Arts & Culture
Our Unseen Freedom
Amid the fanfare around the nation’s 250th, Philadelphia institutions come together to explore and to celebrate the freedom of conscience
By Vince Stango and Rosalind Remer PhD
Where Friendship Becomes a Ladder
How an Igbo community in West Philadelphia creates economic mobility
By Dr. Eric Nzeribe
Have We All Been Ed Sheeran?
A local businesswoman and Palestinian refugee explains what a moment in pop culture can teach us about power, responsibility, and the grace to change our minds
By Yasmine Mustafa
Bucks County, USA, the American Story We Need Now
A gripping new documentary offers an insider’s view into how PA’s third largest county and political bellwether has reckoned with a national fracturing
By Carrie Rickey
Style Iconoclast Charlie Lichtenfels
A Philly transplant shares their “Swamp Yankee” style, vintage records and classic 90s looks with the OG entrepreneur, chef and photographer
By Reuben Harley
Arts Define Philly. So Let’s Fund Them
Philadelphia’s arts and culture sector delivers. Public investment should reflect it.
By Patricia Wilson Aden
Missing the Gentleness of Dinosaurs
A longtime Philadelphia teacher on what we lose when the Academy of Natural Sciences closes its public museum
By Allaire Wohlgemuth
Early Civic-hood Education
A new WHYY-TV show is teaching young viewers how to be a better part of their neighborhoods—and in turn, how to make their neighborhoods better
By Shaunice Ajiwe
There’s (Probably) a Club for That
The guy behind Join Philly doesn’t just want people to do more things and make more friends. He wants them to stick around
By Cristian Salazar
Philadelphia’s Monumental Failure of Imagination
Philly does not merely underfund the arts, a local creator contends. It produces Black cultural brilliance, exports it to the world, and then fails to preserve the people, places, and institutions that made that brilliance possible
By Tayyib Smith