Dear Philadelphia: I have lived here now for nearly six years. I made it through four and a half without buying pepper spray, and only acquired one from a friend when a string of sexual assaults last fall were a little too close to home. It remains attached to my keychain, except for when it isn't: before shows at the Electric Factory or TLA, I make sure to detach it and leave it somewhere......

Films: Dead Daughters, Trigger Man, Severance, The Burglar, Ten Canoes Future Screenings: Dead Daughters - Mon, April 16, 9:30PM at the Ritz East; Tue, April 17, 9:30PM at the Bridge Trigger Man - Mon, April 16, 9:30PM at the Bridge Severance - Tue, April 17, 9:30PM at the Ritz Five The Burglar - None Ten Canoes - None Whew. Okay. This thing has been going on for a while now, and I don't know about......

A ferocious head cold is slowly attacking everyone I know, and this Wednesday evening, I accepted that I, too, am sick. And then I accepted that I wanted soup and I wanted it now. On my way home from a rehearsal, I stopped by Szechuan Hunan Chinese Restaurant to pick up as much Wonton Soup as I could carry. While I was awaiting my food, I went in search of the bathroom. I initially......