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Recipe For A Pressure Cooker

Recipe For A Pressure Cooker

The Comeuppance, a play about high school reunions, offers home-for-the-holidays survival strategy.

Leo David

27 Nov 2024 · 2 min read

How Does Your Garden Grow?

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Mother-daughter exhibit gives birth to a floral take on acceptance.

Nora Grace-Flood

26 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Wicked Wonders: What's The Harm in Some Charm?

Wicked Wonders: What's The Harm in Some Charm?

"Wicked" makes an old story sing; the sequel will determine how Hollywood channels the horror.

Juliana Tedeschi

25 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

The Art Of The Underpass

The Art Of The Underpass

Gregory Prestegord brings an Impressionist lens to a Kensington bleakspace.

Nora Grace-Flood

22 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Trump II Unmasks "Hamilton"

Trump II Unmasks "Hamilton"

A revival of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical, staged in the wake of the presidential election, reveals underlying liberal delusions.

Nora Grace-Flood

21 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Masking Up to Yell at God

Masking Up to Yell at God

Local bands lined up at West Philly's Satellite Cafe for a covid-cautious concert featuring air purifiers and PPE provided by United Musicians and Allied Workers.

Izzy True

20 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

(Do!) Touch The Art

(Do!) Touch The Art

The word “haptic” is derived from the Greek "haptikos," which translates to “able to touch or grasp.” For anyone with a Disability that affects one or more of their five senses, the ability to touch visual artwork can be a key means of gripping the creator’s sense of style, intent and meaning.

Clay Davies

19 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Swipe Not Right

Swipe Not Right

Amiko Li's slide-deck photo exhibit captures the dark and light of dating-app culture.

Nora Grace-Flood

18 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Doing It Apocalypse Style

Doing It Apocalypse Style

This week's round-up with a comic from Izzy True.

Nora Grace-Flood, Izzy True

16 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

How To Sew A Seamless Story

How To Sew A Seamless Story

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

Nora Grace-Flood

14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

TikToker Tour Turnout Serves Boy Band A Second Shot

TikToker Tour Turnout Serves Boy Band A Second Shot

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

Nora Grace-Flood

13 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

DIY Love

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.

Nora Grace-Flood

11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Tabla Tag Tugs At Heartstrings

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.

Izzy True

10 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Rohrer or Rorschach?

Rohrer or Rorschach?

Return to the Land puts the viewer to the test.

Nora Grace-Flood

7 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Survival Playlist: Dirty Frank's Dances Election Night Away

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.

Nora Grace-Flood

6 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

No Future/ No Past

No Future/ No Past

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

Izzy True

4 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Disabled Joy Hits The Runway

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.

Clay Davies

3 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Korean Punk Revives The Rage

Korean Punk Revives The Rage

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

Nora Grace-Flood

31 Oct 2024 · 3 min read