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(11/02/06 5:00am)
Paper covers rock. Nick the Greek takes the lead, and the Rider is switching hands." The Midnight Rider of "parts unknown," wears a thin leather mask that shields his identity and a bola tie adorned with a skull. He throws down a pair of scissors that cuts Nick's paper, and it looks like the switch to his left hand has served him well. However, moments later, the Rider's body stiffly lunged forward, he throws another scissors which are crushed by Nick the Greek's solid rock. They both throw scissors several more times before Nick brings back rock and stunningly defeats the Midnight Rider. The Midnight Rider will leave with $50 while Nick will face Most Definitely Megan for first place.
(05/03/06 4:00am)
Teenagers filled the Electric Factory on Sunday, April 23 to see a band that hipsters would say is so out they might even be considered pastiche. When the Strokes' "Is This It" hit in 2001, the band ushered in the familiar sound of garage rock which instantly became mainstream. Now, with two other albums under their belt, including this year's mildly disappointing First Impressions of Earth, the Strokes hit up Philadelphia to relay a pleasant mix of their classics and new hits.
(03/30/06 5:00am)
Dov Kogen began singing and writing songs at the ripe age of three, when he took the tune of Jewish hymn "Adon Olam" and set it to the one-word lyric "guitar." "I didn't actually play guitar back then," the psychology major and music minor says, "so I sort of strummed my aunt's 30-year-old classical guitar," which he would actually learn to play in the fourth grade. Thus, a star was born.
(02/16/06 5:00am)
Several years ago, three members of the orchestral pop band Stars smoked pot in New York's Central Park and were arrested by an undercover cop. "It was really quite incredible," says bassist Evan Cranley. "We literally got out of jail, in a cab and jumped on stage. It was pretty rock and roll."
(02/02/06 5:00am)
Even before I was a hip music editor for this publication, I listened to music I deemed semi-alternative. When I got a Discman at age 12, I purchased the X-Games soundtrack, and man did I love Goldfinger. My music taste went along with the typical Holden Caulfieldesque disillusionment with the world, the "knowledge" that few people truly understood me and a lot of terrible short stories.
(03/17/05 5:00am)
It's hard not to feel ripped off when you go into the Penn Bookstore to buy Hamlet (which you know you already own at home anyway) and find all the used copies gone, forcing you to pay the full $10 for a play you probably already know by heart. Trading books on websites like Penndeck.com is fine, but probably not worth the five or ten bucks you'll save, so you end up buying your books at that intolerable Penn-infested Bookstore and getting suckered into a Wharton fun pack, complete with t-shirt, Nalgene and pencil, thinking, of course, that it says The College on it.
(01/20/05 5:00am)
If you think that the earrings at Anthropologie are pretty but absurdly overpriced, or if you broke your favorite necklace and have lost all hope, have no fear! Beadworks is a haven for the arts and crafts dork, or for the boy who wants to impress his girlfriend with something hand-made. "We cater towards anyone from the novice to the jewelry designer," says store manager Jennifer Wechsler. With six locations across the U.S., Beadworks has been "the premier bead store in Philadelphia" for almost thirteen years. Nevertheless, few Penn students patronize it, leaving the store a well-kept secret among locals.
(11/18/04 5:00am)
Bare Feet Shoes
425 South Street
Mon-Fri, 11a.m.-10p.m., Sat, 11a.m.-11p.m., Sun, 11a.m.-8p.m.
(215) 922-0488
(10/28/04 4:00am)
Wexler Art Gallery