Best Bets
Music Bruno Mars/Janelle Monáe. The pair's electrifying medley at this year's Grammy Awards offered a glimpse of the sonic energy these two ambitious, talented 25-year-olds will undoubtedly generate during their two-month co-headlining tour. Mars (real na
Music
Bruno Mars/Janelle Monáe.
The pair's electrifying medley at this year's Grammy Awards offered a glimpse of the sonic energy these two ambitious, talented 25-year-olds will undoubtedly generate during their two-month co-headlining tour. Mars (real name Peter Hernandez), won the Grammy for best male pop vocal performance for "Just the Way You Are," the chart-topping single off his platinum-selling Doo-Wops & Hooligans CD. Monáe made many critics' best-of lists with her genre-defying concept album, The ArchAndroid, which uses Afrofuturism as a backdrop for themes of love and self-identity.
Family
New Voices Saturday Reading Series.
Philadelphia Young Playwrights concludes its series by showcasing staged readings of winning elementary and middle school plays from the group's annual Playwriting Festival. Directed by Peter Reynolds and presented as part of the Young Playwrights' 2010-2011 Play Development Series, the performance will feature the reading of The Reason We Listen by Strath Haven Middle School student Hannah Pierce-Hoffman. The reading will be performed by undergraduate actors in collaboration with Temple University Theaters.
Film
New this week: Jumping the Broom
**1/2 (out of four stars) Buoyant, multigenerational comedy about the tensions before the wedding of an old-money daughter of privilege (Paula Patton) to a bootstrapper from Brooklyn (Laz Alonso). Angela Bassett and Loretta Devine are their dueling mothers.
PG-13
(sexual innuendo and references).