Cover Story: Menachem Schmidt Portrait

August 30, 2009 | Filed Under Cover Story, Portraits | Leave a Comment 

For Andrew Thompson’s cover story this week on Menachem Schmidt and Philly’s Lubavitch community. Full story here.

Outtakes: Secret Lives of Artists

August 19, 2009 | Filed Under Cover Story, In the paper, Outtakes, Portraits | Leave a Comment 

Kevin Glaccum : Producing artistic director / Bartender / Standardized patient. Photographed at Woody’s.

Kamilu Alebiosu: Painter / Parking lot attendant. Photographed at Patriot Parking in Old City.

Carolyne McNeel / Musician, jewelry designer, Mew Gallery co-owner / Art teacher, bartender. Photographed at Mew Gallery in South Philly.

Bruce Walsh: Playwright / Freelance journalist. Photographed at Rocket Cat Cafe in Fishtown.

Bobby Zankel: Jazz musician / Music teacher at the State Correctional Institution at Chester. Photographed at home, in West Philadelphia.

Anna Frangiosa: Burlesque dancer / Stripper. Photographed with Peter Gaffney at Walking Fish Theater in Fishtown.

For this week’s cover story, we profile 8 local artists in Philadelphia and see what they do to pay the bills. Here are the photos that didn’t make it in print. For more, visit citypaper.net/coverstory