October 29, 1997 movie shorts Fire recommended Sita (Nandita Das) is an idealistic young bride who has come to live with her husband’s cramped household in New Delhi. Along with her groom’s infidelity and indifference, Sita must cope with his…
October 29, 1997 hit and run Bus Number 90, Where Are You? Bus Number 90, Where Are You? Getting through crosstown traffic just got harder for the few but fond riders of bus route No. 90, which SEPTA and city…
October 29, 1997 critical mass Reviews: the Goodbye Girl The Goodbye Girl Walnut Street Theatre, Ninth & Walnut Sts., through Oct. 26, 574-3550, ext. 4 “The bad news is the good news ain’t so great.” This lyric comes from a…
September 25October 2, 1997 on media Seer Vs. Scribes The man who calls himself Sollog may not be able to predict the future, but he sure does know how to get under the skin of media types from coast to…
September 1825, 1997 critic pick|movies American Sweetheart Mary Pickford in My Best Girl (1927). “I can’t imagine any worse Hades than to go and have to look at 10-year-old films of myself,” said Mary Pickford in the ’30s about the…
September 1825, 1997 movie shorts Cafe Society (recommended) Originally broadcast on Showtime, Raymond De Felitta’s film dives into the red-lampshaded world of the 1950s New York nightclub scene, where men were men and dames were dames. Based on the true…
September 1825, 1997 hit and run The City That Loves You Back Sources say an increasing number of women arrested for prostitution, particularly in Kensington, are claiming they moved here from other states because they learned through the Internet that…
September 1118, 1997 critic pick|six pick The World of Sake Ancient texts such as the Outline of Sake Manners dictate strict etiquette for drinking this fermented rice beverage: for the nobility, it was an elegant pastime, where custom included testing…
September 1118, 1997 hit and run Mercury Poisoning But sources say the Mercury wasn’t always so interested in victims’ rights. In 1996, they say, editors refused to publish a composite sketch of an assault suspect because they were “at war”…
September 1118, 1997 movie shorts 4 Little Girls (recommended) Spike Lee’s first feature-length documentary takes history and throws it whole and alive into our laps. It’s a masterful piece of work, arguably the best picture he’s made. Most of us…
