The List
This Weekend: Alive In The ’90s
FRIDAY: >>> This is kind of bizarre: An outsize portion of tonight’s big rock shows could have very easily been taking place ten (or even 15) years ago. Of course, The B-52’s are riding a cultural wave of “Fuck Art, Let’s Dance” once again that makes their original run during the Reagan/Bush era seem positively quaint [...]
Film Threat: Is That Neil Patrick Harris?
RECOMMENDED: We all remember Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, a film about two collegE-age, multicultural men who embark on a late-night journey of self-discovery… to find hamburgers and smoke weed. In the second installment of the classic stoner film, we find Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) just a few days after [...]
PennDOT To Use Eminent Domain To Once Again Displace Northeasterners Who Haven’t Left Their Neighborhoods Since 1980?
Walk with us for a minute here. Up here where the wild things grow, there is a very specific kind of disgruntled white person. And they hold grudges. So when I-95 built itself a long strip straight through parts of Fishtown, Port Richmond and Bridesburg back in the 1960s, many of these grudge-bearers were but [...]