An exhibit opening Saturday at the Franklin Institute has about 150 artifacts and focuses on the search for discoveries about the life of Cleopatra.
The two red granite statues, each more than 16 feet tall, entered the Franklin Institute one recent morning through soaring glass loading doors on the second floor. The great figure of a king went first, resting in a crate atop a metal pallet lifted by a crane. Soon he would stand beside an Egyptian queen, also from Cleopatra's Ptolemaic era - two monumental artifacts of her mysterious world.
NEW YORK - If it weren't for the fur trappers, we wouldn't have best-selling author John Sandford.
That would be quite a loss because Sandford's riveting Prey series of thrillers alone would go a long way toward filling the yawning shelves in the "library" here at the Trump Soho, where the distinguished author sits restlessly for an interview.
A tall, lanky guy spends long nights, sometimes past dawn, in the half-room he calls his workshop at his Northern Liberties home. He manipulates sound and light, gadgets and images, reality and illusion. Then he brings his effects, his video tricks and electronic magic, into a theater and takes your breath away.
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In Get Him to the Greek, opening Friday and likely to amuse and aghast in equal measure, Russell Brand plays the same British rock and roll prat - Aldous Snow - that he assayed so expertly in the 2008 rom-com, Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
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Get Him to the Greek See Steven Rea's preview on H2.
Killers A happy suburban couple's serene lives are thrown into turmoil when they discover he is the intended target of an assassin who could be anyone. Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl star.
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Pop Radio-ready riff-rockers Stone Temple Pilots have busted up and reunited more often than Jude Law and Sienna Miller. The quartet emerged during the grunge era with their 1992 insta-smash Core and reached a peak in 1994 with Purple. They haven't recorded an album that focused, forceful, and contagiously melodic since then.
In addition to lots of beer, the menu includes Fire Island oysters, Italian sausage, and a range of Mexican appetizers.
'So, are you the Dirty Bastard? Or are you the Sly Fox?"
To the unreconstructed ears of a prerevolution Bud-drinking Joe, our waitress at the South Philadelphia Taproom might have come off as a little fresh.
Jake's Sandwich Board has the pig, and the right idea, but will it measure up to Philly's best?
On 12th Street, just south of Sansom, and just north - notably - of Glatt Delight, the kosher noshery, a new sandwich joint called Jake's Sandwich Board has debuted, prominently featuring whole roasted pig.
For seasonal drinkers, "beer season" begins in earnest on Memorial Day, which kick-starts several months of steady thirst-quenching. It's one of the many reasons Philly Beer Week was pushed back to early June. This year, though, along with the u
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Roots Picnic. Philly is lucky to have three of the best crews ever in one place this year: menacing siblings Clipse; ubiquitous hometown heroes the Roots (below); and the three most visible of the Wu-Tang alumni: Method Man, Raekwon, and the wondrous Ghos
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With the rise of talented egomaniacs like Kanye West and Lil Wayne, rap groups have been in dreadfully short supply. Yet, Philly's Roots Picnic is lucky to have three of the best crews ever in one place this year: menacing siblings Clipse; ubiquitous hometown heroes the Roots, of course; and the three most visible of the Wu-Tang alumni: Method Man, Raekwon, and the wondrous Ghostface Killah.
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