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![This Broad Street McDonald's was the perfect dinner spot for the CAPA students pouring past the pillars across the street. (Photo by Alaina Johns.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/McDonalds_BSR_3_15_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=10d3be642a86579268af1a5498d418b3)
CAPA alums lost an old friend when the McDonald’s at Broad and Carpenter closed
Firsts, lasts, and cheeseburgers
CAPA students made the McDonald’s across the street a second home between classes and concerts, where the drama never stopped and nobody went hungry. Isabel Soisson remembers.
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![The masks? They’re everywhere. (Photo by Anndee Hochman.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Hochman_one_year_later_BSR_3_11_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=7237d453dfcca91d63bd937223154460)
After a year of pandemic life, how do we measure the distance between then and now?
A year ago…
How have we weathered the last year? Let us count the ways. Births. Zooms. Funerals. The hugs we missed. Anndee Hochman is still realizing that anything can happen.
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![Is a thump-and-swish wake-up what everybody wants? (Image via PxHere.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Basketball_BSR_3_9_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=c0ed9d80b59a62f1cf47e034a57fa2d2)
Stuck between a good neighbor and a noisy neighbor at seven in the morning
I only have ears for you
Especially when many of us are spending extra time at home, what does being a good neighbor really mean? Roz Warren listens in.
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![Last year, PAAFF and the Japanese American Citizens League presented ‘American Peril: Faces of the Enemy,’ which explored anti-Asian and anti-Islamic propaganda and its impact today. (Photo by Justin Chiu.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Faces_of_the_Enemy_BSR_3_8_21.jpeg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=ab65ab112f5ea208ef8b8403c7be5584)
The Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival stands against anti-Asian violence, and so can you
No place for anti-Asian hate
When a board member of SAG-AFTRA shared a blatantly anti-Chinese meme earlier this year, the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival responded strongly. Marta Rusek talks with festival director Selena Yip and suggests ways for everyone to step up.
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![The bar at Passyunk Avenue; pasted along the back wall are dollar bills, posters, and a neon Budweiser sign.](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Passyunk_Avenue2_BSR_3_1_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=775e35a1e01b1bff4f7216f7ab2bcfcd)
Fitzrovia’s Passyunk Avenue restaurant takes South Philly flavor abroad
London’s taste of brotherly love
After New Jersey native JP Teti realized he couldn’t get a cheesesteak in London, he dreamed up a restaurant that takes an authentic South Philly vibe abroad. Emily Savidge stops in.
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![Life’s ultimate goal: writer Kelly Conrad (left) performs with an improv teammate in ‘Not Yet Rated.’ (Image courtesy of Kelly Conrad.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Not_Yet_Rated_BSR_2_9_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=bd444c70ee1354b0908b85547ade0658)
On my Philly Valentine’s day, here’s what being a hopeless romantic really means
My own romantic comedy
In between performances of the annual ‘Not Yet Rated: An Improvised Rom-Com,’ writer and performer Kelly Conrad reflects on what romantic comedies have taught her about life.
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Can arts education save American democracy?
Creative intervention
As a parent, writer, and lover of the arts, Cass Lewis says we need an intervention of arts education to help prevent events likes the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
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![Thanks for the thanks. (Photo by Alan Tennyson, via Wikimedia Commons.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Thank_you_essential_workers_BSR_2_1_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=5cfeb891b76ea61c0a4124e3b6f4c19d)
Stop calling essential workers heroes and start actually helping us
The myth of the tireless worker
Michelle Nugent is an essential worker, not a hero. For everyone who wants to thank an essential worker today, she explains who the real heroes could be, if they stepped up.
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![A popular title. (Image courtesy of the author.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Eat_Drink_and_Remarry_BSR_1_18_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=69dc2443a4b196bc7a29ac03c0facd8d)
What happens when bringing up the truth just gets you blocked?
Trashed on Twitter for something I didn’t do
Twenty-one years ago, Roz Warren edited a book called ‘Eat, Drink and Remarry.’ Seven years ago, another author published a novel by the same title. So why did she accuse Roz of theft?
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![The freedom of existing without choreography: the writer takes a leap. (Photo courtesy of Cynthia Via.)](https://img.broadstreetreview.com/content/uploads/Dance_in_quarantine_BSR_1_12_21.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=169&q=80&w=300&s=877b92da9808533f3cd484839b6b9585)
How the pandemic helped me rediscover my lifelong love of dance
Ways to move around the world
The pandemic interrupted almost everything about our lives, but it gave writer Cynthia Via a chance to reconnect with a love for dance that had been there all along.
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