I’ve never liked Morrissey. His band the Smiths all but wrecked Brit alt-music in the 1980s. And then there was his penchant for dodgy statements about race and ethnicity. “Reggae is vile,” he sniffed. “Obviously, to get on Top of…
The release of Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain and Injustice was a somber affair–or as somber as it could be at a Barnes & Noble in a strip mall in Deptford, N.J. Outside, policemen lined the entrance.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
