This weekend, 6/3 - 6/6:

Making up for last weekend, there are TONS of things to do in Wilmington, Newark and Philly this weekend.

Friday:

• Wilmington Art Loop, 5-9pm, city wide (but mostly Trolley Square and downtown).  The loop includes a film screening at DCCA, until 10pm.  http://wilmingtonde.gov/artloop/
• Free At Noon Concert at The Queen: Kyle Swartzwelder, named best local folk/americana act of 2010 by WSTW.  http://www.kyleswartzwelder.com/home.cfm/
• Blue Hen 5k (Friday, Saturday & Sunday).  Part of Alumni Weekend on UD campus. 8:30am each day.  $20.  http://www.udel.edu/alumniweekend/
• Transistor Rodeo with The Cocks at the Queen, 9pm. http://queentickets.worldcafelive.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=103 [Ed. note: Who is writing the write-ups at the Queen, including: 'style of rock'n'roll conveniently called "Alt-Country" by the more creative members of the music press'?   Uhhhh..."Alt-Country" is an age-old, vague, tired and overused term, not some new-fangled moniker used by those on the cutting edge of music criticism.  Actually, it's pretty uncreative to use that term.]
• 4th Annual Trolley Bazaar at the Delaware Center for Horticulture. Free, 5:30-8:30 pm.  http://www.thedch.org/activities-events/calendar-events/event/4th-annual-trolley-bazaar
• Sun Airway and Dustin Wong at the First Unitarian Sanctuary.  $12.  http://www.r5productions.com/
• Okkervil River, touring to support their brand new album, at the Trocadero.
• Johnny Brenda's will have special Dogfish Head brews on tap all day as part of Philly Beer Week.
• Lebowski Fest Philly Music Party at the TLA.  (I would have given a link, but the LiveNation site has no good explanatory link).
• French & Italian Opera Night at Philly Art Museum's 'Art After 5', when the museum has discounted admission after 5pm on Fridays, and features a band playing in the great hall.  In this case, opera singers will be dispersed throughout the museum.  http://www.philamuseum.org/artafter5/

Saturday:

• New Sweden with (apparently just added) Mean Lady, at the Baby Grand.
• Kate Schutt at the Queen, 8pm. 
• Love Inks and Robot House at Mojo Main.  [Ed. note: Robot House appeared at Mojo Main only 8 days ago.  For comparison, my band plays one particular venue every 3-4 months, and we've been called "ever present" at that club because of that. Some local bands play Mojo Main at least every other weekend.  Nothing wrong with that, per se, but it feels odd to me.  And this is a commentary on Mojo Main's booking, not on the bands, which I'm sure fully deserve the frequent appearances.]
• Historic New Castle's Art & Food Stroll. 1st Saturdays, 5-8pm.   Free.
• Clean-up and trail marking in old New Castle at 273 & 6th street. 9-11:30 am.  http://www.facebook.com/?sk=lf#!/pages/New-Castle-Historical-Society/117848881830?sk=wall
• Old New Castle 5-Miler run and 2-Miler walk/run.  At St. Peter's School, New Castle. $25.
• The Roots Picnic at Festival Pier at Penns Landing, $80, featuring: The Roots, Nas, Esperanza Spalding, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Man Man (from Philly), The Dismemberment Plan, Black Thought, Hank & Cupcakes (who recently appeared at Mojo Main), and a bunch of others I'm not familiar with.  Looks entirely worth it if you can come up with the dough.  Full list: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0200465CA959621C
• Appel Farm Arts & Music Festival, featuring: Gogol Bordello, Josh Ritter, Ani Difranco, Trombone Shorty, Good Old War, Red Horse featuring John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky & Eliza Gilkyson, Nicole Atkins, John Francis, and more. 
• Newark Nite.
• Black Landlord and Kuf Knotz at Johnny Brenda's. 
• Death Cab For Cutie at the Troc, SOLD OUT, but an August 5th show at The Mann has just been announced.

Sunday:

• 5th annual Berry Festival at Wilmington Friends Meeting on Quaker Hill.  Food (bluegrass and hip hop), music, dancing, stuff for kids.  1-4pm.  http://harmonyonthehill.org/
• The Radiators' Farewell Tour at the Troc.  $26.

Monday:

• Thyroid workshop at Harvest Market Natural Foods in Hockessin, 7-9pm.  Free.
• Screening of the movie E.T. at the Troc.  $3 gets you in and gets you a free beer and free popcorn.  Queen Theatre please take note.  Let's do this.
• The Baseball Project (Peter Buck of R.E.M., Steve Wynn, Scott McCaughey of The Minus 5, and drummer Linda Pitmon) at the North Star Bar, with The Bigger Lovers.  $12.  http://thebaseballproject.net/