Playlists
Greater philadelphia student film festival
The Greater Philadelphia Student Film Festival "is going to be amazing," asserts Brian Walsh, a Cinema Studies Major and festival co-organizer with Sara Axelrod.
Guides
Improv Comedy: The N Crowd w/ Holmes/Maughan Society Hill Playhouse 507 S. Eighth St. Thu, 8 p.m., $10-15 (215) 923-0210 www.phillyncrowd.com Quick!
Kicking it up a notch
Considering the recent success of Brooklyn-based indie rockers the French Kicks, it's hard to believe that only a few years back they were playing a gig to drunk kids at an unnamed Philly frat house.
J'aime ce film
L'Enfant is a French film that has garnered a lot of praise during its recent circuit throughout various prestigious film festivals.
Thank you, Craig Newmark
Founded in 1995 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Craigslist -- the brainchild of Craig Newmark -- now spans 150 cities globally and hosts three billion page views per month.
Fom the editor
I am the epitome of goyim. My time at Penn, if anything, has been not unlike a large lecture course in Jews.
Day Tripper
it took me so long to come out Philadelphia's Gayborhood has earned the reputation as the cultural enclave for the LGBT community.
Editors' picks
Spring is in the air, bringing along warm weather, short skirts and frat boys lounging in front of their house on couches like they're hot shit.
Person on the street
Due to an overwhelming level of recent interest in Penn's squirrel community, this week, Street has decided to feature an exclusive interview with a campus squirrel. Street: Were you born on campus, Squirrel? Campus Squirrel: No, my family emigrated from war-torn Czechoslovakia after the Iron Curtain fell in '89.
Right on/Fuck you
Oh theeeeeere you are! After what seems like months of hibernation, it is lovely to see your shining face again, o' glorious Sun.
Sounds Groovy
The artist Dennis Oppenheim once said, "I was drawn to ravaged sites. When I wanted to undertake a piece I would go to New Jersey and stomp around chemical dumps.
Grandma's passover Pancakes
This leavening-free recipe comes from my very own Jewish Grandma Florence, of Scranton, PA. Separating the eggs and beating the egg whites takes a couple extra minutes, but it's worth it when you taste the light fluffy goodness of these pancakes. Ingredients: 1/2 cup matzoh meal 3/4 tsp salt 1 tbsp sugar 3/4 cup cold water 3 eggs Directions: 1.
Flying Coach
In the wake of Ashlee Simpson's lip-synch debacle on SNL nearly two years ago, Kelefa Sanneh wrote a diatribe against its most strident critics in The New York Times. "The Rap Against Rockism" asked "Could it really be a coincidence that rockist complaints often pit straight white men against the rest of the world?" (A rockist, of course, being a subscriber to the creed of authenticity and a strict guitars-drums-bass worldview.) In other words, is "alternative rock," in all its monikers, yet another white boys' club defined by its own exclusivity? Coachella, a documentary on the six-year-old Indio, California music festival of the same name, incessantly begs such questions by refusing to play to its strengths.
Easter brunchinig
Sunday morning is usually about what's convenient. But if you're trying to convince the girl from last night that you weren't joking, sometimes the decor of Bui's food truck just doesn't cut it.
A Mural Miracle
Today, all that remains is an empty lot. The buildings on both sides are abandoned. Their windows are boarded up, except for the top two, which reveal white paint peeling from the ceiling.
No selling out here
We all know that entertainers are total sell-outs. Whether your problem is with the Rolling Stones for playing at the Super Bowl or Ice Cube for dropping his N.W.
Thing of the Week: Skip It
In today's world of robot dogs and PSPs, it feels good to think back on the simplicity of your own childhood and remember how this plastic ball on a string somehow occupied you for hours.
Deviled Eggs That Even Jesus Would Like
Ingredients: 3-4 eggs Pepper 1-2 tbsp mayonnaise 1 tbsp mustard 1 tsp Paprika Plus pinches of any of the following you wish to include: anchovy or sardine paste, chopped ginger, cream cheese, chutney, caviar, smoked salmon, devilled ham, grated Roquefort, chopped chives, basil, tarragon, etc.
Gefilte goes gourmet
If you don't have plans set in stone for Passover, chances are you're open-minded and classify yourself as more of a "cultural" Jew, so London Grill's "Newish Jewish Feast" is where you should spend your second Seder.
