By Liz Spikol
Liz Spikol says the new "Clean Cures" book offers plenty of simple ways to rid yourself of wasp stings, cold sores and flatulence. But its arrival may be yet another sign that South Street Bohemia has been vanquished by the Gods of Commerce.
By michael alan goldberg
Tonight: Swimmers 7pm, $10. Kung Fu Necktie. Philadelphia quartet the Swimmers celebrate the release of their tremendous new album People Are Soft—the band’s second on Drexel’s MAD Dragon Records—which you’ll get for free if you picked up advance tickets for this gig. Pretty sweet deal, because People Are Soft is an irresistible indie-pop/nü-wave platter, with synthesizers both buzzy [...]
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By J. Cooper Robb
This staging is the first time since 1997 that InterAct has presented a production away from the Adrienne. Instead, you encounter a regulation size wrestling ring inhabited by two wrestler/actors pounding on each other.
By Matt Prigge
Through the ’50s, Alfred Hitchcock was able to wed increasingly heady ideas to pure genre concerns. But with Vertigo, he went too far. The story took a back seat to the themes and the film was considered a disaster. So he made this film.
Brendan Skwire says health care reform shouldn't be about protecting a faceless and inhuman corporation's right to gouge people that have breast cancer. But that's what...
Unplug the amps and break out the brass knuckles: It’s time to smash some acoustic guitars in people’s faces. It’s a super-sensitive battle royale of metaphors and precision...
For some people, being in a band with your spouse is difficult. Add a two-year-old child and a 10-year-old dog to the mix, and difficulties abound exponentially. Now try...
The day the bodies were found, Terry Oleson was 60 miles from the Golden Key Motel, a sleazy place where he was forced to flop a few nights each week. Even now, though,...
I'm a 30-year-old, formerly able-bodied professional woman who is now dependent on the government for a “public option. I wouldn’t be in this position if I’d had access...
It’s been five months since Maurice Ragland testified against the man he says shot him. In doing so, he broke the cardinal rule of the Philadelphia streets—Do Not Snitch....
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Anti-Union SEPTA Protest on Sunday
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