Arts & Culture
Tales of a Two Street Stomper
A dozen years ago, a South Jersey resident decided to cross the Delaware before dawn every New Year’s Day to join suited-up pals in a Mummers comics club. And she has never looked back
By Anne JohnsonThe Last of the Fancies
The Mummers Parade started with Fancy Divisions. Only one such club remains. Their plan to survive: inclusiveness.
By Lauren McCutcheonAli Velshi Banned Book Club on The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews Stephen Chobsky, whose classic The Perks of Being a Wallflower has literally stopped suicides
By Ali Velshi“Talking” To Your Dead Loved Ones
A Rail Park installation allows a grieving local writer to call her deceased parents and convey thoughts that are “carried by the wind.”
By Natalie PompilioThe Wandering Weaver
Galen Gibson-Cornell tears posters off of city streets, shreds them into thin strips and weaves them back together to create trippy mash-ups that mix brands, colors and patterns from across the world into something entirely his own
By RJ RushmoreBuilt to Heal with Michael Murphy
The renowned architect spoke for a large Citizen crowd about why all people deserve good design — and how he intends to bring it to them
By Lauren McCutcheonArt Is Caregiving
For 10 years, ARTZ Philadelphia has enabled people with dementia and their loved ones to experience, and connect over, our city’s rich arts community
By Erinda ShenoPut Your Money for Your Mouth Where Your Heart Is
Philadelphia restaurants and the causes they champion, causes you support by supporting them
By Lauren McCutcheonBabe on 52nd Street
Ted Hall opened his women’s boutique in 1972. Today, a legendary chef and photographer honors one of the last Black-owned businesses on the Strip
By Reuben HarleyThe Deliberate Photographer
Kenyssa Evans is not a stereotypical Gen Z. She eschews social media, works slowly and intentionally, and prefers working in the shadows on her sensory images of Blackness in America.
By Logan Cryer