Spring Break
Kicking off their monumental 30th anniversary season, Philadelphia's Wilma Theater has chosen the perfect drama to bring together the old and the new, 2008 Tony nominee for Best Play, "Rock 'n' Roll." Written by Academy Award and four-time Tony Award winner Tom Stoppard, "Rock 'n' Roll" takes viewers back to the year 1968, when peace, love, and music ran free-in certain communities.
Do you ever feel lost? Like you're not sure which direction to take in life? Let's face it-sometimes we need help navigating this crazy thing called college. That's why I'm here. Consider me your third party, impartial columnist. You have questions, and baby doll, I've got your answers.
"Happy Birthday Harris Malden," a feature-length movie produced by Sweaty Robot, a locally based, five-man project that includes four Drexel alumni, will premiere at the Bossone Auditorium Oct 23. The film centers on the life of Harris Malden, whose personal insecurities are surfaced in the form of his ridiculously fake facial hair.
"W.," Oliver Stone's third film to focus on a presidency, recounts the life and times of incumbent George W. Bush (Josh Brolin). At a point in time when the country is faced with a deteriorating economy, an unpopular war that has cost us hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives, it seems odd that Stone, often charged with crusading for the political left, seldom takes the opportunity delve beneath the superficial in "W.
In the Queen of Pop's current single, she and Justin Timberlake have only four minutes to save the world. In Madonna's newest project, however, the Queen sat down on the wrong throne and directed an 81 minute movie. "Filth and Wisdom" is a perceptive comedy that encompasses the lives of three roommates living in London who must sin in order to achieve their highest goals.
Benjamin Franklin once said, "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Kite & Key, a new gastro-pub in Fairmount's Art Museum area, lives by that motto. The all-embracing beer list is separated by drafts, with local choices from Victory to Yards; imported bottles from Belgium to Mexico; local bottles from the tri-state region; several domestic bottles and the "Usual Suspects" where diners will see Miller, Bud and other brews to be ignored.
Each week, I'll be ranking different beers from my own personal scale: the Suds-o-Meter. Rankings will take into account looks, tastes, smells, inebriation levels, and all that other stuff that makes beer so good (or so bad). But enough of this formality crap; let's talk brewski.
Seventeen years, 21 shows, and way too many releases to keep track of-this is the story of Pinhead Gunpowder. To most people, this band is just "the other band the one dude from Green Day was in," but they deserve more recognition than they are given. Pinhead Gunpowder, like a lot of the bands from the Berkeley, Calif.
