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Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide To Life After AI Book Launch

Join The Citizen on June 25 to hear from the bestselling author and critic about making AI work for humans — not the other way around

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
In Memoriam

Dito van Reigersberg, Philadelphia’s Entertainer

Here's to the person behind the cabaret performer extraordinaire, Martha Graham Cracker, who made our faces hurt in the best of all possible ways

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The Boss Shows the Way

For a decade, political leaders and media elites haven’t known how to respond to Trumpism. Last week in a South Philly patriotic tent show revival, Bruce Springsteen provided a script

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Your Guide to Philadelphia Pride 2026

Your guide to Philly's lineup of LGBTQIA+ events this month. Things to do for families, partiers, sports fans and arts aficionados

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Art Philly’s What Now Festival

A five-week extravaganza brings music, visual art, performance, film, dance and more art to neighborhoods across the city in celebration of our country’s founding

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GrandWomen

“Life is hard, but it can be a blast” and more lessons and stories from local women who’ve been there, done that, and are telling all, onstage

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The New PAAFF Fundraiser and Spring Showcase

If you want one of Philadelphia’s most treasured film festivals to continue sharing Asian filmmakers and their stories, show PAAFF some love next week

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The Woman Question

Playwright Suli Holum brings a century-old archive to life onstage, telling story of the groundbreaking the Woman’s Medical College of PA and giving audiences a glimpse of how far women still have to go

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What Our Love of Miranda Priestly Says About the World of Work

A Philadelphia employment lawyer weighs in on The Devil Wears Prada 2's fashion magazine editor. Could it be we relate to the domineering, anti-P.C. workaholic-in-charge?

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Becoming American, Philadelphia’s Story

One Black history project the current administration cannot erase: a new documentary on African Americans from the time of William Penn to the Civil War — with flashes forward to modern day Philly

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