For The Temple News Standing in the door of what was left of my bedroom, I felt a pulse in my temples and a strange, churning feeling in my chest. After coming home from school, […]
Like every Saturday night, I took the Girard Avenue exit from I-76 on my way home after work, stopping at the red light underneath the bridge right in front of the Philadelphia Zoo. But this […]
Reading is my unduly treasured, self-employed avocation. So, once a trailer for “The Handmaid’s Tale” series appeared, I naturally reached first for the book, written by Margaret Atwood in 1985. While I was sucked into […]
PHILADELPHIA, PA – The conference room that was empty, quiet and still just minutes ago is now crammed with more than a hundred people. The space is filled with buzzing conversation, laughter, and the sound […]
Witty, smart and impressive are the words that could describe the newest movie “On the Basis of Sex,” directed by Mimi Leder, starring Felicity Jones as a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Arnie Hammer as Martin […]
⭐️⭐️/ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Giving a bad review to a book based on a true story feels close to heartless—especially when the plot is set during the Second World War and includes the Holocaust—but the Tattooist of […]
If Don Giovanni were to be described in only two words, it would be confusion and ridiculousness. During the opening night of the Curtis Opera Theatre’s production of one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most famous operas, accompanied […]
“White, a blank page or canvas. The challenge – bring order to the whole, through design, composition, tension, balance, light and harmony,” says George, standing alone on stage, opening the second to last show of Sunday […]
Dreamy. Magical. Fairytale-like. Enchanting. That’s Giselle. Lead by artistic director and choreographer Angel Corella, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s production brings the romantic ballet back to life at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia this spring. As the […]
For The Temple News Growing up watching “Mean Girls,” I found it funny when Ms. Norbury, the calculus teacher played by Tina Fey, finds out she has a new student from Africa in her class […]