Read this Daily News story on the efforts to save the Sameric – center city’s last old-style movie theatre.
It holds a special place in my heart – I saw Return of the Jedi there cutting school one day.
Category Archives: Philly
One of the problems with moving back to Philly
Our new house will be within the Philly city limits. For the past three years I’ve been living in the ‘burbs.
Today I found out our car insurance will increase to the point that – if I factored it into what we could have afforded … we could have bought a reasonable house right where we’re at.
That sucks.
Office vacancy at 40%?
That’s what this SJMerc article says could be the real office vacency rate in Silicon Valley. Wow!
Philly antidrug effort may be cut back
Inquirer – City’s antidrug effort may be cut back Why start something if you don’t intend to finish it. This was a very promissing effort that I’ve heard great things about. There were even news reports of how the dealing moved out of Philly to Camden where the Camden police were about to ramp up to handle it. Damn shame. Damn shame.
The Rich Got Richer in the 90s
Salon – highlights from the Census. Makes a point of how few people climbed out of poverty during that period. At least the number didn’t grow (as I suspect it maybe right now). I climbed from poverty to the middle class in the 90s.
New Philly Skyline?
This CityPaper article makes a point of the two new skyscrapers under consideration for Philly and their viability.
A decade ago, the Philadelphia Orchestra was still playing in the Academy of Music, erected in 1857. That was when the powers that be decided the city had crossed the line from charming to pathetic and resolved to build a new state-of-the-art performing arts center. Last December, the Rafael Vi?oly-designed Kimmel Center, with its Y2K-vaulted glass roof, opened to rave reviews. The French newspaper Le Monde gushed, ?Philadelphia opens a concert hall that Paris can only dream about.?
The cause of putting Philadelphia on the contemporary architecture map keeps picking up steam. As of this month, two Center City high-rise office buildings have been announced to open in 2004 and 2005 respectively, each designed by a brand-name architect: Robert A.M. Stern and Cesar Pelli.