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Local Life
Local food courier spills
the beans Delivering
fatty food to your house no piece of cake by STEVEN STANEK Summer jobs are more than just a blip on your resume;
trust me, I know. In 1999, just after graduating from Penn Charter and
a few months before I started at Penn, I took a summer job delivering
food for Slack's Hoagie Shack in the Northeast, not far from my house
in Abington. From 10 until 8 each day, I'd drive my Ford Explorer through
a maze of unassuming streets to homogenous houses with cheesesteaks
and hoagies piled on the passenger seat. I remember the smell of someone's lunch used to make my stomach curdle; or after work, the whiff of fried chicken that lingered when I opened my car door. Delivery jobs have their share of bad times, risks and disadvantages. Much like any job, there is plenty not to like. But I never knew... G'twn tilemaker sings to future generations by NICOLE CONTOSTA Visiting Karen Singer's Tileworks studio at 90 E. Church
Lane in Germantown approximates an archeologist's discovery of precious
artifacts. Random sculptured tiles left over from her numerous projects
line the shelves of her office. And each one, whether it's a tile of a
plant, person or building, is the missing link to the scenes that finished
murals illustrate. Since its formation in 1991, Tileworks has designed ceramic
tile murals for dozens of nonprofits ‹ schools, hospitals and universities
‹ both on the local and national level. The murals, like the one currently
under construction at Abington Friends depicting the school's meetinghouse
and maypole ceremony, reveal something vital about the institution's traditions
and history. So, like the tile art that archeologists study from ancient Chinese... Orgy of 'Friends' tributes finally ends; who cares? By JIMMY J. PACK JR. It's the time of the year when television networks start
wrapping up their TV shows with season finales. Notably, on NBC this month,
two shows are ending their combined 20-plus-year runs: Friends,
which aired its last episode last Thursday, and Frasier, which
aired its last episode this past Tuesday. Of the two, Friends seemed
to generate more television specials, magazine covers, entertainment news
program lead stories and newspaper features. It was almost as if the show
wasn't just going to end, but the actors themselves would be shot and
buried along with every reel of Friends film so that the 20-something
show would vanish into history like an Inca village. I can't think of any other TV show that deserved less fanfare. The World War Three-type of coverage was enough to make one trade in the TV set for an old pair of socks. It started for me last week, when I turned on my favorite morning news program, The Today Show, while making coffee. I sat... Who'd do a better job,
George Bush or a turnip? by ROBERT SLACK According to a recent Zogby poll, a bare majority of
voting Americans are more inclined to vote against George Bush than
for him next election. It is a shame the current administration had
to wreak such widespread destruction before people could see the damage
being done. Surely we could do better. Given the situation we're in
now, that's almost like saying we probably could find a better urban
planner than Godzill would have been better these past four years.
But that's not quite right: almost no one — no thing —
would have possessed the gift for destruction that George Bush exhibits
so effortlessly. And I'm serious about this. To find someone who would
have done less harm to the nation, we wouldn't even have to restrict
ourselves to sentient beings. The process would be as easy as playing animal, vegetable or mineral with an eight-year-old. Let's see, for example, what happens when we compare George Bush's agenda with the likely... Impressive performances in Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill By MICHAEL CARUSO My musical weekend was once again divided into two
parts, but this time the division was one of geography. Two of the
four musical events I experienced took place in our part of town
— Chestnut Hill and West Mt. Airy — while the other
two were given in center city Philadelphia. There was a fundraising
recital and reception in West Mt. Airy, a period instruments concert
in Chestnut Hill, and concerts by the Philadelphia Singers and the
Philadelphia Orchestra in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. ON & NEAR THE HILL The Chestnut Hill and West Mt. Airy sections of the city can boast some of the loveliest homes and most stunning churches in all of Greater Philadelphia. One such home on Pelham Road in West Mt. Airy is the site of the Delaware Valley Conservatory of Music, which joined forces with the Consulate General of Finland to host a recital and reception on Saturday afternoon. The connecting link between the school of the Republic of Finland's representative in New York City is Marja Kaisla, the Finnish-born... |