Philadelphia is home to some of America’s illustrious history. One Philadelphia historian gives a talk this evening at the Wagner Free Institute of Science on one little corner of the city’s history - its lost cemeteries. WHYY’s Arts and Culture Reporter Alex Schmidt talked to historian Thomas Keels about these hidden pieces of [...]

Mark Schwartz, the attorney arguing against the move of the Barnes from Lower Merion to its new spot on the Parkway, has taken exception to this little tidbit of information that Governor Rendell let slip last week during the groundbreaking for the new building:
“I think it’s been 14 or 15 years since [art patron] [...]

A few months back, Alex Schmidt got a tour of the new Tyler School of Art building on Temple University’s main campus.
Over at Fallon and Rosof’s artblog, Roberta Fallon has gotten a recent look at the facility.  There’s plenty of pictures to go along.  If you’re an art student or aspiring art student or just [...]

To accompany her piece for WHYY 91FM, Arts and Culture reporter Alex Schmidt produced a video profiling one of the music teachers she interviewed for her story.  Angela Beidler’s story is a model for what the School District would hope is the path for a lot of teachers: expertise in a subject combined with a [...]

I stumbled across this article in the Center City Weekly Press about a very cool event at the Fleisher Art Memorial.
On Sunday, you can have the chance to fork over a mere $50 to purchase a piece of “micro art” from some of the regions most critically acclaimed, and prominent artists.  The Fleisher has asked [...]

If you haven’t been following the continuing saga of the 100K House, the builders have been maintaining a fantastic blog that has been chronicling every major event in the development of this modern, green piece of new construction in East Kensington.  The developers’ goal is to build such a place for $100,000 and prove that [...]

Continuing my unauthorized takeover of the arts and culture blog to talk sports, I wanted to make folks aware of today’s second hour of Radio Times:
As the Phillies prepare for game two of the National League Division series against the Milwaukee Brewers Marty talks with Daily News writer MARCUS HAYES, Inquirer columnist PHIL SHERIDAN and [...]

[UPDATE: Just to add my final thoughts after this much needed victory by the Phillies...
One team leaves a ton of men on base, gets themselves out throughout the game and has their closer throw 35 pitches and give up a run.  And they still win.  More than any other sports, baseball has a way of [...]