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Showing articles 1 to 10 of 165 by Bruce Schimmel

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November 19th, 2009

Loose Canon: Philly's Couch Problem

Local design costs less to maintain.

No matter how many throw rugs and designer tchotchkes you buy, if you have a ratty couch, your living room will always look like a dump. The same for holds true for Philly and its bus shelters.

by Bruce Schimmel

November 12th, 2009

Loose Canon: Decorating in the Dark

I feel safer outside the bus shelters than inside them.

Have I got an offer for you. How'd you like someone to redecorate your living room? New sofa, chairs, even new art. And all for

by Bruce Schimmel

November 5th, 2009

Loose Canon: Armageddon Question

Great journalism is no longer profitable.

As creditors of the bankrupt Inquirer and Daily News sharpen their knives, our dailies could be decimated. Should that happen, the government and foundations should jump in and pump up public media.

by Bruce Schimmel

October 29th, 2009

Loose Canon: Everybody's Market

Steinke made a move of breathtaking political dexterity.

The market sees more than 100,000 shoppers weekly. As the site of their first dates and the foundation of their feasts, many feel they've got a stake in the old place. A stake, if you will, they'd drive through Steinke's heart, should he upset their particular applecart.

by Bruce Schimmel

October 22nd, 2009

Loose Canon: Mile-High Garbage

The badness of American food holds true.

A quartet of German businessmen near us giggled, prodding their chicken nuggets as if examining turds from another dimension.

by Bruce Schimmel

October 15th, 2009

Loose Canon: French Envy

At that moment — aha! — I understood the French paradox of getting the most from the least — and being richer and smarter for it.

by Bruce Schimmel

September 24th, 2009

Loose Canon: Better Accounting for Taste

Food from a supermarket is like a subprime mortgage.

At Vetri, I got tender rigatoni with pork ragu and fresh ricotta, striped bass with heirloom tomatoes, and a chocolate polenta souffle. At many supermarkets, consumers get chicken a la antibiotique and potatoes aux organophosphates.

by Bruce Schimmel

September 17th, 2009

Loose Canon: Why All The Rage?

These people are not idiots.

It's been a summer of much discontent. The angry town hall meetings this summer culminated in Congressman Joe Wilson heckling the president in the middle of his address to Congress last week, and calling him a liar.

by Bruce Schimmel

September 10th, 2009

Loose Canon: Garden Variety Artists

"We're lost in all this technology."

He builds shed/studios that locate the garden/artist symbolically in the middle of fruition. It's a riff, he says, on the concept of "cultivation," artistic and natural. By helping others get their hands, literally, into the land, he says that they reconnect to each other.

by Bruce Schimmel

September 3rd, 2009

Loose Canon: Compost in the City

It's not an entirely unpleasant scent, if you like kimchi.

Luke and Woody run a new neighborhood compost facility in the heart of West Philly. Two or three times a week, they dig into three warm piles with pitchforks and shovels — straining the back and stimulating the nose.

by Bruce Schimmel

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