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Fetching as a barracuda: Johnny Depp in ‘Black Mass.’ (© 2015 - Warner Bros. Pictures)

Johnny Depp in Scott Cooper’s ‘Black Mass’

A study in menace

Other actors have had a go at the Whitey Bulger persona, but they were mainly based on Bulger. Johnny Depp is Whitey Bulger, having spent two and a half hours daily getting into the prosthetic face that coldly surveys his Southie criminal kingdom and perfecting the Boston accent with which he delivers his satanic commands.

Bob Ingram

Oct 01, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

Phil Woods in Oslo in 2007. (Photo by Bjørn Erik Pedersen via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Phil Woods: An appreciation

There wasn't a jazz giant Phil Woods didn’t work with. Over the years he worked with everyone from Buddy Rich and Quincy Jones to Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday.

Bruce Klauber

Oct 01, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Evoking the plane. (photo by the author)

The Flight 93 National Memorial

Reclaiming the site of a tragedy

The recently opened memorial to United Flight 93 is a glorious work of art that blends architectural structures and crafted landscape to create a contemplative place for visitors and a resting place for those who died.

Joanna Rotté

Sep 29, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Fringe 2015: 'Available Light' by Childs, Adams, Gehry

Let there be more light

Lucinda Childs’s hauntingly formalist 1983 dance piece Available Light is revived as part of the 2015 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Thomas Patteson

Sep 29, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Count the pores (Ed Helms in 2015's "Vacation")

There's more to movies than special effects

Cartoonized: A rant on the digital age

Hollywood needs to relearn to use lower-tech, more creative ways to draw in audiences and tell stories. Just because we have the ability to use special effects technologies doesn’t mean we always should.

Ryan Dellaquila

Sep 29, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

Arnoldy, Schaefer: 21st-century knockoff. (Photo: Mark Garvin)

‘High Society’ at the Walnut (2nd review)

Was the Main Line ever this gauche?

Class, sophistication, and wit are the missing ingredients in this revival of Cole Porter’s musical comedy about high-class high jinks on Philadelphia’s sophisticated Main Line.

Steve Cohen

Sep 24, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Olof Arborelius, “Lake-View at Engelsberg, Västmanland,” 1893, oil on canvas.

What I read on my summer vacation

From The Odyssey to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, here's what I read over the summer and how it did (or didn't) change my life.

Anndee Hochman

Sep 23, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Innocent sensuality: Hoffman and McDermott (Photo by Richard Termine)

Tennessee Williams's 'Baby Doll' at the McCarter

An old Tennessee Williams film becomes a new Tennessee Williams play

The McCarter Theatre Center premieres a sexy stage adaptation of the 1956 film Baby Doll.

Mark Cofta

Sep 23, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Aww, Mom! Tuomanen and Kasprzycka. (Both photos by Dominic M. Mercier, courtesy Opera Philadelphia)

Fringe 2015: 'Andy: A Popera' by Opera Philly & Bearded Ladies (third review)

But is it opera?

Two of my colleagues have reviewed Andy, a Popera, but neither questioned whether this piece belongs in the repertoire of an opera company. Subscribers to Opera Philadelphia argued the issue during and after the exciting performance.