Big Rube’s Philly

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
The Citizen Recommends

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
Guest Commentary

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
Listen

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