When two members of your three-piece band play the cello as their main instrument, it would be hard to blame someone for laughing if you suggested that they rocked. When you think cello, you tend to think of chamber music, orchestras and other things that are decidedly not rock.
Based on the Stephen King novella "Secret Window, Secret Garden," this movie starring Johnny Depp, Maria Bello and John Turturro has a lot going for it with acting quality, and it only gets better when one considers the director David Koepp, who directed other suspense movies such as Stir of Echoes (1999) and wrote the screenplay for Spiderman (2002) and Panic Room (2002).
The Method and Result's upcoming album The Things You Miss opens with the sound of an orchestra tuning their instruments. The first few seconds of the first track "Party List" may confuse the listener into thinking that they have bought a classical music CD.
Tucked away at the point where Passyunk Avenue meets South Street lies a bit of Philadelphia's version of Italy. With its small open kitchen and frescos on the wall, Gnocchi makes for a pleasant night out for Italian specialties.
I often find it difficult to pick films that stand out from the foggy depths of my sleep-deprived memory. I wouldn't say Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List is a favorite. It's not the sort of film that one favors. A favorite is something comfortable that you can slip into at the end of the day to wind down.
Recently, ESPN has been airing a sporting event called "No Limit Texas Hold 'em," also referred to as the "World Series of Poker." People see World Series and poker in the same sentence and think, baseball and poker, what could go wrong? When I first saw the program, it wasn't at all like the kind of fusion that I thought it would be.
Penny Arcade is one of the Internet's funniest, and most popular, Web comics. Starring Tycho Brahe and Gabe, pseudonyms for Jerry Parkinson and Michael Krahulik, respectively, the online comic follows the everyday conversations and foibles of the two hard core gamers and their reactions to the video game industry and society in general.
The name Strange Brew may have come from the 1960s band Cream, who took the standards of blues and added a touch of jazz. But this modern day band also produces a sound that is truly a "strange brew" of musical genres categorized as blues, rock and R&B. Singer Marcy Eustice, who also plays flute and percussion for the band, has a background in bluegrass, country and gospel.
