Good Day, Good Citizens! Each Friday after the Presidents arrive with their decaf coffee and Dave Edmunds serenades us with “Here Comes The Weekend”, the weekend can officially start. With the weekend ahead you might need something to do. I, Pierre Robert, run down an extensive list of things happening in and around the Philadelphia area. I call it Pierre’s Weekend Calendar. Everything from concerts to go to (Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, and Rancid Friday at Citizens Bank Park), movies to see (Borderlands, rated PG-13), events (small and large) to partake in, and always what is going on here at WMMR.
Some things are fairly standard (like the Chinese Lantern Festival), some are totally bizarre (like the Olympia After Hours), and to be honest, for some of this stuff, I don’t have a clue as to what they are (like the Return to Goth Summer Camp). Hopefully, this guide of, some of what is going on in a fine village near you, will help keep you busy this weekend. Who knows, maybe you’ll even catch me at one or two of these events this weekend (please stop and say hi if you do).
On Sale Friday:
Daughtry @ Franklin Music Hall 11/30
Mariah Carey’s “Christmas Time” @ Wells Fargo Center 12/3
Morrissey @ Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort 11/15
Diana Ross @ Hard Rock Live Etess Arena 10/19
Shows This Weekend:
All Weekend
Tommy Davidson @ Helium Comedy Club
Friday
Green Day, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid & The Linda Lindas @ Citizens Bank Park
Dave Mason @ Scottish Rite Auditorium
Whiskey Myers & Blackberry Smoke @ Etess Arena Hard Rock AC
Big Time Rush @ Wind Creek Steel Stage-Musikfest
Princess Goes @ Underground Arts
Whitey Morgan And The 78’s @ World Café Live
Phillip-Michael Scales @ Milkboy
Lunell @ City Winery Philadelphia
Sinkane @ Kung Fu Necktie
Saturday
Slipknot, Knocked Loose and Orbit Culture @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
Ludacris @ Wind Creek Steel Stage
Shinedown @ Ovation Hall AC
Little River Band @ Keswick Theatre
Phil Wickham & Brandon Lake @ Liacouras Center
Iron and Wine @ Fillmore
Dylan Scott @ Parx Casino Xcite Center
Glass Animals @ TD Pavilion- Mann Center
C-Kan @ TLA
Face The Pain @ Underground Arts
Haunt @ Kung Fu Necktie
Ed Bassmaster @ City Winery
Sunday
ZZ Top with Foghat @ Wind Creek Steel Stage
Still Woozy @ Skyline Stage – Mann Center
The Lox @ Franklin Music Hall
Fred Armisen @ The Fillmore
Juliana Theory @ The Foundry-Fillmore
Bilmuri @ TLA
Arms Akimbo @ Milkboy
The Dopamines @ Kung Fu Necktie
Des Bishop @ Punch Line Philly
What’s Going on in the Movies? New This Week:
Borderlands (PG-13): Kate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black
What’s Going on in the Movies? Still In Theatres:
Deadpool and Wolverine (R): Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman
It Ends With Us (PG-13): Blake Lively
Twisters (PG-13):Glen Powell
What’s Happening at MMR?
Friday
MMR Rocks Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas! Join Brent Porche at Citizens Bank Park for pre-show coverage at the Concourse inside the 1st Base Gate from 3-7pm
Saturday
Join Brent Porche at Pep Boys 700 Nutt Rd in Phoenixville from 11am-1pm. MMRBQ tickets and other prizes up for grabs!
Happening Around Town:
Through August 18
Philadelphia Chinese Lantern Festival: Franklin Square 200 N. 6th Street
Through August 25
The Oval: Eakins Oval, 2451 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Through August
BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile: ongoing, Science History Institute, 315 Chestnut Street.
Wondrous Space: Franklin Institute, 222 North 20th Street.
Otherworld Philly: ongoing, 2500 Grant Avenue.
Through September 2
Under the Canopy: Animals of the Rainforest: Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. ansp.org
The Art of the Brick: Franklin Institute, 222 North 20th Street.
Through September 15
The Sweetest Side of Life: Swedish Candy & Confections: American Swedish Historical Museum, 1900 Pattison Avenue
Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination: Brandywine Museum of Art, 1 Hoffman’s Mill Road, Chadds Ford.
Through September 29
Life Onto Land: The Devonian: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University – 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia.
Through September 30th
Summer of Dinos: Morris Arboretum 100 East Northwestern Avenue.
Through October 14
George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition at James A. Michener Art Museum: James A. Michener Art Museum, 138 S. Pine Street, Doylestown.
Through November 8
Andalusia Historic House, Gardens & Arboretum: Andalusia Historic House & Gardens, 1237 State Road, Andalusia.
Through January 5
Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington’s Tent: Museum of the American Revolution, 101 South Third Street.
Through May 2025
At the Water’s Edge: Working and living along the Delaware River: Independence Seaport Museum, 211 South Columbus Boulevard.
Things Happening This Weekend
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, & SUNDAY
Musikfest 2024: Multiple locations Bethlehem PA
Peach & Sunflower Festival: Shady Brook Farm, 931 Stony Hill Road, Yardley
Parks on Tap: Matthias Baldwin Park, 423 North 19th Street.
Liberty Comic Con: Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, 100 Station Avenue, Oaks.
Mamma Mia!: Academy of Music, 240 South Broad Street.
Friday August 9
Olympia After Hours: 6-9pm Independence Seaport Museum 211 South Columbus Boulevard.
Director Series: Lee Chang-Dong:Film Society Center, 1412 Chestnut Street
Friday and Saturday
Goschenhoppen Folk Festival: Friday noon to 8 p.m & Saturday 10 am-6pm Henry Antes Plantation 318 Colonial Road, Perkiomenville.
Ardmore Restaurant Week: Multiple restaurants in Ardmore
Saturday August 10
Port Richmond Pierogi Festival: Noon-6 pm. 2619 East Indiana Avenue
Indie Authors Book Fair: 10 am. Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, 100 Station Avenue, Oaks.
Annual Classic Hearse Show: 10 am-4pm, Laurel Hill East, 3822 Ridge Avenue
Matrix Quadrilogy: Film Society Center, 1412 Chestnut Street.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 8 pm, PhilaMOCA, 531 North 12th Street.
Saturday and Sunday
The Ghostly Circus: Black Box Paradox: 7-9 pm Fringe Bar, 140 North Columbus Boulevard.
Sunday August 11
Return to Goth Summer Camp: Noon-3pm, Arch Enemy Arts, 109 Arch Street.
Ardmore Rock N’ Ride: Outdoor Music Festival and Bike Race: Noon, Ardmore Music Hall, 23 East Lancaster Avenue.
Sports Up!
All Weekend
The PHILLIES are AWAY vs Arizona Diamondbacks: Fri at 9:40pm, Sat at 8:10pm and Sun at 4:10pm.
Saturday
The UNION are HOME vs CF Montreal at 7:30pm
