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Culture: It's fling. Drink something new for fuck's sake
Purple Jesus, a.k.a. "I agree with Kris" Ingredients: 1.0 ounce ginger ale 2.0 ounce. vodka 1.0 ounce.
Film: An offer you can't refuse
Talk about high standards to live up to. Roman Coppola is Jason Schwartzman's cousin and, by the way, Francis Ford Coppola's son -- a fact that you would be remiss not to hold against him going into his new movie CQ, (Daddy is one of the executive producers, too). But as his sister Sofia did with The Virgin Suicides, Roman proves in his feature debut that he can hold his own behind the camera. CQ is a highly stylized look at Paul (Jeremy Davies), a young ex-pat who moves to 1969 Paris to learn about cinematic truth amid the decadent New Wave film scene.
Feature: The next big thing
"I had my shot, but I was young. I'll never know what I done wrong." - Kenn Kweder, "Words and Dreams" "I first saw him in 1977, he's playing the Chestnut Hall.
F.P.P: Stay away from Garden City
In this special segment of Room, we returned to the room of our very first subjects, College freshmen Lori White of St.
She said, he said... she said
Sometimes mere mortals are touched by fleeting moments of genius. It happened to us: we cleverly thought to try all the Indian buffets here in West Philly.
Voice - Sick Days: A parable
In the sixth grade, I often got out of school by pretending to be sick. I'd stagger into the infirmary complaining of immobilizing nausea.
An interview with Dressy Bessy's Rob Greene
If the '60s were now, and the Beach Boys and the Kinks shared members, and they had a girl for a lead singer, they'd be Dressy Bessy, of the Athens, Ga.
Gimme some deep dickens
Let me first say, the actor who plays Pip is a righteous babe. Even the tailcoat and top hat work for him.
Guide: Who's up for I-Thailian
Who'd have thought it? Thai and Italian cuisine are served up together in an equally eclectic atmosphere at Jow's Garden.
Film: Shillin' like a villain
In certain respects -- career longevity, resume diversity, body hair -- Danny DeVito has a lot in common with Robin Williams.
Film: Baskin Robin
Even from thousands of miles away, over telephone lines, it's obvious that Robin Williams is struggling with demons.
Blasians or Wafricans?
How did you meet? Ben: We met at a winter retreat of Campus Crusade fellowship of Christian athletes.
Music: Hardcore in Philadelphia
I recently heard someone make a comment that "there just aren't enough live music events happening around Philly for anyone to write about." With all its earsplitting guitars, pounding bass drums and screaming vocals, it's amazing to me that some members of the Penn community still haven't heard the sounds of the hardcore scene pouring out onto the streets of Philadelphia.
Culture: Water in my eyes
Passing through the massive front doors into the gilt-laden foyer of the Academy of Music, you know you are entering a new world.
The Binaca Experiment
How often are you two [twins Taylor and Blake] mistaken for one another? Blake: Pretty much everyday.
Film Review: All About the Ben Jamins
2 Stars It was at eight years old that I first felt an inexplicable connection to Ice Cube. N.W.A songs like "Gangsta, Gangsta" and "Fuck the Police" reached out to me in a way that R.E.M.
Feature: Masters of their universes
This is how Sherman McCoy describes himself in Tom Wolfe's 1980s novel Bonfire of the Vanities. Sherman McCoy: the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant with the aristocratic chin; the owner of a $48,000 Mercedes roadster and a Park Avenue co-op; the St.
Film: Life imitating art?
Amid the scads of writing and commentary that were amassed in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, one of the most lucid insights came from Stephen King in a 272-word missive for the New York Times Magazine: "People keep saying 'like a movie,' 'like a book,' 'like a war zone,' and I keep thinking: No, not at all like a movie or a book -- that's no computer-generated image, because you can't see any wash or blur in the background.
Music: Ready, set...Ally!
The Ally have filled the void left by the Disco Biscuits for anyone searching for something creative and worthwhile from performance arts at Penn.
