Playlists
Local music, home-schooled
The sun is setting behind the Danger! Danger! house, and a few residents are helping bands lug guitar stacks, bass amps, and other equipment out of a white van parked outside. "Hey Pony Pants!" yells one passerby towards the group.
blinded by the light
Here is a preamble: The Arcade Fire is by far my favorite band of the 21st century. Their 2004 debut Funeral changed my life, and as a Montrealer, I have watched the band garner international success and their side projects, Final Fantasy and La Bell Orchestre, grow up with them.
Reviews
Winterpills The Light Divides After the first few tracks off The Light Divides, the Winterpills' new album, you might think you're listening to the Dawson's Creek soundtrack.
Youtube clip of the week
Few artists have gone into hiding with fame on their doorstop like Justin King.
Dispatches
Saturday, 6:00 p.m.: Roll up to a friend of a friend of a friend's house off of St. Charles Street. Eight of us are pounding beers by his pool when I notice his mother spying on us from a second story window.
from across the pond...
'Tis the season for British movie successes. Following in the wake of The Queen's award season storming, Amazing Grace, the historical biopic about English abolitionist William Wilberforce, might be an early Oscar contender for 2008.
molto bello
The Italian, one of the best movies so far this year, follows Vanya (Kolya Spiridonov), a young boy in an orphanage in rural Russia.
Blast off with billy bob
Billy Bob Thornton walks briskly into the Jefferson Conference Room at the Philadelphia Four Seasons Hotel and approaches one of two round tables draped in white tablecloths.
Oh Snap
Dear Elevator Romantics. Although stealing gentle kisses from your boo on the elevator in between the 14th and 15th floor seemed sweet at the time, I'm pretty sure I saw the nine-year-old faculty fellow's daughter throw up in her mouth.
Latina Barbie does art
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Step into my office, baby
For serious students, it's all about striving to be head of the class. For the rest of us, it's all about dreaming of the head of the class: that distinguished professor or hot TA who you are "forced" to stare at during the semester.
Word on the street
A little after midnight last Thursday my mom called to tell me my grandpa had died. And over the past week, I've found it hard to know how to grieve for my grandpa, who we called Pater.
flyin' high
Inspiring movies come in all shapes and sizes. Case in point: The Astronaut Farmer. The absurd plot of a retired air-force-pilot-turned-family-ranch-hand (named Charles Farmer) who decides to build a space rocket in his barn seems too far-fetched for even Hollywood's tastes.
The Glory of War
With so many war movies made in Hollywood every year, often with interchangeably formulaic storylines, it would be easy to overlook or simply ignore the French film Days of Glory.
Wild Hogs Review
3 out of 5 stars What do you get when you throw together four middle-aged has-been actors, a lot of physical comedy, and the requisite "road trip" theme?
Street Beats
A 46-year-old Floridian businessman was convicted Friday of molesting a young girl sitting next to him on an airplane.
The case of the Mystery
When scoping the cuties at Van Pelt turns up, well, no cuties, pull your top hat low, trench coat tight, and head down to Whodunit - Philly's only mystery bookstore - to brush up on your detective work. Around since 1976, Whodunit's shelves are stuffed with everything you need to get back in the game as a more suave and discerning incarnation of your former self: volumes upon volumes of Sherlock Holmes and The Hardy Boys.
A "Touch" of Success
Pushing through the heavy glass double doors of Hunstman Hall in a neat business suit, Sean Koh hardly stands out from his Wharton peers.
Youtube clip of the week
Few artists have gone into hiding with fame on their doorstop like Justin King.
