Rip-off motors
Duane Overholt is a pleasant-looking fellow, but just be glad that you probably never met him. While working at auto dealers in Florida, he estimates that he ripped off consumers for about...
Making love and history
The Dreamers
NC-17
Starting tomorrow at Ritz theaters
Three reels out of four
Set in Paris just before the May 1968 student riots, Bernardo Bertolucci's maddeningly imperfect yet fascinating new film, The...
Finding her Zen
Deana Sabasino enters the room at St. Agnes Wellness Center, removes her coat and fiddles with a few audiocassettes. She finds what she wants and chats gregariously with the women arriving in workout...
Healthy competition
As former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's campaign crumbles, another physician -- this time at the local level -- is making a pitch for public office. Dr. James J. Tayoun Jr., the 39-year-old...
Expanding while contracting
The healthcare options in South Philadelphia are about to change again, leaving the community with one less emergency room but with better-focused facilities, according to officials. Executives from the companies that...
Making Broad Street more stately
The idea for the Avenue of the States began as way to welcome visitors to South Philly for the Republican National Convention in 2000. And, while the name hasn't stuck like that...
Trouble in paradise
I am in traffic in downtown Honolulu, creeping along at about 5 miles per hour -- on a Saturday! According to state Sen. Cal Kawamoto, the state capital is likely to become one...
Give this show a medal
Anyone who enjoyed Neil Simon's klutzy character Eugene Morris Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs can see the sequel to that funny and sensitive autobiographical sketch at the Walnut Street Theatre. Biloxi...
Winning the gold war
Miracle
PG
Starting tomorrow at area theaters
Three reels out of four
In 1980, a group of American college hockey players pulled off one of the most incredible upsets in the history of...
The chilling season
Holy guacamole! People are stealing avocados. A recent front-page story in The New York Times told how these thieves in the night -- especially when the moon is full -- drive to California...
