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Songwriter Mose Allison plays tonight and Saturday night at Roller´s Flying Fish in Chestnut Hill.

By Christina Pellegrini

Posted 11/06/2009

Today-Sunday Making a splash The Sugarloaf Crafts Festival appeals to the creative of all ages. In one event, Splash! Animals, artists quickly throw and brush paint on a canvas as the audience tries to identify which endangered species the paint splatters

Nice effects, but spirit needs to visit - 11/05/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

As Ebenezer Scrooge (not to mention The Grinch), Jim Carrey aims to put a lump of coal in the Christmas stocking and a lump of emotion in the throat. That he fails is not for lack of effort.
Glorious satire of far-out military tactics - 11/05/2009: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

As goofy as the glint in George Clooney's eye, The Men Who Stare at Goats offers a terrific adaptation of the nonfiction book of the same name, one that chronicles U.S. "alternative warfare" programs. That is, military operations that explore ps
Town's alien visit mildly scary - 11/05/2009: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

'There's something going on in this town that we don't know about." "They're not from here." "Do you honestly believe that you were forcibly removed from your bedroom by a member of an alien race?"
A South African tale in living color - 11/05/2009: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Based on the improbable-but-true saga of Sandra Laing, the dark-complected daughter of light-complected Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era, Skin is a surreal melodrama of arbitrary racial labeling that estranged a woman from herself, her family of origin, and the father of her children.
Tender and suspenseful study in love - 11/05/2009: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

A 2009 foreign-language Oscar nominee, the Austrian thriller Revanche ("revenge") is a slow-burning, character-rich study in desperation, grief, vengeance, loyalty, and love. It's the sort of arthouse entry - in German, mostly - that gets you thinking about an English-language remake. But really, why should there be one? Hollywood has a sorry history of messing these things up, and writer/director Götz Spielmann's movie - beautifully shot, beautifully acted - is just about perfect as is.
Repertory Films showing this week - 11/06/2009: Repertory Films Ambler Theater 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler; 215-345-7855. www.amblertheater.com. Opera at the Ambler: Cosi fan Tutte. $26. 11/8. 12:30 pm. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) $8.75; $6.75 seniors and children. 11/11. 7:30 pm. Black Orpheus (Brazil/France/Italy, 1959) $8.75; $6.75 seniors and children. 11/11.
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G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra **1/2 (Paramount, '09) $29.98. 117 mins. Another '80s toy hits the big screen as G.I. Joe (here, the name for an elite military team) crosses the world in pursuit of a corrupt arms dealer. With Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid, Sienna Miller. PG-13 (strong sequences of action violence and mayhem throughout)
Reinventing Wolfmother - 11/06/2009: Leader talks about starting from scratch.

By A.D. Amorosi, For The Inquirer

Talk with Wolfmother vocalist/guitarist Andrew Stockdale, the toast of Brisbane, Australia, about recording the follow-up to the band's 2006 eponymous debut, and you get two moods.
A Bill Withers documentary at First Person Festival - 11/06/2009: By Dianna Marder, Inquirer Staff Writer

Ain't No Sunshine since singer-songwriter Bill Withers walked away from the music business in 1988. Withers, whose hits included Lean on Me and Just the Two of Us, said he still loved the music but he'd had enough of the business.
'Rhythms of Transformation' to drum up help for homeless - 11/06/2009: By Christina Pellegrini, For The Inquirer

Emmanuel Havens hadn't eaten in more than a week. He shivered under an army blanket in a group counseling meeting at St. Elizabeth Recovery Residence in North Philadelphia, where the first words the homeless musician and artist said were these:
Concert Previews - 11/06/2009: Bob Dylan The Never-Ending Tour - the best expression of Bob Dylan's ancient troubadour nature - has taken two interesting turns of late. The first is that he's welcomed back guitar hero Charlie Sexton to the fold. Dylan's been doing great as a guitarist, adding wh
Casino shows and concerts - 11/06/2009: Casinos Borgata Hotel & Casino 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City; 609-317-1000. www.theborgata.com. Rob Thomas. 11/6. 8 pm. Bill Maher. $45-$65. 11/7. 8 pm. Bob Newhart. $45-$55. 11/7. 9 pm.