September 1118, 1997 best bets|rock/pop big mess Ladies and Germs, it’s the product you’ve all been waiting for… Da-da-da-DA! The one, the only, Big Mess Orchestra CD, A Little Trash Goes a Long Way. After five (or six, no one’s…
September 1118, 1997 20 questions Dan Anderson Illustrations by Lula for Sex Tips… (Note: That’s a flashlight in those diagrams, and Dan Anderson doesn’t look anything like the guy in the picture.) Background The authors of Sex Tips For Straight…
September 411, 1997 20 questions Eve Annenberg Background When Eve Annenberg was studying film at Columbia graduate school in the early ’90s, she became obsessed with making a feature film. She took out the biggest student loan she could ($10,000),…
August 28September 4, 1997 music|review Radiohead Brian Duss/City Paper Brian Duss/City Paper Thom Yorke of Radiohead. It couldn’t have been more than four years ago that Radiohead played at a half-empty T.L.A., promoting their debut album Pablo Honey (Capitol). They…
August 28September 4, 1997 movie shorts Star Maps (recommended) In ex-punk-rocker Miguel Arteta’s Star Maps, Pepe (Efrain Figueroa) is an irredeemably bad guy, having driven his wife (Martha Velez) to a nervous breakdown after years of sexual infidelity, arrogance and…
August 28September 4, 1997 disc quicks|jazz Bill Stewart Telepathy (Blue Note) Bill Stewart first gained critical recognition as the fluid percussive force behind John Scofield’s acoustic quartet. In Snide Remarks, his 1995 Blue Note debut, Stewart stepped forward as a…
August 28September 4, 1997 20 questions Majel Barrett Roddenberry Background Majel Barrett Roddenberry is admittedly illiterate when it comes to computers, but that hasn’t kept her from being the voice of the U.S.S. Enterprise or several other bits of Star…
August 2128, 1997 movie shorts Dirty Dancing Peace Corps wannabe/innocent youth Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) discovers dance instructor/reformed gigolo Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) while vacationing with the fam at a cheesy 1960s Catskills resort. Social world s collide as Baby…
August 1421, 1997 mailbag Letters to the Editor The merchants concerned about retail giants such as Home Depot are justified in their concerns (“Fresh Fears,” CityBeat, Aug. 8). Home Depot just demolished the nationally significant Loch Aerie property at routes…
August 1421, 1997 cover story|sidebar Yo! And Other Lexicographical Peculiarities R. Whitney Tucker published “Notes on the Philadelphia Dialect” in the journal American Speech back in 1944. Many of the words are still common, especially among older speakers. The Philly…
