TV Rots Your Brains 2: Holiday Pop Up Shop

The TV Rots Your Brains pop-up shop is back!

Our friends at Rainbow Alternative are curating an day of kick ass holiday pop culture fun here. Eat, drink, be merry & shop for unique pottery, hand crafted clothing & jewelry, classic sweet treats & pop culture neat stuff. TV Rots Your Brains is the perfect fix for all your last minute gift shopping needs!

FREE admission • FREE holiday arts & crafts
Children are welcome (with an adult) any time before 7pm
Half price drafts from 5-7pm • Half price tater tots & $2 PBRs after 7pm
Shop local. Shop small business. Shop

PARTICIPATING VENDORS:
Rainbow Alternative
Night Owl Designs
The Patchriarchy
The Wicked Cottage
Vintage Sweets
Squeak Wells
SaraCaseyMakes
Julie Salas
Jess Salas
The Machine Shop
WantfulThings

Tire Fire Presents: Foy / Carroll / Plum / Ojeda-sague

Join us as our flagship literary series TireFire closes out the year with a night of comfort & community, $1 tacos, and readings from:

D. FOY is the author of the novels Made to Break and Patricide. His work has appeared in Guernica, Salon, Hazlitt, Post Road, Electric Literature, BOMB, The Literary Review, Midnight Breakfast, The Scofield, and The Georgia Review, among others, and has been included in the books Laundromat, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial, and A Moment’s Notice.

TOBIAS CARROLL is the managing editor of Vol.1 Brooklyn. He is the author of the novel Reel (Rare Bird Books) and the short story collection Transitory (Civil Coping Mechanisms). His writing has been published by Tin House, Rolling Stone, Hazlitt, Men’s Journal, and elsewhere.

HILARY PLUM is the author of the work of nonfiction Watchfires and the novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets. With Zach Savich she edits Rescue Press’s Open Prose Series. She lives in Philadelphia.

GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUE is Miami <-> Philly, child of Cuban exiles and Puerto Ricans. His first book Oil and Candle (Timeless, Infinite Light 2016) is a set of poems on Santería and the precarity of Latino-American lives. He is also the author of the chapbooks JOGS (2013), Nite [Chickadee]’s (Gauss PDF 2015), Where Everything is in Halves (Be About It 2015), and “Yo” Quiere Decir Sunburn” (2016). He has just finished a new manuscript on Jazzercise.

All donations from our December reading will go to the Mazzoni Center, a local LGBTQ health provider. We raised $300 at our November reading.

Doors at 7, readings at 8.

Magic Gardens Arts & Drafts Crafting Happy Hour

Get crafty, raise a pint, and help us raise funds to support the our friends at the Philadelphia Magic Gardens at a special Arts & Drafts Crafting Happy Hour! Create FREE craft projects, including felt pennants, hand puppets & scratch art.

Enjoy half priced drafts from 5:00-7:00 PM,  half priced veggie menu till 10:00 PM & a specially created Magic Gardens cocktail.

We will be donating 25% of all sales to Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens’ education initiatives, so come out, grab some food, and get your art on!

Cranksgiving: A Holiday Bicycle Ride for Philabundance

The SIXTH ANNUAL Cranksgiving Philly is here! Our favorite charity bike ride is back, and with an fun afternoon of bike riding for folks of all levels.

Benefitting Philabundance, this event’s purpose is to collect food to help provide a Thanksgiving dinner to families that wouldn’t normally get one. Started in New York City in 1999, this ride involves collecting food at grocery store “checkpoints”. All of the food purchased by riders will then be donated to Philabundance, the region’s largest hunger relief organization.

Two ride formats! The first “classic flavor” involves riding to various grocery stores to purchase food items and rack up points. The second will be a slower-paced group ride, same mission, but more relaxed and non-competitive in nature. 

What to Bring? A bike, a helmet, a lock, a bag (or basket or rack or cargo bike) to carry the food, and at least $15-20 to purchase food items along the way. This is a charity event dedicated to helping feed the hungry so generosity is STRONGLY encouraged (and rewarded)!

Last year we had 145 participants collecting over 5100 pounds of food, so this year our goal is to….get a lot more riders and food than that! Everyone ends up here at TMoms for a fun afterparty among a mountain of donated food. Happy Cranksgiving y’all!

Creatures of the Night presents Bob’s Burgers Live: An Indecent Thanksgiving

You are cordially invited to Thanksgiving at Tattooed Mom, the home of the acclaimed Fischoeder Family.
PASS THE CRANBERRY SAUCE WE’RE HAVING MASHED POTATOES!
Oh the turkey looks swell this November as our resident weirdos & winner of Best Comedy Act in Philadelphia, Creatures of the Night present Bob’s Burgers LIVE production of Indecent Thanksgiving.

Bob is afraid of missing quality family time this Thanksgiving when Mr Fischoeder hires the Belcher clan to act as his own family.

FREE performances:

Wednesday November 9th  8pm

Sunday November 13th  7pm

Wednesday November 16th  8pm

Wednesday November 30th  8pm
Directed by Anthony Taylor, Starring Josh Kirwin-Bob, Max Webber-Linda, Jim McHugh Jr.-Mr Fischoeder, Erin McHugh- Shelby Schnabel, Chris Stokes-Tina, Kevin Fennel-Gene & Michelle Linahan-Louise

Enjoy our Burger of the Day Special the Plymouth Roquefort Burger (our signature hamburger or vegan burger with bleu cheese, sweet potato chips & cranberry relish as featured in the episode. Or toast the holiday with our Kuchi Kopi cocktail specials.

FREE online ticket reservations are sold out for all shows but a dozen or more tickets will be available at the door on a first come basis the night of the show. Also follow Tattooed Mom & Creatures of the Night on instagram for special free ticket giveways to each show!

Everyone at Tattooed Mom & Creatures of the Night wish you a very Indecent Thanksgiving!

Sex Quizzo!

Join Temple & Penn If/When/How, Temple OUTLaw, and Temple WLC for a night of Sex Ed & Health Quizzo to benefit Planned Parenthood! Have fun and win prizes from vendors across the city! Enjoy liquid inspiration with Nasty Women cocktails & fuel up on 50¢ pierogis. Cheers to good times & good sex!

Sunday Love Project Holiday Benefit Party

Join us for an afternoon of arts & crafts, food & fun to benefit the good work of the Sunday Love Project! We are asking for sub-zero temp sleeping bags in lieu of a ticket price. Enjoy beer specials courtesy of Iron Hill Brewing, raffles, and a silent auction. We’ll be donating a percentage of ALL sales to support Sunday Love in their mission to help share food with the homeless while building community. Come show the LOVE the way we do in Philly. Kids welcome…and encouraged!

Queerspace

Think outisde the gayborhood: #QUEERSPACE is back, with the most insane line up yet!
Catch the weirdest variety show in the whirled featuring Philly’s best
DRAG! BURLESQUE! MUSIC! COMEDY & SO MUCH MORE!

No cover ever
Please bring donations for Philly’s homeless!
Doors @ 7 Show @ 8
Charity Community Love

#QUEERSPACE
hosted by THE JORDYN SHOW
STARRING
Mr. E!
Abortia Carriage!
Travis Tea!
Deadbøy IX!
Jaeda!
Vinchelle!
Khaki Capri!
Samantha Genesis!
Maximus Prime!
Jenny Streetpizza!
With art by Smiles Davis!

Bevan McShea’s Monster Cereal Art Show

Get your Monster Mash on as we present the 4th Annual  Monster Cereal Art Show. This one night pop up exhibition of art from Bevan McShea celebrates our favorite sweet and spooky cereal monsters. Check out art inspired by cereal monsters Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo-Berry, Frute Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy. Plus a special short acoustic set by FrankendeF (old Ghouls Against Boys)!  Free frightfully fun times, only at TMom’s!