By Randy LoBasso
This headline pertains to the other problems the school district is facing, by the way. Namely: 55 percent of African-American youth don’t graduate from high school in Philadelphia. Fifty-seven percent of Latino youth suffer the same fate. So, the School Reform Commission commissioned a task force to study some of our districts’ problems for the past [...]
By PW Staff
What to do in Philly this week.
By Steven Wells
With the news yesterday that Paste magazine is no more, we revisit the late Steven Well's takedown of boring music writing and those that push it.
By J. Cooper Robb
Among the options, Chicken is a must-see: The show is set in a claustrophobic nuclear submarine occupied by three people (an Elvis fanatic, a timid crossdresser and a “she-beast” with an unflattering crew-cut) who can’t stand each other.
By Tara Murtha
Philadelphia Police Department spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore calls the case of the stolen water “strange,” but for Duane Mashore, who was arrested and locked in a cell for 14 hours on charges that he stole water from his neighbor’s outdoor faucet, it’s gone from strange to downright scary.
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Undeterred by the area’s bleak reputation, Cobre and Coos have claimed territory in what they hope is the foreground of North Broad’s revitalization. In the last year,...
On closer inspection, that menu—like Olive pretty much in its entirety—is too eclectic for its own good. Simply put, there’s too much going on here, a lack of focus that...
Bigger and louder than its predecessor, part two of the César-fêted diptych on the notorious French criminal is also better. True, it’s just more of the same, but it has...
Make no mistake: This is the kind of movie with a shot of a guy counting a huge stack of bills, actually mouthing the word “wow.” But there’s no shame in making audiences...
Sweden’s Dungen come to town this week behind their sixth studio album, Skit I Allt. We caught up with Dungen main man Gustav Ejstes for a spirited round of “Fill in the...
In the cesspool of modern romantic comedy, a flawed but ultimately adequate film like Going the Distance feels like a masterpiece. A so-called chick flick that doesn’t...
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