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Touring in Torino
The once gritty northern Italian industrial city of Turin has been transformed into a vibrant cultural center. Few Americans have discovered it yet. Our peripatetic cheapskate professor, Patrick D. Hazard, offers a few tips.
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Satisfactions of home brewing
Let's face it, there's not much left that you can make at home that outshines its commercial equivalents. Homebrewed beer is the exception. And anyone who can make a good beef stew can make beer.
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New York's baseball/money conundrum
Oh, for the sporting life in New York. When the going gets tough there, the toughest baseball executives….. find excuses.
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The "Prague Spring,' 40 years later
Forty years after Soviet troops smothered the Prague Spring, the Soviet Union is dead and Prague itself has become an inexhaustible panorama of the liberating effects of freedom at work.
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"Bodies, Inc.'
So you thought dead bodies are useless? Bodies….the Exhibition has attracted throngs of spectators in a wildly successful nationwide tour. Where do these bodies come from? Funny you should ask….
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Professor's tour: Arts in Berlin
Broke and desperate, our favorite mad professor and professional skinflint parlays his gall and ingenuity into two memorable days of cultural stimulation in Berlin, and urges you to do likewise.
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West Philly rediscovered
On the surface, West Philadelphia is a poster child for poverty and crime. But beneath the surface I found a neighborhood that was once designed with aesthetics in mind. I also found, to my astonishment, two of my most distinguished cultural heroes.
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Gastropubs: Five small wonders
Sometimes a whole wave of delightful food creeps in under the cultural establishment’s radar. This may be the case with Philadelphia’s recent flowering of— forgive the slightly unappetizing term— gastropubs.
Monk’s, Standard Tap, Le Virtù, Memphis Taproom, Devil’s Den. Details below.
Monk’s, Standard Tap, Le Virtù, Memphis Taproom, Devil’s Den. Details below.
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Pretensions of "Bigger, Stronger, Faster'
Bodybuilding may indeed be an interesting phenomenon, as Chris Bell contends in Bigger, Stronger, Faster. But please— spare us the half-baked sociological punditry.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster. Documentary film directed by Chris Bell. Beginning May 30, 2008 at Ritz at the Bourse, Fourth and Ludlow Sts. . (215) 925-7900.or www.biggerstrongerfastermovie.com.
Bigger, Stronger, Faster. Documentary film directed by Chris Bell. Beginning May 30, 2008 at Ritz at the Bourse, Fourth and Ludlow Sts. . (215) 925-7900.or www.biggerstrongerfastermovie.com.
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Desert Odyssey, 2008 style
I was feeling sick and miserable on a bus in the middle of the sun-baked Sahara, wishing I were anywhere but there. Then I plugged in my ear buds, and heard the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto. I was healed.
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