Modern Women at PAFA: 
From Cassatt to O’Keeffe

January 12 – September 1, 2013

In conjunction with The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, PAFA presents a companion installation in the Historic Landmark Building, featuring works by modern artists from Mary Cassatt to Georgia O’Keeffe who paved the way for future generations of professional women artists.

(via Modern Women at PAFA: From Cassatt to O’Keeffe | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | Museum and School | 1805)

Saturday, January 12

Saturday night, there’s the monthly event 8static at PhilaMOCA. It’s $10 for a ticket and a sticker. If I ever have the chance to buy a sticker, I take it, so I’m just giving you the information I would want! The bands performing are Void Vision, Crashfaster, and SSD Engage. There’s a workshop at 7pm, an open mic at 8pm, and the first act of the musicians starts at 9pm. And finally, I made a mistake in last week’s Geekend – Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start is actually playing Saturday night at 8pm at the Union Transfer for $15. So if you missed them last weekend and you were sad about it, fear not! They’re actually playing this weekend.

Sunday, January 13

Finish your night up at PhilaMOCA with two fantastic events. First is the Night Vision performance showcase, art opening, and record release from 7pm-11pm. It’s a “conceptual multimedia collaboration interweaving music, visual art, and performance to explore the polarities between the visible and invisible, the natural and the supernatural; internal experience of gender, senses of heightened awareness, and encounters with spirits of the unseen world.” Performances include Shadow Puppetry by Sean Glass, Drag by Ruby L.L. Voyager, and Animation by You’ll Get Cursed Out There. Tickets are on a sliding scale from $7-$17.

From 9pm-11:30pm, it’s Naked Girls Reading Science Fiction! The girls are completely naked, and they’re reading science fiction. It’s a geek’s dream come true! Not only that, one of the naked ladies is Geekadelphia’s own Allie Harcharek, who is beautiful, lovely, sexy, awesome, and… just amazing. The show is $15 per person or $25 per couples, which is worth it just to see Allie. You also get the host, Miss Rose; returning reader, Hayley Jane; and D20 Burlesque producer and performer, Anja Keister.

(via Geekend Picks: Films @ the Rotunda, 8STATIC, Naked Girls Reading @ PhilaMOCA, & More! | Geekadelphia)

PAFA After Dark is back for its first installment of 2013.

On Thursday, January 17 the folks at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts are bringing you PAFA After Dark: Activate, an evening centered around the current exhibit The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World.

The event runs, as always, from 6-9 p.m. and incorporates activities of all sorts.

[Because without PAFA, we wouldn’t be “Eraserhood.”]

(via PAFA After Dark Is Back With “Activate,” Thursday, January 17: Live Music, Cocktails, Film Screenings And More | Uwishunu – Philadelphia Blog About Things to Do, Events, Restaurants, Food, Nightlife and More)

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Twisted metal and piles of slag behind them, shish boom bah!

Chicago’s Mucca Pazza marches on, from the steel mill parking lots of Chicago across the nation. Wielding homemade headgear amps and shouting surreal algebraic cheers, the dozens-strong band insists on Safety Fifth (Electric Cowbell Records; June 12, 2012).

They march in formation, rip through drum cadences, bust out cinematic stories, and incite mass dance outbreaks. They channel everything from Bartok to a love-struck Godzilla, re-imagine the uptight 19th-century march, and make up soundtracks for classic Egyptian movies that never happened. Not bad for an eccentric gang of loud-and-proud, self-proclaimed band geeks.

“We look like a marching band and occasionally behave like a marching band, but we don’t sound like one,” explains Gary Kalar, mandolin player and member of Mucca Pazza’s “freak” section of stringed instruments and accordion. “We care about the music we play; it’s not a novelty thing. We just don’t fit into any hyphenated genre.”

“We’re a marching band that thinks we’re a rock band,” exclaims sousaphone player Mark Messing.

(via Tickets for Mucca Pazza with Mischief Brew and On The Water | Underground Arts at TicketWeb)

Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick, who also drums for Norwegian Arms, Ape School and others, performed a solo show set to a video he produced (with the help of his Norwegian Arms bandmate Brendan Mulvihill and friend Andy Molholt). The video, titled Primal Essence, featured Slick in a dream sequence – in which he had a romantic liaison with a slice of pizza.

He drummed live on stage in collaboration with his on screen character. It was surreal and amazing.

(via Eric Slick Performing Primal Essence @ PhilaMOCA « JUMP: The Philly Music Project)