Guest Commentary

More Random Applause, Please

Let’s just clap for each other. Because the country is on fire and the bucket brigade needs to start somewhere

By Ronnie Polaneczky

Keeping Avenue of the Arts for the Arts

Revisiting a longtime university president’s proposal to turn University of the Arts’ main building into an arts community that would make the city a destination for practicing artists. The developer of Bok has a plan — but may need Mayor Parker to make it happen

By Elaine Maimon
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Martin & Malcolm & America Book Club

A new book club series at Temple’s Blockson Library aims to cast a new light on American icons.

By Jessica Blatt Press

Finding Home at Tio Pepe

Unhurried and authentic, a Portuguese restaurant in Northeast Philadelphia has only gotten more popular as the population who inspired it dwindles

By Emilia Maia
Art Review

Can We Talk About the PMA’s Plastic Bidet?

What the Art Museum’s exhibit of Japanese “super normal” artist Naoto Fukasawa says about our political and artistic moment

By Nora Grace-Flood

How to Make that Super Bowl Feeling Last Forever …

The Birds won by playing as a team. You can, too. Join something!

By Lauren McCutcheon
The New Urban Order

Which City Did Winter Best?

10 cities that beat back the cold with spectacle and sport

By Diana Lind

Poetry in Emotion

A pair of Germantown poets play host to a series of workshops and art installations that explore the untapped emotions of gun violence

By Delaney Parks
Big Rube’s Philly

Designer K.Vaughn

The iconic photographer, brand marketer and chef sits down with a self- (and Philadelphia-) made lifestyle and fashion guru

By Reuben Harley
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Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Screening

A Philadelphia documentarian uncovered the little-known story of the first multiracial Civil Rights protest in 1960. Watch the award-winning film at the Weitzman Museum on February 6

By Christina Griffith