While the battle to save the Church of the Assumption from the wrecking ball grows more desperate, the man who designed the building will be the focus of a symposium next month in New York City.
 
Patrick Charles Keely designed more than 700 churches and ecclesiastical buildings in the United and States and Canada from the 1840s through the 1890s – most of which still stand. But he has been relatively unknown in architectural circles, according to the Monuments Conservancy, which will host the symposium on March 22.
 
The church at 1133 Spring Garden Street is of particular significance, explained Edward Furey, of Enfield, Conn., the founder of the Keely Society, which is dedicated to documenting the architect’s life and work.

(via PlanPhilly | Little-known architect of threatened church to be focus of NYC symposium)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jFHrpknS4c

Idem Paris is an 8-minute cinéma vérité-style documentary about Lynch’s favorite Parisian art studio, built in 1880 and previously frequented by the likes of Picasso, Miro, Cocteau and Matisse. David Lynch himself already created about 170 lithographs and engravings in the 2-story workshop located at 49, rue du Monparnasse in Paris.

(via David Lynch’s New Film: Idem Paris. Watch It Here!)

WHY?

Astronautalis, Dream Tiger

Thu, February 14, 2013

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm

Union Transfer

Philadelphia, PA

WHY? is a trio of handsome Cincinnati-born men who fiddle with skins, strings, bells and microphones and present their findings to the listening public. Singer Yoni Wolf grew up the second son to an art book editor and a rabbi. He got his start recording bad poems and sloppy beats on the family synagogue’s 4-track. In junior high he discovered hip-hop. At art school, he learned how to drop out. Yoni’s brother Josiah played drums at Rabbi Wolf’s worship service as a kid, became a band geek as a teen, and fell in love with Thelonious Monk on his way to study music at University of Cincinnati. Doug McDiarmid would eventually get expelled from that same school for carrying a stun gun, but first he was raised by two French teachers and taught piano while in kindergarten. He also went to high school with the Wolfs, where he played in Steve Miller cover bands.

(via Union Transfer | Philadelphia Music Venue » WHY? – Tickets – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – February 14th, 2013)

JOHN WATERS BURLESQUE!
  • Join us for a night of filmlesque in homage to the filthiest man alive! Dastardly dames, Divine impersonators, and some of the dirtiest and trashiest burlesque routines you’ve ever seen await you at the latest installment of Miss Rose’s Sexploitation Follies!!!

    STARRING:
    Hosting the evening as the most fine and Divine female you’ve ever laid eyes on, THE GODDESS ISIS!

    Bringing you loads of Female Trouble and a little side of Serial Mom, MISS ROSE!

    Joining the Sexploitation Follies for the first time, She’ll make you Cry Baby with her Dirty Shame, LIL’ STEPH!

    Read to be the filthiest Flamingo in the room, MACKENZIE MOLTOV!

    Returning to do her Roach, MISS MARY WANNA!

    Boylesquing with Miss Rose and the gals for the first time, he’s going to show you his Pecker, MR. FAHRENHEIT!

    Doors are at 10, Show begins at 11!

    Only 12 bucks for all this film fantasy, you betcha!

    531 N 12th St.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19123

(via JOHN WATERS BURLESQUE!)

2nd Prohibition Party!
Public · By Underground Arts

Roaring 20’s Party!

Come celebrate the roaring 20’s in an underground club. There will be comedic laughter to be had. Voluptuous burlesque to be scene. Drew Nugents and midnight society famous hot jazz show to be heard. And of course interesting cocktails to be consumed but with a twist of flare and theatrics. Flappers will be twirling and gangsters killing it on the dance floor Come enjoy yourself at a speakeasy. 

Doors 730

Entry is $12
$ 8 if dressed up

Password is “prohibition”

(via 2nd Prohibition Party!)

The Church of the Assumption played a role in the lives of not one, but two of Philadelphia’s Catholic saints. It was St. John Neumann who authorized construction in 1848, by the noted church architect Patrick Charles Keely. A decade later, Katharine Drexel was attending Mass in the sanctuary, along with other affluent members of the city’s ethnic German community.

(via VIADUCTgreene)