Audrey and Mark are back with their fourth installment of Illadates. This episode takes us through west Northern Liberties, bringing us to the Edgar Allen Poe house, Siam Lotus for drinks and appetizers, and Pura Vida for a delicious Latin dinner. They even deliver a special sneak peak of the new Silk City Diner on 5th and Spring [...]
The Outlaw dudes, Port Richmond miscreants Pete Whitney and Joel Peterson, don’t seem to come up for air very long to show off. They run a prolific shop that cranks out design after beautiful eye-burning design. Their zillion-color freakout style meditates in the plush dead zone between electroclash-era Making Time flyers and Dinotopia.
Fishtown’s Bambi Gallery is hosting the guys this Friday. They’ll be showing a slew of (likely very affordable) new work and [...]
I was driving home with a friend of mine from either rollerskating or quiz night and we were coming up 22nd. Suddenly, right there, well off the city’s usual art trail, was a mural by Keith Haring - the guy responsible for the cartoon dog DJ, the radiant baby, and the entire style Nickelodeon adapted in 1990.
My friend scoffed and said “Man you would like that stuff,” but I defy you and him to [...]
I’ll watch bad movies and maybe I’ll admit I even enjoy them on a certain level. My tolerance for mediocrity of the moving image has been honed through years and years of bad television and my inner latch key kid finds security in reruns of Golden Girls, a specific meditation in the daze of old Seinfeld episodes. But when it comes to live art: dance, theater, music, etc. I am far less forgiving. More appropriately, [...]
Brenna Murphy moved around a lot as a child. Describing herself as a “corporate brat” (as opposed to “army brat”), her concept of home became defined not by a community but by the personal and immediate – family, relationships, and her own body. According to her mother, she was fascinated by hair as a baby, and an unconscious ritual since childhood has been to play with her hair, sometimes to the point of [...]
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I was driving home with a friend of mine from either rollerskating or quiz night and we were coming up 22nd. Suddenly, right there, well off the city’s usual art trail, was a mural by Keith Haring - the guy responsible for the cartoon dog DJ, the radiant baby, and the entire style Nickelodeon adapted in 1990.
