May 3–10, 2001 mix picks|television Outback Stakeout Kucha-coo: Elisabeth Filarski was the last of her tribe. If you’re like me then you can’t get enough of Survivor II. Also, you are a big dork. And you probably already know tonight…

May 3–10, 2001 dj nights DJ Nights A selective guide to who’s spinning what and where. by Sean O’Neal THURSDAY, MAY 3 Cubanitis (monthly, world) @ Silk City w/ Jorge Navarrete, Alfredo de Matteis and a live Cuban band, $3.…

April 26–May 3, 2001 hall monitor Nerve Gas During the last years of his administration, Mayor Rendell preferred not to stir up the pot at the Philadelphia Gas Works. He didn’t force a rate hike even though debt was spiraling…

April 19–26, 2001 music picks|electronica James Johnson/Baird Hersey and Prana This installment of the Gathering — a meeting of maelstrom-making electronicist James Johnson and the morbidly meditative vocal choir of Prana — sounds more like a gathering storm of slowly…

April 19–26, 2001 music picks|rock/pop Mary Fahl For a brief time in the mid-’90s, they were Philly’s musical darlings. With a sound both earthy and ethereal, The October Project held listeners rapt, even those usually unmoved by such musical —…

April 12–19, 2001 opera Up Close Don Pasquale Curtis Institute of Music Opera Theater at the Curtis Opera Studio, Sunday, April 8 Directing Don: Chas Rader-Shieber, director of the Curtis Institute’s Don Pasquale. The plot of Don Pasquale is a…

March 22–29, 2001 dj nights DJ Nights A selective guide to who’s spinning what and where. by Sean O’Neal THURSDAY, MARCH 22 Animal House (weekly, progressive house, house) w/ Joe Cas @ Baja Beach Club, call for cover. Funkatonic Thursdays…

March 15–22, 2001 book quarterly| fiction Demonology By Rick Moody Little Brown, 306 p., $24.95 This collection of short stories sure doesn’t tarnish Moody’s literary golden boy reputation (The Ice Storm, Purple America), even as it reveals some chinks in…

March 8–15, 2001 disc quicks| jazz Lee Morgan & Wayne Shorter The Complete Vee Jay Lee Morgan-Wayne Shorter Sessions (Mosaic, 6 CDs) Trumpeter Lee Morgan and saxophonist Wayne Shorter are often cited as quintessential Blue Note Records artists; they played…