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NEWS Protestors at the May 7th Rally. photo, Kelly Jensen. Arts and Culture Face the Mayor’s Veto by Mike DelVecchia After a week of bargaining with the mayor, the Philadelphia City Council voted on May 31 to approve a newly amended budget proposal that includes tax-cuts and budget bills, which Mayor John F. Street has already promised to veto. Among the bills are measures intending to slash the city's wage tax for residents and nonresidents to 3.25 percent by 2014, the omission of the business-privilege tax by 2015, and the effective reduction of taxes for partnerships such as architectural and law firms.  see full text The Barnes Finds Its Place by Sahm Contractor An institution dominated by a man, 53 years dead is finally coming to terms with the modern world. see full text ART Components of The Big Nothing: ICA & City-Wide Show Demonstrate the Enormity of Absence by Marianna Allen The works of Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, among a multitude of other artists at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) will be exhibited at ICA as part of the city-wide The Big Nothing initiative (a conceptual collaboration of programs and projects by 36 Philadelphia museums, galleries, science centers and performing arts venues, organized by ICA).  see full text High Wire Gallery Shovel Show Digs at Subtle Interpretations  by Bonnie MacAllister Four floors above street level, shovels cavort drunkenly and meld with orchids. Garden implements become chandeliers. Glass gleams garishly with genitalia. A tide flows from Rubbermaid into a ready-made beach. DuChamp puns abound. This is The Shovel Show at the High Wire Gallery. see full text City of Murals: Sculpture for Girard Crossing. photo, Sara Hoover. The City of Murals by Sara Hoover NY Times Art Critic William Zimmer at NAP by Bonnie MacAllister   Seniors Tackle 2D, 3D, Textiles and Moore at Art College Senior Show by Tracy Parker Art by Moore College 2D Fine Arts major/Photography minor Pauline Mariano   Fleisher "Challenges" Community in Interdisciplinary Outlet by Rachel Winters Calling His Shots: Photographer Mike Mergen by Joy Manning Secret Hangerbenderman: Abraham Rothblatt Cloaks Identity While Sculpting in Tape by Bonnie MacAllister		THEATRE Heidi Stillman & Looking Glass at Arden by Scott Gleeson Blue Deep shadows on the Arden's stage are splintered by an occasional catapult or fly-in. It's the final tech run of Hard Times, and for Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company, it's a last chance to experiment with some acrobatics before the show's Philadelphia premiere. see full text Born Yesterday Reborn in Philly by Jennifer Williamson People's Light and Theatre's production of Born Yesterday. photo, Mark Garvin. Azuka’s Spotlight Series Opens with “An Artist’s Workshop” by Christine Emmert Terror at the White House by Philip Hampton   SPOKEN WORD Fiction Meets Theater in InterAct's Writing Aloud  by Jennifer Williamson When David Sanders first conceived of the Writing Aloud program six years ago during a writing residency program in Minnesota, he never could have anticipated the response in Philadelphia. "We tried one evening to see if there was any interest out there," he says, "and our first program was sold out."  see full text Art Sanctuary Resident Artist Trapeta Mayson Hosts Open Poetry in Germantown by Victor Thompson "I'd make you guys some fish and rice, but it's late," Trapeta Mayson offered. Mayson was, in a deeper sense, offering all of Philadelphia-- poets and listeners, her spiritual nourishment. But how late was it, really? see full text Daughters of the Diaspora Celebrates 10th Anniversary  by Octavia McBride-Ahebee Alicia McCarthy & Ben Smith: Artist Comedians Expose Their Brains by Jody Hamilton Alicia McCarthy		Advertise Here
		LITERATURE James Alan McPherson at Kelly Writer's House by Monica Pace In 1978 James Alan McPherson became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for his collection of short stories, Elbow Room. On April 19, he was honored as guest speaker at University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writer's House. see full text Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist James Alan McPherson. Author Lawrence Richette's Novel, The Secret Family by Mike DelVecchia Notes on Author Faith Adiele: Teacher, Stripper, and Retired Buddhist Nun by Joy Manning		MUSIC The Blue Journey of Monica McIntyre by Greg Trout The line for violins was too long when she first decided to choose an instrument. That’s the simple occurrence that brought Monica McIntyre and her cello together twenty years ago. At the time it may have seemed like merely a convenient choice, but now she views it as fate. see full text The Decemberists at TLA by Greg Trout Staying Up Late with Stargazer Lily by Jeffrey W. Ackler Stargazer Lily Alternate Variations: Schacter and Johnson Sound Their Jazz Improv at the Highwire Gallery's Monday Night Series by Greg Trout Mickey Roker  at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus by Mike DelVecchia Eric Alexander at Chris' Jazz Cafe by Mike DelVecchia   Shoba Sharma's Naatya Dance Ensemble
A Modern Girl's Guide to Philadelphia by Bonnie MacAllister Fabric Sculptor J. Lauren McCall by Jeffrey W. Ackler [UNDERGROUND SWELL] by Frank Walsh It is Peace of Mind: Ananda Ashram by Natalie Denney		CULTURE Don't Throw that Away: Philly Reuses It! by Adam Reger When it comes to the physical materials of the working artist, the old environmentalist's mantra of "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" may be especially relevant. Not every artist can afford new canvasses from Pearl, top-of-the-line instruments, or the materials for building sets and costumes available to even modestly-budgeted productions. see full text Earth, Wind and Fire at the Painted Bride: Shoba Sharma's Naatya Dance Ensemble by Chris "Life" Myers Passional:  A Deliciously Illicit Boutique and Magazine by B.J. Cavnor Ties That Bind: The Photographic Art of David Lawrence by B.J. Cavnor A Busy Spring: Art Sanctuary Opened Center & New Play by Monica Pace Jay Schwartz has a Secret:  Cinema That is by James Schneider
Open Hand by Frank Walsh Taxidermy Becomes You by Maria DelVecchia

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