A year ago, I did a short interview with Rosemary Feal, then the Executive Director of the Modern Language Association, ahead of the group’s annual conference in Philadelphia. The interview was due to run in the Metro but never did. With a year passed and its hook gone, I run it here for all you [...]
More »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 [...]
More »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 [...]
More »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 [...]
More »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. [...]
More »By Christopher Wink and Mario F. Cattabiani | Jul 17, 2008 | Philadelphia Inquirer HARRISBURG – A week after 289 criminal charges were filed in a wide-ranging government corruption probe, a group of lawmakers yesterday called for a special legislative session devoted solely to restoring the public’s faith in Harrisburg. “There is a crisis of [...]
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Christopher Wink is the co-founder of publishing strategy firm Technically Media and its technology news site Technically Philly. In that capacity, I am a lead organizer of Philly Tech Week, BarCamp NewsInnovation and other events that bring smart people together. I also founded Story Shuffle and contribute to NEast Philly. On this site, I share my work and write about the future of news, social media and entrepreneurship. The opinions posted here, of course, are no one's but my own, and so should not reflect the organizations with which I work. I live in a distinct neighborhood of Philadelphia and am an alumnus of Temple University.
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