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IT'S MONUMENTAL!

The “YOUR MOVE” public art piece, sprawled over the plaza of the Municipal Services Building at 1401 J.F.K.

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This Week In ... 10.14.2010

MUSIC Friday 10/15: Blonde Redhead with Pantha du Prince, Electric Factory, $20 Japanese and Italian exports Blonde Redhead have been channeling the soul of 80's shoegaze for years with their dreamy guitar riffs and melancholic trilingual whispers.

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Honoring d'Harnoncourt

Newly rechristened in honor of the late Anne d’Harnoncourt, the PMA’s sculpture garden adds additions to its urban sanctuary.

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Review: It's Kind Of A Funny Story

A mental ward serves as the backdrop for indie quirkiness Here’s a funny story: the directors of Half Nelson decided to make a lighthearted comedy.

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Philly Film Festival Preview

Tonight at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Darren Aronofsky’s highly-anticipated Black Swan will kick off 10 days of geeky cinema appreciation.

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Deja Vu: Addams' Hands And Labyrinth

Labyrinth may be the scariest children’s movie ever made — what better inspiration to draw from when designing your gates, Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall? Prepare to be transported back to the film that gave you nightmares when you were six as you pass through the gates of Penn’s most smoker–friendly facility. As you no doubt fondly remember, our heroine Jennifer Connelly finds herself in quite the pickle in the 1986 flick when she falls through a trap door and is greeted by the “Helping Hands” — disembodied digits who “save” her from plummeting to her death. “Up or down?” they innocently ask, feeling poor Connelly up under the guise of rescuing her. Fears of molestation may grip one as they enter Addams.

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Review: Red

In Red, Frank Moses (Willis) is a retired CIA operative who just can’t kick his gun powder habit.

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Review: Nowhere Boy

Released just in time for John Lennon’s 70th birthday (but almost a year after it came out in the UK), Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy portrays the early life of eventual nowhere man John Lennon.

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For Your Ears Only

We know how confusing music tech can be — it mostly consists of terms that only a handful of people could possibly understand.

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One Track Mind: "Rocketeer," Far*East Movement ft. Ryan Tedder

“Like A G6” is one of those songs that crept up on us. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, the Auto–tune–soaked track shot up the Billboard charts, and is currently sitting pretty at number two.

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Venues N' Shit: The Trocadero

The key to the Trocadero is in the details: the way the parquet floor seems to wobble slightly as the crowd jumps up and down, the intricate red design on the decorative curtain, the Christmas lights that hang from the side balconies.

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Review: Age Of Adz, Sufjan Stevens

Stevens’s goes bigger on his latest LP, with less interesting results. It is undoubtedly a statement to release a one–hour–and–fifteen–minute–long record — it implies a burning need to be heard, or at the very least an abundance of musical ideas.

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Interview with Paul Fierlinger

My Dog Tulip, an animated film directed by Penn Design professor Paul Fierlinger, opens today at the Ritz.

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Review: Waiting For Superman

Every 26 seconds a kid drops out of high school. American public schools once produced 100 Nobel laureates and 10 Presidents.

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This Week In ... 09.30.2010

Now — October 10: Iron , presented by Theatre Exile at Studio X, $25. Think your mother is bad?

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Guest Curator: Erin Waxman

Half of the team behind Art Star — a gallery-cum-boutique that showcases some of the most innovative contemporary art around - Erin Waxman gives Street a tour of this city's vibrant arts Street: What’s your favorite piece of public art in the city?

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Thank God It's (First) Friday

This month’s art party is more than just an excuse to pilfer cups of wine from Second Street galleries.

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Review: Jack Goes Boating

By contrasting the radically different relationships of two couples, Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, presents a sincere, yet staid picture of love among middle-aged adults.

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Deja Vu: Bugs And Bedbugs

It’s official, we’re infested! Only New York City has more cases of bedbugs than Philadelphia, and they aren’t expected to go away anytime soon. While you are probably in the clear, it’s nevertheless easy to become paranoid.

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Review: The Social Network

Before Mark Zuckerberg became the world’s youngest billionaire, he was as awkward at talking to women as anyone in Skirkanich Hall. The opening sequence of The Social Network depicts a rapid-fire, cringe-worthy exchange between Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) and his girlfriend.

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