Friends of the Rail Park, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter announce a new collaborative project to take place this fall: Site/Sound: Revealing the Rail Park. Site/Sound will be a unique happening taking place over three weeks in October 2019, weaving together the experiences of sight and sound along the spine of the historic Reading Railroad.
Visionary director and AFI Conservatory alumnus David Lynch (Class of 1970) will receive an Honorary Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
The Rail Park is Turning One! Join Friends of The Rail Park as we celebrate in style!Friday, June 14, 2019The Patio at Spring Arts10th & Hamilton Streets6 PM to 8 PMEnjoy summer fun at this unique outdoor lounge and urban oasis nestled under the viaduct just two blocks from the entrance to the Rail Park. ~Featuring~Aperol Hour from 6PM-7PM w/$8 Aperol SpritzesSummer DJ Vibes by TSOTWading Pools~Plus~Mention the code word “Rail Park” at the bar and enjoy$3 Love City Lager Cans$6 Pink Flamingo Cocktails ~Kindly Note, The Patio~Is 21+Does not permit petsIs CASH ONLY with an ATM on-siteDoes not permit outside food~Rain Location~The Trestle Inn11th & Callowhill Streets
It Gets Better by Nicole Nikolich (aka Lace in the Moon) Beneath the Reading Viaduct 401 N 11th St Philadelphia, PA Copyright 2018, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
We were passing by the other day and saw what looked like a demolition notice posted to the building, but we didn’t stop to take a closer look, figuring we’d take a peek at public record. We confess, we don’t know what the sign is for, but we do now see that the plans for the property extend well beyond storage uses. Back in March, the owners of the property applied for a zoning permit to convert the building into a restaurant. And this squares with a Philly.com story from several months ago, announcing that Michael Pasquarello, owner of nearby Cafe Lift and Prohibition Taproom, would be opening a restaurant inspired by cuisine from the Mexican city Mexicali, home to a sizable Chinese population. It may have taken a little while, but now it appears that restaurant is finally moving forward.
We were passing by the other day and saw what looked like a demolition notice posted to the building, but we didn’t stop to take a closer look, figuring we’d take a peek at public record. We confess, we don’t know what the sign is for, but we do now see that the plans for the property extend well beyond storage uses. Back in March, the owners of the property applied for a zoning permit to convert the building into a restaurant. And this squares with a Philly.com story from several months ago, announcing that Michael Pasquarello, owner of nearby Cafe Lift and Prohibition Taproom, would be opening a restaurant inspired by cuisine from the Mexican city Mexicali, home to a sizable Chinese population. It may have taken a little while, but now it appears that restaurant is finally moving forward.
Have you tried yoga before? Try it for the first time or the 100th time at this bilingual Spanish/English yoga series at the Rail Park! Discover new movements and breathing techniques to relax and unwind from your day.Tuesdays, May 28 – July 26-7pmThe Rail Park Phase I (1300 Noble St)Recommended $5 donation, but we will never turn anyone away. All proceeds go to supporting the maintenance of the Rail Park and free community programming! Please bring a mat. Space is limited: we strongly recommend you reserve a spot through Ticketleap. About Roots2Rise Wellness: A local 501c3 inspiring strength of thought, body and community through yoga and mindfulness. By offering classes in Philadelphia neighborhoods where people live and work, Roots2Rise facilitates neighbors meeting neighbors in common, positive activity with the goal of fostering relationships and positive outcomes for the community. In 2018, Roots2Rise taught over 700 classes. Many of those classes occurred in unserved communities. Communities which does not have access to wellness services.About Friends of the Rail Park: We are the nonprofit that drives the vision behind the transformation of historic rail lines that traver
You can now share all the history and the mystery of the Eraserhood with your friends and loved ones! This attractive 178 page volume photographically documents the look and feel of Philadelphia in and around the Callowhill Industrial Historic District as it was in the years between 2007 and 2014. Revised and expanded text discusses life in Callowhill as it is in the 21st century as well as how the neighborhood influenced painter and filmmaker David Lynch in the late 1960s.
Music: “Steam Driven” from “Eraserpunk Suites” by Bob Bruhin http://ehood.us/5Ph
Rail Park activist and cofounder Sarah McEneaney continues to draw on her everyday life for the paintings in her “Callowhill” show at Locks Gallery, named after the artist’s longtime neighborhood. What’s different here is that McEneaney is offering a longer, broader view than ever.
W/N W/N always seemed to be ahead of its time. It debuted on the corner of 10th and Spring Garden Streets in 2014 — crowdfunded into existence as a cooperatively owned coffee shop and bar in slow-developing Callowhill (a neighborhood nicknamed “Eraserhood” after David Lynch made its empty, post-industrial eeriness famous in his ’70s horror flick, Eraserhead). It was one of the city’s first all-day cafés way before all-day cafés were everywhere. It gave Detroit-style pizza a home in Philly way before Detroit-style pizza was everywhere (Pizza Gutt is opening a shop in Kensington, by the way). It was a hybrid coffee bar way before hybrid coffee bars were everywhere. Former co-owner Michael Dunican says that while the ownership structure never changed from the bar’s inception, “the only lasting truth is Change. It was time for a change.”
The city’s best new pubic space or a Trojan Horse for real estate investors. Some residents of Callowhill worries that the Rail Park will become a driver of displacement and that the creation of a development-minded Business Improvement District will prohibitively increase rent and property taxes. | Photo: Bob Bruhin
Chinatown North? Callowhill? Spring Arts? Loft District? Eraserhood? In a neighborhood that can’t agree on what it should be called, how will they decide who, if anyone, should have the power to tax and spend in the name of business and community development?
Come celebrate how far the Rail Park has come during a Members Happy Hour hosted by Love City Brewing! Meet the Friends of the Rail Park team, and fellow members and park lovers, while getting a first look at all the exciting things we’re up to this spring and summer. First drink’s on us!
Three weeks after the third season of Twin Peaks concluded in September 2017, a unique audiovisual tribute to its director was presented by the Russian underground label kultFRONT at the Angleterre Cinema Lounge in the very heart of St. Petersburg. The night’s dark electronic music was distilled from kultFRONT’s previously released David Lynch tribute compilations, The Owls Are Not What They Seem and Now It’s Dark, while visuals sourced from Twin Peaks among other things were manipulated in real-time by VJ Yuri Elik and projected on a big screen.
Today, the label is sharing the recording of that performance with the world; ELECTRICITY: David Lynch Tribute Live is now available on a limited edition cassette and as a digital download. The edition is supplemented with a bonus track, a remix by Svetlo111 on the track “Lynch” by DMT, which kicked off the Russian David Lynch Tribute 10 years ago.
Join Jared, Ryan, Austin, and Adam to discuss David Lynch’s Eraserhead! Subscribe to WisecrackPLUS http://wscrk.com/SMtMpls Email us at movies@wisecrack.co Special Guest: Adam Kovic from the Filmhaus podcast – http://wscrk.com/FlmHsSmtM Follow Us! @wisecrack (Jared) @austin_hayden (Austin) @ryansgameshow (Ryan) @adamkovic (Adam) Other Wisecrack Podcasts! The Maze (Westworld): https://wscrk.com/ituTheMaze The Squanch (Rick and Morty): http://wscrk.com/WisecrackPodcast Respect Our Authoritah! (South Park): http://wscrk.com/ituRoAWC Thug Notes: Get Lit: http://wscrk.com/ituGetLit
In an interview this weekend, film director, musician, and painter David Lynch let it slip that the famously mysterious “the owls are not what they seem” proclamation from the second season of his 1990-91 hit series Twin Peaks was a deliberate reference to Temple University.
“Back when I was living on Aspen Street,” Lynch admits, “I used to look out our rear window at the lights from Temple a few blocks to the northeast. It seemed like another world, a place both wonderful and strange when compared to the sick, twisted, violent, fear-ridden, decadent, decaying neighborhood where Peggy and I lived at the time.”
It seems memories of that time were on his mind when he and Mark Frost were writing the Season 2 scripts, and the reference crept in almost without Lynch realizing it.
On Wednesday, March 27 from 6 PM – 9 PM, head over to The Trestle Inn for their 7th Annual Bourbon Battle, which will benefit the PSPCA as bartenders battle it out with Woodford Reserve Bourbon.
Over the course of thirteen on-demand lessons exclusive to the MasterClass platform, David Lynch teaches his unconventional process for translating visionary ideas into film and other art forms. At your own pace and from anywhere in the world, you can watch David Lynch’s classes, download a class-specific workbook, connect and share ideas with fellow classmates and occasionally submit your video questions to the class Q&A. Some questions will be selected to be answered directly by the director, so join soon if you don’t want to miss out on that rare opportunity.
Between the beautiful weather, the Backyard Barbecue at The Trestle Inn (featuring sidewalk burlesque by Bella Tricks), and the “Sweet Lovin"” Proposition Tent sponsored by Fringe Arts, Philadelphia’s post-industrial “Eraserhood” neighborhood was filled with light, love, and beauty this lovely July First Friday. — Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters: Operator: Mantiuk08 Parameters: Luminance Level: Auto Color Saturation: 1 Contrast Enhancement: 1 —— PreGamma: 1
Saturday, April 27, 2019 at 1 PM – 3 PMWhen David Lynch moved to Philadelphia in the late 1960s to attend PAFA, he discovered a city that was both terrifying and inspiring. Explore the neighborhood just blocks away from PAFA that so electrified Lynch’s imagination with two guides: Hidden City’s Peter Woodall and Bob Bruhin, photographer and author of “Walking the Eraserhood” (https://ehood.us/walking ). During this one-and-a-half hour walking tour, we’ll delve into the area’s industrial history, as well as the sights and sounds that inspired Lynch’s movies, particularly Eraserhead.
Between the beautiful weather, the Backyard Barbecue at The Trestle Inn (featuring sidewalk burlesque by Bella Tricks), and the “Sweet Lovin"” Proposition Tent sponsored by Fringe Arts, Philadelphia’s post-industrial “Eraserhood” neighborhood was filled with light, love, and beauty this lovely July First Friday. — Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters: Operator: Mantiuk08 Parameters: Luminance Level: Auto Color Saturation: 1 Contrast Enhancement: 1 —— PreGamma: 1
10th Street at Ridge Ave Philadelphia, PA Copyright 2014, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved. (prints via fork.cc/1Owzyql) —— Luminance HDR 2.3.0 tonemapping parameters: Operator: Fattal Parameters: Alpha: 1 Beta: 0.9 Color Saturation: 1 Noise Reduction: 0 —— PreGamma: 1
