The Buyers Market of American Craft an essential wholesale trade show connecting artisans with retail shops and galleries rolled through the Pennsylvania Convention Center at the beginning of the week. Hundreds of participants from North America filled the…
Icepack in print went to press too early to fix it, but the show advertised on Little Bars calendar for Feb. 25 isnt happening. Nor are any shows on the Little Bar calendar. As reported here, a chunk of Little…
One time Philadelphian Scott Storch likes trouble. The Roots keyboardist turned producer has worked with the bad (Snoop Dogg) and the beautiful (Beyoncé). He famously spent three lifetime fortunes on drugs and has been in rehab since the mid 2000s.…
Parting is sweet sorrow, no doubt. So were particularly sorrowful now that the Pennsylvania Ballets principal dancer Riolama Lorenzo has retired. The Cuban-born, one-time New York City Ballet dancer has been with the PaBa for 10 years, taking on famed…
Alyssa Grenning The Fuge in Warminster is a strange place for a dance party. The round, 12,000-square-foot room was used by the U.S. Navy throughout the 1940s for testing black-box technologies and photosensitive lenses. It houses one of the country’s…
It’s anarchy, I tell you; sheer bedlam. Not on the level of punk rock, Dada or Nestor Makhno, but Philly’s ongoing revolution with regard to French culinary tradition makes me suspect that someone named Marie will be losing her head…
I spent Saturday night on Broad Street, bouncing between the 155th anniversary of the Academy Ball and Concert at the Academy of Music and Jerry Blavats tenth anniversary of performing at the Kimmel Center. It was, as always, fascinating to…
Ive written about Patrick Rodgers throughout every dark wave concert and dance party he promoted. I wrote about Rodgers when he began foreclosure proceedings against Wells Fargo here he is on Colbert, with fangs and not so very…
“Well, it looks like I own a swim club.” That’s the first thing Brian Nagele of Cities2Night said when he called to tell me he took over the private Arrow Swim Club and its indoors restaurant. The pricey members-only spot…
On Sunday night, ?uestlove appeared on the debut of Bravo VP and talk show host Andy Cohens now five-times-a-week gab fest, Watch What Happens Live, and kinda-sorta dissed one of Phillys own, Tina Fey. Fey just happens to work for…
