Lisa Tauber
ARTICLES
Not just child's play
Paper covers rock. Nick the Greek takes the lead, and the Rider is switching hands." The Midnight Rider of "parts unknown," wears a thin leather mask that shields his identity and a bola tie adorned with a skull.
Music
Stroke This
Teenagers filled the Electric Factory on Sunday, April 23 to see a band that hipsters would say is so out they might even be considered pastiche.
Music
MTV BMOC
Dov Kogen began singing and writing songs at the ripe age of three, when he took the tune of Jewish hymn "Adon Olam" and set it to the one-word lyric "guitar." "I didn't actually play guitar back then," the psychology major and music minor says, "so I sort of strummed my aunt's 30-year-old classical guitar," which he would actually learn to play in the fourth grade.
Music
Almost Stars
Several years ago, three members of the orchestral pop band Stars smoked pot in New York's Central Park and were arrested by an undercover cop.
Word on the street : Discmanblues
Even before I was a hip music editor for this publication, I listened to music I deemed semi-alternative.
I don't Heart Huckabees
It's hard not to feel ripped off when you go into the Penn Bookstore to buy Hamlet (which you know you already own at home anyway) and find all the used copies gone, forcing you to pay the full $10 for a play you probably already know by heart.
Arts and farts and crafts
If you think that the earrings at Anthropologie are pretty but absurdly overpriced, or if you broke your favorite necklace and have lost all hope, have no fear!
Cheap shoes, cheap gal
Bare Feet Shoes
425 South Street
Mon-Fri, 11a.m.-10p.m., Sat, 11a.m.-11p.m., Sun, 11a.m.-8p.m.
(215) 922-0488
Don't be fooled by its name.
Gotta love naked men
Wexler Art Gallery
201 N. 3rd St.
Tue-Sat, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., free
(215) 923-7030
www.wexlergallery.com
When some think of art galleries, they conjure up an image of white walls and paintings that confuse the hell out of anyone who's not an MFA student.
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