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7Days: Regional arts and entertainment, by Michael Harrington

Sunday Good folk Husband-and-wife duo Mike + Ruthy play power-pop Americana on a three-band bill at 8 p.m. at Bourbon & Branch, 705 N. Second St. Tickets are $10.

"Philadelphia Explained," graphic designer Paula Scher's room-size map of the city, will be on exhibit through July 25 at Temple University's Tyler School of Art.
"Philadelphia Explained," graphic designer Paula Scher's room-size map of the city, will be on exhibit through July 25 at Temple University's Tyler School of Art.Read more

Sunday

Good folk Husband-and-wife duo Mike + Ruthy play power-pop Americana on a three-band bill at 8 p.m. at Bourbon & Branch, 705 N. Second St. Tickets are $10.

Call 215-238-0660.

Monday

Royal conversation Queen Elizabeth II has been very good to Helen Mirren. The divine Miss M won an Oscar for playing the royal in 2006's The Queen, written by Peter Morgan, and she just collected a Tony for playing the same role in the writer's drama The Audience, about the monarch's decades of consulting with British prime ministers. A film of the production screens at 7 p.m. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute,

824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr. Tickets are $20; $10 students.

Call 610-527-9898.

Tuesday

Distinctive voice Chicago musician Haley Fohr, who does business as Circuit des Yeux, creates symphonic pop powered by her rich, haunting alto vocals. She plays at 8 p.m. at Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave.

Tickets are $10.

Call 215-739-9684.

Wednesday

Our town For the exhibition Philadelphia Explained, graphic designer Paula Scher created a room-size map of the city, and architect Keith Hartwig made domed structures with three-dimensional color photographs of people in local scenes. The show is at Temple Contemporary, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 2001 N. 13th St., from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays to July 17. Admission is free.

Call 215-777-9138.

Pride of his time The 2008 biopic Milk, about the life and assassination of 1970s San Francisco city official and gay activist Harvey Milk, gets a timely screening at 7 p.m. at the National Museum of American Jewish History, Fifth and Market Streets. Tickets are $8. Call 215-923-3811.

Thursday

Thrash it out New Jersey punks Zymotic Youth bring their spasmodic energy to a four-band bill at 8 p.m. at the North Star Bar, 2639 W. Poplar St. Tickets are $10.

Call 215-787-0488.

Friday & Saturday

Country girls The trio Red Molly blends sweet harmonies at the Sellersville Theater, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville, at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $25 and $39.50. Call 215-257-5808.

The original Things may be jumping along Fury Road these days, but the pinnacle of all things Mad Max will always be George Miller's second film with the character, 1981's The Road Warrior, which set the template for any number of post-apocalyptic smash-ups that followed. The film screens at the Ritz at the Bourse, Fourth and Chestnut Streets, at midnight Friday. Tickets are $10. Call 215-440-1181.

Mod Max Best known for his psychedelic 1960s work, the enduring artist Peter Max is still at it, creating instantly recognizable images imbued with the spirit

of his times. The artist appears at a retrospective of his work at Ocean Galleries, 9618 Third Ave., Stone Harbor, N.J., at 7 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday (through Sunday). Admission is free. Call 609-368-7777.