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- Art: Governor Rendell recently announced a whopping $25 million state grant to go towards getting the Barnes foundation into a new home between 20th and 21st streets on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. We're still a little peeved that they're ignoring a man's last wishes and moving his art collection, but at the same time, it will be nice to have another fine museum in Center City.
Meawhile, another little museum in town (the Philadelphia Art Museum, to be precise) opened a new special exhibition of works by Andrew Wyeth yesterday. We were just at the museum not too long ago, but we like Wyeth, so maybe it's already time to return. - Schools: There have been 59 reported cases involving drugs or alcohol amongst Philadelphia School District students since September 2004 - in grades K through 6. In one case, a 10-year-old was searched for a knife after threatening to stab another student, and officials found what they suspected was cocaine. Horrifying.
On a related note, the School District of Philadelphia is at the top in Pennsylvania - for drop outs. "An estimated 5,550 School District of Philadelphia students dropped out during the 2004-05 school year, up from the 5,273 who dropped out the year before." There was a meeting about the problem yesterday; new programs are being started and old ones expanded in an attempt to beat the problem. It's a pretty big problem, though, and reaches way beyond the schools.
Somebody stole a $2000 cockatoo named Peaches, then apparently freaked out and dumped the bird in a trash can. Luckily for the bird, it was found before it could be dumped and was returned safely to the store from whence it came.
Morgan Spurlock has apologized for some of the comments he made during that speech at the Hatboro-Horsham High School that we mentioned a while back. He says he didn't mean any harm, but wasn't paying close enough attention to his audience. He said he wouldn't take the money he's owed if the school isn't satisfied, and promised to think more carefully about what he says in the future. There, that's better. Now we can like him again.
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Great Andrew Wyeth painting ("Christina's World"). However, it's not in the new Wyeth exhibit. For whatever reason, the Museum of Modern Art wouldn't loan it out. But you can still see it in NYC.