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A Modern Girl's Guide to Philadelphia
by Bonnie MacAllister
Somewhere between the colorful bum fights at 8th and Market and the
sonorous wail of the Walnut Street trumpet player lurks an underbelly of
the city where a girl can feel comfortable.
Just this past week, I experienced the lucid sounds of the Vampyros
Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party, based upon the late sixties erotic art
films of the Spanish director, Jess Franco. see full text |
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Philly Folk Festival
Featured Philly Fame
by Mike DelVecchia
The spirit of the late Philadelphia, folklorist Ken Goldstein was doubtless as proud as any of his city's founding fathers, when the forty-second annual Philadelphia Folk Festival played in Schwenksville August 22nd through 24th. The Philadelphia-based acts of this
celebration made for a great deal of the heart of the oldest
continuously running folk festival in the country.
Philadelphia musician-storyteller Tom Gala, who performed during the afternoons of Saturday and Sunday, remarked about the late Mr. Goldstein
whom many folk artists believe founded the folk movement of Philadelphia
when he joined the music department of the University of Pennsylvania
and became a magnet for national talent during the sixties. "Ken,
who dedicated himself and his music library to helping-up and-coming
talent, gets to see the fruits of his efforts whenever this festival
happens, wherever he is." see full text
Alan Magee Retrospective at Michener Museum
by Mike DelVecchia
Alan Magee's influences range from John Zacherle's 1950's television
program, "Shock Theatre," to Desiderius Erasmus; from
Philadelphia's "Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine," to
abstract painter Antoni Tapies. When he was four years-old, Realist Mr.
Magee began to copy the drawings which his older brother Richard had
rendered in an anatomical drawing class at Council Rock High School.
Later, the younger Mr. Magee attended the Philadelphia College of Art,
where his classmates included Marvin Mattleson and Timothy and Stephen
Quay and where the instructors included Paul Hogarth, in an illustration
program which consisted of only thirty members.
The fifty-six year-old Mr. Magee, will open the first Philadelphia
retrospective of his work at the Wachovia Gallery of Doylestown's James
A. Michener Museum on October 25th, in the show entitled, "Alan
Magee: Three Decades of Paintings, Sculpture and Graphics." see
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Lenape National at Folk Fest
by Mike DelVecchia
Barry Lee, Barbara Christy and Chris Hawley of Spirit Wing, could be
said to have the deeper roots in the Philadelphia area than any of the
acts who appeared at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in September. Mr.
Lee who lives in Perkasie, is part Lenape and Munsee, Native American.
Spirit Wing specializes in Native American Music consisting of original
songs, traditional music, and some cover tunes that relate well to the
Native American experience. Spirit Wing helped host the Festival's
Campfire Sing Along and performs at numerous Pow Wows and Native
American Gatherings in Pennsylvania along with Coffee Houses and other
venues. Spirit Wing was also featured at the PhillyFolk 9/11 Benefit
Concert. Raised in East Rock Hill, PA, and entertaining for over thirty
years playing blue grass, blues and country he said, "I always felt
somehow different from other people and didn't understand why until I
began to embrace the Lenape culture more closely." see full text
Tom Gibbons, Bard of Barnes?
by Mike DelVecchia
The tale of Senator John F. Kerry asking for Swiss cheese on the
cheese steak he ordered at Pat's King of Steaks last August, might rank
as Philadelphia's best recent conception of "political drama."
However, according to InterAct Theatre's Playwright in Residence Thomas
Gibbons, Philadelphia audiences are yearning for "real"
current events. see full text
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