Back in September, I told you about a strange small Italian restaurant that was opening underneath the Walnut Street Bridge. All we knew that it was called Sotto and that its cast of characters seem to move exclusively by night.…

WHO: Squarepusher with Justin Paul, Kezner and Mount Kimble WHAT: Forward-thinking electronic-music pioneer Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, is back with a new album, Ufabulum, on Warp Records and a dazzling live show to complement it. On his acclaimed new tour,…

After putting the finishing touches on his epic pizza-celeb mural at Pizza Brain you’d think that local illustrator-hot dog guru Hawk Krall would be on pizza hiatus. Happily this is not the case. Hawk is back on the pizza trail,…

For those of you who are going to your psychedelic funk-metal concerts in 2-D and in stereo, you might as well be sitting in a cave listening on a Walkman. The polka-core trio already rocked the Tower one short year…

Movie critic Andrew Wimer reviews his favorite Netflix Instant flick of the week. Coming off 2012’s National Coming Out Day celebrations, British director Derek Jarman showcases an intangible relic of ancient queer history in his 1976 debut Sebastiane. The film…

Podcaster and television personality Adam Carolla is sitting down with Dennis Prager for a unique event at the Kimmel Center on Saturday. They are going to be doing “an evening with” style sit-down with conversations on a variety of different…

The Raveonettes drove into Philly last night straight from a gig in Montreal, stopping only in NYC for the afternoon to play Letterman’s Late Show (you know, just ’cause.) One might expect the lack of rest to detract from the…

Rhett Vellner, a Doylestown boy and St. Joe’s alum, was recently named the new head chef at Resurrection Ale House. After the past few years of hustling on the line at joints-about-town like Smokin Betty’s, JG Domestic, and Resurrection, he’s…

Every year, there’s hundreds and hundreds of performances at the Philly Fringe and Live Arts Festival, and unless it’s one of the big shows, it’s sometimes hard to tell what you’re going to get. Here at Critical Mass we’re sending…