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XPN Hodge Podges Flawless Festival

by | Sep 25, 2024 10:39 am | Comments (0)

Emily Cohen Photos

XPoNential Music Festival
Wiggins Waterfront Park
2 Riverside Dr.
Camden, New Jersey
Sept. 22, 2024

University of Pennsylvania’s radio station WXPN celebrated the 30th year of their fall music showcase — the Xponential Music Festival — last weekend. I went to one of the festival’s three jam-packed days and realized why the show is so long-lived: Who wouldn’t want to lay on a blanket all day long listening to string-heavy folk rock in perfect fall weather?

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Still Lifes Of A Wounded City

by | May 6, 2024 3:45 pm | Comments (0)

Gina Gaiser

"Space Burger" 2024, digital photograph

Revisiting Oakland: A Post-Pandemic Photographic Survey of Urban Landscapes“
Works by Gina Gaiser
Manna Gallery

473 25th Street, Oakland
Through June 1


Only four years ago we were washing our hands often, trying not to touch our faces, and staying six feet away from one another. Even when we went for walks to get out into the fresh air, the sequestered existence we led meant crossing the street when another person approached on the sidewalk. We were masked and leery, unsure of the potentially deadly airborne virus around us; a new reality. We’re still learning to cope with that reality, and its scars.

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