Jon Levin
ARTICLES
Film
Teen films
On spring break, somebody suckered me into sharing a bed with a bronchitis-ridden travel partner and, as you might guess, I started feeling the symptoms a few days into the trip.
Music
Wild ride
Two years ago, a car making an illegal turn struck 19-year-old Community College of Philadelphia student Melody Gardot as she peddled through Old City on her bicycle.
Crossing borders
It's their first show as an ensemble, and Elio Villafranca's Latin Superstars are playing Chris' Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia.
Lowbrow
Word on the street: Nice cubicle, wanna fax?
Rejections never resonate with me. It's autumn of my senior year, and I just got word on my first job application.
Music
A Composer Comes of Age
I almost feel as if I'm channeling music when I improvise," says jazz saxophonist Ron Kerber. Performing at Chris's Jazz Cafe in Philadelphia on a warm November night, his eyes are shut, and at the climactic moments his countenance becomes mangled.
Music
Hanson: The 'Street' Interview
Street Music: How is your latest album Underneath different from you older stuff? What were you trying to achieve?
Isaac Hanson: I would say Underneath is probably the most mellow record we've done over the years.
Music
Hopping on the Band Wagon
Death Cab for Cutie isn't just [Ben] Gibbard's band," drummer Jason McGerr says, speaking about the group's lauded lead man.
Music
Old man trouble
Any McCartney-branded album is bound to be a "big deal." Sales-wise, the quality of the music is almost trivial.
An exploration of the human spirt
Freshman girls -- they're everywhere, I swear to you. Pert, chic first-year lovelies: waiting in the stir fry line, strolling the salad isle, perusing the pizza; in jean skirts, tank tops, large, buglike sunglasses; exuding perfumes, floral shampoos, body lotions of melon, berry and cocoa butter.
Music
Listening To Albert
It was Spring Break, and I had just gotten in from college. My parents and I were sipping Coronas, and I was explaining to them why I hadn't gone to the Bahamas.
Nice wurst
Ludwig's GarTen
1315 Sansom St.
(215) 985-1525
Open All Week, 12 p.m. - 2 a.m.
Kitchen Closes at 10 p.m.
Beyond Chet's Nuts
Natalie's Lounge
4003 Market Street
Sat, 5 p.m.-12 p.m., No Cover
(215) 222-5162
When I walk into Natalie's Lounge, all the way down on Market, I do so timidly at first.
Music
Conspiracy theories
Jazz has long subsisted as an underground music -- an esoteric, impervious art form sheltered from consumer politics.
Cool Hand Chris
Are you a clove-smoking, beret-wearing, finger-snapping beatnik? Do you refer to your friends as "cats?" Perhaps you think John Coltrane is "hip" and Charlie Parker is "bad"-- in the positive sense of the word.
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