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Film: Not Your Standard Routine
Thelonious Monk is a visual aesthete's dream. His right hand recklessly pecks at the keys like a wild chicken, yet with such precision and unsettling terseness.
Culture: The Brick Playhouse Is a Dive
From outside, The Brick Playhouse is more reminiscent of a halfway house, than a theater. It's a hole in the wall -- a doorway sandwiched in between a defunct South Street bar and what a Walmart would be if it were located in the fifth circle of hell.
Summer Reads: Detour
Last June, I turned twenty-one in the psychiatric ward of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ring. Ring. Who's There?
Question: how do you get Comedy Central to show a deaf man masturbating to the vibrations produced when a phone sex operator yells into the other end of a receiver that he places up to his balls?
Jonah: Episode Three - Donnie's Creek
Jonah and his freshman year roommate were complete opposites. Donnie was a Japanese/Korean hybrid from Atlanta, who wore a John Deere cap and boasted the largest collection of confederate bumper stickers east of the Mississippi ("Heritage not hatred," he would tell Jonah). He thought anim‚ was the greatest, and secretly lusted after Sebastian's Little Princess.
Juwanna Not Go See This Movie
Last week on CNN, Miguel Nunez and Vivica A. Fox were promoting the movie Juwanna Mann. A viewer called in, asking Nunez about how he survives as a Latino actor.
Marital Mayhem Like Butter
Jerry Schiff is having a bad day: trying to avoid a mob of reporters, he ran into Martina Navratilova's electrical fence, helicopters passing over his Malibu home have rattled pictures off the wall and worst of all, Arnold Schwarzenegger's humvee is blocking his driveway.
Spielberg Reminds Me of My Rabbi
I was once told that writing a good story is markedly different from writing good literature. Case in point: the prolific Stephen King has written many insidious novels without ever having produced a great piece of literature.
Queen of the Hill Meets the Hippest Cat in Town
In the short span of a few months, two female African-American singers -- who make reasonably similar, soulful music -- have released new CDs.
Who Am I? You're Matt Damon, Of Course
Get ready for some serious ass kicking. Damon has been tough before, (whether it was by belittling a pseudo-intellectual in a Harvard bar, or whooping some Germans in occupied France) but never as hard-hitting as he is in The Bourne Identity.
Culture Cock
Wearing a guitar and a string bikini, Rebecca Torosian is the one-woman star of Cock Healer -- a play about sex and the women who sell it.
Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero
By the age of 21, Bret Easton Ellis had penned his first novel, Less Than Zero, and was wining over critics who likened him to such literary icons as Ernest Hemingway and F.
Review: Eminem's Eminem Show
On the pages of a comic book or up on movie screens, superheroes live double lives. They possess talents and powers beyond normal human capabilities.
Film Review: Bad Company
The latest offering from action maestro Jerry Bruckheimer (Top Gun, Pearl Harbor) finds him walking the well trodden path of the "unlikely cop duo." Adhering almost exactly to the formula set up by the Gibson/Glover and more recently, DeNiro/Murphy, onscreen partnerships, Bad Company casts Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, obviously as the straight-as-an-arrow white character, alongside up and coming Murphy wannabe, Chris Rock -- already appearing to be typecast into the role of mouthy guy from the streets.
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
My first reaction was "huh?" But eventually I was saying the eternal words of understanding, not Eureka, but "holy shit!" The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood is a shocking prophecy-turned-social-commentary about the current state of patriarchal control in the United States.
Culture: POD delivers.. to your door!
Starving students should not review restaurants. Case in point: me. Having lived on an austere diet of Bui's "pasta," and Kim's Chinese food throughout the semester, for me to objectively review Pod's new take-out lunch menu seemed like an exercise in the absurd.
Film: Lanes puts on the hazards
At an especially intense moment in Changing Lanes, William Hurt yells to an Alcoholics Anonymous member played by Samuel L.
Film: Masterful merchant
What Wharton student doesn't like to picture him or herself, 30 years from now, at a party hosted by a Spielberg type in Beverly Hills, drinking martinis in the company of $5,000 noses? If only Wharton taught books before box office returns or recommended novels instead of subscriptions to Variety.
Culture: Romeo is a woman
Starving students should not review restaurants. Case in point: me. Having lived on an austere diet of Bui's "pasta," and Kim's Chinese food throughout the semester, for me to objectively review Pod's new take-out lunch menu seemed like an exercise in the absurd.
