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For Statistics Fetishists Only: In case you’re wondering what I do at night, I sit around wondering how much wine Marc Vetri orders at Osteria each year and how many bottles of booze Stephen Starr buys at El Vez and then I call the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to find out. And then I stay up until three in the morning making a sortable spreadsheet of the info I find so that you can have it at your fingertips, in case you just can’t sleep tonight until you know. OK. Just humor me. Please. Click on the headers to sort. Details
On Sale Now: Buy your Whiskey Fest tickets before they are gone |
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West Side Story: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the American classic, the Kimmel Center is showing the winner of 10 (yes, 10!) Academy Awards while the Philadelphia Orchestra accompanies it live. Not exactly sure how they’re going to make all this sync up perfectly, but it sure does sound like fun to me… although the ticket prices are a bit on the steep side, topping out at $119. Details
Tim Burton Remakes… Tim Burton: A Frankenweenie do-over It Probably Didn’t Need a Sequel: The creatively named Taken 2 That Time of Year: “Horror anthology” V/H/S From the Vaults: The Dark Mirror and A Stolen Life |
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Barbra Streisand: Who the heck schedules a show on a Monday night and charges a boatload for tickets? Barbra does. That’s who. You got a problem with that? I didn’t THINK so. Now that we’ve got that straight, tickets are still available for Barbra’s Monday night show at the Wells Fargo Center. $500 on ComcastTix and starting at $137 on StubHub. Details
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The incomparable Aretha Franklin O’er Yonder at the Keswick: The always-improvisational Medeski, Martin & Wood If You Like the Disco Biscuits: You should probably get to City Bisco Three Sold-Out Shows: Don’t mess with Frankie Valli and the Four Season, beeyatches Totally Last-Minute: Ben Harper at the Merriam and Animal Collective at the Mann |
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La Bohème: If you’re a fan of ye olde opera, get thee to the Academy of Music this weekend for Puccini’s biggest hit. I was unable to attend last week’s opening of La Bohème, but the young lady I sent reported lots of overwhelming emotions and an incredible set design, which uses a bunch of animated versions of paintings from La Bohème’s era, taken from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes. Details
As In the Assassinated Senator: New City Theater does RFK Hearing A Bunch of Good Buzz About: The Assassination of Jesse James at Plays & Players |
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Louise Erdrich: If you just couldn’t put down her novels Love Medicine and The Plague of Doves, the New York Times bestselling author has reappeared with The Round House, a novel about a Native American boy who seeks revenge on his mother’s murderer. Erdrich is at the Central Library on Thursday to tell you all about it. Details
Why Does His Name Sound Familiar?: Some guy named Andrew McCarthy has written a book |
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