Arts & Entertainment

Tonight at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Darren Aronofsky’s highly-anticipated Black Swan will kick off 10 days of geeky cinema appreciation.
October 14, 2010 at 2:53 am

Labyrinth may be the scariest children’s movie ever made — what better inspiration to draw from when designing your gates, Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall? Prepare to be transported back to the film that gave you nightmares when you were six as you pass through the gates of Penn’s most smoker–friendly facility. As you no doubt fondly remember, our heroine Jennifer Connelly finds herself in quite the pickle in the 1986 flick when she falls through a trap door and is greeted by the “Helping Hands” — disembodied digits who “save” her from plummeting to her death. “Up or down?” they innocently ask, feeling poor Connelly up under the guise of rescuing her. Fears of molestation may grip one as they enter Addams.
October 14, 2010 at 2:49 am

In Red, Frank Moses (Willis) is a retired CIA operative who just can’t kick his gun powder habit.
October 14, 2010 at 2:46 am

Released just in time for John Lennon’s 70th birthday (but almost a year after it came out in the UK), Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy portrays the early life of eventual nowhere man John Lennon.
October 14, 2010 at 2:41 am

We know how confusing music tech can be — it mostly consists of terms that only a handful of people could possibly understand.
October 14, 2010 at 2:33 am

“Like A G6” is one of those songs that crept up on us. Seemingly coming out of nowhere, the Auto–tune–soaked track shot up the Billboard charts, and is currently sitting pretty at number two.
October 14, 2010 at 2:30 am

The key to the Trocadero is in the details: the way the parquet floor seems to wobble slightly as the crowd jumps up and down, the intricate red design on the decorative curtain, the Christmas lights that hang from the side balconies.
October 14, 2010 at 2:11 am

Stevens’s goes bigger on his latest LP, with less interesting results. It is undoubtedly a statement to release a one–hour–and–fifteen–minute–long record — it implies a burning need to be heard, or at the very least an abundance of musical ideas.
October 14, 2010 at 1:32 am

My Dog Tulip, an animated film directed by Penn Design professor Paul Fierlinger, opens today at the Ritz.
October 1, 2010 at 11:23 am

Every 26 seconds a kid drops out of high school. American public schools once produced 100 Nobel laureates and 10 Presidents.
September 30, 2010 at 4:17 am

Now — October 10: Iron , presented by Theatre Exile at Studio X, $25. Think your mother is bad?
September 30, 2010 at 3:57 am

Half of the team behind Art Star — a gallery-cum-boutique that showcases some of the most innovative contemporary art around - Erin Waxman gives Street a tour of this city's vibrant arts Street: What’s your favorite piece of public art in the city?
September 30, 2010 at 3:52 am

This month’s art party is more than just an excuse to pilfer cups of wine from Second Street galleries.
September 30, 2010 at 3:43 am

By contrasting the radically different relationships of two couples, Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut, presents a sincere, yet staid picture of love among middle-aged adults.
September 30, 2010 at 3:37 am

It’s official, we’re infested! Only New York City has more cases of bedbugs than Philadelphia, and they aren’t expected to go away anytime soon. While you are probably in the clear, it’s nevertheless easy to become paranoid.
September 30, 2010 at 3:35 am

Before Mark Zuckerberg became the world’s youngest billionaire, he was as awkward at talking to women as anyone in Skirkanich Hall. The opening sequence of The Social Network depicts a rapid-fire, cringe-worthy exchange between Zuckerberg (Eisenberg) and his girlfriend.
September 30, 2010 at 3:29 am

JESSE EISENBERG Street: What is your relationship to Facebook?
September 30, 2010 at 3:13 am

Street sat down with Jesse Eisenberg and Aaron Sorkin to discuss interactive media, fencing and the real men behind the story.
September 30, 2010 at 3:04 am

“Radioactive,” the newest effort from the reigning Top 40 champs Kings of Leon, isn’t a radical departure from their tried-and-true musical style, but it does reflect the aspirations of a band clearly energized by their status.
September 30, 2010 at 2:28 am

On Neil Young’s latest studio album, appropriately entitled Le Noise, he reminds us of where he’s been and where he can go.
September 30, 2010 at 2:23 am