October 18–25, 2001 music picks|jazz Mark Kramer Trio Mark Kramer is a sort of unheralded Philly jazz institution: self-taught, prodigiously gifted, woefully obscure. The pianist spent much of the last two decades booking jazz at Ye Olde Temperance House in…

October 11–18, 2001 mix picks Extended Lives What started as a Peace Corps assignment became a sort of life’s work for photographer and Bloomsburg professor Vera Viditz-Ward. Originally sent to take pictures of Sierra Leone in the 1970s, she has…

October 4–11, 2001 arts picks|art Goin’ on a Treasure Hunt Dissentia Curatorial Services has always worked toward bringing art to the public. But now it’s up to you to find the art. Starting Oct. 5, Dissentia presents the monthlong “Treasure…

September 27–October 4, 2001 media Ad and Subtract In the weeks since the terrorist attacks, the advertising sales business has gone from famine to feast. What started as 72 hours of ad-free television coverage (costing the networks a combined $100…

September 27–October 4, 2001 music picks|roots Sofrito What an affirmation of New York life we can share with Sofrito. Nuyorican through and through, storyteller/actor David Gonzalez has made his life’s work the telling of the good side of life in…

September 27–October 4, 2001 dj nights DJ Nights A selective guide to who’s spinning what where. by Sean O’Neal THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Cold Retarded (monthly, hip-hop/R&B;, breaks, experimental) @ 700 Club w/ AJ Ready Right, n/c. Jockin’ da old-school –…

September 27–October 4, 2001 book quicks|nonfiction President Nixon: Alone in the White House By Richard Reeves Simon and Schuster, 704 pp., $35 In May 1970, HUD secretary George Romney announced he would take a salary cut to help balance the…

September 27–October 4, 2001 book quicks|nonfiction American Exorcism By Michael W. Cuneo Doubleday, 314 pp., $24.95 Jumping off with tales of 1960s priests cruising gay bars in the name of counseling street youths and analysis of William Peter Blatty’s The…

September 13–20, 2001 music picks|experimental Tom Heasley/Jim Cole and Spectral Voices Nobody said space music was the exclusive province of the synthesizer. Chuck van Zyl — host of WXPN’s Star’s End program and booking guy for The Gathering’s series of…