Sam Nagel Who says death isnt sexy? Necrophiliacs aside, most of us say that. But not New Yorks REV Theatre Company, which is reviving its Laurel Hill Cemetery spectacular, starting with a Friday the 13th showing. This graveyard cabaret includes…
Jaques-Jean Tiziou SHOW: The Ballad of Joe Hill http://www.livearts-fringe.org/festival/2013/the-ballad-of-joe-hill.cfm GENRE: Theater/music GROUP: Swim Pony Performing Arts Related Articles Fringe-o-Scope Fringe review: High Cheese Fringe review: Ballroom Dancing Aint For Lovers ATTENDED: Sept. 6, 10 p.m., Eastern State Penitentiary CLOSES: Sept.…
Emily Yates is on her way home to California after a rather unpleasant incident in Philly on Aug. 31. The Iraq war veteran, singer-songwriter and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War became something of an Internet celebrity after video of…
Activists have been calling on Mayor Nutter to end Philly’s sister-city relationship with Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, due to the city’s ban on “homosexual propaganda.” Now, Councilman Jim Kenney is joining the movement. He sent a letter to Nutter asking the…
City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. chats with Beeber students over breakfast on the first day of school. Philly teachers made it through their first day back at school, in many cases without counselors, assistant principals, librarians and nurses but…
Deionni Martinez, 16, says those cutting back arts programs don’t understand that, without these programs, “The drop-out rate is going to go sky-high.” Last night, at a vigil ahead of today’s start of school, students said they weren’t sure what…
Evan M. Lopez David Scott never had a problem finding work. Not in 1995 when he landed a job at Herrs while still on a work-release program, after being convicted of conspiracy to robbery (some men he knew had…
Here’s a depressing sight we came across recently in Old City: a bike rack where the bolt had simply been popped off, presumably liberating whatever bike had been locked there. You probably remember the video that went around online when…
Sara Navarro came to the U.S. from Honduras at age 12 as an undocumented immigrant, eager to join her parent in what she had heard was “a land of opportunity for all.” But, she says, “When I was 13 I learned…
Two reports came out today on jobs in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, offering, superficially at least, very different prognoses for the job market in our region. The City Controller’s Office found that job availability that is, the number of jobs…
