Arts & Entertainment
Cannes you dig it?
Day 1 Feel like I am in an episode of Entourage. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of this festival last night, when I was wandering through the central Palais, my head fuzzy with jetlag.
Fall Movie Preview
With fall comes the start of classes, cooler temperatures and vicious competition at the box office for Academy Awards contention.
Always Ford The River
It's almost impossible to analyze the Will Sheff-led Okkervil River's fifth LP without remembering their fourth.
Fall Movie Preview
With fall comes the start of classes, cooler temperatures and vicious competition at the box office for Academy Awards contention.
Oh, The Places You Will Go!
Johnny Brenda's 1201 Frankford Avenue, 21+ Brought to you by the owners of Standard Tap, Johnny Brenda's is a classic Philadelphia gastropub and music venue located in Fishtown.
Who's Got Soul?
Whether a quest for complete dominance of your parents' attention or an attempt to prove which child is the better of the offspring, sibling rivalry isn't new.
Cannes You Dig It?
Day 1 Feel like I am in an episode of Entourage. It was hard to appreciate the enormity of this festival last night, when I was wandering through the central Palais, my head fuzzy with jetlag.
This Week In Music
Tonight: GZA Trocadero, All ages 9:00 p.m. Legendary Wu-Tang wordsmith GZA continues the nostalgia-inspired tour that finds him performing his 1995 seminal classic Liquid Swords in full.
The Defibrillator
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band 1973 In 1973, Bruce Springsteen released The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, which shook up the "New Dylan" moniker that haunted his debut.
Guilty Pleasures
Don't tell anyone, but National Treasure is one of my favorite movies. I conveniently "forget" to mention it when asked to list my all-time favorites, and no evidence of my love for the historical-fiction-film-slash-action-movie-slash-crime-caper can be found amongst my possessions.
The Week In Music
Tonight: I'm From Barcelona The First Unitarian Church, All Ages If it's true that there is power in numbers, then this Swedish pop ensemble could move mountains.
Mister Lonely
5 Stars What if Abraham Lincoln, the Three Stooges, Michael Jackson and Sammy Davis Jr. lived together in a Scottish castle?
Summer Movies
As usual, the summer is dumping ground for prick (Iron Man) and chick (Sex and the City) flicks alike.
Festival Fun In The Sun
Need some fun to spice up your summer? Check out one of these summer festivals-the perfect excuse to road trip, get wasted and listen to music with thousands of your closest friends.
Retake the Remake
A few months ago I took on the (ultimately unfortunate) assignment of reviewing Michael Haneke's own remake of his brilliant 1997 commentary, Funny Games.
The End of Tapes
Tapes 'n Tapes - Minneapolis's rags-to-riches rock boys - return to their comfort zone of clanging riffs and Jim James echo-y vocals on their second album, Walk It Off.
Celebrity Crush
Dear James, I'll never forget the first time I saw you. You were walking on hind legs, striding across the screen as a Mr. Tumnus so good-looking, C.S.
The Defibrillator
Barry Manilow Greatest Hits 1978 I first met Barry when I was a mere child of five. And by met, I mean I ogled the cover of his 1978 Greatest Hits album, dreaming that one day, I would get to speak to this flamboyantly coiffed and spritely little songster.
Celebratory
As the spring term comes to a close, the books disappear and the party begins. In the real world, people celebrate with champagne.
