It’s a surreal experience to be reconfronted with the image that shaped my adolescence and early adulthood. I hadn’t seen it in years, but the second I saw it, I knew exactly what it was. At eleven years old (a one year age difference from the girl in the image) I came across her face…

Matt and Courtney Smith: The most hard hearted vagrant would be hard pressed to disavow the validity of love once setting sights on Matt and Court. I don’t get to see them very often, but true confessions: in darker days I would notice their album posts on ubiquitous facebook and would take in all their…

Watching some kids playing during the last days of summer I was reminded of a piece of childhood that I miss. There is a certain abandon that comes so easily with youth. I miss the excitement of doing any activity overriding all reservations and the enthusiasm to just forget about time or poise and let…

“You’ve got to grow up sometime.” Alex’s couch surfing host interjected in a flat mumble that denoted either absolute sincerity or comic genius. I’m still not sure which. Alex was animatedly recounting one of his many inconceivable moments in his two year trek hitchhiking across the country with his best friend, Batman. (No. He’s not…

There is not one bone in my body that was disappointed or even remotely blase during my visit to Forest and Main Brewing Company. All I could think around every turn was, “They nailed it.” – the ambiance, the food, the beer. The moment I approached I was taken in by the welcoming aspect of…

My affinity toward unassuming establishments is really part of a greater world view. I love to be surprised by life (in a good way). It’s a person I’ve pegged to be one thing and turns out to be something else entirely or a place I thought was simply four walls, but come to find out,…

Last weekend I had the enormous pleasure of capturing Lansdale’s First Friday. There was no shortage of fun events to dive into. My personal favorite was Juston Spinto’s band parked right next to Round Guys Brewery, which was handing out free beer samples. Juston sounded amazing without the beer, but given the blazing heat –…

In my mind, there are two things that should go together as often as possible: charity and libation. Sufficed to say when I happened upon the East Meets Local Brewfest: Brews For Books flyer a couple weeks ago, I was enthusiastic. When I found out that $30 of the $35 dollar ticket was tax deductible,…