Playlists
How Good of a Penn Kid are You?
1. Your cell phone goes off in class. You: a. Wait. This would never happen. You always turn it off before class. b.
A little sex in all of us
My family got HBO for me two and a half years ago, because I wanted to watch Sex and the City. Back then, HBO was still considered uncool in New York.
Editor's picks
Tami Fertig: Smokey Robinson Smokey is Motown. Listening to him sing those timeless love songs in that easy-on-the'-ears voice of his, I almost consider paying the $5 billion dollars to see him play live at Trump Plaza --the Atlantic City venue that caters to the octogenarians of New Jersey.
Old school Italian
In the midst of the onslaught of new and trendy restaurants, Marra's continues to be a reliable and unpretentious old neighborhood haunt.
Pickles are green
Betsy Ross made a statement with original fabric designs. Her spirit lives on a few doors down from her now historical house, in a little shop where women declare their independence from Prada and Vuitton.
Get into the groove
@Street Text:I try to make it funky," Philadelphia singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mike Brenner tells Street over a cup of coffee in Old City.
The meat of the issue
Proclaimed America's most obese city in 1999 by a USA Today study, Philadelphia finds itself compelled to reconsider its beloved cheese steak's central cultural role.
Smoking good time
Avril 50 is more than just a home to 3,000 or so periodicals, coffee, tea and tobacco products. For the many loyal customers, it is an escape from a harsh reality.
Albums
Various Artists 50 First Dates Soundtrack This soundtrack to Adam Sandler's latest movie recruits a number of today's pop, rap and reggae artists in an attempt to put a modern spin on 13 '80s love song classics, but succeeds only in destroying the music of a decade.
Guides
The Glass Menagerie Temple University/Randall Theater 13th and Norris Streets Thu & Fri, 8 p.m., Sat 2 p.m.
Noxious Nightlife
The location of Club 218 is rather elusive. It seems that Philly has chosen to tuck the place out of the view of casual South Street strollers.
From the editor
I am not the cool person you may have thought me to be. In fact, I used to be a dork. Even today, some of my coolness is a put-on.
Valentine's Day shout-outs
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Albums
Incubus A Crow Left of the Murder At any given Incubus show, a concertgoer could run into a vicious teenage headbanger, a 30-year-old, beer-drinking male and an 11-year-old girl enamored with Brandon Boyd's exposed abs.
50 Chances to get with Drew Barrymore
What's that saying? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it?" Director Peter Segal surely had that motto in mind when he once again teamed up Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in their latest romantic comedy, 50 First Dates. Veterinarian Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is a ladies' man known to date women who are on vacation, thereby avoiding any form of commitment.
That was a crazy game of poker
Backstage at the Electric Factory, the quintet known as O.A.R., all clad in blue jeans and assorted rock 'n' roll t-shirts, could easily be mistaken for a group of college kids -- the same crowd that makes up the majority of the band's fanbase.
Sucking the Meat, or Meat Sucks?
A friend once suggested that if I really hated vegetarians I should walk around campus with a cow in tow.
Frog Pose hurts my knees, but that's okay
Somebody's farting. Somebody's falling. Somebody's flexing her hips in preparation for a Valentine's rendezvous.
Editor's picks
Tami Fertig East River Pipe "Times Square Go-Go Boy" The man behind East River Pipe, F.M. Cornog, has suffered from alcoholism, an emotional breakdown and homelessness -- in New Jersey.
