April 20–27, 2000 dance Footprints Teacher, teacher: Gottschild recalls his mentor in Mary’s Ark. Hellmut Gottschild: Mary’s Ark, Blue Eyes and the Inability to Dissolve Painted Bride Art Center, April 14-15 In Mary’s Ark, Blue Eyes and the Inability to…

April 13–20, 2000 disc quicks|rock/pop Drunk/Patrick Phelan Tableside Manners/Songs of Patrick Phelan (Jagjaguwar) Rick Alverson and his 12 sad apostles are about one miracle short of canonization. If the unbelievers choose to listen, Drunk’s fourth LP could be that miracle.…

April 6–13, 2000 picklet|theater Super Merengue He’s a bird! He’s a plane! He’s a sculptor turned performance artist! He’s Super Merengue!? It is hard to avoid the enigmatic intrigue that radiates from Temple student Nicolás Dumit Estévez (a.k.a. Super Merengue.)…

April 6–13, 2000 hit and run OK to Be Gay at La Salle Life just got a bit easier for La Salle University students who choose to openly acknowledge their homosexuality. School officials have reversed a decision made in early…

April 6–13, 2000 loot Bull Shot Comb the clubs up and down the West Coast, and you’ll see the Red Bull neon signs shining high and mighty right there next to the Heineken signs. Red Bull and vodka has become…

March 30–April 6, 2000 critic pick|world music Flory Jagoda Flory Jagoda, a.k.a. the Flame of Sephardic Music, is such a sweetheart. Catch her off-guard with a quick phone call out of the blue and she’ll laugh and joke like you…

March 23–30, 2000 cover story|sidebar Well, East Coast Girls Are Hip… Why we’ll never be known as Pornsylvania. It’s tough to say exactly how many porn filmmakers there are in Philly or the East Coast. “Any shmuck with a camcorder…

March 23–30, 2000 music Monk’s Greatest Hits In the course of her 35-year career, interdisciplinary performance artist Meredith Monk has played with forms and blurred distinctions between artistic mediums, producing award-winning works of film, dance, sound installation and grand opera,…

March 16–23, 2000 loot You Glow, Girl Glowstick jewelry has been so popular in the rave scene, and even in more mainstream clubs of late, it’s no surprise that someone would come up with a variation on the luminous toys.…