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Film: Road to Perdition
In the past, what makes Tom Hanks so appealing is that whether he portrays a prison guard or a gay man with AIDS, he still plays an honorable man on the right side of morality.
Music: Green Day
Green Day's latest album, Shenanigans, brought me back to my middle school years when the group first hit it big.
Music: Sonic Youth
One can argue that two different sides make up the musical career of Sonic Youth. Some fans favor the short, pop oriented song structure of albums such as Dirty or Goo while others wish for the more avant-garde, experimental work displayed on the SYR albums.
Film: Relax. Its Just Sex
Although one wouldn't suspect it from the two men having sex in the opening scene, P.J. Castellaneta's Relax...It's Just Sex is about more than just sex.
Culture: Achtung, Baby
Transvestites have been anything but a drag on the musical theater industry. From the first plays that forced men to play the parts of women to La Cage Aux Folles to Cabaret to The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Rent to an innumerable set of other musicals, men dressing as women has proven to be as much a musical theater staple as Barbra Streisand.
Out and About: Never Walk In Anyone's Shadow
Disc jockey n : a person who announces and plays popular recorded music Unfortunately, this definition fails to capture the talents and utter magic behind the musical melding of DJ Shadow.
Music: That's Just How the Story Goes
Belle and Sebastian's Storytelling soundtrack is replete with both upbeat ditties and introspective, instrumental ballads -- everything one would expect from the Glasgow-native seven-piece super group.
Voice: American Independence Not What It Used to Be
Beneath the flickering light of an overhead firework at a summer camp up north, Corey Lieberman talks to himself, mustering all his strength and courage, and walks towards Amy.
Summer Reads: The Whore's Child
While Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo has already demonstrated his literary acumen with his previous novels (Empire Falls, Nobody's Fool), he proves he is equally adept at constructing short stories of serious quality and depth.
Summer Reads: Song of the City
Some journalists tell us the story from the most straightforward angle possible. But others tell us the real story, and go behind the facts to tell us why we should care.
Room: George Wallace!
Cohabitants: College and Wharton junior Erin Sweeney of New Orleans, College senior Rebecca Tracy of Sewell, New Jersey, and College junior Mei Elansary of Dunn Loring, Virginia * All current residents at 4028 Walnut are participating in the Penn Public Service Internship. Did you know anyone in the program before moving in? Erin: None of us knew each other, but we did a lot of bonding things.
Film: I am no Yeats
Reign of Fire, the new sci-fi action thriller set in post-apocalyptic England, is not so much a reign over an empire, as over a small fiefdom or a large village.
Summer Reads: Prague
Arthur Phillips must have written his first novel Prague with a well-worn edition of The Sun Also Rises sitting next to his computer; for both books are studies of "Lost Generations." While Hemingway's characters are lost in the trenches of the Great War however, Phillips' rootless coterie merely proclaims itself to be lost. As Mark, the Canadian, researches nostalgia, as John writes cocky ex-pat dispatches in BudapesToday, and as Emily guards her Nebraskan virtue, Hungary is picking up the debris from the demolition of the Iron Curtain.
Music: Neil Finn & Friends: 7 Worlds Collide
The latest offering, 7 Worlds Collide: Live at St. James, from the music world's favorite kiwi, Neil Finn, is a mixed bag.
Film: The 2nd Time is Always Longer
The recent re-release trend may appear to be an altruistic gesture by filmmakers who offer audiences the opportunity to experience cinematic magic on the big screen all over again.
Music: Just Like Mama Used to Make
Is it possible to be a major label artist and also stay true to the craft? Walking the slippery slopes of authenticity, musicians are often forced to make the choice between careers of anonymous artistic freedom or soul-less commercial success.
Beth's Corner: Mr. Deeds
Mr. Deeds was sooo funny. Adam Sandler is sooo funny in all of his movies. I love him. I have all his CDs.
Guides/Music: The Clinic Comes to Philly
Remember that show Unsolved Mysteries about haunted comedy clubs and good samaritans who disappear without a trace?
Music: El Queso Es Viejo Y Podrido
Have you seen the video for Moby's newest single, "We Are All Made of Stars," off his new album 18? You probably have and so you know what's cool about it: it has cameos by Kato Kaelin, Ron "The Grizzled Hedgehog" Jeremy and even Corey Feldman (who aptly licks his cell-phone and blows a kiss at it... sweet). But most importantly, it has a Gary Coleman/Todd Bridges reunion.
