Archive for the ‘Philadelphia City Paper’ Category
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The Stranger’s Child
Virginia Woolf circumvented bluntness by dwelling on a snail. Alan Hollinghurst does it by creating complex characters with countless thoughts, motives, fears and desires — and then slowing everything down to each loaded sentence. Each scene in his most recent …
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Sherlock Holmes 2
Girls want to date them, guys want to be them (OK, and also probably want to date them): Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return for a 1891-set Holmes sequel with all the same great fight scenes and premeditated plans …
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Hell & Gone
Death is never an option for Charlie Hardie. Known as the former cop who can survive anything the world can muster up, Hardie finally meets his match with the Accident People, a secret group that quietly captures and kills people …
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Shane’s Confectionery
‘Tis the season of red, green and subdued blue. Brothers Eric and Ryan Berley of Franklin Fountain have breathed life back into Shane’s Candies in Old City. The formerly forest-green landmark, which the Shane family opened in 1911, saw its …
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Billy Elliot
Characters breaking into song in the middle of dialogue, an angry ensemble rioting about the woes of the working class, and the lead leaving a small town to pursue big dreams: every stereotype of a musical-atheist’s worst nightmare. The only …
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Q&A: Jenna Rose
Sticks and stones may break her bones, but her jeans look newer than yours. The YouTube celebrity is no new phenomenon — Karmin, Sam Tsui, and even J-Biebs himself started their careers online. So when Lunchbox Records released My Jeans…