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Arts & Entertainment

This Week in... 11.11.2010

MUSIC Friday, Nov. 12: Maserati with Psychic Paramount and Steve Moore, Kung Fu Necktie, $10 The name of this three–piece from Athens, GA says it all: sophistication, precision and most importantly, lightning speed.

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Scouring The Streets

For November’s First Friday — the monthly arts block party in Old City — Street took to the sidewalks to find some dorm decor on the cheap.

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Everyday Etiquette

With so many tricky social situations, it can be tough to maintain proper decorum. Here are two experts from opposite ends of the earth (one goes to Drexel and one goes to Penn) to give you their advice on everything from dating to dinner parties.

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Deja Vu: Psycho On The Run

“A boy’s best friend is his mother,” said Norman Bates… or perhaps the man who recently ran off with his mother’s corpse.

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Review: Morning Glory

Romantic comedies have long struggled with sexism, despite their being targeted toward a female audience.

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A Guide To Recognizing Your Cinema Courses

Registration is no doubt competitive for students trying to snag the best courses, but did you know that it’s competitive for professors as well?

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Review: Tamara Drewe

Director Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, High Fidelity) may very well be the most interesting and prolific British filmmaker of the past half century.

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Review: Four Lions

A comedy about jihad is certain to cause a stir, and indeed Four Lions made headlines at the Sundance Film Festival back in January.

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This Week in... 11.04.008

MUSIC Friday, Nov. 12: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Os Mutantes with Old King Cole the Younger, the Trocadero, $17–19 Ariel Pink has been making music for years, recording over 500 lo–fi tracks in his bedroom by using his mouth and even his armpits as percussive instruments.

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Posto/Contrapposto

The art collection of the Barnes Foundation (over 2500 works by artistic luminaries like Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir) is slated to move from the ‘burbs to Philadelphia in about a year.

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Artspiration

Sculptor Robert Engman is perhaps best known for “Triune,” a trifold Moebius strip that stands majestically outside City Hall, but his sculpture “Quadrature #1” is one of the most inspiring works I have ever encountered in this city.

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Street DYI Wall Decals

Materials: 1 very sharp and sturdy X–Acto knife 1 pair of scissors 1 straight edge 1 high contrast image Tape Contact paper in any color or texture Directions: 1.

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For Mature Eyes Only

Last week we profiled two films featured at the Philadelphia Film Festival that have struggled with NC–17 ratings, known to be box office poison.

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Deja Vu: Charlie's Hangover

Withhold thine judgment, middle America! Let he who has never gotten coked up and naked with a pornstar and trashed his Plaza hotel room while on a family vacation cast the first stone.

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Review: For Colored Girls

Tyler Perry’s latest film, based on Ntozake Shange's award–winning play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, follows the trials and tribulations of several black women, played by big names like Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah!

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Review: Due Date

It takes a lot to make a movie starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. anything less than extraordinary, but somehow Due Date manages to do this with surprising ease.

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Review: "The Fool," Warpaint

With haunting melodies and hypnotic guitar riffs the women of Warpaint bring a sexy spookiness to their particular brand of art rock.

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One Track Mind: "Get Some", Lykke Li

Given that her last single was a moody contribution to the Twilight soundtrack, Lykke Li’s latest — the aptly titled “Get Some” — is nothing if not a breath of fresh air.

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One Track Mind: "Crime Pays", Bear Hands

If you’re at all nostalgic for Oracular Spectacular, MGMT’s crazy electro–funk debut album, then you’ve received an awesome, neon–wrapped gift in the form of Bear Hands.

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REVIEW: Avey Tare, Down There

On the cover of Avey Tare’s first solo effort is a crocodile skull, rippling with sharp green details that vaguely resemble a sort of digital swamp grass.

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