Cassie Owens L-R, Patrice Quinn, Rickey Washington, Kamasi Washington and Ryan Porter Listening to Kamasi Washington is easy. That’s what many critics (even one at this publication) have been saying — that on his three-hour long album, The Epic, released…

Hillary Petrozziello Drexel students take a break at Aloosh Hookah Bar Restaurant in Powelton Village. When chef Gordon Ramsay walked into Zocalo, a Mexican restaurant in Powelton Village, for his “Kitchen Nightmares” TV show about four years ago, it was…

Cassie Owens Miss Erykah Badu A couple of months ago, I met a guy very randomly through an acquaintance that I had run into very randomly the way people just meet on South Street. I was a carrying a vinyl…

The fire that swept the MOVE house destroyed 61 rowhomes in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philly. At Youth United for Change’s office in Kensington, high school students start to drift in for their late afternoon chapter meeting. Eventually,…

Hillary Petrozziello G. Farrel Kellum in his studio at Ninth and Spring Garden streets Staring at one of G. Farrel Kellum’s mixed-media sculptures, the first thing I notice is a 45 r.p.m. of James Brown’s “Caldonia.” My eyes travel up…

Hillary Petrozziello G. Farrel Kellum in his studio at Ninth and Spring Garden streets Staring at one of G. Farrel Kellum’s mixed-media sculptures, the first thing I notice is a 45 r.p.m. of James Brown’s “Caldonia.” My eyes travel up…

In the Far Northeast, there was once a Babylon. Babylon was a hamlet— eight residences strewn about a stretch of road, either a half-mile or two miles from the Byberry Meeting House — that was it. One of the joys…

Hillary Petrozziello Richard Boardman In a city as old and history-rich as Phila­delphia, it only makes sense that many neighborhood names have changed over the years. But what has remained constant, and is even a citywide pastime, is the bickering…

Cassie Owens Jose James’ reputation precedes him. I haven’t come across a review that didn’t lead me believe (or straight up attest) that the man is dope. He’s known for being one of those gifted, genre-bending performers with an inimitable…