Playlists
Ego Boost
The situation: You're at a party of ballers, but you can't stand anyone. You're gritting your teeth so hard you're convinced that you just swallowed a chunk of enamel. The choices: Excuse yourself to the bathroom and never return, mingle for 30 minutes before making a good excuse to exit, or suck it up and stay the course - because you never know what offers will come when drunken conversations ensue. The obvious answer: Remain at the party for just enough time to have a few cocktails and get a few business cards.
Street Beats
U.S. children showing hardening of arteries. Pedophiles showing hardening of... veins. Spanish businessman pleaded guilty to the illegal harvesting of Chilean sea bass.
Buena Phila Social Club
The oldest men's club in the country, the Philadelphia Club, was founded in 1834. The original gathering place for these rich folk was Mrs. Rubicam's Coffee House.
Wine of the Week
* 2 parts Southern Comfort * 1 part Amaretto (almond liqueur) * 1 part Sloe gin * Orange juice to taste Forget the Middle Eastern mammer-jammer, that falafel shit's bammer, exam crammer or office hours scammer, sit yourself down to an Alabama Slammer. Who should drink it: Cell Block D, Prisoner #3704 Who shouldn't drink it: Pinko yuppie Yankee carpetbaggers Where you should drink it: Monster truck rallies, Nascar races or other shows of completely platonic male bonding Where you shouldn't drink it: In the correctional facilities of our fine Dixie states.
Street Fighters
Thanksgiving is a time to remember our forefathers and be thankful for all those things that make our country great.
Hindsight is 20/20
D‚j… Vu 3 Stars Directed by: Tony Scott Starring: Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer Rated: R Popular science fiction has been more than eager to explore theories of time travel, from the wildly popular Back to the Future series to the more cultish Primer and even an episode of "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror." Most of these stories subscribe to one of two mutually exclusive theories: either time is a straight, predestined line with all events past, present and future already established; or time is alterable, a tree that branches every time Doc Brown and Marty push the DeLorean past 88 mph.
Shoutouts Fall 2006
To my well-endowed sister: Don't tell me I'm missing something and then stuff my bra with your dirty socks.
Ego of the Week: She's a maneater
Street: How long have you been participating in the bodybuilding competition? Jess Carlin: My freshman year I was with the Fly Girls, which is what the track team calls itself for the opening dance performance.
WOTS: Fear and Loathing
Do you know what you're doing next year? It's the question that I, as a senior, hear almost every single day, posed by everybody from random classmates in recitations, to people I meet at parties, my grandparents, my parents, friends of my parents, friends of friends and then, of course, my friends themselves. Unless you're a senior who already has a job lined up for next year, there's no way you can definitely know what you're doing after graduation.
So you want to be a movie snob?
It's almost Thanksgiving, and aside from the turkey and long-awaited vacation time, Street is looking forward to Oscar season, that month-long period from Thanksgiving to Christmas chock-full of impressive cinema.
Clich‚ crap
The title Stranger Than Fiction implies that reality brims with more fantastic possibilities than fiction.
North of the Mason-Dixon
John Care and Rick Gebo believe you have been lied to. There is a conspiracy afoot and the politically correct media and America's Northern-dominated educational system are in on it.
Pub crawl
Hidden between Sansom and Chestnut, it might take a little patience, or at least some help from Google Maps, to find your way to McGillin's.
Extremely loud and incredible prose
Described alternately as a wunderkind and a hack, Jonathan Safran Foer entered the literary world with his first novel, Everything is Illuminated, at the age of 25.
Ego Boost
Some people go to Pottruck to shed a few pounds, while others aim to bulk up. And then there's everyone else: the folks who claim to visit 37th and Walnut for a workout, but are really only working out their hormones.
Street Fighters
It's been an exciting election season filled with plenty of mudslinging and smack-talking, and as it comes to a close, feelings of triumph, defeat and apathy fill the air.
Friday night fever
Luke Jenner, singer-guitarist for the Rapture, looks serious in a cramped dressing room downstairs at Pure nightclub.
You are so not twenty-one
Let's face it. If you're under 21, it's hard to get a drink in this city. What with bars and liquor stores adhering to strict no-minor policies, you'd think it was against the law for a kid to rightfully unwind at the end of the day.
Your civic booty: take it to the poles
It's all about over-exaggerating," Nicole advises her students as they practice floor work. She narrates as she demonstrates, lying face down on the wooden floor of the one-room studio.
