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WINTER
2025
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Heather Shayne Blakeslee explores modern alienation and time insolvency as presented by Hartmut Rosa // Samantha Wittchen says recycling’s not dead // We recommend recycled glass wares from Remark Glass // Take tour of regional glass art at the Please Touch Museum, the Magic Gardens, the Curtis Center, and the Glencairn Museum // Spotlight on Philadelphia-based glass artists Ellen Sherry and Judith Schaechter // Three places to try for beginner glass art education // Sarah Vedder gets into the music of vagabond artist AC Sapphire, her own wanderlust, and involuntary homelessness // Julia Wald reports on the crisis in Kensington at the crossroads of an international drug war, with photographs by Suzanne Stein // Iona Clark explains how marijuana is grown in Pennsylvania // Poetry on treason by Sir John Harrington // Lauren Earline Leonard on what makes a hypocrite, and its Greek origins // Leslie Billhymer on the good life, and why it matters how and where we build the American Dream // Artist Talia Barnes on deleting her Instagram account
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