October 1–8, 1998 critical mass Who’s Next? Who’s Next? A Still from NextFrame’s Denial Six years after it began as the UFVA Student Film and Video Festival, NextFrame has become one of the city’s more established and reliable showcases for…

September 24–October 1, 1998 book quarterly|love bites The Smut Report These days you can’t get away from lewd material. It’s in the White House, on the news and all over the Web—notably in the form of the Starr Report and…

September 24–October 1, 1998 book quarterly|lovebites 1000 Dessous: A History of Lingerie by Gilles Néret Taschen, 767 pp., $29.99 They’re Generically titled 1000 Record Covers, 1000 Tattoos or, the one that’s the most well-worn, 1000 Nudes. These thick, almost entirely…

September 17–24, 1998 earshot|style wars Where Are They Now It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since our first Style Wars skirmish. It was way back in 1994 when we decided to host a competition to find the…

August 27–September 3, 1998 city beat A Bridge Too Old City officials race to save Philadelphia’s only covered bridge. by Amy Choi Set in a rugged landscape and framed by an overgrowth of towering trees, the faded red exterior of…

May 7–14, 1998 disc quicks|rock/pop Sonny Sixkiller I’m In the Band (VITAL COG) Sonny Sixkiller is the new vehicle of Kara Lafty, the hyper-kinetic guitarist/singer formerly of Moped. The 12 love songs herein are a split between the sweet, moody…

May 7–14, 1998 food Something Old, Something Ewww Cookbooks that’ll remind you of the good old days (or make your skin crawl). When you talk about comfort food, the first thing that probably comes to mind is a big pile…

April 30–May 7, 1998 hit and run The Hole Truth Forty-one officers at Pennsylvania’s largest maximum security prison are being investigated in light of evidence that they pushed, shoved and physically abused inmates there. Nearly half the prison’s population was…

April 30–May 7, 1998 hit and run The Wrath in Kahn “If I ever went to London and someone asked me for a fag, I’d have to kill him.” That actually was one of the wittier remarks allegedly made by…