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Archive: August, 2010
Filed Under: Weekend Omnibus
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream | Photo | Jill McCorkel |
| OK, OK, this guy's not part of the Folk Fest. |
Filed Under: Music
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Black Landlord's Maxx was part of what incredibly influential, shortlived Philadelphia hip-hop trio?
E-mail your answer to bhoward@citypaper.net, (subject line "black landlord bbq ticket giveaway") The first 9 correct respondents will be notified and have a pair of tickets waiting for them at will call. Just promise us that if you win you'll slide some ducats for the cause. UPDATE: We have our winners! The answer we were looking for was The Goats. If you were one of the first nine correct responders, you will have received an email notification. Thanks for the great response. UPDATE 2: This is probably kind of obvious, but the Black Landlord BBQ has been rescheduled for its August 29 rain date. |
Filed Under: Printed Matter
Here's what you missed if you didn't pick up the print edition of this week's City Paper:
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| Photo | Neal Santos |
| Michael Baker and Barbara Gettes of The Spinning Leaves |
- In celebration of the 49th annual Philadelphia Folk Fest, we've got two features: Mary Armstrong chats up Canadian roots chanteuse Amelia Curran, and John Vettese hangs out with the Spinning Leaves
- Sam Adams has the summertime Blu(-ray)s in this August-doldrums edition of Disc World
- And even though it's not technically in A&E, you shouldn't miss Patrick Rapa's interview with Mount Airy native Paul F. Tompkins
- John Vettese reviews PAFA's Andy Warhol exhibit in this month's Full Exposure
- J. Edward Keyes can't help but like Roc Marciano's new hip-hop album in Hang the DJ
- Mary Armstrong rounds up the rest of the best of the Folk Fest
- Shaun Brady gives The Extra Man a C+ in Flick Pick; the film would have failed completely if not for the indubitable Kevin Kline
- Movie Shorts: Farewell (B), Lottery Ticket (C), Mao's Last Dancer (B-) and Patrik, Age 1.5 (B-), plus an amazing haiku about Piranha 3D
- Kaleidoscope quick hits on J.J. Tiziou, Jonathan Ames, Dean Wareham and Cropsey at the Prince
- A&E picks on A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bells Bells Bells and more
- The Trey Songz edition of One Track Mind
- ... and a whole bunch of goodies in the Agenda
Filed Under: Poetic License
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Critical Mass welcomes devoted poet/avid concert-goer/nerd-grrrl extraordinaire Jane Cassady to the fold; her weekly horoscopes will run in this space every Friday morning.
Spending warm summer days indoors, like The Smiths Leo (July 24-Aug. 23): Once you pointed out that when the contestants on, say, The Next Food Network Star, are talking about how the camera makes them freeze up, they are, in fact, talking to the camera, it kind of turned my world upside-down. Virgo (Aug. 24-Sept. 23): Make no mistake: Sometimes we are all just Mad Men secretaries, crying in a Pond's focus group about the fleetingness of the muse's attention. Nothing to do but wash your face, smash a vase, and wait. Libra (Sept. 24-Oct. 21): This week, inspired by the hack-bot that stole my e-mail contacts, I am meditating on imperfection. Please take all implosions, sick days, and the way things are collapsing like an Inception cityscape as signs that the universe loves you and wants you to start fresh. Scorpio (Oct. 22-Nov. 22): Last weekend I went camping with my family. One of the highlights was sitting around reading with my little niece. She was reading an incredibly well-loved copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Love something/someone so much that the pages come out, the edges furl, the binding unglues, but the story is still legible. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 22): From Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way: "It is pretty clear that the creator itself did not know when to stop. There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds...this creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send support for your creative ventures." Capricorn (Dec. 23-Jan. 20): In The New York Regional Mormon Singles Dance, Elna Baker hilariously weighs the dilemmas which arise between her secular self and her Mormon self. In the end, though, she can't see the moon without saying "Hi, God." Aquarius (Jan. 21-Feb. 19): In Sloane Crosleys' book I Was Told There'd Be Cake, she writes about working in the Museum of Natural History's butterfly exhibit. Once, she didn't check her coat well enough before clocking out — a tiny rare blue butterfly had ridden her lapel to freedom. Pisces (Feb. 20-March 20): Feng Shui your life. Recycle you recyclables. Remove all old bosses, famous strangers, and nemeses from your email contacts. Return the stagnant Chi of unread library books. Aries (March 21-April 18): Every time I watch The Real L Word, I think these three things: 1) This show is mostly about emptiness, and that's OK. 2) I'm very grateful that my wife is accepted and loved as a member of my family. Shame on you, Tracy's mom. 3) Natalie: Run! Taurus (April 19-May 18): One summer not too long ago, my friend Ty and I decided to fill plastic Easter eggs with various talismans: love notes, drawings, chess pieces, mini tarot cards, etc. We hid them all around the city of Syracuse, N.Y. Give random and unexpected gifts, preferably to strangers. Gemini (May 19-June 21): My mom says that when she dreams about camping, it's not the recreation, but the cooking. Try a new recipe for campfire eggs. Eat bacon out of a foil pan. Be flexible about what can be called coffee. Cancer (June 22-July 23): Go to the stillest body of water you can find. Find some round, flat stones. Practice your skipping technique. Meditate on gravity, water, erosion. PREVIOUSLY >> POETIC LICENSE: Horoscopes, Aug. 13-19Collectors of pretty things, take note: Every week, we're rounding up a what's-what of what we [heart], culled from the scores of design blogs, artist sites and Etsy treasuries we stalk on the regular.
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- Custom couple hair portraits (pair), $41, Miss Crowland (via Gnome Sweet Gnome)
- Super-size 45 rpm print, 375 pounds, Not on the High Street (via Design Is Mine)
- Ardie T. raw-wood glasses, $120 (Australian), Indie Nation (via Design Milk)
That's famous comedian Paul F. Tompkins on our cover. You can find him here or on Twitter or the most recent episode of the Comedy Death Ray podcast. No video for this, but funny as hell:
Best Week Ever:
Mr. Show:
Some vintage PFT:
Filed Under: Critical Mass | Music | Concert Review | Now Hear This | Philly Bands | Show | Song concert photos
In early August, Nick Biscardi and Justin Lerner played their final show as Pilot Cloud. Well, I mean, nothing is really final anymore. But Biscardi enrolled in a pretty sweet audio engineering grad program out in Chicago, which will put the kibosh on any performances by his band for some time. But even a delay or de-prioritizing of their thrilling, Explosions In The Sky-style swell is something to be missed. Fittingly, the final number of their final show was also titled "The Swell." I caught the swan song at The North Star, which I present to you above, with audio, photo and lots of ambience. Dig it, and if you yearn for more, their full length In Transition and their EP Halcyon are available as free downloads from their Web site. Help yourselves.
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| Picador, 288 pp., $14, Sept. 1 |
Laura and Lila were college roommates — one brooding and Jewish, the other the epitome of golden WASP-dom. Now it's ten years later, a day before Lila's wedding to Laura's former boyfriend, and as the guests arrive, Laura finds herself the only one not coupled up. Struggling with the traditionally thankless role of maid of honor, Laura realizes for the first time why she can't stop thinking about her long, tangled relationship with the groom. And it appears he is not entirely ready for the altar himself. Unfolding over two days off the coast of Maine, The Romantics follows the shifting allegiances among an unforgettable set of characters.We're giving away a paperback copy (due out Sept. 1 from Picador) to the first three readers who can correctly solve the following six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon-y game:
Can you link Ana Paquin to Katie Holmes in four steps or fewer?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net if you think you can.I love Katie Holmes! She's a level-headed, strong personality and mom. I'm looking forward to this. :)
I definitely want to see this one. Katie Holmes is excellent as an artist and a great person.
I saw the trailed, it's going to be an interesting movie! Katie Holmes improved a lot since she is married to Tom. Or maybe being a mom does that.
(trailer, not "trailed") It's here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/theromantics/
PLEASE STOP GIVING JOSH DUHAMEL MOVIE ROLES. He can NOT act. Just because he is married to Fergie doesn't make him any more talented than before he married Fergie. This movie will flop like all his other straight to video movies. Ok, maybe I'm being too harsh. Josh can act when it comes to convincing Fergie that he has not cheated on her since his bangging night with the stripper. Give that boy a Oscar before he gives Fergie a STD!
Have you started filling up your Fringe dance card yet? We know, it's overwhelming. We've had our eye on Josh McIlvain's short-play bonanza, Boat Hole, for a while now, and we're happy to hear he's hosting a preview/"FUNdraiser" (get it?) tonight at Plays & Players' third-floor bar, Quigs Pub (which we didn't know had a name until just now).
According to the press release, which opens with an amazing "fill the hole" pun, guests can expect $2 Lagers, a cash bar and free snacks, plus the opportunity to watch some preview performances and read your own bad poetry, if you dare. (I wrote a poem about the kitchen sink once in the ninth grade — that was pretty bad.)
Here's some info on Boat Hole from the Fringe website:
Boat Hole brings together 15 of Josh McIlvain's funniest and most popular short plays as well as world premières. Starring some of Philly's best comedic actors, expect smart, edgy and completely outrageous humor. And a sleazy clown in the lobby.
And, Josh reminds us, even if you can't attend, you can donate anyway, since "the hole is really big." Heyo!
Wed., Aug. 18, 7-9 p.m., $10, Quigs Pub, Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St., Third Floor, ticketleap.net. Boat Hole runs Sept. 15-18, 7 p.m., $15, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine St., 215-413-1318, livearts-fringe.org.
Here is a direct link to buy tickets or donate if you are unable to attend! https://www.ticketleap.net/Member/event.aspx?event_id=C428A8DA-DA0A-44E0-96A9-94CAE96FABB
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