RENAISSANCE
OPENING SALVO
“Moonshots” // Editor’s Notes // by Heather Shayne Blakeslee
STREETVIEW
Destination // “The Keys to the Kingdom” // REC Philly, a support system for creatives, is going national
Recommendation // “Don’t Call It a Comeback” // Philly’s print renaissance has the power of the people
Constellations // “A Shop For Every Block, A Book For Every Shelf” // Amazon can’t compete with the indies that feed our souls
ART & IDEAS
Culture Files // “No Gods No Masters” // Our new media landscape is the Wild West. Should we really be pinning sheriff’s badges on anyone? by Walter Foley Photos by Ford Fisher
Poetry // “The Happy Uncertain Worried Feeling” // On Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh and Shane McCrae by Poetry Editor Joshua Mehigan
Portrait // ‘The Strange Stories That Bodies Tell You’ // An abstract plague portrait of the artist Michael Grimaldi in the shadow of The Decameron words by Michael Grimaldi and Heather Shayne Blakeslee • Images by Michael Grimaldi
Essay // “Meeting The Moment” // Can we please get visionary about cities? by Lauren Earline Leonard • Illustration by Christopher Spencer
SWITCHBACKS
Essay // “From Fear to Fearless” // The Long Road to Teddy by Sarah Maeillano • Illustration by Hannah Taylor
Artist Spotlights // Hannah Taylor & Eric Remer
