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 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 2009-07-09T07:01:00Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=50341532&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090709_Jewish_American_museum_allows_voters_to_pick_honorees.html Steel girders, plywood guardrails, windblown sawdust, and gloomy caverns of concrete are all there is to see at the National Museum of American Jewish History on Independence Mall. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 3a2bc284e79f51112196fb27e2d73f4b 2009-07-09T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858382&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Galleries___Irresistible_search_for_clues_linking_students_and_teachers.html There's no telling who studied with whom in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' "Legacies: Twelve Former Students of Elizabeth Osborne and Sidney Goodman" - and apparently no point in guessing, either. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT f5bd9328da0bd74fd8ae03070aaecdfd 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=50205812&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090708_Honoring_a_peerless_performer.html LOS ANGELES - They sang his songs among the stars and imagined him dancing across the moon, and for a few hours, during this most public of memorials, all eyes were on Michael Jackson one last time. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT dcb234c171e55f12d7c565afa7ab216d 2009-07-08T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=50206252&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090708_Phila__says_farewell_to_beloved_elephant_pair.html With Kallie and Bette, the Philadelphia Zoo's last two elephants, off to a new home in Somerset County, primary caretaker Jen Robertson said she will miss bath time especially. Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 4bf9728e2971ac290257ba13b1fc12e1 2009-07-08T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858407&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_On_Movies__What_a_relief__Your_cue_to_get_up_and_go.html OK, you've slurped that tub of soda, and you downed a couple of iced lattes before you took your seat. So you're sitting there watching Optimus Prime battle some Decepticons in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and you realize you probably need to hit the restroom. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 3d2613a19f4185b6a88f33c8e133d86b 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858347&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Ports_of_call.html There's an almost tidal transience to the Jersey Shore dining scene that can be disconcerting to a restaurant's regulars. A hungry Shore bird works so hard to find something special at the beach, it's downright worrisome to find it missing upon your return the following year. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 00457b50815ff3077962ad1859a2cd8d 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49946262&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Rub__No_place_he_d_rather_be.html Tall, fair-haired, and patrician, strongly emitting that ineffable thing called presence, Timothy Rub is wandering through the galleries of the Philadelphia Museum of Art late one recent night like a kid let loose in a candy shop. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 1c2d86f736d4795b836e53f84c34c9d6 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858392&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Bridge_by_Frank_Stewart.html "But Holmes, I fail to see why you adopted a play so decidedly against the odds!" Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were reviewing a match against Holmes' archenemy, Professor Moriarty. Holmes, South, had played at two spades after Moriarty, East, cunningly stayed out of the auction. When West led a diamond, Moriarty took three diamonds and next the ace of hearts. West signaled with the three, but Moriarty led a second heart. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT fcb6a0b8587810d634c8133dbb328849 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858372&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_New_Recordings.html Pop While Stuart Murdoch was working on the last Belle & Sebastian album, 2007's The Life Pursuit, he hatched the idea for God Help the Girl, a musical narrative with female singers. The result: a set of chiming, chirpy, deeply orchestrated songs that looks backward to '60s Brit-pop (think Sandie Shaw or Petula Clark) and sideways to the last two B&S albums. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT d8f1d0374116203175c891c4e1d77616 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858362&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Drink.html This refreshing bottle alert is brought to you by the Department of Summer Slakes, Jersey Shore Division: the 2008 Layers from Peter Lehmann is a beguilingly complex white blend that evokes an Aussie version of Conundrum - but at a nicer price. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 89e94d1ad2d2315412798345fcbf1ed4 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=49858467&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20090705_In_defense_of_his_own_theology.html In a searching memoir sure to revive Catholic disputes, Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland recounts the pivotal decision he faced early in life: whether to become a monk or a musician. He chose the monastery, because, as he explains, "as a concert pianist, I would be an 'also ran' not the best." Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT c50a07253594143d4609a99cf91a7cd6 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166696&44=49858472&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2Fbooks%2F20090705_Confronting_changes_and_choices.html The wonderfully chosen epigraph for Strangers by Anita Brookner sets the scene and gives you a sense of the irony and humor to come: "For all its glory England is a land for rich and healthy people. Also they should not be too old" (Sigmund Freud, London, 1938). Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 7097567face4400bc779960e1dc26501 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858427&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Our_critics_recommend___.html Movies Opening Friday Brüno Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) returns with a new alter ego - a flamboyant Austrian fashionista who brings his act to the United States. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 8a04edb6f4d4b58e2e5c07feaddaac20 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858387&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_The_mystery_of_college_admissions.html 'What are they looking for?" Every year, the lament begins before the first day of summer, rising into the fall as high school seniors labor on their college applications. The selection process that makes sane parents crazy and stellar students insecure has been demystified (if made more frenzied) by the industry of books and workshops and private counselors selling advice on how to get past the gatekeepers. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT bb6c29d59117624cc1b26fec0c43bea6 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858342&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Regional_arts_and_entertainment_events.html Sunday History writ large For the outdoor installation A Rake's Progress, sculptor Gary Miller created eight large constructions based on 19th century farming tools from tree limbs and branches, and paired them with graphic panels describing the use of the original implements. The works are on display at the Schuylkill Center's Brolo Hill Farm, Port Royal Avenue and Hagy's Mill Road, until December. Admission is free. Call 215-482-7300. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 5daf9342acb42d53c0116eba1f9c4439 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858367&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Meet_the_ultimate_handmade_meatball.html A devotion bordering on the sacred can attach to a properly made (or perhaps familiarly made) meatball, its specific dimensions and manner of browning, its tenderness and level of grated cheese signaling that, for a moment at least, one thing can be relied on to be what it is supposed to be in this world. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT a846cd2510801ee12a3670cd50fbedce 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858422&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_Art__Dramatic_drawings_need_not_defer.html In the hierarchy of art media, painting traditionally trumps drawing, which was for centuries a means of capturing impressions and testing compositional ideas. This is no longer true, nor, as far as I can tell, has it ever been so for Sidney Goodman. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT c8fcbee6c7c5900def45dfe1e97d9007 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166691&44=49858402&32=3796&7=195417&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fentertainment%2F20090705_The_girl_next_door__a_bit_remote_.html In life, as on screen, Doris Day never quite says yes, and never absolutely says no. She leaves her fans hoping she'll come out from her seaside California home to say "hi," just like in her girl-next-door movies - and make everything perfect. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:01:00 GMT 57ec438581934cf2f32bebac502f1467 2009-07-05T07:01:00Z