Bookmarked: “The Sensualist”
20 March 2013 | Philly.com/Art Attack
The Sensualist is a pretty little package of a book that feels more like a prayer collection than the bruising story of a teenager’s confrontation with viciousness and sex
Body Count
20 March 2013 | Hidden City Daily
“This is a great city,” someone will say, and I’ll doubletake and ponder what I know about the 331 years since William Penn set things up, and I’ll nod and look at the sidewalk (or the floor if we’re inside).
Death by a Thousand Curb Cuts
6 March 2013 | Hidden City Daily
Since he moved into the neighborhood in 1998, says Nathaniel Popkin, dozens of private garages, which act as a repellant to street life, have been built. Now two more near the corner of Eight and South Street are proposed
Stupid, Lazy, and Cruel
11 February 2013 | Hidden City Daily
The Affordable Care Act would expand Medicaid coverage to some 750,000 uninsured Philadelphians, including so many who work in journalism, photography, technology, and the arts, but Governor Tom Corbett has rejected it, another Harrisburg move that will punish Philadelphia foremost.
The Pretense Of Ornament
8 February 2013 | Hidden City Daily
A lament for lost buildings, with a little help from the New Yorker’s Joseph Mitchell