Music & Performing Arts

Matthew Ryan is one of today’s best songwriters you probably didn’t know you were missing. In his twelfth album, Dear Lover, Ryan explores the distance in intimacies between men and women.

Guest blog by Curator contributor Rob Hays [http://www.curatormagazine.com/author/robhays/]. As music fans, we’re often asked to make comparisons and assign labels, often with the purpose of more narrowly

It is not uncommon in our culture to find the intellect pitted against feeling, or careful, nuanced thought against intuition and common sense. The United States has a long history of populist sentiments

I’m sitting in a small, high-ceilinged room. The walls are covered with portraits of stoic faces – the leaders of First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia. The oldest portrait belongs to John Priestly, and