Arts & Culture
King’s Chester Years
In an excerpt from the bestselling King: A Life, the iconic moral leader attends Chester’s Crozer Theological Seminary, takes part in his first civil rights confrontation (in a Maple Shade, New Jersey bar!) and loses his heart … to a White woman
By Jonathan EigThe Soundmaker
Penn music technology professor Eugene Lew experiments with electronic music and sound. His latest project: a collaboration with textile weavers.
By Logan CryerWhy Aren’t Funny Mummers … Funny?
The Comics and Wenches are having fun. The crowd watching them? Not as much. Here, some particularly Philly advice.
By Lauren McCutcheonThe Mummers Parade
A history lesson, including some scholarly conjecture, about Philadelphia’s New Year’s Day … phenomenon
By J.P. RomneyTales 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 McCutcheon