Arts & Culture

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

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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