August 22–29, 1996 food Whoa Oh Oh Oh Volare’s a restaurant worth singing about, with or without Bobby Rydell. By Janet Ruth Falon During the entire meal that my friend Jane and I shared at Ristorante Volare, I kept wanting…

August 22–29, 1996 cover story Outside the Big Tent San Diego. It’s Saturday night and there is bedlam at San Diego International Airport as plane after plane disgorges Republicans from all over the country. They’ve come to this balmy Pacific…

August 15–22, 1996 cover story The Unkindest Cuts Hairdressers and the fine art of bitching. Darryl Levine, Cut, 204 S. 13th St.: The biggest complaint is ‘I want it done immediately.’ Or they want a lot done immediately, like a…

August 15–22, 1996 critic pick|Festival ENIT Festival ENIT sounds like a crackpot’s paradise. Porno For Pyros, the headlining act, is the perfect acid-addled, trip-hop treat. Its got just the right amount of peace, love, and mother Earth to make the…

August 15–22, 1996 critic pick|TV Losing Chase There are zero degrees of separation between Philadelphia and the principals in Showtime’s new made-for-TV movie, Losing Chase. The script was written by Anne Meredith, 33, whose father, Charles Meredith, is publisher of…

August 8–15, 1996 hit and run Hop On The Bus, Gus Believe it or not, the folks who run SEPTA think they need to spend up to $75,000 to find out what people think of them. Don’t they remember those…

August 8–15, 1996 hit and run Ride On — Without Us At least one Philadelphia organization will not participate in AIDS Ride ’97. Unless they get a second free ride. Ernie Jones, the executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Urban…

August 8–15, 1996 critic pick|Art The Art of Living in August I’m bored. I’m hot. I can’t go down the shore cuz I ain’t got a car and besides, I have to work on Sundays. I can’t afford air conditioning…

July 25–August 1, 1996 critic pick|Roots Itzhak Perlman/Klezmer Conservatory Band Itzhak Perlman/ Klezmer Conservatory Band Itzhak Perlman is a legendary classical violinist, but he’s also become a born-again practitioner of the traditional Jewish music known as klezmer. On Monday he’ll…