March 4–11, 1999 critic pick Leah Stein & Robert Maggio     Leah Stein and Robert Maggio seem an unlikely pair to collaborate on a project. Stein, a dancer, likes to create work using a free-form abstract process. Maggio, a…

February 25–March 4, 1999 movies Snuff Said In 8MM, voyeurism plus indignation equals porno for the moral majority. By Sam Adams 8MM (Eight Millimeter) Directed by Joel Schumacher A Columbia Pictures release Opening Friday, Feb. 19, at area theaters  …

February 18–25, 1999 on media Fit To Print? Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., the parent company of the Inquirer and Daily News, owns a massive, state-of-the-art printing plant in Conshohocken. In addition to PNI’s own dailies, the Schuylkill Printing Plant churns out…

February 11–18, 1999 hit and run Troc You   Troc Treatment: Canadian band Moxy Früvous says it doesn’t like the way Trocadero security treated fans.   We will not be playing the Trocadero again,” wrote Jian Ghomeshi, the long-haired singer/drummer…

January 28–February 4, 1999 music Speak Now… Fundraising for Mumia Abu-Jamal is on the rise with Cornel West, Rage Against the Machine and the death row inmate’s daughter droppin’ science. by Ogbonna Hagins In the collection of essays Live From…

January 28–February 4, 1999 music Sonic Truth In JRNLS80s, Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo collects his thoughts from the band’s formative years. by Sam Adams   Fountain of Youth: Lee Ranaldo (left) with the rest of Sonic Youth   Remember that…

September 23–30, 1999 music|review Maxfield Parrish Composers’ Competition Concert Maxfield Parrish Composers’ Competition Concert Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Karl Middleman, conductor September 15, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Commissioning new music inspired by paintings carries the risk that the composers…

July 22–29, 1999 movies Out and About More picks and pans from this year’s Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Blessed Are Those Who Thirst A police procedural with more than a few tricks up its sleeves, this Norwegian…

July 22–29, 1999 movies War Is the Enemy A Vietnam documentary unlike any other tells the stories of the women left behind. by Sam Adams February 29, 1968 is not a date familiar to historians of the Vietnam War, but…