Arts & Culture

All Star #9: Julian Francis Abele

Interactive theater company Just Act uses the audience as “spect-actors” to address social problems

The first black woman in America to open a comic book store storms on to the scene

All Star #4: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

An exhibit explores a shared history of activism among blacks and whites—and points to a possible future

Legendary concert promoter Larry Magid on his friend, David Bowie

The city’s outgoing Poet Laureate on the poem of Philadelphia

Landscape architect Lois Brink turned Denver school yards into community parks. Can she do the same in Philly?

A millennial Philly transplant discovers—and embraces—our changing New Years tradition

In Mantua, an arts residency program helps fix up the neighborhood