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Video Drones
The bloggers/video scavengers of Everything is Terrible! go live with Magick and monsters.
For the past year, the EIT! bloggers have mastered their editing skills
and experimented with psychedelic visuals to present a feature-length
mash-up of their best clips called 2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift, which the seven friends have taken on a tour dubbed The Quest for the Magick Crystal.
Philadelphia Dance Day
2nd Street Festival
DooWop Car Show and Street Festival
The Black Women's Arts Festival
IcepackSat., July 31, 11:30 a.m.-mid., various GradHo and Rittenhouse Square venues, 215-645-2717, phillydancefitness.com.
It's the ideal commitment-free opportunity for dancers of any skill level to test out a variety of styles.
2nd Street Festival
Sun., Aug. 1, noon-9 p.m., free, Second Street from Germantown Avene to Green Street, nolibs.com.
Beer gardens and soundstages will sprout in the summer heat of NoLibs
this weekend, showering Second Street love on locals and neighborhood
newcomers alike.
DooWop Car Show and Street Festival
RESCHEDULED FOR SUN., AUG. 8, NOON-5 P.M. Sun., Aug. 1, noon-5 p.m., free, East Passyunk Avenue between McKean and Dickinson streets, 267-307-8662, visiteastpassyunk.com.
Gearheads, start your engines!
The Black Women's Arts Festival
Thu.-Sun., July 29-Aug. 1, $7-$10, The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St.; Big Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane; bwafphilly.org.
Now in its seventh year, the Black Women's Arts Festival includes
workshops, book readings, parties, vendors and performers, all
celebrating the artistic contributions and accomplishments of black
women.
Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.
This has been a cruel summer for those we love, those we know, those we
hardly know but get what they meant to those around them.
PhillyIMC
Life During Wartime
Randy Flash
Planet Earth with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Fri., July 30, 6 p.m., free, LAVA, 4134 Lancaster Ave.; Sat., July 31, 6 p.m., free, Puppet Warehouse, 4100 Haverford Ave.; phillyimc.org.
PhillyIMC celebrates their right to party with an extravaganza marking its 10-year anniversary.
Life During Wartime
Fri., July 30, 8 p.m., $10-$12, The Manhattan Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, themanhattanroom.com.
Vintage Muse's quest is to create costume parties, taking inspiration
from historical events and encouraging more dress-up among
Philadelphians.
Randy Flash
Thu., July 29, 6 p.m.-2 a.m., $20, w/ DJs Terrell Clark, Lee Jones, Dirty, DEL, Mike Maserati and more, Octo, 221 N. Columbus Blvd., 215-923-6286, octophilly.com
As evidenced by the outpouring of support from all walks of the
community, Randy Flash's presence in Philly club culture will be sorely missed.
Planet Earth with the Philadelphia Orchestra
Thu., July 29, 8:30 p.m., $10-$55, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave., 215-893-1999, manncenter.org.
Lose yourself in the sights and beauty of our world as the Mann Center screens BBC's critically acclaimed Planet Earth.
Mon., Aug. 2, 7:30 p.m., $29.50-$49.50, with Spoon, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave., 215-893-1999, manncenter.org.
The Suburbs won't be released until the day after Arcade Fire plays the Mann, but that's not important for two reasons.
Tue., Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., $20-$22, with Dan Black and Far East Movement, The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-336-2000, thetroc.com.
This is truly the dance-diva double bill to beat this summer.
Fri., July 30, 7:30 p.m., $32, with The Morning Benders, Great Plaza at Penn's Landing, Columbus Boulevard and Chestnut Street, delawareriverwaterfrontcorp.com.
The dynamic duo is back with Brothers, a triumphant, swampy burner cut at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.
Thu., July 29, 9 p.m., $8, with The Cringe, Morning Teleportation and This Temper, The Khyber, 56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888, thekhyber.com.
The band is a tight unit, Redding playing a charismatic frontman by dancing, spinning, gesturing and howling.
Sun., Aug. 1, 8 p.m., $22-$38, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.
How the Wailin' Jennys' latest album landed on the Billboard bluegrass
chart is a mystery to anyone who knows what bluegrass sounds like.
Thu., July 29, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.
Rick Moody and Larry Doyle's latest novels transport a common earthling
trope via
spaceship into an orgy of sci-fi gimmicks.
Through Aug. 1, 7 p.m., free, 43rd Street and Chester Avenue, 215-462-2115, shakespeareinclarkpark.org.
For Shakespeare in Clark Park's fifth annual summer production, all director Maria Moller did was look around.
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