The Broad Street Review is an arts and culture website with a mix of reviews and commentary, mostly about events and performances in the Philadelphia area. They have a wonderful openness to a variety of pieces. I’ve reviewed art (a Barkley Hendricks retrospective); dance (everything from ballet to tap); music (a meditation on guitar gods, Keith Richards, Andrew Bird), museum exhibits (the conservation lab at Penn Museum goes on public view), and books, such as Vanished Gardens, about the history of gardening in Philadelphia, as well the start of my decade-long involvement in improv.
A frequent subject is movies, including Séraphine, a French movie about outsider art; Birdman; a review of Crazy Heart in which it comes up short against The Wrestler; and a long piece reconsidering Saturday Night Fever.
I also occasionally find opportunities to draw on my academic expertise (sociology of religion, specializing in American cults), as in a review of Martha Marcy May Marlene and a piece on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism.
Judy Weightman, Editor 