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Melissa Mazur


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Goonies never die

Goonies Never Die! (right?) So, what ever happened to Corey Feldman? Well, for 10 days ending last Friday, he was working in and around Philadelphia on Bikini Bandits: The Movie. The low-budget film (as if the name didn't give it away) is a full-length feature version of Internet film shorts by the same name, found on www.atomfilms.com, which feature four armed, scantily-clad ladies who carry out crime sprees against corporate America. "I did it for art, truthfully... [director] Steven Grasse contacted me and said he wanted me to do this art piece called Bikini Bandits... and I thought, well, you know, in my career there's been Stand by Me, there's been Dream a Little Dream, and then the pinnacle, really, could become Bikini Bandits.

Another corporate scheme

Barnes & Noble has been so successful at selling college textbooks, taking over campus bookstores everywhere that now it's trying its hand at offering courses online at none-other-than www.barnesandnobleunive rsity.com. Unlike its predecessor, this corporate takeover doesn't have to in-debt students in the process.

Dido headlines but Travis takes the stage

While it was the better-known Dido that most came to see at Camden's Tweeter Center last Friday, special guest Travis gave a surprisingly impressive performance to the full amphitheater comfortably filled with faithful "chick flick" movie-goers. Together, the two acts made the concert's price of admission worth its cost.

ART: Beyond the status quo

A walk through Perelman Quadrangle can be a typical experience for many Penn students. Yet, as the Philadelphia Art Museum's new exhibit Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates points out, the quad is a small puzzle piece that fits into an unusual picture, the grand designs of two Manayunk architects. For the past forty years, the world-reknowned husband and wife duo of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown have redefined postmodernist thinking in architecture by testing the formal rules of design and assigning them new meaning.

Too much free time

For those who believe a movie trailer is only a nice introduction for an upcoming flick, the media is pulling the wool over your eyes.
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