Playlists
Direct line to my heart
Differentiating between friends has always been stressful. Remember first grade with the heart-halves necklaces?
who's the boss?
Magic leads off with "Radio Nowhere," the Boss singing of "Sitting around a dead dial / Just a-searching for a world with some soul," lamenting the state of the modern-day music industry.
Give me five
SAUSAGEFEST German-American Weekend: Bier and Wurstfest German Society of Pennsylvania 611 Spring Garden Street Friday-Sunday, Free (215) 627-2332 www.germansociety.org/ Still bummed your totally sick plans to go to Munich and get wasted this October fell through?
This shit is bananas
Banana Leaf 1009 Arch Street (215) 592-8288 As you walk through the glass doors, passing the dark fa‡ade and flashing neon sign, you come across the invitingly large and well-lit dining room of this relatively new BYO.
Defibrillator
Neil Young Trans 1983 Who could guess that a Canadian folk-rocker and a vocoder could make such sweet, sweet love?
Drink of the Week
1225 Raw Sushi & Sake Lounge 1225 Sansom Street (215) 238-1903 When was the last time a sake bomb took more than thirty seconds?
M‚nage … trois
2624 Brown Street (215) 232-8746 Trio feels like it's in a different city. This romantic little BYO is tucked into a quiet neighborhood near the art museum, a 15 minute cab ride away from Penn.
From the editor
Hello. To save room on all formalities, I say we just jump right in and get started. Ladies and gentlemen, there is a saying that goes something like: the gods were bored and so they created man.
Goyim's Guide: Getting into Birthright
So maybe you aren't one of His chosen people, but that shouldn't stop you from getting a free trip to the holy land, right?
A Creation Story
It is well known amongst the French Canadians how the world has come to be. I say this to you with all the sincerity in my heart and all the hope and love for everyone and everything in the world.
Word on the Street
McDonald's low-fat vanilla soft serve ice cream is not, in fact, the same price everywhere, as we would be led to believe.
Making Whoopi
Whoopi Goldberg Irvine Auditorium Saturday, 8 p.m., $10 Twice a year, SPEC Connaissance invites a keynote speaker to grace the floors of Irvine Auditorium and address our young, impressionable, Ivy League ears.
The good, the bad and the pretty
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, director Dominik's second feature, is so good I couldn't bring myself to leave the theatre for a bathroom break when my bladder, only 40 minutes into the 2+ hour film, screamed full.
ay, there's the rub
Spencer Krug has a problem. He's splitting his time between his main band Wolf Parade and the now fully realized Sunset Rubdown.
On the Wrong Side of the Tracks
Under the rusting tracks of the rundown Market-Frankford El station, the intersection of Market and 52nd streets bakes in the late September sun.
Sweeper
Oh, don't cry for us, Pennyslvania. And while you're at it baby, don't cry over us, either. We have our fun, but we don't mean to be mean.
Excerpt from an actual conversation between Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and smarterchild
GoogleMan24: Hi. smarterchild: Glad to see you again, Eric. We haven't chatted in over a week. Hope you've been well. GoogleMan24: I've been great, smarterchild, everything at Google is fantastic.
Green is the new blue
Let's recap: This is the Canadian folk singer-songwriter's first proper new release in seven years, she is signed to Starbucks' Hear Music label and her voice has grown noticeably huskier.
'Google-abulary'!
WATCH OUT! Google is about to infiltrate your vocabulary - or should we say your 'Google-abulary'! Sing it out loud: "Ain't no google like a west coast google 'cuz a west coast google don't stop!" Sum up your thoughts: "So I was at this party, I met a guy and google, google, google, I'm four months pregnant." Laugh with friends: "Oh my god, I think Tom just googled his pants." Express your emotions: "And then he just shot his wad of google all over my FACE!" Describe your deepest desires: "I'm so high I could eat a googlePLEX of that beef jerky." Announce your anger: "Stop eating all the beef jerky before I google slap you across your mouth!" Mourn the loss of a loved one: "I can't believe College Pizza is gone.
