Audrey Horne of Twin Peaks, drawn for “Damn Fine… – Bright Wall/Dark Room..
Audrey Horne of Twin Peaks, drawn for “Damn Fine... - Bright Wall/Dark Room.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Audrey Horne of Twin Peaks, drawn for “Damn Fine... - Bright Wall/Dark Room.
Audrey Horne of Twin Peaks, drawn for “Damn Fine... - Bright Wall/Dark Room.
Airplanes passed by slowly in the sky. Rubber toys...
“Airplanes passed by slowly in the sky. Rubber toys floated on the water. Meals seemed to last five years and nap time seemed endless. And the world was so small. I can’t remember being able to see more than a couple of blocks. And those couple of blocks were huge. So all the details were blown out of proportion.”
— David Lynch, on childhood
Sleepz and Thinkz – Airplanes passed by slowly in the sky. Rubber toys….
Airplanes passed by slowly in the sky. Rubber toys...
PlanPhilly | Provence says amenities would attract a new market; gaming board questions parking provisions, transit projections
Day One, Round Two had The Provence team’s proposal for Broad and Callowhill streets before the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.
The team, called Tower Entertainment, is led by local developer Bart Blatstein of Tower Investments. The casino and entertainment complex would be operated by Isle of Capri Casinos, which operates 16 casinos in seven states, including Nemacolin in Pennsylvania. They are kicking things off with a video presentation prominently featuring Blatstein. “For me, it’s much more than a casino,” he says in the video, touting the jazz club, swim club, fitness club and botanical gardens. “It will be a great shot in the arm to North Broad street.”
PlanPhilly | Provence says amenities would attract a new market; gaming board questions parking provisions, transit projections
Lynchland - David Lynch - Roland Kermarec
THE FACTORY PHOTOGRAPHS
“Functionless, disintegrating, rundown, the ‘factory’ appears in Lynch’s ‘personal narrative’ as an enclave, a refuge from the onrush of progress and modern technology.â€
Lynchland – David Lynch – Roland Kermarec.
Lynchland - David Lynch - Roland Kermarec
Eraserhood Tonight > Union Transfer | Philadelphia Music Venue » Jason Isbell – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – January 29th, 2014
Southeastern is not a record Jason has made before, and not simply because the glorious storm and drama of his band, the 400 Unit, is absent. They will tour together; it’s not a break-up record, not an album of dissolving, but, rather, songs of discovery. And not at all afraid, not even amid the tears.
Which is to say that he has grown up.
That it has been a dozen years since he showed up at a party and left in the Drive-By Truckers’ van with two travel days to learn their songs. And then taught them some of his songs in the bargain.
Jason Isbell’s solo career has seemed equally effortless, from Sirens of the Ditch (2007) to Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit (2009), through Here We Rest (2011) and last year’s Live From Alabama. Loud records, unrepentantly southern, resplendent with careful songwriting. Songs which inspire and intimidate other musicians, and critics. “
A heart on the run / keeps a hand on the gun / can’t trust anyone,†Jason sings just now, his words brushing gently atop an acoustic guitar figure “Cover Me Up,†the song with which he has chosen to open Southeastern. Such tenderness. An act of contrition, an affirmation of need, his voice straining not to break: “Girl leave your boots by the bed / We ain’t leaving this room / Till someone needs medical help / Or the magnolias bloom.â€
He sighs into the phone, considering what he’s done, and why. “I’m really purposefully ignorant of any sort of sales consideration, or radio considerations, or anything like that,†Jason says. “Before I’d felt like, this song needs to be this length, or this song needs to be mastered in this way, or this song needs to have drums on it, or this song needs a bigger hook. I just completely did away with all those considerations for this record. And made it as if I were really just making it for me, and for people like me who listen to entire albums.â€
Raw, open, and reflective. Sobriety can be like that. Jason’s made it past his first year, which is rather more than a promise and will always be far from a guarantee.
Treatment programs teach that one should let go, easier said than done. Perhaps that’s why
Isbell was willing to trust his songs to David Cobb. Cobb has produced Shooter Jennings and Jamey Johnson and the Secret Sisters, but it was a Squidbillies’ session with George Jones which finally brought his work to Jason’s attention. “The song that he did with George Jones was a minute and a half, two minutes long,†Jason says, But the production of it was perfect because he nailed every single era of George’s career, and that really impressed me. A lot.â€
Jason Isbell chooses his words carefully and speaks them softly, only the gentle lilt of south Alabama left for shading. “A lot of my favorite songwriters and recording artists are afraid,†he says. “Afraid to turn anything over to a producer, so they continue to make the same record over and over and over and over. More often than not, really. It’s really frustrating for me.â€
There had been other plans for the album, as there always are, and for the first time Jason had the songs done well before production commenced. In the inevitable way of things, it all came together in a rush. They finished recording at midnight on a Thursday. Friday he and Amanda Shires went to their rehearsal dinner, got married Saturday, and had to wait until they returned from their honeymoon to approve the mastered album.
It is Amanda’s voice and violin joining with Jason on “Traveling Alone,†as evocative a song of a loneliness as anyone’s written since “Running On Empty.†A promise.
The songs are invested with Jason’s particular, personal truths, but they’re not about him. Or, rather, the emotional truths are probably about the songwriter, but not the stories he’s telling. “Live Oak†opens with an a cappella verse: “There’s a man who walks beside me / He is who I used to be / I wonder if she sees him / And confuses him with me?†It is the kind of question a man asks as he readies to marry a woman who met him and knew him and loved him before sobriety stuck (and a question a singer might well ask his audience under the same circumstances), though the story is about a roving criminal in either the 18th or 20th centuries.
It is not, to be clear, an acoustic album. “Flying Over Water†and “Super 8†have more than the requisite amount of guitar squawl to propel them. But it is the quite, contemplative songs that lure you in out of the rain, and those songs especially that draw one into the arc of the entire album. To the elegance of “Songs That She Sings in the Showerâ€: “With a stake / Held to my eye / I had to summon the confidence needed/To hear her good-bye.â€
“I’ve done my part,†Jason says, his dry chuckle trailing off. “I make things and other people try to sell those things. I try not to mix the two together. I think that’s just a better way to make more quality things.â€
He is, of course, right.
Eraserhood Tonight > Union Transfer | Philadelphia Music Venue » Jason Isbell – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – January 29th, 2014
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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PlanPhilly | When will construction start on Phase 1 of the Rail Park?
Creating a linear park out of the whole Reading Viaduct and City Branches may be a long way off, but last year hopes were high that Phase 1 of the project – a small park made from the SEPTA-owned Noble Street spur – would start construction this year.
PlanPhilly | When will construction start on Phase 1 of the Rail Park?.
PlanPhilly | When will construction start on Phase 1 of the Rail Park?
SPRING GARDEN INDOOR HEATED VINTAGE FLEA MARKET THIS SAT, FEB 1ST (9TH & SPRING GARDEN / FREE PARKING!)
Sat, Feb 1st / 8AM til 4PM But Early Birds Are Welcome!
Former Fed Ex Warehouse – 820 Spring Garden Street, Phila, PA 19123
Corner of 9th & Spring Garden
More Than 75 Vendors Featuring Antiques, Collectibles, Vintage Furniture, Jewelry, Vintage Clothing, Pottery, Great Food & Much More!
Free Parking, Free Admission, ATM, Food Court, Handicap Accessible
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Brett Dennen at Union Transfer - 3/3
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Brett Dennen at Union Transfer - 3/3
1st Saturday Practica la Matine & opening for Footwork/Brushwork: 4 Painters who Love to Dance
Saturday, February 1
3 pm, Free Tango lesson
3:30 – 7 pm, PRACTICA LA MATINE
AND
FOOTWORK & BRUSHWORK: 4 Painters who Love to Dance
Paintings & works on paper by 4 artists who are also avid Argentine tango dancers.
Artist’s reception 1 – 6 pm
Kristin Balmer
Keith R. Breitfeller
Laura Marconi
Lesley Mitchell
First in a series of exhibitions showcasing the visual artists in the tango community.
1st Saturday Practica la Matine & opening for Footwork/Brushwork: 4 Painters who Love to Dance
Monday, January 27, 2014
THE BEST OFFER at PhilaMOCA
PhilaMOCA will screen THE BEST OFFER four times in February:
Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 6:30 and 9:30
Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 6:30 and 9:30
$10 admission
PhilaMOCA and IFC Films are pleased to present the Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement for THE BEST OFFER from Academy Award winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO, THE STAR MAKER). The film stars Geoffrey Rush (THE KING’S SPEECH, SHINE), Jim Sturgess (ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), and Donald Sutherland and features a score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone who referred to his contribution as “something completely new, both in absolute music and in music applied to the cinema”.
Geoffrey Rush is superb in this stylish art world thriller as Virgil Oldman, managing director of a leading auction house. Over the years, he has collected hundreds of masterful, priceless portraits of women that he keeps hidden in his villa. One day, Oldman receives a special assignment: a mysterious young woman, who refuses to appear in person, asks him to sell her family’s antiques. Not only interested in her classical paintings and furniture, Oldman becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysterious incognito woman, leading to a sumptuous and entertaining mystery of passions, neuroses and intrigue.
Part detective story, part character study, THE BEST OFFER is an unpredictable mystery of heartbreaking proportions.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGleGyahC8
Official site: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-best-offer
THE BEST OFFER at PhilaMOCA
THE BEST OFFER at PhilaMOCA
PhilaMOCA will screen THE BEST OFFER four times in February:
Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 6:30 and 9:30
Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 6:30 and 9:30
$10 admission
PhilaMOCA and IFC Films are pleased to present the Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement for THE BEST OFFER from Academy Award winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO, THE STAR MAKER). The film stars Geoffrey Rush (THE KING’S SPEECH, SHINE), Jim Sturgess (ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), and Donald Sutherland and features a score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone who referred to his contribution as “something completely new, both in absolute music and in music applied to the cinema”.
Geoffrey Rush is superb in this stylish art world thriller as Virgil Oldman, managing director of a leading auction house. Over the years, he has collected hundreds of masterful, priceless portraits of women that he keeps hidden in his villa. One day, Oldman receives a special assignment: a mysterious young woman, who refuses to appear in person, asks him to sell her family’s antiques. Not only interested in her classical paintings and furniture, Oldman becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysterious incognito woman, leading to a sumptuous and entertaining mystery of passions, neuroses and intrigue.
Part detective story, part character study, THE BEST OFFER is an unpredictable mystery of heartbreaking proportions.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGleGyahC8
Official site: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-best-offer
THE BEST OFFER at PhilaMOCA
THE BEST OFFER at PhilaMOCA
PhilaMOCA will screen THE BEST OFFER four times in February:
Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 6:30 and 9:30
Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 6:30 and 9:30
$10 admission
PhilaMOCA and IFC Films are pleased to present the Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement for THE BEST OFFER from Academy Award winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO, THE STAR MAKER). The film stars Geoffrey Rush (THE KING’S SPEECH, SHINE), Jim Sturgess (ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), and Donald Sutherland and features a score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone who referred to his contribution as “something completely new, both in absolute music and in music applied to the cinema”.
Geoffrey Rush is superb in this stylish art world thriller as Virgil Oldman, managing director of a leading auction house. Over the years, he has collected hundreds of masterful, priceless portraits of women that he keeps hidden in his villa. One day, Oldman receives a special assignment: a mysterious young woman, who refuses to appear in person, asks him to sell her family’s antiques. Not only interested in her classical paintings and furniture, Oldman becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysterious incognito woman, leading to a sumptuous and entertaining mystery of passions, neuroses and intrigue.
Part detective story, part character study, THE BEST OFFER is an unpredictable mystery of heartbreaking proportions.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGleGyahC8
Official site: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-best-offer
THE BEST OFFER at PhilaMOCA
David Lynch’s Abandoned Factory Photographs
David Lynch definitely knows an unnerving shot when he sees one. This is, after all, the filmmaker who brought us the distorted reality of Twin Peaks, culminating in the mind-melting Black Lodge and, well, absolutely everything in Eraserhead. Now Lynch is presenting two decades of photographs of factories in decay.
David Lynch’s Abandoned Factory Photographs.
David Lynch’s Abandoned Factory Photographs
SECRETS OF THE CITY BRANCH
URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOB BRUHIN
LIVE AT THEÂ HIGH POINT CAFE2831 W. GIRARD AVE – NOW THROUGH MARCH 31
ARTIST MEET AND GREET SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014 2 PM
In a time when the City Branch just west of Broad Street is attracting local and national attention as part of the next new rail park, it is easy to forget that the entire length of this historical right of way between where it crosses Girard Avenue — mere blocks from the Brewerytown High Point — all the way through the Pennsylvania Avenue tunnel to where it appears again at 21st and Hamilton Streets, represents a serious local treasure.Taking his cue from the Side Tours led by ViaductGreene advocate Paul vanMeter, Bob Bruhin set out to document this unsung corridor. Come see images of the site as it now stands, before inevatible change transforms this space forever. The vibrant desolation of this site is difficult to imagine until you have seen these images.
According to Hidden City Philadelphia:
“The City Branch is an abandoned stretch of submerged track from Broad Street to 27th Street in the Art Museum neighborhood. The rail line is open to the sky as it runs parallel to Callowhill Street, then becomes a covered tunnel at 22nd Street, where it angles northwest along Pennsylvania Avenue.
“Unlike the nearby Reading Viaduct, which carried passenger trains on an elevated track, the City Branch was industrial and initially built at ground level. It serviced industries such as the Knickerbocker Ice Co., the Philadelphia Grain Elevator Co., Bement-Pond, Rush & Muhlenberg, Wm. Sellers, A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel, and the massive Baldwin Locomotive Works. In 1900, Reading completed the depression of the City Branch, eliminating a number of dangerous grade crossings. The City Branch was used to transport freight until 1992, when its last customer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, stopped printing the newspaper at Broad and Callowhill and no longer needed carloads of paper.
“The rails were removed, and nature returned to the uncovered parts of the line. Several sections have been cleared for parking in recent years, however the tunnel remains vacant and empty aside from a few piles of railroad ties. While the possibility of turning the Reading Viaduct into a “park in the sky†has received a great deal of attention, scant thought has been given to finding new uses for the City Branch.”
According to vanMeter:
“To understand the 9th Street & City Branches of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway is to understand the very origins of the city’s modern transportation networks, out of which grew a new metropolis stretching from the far western suburbs of Philadelphia to the Jersey shore — all of it carefully and regularly connected via the bourgeois corridors of the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad and its provincial nemesis, the P&R.”
Eraserhood › SECRETS OF THE CITY BRANCH.
SECRETS OF THE CITY BRANCH
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Mike Gordon at Union Transfer - 3/2
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Details: Mike Gordon at Union Transfer
Mike Gordon at Union Transfer - 3/2
mewithoutYou, Touché Amoré at Union Transfer - 3/1
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Details: mewithoutYou, Touché Amoré at Union Transfer
mewithoutYou, Touché Amoré at Union Transfer - 3/1
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Chinese New Year Celebration
From our friends at FACTS
The Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School Invites you to the
9th Annual Lunar New Year CelebrationYear of the Horse
DATE: Thursday, February 6, 2014
TIME: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
LOCATION: Parkway Center City School, 530 N. 13th Street, Phila., PA
RSVP: Contact Rebecca Rathje at rrathje@factschool.org or 215.569.2600 x 1035 for more information.
Eraserhood › Chinese New Year Celebration.
Chinese New Year Celebration
Chinese New Year Celebration
From our friends at FACTS
The Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School Invites you to the
9th Annual Lunar New Year Celebration
Year of the Horse
DATE: Thursday, February 6, 2014
TIME: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
LOCATION: Parkway Center City School, 530 N. 13th Street, Phila., PA
RSVP: Contact Rebecca Rathje at rrathje@factschool.org or 215.569.2600 x 1035 for more information.
FACTS’ Mission:
To provide children with an education which has high academic standards, is truly community based, incorporates and respects the lives of students and their families, engages students in understanding their own cultures and communities, and engages students in understanding their role as active participants in working for a just society.
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Chinese New Year Celebration
Lady In The Radiator (Eraserhead) by Sam Pash - Imagined Worlds: Art Tribute To David Lynch, Guillermo Del Toro, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick & Ridley Scott
Eraserhood Tonighht > Tickets for Break Science with Paul Basic | Underground Arts at TicketWeb
Raised and influenced by the rhythm and culture of New York City, Adam Deitch and Borahm Lee fuse generations of the city’s rich musical legacy with their own deep-rooted connection to hip-hop heritage. Merging their production styles seamlessly, the duo creates a refreshingly original take on electronic music. The live show transcends expectations with Lee’s seasoned trip-hop/dub/jazz vibes on keyboards and Ableton Live and Deitch’s thunderous breakbeat style on drums.
This summer, Break Science electrified the festival circuit with packed dates across the country, including huge plays at Spring Awakening, Detroit Movement, BUKU, and Summer Camp. Lee and Deitch also brought their captivating style to Electric Forest, Bounce, Camp Bisco, Hornings Hideout, Electric Zoo, Summer Meltdown, and KahBang festivals, as well as joining Lotus at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado.
On October 2nd, the duo released their much-anticipated new album, Seven Bridges. The first single, “Who Got It”, features a collaboration with hip-hop legend REDMAN and meshes the classic sounds of hip-hop with cutting edge electronic production.
Tickets for Break Science with Paul Basic | Underground Arts at TicketWeb.
Eraserhood Tonighht > Tickets for Break Science with Paul Basic | Underground Arts at TicketWeb
Friday, January 24, 2014
Rehearsal (Get Lucid! Edition)
Join us for our weekly musician, artist, poet, and any other kind of artist rehearsal night.
Every Monday at Underground Arts, meet up with your fellow artists to cross-breed ideas and cultivate collaborations across all artistic mediums (Yes, the bar will be serving!!)
This Monday (the 27th), we’ll be having a special Get Lucid! edition in preparation for their fundraiser for Philly Urban Creators on February 1st.
★ Musicians rehearsing: Galvanize and eu.Reca
★ Artists working out their live art installations
★ Psy-Fi collective practicing their 3D projections
★ Poets practicing their spoken word performances
★ All are welcome to observe and/or participate!!
Rehearsal (Get Lucid! Edition)
Eraserhood Tonight > SUPER SENTAI STRIPTEASE SHOW!
Super Sentai Striptease Show is a loving homage to the Saturday mornings of our past, when a group of 3-6 sassy mutant or otherwise empowered teens, fueled only by pizza and milkshakes, could prevent the city from being destroyed…sort of.
FEATURING:
The Venomous and Vile Master of Snake Style, Ophidian The Cobra
The Manic Pixie Showgirl, Hayley Jane
Philadelphia’s Badass of Burlesque, MissLiberty Rose
Professional Naked Weirdo, Iris Ex Plosion
She’s a Joker, She’s a Smoker, She’s a Midnight Toker, miss mary wannaJoining us for the first time on the burlesque stage, the monsters of Kaiju Big Battel
Hosted by LOUDEN NOXIOUSDoors at 9pm
SUPER SENTAI STRIPTEASE SHOW!.
Eraserhood Tonight > SUPER SENTAI STRIPTEASE SHOW!
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Live And Loud: Philly Music Never Sounded So Good - PressZoom.com - Global News Service - News and Press Release Distribution
Another indie and underground favorite, the Starlight Ballroom offers scenesters lots of space, comfortable—but limited—seating, a bar and a big stage to see touring and local bands. 460 N. 9th Street, r5productions.com
Tucked into the city’s burgeoning Eraserhood sits the performance venue Underground Arts, a lower-level space that caters to an artistic and creative crowd. The genres of live music run the spectrum, which is one of Underground Art’s greatest assets. 1200 Callowhill Street, undergroundarts.org
Local and touring indie, punk, hardcore and hip-hop acts take to the acoustically awesome stage at the ultra-spacious Union Transfer, where each concert finishes with a post-show happy hour and where Little Baby’s Ice Cream doles out cupfuls of locally churned flavors. 1026 Spring Garden Street, (215) 232-2100, utphilly.com
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Live And Loud: Philly Music Never Sounded So Good - PressZoom.com - Global News Service - News and Press Release Distribution
Eraserhood Tonight › The Weekly Special featuring Spare Change with Penny Nickles
Join our own Penny Nickles for a night of feel-good 70′s pop. It’s just the right amount of cheese served with a smile. With “Special†Drink Specials. No cover.
Eraserhood › The Weekly Special featuring Spare Change with Penny Nickles.
Eraserhood Tonight › The Weekly Special featuring Spare Change with Penny Nickles
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Eraserhood Tonight > Tickets for COAST 2 COAST LIVE: PHILLY EDITION featuring Mike Trampe, A-Lox, DJ NOPHRILLZ & more! | Underground Arts at TicketWeb
Underground Arts
COAST 2 COAST LIVE: PHILLY EDITION
featuring Mike Trampe, A-Lox, DJ NOPHRILLZ & more!
Wednesday, Jan 22, 2014 9:00 PM EST
Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA
21 years and over
Eraserhood Tonight > Tickets for COAST 2 COAST LIVE: PHILLY EDITION featuring Mike Trampe, A-Lox, DJ NOPHRILLZ & more! | Underground Arts at TicketWeb
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
5th Annual Big Banging Barleywine Bonanza
Our 5th year doing the biggest barleywine event in the tri-state area. This year our tap list will include 20+ barleywines and to top it off we will be playing all big banging super hero movies on the TV’s that day. The tap list is as follows.
1. Avery Brewing Company Hog Heaven
2. Tröegs Brewing Company Flying Mouflan
3. Victory Beer Old Horizontal
4. Victory Beer Oak Aged Horizontal
5. Weyerbacher Brewing Company 2012 Insanity
6. Weyerbacher Brewing Company 2013 Insanity
7. Blue Point Old Howling Bastard
8. Allentown Brew Works Barleywine
9. Left Hand Brewing Company Widdershins
10. Starr Hill Brewing Company Bandstand
11. Smuttynose Brewing Co. Barleywine
12. Boulder Beer Co. Killer Penguin
13. DuClaw Devil’s Milk
14. DuClaw Barrel Aged Misery
15. Arcadia Cereal Killer
16. Bell’s Brewery, Inc. Third Coast
17. Southern Tier Brewing Company Backburner
18. Flying Dog Brewery Horn Dog
19. Duck Rabbit Barleywine
20. Sierra Nevada Big Foot
21. Rock Art Brewery Ridgerunner
22. Heavy Seas Beer Below Deck
5th Annual Big Banging Barleywine Bonanza
Eraserhood Tonight > Union Transfer | Philadelphia Music Venue » Phosphorescent – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – January 21st, 2014
Nearly three years on from his breakthrough album Here’s To Taking It Easy, Phosphorescent returns to the fray with his most stunning record yet: Muchacho. During the last album’s ‘cycle’, one could almost hear jaws hitting the floor witnessing a live band of such infinite verve. Not only did the album draw high praise in the form of Mojo’s ‘Album of the Month’ (#8 End of Year), Sunday Times & The Independent ‘Albums of the Week’, hit Rough Trade’s Top 5 Best of the Year, but the band also supported The National over the course of three sold out nights at Brixton Academy, a show that The Independent gave 5/5 and called “a sublime, joyous gigâ€.
Eraserhood Tonight > Union Transfer | Philadelphia Music Venue » Phosphorescent – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – January 21st, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Happy 68th birthday David Lynch!
“All the movies are about strange worlds that you can’t go into unless you build them and film them. That’s what’s so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.”
Happy 68th birthday David Lynch!
Happy 68th birthday David Lynch!
Sunday, January 19, 2014
SECRETS OF THE CITY BRANCH
URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY BY BOB BRUHIN
LIVE AT THE <a href=”http://www.highpointcafe.us.com/ “>HIGH POINT CAFE</a>
2831 W. GIRARD AVE – NOW THROUGH MARCH 31
ARTIST MEET AND GREET SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 2014 2 PM
In a time when the City Branch just west of Broad Street is attracting local and national attention as part of the next new rail park, it is easy to forget that the entire length of this historical right of way between where it crosses Girard Avenue — mere blocks from the Brewerytown High Point — all the way through the Pennsylvania Avenue tunnel to where it appears again at 21st and Hamilton Streets, represents a serious local treasure.Taking his cue from the Side Tours led by ViaductGreene advocate Paul vanMeter, Bob Bruhin set out to document this unsung corridor. Come see images of the site as it now stands, before inevatible change transforms this space forever. The vibrant desolation of this site is difficult to imagine until you have seen these images.
According to Hidden City Philadelphia:
“The City Branch is an abandoned stretch of submerged track from Broad Street to 27th Street in the Art Museum neighborhood. The rail line is open to the sky as it runs parallel to Callowhill Street, then becomes a covered tunnel at 22nd Street, where it angles northwest along Pennsylvania Avenue.
“Unlike the nearby Reading Viaduct, which carried passenger trains on an elevated track, the City Branch was industrial and initially built at ground level. It serviced industries such as the Knickerbocker Ice Co., the Philadelphia Grain Elevator Co., Bement-Pond, Rush & Muhlenberg, Wm. Sellers, A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel, and the massive Baldwin Locomotive Works. In 1900, Reading completed the depression of the City Branch, eliminating a number of dangerous grade crossings. The City Branch was used to transport freight until 1992, when its last customer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, stopped printing the newspaper at Broad and Callowhill and no longer needed carloads of paper.
“The rails were removed, and nature returned to the uncovered parts of the line. Several sections have been cleared for parking in recent years, however the tunnel remains vacant and empty aside from a few piles of railroad ties. While the possibility of turning the Reading Viaduct into a “park in the sky†has received a great deal of attention, scant thought has been given to finding new uses for the City Branch.”
According to vanMeter:
“To understand the 9th Street & City Branches of the Philadelphia & Reading Railway is to understand the very origins of the city’s modern transportation networks, out of which grew a new metropolis stretching from the far western suburbs of Philadelphia to the Jersey shore — all of it carefully and regularly connected via the bourgeois corridors of the mighty Pennsylvania Railroad and its provincial nemesis, the P&R.”
Eraserhood › SECRETS OF THE CITY BRANCH.
SECRETS OF THE CITY BRANCH
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN GO GO? - New Audition Date
The Trestle Inn is looking for the newest member of its renowned mod Go Go dance group, The Trestle Specials.
Candidates must have training in a dance technique such as ballet, modern or jazz; the ability to freestyle to various pop music genres such as soul, funk and disco; and high stamina, enabling the ability to carry a 20 minute set.
Electric stage presence and ability to work four to five shifts per month (Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays) are essential. Knowledge of classic Go Go dance moves and costuming/sewing skills is a plus.
Auditions will be held at The Trestle Inn on Saturday, February 8, starting at 12 noon.
For more information, please send a headshot and summary of your dance experience or dance resume to Project Manager Renae Dinerman at renae@thetrestleinn.com.
No gentlemens club dance inquiries, please.
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN GO GO? - New Audition Date
THE BEST OFFER Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement
PhilaMOCA will screen THE BEST OFFER four times in February:
Sunday, February 9, 2014 at 6:30 and 9:30
Sunday, February 16, 2014 at 6:30 and 9:30
$10 admission
PhilaMOCA and IFC Films are pleased to present the Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement for THE BEST OFFER from Academy Award winning director Giuseppe Tornatore (CINEMA PARADISO, THE STAR MAKER). The film stars Geoffrey Rush (THE KING’S SPEECH, SHINE), Jim Sturgess (ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), and Donald Sutherland and features a score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone who referred to his contribution as “something completely new, both in absolute music and in music applied to the cinema”.
Geoffrey Rush is superb in this stylish art world thriller as Virgil Oldman, managing director of a leading auction house. Over the years, he has collected hundreds of masterful, priceless portraits of women that he keeps hidden in his villa. One day, Oldman receives a special assignment: a mysterious young woman, who refuses to appear in person, asks him to sell her family’s antiques. Not only interested in her classical paintings and furniture, Oldman becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysterious incognito woman, leading to a sumptuous and entertaining mystery of passions, neuroses and intrigue.
Part detective story, part character study, THE BEST OFFER is an unpredictable mystery of heartbreaking proportions.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGleGyahC8
Official site: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/the-best-offer
THE BEST OFFER Exclusive Philadelphia Engagement
Eraserhood Tonight › La MILONGA en CASA, Potluck dinner and Tango party!
Food theme: Hearty Soups and Stews
7:30 to 9 pm Potluck Dinner
9 to midnight Tango DancingAdmission:
Dinner: Something to share
Tango party (milonga): $12, full time students $10
1315 Buttonwood Street, PhiladelphiaPotluck guidelines:
1. Please RSVP for dinner telling us what you’ll be bringing. You can email or use the Facebook event page.
2. Contributions for the potluck: If you’re not a cook, wine or purchased food is a great contribution, OR you can make a sponsorship donation. SPONSORSHIP means we’ll ask someone else to make extra food, so let us know in advance if you’d like to sponsor a dish.
If you’re coming as a couple, please remember you are still two people and your contribution should reflect that.
3. To make the dinner work smoothly we also ask your help with set up and clean up, with each diner pitching in for a few minutes.
4. The potluck is a community event, as successful as you all make it!
Eraserhood › La MILONGA en CASA, Potluck dinner and Tango party!.
Eraserhood Tonight › La MILONGA en CASA, Potluck dinner and Tango party!
Saturday, January 18, 2014
NRBQ with Sean Hoots Trio & Travel Lanes
WXPN & Bonfire welcome: NRBQ
Show 8:30pm | $14 adv $18 DOS | 21+
catch 2 sets by NRBQ
with Sean Hoots Trio opening and Travel Lanes performing in the Black Box during intermission!
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NRBQ
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Terry Adams, visionary, driving force, and “untamed genius of the keyboards” for NRBQ since the band’s inception over four decades ago, is one of music’s true originals. Adams reignited the legendary Quartet with Scott Ligon on guitar & vocals, Casey McDonough on bass & vocals, and Bobby Lloyd Hicks on drums. NRBQ will be joined by the Whole Wheat Horns at Underground Arts—Klem Klimek on tenor saxophone and Carl Q on trombone.
NRBQ with Sean Hoots Trio & Travel Lanes
Eraserhood Tonight > Tickets for Fanfare Ciocarlia with West Philadelphia Orchestra | Underground Arts at TicketWeb
Fanfare Ciocarlia
The legends of gypsy brassFanfare Ciocarlia are one of the world’s greatest live bands, their energy and ingenuity having won them fans from Melbourne to Memphis, Tokyo to Toulouse. Having learnt their craft at the feet of their fathers and grandfathers Fanfare’s members proudly approach every concert as a challenge to both entertain audiences and keep the true spirit of Gypsy music alive.
Record release tour “Devils Tale†by Adrian Raso and Fanfare Ciocarlia.
Album to be released on Asphalt Tango Records (www.asphalt-tango.de) January 2014.
Stay tuned on http://www.asphalt-tango.de !west philadelphia orchestra
West Philadelphia Orchestra plays music that is mostly rooted in Eastern European folk music traditions, but they do it with their own voices, Philadelphia voices nourished by their jazz heritage, tinged with punk rock, soul, and cheesesteaks, and blended with the voices of our community. As a village band, they aim to uplift, inspire, and unify the Philadelphia community by playing music that renders boundaries obsolete and represents excellence.
$20 in advance
$25 day of event21+
Tickets for Fanfare Ciocarlia with West Philadelphia Orchestra | Underground Arts at TicketWeb.
Eraserhood Tonight > Tickets for Fanfare Ciocarlia with West Philadelphia Orchestra | Underground Arts at TicketWeb
Friday, January 17, 2014
Amanda Palmer - random HEART-ART-BURSTING youtube clip of the...
random HEART-ART-BURSTING youtube clip of the day…angelo badalamenti talking about how he sat down with david lynch and composed the love theme to “twin peaks”. seriously…goose bumps. and almost…tears….
a must-see for:
-fans of twin peaks
-composers
-filmmakers
-artistic collaborators of any kind, may you all be this close and free and open in your collaborations.
thanks to Jherek Bischoff to sending this…our whole grand theft email posse was FREAKING OUT ABOUT IT had to share.
long live angelo. omg.
Amanda Palmer – random HEART-ART-BURSTING youtube clip of the….
Amanda Palmer - random HEART-ART-BURSTING youtube clip of the...
Colicchio and Carmellini Attached to the Provence - Blockbusters - Eater Philly
Although developer Bart Blatstein‘s proposal for the Provence Resort & Casino is just one of several to be considered for Broad and Callowhill, it did receive a huge boost today: Blatstein has announced that chefs Tom Colicchio and Andrew Carmellini are now attached to the project.
Colicchio and Carmellini Attached to the Provence – Blockbusters – Eater Philly.
Colicchio and Carmellini Attached to the Provence - Blockbusters - Eater Philly
David Lynch interviewed by Mike Figgis - Boing Boing
Mike Figgis, director of films like Leaving Las Vegas, Hotel, and Suspension of Disbelief interviewed David Lynch, director of films like Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Inland Empire.
David Lynch interviewed by Mike Figgis – Boing Boing.
David Lynch interviewed by Mike Figgis - Boing Boing
Eraserhood Tonight > Tickets for The Sword with Serpent Throne and Sunburster | Underground Arts at TicketWeb
**moved to 1.17 from 9.29**
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THE SWORD
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Wrapping poetic and poignant imagery in a haze of crushing riffs and ethereal melodies, the Austin, TX quartet delivers haunting, hypnotic, and heavy rock.
+Â http://www.swordofdoom.com/ Â +
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SERPENT THRONE
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If you want riffs, we got ‘em… Philly-bred riff-heavy instrumental stoner/doom metal
+ https://www.facebook.com/pages/ Serpent-Throne-Official/ 307950149231243?ref=br_tf +Â
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SUNBURSTER
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Stoner / Sludge / Doom
contact highs, crushing lows…
+Â http://sunburster.bandcamp.com/
Tickets for The Sword with Serpent Throne and Sunburster | Underground Arts at TicketWeb.
Eraserhood Tonight > Tickets for The Sword with Serpent Throne and Sunburster | Underground Arts at TicketWeb
Eraserhood Tonight › Annie Mok debuts SCREENTESTS w/ special guests at Vox Populi Gallery!
West Philly-based cartoonist Annie Mok reads from Screentests, her most fully-realized work to date. Annie’s comics are by turns quiet, raucous, funny, and sad, and always clear-eyed and nuanced.
“These stories, which could be incredibly heartbreaking with no relief, instead give the reader hope.†– Mey Rude, AutostraddleShe’s joined by the incredible creators Ras Mashramani (metropolarity.net), R.Phillips (AfroFuturistAffair.com), and Alex*Laser Life (theafterv3rse.tumblr.com), of the Philly-based queer sci-fi crew Metropolarity; O. Horvath (Spurt of Blood), “hysterical cartoonist outta PVDâ€; and Khristina Acosta of the Philly/NJ-based PoC-only zine distro No Shame Distro (facebook.com/noshamedistro), reading from her zine The Birthday Party.
A Q&A and signing will follow the readings.Annie’s work can be found at cargocollective.com/heyanniemok, heyanniemok.tumblr.com, and @HeyAnnieMok on twitter.
Please note that some stories read at the event may be triggering.
Vox Populi Gallery
in the Aux Performance Space
319 N. 11th St, 3rd Floor
Fri. Jan. 17 @ 7pm
Eraserhood › Annie Mok debuts SCREENTESTS w/ special guests at Vox Populi Gallery!.
Eraserhood Tonight › Annie Mok debuts SCREENTESTS w/ special guests at Vox Populi Gallery!
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Shabbat Service & Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Our friends at Rodeph Shalom invite you to a wonderful celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
Shabbat Service & Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 at 6pm
Join us for a Shabbat Service honoring civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We will welcome guests Reverend Dr. Mark Tyler, his congregation and the choir from the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Martin Luther King, Jr’s legacy of leadership continues to inspire and hearten us as we strive to turn his dream of equality into our reality. These efforts will be highlighted at this Shabbat Service.
Immediately after the Service, join us for food (pizza & hoagies) and fellowship.Rodeph Shalom
615 N Broad St
Congregation Rodeph Shalom – Philadelphia, PA.
Shabbat Service & Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
FANFARLO with LILIES ON MARS at Underground Arts
Bonfire Shows present:
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FANFARLO
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“Fanfarlo’s third album, ‘Let’s Go Extinct’, could be seen as a concept album about human evolution and possible futures, if it weren’t more entertaining and beautiful than that could ever imply. Yes, it does grapple with the big questions, but always with a glint in its eye, a sense that nothing could ever be weirder than the truth, and a stirring chorus just about to break. In its way, ‘Let’s Go Extinct’ is the true successor to the band’s much-feted debut, ‘Reservoir’. Having cast off the colder, more synthetic feel of their second record, ‘Rooms Filled With Light’, ‘Let’s Go Extinct’ is the sound of the band cutting lose from all expectation, and just letting whatever’s going to come, come. In doing so, they may just have made the record of their lives. ‘Let’s Go Extinct’ was recorded by the band and David Wrench at Bryn Derwyn, described by the band as an eccentric studio at a tucked away village next to a slate quarry in North Wales.” – Rough TradeChat
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LILIES ON MARS
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“Lilies on Mars are Lisa Masia, and Marina Cristofalo, they met over ten years ago and were the touring and film collaborators of Italian icon Franco Battiato before forming Lilies on Mars in August 2008. Fascinated by the spirit of DIY, they produced, mixed and self-released their debut album in April 2009, mastered by Bill Gautier (The Cure- Fleet Foxes…) Shortly after, they debuted live at La Cigale Theatre in Paris with Franco Battiato and continued touring on their own in UK, Italy, Germany and USA for the whole 2009/beginning 2010.” – LastFM
FANFARLO with LILIES ON MARS at Underground Arts
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
SUPER SENTAI STRIPTEASE SHOW @ PhilaMOCA | Geekadelphia
On the evening of Friday, January 24, Broad St. Burlesque is morphing into action for their first event, the SUPER SENTAI STRIPTEASE SHOW at PhilaMOCA. You might recognize the two principals behind Broad St. Burlesque, Miss Rose and her partner-in-crime, Hayley Jane, from cult movie director-themed burlesque Miss Rose’s Sexploitation Follies or the production company, I Heart Burlesque.
SUPER SENTAI STRIPTEASE SHOW @ PhilaMOCA | Geekadelphia.
SUPER SENTAI STRIPTEASE SHOW @ PhilaMOCA | Geekadelphia
Callowhill Neighborhood Association
Dear Friend of Callowhill Neighborhood Association,
Greetings and Happy New Year!
As a regular recipient of information and announcements from Callowhill Neighborhood Assoc., we consider your interest in our organization vital to our ongoing efforts at making Callowhill an exciting and desirable place to live and work. As you are probably aware, our neighborhood has undergone tremendous changes within just the last few years and more are on the way.
Which is our reason for contacting you now. For 2014, would you consider becoming a full, dues-paying member of CNA by officially joining our organization? Several levels of membership are available, all quite reasonable:
- For those who live within our boundaries, a 1-yr. Individual Membership is $25
- For those outside our boundaries, a 1-yr. Associate Membership is $15
- For businesses, a 1-yr. Corporate Membership is $50
Increasing the number of members gives CNA more credibility in our contacts with other neighborhood groups, city officials and real estate developers, as well as additional revenue to pursue community initiatives. And for now, dues paying members remain the main source of revenue for CNA.
For your convenience, we now offer the option of paying via PayPal through the CNA website (www.callowhill.org). This will make paying your 2014 membership dues fast, easy and give us all the information we need to keep your membership data and contact information up-to-date.
If you feel more comfortable paying by check, you can do that too. Please mail your payment to:
Callowhill Neighborhood Association
1115 Hamilton St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Be sure to indicate in the memo line the type of membership you’d like and reference “2014 dues.”
We hope you’ll consider taking this next step in committing yourself, at least in spirit, to this incredible, up-and-coming neighborhood. And our best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!
Sincerely,
Sarah McEneaney – President
Dennis Pilsits – Treasurer
Callowhill Neighborhood Association
callowhill@gmail.com
www.callowhill.org
Callowhill Neighborhood Association
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