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Philly’s
top pop artist Every Philadelphian knows Rocky ran through the Italian Market on his way to the Art Museum steps, but a better kept secret is his detour through Rittenhouse Square to drop in at the Perry Milou Gallery, 128 S. 18th St., which opened in May of this year. Well, in truth, it was Rocky’s alter-ego, Sylvester Stallone, who strolled in one afternoon and happened upon artist Milou painting in the front window of his gallery-cum-studio. Milou immediately struck up a conversation... Novelist
John Cheever once said he could always detect even a drop
of sherry in anyone’s prose. An exaggeration, no
doubt, but in principle the statement rings true. One
should never mix alcohol with one’s work, generally
speaking. I learned this lesson several times during the
past 40-odd years, though never more dramatically than
on the night, during a performance of Where’s
Charley?, I came on stage fried to the tonsils and
fell flat on my ass — twice — while turning
cartwheels in a first act production number. It wasn’t until the show’s finale that I fully sobered up. Why I wasn’t fired I’ll never understand. I wasn’t even reprimanded by the stage manager, who stood in the wings... Chestnut Hill architecture design exhibit opens by Lucille Carson The Architectural Archives of the University
of Pennsylvania this week opened "Only
Controversial and Not Detrimental," an
exhibit celebrating the legacy of modern design
in Chestnut Hill. Absorbed by the city of Philadelphia
in 1854, this "suburb in the city,”
all area residents know, features a rich variety
of houses dating from the 18th century to the
present. The work of the best designers of the
region and beyond is represented in Chestnut
Hill, where the range of building scales brings
together large estates and twin houses in relatively
close proximity. On view in the archives' Kroiz Gallery through May, 2004, "Only Controversial and Not Detrimental" includes drawings, photographs and models representing Chestnut Hill modernism from the late 1940s through the 1980s. These works, created... Joy to the world, it’s the holiday season again! Is that enough to plunge you into complete despair? Well here it comes, just in the nick of time, a dark comedy with a character even more miserable than you are! Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thorton), the protagonist of Bad Santa, makes Scrooge seem like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. He’s been married twice, imprisoned once, and bears the vestigial wounds of many violent confrontations. As holiday cheer prevails, Willie is sitting in a bar, all alone, surrounded by merrymakers. He’s droning on about his past. His family never celebrated Christmas. Not because they were Jewish, but because his father’s idea of a present was a punch to the back of the head. That is when he wasn’t putting out a cigarette... I’m
amazed at MTV’s ability to rummage through
the dumpsters of New York to find ideas for
their television shows. Did it really take a
team of “creative types” to come
up with the idea for Cribs — a
television show where cameramen follow celebrities
through their homes? It’s clear MTV saves
a bundle on writers it never hires to actually
script shows. MTV’s latest foray into the garbage dump of television shows comes with the airing of Room Raiders. What could be more interesting than getting three guys together to watch a woman on a closed-circuit camera rummage through their rooms? After she’s done, the guys get to ransack her abode, and when they’re all done plowing through the dirty dinner plates... Letters | Opinion | News | LocalLife | This Week | Sports | News Makers | About Us |