Our lives are marked by a series of milestones. Pivotal points where the way we live our life changes from that moment forward. Here’s a quick rundown of some of mine: Marriage. Job. House. Kid. Move. Job. Kid. Hawthornes. What is a Hawthornes? It’s a beautiful new invention known as a beer café and about [...]
Hooray! The weather has turned, spring sprung, etc… which means, once again, Weber’s is on the menu! Not just an orange Doo Wop-style car hop with a mechanized retro asterisk sign serving simple burgers and home made root beer, but a roadside oasis and an enduring monument to warm weather good times. Route 38 in [...]
April 7th is Repeal Day, the annual celebration of our freedom to go out and get Mel Gibsoned anytime we want. On this day in 1933, after a long, dry, violent 14 years, Prohibition was repealed and alcohol was officially back on the market for legal sale, proving that the world is in fact a [...]
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958 – 1968, on exhibit now at three gallery spaces at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, is the first major exhibition of female Pop artists of the era. Its quite a reclamation project – planned over the course of four years, a majority of the work has not been shown [...]
Check out that toaster! These are prime example of the work of a fab outfit called Plan Toys. Based in Thailand, they are the worlds largest manufacturer of recycled toys. Totally green, committed to sustainable wages, the outfit is a model of vision, conscience and aesthetics. Everything they make is made from rubber-wood trees to [...]
http://tinyurl.com/ydt84q9 Fantastic interpretation of Avatar. Navigates beyond facile left, right, and art-movie snob snarks and jabs (hippie! anti-capitalist! noble savage! simplistic story! cats!) etc… and makes a case for it as a superlative fable – a new and worthwhile addition to the tradition of stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the universe and [...]