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 (Cowboy Junkies at the Scottish Rite Auditorium on Saturday), movies to see (The Marvels, 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 Philly Vegan Restaurant Week), some are totally bizarre (like the

Monster Mania Con 2023), and to be honest, for some of this stuff, I don’t have a clue as to what they are (like the Philly Flannel Fest). 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:

Queensrÿche w/ Armored Saint @ Keswick Theatre 5/1

Green Day w/ The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and The Linda Lindas @ Citizens Bank Park 8/9

Hootie & the Blowfish w/ Collective Soul and Edwin McCain @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion 8/16

Shows This Weekend:

The Spread the Warmth drive In an effort to help provide a winter coat to residents across the Philadelphia region this winter, the Brooklyn Bowl, the Fillmore, the Foundry, and Punch Line Philly are encouraging guests attending any of their upcoming November shows, to bring a new or gently used coat to the show to Spread the Warmth this winter and support Change Church and the Story Factory of Philadelphia. Collection bins will be placed at the entrance to each venue during these events.

All Weekend

Sebastian Maniscalco @ Borgata

Friday & Saturday

Alonzo Bodden @ Helium

Friday

Tony Woods @ Punchline

Call Her Daddy Podcast @ The Met

Nation Of Language / Miss Grit @ Union Transfer

LP @ Franklin Music Hall

The 1975 @ Wells Fargo Center

Geese @ The Foundry

Celtica Nova @ Sellersville Theater

KC & The Sunshine Band @ Hard Rock –Etess Arena

Dying Wish @ Underground Arts

Gold Panda @ Johnny Brenda’s

Alanna Royale @ The Lounge at World Cafe Live

Valley Queen @ Kung Fu Necktie

Susto @ MilkBoy

Blkbok @ City Winery

Wild Nothing @ The Music Hall at World Cafe Live

LaMP / Fire Jelly @ Ardmore Music Hall

Luke Grimes @  TLA

Saturday

Joe DeRosa @ TLA 

Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers @ Ardmore Music Hall

Gladys Knight @ Xcite Center- Parx Casino

Jimmy Carr @ Miller Theater

Ms. Pat @ Keswick Theatre

Spiritualized @ Union Transfer

Myke Towers @ The Met

Codeine @ Underground Arts

Cowboy Junkies @ Scottish Rite Auditorium

Warren Zeiders @ The Fillmore

Eem Triplin @ The Foundry

Sunday

Luna Luna @ MilkBoy

Krieg / Cathedrals in the Night / Bastard Cross @ Kung Fu Necktie

Protest The Hero / Moon Tooth @ Underground Arts

Shakey Graves @ Union Transfer

10,000 Maniacs @ Ardmore Music Hall

Modernlove. @ The Foundry

Great Lake Swimmers @ Sellersville Theater

The Menzingers / Microwave / Cloud Nothings / Rodeo Boys @ Franklin Music Hall

Husbands @ Johnny Brenda’s

Holly Bowling @ City Winery

What’s Going on in the Movies? New This Week:

The Marvels ( PG-13 ): Park Seo-joon, Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton

It’s a Wonderful Knife ( R ):Justin Long, Cassandra Naud, Jane Widdop, Joel McHale

Dream Scenario ( R ): Nicolas Cage, Dylan Gelula, Julianne Nicholson

The Holdovers ( R ):Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Brady Hepner

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

Killers of the Flower Moon ( R ): Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Robert De Niro, Brendan Fraser

Priscilla ( R ): Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Tim Post

What Happens Later ( R ): Meg Ryan, David Duchovny

 What’s Happening at MMR?

Green Day Weekend: Green Day is this weekend’s featured MMaRtist – listen for special double shots and blocks for the on sale of Green Day’s The Saviors Tour, celebrating 30 years of Dookie and 20 years of American Idiot. With special guests The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas. The show is at Citizens Bank Park on August 9th. WMMR.com has all the info and another chance to win tickets. (Entry deadline Sun 11/12).

Saturday

Steve Morrison will be joining MonsterMania Con for their Celebrity Auction benefiting Mac’s Fund on Saturday at 2pm at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center At Oaks (100 Station Avenue, Oaks, PA). You can bid on great prizes all while supporting Mac’s Fund.

Sunday

Phil-a-Trunk Camp Out Car Show 2023

From 7:30 am – 1:00 pm in the Wells Fargo Center Parking Lot, Preston & Steve’s Camp Out For Hunger begins with the 5th annual Phil-a-Trunk Car Show and Food Drive. Over 30 area participating car clubs will meet at the Wells Fargo Center Complex to drop off their donations the Sunday before the Camp Out For Hunger opening broadcast. Spectators are welcome to come down and enjoy this massive car show. Car Clubs will begin their drive through donations at throughout the event. Organized and hosted by the Porsche Club of America: Riesentöter Region. The entry fee is your food donation: all trunks, frunks, and beds of food are welcome!

Happening Around Town:

Through November 26

Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia:  Museum of the American Revolution, 101 South Third Street. amrevmuseum.org

Wicked: through November 26th, Academy of Music, 240 South Broad Street.

Through November

U-2 Spy Planes & Aerial Archaeology:  Penn Museum, 3260 South Street.

Native American Heritage Month: through November, National Constitution Center, 525 Arch Street.

Spread the Warmth Coat Drive:  Any show through November at the Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia, the Fillmore Philadelphia, the Foundry, and Punch Line Philly.

Through December 30

Electrified: 50 Years Of Electric Factory: Wednesday – Friday 1pm – 7pm, Saturday 12pm – 5pm. Paul Peck Alumni Center Gallery and Bossone Research Center – southeast corner of 32nd and Market Streets, Philadelphia.

Through December 31

Dinosaur Train: The Exhibit:  Please Touch Museum, 4231 Avenue of the Republic.

Between Horizons: Korean Ceramic Artists in America:  Clay Studio, 1425 North American Street.

The First Amendment: National Constitution Center, 525 Arch Street.

The Future Will Follow the Past: Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, 101 South Independence Mall East.

Through January 14

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories: Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown.

Through January 21

Skin: Living Armor, Evolving Identity: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University – 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia.

Through January 28

Art Ability:  Continues through January 28th, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, 414 Paoli Pike, Malvern.

Through August 2024

BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile:  Science History Institute, 315 Chestnut Street.

Wondrous Space:  Franklin Institute, 222 North 20th Street.

Through May 2025

At the Water’s Edge: Working and living along the Delaware River:  continues through May 2025, Independence Seaport Museum, 211 South Columbus Boulevard.

Things Happening This Weekend

FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Monster Mania 2023: Fri 4pm – 10pm, Sat 10am – 7pm, Sun 10am – 7pm. Greater Philadelphia Expo Center At Oaks – 100 Station Avenue, Oaks, PA.

Main Line Today Restaurant Week:  November 5th-18th, multiple locations. mainlinetoday.com

Veterans Day Weekend at the Museum of the American Revolution: Free admission for veterans and active service members, November 10th-12th. Museum of the American Revolution, South 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA.

Winter at Dilworth Park:

Ice Skating @ The Rothman Orthopaedics Ice Rink and Cabin: opens November 10th, continues through February 25th. Dilworth Park, 1 South 15th Street.

Wintergarden: through March 26th. Dilworth Park, 1 South 15th Street.

Made in Philadelphia Holiday Market: opens November 10th, continues through January 1st. Dilworth Park, 1 South 15th Street.

Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival: November 2-12, multiple locations.

Otherworld Philly:  Fridays & Saturdays: 10AM – 10PM, Sundays: 10AM – 6PM, 2500 Grant Avenue, number 1.

Macbeth in Stride: Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 South Broad Street.

Wildest Dreams by Zeinab Diomande: Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, 1020 South Street.

Chrysanthemum Festival:  Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square.

FRIDAY November 10

Art, Architecture and the Dream of Democracy Tour & Social: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 128 North Broad Street.

Friday & Saturday

Philly Vegan Restaurant Week:  It started last week and wraps up on Saturday November 12th, multiple locations.

Halloween Nights at Eastern State Penitentiary:  Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Avenue.

SATURDAY November 11

CraftNOW Create:  10 a.m.-1 p.m. Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse, 3500 Reservoir Drive.

Philly Tweed Ride:  11 a.m., Fairmount Water Works, 640 Waterworks Drive.

Fall Food Truck Frenzy:  11 a.m.-5 p.m., Linvilla Orchards, 137 West Knowlton Road, Media.

Pop-Up Cards at Glen Foerd:  11 a.m., Glen Foerd, 5001 Grant Avenue.

Veterans Day Ceremony: 10 a.m., Independence Seaport Museum, 211 South Columbus Boulevard.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

Illustrating Medicine: Treatment in Historical Texts:  Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mütter Museum, 19 South 22nd Street.

Philadelphia Jewish Film + Media Fall Fest:  November 11th-18th, multiple locations and times.

Philadelphia Street Food Festival:  2 p.m., Xfinity Live! Philadelphia, 1100 Pattison Avenue.

Siege Weekend at Fort Mifflin: November 11th and 12th, Fort Mifflin, 1 Fort Mifflin Road.

SUNDAY November 12

Tales From David Lynch’s Eraserhood: 1-2:30 p.m., 321 North 13th Street.

Flying Karamazov Brothers: 3 p.m., Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street.

Karin Larsson Free Family Day:  noon-4 p.m., American Swedish Historical Museum, 1900 Pattison Avenue.

Philly Flannel Fest:  noon-5 p.m., the Braid Mill, 441 High Street.

Sports Up!

Friday

SIXERS AWAY vs Detroit Pistons@ 1pm

FLYERS AWAY vs Anaheim Ducks @ 10pm (Can be heard on WMMR)

Saturday

FLYERS AWAY vs Los Angeles Kings @ 10:30pm

Sunday

SIXERS HOME vs Indiana Pacers @ 6pm