Art & Design Thunderbird Lodge Museum Connects Arts & Crafts Movement With Utopian Community Joe Brin takes use out to Rose Valley, Pennsylvania where a new house museum puts the Arts and Crafts movement front and ...
History New Book On W.E.B. Du Bois Colors In “White Space” The pioneering research of W.E.B. Du Bois on race, class, and data collection are on display in a strikingly visual new volume, "W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America." Joe Brin has this book ...
Urbanism How to Save A Slice Of Neighborhood Green Space Queen Village resident David O'Donnell is on a mission to fill his neighborhood with verdant pocket parks. He shares his playbook on how to save slivers of green space with HC contributor Joe ...
Art & Design Design Coalition Aims To Bridge The Old-New Divide Move over Miami, the Philadelphia Design District is getting ready for some time in the spotlight. The coalition of gallery owners, artisans, and tech startups want to transform Old City into a hive of contemporary ...
Photography Harvey Finkle: Photographer Seeks Justice For The Other New photography exhibition explores South Philly's Jewish communities and the city's transitioning immigrant populations. Joe Brin has the story ...
City Life Row House Synagogue In South Philly Reborn Joe Brin checks in at our favorite 109-year-old row house synagogue, Shivtei Yeshuron, where membership is flourishing and programming is humming ...
Architecture New Book Claims PAFA As Catalyst For Modern Design In his new book, "First Modern," historian George E. Thomas asserts that Frank Furness opened the door to Modernism in 1876 with his design of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Joe Brin walks ...
Photography I’m Still Here: Saving The Work Of Robert Cornelius In 1839, amateur chemist Robert Cornelius was experimenting with a new photographic process at his family's store in Center City. That fateful year, in an alley off of Chestnut Street, he would give birth to ...
