More than a year ago, I handled a half dozen interviews and a couple rewrites on a story for the Inquirer that covered what Philadelphia workplaces will look like in the future. As is sometimes the case, it never found its home in print. The story’s primary timeliness has been lost, but I think it [...]

A full-length travel story of mine focused on the five year anniversary of CouchSurfing.com at first destined for the Philadelphia Inquirer last January never found a home there. After a back and forth, I went another direction and it got a tad stale for the daily’s travel editor. So, because I’ve shared other stories that [...]

Why an influx of dogs are often a sign of a neighborhood in change is the focus of my story for the Style & Soul section of today’s Inquirer. Dogs may not have caused Northern Liberties to change from blighted to trendy, but they sure were a sign that change was coming. Twenty years ago, [...]

I cover the secret passions of a handful of Pennsylvania Ballet dancers in a story for the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday. It was last summer when Brooke Moore figured she and her father had probably scared away a mountain lion. The deer they discovered was freshly killed, its leg just torn off; there were no bugs [...]

The Devon Theater‘s proud reopening on Frankford Avenue in Mayfair was detailed in yesterday’s Sunday Inquirer by theatre critic Howie Shapiro and me. About 400 people, dressed for a gala, will take their seats Friday evening in what once was a dilapidated Frankford Avenue movie house. Three women in nun’s habits will pop up, administering [...]

Devon artistic director Michael Pickering oversees a rehearsal of “Nunsense,” the inaugural show for the new theater. AMANDA CEGIELSKI / Staff Photographer By Howie Shapiro and Christopher Wink | Philadelphia Inquirer | March 22, 2009 About 400 people, dressed for a gala, will take their seats Friday evening in what once was a dilapidated Frankford [...]

Devon artistic director Michael Pickering oversees a rehearsal of “Nunsense,” the inaugural show for the new theater. AMANDA CEGIELSKI / Staff Photographer By Howie Shapiro and Christopher Wink | Philadelphia Inquirer | March 22, 2009 About 400 people, dressed for a gala, will take their seats Friday evening in what once was a dilapidated Frankford [...]

I try to tackle the contrast between contracting libraries in Philadelphia and a surge in library-sciences programs at regional colleges in a story for today’s Style & Soul section of the Philadelphia Inquirer. You might think librarians are going the way of card catalogs. After all, many of Philadelphia’s Free Library branches are on the [...]

By Christopher Wink | Tue, Feb. 24, 2009 | Philadelphia Inquirer On Valentine’s Day, Pennsylvania Ballet staff members stood in the Merriam Theater’s lobby handing out coasters that bore what might have seemed a strange suggestion coming from an arts organization: Go to our YouTube channel. What the mostly graying matinee audience made of the [...]

I was interested to cover the convergence of social networks and fine arts institutions in a story running in today’s Inquirer. While it focuses on Philadelphia examples, there are broader implications, I think. On Valentine’s Day, Pennsylvania Ballet staff members stood in the Merriam Theater’s lobby handing out coasters that bore what might have seemed [...]