Arts & Entertainment

Friday, Oct. 29 — Jedi Mind Tricks with Freeway and Reef the Lost Cause, The Trocadero, $20-22 Philly natives Jedi Mind Tricks aren’t nearly as nerdy as their name would imply.
October 27, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Nothing is strange about Mark Cohen’s Strange Evidence at the PMA. Rather, Cohen presents the ordinary and often mundane to the fraction of the PMA crowd that visits the Perelman Building: a lone newspaper, kids playing, old women bundled in scarves in both black and white and color photographs.
October 27, 2010 at 11:15 pm

Even if they vehemently deny it, the oft–costumed, mascara–wearing lads of My Chemical Romance have become the essence of all things “emo.” Their 2006 mega–hit concept album, The Black Parade, gave voice to a disgruntled sect of disaffected teenage suburbanites.
October 21, 2010 at 3:23 am

Release your inner awkward teen in First Unitarian Church’s basement. There’s nothing like the basement of First Unitarian Church to send you back to the days of awkward school dances.
October 21, 2010 at 3:21 am

Belle & Sebastian forgo the lyricism, focus on the instrumentation on their latest. There was a time, back in 1996 or 1997, when the hi–fi grandiosity of Belle & Sebastian’s Write About Love would have seemed ridiculous to the band’s growing fan base.
October 21, 2010 at 3:17 am

Southern rockers pursue a chiller state on their fifth record. It was hard to imagine what Kings of Leon would produce as a follow up to 2008’s Only by the Night. The album was a vastly successful yet drastic break from their former Southern Rock aesthetic that garnered them multitudes of awards and new fans.
October 21, 2010 at 3:09 am

We couldn’t be more excited for Local Natives to hit Penn’s campus. Hailing from Silver Lake, CA, the band made waves last year for their globally-inspired indie–folk sound on Gorilla Manor.
October 21, 2010 at 3:06 am

At the beginning of Stone, parole officer Jack Malbry’s (De Niro) wife Madylyn (Conroy) announces she is leaving him.
October 21, 2010 at 3:03 am

Both Paranormal Activity 2 and Hereafter deal with the tenuous border between the living and the dead.
October 21, 2010 at 2:50 am

In Hereafter, every character has been touched by death. The serious television journalist from France sputters water after surviving the 2004 tsunami.
October 21, 2010 at 2:48 am

Betty Anne Waters almost single–handedly got her wrongly–accused brother, Kenny, out of jail. For almost 20 years, she studied law, pursued witnesses and collected DNA evidence to prove his innocence.
October 21, 2010 at 2:45 am

Film Festivals are fun — no doubt about it. What isn’t fun is boarding the terror train back to West Philly in the middle of the night. This weekend, the Film Editors held each other tight as they faced disgruntled riders, flash mobs and a near gang–war.
October 21, 2010 at 2:42 am

When Emily Steinberg graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts in 1992, having earned a BA, BFA and MFA from Penn, she admittedly had no idea what to make of her degree.
October 21, 2010 at 2:38 am

MUSIC Friday, October 22: Rusko, with Dirty South Joe & Flufftronix, the Trocadero, $15–19.50 The dirty basslines of dubstep have taken America by storm over the past year.
October 21, 2010 at 2:35 am

The stark white walls and freshly polished wooden floors of Proximity Gallery in Philadelphia’s Fishtown hardly live up to the eeriness that the show’s title, “Hallowed Halloween,” suggests.
October 21, 2010 at 2:32 am

Newly rechristened in honor of the late Anne d’Harnoncourt, the PMA’s sculpture garden adds additions to its urban sanctuary.
October 14, 2010 at 6:26 pm

The “YOUR MOVE” public art piece, sprawled over the plaza of the Municipal Services Building at 1401 J.F.K.
October 14, 2010 at 3:15 am

MUSIC Friday 10/15: Blonde Redhead with Pantha du Prince, Electric Factory, $20 Japanese and Italian exports Blonde Redhead have been channeling the soul of 80's shoegaze for years with their dreamy guitar riffs and melancholic trilingual whispers.
October 14, 2010 at 3:12 am

Newly rechristened in honor of the late Anne d’Harnoncourt, the PMA’s sculpture garden adds additions to its urban sanctuary.
October 14, 2010 at 3:05 am

A mental ward serves as the backdrop for indie quirkiness Here’s a funny story: the directors of Half Nelson decided to make a lighthearted comedy.
October 14, 2010 at 3:01 am