This weekend, 9/7-9/9:

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FRIDAY 9/7:

General Events:

• First Friday / Art On The Town art loop in Wilmington. 5-9pm. Several Wilmington businesses have newly joined the loop.  More info.
• Noon: Art Is Tasty discussion/lunch at the Delaware Art Museum.  Attendees will join in on a discussion of N.C. Wyeth's The Springhouse. Meal at the museum's cafe included in ticket price. $10, $8 members. Noon-1pm.
• Chance to win an all-access pass to the Wilmington Fringe Festival - come to Fringe Unhinged: An Evening of Adult One-Acts, by Shel Silverstein, at the Film Bros. Co-Op on 2nd & Market. 8-8:45 pm, free. More info. 25 all-access passes to the upcoming Fringe Festival will be given out.
• Carousel Park Farmers' Market (Rt. 7 in Pike Creek), Fridays 2-6pm. Thru late Sept.
• Showings of Union Square and China Heavyweight at Theatre N. http://www.theatern.org/Films
• Secret Cinema presents We Who Are About to Die at the Eastern State Penitentiary.   This is "a little-seen 1937 drama based on the true story of a wrongfully convicted death row inmate".  Doors at 7 (giving you time to tour the Pen), showing at 8pm, $10. More info.

Concerts:

• Editor's Pick: Rare touring band show at Mojo Main: We Were Promised Jetpacks, from Scotland.  All ages.  9pm. $13-$15. Locals A New Dakota (indie rock) and The Last Dinosaur (post-rock) open.
• The Sermon! - classic funk and soul from West Chester - at the Queen. Universal Funk Order and Nation of Five open. Downstairs, $10.
• Mission of Burma at Union Transfer. The ubiquitous Purling Hiss opens. And by 'ubiquitous' I mean that I'm just jealous of the many highly-coveted opening gigs this band has gotten in the past year. Hash tag: indierockfirstworldproblems. $16-$18. Ticket link.
• Led Zeppelin tribute band White Summer, with The Minutemen tribute band D Not D, at the North Star Bar.  It's the latter that makes this interesting to me.  8pm, $8.
• Jello Biafra at the Trocadero. $15. Ticket link.

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SATURDAY 9/8:

General Events:

• Brandywine Festival of the Arts, on the Brandywine River by the zoo. 9-6pm, $5, free for children under 12.  See 'concerts' section for music listings - several good bands.
• Kennett Square Mushroom Festival, 10am-7pm, $2. Antonia Lofaso of Top Chef will give a cooking demonstration at 12:30pm.  http://www.mushroomfestival.org/
• Showings of Union Square and China Heavyweight at Theatre N. http://www.theatern.org/Films
• "Spin For Jim" at the Bellefonte Cafe. The owner of the cafe will spin 70's-90's dance music from 8pm-1am. $10.  It's a benefit for a regular customer and long-time friend of the owner's who has suffered a brain injury.  More info.
• Midnight screening of Shut Up and Play the Hits, the LCD Soundsystem concert documentary, at the Trocadero. 11:59pm, $7.
• Beach: Lewes Farmers' Market, 8-noon. In historic area, thru late Sept.

Concerts:

• Wilmington's New Sweden and Cheers Elephant (who are a highly regarded Philly band, probably in the top 10 as far as media buzz) at the Queen.  Solid regional line-up. 8pm, $10.
• Brandywine Festival of the Arts' music line-up:
• Alfie Moss, Kevin Sarkissian, and EB Hawkins Band before 2pm.
• Tilting Windmills, 2pm
• Justin Tracy, 3pm
• Spashing Pearls, 4pm
• Delaware's (although the show write-up has him listed as PA-based) Cliff Hillis opens for The Bigger Lovers and Echo Orbiter at Johnny Brenda's. $10.  Ticket link.
• The Heavy Pets (the usual mix of rock and reggae that goes over well here) at Mojo Main.
• Jazz jam session at The Nomad Bar at 9th & Orange. Every Saturday, 4-7:30pm, FREE.
• WHYY Connections Festival at River Stage at the Great Plaza, feat. Yo La Tengo, Maps & Atlases, and more. 4-10pm, with afterparty. FREE. More info.
• My "they're still around?" submission of the week: The Jesus and Mary Chain at Union Transfer. $35. Ticket link.

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SUNDAY 9/9:

General Events:

• Day 2 of Brandywine Festival of the Arts. 9-4pm. $5, free for children under 12. See below for music performances.
• Day 2 of Kennett Square Mushroom Festival. 10am-5pm. $2. http://www.mushroomfestival.org/
• Co-Op Farmers' Market, Sundays 10-2. East Main St, Newark. Thru mid-Nov.
• Taiwan Film Festival at the Delaware Art Museum, 1st of 3 consecutive Sundays. 12:45 pm. 2 films will be shown, interspersed with a museum tour. The films are free; you may still have to pay museum admission. More info.
• Cult movie night at Mojo Main: The Room, 9pm, FREE. Presented, surprisingly, by The Awesome Fest, which is based in Philly - nice of them to put on events this far south.  
• The Room is a 2003 independent drama film starring Tommy Wiseau, who also wrote, directed, and produced the feature.
• The film has been dubbed "the Citizen Kane of bad movies "and one of the worst films ever made. Originally only shown in a limited number of California theaters, the film quickly developed a cult following as fans found humor in the film's various technical and narrative flaws. Within a decade of its premiere, the film was selling out showings around the United States and had inspired a video game, book, and traveling stage show.
• Showings of Union Square, China Heavyweight, and Opera in Cinema: Boris Godunov. at Theatre N. http://www.theatern.org/Films

Concerts:

• Brandywine Festival of the Arts' musical performers:
• The Honey Badgers, 11am
• Kalai King, noon
• Peace Ike, 1pm
• New Sweden, 2pm
• Greenfest Philly at Headhouse Square, feat. Cheers Elephant (who played the night before with New Sweden at the Queen) and more. FREE. More info.

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Upcoming: Bob Weir at the Tower Monday. Sondre Lerche at WCL Philly Monday. Azure Ray at 1st U. Church Monday. Bob Mould at Union Transfer Tuesday. Ian Hunter at WCL Philly Thursday. WHY? at UT Friday. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti at UT Saturday. Bloc Party at the Tower Saturday.  Lotus & Ghostland Observatory at FDR Park Saturday. Bon Iver at The Mann Saturday. Florence & The Machine at Susq. Bank Center 9/18. Baltimore's Wye Oak at UT 9/22.

We Were Promised Jetpacks on a KEXP broadcast.