Arts & Entertainment
Film
Inspirational Carjacking
Crash is a film that looks at the separate lives of a seemingly unrelated group of multi-ethnic people living in LA.
by STEPHEN MORSE
Film
It's like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Hong Kong-made Kung Fu Hustle features Stephen Chow, who happens to be the new martial arts "it" man. The film, set in '40s Shanghai, follows Sing (Chow), an alliance-shifting street rat who is caught in a gang war between the dreaded Axe Gang and the Pigsty Alley slum.
by TODD GRABARSKY
Film
Philadelphia Film Festival: Week 2
The 2005 Philadelphia Film Festival will continue through April 20th and this marks Street's second week of extensive coverage.
by 34TH STREET
Music
Second chances
Joshua Radin missed out. He missed out big, and he knows it. When Radin's college buddy Zach asked him to contribute a song to his upcoming movie's soundtrack, Radin turned him down; he didn't have the money to record the track.
by YVONNE DELBANCO
Music
Editors' Picks
Kevin Lo
Norah Jones - "The Long Way Home"
Jazz or not jazz, it's hard to deny the simple power of Norah Jones.
by 34TH STREET
Film
Van wilder gets scary-like
On the evening of November 14, 1974, in the small town of Amityville in Long Island, Ronald "Ronny" Defeo murdered his parents and four siblings with a shotgun.
by JIM NEWELL
Music
The phoenix saga
Phoenix has a problem with sound check, and I don't speak French. Lead singer Thomas Mars turns to the engineer on his right, points at his microphone, then waves his hand in an upward motion.
by KEVIN LO
Film
Philadelphia Film Festival
From April 7-20, movie theaters across the city will participate in the Philadelphia Film Festival. Visit the festival's website (www.phillyfests.com) for more information on the movies and their screenings.
by 34TH STREET
Film
I loved you in 'Dazed and Confused'
"Meat out there on the table, that's gonna be my breakfast, lunch and dinner," actor Matthew McConaughey jokes as he steps out of his trailer.
by JANICE HAHN
Film
Red Sox, Sex and Breathing
Fever Pitch is, essentially, identical to every other effervescent Drew Barrymore comedy released in the past five years.
by MICHELLE DUBERT
Film
Ending on a happy note
Danny Boyle directed Trainspotting, your favorite movie about heroin, and shortly thereafter you became a junkie.
by STEPHEN R. MORSE
Film
Holy Pancakes, Batman
Aliens of the Deep would've been better in 3-D. The IMAX film follows producer/director James Cameron as he befriends a team of marine biologists as well as NASA scientists and travels to tectonic fault lines at the bottom of the ocean.
by ROB COHEN
Music
Editor's picks
Kevin Lo
The Postal Service
"We Will Become Silhouettes" Video
If I can't have Jenny Lewis, I suppose Ben Gibbard should.
by 34TH STREET
Music
Cope-ing this fling
When SPEC announced that Sonic Youth and Cat Power were headlining this year's Spring Fling, students across campus felt dejected.
by KALI BACKER
Film
A Total Bummer
In My Country does not take place in South Africa during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of 1996, in which the many victims of the brutal apartheid regime confronted their torturers.
by JEFF LEVIN
Film
Where's your pound now?
Millions is one of those rare films with witty dialogue that appeals to viewers of all ages.
by STEPHEN R. MORSE
Music
Fling Bands 101
Sonic Youth
Who they are: Velvet Underground torch followers that extended the boundaries of experimental rock.
by 34TH STREET
Music
Listening To Albert
It was Spring Break, and I had just gotten in from college. My parents and I were sipping Coronas, and I was explaining to them why I hadn't gone to the Bahamas.
by JON LEVIN
Film
We got a case of the Mondays
Street is all about helping out the local movie house peddling cheap liquor on a Monday night.
by BEN CRAIR
Music
Summer In The City
Just like the smell of horse shit will always make me think of Penn in the spring, some songs are inextricably tied to our memory banks.
by EUGENIA SALVO
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