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. ...
8 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, “ ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 years ago