February 13–20, 1997 critic pick|six-pick Performance In An Intimate Space What makes the Community Education Center’s PIAIS distinctive is just that: the four pieces, created by artists who’ve had few performance opportunities, comprise a mishmash of styles and media. This…

February 13–20, 1997 movie shorts Dante’s Peak Roger Donaldson’s disaster movie goes through the motions. Volcanologist Pierce Brosnan knows in his bones that the peak will blow, but can’t quite convince his multiculti-tech-head-lifted-from-Twister crew. So they all hang out in…

January 30–February 6, 1997 critic pick Danzig Danzig… the name alone stirs the darkest part of my psyche, the part that is driven by aggressive emotion and soothed by the deep melodious voice of Glen Danzig — founder/former lead singer…

January 30–February 6, 1997 movie shorts HAMLET In his long, beautiful and thoroughly exasperating movie, actor-director Kenneth Branagh paints the world of Hamlet on a big canvas. Elsinore is a baroque palace with an enormous throne room with checkerboard marble…

January 30–February 6, 1997 hit and run Cage Aux Balls Can you build batting cages for $100,000 or less? If so, the Fairmount Park Commission has a job for you. FPC is accepting bids for a four-station batting range to…

January 30–February 6, 1997 mailbag Letters to the Editor By The Readers Hospice Hurt Your Jan. 24 article entitled “Ripping off the Dying” (CityBeat) by Daisy Fried, was a surprising misstatement of my conversation with the reporter. It is a…

January 23–30, 1997 hit and run Vicious Art For the Feb. 12 Valentine’s Day installment of its popular Wednesday night series, the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) scheduled Sid and Nancy, the 1986 film by Alex Cox, starring Gary Oldman…

January 16–23, 1997 critical mass concert David Bowie’s Birthday Bash Jan. 9, Madison Square Garden What better way for David Bowie to start another ch-ch-change than to celebrate the most radical change of all: turning 50? To do that, Henna-Head…

January 16–23, 1997 critic pick|rock/ pop Go To Blazes One of the most talented and longest-running Philly rock bands is calling it quits. Go To Blazes, the country-soaked rock band highly lauded in Americana and alternative country circles, will play…