Last month, the Devon Theater, a professional production house in a working-class neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, canceled the final half of its inaugural season due to state budget constraints.
In going through some documents of mine, I found, perhaps prophetically, a story that never was from back in March when the Devon first reopened. Originally planned [...]
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He was an ogre of man, slimy, rat-toothed and overbearing, with day old five o’clock shadow and a crunch of black hair falling out of a sun-weathered red trucker hat.
This man, maybe 45, was propped up on the aged bar of Quinn’s Irish Pub II, a neighborhood drinking establishment with so colorful a stable [...]
I was able to humanize a bit the standard spot news metro fire story yesterday, when I covered a five-alarm blaze in the Burholme section of Northeast Philadelphia for Metro.
It wasn’t the fire and it wasn’t the screaming but God who woke up Naja Wigglesworth early Sunday morning, the 23-year-old says.
She was on the second [...]
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 [...]
By Christopher Wink | May 08, 2008
One week from yesterday three strangers riding beside me on the 3 bus will be dead.
But I can’t know it. It hasn’t happened, and I’ve never spoken to them before and won’t in the future. To tell you the truth, I didn’t even like know they were there, except [...]
Christopher Wink is the marketing director of Back on My Feet, a homeless advocacy nonprofit based in Center City Philadelphia. A resident of the Fishtown neighborhood, I am also co-founder of Technically Philly, a news site that covers technology and innovation for the region, and Web editor and business manager for NEast Philly, a hyperlocal news site for Northeast Philadelphia. I also maintain a freelance writing and editing portfolio. On this site, I share clips 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 my employer.
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