Best Bets

September 25, 2010
  • "Heart Candy" by Andi DeMarino.

Music

M.I.A. With Rye Rye. Maya Arulpragasam doesn't want to be a proper pop star. "It's like people want me to become some kind of Cinderella," says the rapper known as M.I.A., 35, who will be found headlining the Electric Factory on Sunday, with her protege Rye Rye opening the show. Talking on the phone this week from Montreal, where Arulpragasam was preparing for the start of a U.S. tour in support of her confrontational third album, Maya, she spoke about "the spirit of punk, of not lying down and accepting things."

- Dan DeLuca


8 p.m. Sunday at the Electric Factory, Seventh and Willow Streets. Tickets: $35, $27 day of show. Information: 215-627-1332, www.electricfactory.info.

Family

Manayunk EcoArts Festival. Ready to down a cup of solar-filtered Schuylkill water? Have Phillies fever? Wonder how a computer would size up your personal carbon footprint? You can satisfy all these yens - and see rapper Schoolly D - at the free Manayunk EcoArts Festival on Saturday and Sunday. The fest, a new green effort by the creators of the 21-year-old Manayunk Arts Festival, will be in the area of Main Street in Manayunk.

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- Kathryn Canavan


Manayunk EcoArts Festival, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Main and Cotton Streets and surrounding area of Manayunk. Admission: Free. Parking: All Manayunk parking lots will be open, Information: manayunk.com.

Film

New this week:

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ** (out of four stars) Oliver Stone's bookend to his brazenly entertaining 1987 film, Wall Street, attempts to explain the 2008 banking bubble through the story of a young stock analyst (Shia LaBeouf) who seeks out disgraced financier Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) to help him take down Wall Street vulture Bretton James (Josh Brolin). Douglas and LaBeouf are excellent, but as a cautionary tale of personal and business ethics, the film has all the urgency of snail mail. PG-13 (profanity, mature themes) - Carrie Rickey

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