March 1926, 1998 critic pick|country roots Jerry Douglas During one week in February when I stopped in Nashville, Douglas was in the studio producing the Lonesome River Band during the day, gigging with bluegrassers Tim and Mollie O’Brien at the…
March 1926, 1998 critic pick|theater Dreamgirls Dreamgirls Dreamgirls Dreamgirls Primary Colors Dreamgirls was rightly lauded for its liquid pace and seamless set changesthe show unfolds in 58 locations without once using a realistic set. Designer Robin Wagner created four metal…
March 512, 1998 food|boogie bites Boogie Bites At Eighth Street Lounge and The Five Spot, you can eat as well as dip. by Katherine Dahlsgaard Like “actress/ models” or “video clerk/ directors,” “club/ restaurants” sound like they’re not going to…
February 26March 5, 1998 critic pick|performance Livin’ Large Big Dicks, Asian Menthe name says it all. In their multimedia performance piece, the three-man Pan-Asian-American performance group from New York called Slant lampoons just about every stereotype circulating in mainstream America…
February 1926, 1998 six pick Susan Starr Pianist Susan Starr is an enigma. She has been a fixture of the Philadelphia music scene for many years, although she seems as vivacious and youthful as ever. She is a musician of…
February 1926, 1998 movies Julie Christie as Phyllis: Isolating herself from the world with alcohol and irony. Afterglow The tragicomic nuances of two marriages gone awry. Written and Directed by Alan Rudolph A Sony Pictures Classics Release recommended by Sam…
February 1926, 1998 music G. Love rocks the Corestates with Jay Davidson (left) on sax Jock Jam G. Love and the All-Fellas Band were in the CoreStates Center last Wednesday with director Liz Friedlander and the 76ers to do a…
February 1219, 1998 earshot|wack Sexy or Sexist? Sexy or Sexist? Who says fathers and sons don’t communicate anymore? For years Stan Rabinski drove his son Ed to see hardcore punk shows and instead of being repulsed by the raucous mayhem…
January 2229, 1998 disc quicks|rock/pop Deanna Kirk Where Are You Now(Blackbird Records) One thing that comes through loud and clear when listening to Deanna Kirk’s second album, Where Are You Now, is the fact this silky-voiced chanteuse doesn’t want to…
January 2229, 1998 hit and run Life In Spamalot It looks like Sanford Wallace is up to his old tricks. Wallace, the so-called “King of Spam,” is a portly 29-year-old Internet marketer, who in his heyday boasted of sending 25…
