Results tagged “prison”

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

Philly as a "festering spiritual slum?" We can see that more than as "the most genuinely Christian movement in America," but we’re sitting over here.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

Happy birthday Andy Warhol!

Jocelyn Kirsch, aka Bonnie, aka Stealy McFakeBirthdayBoobies turned herself in to the US Marshall’s Office a little before 2 PM today.

Don't forget, if your work day gets rough, that it's actually Wednesday and not Tuesday. In Holidayland, where the weeks are short and the thunderstorms the weathermen have been insisting on for almost two weeks continue to evade radar. Evadar? Oh, nevermind. Hopefully we haven't jinxed the mild dry spell.

Given the crime rate in Philadelphia, it's not surprising that there are plenty of children in our fair city with a parent (or two) behind bars. Since children often model their behavior after what they see their elders doing, we could be in for a heap of trouble. According to New York Amsterdam News, children of incarcerated parents are six to 10 times more likely to end up in prison than the average young person.

"Women in prison" was, once upon a time, quite the popular film genre. Not usually such a popular play genre, though that didn't stop Marsha Norman from writing , a play about a recently-released female inmate currently being produced by Simpatico Theatre Project, although it probably should have.