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A walk through the city
“Philadelphia is a town with a low tolerance for bullshit and a whole lotta heart.”
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The Hunkas of Fairmount Avenue
One family’s history in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia.
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As bad as we say it is
When in the early 1970s the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce needed a slogan to promote the city to businesses and tourists, the best it could come up with was “Philadelphia isn’t as bad as Philadelphians say it is.” It’s hard to say exactly what the Chamber of Commerce expected as a result.
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The Mighty Millborough
A few more items from the cupboard, these concerning cartoonist Christoph Mueller and published here a few years ago.
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The illustrious R. Crumb
I’m still going through the boxes in this blog’s attic and came across this review of a 2019 R. Crumb exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery.
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Durham dispatch
The uniformed representative of the United States Postal Service slipped the latest issue of Mineshaft magazine under my door a few weeks ago, and for that I am grateful.
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Philadelphia: The saving grace of modesty
Nobody put the differences between New York and Philadelphia best than the City of Brotherly Love’s essayist Agnes Repplier. Though she described these sentiments over a century ago, I can still recognize their validity as I walk that city’s streets today.
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One year on
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. As a personal gesture, I republish an essay about my own family’s Ukrainian origins, written in 2019, “before the current anguish.”
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“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness”
A few days ago I mused very briefly about how audiences and theatre artists in this fraught 21st century might respond to the “absurd” drama of the 20th. Soon we’ll have a chance to see just that with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame.
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Cunk on Netflix
Cunk on Earth finally arrives on Netflix in the United States, following its premiere on Netflix UK.