Playlists
Two Lovers Make Civil Hands Unclean
Carefully spaced family photographs line a wall of Leonard’s parent’s apartment. Tracing many generations of his traditional Italian family, they soon come to represent confinement.
Love the Skin You're In(k)
“If I don’t do it now, I’m never going to do it,” blurts a woman breathlessly. She grabs one of the image-filled binders from the counter and flips to a page of Sanskrit lettering.
From the Editor: 3.26.09
Every day professors tell us all kinds of crazy stuff that we are expected to believe, no questions asked.
Paging Pixar
In the seminal case of Monsters vs. Aliens, an enormous woman battles googly-eyed antagonists from outer space.
Defibrillator: A Streetcar Named Desire
It’s hard to imagine Marlon Brando as anyone other than the notorious Godfather. But before he was Don Corleone, Brando turned in a riveting performance as Stanley in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the play by Tennessee Williams. The film follows Blanche (Vivien Leigh), who arrives on her sister Stella’s doorstep claiming to be suffering a nervous breakdown.
Before Sunrise: A Tryst Gone Right
Act One Film Buff: Wow, I love your posters. Capra and Lynch, such an unusual mix.(1) Seducer: I almost put up my poster of The Third Man, signed by Orson Welles, but it’s much too valuable. Film Buff: [clearly impressed] Seducer: I rented a few films — Requiem for a Dream, The Bicycle Thief and A Woman Under the Influence— but I’m going to leave the final choice up to you.
How To Seduce A Film Buff
Step 1: Put up posters of films by under-appreciated directors. Purchase coffee table books on film noir, Italian neoRealism and cinéma vérité. Explain that your usual arts-haus indie theatre has been closed for inventory the recession, otherwise you would have met there.
A Haiku on Steak
While once you moo’ed today you are most tender. Revenge: bittersweet.
Recipe of the Week: Bowtie Pasta Salad
Now that spring has sprung and the Green is hopping, it’s the best time of year for an afternoon picnic.
Crazy Lust
If you’re looking for a new place to plug in your laptop and settle in for a couple hours, check out Lovers and Madmen.
Giving it 100%
Along with the sight of mysterious gentlemen sneaking out in the wee morning hours and the revolting buildup of hair in the shower drain, a kitchen full of 100-calorie packs goes with the territory of sharing a house with seven girls.
Bank on This
The brand spanking new Union Trust Steakhouse, a project two years in the making, opened its doors this February.
Birth: A Cautionary Tale
Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet Eating her curds and whey Along came a Humpty who was just so Dumpty And asked Miss Muffet to play “Little Miss Muffet, come sit on my tuffet I know how to make your day” “Oh Mr. Dumpty won’t you please Humpt-me? I won’t even ask you to pay” After their lovin’ A bun in the oven Was a surprise to one and all But it didn’t stop there They just didn’t care One wasn’t enough at all Nine more babies A plague, like rabies Made Muffet and Dumpty mad “Why did we do it? We didn’t think through it! Adding more people was bad” Overpopulation Is no vacation It makes us very sad But that’s what you get When you forget There is limited space on earth So stop having kiddies You fat ugly biddies Life without children is mirth Don’t make like these two Have less than a few Our planet needs no more birth.
Sharing is Caring
I recently asked a friend if she knew a guy I’d met. “I think so,” she said confusedly. “Oh wait, no.
The Round Up: 3.26.09
By most measures, the arrival of Spring means tulips, frolicking in the grass and an overwhelming hue of brighter shades.
Strictly Funk
Those of us who decided to skip the Off the Beat show on Friday night were treated to the funk-tastic grooves of Strictly Funk, Penn’s hop/funk/jazz dance company.
Bombs Over Baghdad
A car sits motionless. Onlookers walk by. Drivers pass, unable to help and unable to stop. The oxidized metal burns orange under the daylight.
Ego of the Week: Blanchard Diavua
Street: Tell us about your work as the director of Community Schools Student Partnerships. Blanchard Diavua: We are a community orientated student organization that tutors and mentors K-12 grade students in West Philadelphia schools after the regular school day.
Teacher Knows Best
After six days of training in Maryland, one month of “freedomizing” lesson plans, and three days of Trading Spaces-esque classroom setup, I donned my uniform t-shirt and boarded the 10 Trolley West.
