As an editor, a large part of my day is spent sifting through a massive, endless stream of emails.Nestled between press releases for events and other stuff that doesn’t really fit our core reader demo or random things we’d never…
One of the starkest realties of first-time director Stephen McCoy’s “Nightcrawlers,” a documentary premiering at PhilaMoca on June 27, is how graphically it portrays the speed with which one can throw youth away, and how homelessness and opioid addiction —…
The woman who created the most talked-about, argued-about and thinkpiece'd-about comedy special of 2018 has a new show, and she's bringing it to the Kimmel Center later this month."Nanette," a years-in-the-works stage show from Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby, was produced…
Being a poll worker sounds like it can be a real slog.Independently elected or appointed to the gig, these folks work a 13-hour day on average and are on the front lines for ensuring 1.1 million registered Philadelphians can exercise…
If space is the place, quite famously, for avant-garde musical icons Sun Ra and Marshall Allen, the terra firma of Germantown is just right for Leroy Butler, the renowned Afro-conscious painter and album cover artist for Ra, and that same…
I’m a straight cis woman in my early 40s and a single mother. I have not dated or hooked up with anyone in years. While I miss dating, the biggest issue right now is that my sex drive is off…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve received reports of the horrific treatment at the hands of a lack of funding for ACCT Philly, the primary caregiver for animals who need shelter in Philadelphia.
Where Cecil B. Moore intersects the Germantown Avenue arterial in North Philadelphia, there’s a plot of land that will sit untouched by developers.Instead, artists go down to this triangular section to paint the walls, gardeners go to plant flowers and…