November 16–23, 2000 on media Terry Madonna, Reporters at Your Feet… Madonna media-whore complex: G. Terry Madonna . Madonna is the Daily News’ pollster, so it makes sense that his name appeared in that paper 26 times so far this…

November 16–23, 2000 on media This Fresh American Life Is that your final answer? Fresh Air host Terry Gross will be interviewed by Ira Glass this Saturday. Fresh Air This American Life. The interview is part of a WHYY-91 FM…

November 9–16, 2000 hall monitor A-loan At Last It is “comforting” to learn the city is banking a $295 million budget surplus from last fiscal year, City Council President Anna Verna commented last week, adding that the money could quickly…

October 26–November 2, 2000 disc quicks|rock/pop J. Mascis + The Fog More Light (Ultimatum) Meat Puppets Golden Lies (Atlantic/Breaking) In the mid-1990s, the Meat Puppets and J. Mascis’ Dinosaur Jr. took classic rock guitar vocabulary to tortured-but-beautiful extremes. Both acts…

October 26–November 2, 2000 disc quicks|sound effects Martha Stewart Living Spooky Scary Sounds For Halloween (Rhino) Add a little cheer to your holiday by snagging Martha Stewart’s new, um, album, and popping it into your unsuspecting co-worker’s CD player and…

October 26–November 2, 2000 dance New to You Innovations Something different: Edward Cieslak and Valerie Amiss in PAB’s “Innovations.” Pennsylvania Ballet, Merriam Theater, October 19-22 “Innovations,” the sequel of sorts to last week’s popular Balanchine program, demonstrated that the company…

October 19–26, 2000 disc quicks|rock/pop Matt Suggs Golden Days Before They End (Merge) Butterglory was only around for five years and only released four records, but Matt Suggs and co. were still pretty big fish in the previous indie generation’s…

October 19–26, 2000 hit and run Hooked on Fonicks Flush with success, the campaign of 5th District state senatorial candidate Michael Stack fired off a giddy news release touting the candidate’s endorsement by Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham. The only…

September 28–October 5, 2000 mailbag Letters to the Editor by the Readers Village People This letter is to clarify the article, “It Splits a Village,” (City Beat, Daryl Gale, Sept. 21). The article included interviews with members of West Powelton…