Jonathan Laidacker News Today

TURBOTVILLE — It’s been 10 years since Jonathan Laidacker designed and painted the mural on Warrior Run Middle School, with help from district students.

Mural Arts and Philadelphia Ballet are coming together for a series of productions at venues around the city. "Behind the Stage Door" is an interactive multimedia performance that explores the "invisible" forces which bring ballet to life. The show will begin at the Cherry Street Pier on April 29.

Glassboro calls on locals to help capture borough’s cultural history on a Legacy Mural Updated 6:27 AM; Today 6:27 AM This is a detail from the design for Glassboros Legacy Mural, which will recognize important landmarks, events and people from its history.Borough of Glassboro Facebook Share The Borough of Glassboro invites community artists of all ages and abilities to take part in its Legacy Mural Paint Day on Saturday, April 17, from 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. on the town square. The mural — d...

A Philadelphia flaneur Photograph courtesy of Girard College. This is not a walk on the wild side, though it will take you to three Philadelphia sites much less visited than Elfreth’s Alley, the Liberty Bell, or Rittenhouse Square. If I find them more intriguing than those picturesque spots it is simply because this is where the city’s history lives on in some interesting twenty-first-century ways. The neighborhood, called either Spring Garden or Fairmount/Art Museum, is close enough to the...