If you live, work, dine or drink in Center City, you’ve seen Octavius Catto’s 12-foot bronze statue at City Hall’s southern corner. The memorial known as “A Quest for Parity” is homage to Philadelphia’s most noted civil rights activist, educator, abolitionist and baseball hero. The first city-sanctioned public monument to an African-American in...
Old City’s Khyber Pass Pub is back in the business of live show programming after nearly a decade of being away. While its tin-ceilinged downstairs will stay tuned into a Southern-inspired bar and restaurant menu, Upstairs at Khyber will again roar loudly. Longtime Khyber employee-turned-booking manager Josh Agran gave PW the scoop on...
Local talents like Louis Knight provide an optimistic outlook to the future of the Philly area music scene.At just 19 years old, the British-born Knight, who resides just outside the city’s confines in Narberth, is doing all he can to make it known that he has an outspoken voice. He shares stories...
This weekend, the two-day extravaganza that is the annual Made in America festival will surely take the headlines as the biggest event going down in Philadelphia.
Ask anyone from West Philly and they’ll tell you they readily know the fabulous Faulkners from 51st and Catherine Sts.As far as musical excellence and adventure go, they are arguably West Philly’s first family. Mother Carol has forever been a classical concert pianist and manager. The youngest member of the family, Nazir...
Chill Moody’s new duo, &More comprised of Moody and Donn T, the sister of Ahmir Thompson, popularly known as Questlove, will perform a free, live concert for servicemen and women at Fort Dix, New Jersey on Friday, July 26.
It was born in the ghettos of Jamaica in the late 1950s with its walking bass lines and its mix of Caribbean mento.Later fused with traditional American R&B and offbeat British colonial swagger, ska has forever been the original, fully integrated, multi-racial, rocksteady sound of inclusion.
