Alaina Mabaso
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Germantown recording studio allows musicians to follow their dreams on the cheap
On the second floor of an old surgical textile mill on Germantown Avenue, Irv Jean-Baptiste is getting ready to rehearse a love song Crai ...
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ListenCurbing an overabundance of feral cats in East Falls
East Falls resident Katie Battista never set out to harbor cats. “Cats definitely are not my favorite animal,” th ...
9 years ago
The true triumph of the bedbug
We can live with being outnumbered by bacteria in our own bodies, or becoming a mosquito buffet at someone’s wedding. But a visible ...
9 years ago
Fringe brings a twist on juggling in Germantown solo show
Balancing a stack of precisely sized square wooden boxes as tall as his own body, Germantown circus artist Greg Kennedy quips onstage tha ...
9 years ago
“The Dolls of New Albion” conjures up the dead at NW Fringe Festival
In Manayunk Theatre Company’s The Dolls of New Albion, inventor Annabel McAlistair (Anna Flynn-Meketon) resurrects a ...
9 years ago
A guide to Fringe in NW Philly: Poe, ‘colored girls,’ Pandora’s Box
For the second year in a row, Northwest Philly gets its own pages in the 2015 Fringe Festival catalog. From juggling to Edgar Allan Poe t ...
9 years ago
Mt. Airy Art Garage grapples with loss of space after $250K in renovations
A stormy evening didn’t deter a crowd of about 50 concerned locals who gathered at Mt. Airy Art Garage on Thursday night for a comm ...
9 years ago
Mt. Airy arts hub in search of a new home after ‘punch to the gut’ news
A little less than a year ago, Mt. Airy Art Garage co-founders Linda Slodki and Arleen Olshan were gearing up for ...
9 years ago
Germantown photographer examines encounters with racism in new exhibit
Germantown photographer Tieshka Smith originally launched her latest project under the title “Racism Makes Us Sick,” but said ...
9 years ago
Pop-up performances from Nice and Fresh troupe look to push limits
Poet, singer, musician and teacher Yolanda Wisher said she first thought about joining SmokeyScout Productions’ Nice and Fresh Nort ...
10 years ago
It’s road safety, not rocket science — so why is the mayor’s office mocking transit users?
The time I probably came closest to being killed was one night a couple years ago on a corner in Center City. I was on the sidewalk, but ...
10 years ago
YWCA thrusts issues of development to ‘forefront’ of Germantown
On a weekday afternoon in mid-March, the doors to the old Germantown YWCA building gaped open. A workman was oiling their hinges and tryi ...
10 years ago