Superblock Gets a Sitcom
Students produce “Classless” comedy.
Classical Revolutionary
Veronica Jurkiewicz C’04 foments Classical Revolution.
Inhabiting Geometry
Gallery-scale model by architect Anne Tyng Gr’75 at ICA.
Grief, Unstaged
Ruth Davis Konigsberg C’90 on The Truth about Grief.
Speak, Pain
A physician who has looked at pain from both sides examines the language we use to describe it.
Online Poetry in Motion
Jacket2 looks good on Kelly Writers House.
One Witty Woman, 12 “Fangry” Songs
Cynthia Kaplan C’85 rocks comedy in Fangry.
Briefly Noted
Mar|Apr 2011
True, but Funny?
Architect's joke on Woodrow Wilson.
Jay Matsueda W’95 creates an album of volunteers
How did Jay Matsueda W’95 scrape together studio time with some of L.A.’s finest session musicians? “Barter, and the underground economy,” he says.
Wax in 1971
Lost photos from a band still making Rolling Stone Top 10 lists today.
When West Went East
Victor Mair first encountered the Bronze Age mummies of China’s Tarim Basin 23 years ago. He—and others—have been trying to figure out what those people were doing there ever since.
Up Tempo
Jennifer Higdon G’92 Gr’94 reviewed and interviewed.
Designing Men
Alumni firm KieranTimberlake’s London embassy.
Briefly Noted
Jan|Feb 2011
Creating a New Museum for a Venerable History
Gwen Goodman Ed’56 led the NMAJH to Independence Mall.
Abele Honored
A mural and new neighborhood park in southwest Center City named in Abele’s honor.
More Light
“I think that what is changing about my writing is my willingness to go darker so that I can come out with more light,” says memoirist and fiction writer Beth Kephart C’82. In her new novel, set in Philadelphia during the Centennial, a young woman contemplates suicide following the accidental death of her twin.
Golf Instructor, Grandfather, President
A grandson’s memories of Eisenhower in retirement.
Rethinking Design
DesignPhiladelphia founder Hilary Jay C’83.
Kelly Writers House Expands Online Book Groups
Latest online discussion groups from Kelly Writers House.
Eye Candy
A filling dessert from Martha Rich GFA’11.
Museums and Their Meanings
Conn asks Conn, Do Museums Still Need Objects?
Moscow Noir
Martin Cruz Smith’s venerable Russian detective investigates dark crimes and class tensions.