Caught in the web again
It has everything the first one had: a perfectly cast title character in Tobey Maguire, a believable love story and mind-bending special effects.
It's obvious from the opening credits that Spider-Man 2 is yet another...
Silent alarm?
After feeling her way along a smoke-filled corridor, Karen Pasquerello bounded downstairs to her kitchen and found her coffeemaker ablaze. Flames climbed her kitchen walls on the 900 block of Federal Street and threatened...
Tour de course
"There is a communion of more than bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk," wrote M.F.K. Fisher. I thought about the gastronomy writer's marvelous musing during lunch on a...
Into her groove
When Dawn Noel Pignuola was 5 years old, she danced around her living room on the 1500 block of Porter Street to Madonna tunes. All that practice has paid off bigtime....
‘Hoods won’t be history
David O'Donnell owns one of the city's 11 remaining wood-frame homes built in the 1760s. The newly elected president of the Queen Village Neighbors Association lives in the home on the...
One way? No way!
Nearly 200 anxious Queen Village residents braved the stifling humidity and tight confines of the basement in St. Philip Neri Church, 218 Queen St., to make their point during a raucous community...
No move’s a good move
Regional Produce Terminal merchants finally made up their minds about whether to stay in Philadelphia or pack up and move to Camden. And, much to the satisfaction of local officials, they decided...
Adaptation of note
The Notebook
PG-13
Starting tomorrow at area theaters
Three reels out of four
Nick Cassavetes apparently learned quite a bit from his late father, and most notably how to extract the truth from...
Dialogue in sentences
For those of us on the outside, prison dramas rarely fail to hold us captive. The clang of metal bars, the powder-keg emotion, the numbing routine and the salty language can get...
Porsche power
How did I get to my ripe old age without ever driving a 356 Porsche? I've admired the lovely upside-down bathtub shape for decades, but only from afar. Nobody ever offered...
