Playlists
Buffalo Style
The Shins on acid? The Shins if the Shins cared less about showcasing lead singer James Mercer? The Shins with MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden at the helm?
Border Patrol
Battle wounds, malaria treatment and vaccinations are to be expected in a film documenting the mission of four Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) volunteers in devastated Liberia and war-torn Congo.
Infinite Similarity
Like their 2006 debut Everything All The Time, Band of Horses’ third release, Infinite Arms, opens with what is possibly its best song.
Blues Brothers
On a fundamental level, the two-man band is one of the most constraining paradigms in rock n’ roll.
Casual Sex
In Sex and the City 2, the girls are back with the same wild outfits, the same posh cocktails and sex just as steamy as it was a decade ago.
Street's To-Do List: May 27
1. Beer tastes better when you’re feeling cultured. Get a head start on your Thirsty Thursday boozin’ at World Café Live for a Philadelphia Ale & Arts Adventure: an alcohol-fueled tour of the city’s murals.
Dying for Something New
George A. Romero has made a career out of zombie movies, starting all the way back in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead. His latest offering, the upcoming Survival of the Dead, makes perfectly clear that it’s time for Romero to lay this sub-genre to rest.
Wise Fools or Wise Foals?
The much-hyped sophomore album has proven an enigma for most bands. More often than not, indie buzz bands release follow-up albums that are intentionally completely different from their first, if only to show that they don’t want to be the same as they were (even if they really are the same as they were). Lately, these sophomore albums have tended to disappoint early fans while at the same time pleasantly surprising many reviewers.
Bearing It All
Four-piece Seattle-based indie-prog band Minus the Bear recently released their fourth album, OMNI, three years after the critical and commerical success of their last LP.
Make Room
Sasha Petraske insists that making cocktails is not an art. “Everything’s been done,” he says, arguing that liquor drinks lack the subtlety of wine.
Shoutouts Spring 2010
It's that time of the semester again. The time when we take your meanest, crudest, cringe-worthiest thoughts and put them in print for the whole world to read.
From The Editor: 4.22.10
I’ve spent the vast majority of this semester’s “From the Editor” letters complaining about how fast time moves.
Recently Opened/Recently Closed
RECENTLY OPENED Wishing Well — New American 767 S.
Green Acorn Certified
Milk and Honey Market 4425 Baltimore Ave. Hub Bub Coffee 38th between Spruce and Locust Copa Banana 4000 Spruce St. Coup de Taco 40th between Locust and Spruce Picnic 3131 Walnut St. Lovers and Madmen 28 S.
Food For Thought
This week, Street is taking a step back from restaurant reviews and recipes to look at another aspect of the food industry: community based food initiatives, ones which feed the hungry and make food more eco-friendly.
This Week In... 04.22.2010
MUSIC Friday, 4/23: Quasi with Let’s Wrestle, Johnny Brenda’s, $12, 21+ Janet Weiss, our love for you will never die.
Decoding The Voice
Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner riffs on the opening of the ICA's newest exhibition, Queer Voice. Be one of the first to see the show when its run begins tonight at 6:00 p.m.
Form And Function
Apart from the mounted fire extinguisher and pack of Camel Lights on the table, Sean Gilvey’s studio feels straight out of a bygone era.
Ego of The Week: Julia Rubin
Julia Rubin, Street's washup/former Editor-in-Chief, has her final say in our last issue of the year.
