Arts & Culture

More Random Applause, Please
Let’s just clap for each other. Because the country is on fire and the bucket brigade needs to start somewhere
By Ronnie Polaneczky
Keeping Avenue of the Arts for the Arts
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
By Elaine Maimon
Martin & Malcolm & America Book Club
A new book club series at Temple’s Blockson Library aims to cast a new light on American icons.
By Jessica Blatt Press
Finding Home at Tio Pepe
Unhurried and authentic, a Portuguese restaurant in Northeast Philadelphia has only gotten more popular as the population who inspired it dwindles
By Emilia Maia
Can We Talk About the PMA’s Plastic Bidet?
What the Art Museum’s exhibit of Japanese “super normal” artist Naoto Fukasawa says about our political and artistic moment
By Nora Grace-Flood
How to Make that Super Bowl Feeling Last Forever …
The Birds won by playing as a team. You can, too. Join something!
By Lauren McCutcheon
Which City Did Winter Best?
10 cities that beat back the cold with spectacle and sport
By Diana Lind
Poetry in Emotion
A pair of Germantown poets play host to a series of workshops and art installations that explore the untapped emotions of gun violence
By Delaney Parks
Designer K.Vaughn
The iconic photographer, brand marketer and chef sits down with a self- (and Philadelphia-) made lifestyle and fashion guru
By Reuben Harley
Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round Screening
A Philadelphia documentarian uncovered the little-known story of the first multiracial Civil Rights protest in 1960. Watch the award-winning film at the Weitzman Museum on February 6
By Christina Griffith