Looking back on her teen years Madi Distefano recalls being "a little bit of an overachiever but also a little

The Fringe/Live Arts Festival is renowned for its cozy, often improvised performance spaces. But this year, two shows are going

"E mio Greco is dead." That's the proclamation made by a dancer at the beginning of last year's critical success,

DJ Spooky When visual and performing arts curator Janera Solomon took over the Late Night Cabaret, there were rumbles about

Andy Prescott's name and reputation within the New Hope cabaret/piano bar scene is big, I tell you, big. As a

The body would have looked supine, close to death. Unless it was wriggling, soused with rum and alive. Anyone who

Three panels. Seven clip-art images. Seven undeveloped, interchangeable characters exchanging pointed, deadpan riffs on the repetitious blundering of an empire

Shortly before last year's Live Arts/Fringe was to start, volunteer architect Rich Thom walked in on a rehearsal of Patio

by Duane Swierczynski

One year later, the nation has forgotten Katrina.

by Eric Johnson

by Bruce Schimmel

On the muggy July eve Owen Kamihira soft-opened his first-ever restaubar Bar Ferdinand, I ran into Kathleen Vissar. Vissar, one

In celebration of our five-year anniversary on Sept. 6, here are five numbers that manage to be about both Philadelphia

by Rachel Frankford

My God, 2001. Like you need us to refresh your memory. HAL. The pod bay doors. FULL OF FUCKING STARS.

Before we move further into Icestylee, note: Philly/Jersey ex-Eagle Vince Papale's life-as-movie Invincible hitting No. 1 is awesome. Seeing Vin

E very time a SEPTA bus zooms by, leaving a plume of putrid exhaust in its wake, people on street

Global warming may be an inconvenient truth for President Bush, but three House Republicans have found it easy to be

A t exactly 8:15 a.m. last Tuesday, a banner was hung from the I-676 overpass at 17th and Vine streets.

David Berrios moved from the lower class to the middle class by way of a truck. Three years ago, at

by Brian Hickey

by Mary F. Patel

An Economist article exposes Inky publisher Brian Tierney's fascination with experimental Mentos-in-the-Coke-bottle videos. "Now if you'll excuse me," says Tierney,

by Lori Hill

by Kelly White

T he streets in 13 Tzameti look familiar, but there's something not quite right. The cars look the same, the

Like many teenagers, the aptly named Dot (Camilla Belle) wants to be invisible. Alas, she's not, only deaf and mute.

Playtime ($39.95 DVD) At once Jacques Tati's triumph and his downfall, 1967's Playtime is the supreme statement of his art,

Send repertory film listings to tami.fertig@citypaper.net. AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA 701 Arch St., www.aampmuseum.org. REELadelphia This month's "Labor of

AMC ORLEANS 8, 2247 Bleigh St., 215-722-4262. Beerfest (R) fri-mon: 9:30; tue-thu: 7:40 Idlewild (R) fri-mon: 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30,

It's that time again. When gnomic utterances become fodder for Reuters news reports; when Columbia Records gets to act all

Finland

by Rodney Anonymous

by Molly Eichel

by Mary Armstrong

Joel Harrison would like to see some ID.

by Shaun Brady

by Deni Kasrel

I thought it was just what the Main Line needed: a classic French auberge with great Provencal food and a

T he sidewalk tables outside of Bar Ferdinand are already filled on an early weekday night, mirroring the crowd outside

Bliss 220 S. Broad St., 215-731-1100 Great balls of spicy tempura tiger shrimp-esque fire! This chichi Broad Street restaubar had

1 The Ritz-Carlton 10 Avenue of the Arts, 215-523-8000 Housed in a historic Girard Bank landmark that features a domed-ceiling

116 Chestnut St., 215-574-7665 If you happen to run across a 20-foot-tall naked man, please direct him to Buffalo Billiards,

Just A Pinch Fri., Sept. 8, 6-10 p.m., $35-$45 If cracking legs, snapping joints and scraping fat sounds enjoyable, then

Your Guide to an Awesome Three-Day Weekend

by Drew Lazor

Get Up, Get Out, Get Involved

by Laura Smith

Street Fashion

by Nyjia Jones

Carlos Mencia

by Andrew Earles

You Recycle for Greenbacks

by Kelly White

"MADE in America"

by Laura Smith

Famous Criminals of Old Philadelphia Tour

by Termeh Mazhari

"Jewish Mystical Perspectives on the Origins, Beliefs and History of Christianity"

by Drew Lazor

"Entebbe to Today, Terrorism in Transition"

by Billy Kekevian

by Ashlea Halpern

Festival of Fountains Runs through Sept. 2, $2-$14, Longwood Gardens, U.S. Route 1, Kennett Square, 610-388-1000 Thousands of illuminated waterspouts

You Can't Stand Sears Portrait Studio

by Kelly White

by Drew Lazor

by A.D. Amorosi