Philadelphia City Paper | Patrick Rapa

Meghan Remy's Big Dreams and Strange Adventures in Lo-Finew

A young veteran of the music scene, Meghan Remy performs under the curiously plural moniker U.S. Girls. The "band" is just her and a whole mess of equipment: microphones, a busted drum machine, a failing four-track, an old reel-to-reel player and other less-than-cutting-edge electronic devices.

Philadelphia City Paper | Patrick Rapa | 04-13-2010 | Music

Tags: Meghan Remy, U.S. Girls

'Transference,' 'Songs for Chris Knox,' 'Contra'new

Spoon might just be the most reliable franchise in indie rock. Transference is just like the previous seven albums: clean-cut but ballsy, uptempo but not even a little bit aggro. Guitar, bass, drums, keys, singer Britt Daniel's fine rasp — everybody's on the same page, synched up, interlocking.

Philadelphia City Paper | Patrick Rapa | 02-02-2010 | Reviews

Tags: Transference, Spoon

Josh Wink: Stay Out All Nightnew

Josh Wink, who came up in the Philly rave scene in the 1990s, is still chewing the pacifiers on his new LP When a Banana Was Just a Banana.

Philadelphia City Paper | Patrick Rapa | 02-10-2009 | Reviews

Tags: electronic music, Josh Wink, When a Banana Was Just a Banana

Drexel Prof Has Some Concrete Answers About How the Pyramids Were Builtnew

Michel Barsoum says the theories that modern science have devised to explain the construction of Egypt's Great Pyramids are wrong. Barsoum's theory, naturally, has been treated as heresy in the world of Egyptology.

Philadelphia City Paper | Patrick Rapa | 01-27-2009 | History

Tags: history, Egypt, Egyptology, Great Pyramids, Michel Barsoum

Philadelphia City Paper's Comics Issuenew

We tried to pick comics that blew our minds, made us laugh, or conjured up simple little situations. We gave points for originality. We didn't penalize for crude drawing skills. In the end we had to whittle it down to five pages of stuff we really, really dug.

Philadelphia City Paper | Patrick Rapa | 08-19-2008 | Comedy

Tags: comics, humor & satire