The music video isn't dead. It's just different. While Kanye West's "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" is compelling, let's face it, it's more like a film, albeit an art-house one. But there are other types of music videos being made. If you've seen the ICA's Rodney Graham show and his psych-rock-set, acid-tripping bicycle ride through Central Park, you know what I'm talking about. Temple Gallery is opening "Mix," a collection of recent video works that address the cultural significance of popular music, using video installation and single-channel monitor works. Participating artists include Cory Arcangel and Frankie Martin, Phyllis Baldino, Tony Cokes, Seth Price, Anri Sala and Althea Thauberger.

Runs Nov. 18-Feb. 18, Temple Gallery, 45 N. Second St., 215-782-2776.

A collaboration born out of the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, the Philadelphia Theater Workshop debuted last season with Post-Coital Variations and Kimberly Akimbo. Their second year kicks off with Adam Bock's comedy Swimming in the Shallows, which sounds like a spinoff of Friends if Rachel and the gang lived in a real city and had real situations like gay weddings, making an actual living and, um, falling in love with a shark. Can't vouch for the last one, but at least it got your attention. Buy a single ticket or go for the subscription deal: $40 gets you a Swimming ticket and one each to the next two shows.

Fri.-Sat., Nov. 18-19, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 20, 2 p.m.; through Dec. 4, $18 in advance, $20 at the door, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., 215-635-2137.

Looking for a quick road trip on a nice fall weekend? Renegade Art Coalition can oblige. They're offering "100-Plus: A Skateboard Transformation Exhibition." The Coalition bought more than 100 blank skateboard decks and passed 'em on to artists all over the country, who did everything under the sun to the boards: graffiti, stickers, fabric, stencil, sculpture. Contributors include Philly skater/musician Chuck Treece, graffiti-art legend Dan Murphy, Victory Brewing Co. head Bill Covalaski and others. West Chester haunt Rex's has also lent its own collection of board art just for this show. The night includes films by Rick Charnoski and Buddy Nichols, Kate McCabe and Tyler Breuer and others as well as music by The Vote. If all that doesn't get you there, how about this: Tony Hawk's got a deck in the show.

Sat., Nov. 19, 8 p.m.-mid., $5, West Chester Unitarian Fellowship, 501 S. High St., West Chester, www,renegade-art-coalition.com.