156 Things to Do in Philly This Week and Weekend

The Kennett Square Mushroom Festival returns this weekend. / Photograph by G. Widman for Visit Philly 

Festivals, Food & Other Fun Stuff

CONVENTION/POP CULTURE
Retro Con
An affordable, upbeat, low-key convention for lovers of old-school toys and games and other fun pastimes. Celebrity guests include Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Anson Williams, Don Most, and Lance Guest (who personally faced off against Jaws, Michael Myers and the frickin’ Kodan armada).
$20 a day, $32 for a weekend pass, September 7th, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and September 8th, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, 100 Station Avenue, Oaks.

FOOD
Center City District Restaurant Week
More than a hundred downtown eateries are offering three-course, prix-fixe dinners at reduced prices ($40-$60), and two-course lunches for $20. Look out for deals on parking and cocktails, too. Here’s the list of participating restaurants.
$20 for lunch, $40-$60 for dinner, September 8th-21st, multiple locations in Center City.

FOOD/DRINK
Parks on Tap
Q: Why does Parks on Tap move to a new park each week?
A: Restless Keg Syndrome.
Just made that up. This week Parks & Rec’s wandering beer garden returns to Columbus Square in South Philly.
Pay as you go, September 4th-8th, Columbus Square, in the neighborhood of 12th and Wharton streets.

CONVENTION/MICROBES
World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress
Do people like read Philly Mag listings and just decide they want to sit in on some rigorous, expert-level lectures about microbes? I hope so, because the keynote opening plenary “Never surrender: Mobilizing the global fight against antibiotic resistance” looks interesting. Off the top of your head, who would speak at your dream plenary?
Free with academic and hospital passes, $265-$895 otherwise, September 5th & 6th, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street.

ARTS/FESTIVAL
Doylestown Arts Festival
This two-day street festival features a juried exhibition of works by more than 100 local and regional artists, plus demonstrations, a food court and five music stages. Performers include Dirk Quinn Band, Eric Mintel Quartet, Bucks County Folksong Society, Hearts Club Band, The Hot Club Of Philadelphia, The Fractals, and lots more. On Sunday, the festival incorporates the Bucks County Classic bike race.
Free till you buy something, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., September 7th & 8th, State Street in downtown Doylestown.

FESTIVAL/FALL
Pumpkinland
Linvilla Orchards’ annual months-long celebration of the pumpkin includes a corn maze, train rides, pony rides, face painting (please don’t paint the pony’s face) and three types of hayrides (depending on when you visit). Fun fact: The pumpkin is the queen of the gourds and all good things are because she makes it so.
Free till you do something that costs money, September 7th-November 3rd, Linvilla Orchards, 137 West Knowlton Road, Media.

FESTIVAL/ CULTURE
Brazilian Day Philadelphia
Officially, September 8th is Brazilian Day in Philadelphia, but the long list of performances and festivities starts Thursday. Here’s the rundown:

• Capoeira Roda, September 5th & 6th, 6 p.m., 1213 Race Street
• Brazilian Flag Ceremony, September 6th, 2 p.m., City Hall North Apron
• Brazilian Fridays with Dendê & Band, free, September 6th, 9:30 p.m., World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street
• Capoeira Batizado, Graduation, Rodas, Workshops, September 7th, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Lloyd Hall, 1 Boathouse Row
• Brazilian Day Philadelphia, September 8th, 1-7 p.m., Spruce Street Harbor Park, 301 South Columbus Boulevard

More info here.

FESTIVAL
Polish American Family Festival & Country Fair
Now in its 58th year, this annual festival in Doylestown features dancing, live music on two stages, food, drink, polk lessons, big fuzzy Polish Tatra Sheepdogs and more. (Look at these dogs!) Here’s the schedule.
$15, September 7th and 8th, National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, 654 Ferry Rd, Doylestown.

HISTORY/RELIGION/CIVICS
Faith in American Democracy
This week, the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia, now in its 300th year, hosts two events centered on the question “What role should faith play in American democracy today?”

• The Best and Surest Foundation. Leaders from several of the city’s historic congregations — including, Arch Street Meeting House, Old Pine Presbyterian, Masjid Quba, Society Hill Synagogue, Gloria Dei/Old Swedes and more — discuss “the role faith played in the Revolution and its place in contemporary American democracy.” Join us for this provocative interfaith dialogue that will provide new insight into a fundamental tenet of American civic culture. $10, September 5th, 5:30 p.m., American Philosophical Society: Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street.
• Public Reading of the First Prayer in Congress. Rector of Christ Church, Samantha Vincent-Alexander will perform a free public reading of the invocation given by Christ Church reverend Jacob Duché in 1774, “which set a precedent for prayer in Congress that continues to this day.” Free, September 7th, 11-11:30 a.m., Carpenters’ Hall, 320 Chestnut Street.

WALKS/TOURS
Twilight Tours
Knowledgeable guides lead free, one-hour history tours every night through famous sites in Old City, and tell stories about the founding of the nation. For more information on which tours happen when and where, go here. Last chance!
Free, 6 p.m. daily, through September 8th, starts at Liberty Bell Viewing Window, near Chestnut Street, across Independence Hall.

FOOD/SHOPPING
The Southeast Asian Market
Every weekend, vendors from area Lao, Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian communities sell food and ingredients FDR Park. In addition to the many cuisine options, you can pick up produce, clothing, jewelry, etc. Psst: Get yourself a savory stuffed chicken wing.
Pay as you go; Saturdays & Sundays through October; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, 1500 Pattison Avenue.

FOOD/DRINK
PHS Pop-Up Gardens
It is still beer garden season, people. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society hosts two pop-up gardens: on South Street and in Manayunk.
Pay as you go, through late fall; PHS Pop-Up Garden at Manayunk, 106 Jamestown Avenue; PHS Pop-Up Garden at South Street, 1438 South Street.

See Also: Philly’s Best Kid-Friendly Beer Gardens

OUTDOORS/DINOSAURS
Summer of Dinos
Morris Arboretum is overrun with dinosaurs as well as Plants in the Age of Dinosaurs. Take a self-guided tour of the grounds and enjoy the outdoor miniature train is displays set 66-252 million years ago.
Included in $20 admission, through September 30th, Morris Arboretum, 100 East Northwestern Avenue.

KIDS/FISH
SpongeBob SquarePants‘ 25th Anniversary
Adventure Aquarium hosts an immersive “SpongeBob experience” including photo ops, an episode screening, worksheets and more. Through September 15th.
Included in $28-$48 admission, Adventure Aquarium, 1 Riverside Drive, Camden.

Fringe Festival / Cannonball Festival

Fringe is the annual festival of theater, dance, art, music and a bunch of other genres, and Cannonball is its scrappy kid sister. The schedules for both fests are super busy and hopelessly intertwined, and there’s too much going on to mention everything, but below find a few that jumped out at us. 

THEATER
Ulysses
Elevator Repair Service presents this madcap, James Joyce-inspired show in which “seven performers sit down for a sober reading but soon find themselves guzzling pints, getting in brawls, and committing debaucheries as they careen on a fast- forward tour through Joyce’s funhouse of styles.” Directed by John Collins, co-direction & dramaturgy by Scott Shepherd.
$49, September 5th-7th, Fringe Bar, 140 North Columbus Boulevard.

THEATER
LoveBot: A Musical
A “dystopian sci-fi musical comedy” starring a “a decommissioned AI sexbot.” Created by Reed Bodenstein and Jimmy Boyle. 18+.
$10, September 5th, 8th & 26th, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Avenue.

THEATER/DANCE
Black Wood: Winterborn
Gunnar Montana Productions presents this “bone chilling,” multi-genre production (that’s also a spiritual sequel to last year’s *Black Wood). More info here.
$49, September 5th-29th, The Latvian Society, 4522 Baltimore Avenue.

THEATER
Antony & Cleopatra: A Shakespeare Jawn
The Bard’s beloved tragedy with a “Philly-fied twist on the language” and setting. Directed by Brittany Gallman. Presented by Nxt Thrsdy in association with The Henrietta Project.
$20, September 8th, 15th, 22nd & 29th, IPaM, 1608 Ridge Avenue.

THEATER
What is the Butt Game?
Savannah Reich and Connor Hogan present a show based on a true story of Satanic Panic and false assumptions in the 1980s.
$25, September 15th, 20th & 26th, Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 North American Street.

DANCE
I Know Alone
Terpsichore Dance Company presents a show that “combines contemporary with street and social styles of dance to ease you into a dreamy world of light and darkness.”
$20, September 5th, & 7th, Icebox Project Space Gallery, 1400 North American Street.

THEATER
GHOST RIDE or the play that blows away
Agile Rascal Theatre presents this timely interactive production “staged on a 3-mile ride along a protected bike lane on MLK Drive.”
$30, September 6th-22nd, Martin Luther King Drive beginning at Inn Yard Park, 4208 Ridge Avenue.

DANCE
within/without
Jungwoong Kim presents this show featuring two artists from different backgrounds, movement lineages, and generations “prodding and supporting each other in an ongoing search for the meaning and realization of “home.”
$25, September 8th, 13th and 16th, Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 North American Street.

DANCE
The Meaning of Where I’m From
Artist Zoe Farnsworth explores themes of identity and “compostable dance” in this intimate, personal performance that utilizes dance, singing, guitar, storytelling and more.
$25, September 16th, & 20th, Icebox Project Space Gallery, 1400 North American Street.

DANCE
My P*ssy Hurts Too
(Note: Asterisk is mine.) Dane Eissler and Paule Turner, Duchess star in this “transgressive dance-theater riff on Waiting for Godot” about “two (aged and aging) queens standing by a gloryhole, bitching about the absurd drama that is their lives, and wait for salvation that never cums.” (Note: ran out of asterisks.)
$25, September 12th, 14th and 15th, Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 North American Street.

THEATER
Phobias, a Comedy
The MacProud Foundation presents some sort of play set at a chaotic brunch. Looks fun.
$25, September 2nd, 4th-8th, 11th-13th, 19th & 22nd, Red Rum Theater, Curtis Building, 601 Walnut Street.

THEATER
The Holy Church of Bezos
Ernest Hemmings/TSTMRKT presents this humorous and pointed satire of modern capitalism.
$25, September 6th, 7th & 8th, 1400 North American Street, Icebox Project Space Gallery.

MUSIC
Oh Wow! Live Music!
Sit around the campfire and enjoy some new music. Food and drinks are available, too.
Free, September 3rd, 10th, 17th & 27th at MAAS Building Garden, 1320 North 5th Street; September 6th at Liberty Lands, 913 North 3rd Street.

CIRCUS/PERFORMANCE
Ponya
Bronx-based “BIPOC-owned queer circus arts and wellness community” Ankole combines dance, theater and circle for this history-informed show.
$25, September 6th at 8 p.m. & September 7th at 12:30 p.m., Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 North American Street.

THEATER/DANCE/VISUAL ARTS
On Buried Ground
Dance artist Shayla Vie-Jenkins, playwright Ang(ela) Bey, and director Nia Benjamin team up for multi-genre show inspired by “histories of enslaved and freed people of African descent in Philadelphia during the American colonial era.”
$25, September 4th-14th, Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 North American Street.

DANCE
Soppi (Change)
Esther Baker and Bamba Diagne don “large upcycled sculptures” for a “moving meditation on change, water cycles, and migration.”
$25, September 2nd, 5th and 6th, Icebox Project Space Gallery, 1400 North American Street.

CLOWN
Cloud Baby
Michael Galligan performs a solo clown show.
$25, September 3rd, 4th, 19th & 20th, MAAS Studio, 1320 North 5th Street.

See Also: The Best Fall Festivals to Check Out This Season in Philly

More on Stage

MUSIC
Waxahatchee
Once a West Philadelphia indie-pop band on the rise, the Alabama-born Waxahatchee has in the past decade full-on arrived. (Two shows at the Fillmore! Remember when they opened for Ted Leo at Morgan’s Pier?) The secret to their success is right out there in the open, of course; Katie Crutchfield’s earthy voice and searching lyrics and overall restless spirit continue to expand what it means to be a Waxahatchee song, up to and including Tigers Blood, released way back in March. Each show comes with its own set of top-tier openers — Saturday: Tim Heidecker and Gladie; Sunday With Snail Mail and Greg Mendez.
$59-$146, September 7th & 8th, 7 p.m., Fillmore Philly, 29 East Allen Street.

COMEDY
Matt McCusker
The comedian/actor/author and frequent Shane Gillis collaborator is playing seven shows at Helium this week. And they’re sold out so why am I even bothering writing about it? The secondary ticket market, I guess. Good luck.
Sold out, September 5th-7th, Helium, 2031 Sansom Street.

HISTORY/THEATER
Building Independence
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the First Continental Congress, actors will perform live vignettes featuring First Continental Congress delegates, their spouses, and “even common folk of the time.” (Hey thanks. Sincerely, common folk.)
Free, Saturdays, September 7th-October 26th, 11 a.m., 1 p.m., & 3 p.m., Carpenters’ Hall & Carpenters’ Court 320 Chestnut Street.

THEATER
Hidden the Musical
M7-Productions presents the world premiere of a musical by David and Jenny Heitler-Klevans based on the real life story of Philly-area Holocaust survivor Ruth Kapp Hartz.
$30-$25, September 6th, 7th & 20th at 8 p.m., and September 21st & 22nd at 2 p.m., Weisbein Theater at Gratz College, 7605 Old York Road, Elkins Park.

THEATER
Les Misérables
The Academy of Music hosts Cameron Mackintosh’s production of the Tony-winning musical by Boublil and Schönberg. Now let us all sing together! “But the tigers come at night / With their voices soft as thunder / As they tear your hopes apart / As they turn your dreams to shame.”
$26-$150, through September 8th, Academy of Music, 240 South Broad Street.

THEATER
Grease
Bucks County Playhouse presents a new production of the beloved musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Directed by Hunter Foster. Choreography by Alison Solomon. “Summer days drifting away, to uh, oh those summer nights.”
$32-$72, through September 8th, Bucks County Playhouse, 70 South Main Street, New Hope.

COMEDY
Joe Matarese
The Italian American comedian is on his 93.7% Italian Comedy Tour. He’s from New York and mentions it sometimes. If he wears a gold chain he hides it well. Sometimes he talks about mental issues. He’s a funny comedian and a complicated Italian who rarely gets all gabagool-over-here about it. Seven pizzelles out of a possible 10. Approved.
$35-$44, September 6th & 7th, Punch Line Philly, 33 East Laurel Street.

MUSIC
Pearl Jam
You all know Pearl Jam; Eddie Vedder and pals went from grunge rated rookies to classic rock without having to change much. (Mostly they just don’t wear shorts onstage as much.) On the eve of Pearl Jam’s two-fer at the Wells Fargo, let’s play Two Truths and a Lie.

• Eddie Vedder makes a surprise appearance in the 2008 documentary Song Sung Blue, sharing the stage with a husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute act.
• Eddie Vedder made a surprise appearance on Letterman in 1996 to sing the “do do doot doot doo doo doo” part of “Black.”
• Eddie Vedder caught the Green River Killer, and makes frequent surprise appearances in his jail cell to taunt him.

$193-$935, September 7th & 9th, 7:30 p.m., Wells Fargo Center, 3601 South Broad Street.

Movies

MOVIES
The First Slam Dunk
Philly Film Society presents a pair of screenings of Takehiko Inoue’s basketball-themed 2022 hit anime movie, based on his manga series.
$15.50, September 5th at 7:30 p.m. & September 7th at 6:30 p.m., Film Society Center, 1412 Chestnut Street.

In Pursuit: Artists’ Perspectives on a Nation
The National Liberty Museum examines “the power of art as civic dialogue” in its latest multi-media group exhibition featuring sculptures and large-scale installations by Anila Quayyum Agha, Angel Cabrales, Nicholas Galanin, Arghavan Khosravi, Aram Han Sifuentes, Artur Silva, and Marisa Williamson.
Continues through October 28th, $12 museum admission, National Liberty Museum, 321 Chestnut Street.

Now Showing @ the Art Museum

• Take a Seat: Understanding the Modern Chair — modern chairs from the permanent collection. Ongoing.
• Expanded Painting in the 1960s and 1970s — radical innovations in painting by Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam and more. Ongoing.
• Collecting Japanese Art in Philadelphia — Drawn from the works highlighted in the new publication Art of Japan: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Ongoing.
• Firing the Imagination: Japanese Influence on French Ceramics, 1860-1910 This long-running exhibition focuses on European ceramics artists influenced by Japanese art, as well as the broader “Japonisme” cultural phenomenon. Opens August 31st, continues through May 26th.
• Mythical Creatures: China and the World, explores diversity by comparing mythical creatures in different cultures. Through June 1st, 2025.
• Mary Cassatt at Work — The PMA presents the first major showing of the Pennsylvania-born French Impressionist artist’s oeuvre since 1998-’99. Through September 8th.
• Seeing with Empathy: The Female Gaze in American Modernism, ongoing.
• El Origen de la Noche (The Origin of Night) — 4Direcciones Audiovisual “working in collaboration with a group of traditional authorities from indigenous communities of the north-west Amazon” presents this immersive sound installation directed by Diana Rico and Richard Decaillet. Through September 15th.
• Mysteries, Copies and Forgeries. Through November 18th.
• Jesse Krimes: Rikers Quilt — The Philly artist presents his work which combines “painting, textiles, sculpture, installation, and advocacy.” Through September 15th.

$14-$23 admission, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

John Jarboe: The Rose Garden
The trans artist presents “a multi-room domestic environment reimagining John’s gender journey.” The Rose Garden is an “immersive maze of memories and provocations” full of video sculptures, music, objects and more. Read more here. Through September 29th.
Free (suggested donation $5), Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch Street.

Now Showing @ Michener Art Museum

• George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition The Michener hosts a career-spanning exhibition of works by the accomplished sculptor, including 40 bronze sculptures, maquettes, and frescoes, inside and outside the museum. Through October 14th.
• Monuments and Myths Subtitled The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, this new exhibition at Michener explores the artists’ “intersecting biographies and examines the affinities that made both of them leaders in their field.” Through January 5th. 

$15 museum admission, Michener Art Museum, 138 South Pine Street, Doylestown.

Now Happening @ the Museum for Art in Wood

• The Poetry Gumball Machine Project — Poet and “multiform artist” LindoYes, the project is more or less what it sounds like, a mechanized sculpture that dispenses poetry stuffed inside little walnut shell capsules. The PGMP will be on display at the Museum for Art in Wood through the rest of the year. Through December 31st.
• Experiencing Form: Phil Brown and the Museum’s Residency Artist Alumni, group show. Through September 15th.
• Fruition: Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood 2024, The Museum for Art in Wood’s annual summer group exhibition includes works by Chance Coalter, Jamie Herman, Jodie Prud’homme, Sara Tabbert, Molly Nemer, Sarah Watlington, Brittany Rudolf, Folayemi Wilson and Melissa Engler. Through October 20th.

Free admission, Museum for Art in Wood, 141 North 3rd Street.

Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes
This new exhibition arranges 34 works by the boundary-pushing artists in a way that emphasizes their art-historical context. Runs through September 8th.
Museum admission is $23-$30, Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Entryways: Nontsikelelo Mutiti 
The Zimbabwean-born visual artist and educator was invited to reimagine the windows on the ICA’s facade.
Free, through December 31st. Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 South 36th Street.

Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination
The Brandywine Museum hosts this Andrew Wyeth exhibition focusing on “the fragile rhythms and intimate dramas of plant life,” and includes 40 watercolors and drawings, many of which have never been exhibited before. Through September 15th.
$18-$20, Brandywine Museum of Art, 1 Hoffman’s Mill Road, Chadds Ford.

Museums

The Art of the Brick continues at the Franklin Institute. / Photograph by Laura Swartz

The Sweetest Side of Life: Swedish Candy & Confections
The Swedish Museum in FDR Park hosts this pop-up exhibition featuring “the collection of Tyler Graybeal, owner of Sweetish-Swedish Candy and Goods.” Googled it. He’s a real person! His collection includes tins, wrappers, bottles, postcards and more. Swedish sweets are available for sale, too.
$15 admission, through September 15th, American Swedish Historical Museum, 1900 Pattison Avenue.

Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington’s Tent
This exhibition will “bring to life the stories of individuals from all walks of life who saved Washington’s tent from being lost over the generations and who ultimately fashioned this relic into a symbol of the fragile American republic.” Includes art, artifacts, rare documents and the tent itself.
Included in museum admission of $13-$22, through January 5th, Museum of the American Revolution, 101 South 3rd Street.

Now Happening @ the Academy of Natural Sciences

• Under the Canopy: Animals of the Rainforest — This new special exhibit includes “interactive discovery stations, dynamic displays and engaging programming” surrounding the importance of rainforests and the plants and animals that live there. Through September 2nd.
• Life Onto Land: The Devonian — An exhibition on the life and ecosystems of the Devonian period, the geological era during which creatures wriggled up on dry land, which everybody agrees was a solid move with a lot of potential. Through September 29th.

The Doan Gang: Outlaws of the Revolution
The Mercer Museum’s immersive exhibition tells the story of Revolutionary War-era loyalists. “Learn how these local outlaws plotted, schemed, and plundered their way through a divided world in the earliest days of a budding American nation, and why their deep loyalty to British rule in the colonies made them enemies of the Founding Fathers.”
$15, through December 31st, Mercer Museum, 84 South Pine Street, Doylestown. 

The Art of the Brick
This exhibition of “inspiring artwork” — bricked-up versions of Starry Night, Mona Lisa, etc., made by LEGO master Nathan Sawaya — will never end. There’s a 9,000-square-foot brick play space.
$20-$43, through November 17th Franklin Institute, 222 North 20th Street.

BOLD: Color from Test Tube to Textile
This new exhibition at Old City’s Science History Institute explores the complicated history and science of natural and synthetic dye-making “drawing on dye sample books, vivid clothing, and scientific instruments.” Through August.
Free admission, Science History Institute, 315 Chestnut Street.

Outdoors

Spruce Street Harbor Park’s hammocks. / Photograph by Matt Stanley

Festival of Fountains
Flowers and greenery are usually the focus of a trip to Longwood Gardens, but this annual summer show is all about the waterworks. And the lights. And there’s some mood music, too. Timed admission tickets are required, so plan your visit ahead of time.
$32, continues through October 27th, Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square.

Spruce Street Harbor Park
The lovely and popular Spruce Street Harbor Park returns for another summer of lights, hammocks and action along the Delaware. Also: food, drinks, ice cream, barges, chairs and a general feeling that we can have nice things.
Free unless you spend money, through September 29th, 301 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard.

Andalusia Historic House, Gardens & Arboretum
The 50-acre historic estate along the Delaware River is open for self-guided tours of its formal gardens and native woodlands. Picnics encouraged.
$15, through November 8th, Andalusia Historic House & Gardens, 1237 State Road, Andalusia.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd

MUSIC
Cigarettes After Sex
Gentle, dreamy and spooky without meaning to be, Texas slowcore wraiths Cigarettes After Sex are playing the Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday and … What the hell’s that like? This is pin-drop, hang-on-every-note kinda music. Can a crowd of like 20,000 people sit on their hands and sway gently in sync, never once talking or tapping the bottoms of their soda cups or yelling “woo”?
$25-$149, 8 p.m., Wells Fargo Center, 3601 South Broad Street.

MOVIES
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz’s 1942 drama stars Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains and Peter Lorre. Remember this classic line? “No cap, you belong with that other guy. You are basically the wind beneath his wings, kid. If that plane leaves the ground and you’re not on it, you’ll be like oh no, FOMO five thousand. There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow shining at the end of every day. Have a real good plane ride, toots”
$15, 7 p.m., Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr.

MUSIC
Goth Babe
Don’t know much about Nashville electronic indie-pop artist Griff Washburn except that neither his sound or his style come off as traditionally “goth.” But under “personal life” on his Wikipedia page it says “Washburn has stated he suffers from PTSD after being held up by gunpoint. In 2022, Washburn’s home burned down and he lost his iMac with years worth of unreleased music.” Some people choose to be goth, and some have gothness thrust upon their souls. Not irrelevant: Goth Babe’s first full-length, Lola, is dreamy, surfy and fun to be around. The good stuff. With Ritt Momney
$39.50, 8 p.m., Franklin Music Hall, 421 North 7th Street.

MUSIC
Tems
In five short years, silky voiced Nigerian R&B/Afrobeat/pop artist Tems has worked with Rihanna, Drake, Bieber, Future and Wizkid, and earned a Grammy, along with Oscar and Golden Globe nods (for her cover of “No Woman, No Cry” for the Black Panther sequel soundtrack). And all of that came before she release her first record, Born in the Wild, in June. Naomi Sharon opens this show at the Met.
$178-$589, 8 p.m., The Met, 858 North Broad Street.

More Tuesday Stuff

• MUSIC: Philly Rising Open Mic, by REC Philly, with Rae. Dianz and Dennis Schocket and Cliff Hillis. Free, 8 p.m., World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street.
• COMEDY: Best of Philly’s Phunniest Showcase. $20-$28, 8 p.m., Helium, 2031 Sansom Street.
• HAPPY HOUR: Fishtown Taps. Drink specials around the neighborhood. Pay as you go, 5-7 p.m., Tuesdays, multiple locations in Fishtown.
• MUSIC: Wild Rivers, with Jade Bird. $39-60, 8 p.m., TLA, 334 South Street.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th

MUSIC
Nicki Minaj
The inimitable Queen of Rap is on her Pink Friday 2 World Tour, presumably a sequel to all of her previous tours: Pink Friday, Pink Friday: Reloaded, The Pinkprint Tour, and Under the Pink: A Note-for-Note Tribute to Tori Amos. This is embarrassing; how am I just now realizing that four out of Nicki Minaj’s five record also have the word “pink” in them. It’s a sure bet that on Wednesday she’ll wear pink at the Wells Fargo Center. BIA and Skillibeng open the show.
$39-$250, 9 p.m., Wells Fargo Center, 3601 South Broad Street.

MUSIC
Peter Hook & the Light
The Joy Division/New Order bassist and his band perform Unknown Pleasures (1979) and Closer (1980) in their entirety.
$35-$40, 8p.m., Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street.

BOOKS
We Came To Welcome You
Author Vincent Tirado (author of 2023’s well-regarded We Don’t Swim Here) will discuss their new psychological thriller about a multiracial lesbian couple who move into a gated community, where “strange things start happening and the pressure to assimilate becomes life or death.” In conversation with Diana Rodriguez Wallach.
Free, 7-8 p.m., Taller Puertorriqueño, 2600 North 5th Street.

PARTY/MUSIC
Dilworth Park’s 10th Anniversary
Stop by the park at lunch time to celebrate a decade of Dilworth with live music, an interactive chalk mural, free bouquets and lemonade, and a pop-up floral photo op.
Free, noon-2, Dilworth Park, 1 South 15th Street.

THEATER/COMEDY
Face/Off: A Live Reading
Theatre Contra presents a live performance of the ’90s action classic.
Suggested donation of $10, 7-9 p.m., Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street.

CATS/THEATER
The Amazing Acro-Cats
Let’s stitch together a Zagat’s-style collage based on phrases from the Acro-Cats web site: “Trained domestic house cats … real cats doing real tricks … be amewsed … Tuna and the Rock Cats … featured in the Netflix series Cat People … buy tickets meow.”
$25-$60, September 4th-7th, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 South Broad Street.

TALK/DINNER
World Affairs Table: India
The World Affairs Council’s Table series includes “in-depth conversations with diplomats from around the world” along with a culinary reception. Wednesday’s event welcomes Binaya Srikanta Pradhan, consul general for India in New York.
$65, 6-8 p.m., World Affairs Council, 1617 JFK Blvd., Suite 1660.

COMEDY
Roz Hernandez
L.A.-based trans actor, comedian and paranormal podcaster Roz Hernandez has appeared on Moon Manor, Besties and more, and is a series regular on the Hulu ghost-hunting show Living for the Dead. Follow her if you like comedy and ghosts.
$22-$32, 8 p.m., Helium, 2031 Sansom Street.

More Wednesday Stuff

• MUSIC: Blu Eyes, with Taylor Bickett. $19-$28, 8 p.m., Fillmore Philly, 29 East Allen Street.
• MUSIC: The Fall of Troy, with Rhododendron, Strawberry Girls and The Number Twelve Looks Like You. $29.50, 6:30 p.m., Underground Arts, 200 Callowhill Street.
• MUSIC :Dogwood Tales, with Shannen Moser & Soup Dreams. $15, 8 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 North Frankford Avenue.
• MUSIC: Eve 6, with Tonks. Free, 7:30 p.m., Haddon Lake Park, Hillside and South Park avenues, Haddon Heights.
• MUSIC: American Aquarium, with The Watson Twins. $20-$32, 8 p.m., World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th

MUSIC
Fat Joe & Friends
Life’s not always easy for rappers who gave themselves girthy names. Heavy D, Big Pun, Notorious B.I.G., two of the Fat Boys have all passed on. We just lost the great Fatman Scoop last week. Chubb Rock doesn’t perform much. But Fat Joe? Still standing. The Bronx-born rapper who gave us “Lean Back,” “All the Way Up,” “What’s Luv?” and more headlines the Fillmore this weekend.
$61-$108, 8 p.m., Fillmore Philly, 29 East Allen Street.

SHOPPING
Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll
Stroll the main drag in West Philly for sweet deals from businesses and vendors, many of whom will be offering deals on food, accessories and other goodies for $1, $3, $5. Here’s what’s where.
Free till you spend money, Baltimore Avenue between 40th and 51 streets

STORYTELLING/PODCAST
Old Gods of Appalachia
This “eldritch horror fiction podcast” is on its Unhallowed Grounds tour, with hosts/creators Cam Collins and Steve Shell weaving some sort of story set in “an Alternate Appalachia, a world where these mountains were never meant to be inhabited.” This link may help. I have no idea. This is a seated event.
$40-$45, 8 p.m., Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street.

COMEDY
Put It Down
Andrew Shearer and Christine Walden host “a disorienting multimedia collage of the absolute funniest people on the planet.” Featuring Honey Pluton, Indigo Asim, Ben Wasserman and Michael Watkins.
$12, 8 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 North Frankford Avenue.

BOOKS
Amanda Headlee
The author of horror stories and novels, including Till We Become Monsters and the new Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face, will discuss her work with fellow author Justin Lutz.
$24, 6 p.m., A Novel Idea, 1726 East Passyunk Avenue

More Thursday Stuff

• MUSIC: The American Bombshells, “modern day twist on the Andrews Sisters. Free, 7 p.m., Cooper River Park, Jack Curtis Stadium, 5300 North Park Drive, Pennsauken.
• TRIVIA: Shrek Trivia, hosted by Kaitlin Pagliaro and Kirsten Michelle Cills. Free, 7:30 p.m., City Winery, 990 Filbert Street.
• MUSIC: José James presents “1978,” with Fawziyya Heart. $26, 7:15 p.m., Ardmore Music Hall, 23 East Lancaster Avenue.
• MUSIC: Amen Dunes, with Mabe Fratti. $34.50, 8:30 p.m., Underground Arts, 200 Callowhill Street.
• MOVIES: Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax, 1984). $15.50, 7 p.m., Film Society Center, 1412 Chestnut Street.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th

MUSIC
St. Vincent
Guitarist/pop visionary Annie Clark released All Born Screaming, the seventh St. Vincent record, in April and plays the Met on Friday with Yves Tumor. Sounds like it’s time to play Two Truths and a Lie!

• St. Vincent was once a member of the Polyphonic Spree.
• St. Vincent collaborated on a record with David Byrne.
• St. Vincent destroyed Sleater-Kinney as a prank and we will never forgive her for it and if Fred Armisen sits in on drums when SK gets into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

$34-$174, 8 p.m., The Met, 858 North Broad Street.

MUSIC/SCREENING
Orpheus and the Divine Lorraine Cosmic Peril
The info for this record release show at PhilaMOCA is kind of vague — I mean, usually the listing tells you who made the album that’s being celebrated — but suffice it to say this event includes music and visuals that can be traced back to South Fellini artist/ Legends of Philadelphia podcaster Tony Trov and his wife Joanna. So it’ll probably be cool and weird and very Philly.
$18.66, 8 p.m., PhilaMOCA, 531 North 12th Street.

MUSIC
Cage the Elephant
My brother loves that song “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” from Cage the Elephant 2008’s self-titled debut, and since he’s nice enough to drive me places, I’ve heard it a lot. It goes like this: Singer Matt Shultz was walking down the street one day and has run-ins with a sex worker and a mugger. Both inform him that they chose their professions because “money don’t grow on trees,” and they’ve got bills and responsibilities. Later, he turns on the news and watches a (sigh) “preacher man” get arrested for embezzling money from his church; he offers the very same same explanation fore his conundrum: money, trees, bills, mouths to feed, etc. The chorus repeats a few times and the song’s over. What a day this guy had! Young the Giant, Bakar and Willow Avalon open CTE’s show at the Mann on Friday.
$52-$122, 6:30 p.m., Mann Center, 5201 Parkside Avenue.

MUSIC
Built to Spill
Doug Martsch and co. celebrate the 30th anniversary of Built to Spill’s stellar second album There’s Nothing Wrong with Love by playing it start to finish. That CD that convinced me not to sit out Lollapalooza 1995, and my teenage Gen X heart got cracked when the band showed up late for their side-stage start time. They only squeezed in four songs before making way for Beck or Moby or whoever. I got over it. In fact, every Built to Spill show in Philly has gone long in a good way because they get locked into some spacey groove and don’t want it to end. No matter who’s playing with Martsch — right now BtS is a trio featuring Melanie Radford on bass and Teresa Esguerra on drums — they sound like nobody else. Kicking Giant opens the show.
$35, 8:30 p.m., Franklin Music Hall, 421 North 7th Street.

ART/SHOPPING
Artist and Artisans Market
Cherry Street Pier throws open its enormous doors on the first Friday of every month for its popular makers markets. Enjoy refreshments while checking out handmade art, jewelry, clothing and more made by your neighbors.
Free to enter, first Fridays, 4-9 p.m., Cherry Street Pier, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard.

ART/MUSIC
First Friday @ the Barnes
Classically-trained Ohio-born/NYC-based jazz vocalist April Varner plays two sets at this edition of the Barnes Foundation’s First Friday cocktail party. Varner released April — an album full of songs with her own first name in the title and featuring a cover of Frank Ocean’s “Dear April.” The evening also includes art, cocktails and light fare.
$35, 6-9 p.m., Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

MUSIC
Kirk Franklin
The gospel superstar headlines, with support from Yolanda Adams, Marvin Sapp, Clark Sisters, Fred Hammond and God.
$49-$249, 7 p.m., Wells Fargo Center, 3601 South Broad Street.

More Friday Stuff

• DANCE PARTY: Emo Nite. $21, 9 p.m., Underground Arts, 200 Callowhill Street.
• DANCE PARTY: A Black Celebration — Depeche Mode Heavy Dance Party, with DJs Baby Berlin and Shari Vari (Void Vision). $7-$10, 9 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 North Frankford Avenue.
• MUSIC: Knoll, with Snakes of Russia. $15, 7:30 p.m., Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 North Front Street.
• MOVIES: Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax, 1986). $15.50, 9:30 p.m., Film Society Center, 1412 Chestnut Street.
• MOVIES: Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) Stars Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin and Katherine Waterson. $15.50, 6:30 p.m., Film Society Center, 1412 Chestnut Street.

• MOVIES: Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991). $15.50, 7 p.m., Film Society Center, 1412 Chestnut Street.
• MOVIES: Kung Fu Panda 4. Free, 7 p.m., Sister Cities Park, 210 North 18th Street.
• MUSIC: Sistah Soul Series 2024, hosted by Shekhinah B., featuring Patrice Hawthorne. Free, 7-10 p.m., Cherry Street Pier, 121 North Christopher Columbus Boulevard.
• DANCE PARTY: 50 Shades of Sway, featuring “live kink demos right in front of your eyes.” $18.72-$35.45, 10 p.m., Warehouse on Watts, 923 North Watts Street.
• PARTY/KIDS: Summer Send-Off Party, with hot dogs, beer, music, beer & activities for kids. Free, 5:30-7 p.m., Weavers Way Chestnut Hill, 8428 Germantown Avenue.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th

MUSIC
Mary Jane Dunphe
After several years playing notably idiosyncratic indie acts like Vexx and Gen Pop, Mary Jane Dunphe released Stage of Love last year, the first record under her own name. She is a pop artist, in that devious, entrancing, off-kilter way that PJ Harvey and Bjork are pop artists. Over cold beats and buzzing synths Dunphe belts out bruised metaphors and melodies that that rattle the nerves and tickle the brain. Her sound is lovely and cool and worthy of your attention. Liam Benzvi opens the show.
$15, 8 p.m., Foto Club, 3743 Frankford Avenue.

MUSIC/FESTIVAL
Block Party at the Rail Park
Asian Arts Initiative and Friends of the Rail Park host this free, family-friendly block party featuring live music and hands on arts activities. Includes a first look at the Play Everywhere installation.
Free, 1-4 p.m., Rail Park, 1300 Noble Street,

MUSIC/FESTIVAL
Haverford Music Festival
This all-day street festival and beer garden in Havertown — I know the title says Haverford! I don’t know why! — always doubles as fun free music fest with good music on two stages. This year’s lineup The National Reserve, Ian Matthews with Jim Fogarty, Corporal Quorum (featuring Wesley Stace and Kurt Bloch), Queen Esther and lots more. Here’s the complete performer schedule.
Free, noon-9 p.m., Darby Road and Hathaway Lane, Havertown.

FOOD/FUNGUS/FESTIVAL
Kennett Square Mushroom Festival
Every year, Kennett Square affirms its claim to the title Mushroom Capital of the World with its annual two-day celebration of the often edible fungus. This year you can expect a cooking demonstration with author/chef Carla Hall and a Chopped-style contest, along with food, contests, live music, kid stuff and more. (Will mascot Fun-Gus make his long-awaited return, as foretold by the Portobelloracle? No word at press time.)
$5; September 7th, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and September 8th, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; State Street, from Willow to Layfayette streets.

MUSIC
King Buzzo
The Melvins/Fantômas frontman plays a solo show at Underground Arts on Saturday, with Trevor Dunn and JD Pinkus.
$29.50, 8:30 p.m., Underground Arts, 200 Callowhill Street.

FESTIVAL
Spring Garden Sunflower Festival
This family-friendly street festival in Fairmount features vendors, artists, food trucks, a beer, garden and more. The live music lineup includes Stella Ruze, Siempre Salsa Philly (with free salsa lessons), Jason Jeffries and the TaLLtrEEs and Rock to the Future, along with DJ HeadRush.
Pay as you go, noon-7 p.m., Fairmount Avenue between 17th and 19th streets.

MUSIC
BLK ODYSSY
Groovy, smart and righteous, this Texas-based act makes some of the most exciting and unique soul/raps sounds I’ve heard in a while. BLK ODYSSY’s 1-800 Fantasy dropped in July; it’s sensual and super horny.
$30-$80, 8 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 North Frankford Avenue.

COMEDY
An Evening with Fran Lebowitz
You think you know everything you need to know about 70-something actor, author and humorist Fran Lebowitz? Then let’s play Two Truths and a Lie!

• Fran Lebowitz is sour and grumpy.
• Fran Lebowitz is sarcastic and over it.
• Last week I saw Fran Lebowitz in Wildwood wearing a Hawk Tuah shirt and eating Dole Whip topped with gummy worms.

$55, 7:30 p.m., Miller Theater, 250 South Broad Street.

MUSIC
Front 242
A long time ago, somebody told me that Belgian factories play Front 242 on a loop all day long. This hypnotizes the deviant cyborg workforce and increases psycho-sexual productivity. The Crystal Method and Nuxx Vomica open the show.
$45, 8 p.m., Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street.

MUSIC
The Killers
As a music fan, an English major and appreciator of nerdy, wayward head-canons, I very much enjoy the annotations added to the Genius lyrics site by everyday users. Here are a few fun ones from “Mr. Brightside.” Thanks, dorks!

• Saints (those with an exceptional level of holiness) can even be turned into the sea through jealousy. The sea here is ‘sick lullabies’ (evil songs) that someone has to go through to find reason.
• “Mr Brightside” is being used ironically to name himself because he is assuming the worst of his lover.
• There is also a clever implied rhyme in this line with the cadence of the lines implying that “sick” should rhyme with “dick”. Instead, Brandon intentionally substitutes it with the word “chest”, either to ensure the song would get radio play (and boy, did it!) or just to trip listeners up.
• It’s too late now for him to go back though, because she found someone else. It repeats itself to emphasize the point. He never expected her to cheat and leave him this way, reinforcing the line “It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?”

$50-$330, 7:30 p.m., Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, 1 Harbour Boulevard, Camden.

FOOD/FESTIVAL
Philadelphia Honey Festival
This annual family-friendly festival features honey tastings, cider pressing, “open hive talks,” a bee beard demo and more. Oh, and a Beer and Mead Garden. Bees love to be beards.
Free, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Wyck House, 6026 Germantown Avenue.

WALKS/TOURS
Parkside Past, Parkside Present: Walking Tour
Michael Burch, founder of the Parkside Journal, leads this 2.5-mile guided walk around the storied neighborhood, and the nearby Centennial District.
$15, 9 a.m.-noon, School of the Future, 4021 Parkside Avenue.

FESTIVAL/PARADE
Disability Pride Festival and Parade
A full day of live music, arts, resources, food trucks, and lots more. Performers include Ryan Gilfillian, Gooch and the Motion, and Black Cat Habitat.
Parade kicks off at 11 a.m. at City Hall, 1400 JFK Boulevard; Festival, 1 Noon-4 p.m. at 600-1800 Ben Franklin Parkway; After Party with Talking Dreads at 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Victory Brewing Company, 1776 Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

MOVIES
National Theatre Live: Fleabag
The film version of Phoebe Waller-Bridge performing the one-woman stage show that inspired her hit TV show Fleabag.
$20, 1 p.m., Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr.

MUSIC
Susan Alcorn/Simone Baron duo
What’s it like when pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn teams up with accordionist Simone Baron? It’s something else. Arresting. Inventively atypical. The best genre tag for this and all Fire Museum Presents shows is probably “experimental.” Oh, and get there early for oboe/vocal duo Senso di Voce.
$10-$20 sliding scale, 8-10 p.m., Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement, 1542 E Montgomery Avenue.

BEER/FESTIVAL
Odessa Brewfest
This annual beer festival at Delaware’s Historic Odessa Foundation features a full day of food, music on multiple stages, and beer, of course — including a “beer bracket” pitting Evil Genius Beer co. against Volunteer Brewery. The music lineup includes Spokey Speaky, J.D. Webb & The Good God Damn, Bruce Anthony and more.
$60-$125, noon-5:30 p.m., Historic Odessa, 201 Main Street, Odessa.

MUSIC
Meghan Trainor
I’m not a Meghan Trainorologist — I know she did “All About That Bass” and played Welcome America five years ago, and that’s it — so I asked my secret pop expert friend for the low-down. She replied with three sentences about Meghan Trainor:
1. “She’s a mother.”
2. “She and her husband had side by side toilets in their house at once point (not sure if that’s still a thing).”
3. “Her new songs are pretty cringe, but also addictive. Most of her singles come with an accompanying TikTok dance.”
Thanks, friend. Paul Russell and Chris Olsen open the show.
$27-$02, 6:30 p.m., Mann Center, 5201 Parkside Avenue.

MUSIC
Crowded House
Is he saying “Don’t bother dreaming that it’s over because it actually is over so there’s no point”? Or is it more like, “Don’t even dream that it’s over because it’ll never be over”? I’m currently leaning toward the second interpretation because he’s pretty confident “they won’t win.”
$29-$109, 8 p.m., Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort , Atlantic City.

More Saturday Stuff

• MUSIC: Florry, with Coca Leaves & Pearls (Chris Forsyth & friends paying tribute to Neil Young). Free, 7 p.m., Spruce Street Harbor Park, 301 South Columbus Boulevard.
• DANCE PARTY: No Bougie Shit, with DJ Macky, DJ Rikhavic & 2ManyMoves. $12.82-$18.72, 10 p.m., Warehouse on Watts, 923 North Watts Street.
• MUSIC: Powerhouse Philly, with Emily Drinker, Lia Menaker, Sug Daniels and Andrea Nardello. $15, 8 p.m., World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street.
• MUSIC: John Eddie, with The Peace Creeps. $25, 7 p.m., Upper Merion Township Building Park, 175 West Valley Forge Road, King of Prussia.
• MUSIC: Gogol Bordello, with Puzzled Panther and Crazy & the Brains. $30-$97, 8 p.m., The Queen, 500 North Market Street, Wilmington.
• MUSIC: B5. Sold out, 6 p.m., City Winery, 990 Filbert Street.
• DOGS: Doughnuts with Dogs, with coffee. Free, 8 a.m., Pemberton Building Garden, off Chestnut Street between 3rd and 4th streets.
• HIGH TEA: Philly Style High Tea, featuring Dear Jean Bakery, for parties of four. $68.25, 2:30-4:30 p.m., Bloomsday Wine Pub, 414 South 2nd Street.
• SHOPPING: Liberty Flea. Pay as you go, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Spruce Street Harbor Park, 301 South Columbus Boulevard. 
• FOOD/CONVENTION: Wicked Gluten Free Expo. Free, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, 100 Station Avenue, Oaks.
• KIDS: Family Saturdays with PopUp Play. Free, 11 a.m., Sister Cities Park, 210 North 18th Street.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th

MUSIC
Rob Zombie / Alice Cooper
Metal gods with better eye makeup than JD Vance.
$34-$147, 6 p.m., Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, 1 Harbour Boulevard, Camden.

FESTIVAL/ CULTURE
Feria del Barrio
This annual street festival at El Centro de Oro (the Golden Block) celebrates Philly’s Latin community with live music, dancing, arts and crafts, food, vendors and more.
Free till you do something that costs money, noon-4:30 p.m., North Fifth Street, between Huntingdon and Lehigh streets.

MUSIC
Buzzcocks
The older I get, the more I feel like “What Do I Get?” and “Why Can’t I Touch It?” et al feel like classic rock. Or worthy of the tag, at least. Just some of the catchiest, best tested songs in the biz. With Lovecrimes.
$30-$35, 8 p.m., Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden Street.

COMEDY
Neil Hamburger
Because of this deadpan, sweaty, cringey-on-purpose comedian, I can’t hear Madonna’s name without thinking about his joke about the pop star nursing her kids on dog food. Why, man. Why. P.S. A guy who calls himself Major Entertainer opens the show at JB’s. P.P.S.: Tim Heidecker is opening for Waxahatchee the night before Neil Hamburger’s show, and then seems to have an opening in his calendar. Is it okay to start a rumor?
$25, 7 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 North Frankford Avenue.

MUSIC
Luke Carlos O’Reilly
Fairmount Park Conservancy presents the last installment in its 2024 Sounds of Summer concert series featuring jazz artist Luke Carlos O’Reilly, along with food trucks, kid stuff and more.
Free (donations welcome), Parkside Edge, Parkside Avenue, between East and West Memorial Hall drives.

OUTDOORS
Open Streets: West Walnut
Several blocks in the neighborhood of 18th and Walnut streets will be car-free every Sunday in September. Some restaurants will offer expanded outdoor seating, and the Center City District promises family-friendly activities and entertainment as well, like “acoustic musicians, strolling performers, dance groups” and more.
Free till you spend money, Sundays in September, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 18th Street from Locust to Chestnut streets, and Walnut Street from 15th to 19th streets.

More Sunday Stuff

• BIKING: Scenic Schuylkill Century, 21 and 101 mile routes. $50-$60, 7-9 p.m., starts and ends at AIM Academy, 1200 River Road, Conshohocken.
• MUSIC: beabadoobee, with Hovvdy and Keni Titus. Sold out, 7:30 p.m., The Met, 858 North Broad Street.
• MUSIC: Mammoth Grinder, presumably this is how gay mammoths find each other, with Genocide Pact, Zorn and Staticlone. $20, 7 p.m., Underground Arts, 200 Callowhill Street.
• MUSIC: Adam Paddock, with Flavor Wave and Fonvery. $15, 8 p.m., Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 North Front Street.
• COMEDY/PODCAST: You Know Maaacus Live. $32-$44, 7:30 p.m., Punch Line Philly, 33 East Laurel Street.
• MUSIC: Peter Cat Recording Co. $41-$42, 8 p.m., TLA, 334 South Street.
• COMEDY: City Of Laughs Presents Kerwin Claiborne, featuring. J.McNutt. $40, 7:30 p.m., City Winery, 990 Filbert Street.
• DOGS: InDogCision 2024. Free, 6-9 p.m., Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street.

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