Violin maker Christopher Germain got hooked on wood-carving when he was just a kid hanging out in his dads workshop. Then, as a teenager, came a love of music and stringed instruments. He pulled it all together as a young…
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll, screening at International House July 22 AWESOME FEST AT LIBERTY LANDS 926 N. American St. Catch Me Daddy (2014, U.K., 112 min.;): A young Pakistani woman seeking personal freedom faces off…
Photo Provided Jamar Nicholas, 42, is a West Philly native and current resident of the Oak Lane neighborhood who grew up aspiring to be a cartoonist. “I’ve never wanted to do anything else,” he said. He attended CAPA High School…
Charles Mostoller “I thought it was a joke.” Sitting in his office behind his wife’s hair salon in West Philadelphia, Vickson Korlewala is going over their arrest on robbery charges a year ago — charges that, he claims, were baseless.…
Angela Napili Tuna (on drums) and the rock-cats. To Samantha Martin, cats like to have jobs, just like people. You can see their fondness for their vocation watching members of the the Acro-Cats — the performing feline troupe that’s prowling…
Click Image to Enlarge Artist Andrea Tsurumi shines a light on a few of this city’s scientific and historical oddities, including brains, a bucket of teeth and one of America’s founding asses. See Also: Comics by Caitlin McCormack, Robert Berry,…
Roar, screening at Liberty Lands Park July 10 AWESOME FEST AT LIBERTY LANDS 926 N. American St. Roar (1981, U.S., 102 min.): Exotic beasts rule the roost in Noel Marshalls cult film, infamous for dozens of on-set injuries inflicted by…
Charles Mostoller At the North Philly Peace Park, which takes up two formerly vacant parcels off 22nd and Jefferson, tomato and pepper plants bud in two planters, while four young fruit trees have been placed nearby. They’ve been sowing seeds…
City Paper grade: C- Even if a Tarsem Singh film sucks, at least itll look cool! Thats what weve been telling ourselves ever since 2000s hokey but visually arresting The Cell, a reassurance weve strung through all the directors work,…
Luis Robay, AFP/Getty Hardly a week goes by without some sign of progress in Philadelphia. There are new restaurants, new families. The murder rate is at lows not seen in decades. The city has gotten nice. But has it gotten…
