Frugal Fun Alert: Weekend

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

FRIDAY
Slow: Opening event for sLowlife, featuring time-lapse photography and high-speed video footage revealing the secret life of plants, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (315 Chestnut), 5PM. Free

Sing a Song: Steve Odabashian takes requests and makes it personal at Helium Comedy Club (2031 Sansom), 6-10:45PM. Free

Mega: Release party for the 10th issue of Megawords Magazine at Juanita & Juan's/Smyrski Creative Studios (125 N 11th), 7-10PM. Free

Love: Screening of I've Loved You So Long, with popcorn, at Little Theater (7141 Germantown Ave), 7PM. $6

Biggie: BIG EARS, a residency program matching New York-based drummer/composer John Hollenbeck with Philadelphia jazz musicians at the Painted Bride (230 Vine), 7 & 9PM. $10 (6pm pre-show Q&A with BIG EARS curator Lenny Seidman)

Science: Physics of Meaning, Buried Beds, and Emily Bate at the Green Line Café (4426 Locust), 7:30PM. $7

The N Crowd: Weekly improv comedy show at The Actors Center (257 N. 3rd), 8PM. $10

Chatty: Conversations with Friends, Dragonzord, The Wayfairs, and Controlled Storms at Millcreek Tavern (4200 Chester Ave), 9PM. $8

SATURDAY
For the Love of Beer: Fork You Live filming with Marisa McClellan and Scott McNulty creating dishes with beer at Foster's Homeware (399 Market), 2PM. Free

Poet Café: Nuyorican poet Mariposa, aka Maria Teresa Fernandez, reads her work at Julia de Burgos Books and Crafts Store (2721 N 5th), 3PM. Free

In Our Idiom: Book release shin dig for Idiom Magazine Anthology at the Rotunda (4014 Walnut), 6-10PM. Free

WWJD: Screening of The Ordinary Radicals, looking at a small sect of Christianity struggling with the connection between their faith and current politics, at Wooden Shoe Books (508 S 5th), 7:30PM. Free

Chatty, Take Two: Philly Pecha Kucha, a "rapidfire creative show-and-tell" with 20 slides and twenty seconds of commentary apiece per person, at Studio 34 (4522 Baltimore Ave), 7:30PM. $5

Soulful: The Black Souls Band and Kalai King at Tin Angel (20 S 2nd), 10:30PM. $8

SUNDAY
Guilty: Crime Fiction Book Club Series with authors S.J. Rozan and Leighton Gage at Les Bons Temps (114 S12th), 1PM. Free

Sing-A-Long: Celebrate the 150th birthday of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem with a sing-a-long screening of Fiddler On The Roof, hosted by Martha Graham Cracker and featuring prizes for best costume at the Gershman Y (401 S Broad), 3PM. $10 adult, $5 kids

Rocking: bowerbird presents Tatsuya Nakatani, Morally Gray, Jesse Kudler, and Richard Kamerman at Vox Populi (319 N 11th, 3rd Floor), 8PM. $10

Party for a Good Cause: 101, dance party supporting LGBTQ charities and featuring DJ Robbie Tronco every Sunday at O.N.E. (121 S 19th), 9PM-2AM. Free

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