Posted
9:06 AM
by Gene
RENDELLISM AT WORK (or, KNIGHTRIDDER PLAYS GEORGE F. BABBITT -- AGAIN):The number of nonprofit arts and cultural groups in Philadelphia and its four surrounding Pennsylvania counties nearly doubled in the last 10 years, rising from 523 in 1995 to 999 in 2004. Their gross receipts: more than $1 billion a year. [Emphasis added.]
And how many businesses have fled Philadelphia in the last ten years?
"There is more cultural vibrancy possibly than ever before!"TRANSLATION: There are more mimes than ever before. If our CULTURE is so VIBRANT why has the FORREST THEATER (which is surely an INTERGRAL part of our CULTURE machine) remained DARK for MONTHS? And why hasn't the BOYD THEATER been renovated yet? I thought this was supposed to be an engine to allow for more janitors and waiters and bellhops and maids to fuel the 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMY, EDDIE!