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Year 28, No. 31
Celebrating 28 Years of Community News
April 10 – April 16, 2013
FIND YOUR COMMUNITY Free Library’s Annual Book Festival Brings Author Ethan Gilsdorf Talks NEWS HERE! Literature to Life at Neighborhood Libraries “HOBBITS and HEROES” Novelists, journalists, children’s book authors, and more to visit all Free Library locations during National Library Week
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borhood library they call home. Additionally, special author information and select headlining podcasts will be available on the Library’s website and busiest “location” — www.freelibrary.org. Taking place during National Library week, April 14 - 20, 2013, the Festival will feature headlining author events in the Parkway Central Library every day as well as special author appearances in every neighborhood library throughout the week. A burst of books and inspiration, the week-long Philadelphia Book Festival embraces literacy, creativity, and the arts with a diverse array of free and ticketed events for all. Weeknight headline events at Parkway Central Library include*: Rachel Maddow | Sunday, April 14 – Irvine Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania – Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s award-winning 7:30 p.m. – Rachel Maddow “The Rachel Maddow Show” and the “New York Times” best- is the host of MSNBC’s awardselling author of “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military winning The Rachel Maddow Power.” See her Sunday, April 14 at Irvine Auditorium, Show and the New York Times University of Pennsylvania, 7:30 p.m. $25. Visit bestselling author of Drift: The www.freelibrary.org for details and tickets. Unmooring of American Military Power. Nancy Pearl | Monday, April 15 – Parkway his April, the Free Library of Philadelphia is taking its annual Phila- Central Library – 7:30 p.m. – Immortalized delphia Book Festival on the road, as an action figure, famed librarian and expert with events happening at each book recommender Nancy Pearl is republishof the Librar y’s 54 locations ing her most beloved, presently out-of-print throughout the city. Previously books in her new Book Lust Rediscoveries held only at the Parkway Central Library, the series. Ken Kalfus and James Salter | Tuesday, seventh annual Book Festival will now expand to every Free Library location, giving mem- April 16 – Parkway Central Library – 7:30 p.m. bers of all Philadelphia communities the chance – Ken Kalfus’s novel Equilateral is a sly comto enjoy incredible author events at the neighSee Free Library’s Annual Book Festival on page 10
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Brings Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks to Bryn Mawr April 16
Photo/Meg Birnbaum
Author Ethan Gilsdorf reads from his book and shows images from his adventures in a slide/lecture talk entitled: “HOBBITS HEROES GAMERS GEEKS: What Explains the Rise of Fantasy, Gaming and Role-Playing Subcultures?” on Tuesday, April 16 at 4:30 p.m. at Bryn Mawr College. ome commune with your inner fantasy fan or gaming geek with Ethan Gilsdorf, author of the travel memoir/ pop culture narrative “FANTASY FREAKS AND GAMING GEEKS: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.” Gilsdorf reads from the book and shows images from his adventures in a slide/lecture talk entitled: “HOBBITS HEROES GAMERS GEEKS: What Explains the Rise of Fantasy, Gaming and Role-Playing Subcultures?” on Tuesday, April 16 at 4:30 p.m. in Thomas 224, Bryn Mawr College. Gilsdorf will also read an excerpt from “Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks,” and the event will end with a Q&A and book signing. The event is free, and sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Departments of History & English at Bryn Mawr College.
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See Author Ethan Gilsdorf Speaks at Bryn Mawr College on page 4
Philly Drum Project and World Cafe Live Present Loop 2.4.3 and Ari Hoenig, with Special Guests orld Cafe Live welcomes the Philly Drum Project for their OneYear Anniversary celebration, and a night of cutting-edge music, with percussion, improvisation, and....melody, at its core. NYC indie-classical duo Loop 2.4.3 will perform music from their critically-acclaimed release, American Dreamland, while Philadelphia-bred drummer Ari Hoenig leads his jazz trio in a set of new compositions. Also on the program is the Rob Brosh and Will Alpers drumset duo. Loop 2.4.3 and Ari Hoenig perform at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, 19104. Tickets are $15 general admis-
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sion, $10 for students and seniors. Open to all ages. Though they perform in quite different styles, Ari Hoenig and Loop 2.4.3 share a passion for playing the drums melodically. There Loop 2.4.3 (shown) and Ari Hoenig perform at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23 at World Cafe Live, in Philadelphia. Photo/Dan Gottesman will be plenty of grooves and complex rhythmic interplay in both sets, but the breadth of melodic percussion may be the most surprising thing at Philly Drum Project’s OneYear Anniversary. See Philly Drum Project on page 6