Philadelphia

Philadelphia

How To Sew A Seamless Story

Arden Theatre stitches together Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel."

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Nora Grace-Flood

14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

TikToker Tour Turnout Serves Boy Band A Second Shot

Resuscitated by the Internet, Panchiko roars into a sea of awkward acne.

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Nora Grace-Flood

13 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

DIY Love

A Mickalene Thomas exhibition inspired by French Black erotica from the 1950s shows It’s up to us to collage together the truths of our existence — and show everyone else what we’re made of.

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Nora Grace-Flood

11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Tabla Tag Tugs At Heartstrings

Anirudh watches Vinay closely and catches him expertly. There is so much charisma in these exchanges, it's a game they are playing together.

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Izzy True

10 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Philadelphia

Rohrer or Rorschach?

Return to the Land puts the viewer to the test.

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Nora Grace-Flood

7 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Survival Playlist: Dirty Frank's Dances Election Night Away

While the TV showed their presidential candidate losing, the crowd at a Philly dive bar turned the jukebox up.

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Nora Grace-Flood

6 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

Philadelphia

No Future/ No Past

I hear shades of Sabbath with a dose of shoegaze-y sensuality.

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Izzy True

4 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Philadelphia

Disabled Joy Hits The Runway

Oftentimes abled folks cannot conceive of Disabled joy without pity; they get lost in their own imaginations, stumbled by the disorders and wrongness they believe our bodies are burdened by. But on Saturday, celebration took center stage through flexibility of form and fashion.

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Clay Davies

3 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Korean Punk Revives The Rage

Once a spiritually bereft American, I’m now a disciple of the subversive school girl.

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Nora Grace-Flood

31 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Place Show Win

As we travel through life, place echoes forward through us, making itself known no matter what.

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Nora Grace-Flood

30 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

Like It Or Not, Wing Bowl Wows

The only thing more spectacular than Wing Bowl itself might be the Wing Bowl movie.

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Nora Grace-Flood

29 Oct 2024 · 5 min read

Philadelphia

Rolling through Unseeing Eyes

I feel uneasy, and so does the boy in the photograph. He looks sick, on the edge of consciousness. He lays out on a chaise lounge, his face blank, while his twin brother holds onto his hand with an intensity I am familiar with when I am slipping unconscious.

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Clay Davies

28 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

Kate Bollinger Induces Retro Vertigo

I feel a kind of vertigo. Is this kind of recursion something humans have always done, or is it something we do because we can watch films and hear music from these eras? The past is more alive than it used to be?

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Izzy True

26 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Philadelphia

Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s

Four-piece Gypsy swing band The West Philly Foot Tappers brought 1930s Prohibition-era sounds across state lines to Delaware speakeasy “Hummingbird to Mars” on Thursday.

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Emily Cohen

22 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Philadelphia

Dancing Outside The Lines

“My name is Donkey, I use they/ them pronouns, and I am your host for the night,” a denim-clad cow-dude told a room full of non-conforming honky-tonkers before leading a lesson on line dancing for dummies.

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Nora Grace-Flood

21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

The silhouette of a cigarette-smoking man caught my eye — after Craig Blankenhorn’s camera captured his shadow.

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Nora Grace-Flood

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care

“Oh, god,” I thought as the lights dimmed — had I accidentally signed up for stand-up?

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Leo David

19 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Philadelphia

Shiraz Ensemble Breaks Form

Izzy's review in comics of Shiraz Ensemble at Icebox Project Space

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Izzy True

14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read