Susan Schaefer, a white woman in her 70s with short hair, smiles while wearing sunglasses, an orange scarf, and white sweater

Susan Schaefer

BSR Contributor Since January 24, 2023

Susan Schaefer (she/her) is a widely published independent journalist, creative writer, and poet, born and raised in Philadelphia.

Susan Schaefer is a widely published independent journalist, creative writer, and poet. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she was co-publisher and editor of its edgy downtown biweekly, the South Street Star. She is a regular contributing columnist to PBS’s online magazine, Next Avenue, was a columnist and features writer for Minneapolis’s Southwest Journal and Minnesota Good Age magazine. Her articles have appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Mill City Times, the Seward Profile, and the Netherlands’ Crossroads Magazine.

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Photo of Blavat, in tan baseball hat, with Schaefer, in a red-patterned scarf. They’re smiling with an arm around each other

Legendary DJ Jerry Blavat spun a whole new world for Philly teens in the 1960s

Live from Wagner’s Ballroom
Local music icon Jerry Blavat, a South Philly native, passed away on January 20, 2023. Susan Schaefer remembers how a whole new world opened up when she danced to Blavat’s tunes at Wagner’s Ballroom in the 1960s.
Susan Schaefer

Susan Schaefer

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