The Founding Father had a more varied background than we were taught in school.
By Thom Nickels
Thom Nickels: Preserving a dream — Dream Garden and the Curtis Center
The winding road to what became one of the city’s great art installations — and how we kept it from being dismantled.
By Thom Nickels
Thom Nickels: Reconsidering classical architecture
Modernism was once promoted by all of the top architects, but it never won the people’s hearts. Now, some architects are seeing the limits of that once-dominant style.
By Thom Nickels
Christine Flowers: The duplicity of the Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Art should not have to bow to political bullying — from the right or the left.
By Christine Flowers
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Eclipses, past and present
Part of Pennsylvania will see a total eclipse of the sun today. Many events like it in the past have been quite memorable.
By Michael Thomas Leibrandt
Stu Wesbury: Disappearing fathers – a destructive American reality
It’s not “judgmental” to push for something we know is beneficial to children and families: fathers’ involvement in their lives.
By Stu Wesbury
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: When nothing is sacred
The desecration of our historic, religious architecture is a plague upon the city.
By Michael Thomas Leibrandt
Thom Nickels: An American in Florence
Recalling the sights and sounds of one of Europe’s great Renaissance cities.
By Thom Nickels
Thom Nickels: It’s like pulling teeth
Adventures in dentistry in Philadelphia.
By Thom Nickels
Thom Nickels: Peace, drugs, Earth Day, and murder — a look back at Philadelphia’s Ira Einhorn
The infamous counterculture guru and his local connections.
By Thom Nickels