Late last month a fire–and the water used to put it out–damaged the Officers’ Quarters building at the ancient fort on the Delaware, a site of the 2013 Hidden City Festival. Peter Woodall went down to talk about the future of the site with Beth Beatty, the executive director of Fort Mifflin, assessing the damage amidst a long list of other critical capital projects

The final weekend of the Hidden City Festival spells the final weekend to see Ben Neiditz’ and Zach Webber’s amazing installation Ruins at High Battery, an entirely different look at historic Fort Mifflin

With only two weekends left in the Hidden City Festival 2013, it’s gonna be a challenge to choose which sites to visit. This guide highlights some of this weekend’s selections

  Last week, when we offered up a suggested driving route and Market-Frankford El/walking route, we neglected to offer up a bike route. Our bad! Now, thanks to the ever resourceful Brian James Kirk of Technically Philly, we’ve got one. Brian has selected seven of our nine sites that can be knocked out in one […]

Our relationship to the city is always evolving, in Nathaniel Popkin’s case, a process aided and abetted by the Hidden City Festival

The Hidden City Festival 2013 is set to kick off tomorrow, and for the opening weekend, a full slate of events is ready to drive it into high gear. Lee Tusman previews some of the options