Cassie Owens, Philly Inquirer

Cassie Owens

Philly Inquirer

Philadelphia, PA, United States

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Past:
  • Philly Inquirer
  • Philly.com
  • Next City
  • Billy Penn

Past articles by Cassie:

Philly’s Candy Lady. You know her. And never count her out.

She's a city fixture, whose legal name is Lynette D. Morrison. She’s always singing. “Buy my candy! Oooooooh. Buy my candy.” They’re jingles; they’re serenades. → Read More

At a pioneering West Philly recovery home, a community faces challenges

There is no other place like Morris Home. Can it live up to its promise? → Read More

Philly’s James Ijames, fresh off a Pulitzer win, on directing another Pulitzer-winner, ‘Fairview’

Fairview, which inventively takes on stereotypes, will be at the Wilma Theater for three weeks starting May 31. "It’s heavy material. Some of it is quite dark,” Ijames said. → Read More

Which politicians answered and or dodged Clout’s three Election Day questions?

Politicians love to lunch on Election Day. But first they have to visit Clout's hot seat to answer three questions. → Read More

The Eagles re-embrace kelly green, and a city rejoices

The Philadelphia Eagles will welcome back kelly green as an alternate uniform in 2023. Does this represent a return to our core identity? → Read More

Black Soul Vintage: This rare Black-owned secondhand shop is expanding from online-only to a new Germantown location

Long before Tomarra Sankara-Kilombo opened Black Soul Vintage, she was the kid who followed her mom in thrift stores, growing into the adult who people would ask, “Where’d you get that?" → Read More

Water restored following Center City water-main break

The water-main break in the 1200 block of Spruce Street had been first reported at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, said PWD spokesperson Brian Rademaekers. It impacted 45 properties. → Read More

What my grandmother taught me about living with grief

“I just think you have to hold onto those memories, whether they’re good or bad. They’re still part of your family. A part of who you are. A part of who we become.” → Read More

Award-winning playwright R. Eric Thomas talks his new Philly-inspired romantic comedy, ‘Backing Track’

'Backing Track' premieres at the Arden Theatre with a queer love story and characters who love their karaoke. → Read More

Please stop twerking: James Ijames tackles inheritance in ‘TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever’

Written by award-winning South Philly playwright James Ijames, "TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever" is making its regional debut at Norristown's Theatre Horizon. → Read More

Black Opals: How a rare Black Philly literary journal is finding new life

Black Opals, published four times between 1927 and 1928, is finding new readers after nearly 100 years in obscurity. → Read More

COVID and 2021 tested us. Here’s what helped these Philadelphians push through

To close out 2021, we checked in with people from the Philadelphia region to see how they’ve kept going → Read More

Temple University student killed in shooting Sunday

The student was 21 years old. → Read More

Temple University student killed in shooting Sunday

The student was 21 years old. → Read More

Inside Kings Gallery PHL, the new North Philly selfie museum showing its community that their lives are art

The gallery owners intentionally made backdrops from hip hop culture and street art to make their demographic feel at home. → Read More

Vicarious Love, a Philly artists market that thrives on the unique, returns for its largest pop-up yet

Saturday's outdoor market will feature ceramics, jewelry, fashion, furniture, home goods, and more art from other mediums. → Read More

Kariamu Welsh, 72, a dance pioneer who made students want to live up to their history, dies

Welsh was a dancer, choreographer, dance scholar, Temple University professor and an author and editor of seminal works on Afrocentricity and Black movement traditions. → Read More

A ‘renewed’ mural in Philly’s Chinatown encourages more play

”Everything they want to know about Chinatown? Probably we can give them some simple introduction.” → Read More

These are the must-sees in galleries this fall

Taj Poscé, Maureen Maduadichie, Johnny Irizarry, and more great art to see this fall. → Read More

Traveling through time with Black Quantum Futurism’s ancestral exhibit

A mixed-media exhibition at Hatfield House explores how time isn’t linear. Looking at time another way, how do we see our ancestors and ourselves? → Read More