Saturday night's Man Man performance was going along just as we expected after seeing them just a few months ago. The Philadelphia band was tearing through songs in typical uninterrupted style, and the crowd was finally starting to really get into it. We saw a lone crowdsurfer, then we saw said surfer get tossed from the venue. Moments later, the band took a break to call for their friend's return. The ejection we saw wasn't the one of their interest, but their friend Tracy, who was "violently" thrown out. There wasn't much explanation other than what the band said, but we later heard that their friend was drinking from a bottle of booze smuggled into the crowd. In any case, the band tried to make a case for their friends return, pausing the show for around ten minutes with claims of never returning to Neumos, that it was all bullshit, etc. more ›

Halloween is such a fantastic mix of death, decay, kitsch, and morbid Catholic ritual that there is just no topping it as far as holidays go. Of course it does present some problems. Often at Halloween what would appear to be limitless possibility in the end boils down to options that are severely limited by your own laziness and the picked-over racks at the costume store, and this is particularly true for the girls. What to be on Halloween: A Sexy Devil? A Sexy Cat? A Sexy Nurse? A Sexy Devil Cat? And the same holds true when a theatre company is attempting to stage a production that takes advantage of the Halloween theme. The pool of appropriate stageplays would seem to be vast, and yet new theatre company Balagan's choice of "Transylvanian Clockworks" is the theatrical equivalent of the Sexy Devil Cat Nurse. Did they start shopping for this on October 30th? more ›