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READERS’ CHOICE AWARDS ■ The voting for
the 2013 Readers’ Choice Awards is coming to a close 10 a.m. Feb. 28. There are new categories, returning favorites and the chance to win $100. See ballot on page 41.
■ OK, the secret is out. East Passyunk Avenue has established itself as a Philadelphia dining mec-ca thanks to some e positive publicity, in-cluding a little noto-riety from Zagat, the e popular restaurantt rating source. See e page 27.
SPORTS
Reyes of light A Whitma Whitman an rresident esident will have her artist artistic tic w work ork honored at a Center-City ceremony. ■ By Joseph Myers R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
M A Marconi girls’ basketball team clinched its third straight region title and undefeated season.
any artists depend on despondency for inspiration, and though Denise Reyes understands their penchant for relying on despair, she prefers picking positive topics to motivate her right hand. Sunday’s visitors to Center City’s Philadelphia Sketch Club will see her insistence on joy, as the
18-year-old senior at Horace Furness High School, 1900 S. Third St., will receive an artistic excellence commendation for a vibrant self-portrait at the 29th annual High School Art Show. The recognition will mark the second-straight year the Pennsport institution has had an honoree and will give the local creator more cause to celebrate life’s levity. “I try to make uplifting work,” the resident of the 100 block of Gladstone Street said Friday at her secondary site. “I usually focus on traditions from
Denise Reyes, who calls on memories of Mexico as inspiration for her work, is the artist behind Furness High School’s most recent honor from the Philadelphia Sketch Club. Staff Photo by Greg Bezanis
Mexico and put in cartoon-like elements for fun.” As her father had already been working in the United States, Reyes, her mother and brother moved from Monterrey, Mexico nearly three years ago and settled in Whitman. With no artistic background or inclination, she soon found her lessons at Furness enthralling, with teacher Meredith McDonald encouraging each stroke. See SKETCH CLUB page 10 >>
44 Chalking it up A Point Breeze facility has reinstituted classes for those lacking a high school diploma. 8