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My Philadelphia: Spring Garden

We hadn't particularly meant to move to Spring Garden. In fact, we lived here for months--surrounded by drop cloths and buckets of joint compound and the implacable seepage into everything of the dust and grit produced when you demolish or repair walls made of plaster and horsehair, or so somebody said at the time--before we knew we had. (It's bounded by (Comments)

The Barnes Ultimatum

By Tom Ferrick Jr. Histories are written by the victors, but apparently the losers get to do the documentaries.  Hence, The Art of the Steal, the story of the Barnes Foundation Museum debuting in theaters this week. The movie was... (Comments)