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Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'vampires'

October 7, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. It should surprise no one that Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video is making an X-rated movie inspired by Republican Vice President nominee Sarah Palin. Check out the details here. Also check out the hilariously accurate Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart. (Via Sarah) For the first time, the Stoker estate has authorized an official sequel to Dracula. It's called Dracula:......

Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"

September 25, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Johnny Depp has officially signed on for a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. It's also now official that Depp will be playing the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. And he'll be playing Tonto in Jerry Bruckheimer's adaptation of The Lone Ranger. Wow! We're glad to see he's keeping busy. Bruce Willis will make his directorial debut with an indie......

Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"

September 22, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. The Internet Memes time line is... a time line of internet memes. And it itself is now a meme! (Via Jill) Cinematical covers the important things at the Fantastic Fest: Kevin Smith, his movie, and air sex. Proto Man will be available to download as a playable character in all versions of Mega Man 9 (which comes to WiiWare today). That......

Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"

September 10, 2008

Performances: Oedipus at FDR (Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey) (no future performances); The European Lesson (Jo Strømgren Kompani) (no future performances); The Maguffin (Stone Soup Theatre Arts) (no future performances); Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (To the Wall Productions) (future performances; The Play about the Coach (Rocketship Productions/Paden Fallis) (no future performances); Manic Swell (Indigenous Pitch) (no future performances) This year, the apparent M.O. for the Live Arts and Fringe shows has been "let's start everything at least ten......

Continue Reading "Jill's PLAF Diary for Friday, September 5–Sunday, September 7"

August 20, 2008

Night Brings the Hag! For centuries, folklore, or what has become known as "the unexplained," has grown as a vast jigsaw, an immense puzzle made up of many differing, equally complex parts, whether in the form of monsters, ghosts, UFOs, crop circles, voodoo, spontaneous human combustion, telepathy, healing powers, or what have you. However, one of the most frightening enigmas to lurk deep within the network of weirdness pertains to the legend of the "Old......

Continue Reading "Philadelphia Weirdness"

August 4, 2008

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Next World (Wed, 8PM-9PM, Discovery Channel) A look at new technologies like floating cities and cars that can travel underwater. MythBusters (Wed, 9PM-10PM, Discovery Channel) The seventh season opening episode of one of our favorite shows on TV features the boys examining fan-requested myths, including whether steak can be tenderized with explosives and if driving while angry changes a car's exhaust emissions. MonsterQuest (Wed, 9PM-10PM, History Channel)......

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July 2, 2008

Many of you may not know that Philly is home to the notes Bram Stoker developed as he wrote his acclaimed classic Dracula. The bragging rights are cool enough, but it turns out that the notes, housed at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, drew the attention of HBO while they were filming a documentary about the nocturnal blood drinkers. The doc itself is playing second fiddle to an hour-long series about vampires called True Blood......

Continue Reading "HBO Films Vampire Doc at the Rosenbach"

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