This week, Gregg Gethard tries out the evil side of comedy.
Last week Dave Walk wrote about how much he loved pro wrestling growing up and how funny it is. I have said, many times, that I think professional wrestling is America’s greatest form of art. But, I can assure you, [...]
Veteran Philadelphia comics The Legendary Wid (left) and John Kensil (right) join the show to talk about the city’s comedy past, their careers and to share a few words of advice for young comics.
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But that’s not all from Animosity Pierre! The guys have passed along the good news that they have been accepted into the 2010 Chicago Sketchfest! Chicago, you may not have the Olympics, but you’ve got AP.
Even more Animosity Pierre, you say? We’ll how about you check out the sketch [...]
There are so many comedians podcasting now, that’s it’s worth reviewing each week. So I’ll try to listen when I can and describe what I hear….
- Marc Maron tracks down Zach Galifianakis on a movie set in New Mexico and does his best to compliment him…yet fails. Later in the [...]
This week I’ll talk to longtime Philadelphia comics The Legendary Wid (left) and John Kensil (right) about the city’s comedy past, their careers over the years and a whole lot more. That’s tonight from 7-8PM EST on Gtownradio.com. And as a programming note, there will be no show [...]
Ok, confession time: I was a fan of pro wrestling in high school. Yes, my Monday nights were often flipping between WCW Monday Night and WWF’s Raw is War. Characters like The Rock, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Diamond Dallas Page filled my evenings as I ate crappy pizza with [...]
Joshua Lanzara, Mary, pigment on paper, Felicia Perretti, Car Seat Fight & Charlie Getting Dressed.
According to the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center website their mission states:“The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) [...]
The multitalented Brooklyn-based artist Ronnie Bass has brought his video/installation The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, to Marginal Utility–the newest gallery to open at 319A N. 11th St. aka the Vox Building (mercifully, Marginal Utitlity turned out to be quite useful–it is on the second floor, giving a [...]
The title of this article ends an inscription in a fraktur love letter (liebesbrief) written to Barbara Muller around 1800 by a now-anonymous doter. It is preceded by, in elaborate handwriting, “The heart of mine shall be devoted to you. See, my girlfriend, you are beautiful… Your eyes are like [...]
Brian Jungen ‘Blanket No. 7' (2008) professional sports jerseys, 69 x 53½” Sender Collection. All images ©Brian Jungen
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) consistently embeds its exhibitions' [...]
The American Color Print Society is celebrating their 70th anniversary with their 70th member exhibition at The Plastic Club which is coincidentally 70 years old. The exhibition includes not just color prints (the group came together because many galleries only allowed black and white [...]
- Kent Haines makes his Comedy Central debut on tonight’s episode of Live at Gotham at 11PM EST. Kumail Nanjiani, Nick Kroll and more are also on the show. Paul F. Tompkins hosts! Also, Philadelphia-raised TuRae was on last week’s episode.
- More good news for Kent: the set [...]
Curator and artist Marianne Bernstein last month created the Welcome House in LOVE Park, and tonight she brings you Shelter at the Painted Bride. (The m.o. is similar–invite some terrific artists to work within the constraints of a show while giving them considerable freedom to interpret those constraints.) [...]
In our first two months we’ve received contributions from over 80 local galleries & art spaces to our new Maps & Listings feature. We’re working to make this system more friendly and useful to you! Here is an update on where we’ve been with our maps, [...]
After 18 years of handing out the biggest regional prize in the arts, Pew Fellowships in the Arts has changed its m-o. Well, they’re still handing out prizes– the coveted 12 grants of $60,000. But the process is changing in 2010 in two significant ways. First, and probably most importantly, [...]
Well, the baseball season is over as hometown boys weren’t able to pull it out last night in Game 6. The New York Yankees are World Champions once again. Many outside of the Big Apple will be stewing over the next year as the “Evil Empire” has won again. Bill [...]
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Sarah Amos is an artist with a consummate mastery of printmaking. In this new body of work, her third show at Cynthia Reeves Gallery in Chelsea, she pits macro against micro, playing bold, dramatic shapes against delicate forms and textures. In her handsome, large-format prints, [...]
I first came across the work of Adad Hannah at Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s inaugural triennial exhibition focusing on Quebec artists held over a year ago. Hannah’s photographs taken at the Prado Museum showed viewers (now subjects) engaged with the art in active ways: a woman leaned in [...]
This week’s Weekly has my first Friday roundup. Below is the copy with pictures.
Big news this First Friday: A new gallery, Marginal Utility , is opening in the Vox building. The six-story former factory building already houses Vox Populi , Copy , AHN/VHS , Progressive Sharing , Jeffrey Stockbridge [...]
As their original post says – “And only a day after Halloween! Not bad!!”
Happy Halloween two days ago!
[...]Brazilian artist Tiago Carneiro da Cunha is working in a small studio at University of the Arts, near the end of a fall-semester artist’s residency. He is creating a new version of Mudman, one of his stock characters the appear and reappear in his work. This version, a clay figure, [...]
Jack Pierson's inevitable sculpture, The Show Must Go On, 2008, let folks know this was indeed an art fair. Private collection.
Perhaps the perfect metaphor for the contemporary [...]
Kara Rennert, Le Dresseur (foreground) & Le Cirque, ceramic, low fire glaze @ CFEVA’s The Landscape Within.
The Landscape Within @ The Center for Emerging Visual [...]
Gallery 22 in Center City West is an artist collective under the direction of Shawn Murray with rotating exhibits of [...]
This week, Gregg Gethard performs on a new show in Philadelphia.
Last night was awesome.
It was one of those nights that reminded me why I love performing comedy so much. The guys from Camp Woods, this new sketch group who have burst upon the local comedy scene with the fiery intensity [...]
By this time, it appears that we’ve heard everything dirty that you can imagine. Although people are still offended by jokes in certain contexts, there aren’t too many things that are surprisingly too dirty. But that doesn’t mean that dirty jokes aren’t still funny, which Philly stand-up Doogie Horner [...]
Now in it’s second year, the Philly Sketchfest will be held from December 3-5 at the Plays and Players Theatre (1714 Delancey Place). Since last year’s inaugural run, the fest has certainly grown, even inviting sketch groups from Chicago and New York to perform this time. The other new [...]
Holy moly, folks! The Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black show for this Thursday has been postponed! I don’t know exactly why, but this does mean that you’ll be able to watch Game 2 of the World Series. Although you were probably doing that already anyway. Hm, maybe that’s why [...]
I ask you, Ladies and Gentlemen, what are you doing this Thursday evening? Care to see the very funny Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black for free at The Troc? If so, we are giving away two tickets to see the stars of the Comedy Central show Michael and [...]
“Fire Dance, Ubud Bali, Indonesia“, Daniel Reilly @ Bonte’s, 130 S. 17th, Philadelphia.
World traveler, photographer Daniel Reilly’s current one-person show @ Bonte’s Cafe, 17th & Walnut, offers unique vistas, alluring compositions, mysterious visions and [...]
DoN had the opportunity to interview artist Niki Bombshell and learned she’s a neighbor! You never know. Bombshell is a graduate of Moore College of Art & Design and is not only a [...]
This week, Gregg Gethard travels to the faraway land that they call Delaware.
Today’s a big comedy week for me. I actually managed to get on two real shows, which is the first time this has happened to me. This is a really good sign, especially I was invited to do [...]
