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Glenn Close The Deliverance
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THE DELIVERANCE
At the Franklin S. Edmonds Elementary School, the first day of school started off in a celebratory fashion as school officials, teachers, and parents kicked off the academic school year ‘ringing the bell’🔔. #firstdayofschool #schooldistrictofphiladelphia
THE DELIVERANCE
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Film - A Thousand and One
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Film - A Thousand and One
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 2 AM EDT MONDAY... * WHAT...Northeast winds 10 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and choppy waters expected. * WHERE...Pamlico and Pungo Rivers. * WHEN...From 8 AM this morning to 2 AM EDT Monday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions. &&
Film Review - A Thousand and One
This image released by Focus Features shows Aaron Kingsley Adetola, top, and Will Catlett in a scene from "A Thousand and One." (Focus Features via AP)
Film Review - A Thousand and One
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Northeast winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and rough waters expected. * WHERE...Pamlico, Pungo, Neuse, and Bay Rivers. * WHEN...From 11 PM this evening to 10 AM EDT Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions. &&
Film Review - A Thousand and One
This image released by Focus Features shows Teyana Taylor in a scene from "A Thousand and One." (Focus Features via AP)
'Concrete Cowboy' shows Philadelphia's Black cowboy culture
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Billy Joel, Kittydelphia, East Passyunk Car Show and Street Festival, and other events in Philadelphia, July 27-August 3
Strike a downward dog, chow down on nourishing food, get a health screening, and more at the Pennsylvania Care Health Fest, taking over Penn’s Landing this Saturday. The all-afternoon and evening festival also features a kids carnival and Double Dutch competition, welcoming those of all ages to join in the fun.
Here Is What You Missed at Rolling Loud 2017
Rolling Loud has truly gained momentum since launching in Wynwood only three years ago. In its biggest year to date, Future, Kendrick Lamar, and Travis Scott were announced ealier this year as the headliners, things just took fire. It’s been heralded as the best hip-hop festival in the game, even better than Rock The Bells (R.I.P.). In Miami, the annual event has become known as the “Ultra Music Festival of hip-hop.” It wasn’t as wild as the infamous EDM festival, but it definitely came close.
Review: Rolling Loud 2017 is a sold out success with a lot to learn about the festival game (w/photos)
As 40,000 people descended on Biscayne Boulevard and packed the streets of downtown Miami, the third annual run of Rolling Loud had much to deliver. Back in February, we praised the festival for it’s star-studded lineup. With rap titans Kendrick Lamar and Future at the helm, Rolling Loud seemed to book every up and coming, relevant rap act to fill out the undercard. This wasn’t to say that the lineup was without controversy.
Philly museum CEO's tales from the bankruptcy brink
One time it came down to 48 hours for Please Touch Museum CEO Patricia "Trish" Wellenbach, who has spent the last couple of years at the tables of organizations in dire financial stress. organizations have struggled with financial distress. "In my last organization, we were 48 hours away from filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy," she told me during our Executive Q&A interview published in Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer.
Philly bankruptcy trustee weighed in hiring Please Touch Museum's CEO
When Patricia "Trish" Wellenbach got the nod to lead the Please Touch Museum, the Office of the United States Trustee in Philadelphia, which oversees bankruptcies, had to weigh in. (Click here to read an Inquirer story about the trustee's involvement.) That's because Wellenbach's fiance, Dilworth Paxon partner Lawrence McMichael, was representing the museum in its bankruptcy.
Philly CEO: Women leaders need to claim credit, not just accept blame
Good leaders own up when things go badly, but they also can claim it when it goes well. But, for some reason, women leaders are reluctant to do that, said Patricia "Trish" Wellenbach, chief executive of the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia. Later this month, it be all about women in leadership in Philadelphia when Hillary Clinton becomes the official Democratic party nominee for U.S. president.
Patricia Wellenbach on grown-up challenges of children's museum
Patricia "Trish" Wellenbach, 59, leads a children's museum, but the financial situation the Please Touch Museum found itself in last year was not child's play. Driven into bankruptcy trying to cover costs incurred in its 2008 move from Center City to Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park, the museum owed $60 million.
Nursing a new generation of health workers: A union program provides a pipeline
Amir Showell, 15, wants to be a dermatologist when he grows up. "I'm interested in whiteheads, blackheads," said Showell, whose teenaged complexion, by the way, is clear of all the above. Too bad U.S. Health and Human Services official J. Nadine Gracia wasn't at Philadelphia's Roxborough High School last week to meet Showell, who, as a freshman, personifies the aims of a $6.4 million federal project spearheaded by her office.
Denise Morrison on Campell's freshest mission
The continuing conversation on Campbell Soup Co. turns on how this classic food company, built on canned condensed soup, can respond to the trend toward fresh and organic. "I've bought companies in response to the seismic shifts - the consumer preference for food and health and well-being, and a gravitation toward more fresh and natural and organic," said Denise Morrison, 62, Campbell Soup's chief executive.
Inquirer editorial: After Orlando, no time to be timid on gun control
Show of hands: Who really believes the murders of 49 adults celebrating Latino night at the self-described "hottest gay bar in Orlando" will give a Republican-controlled Congress any more incentive to pass significant gun control legislation than the murders of 26 children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school did four years ago? That's not to say Congress won't pass anything in light of the human toll Sunday at Pulse nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
Inquirer editorial: Fizzy formula of new soda tax
A funny thing happened on the way to City Council's expected approval of Mayor Kenney's sugary-drinks tax for pre-K: It ceased to be a sugary-drinks tax for pre-K. Granted, the city still means to tax sweetened beverages to pay for more prekindergarten. But officials also plan to use the revenue to cover city employee benefits, shore up reserves, and pay for a host of other pet projects and causes, the Inquirer reported this week.
Clash of the workers' comp titans, and the adman behind it
It didn't take 30 minutes for Kurt Shore to pick up the phone after his Manayunk advertising agency lost the account for Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano, a workers' compensation law firm. Samuel Pond's chief rival: his former partner in the business of workers' comp law, George Martin. "That's the advertising business," Shore said.
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