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Browse This Issue: February 22nd, 2007

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Art:
Bugs in the System
Multimedia artist Ted Knighton investigates everyday mysteries.
by Shaun Brady
The walls at International House are crawling with insects. Fortunately, these bugs are the two-dimensional sort.

Culture Shock:
Things That Matter To People Who Matter
What Not to Wear; The Land Line Telephone; Reading Again; Lenni Lenapi Culture
Singer-guitarist, Live Not On Evil; Lili Anel, Singer-songwriter; Rob Windfelder,Molly Russakoff, Owner, Molly's Café & Bookstore; John James Pron, Professor of architecture, Temple University; architect of design, Hospitality Design Group

Book Review:
Split in Twain
Jon Clinch's tale of Huck Finn's father.
by Justin Bauer
It's a testament to Clinch's skill, both in force of style and subtle characterization, that he so quickly shakes off Twain's specter.

Art:
In With the New
Mark Blavat, Syd Carpenter, Quentin Morris and David Stephens at Art Around Gallery
by Robin Rice
Max Maddox and Theresa Rose make an outstanding curatorial debut with a four-artist show at Art Around Gallery.

Theater Review:
Weathering Stormy
Five little words nearly save the day in the Prince Music Theater's Stormy Weather.
by David Anthony Fox
When the dazzling, better-than-ever Leslie Uggams steps to center stage in a canny impersonation of the legendary Lena Horne, we get two great entertainers for the price of one.

Theater:
More Morrie
Did the world really need a play version of Tuesdays With Morrie?
by Mark Cofta
Prolific playwright Jeffrey Hatcher, an experienced adaptor, makes Albom's recollections of weekly visits to his Brandeis University sociology professor an effective play.

Still Singel
There I was at a play called The Wedding Consultant, surrounded by couples who are forbidden by law to marry.
by Mark Cofta
Playwright/performer Eric Singel's interconnected monologues make their point indirectly, and with much humor, showing a gay wedding from five points of view with no mention of legality.

Best By Far
Some people like their theater clear; some like it murky. If you're among the former, keep your distance from Far Away.
by Mark Cofta
Caryl Churchill's one-act, wisely presented without companion pieces despite being just 45 minutes long, doesn't tell a coherent story, but adds up (if one is willing to do the mental and emotional work) to a powerful, provocative message in three concise scenes.

Arts Picks:
Michael Eric Dyson
Wed., Feb. 28, noon, free, Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St.
by Monica Weymouth
Not many are brave enough to take on the women of The View. Michael Eric Dyson appeared before Barbara, Rosie et al, talked smack on Condoleezza Rice, and lived to write about it.

Rubberbandance Group
Tue. and Wed., Feb. 27 and 28, 7:30 p.m., $32-$44, Zellerbach Theatre, Annenberg Center, 3690 Walnut St.
by Janet Anderson
Hip-hop and ballet form the unlikely cornerstone of Victor Quijada's Montreal-based Rubberbandance Group, which makes its local debut as part of the Annenberg's Dance Celebration series.

Annie
Thu.-Sun., March 1-4, $25-$100, Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St.
by David Anthony Fox
Suddenly, cold and slushy Broad Street feels a little warmer.

Vanessa
Runs Feb. 23-March 3, $28-$48, Helen Corning Warden Theater, 1920 Spruce St.
by David Shengold
Just as the Opera Company wraps up Porgy and Bess, a clear contender for the title of Great American Opera, AVA unfurls Samuel Barber's Vanessa.

Web Exclusive
Twelfth Night
citypaper.net exclusive: Feb. 22-March 3, City Theater Company, Baby Grand Theater, 800 N. Market St., Wilmington
by Mark Cofta
Theater Directors can have a ball with Shakespeare's comedies, and since fun is what Wilmington's City Theater Company is all about, I predict a raucous rendition of Twelfth Night.

ARTS AGENDA . Picks
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"The Gun Show"
by Amy Strauss
Runs through March 23, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, 20 Third Ave., Long Branch, N.J.
The Twin Poets
by Mary Wilson
Mon., Feb. 26, 7 p.m., free, Free Library of Philadelphia, 19th and Vine sts.
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
by Erin Brodbeck

"I like that they showed a CAT scan of the mummy since the actual tomb wasn't there. I [also] liked how they had his liver displayed inside a jar."

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