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Year 28, No. 41
Celebrating 28 Years of Community News
June 19 – June 25, 2013
M. Night Shyamalan at the Kimmel “Jazz at Jacobs” on Make Music Philly Day Center June 28 “Close Encounters with Carrie Rickey” Conversation part of “Close Encounters with Carrie Rickey.” Born in India and raised in the Philadelphia suburb of Penn Valley, Shyamalan has directed nine films that have done nearly $2 billion worldwide. His tenth, “After Earth,” a post-apocalyptic thriller starring Will Smith and his son, Jaden, opened May 31. Next up in 2014 is “Wayward Pines,” a 10-part Fox television series based on Blake Crouch’s bestselling thriller. Shyamalan is an acclaimed director, writer and executive producer. His suspenseful movies, often shot in Philadelphia, wrestle with spiritual and supernatural themes frequently focusing on how people work through tragedy to heal family ruptures. They have earned Shyamalan a reputation as the heir to Alfred Hitchcock. He is an alumnus of Waldron Mercy Academy, Episcopal Academy, and New York University’s The Tisch School. Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense” Raised in the Philadelphia suburb of Penn Valley, M. Night was the runaway hit of 1999, Shyamalan will share clips from his movies and take the same year, his adapted questions from the audience and film critic Carrie Rickey screenplay of the E.B. White on June 28, 7 p.m., at the Perelman Theater in The classic, “Stuart Little,” was released. Like his influence Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Steven Spielberg, Shyamalan ickets are now available for an began making films at 10 when his father gave evening with M. Night Shyamalan, him a Bell & Howell Super-8 camera. “Praying with Anger,” his feature debut, the Oscar-nominated director of such award-winning films as was made for $750,000 after his graduation “The Sixth Sense” and “Signs.” from NYU. General admission: $20; student tickets: $10. Shyamalan will share clips from his movies and take questions from the audi- Tickets are available at The Kimmel Center ence and film critic Carrie Rickey on June box office at Broad and Spruce Streets. To 28, 7 p.m., at the Perelman Theater in The buy tickets online: www.kimmelcenter.org/ Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. This events/. To buy tickets by telephone: Call is the third in the series of interviews that is 215-893-1999.
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Free Music All Day Long Planned in Cooperation with Philadelphia Jazz Project – June 21
Suzzette Ortiz, a resident of Pennsauken, NJ, is a gifted pianist, singer, arranger and composer. She will perform a free concert at 3 p.m. at Jacobs Music on June 21.
new program is being launched at Jacobs Music Company created in honor of the city-wide celebration Make Music Philly Day on Friday, June 21. “Jazz at Jacobs,” planned in cooperation with The Philadelphia Jazz Project, is an eight-hour marathon of live, jazz piano music taking place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Al Rinaldi, Chairman and CEO of Jacobs Music Company, headquartered at 1718 Chestnut Street, has always wanted to present “Jazz at Jacobs.” Make Music Philly Day, when there will be free music performances in multiple indoor and outdoor facilities throughout the city provides the ideal opportunity to realize this vision. At Jacobs’ flagship art-deco Chestnut Street building, one of six Jacobs Music locations, “Jazz at Jacobs” performances will take place in the Steinway Recital Hall. There will also be outdoor performances with the “Sidewalk Serenade,” an eclectic mix of musical genres. Homer Jackson, Director of Philadelphia Jazz Project, lined up a diverse spectrum of master jazz pianists of varying styles to perform on a Steinway & Sons Concert Grand piano in the Recital Hall, every hour on the hour beginning at 11 a.m. In addition, Rinaldi, who is also a recording artist, is performing at 5 p.m. with renowned pianist Domenic Cicchetti, who was Liza Minelli’s pianist and arranger for 15
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July 9 at Free Event at the Academy ocal urban agriculture and sustainability advocate Jon McGoran will launch his newest novel at a free event Tuesday, July 9, at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. The event begins at 6:30 p.m., with McGoran reading from his book Drift, followed by a public reception and book signing. Local environmental and sustainability organizations relevant to the issues covered in the book will be on hand. Monarch butterflies figure prominently in the book, and the Academy’s famed live butterfly exhibit will be open. The event is free, but registration is requested. To register, visit http://jonmcgoran-ans.eventbrite.com/. McGoran, of Elkins Park, is the author of the forensic crime thrillers Freezer Burn, Blood Poison and Body Trace, written under the pen name D.H. Dublin. Drift, the first novel under his real name, is a timely literary crime thriller about a Philadelphia narcotics detective on suspension and an organic farmer who together confront a deadly plot involving genetic engineering and the blurring line between food and pharmaceuticals. It is being published by
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Tor/Forge Books and will be released on the day of the event. “As a fan of thrillers with evil plots, I can’t help noticing how the news about food in recent years has read like a science fiction novel, with transgenics, cloning, irradiation, and the release of genetiMeet author Jon McGoran at the launch of his new ecological thriller, “Drift,” Tuesday, July 9, at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. cally engineered foods into the environment,” said McGoran. “These are ideas I just had to write about in Drift.” McGoran has been writing about food and sustainability for 20 years. Until recently, he was the communications director at Weavers Way Co-op in Philadelphia’s West Mt. Airy neighborhood and editor of The Shuttle newspaper. Now editor-in-chief of Grid magazine, he is an outspoken advocate for urban agriculture, cooperative development, and labeling See Meet Author Jon McGoran on page 4