This weekend, 10/12-10/14:

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FRIDAY 10/12:

General Events:

• Fresh Friday Market, Nemours Plaza, 11th & Tatnall. 9-5pm.
• "Spay Away Costume Ball" at the Arden Gild Hall.  7-midnight, $50, benefits Delaware Humane Association, Forgotten Cats, and Response-A-Bull. http://inwilmingtonde.com/events/spayaway
• Showings of Bringing Up Bobby and Little White Lies at Theatre N. http://www.theatern.org/Films

Concerts:

• The Lift Up (feat. the remaining members of once-popular defunct local band The Situation), Fair Warning, and Blag'ard (from Chapel Hill, NC) at Mojo Main.
• Tom Petty tribute band The Big Jangle at the Queen.

~In Philly~

• Calexico and Dodos at Union Transfer.
• Heart and Alejandro Escovedo at the Tower Theatre.
• Bleeding Rainbow and Far-Out Fangtooth at Johnny Brenda's.
• Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg at the North Star Bar.
• Rush at the Wells Fargo Center.
• GWAR at the Electric Factory.  (I was at a club this summer, might have been Birmingham, where a soundman pointed at a huge red stain in the hallway between the green room and the stage and said "See that stain?  Gwar did that").

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SATURDAY 10/13:

General Events:

• Funny guy John Caparulo at the Keswick.
• Showings of The Nightmare Before Christmas (matinee), Bringing Up Bobby, and Little White Lies at Theatre N. http://www.theatern.org/Films

Concerts:

• Universal Funk Order and Spokey Speaky at Mojo Main.
• Mike Doughty at the Queen.
• Jazz jam session at The Nomad Bar at 9th & Orange. Every Saturday, 4-7:30pm, FREE.

~In Philly~

• Adrien Reju at Milkboy Philly.
• Sloan at Underground Arts.
• Swans at Union Transfer.
• Peelander-Z at the North Star Bar.

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SUNDAY 10/14:

General Events:

• Co-Op Farmers' Market, Sundays 10-2. East Main St, Newark. Thru mid-Nov.
• Showings of Bringing Up Bobby, Little White Lies, and Opera in Cinema: L'Italiana In Algeri. at Theatre N. http://www.theatern.org/Films

Concerts:

• New Age Brass at the DCCA.
• Smoking Popes at the North Star Bar.

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Upcoming: Beach House at UT Tues. Primus at the Tower Wed. The Felice Brothers at Gild Hall 10/19. Side By Side (interviews of movie directors like Lynch, Scorcese, Soderbergh) at Theatre N next weekend.