The website Backpage may be gone, but its infamy lives on. The community-driven set of online classified ads has been at the center of some of the most controversial legal battles in internet history.

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Eric Smith is a literary agent and Young Adult author who can often be found rummaging around all of Philadelphia’s used bookstores. As an agent, he’s worked on New York Times bestselling and ...

Sharon Sanders is one of the Founders of Philadelphia Weekly. She is a clinical sexologist and certified sex educator by profession. She uses this to help spread awareness on everything concerning ...

"There was a lot of kind of insanity and a feeling in the air that was very uneasy," the acclaimed filmmaker says now 45 years since arriving in Philadelphia.

Kennedy Allen (she/her) is an award-winning podcast producer and host, who eats, sleeps, and breathes Philly alt culture. Interests include science-fiction, comics, baseball, craft beer, dismantling ...

Vincent Williams is a life long pop culture fan and scholar, offering music, film and television criticism for the Baltimore City Paper before moving into academia as an assistant English professor at ...

Christine Flowers wishes she could say that she was born and raised in Philadelphia, but she was only raised here. An accident of birth had her seeing the light of day in Baltimore at Mt. Sinai ...

CJ Higgins (they/them) is a queer and transgender theatre artist who specializes in performance, music, devising, directing, production, and whatever else a show needs at a given moment because that’s ...

A writer, educator, and sports nut, Aaron Kahle was born in Philadelphia where his fondest memories are drives around the different parts of the city with his aunt as a kid. South Philly and Center ...

Marian started her writing career as a poor student in Paris taking commissions to write personalised erotic novellas and has since become an award-winning author of essays and anthologies. Marian ...