http://www.philly.com/r?19=960&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F Feature articles from the Inquirer Daily Magazine section en-us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z en-us http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444062&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_On_the_Boardwalk__in_____Brooklyn__Atlantic_City_was_not_the_Atlantic_City_Scorsese_and_HBO_had_in_mind_for_a_Roaring_Twenties_mini-series__So_they_rebuilt__in_New_York_.html BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The benches face the ocean. The ocean! Unlike on the real Atlantic City Boardwalk, where any bum can tell you the benches face inward, idiosyncratically skewing the view toward people, not sea foam, the benches on the set of HBO's new 1920s Atlantic City drama, Boardwalk Empire, face the ocean. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 0539babfd681c4123766fab9a19ea604 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444072&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_Inqlings__Roberts_sets_a_last_forecast.html After 31 years at WPVI, weatherman Dave Roberts announced his retirement on last night's Action News. Roberts, the town's dean of TV personalities at age 73, will wrap his 56-year broadcast career Dec. 11. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 3c69bf0169042a4fbeacab5ebc63dc55 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70349727&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091118_Mirror__Mirror__A_quiet_book_of_images_of_everyday_black_beauty.html Billie Holiday is beaming in a 1956 photograph as she gazes at singer Billy Eckstine. Her trademark flower is pinned behind her left ear. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 09082279c6e93cd7aad17644521fcc98 2009-11-18T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444047&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_Warfare_video_game_scores_record_sales_in_launch.html Could you take your finger off the trigger for a minute? If you're like millions of other people, you're already deeply engaged in the furious firefight that is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT a909e748cb511caac88da8c3b2d10007 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444077&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_Jonathan_Storm__TV12_doc_says_the_kids_are_all_right.html Perhaps we are not all doomed. An inspirational documentary pops up today on WHYY TV12 showing high school kids - frequently portrayed as empty-headed, telephone-text-crazed louts - cooperatively exercising intellect and ingenuity. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 1bcb6968421d107aaca12bd17ecf0259 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444057&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_McCann_wins_book_prize.html NEW YORK - Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, a novel about daring, luck, and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize last night at the 60th annual National Book Awards. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT bb52e4d47abf427f69c6c7166e09608c 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444052&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_A_Web_site_developing_new_ways_of_storytelling.html A stark white corridor, flooded with rays from the hot sun of Jamaica. "These days, the language of death is a dialect of betrayals," says the Ghanaian-Jamaican writer Kwame Dawes. The photograph melts into another image of the hall in Hope's Hospice, a home for people living with HIV/AIDS, this time showing a hunched-over man walking toward the shimmering light. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 209b9de4ec5c8ddf9a5f8a858562484e 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444067&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_A_master_of_mixing__Music_and_worlds.html A talk with Devendra Banhart is like a front-loading washer stuffed with smiles. Happy. Whirly. Splashy. Cleansing. Startling? A little psychedelic, even? Nevertheless, just right. Banhart, who plays the Electric Factory at 8 p.m. Tuesday, personifies independent music right now, as musicians with global backgrounds mix, match, merge, meld, and transmogrify styles and boundaries. Such boundary-crossing is all over his new album, What We Will Be. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT f0ef4f9638a7d5c8c6f6a35cc3773a6e 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444082&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_Sideshow__Hundreds_line_up_for_Palin.html The exalted transfiguration of Sarah Palin from Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate to bona fide glamgrrrl celebrity was made official this week with the publication of her memoir, Going Rogue, and the launch of her national book tour yesterda Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 865eb9c5ef9d13c483ae13c4a39b6054 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444087&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_Guitarist_plays_in_Israeli_fete.html The emerging community of Israeli jazz musicians in New York typically draws from a wide spectrum of influences, extending from Jewish, Middle Eastern, and North African songs to classical music. Guitarist Gilad Hekselman draws less from this exotic fare, and more from American jazz and blues. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 0730141d77ad779a460884e740cf54a5 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444092&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_TV_Today.html The Ellen DeGeneres Show (3 p.m., NBC10) - Simon Baker; Andre Agassi. Oprah Winfrey (4 p.m., 6ABC) - Style guru Tim Gunn gives men makeovers. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 25b124edad8387da0ead925729983227 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70444097&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091119_Tell_Me_About_It___Roommate_s_boyfriend_is_nearly_a_live-in.html Question: What is a nice way to tell a roommate that her on-again boyfriend can't live at our apartment? When she moved in, she said they had broken up, but now he's been over 99 percent of the nights she's lived with us. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 51de074c639768ed73687743d87efbb8 2009-11-19T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70349742&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091118_Love__KATE_DEVINE___DAVID_NEWMAN.html Kate, who grew up in Yardley, met David in 1998 on their first day as freshmen at Columbia University. David, who grew up in Manhattan, lived in the suite of dorm rooms across the hall, but spent so much time with Kate and her three suitemates that he usually had his dorm phone forwarded to their place. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT f0ce0c16d30095139dca98e1eab3120d 2009-11-18T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70349737&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091118_Play_it_again__piano_man.html Someone says "piano bar," and you'll likely conjure up an image of something romantically Old World. Dark, smoky room. Tuxedo-clad musician. Sinatra, Sondheim and Styne fans heartily singing old, boozy songs and stuffing dollars into a giant snifter. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 9e71a856d144c639b774ade32147ad38 2009-11-18T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70353827&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2FDropping_Photoshopping.html The human body is a battleground, and the arena of conflict is your favorite magazine. Enter ESPN mag's "Body Issue," released in October and featuring photos of nude athletes. With expert lighting, makeup, and a light dusting of Photoshop, these bodies are shown at their best. But in a twist, they are not super-Photoshopped - no use of a computer program to slim, twist, or wrest them out of shape so that someone everyone recognizes becomes almost unrecognizable. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:59:09 GMT 780b56a0da923c1dcb453e42c7f7fcf9 2009-11-18T09:59:09Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70349732&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091118_Sideshow__Agassi_spills__The_mullet_was_enhanced.html Burying the hatchet? Boring! But, drat, President Barack Obama will let Fox News Channel's Major Garrett interview him today in Beijing. Fox and the Obama Box have been slapping each other good - but, alas, the No-Fun White House confirmed the interview yesterday, and Garrett breathlessly posted the news on Twitter. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 165bcdcded27574f4db0a3f38120db16 2009-11-18T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70349717&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091118_Janacek_s_unsparing_prison_drama_a_rare_opera_treat.html NEW YORK - The marquee value could hardly be less inviting, but serious operagoers shouldn't deprive themselves of Leos Janacek's From the House of the Dead in a powerful new Metropolitan Opera production by Patrice Chéreau. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 79abcb544f53fa7e968347f7b9911cc6 2009-11-18T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70349697&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091118_Weekend_Box_Office.html Weeks    Per    Rank/Title/Studio Last Week   Total    Out   Location    1. 2012 (Sony) $65.2 mil.   $65.2 mil.   2   $19,165    2. A Christmas Carol (Disney) 22.3 mil.   63.3 mil.   2   6,057    Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 8548b42eb6138866bbc53d1827a0576f 2009-11-18T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70349712&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091118_Locklear_returns_to_old_address.html HOLLYWOOD - That shaking underneath Hollywood is not from a quake, but from the force unleashed by the return of a TV powerhouse no less potent than William Shatner reprising his role as Capt. James T. Kirk or Larry Hagman taking over Dallas again. Amanda Woodward - that is, Heather Locklear - is back on Melrose Place, and her arrival couldn't be better-timed. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT 6882656d4bf8f3377f2c91506af96621 2009-11-18T08:01:00Z http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=70349707&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20091118_Social_Circuit.html Choice soiree Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania held its 21st annual Choice Event Nov. 7 at the Independence Seaport Museum. More than 260 guests attended the benefit and auction, which raised $85,000. Among the auction items were a consultatio Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT f6535395c03ac808842451581e6ebe9e 2009-11-18T08:01:00Z