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Gregg Foreman Hangs Tough (and Tender) with Cat Powernew
These days Foreman provides Cat Power with the keyboard kink and dirtball heft her music's always begged for with Jukebox. But the Philly vet's done more than that.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
02-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rendezvous with Baby Deenew
The Drag City artist isn't waiting for her train to come in.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
02-05-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Heeding Oilnew
Would you let a dictator pay for your heating bill? The answer's "yes" if you're going to 3Kingdoms' third annual Artists for Heat benefit tonight at the Trocadero — an event whose elite sponsor, CITGO Petroleum, is owned by the Venezuelan government and its president, Hugo Chavez.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
02-05-2008 |
Commentary
No Goats, New Glorynew
Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams is back with Black Landlord. Here's your two Munfs notice.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
01-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Black Landlord, Munf to Munf Lease
Entrance Strategynew
This year, we will be greeted as defibrillators.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
01-08-2008 |
Music
In Like Lynn (Rosen)new
The Philly author has a mind for manners, as evidenced in this year's Elements of the Table.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
12-26-2007 |
Food+Drink
Along Those Linesnew
Philly's Green Line Café celebrates five years with a CD and a music festival to benefit the fair-trade co-op that supplies it.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
12-18-2007 |
Food+Drink
In the Wingsnew
Franzschubert beat the Brat, eat the chicken and raise the lamb.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
12-18-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Revenge of the Nerdsnew
This is the second-to-last time you will find Ween and They Might Be Giants in the same sentence.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
11-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: La Cucaracha, Ween
Sturm und Twangnew
Lewis & Clarke explore uncharted territory at the banks of the Delaware Water Gap.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
11-20-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
CAConrad Draws Us in to His Kafka-esque Dream Statenew
Calling CAConrad "in your face" doesn't quite do it -- if the Philadelphia poet had his way, he'd be down your throat, stuck in your gut and up your ass.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-02-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: CAConrad, The Frank Poems
Everywhere He Goes, Devendra Banhart Sees Trailsnew
Trying to pin the man down for a normal interview is a bit like trying to send him a postcard -- by the time your message arrives, he's already somewhere else.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Devendra Banhart
Kyle Cassidy Shoots Goths & Gun Owners Without Malicenew
The photographer's new coffee-table book, Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes, captures stylish weapon holders across the country without advocating the NRA or denouncing it.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
09-04-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
'Idol' Worshipnew
Fear and loathing at the American Idol tryouts.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
09-04-2007 |
TV
Ex-Prick, Expat Joe Annaruma Returns to Philly Redeemednew
When he left Philly in with his band Throttle in 1995, he didn't think he'd come back -- and he surely never dreamed he'd return to play only charity gigs for Project H.O.P.E.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
08-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Man Is Doomed