City Life Let There be Light! New Neon Museum Illuminates Philly’s Colorful Commercial History The Philadelphia Neon Museum is officially open to the public and currently features a special exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the South Street Renaissance
City Life The Ordinary Extraordinary: Making History Tangible at the Colored Girls Museum What happens when whiteness is no longer the center of experience? The Colored Girls Museum in Germantown flips the script on conventional house museums and celebrates “home space” as the place where Black women and girls get things done.
City Life Old “Ladies’ Entrance” Signs Blur the Lines Between Gender Bias and Bar Ephemera Kiki Volkert goes bar hopping across the city to find old signs that signal a history of sexism and the progress made towards women’s rights
City Life My Mom and Center City: A Love Story In this endearing essay Amy Cohen recounts how her suburban-born mother blossomed into a passionate Philadelphian
City Life Happy New Year from Hidden City Hidden City is taking a short winter vacation. We’ll be back on Tuesday, January 19
City Life Give a Gift, Get a Gift: 2020 Fund Drive Perks Are Here With just three days left in our annual fund drive, check out all the great thank you gifts we have on tap
City Life Reporting for Duty: First Troop Celebrates 246 Years of Civic Service From military parades to pandemic learning pods, 23rd Street Armory rises to the occasion amid COVID-19 as a haven for underserved school children. Amy Cohen has the story
City Life Bullets Along the Delaware and the Paradox of a Nature Trail After the fatal shooting of Walter Wallace, Jr. by Philadelphia Police officers, Ann de Forest reflects on a disconcerting walk at Pennypack on the Delaware
