Healing the 'hood with art
Philadelphia Inquirer Daniel Rubin(September 10, 2009) - (Two) schoolboys walked toward the racket, drawn down Wilder Street to where it ends at South 27th Street. One boy called back to his mom,...
View ArticleArtist brings power of love to Phila. streets
Philadelphia Inquirer Stephan Salisbury(September 10, 2009) - Steve Powers, working with a fluctuating tag team of street painters, is transforming a skein of Market Street rooftops into an episodic...
View ArticleNew Cultural Alliance report shatters myths about cultural activities
Philadelphia Inquirer Stephan Salisbury(September 21, 2009) - Findings from a report scheduled for release today at the annual meeting of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance represent a...
View ArticleCultural Alliance taps networking sites
WHYY Peter Crimmins(September 21, 2009) - It's not enough just to show up, you've got to participate. So says a new report by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance studying audiences who attend...
View ArticleArts groups decry ticket tax
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tom Barnes(September 22, 2009) - HARRISBURG -- Christopher Hahn, general director of the Pittsburgh Opera, is still reeling from the shock he got Friday night, when Gov. Ed...
View ArticleKimmel Center Breathes New Life Into Merriam Theater
Broadwayworld.com BWW News Desk(September 29, 2009) - ...Kimmel Center President and CEO Anne Ewers says, "It's important for us to touch and reach a broad community, and the Merriam has a wonderful...
View ArticleBackground check: a new report highlights the diversity of Philly's theatregoers
Philadelphia WeeklyJ. Cooper Robb(September 30, 2009) - One significant finding (in the Cultural Alliance's new report, "Research Into Action") states that in Philadelphia African-Americans and...
View ArticleKia Gregory: Community center staff inspires teen to learn piano
Nate Polite and his friends were on a break, working in the summer gardening program at the R.W. Brown Community Center. Bored, and with few people around, the 17-year-old self-taught pianist took to...
View ArticleCultural Alliance, Phila. Foundation announce innovation grants
Philadelphia Business Journal Peter Van Allen(October 8, 2009) - Arts and culture groups in Philadelphia can receive grants up to $75,000 if they have a plan to bring more diversity to audiences and...
View ArticleAfter 101 Days, PA Has a Budget
Philadelphia InquirerMario F. Cattabiani(October 9, 2009) -- With swipes of the pen that took only seconds, Gov. Rendell tonight signed into law a $27.8 billion state budget that was 101 days in the...
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PA's Budget Impasse Comes to a Close - For Now...
(October 12, 2009) - After months of painful debate, Governor Ed Rendell signed two bills into law late Friday night - one on taxes, and one on spending - that would finally bring Pennsylvania its...
View ArticleBCKSEET Productions Presents Angels in America
BroadwayWorld.com (November 3, 2009) - CKSEET Productions opened their 2009-10 season with their repertory staging of both parts of Angels in America, Tony Kushner's Tony and Pulitzer-Award winning...
View ArticleArt: Cool, indeed, and in tune with his times
Philadelphia Inquirer Edward Sozanski (November 8, 2009) - Barkley L. Hendricks has achieved something relatively rare among artists: He has created paintings that capture the essence of an American...
View ArticleA forum in Phila. for black men
Philadelphia InquirerMelissa Dribben(November 17, 2009) - A few months before the presidential election, Gregory Walker, a 45-year-old public health advocate, stopped into the Walnut Street ING cafe....
View ArticleA Web site developing new ways of storytelling
Philadelphia Inquirer Jeff Davidson (November 19, 2009) - BlueCadet, an eight-person company founded five years ago by owner and principal Josh Goldblum, won an Emmy in September for new approaches to...
View ArticlePhilaPlace Web Site Set to Launch in December 2009
BusinessWire.com (December 1, 2009) - The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has announced that PhilaPlace – an interactive Web site that connects stories to places across time in Philadelphia’s...
View ArticleObituary: Acclaimed artist's works raised racial awareness
Philadelphia Inquirer Bonnie L. Cook(December 13, 2009) - Paul Farwell Keene Jr., 89, a Philadelphia-area artist and teacher whose 70 years of work helped raise the visibility of black American...
View ArticleBringing 'Nutcracker' alive for blind people
Philadelphia InquirerHoward Shapiro(December 17, 2009) - By the last day of 2009, the Pennsylvania Ballet will have danced its annual holiday confection, The Nutcracker, 24 times - but one performance...
View ArticleDiverse Norristown is determined to reinvent itself as a cultural center
Philadelphia Daily News Darla Synnestvedt(December 22, 2009) - Arts-driven revitalizations are nothing new. Philadelphia is surrounded by suburban towns, from West Chester to Ambler, that have found...
View ArticleA way with words
When La Maya Mapp received writing a monologue as an English assignment, she never expected it would culminate in a live performance on the Adrienne Theater Mainstage, 2030 Sansom St. Mapp, along with...
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