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NEWS An Un-Permitted, Almost Completely Peaceful March Kensington Welfare Rights Union Takes to NYC During RNC by Sahm Contractor Cheri Honkala was the last orator of the rally. One wouldn't expect a throaty, booming oration from her. Honkala is a short, slender woman in her early forties. She spent most of the bouncing her baby in her arms. But when it finally came her turn to speak, she put her child and her tender appearance aside and delivered a thundering little address. see full text photo, KWRU FILM Human Characters, Wine and Sunshine: A Sideways Conversation with Alexander Payne by David Thomas The filmography of writer/director Alexander Payne reads like a litany of sharp, albeit emotionally distant, satire. Citizen Ruth (Miramax, 1996) skewers both sides of the abortion debate while focusing on a flawed central character. Election (Paramount, 1999) casts professional politics into sharp relief by sending up its high school counterpart. see full text Paul Giamatti and Virginia Madsen in Sideways. photo, courtesy of Fox Searchlight.   Everydayness, A Useless Passion and the Ecstasies of Wasted Time: A Review of I Heart Huckabees by Tasneem Paghdiwala Like someone who labors all afternoon over a soufflé only to have it deflate before it ever reaches the dinner table, you have to admire David O. Russell for the sheer ambitiousness of I Heart Huckabees. It's clearly not for lack of trying that this philosophical endeavor ends up collapsing under its own wobbly weight. see full text Beautiful Music is Only Skin Deep: Review of Raise Your Voice by Audrey Wilz Jersey, a Quarter-Life Crisis,  and Sundance by Sara Hoover Stranger Than Fiction! High School Revisited in Strangers with Candy (and in my dreams)  Monica Pace Gets Dreamy on Paul Dinello Stephen Colbert (left) and Paul Dinello,   of Strangers with Candy. photo, R. Adams		THEATRE Rock & Roll Theatre: Brat Productions' Popsicle's Departure, 1989 by Monica Pace "I never planned to start a theatre company," insists Madi Distefano, founding artistic director of Brat Productions, and recent Barrymore Award nominee. see full text        Madi Distefano.    photo, Jacques Jean Tiziou. Azuka Theatre Presents Laura's Bush by Rachel Winters Christopher Trumbo's Play about 'Hollywood 10' Father Trumbo Opens at PTC by Jennifer Williamson Dalton Trumbo, the screenwriter behind classics such as Johnny Got his Gun, Spartacus, Roman Holiday, The Brave One and Exodus, was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. A member of the Communist party, Trumbo refused to provide the Committee with a list of other members. He was sentenced to a jail term of one year for contempt of Congress. see full text Christopher Trumbo. photo, Mark Garvin.   A Potable Joyce: A Watered-Down Version of Ulysses: The Story of James Joyce and His Manuscript  by Sara Hoover Tuesday Night Feedback Club: The Brick Playhouse Gives Voice to Local Playwrights  by David Thomas LITERATURE Publishing for Fun, Profit and Genius: Karen E. Quinones Miller has it All in her Pocket by Sherella Gibbs Karen E. Quinones Miller will have you know that self-publishing is a risky gamble. During her publishing seminars, she explains that only one percent of ink-slinging-entrepreneurs make back their investment.     see full text   Pick an Art and Add Poetry.  Now Mix. Susan Windle: Above-Average Buddy System Poet by Jinal Shah American Poetry Review: Right Here in Philly! by Jennifer Williamson Author Spotlight: Aimee Bender by Jess Shaefer ENCORE AUTHOR REVIEW  Lawrence Richette's The Fault Line by Mike DelVecchia SOCIETY & CULTURE Uniting Two Hemispheres on Chestnut Street: Ronen Koresh and his School and Dance Company by Jinal Shah "Dance is the purest form of art," says Ronen Koresh, who adds, "[It] requires an artist to be his own art. Without the use of words or paint, a dancer only has himself to mediate his art." see full text Ronen Koresh. photo, Pete Checchia   Garden Varieties: Big Tea Party  by Monica Pace Love for Sale on the Streets of Hollywood: Profile of David Henry Sterry by Sara Hoover   MUSIC MOFRO: Foot-stomping, Cake-walking, Liquor-drinking Music by Sara Hoover Mofro is in the basement of North by Northwest (NXNW) waiting to go on stage while the night's opening act Papi Mali, jams above. Mofro is making Philadelphia one of the many stops during its tour to promote its second album Lochloosa (Swampland Records). see full text It Goes To Your Feet: Alô Brasil July Performance at North By Northwest  by Maria DelVecchia Spotlight on Amos Lee by Sara Hoover
The Masked Perfesser in Dublin by Frank Walsh The whereabouts of the Masked Perfesser (MP) are, as of press time, unknown. That rowdy, randy bawd was last spotted in Dublin, Ireland, attempting to crash the First Annual Dead Drunk Dublin Festival held at Mother Red Caps Pub in that venue's upstairs auditorium on Wednesday, August 4. see full text Ghost of Fuddruckers by Aihccev Alled Leachim Distributing PAW Print  by Jeff Ackler   On Seeing the Poem in Lucille Clifton  by Audrey Wilz Padded Leprechaun: A Bloomsday Tale   by Monica Pace It was the first Bloomsday that it rained. Even though the curator himself took the stage & assured us it never rains on Bloomsday. In the rumbling, close air. The tree-lined idyll that is Delancey Street was cordoned off from traffic. Throngs sat on stoops of brick, turn-of-the-century buildings, or on wooden chairs in the street, waving fans emblazoned with the likeness of Joyce. see full text A Remembrance of Things Writing Camp by Stephanie Durann
				ART Creating Healing: Artists for Recovery Provides the Mentally Ill a Place for Expression and Support by Sahm Contractor Connie Schuster seems like an artist. She greeted me in what I always thought of as the uniform of middle age bohemia. A dark flower-patterned dress fell down to her ankles, her hair lay in short untidy curls, and her face remained restrained and somber throughout our conversation. She used to be in art school, and it came as no surprise when she said, in her even, soothing voice, that she had lived a very "unconventional" life. see full text In Glass By Themselves: Philadelphia Glass Works by Seth Pauley Nathan Purcell, co-owner of Philadelphia Glass Works Art For Others' Sake... Textile Designer Christina Roberts Uses Her Art to Help Others by Amber Fairweather "You Look Like You Do Something" Black Women's Arts Festival  by Sherella Gibbs

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