Friday, May 30, 2025
Northwest Philly essayist Wendy A. Horwitz explores empiricism and transcendence, skepticism and ritual, moments and generations in her new collection, Milkweed and Honey Cake. Anndee Hochma…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:51PMThursday, May 29, 2025
Aviva Perlo’s book brings real solutions, perspectives, research, and personal experiences to light for those forging new lives after real trauma. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:21PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
The Trump administration is clawing back hundreds of thousands of dollars of NEA grants already promised to arts groups around the country. These cuts are hitting hard in Philly, but artists…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:33PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Ensemble Arts Philly, which runs venues including Marian Anderson Hall and the Academy of Music, is increasing its welcome to patrons who are often excluded, including Deaf and autistic folk…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:51PMMonday, April 28, 2025
A new exhibition at the Museum for Art in Wood brings Wisconsin illustrator and woodworker Katie Hudnall to Philly for a delightful, mind-bending show. Anndee Hochman reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:56PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
Essayist Anndee Hochman challenges those of us who may need a break from the news with this quiz about our current federal government.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:48PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
David Y. Block, a blind journalist and filmmaker, has been telling other people’s stories through his documentaries for years. But as he tells Anndee Hochman, now he’s learning to turn t…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:02PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
The story of artist Isaiah Zagar’s remarkable decade-long mural project from the 90s and how the Philadelphia Magic Gardens is working to preserve the masterwork that was nearly completely…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:54PMMonday, February 10, 2025
Anndee Hochman has spent years protesting for human rights. This year, some people are discouraged. A friend told her it doesn't make a difference. So Anndee shares the reasons she isn't goi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:43AMTuesday, January 7, 2025
With this exhibition at the Museum for Art in Wood, turned-wood figures by artist Mark Sfirri explore likeness and difference, ancestry and environment, asking how family takes root. Anndee …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:22PMThursday, 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 02:49PM 
