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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

Place Show Win

Place Show Win

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

Nora Grace-Flood

30 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Like It Or Not, Wing Bowl Wows

Like It Or Not, Wing Bowl Wows

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

Nora Grace-Flood

29 Oct 2024 · 5 min read

Rolling through Unseeing Eyes

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.

Clay Davies

28 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Kate Bollinger Induces Retro Vertigo

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?

Izzy True

26 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Foot Tappers Touch The 1920s

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.

Emily Cohen

22 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Dancing Outside The Lines

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.

Nora Grace-Flood

21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Sopranos’ Still Photographer Searches For Drama In The Shadows

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.

Nora Grace-Flood

20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care

Crohn’s Disease Comedy Takes Care

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

Leo David

19 Oct 2024 · 2 min read

Shiraz Ensemble Breaks Form

Shiraz Ensemble Breaks Form

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

Izzy True

14 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

PSA: Deerhoof Asks For Masks

PSA: Deerhoof Asks For Masks

Deerhoof reminds us to mask, at Underground Arts

Izzy True

11 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

Sticks Swing In Cyrano Modernization

Sticks Swing In Cyrano Modernization

A name already shrouded in mystique and mythology — Roxanne — arrives on stage in a gorgeous gown while up-tempo club music blares, the lights flash pink and purple as she vogues stiffly.

Leo David

10 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Sunflower Sous Vide Stalks Cookout Scene

Sunflower Sous Vide Stalks Cookout Scene

Fernando Melo picked the petals off a sunflower head and held its face flesh against the grill. Was I at a cookout, I wondered, or had NOMA come to Philly?

Illiana Germain

8 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

(VW) Buggin’ Out In The Yard

(VW) Buggin’ Out In The Yard

Clark Bedford moved his ancient, trash-packed Volkswagen out of his Maryland driveway — and into a contemporary art gallery.

Nora Grace-Flood

7 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

Softies’ Stage Return Hits Hard On Heartbreak

Softies’ Stage Return Hits Hard On Heartbreak

“Write down that this is a bad song!” my recently heartbroken friend wept in my ear as I scrawled notes like an obsessive school girl about the pitch-perfect performance delivered by ‘90s sad girls, The Softies.

Nora Grace-Flood

4 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

100 Witches Curse The Crowd

100 Witches Curse The Crowd

Izzy at Sing Slavic Queen & Rook Game Cafe

Izzy True

4 Oct 2024 · 1 min read

XPN Hodge Podges Flawless Festival

XPN Hodge Podges Flawless Festival

XPoNential Music Festival Wiggins Waterfront Park 2 Riverside Dr. Camden, New Jersey Sept. 22, 2024 University of Pennsylvania’s radio station WXPN celebrated the 30th year of their fall music

Emily Cohen

25 Sep 2024 · 4 min read

Sausage Queen Breaks The Casing

Sausage Queen Breaks The Casing

All Hail The Sausage Queen The Nest 1615 N. Delaware Ave. Philadelphia Sept. 23, 2024 Claire Pitts made free, vegan hot dogs for everyone who came to her avant garde

Nora Grace-Flood

24 Sep 2024 · 3 min read