Alaina Mabaso
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‘Nice and Fresh’ brings up-close, curated theater experience to the Northwest
In the theater world, you don’t get fresher than setting the lighting and sound cues just 20 minutes before showtime. ...
10 years ago
Renowned album-cover artist launches iMPeRFeCT Gallery show this weekend
Calvin Schenkel is the man behind the man behind the trout on the iconic cover of Captain Beefheart’s 1969 album, “ ...
10 years ago
‘Meditative’ outdoor art installation takes over Awbury Arboretum’s grounds [photos]
Starting this weekend, Awbury Arboretum will host a special outdoor art exhibition, but the map is going to show only about half the work ...
10 years ago
Behind the scenes at the 2014 National Dog Show — what you won’t see on TV
Maybe it’s just the slightly smooshed nose transitioning into his royally wrinkled jowls, but the bullmastiff seems to smile indulgentl ...
10 years ago
Author to discuss St. Katharine Drexel biography in Germantown this weekend
Local author Cordelia Frances Biddle said that the parlor of Germantown’s Victorian-era Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion may be the best pl ...
10 years ago
Do I write because I’m mentally ill? Or am I mentally ill because I write?
“Am I in hell?” I ask the ER psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins. My face is a stinging, salty mask. The young doctor, who introduc ...
10 years ago
First-ever tour takes visitors through historic cemeteries in Germantown [photos]
Hood Cemetery historian Eugene Stackhouse has a few fun facts about William Hood, the man who paid for the ornate 1850 wall dividing the ...
10 years ago
Weekend tour to highlight Northwest Philly’s Underground Railroad history
In the late 1940s, Charles L. Blockson — an African-American author, scholar and collector who placed historic markers in Germanto ...
10 years ago
The unsettling social media aftermath of a Philly hate crime
A few weeks ago, watching my social media feeds, I would’ve thought my friends had scaled Mt. Everest, found a way to reverse global wa ...
10 years ago
PARKing Day returns to Germantown with environmental message (and music)
PARK(ing) Day, a worldwide event in which social- and eco-conscious groups convert city parking spaces into day-long mini parks, came to ...
10 years ago
Mt. Airy Home Companion heads to West Philly for Fringe
When G-town Radio Morning Feed host Ed Feldman came down from Northwest Philadelphia to 40th and Walnut as the special guest star in the ...
10 years ago
Mt. Airy Art Garage to celebrate 5 years of ‘community strength’ on Saturday
This September marks five years since Mt. Airy Art Garage cofounders Linda Slodki and Arleen Olshan held a series of meetings through Wea ...
10 years ago