Playlists
Unhappy Valentine's day
On February 14, people worldwide will get together to celebrate their boyfriends and girlfriends, toast to Cupid and get laid.
Word on the street: Ted turner, i've got your number
I am a product of several formative TV sitcoms and am subsequently a victim of low self-esteem. I'm not alone in hoping my grown-up life would be a hybrid of witticisms, caustic detachment and the kind of eloquent self-introspection that not only generates successful romances, but also elicits hero-worship from my girl friends.
Premature ejaculation
In 1996, when I was in seventh grade, my mother told me I dressed like a homeless person. Although the '90s saw an economic growth in the US that had never before been seen or even imagined in any country in history (never mind the 80 other countries we smashed to smithereens on our way to the top), the fashion-minded youth chose to adorn themselves with baggy flannels, tent-like Stussy T-shirts, and ragged, snaggle-cuffed JNCOs of Herculean proportions, all teeming with lice and God knows what other breed of infectious bacteria due to a generational phobia of soap and water.
Still Got your V-Card on V-Day?
Valentine's Day is a lot like New Year's, only New Year's allows enough leeway for you to convince yourself you made some progress.
A real-life Valentine's story
Dear First Love: I met you at a LAN war in the University's student union building. I was 17. You were 18. I didn't even know what a LAN war was, but I saw men in trench coats loading computers and AV equipment into a room, and thought, "Wow!
Guides
Aaron McGruder: The Boondocks Free Library of Philadelphia 1901 Vine Street Thu, 8 p.m., $6 215-686-5322 Who doesn't love the Sunday comics?
Editors' pick: Favorite V-day movie
Lisa Tauber (Guides): Valentine Starring the queen of shitty movies, Denise Richards, this movie is just so ridiculous that it's good.
Debauchery in the city
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf indeed? Well, one may think, "Hey, I'm not!" from looking at the small stage of the Walnut Street Theater located between 8th and Walnut.
Jaa-rule
Certain films, like Prachya Pinkaew's Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, exist as nothing more than a platform to display a person's tremendous physical talents.
Vanilla ice rocks
Street worships any man with the balls to carry Gary Coleman around like a sack of potatoes and threaten to put him in a deep fryer.
Kevin James, You Can't Dance
Hitch rises above a seemingly formulaic plot to ultimately become a funny and enjoyable film in the middle of Hollywood's dead season. Will Smith plays Alex Hitchens, dating superhero, sworn to protect men from their own bad habits, poor taste and insecurity.
Get addicted
Females at Penn are always on a mission. They're on a mission to use every tool at their disposal to get free drinks and to find just that one nice boy at Penn who is not so metrosexual that he knows the layout of Kiehl's better than she does.
Our So-called lives
We, like, totally love Angela Chase. At the ripe age of 15, she taught us that life, love and plaid/flannel combinations -- while difficult -- are all A-OK.
It must have been the figs
Everyone knows that alcohol and cannabis are two sure-fire ways to get people in the mood for loving, but there's a whole store of mood-setting foods that have been putting the SEX in sexy since the dawn of man.
Blind Date
It sucks to be dateless on Valentine's Day, and though this may shock many of you, even Street editors sometimes find themselves single on the eve of February 14.
Blow me hootie
The hits just keep on coming as VH1 produces yet another series that celebrates our love for analyzing life ten years at a time.
Editor's Picks
Kevin Lo: Joanna Newsom, The Milk-Eyed Mender Joanna Newsom begins her shows by approching the front of the stage, gazing out to the back of the crowd and then clapping in rhythm until the audience joins her.
Grammy predictions
Record of the year Will win: Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris -- "Yeah!" You might hate it, but it loves you. Should win: Ray Charles & Norah Jones -- "Here We Go Again" It's Ray.
Love Me, Mr. Darcy
Jane Austin started it. Helen Fielding's modernized it. Now, director Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham) has taken the novel Pride and Prejudice (as well as women's perpetual lust for Mr. Darcy) and injected some good ol' Bollywood in it.
