Concert halls may be closed, but the music plays on. Throughout the COVID pandemic, The Philadelphia Orchestra has been offering free streaming of past live performances, as well as specially curated concerts featuring musicians playing from home. This week’s offerings …
Women Are On Stage, At the Podium, and In the Repertoire Read more »
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country.” — Benjamin Franklin Happy Fourth of July!
Everybody here on St. John is talking about the weather. There’s something out there. It’s not Florence, or Gordon. It doesn’t even have a name yet, isn’t technically a storm, but it’s out there, coming off the coast of Africa, …
“For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens…” –President George Washington, to the Hebrew Congregation …
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. –Samuel Beckett Don’t be afraid to fail.—Nick Foles We see poetry everywhere, and this week—as Philadelphia natives—we found it on the football field, first in the Eagles first-ever Super Bowl win in an unforgettable …
One writer’s view of St. John, 11 weeks after Hurricane Irma. At first it all seems almost normal. After two months of waiting, of searching for clues, of seeing the pictures of the devastation and the signs of renewal, of …
Becky Ward will be home on St. John for Thanksgiving, but it’s a homecoming tinged with heartache. Though she, her partner, Patrick Rooney, and their two-year-old daughter, Hazel, are returning, Patrick’s 10-year-old son, Jack, is staying behind in Virginia where …
A Bittersweet Thanksgiving for Hurricane Victims in the USVI Read more »
“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost …
Originally published in The Philadelphia Inquirer October 12, 2017 Horton…heard it again! Just a very faint yelp As if some tiny person were calling for help. from Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss I can’t tell you what it …
Thanks to DJ Questlove (from The Roots and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) who presided over the music for six hours at the Brooklyn Bowl in NYC this weekend to raise money for Hurricane Irma relief on St. John. …