Camille Bacon-Smith
@camille2000.bsky.social
I write about the arts in Philadelphia for BroadStreetReview.com. Also write contemporary fantasy under my own name and epic fantasy as Curt Benjamin. Phillies Forever. Photo is a close-up of flowers growing at the side of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
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From the Hamill House to your's:
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶
December 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
From the Hamill House to your's:
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
🎅 🎁 ☃️ 🎄 ❄️ ⛄ 🤶
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your moment of calm is from much earlier this year, back in those innocent days of "wtf" not "*unending soundless scream*"...
December 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
your moment of calm is from much earlier this year, back in those innocent days of "wtf" not "*unending soundless scream*"...
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I keep thinking about all those videos of people, having overthrown the dictator, who film themselves toppling statues of the old man and ripping down other dictatorship bric a brac, all with great glee and cheering.
December 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I keep thinking about all those videos of people, having overthrown the dictator, who film themselves toppling statues of the old man and ripping down other dictatorship bric a brac, all with great glee and cheering.
BroadStreetReview.com is free to readers. It covers #Philadelphia arts, running on a frayed shoestring budget --we do it for lunch money and love of the arts. This is our big fundraiser party to keep us going through the year. Come out and join us!
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Party with the Critics: 20 Years of Broad Street Review
Broad Street Review is celebrating 20 years of independent nonprofit arts journalism serving the greater Philadelphia area.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
BroadStreetReview.com is free to readers. It covers #Philadelphia arts, running on a frayed shoestring budget --we do it for lunch money and love of the arts. This is our big fundraiser party to keep us going through the year. Come out and join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/party-with...
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In ways both big (blowing off the law to release ALL Epstein files today) and small (putting Trump's name on the Kennedy Center), today has a total "who's gonna stop me" vibe from the regime
Maybe stop him?
Maybe stop him?
December 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In ways both big (blowing off the law to release ALL Epstein files today) and small (putting Trump's name on the Kennedy Center), today has a total "who's gonna stop me" vibe from the regime
Maybe stop him?
Maybe stop him?
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I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Kennedy Center.
I have just heard that Hans van Manen has died. He was 93 years old, but he'd been choreographing until he was 90, I think, so he had a long and storied run. Looking back now at his work at the Philadelphia Ballet a few years ago.
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The Philadelphia Ballet presents Hans van Manen’s Humankind
The Philadelphia Ballet says goodbye to longtime dancer Jermel Johnson in this program from choreographer Hans van Manen, who has his own retirement…
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December 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have just heard that Hans van Manen has died. He was 93 years old, but he'd been choreographing until he was 90, I think, so he had a long and storied run. Looking back now at his work at the Philadelphia Ballet a few years ago.
www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/phil...
www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/phil...
I am confused about an Anthropic lawsuit claim. A beneficial owner has sold the rights to a publisher, and a sole owner, retains all right to their own work. But I don't see a way to claim sole ownership of the electronic rights, which were not contracted, but got pirated anyway.
#Anthropic
#Anthropic
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I am confused about an Anthropic lawsuit claim. A beneficial owner has sold the rights to a publisher, and a sole owner, retains all right to their own work. But I don't see a way to claim sole ownership of the electronic rights, which were not contracted, but got pirated anyway.
#Anthropic
#Anthropic
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My sainted mother, who only has a Bluesky account to keep track of her son's nonsense, has responded for the first time in her entire time on the platform to clarify to one of you that no, Buck Rogers was not successful in his attempt, and I feel like I've unlocked a hidden achievement of some kind.
I've famously told this story on podcasts a number of times, but I met Gil Gerard as a kid at a celebrity tennis tournament and he tried to pick up my mom right in front of me. Was I mad? No. Buck Rogers tried to fuck my mom, which is the most Buck Rogers thing he could do. Lived up to the legend.
December 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
My sainted mother, who only has a Bluesky account to keep track of her son's nonsense, has responded for the first time in her entire time on the platform to clarify to one of you that no, Buck Rogers was not successful in his attempt, and I feel like I've unlocked a hidden achievement of some kind.
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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YES INDEED
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
YES INDEED
I love that this is a great cops and robbers story and also, a great "real journalists cites actual, substantial sources and not the latest rabid social media post " story.
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From Instagram jokes to a suburban car chase: Inside the FBI’s hunt for a Philly armored truck-heist crew
Two members of the crew allegedly joked about the heists in a group chat with an NFL player, and used Cash App to purchase stolen cars for their getaways, court records show.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I love that this is a great cops and robbers story and also, a great "real journalists cites actual, substantial sources and not the latest rabid social media post " story.
share.inquirer.com/1YxAlq
share.inquirer.com/1YxAlq
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Grandchildren Politely Decline David Cronenberg’s Bedtime Story Offer https://theonion.com/grandchildren-politely-decline-david-cronenbergs-bedtime-story-offer/
December 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Grandchildren Politely Decline David Cronenberg’s Bedtime Story Offer https://theonion.com/grandchildren-politely-decline-david-cronenbergs-bedtime-story-offer/
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
Saw PHILADANCO! this pat weekend. They are always bring the energy, and the spirit.
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PHILADANCO! presents Then and Now
After a sold-out tour in Germany, PHILADANCO! brought a mix of popular, re-envisioned works and a premiere by rising choreographer Juel D. Lane to the…
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December 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Saw PHILADANCO! this pat weekend. They are always bring the energy, and the spirit.
www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/phil...
www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/phil...
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Merry Christmas to our billionaire overlords. (from Karen Loftstrom on FB)
December 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Merry Christmas to our billionaire overlords. (from Karen Loftstrom on FB)
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There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There was revolution in the air in New Orleans when the Border Patrol invaded their city - as brave citizens blew whistles, chased convoys, and confronted masked agents of a tyrannical government
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
From Minneapolis to Manhattan, an uprising has begun. A special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
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Every time the RW & techbro losers whine about the "crisis of masculinity" I think of how they just have no clue or imaginative ability to embrace what masculinity is & can be.
Then I re-watch this expression of masculinity, "like true heroes, we'll dance."
youtu.be/oGneAab3e88?...
Then I re-watch this expression of masculinity, "like true heroes, we'll dance."
youtu.be/oGneAab3e88?...
Jai Jai Shivshankar Song | Song | WAR | Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff | Vishal & Shekhar, Benny
YouTube video by YRF
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December 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Every time the RW & techbro losers whine about the "crisis of masculinity" I think of how they just have no clue or imaginative ability to embrace what masculinity is & can be.
Then I re-watch this expression of masculinity, "like true heroes, we'll dance."
youtu.be/oGneAab3e88?...
Then I re-watch this expression of masculinity, "like true heroes, we'll dance."
youtu.be/oGneAab3e88?...
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Saw a comment where someone described newsom as someone who secretes his own hair gel and I can't stop thinking how accurate that is
December 7, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Saw a comment where someone described newsom as someone who secretes his own hair gel and I can't stop thinking how accurate that is
Scary Movie! My niece and nephew made a movie! So exciting! Will be renting it from Apple TV, but it is also a available on Amazon.
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Now Streaming: Something of a Monster (2025) - Reviewed
Kyle reviews a new psychological thriller.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Scary Movie! My niece and nephew made a movie! So exciting! Will be renting it from Apple TV, but it is also a available on Amazon.
www.spoilerfreemoviesleuth.com/2025/12/now-...
www.spoilerfreemoviesleuth.com/2025/12/now-...
December has a lot of dance coming--so much Nutcracker! Plenty for folks who have had enough of the wooden-headed guy as well. So much dancing! In all the styles!
www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/the...
www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/the...
The Month in Philly Dance, December 2025
A roundup of Nutcrackers shows in Philly, and a variety of other non-holiday-inspired dance performances happening this month. Camille Bacon-Smith…
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December 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
December has a lot of dance coming--so much Nutcracker! Plenty for folks who have had enough of the wooden-headed guy as well. So much dancing! In all the styles!
www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/the...
www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/the...
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I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved a city | Will Bunch
The first day of long-feared federal immigration raids across Greater New Orleans exposes the Big Lie of mass deportation.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I went to New Orleans to see what it looks like when a great American city comes under siege from the government, as masked goons of 'Catahoula Crunch' lie about nabbing bad guys before swarming Home Depot, roofing jobs for folks with brown skin
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...
My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-...