Playlists
Aussie Fusion
Upon entering owner Leslie Spellman's Bridgewater's Pub, one immediately becomes oblivious to the 30th Street Station surroundings -- that is, until a traveling salesman brushes against you with his bloated briefcase, and you realize you are really situated in a train station and not a posh Center City eatery.
Editors' Picks
If the Ego section editors had to pick a person to play them in a made-for-TV movie called, A Day in the Life Of ...who would it be? Janice Hahn I'd pick Margaret Cho to play me.
Into the poo
Into the Blue, starring teen heartthrobs Paul Walker and Jessica Alba, pretty much unfolds as one would expect.
Finally...
Jonathan Safran Foer is not a writer, he is a collector. As played by Elijah Wood, Foer is a vegetarian, an American, and a descendant of a Holocaust survivor, obsessed with mapping the details of his Jewish heritage.
Guides
Australian Wine Tasting Independence Seaport Museum 211 S. Columbus Blvd. and Walnut Street Thu, 6:30 p.m.
Starving your sanity
You're a freshman, a neophyte in the real world. As Friday night rolls around, you and your friends sashay into a swanky downtown eatery, swarm a booth, peruse the menu and maybe even order some drinks if your fake is decent or the place doesn't card.
Musical Munchies
We all know the key to surviving college is the art of multitasking. The true master can simultaneously talk on a cell phone, plan their evening on AIM, catch the latest episode of the O.C.
BAM! ('s Uncle)
MTV has created a monster. The monster stands about five-foot-six and weighs a generous 260 pounds.
Metafiction
Call me Ishmael. Never mind. This is my book. Call me Isabel. And call this article my first novel. In my Intro to Comparative Literature class (a requirement I'd neglected until this penultimate semester) three enthusiastic students -- all freshmen -- ardently flailed spread palms in the air in response to the professor's inquiry as to who among us had written a book.
World cuisine
You don't need to go to the Electric Factory for live music, nor do you need to break the bank for a decent meal.
Dance Dance
The album is the half-baked offspring of recycled ideas and hasty creation. The band toured for most of 2004 and 2005, writing and recording the new record whenever they could squeeze in studio time.
From the Editor
When I think of college (some years hence) I will think of many things, I'm sure. (Or, as sure as I can be when hypothesizing on a still sort of distant future.) I sort of want to list those things now, but I also sort of don't.
Live jams and yams
Past Delilah's and Finnigan's Wake, down 3rd Street in Northern Liberties, lies a nondescript building on a desolate block, identifiable only by a blue hand-painted sign.
Word on the Street: Size doesn't matter
In response to the Penn application essay question, "Why do you want to go here?" I theorized that by default, Philadelphia is the best city for a university ("DC is corrupted by politics, NY by crime and Boston by college students and rats"). Now that I'm a couple of semesters of college closer to not being in college, I'll very soon be picking another city.
Cajun Comfort
If that bitch Katrina has made you long for a fix of New Orleans, Zanzibar Blue has just what you need.
"Serenity now," the universal execs said
Serenity, the long-awaited film adaptation of director Joss Whedon's (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) cult-favorite TV series Firefly, has all of the components of a typical sci-fi action film, and little more.
Toilet water, with a twist
Although Roman Polanski's newest movie, Oliver Twist, at first seems to have a winning formula, it falls short in the end.
Don't drop the soap
It's that time of year again, when the disgusting, frightening and plain old spooky demons of the night come out of the woodwork to scare the bejesus out of us normal, well-adjusted citizens.
