Arts & Entertainment

Truly excruciating from beginning to end, Crooked Fingers's third full-length album falls embarrassingly short of endurable.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

The ambiguities that pervade our fair language consistently astound me. My most recent rendezvous with wooly English occurred during a stroll through the music department of the Bookstore.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

What ever happened to the days when a DJ actually moved crowds with his or her dexterity at the scratching and mixing of records?
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

Get ready to embark on an introspective exploration of the musical roots from which Ben Harper has developed in his fifth studio album, Diamonds on the Inside. Backed by his band, the Innocent Criminals, Harper courageously experiments with a wide range of sounds, including reggae, Delta Blues, funk, gospel, hard rock and world music.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

Assassination Tango should be good.ÿ Under the deft hand of Robert Duvall -- who directs, produces and stars in the film -- this labor of love should be a masterpiece.ÿThe film, however, falls short of these expectations.ÿThe ingredients are there, but they end up producing a lot of nothing -- unless you enjoy staring at one pointless scene after another for two hours, that is.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

I was in shock when I first heard the news of a thriller set entirely around a Times Square phone booth, potentially starring Jim Carrey.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

The British Empire may not have had the cleanest record when one considers its history of racial oppression and mistreatment of its colonial subjects, but films like Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham suggest that there might just be a bright, new, heterogeneous future in store for the original Isle of WASP that comes with its own set of cultural obstacles.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

One day, four young boys walk through the forest and see three older boys bullying a small kid from "the retard academy." The four boys decide to help this unfortunate lad, warmly referred to as "Dudditz" (due to his own mispronunciation of Douglas). Little did they know that Dudditz was more special than the euphemism suggests.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

Somebody needs to get Vic Chesnutt some Prozac. An accident while driving drunk as a teenager left him a paraplegic, and the pain and agony of his life infects every track on Silver Lake. The music and lyrics are downbeat, and if his voice were not so annoying, the CD could easily put anyone to sleep.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

The 12th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival, presented by TLA Entertainment and the Philadelphia Film Society, will take place on April 3 - 16.
April 3, 2003 at 12:00 am

Any film fan can conjure up the image of Vincent and Jules standing naked while The Wolf hosed the blood off their asses.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

After watching David Gordon Green's second feature film, All the Real Girls, I was bewildered.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

Mike Skinner, the British rapper better known as The Streets, moves across the stage, violently shaking a bottle of beer over his head, and spraying its contents all over himself and those near the front of the stage, without missing a lyric.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

Hail Social Hail Social (EP) Self-released These days, seemingly every band wants to be the next post-punk talk of the town.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

It's hard to say what it is about the British that makes their music so appealing. Whatever it is, The Coral have got it by the boatload.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

Recently, Street sat down with John Travolta to talk about his career, his new film Basic and his views on the world.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

Teddy Riley is still a genius. That said, the new Blackstreet album, Level II, is still new-jack swinging like it's 1994.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

In 1996, High/Low spawned the New York trio's lone hit, "Popular." Quite removed from their comparably glitzy mainstream debut, Nada Surf's minimalist indie-rock sensibilities set the tone for their third album Let Go. Switching record labels, the band relinquished the pretense of snaring mainstream acceptability, instead crafting thoughtful, personal delves into melancholic bliss. The sweet hum of the bass fused with the twinkling guitars nearly lulls the listener into a serene sublime state.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

David Gordon Green chose to follow up his critically-lauded George Washington with a simple, romantic film, All the Real Girls. He showed the film to Penn students at The Bridge on March 19, but made some time to talk to Street beforehand with co-writer and star Paul Schneider. PS: Do you want a lager this early in the day? No thanks.
March 27, 2003 at 12:00 am

All of this will be old news to the movie buffs among us. Cronenberg is revered in cinemaniac circles as a god of the disturbing and bizarre.
March 20, 2003 at 12:00 am