![]() So we can live our lives like always, celebrating the exceptional while embracing the everyday. Or so we can catch a cabaret before we head to Chinatown for some pillowy pockets of vegetables and dough. ![]() No, we do it so we can go see hometown boy Kurt Vile rip a few sing-talk songs. It’s down-to-earth.Īnd as cheesy as it sounds, it’s, well … Gritty.Īnd so, unlike most other major cities, when we renovate one of our oldest and most storied buildings, we don’t just do it so it can be a pretty, overproduced monument to all the hoity toity nonsense none of us ever actually want to do. That puts pomp in its rightful place collecting mothballs at the back of the closet. It’s a culture that doesn’t ask the same question twice. It just so happens that, within the cozy confines of the City of Brotherly Love, we have our own special brand of green-bleedin’, cheese whiz-drenched, liberty first, last and always kind of culture. The $56 million renovation dramatically refurbished the 3,400 seat historic showplace and will spur further development along the city’s central corridor.If there’s one thing Philly knows, it’s culture. The Met had fallen into serious disrepair in recent years and was unused and vacant from 1988 until 1995 when it was purchased for use as the Holy Ghost Headquarters Revival Center. It served as an opera house through 1934 and remained in use as a movie theater, ballroom, sports venue, and a church. When the Met first opened on North Broad Street in 1908 it was one of the largest theaters of its kind. ![]() The Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972, returned to use as a live music venue on Decemwith a sold-out show by Bob Dylan. ![]()
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