As a killer, Cruise a hit
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about Collateral, Michael Mann's new thriller with Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise, is that it could have been even better.
For the first three-quarters of the film, it is like...
High-strung ‘Pearls’
A comedy about a fated necklace and its journey through myriad relationships, threading together love, loss, desire and destiny, is playing at the People's Light and Theatre Company. Michele Lowe's String of...
Local Flavor
It is 8 a.m. on a cool summer Monday. Executive chef Stacey DiPlacido-Guokas is in the quiet kitchen of Caribou Caf�. She makes herself a cup of tea, carefully checks the contents of...
Beauty Plus Brains
Whenever Felicia Williams thinks back to her darkest moment, it feels as if it happened in a different lifetime. She was a college student and a single mother, still living in her...
Slow-paced suspense
The Village, the fifth film by the Philadelphia area's own M. Night Shyamalan, is perhaps the writer-director's most gutsy. It takes its time to get to the climax and once it reaches it, it's...
Bridge still a train wreck
Like an ancient ruin from the Roman Empire, the CSX railroad bridge above South 25th Street appears to deteriorate by the minute. Those who live and work in the area around the...
Oregon Diner
Like baseball and jazz, the diner is an American institution. Diners dot the roadsides and major routes across and up and down the country. Diners serve comfort foods; dishes that take us back...
Putting kids in their place
Whether she's standing before a classroom, driving around the city in a police cruiser or walking through her neighborhood, Darlene Chapman Cummings is surrounded by kids. Having already raised four of her...
Leaping cat
As soon as I take delivery of an emerald green Jaguar XKR convertible, I start seeing them everywhere. On two occasions, I've been alongside identical models on I-95. I flipped the owners a...
