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Philadelphia Community & Events:Philebrity...media, culture, music and more:• This Weekend: Gasping Dying But Somehow Still Alive Let’s not pretend that last weekend was anything more (and nothing less) than a furtive glimpse into the raw future where we shall one day frolic in the sun and eat out of doors all over again like the humans did in ancient times. And let us also regard what we’ve got this weekend — [... >> read more or comment • SEPTA Fares To Jump And Become Weird Prices That No One Will Ever Have The Exact Amount Of IN THE FUTURE… SEPTA fares will cost 5-6% more leaving everyone scrambling for pennies and nickels as they rush out the door each morning wondering why it all goes so smoothly for their friends in NYC (in the future there won’t be SmartCards in Philly either) while we are all scouring around like a bunch [... >> read more or comment • Right Now In The People’s Republic Of Comcast: Jack Expresses His Disbelief “How could a company from Philadelphia buy a company from New York? That would be like Vietnam defeating the United States in a ground war.” - Jack Donaghy (played by Alec Baldwin) 30 Rock Well yeah. Welcome to our world Jack. >> read more or comment • Philebrity’s Thursday MP3 Dizzle: The 10 Best Newest Local Tracks You Sent Us Wow. In about 24 hours we received submissions from over 50 local acts all of whom wanted to share their tunes with you the good music lovers of Philadelphia (and beyond). Some were from acts we knew and lots were from people we’d never heard of at all before. And if this shock-sampling was anything [... >> read more or comment • This Evening: Rag N Bone >>> Henry Rollins will be at First Unitarian Church tonight talking about his recent world travels which is almost de facto (probably) a talk about how fucked up America is. Which if you haven’t been paying attention is our national pastime. >>> Congrats to our lady friends who do The Rag the monthly girls-getting-drunk-and-blasting-ELO night at [... >> read more or comment • And Now Your Hand-Drawn Neighborhood Map: PASSYUNK AVENUE! Click to enlarge. @rachelriot has the right idea here: It’s all bars. Anybody else want to join in the fun? Send us your hand-drawn neighborhood maps to tips[atphilebrity[dotcom and we will totally run them. And check out more neighborhood maps here on Philebrity. >> read more or comment • And Now Your Hand-Drawn Neighborhood Map: FISHTOWN! Says mapper Jon Goff: “I made this for some friends moving to Fishtown last year. Please note that it references ‘Secret Fishtown.’” OK but well isn’t the first rule of living in Fishtown that there are no secrets? Ahem. Anybody else want to join in the fun? Send us your hand-drawn neighborhood maps to tips[atphilebrity[dotcom [... >> read more or comment • Quick Note: Submissions Are Closed For Philebrity’s Thursday MP3 Dizzle Holy wow: We’ve gotten a TON of submissions already for this new Thursday MP3 Dizzle thing we’re gonna try out. We’re still sifting through them but have already heard some really great stuff. Nice going Philadelphia. The first-ever Philebrity’s Thursday MP3 Dizzle will go live at 7PM tonight so be sure to check back in [... >> read more or comment • Hoop Dreams Director Readies Iverson Doc Here’s the trailer for director Steve James‘ No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson. If timing is everything well James who directed Hoop Dreams has it all. The movie will premiere next week at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin TX. >> read more or comment • We Wuz Robbed: Philly Named Only The Sixth Craziest City … or at least so says The Daily Beast. Paging Liz Spikol! >> read more or comment jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info coming soon... jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info Philly Future:• R. Bradley Maule heads to Portland OR Albert Yee shares news that R. Bradley Maule has completed his move to Portland OR. He managed the very significant phillyskyline for almost ten years. His knowledge and love of architecture of place of photography and Philadelphia inspired and informed thousands across the city.From the phillyskyline about page: Hello I'm R. Bradley Maule sometimes RBM always B Love. This is my web site. It is made in honor of the city I live in and love Philadelphia. It is to present an honest look—warts and all—at the city and its varied urban fabric.I came here from Tyrone Pennsylvania (Steelers Country) in 2000 and have spent all my 33 years at a PA address. I have no mission statement or goal with this site but if I had one wish it would be that Pennsylvanians could see past the nonsense and love one another from Erie to Philly up to the Poconos back out to the Burgh and everywhere in between.But here on Philly Skyline my friends and I are just sharing our experiences right here in Philadelphia with our fellow humans.Albert points to his Farewell Philadelphia slideshow on Flickr. Make sure to subscribe to Maule of America to follow his work in the future (some great shots already there!).He left an imprintis going to be greatly missed. His impact will live on. Thank you Brad. • Villanova football star donating bone marrow to a 1 year old Philadelphia Inquirer: Villanova football star Szczur to donate bone marrow: Szczur a wideout in football and outfielder/catcher in baseball is preparing to become a bone-marrow donor. The junior learned three days ago that he was match for a 1-year-old girl who has leukemia. He did not comment; when and where the procedure will take place were not disclosed. • Help Sherry Tillman of Ardmore making a difference for children and for peace in Afghanistan Philadelphia Inquirer: From Ardmore to Afghanistan a mission of giving: The goodwill gesture is called Operation Angel Wings and it's the brainchild of an Ardmore shopkeeper and a Broomall trauma surgeon stationed in Afghanistan Lt. Col. Kenneth Marx."Someday those kids will grow up to place their finger on a trigger" Marx said in an e-mail. "The moment when the target in their sights resembles the guys who once gave them a winter cap is that moment when reconciliation might hold violence at bay."Life in the mountains here is nasty brutish and utterly strange. Soft power and indirect means may be the winding path to an improvised solution if there is a solution to be found."Writing from Nangarhar province where he is deployed with the National Guard's 108th Cavalry Marx said the immediate aim was to get Americans and Afghans talking."We have asked for folks at home to send small gifts of winter clothing which are excellent conversation-starters" he said.When he arrived in Afghanistan on Oct. 12 Marx said he saw a need for children's hats gloves sweaters socks scarves fleece jackets and small lightweight toys that could go with soldiers on patrol.On Nov. 9 Marx received an e-mail from Sherry Tillman 6824 miles away in Ardmore inviting him to the holiday sale at her gift and art-gallery store. He wrote back saying he couldn't attend and asking if she could send warm clothes for the Afghan children."He wrote me that the kids are barefoot and in rags and it's winter" Tillman said. She said she recalled thinking "Oh my God I have to do something."Sponsored by First Friday Main Line a nonprofit organization that promotes the Lancaster Avenue shopping district Operation Angel Wings began immediately.Tillman director of First Friday Main Line said she was determined to collect everything on Marx's wish list. The gifts will be stored at her shop Past*Present*Future and the Ardmore Initiative office both on Lancaster Avenue.Tillman has set Friday as the shipping date for the first donations."I'd like to be able to send several packages right away and to be able to continue sending" Tillman said.A couple of weeks ago Carla J. Zambelli publicist for First Friday Main Line sent out an e-mail blast asking residents for donations. The donations have started trickling in Tillman said.Visit First Friday Main Line for more information. • How Al Boscov saved Boscov's - Philadelphia Inquirer Profile Philadelphia Inquirer: How he rescued Boscov's: Al Boscov's work and goodwill saved the stores that bear the family name.: The odds were against the Reading company when it went bankrupt just weeks before last fall's stock market crash.There was conventional wisdom said no realistic way to rescue its thousands of regional employees dozens of stores or century-old legacy. No money. No banks willing to step into the economic meltdown with emergency loans. No hope.But in crunching the numbers that spelled doom for the nation's largest family-owned department-store chain the doubters underestimated the power of a pint-sized 79-year-old man.Had their spreadsheets been able to tabulate big-time heart and brains they would have predicted a different outcome. Because Al Boscov is no ordinary businessman."I can dance I can sing" Boscov joked later in a Manhattan elevator tap-dancing in a charcoal suit to an absurd ditty about saving the company. The vaudevillian flash ended as the doors opened. "That's what did it" he said and hopped out.It would indeed require an extraordinary businessman to pull off a Rocky-worthy win against an economy devouring itself: a savior who was beloved not feared but no-nonsense when needed; one with more friends than enemies; who preferred details and long hours over swagger and power lunches. • Making a difference: Chris Bartlett - City Paper profile CityPaper: A Voice For The Fallen: One man's quest to memorialize the 4600 gay men who died of AIDS in Philadelphia.: If Bartlett's wiki had a mission statement it would probably go something like this: "To help those who lived through those dark years heal and to connect that generation with those who came after.""As I am gradually becoming an elder in the gay community I'm trying to find that next way to connect these generations" Bartlett says. "This wiki is a tool to develop conversation between young generations of activists — gays yes but not just gays — also anyone who wants to start live and sustain a movement."In the summer of 1991 ACT UP Philadelphia converged with other LGBTQ labor women's rights and sundry liberal organizations in Kennebunkport Maine to protest then-President Bush's re-election campaign. They chartered a bus. Bartlett was riding. So too was a man named Harry Reed a sanitation worker who came with a travel bar in tow making martinis and handing out beers — which as Bartlett mentions is referenced on Reed's wiki entry."A lot of the people on that bus died that year or soon after including Harry" Bartlett says. "I think we all knew he was sick then and that must have been scary." But they pressed ahead anyway. The movement was bigger more important than any individual or any disease."That was a time when I realized I was born at a unique moment that allowed me to participate in a defining time in history" Bartlett says. "We can't possibly let all these stories disappear."Link: Gay Networks in Philadelphia Wiki • The Daily News and WHYY launch "The City Howl" The Philadelphia Daily News and WHYY have launched a new service - "The City Howl". Use it as a new resource to share or read opinions of Philadelphia city services. • Scott and Marisa got Married - Congratulations! Congratulations Scott and Marisa! Here's a pic of the happy couple on Flickr. • Philadelphia Notebook's Interview with Superintendent Arlene Ackerman Philadelphia Public School theNotebook: Ackerman: 'This has got to be radical.': Notebook: What do you think about the argument that there should be more robust incentives to get teachers into the hard-to-staff schools?Ackerman: Money is not the only thing that is going to get them there. [Teachers] ask for several things: a great principal—they will not go if you don't have a great principal. They ask that we address some of the larger societal issues that impact children's learning—health issues emotional social kinds of issues psychological—which is why we put in place the social service liaisons the student advisors the parent liaisons.The other thing that [experienced teachers] have said to me is that they want to be in the lowest-performing schools in cohorts or groups of five or six because if you're there as a singleton or a doubleton it's too hard. Those teachers get overwhelmed not only with the issues that they're dealing with in their classroom but then they're trying to support and mentor new teachers.And I think on top of that we just have to look at paying teachers differently. Teachers are in this 19th century model: we all get paid the same thing and you earn more money by the number of years you put in. That doesn't make sense and that doesn't happen in any other business but education now.Read the entire interview. • Inspiring Father Inspiring Son Inspiring Community Philadelphia Inquirer: Guided by his father's hands: His parents were at home watching TV when Rob's friends rushed in: Rob was hurt. He banged his head."I thought 'Oh we're going to have to go and get some stitches' " Wunder recalled.As he and his wife entered the yard they saw their son in a neck brace on a stretcher and their fears mounted.He was airlifted to the Atlantic City Medical Center and later to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia for surgery. The report was dire: His C5 vertebra was crushed and pieces of it had pierced the spinal cord.The injury was irreversible and the life of their son - an avid guitar player surfer and scuba diver who had just become certified on a trip with his father in the Bahamas - was changed forever. • Civic Apps and Media In Philadelphia The city of San Francisco has a government run civic apps listing as mentioned by Craig Newmark.We don't have a Philadelphia equivalent listing yet. But we can build our own index and share. Here's a start - add more here or elsewhere.Open Source Philadelphia at Ignite Philly 2 - for a vision of what it could be.iSeptaMerecat's iSepta Train View MashupEveryblock PhiladelphiaMedia Mobilizing ProjectSpotcrimeCity-Data Philadelphia PAPhillyNeighborhoods.orgUpcoming.org Philadelphia PAThe Philadelphia Public School NotebookPlan PhillyGeeks Who GiveVolunteer WayPhilly New Media HubPhillyChiOutside.in PhiladelphiaRefresh PhillyIgnite PhillyJuntoNPowerInLiquid jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info EDGEphiladelphia.com Nightlife:• Stimulus Party :: February 19 2010 • Erika Jayne :: ready to rumble • A Tribal Romance with A Black Party Revolutionary: An Interview with DJ PAULO • Salute to Michael Jackson @ Sisters :: February 26 2010 • Revolutionary Cell Block Tango :: The Saint At Large Presents Rites XXXI: The Black Party • The Dinah Shore Weekend brings thousands of party girls to Palm Springs • Mr Gay Philly @ Woody's :: February 21 2010 • Bachelor Auction Final :: February 13 2010 • DJ Profile :: Freemasons • Promoter Spotlight :: Three To Watch Out For • Winter Party 2010! • City Spotlight: Sao Paulo • Conner Habib :: porn's outspoken sensation • Bachelors - Valentine's Day :: February 14 2010 • Hydrate Party :: January 30 2010 jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info coming soon... jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info Fishtown.us:• 2018 Trenton Ave. Rats? Not sure of the date. but wonder if these boys are still around grownup of course.http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/p245801coll13&CISOBOX1=2018 Trenton Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) read more >>• Lost dog from hewson st Lexi is gone please help! My sisters dog Lexi has been lost since 3 am. She got out of the yard at 1331 Hewson st. Lexi is a small dog and very friendly. If anyone sees her please bring her back to the house or call Christy at 215-873-9147. read more >>• When I say "Girard" and I'm talking about the Avenue the second syllable sounds closest to: * odd* awed* ahh'd (what you did when the doctor put a tongue depressor in your mouth or after you ooh'd)* add* 'ard ("hard" without the "h") read more >> • Check out The Training Station! Mar 12 2010 - 1:00pm Mar 12 2010 - 1:59pm No other gym has a better view of the Philadelphia skyline. The Training Station provides the same equipment that pro athletes and Olympians use to be their best. We also analyze running gaits write running programs create meal plans with grocery lists and record workout data that is uploaded to a private web site. Plus we keep it clean with a spray bottle and towel on each piece of equipment. Stop by and workout under the very watchful eye of Phil Clark our founder and pro athlete. You can even train with him – for only $15 per half hour! Join today! read more >>• Third Annual River City Festival! Oct 2 2010 - 12:00pm Oct 2 2010 - 5:00pm The Third Annual River City Festival is coming! The first two were such a rousing success we couldn't help ourselves but to do it one more time! On Saturday October 2rd come out and celebrate Fishtown! After the 5k River City Run in the morning Noon will bring live music including local favorites and the return of the Leni Lenapi Native American tribe. Eats from area Restaurants Historical presentations expanded children's activities including a Moon Bounce Human Bowling and more! read more >>• [location of poster] so twitter has a new feature that can indicate your location from which you post... or tweet if you will. Wouldn't it be fun (sarcastic "fun") to have such a feature here? Dan make it so! read more >>• Junior Green Guide Meeting Jun 16 2010 - 4:00pm Jun 16 2010 - 5:00pm Join the junior green guides in learning about the environment and going green at home and at school! We meet on the 3rd floor of Fishtown Community Library • Junior Green Guide Meeting Jun 2 2010 - 4:00pm Jun 2 2010 - 5:00pm Join the junior green guides in learning about the environment and going green at home and at school! We meet on the 3rd floor of Fishtown Community Library • Junior Green Guide Meeting May 19 2010 - 4:00pm May 19 2010 - 5:00pm Join the junior green guides in learning about the environment and going green at home and at school! We meet on the 3rd floor of Fishtown Community Library • Junior Green Guide Meeting May 19 2010 - 4:00pm May 19 2010 - 5:00pm Join the junior green guides in learning about the environment and going green at home and at school! We meet on the 3rd floor of Fishtown Community Library jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info Local News:• Two Teens Arrested For Vandalizing Del. Facility Delaware State Police have arrested two individuals for their rolesin breaking into and damaging a Hockessin area little league facility. Ryan Vega 18 and an un-named 16-year-old accomplice are said tohave broken into the concession stand of the little league facility onThursday March 11. Police say once inside the two suspects spraypainted the side of the building with graffiti. read more >>• St. Patricks Day Parade Marches On Philadelphia's Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade marched on despitethe gloomy weather. The streets may have been wet and the skies may have been cloudy but nothing could dampen the spirits of nearly 20000 who took part in Sunday'sparade. read more >> • Thousands Without Power After Weekend Storm Utility crews are working to restore power to thousands of suburbanPhiladelphia customers left without power by a weekend storm. In addition to power concerns area residents are keeping a nervous eye on rivers swollen by rain and melting snow. read more >> • Strong Winds Wreak Havoc On A.C. High winds apparently caused a partial crane collapse at a casino underconstruction in Atlantic City leaving a city police officer injured.Large pieces of debris from the Revel site were "raining down on about asix-block area" Saturday police Capt. Bill McKnight said. Winds gustsat the time were around 60 mph and the crane apparently collapsed ontop of a parking garage. read more >> • Arrests Made In Murder Of Norristown Man The Montgomery County District Attorney's office has announced thearrests of three men in connection with the shooting death of aNorristown man. Leveel Butler-Hayes Chroyya Gordan and ZeticPorter have been charged for their roles in the murder of StanfordJackson 48 on Thursday March 11. read more >>• Police Seek Missing Burlington County Teen Burlington County Police are attempting to find a local teenager who waslast seen on Sunday March 7. read more >> • Delaware Valley Under Flood Watch Eyewitness News is tracking a storm that dumped as much as two tofour inches of rain across the region with the heaviest accumulationSaturday. The National Weather Service has issued a 'Flood Watch' for theentire Delaware Valley including portions of Delaware northeastMaryland New Jersey and Pennsylvania that will remain in effectthrough Sunday morning. read more >>• NJ Getting Soaked By Another Major Storm A massive rain storm slamming New Jersey is leaving commuters out inthe cold with rail service suspended on major lines around the state. NJ Transit spokeswoman Penny Bassett Hackett says service has beensuspended on the Northeast Corridor North Jersey Coast line RaritanValley Line Atlantic City Rail Line and the Morris and Essex line westof the Summit line. read more >>• St. Patrick's Day DUI Patrols Begin In Del. Delaware's Office of Highway Safety is planning increased patrols for drunken drivers on St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's Day is Wednesday but officials will have extra patrols Saturday as well as Wednesday and next weekend. Saturday is the day bars in Wilmington plan an annual St. Patrick's Day party. Police plan to stop cars coming out of the area to check for drunk driving. The highway safety office says national statistics show that in 2008 a total of 50 people died in traffic crashes involving a drunk driver on St. Patrick's Day. read more >> • Pa. Man Charged With Badly Beating Woman At NY Bar A construction worker from Pennsylvania was charged Friday with brutally beating and attempting to rape a woman in a restroom at a New York City bar after she rejected his advances. read more >> jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info Free Library Events:• 03/16/10: Ngugi wa Thiong’o Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir - Central Library A novelist and a theorist of post-colonial literature at the University of California Irvine Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of Kenya's best-known public intellectuals. In 1977 following the publication of his novel Petals of Blood-which relates the disillusionment of people living in post-independence Kenya-he was arrested and imprisoned without charge. Now living in exile for more than 20 years Thiong'o still writes for the oppressed Kenyan working class. His novels include A Grain of Wheat Matigari and the highly praised Wizard of the Crow. In his new memoir Dreams in a Time of War Thiong'o recalls growing up under British colonialist rule and his survival during the war for independence in Kenya. 03/16/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 03/17/10: One Book One Philadelphia Closing Event: Philadelphia’s Golha - Central Library In 1956 Iranians were reintroduced to their artistic and cultural heritage through a series of radio programs known as the Golha. Each week the foremost Iranian musicians vocalists literary critics poets and radio announcerswere invited to perform a selection of the best modern and classical music and poems. Join The Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in celebrating Persepolis through a unique live recreation of one of these radio programs which will provide a cultural context for Marjane Sartrapi's childhood experiences. Author Marjane Satrapi will share a message from her home in Paris to share a few words about the Golha and her experience as a One Book One Philadelphia author. Including special performances from Intercultural Journeys Author Homa Tavangar and the talented poet Ursula Rucker. This event will take place in The Montgomery Auditorium. 03/17/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 03/18/10: William Peter Blatty Dimiter - Central Library An Academy Award-winning screenwriter and producer William Peter Blatty is the author of the iconic horror novel The Exorcist. Based loosely on a real-life possession story the book sold more than 13 million copies and remained on the New York Times Best Sellers list for more than 55 weeks. The 1973 film adaptation broke box office records and effectively set the standard by which horror movies are still measured. Blatty wrote two bestselling books following The Exorcist: The Ninth Configuration and Legion and he wrote and directed the film The Exorcist III: Legion. Set in 1970's Albania Dimiter-Blatty's first full-length novel since Legion-is a chilling psychological drama that opens on a torture table. 03/18/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 03/23/10: Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried (20th Anniversary Edition) - Central Library Now in its 20th year of publication Tim O'Brien's modern classic The Things They Carried has more than two million copies in print. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award The Things They Carried is a collection of short stories that form a fictionalized account of O'Brien's military service during the Vietnam War. In her New York Times review of the book Michiko Kakutani commented "Mr. O'Brien has written a vital important book-a book that matters not only to the reader interested in Vietnam but to anyone interested in the craft of writing as well." O'Brien won the 1979 National Book Award for Going After Cacciato and his other books include If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home Tomcat in Love and July July. Tickets on sale Friday January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at freelibrary.org/authorevents or by phone at 1-800-595-4TIX (4849). Spring 2010 packages available now by calling 215-567-4341. 03/23/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 03/24/10: Lori D. Ginzberg Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life - Central Library Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the best-known advocates of women's suffrage in the 19th century. Outspoken energetic and controversial she organized the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848 and with Susan B. Anthony co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. She spent her life writing and speaking about women's rights but her views on class race and intellect are characterized by a startling elitism. Lori D. Ginzberg a professor of history and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University and author of Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York is at once critical and admiring in this new biography that examines Stanton's ambiguous legacy. 03/24/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 03/25/10: Marilyn Johnson This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All - Central Library Journalist Marilyn Johnson has been a staff writer for Life and an editor at Esquire Redbook and Outside. An obituary expert she is the author of The Dead Beat and has written obituaries for Princess Diana Jackie Onassis Katharine Hepburn Johnny Cash Bob Hope and Marlon Brando. In her kaleidoscopic new book Johnson argues that far from being obsolete libraries and librarians are essential in facilitating the new information revolution. Nora Rawlinson declares in EarlyWord that This Book is Overdue! "does for the library profession what Malcolm Gladwell did for the theory of memetics in The Tipping Point." 03/25/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 04/01/10: Robert Coover Noir: A Novel - Central Library Robert Coover is an avant-garde novelist critic and playwright whose work combines fact with fiction and twists familiar stories in ways that expose the absurdities of modern society. He is the author of the William Faulkner Award winner The Origin of the Brunists and the acclaimed novels The Public Burning Spanking the Maid Gerald's Party Pinocchio in Venice John's Wife Ghost Town and Briar Rose among many others. With Noir Coover-who was described in the New York Times as "a one-man Big Bang of exploding creative force"-creates a classic crime story in which nothing is what it seems to be. 04/01/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 04/05/10: Monday Poets Harry Humes and Tenaya Darlington - Central Library Harry Humes is the author of several poetry collections most recently Butterfly Effect a National Poetry Series selection published by Milkweed Editions in 1999; August Evening with Trumpet and Underground Singing winner of the inaugural Keystone Chapbook Award an annual competition for Pennsylvania poets. Humes is the recipient of numerous awards including several grants from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship. Tenaya Darlington's first book Madame Deluxe a collection of poetry inspired by drag queens won the National Poetry Series and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer's Award. Her novel Maybe Baby the story of a young couple trying to raise a gender-neutral child was released in 2004. 04/05/10 6:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 04/07/10: Jacqueline Edelberg How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood Renaissance - Central Library When two moms ventured inside their neighborhood's struggling public elementary school the new principal asked what it would take for them to enroll their children. Sensing opportunity they returned the next day with an extensive wish list. The principal read their list and said "Well let's get started girls! It's going to be a busy year..." In How to Walk to School Jacqueline Edelberg the neighborhood mom and Susan Kurland the school principal provide a blueprint for reclaiming public education based on their efforts to transform their own challenged urban school into one of Chicago's best. 04/07/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 04/08/10: Michael Lewis The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Central Library Acid yet entertaining Michael Lewis is a skilled chronicler of our times. He was a top bond salesman at Salomon Brothers before he left to become a writer and Liar's Poker his semiautobiographical account of life on Wall Street in the 1980s is considered one of the defining books of that time. He has gone on to tackle topics from Silicon Valley (The New New Thing and Next) to the electoral process (Trail Fever) to sports (Moneyball). His book about football The Blind Side was recently adapted into a movie starring Sandra Bullock. Now he returns to his financial roots with The Big Short a look at the 2008 crash of the United States economy. Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture Tickets on sale Friday January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at freelibrary.org/authorevents or by phone at 1-800-595-4TIX (4849). Spring 2010 packages available now by calling 215-567-4341. 04/08/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or commentjump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info coming soon... jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info << Next Page >> |
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