January 8–15, 1998 20 questions Matthew Neenan, David Parsons David Parsons and Matthew Neenan Moderated by Robert Ackerman David Parsons, 38, and Matthew Neenan, 23, represent two diverse streams of contemporary dance: modern/postmodern and ballet. Before Parsons founded his company…

December 26, 1996–January 2, 1997 hit and run If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Manayunk Tuesday wasn’t a great day for Roscoe’s Kodiak Cafe. On Dec. 17, a Common Pleas Court ruled that the Manayunk Development Corporation (MDC) has the…

December 25, 1997–January 1, 1998 movies   Staying Open Cindy Fuchs interviews Sweet Hereafter director Atom Egoyan, suddenly “accessible” after all these years. Atom Egoyan’s The Sweet Hereafter, adapted from Russell Banks’ novel about the effects of a tragic school…

December 18–25, 1997 six pick   Porno Stars At Home As the byproducts of famous trials garner fame for themselves, our own Kato Kaelin, our own Paula Barbieri, our own Mark Fuhrman, is getting her 15. Shannon Reinert, aka Summer…

December 11–18, 1997 book quarterly Inner Space The wondrous interior worlds of Haruki Murakami. The Wind-Up Bird Translated from Japanese by Jay Rubin, Alfred A. Knopf, 611 p., $25.95 (cloth) Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Translated by…

December 4–11, 1997 on media Radio report Unemployed for less than two weeks, Philly radio fixture Elise Brown has returned to the airwaves, this time on WPLY (Y100). Brown, who was most recently heard at nights on WMMR, was let…

December 4–11, 1997 hit and run Parking authority boots tenants The Philadelphia Parking Authority is playing landlord to about a dozen tenants at 1906 Sansom St. And, according to the tenants and their state representative, the city agency has played…

November 28–December 5, 1997 disc quicks|Classical Gay American Composers Various Artists Music by Helps, Hoiby, Harrison, Biscardi, Rorem, Del Tredici, Maggio, Cummings, Hibbard, Hunt, DeBlasio. (CRI) Considering the extent to which gay composers have dominated American classical music in this…

November 27–December 4, 1997 review|review theater   The play is a debate carried on among characters so articulate and so fully realized that you are swayed first to this side and then to that.   Racing Demon Villanova Theatre, Lancaster…