Arts & Entertainment
Delicious
This film, from the director of Kramer vs. Kramer, asks the question: Is love just a trick nature plays on us or is it the only meaning there is to this crazy world?
Meat Puppets
As an angst-addled adolescent, my favorite Nirvana song was "Oh, Me" from the MTV Unplugged record. When I eventually replaced cassette with CD, I discovered in the liner notes that "Oh, Me" and two other tracks were in fact Meat Puppets covers.
ENDANGERED list
It's unusual to find a band of friends who are able to believe in their adolesent fairy-tales when they grow up.
vintage wine
It used to be you could listen to an Iron & Wine album and imagine sitting alone with Sam Beam as he whispered his lyrics directly to you.
Phillywood
If Philadelphia were to play a role in a teen sex comedy, it would play the girl who can't get a date for the prom - a Molly Ringwald character who somehow goes unnoticed by everybody except one weirdo (seriously, M.
Green is the new blue
Let's recap: This is the Canadian folk singer-songwriter's first proper new release in seven years, she is signed to Starbucks' Hear Music label and her voice has grown noticeably huskier.
Smashing Pumpkins
As a nine-year-old, the Smashing Pumpkins' epic double-disc Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness made me feel so uncomfortable that I went back to Strawberries and returned it.
ANIMAL HOUSE
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam 2/5 Stars Animal Collective is back with the same non-rhythmic, glitchy sounds they explored on their last full-length, Feels.
Sky of blue, sea of green
If you choose to slip into the film's phantasmagoric and stunningly beautiful aesthetic, Across the Universe will transport you to a trippy 1960s dreamscape.
Chuck Sucks
If you pass up partying or studying to see a movie this weekend, I sincerely hope it's not for Good Luck Chuck.
Breaking waves
Lab analyses, electron microscopes, s‚ances and metaphysical inquiries - all absurd measures to prove that a spade is still a spade.
Across the Univerise Interview
Julie Taymor, director of Across the Universe, strives to transcend. With roots in theater, opera, puppetry and television, her productions - like the hugely popular Broadway production of The Lion King - reflect a layered and dynamic artist.
Playlist of the week: "Bad Education"
1. Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) - The Young Knives 2. Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John 3.
philly's music man
It's only been four years since Philly-based DJ Diplo co-founded Hollertronix - the collective/mixtape series that launched both his career and the mash-up craze.
Meet the Osbornes
In this dark comedy, Finn Earl (Anton Yelchin), a teenager from New York City, is planning to have the summer of a lifetime studying the Iskanani tribe in the Amazon with his anthropologist father.
If it ain't broke.
If you're one of the few remaining album loyalists, consider Kevin Drew's Spirit If. your most dangerous tempation.
Where were you this summer?
We know - four months of music, but no Street to make sense of it all. Can we make it up to you? This week, we recap Summer 2007 with the Top 5 things you need to know, but might have missed. 1.
Defibrillator
Mulatu Astatke Ethiopiques, Vol. 4 1998 With the Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke, Jim Jarmusch already did some of the resuscitation for us.
Woodcock rocks
If the man sitting next to me in the movie theater wrote this review, Mr. Woodcock would be getting a crotch-thrusting four stars.
