Playlists
Pootie tang and pokemon
Street: Could you tell us a little about how the Video Library started? Attiba Royster: I'm not sure exactly -- I only started this job about four years ago -- the store has been around before me.
Guides
Hiro Sakaguchi: Away Center for Emerging Visual Artists The Barclay, 3A 237 S. 18th St. Fri, 5:30-8 p.m. Free (215) 546-7775 www.cfeva.org Starting this Friday, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists is presenting a solo exhibition by Japanese born Hiro Sakaguchi entitled "Away." The exhibit will feature the usual paintings and drawings, but the real draw is Hiro's sculptures of miniature cell phones.
Great Taste, Less filling
Love it or hate it, modern art stands boldly on the art scene, both in general and at Penn. In a city dominated by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, modern art must eke out its own existence from in between the likes of Cezanne and Winslow Homer.
Point / Counterpoin
Benjamin Kunkel's hip debut, Indecision Jim Newell vs. Claire Stapleton When gliterary scenester Benjamin Kunkel released his debut novel, Indecision, the New York Times proclaimed it would have been "the funniest and smartest coming-of-age novel in years." But only if he had stopped "in midsentence some 20 or 30 pages earlier." Street eds, Jim Newell (pro) and Claire Stapleton (con) argue the legitimacy of this literati golden boy. Point: Although he writes for a pretentious demographic, Kunkel's prose is humble and earnest.
Big Momma's In Da House
Director John Whitesell literalizes tropes of gender and racial identity confusion in his Big Momma's House 2, which meditates upon the nuanced difficulties of existing in society as an obese African-American woman, while in reality being a skinny black man.
Ego of the week
College Senior Jeff Sandman has gone part-time to smoke his pipe, drink his scotch and write the great American novel. What's the last book you read? I'm reading Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons right now.
Rocking to his own tune
It's Tuesday night at Smokey Joe's, and 53-year-old Kenn Kweder is ready to rock. "Hey, you motherfuckers!" he shouts to a mass of Penn students.
Ego of the week: Steve McLaughlin
What is your blog about? Oh, it's your typical self-indulgent everything/nothing blog with lots of pictures.
Light up a 'Match Point'
Woody Allen's new film, Match Point, is a departure from his recent string of less-than-stellar comedies.
Scary new world
The scenery in The New World is very pretty. The trees are pretty, the water is pretty, the sun is pretty.
Riviera on the schuylkill
Highlights: Early Bird Special, 5:30-8:00 every night Romantic view of the Schuylkill Drawbacks: Dishes loaded with garnishes, and accompaniments often come up short on flavor. Bistro St.
That guy
David Koechner is one of those actors who is perfectly content playing "policeman number two." Though he's not usually on the screen for more than a couple of minutes, he manages to garner up a small, but well-deserved laugh.
Best Albums of 2005
And you thought music was dead. It's been a pretty good year for music, with some disappointments along the way, but if anything, 2005 indicated that good bands just keep getting better.
Street beats
Sorority rush numbers up by 11 percent. Pointy-toed shoe industry prepares for market boom. Death of Turkish girl linked to bird flu. Sparrow sues for libel. Chile elects first woman president.
Food for Thought
For most of us here at Penn, finding good food is a bit of a challenge. Either we are bound by a meal plan, a stringent budget, and the alluring glow of the computer touch screens at the Wawa hoagie counter.
The top TEN Of Everything by Michael Kind and Jonah Platt
Top Ten Best Episodes of Saved By The Bell as reviewed by Street Correspondant Willy Goodfellow 10.
Scarlett fever
Match Point was a departure from The Island -- I thought you were going to go action on us.
Quick kaiseki kick
Highlights: Stephen Starr at reasonable prices; Speedy service Drawbacks: Limited vegetarian options Price range: Lunch menu: $12-$14 You might think that dining at a Stephen Starr restaurant, even for lunch, is all glitz and no real value.
LSD Soundsystem
Once upon a time, a bunch of overworked frazzled IT guys decided to have a wild night out which consisted mostly of dropping acid and hanging around on bean bags at one guy's place, probably his mom's basement.
