ENTERTAINMENT
March 7, 1986 | By JOE BALTAKE, Daily News Film Critic
"Subway. " A New Wave fantasy starring Christopher Lambert and Isabelle Adjani. Directed by Luc Besson from a screenplay by Pierre Jolivet, Alain Le Henry, Sophie Schmit, Marc Perrier and Besson. Production design by Alexandre Trauner. Photographed by Carlo Varini. Edited by Schmit. Music by Eric Serra. Running time: 104 minutes. In French with English subtitles. An Island release. At the Ritz Five, 214 Walnut St. Luc Besson, France's reigning Golden Boy filmmaker, brings a moony, messy, love-struck quality to his movies.
NEWS
August 29, 1997 | GEORGE MILLER/ DAILY NEWS
James E. Oubre, 50, was killed yesterday when he jumped in front of an eastbound Market-Frankford subway train that was pulling into the 8th and Market streets station at 3:32 p.m., according to police. The line was shut down for 85 minutes, reopening at 4:57 p.m. SEPTA ferried Market-Frankford riders past the scene on shuttle buses.
NEWS
April 10, 2008 | By Diane Mastrull INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
This time, it turns out, the victim was SEPTA's subway system. At 1:45 p.m. yesterday, a 20-year-old woman told police that on Tuesday night she had been grabbed from behind while on the SEPTA subway platform under City Hall, dragged behind a pillar, and raped. By 6 p.m., she had recanted the whole thing. But in the intervening hours, a subway system that has been the site of three serious attacks since March 26 - including the death of a Starbucks manager who was beaten and kicked on the concourse at 13th and Market Streets - was under another cloud.
NEWS
September 30, 1988 | By Ben Yagoda, Daily News Movie Critic
You know the spaghetti sauce commercial where the guy keeps saying, "It's in there"? That's the way I felt about "Subway to the Stars," a Brazilian film that opens today at the Roxy Screening Rooms. The movie starts off as a piece of conventional realism. We're introduced to Vinicius (Guilherme Fontes), a struggling musician who plays along with Charlie Parker records, and his girlfriend Eunice (Ana Beatriz Wiltgen), who works in a shop. But no sooner can you say "love story" than Eunice myseriously disappears and the cinematic equivalent of all heck breaks loose.
NEWS
July 14, 2009 | By Traver Riggins INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Police have arrested a 14-year old boy and charged him with groping assaults on four women on the Broad Street subway since May. The youth, not indentified because of his age, was taken into custody Friday, but police announced his arrest yesterday. The teenager has been charged with aggravated assault, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, and four counts each of reckless endangerment, indecent assault, and simple assault. The attacks began on May 25 and all took place on subway platforms or stairwells.
NEWS
April 8, 1998 | by Dave Racher, Daily News Staff Writer
It was about 9:30 p.m. on New Year's Eve 1996, and the two groups of teen-age boys began glaring at each other on a Broad Street subway. According to one witness, that means it was time for a fight. So, at the Cecil B. Moore Avenue stop, after two boys exchanged words, one of the groups chased the other from the train and a shot rang out. Darryl "Kareem" Shackleford, 18, of Marvine Street near Duncannon Avenue, was struck in the neck and killed on the steps leading to the street, said Assistant District Attorney Thomas Margiotti yesterday.
NEWS
February 5, 1990 | By John Corr, Inquirer Staff Writer
Tips on surviving a subway ride: Be alert for "posse groups. " Don't isolate yourself. Stay out of the last car on any train. Locate the emergency handle in your car and don't hesitate to pull it at the first sign of trouble. Those and other safety pointers for SEPTA riders concerned about the recent rash of subway crimes come from Howard Patton, chief of SEPTA's police force, and Curtis Sliwa, founder and president of the Guardian Angels. "Older subway systems, such as you have here in Philadelphia, are bad when it comes to security," Sliwa said.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 30, 1988 | By Steven Rea, Inquirer Staff Writer
In Subway to the Stars, director Carlos Diegues attempts a gritty, romantic look at the underbelly of urban Brazil. But the movie, teeming with sterotypes, just goes belly-up. As he did in his bawdy 1980 travelogue Bye Bye Brazil, Diegues paints a vivid backdrop: Subway, showing a Rio de Janeiro not seen in the tourist brochures, offers sleazy strip joints, graffitied housing projects, shantytown shacks and rubble-strewn vacant lots. But the folks ambling through this colorful squalor, including its young saxophonist hero (Guilherme Fontes, the Rob Lowe of Brazil)
NEWS
July 10, 2009 | By Troy Graham INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Special Victims detectives are looking for a heavyset man who has groped four women in South Philadelphia subway corridors and who pushed his latest victim to the ground. Three of the assaults happened in the Tasker-Morris station on SEPTA's Broad Street Line, and one happened in the Ellsworth-Federal station. The attacks began in April and the latest was Wednesday. The victims, all lone women, ranged in age from 20 to 50, police said. In each case, the man grabbed the women over their clothes or tried to put his hand into their pants before fleeing up the stairs to the street level.
NEWS
July 28, 2000 | by Mark Angeles, Daily News Staff Writer
If you're going to the Phillies game on Sunday, take the subway if you want to avoid a potentially elephant-sized traffic jam. Starting at 9 a.m. Sunday, the north and southbound exit ramps to Broad Street from I-95 will be closed to all vehicles except Republican National Convention buses. The convention doesn't officially start until Monday, but there will be plenty of activity over the weekend at the First Union Center, the official RNC site, adjacent to Veteran's Stadium.