Recently added articles from Philadelphia Weekly:
Chinatown Redux
Jul 23, 2008; Miller, G W III ... Middle-class Asians are rediscovering the joys of residing in the old neighborhood. On the TV, a blond couple caresses each other as they sit in the thick grass on a gentle hill adjacent to a small pond. Her hair blows in the light breeze as she disinterestedly stares ahead. The Ken doll ...
Numbing Sensation
Jul 23, 2008; Whitaker, Tim ... David Carr writes the media column that appears in the New York Times on Mondays. It's a must-read if you're in this business, and a good read if you're not. Carr has also just written a book. It's called The Night of the Gun. It's got big-time buzz. An excerpt was ...
Segal's Flight
Jul 23, 2008; Steele, John ... MEDIA The publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News joins a flock of prominent online voices in a fight against censorship. When Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal first heard about the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), an Internet censorship law that many believe would ...
Tick's Treat
Jul 23, 2008; Rogers, Ibram ... LEGACIES Frank Coleman spent five decades fighting for Lincoln University to have football again. At 96, he finally made it happen. On the hallowed historically black college grounds surrounded by rolling farmlands and wooded hilltops in southern Chester County, only one man is ...
Dynamic Duo
Jul 23, 2008; Lindsey, Craig D ... POWER OF SOUL PoS turns two, interviews Eric Roberson. Again. Well, it's that time of year again. I drop a celebratory column about making it through another year writing and reporting on the current state of black music without going insane and broadsiding anyone who has "Soulja ...
Wooden Shjips
Jul 23, 2008; Kelly, Jennifer ... Wooden Shjips Vol. 1 (Holy Mountain) Rating: Solid, like the Liberty Bell. Feedback-glazed juvenilia from the SF psych-rock foursome, Vol. 1 collects early material so minimally released that, up to now, you pretty much had to know the band to have it. These cuts are less ...
Encaustic and Mixed Media
Jul 23, 2008; Barned-Smith, St John ... WAX ON Encaustic and Mixed Media Sat., July 26, and Sun., July 27. $160. Yo Darkroom. 113 N. 23rd St. 215.789.9032. www.yodarkroom.com Melt down the artistic barriers keeping you from making your next masterpiece this weekend at Philly's art school most cool, Yo Darkroom, ...
Stars and Stipe
Jul 23, 2008; Whimsy, Lord ... DIRTY BUTTONS Go gardening at night. My favorite pastime during July evenings is to sit under my potted angel's trumpet" tree and admire its glorious, fragrant canopy. It spends the colder months in my kitchen, looking to guests like a dead, bare stick ripe for the slushy ...
Beck
Jul 23, 2008; Steele, John ... Beck Modern Guilt (DGC) Rating: Solid, like the Liberty Bell. You knew it would be interesting. Employing help from Danger Mouse and Cat Power, Beck's latest is also his most baffling to date, no small feat for an artist who's made a career of baffling listeners. Heavy on ...
Dharma Talk - Make it Simple! Practical Advice for Everyday Practice
Jul 23, 2008; Barned-Smith, St John ... CHILL PILL Dharma Talk - Make it Simple! Practical Advice for Everyday Practice Fri., July 25, 7:30pm. $10. Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square. 215.735.3456. www.phathue.com The risk of having a bad day runs high these days, no? Food cost, gas prices ...
Black Kids
Jul 23, 2008; Parker, Chris ... Black Kids Partie Traumatic (Columbia) Rating: Meh, like Mexican food in Philly. You'd never guess these dance-punk anglophiles hail from Jacksonville, Fla. Frontman Reggie Youngblood lifts Robert Smith's mopey croon while the female keyboard pair shout like Go! Team, and ...
STYLE PROFILE
Jul 23, 2008; Persico, Michael; Kotsosavas, Anastasia ... Megan Haupt Philadelphia Sewing Collective, www.phillysewing.org "I started up the Collective as a professional networking group for people to be able to connect and share resources-primarily jobs. We started teaching classes as a way to bring sewing to other people. Initially it ...
UMM ... DROP
Jul 23, 2008; Wallen, Doug ... UMM ... DROP One of several bands putting Doylestown on the musical map these days, Aderbat sprang from the imagination of Bucks County-raised songwriter Matt Taylor, whose grandfather made a name for himself singing during the big band era. Taylor made a solo debut in 2002 with Relay, ...
LIT GLOSS
Jul 23, 2008; Spikol, Liz ... Geekadelphia.com has a new look, and it's white and clean-like EVE from Pixar's Wall-E, or the MacBook Air. The old site was black, sort of the Atari to the new site's Wii. But the mission remains the same: make the nerds happy. The site launched last year when partners Eric Smith and Tim ...
DEFEND ITS EXISTENCE
Jul 23, 2008; Green, Caralyn ... DEFEND ITS EXISTENCE Billy Joel The Stranger: 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition (Sony Legacy) Thirty years ago Billy Joel came out with The Stranger, an album that feels most comfortable in the backseat of my family's wood-paneled minivan, wedged between Kenny Loggins' "Return to ...
Violens
Jul 23, 2008; Goldberg, Michael Alan ... Violens Fri., July 25, 8pm. $15. With Mgmt + Amazing Baby. Starlight Ballroom, 460 N. Ninth St. 215.769.1530. www.r5productions.com You might remember an enigmatic outfit from a few years ago called Lansing-Dreiden-like a musical version of Skull & Bones, the members' ...
Mark Knopfler
Jul 23, 2008; Goldberg, Michael Alan ... Mark Knopfler Sat., July 26, 8pm. $39.50-$89.50. With Jesca Hoop. Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave. 215.893.1999. www.manncenter.org Naming one of your albums Sailing to Philadelphia like Mark Knopfler did back in 20OO is kinda like running full-speed into ...
Matt Costa
Jul 23, 2008; Goldberg, Michael Alan ... Matt Costa Sun., July 27, 8pm. $18. With Sera Cahoone. Theater of Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. www.livenation.com At one time an aspiring pro skateboarder from Southern California, 26-year-old Matt Costa traded in his decks for guitars after shattering his leg doing a ...
Hippiefest With the Turtles
Jul 23, 2008; Silkaitis, Katherine ... Hippiefest With the Turtles Tues., July 29, 8pm. $39-$79. With Jack Bruce of Cream, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Melanie, Badfinger featuring Joey Molland + Jonathan Edwards. Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave. 215.893.1999. www.manncenter.org "Happy ...
Tall Firs
Jul 23, 2008; Silkaitis, Katherine ... Tall Firs Sat., July 26,9pm. $8. With Kurt Vile + National Eye. M Room. 15 W. Girard Ave. 215.739.5577. www.themanhattanroom.com It's an impressive feat for a band to be together 11 years before playing their first concert. Brooklyn trio Tall Firs not only held it together during ...