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 Myles Kennedy at the Keswick Theatre), movies to see (Flight Risk 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 Philly Tattoo Arts Convention), some are totally bizarre (like the East Coast Reptile Super Expo), and to be honest, for some of this stuff, I don’t have a clue as to what they are (like Art Star Crap Bazaar). 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:

Billy Idol and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Saturday August 16th at TD Pavilion Mann Center

Jet with Band of Skulls – Wednesday June 4 at The Fillmore

 

Shows This Weekend:

Friday

Andrew Santino @ The Met

Richard Kind @ Parx Xcite Center

Guster @ Fillmore

Porridge Radio @ The Foundry (Fillmore)

Mersiv & Inzo @ Franklin Music Hall

Chuck Prophet @ World Café Live

Magic City Hippies @ Brooklyn Bowl

Dylan Marlowe @ TLA

Master Boot Record @ Underground Arts

Thin @ MilkBoy

Young Thug @ Liacouras Center

The Coral Reefer Band @ Etess Arena Hard Rock AC

Nimesh Patel @ Borgata Music Box

 

Friday & Saturday

G Love & Special Sauce @ City Winery

Russell Peters @ Punch Line Philly

Dov Davidoff @ Helium Comedy Club

 

Saturday

Myles Kennedy w/ Tim Montana @ Keswick Theatre

Soccer Mommy @ Union Transfer

Wunderhorse @ Underground Arts

David Gray @ The Met

Blind Pilot @ World Café Live

Rebounder @ Kung Fu Necktie

Martin Lawrence @ Etess Arena Hard Rock AC

Umphrey’s McGee @ Sound Waves Hard Rock AC

 

Sunday

“Dancing With The Stars Live!” @ The Met

Ben Barnes @ TLA

Wolffacejoeyy @ The Foundry (Fillmore)

Harf. @ Kung Fu Necktie

Delta Work @ City Winery

Taylor Shines @ Santander Center (Reading)

Peabo Bryson @ Levoy Theatre

What’s Going on in the Movies? New In Theatres:

Flight Risk (R): Mark Wahlberg

 

What’s Going on in the Movies? Still In Theatres:

Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (R)

A Complete Unknown (R)

 

Noferatu (R)

 

 

Happening Around Town:

Through January 31

Astra Lumina – $29-$38, Abington Art Center, 515 Meetinghouse Road, Jenkintown.

Through February 1

Center City District Restaurant Week – two-course lunches for $20 and three-course dinners for $45 to $60. Multiple locations.

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 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

 

All Weekend

Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention – $25-$50, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street

New Hope/Lambertville Restaurant Week -$35-$55 for three-course meals, multiple locations in New Hope and Lambertville

Agora de la danse – $42, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street

 

Friday January 24

Dr. Bernice King on the King – Free, 7 p.m., Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College

Drug Scare Double Feature – $18.66, 7:30 p.m., PhilaMOCA, 531 North 12th Street.

AfroRican State of Soul: Lucas Rivera – $20, 7pm, Esperanza Arts Center, 4261 North 5th Street.

 

Friday & Saturday

Tattoo Convention After Parties – No Cover, Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street

 

Saturday January 25

Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship – $40-$200, 8 p.m., Wells Fargo Center

Lunar New Year Celebration – Free, 12-2pm, 746 Panmure Road, Haverford

Found Footage Festival – $25, 7:30 p.m., Neshaminy Creek Brewing, 909 Ray Avenue, Croydon.

GayBINGO – $40, 6 p.m., Rodeph Shalom, 615 North Broad Street.

Burns Night at Quig’s Pub – $10, 7-10 p.m., Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place.

Chocolate, Wine & Whiskey Festival – $69-$90, 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Greater Philadelphia Expo Center.

 

Saturday & Sunday

Art Star Crap Bazaar – Free, 11am-4pm, the Independence Visitor Center, 599 Market Street.

 

Sunday January 26

Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus – Free, 3 p.m., Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion. 2110 Chestnut Street

East Coast Reptile Super Expo – $10, 9am-4:30pm, Greater Philadelphia Expo Center.

 

Sports Up!

 

Friday

The FLYERS are AWAY vs New York Islanders; 7:30pm

The SIXERS are HOME vs Cleveland Cavaliers; 7pm

 

Saturday

The SIXERS are AWAY vs Chicago Bulls; 8pm

 

Sunday

The EAGLES are HOME vs Washington Commanders; 3pm