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, when Frances [...]

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 and the [...]

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 parochial-school [...]

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 Avenue [...]

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 Avenue [...]

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 chopping block [...]

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 invitation to [...]

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 a [...]

By Christopher Wink | Feb. 4, 2009 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Thomas Schuler is a man.
Since October, he also has been without a job, a combination of characteristics that some say comes with distinct disadvantages.
That’s because unemployment affects men differently than women – research shows joblessness often is emotionally harder for men to bear. And with the [...]

I have a clip in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer on the emotional effects unemployment can have on men.
Thomas Schuler is a man.
Since October, he also has been without a job, a combination of characteristics that some say comes with distinct disadvantages. Read the rest here.
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