Geston’s Cigar Store Figurines brings you the third installment of Where’s My Butthole, a Detective Richard Spoolding Mystery. Featuring your favorite gumshoe, Dick Spalding as Detective Richard Spoolding. Costarring Jim DeLancey as Spoolding’s right-hand-man, James DoLuncey, and the lovely MJ Flanigan as Spoolding’s secretary and main squeeze, Mary Jane [...]
Sorry ladies, but the host of the monthly show Ministry of the Secret Jokes, Doogie Horner (profile), is taken and he’s getting married! But come out tonight to Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom St.) to celebrate with a free edition of MOSJ starting at 8PM. There’s tons of [...]
Have you ever wanted to see what the sketch group Secret Pants are like drunk? Good lord I have, but for the rest of you their video interview with Somewhat Shameless, a new web series of “pretty ladies, beer, whiskey, cocktails, and guests,” finally gives you that chance. [...]
A few weeks ago Helium hosted a sketch comedy competition for a spot in this week’s Sketchfest. Ten groups performed and the judges couldn’t make up their minds, so not one but two groups will be performing Thursday [show info].
The first group go by the name Bad [...]
The second annual Philly Sketchfest starts this Thursday and this week I’ll writing about some of the groups in it. Today we’ve got a new video from The Sixth Borough, who will be performing with The Feeko Brothers and Bing Supernova on the second show Thursday [show info]. [...]
Artblog’s picks for December are now up on maps & listings. See for yourself and pick for yourself. If you haven’t submitted yet, submit!
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Rabari mirror-work (embroidery with appliqued mirrors)
Threads and Voices; Behind the Indian Textile Tradition, Laila Tyabji, ed. (Marg Publications, Mumbai: 2007), ISBN 8185026793
India has an extraordinarily rich textile tradition but this is not a book about beautiful fabrics. Rather it tells stories [...]
Girl.Bike.Dog. creates messenger bags, backpacks, side-bags for dogs - all with super-kawaii, urban street designs featuring trippy mushrooms, clever cosmo cowgirl symbols & iconic girl graphics. Lindsay Duggan tells DoN she’s working hard [...]
Italian Market by Nevio Celestino @ Deptford Municipal Building.
Even though Deptford, NJ is only 20 minutes from Center City by car many art enthusiasts won’t cross the bridge; DoN blames the news media for branding Killadelphia as a scary place and [...]
If you are in the throes of questioning why you are making art and are looking for support for this decision, this month’s post by Annette Monnier on her blog One Review a Month is not to be missed. Monnier’s doubts about the value of all art production were [...]
Henri Cartier-Bresson. On The Banks Of The Marne, 1938. Everyday life as metaphor.
After the crowds at the FIAC in Paris subside, the gathering at Paris Photo, held in the Carrousel du Louvre, creates a different kind of picture show. Intimate and targeted to serious collectors of [...]
A mix of some great art and lots of good will make up the exhibit Shelter at the Painted Bride. The exhibit asks the question, What really matters to sustain us as human beings? While not literally answering that question, a number of answers are on display here, and [...]
From today’s NY Times, a story with a great graphic showing who’s cooking what in various parts of the country. The maps are based on inquiries yesterday to allrecipies.com, the top US cooking site, on how to make what. Sweet potato casserole was the top search followed by pumpkin [...]
This week’s Weekly has my article on Barkley Hendricks’ Birth of the Cool at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Below is an expanded version with more of the interview I did with the artist.
Bashir, Jules, Tuff Tony and Angie wouldn’t stand out in a crowd. But in [...]
The movie (untitled) mocks everything you love to hate about contemporary art and how it’s marketed. The movie also pokes fun at the pretensions in the atonal music scene (one of my fave lines–melody “is a capitalist plot to sell pianos.”
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Folks, in my free time when I’m not writing here (which is pretty much most of my day), chances are you’ll find me either reading, listening, playing or watching basketball. So the new podcast I’m doing with local comics Gregg Gethard and Aaron Hertzog, The Holding Court Podcast, [...]
The maps & listings page is eager to accept your December and January shows and events. If you put in your December listings last month, they are still in there. We are still not automated, so please have patience. The new December listings will be going up early next [...]
Ralph “Ren” Dillard, PAC, oil @ Smile Gallery curated by Lilliana Didovic.
Ren Dillard, Blue Smoke, oil. Ren explained [...]
My memory is a little hazy, but I think it’s been about two years since Philly-native Paul F. Tompkins has performed his own night of stand-up in this town. He was around here last Christmas singing and telling jokes with Aimee Mann at the Keswick, but man, it’s been [...]
Perhaps you’ve heard of this Twitter thing that Oprah made popular a few months ago (OMG, can you believe she’s ending her show?!?)? Well, a few weeks back I created a Twitter list that made it easy to read what Philadelphia comedians are up to, but what if you don’t [...]
This week, Gregg Gethard tries out the evil side of comedy.
Last week Dave Walk wrote about how much he loved pro wrestling growing up and how funny it is. I have said, many times, that I think professional wrestling is America’s greatest form of art. But, I can assure you, [...]
Amy Schmidt, Toy Soldier @ Area 919, 919 North 5th Street, a survey of the past year of exhibitions. From a distance the content of this image is clear, a young masked rebel with a gun but [...]
Ed Bronstein is an artist member of Gallery 22 owned & curated by Shawn Murray and is probably Philly’s most prolific plein air artist. It’s a wonder he gets any painting done though, since he is [...]
Veteran Philadelphia comics The Legendary Wid (left) and John Kensil (right) join the show to talk about the city’s comedy past, their careers and to share a few words of advice for young comics.
Subscribe to the podcast feed (iTunes)(Liked this episode of the podcast? Please write a review [...]
But that’s not all from Animosity Pierre! The guys have passed along the good news that they have been accepted into the 2010 Chicago Sketchfest! Chicago, you may not have the Olympics, but you’ve got AP.
Even more Animosity Pierre, you say? We’ll how about you check out the sketch [...]
There are so many comedians podcasting now, that’s it’s worth reviewing each week. So I’ll try to listen when I can and describe what I hear….
- Marc Maron tracks down Zach Galifianakis on a movie set in New Mexico and does his best to compliment him…yet fails. Later in the [...]
This week I’ll talk to longtime Philadelphia comics The Legendary Wid (left) and John Kensil (right) about the city’s comedy past, their careers over the years and a whole lot more. That’s tonight from 7-8PM EST on Gtownradio.com. And as a programming note, there will be no show [...]
Ok, confession time: I was a fan of pro wrestling in high school. Yes, my Monday nights were often flipping between WCW Monday Night and WWF’s Raw is War. Characters like The Rock, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Diamond Dallas Page filled my evenings as I ate crappy pizza with [...]
Joshua Lanzara, Mary, pigment on paper, Felicia Perretti, Car Seat Fight & Charlie Getting Dressed.
According to the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center website their mission states:“The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) [...]
The multitalented Brooklyn-based artist Ronnie Bass has brought his video/installation The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, to Marginal Utility–the newest gallery to open at 319A N. 11th St. aka the Vox Building (mercifully, Marginal Utitlity turned out to be quite useful–it is on the second floor, giving a [...]
The title of this article ends an inscription in a fraktur love letter (liebesbrief) written to Barbara Muller around 1800 by a now-anonymous doter. It is preceded by, in elaborate handwriting, “The heart of mine shall be devoted to you. See, my girlfriend, you are beautiful… Your eyes are like [...]
Brian Jungen ‘Blanket No. 7' (2008) professional sports jerseys, 69 x 53½” Sender Collection. All images ©Brian Jungen
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) consistently embeds its exhibitions' [...]
The American Color Print Society is celebrating their 70th anniversary with their 70th member exhibition at The Plastic Club which is coincidentally 70 years old. The exhibition includes not just color prints (the group came together because many galleries only allowed black and white [...]
- Kent Haines makes his Comedy Central debut on tonight’s episode of Live at Gotham at 11PM EST. Kumail Nanjiani, Nick Kroll and more are also on the show. Paul F. Tompkins hosts! Also, Philadelphia-raised TuRae was on last week’s episode.
- More good news for Kent: the set [...]
Curator and artist Marianne Bernstein last month created the Welcome House in LOVE Park, and tonight she brings you Shelter at the Painted Bride. (The m.o. is similar–invite some terrific artists to work within the constraints of a show while giving them considerable freedom to interpret those constraints.) [...]
