Kristin Hunt

Kristin Hunt is a senior staff writer for PhillyVoice. A history and pop culture junkie, she spends her spare time stalking the Free Library shelves and binge watching TCM. She has previously contributed to Vulture, GQ, Mental Floss, JSTOR Daily, and The Washington Post.

kristin@phillyvoice.com

July 13, 2023

Donations

Philly nonprofits get $6.55 million to address youth mental health crisis

by Kristin Hunt

The Pew Charitable Trusts announced $6.55 million in grant funding to five Philadelphia nonprofits specializing in children's mental health. It will support ongoing efforts to address the youth mental health crisis. The Children's Crisis Treatment Center will receive most of the money, $4 million, to build a new outpatient clinic in North Philly.

July 12, 2023

Weekend

A West Philly jazz fest and Bastille Day: Your weekend guide to things to do

by Kristin Hunt

This Friday, July 14 through Sunday, July 16, is the last weekend to skate in the Rothman Orthopaedics Roller Rink before it closes for the season. Restaurants will celebrate Bastille Day with French specials like escargot, macarons and Champagne. The Lancaster Avenue Jazz & Arts Festival returns to West Philly, and the Barnes Foundation throws its annual block party.

July 12, 2023

Travel

Yowie hotel officially opens for business

by Kristin Hunt

The new Yowie hotel is now taking its first reservations for August through October. The 13-room space, located on 226 South St., is the latest addition to designer Shannon Maldonado's boutique Yowie brand, which also includes a café and a popular home goods shop.

July 11, 2023

Men's Health

Melanoma is more likely to kill Black men than others, research finds

by Kristin Hunt

New research suggests Black men are more likely to die of melanoma than men of other races. The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, studied skin cancer across U.S. men and found that Black patients had the worst survival rates and were diagnosed later.

July 11, 2023

Mental Health

Jonah Hill, Keke Palmer headlines shine light on emotional abuse — here's how to spot the signs

by Kristin Hunt

More people are discussing emotional abuse due to recent stories on Jonah Hill and his surfer ex-girlfriend Sarah Brady, and Keke Palmer and boyfriend Darius Daulton. Examples of emotional abuse includes yelling, insulting, shaming, blaming, stalking, surveilling or isolating a person from family and friends.

July 10, 2023

Arts & Culture

Gothic, horror and Halloween-inspired Oddities & Curiosities Expo coming to Philly area in August

by Kristin Hunt

The Oddities & Curiosities Expo, a traveling market and showcase for 'all things weird,' is coming to Oaks on Saturday, Aug. 19. Vendors will sell original art, antiques, taxidermied animals, preserved specimens, jewelry and Halloween-inspired pieces at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center.

July 10, 2023

New HBO docuseries revisits 1990s serial killings of gay men from Philly and N.Y.

by Kristin Hunt

'Last Call,' a new four-part HBO docuseries, revisits the 1990s serial killings of gay men who were picked up in piano bars in Manhattan. The first episode, which premiered Sunday, July 9 and is now streaming on Max, focuses on the Philly-based investment banker and socialite Peter Stickney Anderson and Thomas Mulcahy, a salesman from Massachusetts whose body was found in Burlington County.

July 7, 2023

Investigations

Five men charged with sexually abusing children within Jehovah's Witnesses congregations in Pennsylvania

by Kristin Hunt

Five men who were part of Jehovah's Witnesses congregations in Pennsylvania have been charged with sexually abusing children within those communities, Attorney General Michelle Henry said Friday. The defendants include David Balosa, of Philadelphia, and Errol William Hall, of Delaware County.

July 7, 2023

Performances

Lil Uzi Vert will play Philly this fall as part of Pink Tape Tour

by Kristin Hunt

Lil Uzi Vert's 'Pink Tape' concert tour returns to Philadelphia on Nov. 22 at the Well Fargo Center. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 7, at 2 p.m. It is part of the Philly rapper's 17-city tour.

July 6, 2023

Weekend

An AND1 streetball tournament and the 'Moulin Rouge!' musical: Your weekend guide to things to do

by Kristin Hunt

Soccer players and streetballers will compete in two athletic tournaments this weekend in Philadelphia: the Icarus Cup at Drexel's Vidas Athletic Complex and the AND1 Open Run at James Allen Shuler Playground. 'Moulin Rouge!' opens at Kimmel Cultural Campus, and the Oval pop-up festival returns to Benjamin Franklin Parkway.