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The Grid
The week's releases
Metro staff reviews the latest CDs, DVDs and books for your reading pleasure.
 
Music
Run this town
No living man but Jay-Z could get a sold out Boston arena so excited about New York City. But for two hours last night, the sold out crowd at the Garden was in an Empire State of Mind, as “The Blueprint 3” tour rolled into town.
 
My Television
Back in the trenches
Steven Spielberg makes strikingly vivid, breathtakingly poetic movies about some of the most terrifying conflicts in the history of man. The filmmaking aesthetic he pioneered with “Saving Private Ryan” — and continues to perfect in HBO’s new WWII miniseries, “The Pacific” — was born out of a desire to translate as honestly as possible his conversations with veterans on their combat experience.
 
The Word
Is nothing in her life real anymore?
When we first read that Heidi Pratt was firing husband Spencer Pratt as her manager, we thought, “Yay! Heidi’s new face is finally doing something right!” But then we found out that although she did fire Spencer, it seems like she’s replacing him with psychic Aiden Chase to take the reigns on her “career” — and then we got scared.
 
Movies
Pattinson: A vampire in Brooklyn
Robert Pattinson has been playing Americans so often that he has forgotten how to talk like a Brit. In his latest, “Remember Me,” the “Twilight” heartthrob stars as a soulful young New Yorker attending NYU, but he insists he didn’t need any help sounding like a native. “I’ve never had a dialect coach or anything,” Pattinson says. “Ironically, I’ve only had a dialect coach for this film I’m doing now, which I’m doing in an English accent. I guess I’ve forgotten how to do an English accent.”
 
Updated 21:08, May the 28th, 2009
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Top 4 reasons to hit up the Art Star Craft Bazaar

 There’s finally a craft show coming to town offering work beyond the dreaded recycled-license-plate photo albums. The sixth annual Art Star Craft Bazaar, hosted by Philly’s own Art Star Gallery & Boutique, has pulled in 127 vendors from around the country, and — lucky you — all these handmade goods will be at your fingertips this weekend.

Other features of the weekend include a free gift-basket raffle, SWAG tote bags for the first 250 attendees each day and live music from Oh!Pears, Like A Fox and Toy Soldiers. Not enough? Here’s why we’re swinging by:

  1. Decorate outside the Ikea box. Deviate from that mass-produced photograph by purchasing unique artwork. Vendors will be selling photos, paintings, ceramics, sculptures and more.
  2. Be unique. Stand out from the rest with clothes and jewelry you can’t pick up in stores. For classic beaded pieces, check out K.Flick. If bold pendants and long chains compliment your style, check out Realm Jewelry. Or pick up screen-printed shirts from vendors Alison Tauber and KimmChi.
  3. Get green. Many artists and vendors incorporate their green lifestyles into handmade creations. Recycle My Dress redesigns out-dated dresses; Ivy Glass’s Ecouture line uses organic materials; and Once Lost Jewelry collects abandoned antiques and reuses the metal. 
  4. Get personal. How often can you meet the manufacturer face-to-face? Meet all the artists and work together to create personalized pieces.


Art Star Craft Bazaar
Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Penn’s Landing Great Plaza
www.artstarphilly.com

 
 
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Music
MMMpod
The March MMMpod features conversation and music from Surfer Blood and The Allman Brothers Band (There's a double-bill you're not too likely to see. However, Gregg Allman does mention Hannah Montana!). We also speak with Vampire Weekend and the Dropkick Murphys.
 
 
 
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