Arts

Library Acts of Culture–BalletX It was just a typical Tuesday at the Chestnut Hill branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, when a group of ballet dancers from BalletX performed two excerpts from their recent shows, Slump by Joshua L. Peugh and Head in the Clouds by James Gregg. The dancers whizzed around book shelves and twirled […]

Late on Halloween night, Philadelphia artist Miguel Antonio Horn began unearthing a giant concrete sculpture of King Tutankhamen with a team of other artists in Germantown. Horn had been commissioned by the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art with a grant from the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation to produce the four meter statue to accompany a […]

Fountains of Wayne played at the Sellersville Theater on March 17, 2013. It was a homecoming for guitarist and lead singer, Chris Collingwood, who grew up about a mile from the Sellersville Theater. Just after the band’s soundcheck, he took a few minutes to talk with me about playing in his hometown, musical influences, and […]

On Monday I had the chance to take some promo photos for Philadelphia jazz guitarist Erik Dutko. You can check out his new website here and listen to some of his work. Also, you can catch Erik and his quartet at Chris’Jazz Cafe Saturday, March 23, 2013. Here are my favorite pictures from the shoot.

The British folk rock foursome, Mumford&Sons, swept into the Susquehanna Bank Center with high-energy songs and soaring harmonies that kept the singing-along audience on its feet for the whole show on February 16. Mumford&Sons opened with“Babel,”the title track of their latest album which won“Album of the Year”at […]

Last night Jim James played Johnny Brenda’s in Fishtown to support his debut full-lenght album, Regions of Light and Sound of God. The joint was packed to the hilt upstairs and down, as James serenaded his audience with the mellifluous mix of retro, rock, electronic, and lounge sounds that comprise the new album. It was […]