Playlists
Death Cock speaks
With the release of You Forgot It In People, Broken Social Scene was catapulted from an unknown Canadian band to one of the most talked about groups in indie rock.
Comedy/Nudity
Dena Blizzard: Comedy Cabaret Best Western Hotel 11580 Roosevelt Boulevard Fri, 9:30 p.m., $15 (215) 676-5653 http://www.comedycabaret.com While he was confused and all cranked up on crystal meth, some local yokel could only say this about Dena Blizzard: "Is she making fun of Dairy Queen?
Palladium v. 2.0
From the guys who brought you Penn's beloved Palladium, Abbraccio (Italian for hug) touches upon Italian favorites with a mark of creativity.
Addicted to Sobriety
Off the crystal meth and back in the studio, Rufus Wainwright puts forth his most sober and self-reflective album to date.
Already ready to give up?
Gia Pronto is Italian for "already ready" -- a fitting appellation considering that all their food is pre-prepared.
Picasso: Big Pimpin'
This fall, the Walnut Street Theatre presents La Vie en Bleu, a musical disaster of colossal proportions that not even Nicole Kidman dying of TB or Kylie as a frightening absinthe-induced Tinkerbell could have saved.
C-K models in the jungle
Jake 2.0 Wednesday 9 p.m., UPN Just call Jake Foley, played by Christopher Gorham, the Six Billion Dollar Spiderman.
Digital Video Diary
Regular Guys is an intelligent, interesting and entertaining German film. Although intensely boring, it's a fantastic movie if you watch it in well spread-out 15 minute chunks.
Music
Drop Dead Sexy The Whiskey Tango Tavern 14000 Bustleton Avenue Thu, 10 p.m. (215) 671-9234 Originality blows.
The same ol' Stifler
Seann William Scott teams up with The Rock in The Rundown, an action comedy light on plot and heavy on silly antics.
Mojito Madness
Juan Fernandez prides himself on the fact that his beloved restaurant, Caf‚ Habana, doesn't fuss around with the onslaught of trendy fusion cuisine that plagues Philadelphia.
Sex and the Campus
There are some nights at Penn that really do seem like "the golden days" -- and then there are many more that make me feel like a cranky Golden Girl.
What's your fantasy?
I love football. There's nothing better than sitting down at the bar on a Sunday afternoon and watching all 10 one o'clock games while screaming at the top of your lungs about how the refs blew that last call or that last call was blown by the refs or that incompletion two plays ago was the fault of the refs. Even though the Eagles are 0-2 so far this year, that hasn't lessened my love for the real national pastime.
The Joys of Motherhood
Follow your nose to 107 Rodney in Spruce College House where the odors of Febreze, AXE Body Spray and day-old heroin addict will fill your nostrils and soothe your soul.
They won't choke you
James Reimer does not exactly stick out like a sore thumb alongside his 23 other band mates in The Polyphonic Spree.
Quick Spins: The good, the bad, and the ugly
The guitars disappeared, but the clouds of depression hanging over A Perfect Circle's music have not.
Mental masturbation
I masturbate in public. Not constantly. Not even that frequently. Maybe once a month. Unless I find a new place to try out.
Life Saver
George McMahon smokes ten joints a day, over a quarter ounce of marijuana. The street value of that amount of marijuana is over $100, but since 1992, McMahon has been getting it for free.
Country Grammar
Remember that song "Ugly" that had you "throwin' 'bows" at the party and wishing you were from Hicktown, Georgia?
