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Funding for the arts (reply)

Armen Pandola proposes a “new play contest” financed by a one-dollar surcharge tacked on to the price of Philadelphia hotel rooms. I wish that Pandola, and everyone who supports similar schemes, would stop treating local industries, business owners and consumers as one more resource to plunder in support of the arts.

Jim Rutter

Mar 25, 2008 Essays 4 minute read

"Philadelphia Laureates': A proposal

How do we promote Philadelphia as a major arts center? How about one big symbolic, quixotic gesture? How about creating Philadelphia's Office of Laureates?

Lynn Hoffman

Mar 25, 2008 Essays 4 minute read

City Hall reconsidered

The Gilded Age died almost before its greatest extravagance was completed in 1901. Philadelphia’s City Hall has embarrassed Philadelphians ever since. Has the time come, finally, to appreciate it?

City Hall. Tours of the tower run every 15 minutes between 9:30 a.m and 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. (215) 686-2840 or click here.

Be'eri Moalem

Mar 23, 2008 Essays 7 minute read

Hitler's snack bar

Travel notes from all over:
Welcome to Hitler’s Bavarian snack bar

The Eagles Nest at Berchtesgaden is now a tourist attraction where nobody laughs at the ridiculousness of the “Eva Braun Tearoom.” And I tried to work up my indignation. Really I did.

Lynn Hoffman

Mar 15, 2008 Essays 5 minute read

Hitler's snack bar

The Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden is now a tourist attraction where nobody laughs at the ridiculousness of the “Eva Braun Tearoom.” I tried to work up my indignation. Really I did.

Lynn Hoffman

Mar 15, 2008 Essays 5 minute read

The home as art

Americans spend fortunes on their homes. Why, then, do so many affluent homes look as if they were lifted from a magazine spread or a Ralph Lauren catalogue? Why not think of our homes as artistic expressions of ourselves?

Caroline Dunlop Millett

Mar 08, 2008 Essays 6 minute read

The case for the culinary arts

I’m shocked that a publication so fervently dedicated to refined appreciation and support of the arts shows such cultivated disdain for the culinary arts. Food and wine deserve a serious, respectful hearing at Broad Street Review. Here’s why.

Lynn Hoffman

Feb 23, 2008 Essays 7 minute read

The horror of globalization

What is a German discount food chain doing in Philadelphia, pampering its customers and employees alike and otherwise violating cherished local customs? Don’t these foreigners know what we Americans did to the Hessians the last time we got really angry?