Please join us for a very special evening of unique solo performances from guitarist Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), violinist Jessica Moss (Thee Silver Mt. Zion), and tenor saxophonist Travis LaPlante (Battle Trance).

These three artists’ improvisational excursions fluidly bridge the worlds of avant-jazz, minimalism, and indie rock.

Nick Zinner (aka 13 million year old ghost) is renowned as the audacious guitarist for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. He also co-leads the grindcore band More Pain, and last summer he unveiled his four-part symphony 41 Strings, written to commemorate Earth Day. He has collaborated and/or performed with Bright Eyes, The Haxan Cloak, TV On The Radio, Santigold, Africa Express, and more.

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Montreal violinist, composer, and singer Jessica Moss is best known for her 15-year tenure in political post-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion, as well as co-founding avant-klezmer ensemble Black Ox Orkestar. She’s recorded with Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista, Big|Brave, Jem Cohen, and many others. In recent years she’s been newly ascendant as a soloist, captivating audiences with gritty, warmly expressive electronic- and drone-inflected post-classical minimalism (and sometimes maximalism), accented by a distinctive melodic sensibility that channels Klezmer, Balkan, and Middle Eastern tropes.

Brooklyn-based saxophonist and composer Travis Laplante leads Battle Trance, the acclaimed tenor saxophone quartet, as well as Subtle Degrees, his newest project with drummer Gerald Cleaver. He is also known for his solo saxophone work and his longstanding ensemble Little Women. Laplante has recently performed and/or recorded with Peter Evans, Sō Percussion, Buke and Gase, and Ingrid Laubrock, among others.

::::Dave Kiss Presents::::

Steve Hofstetter https://www.stevehofstetter.com/

One of YouTube’s biggest breakout comedy stars (with more than 140 million views and counting), Steve Hofstetter now brings his no-holds-barred stand-up show to your city. “Comedy Without Apology” features some of his most unfiltered, hilarious and very adult observations about virtually anything and everything under the sun. Along with his popular YouTube videos, Hofstetter’s performed on TV, with sets on “The Late Late Show” and “Comics Unleashed”, and headlined at some of the country’s top comedy clubs.

Doors at 7 pm, Show at 7: 30 pm 21+ at Ruba Club

Please join us for a performance by the explosive trio mssv (Main Steam Stop Valve) led by guitarist Mike Baggetta, teaming him with drummer Stephen Hodges and punk legend Mike Watt for a window-rattling obliteration of the walls between jazz and rock. This performance celebrates the release of Live Flowers (Striped Light Records), which documents last year’s legendary Ars Nova-produced performance at Johnny Brenda’s.

New York guitarist Mike Baggetta has it all, from swinging modern-bop chops that flow like John Abercrombie to whammy-bar, pedal-steel licks influenced by his first guitar hero, David Torn. In this raucous new trio he’s joined by drummer Stephen Hodges (Tom Waits, Mavis Staples, David Lynch) and Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, whose wide-ranging career also spans work with Iggy Pop and the Stooges and fIREHOSE. The music this trio creates together is utterly unclassifiable: calling it “post-genre-improv-jazz-rock” may come close, but that still doesn’t even begin to touch on the wild electric textures Baggetta’s guitar alone brings to the table.

Please join us for a very special double bill featuring two uncategorizable ensembles: Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society and Xylouris White.

Bassist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Joshua Abrams formed Natural Information Society in 2010. With his orchestration of traditional and contemporary instruments, the ensemble creates long-form psychedelic environments that join the hypnotic qualities of the guimbri, a Gnawan lute, with a wide range of contemporary musics and methodologies including jazz, minimalism, and experimental rock. Nearly impossible to define, the group’s nebulous nature has allowed Abrams to gather aesthetic input from all over the map into vivid personal statements. The ever-shifting line-up of Natural Information Society has included Jason Adasiewicz, Hamid Drake, Ben Lamar Gay, Jeff Parker, Jason Stein, and many others.

“It feels startlingly new, in terms of how the music is extrapolated, how the players relate, even as it feels like an ur-music, primal, body-centered, essential.” —The Wire

Abrams’ early formative musical experiences include performing in a chamber group conducted by Earle Brown and busking on the streets of Philadelphia as an original member of The Roots. Since the mid-1990s, Abrams has been a key figure in Chicago’s creative music communities and an international touring musician with artists across genres. Abrams has scored numerous feature films, including The Trials of Muhammad Ali and several projects with award-winning director Steve James. He has appeared on over 100 recordings, including those by Fred Anderson, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Neil Michael Hagerty, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Matana Roberts, The Roots, and Town and Country.

Oops, we did it again: created a brand new show with a brand new theme voted on by you! This year, we'll be partying like it's 1999 BCE at A Very Poppy Purim. You are in store for a night of six-pointed star power, featuring pop legends from every generation including Queen V (AKA Veyashti), the King Achashverosh of Pop, Lady Estha, Morty Mars, and the Asshole Formerly Known as Prime Minister.

Philly - verypoppypurim.eventbrite.com Thursday, March 5th Friday, March 6th Saturday, March 14th

NYC - Saturday, March 7th.

Purim is a Jewish holiday. But A Very Awesome Purim is an interactive musical and after-party about a drunken king, an evil prime minister, and a brave queen who saves the entire Jewish population. The production strikes a careful balance of off-color humor, on-key parodies, and surprisingly poignant lessons about cultural acceptance. With your help, we choose a theme—this year, thanks to more than 200 of you who voted, we're excited to bring you A Very Poppy Purim.

This is what you can expect from the night:

An interactive musical featuring parodies of your favorite Pop songs.

Drinking! In Purim tradition, you're supposed to drink until you can't tell the difference between the good guy and the bad guy in the story. (It's not difficult.)

A costume party. Dress to the theme, or any costume will do. There may even be a reward for the best-dressed...

A boisterous sing-a-long. A boisterous dance-along: With songs like "Like a Persian" and "Thrill me Queen" and more audience participation than ever before, this is not a year to miss.

The greatest party of the year. We might be biased. Guess you'll have to find out.

A VERY POPPY PURIM

Philadelphia Thursday, March 5th, 2020 at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6th, 2020 at 8:30 p.m Saturday, March 14th, 2020 at 8:30 p.m- Cancelled

🥀💀 ABC + Riot Nerd 💀🥀 Spooky and Sassy 80's Dance Party named after one of the best Depeche Mode albums!

We are taking you on a trip to Camp Crystal Lake for a spooky slasher of a good time! We will project all your favorite kills from the Friday The 13th movies! Slasher themed decor and movie music sprinkled in with all of your 80's goth and alternative favorites! Bring Your own Blood

DJ Baby Berlin - ABC Founder DJ Another Ghost - Spell Bound / ABC

➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ $5 Advance Tickets $7 at door. - 2nd Floor 21+

Enjoy a festive and fun filled community event honoring and celebrating African American Culture with dance performances, drumming, storytelling, food and art!

$20 per family includes:

Mask making activity

All performances

Delicious home made foods

Beverage

All proceeds go towards NLArts’ scholarship fund to allow more youth to attend art summer camp.

Oops, we did it again: created a brand new show with a brand new theme voted on by you! This year, we'll be partying like it's 1999 BCE at A Very Poppy Purim. You are in store for a night of six-pointed star power, featuring pop legends from every generation including Queen V (AKA Veyashti), the King Achashverosh of Pop, Lady Estha, Morty Mars, and the Asshole Formerly Known as Prime Minister.

Philly - verypoppypurim.eventbrite.com Thursday, March 5th Friday, March 6th Saturday, March 14th

NYC - Saturday, March 7th.

Purim is a Jewish holiday. But A Very Awesome Purim is an interactive musical and after-party about a drunken king, an evil prime minister, and a brave queen who saves the entire Jewish population. The production strikes a careful balance of off-color humor, on-key parodies, and surprisingly poignant lessons about cultural acceptance. With your help, we choose a theme—this year, thanks to more than 200 of you who voted, we're excited to bring you A Very Poppy Purim.

This is what you can expect from the night:

An interactive musical featuring parodies of your favorite Pop songs.

Drinking! In Purim tradition, you're supposed to drink until you can't tell the difference between the good guy and the bad guy in the story. (It's not difficult.)

A costume party. Dress to the theme, or any costume will do. There may even be a reward for the best-dressed...

A boisterous sing-a-long. A boisterous dance-along: With songs like "Like a Persian" and "Thrill me Queen" and more audience participation than ever before, this is not a year to miss.

The greatest party of the year. We might be biased. Guess you'll have to find out.

A VERY POPPY PURIM

Philadelphia Thursday, March 5th, 2020 at 8 p.m. Friday, March 6th, 2020 at 8:30 p.m Saturday, March 14th, 2020 at 8:30 p.m

Throw on your best retro prom attire and come dance til you die at the Bloody Valentine Ball, a gore filled gala that immerses you in a horror themed high school style dance complete with prom photos, your favorite music, interactive events inspired by classic horror, and bloodthirsty killers out to turn the ball into a bloodbath.

Don't forget to cast your bloody ballot as the evening culminates at midnight with the Horror Homecoming Queen and King, as chosen by you, being showered with prizes and given the full Carrie treatment.

There will be a bloody bar so bring cash and your ID. This is a 21+ only event.

The Bloody Valentine Ball will also feature a Horror Auction with macabre memorabilia signed by some of the biggest names in horror history.

Proceeds from the Bloody Valentine Ball will go to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia which works to find better treatments and help families who cannot afford healthcare.

Buy your ticket now and help support this cause.

11:45pm- 2am

Late Night fun every Sunday! Service Industry Night

Drop by for ping pong, pool, dart (just one), and drinks! AND HOT DOGS!

Tired of bundling up and braving the cold? Leave your layers at the door and come heat things up with Spruce Foundation at our White Hot Winter Cabaret. Be prepared to enjoy a scandalous evening of mesmerizing burlesque performances and delicious cocktails. You’ll have the chance to win fabulous raffle items from Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni’s Room, Condom Kingdom, and Passional/Sexploratorium. Doors open at 8, show starts at 9! Proceeds from this event go towards Spruce’s 2020 LGBTQ grant recipient - we can’t wait to see you there!

11:45pm- 2am

Late Night fun every Sunday! Service Industry Night

Drop by for ping pong, pool, dart (just one), and drinks! AND HOT DOGS!

Please join us for a scintillating performance by inventive trumpeter Marquis Hill and his soulful new project Love Tape.

From his beginnings as one of Chicago’s most thrilling young trumpeters to his current status as an internationally renowned musician, composer, and bandleader, Marquis Hill has worked tirelessly to break down the barriers that divide musical genres. Contemporary and classic jazz, hip-hop, R&B, Chicago house, neo-soul—to Hill, they’re all essential elements of the profound African-American creative heritage he’s a part of. “It all comes from the same tree,” says the 2014 Thelonious Monk Competition winner. “They simply blossomed from different branches.”

Hill’s eighth studio album, Love Tape, is a sonic masterpiece that explores the depths of self-love. Hailing it as one of the year’s 10 Best Jazz Albums in the New York Times, Giovanni Russonello described the album as “caught between album and mixtape, between casual one-off and conceptual ambition, between jazz and hip-hop and beat music.”

For Love Tape, Hill assembled a collection of interviews of women sharing their perspective on the subject of self-love, resulting in further confirmation of a familiar adage: “Before you can love someone else, you must first love yourself.“ Its sonic nuances reveal Hill’s ever-growing comfort with his own musical identity. The album weaves spoken-word selections by such artists as Eartha Kitt, Phylicia Rashad, and Abbey Lincoln into a rich genre-blurring tapestry exploring the territory between jazz, hip-hop, R&B, and more.

(No Mo’) Sexual FOMO*

Lots of comics talk about sexual mishaps, mistakes and mayhem in their routines. Good humor is based on all the great sex and pleasure we miss out on. But what if comics could go back and see how things could have gone if they - and their partners and families - had better information and education about sex?

Join us as Philly’s most fabulous sexpert, Kit Ten, gives comics the chance to go back and redo their worst moments, so next time, they won’t MISS OUT.

And the audience won’t miss out either. We’ll have a chance for you to submit their stories, play live trivia about sex (win prizes!) from Sexploratorium at PASSIONAL Toys

Plus, we'll have delicious vegan food from Soy Cafe and cocktails for purchase (cash only). It's a Valentine's Day Eve extravaganza!

We have reserved table seating and open seating.

$1 of every ticket purchased goes to the William Way LGBT Community Center.

This event is 21+ and unfortunately, as it's a historic building, ADA accommodations are limited. Please contact the organizers if you have questions.

Featured Comics: Christine Ann Olivas Sam Kap Dan Vetrano Matt Hyams Ngoc Bui

Flyer done by Ngoc Bui

Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-mo-sexual-fomo-an-educational-comedy-event-tickets-87684912935?ref=eios

Space is limited and will most likely sell out. We suggest purchasing a ticket in advance.

Event schedule:

7-8 PM Live Music and Seating 8-10 PM Show 10-11 PM Live Music and Mingling

General admission:

$15 in advance $18 at the door

Reserved table seating:

$20 in advance $25 at the door

No Mo’ Sexual FOMO

*Fear of: Making out Missing orgasm Menstruating on {insert person or object here} Masturbating often Masculine oppression

11:45pm- 2am

Late Night fun every Sunday! Service Industry Night

Drop by for ping pong, pool, dart (just one), and drinks! AND HOT DOGS!

A night of great music @ the Ruba Club! Adult (21+) event featuring: Cash bar, raffles, and more!

Musical guests include current Central students, alumni and faculty. Featuring DJ Frosty! Buy tickets at: https://chsma.ticketleap.com/rubaclub/

Help send the Central Orchestra and Choir to Montreal! Purchase a ticket and/or make a PayPal donation to centrahsmusicassoc@gmail.com

🥀💀A Black Celebration + Riot Nerd present: The Goth Prom at Ruba Club (Upstairs) 💀🥀

In honor of Valentine's day, we are throwing a spooky prom that is just for us! Grab a date and let's dance!

TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR!

$5 in advance $10 at the door 21+ DJ Baby Berlin + DJ Another Ghost (Spellbound)

🥀 Free snacks 🥀 Spooky Prom Decor 🥀 Awkward prom photos by Pop Up Polaroid

Heaps of Depeche Mode. And other bands like... Sisters of Mercy // The Cure // Jesus and the Marychain // Siouxsie and the Banshees // Tears for Fears // Virgin Prunes // Xmal Deutschland // Bauhaus // Specimen // Love and Rockets // Killing Joke // The Smiths // New Order // Gary Numan // Adam Ant // Flock of Seagulls // Lydia Lunch // Fad Gadget // Ministry // Berlin // Soft Cell // Clan of Xymox // The Cramps // Romeo Void // Christian Death // Duran Duran // Echo & the Bunnymen // Suicide // The Damned // INXS // Lords of the New Church // Tones on Tail // The The // Joy Division // A-Ha // Flesh for Lulu // Peter Murphy // David Bowie // My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult // Red Lorry Yellow Lorry // Morrissey // The Birthday Party // Lene Lovich // Au Pairs // Visage // The Church // Simple Minds // Dark 80's Dance party full of your favorite: NEW \ WAVE NO \ WAVE COLD \ WAVE DARK \ WAVE SYNTH \ POP 80'S \ GEMS POST \ PUNK TRAD \ GOTH Come with your dancing eye liner on!

The Sweet Spot is a high-energy; heart-pumping; down-right decadent-dancing; laugh-out-loud burlesque stage production celebrating the sexier side of life. Performing in over 30 cities, this immersive show takes you on a bold adventure where anything can happen. Valentine Edition: welcome to the Soaring Twenties...

• Burlesque refers to performances in a variety show format. Also be ready to participate in fun games, birthday treats, and opportunities to win prizes.

• Popular destination for date night, birthdays, bachelor(ette) parties, and large groups.

• Drinks and Souvenirs are available for purchase.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: SweetSpotNation / #SweetSpotNation

For more information visit our website http://www.sweetspotnation.com

Get ready to experience the world's best performance poets, sultry burlesque dancers, live music, comedy and the most electrified host you have ever seen. Brilliantly weaving satire, artistry and current top 40 hits, this is 21st century burlesque at its best! Leave your rules, restrictions and expectations at the door and let The Sweet Spot open your spirit, awaken your passions and leave you in a sweeter place.

LEE CAMP (Redacted Tonight) / Eleanor Goldfield / Krish Mohan, Comedian & Social Vigilante

NOTE: This event has been moved to Ruba Club, 416 Green Street.

LEE CAMP is the head writer and host of the national TV show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp. He's toured the country and the world with his fierce brand of standup comedy, and George Carlins daughter Kelly said hes one of the few comics keeping her fathers torch lit. Bill Hicks brother Steve said Lee is one of only a handful with Bills message and passion.

Host of Act Out!, Activist Poet, Eleanor Goldfield uses Radical Verses to address issues from Immigration, Classism, Consumerism, greed and shifting away from the Paradigm of the 1%! "We need hope – without optimism. We need to feel inspired. Art can, poetry can. Through our emotions, building the notions that we can – can Do Something".

Krish Mohan, Comedian & Social Vigilante is a socially conscious, Indian standup comedian and writer who regularly tours the country. He performs at small theaters, bars, comedy clubs, colleges and DIY venues. With his quirky attitude, charming personality, and intelligent humor, Krish captivates and engages audiences of all backgrounds, tackling hot button topics like race, religion, war, immigration, while adding an optimistic philosophical & sociological twist!

Admission: Front three rows: $29 GA floor seating: $15 Back rows seating: $11 Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime.

LEE CAMP (Redacted Tonight) / Eleanor Goldfield / Krish Mohan, Comedian & Social Vigilante

NOTE: This event has been moved to Ruba Club, 416 Green Street.

LEE CAMP is the head writer and host of the national TV show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp. He's toured the country and the world with his fierce brand of standup comedy, and George Carlins daughter Kelly said hes one of the few comics keeping her fathers torch lit. Bill Hicks brother Steve said Lee is one of only a handful with Bills message and passion.

Host of Act Out!, Activist Poet, Eleanor Goldfield uses Radical Verses to address issues from Immigration, Classism, Consumerism, greed and shifting away from the Paradigm of the 1%! "We need hope – without optimism. We need to feel inspired. Art can, poetry can. Through our emotions, building the notions that we can – can Do Something".

Krish Mohan, Comedian & Social Vigilante is a socially conscious, Indian standup comedian and writer who regularly tours the country. He performs at small theaters, bars, comedy clubs, colleges and DIY venues. With his quirky attitude, charming personality, and intelligent humor, Krish captivates and engages audiences of all backgrounds, tackling hot button topics like race, religion, war, immigration, while adding an optimistic philosophical & sociological twist!

Admission: Front three rows: $29 GA floor seating: $15 Back rows seating: $11 Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime.