Recently added articles from Philadelphia Weekly:
III Way
Oct 21, 2009; ... Espers follow up II with a lighter, more spacious effort. After their 2006 album II, Philly's Espers scattered in all directions. Greg Weeks started the psych-folk imprint Language of Stone and released solo material. Meg Baird concentrated on other projects putting out the solo album ...
Punk Goes Pops
Oct 21, 2009; ... Sixty-three-year-old Sex Pistol's manager Malcolm McLaren shows off his latest video. Before he became the godfather of punk, Malcolm McLaren- former manager of the Sex Pistols- was an art student and mischief-maker. McLaren s new video at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts proves ...
SEPTA'S Loco-motion
Oct 21, 2009; ... Medically disqualified transit workers get a free ride on taxpayers. Riddle me this: When is a cashier not cashier? If you answered: "When the cashier a union- protect ed SEPTA employee isn't healthy enough to perform the for which s/he was hired, and so has assigned that cashier ...
UMM ... DROP
Oct 21, 2009; ... "Coco Chanel said that when she leaves the house in the morning, she looks at herself and says, 'take one thing off,'" Todd Henkln, lead singer of local quartet the Great Unknown says. "I loved that. That was sort of our philosophy on this album. Strip it away and see how it looks with ...
Har Mar Superstar
Oct 21, 2009; ... WEEK'S WORST Remember on The Simpsons when Thé King of Pop played a fat white guy with less style than Carrot Top? It could've been modeled after Har Mar Super- star, the balding, beer-bellied soul crooner from Minnesota. Named after a suburban St. Paul mall, Har Mar plays synth-driven ...