Next week on Chef’s Table we get to have a little fashion fun. Not something we usually get to do. Our new dining and culture correspondent, Lynn Rosen, brought in some of her apron collection and made the confession that she’d like to wear them outside the home:

You tell us… bold, innovative wearable art or [...]

If the fact that WHYY is hosting a screening of The Lucky Ones isn’t enough of a reason for you to ignore its less than stellar ratings, perhaps I can give you another option.
Based on Chuck Palahniuk’s (Fight Club, Invisible Monsters) novel, Choke looks like it could recall some of the dark exploration of the [...]

If you haven’t been to one of these events yet, then you’ve been missing out on one of the city’s coolest/nerdiest gatherings.  IgnitePhilly gatherings haven’t gotten much play in the mainstream press yet but the local blogosphere has been a buzz for each of the first two.
Take a look and check out videos of last [...]

Artblog’s Roberta Fallon shares here fall round up of the Philadelphia art scene which also appeared in last week’s Philadelphia Weekly.
I especially recommend heading to the American Philosophical Museum at 5th and Chestnut to check out “Drawing Dock Creek.”  The exhibit is centered around the work of artist Winifred Lutz who raised historic Dock Creek [...]

Following up on my own advice to go out and experience a little bit of Park[ing] Day, I wandered around Old City and the South Street area to shoot a bunch of pics and talk to some of the folks who were putting together these cool little micro parks.
Here’s a slide show of my day.
Feel [...]

This morning, WHYY’s Peter Crimmins reports on Park[ing] Day, a effort by several local architects, designers, urban planners and artists to occupy parking spaces throughout Center City and transform them into tiny 8 foot by 20 foot parks.  Alan had a post about it at the It’s Our City blog yesterday.  His post included information [...]

Tomorrow morning on WHYY’s Morning Edition, Arts and Culture reporter Alex Schmidt will have a story about the announced line-up for the Spectrum’s final concert season.
While announcing the acts that will take the stage before the nearly 40-year-old buildings ultimate demise, concert promoter Larry Magid reminisced about some of the legendary acts that have come [...]

WHYY’s Alex Schmidt has a story running tomorrow on 91FM with more details but the word coming from the Philly Orchestra is that James Undercofler will be stepping down at the end of his contract next summer.
Undercofler will have completed three years at the helm of the Orchestra having followed the 16-year tenure of former [...]

(Lari Robling, producer of A Chef’s Table on WHYY 91FM and food writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, has joined The Sixth Square family of bloggers to discuss the Culinary Arts - the finer - and fun - points of food, drink, cooking and dining. Follow Lari’s posts through this Culinary Arts link.)
If you [...]

As a companion to Alex Schmidt’s piece about the discovery and performance of this long silent piece by influential composer Samuel Barber, here is his Prelude for Organ in its entirety as performed by Paul Jacobs, Chair of the Organ Department at Juilliard.
Click here to play the entire piece.
Image of Samuel Barber by photographer Carl [...]