Get your daily rundown of Philly happenings in less than 10 minutesFREE MORNING NEWSLETTERSkip to content❤️ Love Philly? ❤️Us too — let’s be friends.Catch the Billy Penn newsletter in your inbox 6 days a week for need-to-know news and connections to everything Philadelphia.In the winter of 1968, Herb Spivak and brothers teamed up with promoter Larry Magid to book psychedelic rock band the Chambers Brothers to play in a converted Philadelphia tire factory. Every week after, it was somebody else: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Bruce Springsteen. The shows expanded from every...…Get your daily rundown of Philly happenings in less than 10 minutesFREE MORNING NEWSLETTERSkip to content❤️ Love Philly? ❤️Us too — let’s be friends.Catch the Billy Penn newsletter in your inbox 6 days a week for need-to-know news and connections to everything Philadelphia.In the winter of 1968, Herb Spivak and brothers teamed up with promoter Larry Magid to book psychedelic rock band the Chambers Brothers to play in a converted Philadelphia tire factory. Every week after, it was somebody else: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Bruce Springsteen. The shows expanded from every...WW…

We live in a city where the opportunity to create art and share culture is not equally distributed. Mayor Kenney’s budget plan to eliminate the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy (OACCE) and the Philadelphia Culture Fund (PCF) would only worsen this disparity, which community leaders have worked for years to address.Our city-run arts office is a rare public entity explicitly charged with responding to the cultural and ethnic diversity that makes up our vibrant neighborhoods. It aims to close the gap in access to cultural experiences and creative expression that can change...…We live in a city where the opportunity to create art and share culture is not equally distributed. Mayor Kenney’s budget plan to eliminate the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy (OACCE) and the Philadelphia Culture Fund (PCF) would only worsen this disparity, which community leaders have worked for years to address.Our city-run arts office is a rare public entity explicitly charged with responding to the cultural and ethnic diversity that makes up our vibrant neighborhoods. It aims to close the gap in access to cultural experiences and creative expression that can change...WW…