City Paper grade: C- Unlike their counterparts struggling with drug or alcohol habits, sex addicts face a steeper challenge to be taken seriously. The pathos one feels for a user with a needle in his arm or a bottle in a…

Susan Alcorn Susan Alcorn began playing the pedal steel guitar in the traditional way, learning from blues masters and apprenticing on honky-tonk stages in country-western bands. But an encounter with Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros sent her down a different…

Fire Museum and Rip Rig join forces to present a double bill of alphabet-soup free improv in classic and postmodern forms. Hailing from D.C., the OOO Trio (pronounced “trio trio”) consists of alto saxophonist Aaron Martin, bassist Luke Stewart and…

“Flipping through the Fringe guide,” says Greg Maughan, executive director of Philly Improv Theater, “I see a lot of blood.” It’s more than just the full-page photo of dancer Gunnar Montana, nude but for a strategically placed chainsaw and a…

Impossibly prolific and improbably eclectic, Richard Youngs has carved a strangely wandering path through a number of seemingly incompatible genres over the past 20-plus years. The Glasgow-based guitarist has shared stages with everyone from Damon and Naomi to Jandek, with…

City Paper grade: C- Eighteen years after Colin Firth’s career-defining turn as Mr. Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, along comes this barely there rom-com predicated on the Firth-driven mania common among a certain literary female set. Keri…

OPPOSITES ATTRACT: A gawky bookworm (Shailene Woodley) and a hard-drinking popular kid (Miles Teller) strike up an unlikely romance. City Paper grade: B+ Sutter (Miles Teller) is the fast-talking, glad-handing, hard-partying popular kid. Aimee (Shailene Woodley) is the naïve, inexperienced, insecure…

City Paper grade: B- The familiar basso profondo of Don LaFontaine opens actress Lake Bell’s directorial debut, set in the world over which the late LaFontaine once reigned: the realm of movie trailer voice-overs. A montage of interviews with the…

What was originally billed as a reunion of the original Black Sabbath line-up was first hobbled when money squabbles led founding drummer Bill Ward to bow out of this go-round. Ozzy Osbourne may be the marquee name, but Ward’s distinctive…