ON STAGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE – A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT TODAY’S CONCERT SCENE
BY RICH PIETRAS PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIM HENDRICKS AND BRANDEE NICHOLS Not since Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 has the music industry gone through seismic changes as powerful as those it’s experienced in the last few years and continues to manage. Depending on where you fall on the demographic scale, the days of...
THE END IS NEAR – THE REAL LESSON OF THE COMING MAYAN APOCALYPSE
BY ADAM PAULUS As we greet yet another new year, the latest trendy apocalypse has finally arrived. The topic of countless books, articles and movies already, a cultural flood of potential end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenarios have already been attributed to a calendar glitch. Even former-Phillie great Darren Daulton can be counted among the believers. 2012 has come,...
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE LOCAL KIND – LIGHTS IN AREA SKIES
By R.P. Webster | Photos Courtesy of John Ventre UFO. The now-famous acronym dates back to the early 1950s, when a United States Air Force (USAF) captain, Edward Ruppelt, coined the phrase “Unidentified Flying Object” to describe unexplained sightings in the sky. Also dubbed flying saucers and foo fighters by the military during World War...
