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Slide shows on the web
I have seen the future of museums, and it’s on the Internet. Here are some of the best examples of what I regard as the New Museology.
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Waiting for cafe culture
Sidewalk cafés are springing up all over American cities like Philadelphia. But a café culture like Europe’s remains beyond our grasp. How and why are we Americans deficient? Let us count the ways.
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The Inquirer's new owner and his opinions
Bruce Toll, the Inquirer's new chairman, says he'll exercise his owner's prerogative to express his opinions on the editorial page. But the critical question, which Toll ignores, is: Why would he want to undermine his property’s most valuable asset?
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Who put the smirk in Smerconish?
A Philadelphia talk radio host’s selective judgment suggests that he has found his role model in the White House.
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The new Inquirer demonstrates its independence
Now that the Inquirer is owned by Philadelphia’s establishment, how will it convince skeptics of its independence from Philadelphia’s establishment? Nine story ideas that should silence cynics once and for all.
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Beyond 'The Da Vinci Code'
What’s worse than The DaVinci Code? The Christian overreaction to it. Only God knows what the earliest Christians believed as they painfully transformed their Jewish traditions into new faiths. There's enough untreated misery in the world without Opus Dei’s multiplying it in a misguided search for sainthood.
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The Inquirer's new owners
The Inquirer and Daily News have been acquired by a syndicate of local business executives and civic boosters. Is this really cause for celebration, as the two newspapers and their new owners would have us believe? Does anyone recall the Inquirer’s disgrace under its last local civic booster owner, and its triumph under out-of-towners?
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Rocky on the Parkway, again
Sylvester Stallone wants a statue of himself near the Art Museum, even though it isn't art. The city, caving in to an apparent populist groundswell, has granted his wish. Next question: Can you donate a statue of yourself, too?
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The 'Capital C' Culture syndrome
Is urinalysis better than mine? In an effort to attract attention and create sellable shticks, the 20th-Century avant-garde led us all astray. Instead of covering the country with museums, why not build a decent society and let culture bubble up from below?
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Andrea Mitchell re-invents her past
NBC's Andrea Mitchell is one of the toughest reporters in TV news. But her recent memoir provides a textbook example of why TV journalists shouldn't write books. Most disturbing, she overlooks two intriguing chapters of her early career in Philadelphia, perhaps because they conflict with her current status as the glamorous wife of the ultimate Washington power icon.
Talking Back…To Presidents, Dictators and Assorted Scoundrels. By Andrea Mitchell. Viking. 414 pages.
Talking Back…To Presidents, Dictators and Assorted Scoundrels. By Andrea Mitchell. Viking. 414 pages.
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