Arts & Culture

Rooting For Our Home Team
Visit Philadelphia’s job is to bring tourists to the city. But that can’t happen if Philadelphians don’t love their city, too
By Jessica Blatt Press
Peter Wolf at The Free Library
The legendary rock and roll frontman’s memoir, Waiting On The Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters and Goddesses, is a Zelig-like ride through 50 years of American creative genius. He’ll be in conversation with Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt next week.
By Larry Platt
Candace Johnson and the Touchy / Feely game
The iconic brand marketer, chef and photographer meets up with a news producer turned creator of “the UNO of intimacy”
By Reuben Harley
“It’s Our Market.”
Amid threats to undocumented workers and from outside developers, lifelong South Philadelphian Michelle Angela Ortiz doubles down on a public art project honoring the diverse stories of the S. 9th Street Market
By Cristian Salazar
Join the Circus
Germantown is home to the country’s only accredited circus school. But it’s also a place where adults can hang out (literally) and just … have some fun.
By Cassie Burkhardt
“Are You Open?”
In this excerpt from his memoir about life, family and baseball, Marc Vetri’s business partner looks back on the tentative early days of their legendary Philly restaurant — and the moment he got to share with his dad
By Jeff Benjamin with Greg Jones
Bok Comes to Broad Street
Lindsey Scannepieco just won a bidding war to redevelop two iconic University of the Arts buildings. Here's how her company, Scout, plans to keep arts on the Avenue of the Arts
By Courtney DuChene
What a Typewriter Taught Me about Human Connection
A local artist has traveled America inviting people to write letters to the President on her vintage typewriter. See her March 8 at the Free Library for the Global Day of Unplugging
By Sheryl Oring
(Black) Zombies in Philly!
A local filmmaker explores what would happen if the enslaved people buried in Washington Square were to wake up and … eat White people. (Relax, it’s a metaphor.)
By James Peterson
Ali Velshi on Burying Ukrainian Manuscripts to Keep them from Russian Hands
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with author and Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov to discuss how Ukrainian literature is preserving the nation's history — and its future
By Ali Velshi