By Matthew Petrillo
A US District Court judge in Arizona slashed several key provisions to the state’s controversial immigration law Wednesday, but clones of the bill are multiplying across the nation, including in Pennsylvania. State Representative Daryl Metcalfe introduced House Bill 2479 May 4th this year, saying that it would help balance the budget, despite that Governor Ed Rendell [...]
By PW Staff
This week we've got Shakespeare in Clark Park, the Black Keys, a hip-hop festival, a John Keats exhibit and more.
NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY
By Tara Murtha
A PSPCA raid two weeks ago uncovered more than just dogs. To capture the real story of 739 Earp St., we have to go back in time almost a decade. At its center, we find a story of systemic failure, feces and neighborhood feuds.
By Aaron Kase
The youth-oriented event is a grassroots effort to build neighborhood pride and, as a result, spread peace.
In the bizarrely underconceived Great Directors, cinephile-turned-documentarian Angela Ismailos rounds up a dozen “great” filmmakers. What traits are shared by Bernardo Bertolucci and, say, Richard Linklater? It seems the answer is “They answered Ismailos’ interview request.”
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Tell the wife to stop fucking other people for a while. (And, yes, you should have the authority to do that—both partners in an open relationship should be able to call...
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Butkovitz’s report on those trash compactors, thin though it might have been, was a rare black eye for Greenworks, whose stated goal is to “make Philadelphia the greenest...
PAFA has a selection of 23 Polaroid and 21 black-and-white prints (such as Liza Minelli, above) on view in a small show that’s laid out, appropriately, like a time capsule...
Steve Carell’s exaggerated loser is an aching plea for attention in a Members Only jacket. Director Jay Roach seems to have encouraged the actor to push his sniveling affectations...
Unlike the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, there is no crime to solve in this Sherlock Holmes, and the attention usually paid to locked-room murders and ghostly hounds is turned...
Our intern describes the new book thusly: “Uninsightful. Poorly written. Jr. throws himself a thoroughly undeserved pity party. Reiterates much of the Oscar-winning biopic,...
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Calendar: July 28-Aug. 3
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