Guitar isn’t just for dudes trying to get laid. It’s also for chicks who lay said dudes! Kidding. Friends: Don’t be scared. I have no desire to leave on a jet plane or sing about the Carolinas. But I shall ROCK, get behind some totally greasy blues or pluck campfire tears in my beer, updated [...]

Months pass. Years, even. The endorphins that let you stay up til dawn doing it like mad monkeys recede. Charming and disarming sinks into same and lame. The harsh rays of the morning sun reveal pores and undereye bags and armpit dandruff.
Quittin’ time. But as we all learned in my favorite episode of Family Ties [...]

If you’ve endured any of this summer’s box office hits, you’ve probably seen a trailer for Mirrors, Kiefer Sutherland’s upcoming exploration of the sinister world through the looking glass.
The trailer features some requisite hair-raising elements: creepy children’s laughter, the phrase “I want to play,” and horribly disfigured faces gazing back at you from above the [...]

Bright as a summer day and refreshingly airy, Gloria Joan Haag’s Glo.Bug line of crocheted gear is what’s up. The wild color collection includes one-of-a-kind mini dresses, skirts, vests, striped hot pants, gauntlets and legwear.

“I don’t work from patterns,” says Glo, rapidly crocheting an orange headband to finish off a model’s ensemble.

A [...]

The Pub on Passyunk East went old-school in the girls’ bathroom department. Not like lye-and-a-hole old-school, but like 6th grade Tiger Beat style: pictures of Matt Dillon, the Coreys (I was a Feldman girl, I admit, Haim struck my 11-year-old hormones as too wimpy) and notes about boys and wanting to touch it.

South Philly’s Betty [...]

Pearl Bell
“I’ve always had a desire for decorating and home wares. I started playing around with incorporating my drawing and painting onto plates. They’re all my own drawings. The graphics have a lot of texture and color.”

“The lines are sometimes a little bit hard and edgy, but I try to have a lot of softness [...]

Alexander Calder is one of the best-known creators of mobiles, stabiles and sculptures of the Modern era. On July 12, his work in handmade jewelry arrives at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new Perelman Building. More than 300 pieces of handmade jewelry will be on display including necklaces, brooches, bracelets, earrings and tiaras, in [...]

It’s no secret I have this thing for Day of the Dead and Mexican folk art.
It’s an open secret that I also have a thing for Ali Dilworth, an artist living in South Philly. She’s one of those full-time artist people, always painting or writing or building human-sized old-lady puppets or pasting into books.
So [...]

The unseasonable heat wave that rolled over Philadelphia early in June reminded us why we give up on glamour every summer.
Paring away all but the necessities of beauty requires that the remaining elements stand on their own. By now you’ve gotten a smidge of sun, nothing too Brooke Hogan, and all you need is a [...]

So it’s a tardy launch! As long as it’s not re-tardy, we’re cool with it.

Sometimes, in this mixed-up crazy online world, there’re thoughts that keep running smack into the side of our skulls because it requires either knowing crazy tech things or nitpicky legal things or knowing someone who knows crazy tech or legal things [...]