June 28–July 5, 2001 arts picks|art All American Paintings and sculptures from the Smith College Museum of Art are visiting Philadelphia for their summer vacation. Well, not exactly, but the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts will benefit from some…

June 21–28, 2001 cd reviews|rock/pop Neilson Hubbard Why Men Fail (Parasol) There was never much of a market for the lo-fi Harvard slo-core trio Galaxie 500, so you’d imagine that a G500 cover band wouldn’t exactly have been a cash…

June 21–28, 2001 arts picks|performance The Bald Mermaids “We bring our own work to the group, definitely. We are all individuals,” asserts Rebecca Sloan, who formed in 1998 one of the city’s most distinctive performance constellations with other Philadelphia dance…

June 14–21, 2001 naked city Icepack by A.D. Amorosi I’d like to preempt your 24-7 Sixers coverage with other shit. Other stuff is goin’ on. But first: I know Bill Clinton’s watching from Brian Roberts’ Comcast booth, that Spike Lee,…

June 7–14, 2001 naked city This Is No Second-Hand Rose Tracey, by Susan: Ms. diPaolo & Ms. Lunenfeld in their new boutique. photo: Michael T. Regan There’s a certain vibe to upscale women’s boutiques like Joan Shepp and Suzanne Roberts.…

May 31–June 7, 2001 arts picks|dance Dance Theatre of Harlem When Arthur Mitchell’s Dance Theatre of Harlem takes the stage at the Mann Center tomorrow, it will be the first time in 15 years that the Mann has hosted a…

May 24–31, 2001 dj nights DJ Nights A selective guide to who’s spinning what and where. by Sean O’Neal THURSDAY, MAY 24 DJ Louie Devito spinning (one-off, trance, progressive house, house, hip-hop, reggae/world) @ Eighth Floor Nightclub w/ Scott Payne,…

May 24–31, 2001 arts picks|art School’s Out, Art’s Up With the end of the academic year in a college town comes a bonus for non-academics: the annual shows of student artwork. This weekend’s a good one to catch up on…

May 17–24, 2001 naked city Icepack by A.D. Amorosi Every time film crews leave I wanna sing the Fifth Dimension’s “One Less Bell To Answer.” Such is my feeling as Emmett’s Mark stars Scott Wolf and Khandi Alexander left Saturday…