https://harryhayman.com/blog/ Harry Hayman on Philadelphia's restaurants, jazz nights, food security and the people building the city. en-us Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://harryhayman.com/blog/bandwidth-at-the-curtis-institute-of-music/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/bandwidth-at-the-curtis-institute-of-music/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture At Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, students built a concert in one week with three alumni. Harry Hayman was in the room for Bandwidth. https://harryhayman.com/blog/eco-social-realism-tilt-institute-contemporary-image/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/eco-social-realism-tilt-institute-contemporary-image/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture TILT Institute in Philadelphia is showing Eco Social Realism, with a free artist talk on October 8 and membership from five dollars a month. https://harryhayman.com/blog/exonerated-movers-chris-goodwin-philadelphia-moving-company/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/exonerated-movers-chris-goodwin-philadelphia-moving-company/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Business My friend Chris Goodwin taught himself the law, won his freedom and launched Exonerated Movers in Philadelphia. Here is how to give him the work. https://harryhayman.com/blog/fishtown-jazz-festival-jazz-bridge-black-squirrel-club/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/fishtown-jazz-festival-jazz-bridge-black-squirrel-club/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz Rain forced the Fishtown Jazz Festival inside, and I watched Philadelphia fill the Black Squirrel Club for a free day of live jazz from Jazz Bridge. https://harryhayman.com/blog/jose-andres-jaleo-dc-central-kitchen-world-central-kitchen/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/jose-andres-jaleo-dc-central-kitchen-world-central-kitchen/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Hospitality How opening Jaleo with José Andrés, a shelter basement kitchen and a move to Philadelphia are leading me to volunteer with World Central Kitchen. https://harryhayman.com/blog/la-jefa-suro-family-guadaladelphia/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/la-jefa-suro-family-guadaladelphia/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Hospitality The Suro family rebuilt Tequilas after a fire and opened La Jefa, a Rittenhouse cafe and Milpa bar in Philadelphia named for their late mother. https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-jazz-legacy-project-coltrane-centennial/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-jazz-legacy-project-coltrane-centennial/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz Why the Philadelphia Jazz Experience backs the Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project in Coltrane's centennial year, plus two free listening sessions. https://harryhayman.com/blog/mandy-manna-pa-humanities-window-keeper/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/mandy-manna-pa-humanities-window-keeper/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community My friend Dr. Mandy Manna of Philadelphia's Fox Chase Farm has been named a 2026 PA Humanities Window Keeper for her work in education. https://harryhayman.com/blog/montco-jazz-fest-jazz-bridge-benefit/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/montco-jazz-fest-jazz-bridge-benefit/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz A Jazz Bridge benefit in Conshohocken put four of the finest players in Philadelphia on one bandstand and sent the door money back to the musicians. https://harryhayman.com/blog/ruth-naomi-floyd-music-for-the-soul-south/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/ruth-naomi-floyd-music-for-the-soul-south/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz Vocalist Ruth Naomi Floyd brought Music for the Soul to SOUTH in Philadelphia, and for two nights the room asked for nothing but listening. https://harryhayman.com/blog/secret-handshake-furai-vhs-salvage-project/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/secret-handshake-furai-vhs-salvage-project/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture The Secret Handshake rescues naked VHS tapes that lost their boxes, and Philadelphia street artist Furai is drawing the new identity for them. https://harryhayman.com/blog/academy-natural-sciences-museum-closing-sustainability/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/academy-natural-sciences-museum-closing-sustainability/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture When America's oldest natural science museum closes, every cultural institution in Philadelphia should be paying attention. https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-food-bank-federal-funding-cuts/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-food-bank-federal-funding-cuts/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community Philadelphia's largest food bank expects far less federal food through 2027, the same season Congress cut SNAP, and I check budgets like this for a living. https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-growing-spaces-land-security/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-growing-spaces-land-security/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Sustainability Philadelphia counted 450 growing spaces on nearly 130 acres, and I want to talk plainly about who actually owns the ground under them. https://harryhayman.com/blog/tucson-curb-cuts-rainwater-food-forest-philadelphia/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/tucson-curb-cuts-rainwater-food-forest-philadelphia/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Sustainability A Tucson neighbor cut his own curb with a saw in 1998, and Philadelphia already owns the tools to ask the same question on our blocks. https://harryhayman.com/blog/south-x-unscripted-jazz-november-december-2026/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/south-x-unscripted-jazz-november-december-2026/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz Philadelphia jazz club SOUTH and the Unscripted Jazz Series line up Kim Waters, Jazmin Ghent and a Grover Washington Jr tribute this fall. https://harryhayman.com/blog/delia-king-mandala-bok-mural-arts/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/delia-king-mandala-bok-mural-arts/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture Delia King painted Mandala inside the old Bok school in South Philadelphia in 2012, and Harry Hayman stopped for it on the way out. https://harryhayman.com/blog/inliquid-no-other-place-to-go-opening/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/inliquid-no-other-place-to-go-opening/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture Opening night at InLiquid in Philadelphia, where five photographers turn climate loss into evidence and strangers finally talk to each other. https://harryhayman.com/blog/rachel-zimmerman-women-changing-the-city/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/rachel-zimmerman-women-changing-the-city/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture My friend Rachel Zimmerman takes the Women Changing the City stage on October 27, and Philadelphia men should be in that room too. https://harryhayman.com/blog/social-distortion-descendents-the-met-philadelphia/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/social-distortion-descendents-the-met-philadelphia/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture The Chats, Descendents and Social Distortion played a restored 1908 opera house on North Broad Street in Philadelphia on a Tuesday night. https://harryhayman.com/blog/southside-bynum-brothers-event-space/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/southside-bynum-brothers-event-space/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Hospitality SouthSide is the private event room beside SOUTH in Philadelphia, run by the Bynum brothers, and I am not a neutral voice about it. https://harryhayman.com/blog/circular-not-circuitous-erika-allen/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/circular-not-circuitous-erika-allen/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Sustainability I catch up with Erika Allen of Urban Growers Collective and learn that my winding Philadelphia food career was circular all along. https://harryhayman.com/blog/coltrane-unscripted-south-jazz-club/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/coltrane-unscripted-south-jazz-club/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz Coltrane Unscripted brings Gerald Veasley, Jaleel Shaw, Adam Faulk and Khary Abdul Shaheed to SOUTH in Philadelphia, in Coltrane's own centennial year. https://harryhayman.com/blog/quantum-blues-quartet-at-south-philadelphia/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/quantum-blues-quartet-at-south-philadelphia/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz Paul Shaffer, Tisziji Munoz, Will Calhoun and Jamaaladeen Tacuma bring the Quantum Blues Quartet to SOUTH in Philadelphia this Sunday night. https://harryhayman.com/blog/sandy-eldred-philly-jazz-scene-calendar/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/sandy-eldred-philly-jazz-scene-calendar/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz I explain why Philadelphia's jazz scene needed a calendar more than another new venue, and how one musician quietly built it in under two years. https://harryhayman.com/blog/jazz-bridge-takes-care-of-philadelphias-musicians/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/jazz-bridge-takes-care-of-philadelphias-musicians/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz Jazz Bridge quietly supports Philadelphia musicians through medical crises and unpaid bills, and I watched a room of newcomers discover why that matters. https://harryhayman.com/blog/north-broad-street-builds-itself-one-room-at-a-time/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/north-broad-street-builds-itself-one-room-at-a-time/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community I walk into a North Broad Renaissance networking night and find the Philadelphia corridor that keeps rebuilding itself one room at a time. https://harryhayman.com/blog/grid-price-behind-every-head-of-lettuce/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/grid-price-behind-every-head-of-lettuce/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Sustainability Philadelphia's power grid just got a lot more expensive to run on, and I look at what that means for growing food indoors here. https://harryhayman.com/blog/jane-golden-mural-arts-imagination-infrastructure/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/jane-golden-mural-arts-imagination-infrastructure/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture Jane Golden spent forty years proving that imagination is real infrastructure. Harry Hayman was there when she said goodbye to the walls she built. https://harryhayman.com/blog/jeff-jones-equity-across-communities-canvass/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/jeff-jones-equity-across-communities-canvass/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community I'm backing Jeff Jones and his Equity Across Communities campaign because Philadelphia's zip code inequality demands more than a post. https://harryhayman.com/blog/pa-snap-error-rate-cost-share-2027/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/pa-snap-error-rate-cost-share-2027/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community Pennsylvania's SNAP error rate fell to 9.21 percent, but a 2027 cost share still threatens food assistance for Philadelphia's food insecure residents. https://harryhayman.com/blog/pantry-visits-non-snap-pennsylvania/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/pantry-visits-non-snap-pennsylvania/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community Central Pennsylvania pantry visits are rising fastest among people not on SNAP, and I connect it to Philadelphia's own numbers. https://harryhayman.com/blog/pennsylvania-snap-enrollment-drop-not-all-eligibility/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/pennsylvania-snap-enrollment-drop-not-all-eligibility/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community Writing from Philadelphia, I look at Pennsylvania's SNAP enrollment drop and the government's own admission that less than half traces to the new law. https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-food-access-office-not-yet-built/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-food-access-office-not-yet-built/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community I sat on the Philadelphia task force that recommended a permanent food access office. The report is finished. The office is not built yet. https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-produce-grants-winter-supply/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-produce-grants-winter-supply/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Sustainability Philadelphia just funded fresh produce grants in fourteen neighborhoods. I look at why year round local growing is still the missing piece each winter. https://harryhayman.com/blog/share-food-program-january-july-surge/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/share-food-program-january-july-surge/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community I look at what happened at one Philadelphia food bank between January and July, and why the calendar says it is not over. https://harryhayman.com/blog/ursula-rucker-supa-sista-25-years/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/ursula-rucker-supa-sista-25-years/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture Ursula Rucker's debut album Supa Sista turns 25 in 2026. I was there at the start in Philadelphia and I am still watching what she builds next. https://harryhayman.com/blog/harry-hayman-sundance-boulder-move-portable-culture/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/harry-hayman-sundance-boulder-move-portable-culture/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture Sundance put $196.1 million into Utah in 2025, then moved to Boulder for about $70 million. What that math should mean in Philadelphia. https://harryhayman.com/blog/80-acres-farms-capital-failure-vertical-farming/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/80-acres-farms-capital-failure-vertical-farming/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Food Justice Harry Hayman on 80 Acres Farms: what the shutdown of a company that reached 18,000 stores teaches about farm financing. https://harryhayman.com/blog/america-250-ring-it-on-philadelphia-neighborhoods/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/america-250-ring-it-on-philadelphia-neighborhoods/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community Philadelphia committed $116 million to 20 commercial corridors for America 250. Here is why that choice matters and what comes next. https://harryhayman.com/blog/bonduelle-americas-philadelphia-growth-hub-2026/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/bonduelle-americas-philadelphia-growth-hub-2026/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community Bonduelle Americas chose Philadelphia over 20 cities for its U.S. Growth Hub. Here is what that says about this city's food economy. https://harryhayman.com/blog/fractional-leadership-hospitality-case-behind-trend/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/fractional-leadership-hospitality-case-behind-trend/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Hospitality The 'tripled in five years' claim has no primary source. Here is what I found, and the honest picture for Philadelphia hospitality operators. https://harryhayman.com/blog/hotel-labor-131-billion-staffing-shortage-2026/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/hotel-labor-131-billion-staffing-shortage-2026/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Business AHLA projects U.S. hotels will spend $131 billion on labor in 2026 while 76 percent report staffing shortages. Harry Hayman on what the data means. https://harryhayman.com/blog/market-street-conversations-meantime-2026/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/market-street-conversations-meantime-2026/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community On a June evening in Philadelphia, DJ Lady Prowl shared her story at Meantime on Market and made the case that conversations are what cities are built on. https://harryhayman.com/blog/odean-pope-lancaster-avenue-jazz-festival-2026/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/odean-pope-lancaster-avenue-jazz-festival-2026/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Jazz Odean Pope is 87. John Coltrane gave him his first gig at 17. What that span tells us about Philadelphia's living jazz tradition. https://harryhayman.com/blog/paris-hotel-de-ville-urban-forest-philadelphia/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/paris-hotel-de-ville-urban-forest-philadelphia/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community In June 2025 Paris opened an urban forest at the Hotel de Ville. Here is what the data says and what Philadelphia's own numbers make hard to ignore. https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-african-restaurant-week-diaspora-kitchens/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-african-restaurant-week-diaspora-kitchens/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community Philadelphia African Restaurant Week draws diaspora kitchens out of the margins and into the conversation about how local food spending works. https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-food-nutrition-security-task-force-2026/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-food-nutrition-security-task-force-2026/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Food Justice I spent 17 months on Philadelphia's Food and Nutrition Security Task Force. The report is out. The recommendation: a permanent city office for food. https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-music-alliance-inside-hustle-creative-economy-2026/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/philadelphia-music-alliance-inside-hustle-creative-economy-2026/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Arts & Culture Inside Hustle, the Walk of Fame, and why investing in Philadelphia's artists is one of the smartest economic moves the city can make. https://harryhayman.com/blog/phl-prime-59-billion-philadelphia-investment/ https://harryhayman.com/blog/phl-prime-59-billion-philadelphia-investment/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Harry Hayman Community PHL PRIME delivered $5.9 billion and 7,850 projected jobs from three companies in Philadelphia. Here is the fuller argument behind the numbers.