No word yet on the cheesesteaks: Grace-Flood.
You can still read what Nora Grace-Flood is finding out — now from Philadelphia rather than New Haven.
Nora, a reporter for the New Haven Independent the past three years, has taken up residence as the Philadelphia bureau chief of the Independent Review Crew, a new national network of locally based in-person arts reviewers.
The nonprofit Online Journalism Project — which publishes the New Haven Independent and the Valley Independent Sentinel and operates WNHH FM — launched the Review Crew to fill a gap: Local arts scenes are thriving, but we rarely see that work reviewed. We hope to figure out how to fill that gap the way we helped figure out a generation ago how to help get local school and zoning boards and local transportation and economic development news covered again.
The Review Crew currently has bureaus in six cities. Check out the latest reviews here. Click here and here to read more about the project.
So far in Philadelphia, Nora has written about “Black Cowboy” music, fresh egg noodles at Sky Cafe, a Fiona Apple cover at Ortlieb’s and a perplexing, pseudo-cinematic Pearl Jam album release. Click here to subscribe to a weekly newsletter to keep in touch with her work. Click here to sign up for a twice-weekly roundup of Review Crew reviews from all six cities.
We love you Nora!