December 5–12, 1996 disc quicks Blame It On Christmas! Volume 1 17 Weird Yuletide Classics From Around the World Various Artists (Schoolkids’ Records) The folks at Schoolkids’ have scoured the earth to come up with a most unusual and unusually…

December 5–12, 1996 disc quicks|Our Holiday Madness Edition! Esquivel! Merry X-mas From the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (Bar None) As would be expected, this is the album for the swinging, X-mas cocktail bash. Right off, legendary bandleader Juan Garcia Esquivel!, ever…

December 5–12, 1996 disc quicks Just Say Noel Various Artists (Geffen) Look there ain’t no Santa Claus and there ain’t such a thing as a hip Christmas. Are you really going to throw Sonic Youth on the turntable at 8…

November 14–21, 1996 hit and run Not A Great Day In Philadelphia Philadelphia Weekly titled last year’s photo of noted local jazz legends “A Great Day in Philadelphia.” Now Elena Bouvier, the Weekly‘s suddenly ex-photographer, can rename her photo “A…

November 14–21, 1996 movie shorts THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES I kept thinking, throughout this film’s 126 minutes, how much more fun it would have been if only Mike Meyers’ Linda Richman had been cast as a Barbra-facsimile instead of…

November 14–21, 1996 movie shorts CALLING THE GHOSTS Like a howl of pain, Calling the Ghosts upends the banality of Bosnian horror by exposing the particular assault of women during the Serbians’ campaign of ethnic cleansing. The film grimly profiles…

November 7–14, 1996 hit and run fumobucks@aol.com As Hit & Run reported on Oct. 3 (“Fumo’s Fault?”), State Sen. Vincent Fumo helped erase $111,000 in state funds earmarked for computerization of state campaign finance records. The story angered local resident…

November 7–14, 1996 critical mass|Choral Music Voces Novae et Antiquae Sunday, Oct. 27, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. The music of Latin Mass has served as a remarkable sounding board for the composers over the ages. A new setting of…

November 7–14, 1996 critical mass|Dance Paule Turner Conwell Dance Theater, Oct. 25 & 26.   Paule Turner thrives on being histrionic. This stocky muscular man enjoys walking around regally in women’s clothing, fake eyelashes, thick mascara, and extra-tall platform shoes.…