Month: October 2004

Keith Boykin, a former special adviser to President Clinton, spoke at Mitten Hall last Monday evening about the intersection and acceptance of racial and sexual identities in America. He lectured, answered questions and held a

How do you go from a movie so awful that it induced fans to print up T-shirts proclaiming “I Survived Gigli,” and get worse? Ben Affleck answered that question last week, bringing the putrid Surviving

Halloween is here again. In addition to spiced wafers, colder weather and an abundance of fun-size candy bars, late October can be counted on for an influx of horror movies into local theatres. Occasionally a

Philadelphia has a rich tradition in the arts, from the theaters lining South Broad Street to the history contained within the walls of the famed Philadelphia Museum of Art. What many Philadelphians may not realize

The lights were low and the music was blasting while thousands of young, screaming, eager voters waited for rappers Sean “P.Diddy” Combs and Mary J. Blige in Wednesday evening. Combs and his fellow stars are

Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill (Anti) Last Tuesday, the late singer-songwriter Elliott Smith’s final CD, From a Basement on the Hill, was released. Although the Los Angeles Police department listed his death