Julia Sneeringer

Thanks to a million dollar grant, Mother Bethel AME may soon have air-conditioning in its sanctuary and other much-needed repairs The historic site was one of five chosen by African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund's Black Churches Project.

Thanks to a million dollar grant, Mother Bethel AME may soon have air-conditioning in its sanctuary and other much-needed repairs www.inquirer.com/arts/mother-...

Or you could call it a pause gourmand #fancy

Old man sitting on wooden chair in front of hearth, his head held in his hands in pose of sadness, melancholy, and/or grief

Vincent van Gogh, Worn Out, 1882 www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

wish I coulda seen that

Here's me discussing it with the wonderful Ran Zwigenberg for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/west-germany

National Park Service removing a slavery exhibit

“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto “Ignorance is Strength,” this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truth when it domain over historical facts. It does not.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the slavery exhibit that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia

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Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.

What’s with the fiery pentagram?

SCTV - HIGH Q with ALEX TREBEL (St. Anthony’s Collegiate vs. Parkdale High) YouTube video by TVOR - The Voice of Reason

Godspeed #CatherineOHara youtu.be/TFDXuzePkUk

I’m scared

Sharpie, colored paper, and sandwich boards become resistance art at the President’s House site Philly area activists show their opposition to the removal of the slavery exhibit at The President's House through public art.

Sharpie, colored paper, and sandwich boards become resistance art at the President’s House site share.inquirer.com/3AgMrM

Cover of Sarah Hill, San Francisco and the Long 60s

If you’re looking for some good academic writing on the #GratefulDead Sarah Hill’s San Francisco & the Long 60s is a good place to start @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #RIPBobWeir

Not Bobby Weir 😭

#archivethis

Can Pittsburgh rally to save its newspaper? | Opinion After the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced plans to close, colleagues asked me what could be done to rescue the paper. Recent local news investments in Philly and Baltimore may provide an answer.

Can Pittsburgh rally to save its newspaper? @jayrosen.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Neonstaub: Doku über das alte St. Pauli In fünf Episoden erzählt die Doku die lebhafte Geschichte des Hamburger Stadtteils und seiner weltberühmten Amüsiermeile.

Die Dokuserie "Neonstaub" erzählt eine lebhafte Chronik von Hamburgs Hafenviertel St. Pauli und seiner weltberühmten Amüsiermeile. Exklusive Zeitzeugen und zuvor nie gezeigtes Material sorgen für eine intime Perspektive auf den Kiez der späten 1950er- bis zum Anfang der 1990er-Jahre. #StPauli

(Shelf life of this post less than 48 hours 😭)

Happy 1st birthday to #CongestionPricing! 
 
Subway ridership is ⬆️ traffic is ⬇️ and New York City is breathing easier.

Between #Mamdani’s inauguration and a real live wedding in the #Mummers parade, 2026 has me feeling upbeat 🤠

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The Best of Neon 2025:
An Umlaut and an Eszett.

not that the present economic picture is rosy, but i do think that popular culture — and specifically nostalgia bait television — is a big part of the reason that our public memory of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s seems to miss the real economic pain that marked each of those decades.

Peanuts' Schroeder swoons over bust of Beethoven

Listening to all the #Beethoven symphonies today. Dude was pretty good.

Congratulations!

Atlantic City wind farm, once opposed, has saved $8.8 million in the last two decades That wind farm, once opposed for fears of noise, aesthetics, and worries over Shore birds, turns 20 on Friday.

Atlantic City wind farm, once opposed, has saved $8.8 million in the last two decades www.inquirer.com/news/new-jer...

The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.

👀 “…largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation…” gothamist.com/news/the-new...

So did I! It was a performance for high school kids and they gave us teaching materials. I used to teach it in my Europe post-45 class 🤓 #sydbarrett

The Philadelphia theater shaped by late, legendary playwright Tom Stoppard Blanka Zizka cofounded the Wilma Theater which staged several plays of Stoppard's plays. “He was very much a strong part of what the Wilma was,” she said.

God bless the #WilmaTheater : The Philadelphia theater shaped by late, legendary playwright Tom Stoppard www.inquirer.com/arts/theater...

Marra’s, Philadelphia’s oldest pizzeria, has closed after 98 years on East Passyunk Avenue www.inquirer.com/food/restaur...

NANCY 'S FAVORITE PART OF THE TURKEY ON THANKSGIVING IS THE LEG, SO SHE TOLD SLUGGO THAT A TURKEY WITH EIGHT LEGS WOULD BE THE BEST THANKSGIVING TURKEY.

NANCY PANEL BY
ERNIE BUSHMILLER