I don’t get it. I don’t understand it right now.
Union protests have become more common in the city as the flagging economy has increased unemployment in the construction trade. Non-union sites that normally would have been too small to be worth protesting, like the Milkboy Cafe at 12th and Chestnut, have become targets. The Goldtex site was simply too big to pass up. Picketers appeared at 12th and Wood as well as a separate Post Brothers development on Rittenhouse Street in Germantown that had been under construction with a mixed crew.
(via At Goldtex, Union Dominance In Construction Called Into Question | Hidden City Philadelphia)
I love how this piece of artwork evokes traditional urban architectures while still completely exhibiting a radiant new look. I’d love to see something of this caliber — that speaks equally well of our history and of our modern vibrancy — here in the Eraserhood. Maybe along the Viaduct park, when that finally happens?
Watertower by Tom Fruin
“Beginning June 7th, the tower will be lit from within by digitally-controlled light sequences playing from dusk till morning for a full year. A welcome addition to Brooklyn’s skyline,Watertower will be visible from Lower Manhattan, FDR Drive, and the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges at night”
Can’t wait to see this.
Tap Talk: Sick “Musical Taps” rotating lineup tonight at Prohibition!
Tap Talk: Sick “Musical Taps” rotating lineup tonight at Prohibition!
Musical taps tonight at Prohibition. From 8pm until 2am, they will be tapping 8 new beers every two hours! Swing by for some rare brews and awesome tunes!
TAPLIST:
ROUND 1 (8-10pm)
Yards Barrel Aged Olde Bartholomew
Russian River Pliny The Elder (for 20 minutes)
Port Strong Ale Fesitval…
Eric Bresler over at Cinedelphia has thrown quite a few events throughout the city, but he is about to tackle his most ambitious one yet. This time he is running a two-day horror con at his new digs over at The Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art from June 15th to June 16th.
(via Horror Art Show and Convention Comes to PhilaMOCA! | Geekadelphia)
Finally, here are the last two lots. 318-324 N. 11th St. and 326-330 N. 11th St. Next to the Reading Viaduct and catercorner from the Dirty Truck Trailer Lot, these have been owned by the Philadelphia Reading Terminal Company (which for some reason runs out of a little office in Los Angeles), since Jan. 1, 1943. If you want to count the Viaduct itself as am empty lot, that would bring us up to 12, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. When the Reading Viaduct is turned into the coolest elevated park in the world (and it will be), these lots will be valuable as fuck.
The hedge-fund masters instead arranged for us to move into what they swore would be spacious quarters on the third floor of a now-closed department-store building at 8th and Market, Strawbridge & Clothier’s, itself an iconic Philadelphia brand. We are moving from a building that symbolizes the Golden Era of Newspapers into a building that thrived during the Golden Age of Retailing (bricks-and-mortar division.)
(via Moving is moving for this old newshound, Stu Bykofsky, Daily News Columnist )
Philadelphia really screwed with David Lynch.
His surreal masterpiece Eraserhead is a “dream of dark and troubling things” that was directly inspired by the director’s time spent living at 13th and Wood Street while attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The cold industrial feel of his neighborhood coupled with the crime and decay that ran rampant through the area during his 1966-70 stay shaped not only his feature debut, but all of the works that came after it. (You can check out a detailed collection of quotes in which Lynch riffs about the City of Brotherly Love here).
These days Lynch’s old hood is experiencing a rebirth. Affectionately nicknamed “The Eraserhood,” the Callowhill area is home for businesses like the revived Trestle Inn and art hubs such as the Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Arts. The latter of which is currently planning on paying tribute to Lynch with its “art show of Lynchian proportions” Eraserhood Forever.
(via Eraserhood Forever: David Lynch-Themed Art Show Call for Entries | Geekadelphia)