Arts & Culture

Filmmaker El Sawyer has gone from from prisoner to presidential advisor with one goal: Helping ex-inmates make it on the outside

The music producers have launched a membership program to help Philly musicians thrive—and keep them in town

A summer-long initiative brings outdoor film screenings to little-known parks across Philly—boosting interest in our green spaces and encouraging community-building across neighborhoods.

The city played a role in the making of the legend—and in the debate over the meaning of his legacy

Join the Eagles linebacker for local bands Hop Along and Waxahatchee—and help rebuild a city park

Can Tayyib Smith and Meegan Denenberg’s Institute of Hip Hop Entrepreneurship economically empower a generation of Philadelphians?

The founder of Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra takes the elite out of symphonic music

LOVE Your Park Week starts Saturday with a citywide cleanup—and continues with park-celebrating events all week

The city’s new Poet Laureate invites Philadelphians to see and make poetry happen everywhere

They do it in India and Germany and even Puerto Rico. And more people show up to vote