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Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj settles in on North Broad. (Photo via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

'Broad Street Review' pairs with the Rep Radio podcast

We know what you need

'Broad Street Review' has been delighting your eyes and mind for the last 10 years. Now we've got something exciting for your ears.
Wendy Rosenfield

Wendy Rosenfield

Editorials 2 minute read
Hold the wisecracks! This is a serious religious ritual! (Photo via Creative Commons/Wikimedia.)

Religious insults: A simple solution

There oughta be a law!

Some Islamic governments want a ban on insulting religion to be written into international law. But who will draft such legislation? Let me take a whack at it.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
The Death of Clotel, from 'Clotel; or, The President's Daughter,' by William Wells Brown. (Photo via Creative Commons/Wikimedia)

Further thoughts on Young Jean Lee's 'Straight White Men' at InterAct Theatre Company

I come to bury patriarchy, not to praise it

InterAct Theatre Company's straight-white-man-helmed production of Young Jean Lee's 'Straight White Men' has 99 problems, and the truth is one.
Wendy Rosenfield

Wendy Rosenfield

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Impolitic — but also profound?

Morley Safer, Ed Rendell, and women

Eyes of the beholder

Two quotations from prominent men went viral in May — one for its profundity, the other for its tactlessness. But which was which?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read

Do musicians make great presidents?

If Trump had studied music…

Music produces good citizens, argued the visionary musical pedagogue Shinichi Suzuki. So how many U.S. presidents have mastered a musical instrument? And how did that experience affect their performance in office? The envelopes, please.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
Freedom Theatre's 'The Ballad of Trayvon Martin.' (Illustration for 'BSR' by Mike Jackson of alrightmike.com)

What a week

Race onstage, welcomes, and a goodbye

A look at some of the week's most compelling 'Broad Street Review' posts, with a welcome to some new writers, and a goodbye to one of our dance writers.
Wendy Rosenfield Illustration by Mike Jackson

Wendy Rosenfieldand Illustration by Mike Jackson

Editorials 3 minute read
Seize the time!

Campaign slogans for Trump

The ultimate intellectual exercise

How can a candidate with so many negatives persuade most Americans to vote for him? This is no job for an ordinary pundit — it’s a job for Broad Street Review.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
'Critic,' by Lajos Tihanyi (c.1916): Times have changed. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Arts criticism: Decline and fall

Be careful what you wish for

On at least one issue — the role of critics in society — BSR’s new editor Wendy Rosenfield and I were once two trains running in opposite directions. How times have changed.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
The best the city has to offer, in all its diversity, from one end to the other. (Photo via runphila.com)

Running Broad Street

Two things I thought I'd never do

Broad Street Review's new Editor-in-Chief, Wendy Rosenfield, introduces herself. Read about her history with the website and longer history with its founder, Dan Rottenberg.
Wendy Rosenfield

Wendy Rosenfield

Editorials 3 minute read
Angela froze, Vladimir smirked. (Photo: Wikipedia.)

Trump and Putin: Mystery solved

The dog that didn't bark

What explains the Trump-Putin mutual admiration society? Ask Angela Merkel.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 2 minute read