Parks evolve city spaces

The Franklin’s Paine Skatepark Fund is working to cater to young skateboarders across the city. Its largest project to date, Paine’s Park, is set for a summer groundbreaking. When the city and former mayor John Street deemed LOVE Park, a former international skateboarding destination, off limits to skateboarders in 2002, there was no telling that it [...]

Last call

The Bar Hours for Education bill, if passed, would raise extra funds for the city’s schools by allowing bars to stay open an hour later, until 3:00 a.m. More money for education is an idea any bar fly could drink to. But raising that money through the Bar Hours for Education Bill, which proposes pushing [...]

Awesome show creators explore new film format

Alumni Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim’s “Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie” hits theaters March 2. Flashes of brightly colored lights, unusual transitions and strange, repetitive noises. No, you’re not having a seizure – you’ve entered the delightfully demented world of alumni Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Better known as Tim and Eric, the comedy [...]

Gallery welcomes art and literature lovers

Homeskooled Gallery and Soapbox Gallery collaborated for the first time at Booked!, with exhibits and activities for artists, writers and everyone in between. On Saturday night, Mary Tasillo and Charlene Kwon had a full house. The two share a nondescript home on 51st Street in West Philly, which they moved into two years ago. But [...]

Bookstore offers GLBT destination

Giovanni’s Room at 12th and Pine streets is a source of knowledge and a safe-haven  for the GLBT community for approximately 40 years. For those looking for literature pertaining to homosexuality or written for GLBT people, a search on Amazon’s online bookstore offers mixed results. Though a search for ‘homosexuality’ on the site returns thousands [...]

Popped! prevails despite indoor move

Despite threats of floods, the two-day music extravaganza Popped! Music Festival offered indie and electronic beats to listeners of all ages this past weekend. The weekend’s forecasted weather and possible flooding prompted organizers on Wednesday, Sept. 21, to move the event from FDR Park in South Philadelphia to the Liacouras Center. Headlining performances  came from [...]

Festies flock to festival farm

This year’s four-day Philadelphia Folk Festival marked its 50th anniversary. If you ask a festival-goer at the Philadelphia Folk Festival what brings them to, or initially drew them to the festival, there’s a good chance they’ll tell you, ‘a friend.’ So when festival weekend rolls around, the town of Schwenksville is host to a huge [...]

Commencement Issue: Scott McClennen

“Temple Smash” creator Scott McClennen steps into the entertainment industry. Within the School of Communications and Theater, film and media arts major and graduating senior Scott McClennen saw extensive creative assets in the people and resources and wondered why there was little connection between the school’s majors. In November 2008, he filled this void with [...]

Commencement Issue: Kimberly Burnick

A “Temple Smash” co-producer looks forward to a future on the West Coast. “Temple Smash” producer and film and media arts major Kimberly Burnick has set her sights on the West Coast entertainment scene and will be relocating to Los Angeles after graduation. It was through her start on movie sets throughout Philadelphia that Burnick [...]

Notes From Oates

Temple alumnus John Oates shares stories from his musical past. Main Campus has set the stage for the beginnings of many kinds of relationships – friendships, mentorships, romances – and for John Oates, pop superstar duos. Oates returned to his alma mater on April 9 for a concert in the Performing Arts Center. A 1970 [...]

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