A.P. discusses Philly’s new weed policy, ‘collateral murder’ in Iraq, the Donovan McNabb trade and, of course, the Fightins.
ARTSY: Darwinian Tract Housing
AMERICAN PHILISOPHICAL SOCIETY MUSUEM: The Tract House: A Darwin Addition presents an evolutionary twist on classic religious tracts. Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach solicited tracts—manifestos, diatribes, stories, rants, and poems—written by the general public, friends, neighbors, artists, poets, and even a Nobel Prize winner in response to Darwin’s life and ideas. Auerbach and graphic designer Roman Jaster then created printed ephemera based on this writing. The resulting tracts feature the same off-beat illustrations, chaotic type styles and breathless urgency that are the hallmark of religious and political tracts without being kitschy or retro. She calls it a “spread-the-word” project. Auerbach worked […]
JUDGE 2 PARENTS: Only You Can Prevent Flash Mobs
DAILY NEWS: Over two days of trials, 29 youths have been convicted for participating in flash mobs. All juveniles found delinquent yesterday face up to four years in a state facility, but most who pleaded guilty were sentenced to four weekends at a Poconos boot camp, 60 days of electronic monitoring and two years’ probation, and were ordered to take biweekly drug tests and to attend school every day on time. Those with prior convictions or other glaring problems in their backgrounds were sentenced to state facilities. Dougherty got creative with two teenagers who gave cops a hard time while […]
Q&A: With Philly-Based Photographer E.C. Adams
PHAWKER: Let’s start with some basic bio info: where are you from, where did you go to school, how did you wind up in Philly, and what was the aha moment that made you want to become a photographer? E.C. ADAMS: I was born in Louisville, Kentucky. My parents died (at different times) when I was a small child; I then moved in with relatives in Lancaster, PA. I attended a small private school in Lancaster. After that, several “prodigal son” episodes were intermingled with stints at a few different universities, the last being Temple, where I was a French major. But the […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With A.P. Ticker
Bling heist at the Franklin Mills mall, smackdown at the Aramingo Diner. Sure sounds like March Madness.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Piggie Of The Week
This week A.P. takes on the Tea Party douchebags protesting the president’s speech on health care reform at Arcadia University on Monday.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Piggie Of The Week
This week A.P. shames the predatory Pennsyltucky capitalists that own and operate private prisons and paid judges kickbacks for sentencing children who had committed minor crimes at best to jail time in their facilities.
ARTSY: There Are More Things In Heaven And Earth Than Is Dreamt Of In Your Bollywood Fantasies
[Photo by ARUSHI TERWAY] BY KISHWER VIKAAS When I first met Urmika Devi, she was a senior at Central High School who was known for both her acting skills in the drama society and her commitment to studying Indian classical dance. Almost ten years later, now a third-year law student at Temple, the 26-year old Devi has veered very little from her original interest in the arts. This Friday and Saturday she brings her dance company, Urmika Devi Dance Collective to Chinatown to present MOVING BEYOND FORM: Explorations in Rhythm & Storytelling in Classical & Contemporary Indian Dance, a show […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Webcamgate!
AP Ticker takes on Lower Merion school district’s Webcamgate, disgraced bronze medal snowboarder Scotty Lagos, and answers once and for all the age old question: Is curling gay? Also, he dispels the rumor that he is in fact Epic Beard Man.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Murtha, Murtha, Murtha!
AP Ticker delivers a stinging eulogy for recently departed PA congressman John Murtha, plus he reveals his Olympic man-crush on Bob Costas.
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: Snowpocalypse, Now!
With your host AP Ticker.
ARTSY: A New Festival Grows In Philly
BY TIFFANY YOON This morning Phawker joined many familiar faces of Philadelphia media at the Kimmel Center for the announcement of a new Philly-based arts festival. The festival, entitled Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), is scheduled to begin on April 7th, 2011, and it will run for three weeks until May 1st, 2011. It’s quite a way’s away, but with a grant of $10 million from the late Leonore Annenburg, PIFA certainly has the resources to make a splash. This morning’s press conference didn’t shed much light on the specifics of PIFA’s line up of events or venues, […]