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  • … Dwizz

    Young folks in Philly have embraced Baltimore club music as their own, but they’ve had very little to do with the production end of the genre’s sound. Enter Dante “Dwizz” Winn, Philadelphia’s first bona fide party music artist and club…

  • Top 10 Drug Corners in Philadelphia

    The narcotics trade has taken over much of Philly. Unfortunately, the 10 spots here represent only a fraction of the action. A kid in a bucket seat raised high on the fat rear tires of a four-wheeled ATV eyes the…

  • Less Than Hero

        Bigger, louder and a good deal longer than its delightful predecessors, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 makes just about every wrong move in the sequel playbook, substituting scope and scale for the warmth and wit that made those two previous pictures so…

  • Less Than Hero

                Spider-Man 3 C Director: Sam Raimi Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Thomas Haden Church Opens Fri., May 4 � Bigger, louder and a good deal longer than its delightful predecessors, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 makes just about every wrong…

  • Unhealthy Foods To Be Less Unhealthy

    Today, City Council approved to continue to regulate what we Philadelphians can put into our bodies. However, this ban had unanimous support, so it’s not much like the smoking ban. Actually, this one’s good for you, too, and in a way…

  • Living Night-mare

    Has M. Night Shyamalan lost his goddamn mind?   That’s the only logical excuse for Lady in the Water, the Philly-based writer/director/egomaniac’s convulsive seizure of narcissism that’s so nakedly personal—and also so unintentionally, hilariously revealing—watching the movie feels a bit like…

  • Top 5 of the Moment

      Roots, “Don’t Feel Right” There’s a moment that passes at the beginning of the Roots’ new single, just as the bare drum intro gives way to a forceful cluster of snippeted samples, which should let fans of the band…

  • Capsules

    New Releases   More like A for Amateur Hour. This turgid Wachowski brothers adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s seminal 1980s comic book posits a totalitarian future England rocked by a bomb-throwing terrorist known only as V. The comic played…

  • Copy Cats

    “If you can’t rip it, you got ripped off!” A tall black-haired kid thrusts fliers into the hands of people passing by Tower Records on South Street. He’s being loud. But he’s not advertising any promotion at Tower. In fact,…

    • Mar 1, 2006 - 7:49 am
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  • It’s Just Lynch

    An Internet comic strip is another new frontier for the experimental filmmaker.     DumbLand B You’ll Like It If You Like: South Park, Beavis and Butt-Head, David Lynch movies. David Lynch has found the Internet, and it’s not pretty. His…