Thursday, November 14, 2024
Food writer and editor Margaret Eby's new cookbook lays out creative plans for when your energy may be running low. Anndee Hochman previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:52AMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Wherever
There Is Light, a new exhibition combining portraits, self-portraits,
landscape, and collage, starts a new conversation about imprisonment, identity,
and justice with cameras in the…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:56AMTuesday, September 17, 2024
By the time she started grade school, Anndee Hochman was known as the girl who learned
to read when she was three—and whose talent landed her (literally) in the lap of iconic actor James E…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:13PMMonday, June 17, 2024
When Anndee Hochman was 13, a teacher told her she couldn't sing. Decades later, a basement Broadway singalong in Manhattan's West Village taught her something new.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:42PMTuesday, May 7, 2024
A new
ensemble exhibit featuring 15 InLiquid Gallery members poses plenty of worthwhile
questions along with its nudes, but something is missing from the show’s
promise to honor humanity�…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:15PMTuesday, April 16, 2024
A new exhibition by woodworker and interdisciplinary artist Gina Siepel at the Museum for Art in Wood asks what happens when we regard trees as “you” rather than “it”. Anndee Hochman…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:31AMTuesday, February 27, 2024
Philly’s
Isaiah Zagar is famous for his mosaic murals swirling on hundreds of public
walls. Now, fans are invited home to Philadelphia's Magic Gardens for a new show selected
from thousand…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:29AMTuesday, January 2, 2024
Anndee Hochman was at an artists’ retreat on October 7, 2023, making things with words. She remembers how poetry works, even as atrocities rage.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:49PMMonday, November 13, 2023
Philly writer Elaine Terranova’s eighth book, Rinse, shows the author’s poetic sensibilities, with lyrical language that captures emotional tones and thrumming silences. Anndee Hochman r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:47PMMonday, October 9, 2023
Writer Anndee Hochman is used to toggling through life: her mom, her family, her home, her work. So when life got grim, she decided to try juggling for real. How do you learn to catch and le…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:09PMTuesday, July 25, 2023
While Anndee Hochman faces treatment for osteoporosis, she remembers the different homes we live in, from our bones to our houses, and everything we’ll do to keep them standing.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:28PMSaturday, July 8, 2023
In her second book, Philadelphia photographer Hinda Schuman’s sensitive and unflinching lens documents the lives of two women struggling to rebuild their lives after incarceration. Anndee …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:24PMThis book by longtime Daily News columnist Ellen Cassedy explores the roots of a modern movement for women workers’ rights—a fight that continues today. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:18PMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Anndee Hochman remembers her daughter’s childhood in a home that was open to others who needed it. But eventually, the little girl asks: who is that person on the street?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:26PMTuesday, January 31, 2023
Anndee Hochman was never a dog person … until her daughter brought home a poodle puppy who got into the chocolate. How do we live and love when catastrophe is always waiting?
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:43PMTuesday, November 15, 2022
Philly author Isaac Blum’s debut YA novel, The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen, follows an Orthodox Jewish teen in a new town for a fully up-to-the minute story of conviction and contradic…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:57PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter, a tender, inquisitive, humble, and heartbreaking
new book about raising a trans kid, gets it right—in memoir and in parenting. Anndee
Hochman…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:15PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Anndee Hochman had no problem getting help when her sense of smell or her sight suffered. But somehow, addressing her hearing loss felt different.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:40PMTuesday, August 16, 2022
After almost two years of sheltering at home, Anndee Hochman flew to Chile, and experienced a
very different response to the pandemic there. What made the difference, and why is it important…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:51PMTuesday, June 14, 2022
When Anndee Hochman’s parents moved to the Philly suburbs in 1965, it was a compromise. Almost 60 years later, the house holds a departed father’s heart. It’s time to say goodbye again.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:49PMThursday, June 2, 2022
Anndee Hochman is a parent. She remembers what a horrible day for schoolkids used to mean: sniffles, the dentist’s chair, lima beans for dinner. Today, she teaches fourth graders. The four…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:49PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
A new anthology by Philly writer Ann de Forest explores how we walk, and where, and
why that experience means such different things for different bodies. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:35PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
We know how the story of Germantown High School ended, but how did it begin? A new book explains, and highlights the fault lines that remain in our schools today. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:26PMMonday, April 11, 2022
Jim Bear, a hardworking advocate for the power of accessible local media, passed away in March. His G-Town radio colleagues speak with Anndee Hochman about his legacy.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:18PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
POOL: A Social History of Segregation, an exhibit at the Fairmount Water Works, opens this week after having been delayed by flooding from Hurricane Ida. Anndee Hochman previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:45AMMonday, February 14, 2022
Anndee Hochman’s Walk Around Philadelphia began as a refuge from the first year of the
pandemic, but as her route continued into 2022, she remembered that living in Philly is a lifetime of…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:29PMTuesday, January 25, 2022
Writer Anndee Hochman makes space for poetry at a New Jersey school of technology, where students prepare for a national contest, and appreciate the masks they’re tired of wearing.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:32PMWednesday, December 1, 2021
The new director of public art in the Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy wants more public art in the city to reflect more identities. Anndee Hochman profiles.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:34PMTuesday, November 30, 2021
Anndee Hochman considers her decades-long journey of finding what it means to play, integrating play into life, and the life lessons learned from a year of "fun" prompts from friends.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:32PMTuesday, October 19, 2021
For the 50th anniversary of its graphic arts collection, the Library Company looks beyond the images themselves to highlight what is missing—and why. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:11PMMonday, August 23, 2021
A volunteer stint repairing a Germantown row house reprises Anndee Hochman’s teenage impulse to wield a hammer in lieu of words, and reminds her that all tools can both create and destroy.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:58PM 
