Ave., 215-525-1350, curiotheatre.org.
The Weir is "a play
about people in a room telling stories that have affected them to the
core and shaped them, for good or bad, as the adults they are now."
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