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The Big Chillnew
Can a 15-acre refrigerator save Southwest Philadelphia -- and revolutionize the way we all eat?
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
01-04-2011 |
Food+Drink
InterAct and Mural Arts Join Forces to Bring Prisoners' Stories to the Forefrontnew
Jane Golden and Seth Rozin's mission: Partner up on a play that tells prisoners' stories. Their method: Interview "life-term" inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Graterford and to use those chats for a theater piece that details the experience of the sorrowful and the saved.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
02-02-2010 |
Performance
The Troopers in Broken Lizard Have Frat-House Humor Lickednew
The five members of New York-based comedy troupe Broken Lizard are much like the writers and actors for Reno 911! The only difference is, Broken Lizard is actually funny.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
11-17-2009 |
Performance
Tags: Broken Lizard, comedy
Salon Culture is on the Rise in Philly as Local Art Lovers Make a Case for Intimacynew
The kind of audience-performer bond that you find at a salon helps to build a real sense of community around the arts. But who in their right mind would let their rugs get worn and their walls get smeared all in the name of intimacy, creativity and communal vibes?
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
09-22-2009 |
Art
Hidden City Philadelphia Brings Long-Forgotten Landmarks Back to Lifenew
Hidden City Philadelphia, Peregrine Arts' monthlong arts festival, will house new site-specific works in spaces familiar to most by reputation, some by sight, and all by their current state of decay or dilapidation.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
06-02-2009 |
Art
'Quixote' and a Cast of Pro and Homeless Actors Come to a Philadelphia Churchnew
People from disparate social, financial, racial and religious backgrounds gather together at Philly's Broad Street Ministry and examine spiritual and social questions as one. And now, a bunch of them are acting, singing and dancing in a New York theater renegade's site-specific extravaganza, Quixote.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
05-19-2009 |
Theater
Price-Slashing Isn't the Only Way for Chefs to Counter a Bad Economynew
If you look hard enough, there are plenty of industrious chefs out there killing and cooking that great hungry whale named Recession, and divvying it up at a decent price so as to survive the new economy.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
03-24-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: food & drink, recession
Do the WPA's Striking Visuals Still Make a Mark?new
The Works Progress Administration is often viewed through the kaleidoscope of the arts -- specifically the iconic, familiar posters originally commissioned as a visual representation of the WPA's credo. But what's their purpose today, aside from nostalgia?
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-28-2008 |
Art
Damon Feldman Pits C-listers Against Each Othernew
Celebrity Boxing Federation, the company Feldman started in January 2008, held one of its biggest matches last month, with former child star and current radio and television host Danny Bonaduce fighting local comedian the Rev. Bob Levy.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
10-06-2008 |
Sports
How and Why a Free Arts Magazine will Become a Storefront in Philly's Chinatownnew
For 30 days, Megawords' frequent contributors and like-minded friends will take over a burnt-orange storefront in Chinatown to allow the mag's playful personality to "come to life," according to co-founder Anthony Smyrski.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
09-02-2008 |
Art
Live Arts' First Sold-out Show Ramps Up Greek Tragedynew
Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey's speed-wheeling deconstruction of Oedipus at Colonus goes beyond Sophocles' wandering gloom to find a future and newfound faith in this hard urban setting, with local skateboarders acting as the play's Greek chorus.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
08-26-2008 |
Theater
In Like Lynn (Rosen)new
The Philly author has a mind for manners, as evidenced in this year's Elements of the Table.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
12-26-2007 |
Food+Drink
Along Those Linesnew
Philly's Green Line Café celebrates five years with a CD and a music festival to benefit the fair-trade co-op that supplies it.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
12-18-2007 |
Food+Drink
Kyle Cassidy Shoots Goths & Gun Owners Without Malicenew
The photographer's new coffee-table book, Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes, captures stylish weapon holders across the country without advocating the NRA or denouncing it.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
09-04-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Meow Meow's Glitter Boxnew
The nine lives and times of the NYC cabaret cat.
Philadelphia City Paper |
A.D. Amorosi |
05-29-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
