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 (like Jerry Cantrell at Parx Xcite Center), movies to see (Love Hurts rated R), events (small and large) to partake in, and always what is going on here at WMMR.
Some things are fairly standard (like the Northern Liberties Restaurant Week), some are totally bizarre (like Goth Prom Vampire Winter Formal), and to be honest, for some of this stuff, I don’t have a clue as to what they are (like Gazillion Bubble Show). 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 this Friday:
Outlaw Music Festival 1oth Anniversary Tour ft Willie Nelson & Family, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow & more @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion; Friday September 12
Blues Traveler & Gin Blossoms w/ Spin Doctors @ Ovation Hall AC; Saturday July 19
Devo @ The Met; Thursday May 1
Slightly Stoopid & Iration @ Skyline Stage Mann Center; Thursday July 31
Shows This Weekend:
Friday
Dream Theater @ The Met
Apocalyptica w/ Nita Strauss @ Fillmore
Jamie Miller @ Foundry (Fillmore)
Tim Heidecker & The Very Good Band @ Union Transfer
The 8-Bit Big Band @ City Winery
Cole Swindell @ Parx Xcite Center
Sicard Hollow @ Kung Fu Necktie
The Legwarmers @ Ardmore Music Hall
Mannywellz @ MilkBoy
Little River Band @ Borgata Music Box
Friday & Saturday
“Subterranean Dissonance Fest” ft Thou, Secret Chiefs 3, Kralice & more @ Underground Arts
Get The Led Out @ Santander Performing Arts Center (Reading)
Adam Ferrara @ Helium Comedy Club
Alex Moffat @ Punch Line Philly
Saturday
Jerry Cantrell w/ Filter @ Parx Xcite Center
Phantogram @ Fillmore
Almost Monday @ Foundry (Fillmore)
Kash Doll @ Union Transfer
Dead Wrong @ MilkBoy
Matt Pond PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
Gordon Baker-Bone @ World Café Live
Martha Foundry @ Kung Fu Necktie
Sam Morril @ Wind Creek Event Center (Bethlehem)
Kool & The Gang @ Ovation Hall
Billy Gibbons and The BFGs @ Borgata Music Box
Sunday
Dan Bern @ Ardmore Music Hall
What’s Going on in the Movies? New In Theatres:
Love Hurts (R): Ke Huy Quan
What’s Going on in the Movies? Still In Theatres:
Dog Man (PG): Pete Davidson
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (R)
A Complete Unknown (R)
Noferatu (R)
What’s Happening at MMR
Saturday
Super Block Saturday – Our Weekend Warriors will get you ready for the Big Game on Sunday with super-sized blocks all day Saturday! Sponsored by Trinity Rehab
Cupid’s Undie Run – WMMR proudly supports this mile(ish) run in your bedroom-best. Taking place at Xfinity Live! (1100 Pattison Ave) from Noon to 4pm it’s the nations largest underwear run. 100% of the net proceeds fund research via the Children’s Tumor Foundation for neurofibromatosis.
Happening Around Town:
Through February 12
Animal Crossing: New Horizons at Adventure Aquarium – $40, Adventure Aquarium, 1 Riverside Drive, Camden.
Through February 16
Do Portugal Circus – $20, Franklin Mall, 1455 Franklin Mills Circle.
Through February 23
Electrical Spectacle Light Show at Franklin Square – Free to enter 5-9pm, Franklin Square, 200 North Sixth Street
Ice Skating @ Rothman Rink – $10 for skate rental, $9 for 90-minute skate sessions, Dilworth Park
Through February 24
Slay and the City: A Killer Cosmo – $35, Saturdays and Sundays, Red Rum Theater, 601 Walnut Street.
Through March 2
Winterfest – Blue Cross RiverRink, 101 South Columbus Boulevard.
Through March 8
The Winter unWINEd – Every Friday and Saturday, 6:30-9:30pm, Shady Brook Farm, 931 Stony Hill Road, Yardley
Through March 23
Winter Wonder – Included in $25 admission, Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square.
Through March 31
Goat Hiking – $25, Saturdays and Sundays through March, Andorra Natural Area, 300 Western Northwestern Avenue
Through May 31
At the Water’s Edge: Working and living along the Delaware River: Independence Seaport Museum, 211 South Columbus Boulevard.
Things Happening This Weekend
All Weekend
The Drag by Mae West – $20-$38,Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 North American Street.
Friday February 7
Goth Prom Vampire Winter Formal – $8-$12, 9 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 North Frankford Avenue.
Macbeth – 1 p.m., Ambler Theater, 108 East Butler Avenue, Ambler.
Atlantic Pops Symphonic – $25-$35, 7 p.m., Kimmel Center, 300 South Broad Street.
The Late(ish) Poetry Show -$15-$25, 8:30 p.m., PhilaMOCA, 531 North 12th Street.
Friday & Saturday
The Hoop Jawn – $25-$300, First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut Street.
Northern Liberties Restaurant Week – $25, $35, & $45, multiple restaurants
Saturday February 8
Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed – Pay what you can, 7 p.m., Curio Theatre Company, 4740 Baltimore Avenue.
Gazillion Bubble Show – $25-$55, 11 a.m. & 2 p.m., Miller Theater, 250 South Broad Street.
Lunar New Year Celebration – $12, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Pearl S. Buck Historic Estate, 520 Dublin Road, Pekasie.
GayBINGO – $40, 6 p.m., Rodeph Shalom, 615 North Broad Street.
Sunday February 9
Buzz Gwols – $20-25, Noon, City Winery, 990 Filbert St.
Sports Up!
Friday
The SIXERS are AWAY vs Detroit Pistons; 7:30pm
Saturday
The WINGS are HOME vs Halifax Thunderbirds; 1pm
The FLYERS are HOME vs Pittsburgh Penguins; 7pm
Sunday
The SIXERS are AWAY vs Milwaukee Bucks; 2pm
The Philadelphia Eagles vs Kansas City Chiefs in SUPER BOWL LIX! Kickoff at 6:30pm