Green Line Cafe

We’re Hiring! Full-time kitchen assistant

Green Line Cafe — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:08:42 +0000

We currently have an immediate opening for a full-time kitchen assistant. Morning/daytime shifts. Weekends are required.

The kitchen assistant reports to the Chef and works as part of a small team to produce all the items we create in-house daily for delivery to our locations, such as cookies, wraps, and baked goods. Assistance with delivery and catering events will also be required.

Commercial food prep experience is preferred. Knowledge and enthusiasm for vegan foods is a plus.

Resumes may be dropped off, mailed, or emailed to:
Green Line Cafe
Re: Kitchen assistant
4239 Baltimore Ave
Philadelphia PA 19104
greenline@greenlinecafe.com

Corina Dross arrives at the GL Baltimore this week!

Green Line Cafe — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:28:49 +0000

West Philadelphia-based artist Corina Dross will be hanging her new show, Echo Chamber, at the Green Line Baltimore later this week.

“Echo Chamber

In the resonant chambers of the heart and folds of the brain, we amplify and distill our memories. Some details are lost; others grow in vibrancy. Chemicals pulse through our shifting neural networks, subtly altering the stories we tell about what has happened to us; what we have witnessed; who we’ve been.

These portraits are experiments in distillation and amplification. Working from photo booth photos, I’ve responded not only to the dramatic flattening in the photos themselves, but to the nature of our nostalgia about these artifacts. Casting my friends as characters from Greek mythology, these ink-wash drawings play with the ways we perform for the flashbulb, and question the conventions around whose stories get to become iconic and eternal.

Artist Bio:

Corina Dross is an artist and illustrator whose work is often small, narrative, and sequential. Currently fascinated by neuroscience, mythology, and other systems of belief and inquiry, she enjoys unusual juxtapositions of images with text. Her artwork has mostly recently appeared in the 2012 Women Artists Datebook and she is best known for her illustrated card deck, Portable Fortitude, now in its third printing. Selected portfolio available at: www.corinadross.com.”

NEW FUN! It’s the Green Line Tasty Tent!

Green Line Cafe — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:15:14 +0000

Last summer y’all LOVED our hot dogs and carrot dogs on the monthly Baltimore Ave Dollar Strolls. So rather than only getting them once a month, we figured you’d probably like ‘em weekly!

Introducing the Green Line Tasty Tent! Begins Saturday April 14!

Swing by Baltimore Avenue Saturdays between 10am — 2pm. In our tent outside 43rd and Baltimore, we’ll have fresh grilled Hebrew Nationals, our carrot dogs (now the stuff of West Philly legend), our beloved Vegan cupcakes, our always-awesome cold-brewed iced coffee, and whatever else our kitchen dreams up for that week!

See you there!

Neal & Gray – Art Reception TONIGHT

Green Line Cafe — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:17:55 +0000

Major art event at the Green Line Locust this fine Friday the 13th! Come see the new work from Alicia Neal and Justin Gray from 7 – 9pm.
Seriously not to be missed.

Justin Gray and Alicia Neal at GLL

Green Line Cafe — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:04:35 +0000

We will be having a new exhibit of work from Alicia Neal & Justin Gray hanging next week.

Their reception is on Friday, April 13th (7 – 9pm), and it’s going to be an excellent show!

“Alicia and Justin both studied illustration at the University of the Arts here in Philadelphia, between around the years 1998-2005.

Drawing on influences from her friends, the natural world, and observations from everything spanning the breadth of seasonal change to mythological creatures and dreams, Alicia creates painterly, mixed media pieces on and using a variety of mediums, in a neo-classical illustration style.

Justin in a nerd brained kook with a love of space marines, video games, and beefy dudes punching each other in movies. He uses a base of hand drawings to create complex, single digital images detailing entire worldscapes, food, and nonsense.”

Wendy Wolf Closing Reception

Green Line Cafe — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:32:43 +0000

Wolf’s new exhibit at the Green Line Locust, Examined Repetition, will be coming to a close at the end of the month.

All are welcome to attend the closing reception this Saturday 3/31, 6-9pm.

Come meet the artist and check out the show that Philly’s own ArtBlog gave a recent tip of the hat to!

Art Show : Justin Froehlich at Powelton Village

Green Line Cafe — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:02:24 +0000

Over half a century since Jackson Pollock and the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, artists have been mining every nook and cranny in the quarry of gestural painting approaches. Justin Froehlich is one such artist. Check out his vivid reverse-painting on glass pieces at our Powelton Village location through the end of April.

COUNTERWEIGHT by Thomasin Parnes at the GL Baltimore

Green Line Cafe — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:38:46 +0000

The Green Line Baltimore is happy to celebrate its second exhibition of West Philadelphia-based artist Thomasin Parnes’s art work.

After a very successful reception on First Friday, we’ve really been enjoying the dynamic images Thomasin has brought to the fore here.

COUNTERWEIGHT

“This collection is an exploration of desire under stress—fantasy cramped, truncated, and constrained by external factors—the Wild Dream Instinct bound and ingrown. It is one of the least

pre-meditated collections of work I have created so far and

therefor a very direct product of my internal state at the time—something I probably could have never put to image through a more conscious process. The visual symbols/codes that appear in this work emerged on their own, like a language devised by my hands to facilitate conversation between two parts of myself that had lost their ability to communicate directly: fragmented landscape and architectural elements; tension drawn through braids and ropes; leafy overgrowth that, in one frame, forms a protective nest, and in the next a tangled obstruction; points of constraint, weight, tipping, pooling. Every image came as a surprise, and it was not until I had ten or twelve of them in front of me that I understood what I was illustrating.”

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Thomasin Parnes is a queer artist, junk curator, and DIY decoration-maker who can most often be found meticulously arranging boxes and cans (their secondary aesthetic practice) on the shelves of Mariposa Food Co-op. They look forward to 2012 as the year in which wild dreams and escape fantasies take back the space (real and imaginary) that they deserve.

Experimental Jazz Showcase this Wednesday

Green Line Cafe — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:41:34 +0000

Swing by the Green Line Locust this Wednesday, March 14th, at 7pm for the West End Blues show!

You can see the Julius Masri/Alban Bailly Duo as well as “RL3,” featuring Ricardo Lagomasino, Matt Stein and Alan Ens.

Come one, come all!

Wendy Wolf’s “Examined Repetition” at Green Line Locust

Green Line Cafe — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:35:22 +0000

Wendy Wolf’s recent work is on view at Green Line Locust from February through March, 2012.

Her small-scale paintings are rich, deliberate, and full of a beautiful range of marks filled with reticulation.

Consider her artist’s statement below: