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    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

    Local students lead the fight against efforts to limit file sharing. “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…

  • 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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  • Free Time

    The Innocence Project has set its sights on Philly lifer George Booker.

  • Bring the Paine!

    Screw fat old Ben Franklin and his 300th birthday. This city should be celebrating a real revolutionary, the man without whom there’d be no America. In Philadelphia,” babbles the radio, “everyone is reading about Benjamin Franklin … ” The madness…

  • It’s Just Lynch

    An Internet comic strip is another new frontier for the experimental filmmaker. Tweedle Dumb: The eight short episodes revolve around a raging apelike guy in an undershirt, filled with gas and venom.   DumbLand B You’ll Like It If You…

  • It’s Just Lynch

    An Internet comic strip is another new frontier for the experimental filmmaker. Tweedle Dumb: The eight short episodes revolve around a raging apelike guy in an undershirt, filled with gas and venom. DumbLand B You’ll Like It If You Like: South…

  • 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…

  • What’s Up With

    … Chamillionaire Real name: Hakeem Seriki Age: 26 Hometown: Houston. Some background: Chamillionaire started off on Houston’s Swishahouse label with Paul Wall. They left in search of more money, put out the Get Ya Mind Correct mixtape and eventually parted ways on bad terms. Before his…

  • MEMOIR

    Me and Frank Acclaimed NBC TV correspondent Andrea Mitchell recalls how she made her journalistic bones covering former mayor Frank Rizzo. By the time Frank Rizzo ran for mayor in 1971, I was covering politics for KYW Radio, having graduated…