Regional arts and entertainment events

Sunday

In his sepia-tone prints, photographer

Harry Horenstein

focuses on animal parts - a pig's snout, a dog's tongue, a cormorant's feathers - to create abstract visions of our furred and feathered friends and redirect our attention on them. For the exhibition

Looking at Animals

at

the Academy of Natural Sciences

, Horenstein's photographs are paired with specimens from the institution's research collections, including the skull of a flamingo, the bones of a giraffe, and the skeletal foot of the 19th-century circus elephant Bolivar, once billed as the "largest and heaviest elephant in the world" (and the most dangerous - he spent his last years in lockup at the Philadelphia Zoo). The show is at the academy, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, to May 16. Admission is $12; $10 for children 3 to 12, seniors, college students, and military personnel; free for members and children under 3. Call 215-299-1000.

Guitarist

Petar Jankovic

plays works by Villa-Lobos, Moreno-Torrebba, Albeniz, Dyens, and Piazzola at 2:30 p.m. at

Eastern University's

McInnis Auditorium, 1300 Eagle Rd., St. Davids. Tickets are $15; $10 for seniors; $5 for students. Call 610-649-2517. . . .

The Artemis Quartet

plays an all-Beethoven program at 3 p.m. in

the Kimmel Center's

Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce Streets. Tickets are $23. Call 215-569-8080

Monday

Film producer

Patrick Stack

presents a screening of his film

Cat City

, a 2008 neo-noir thriller about real estate swindles, crooked politics, and murder in Palm Springs, at 7:30 p.m. at

the County Theater

, 20 E. State St., Doylestown. Tickets are $9; $6.75 for seniors and students. Call 215-345-6789.

Tuesday

Bay Area-via-Alaska quintet

Port O'Brien

plays its finely crafted chamber-pop (occasionally tinged with a raucous choral folk sensibility) at 7 p.m. at

the North Star Bar

, 2639 Poplar St. Tickets are $12. Call 215-787-0488.

Wednesday

British painter

Joel Bird

subverts the conventions of ornithological illustration to get at the symbolic and kinetic nature of birds. His work is on exhibit at

the Tyme Gallery

, 17 W. Eagle Rd., Havertown, to April 6. Call 610-853-1215.

Sci-fi soul sister

Janelle Monae

continues her narrative of music stardom as a cybernetic manufacturing process in her new CD,

The ArchAndroid

. Is she out of this world? Yes! Monae performs at

Johnny Brenda's

, 1201 Frankford Ave., at 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Tickets are $12. Call 215-739-9684

Thursday

In what they describe as "blurring the line between chaos and creativity," the

Miro Dance Theater

teams with local rock band

Toy Soldiers

for an experiment: The two troupes will begin work with composer

Craig Van Hise

on Monday and present whatever they have three days later. They'll repeat the process two more times with two other composers in the next two months before presenting a "best-of" performance in June. The first

Miro Mash-Up

is at 6:30 p.m. at Girard College, 2101 S. College Ave. Admission is free; reservation required. Call 215-962-4773. . . .

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers

performs Lin's combination of traditional Chinese and Western modern dance at

the Painted Bride Art Center

, 230 Vine St., at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Tickets are $25. Call 925-9914.

Author and screenwriter

William Peter Blatty

is best known for the novel and screenplay

The Exorcist

, the very title of which can strike chills in the hearts of some (well, us). For his first novel in more than 25 years,

Dimiter

, Blatty weaves a psychologically complex tale of spies, torture, and vengeance in 1970s Albania and Israel. He reads at 7:30 p.m. in

the Free Library's

Montgomery Auditorium, 19th and Vine Streets. Admission is free. Call 215-686-5322.

Friday & Saturday

On May 1, 1778, British rangers attacked an American militia led by Brig. Gen. John Lacey in Crooked Billet, near what is now Hatboro. Lacey's forces had been tasked by Gen. Washington with disrupting enemy supply lines between the occupied cities of New York and Philadelphia. Moving up Old York Road, the rangers caught the Americans asleep and forced them to retreat to Warminster, leaving behind valuable supplies, but with Lacey able to keep his forces largely intact. Scott Randolph's documentary on the skirmish,

The Battle of Crooked Billet

, screens at Hatboro Baptist Church, 32 N. York Rd., Hatboro, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Admission is free. Call 215-355-9790.

The last major composition by the great Franz Lehar,

Giuditta

is a bittersweet confection, a tale of infidelity, dishonor, and broken dreams in colonial North Africa.

The Concerto Operetta Theater

performs the work at

the Academy of Vocal Arts'

Warden Theater, 1920 Spruce St., at 4 p.m. Saturday and next Sunday. Tickets are $25; $20 for seniors; $10 for students. Call 215-389-0648.