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May 2019
The 48 Hour Film Project: Film Screening & Hangout!
Join the folks behind the Philadelphia 48 Hour Film Project for a fun night of short films from previous 48 Hour Film Projects! Meet filmmakers, hangout, and learn more about the organization!
Celebrate the creation of 15+ short films, including previous winners of the Best Film and Audience Awards!
FREE // UPSTAIRS // 21+
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THE INCREDIBLE HUMONGOUS GUY (2013, 7:33)
Team: One by One
Best Film 1st Place
BEFORE THE DARKNESS CLAIMS US (2014, 7:30)
Team: CDAV Productions
Best Film 1st Place
Best Actor (Abu Akki)
Best Writing
GIL (2015, 7:46)
Team: Super Bathing Attitude
Best Film 1st Place
Best Acting
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Use of Prop
WILD WEST WILLY (2016, 7:54)
Team: Bruzzese Films
Audience Award
Best Costumes
Best Musical Score
UPLOAD (2016, 4:36)
Team: Picture Lock Collective
Audience Award
Best Editing
LOON’S COMPANY (2016, 7:37)
TEAM: Barebones
Best Film 2nd Place
THE SUMMONING (2016, 5:00)
Team: Studio 25 Films
Best Film 1st Place
Best Use of Line
Best Writing
HOT PURSUIT (2017, 6:16)
Team: Thinking Art Entertainment
Best Sound Design
B.S. TAPS AND COMPANY (2017, 6:10)
Team: Vacad Films
Audience Award
BROOMATES (2017, 5:42)
Team: RoughCuts Philly
Best Film First Place
Audience Award
Best Cinematography
Best Directing
Best Use of Line
Best Visual Effects
WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE SOUL (2018, 7:55)
Team: Mosleyfilms
Best Acting
THE UPDATE (2018, 7:22)
Team: GOVtown Company
Best Use of Line
Best Graphics
FLAUNT IT (2018, 7:38)
Team: 23-100 Films
Audience Award
Best Choreography
Best Costumes
DATE.CLICK.REPEAT (2018, 6:32)
Team: Thinking Art Entertainment
Best Film 2nd Place
Audience Award
Best Special Effects
Best Use of Character
TROMBONED (2018, 6:19)
Team: Peanut Butter Gang
Best Film 1st Place
Best Directing
Best Editing
Best Use of Prop
Best Writing
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Enjoy this event with our Taco Tuesday specials:
$1 Tacos
$2.50 Tecate
a special Taco of the Month,
& half off all drafts 5-7 & 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Find out more »Continental Breakfast: A Reading
A night of literature, comedy, smartassery, carousal, and other sundry mischief. Celebrating the release of his debut collection Continental Breakfast, unapologetically Midwestern poet Danny Caine will make his Philadelphia debut alongside luminaries Kaitlyn Andrews-Rice and Mike Ingram.
Topics covered could include but certainly aren’t limited to:
- Guy Fieri
- Beer commercials
- Passover
- Olive Garden
- Bono
- What happened in the parking lot of the Colorado Springs Hampton Inn
- Automatic Faucets
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ vegan potato & onion pierogi from noon-10pm
& half price drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
Find out more »Art’s Sake: A Philly Street Art Pop-Up Shop
Philly is full of some of the most creative, hard-working street artists anywhere in the whole dang world. It’s one of the reasons that over the last six months Tattooed Mom has been excited to partner with Philly’s own street art blog, Streets Dept, to create a monthly Philly street artist interview series. Now that the first season of our new series is over, we’re hosting a little pop-up shop to offer you the opportunity to come out, support local artists, and purchase some of their artwork!
Art’s Sake: A Philly Street Art Pop-Up Shop
WHEN: Friday 5/10, 6-10pm (FREE ENTRY, 21+)
WHERE: Tattooed Mom, 530 South Street
HASHTAG: #ArtsSakePhilly
The evening will featuring artwork for sale by all six of our “Philly Street Art Interviews” Season 1 interviewees:
Bob Will Reign
FaithsFunnn
Hope Hummingbird
Low Level
Taped Off TV
Void Skulls
We hope to see y’all there! In the meantime, catch up on any of the brilliant, insightful interviews with these artists that you might have missed over the months here.
Enjoy this event with Tattooed Mom’s full menu,
half price drafts from 5-7pm & 10-11pm,
plus an event exclusive cocktail!
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your street-art-loving pals!
Find out more »FREE Sunday Arts & Crafts: Scratch Art! // Mother’s Day Edition!
Scratch and sketch your way to magical fun EVERY Sunday in May with FREE Sunday Arts & Crafts: Scratch Art!
Watch your designs bloom in all the colors of the rainbow as you scratch away at the black coating! Draw and design your own brilliantly vivid word! Anything is possible: cartoons, typography, landscapes, portraits, doodles, and more!
And this week, join us for a special Mother’s Day Craft Sunday. We <3 Moms in all their many incarnations at Mom’s & would love to celebrate the Mama figure in your life. Stop by for some Sunday Crafting fun & Mom’s first round on us!
FREE fun for the WHOLE FAMILY! Every Sunday! Only at Tattooed Mom!
Enjoy this event with our delicious food & drink menu,
half price drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm,
& let your crafting continue into the night with $2 PBR pounders & 1/2 price tater tots after 7pm.

Question Everything: Skate Quizzo at Tattooed Mom
Skate deck release party. Quizzo. $3 Neshaminy Creek Trauger Pilsner.
Half off the entire TMOMs Meatless Menu. Half price drafts 5-7pm & 10-11pm.
Brought to you by Nocturnal Skateshop, Traffic Skateboards, Neshaminy Creek Brewery, & Tattooed Mom.
Hosted by Ricky Oyola.
FREE // UPSTAIRS
Doors 7PM // Event 8PM
21+ w/ valid ID

Basement / Nothing / Teenage Wrist PBR x TMOMs Afterparty
Join us after the Basement / Nothing / Teenage Wrist show at TLA for a TMOMs afterparty! Check out our Facebook & Instagram pages for the chance to win tickets to the show!
$2 PBR tall boys!
Half price drafts 10-11pm!
21+ w valid ID!
FREE!
5th Annual Philly Loves PAWS Day
Raise a glass for our furry pals, fuzzy buddies, and animals of all kinds!
We’ll be donating 20% of our sales on Wednesday, May 15th to PAWS! Across Philadelphia, businesses and animal lovers join together for a day-long, citywide fundraiser in support of PAWS’ lifesaving efforts. Restaurants, shops, and more will donate at least 10% of proceeds to bring Philadelphia closer to becoming a no-kill city.

Enjoy this event with our Burger Wednesday specials:
$4 Mom’s Beef Burgers & Mom’s Vegan Burgers
$2 Narragansett Lager Tall Boys
a special Burger of the Month
& half off all drafts 5-7 and 10-11pm
Check out PAWS’ website for more details!
Find out more »Tire Fire Presents: Washuta, Mathieu, Shirali, & Stone
Guess what guess what guess what guess what? TireFire Readings is going big before we break for the summer with readings from Elissa Washuta, Irène Mathieu, Raena Shirali, & Nomi Stone.
Doors 7 // Reading 8
This month, all donations will go to PA Adapt, “a grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”
Enjoy this event with our Pierogi Thursday specials:
50¢ pierogi from noon-10pm
& half off all drafts 5-7pm and 10-11pm
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your pals!
TMOMs @ 22: A Tattooed Mom Themed Art Show!
It’s Tattooed Mom’s 22nd birthday! To celebrate, we’re throwing a one-night-only party & open call art show featuring TMOMs-themed & TMOMs-inspired art!
Hundreds of artists from around the world visit Tattooed Moms every year to put their work on our walls & to see the art of others that have recently passed through. This event is a celebration of the uncurated & uninhibited community behind Tattooed Mom, featuring art of all forms, including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, and multimedia pieces (all relating to Tattooed Mom)!
FREE // UPSTAIRS // 21+
Artists include:
Nate Hurst
Kelly Campanile
Symone Salib
BLUR
Jodi Bosin
Jim McHugh
musclespasm
artscamuffa
Becca Dent Hanagan
whodoyouthink215
anonimusdread
& MORE!
Enjoy this event with our full food & drink menu,
plus half price drafts from 5-7pm & 10-11pm!
FREE Sunday Arts & Crafts: Scratch Art! // May 19th!
Scratch and sketch your way to magical fun EVERY Sunday in May with FREE Sunday Arts & Crafts: Scratch Art!
Watch your designs bloom in all the colors of the rainbow as you scratch away at the black coating! Draw and design your own brilliantly vivid word! Anything is possible: cartoons, typography, landscapes, portraits, doodles, and more!
FREE fun for the WHOLE FAMILY! Every Sunday! Only at Tattooed Mom!
Enjoy this event with our delicious food & drink menu,
half price drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm,
& let your crafting continue into the night with $2 PBR pounders & 1/2 price tater tots after 7pm.









