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Find your Chi
Worried about balancing your yin and yang during the sugar-loaded and provocative Halloween season? By taking a few simple precautions, one can ensure a harmonious night of terror and mischief. 1 Choose your undergarments wisely.
A Paranormal Presence
As a work-study student in the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Wharton senior Greg Bryda had never given ghosts much thought before the time of his first "encounter." One day in November, 2004, Greg was given high-security access to the subbasement, where the museum's unused artifacts are kept.
Mexico goes glam
Lo-lee-ta. Lo. Lee. Ta. Say it slowly. It's governed by two lush, velvety beats backed by a soft animated beat.
Keep it simple stupid
Immediately upon entering Pico de Gallo, a tiny hole-in-the-wall on South Street, its appeal is evident.
Bling is in bloom
Jewelry has been a fashion staple since your grandmother wore those white pearls to her afternoon tea.
Sangria Savvy
If you're looking for a different happy hour scene but don't want to spend the cash for a cab, walk north on 36th to Zocalo for killer drinks and satisfying food. Time: Weekdays, 4:30-6:30. Drink: All drinks on the menu are 25% off and include beer ($2.50-$3.50/bottle), sangria ($4.50-$6/glass), wine ($5.50-$6) and margaritas ($5-$6.50). The Zocalo sangria, laced with tequila-macerated strawberries and seasonal fruit, is divine and potent.
Thrift or treat
The culturally observant and 'oh so wise' film Mean Girls told us all that "Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it." But this fall, rather than dressing up like those dime a dozen dime-store whores again you can do something creative and be a thrift-store hoarder.
The Future of 'Star Wars'
They are the words that aspiring Jedi Masters and Sith Lords have dreaded for years: "This is it. We've done Episode I through Episode VI and there won't be anymore films at all.
Mexican Food Ain't Pretty
Mexican cuisine is clearly designed to get diners uncomfortably full, and Taqueria La Veracruzana certainly fits the bill: the resulting doggie bag will be haunting me for weeks.
Holy crap -- Uma Thurman is on j-date?!?
In Prime, Meryl Streep portrays the Jewish Mother rather convincingly as Lisa Metzger, a therapist who discovers her patient (Uma Thurman), who's 37, divorced and definitely not Jewish, is dating her 23-year-old son (Bryan Greenberg). Sure, she'd rather her son be a CPA or a lawyer than follow his true calling as an artist and worries about the religion of her future grandchildren over a pastrami on rye, but Streep refrains from beating the stereotype to death.
Ego of the week
What year are you and what's your major? I'm a senior, and I'm an urban studies major. Where are you from? I'm from Brooklyn. Trick or Treat? Treat! What was your best Halloween costume? When I was seven, I dressed up as a candy cane.
This is not a superhero Movie
The focus of Shopgirl is Mirabelle Buttersfield (Claire Danes), a quiet, insecure glove saleswoman at Saks, an ingenue from Vermont living alone in her L.A.
Live nudes
Up close and completely exposed, the human body is far more fascinating and unsettling than anything even the most graphic science textbook can portray.
This movie...how do you say...ah, yes...blows
Despite a dramatic opening, golden Z's and a suspenseful score, The Legend of Zorro never reaches an ultimate climax.
From the editor
I think the Nava-ho proposition of 2004 was the last straw. Slutty costumes? Shots instead of Snickers?
Top Ten Worst Things to find in your Halloween candy bag:
10 An anchor - this would make your bag very heavy. If you ask for candy, and someone gives you an anchor, simply reply that you appreciate the gesture, but you'd rather have a Twix than an anchor because a Twix is small and tastes like childhood while an anchor is large and tastes like barnacles. 9 Jimmy Hoffa - this too would make your bag very heavy.
Wanna play dress-up?
With Halloween just around the corner, it's time to stop studying for midterms and start thinking about your costume.
Sunday Luxe
Some things in life are just worth the price. For $46, gastronomes can experience a transcendental state at Lacroix at the Rittenhouse.
Hold me closer, famous director
This week, Street talks to Academy Award-winning filmmaker Cameron Crowe about his latest work, Elizabethtown, and the highs and lows of his illustrious career.
