Arts & Culture

Candace Johnson and the Touchy / Feely game
The iconic brand marketer, chef and photographer meets up with a news producer turned creator of “the UNO of intimacy”
By Reuben Harley
“It’s Our Market.”
Amid threats to undocumented workers and from outside developers, lifelong South Philadelphian Michelle Angela Ortiz doubles down on a public art project honoring the diverse stories of the S. 9th Street Market
By Cristian Salazar
Fun Things to Do in Philly this Week and Weekend
This week in Philly we have dance, new art and museu openings, the mob trolley tour, St. Patrick's Day parade, and much more
By Christina Griffith
Join the Circus
Germantown is home to the country’s only accredited circus school. But it’s also a place where adults can hang out (literally) and just … have some fun.
By Cassie Burkhardt
“Are You Open?”
In this excerpt from his memoir about life, family and baseball, Marc Vetri’s business partner looks back on the tentative early days of their legendary Philly restaurant — and the moment he got to share with his dad
By Jeff Benjamin with Greg Jones
Bok Comes to Broad Street
Lindsey Scannepieco just won a bidding war to redevelop two iconic University of the Arts buildings. Here's how her company, Scout, plans to keep arts on the Avenue of the Arts
By Courtney DuChene
What a Typewriter Taught Me about Human Connection
A local artist has traveled America inviting people to write letters to the President on her vintage typewriter. See her March 8 at the Free Library for the Global Day of Unplugging
By Sheryl Oring
(Black) Zombies in Philly!
A local filmmaker explores what would happen if the enslaved people buried in Washington Square were to wake up and … eat White people. (Relax, it’s a metaphor.)
By James Peterson
Your 2025 Good (Philadelphia) Citizen Calendar
The dates you need for things to do in Philadelphia to make 2025 your civic best
By Lauren McCutcheon
Ali Velshi on Burying Ukrainian Manuscripts to Keep them from Russian Hands
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with author and Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov to discuss how Ukrainian literature is preserving the nation's history — and its future
By Ali Velshi