This weekend, 1/4-1/6:

Happy New Year!   The listings are pretty thin - it's just a slow weekend here on the mid-Atlantic coast.  Even the other blogs that I shamelessly pilfer for ideas are showing scant events.  Good weekend to catch up on winter blockbusters at Movies 10 or the Brandywine theater, maybe, or to start using those restaurant gift cards you got at Christmas time.

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FRIDAY 1/4:

General Events:

• Showings at Theatre N: The Central Park Five, and In Another Country. http://www.theatern.org/Films

Concerts:

• Boatrocker (note to Mojo Main: I know I sometimes complain that you don't give any info on the bands that play on your stage.  But at the opposite end, just because a band submits a bio that's 11 pages long and says basically nothing doesn't mean you have to actually publish it), Curser, and Keep For Yourself at Mojo Main. 9pm, $6.  Boatrocker's bio, if you want to see what I mean: http://www.mojomain.com/event/203245-boatrocker-curser-keep-for-newark/
• Garland Jeffreys at the Queen Theatre, downstairs. $27.
• DJ/ electronic music show at the Queen: Jack Deezl ("This 21 year old producer/multi-instrumentalist/DJ from Philadelphia spends most of his time recording live instruments only to mash and mangle them with electronic sounds"), Architekt and DJ EA at the Queen Theatre. $7.
• Jon Herrington at the Kennett Flash (touring member of Steely Dan, but not a part of Steely Dan during their peak writing years.  Which is not a statement against him, as I'm sure he's a fine artist in his own right, but it's worth noting).  $18-$20.

~In Philly~

• Really nothing that I would recommend as being worth the drive.   I think glee-club-super-group The Silver Ages are playing their yearly holiday show, but that show is sold out. 

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SATURDAY 1/5:

General Events:

• Showings at Theatre N: The Central Park Five, and In Another Country. http://www.theatern.org/Films
• Jazz jam session at The Nomad Bar at 9th & Orange. Every Saturday, 4-7:30pm, FREE.

Concerts:

• Travel Songs (ex-Diego Paulo) and New Sweden at Mojo Main. 9pm, $5 or $6.
• Led Zeppelin tribute, "ZOSO", at The Note in West Chester. $12-$14.

~In Philly~

• Sun Airway and Cruiser at Johnny Brenda's. $12.

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SUNDAY 1/6:

General Events:

• Showings at Theatre N: Struck By Lightning with live Q&A with Chris Colfer (the site doesn't say who he or she is), The Central Park Five, and In Another Country. http://www.theatern.org/Films

Vinyl Shockley is doing an album release show at the Queen next Saturday, and Blood Sweat and Tears plays the Grand Saturday.