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Word on the street: Show me your 'o' face
Sometimes late at night -- even when I'm exhausted -- I get caught up watching a repeat of Oprah. The worst part of this is not that I watch Oprah, or that TV can keep me up even though I know I will want to die in the morning.
Un-American Gladiators
Hello world! Ellis Island aside, we all speak English here and claim some sort of American identity.
Morocco's Modern Life
It's here: the cold, bleak Philadelphia mid-winter, and who knows when it's going to leave. As you sit eating Greek Lady in Rosengarten, don't you crave something else?
How to be: Eurotrash
You don't need to know where St. Tropez is to be hip. I mean, let's face it: it's going to take a lot more than that.
You spin me round round like a frisbee
Ka-ching is a pleasing sound to all disc golfers," says Tournament Director Tom Snyder. He's referring to the noise his disc just made as it landed in hole two of the Sedgley Woods Disc Golf Course in northern Philadelphia.
Who are you calling stupid, stupid?
Only a few blocks south of the heart of Center City lies a cozy eatery called the Warsaw Cafe. Since 1979, when Brezhnev's Communist regime controlled the Soviet Bloc, proprietor Marion Jarzemski and his mother Marie have been doling out traditional Eastern European dishes that would make even the most staunch commies consider immigrating to Philadelphia.
We are the Champignons!
Founded in 1987 in the swinging district between South Street and Society Hill by the petite Madame Saito, Le Champignon de Tokio serves reasonably priced Japanese, Thai and French food in an authentic setting.
Editor's Picks
Kevin Lo Earlimart Treble & Tremble Few obituaries, tributes or theories about Elliott Smith will properly capture what he meant and continues to mean to his fans.
Eurobash
It's 1:20 a.m. on a Thursday night, and I've lost my dignity. I become painfully aware of this as the heel of my shoe cleaves itself between two bricks and interrupts the flow of my hopping up and down.
The Complete Groundhogese Dictionary
Your Scrabble opponent won't see this coming Chrhpgh n:shadow Chrhpghs n:shadows Chrhpghing n:shadowing Chrhprrgh v: to shadow Chrhprcc adj: shadowy Chirp n: chirp Chrharaggh v: to cast one's shadow Chrhptochs n: the act of looking for one's shadow Chrhprichtst v: to see one's shadow and divine that there will be six more weeks of winter Chrhprichtzt v: to not see one's shadow and divine that there will not be six more weeks of winter Chrhpptss n: the belief that shadows control the weather Chrhpts n: the irrational relationship between shadows and winter Chrhpghaphobia n: the fear of shadows
The Jamie Foxx Show
Best Picture: The Aviator Finding Neverland Million Dollar Baby Ray Sideways According to most experts, 2004 was a poor year for movies.
Reach for the sky
You know that summer in St. Trop is only fun if you avoid the army of wrinkled German men in thongs and retreat to Les Caves du Roy nightly.
Guides
Claymobile Creations The Clay Studio 139 N. 2nd St. Fri, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m., free (215) 925-3453 www.theclaystudio.org Remember when you made arts and crafts for your mom in third grade, and even though the sculpture of your pet dog you made her looked like a cow that just got out of rehab, she still said that she loved it?
Ziggy Stardust this
Down a back street in (almost) North Philly, you'll find a locked building with bars on the door. Ring the buzzer, state your purpose, climb four flights of parking-garage quality stairs, hang a left and you've found it.
From the editor
For a long time, I was That Girl. You know her; at Penn, you know her all too well. I kept my cell phone on all the time.
A Better than average chick flick
Though all the hopeless romantics out there hoping to meet and fall in love with a male escort might disagree, The Wedding Date is a disappointment.
Heart-shaped bikini wax
Take a break from class and treat yourself to a day at the Body Klinic. Obsession is not an overstatement when referring to this place.
Mississippi Mastectomies
Facing the Music, a collection of short stories by Mississippi native Larry Brown, is a cutting-edge interpretation of modern day relationships . Brown, who died in late 2004, infuses every character and thought with a melodic time-elapsing droll -- a tradition of Southern authors since the days of Faulkner.
Very honorable
I've been watching Iron Chef since its inception. I've seen challengers fall by the dozen, and I've cheered when they have overcome adversity.
