http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F Entertainment news from the Inquirer en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 2009-11-06T08:01:00Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=69354202&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091106_PhiladelphiaPark_looking_for_a_new_chaplain.html The prayer list is long at Chapel 'n Chow, the church service held in what is known as the "backside" of the PhiladelphiaPark racetrack. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT d2eaff8b52ab4c3fe65ec2a928675609 2009-11-06T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=69353827&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091106_Ground_breaking_to_begin_on_Penn_Project.html The University of Pennsylvania will begin construction today of its epic 24-acre Penn Park, the centerpiece of its 30-year master plan involving land it acquired from the U.S. Postal Service in 2004. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT f309cb87d2c31b86f49b0bbec6d6ce30 2009-11-06T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562527&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Galleries___Paintings_that_offer_both_allure_and_depth.html The colors, shades, and halftone prints that make up Tom Benson's modestly scaled, mostly monochromatic paintings are so appealing - even magnetic - that it's easy to appreciate them simply for that. The British artist's scarlet, lemon yellow, black, indigo, pale pink, and white paintings and black-and-white halftone prints in ink and paint seem to hover in the spartan whiteness of Larry Becker Contemporary Art. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 5edfe5abeead0d0d3c50f8d31ea69733 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=68830432&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091103_Environmentalists_show_their_commitment_over_the_air.html Before they were married, before they even knew each other, Mark DiFeliciantonio and his wife, Pat, showed up separately at Belmont Plateau for the first Earth Day in April 1970. Imbued with the spirit of the Age of Aquarius, they took seriously the slogan "Think globally, act locally." Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 1f76cbfa4e84534dca4e44a90a44100d 2009-11-03T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562507&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Artisan_coffee_from_a_truck.html The food trucks that stretch along 38th Street near the western edge of Penn's campus provide an antidote to - no, make that a repudiation of - the sad-sack food-court fare that lurks in greasy shame just blocks to the east. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 1ac22c031c5cb7c8fe5a84356791a05a 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562482&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101__Master_of_Disaster__does_it_again.html CANCUN, Mexico - Roland Emmerich has an ongoing project: destroying the world. In 1996's Independence Day, the German director sent aliens to wipe out the White House. In 1998, he unleashed Godzilla to wreak havoc on the streets of New York. In 2004's The Day After Tomorrow, he froze the planet in a new ice age. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 72a6bbae0f18687f5e6cab2eb8e26443 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562487&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Mumia_maverick.html Tigre Hill has only released the trailer to his film, The Barrel of a Gun, but already Mumia Inc. has begun mobilizing against him. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 837a15d191ad1e0b507e50b5261883d2 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562492&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Miga.html Korean food is ready for its close-up - with or without its fiery funk. The pleasantly posh new Miga, which dials down the chile volume without completely losing its soul in Center City's first upscale Korean dining room, is proof of that. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT eb98def3d06dfd31a7ab1752f4234dfd 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562502&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Drink.html Suddenly growing in popularity, tawnies are the port drinker's port. Unlike those ever-popular fresh young rubies, the intensely grapey fruit bombs that have a sweet and chocolatey charm all their own, tawnies get to spend some serious time on oak. And after the better part of a decade, the transformation is stunning. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 6323e6a55789a0f6894bad03e4472244 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=67562602&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20091101_An_accident_s_consequences.html 'Well, it's a world of accidents, isn't it?" concludes "Cookie" Baciagalupo in John Irving's new novel as random events threaten him yet again. He's right, but in Last Night in Twisted River, it's the consequences of those accidents that really matter, that shatter lives, upset intentions, and send the formerly comfortable scattering in all directions in a vain search for solace. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT e402c890558976225c2da9139b6a46f1 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562532&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Locale_as_a_key_to_civilization_.html Barry Cunliffe is the emeritus professor of European archaeology at Oxford, and Europe Between the Oceans is perhaps the boldest work of ancient history in recent memory. It draws on an impressive array of scholarship to paint a 10,000-year portrait of European civilization from 9000 B.C. to A.D. 1000. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 65de7b129cee1d006e43554abf27dd91 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562522&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_New_Recordings.html Pop The American edition of Colour Me Free comes wrapped in an unsightly purple cover that looks like a rejected design for a Taking Woodstock poster. Joss Stone prefers the version of her fourth album that shows her crammed into a cage like a factory-far Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 84b618b6c0ad5e8b300b70b09ce03b92 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562552&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Art__An_elegant_little_show.html Among the various photography exhibitions in town, the show for Frederick Sommer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art may be the most elegant, the most concise in terms of defining a career, and the most memorable in terms of its creative invention. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT eb880ffb29e735102254221fa52eb1f5 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=67562597&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20091101_What_drove_Vermeil_-_to_the_brink.html He's probably the most popular man ever to coach a professional sports team in Philadelphia, even though he didn't bring home a Super Bowl title and left town burned out. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 62cfe224373d70d38bea57a9a4e994e2 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562477&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Regional_arts_and_entertainment_events.html Sunday Family secrets The old saying that all politics are personal is given deeper meaning in Wendy Hammond's drama Absence, in which a couple's marriage and beliefs are strained by the husband's long career in the CIA. The show goes on at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday a Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT 811023fa91c37f78e4b6d84d7b65d912 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562537&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_On_Movies__Jeff_Bridges_abides__and_works_like_crazy.html TORONTO - In The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jeff Bridges plays Bill Django, a military man who returns from Vietnam to embrace the '60s counterculture headlong - the whole Aquarian Age, flower power, altered states of consciousness thing. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT a4061b7a8d411dac04724b2a037e35bb 2009-11-01T09:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=67562557&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20091101_Our_critics_recommend___.html Movies Opening This Week The Box See Steven Rea's preview on H2. Disney's A Christmas Carol Jim Carrey is Scrooge - and other characters - in this animated take on Dickens' classic. 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