Playlists
New olympic sports
Human curling -- Just like actual curling, except instead of that weird iron-on-a-piece-of-rock thing, you use midgets. Make yellow snow and eat it -- It means eat your own pee!
Not all british rock stars are created equal
Hopping the pond makes for strange bedfellows. Though the Subways had an early U.S. breakthrough this fall on that great cultural arbiter, The O.C., a February release date has lumped their debut with the latest wave of British musical exports.
Word on the street: Izah raps with Rza
Wu-Tang is an environment. It is a conceptual space, a raw, unmediated surge of many sentiments. Hundreds of people, maybe more, driven to the edge of adrenal elation, reigned in by the weight of beats that coalesce into music, smoke and one single swell of W's.
Just like your jewish southern grandma's
During the brunch rush hour, the door opens straight into a crowd of pierced starving artists and other free vendors, all regulars.
Tofu in a sea of red sauce
While a typical discussion of South Philly cuisine may not go far beyond a plate of red-sauced pasta or a cheesesteak at Pat's, that will change if Michael Luongo has anything to say about it.
Guides
Comedy Night: Cruise to Nowhere Ulana's Restaurant 2nd and Bainbridge Sts. Fri, 9 p.m., $14, $20 per couple (215) 514-7508 www.comicenergy.com The annual Comedy Night is an event to remember.
Falafel fanatic
"Yes Muhammad, what can I get you?" Saad asks ones of his regulars. The hospitable owner of his namesake eatery, Saad's, offers diners Middle Eastern, American and even American-style Middle Eastern cuisine.
Bend it like Beckman
Karen Beckman arrived at Penn only one year ago and she is already making waves. She teaches a new class called "Women and Film," which shows "the range of work that women have done -- not just feminist filmmaking -- but work from early cinema done in the 1890s and early 1910s." The class syllabus explores a variety of women directors, from controversial Nazi propaganda filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, to avant-garde filmmakers like Maya Deren.
From the Editor
According to the Facebook's "Pulse," which, like the Facebook, is terribl(e)(y addictive), FOX's perennial underdog Arrested Development is one of the 10 most popular shows at Penn.
Everyone Likes Ike
While making his first feature documentary, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Eugene Jarecki stumbled upon footage of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address the night before he left the Oval Office. The speech is a warning to the American public of the growing power of the military-industrial complex, a system that Eisenhower feared would cause the country to enter wars for the wrong reasons.
Video Library's Top Ten Most Checked-Out Movies This Week
1. Elizabethtown 2. Lord of War 3. Waiting... 4. In Her Shoes 5.
FreedomLand Rings
Racial tension is sometimes a cop-out for filmmakers, a way of increasing dramatic tension while diverting the audience's attention away from poor casting.
February Fury: The Real Tournament of Champions
Round One: HULK VS THE THING In a battle of the big, ugly strong guys, The Thing slips some codeine into The Hulk's Gatorade, waits for him to relax and then crushes his puny human form.
Gutmann spills all
Two years ago, when Amy Gutmann was announced as the new Penn President, Street had some unsavory words for J-Ro's successor -- including an acronym starting with an "M" and ending with an "I.L.F." After Street's "overenthusiastic" welcome, the President secluded herself in the West Wing of Eisenlohr (her Walnut abode), shriveling at the prospect of meeting, face-to-face, with Street. Two years later, armed with a flexible elephant metaphor (see next page), "her eminence" has forgiven Street's past transgressions and has finally put all of her cards on the table.
Old school'd
Street: How would you describe your bookstore's role in the community? You're kind of sandwiched between a variety of large corporate industries. Larry Moltz: Oh, we're much better than them.
Penn's next top model
EGO proudly presents the first installment of our very own modeling competition. These nine fierce ladies braved 25‹¨« weather to strut on our "Boho Industrial" runway for celeb photographer Phil Leff (see below). Stay tuned for more shoots, beauty, hot looks and tears.
Street Beats
No Child Left Behind program is going unused. Government addresses problem with No Federal Education Program Left Behind program. Former Connecticut governor leaves prison. Film about his emotional journey to self-discovery, "Picking Up My Political Soap (that I dropped in the prison shower)," will premiere this Sunday on the Lifetime Network. Oil giants fall behind on fees. Although fi's and fo's surpass prestigious industry standards, level of fum's is also abominable. Penn junior held for attempted murder. Student was allowed one phone call, 15 text messages and unlimited nights and weekends blog access on Blackberry.
Almost Stars
Several years ago, three members of the orchestral pop band Stars smoked pot in New York's Central Park and were arrested by an undercover cop.
Drew carey is a four-eyed beast
It's Sunday night. All the work that you should have been doing all weekend now stares you in the face and you'll do anything to ignore it.
