Arts & Culture

Whether he’s allowing local architecture to inspire his intricate cut paper artworks or designing street art to fit into unexpected spaces, artist Joe Boruchow keeps a close eye on Philadelphia.

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

Penn music technology professor Eugene Lew experiments with electronic music and sound. His latest project: a collaboration with textile weavers.

The Comics and Wenches are having fun. The crowd watching them? Not as much. Here, some particularly Philly advice.

A history lesson, including some scholarly conjecture, about Philadelphia’s New Year’s Day … phenomenon

The Mummers Parade started with Fancy Divisions. Only one such club remains. Their plan to survive: inclusiveness.

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews Stephen Chobsky, whose classic The Perks of Being a Wallflower has literally stopped suicides

A Rail Park installation allows a grieving local writer to call her deceased parents and convey thoughts that are “carried by the wind.”

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

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