Photography by Randi Fair courtesy of Metro. Thousands bared what they dared on Saturday to participate in the annual Philly Naked Bike Ride. The ride began near 31st and Powelton at Drexel Park and went on for two-and-a-half hours, passing…
Though it lacks the earnest exuberance of 2013’s Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s latest collaboration almost plays like an unofficial sequel. In the former, Gerwig’s twentysomething goober grand-jetés across a black-and-white New York City, a place that forgives…
Photograph by Charles Mostoller for Metro. Before Attorney General Kathleen Kane was indicted, she uncovered a cache of pornographic and racist emails that were being swapped among high-ranking state employees at her office — and at a recent press conference,…
Casablanca ASIAN ARTS INITIATIVE 1219 Vine St., 215-557-0455, paaff.org Garuda 19 (2013, Indonesia, 90 min.): Inspirational sports doc following Indonesia’s national under-19 soccer team, which won the ASEAN youth championship in 2013. Thu., Aug. 27, 7 p.m., $8. BRYN MAWR FILM…
A union representing faculty and staff at the Community College of Philadelphia will host a book giveaway today at a Mexican non-profit dedicated to meeting the educational and cultural needs of the growing Latino population in South Philly. The American…
Click Image to Enlarge We are not ready. See Also: Comics by Darl Seitchik (1, 2), Terry LaBan (1, 2), Aaron Lange, Roger Petersen, Andrea Tsurumi, Caitlin McCormack, Robert Berry, Box Brown (1, 2) Ronald Wimberly, Dave Proch, Pat Aulisio, Mike…
[+1] Officials at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility say their furniture shop is working on a special chair for the pope to sit on when he visits the prison next month. A very special chair, says one inmate. A chair the…
The Himalayan mountain called Meru, towering nearly 22,000 feet above northern India, is known as the “anti-Everest” in climbing communities. While it’s not nearly as notorious as that widowmaker, its tactical complexities and spiritual significance make it an elusive, exclusive…
It seems almost greedy to demand that a movie about a burnout quickie-mart clerk who’s also a clandestine assassin be more absurd, but that’s really what would cure Nima Nourizadeh’s aimless American Ultra. Oddly tentative with a premise that seems plucked…
Aramark Executive Chef James Hennessey shows off new items on the menu. (Image courtesy of Aramark.) It’s stadium food but it doesn’t taste like stadium food. That’s the focus for new concessions at Lincoln Financial Field in the Eagles’…
