The Ninja Turtles, pizza and Macaulay Culkin converge in Philadelphia
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie franchise (old and new), former child star Macaulay Culkin, the Velvet Underground and reams of pizza all converged Friday night in Philadelphia's Eakins Oval, in a multigenerational confluence of fun.
The event was part of AwesomeFest, a occasional series of cool, off-beat events in the Philly area. Held in conjunction with next month's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, Friday's event was an outdoor open air pizza party- featuring the turtles' favorite food, of course- as well as a screening of the original 1990 Turtles film.
The musical guest for the evening was the Pizza Underground, fronted by another name from 1990, ' Home Alone ' star MacaulayCulkin. The group's schtick is that they sing Velvet Underground songs, only with the lyrics changed so they're about pizza.
They were entertaining, if somewhat limited by their gimmick, and by the Velvet Underground having only recorded four studio albums. The group was slight but ultimately harmless, and certainly not deserving of the weirdly mean-spirited treatment they got from Boston Magazine last year.
I brought my four-year-old son to the event, in full Leonardo costume, and was sort of surprised at how few kids were there- this was much more geared at hipster adults. And that's our culture today: Kids stuff isn't even for kids anymore- it's for adults, ironically remembering the stuff they liked as kids. See: the Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show, in which every other bit is a nostalgic leverage to some bit of '80s or early '90s pop culture.
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