Well, it finally happened: R. Bradley Maule, aka BLove, has left Philadelphia. He's probably unpacking boxes right now at his new pad in Portland, OR with his lovely wifey Rachel. That's right – Brad left Philly for the Left Coast. A sad day. [...]
So we've been looking at places to get hitched for the last couple of months (it's going to be a small dinner for family and a few close friends) and one of the spots people suggested was Davio's. This is the view from their [...]
I'm proud to call the City Paper's food reviewer David Snyder a friend of mine. We met through food blogging, he escalated the ranks via PhilaFoodie where he demonstrated his passion for food and drink while paying excellent attention [...]
For Halloween this year, I headed to a friend's house in South Philly for a murder mystery Halloween dinner party. The 2 friends are volunteers at Fair Food Farmstand where I work. They throw fun parties so I thought this would be a good [...]
The Venerable Losang Samten is back in Philly (my previous run ins with Losang here and here – he's a friend of a friend), this time at UARts creating another Buddhist mandala. From UArts:
The Venerable Losang [...]
Above is the November 2009 issue of GRID Magazine. It's the 9th issue of this very cool new magazine about urban sustainability with a focus on the Philly region. I've been fortunate to be a part of the magazine through my photography. I think I've had my photos in [...]
A pair of tickets to the November 1st Kittens Ablaze show at The Fire (4/Girard) are up for grabs courtesy of the people at The MuseBox. After checking out a few videos on YouTube, it seems like Kittens Ablaze is a solid live [...]
I got a chance to head to the North Star Bar and check out Jupiter One courtesy of the people at The MuseBox. I've been trying to get to see some of their clients [...]
What does fun sound like? It sounds like a 30-piece punk marching band from the city of meat, Chicago. They call themselves Mucca Pazza and they bring the funk.
My friend Jill – the photog/
I've known about the pending bike lanes coming to Pine St and Spruce St from river to river for a good while now. I can't believe it's actually happening. I was walking down Pine St on Friday and I saw this scene at 20th [...]
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After a quick real estate shoot on Friday, I walked and rode my bike around Center City in search of the creative installations of Park[ing] Day Philadelphia 2009.
Park(ing) Day seeks to reclaim parking spots and transform them into engaging, people-friendly public spaces for [...]
Kate and I went back to NY last week for my Dad's 70th birthday. There he is above kicking back with a Corona. While he has horrendous taste in beer (he loves him some Corona and Budweiser much to my chagrin), he doesn't look a [...]
Last Sunday was the first annual Philly Naked Bike Ride which was part of a larger network of naked bike rides around the world. I went out to find the bikers, but was late getting out so I didn't head to the [...]
A couple weeks ago, I got the chance to go into The Drexel School at 16th & Moore Sts; it's a huge brick building taking up 1/4 of a block in South Philly c.1888. It's been vacant since the 1970s and it's now crumbling. [...]
One of my coworkers at Fair Food Farmstand, Emma, is a wonderful musician. She plays the fiddle, guitar, sings and I'm sure she dances too. She, her husband Jake and friend Scott were moving out of their lovely house in the Graduate Hospital area [...]
So a couple weeks ago, me and the Lady got officially engaged. I gave her a Ring Pop at 4a the day after her birthday. Doesn't she look great at 4a?!
A couple months ago, a good friend of mine, Jill went and got herself some tenure at a fine institution here in Philly. To celebrate, she and her baller husband threw a bash at her house complete with delicious Brown Betty cupcakes and' [...]
I trekked over to the Broad Street Ministry (Broad/Spruce) for Rep. Joe Sestak's (D-PA07) town hall meeting on healthcare, right in Rep. Bob Brady's (D-PA01) district. Why? Well, Sestak's running for [...]
Sixteen days before a budget in Harrisburg is due, Mayor Michael Nutter held a rally / press conference about the fate of the city's and state's budget crisis at City Hall today with a crowd of several hundred supporters, city workers and angry citizens filling the inner courtyard.
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I dropped by Café l'Aube Monday night to attend PhillyCarShare's first community forum. And what a time to call it. It's been just under a year since the Board of Directors swooped in and claimed control of the company. [...]
I attended my second First Person Arts Salon on Wednesday night. My friend Andrew, who is one of the good people at FPS and, has been trying to get me to submit something for the salons for 2 years now (the horror). [...]
Above is a photo from one of my first reservations as a member of PhillyCarShare 3 years ago in the summer of 2006. Wow has a lot changed since I took that photo. Two months after that photo was taken, I was working at [...]
I'm not a baseball fan (anymore), let alone a Phillies phan, but I am a sports fan and I know the relationship a city has with their longtime announcer. Harry Kalas was an institution here in Philly. I'm happy he got to see his Phils [...]
I'm going to share a bit of information with you because I wasn't able to find it on the PPA website and it's some very useful information to have regarding temporary parking permits in Philly. First off, why aren't temporary parking permits on the website? I looked. I did [...]
I mentioned before that I'd have some photos in an upcoming issue of grid, a 4 issue old magazine, based out of Philly, about urban sustainability. Well, it's out on shelves (find a location here by entering your zip) and on pages [...]
I headed over to Studio 34 Yoga with Andi and Kevin [and Audrey for a few minutes] to check out a talk and book signing by Philly's own Zoe Strauss. Zoe was talking about the images, [...]
I was in Market East station the other day and I took the above shot. I thought it was nice. But then I got closer to the counter and I noticed an empty phone jack to the left of the 4 walk up windows. I [...]
I heard these tandem cyclists come up behind me on 12th St north of Market St. I saw them and two friends on regular bikes stop at 12/Market and I quickly caught up to them and snapped off a few frames. I crossed the street and [...]
I witnessed this scene a few days ago while walking up 12th St just north of Walnut St: a blind man leading another blind man down the street. There, I've seen it, the blind leading the blind; literally.
This got me to thinking about many [...]
If I had to choose one store to not do without in Philly, it would probably be Foster's Urban Homeware. I loved their two individual stores, one in Reading Terminal Market and one in Old City, from a few years ago. I love [...]
After having my Blackberry Curve 8330 for Verizon Wireless for a few months, I've come to like it quite a bit. I posted some initial thoughts after a few weeks with the device and here go some more thoughts after several months worth of use…
While this badboy is [...]
So my last day at the 2009 Philadelphia Flower Show was Friday. I had a blast for the 3 days I worked the floor and the full day I spent painting the prize-winning booth. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise, it was definitely the [...]
For the last few days, I've been at The 2009 Philadelphia Flower Show which I only recently found out is the largest one in the nation (and maybe the world?). It's my first time at the show and it's been a crazy experience. The [...]
Last Wednesday, Lady and I went to the Municipal Services Building (across the street from City Hall at 15/Arch) for an exciting talk given by the Streets Department. At the front of the PhillySTAT, room 1450, sat Deputy Mayor for Transportation and Utilities Rina Cutler; Streets Commissioner [...]
Watching 400+ seemingly impatient Philadelphians stand in silence for a minute honoring recently killed in the line of duty Office John Pawlowski was humbling. I didn't think the niceties would last long, but they did, for the entire evening. In a stark change [...]
Over 500 Philadelphians gathered at Mastery Charter School in Germantown to talk about the City's ever-growing budget crisis. The crowd was 200 more than event organizers had expected, but there was more than enough room in the gigantic gym for all. Getting [...]
So I finally got my first set of photos from my new [to me] Canon Canonet G-III QL17 up onto flickr here. I shot a roll of 400TX, a film I know pretty well, to test out all the settings in real world conditions. The timer [...]
After 5+ years in Philly, I finally made it over to the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul on the Parkway. I've wanted to step into the cathedral for ages and finally got did so a few weeks [...]
It's been cold outside, eh? Apparently, it's been cold enough for Philly's flightless chickens (aka pigeons) to learn how to sauna. For reals. Look at that photo above. They're not fighting over the scraps of somebody's discarded chicken wings, cheesesteak or soft pretzel. They're just chilling [...]
Above is a photo of some acrylic scrubber sponge thingies my grandma knit. While I was staying at my parents' house over Christmas, my mom gave me the two to take back home. She said that they're the next big thing in the Korean grocery' [...]
I went on another stroll around town with Andi for the Philadelphia Grid Project we're a part of. For December 2008 and January 2009, the grid is a dense one basically covering the area west of Broad St from Girard Ave to Washington Ave and [...]
I took my first walking tour of Port Richmond 2 weeks ago. I had driven through Port Richmond before, but never walked through it at any point of my 5 years here in Philly (so much more Philly to walk through too!). I went out [...]
Hey I got a photo published in the Philadelphia Inquirer! Photo credit and all. It’s a picture of us. To go along with an article on the ongoing series of food blogger potlucks (this was #5).
The Inky’s Rick Nichols came by the [...]
I've had my trusty Motorola Q for about 2 years now and it was dying. The battery wouldn't last a day, the phone would just freeze up, the phone would turn off at random times throughout the day and it took way too long to [...]
I've had the distinct pleasure to know the great Zoe Strauss for the last 4 years or so. Watching her style evolve and mature has been a pleasure to see in real time courtesy of her flickr account with 4k+ photos uploaded to [...]
I won't be able to go to next week's Great Expectations Big Canvas Confab (Saturday December 6, 1p - 4p) at the Radisson Valley Forge Hotel and Convention Center [gotta do other work], but I urge anyone who's interested in Arts and Culture in the region/state to [...]
I shot a roll of Fuji Neopan Acros 100, a black and white film emulsion which was supposed to be very sharp. I found it to be incredibly sharp, almost digitally so. It still had that analog feel to it, but it [...]
So the Center City District has come up with a retarded dandy of a plan - identify the SEPTA stops around town with a green circle with a T in the middle which you can see in this photo on their flickr stream. Look familiar? It's [...]
I normally don't remember my dreams at all. Maybe a tiny bit. Maybe the theme of the dream - "It was a chase or something" - but almost always, the next morning I awake with nothing. But last night I had a little bit of a camera related nightmare.
I was [...]
My brother's family came to town Thursday night to spend Friday in Philly with us. It was the first time my brother has come to visit me since I left NY for college in 1998. That's 10 years. It was nice to have him, my sister in law, my nephew [...]
I still can't believe it really happened. It hasn't fully sunk in just yet. I'm still too tired. I was up at 6.15a on Tuesday and didn't go to sleep until 2.30a Tuesday; I could still hear the party going on 1.5 blocks west on Broad St [...]
Election Day 2008 was a dreary day here in Philly. The rain never quite came down, but it never went away. A constant dribble all day. It's supposed to rain for the next five days. It'll be a cleansing rain. Barack Obama is [...]
And the Philly Chinatown office is buzzing with volunteers making phone calls in at least 3 different languages. Pizza just arrived to feed the hungry mass of people.
There are at least a dozen different people making calls right [...]
World: Welcome to Victory Blvd. formerly Avenue of the Arts, aka Broad St.
Nesquik for some, Miller Lite for others.
Funniest thing [...]
It was all great until around 12.30a when people started to really get out of hand. Well after the happy people were through having their fun popping champagne, hugging, chanting "Let's go Phill-ieees" and "Fuck the Mets!" - the other set of revelers [...]
Some more photos of the madness.
And most importantly, Phuck the Mets.
And the parade will be tomorrow at Noon starting at 20/Market.
So many [...]
They done did it. And I went out to Broad St to check out the scene about 15 minutes after the game was over. I stayed out until about 1.45a when 10 mounted cops rolled in. I don't fuck around with cops on [...]
Kill me now.
Seen at 12/Chestnut.
Oh and those poor idiots who can't choose between the two and end up getting a soda.
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On Thursday night, I made the trip out to West Philly's Green Line Cafe [the 43/Locust one] to see my friend and co-worker Andrew Keller play some music. I wasn't able to see him play in his band Hermit [...]
I got a call the other day from a volunteer at one of the local Obama-Biden offices here in Philly. I had donated a little bit of money that I could spare to the cause and I guess they were following up to see if [...]
Swarthmore College is set on an arboretum and the people at Great Expectations booked a room in a LEED NC certified building. My first trip out to Swarthmore and I intend to go back to have a closer look at the scenery. Back [...]
My friend (and roommate for a day) Brian Russell has been hard at work in the past year down in North Carolina. He's opened up Carrboro Creative Coworking in Carrboro (just west of Chapel Hill). Philly's got a coworking space at Indy Hall in Old City [...]
So I've been working at Reading Terminal Market for the last almost 3 months. I've been taking a camera to work most days as well. Lately, it's been one of my film cameras. Above is a shot of the scene at Pearl's Oyster Bar [...]
I was walking around my neighborhood with one of my film cameras last week and came across a bunch of sugar maple leaves, on the 2xx block of South Sartain St, which had already turned colors and fallen from a tree above. The colors came [...]
James Nachtwey is one of the greatest documentary photographers out there. In 2007, he won a TED Prize (TED profile) and his project has been unveiled today. Watch the video above to learn about Extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis. You can go to xdrtb.org to watch the [...]
The Obama team has been out freakishly strong all over Philly for the last few weeks. Everywhere I walk in Center City there are card tables set up registering people to vote and handing out information. People are walking around with Obama buttons like nobody's business. [...]
Above is a shot of my buddy AK who is spending a couple months in New Mexico working on the Obama campaign. He made the journey by car with his lady LL from Chicago to help make sure a wrinkled white haired dude [...]
This is coming a little late, but the Great Expectations project has started up it's latest phase of it's Big Canvas project. From the website:
Ask someone from the Philadelphia region what they like about living around here, and a frequent response stands out: There’s [...]
I biked over to Zoe Strauss's Megawords collage workshop last night and made me some art. I like to put stuff onto the notebooks I use on a daily basis. Mostly it's the Moleskines I carry around (planner and square rule notebook), [...]
I went up to NY for my grandma's 96th bday on Friday. I went up to NYC on 9/11. I haven't been in NYC on that date in a long time. I forgot what those tribute lights looked like up close. They made me very [...]
After reading this Inky article, it's pretty clear that new superintendent Arlene Ackerman had no idea what she was getting into. Well, who the fuck could. Philly's public school system is fucked.
Philadelphia School District officials have known they had an achievement gap on their hands for years.
Today, they saw [...]
Today is 9/11. No shit.
I want something to happen today. When you hear some fucking idiot talking about how great the Republicans have been in handling things in this post-9/11 world, don't let that fucking idiot get away with it. I don't care if you're on the bus or train [...]
Having freshly escaped from Kiasma [read his shirt], Cie. Willi Dorner spoke to the cast of his bodies in urban spaces troupe for its inaugural performance at the 2008 Live Arts Fringe Festival. There was stretching and hugs from friends and [...]
The Live Arts Fringe Festival started last week and there's one performance which has been getting a lot of press. Last week's CityPaper cover story featured a photo of Cie. Willi Dorner's bodies in urban spaces. I believe that photo was [...]
Above is a solar powered trash compacter from the 1400 block of Walnut St. Apparently they were installed by the Center City District and they've been around since early July [CCD press release]. There are 3 around Center City (Broad/Walnut, 7/Chestnut, 18/Walnut) and [...]
I've only made it out to The Food Trust's Headhouse Square Farmers' Market once since starting my new jobby job at Reading Terminal Market. I miss the bustling Sunday market.
I miss the [...]
The world famous Zoe Strauss has just finished editing her first book, America which can be special ordered at Robin's Bookstore, Philly's oldest independent bookstore, over at 13/Sansom. I just called and they're selling it for $29.95 (find other local booksellers here). Why [...]
So I have Fridays off from work at Fair Foods. I also got up at a reasonable hour and didn't have a shoot. That left me with the chance to head over to World Cafe Live for XPN's [...]
I've got me some serious Olympic fever. Lady (back to blogging!) and I had dinner at Singapore Kosher Vegetarian Restaurant on Friday night and then headed to the streets to check out the festivities in Chinatown on the opening night of the 2008 [...]
You want it. You know you want it. We polished off two of them on Friday.
You can have one (or two if you dare) also. Just head on over to Franklin Fountain at 116 Market St and ask for the Broken [...]
For the final installment of Great Expectations's The Big Canvas event, approximately 90 people came out to Moore College of Art & Design on July 30th to discuss the future of the Arts in the region. To read up on the first four [...]
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I recently had a couple customer service incidents involving some of my photo gear. One experience was horrid, the other was great. The horrible one involved two lenses (worth about $2500) and Comet Camera based out of Cherry Hill, NJ. Comet Camera is the closes Nikon and Canon authorized [...]
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