Preparation continues for the soon-to-be-opened Please Touch Museum in its new space in Fairmount Park’s Memorial Hall.
WHYY Arts and Culture reporter Alex Schmidt visited the new site with construction going full speed and got a sneak preview of this amazing space.
The centerpiece of the new building is a giant replica of the Statue of Liberty’s [...]
I’m a little behind in posting on The Sixth Square but I wanted to point out that WHYY’s Arts and Culture reporter Alex Schmidt had a great piece about Cinco de Mayo on 90.9 FM on Monday.
Schmidt went talk to some folks in Philadelphia’s Mexican immigrant community to get the real scoop on Cinco de [...]
With a small handful of important partner institutions and funders, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) is developing PhilaPlace: A Neighborhood History And Culture Project.
What is PhilaPlace? An online resource chronicling the history, culture, and architecture of two of Philadelphia’s oldest immigrant and African American neighborhoods: South Philadelphia and Northern Liberties/Kensington.
Current and past residents will add historical [...]
Sony is boiling down decades-old Charlie’s Angels and other vintage TV episodes to release them as six-minute programs. They’re calling them “minisodes,” says The New York Times.
One commentator says it’s about massaging old assets into new opportunities. Sony’s got 16,000 of these vintage programs on the shelf and is motivated to “remonitize old TV on the [...]
On Wednesday, (March 7th at 10AM) Radio Times hosts a conversation about the recently-announced design selected for the President’s House site on Independence Mall. Architect Emanuel Kelly and advocate Michael Coard are slated to be Marty Moss-Coane’s guests.
You may recall the story. When George and Martha Washington lived in Philadelphia, they brought enslaved Africans from [...]
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