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Philadelphia Community & Events:Philebrity...media, culture, music and more:• This Evening: MOTORIK! >>> Not gonna lie: These days when we’re at home and things need to get done and/or it’s time to get HEAVY we throw on some Neu! or some Cluster or some Kraftwerk or some La Düsseldorf and GET WAY INTO IT. The drone the motorik the forward-motion — Krautrock is the best way we [... >> read more or comment • More Readers Camerphone: Two Jackos Lord Over The 1300 Block Of Walnut — Which Will Emerge Victorious? As in life so it is in death: We’re betting on both. Seeing something around town of note? Cameraphone it to: tips[atphilebrity[dotcom. >> read more or comment • Speaking Of PhillyMag: First Ever “Best Of Philly” Resurfaces We have a theory and really we mean no offense by it BUT: At this point in the game PhillyMag could grab more new readers and oddly feel more relevant if it just started pressing up reissues of whole issues that it produced during its halcyon days in the 1970s and 1980s. We’ve made remarks [... >> read more or comment • From The Desk Of Conor Corcoran: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Clerk of Quarter Sessions But Forgot To Ask J. CONOR CORCORAN ESQ. REPORTING: There’s three branches of government right? Each of ‘em has its own subdivisions and the Courts have offices like the Sheriff the Prothonotary (the clerk for civil cases) and the Clerk of Quarter Sessions (the clerk for criminal cases). Most lawyers couldn’t tell you why this vital office [... >> read more or comment • Thank You Jihad Jane For Putting Pennsburg On The Map And Giving News Writers The Chance To Use Their Best “Terrorism On Main Street” Tropes Oh hi Jihad Jane: Congratulations on being the very scariest kind of white person there is. Also Pennsburg is located 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia and 5 miles southwest of Quakertown! Who knew? And the whole thing about you living on Main Street! It’s like a special gift from God to reporters! Be careful guys [... >> read more or comment • Noontime Nuggetz: The Deepest Thom Bell Cut Ever Via the YouTube page what spawned this bit of ancient pre-TSOP vibe: “Bobby Taylor and Thom Bell with an instrumental version of the Jackson 5 hit released on the Philadelphia International in 1975. As far as I know this was their only single release. Bobby Taylor is credited with discovering the Jackson 5.” >> read more or comment • Philly Spring Cleanup Announced For April 10 We probably don’t need to tell you this but the funky crunchy-but-soft urban crust of cigarette butts and partially broken down dog poops that we noticed when the snow melted haven’t gone anywhere. In fact we have no idea how this could be but there’s even more. Good news: The third annual Philly Spring Cleanup [... >> read more or comment • Quick Addendum To Yesterday’s Dr. Dog Post: Download “Stranger” For Free AND Help Us Give Everybody More Free Music Besides Click here to DL “Stranger” the first single off the upcoming album Shame Shame for free. We’re just lookin’ out for ya. We know a lot of you like the Dog. And to dickhurt bands who are all like “Hey why do Dr. Dog get all the Philebrity love?” you’re kind of right. So let’s [... >> read more or comment • One Quick Question About PhillyMag’s Third Or Fourth Try At Having One Of These New Blog Things Is it ripping off The Daily News The Daily Beast or The Daily Beast ripping off The Daily News? Also: Hiring Larry Mendte to blog for you is a stroke of genius but we still miss AJ Daulerio’s PhillyMag blog. You guys totally blew that. But Larry’s not a bad get. We dig it. >> read more or comment • Only Facebook Could Abolish The PA Liquor Control Board In a very short time “Abolish the PLCB — Rewrite the Code!” a new Facebook group with many axes to grind against the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has gathered over a thousand members. And it’ll gain more. People hate the PLCB and they have every reason to — it’s archaic inept and not for nothing [... >> 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:• HIGH DRAMMA Sketch Comedy this weekend Mar 12 2010 - 9:00pm Mar 12 2010 - 10:30pm Outrageous sketch comedy this weekend March 12 & 13 with HIGH DRAMMA. Join the crazy boys and girls for Strong Work. Show starts at 9pm. Tix $10. Walking Fish Theatre 2509 Frankford Ave. read more >>• When someone intentionally harms me I generally... * take revenge myself* have others to take revenge for me* let it go but hope the person gets theirs in the end* let it go and wish the person well read more >> • Kids' Carnival @ Summerfield Mar 13 2010 - 6:30pm Mar 13 2010 - 8:00pm KIDS CARNIVAL Carnival Games Liberti & Summerfield join together once again to present our 2nd Annual Kids Carnival. Last year's event was such a big hit with hundreds of people participating that we had to do it again! Aimed especially at elementary-school aged kids but the whole family is welcome. Hope to see you there. read more >>• For DNA Em loves her some Uncle David! We tried to convince her that her gift was a Bear but she insists it's a Puppy! read more >>• My Nephew Ben and his band play The Fire this Friday! Mar 12 2010 - 10:00pm Mar 12 2010 - 11:30pm Come join your friends Ben Seretan Asa Horvitz Adam Tinkle Mattpatt Josh Koenig Will Brant and Jake Nussbaum (the last 2 dudes twice each night!) for one or several evenings of spirited raucousness. Fri. Mar 12 2010 9:00P Philadelphia PA Duchampion is a multiplicity focused along the Fugazi–Arthur Russell sound-logic continuum. (I have no idea what this means. read more >>• FNA General Membership Meeting Mar 18 2010 - 7:00pm Mar 18 2010 - 8:00pm We hope to see you all at our next FNA general membership meeting on Thursday March 18 -- 7pm at the Fishtown Rec Center. We will have several representatives from PennDOT at the meeting to discuss the plans for I-95 and any potential changes in traffic patterns for neighborhood streets. We will also have a raffle for gift certificates to Metropolitan Bakery. Come at 6:30 for socializing and refreshments courtesy of one of Fishtown's newest additions Bella Sera Cafe. read more >>• By My Side Neighborhood Parenting Program Easter Egg Hunt Mar 21 2010 - 12:00pm Mar 21 2010 - 2:30pm Come join us as we celebrate the arrival of spring with a great event at Penn Treaty Park! • Easter Egg Hunt - Friends of Penn Treaty Park Mar 27 2010 - 10:00am Mar 27 2010 - 11:00am Join the Friends of Penn Treaty Park for an Easter Egg Hunt at the park. All children are welcome. Prizes candy and fun. read more >>• Penn Treaty Park - Monthly Cleanup Mar 13 2010 - 9:00am Mar 13 2010 - 11:00am Join the Friends of Penn Treaty Park for our first cleanup of the year that hopefully will not involve a major snowstorm. We have the supplies and will even give you some coffee and treats. read more >>• FNA Zoning Committee Meeting: 1135 Crease St. Mar 16 2010 - 7:00pm Mar 16 2010 - 7:30pm A proposal for a two-family dwelling with one off-street parking space at 1135 Crease St. The meeting will be held at the Fishtown Rec Center 1202 E. Montgomery Ave. All residents of Fishtown are eligible to vote. Please bring proof of residence in the form of a driver's license or a photo id and a recent piece of mail addressed to your home. read more >>jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info CBS 3 Events:• Local Student Missing In Washington State The search has been called off in Washington State for a local woman whowent missing last week. Katherine Heater a 24-year-oldstudent of Portland State University who grew up in New Jersey wentmissing during a hike Thursday March 4 on the Pacific Crest Trail inWashington. read more >>• FBI Looking Into Al Qaeda Suspect From New Jersey The FBI is investigating the case of an alleged al-Qaeda raised in NewJersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital inYemen. FBI spokesman Rich Wolf in Baltimore confirmed Thursday that theagency is looking into the case of 26-year-old Sharif Mobley who grewup in the southern New Jersey town of Buena. read more >> • NJ Gov Looking Into Privatizing State Jobs New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has created a taskforce to look at waysto privatize jobs to save money as he tries to find to plug a projected$11 billion budget deficit for the 2011 fiscal year. read more >> • Pa. Man On The Run After Child Porn Discovery Authorities are searching for a suspect on the run after being chargedwith multiple counts of the possession and distribution of childpornography. read more >> • Lower Merion Laptop Spying Case Put On Hold read more >> • 9th Teen Arrested In Slaying Of Couple In NJ A ninth teenager is charged with murder in the case of a couple whosebodies were found buried in a yard in Camden. Eighteen-year-oldShaniqua Pierre is from Deptford. read more >>• 'Midnight Knitter' Strikes West Cape May Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. Anunknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residentsis covering tree branches and lamp poles with little sweaters undercover of darkness. read more >> • Cars Burst Into Flames In NJ Parking Lot Eleven vehicles were totaled or heavily damaged after a fire broke out on the roof of a park and ride station that services NJ Transit travelers in Hamilton New Jersey. read more >> • Skull Bones Found In Northeast Philly Park Investigators are examining what are believed to the skeletal remains ofa woman found in a Northeast Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon. read more >> • Teens Due In Court For Center City Flash Mob A group of 19 juveniles are due in court Thursday to face charges inconnection with a Center City flash mob. read more >> jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info Free Library Events:• 03/11/10: Kwame Anthony Appiah Encyclopedia of Africa - Central Library Philosopher and scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah is president of the PEN American Center and a professor at Princeton University. He is the author of a collection of essays on African-American identity called In My Father's House and co-author of the nonfiction book Color Consciousness: The Political Morality of Race. He collaborated with Henry Louis Gates Jr. to complete Africana which became the basis for the revised and expanded Encyclopedia of Africa. Providing the most current and extensive coverage of the region the Encyclopedia of Africa profiles prominent individuals and outlines significant events places political movements art forms religions and ethnic groups throughout Africa. 03/11/10 7:30 PM - Central Library >> read more or comment• 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 commentjump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info coming soon... jump to >> Sites • Forums • Events • Info << Next Page >> |
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