ERASERHOOD

East of Broad, the Vine Street Expressway is a concrete river disrespectfully detaching Callowhill from Chinatown and very few strides have been made to improve the relationship between these two neighborhoods. But the truth is this relationship has always been poor. This post industrial corridor has been the city’s dumping ground for necessary evils. 

Viaducts, highway chasms, and rail tunnels keep the logistics of development tricky. Narrow lots along Vine Street’s southern lane don’t offer the land needed for high volume urban projects, and the streetscape isn’t pleasant enough for row homes. Capping the expressway and converting it into a park might change this, but the cash isn’t there to take that risk. 

(via Philly Bricks: Embracing the Vine Street Expressway)

Next City and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University invite you to hear from the visionaries who are transforming the industrial relics of our past into urban parks of the future. Inspired by New York’s High Line, cities across the U.S. are adapting aging rail infrastructure into linear parks and recreation paths.

(via From Tracks to Parks: The Next Generation of Urban Green Space – Next City)

I came in with the mindset of ‘let’s do a little bit of everything,’ but there has to be a common thread. I love the tagline that we are ‘the center of weird.’ I think that applies to a lot of our events. Sure, we have some classier events, but there’s usually an element of weird, whether it be Naked Girls Reading series or our film-themed burlesques, or the weird movies I program.

— Eric Bresler, director of programming at PhilaMOCA

(via How PhilaMOCA went from a DJ party house to ground zero for Philly performing arts | The Key)

CFF: WE HATE MOVIES present LADY IN THE WATER (2006)

CFF Closing Day / Eric’s Birthday Celebration

Saturday, April 27, 2013, 7:30 PM
We Hate Movies present LADY IN THE WATER (2006)

The We Hate Movies gang rolls back into Philadelphia for this special presentation of M. Night Shyamalan’s notorious LADY IN THE WATER, the local filmmaker’s infamously wrong-headed fantasy about the relationship between a handyman (Paul Giamatti) and the sensitive creature he finds in an apartment complex’s pool.  Competently composted by Director of Photography Chris Doyle, LADY IN THE WATER has nevertheless garnered a reputation as one of the most deliriously stupid films released in the ’00s, and We Hate Movies will be on hand to provide live commentary on one of Shyamalan’s greatest disasters.

Come on out for a night of big, wildly profane laughs as the gang goes toe-to-toe with one of the worst films ever shot in the Philadelphia area.

Advance tix are $10, no refunds or exchanges.

Additional Closing Day activities:

1:30 PM ROLLERCOASTER (1977) in SENSURROUND!
http://cffrollercoaster.brownpapertickets.com

4:00 PM LIQUID SKY (1982) with a live score by CHEAP DINOSAURS
http://cffliquidsky.brownpapertickets.com

10:00 PM BIRDEMIC 2: THE RESURRECTION Philadelphia Premiere with Director, Producer, and Star in attendance!
http://cffbirdemic2.brownpapertickets.com

The Cinedelphia Film Festival is a Philly-centric celebration of Philly film running from April 4-27, 2013.

http://www.cinedelphiafilmfestival.com

(via CFF: WE HATE MOVIES present LADY IN THE WATER (2006))

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4th Annual Fruit Beer Event

Public · By The Institute

June 1 at 11:00am until June 2 at 2:00am

Our annual fruit beer event features all beers, ciders, sours and of course lambics with fruit in them as well as a fruit inspired food specials for the day. We will also have our new outdoor tap tour pouring for those of you who wish to enjoy the outdoor seating.

(via 4th Annual Fruit Beer Event)