Give yourself a couple of days to digest your Thanksgiving feast, and then stave off the work week after a four day holiday by treating yourself to El Guincho at the Barbary on Sunday evening. The Spanish artist is a cross between an unusually eclectic DJ and general party provocateur. It took a long time for [...]

So-called “Adult Alternative” rock public radio station WXPN is losing one of its top DJs to what may be the grand-daddy station of the radio format, Minnesota’s 89.3 The Current. Jim McGuinn originally came to XPN two years ago when his Y-Rock station merged with WXPN. Y-Rock got its own HD radio and web streams, and [...]

All eyes (and ears) this week are on getting for ready Thanksgiving, but what I’d like to be ready for is the eternal question, “Whatcha gonna do with all those leftovers?”
Personally, I like cutting everything off the bird and freezing the carcass for soup a few weeks from now.
But, what to do with all that [...]

If you can brave the cold there’s plenty to do before the holiday season descends in full force immediately after Thanksgiving (I think Christmas technically starts the second you put down your fork after your Thanksgiving feast).
Tonight is the end of Chile week here in the city. Claudia Acuña, a jazz singer from the South [...]

By October it seemed like the simple letter O would receive a near-unanimous response on any inkblot test: Obama. So how did the ubiquitous “O” design break through the clutter of what the logo designer Sol Sender calls “boring” presidential campaign graphics? You can hear Sender talk about that and the rest of the Obama design [...]

You’ve still got a few more hours to snatch up the remaining tickets to the Philadelphia debut of Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra at the Kimmel Center tonight. Dudamel’s tour with the Israeli Philharmonic received rapturous reviews for their New York City concerts earlier this week. 
Dudamel, only 27 years old, is best known as [...]

Tonight, residents of the Greater Philadelphia region have a unique chance to hear from three women from the city of Jerusalem who have been traveling the U.S. to talk about how they are coping with the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis.  The women, an Israeli Jew, a Palestinian Christian and a Palestinian Muslim.  [...]

In my next life, I want to be a guerilla improvisational actor.  In my next, next life, I want to do it in Russia:

I’ve been a fan of Mike Birbiglia ever since I caught his act at the TLA back in 2004 (or 2005, it all blends).  In this AV club interview, Birbiglia tells the story about how he came to be “produced by Nathan Lane.”
Sometimes it pays to show up for work.

This Saturday on Chef’s Table, Chef Jim Coleman and dining and culture correspondent Lynn Rosen raise the issue of children and etiquette. What do parents need to teach their kids in this day and age of seemingly ill comportment?  “Please” and “thank you” are obvious, but are “Yes, Ma’am  No, Sir” still de rigeur?
Should young [...]