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FOOD: Eatin Indian
To an empty stomach and a thin wallet, nothing says satiation quite like an Indian buffet. No wait, no menu-ordering anxiety, no boredom waiting around for food to arrive.
Another corporate scheme
Barnes & Noble has been so successful at selling college textbooks, taking over campus bookstores everywhere that now it's trying its hand at offering courses online at none-other-than www.barnesandnobleunive rsity.com. Unlike its predecessor, this corporate takeover doesn't have to in-debt students in the process.
Nostalgia Overdose
Hey kids! Did you like the 80's? Do you still play The Legend of Zelda on your old Nintendo? Do you remember and cherish G.I.
Dancin in the streets
Avenue Artists 2001 is a summer tradition on the Avenue of the Arts. The idea behind it is this: every Friday afternoon until August 17, a different artist will put on a free lunchtime open-air concert on a different corner along S.
MOVIES: Kiss of the Dragon
I'd like to announce that America has the ability to fuck up every movie ever imported because Hollywood execs suck.
BOOKS: When the History Channel just isn't enough
If the Fourth of July celebrations didn't stir enough patriotism in each of us, Jeff Shaara's new American history chronicle brings alive the years leading up to the Revolution. Rise to Rebellion vividly portrays the years between the Boston Massacre and the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1770 to 1776 for you history buffs), and examines momentous events such as the Boston Tea Party, Battle of Lexington and Concord, and formation of the Continental Congress in between. Instead of reciting historical events as a lecturer, Shaara revives each occasion through the eyes of those who witnessed the events.
MUSIC: Get Weiland some drugs
Ever since he got out of rehab for his heroin addiction, Scott Weiland seems to be cranking out new music left and right in an effort to prove to everyone, including the judge, that he is rehabilitated and clean.
MUSIC: Sweet sweet Southern music
In 1998, Lucinda Williams emerged from relative obscurity to lavish critical and healthy commercial acclaim with Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, for which she also won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. With those credentials and only a three-year gap between albums (the last one was five) behind her, expectations were running high for Essence, Williams' follow-up to the sublime Car Wheels. And, Williams answers with a great album... that's not as good.
MOVIES: Folk songs, lesbians and fire
If you thought Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was one of the last tough-spirited females portrayed by Hollywood during the turn of the century, think again. Enter Songcatcher Dr. Lily Penleric, played by Golden Globe winner Janet McTeer (last seen in Tumbleweeds), whose determination and drive not only win her acceptance from the Appalachian natives, but a romance as well. Dr. Penleric is a musicologist at a prestigious university where she is passed over for another promotion simply because she is female.
MOVIES: E.T. meets Strangelove
So, Steven Spielberg comes out with A.I., his would-be collaboration with the late Stanley Kubrick and his first movie in three years, and all anyone wants to know is, "Is it good?" Well, "good" isn't the word, but neither is "bad." First things first, I'm not a big Spielberg fan.
Tastes Like Chicken
The simaltaneous opening of Fresh Grocer and the Penn students' discovery of the kitchen has left a void in the lives of many college students: the ability to cook. Beyond the wonders of the George Foreman Grill and my favorite kitchen appliance, the quick and easy sandwich maker, lies a whole new culinary experience for us cook-book virgins, food that actually tastes good coming from an under-supplied kitchen on beige block. The food channel offers some aid to those in need.
MOVIES: Better than TRL
Two people from opposite sides of the tracks meet and mate. It's a formula as old as the Pythagorean theorem, but in the new film Crazy/Beautiful, one fine performance plus one fine body equals the best movie with a slash in the title since 1997's Face/Off.
Too much free time
For those who believe a movie trailer is only a nice introduction for an upcoming flick, the media is pulling the wool over your eyes.
MOVIES: The dull and the unimpressive
There exist many unwritten rules of film. One says that if a film has a different title than what was originally intended, it is not a good film. Another says that if a film's release date shifts around numerous times, the studio knows it will probably be a bomb. Yet another says that if there are numerous writers of the screenplay, it will have that "Hollywood touch" meaning an incoherent script. Things are not looking good for The Fast and the Furious.The film was originally called Racer X.
More than a four letter word
Under the stars and into souls of great musicians, twilight descends to the steady rhythm of a finely tuned bass.
MOVIES: One more time
Eddie Murphy made a movie and it did well in the box office, so he had to make a sequel. In addition to his previous multiple version films 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, and The Nutty Professor (not to mention "Raw" and "Delirious", quite possibly the best stand up acts... ever) Murphy has completed the double with his newest film Dr. Dolittle 2.
ART: My t-shirt is art
Tom Friedman's exhibit at the Fabric Workshop and Museum is tucked away on the fifth floor of the scaffolding encrusted Gilbert Building just off of Arch Street, accessible only by an elevator that virtually begs you not to exceed its weight limit. The incredibly spare presentation--a nearly-vacant expanse of white walls that still smell faintly of fresh paint--gives the unsettling first impression of being in the wrong room, or that perhaps you were mistaken, and the museum hasn't finished setting up the exhibit yet. The artwork, mostly spartan single-material pieces constructed from fabric, paper, string, or wire, demands that the viewer move in for a closer look.
MUSIC: Musical chocolate
Pop music takes a hit. Again. Score one for Rufus Wainwright whose latest Poses demystifies music too accessible for the art world but too original and daring for commercial radio.
MOVIES: One more time
Eddie Murphy made a movie and it did well in the box office, so he had to make a sequel. In addition to his previous multiple version films 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, and The Nutty Professor (not to mention "Raw" and "Delirious", quite possibly the best stand up acts... ever) Murphy has completed the double with his newest film Dr. Dolittle 2.
