Good Grief!

Earlier this week, I saw Double Down, the 2005 version of 1812 Productions’ annual holiday show, and it was everything that a holiday show should be: a little singing and dancing, some gimmicks, a touch of improv, and lots of laughs. It’s the most fun I’ve had at the theatre in a long time, […]

Last weekend was the annual ritual. We meet at the eagle, that is, in the Grand Court of the old Wanamaker’s department store, grab a seat on the floor, and watch the Christmas light show.
The Wanamaker’s light show has evolved from state-of-the-art to retro and kitschy to sadly neglected. Over the past few […]

Today is the long-awaited Max Raabe show at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center. As of now, there are still tickets available, which is amazing because why wouldn’t all of Philadelphia want to see this sardonic German cabaret singer and his Palast Orchester?
If you want to know more about Raabe, Jekyll* alerted me to a profile in […]

To Suzette and Tom and anyone else distressed by “Christmas creep” and the resulting lack of Thanksgiving decorations: know that the people of Fishtown are fighting the good fight.
Happy Thanksgiving!

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The white door looks ridiculous, doesn’t it? I have to paint it, don’t I?
In other news, I was finally able to make another Philly blogger meetup on Saturday, where I spent most of the time listening to Chris and Albert hatch a business scheme to make money by clubbing baby seals. Luna, Melissa, […]

Sure, the public transit system in your town is probably less expensive and more customer-friendly than the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA), which serves the Philadelphia region and recently went on a week-long strike. But does it hand out $600,000 trading cards?
The SEPTA cards are the talk of the town, and now thanks to […]

Very busy on super-secret skunk works project! In summary:

2005 Animation Show: not as good as the 2004 version. Don Hertzfeldt is possibly losing his mind and should return to the days of Billy’s Balloon. My favorite piece was Jonathan Nix’s Hello, It’s online, and it’s worth 10 minutes of your time.
Complain […]

Philadelphians are having a bad time with the ongoing transit strike (which by the way still isn’t making my butt look smaller, perhaps because the walk from University City to Fishtown contains obstacles such as bakeries, bars, and one or two Auntie Anne’s pretzel franchises).
But did you know that a far more devastating event […]

Finally, the 2005 Animation Show is coming to Philadelphia. And by Philadelphia I mean the ‘burbs, but you have to take what you can get:

Monday, November 7th: Doylestown, County Theater
Wednesday, November 9th: Bryn Mawr
Thursday, November 10th: Ambler

All shows are at 7 PM, and as far as I know, these theaters are accessible by […]

The pressure to produce informative and entertaining weblog content is overwhelming, yet who has the time, what with getting up at the crack of dawn to walk from Fishtown to the Market East train station and then fighting the teeming regional rail masses and then running from the 30th Street station to the office because […]