CONWAY â The Skimobile climbs up and down Mount Cranmore. An orchestra is playing at the Eastern Slope Inn. The Jack Frost and Carroll Reed shops vie to outdo each other in high ski fashion. And Miss Eastern Slope is set to be crowned at the Winter Carnival Ball on Saturday night at John H. Fuller Elementary.
Wait, what kind of time warp is this, anyway?
Itâs the best kind: Easily accessible. In these troubled pandemic times, traveling back to the more carefree era of the Sixties seems like a good cure for all of us, doesnât it?
And all you have to do is stop by the North Conway branch of the New England Ski Museum to immerse yourself in the pages of the Eastern Slope Signal, a winter tourism newspaper that thrived from 1963-75.
DOHO is a Mexican and Asian fusion restaurant. Tacos are made with bao bun dough.
A new taqueria from Catering By Design officially opens Tuesday. The Mexican and Asian fusion restaurant DOHO, operating out of a ghost kitchen in Mt. Airy, will offer delivery and takeout only to start.
To eat, there are tacos made with bao bun dough, bowls with protein choices like tempura shrimp and skirt steak, as well as side jawns, which include black beans with a soy-ginger-scallion-lime sauce and chorizo fried rice.
But the restaurant s creativity goes beyond its unique and surprising menu. DOHO s logo was designed by students of Mural Arts Philadelphia s Art Education program.
The wall was once home to a mural of LGBTQ activist and Latinx community icon Gloria Casarez. I was really surprised and enraged, said artist Michelle Angela-Ortiz, who created the mural.
The image of the mural was projected Wednesday night on the blank wall with the banner that says, You can t erase our history.
Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz projected the mural of Gloria Casarez on the painted wall.
“Even though this mural has been whitewashed her history is not gone,” she said.
Ortiz says she has no plans to work with the developer on new mural after failing to consult with her.@6abcpic.twitter.com/eYs4MBvCXr George Solis (@GeorgeSolis) December 24, 2020
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The Gloria Casarez mural by Michelle Angela Ortiz at 12th and Locust streets was painted over on Wednesday, December 23, 2020. (Photo by Steve Weinik/Mural Arts)
An iconic LGBTQ mural on Philadelphia’s 12th Street, in the so-called Gayborhood, was painted over on Wednesday morning. The face of the Latina activist Gloria Casarez has been painted over with white.
The building, formerly the 12th Street Gym, was recently acquired by the New York-based Midwood investment and development company, with the intention of razing it and rebuilding. The intent to demolish drew the ire of LGBTQ activists who did not want their history to be carted away with the rubble.
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 Philadelphia Museum of Art for the walk to begin at the museum’s Perelman Building. (You can also start at the Barnes Foundation on Benjamin Franklin Parkway and walk north, though that will take somewhat longer.)