Playlists
Katie Holmes is Hot
You know this is a chick flick, right?" Within three seconds of entering the theater, some random girl sitting next to me confirmed my initial doubts about First Daughter. If that were not enough, she prompted me to peruse the theater, in which I found myself a minority because I am neither under 25-years-old nor female.
Change sucks
There are times in life when that which you love is also that which you loathe. I am familiar with this feeling -- the queasy nausea of obsessive repulsion.
TV on DVD
Popular -- the complete first season This show was admittedly the poor man's My So-Called Life, with a typical teenybopper cast of characters (the rich bitch, the quarterback, the ambiguously gay guy, the weird activist) and supposedly witty one-liners like"Michael Jackson called, he wants his eyebrows back." So why does it merit preservation for posterity on DVD?
Ode to Franzia
We've been there before: Your reservation at some BYO whose name you can't pronounce is in half an hour.
Let the bodies hit the floor
Zom-coms may be a one-film genre, but it should already be your favorite. Street sat down with Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg (Shaun) and Nick Frost (Ed) to talk about zombies, genitals and Coldplay's Chris Martin.
No One Dropped the Soap?
National Lampoon has been marketing this slightly smarmy, dare I say clever, white guy hero for decades.
From the basement to the billboards
14 years ago, 18-year-old Matt Jacobson dialed Germany from a Kinko's fax line. On a hunch, he asked to speak to the CEO of Nuclear Blast Records, a German heavy metal record label, and asked if he could open and run its American distribution satellite office.
Editor's Picks
Jim Newell Jeff Mangum Live at Jittery Joe's In 1998, Neutral Milk Hotel released, in my opinion, the defining album of the '90s, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. The band's only release our lonely ears have heard since is Jittery Joe's, recorded live by their enigmatic leader, Jeff Mangum, in 1997, and released in 2001.
Insomniac, Delusional, and Operating Heavy Machinery
A skeletal Christian Bale stars as the haunted, delusional industrial worker Trevor Reznik in The Machinist, a semi-original psychological thriller that opens nationwide Oct.
Sow that Seed, Farmer
Clark Park Farmer's Market The Food Trust 43rd St. and Baltimore Ave. Saturdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Thursdays 3 p.m.-7 p.m. (215) 568-0830 www.thefoodtrust.org Take a leisurely stroll down to 43rd and Baltimore on a drizzly Saturday morning, and you will stumble upon a neat row of fruit and vegetable stands, patiently awaiting your perusal.
Street Style
Capelets This fall is all about your inner-Grandma. Fashion mags will be bugging you to raid the attic in search of chunky brooches and moth-eaten, "vintage" finds.
Guides
The Aftermath Filo's Restaurant and Lounge 408 S. 2nd St. Mondays, 9 p.m., free (215) 238-0151 DJ Adam Bomb plays hip-hop for people like me who can't dance and would prefer to listen to the music.
The Dirty South Rocks Out
"I don't hate you at all, really." Phew! Jason Isbell, guitarist and vocalist of the Drive-By Truckers has just reassured Street that Northern upbringings do not, after all, provoke hate in him.
Reality Bytes
Whatever happened to actually accomplishing something before reaching celebrity status? Whatever happened to the milkman, the paperboy, evening TV?
"I'm rich in comparison to a lot of people."
At 3:30 a.m. on January 15, 2001, three prisoners held in Oklahoma State Penitentiary's "Super Max" underground security prison pried the toilets loose from their cells and crawled through the plumbing system.
She loves all y'all
She likes to party. She really likes fried chicken. And she loves you. Anita Whitley has been swiping cards and taking names for 32 years.
NBC ya later
Motivated by nostalgia to continue the ten plus years of bonding with the gang at Central Perk, I tuned in to Joey (Thursdays at 9 p.m.) with the hope that Tribbiani wasn't dead.
Sex and the Suburbs
Those of us sitting at home mourning the loss of Sex and the City on Sunday nights can check out this new group of girlfriends.
From the Editor
Ah, that first taste of warm, flat Beast. Like the smells of a cookout on Memorial Day, that first turning leaf or the first snowfall, it's the herald of a new season.
