Philly
20
Aug
Heading back
[A shorter, modified version of this statement will appear in the Fall 2008 edition of Jazz Notes, the quarterly journal of the Jazz Journalists Association.] New York remains an unparalleled cultural mecca, but there’s really something to be said for getting out of town. In April 2007, for reasons pertaining to marriage, I moved to Philadelphia, immersing myself in another
30
Jul
Give us your poor…
My Philadelphia Weekly story on Matt Davis touched on City of Arrivals, Davis’s reverie on the immigrant experience in Philadelphia. With that fresh in mind I came across this story in the Inquirer, about Bintou Soumare and her husband, Amissi Ndikumasabo (above), Malian immigrants who opened a clothing store in North Philly, saving up money in the hope of bringing their