Welp, sooooOOooOOo I’ve been really, really busy in the last nine months year and a half and after archiving some hella old clips here back when, I haven’t updated it all, as you can see.
I’m not doing it right this second either, but to friends: I am alive and will begin the long Philadelphia Weekly and Venuszine.com [...]
Archive for the 'babbleon' Category
Notice: Nine months behind
December 19, 2008
the freedom fry won’t die
March 17, 2008
because i won’t let it. never forget. A-List pick in last week’s PW:
Bienvenue Lafayette!
Sat., March 15, 11am-noon. $5. Physick House, 321 S. Fourth St. 215.925.2251.www.philalandmarks.orgForget Hills and the O-Bomb for a moment and get down to the last greasy shard of our shameful divided past as Americans: the freedom fry. Remember that? Whether your dad likes it [...]
The felice brothers: fiddlin’ around with a band of brothers
March 11, 2008
Feature article in Venuszine this week.The Felice Brothers are SERIOUS. Dig them. Believe. The Felice Brothers
The dangerous book for boys: fiddlin’ around with a band of brothers
By Tara MurthaPublished: March 6th, 2008 | 12:50pm
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A roots rock revival is a-rumblin’, and it’s the Felice Brothers who are poised to inherit Americana’s crusty crown. After self-releasing a few [...]
if i stay there could be trouble
March 11, 2008
The Spring bridal issues are out and I’m going to rip them to shreds with betrothed friends over wine soon enough. Except for one very special article on planning destination weddings in Newport Life Magazine.Ever been to Newport? Recommended! Tons of chorizo up in the diner breakfasts.The last time I was there I dressed up all Sabrina and [...]
lovely and delicate squibs: rob ryan
March 5, 2008
… THAT’S what’s up. venuszine staff favorite 3.4.08Tara Murtha loves Rob Ryan’s Papercuts
By Tara Murtha
Published: March 4th, 2008 | 12:00am
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Any artist that can make filigree out of a curlicue can slice into my heart anytime. Rob Ryan coaxes dazzling, beautiful art out of paper by razoring ornate, arabesque negative spaces into shapes like trees, birds, and houses. Ryan [...]
zippered-up fung fu kicks = HI-YA
March 5, 2008
Wacky postmodern dance snuffaluffagussss on 2.28.07, not the last day in February. PS: John Cage!
The modern dance community sees Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s upcoming premieres of ”Biped” and ”EyeSpace” at the Annenberg as a rare chance to indulge in the work of a living legend. (Cunningham, an octogenarian about to graduate into the rarified world of productive [...]
indie rock chicks + fugly Urban O shrugs
March 5, 2008
A-list snazzlefraggin PW 2.27.08. The O-Bomb? » february 27, 2008 — wednesday Regina Lee Blaszczyk
7pm. Free. Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St. 215.898.7595. upenn.bkstore.com
Dr. Regina Lee Blaszczyk’s new book Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture and Consumers, is a collection of essays that breaks down the way style is manufactured by what she calls the ”global fashion system” of designers, government officials, retailers and [...]
archives: an open letter to college freshman
February 13, 2008
press on.
humor essay in playphilly from august the oh-six, holmes! catching up on posting old stuff! trying to slather it all up here and rub-a-dub before it disappears into the vortex!
sorting out the whole time-space continuum issue/s, too.
An Open Letter to Incoming Freshmen
Hey you! New kid!
Welcome to Philadelphia. We welcome you with warm, brotherly-beating hearts. You [...]
editor’s pick in pw: henry chalfant
February 13, 2008
linkage.
Henry Chalfant
Tues., Feb. 19, 8pm. Free. Drexel University, 3175 JFK Blvd. 215.895.2629. www.drexel.edu
Graffiti: My parents weren’t having it when I told them how much I loved the jumbo words tied into knots spray-painted across their old neighborhood. Is graffiti the ultimate urban art brut, or gussied-up vandalism scratched by punkass wannabes? It totally depends, right? [...]
tara murtha loves… someecards.com
February 11, 2008
Piping hot on Venuszine.com this morning.
Tara Murtha loves someecards.com
By Tara Murtha
Published: February 11th, 2008 | 12:00am
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Sometimes a regular e-mail doesn’t have the oomph-sha-la-la to get across what I want to say, mere words being like ill-fitting jackets for our emotions and all. But I’ll be damned if I send an e-card popping with cartoon puppies and rainbows. I [...]
