“Not with pencil, pen or laptop, but with layers of life and the rich textures of experience. Scratch the surface of even the most reticent individual and you’ll find a story. Dig deeper and you’ll discover something you never would have imagined.”

I hope the publicity people at the First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art [...]

Post by Brian Small

The Rosenbach Museum and Library, tucked comfortably away on DeLancey Place in Rittenhouse offers a modest exhibit of Bram Stoker’s working notes for the classic, now iconic horror staple, Dracula. Stoker’s actual handwritten notes and research materials from Dr. Rosenbach’s personal collection dating back to the 13th century give insight to just how the piece was contrived, what was fact, what was brilliant fiction, and just why machine [...]

Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program dedicated another grand mural yesterday at Olney High School. The story about how the mural came to be is as inspiring as the mural itself. This spectacular work of art marks the culmination of the Mural Arts Program’s first-ever international youth exchange mural project. Throughout the process, young artists from [...]

In 1984, I purchased a record by a new group that nobody else seemed to know. They were playing the music in the record shop so I asked what it was. Run-DMC sounded pretty unique in my neighborhood in those days. Wow, I’m either old or ahead of my time. It was like finding a buried treasure in Market East, a place often derided, which still has a [...]

On Saturday November 3rd, gain access to a normally restricted part of Philadelphia, the East Park Reservoir. Pennsylvania Audubon Society’s Keith Russell will be leading a bird walk around the grounds of the East Park Reservoir (EPR).

The East Park Reservoir is actually made up of three basins, only one of which is currently in use to hold drinking water for the city, of the other three basins, one is an urban lake and the other two [...]

Last Thursday night I went to the Black Lily fundraiser Bloom and all I could think was, “Wow. I am definitely not cool enough to be in this room right now.” Black Lily events always bring it right, but someone could have told me that everyone there at L’Etage was part of a Hollywood cast and I wouldn’t have blinked twice.

Misia Denea started off the evening with an inspiring dance and was followed by songstress Melissa Young [...]

I love being scared. I want to be scared until I dry heave. And I’ve kind of perfected the art of finding Halloween attractions to freak me out. For my money, being scared in a grassy field is always so much more horrifying then in the city. Shady Brook Farm is right off of