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NEWS Mayor Signs Budget Spares Most of Arts and Culture by Mike DelVecchia Mayor John Street. photo, www.phila.gov On Thursday, July 1, Mayor John F. Street signed the Philadelphia City budget. The passing of the budget ended months of negotiations with Council. The budget restores $3.5 million of the $4.5 million in cultural funding cuts Street had initially proposed in March. The partial restoration does not signify that arts and cultural groups will be living high on the hog.  see full text   Prescription: Fringe & Live Arts Festival Opening Sept. 3 by Jess Shaefer FILM Jersey, a Quarter-Life Crisis, and Sundance by Sara Hoover, Philadelphia Writers Fellow First-time screenwriter and director Zach Braff has woven together stories of growing up in New Jersey, in creating the film Garden State. Braff was in town for a screening at the Ritz Bourse on July 8. see full text Stranger Than Fiction! High School Revisited in Strangers with Candy (and in my dreams)  Monica Pace Gets Dreamy on Paul Dinello Stephen Colbert (left) and Paul Dinello, of Strangers with Candy. photo, R. Adams   PIGLFF Celebrates Ten Years of Queer Cinema in Philadelphia  by David Thomas Lost Film Festival: You Don't Have to be a Punk to Enjoy It  by Hal Cohen Cinema India! Brings Bollywood to Philly by Tasneem Paghdiwala The world's largest film industry isn't called Hollywood, but Bollywood. That's with a "B," for Bombay. The Indian film industry rolls out over 800 titles a year, and claims a worldwide audience of 3 million viewers. But this fact hardly comes as a shock anymore to a growing number of American moviegoers. see full text		ART Creating Healing: Artists for Recovery Provides the Mentally Ill a Place for Expression and Support by Sahm Contractor Connie Schuster seems like an artist. She greeted me in what I always thought of as the uniform of middle age bohemia. A dark flower-patterned dress fell down to her ankles, her hair lay in short untidy curls, and her face remained restrained and somber throughout our conversation. She used to be in art school, and it came as no surprise when she said, in her even, soothing voice, that she had lived a very "unconventional" life. see full text In Glass By Themselves: Philadelphia Glass Works by Seth Pauley Nathan Purcell, co-owner of Philadelphia Glass Works Art For Others' Sake... Textile Designer Christina Roberts Uses Her Art to Help Others by Amber Fairweather "As an artist, you want to know what you're going to do with your life, and what you are going to do with your art," says Christina Roberts, textile designer and apprentice coordinator of the Fabric Workshop and Museum. "Instead of just, doing [art] I'm trying to do something productive and constructive [with it]." see full text "You Look Like You Do Something" Black Women's Arts Festival  by Sherella Gibbs Shelley Nichole's band blaKbüshe performed at the Black Women's Arts Festival. Photo, www.blakbushe.com Idle Hands Make for The Devil's Workshop: Jewelry Designer Nicole Eichman by Jeffrey W. Ackler THEATRE A Potable Joyce: A Watered-Down Version of Ulysses: The Story of James Joyce and His Manuscript  by Sara Hoover, Philadelphia Writers Fellow   Using a boat that becomes a loom, a shadowy and red-eyed Cyclops, a pub inside a cigar box, live music, shadow puppets, and actors, A Potable Joyce: A Watered-Down Version of Ulysses is a three-tiered adventure story.  see full text Potable Joyce creator Sebastienne Mundheim. photo, Liz Linder.   Tuesday Night Feedback Club: The Brick Playhouse Gives Voice to Local Playwrights  by David Thomas     MUSIC It Goes To Your Feet: Alô Brasil July Performance at North By Northwest  by Maria DelVecchia A powerful and sensual tantalized the crowd at Mt. Airy's North By Northwest (NXNW) on the night of July 3. The Brazilian rhythms seemed to emanate from the lushly costumed dancers as their bodies radiated the Latin tempo through the summer air. The audience was quick to bask in the energy of the music. By the time the cavalcade of musicians and dancers made its way to the stage, people were already on their feet, swinging their hips. see full text Alô Brasil's colorful performance. photo, E. Rausa Meg Clifton: New Voice in Philadelphia Jazz   by Greg Trout Spotlight on Amos Lee by Sara Hoover, Philadelphia Writers Fellow Workaholics Anonymous Profile: Cassendre Xavier  by Sherella Gibbs Cassendre Xavier. photo, Lori Nicolosi.
The Masked Perfesser in Dublin by Frank Walsh The whereabouts of the Masked Perfesser (MP) are, as of press time, unknown. That rowdy, randy bawd was last spotted in Dublin, Ireland, attempting to crash the First Annual Dead Drunk Dublin Festival held at Mother Red Caps Pub in that venue's upstairs auditorium on Wednesday, August 4. see full text Ghost of Fuddruckers by Aihccev Alled Leachim Distributing PAW Print  by Jeff Ackler   Padded Leprechaun: A Bloomsday Tale   by Monica Pace It was the first Bloomsday that it rained. Even though the curator himself took the stage & assured us it never rains on Bloomsday. In the rumbling, close air. The tree-lined idyll that is Delancey Street was cordoned off from traffic. Throngs sat on stoops of brick, turn-of-the-century buildings, or on wooden chairs in the street, waving fans emblazoned with the likeness of Joyce. see full text A Remembrance of Things Writing Camp by Stephanie Durann Theoretical Cinematic De-elevations by Niama Williams
				SOCIETY Garden Varieties: Big Tea Party  by Monica Pace A mere block or two from that south Philly culinary mecca, Pat's Steaks, grows a backyard oasis to thrill even the most hardcore carnivore. Fragrant with summer vegetables and herbs, and coils of incense to keep mosquitoes at bay, this is the garden of Big Tea Party's Elizabeth Fiend. see full text Love for Sale on the Streets of Hollywood: Profile of David Henry Sterry  by Sara Hoover, Philadelphia Writers Fellow You Have the Right to Remain Sexy: Josh McIlvain is on Patrol by Tracy Parker Exploring Body Work at Hot Import Nights by Audrey Wilz LITERATURE American Poetry Review: Right Here in Philly! by Jennifer Williamson Founded in 1972, the American Poetry Review (APR) is one of the widest-read poetry publications in the country, with a circulation of 17,000 nationwide. And it's located right here in Philadelphia. see full text Author Spotlight: Aimee Bender by Jess Shaefer Not Your Routine Zine Scene: Awesome Fest at Rotunda, Fire and CODE Zined-Up July  by John Lloyd ENCORE AUTHOR REVIEW  Lawrence Richette's The Fault Line by Mike DelVecchia

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