Rock Hall honors for man behind Philly’s Sound
It would appear that an outgoing West Philly native with a memorable moniker like Weldon Arthur McDougal III would be destined to make his mark, and sure enough, his creative vision and fascination...
View ArticleCity redistricting: 2010 census renews fight for a fair map
It has been almost 10 years since the last redistricting battle was slugged out in City Council, but the wounds are still raw. That fight, which centered on the Latino composition of upper North...
View ArticleLegendary record company damaged in fire
A strong fire swept through the Broad Street offices of Philadelphia International Records today, causing extensive damage to the celebrated music company where Chubby Checker recorded "The Twist," and...
View ArticleJafar Barron Plays the Park
In a city of buskers, Jafar Barron has the best resume. He’s played cornet with Wynton Marsalis and on albums with Erykah Badu and Jill Scott. His fellow musicians credit the 38-year-old trumpeter with...
View ArticleGamble & Huff Express Outrage And Sorrow Over “Suspicious” Blaze At Historic...
Describing the burned-out remains of their historic “Sound of Philadelphia” offices as “total devastation,” legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter-producers Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff held a...
View ArticleLacking in Latino theaters
Though there’s been a few examples of locally produced Latino theater—Azuka Theater staged Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories , Theatre Exile produced Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s Roosters and InterAct Theater...
View ArticleCollaboration & Vision in Philadelphia
Yesterday I was on the road again, this time to Philadelphia, which I think is one of the great models for what we’ve started to talk about here at the NEA. It’s a city that really gets it about the...
View ArticleFeel Good, Buy Art, Help Haiti
The Haitian Art Project, currently running at the Haverford Township Public Library, benefits both the library and Doctors Without Borders, an organization providing medical assistance in...
View ArticleHarriet Tubman Artifacts Donated to New Museum in Phila
One of Philadelphia's and the nation's leading collectors of African American artifacts has turned over historic artifacts from abolitionist Harriet Tubman to a new museum scheduled to open in 2015....
View ArticleNEA chairman Landesman encounters the arts on Skid Row
A round-table discussion of ways to advance arts education ensued in the campus' black-box theater. Landesman started by saying the NEA has $8 million set aside for arts-education grants and that at...
View ArticleA Day At The Free Library: Urban Melange
I settle next to an Aero Relief Map of Pennsylvania, the mountains, valleys and rivers spelled out in miniature bumps, lines, pregnant protuberances and cavernous incisions. The map collection is to...
View ArticleWHYY TV12 debuts local "Friday Arts"
Friday Arts is more impressionistic than explicit, and that style works well in a breezy and informative half-hour. Too bad there's only one new installment a month, on the first Friday. That's also...
View ArticleMayor Nutter to Speak at April 13 Congressional Arts Hearing
(April 1, 2010) Americans for the Arts has organized witnesses to give official testimony at an arts hearing hosted by newly appointed chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior...
View ArticleOpinion:Flashing & dancing
I was having coffee with a friend at 15th and Sansom not long ago when, out of nowhere, a group of teens burst onto the scene. The energy that came with them was palpable. Tense, wired, high-strung -...
View ArticleBar quiz game aims to help young focus on census
An All-Census Quizzo night is on tap as the Young Involved Philadelphia, Young Friends of University City and Philly Counts join forces for an event promoting this year's count. A similar census quiz...
View ArticleTrail of the unexpected: Street art in Pennsylvania
Walking down 13th Street in Philly (no one calls it Philadelphia here), who do I spot on the corner of Pine Street? Ol' Blue Eyes chewing the fat with rock icon Frank Zappa and the ever-debonair...
View ArticleWonder walls: the graffiti art of Philadelphia
Among the great northern cities of the United States, Philadelphia has a fairly low reputation for its treatment of its underclass and ethnic populations. That reputation can be hard-earned, as in...
View ArticleA year of highs and more highs for Joan Myers Brown
Joan Myers Brown, whose determination to open up the world of dance to the creative energies of African Americans led her to found a groundbreaking dance school and performing ensemble here, has been...
View ArticleThe other opera on Broad
Less than two miles north on Broad Street, the Temple University Opera Theater has been consistently presenting two superb shows each season, with little fanfare and not much attention. In recent...
View ArticleThe Young Friends Rodin Garden Party
Event DetailsSeptember 10, 2010 - 2:30pmLocationPhiladelphia Museum of Art - Perelman Building Fairmount and Pennsylvania Aves Philadelphia, PA19130United States39° 58' 5.7396" N, 75° 10' 29.8812" WSee...
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