Arts & Culture

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, to discuss her coming-of-age-novel and the targeting of LGBTQ+ stories

This week in Philly we have holiday gift drives, The Nutcracker(s), ice sculpting, makers markets, Christmas in the Barrio and more

How an unpretentious neighborhood coffee shop in Fairmount is becoming the go-to for politicos from the New York U.S. congresswoman to Mayor Parker to Tony Watlington

The Citizen’s annual guide to gifts for the people — and the city — you love. (Suck it, Amazon. We’re shopping local!)

Can the Philly Specials’ third holiday record — featuring Stevie Nicks and Mt. Joy — sway a Christmas music grinch? A song-by-song review

Tree lightings, makers markets, pop-up Christmas bars, live concerts, destination light displays, family festivities and several Nutcrackers: Everything you want and need to know about holidays in Philadelphia

A mission-driven storyteller on the power and beauty of sharing and listening this holiday season

As a young man, Spel was one of Philadelphia’s most-recognized graffiti writers. Since 1990, he’s been restricted to making art behind bars, incarcerated for a crime that he says he did not commit. The next in our Art for Change series

The iconic chef, photographer and brand maker meets up with a Philadelphia wood burning artist known for his portraits of Eagles, Phillies, dogs and, on occasion, beer

A monument to civil rights icon Sadie Alexander, planned for where Mayor Frank Rizzo’s used to stand, would be only the third statue of a real-life Black Philadelphian on public view