http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2F What's happening this weekend, from the Inquirer en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 2009-11-10T08:01:00Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167261&44=69635197&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftheater%2F20091110_Our_heroine_is_a_puppet.html Bertolt Brecht's play about a young Chinese harlot who decides to be the best person she can possibly be - only to learn that best person is a tough phrase to qualify - has had many titles since the German master wrote it in the '40s. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 094d7d82e914aa64ac3659aa0612227a 2009-11-10T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=182011&44=69635177&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fmovies%2F20091110_Grace__A_well_told_story_of_Act_1__at_least.html Grace Kelly, bricklayer's daughter and alabaster goddess, was a stunner from East Falls who shone briefly, and memorably, on screen before she became Her Serene Highness, Princess of Monaco. Twenty-six when she wed, she was 52 when she died in an automobile accident. Her life divides into two acts of equal length. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 5137f94445372acb482cf2c21d64e032 2009-11-10T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167246&44=69635212&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fmusic%2F20091110_Swell_Season_casts_a_spell_of_harmony.html Almost any band can get a crowd to sing along with them, but few can inspire them to sing in tune. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 7ca9c6c58717e9d5cb7b15c7adef273c 2009-11-10T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167261&44=69635227&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftheater%2F20091110__John_Henry___a_legend-busting_play.html The refrain "A man ain't nothin' but a man" shows up in several variations of John Henry's legend. It's also the theme of Iron Age Theatre's world premiere of Chris Braak's The Life of John Henry. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 7d751a462bfcaf98bc987064496edf19 2009-11-10T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=192547&44=69635192&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fclassical_music%2F20091110_Strong__Die_Walkre__marred_by_video_woes.html In the galloping evolution of Wagner Ring cycle stagings, the point has arrived where we count on being shocked as much as delighted. We don't enjoy new Ring productions so much as we enter and undergo them, to keep up with the vanguard and be challenged Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 8acf567e1d991b447a8827a282cd3f91 2009-11-10T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167261&44=69635232&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftheater%2F20091110_Or_perhaps_one_could_call_them__narcissicals_.html I've got it! The proper name for those plotless musical melanges - Bristol Riverside Theatre's production of Joe DiPietro's I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change being approximately the fifth such show to roll through this year - is the "yousical." Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 0708c1a896133ea2cd5e2430e75c3650 2009-11-10T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167256&44=69635217&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftelevision%2F20091110_TV_Today.html The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3 p.m., NBC10) - Jenny McCarthy; Shemar Moore. Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m., 6ABC) - Eric Wrinkles, currently on Indiana's death row. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 3965764449685c6ef9f401223225ef0a 2009-11-10T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167246&44=69543862&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fmusic%2F20091109_Philly_fledglings_tops_in_pop.html Pop, in all its unadulterated and joyfully melodic glory, gets a lousy rap. Kids with TV shows are saddled with the pop moniker. So are tuneless elders when they write an actual hook. Classic pop practitioners a la Weezer, Raspberries, XTC, and the Beatles - as inventive as they are harmony-driven - are hard to find. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 8145988c090a81b3f70ea3878fb71081 2009-11-09T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167261&44=69543877&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftheater%2F20091109_Ghost_tales_at_an_Irish_pub.html There's no pub like a Conor McPherson pub. The Irish playwright's award-winner, The Weir, is being given a superb production by Curio Theatre under Gay Carducci's direction. If you have a taste for ghost stories and great gabbers, pull up a chair and listen. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 0b9e8077a38b29f9918c05efd9157570 2009-11-09T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=192547&44=69543822&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fclassical_music%2F20091109_Kronos_Quartet_transcends_borders.html The Kronos Quartet is now as much of a musical tour guide as a string quartet. The standard four instruments of its basic ensemble have been increasingly augmented by prerecorded tape and amplification as the group extends its scope into world music and indie pop, and that's what dominated the group's concert Saturday, part of the Kimmel Center's Fresh Ink series. Musical and geographic borders were crossed into Iceland and Palestine - to name a few. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT bf9282f10ae859119a2ae1dfd443ba32 2009-11-09T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=192547&44=69543867&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fclassical_music%2F20091109_Virtuosic_repertoire_unusual__multicultural.html With a presence in Philadelphia that has made it seem almost indigenous, Imani Winds has managed the trick of paying homage to its woodwind quintet ancestors, while overhauling its repertoire with genre-bending commissions. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT a76e348733828cb8526534b191c009be 2009-11-09T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167261&44=69543882&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftheater%2F20091109__Angels_in_America__features_talented_cast__terrible_venue.html It's true that if you're an HBO subscriber, you can watch the televised version of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes in Two Parts on demand right now, from the comfort of your living room. But why would you ever do that when you could have the privilege - that's right, the privilege - of seeing Bckseet Production's ambitious staging of Tony Kushner's entire epic alive and breathing, with both parts back-to-back, in repertory, performed by a ferociously talented cast? Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 65ac8d1b924a41608ad56740796ca1d8 2009-11-09T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167256&44=69543872&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftelevision%2F20091109_TV_Today.html The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3 p.m., NBC10) - George Lopez; Robin Wright Penn. Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m., 6ABC) - Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia DeRossi. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 5d800d39bc667ddf9042f17fed5b8c8d 2009-11-09T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=182011&44=69367692&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fmovies%2F20091108_A_talent_that_s.html Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe was standing on a subway platform in Harlem one Monday in September two years ago, trying to decide: uptown or downtown? Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT a3f5b5257e82a0cd79018d2a93e23b40 2009-11-08T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=192547&44=69447737&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fclassical_music%2F20091107_A_galvanizing_cellist_with_the_orchestra.html Notes don't ring so much as they tend to be wrung from Dvorak's Cello Concerto: It's the grandest piece of its kind and solo cellists can't help loving it to their (and sometimes the audience's) distraction. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT d65cbc2a07d12c01d62947055b622cc2 2009-11-07T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167261&44=69447757&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftheater%2F20091107_Puppets_find_humanity_in_Christmas_bleakness.html Playing at: Drexel University's Mandell Theater, 33d and Chestnut Streets. Through Nov. 15. Tickets: $15 to $25. Information: 215-733-0255 or www.AzukaTheatre.org. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT dd9b574215eef6530d9e8bdd66f2751c 2009-11-07T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=182011&44=69447717&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fmovies%2F20091107_Our_critics__selections.html An Education Carey Mulligan shines as the Oxford-bound honors student courted by a mysterious suitor twice her age (Peter Sarsgaard) in this resonant story directed by Lone Scherfig from Lynn Barber's memoir. PG-13 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT d7e4f966a72d043667c638b7f5fc165c 2009-11-07T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=182011&44=69447752&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fmovies%2F20091107_Our_critics__selections_1.html An Education Carey Mulligan shines as a suburban British teen, circa 1962, who falls for an older man (Peter Sarsgaard) in this beautifully turned coming-of-age tale, adapted from journalist Lynn Barber's memoir by writer Nick Hornby and director Lone Scherfig. Funny, sad, subtle, real. R Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 408fe46fb323398355f6554f5691d420 2009-11-07T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167256&44=69447727&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Ftelevision%2F20091107_Dave_on_Demand__A_Series_of_unending_promos_for_Fox_TV.html As much as I enjoyed the actual games, a part of me couldn't wait for the World Series to be over. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT dd23db0547893dbabecd654a74bf7722 2009-11-07T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=167246&44=69447747&32=3796&7=195522&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fweekend%2Fmusic%2F20091107_Energetic__thoughtful_Thao_with_Get_Down_Stay_Down.html In days past, even in the more egalitarian indie scene, the rockin' world was mostly guyville - boys galore, with only scattered women playing along. If she were the focus, a female might be the "chick singer" who left heavy instrumental lifting to the menfolk. But times change, and San Francisco's Thao with the Get Down Stay Down presented more entertaining proof on Thursday night at First Unitarian Church. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 630b7a987d10503b185ed598e069934d 2009-11-07T08:01:00Z