From “Really Good Elevator Music” How do you perceive elevators? They’re mundane, utilitarian pieces of machinery, sure, but they can be many things: A place of forced social interaction. A place to awkwardly ignore interaction with someone a foot away…

Philly playwrights or playwrights-to-be are going to have a busy weekend: it’s the fourth-annual “Spring Ahead” Philadelphia Bake-Off, a collaboration between Plays & Players and Philadelphia Dramatists Center, in which writers are given three “ingredients” — elements of any conceivable…

Mikala Jamison Bailey Chick said that the photography show she’s curated is meant to echo the way we ingest social media. The 250×250 “Instagram show,” running through March 30, with opening reception Friday, March 7 from 6 to 8 p.m.,…

Fishtown’s The Head & The Hand Press took charge of a unique concept back in December — a vending machine that dispenses little “chapbooks” instead of chips and candy. The machine was posted up at Elixir Coffee in Center City until…

Frear, in the trailer for Another Time. When we last talked to first-time filmmaker and Old City historic tour guide Amy Frear on the phone on Feb. 7, her film Another Time had garnered $2,810 in donations on Kickstarter. The project got the…

Just as the city breathed a collective sigh of relief that the sun had begun to thaw the frosty hellscape in which we’ve been living for too many weeks, the Bad Boys of Dance geared up for their final performances…

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Jessica Kourkounis There’s a sort of privilege in listening in on the conversation between Ira Upin, Jennifer Baker, Anda Dubinskis and Dino Pelliccia in Baker’s bright, sprawling studio at Third and Green streets. The kitchen is filled with laughs, sighs…

With all the productions it stages in a year, it’s not hard to imagine the scale of scene and prop work that’s behind the Walnut Street Theatre’s productions. The theater announced last week that at 3340 Frankford Ave., you’ll find…