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Overall, “Kids Are All Right” is well-conceived

Comedians have long argued that gay marriage should be legalized on the grounds that homosexuals deserve to be as miserable as the rest of us.

For Aussie Mia Wasikowska, her career so far is a wonderland - 07/23/2010: "Obviously," the actress Mia Wasikowska says, "I've been in the right place at the right time. Again and again."
Tattle: Gosselins and Palins - that's TV gold! - 07/23/2010: SOMETIMES you can't make this stuff up. (We try, but the copy desk usually calls us on it.) In a TV coupling reminiscent of Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz, Kate Gosselin of TLC's "Kate Plus 8!" is taking the brood on a trip to . . . Alaska!
Steve and Mia: Take a chance on love, but be good to yourself - 07/23/2010: Q: About two months ago I started "hooking up" with a guy. Before anything happened between us, he said that when he starts school again in the fall he doesn't have time for a girlfriend. Several people that know what's going on with us tell me they think he's gonna change his mind and make time to be with me come fall. Should I end whatever's up with us before I get hurt or is it worth seeing what happens?
An ‘Agora’-phobic reaction: Ham-handed execution makes a joke out of history - 07/22/2010: If agoraphobia means fear of the marketplace, then "Agora"-phobia is fear of the long-winded sword-and-sandal religious epic.
Rachel Weisz reflects on stepping into the 4th century - 07/23/2010: When Rachel Weisz arrived on the island of Malta to film "Agora," she found herself in the middle of the fourth century.
The phrase 'family-friendly' works for 'Ramona and Beezus' - 07/23/2010: When the central character in a movie is a precocious child who tends to get into trouble, casting is key. The child actor must be able to play likable but annoying, funny but serious, mature but still a kid.
'Salt'a lightly seasoned thriller - 07/23/2010: Jolie does an awful lot without much beef on her bones

"Salt" is a Hollywood stuntman (and stuntwoman) stimulus package, an espionage thriller filled with epic brawls, shootouts and a chase across the roofs of assorted semi trucks and tankers along the highway interchanges of Greater Washington, D.C.
Disney star Selena Gomez, newly 18, entering new career chapter - 07/23/2010: If all goes according to plan, Selena Gomez's 18th birthday celebration won't turn up in the tabloids or the scandalous Web site TMZ.
Who's playing music and where, in and around town this week - 07/23/2010: Live music and more, tonight through Thursday, compiled by Shaun Brady, Tom Di Nardo, James Johnson, Sara Sherr and Jonathan Takiff.
A new Prokofiev is helping classical music rediscover itself - 07/23/2010: Try to picture the great Russian pianist and composer Serge Prokofiev visiting an artist's studio to hear his piano music played. Then, in an even more unlikely scenario, imagine that musical legend deejaying other composers' works between sets.
Music critics' picks - 07/23/2010: POP . . . plus They're hardly the first band to pay sonic homage to "The Boss." What sets Gaslight Anthem apart is the boldness of its Springsteen-like appropriations - even throwing in his favorite girly character names like "Mary" and "Bobbie
Music: At Lilith, it's Dixie Chicks minus one - 07/23/2010: At one of the Court Yard Hounds' recent stints on the female-artist-celebrating Lilith Tour (landing here Wednesday), Emily Robison decided to introduce a favorite tune as "a classic chicks' song."
Mann fundraiser attracts two super natural women - 07/23/2010: Aretha Franklin and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice performing together with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday night?
Joe Sixpack: Beer-tapping systems bring the bar to your back yard - 07/23/2010: DRAFT BEER at home? What will they think of next? Actually, the newest thing in beer has been around for as long as fathers have sent their kids down to the local saloon for a bucket of freshly tapped suds.
Mann-handled: Dining under the Starr - 07/23/2010: Crescendo has OK food, great view & sticker shock

"Wow, that's an amazing mural," proclaimed one of my guests. What we were viewing was the skyline of the city from a tent at the peak of the Mann Center and its Crescendo restaurant.

CasiNotes: In Atlantic City, family will be charmed by 'Magic & Beyond' - 07/23/2010
Pot odds give green light to Esfandiari - 07/23/2010
Dear Abby: Can he change the lying ways of his 75-year-old mother? - 07/23/2010
Stars -- Horoscope - 07/23/2010
Martha Stewart: Say aloe, aloe to your new tropical garden - 07/23/2010
Loving lavender - 07/22/2010
Tattle: Chris Isaak: Enough Cowell scowl for 'Idol'? - 07/22/2010
Dan Gross: 'Munster' Butch's local fang fan - 07/22/2010
Kimberly Garrison: Neurologist Larry Charleston IV describes his path to success - 07/22/2010
Philadelphia dining news - 07/22/2010
Looking for lavender? Find it, eat it here - 07/22/2010
Whatâ€™s that indescribable essence in that dish? It has to be lavender - 07/22/2010
'Ramona and Beezus' - 07/22/2010
Hollywood isn't crying over Jerry Bruckheimer's recent duds - 07/22/2010
As actress Gloria Stuart turns 100, her career will be saluted, from the 1930s to 'Titanic' - 07/22/2010
Dear Abby: Feelings for best friend are burden for bisexual female - 07/22/2010
Ellen Gray: 'Mad Men' returns, as stylish and soapy as ever - 07/22/2010
'Manson: The Notorious Crime and Trial' - 07/22/2010
Stars -- Horoscope - 07/22/2010
'Burn Notice' - 07/22/2010
'Rookie Blue' - 07/22/2010
Matthew Feldman's next dream? A club in S. Philly - 07/21/2010
Tattle: Lohan behold: Lindsay finally arrives ... in jail - 07/21/2010
Jonathan Takiff: In battle over the iPhone4 flaw, there's no clear underdog to root for - 07/21/2010
Dan Gross: Supreme achievement for local lawyers - 07/21/2010
Ellen Gray: 'The Pillars of the Earth' recalls TV miniseries from back in the day - 07/21/2010
Try Boulder, Colorado in the summer - 07/21/2010
Dear Abby: Sex and drug education is needed now more than ever - 07/21/2010
Stars -- Horoscope - 07/21/2010
'Top Chef' - 07/21/2010
'American Masters' - 07/21/2010
Movie: 'Billy Elliot' - 07/21/2010
Travel information about Boulder, Colorado - 07/21/2010
Jenice Armstrong: Haitian toddler here for serious surgery - 07/20/2010
Tattle: Cast thinks more dough per episode a 'Shore' thing - 07/20/2010
Dan Gross: Size matters for local 'Hung' actor - 07/20/2010
Ellen Gray: Jordana Spiro, of 'My Boys,' works on a Plan B: college - 07/20/2010
Dear Abby: Some employees work hard while others hardly work - 07/20/2010
Stars -- Horoscope - 07/20/2010
Philly's Marah plays a new tune - 07/20/2010
'Kissteria' - 07/20/2010
'Warehouse 13' - 07/20/2010
'On Canvas' - 07/20/2010

Hey Jen: Live CHat - Sexy Singles - 07/23/2010
CasiNotes: Christie Plan for AyCee looks like a winner - 07/22/2010
PhillyGossip: Eddie Munster finds love with former Eagles Cheerleader - 07/22/2010
Earth to Philly: The summer of solar? - 07/19/2010

CasiNotes: Christie's A.C. ideas OK, but are they too tame?
Tattle: Gosselins and Palins - that's TV gold!
Steve and Mia: Take a chance on love, but be good to yourself
Joe Sixpack: Beer-tapping systems bring the bar to your back yard
CasiNotes: In Atlantic City, family will be charmed by 'Magic & Beyond'
Martha Stewart: Say aloe, aloe to your new tropical garden
Tattle:

50 Years of Twistory

"The Twist" â€” the hip-swiveling, pelvis-thrusting dance and the iconic song the old Parkway record label recorded with an 18-year-old former chicken plucker from South Philly â€” remains a pop - culture touchstone.

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