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Things look a bit light this week, with the Philly Orchestra on a well-deserved break, Easter on the horizon and Passover beginning tonight.

On Saturday night, Philly-based Alo Brasil brought their drums, their beats, their vocals and many many dancers to World Cafe Live for two shows. This Phillyist was at the first show, which was a sit-down dinner, and it made us wish that we'd gone to the second show, which was an all-out dance party (hey, we're not a spring chicken anymore, and we were at the Alexi Murdoch show late the night before).

We get it -- it's cold. You don't want to move, let alone take a jog or a run in this freezing weather. It's oh so easy to turn into a lump on your couch watching Extras on DVD.

Have you voted yet? No? What the hell are you sitting at your computer for then?

The Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit ended with a bang – or should we say a beat? After three days of talking up this new way of thinking of artists as talent that can drive the economy, conference-goers headed on down to World Café Live for a concert by two local bands. The first, Soulamite, is a soul group with two stunning leading ladies, one of whom has the coolest mohawk we’ve ever seen on a woman. The second was the invigorating Alo Brasil, which is a Brazilian-inspired band made up of 12 Philadelphia musicians spanning three generations. Their combination of excellent drumming, gorgeous dancers (if dancing gets a girl abs like that, sign me up!) and sheer enthusiasm had everyone on the World Café Live dance floor – including the wait staff, since they had no one to serve – dancing in what we hoped were our best Brazilian dance moves. Alo Brasil will be playing at World Café Live on Saturday night, and this time the performances - a 7pm seated dinner show and a 10pm dance party - will be open to the public. Needless to say, we recommend the later show. It’s a workout.

Jamie Cullum's come a long way since playing Zanzibar Blue. Back in 2004, the tuck-away restaurant was his Philadelphia venue of choice to perform his modern jazz and pop stylings. Talk about moving up – last night, he, along with song bird Brandi Carlile, sold out the Kimmel Center.

By now you’ve probably heard of Nouvelle Vague, the French band covering songs of the English new wave in the loungey style of Brazilian bossanova. They’re on the stereo at your hipster friends’ parties, they’re showing up on every list as one of the best breakout albums of the summer, and most recently, they’re on the soundtrack for a T-Mobile commercial. And now the band is bound for World Café Live, the Philadelphia stop on their American tour.

Fernando Meirelles' new film, The Constant Gardener, is about watching and being watched. The previews may fool you into thinking it's a movie about scandals involving the pharmaceutical industry in Kenya, or about a multinational murder mystery, or a love affair starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, or the exploitation of African poverty by a collusion of powerful government and corporate forces. And Meirelles, working from a screenplay by Jeffrey Caine, adapted from a John le Carré novel, turns his attention to each of these plot threads. But in the end, Gardener remains always a study on who gets to watch, whom is watched, and what happens when someone tries to escape, or even reverse, the terms of their surveillance. It is always about watching.