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Rethinking Remains at the Mütter Museum

Saanvi Ram explores how Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum navigates ethical debates over human remains, consent, and repatriation. Examining the Postmortem Project and the museum’s 2025 human remains policy, she unpacks the tension between bioethics and museological ethics shaping the future of this historic medical museum.

By Saanvi Ram
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Arts

What if These Worlds Were Within Us?

Old City’s latest art exhibition is playful, dreamy, and modernist, featuring Aitor Lajarin–Encina’s Flora, Fauna, and Furniture and we call the moon the people’s wife, in collaboration with Vox Populi. 

By Laura Gao
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Television Who Did Marvel Even Make ‘Wonder Man’ For?
Music Street’s 2026 Grammy Predictions
Style Your AI Therapist Wants You Single
Word On The Street Running Away to Alaska
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‘Iron Lung’ and the Rise of the YouTuber Film

Iron Lung shows how a creator with a large online audience turned a low budget game adaptation into strong box office revenue through fan driven promotion and social reach. YouTube creators build direct audience ties, run production pipelines, and mobilize viewers to support projects across media platforms. The film’s performance signals a shift where online personalities compete with studio backed releases through community scale and digital marketing power.

By Liana Seale
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Who Did Marvel Even Make ‘Wonder Man’ For?

Marvel’s Wonder Man on Disney+ is a surprisingly low–key MCU entry, swapping the multiverse chaos for sharp, character–driven Hollywood satire. With minimal marketing and almost no larger franchise stakes, it ends up being one of Marvel’s best recent shows: small, funny, and refreshingly unconcerned with saving the world.

By Henry Metz
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Do All Asian Americans Have Daddy Issues?

Hollywood keeps running the same tired script about Asian American life: strict parents, culture clash, identity crisis, rinse, repeat. This pattern reduces such characters to struggle and excludes stories about adulthood, romance, work, or ordinary life. If we want real range, Asian American characters have to be allowed to exist outside the family–conflict starter pack. 

By Jason Zhao
Music
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Street’s 2026 Grammy Predictions

If you’re anything like Street writers, you already have a lineup of predicted winners you’re ready to bet on; our roster features Bad Bunny, Lady Gaga, Olivia Dean, and more. Read to find out why, and drop us a line if you disagree—we’re ready to battle it out.

By 34th Street Magazine
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Put Your Phone Away

Who would have thought? No phones make a show–going experience so much better. Gregory Alan Isakov delivered a captivating, all the more resonant performance at The Met in Philadelphia.

By Mira Agarwal
Arts
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The New Age of Superheroes

Marvel’s Ultimate and DC’s Absolute universes abandon superpowered fantasies for broken systems and the pursuit of meaning in a hopeless world.

By Chenyao Liu
Style
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Welcome to the First Wives Club

From White House state dinners to global summits, political wives and first ladies have long used fashion to shape public perception—but a new generation, including Michelle Obama and Rama Duwaji, is rewriting the rules.

By Jordan Millar