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he Swiss poet Rilke wrote that standing in front of some works of art enables viewers to see the world more clearly. When Collective Action, a silent art auction, infiltrated gallery space at 990 Spring Garden on Jan. 15, it contained several such illuminating works; and was born from the frustration and mixed feelings surrounding last November’s presidential election results. Collective Action sought to raise $20k, with proceeds from art sales to be donated to a variety of social justice groups: Planned Parenthood, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Network of Abortion Funds, International Refugee Assistance Project and the Natural Resources Defense council, to name a few. SEE PAGE 10
Why is the alleged love-child of legendary performer Jerry Lewis living on the streets of NE Philly?
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n Friday, Donald Trump will begin his presidency with the promise that he will “Make America Great Again.” Nine years ago, he couldn’t even make Philadelphia great again, with the spectacular fail called Trump Tower Philadelphia. Maybe we got lucky: The place, as shown in this 2008 advertisement that appeared in Philadelphia Weekly, would’ve been a monstrosity. The tower would have featured $3.5 million penthouses overlooking the Delaware River waterfront, presumably with tasteless yachts tied up along its gaudy dock. Here’s a breakdown.
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Trump Tower Philadelphia never got off the ground courtesy of the 2008 Housing Market crash recession, but if you ask President-elect Donald Trump that shouldn’t matter. In March 2007, Trump told Canadian pub The Globe and Mail that he’s “always made more money in bad markets than in good markets.” Additionally, “The Donald”also noted he was “excited”that the cycle of loans came to an end failing to show any empathy that all these bad bank loans left scores of hard working Americans homeless.
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Coming from a man who insults women as often as he does, one has to ask what truly defines in Trump’s mind as “a fantastic guy with a wonderful wife?”
The familiar phrase “fine-tuning your long game”applies to both golf and relationships if you ask Trump. In a 1991 interview with Esquire, Trump mentioned how pretty girlfriends are the antidotes to bad press. “You know, it doesn’t really matter what they write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”Wonder if that quote made it into his book, The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received.
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Toasting at night apparently has led to a fruitful sex life for The Donald. In his 1990 book “Surviving at the Top, Trump took a stab at explaining his historic success with the ladies – all while taking a familiar timely stab at the press. “I’ve never had any trouble in bed, but if I’d had affairs with half the starlets and female athletes the newspapers linked me with, I’d have no time to breathe.”
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Who would want “urban luxury”when apparently living in there is like “living in hell?”Nevermind his thoughts earlier this month describing the current state of a section of Atlanta overseen by civil rights legend and politician, John Lewis. Here’s how the Donald described urban communities during the third presidential debate on CNN against Hillary Clinton in October: “In inner cities, African-Americans, Hispanics, are living in hell because it’s so dangerous. You walk down the street, you get shot.”
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So what is“Trump Style?”We can only wager straight misogyny and disrespect for anything resembling a female. Remember his infamous comments on soon-to-be former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly? “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her…wherever.”And then denying the accusation that those comments referred to a menstrual cycle? Now that’s tellin’em...Trump style.
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Look at that smile. It’s one that expresses gratitude and confidence, especially when disproportionately self congratulating yourself.
Spouting tower-ing opinions, is just what The Donald does, even when they are completely unwarranted. Like this 2012 gem on his Twitter account in reference to Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington.
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams The alleged love-child of legendary funnyman Jerry Lewis is homeless on the streets of Northeast Philly? BY WILLIAM KENNY
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he grew up on Fifth Avenue, frolicking with A-list stars. Now she lives on the streets of Northeast Philly, scraping by one day at a time, certain that famed funnyman Jerry Lewis is her father. Suzan Minoret is the antithesis of the rags to riches story. Short on money and equally short on her famous father’s show business clout, she and a longtime traveling companion spend their days foraging for subsistence and their nights sheltering in storage units or 24-hour laundromats—at least until an unsympathetic manager shows up and kicks them to the curb. It would appear a calamitous downfall for a woman who in her formative years shared playdates with Liza Minelli and hotel scion Francesca Hilton. She learned to speak fluent French alongside Lauren Bacall’s daughter, Leslie Bogart, at an elite Manhattan secondary school, and then made her public debut at the annual International Debutante Ball. In 2008, there was hope for a better life. She came to Philadelphia at the invitation of a Cherry Hill, N.J.-based celebrity agent who had been trying to publish and publicize her autobiography, which they planned to call Jerry’s Kid. He put her up in a home in the Northeast. There were TV appearances, an interview with Howard Stern, and even a reunion with her half-brother, the former pop star, Gary Lewis. But that fell apart and for most of the last eight years, Suzan, 64, has been homeless, wandering the streets around Roosevelt Boulevard, occasionally spending the night in a cardboard shack, holding out hope that one day Jerry Lewis will acknowledge her as his daughter. “I’m not happy with where I am. There’s nothing about my situation to be happy about,” she divulged over coffee and breakfast sandwiches at Dunkin’ Donuts on Cottman Avenue. “I wish somebody could get to my father to let him know what my situation is. Maybe he doesn’t have all the facts.” The fact is, Lewis has never denied publicly that Suzan is his biological daughter. Nor has he confirmed it. Lewis did not reply to multiple requests for comment.
Life on the street: Suzan Minoret, the alleged daughter of funnyman Jerry Lewis, has been homeless for the past eight years, wandering the streets around Roosevelt Boulevard.
When I met Suzan, she showed me a scrapbook of her life, with photographs of her long-gone celebrity friends, remembrances of her international travels, a telling photograph of her posing with an old Jerry Lewis record album. The facial resemblance between father and would-be daughter is striking and clearly backs her story. And so does DNA testing conducted in 2008. As Suzan tells it, her mother, Lynn Dixon, was a successful fashion model who wed and had a son in the mid-1940s. That marriage crumbled quickly, and Dixon soon met 23-yearold Jerry Lewis. At the time, the man who one day would be an international celebrity was just getting started in show business, teaming with Dean Martin and making radio and early TV appearances. Milton Berle introduced Dixon to Jerry one night after a Martin and Lewis performance at the legendary Copacabana club. Though Jerry was married with a young son, he couldn’t ignore his attraction to Dixon. Their three-year affair became an engagement when Jerry gave Dixon a ring, Suzan said. But Jerry couldn’t get a divorce—his wife, Patti Palmer, was Catholic. Suzan was born on Feb. 3, 1952. Jerry was on the road at the time pro-
moting his soon-to-be released film, Sailor Beware, so he convinced Berle to visit Dixon in the hospital on his behalf, Suzan said. Two years later, Dixon married prominent Big Apple restaurateur and nightclub owner Hy Uchitel, who—along with his brother Maurice—was also known for his alleged associations with some of the country’s biggest organized crime figures. The Uchitel name still resonates in New York’s social circles. Maurice’s granddaughter Rachel Uchitel is the shapely nightclub hostess who famously lost her fiance in the World Trade Center attack then years later gained notoriety as one of Tiger Woods’ love interests and as a reality TV personality. As a youngster, Suzan and her parents lived in the hotel above their French restaurant, Voisin, at 63rd Street and Park Avenue in the heart of upscale Midtown. (James Bond fans will remember the restaurant from Ian Fleming’s novel, Diamonds Are Forever.) Each day brought Suzan into the company of real-life icons from the entertainment, business and political worlds. “Liza Minelli and her sister, Lorna Luft, came up to my room and we played with our dolls while their
mother, Judy Garland, was having lunch with my mother in the restaurant,” Suzan recalled. “Zsa Zsa Gabor’s daughter, Francesca, came, too. Leslie Bogart [daughter of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall] was in my class in French school. I had them all to my birthday parties. “My mother would find time to have lunch with Ethel Merman and dinner with Pat Nixon.” John F. Kennedy also was an enthusiastic patron. “When he was in New York, he had to go there,” Suzan said. “He made the Secret Service set everything up the day before and when he came he made them walk all the way down Park Avenue from 76th Street to 63rd Street following him.” Suzan’s scrapbook is filled with photos from that period of her life. There’s an image of her as a 9-yearold chatting with actress and pin-up model Jayne Mansfield. There’s another shot of a 16-year-old Suzan and film star Jane Russell exchanging embraces. Yet another photo depicts a teenage Suzan posing with pop idols Davy Jones and Peter Tork at the height of The Monkees’ popularity. Suzan’s own palpable charisma leaps from the photos, too. Her long dark hair, big brown eyes, broad smile and dimpled chin seem to blend the best qualities of both her biological parents. These days, she still has a broad smile and that pronounced chin—a Jerry Lewis trademark—although her hair is graying and her overall appearance is of a stereotypical bag lady. When I met her near Cottman and the Boulevard, she wore layer upon layer of old flannel shirts, sweat tops and insulated jackets, as well as a faded blue winter scarf and gray cap. She carried three or four oversized duffel bags to tote her other personal effects. Like those celebrities whom Suzan once knew so well, Jerry Lewis was a frequent, though irregular, presence in her childhood. As Suzan’s mother kept the true identity of her daughter’s biological father a secret from Hy, she nonetheless found ways to reunite father and daughter. When Suzan was 2, Jerry and Lynn enrolled her in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. When the Uchitels vacationed in Miami Beach, they stayed at the posh
Suzan’s scrapbook also contains news clippings from Suzan’s own flirtation with stardom. At 17, she wore a white gown, pearls and a tiara and mixed with the daughters of princes, politicians and industrialists at the 1969 International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf Astoria. A year later, Suzan married Frenchman Francois Minoret. Their union commanded a four-paragraph article on the society pages of The New York Times, but it was ill-fated. The couple had sons in 1971 and ’79. But by the mid-’80s, the relationship had fallen to pieces amid the pressure of what Suzan described as her husband’s meddling yet aloof family. She became anorexic while agonizing over her family troubles; her in-laws tried to commit her to a mental hospital. “They wanted to sedate me for five days,” she said. “But I saw One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and I wasn’t going.”
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Fontainebleau hotel. So did Jerry— that’s where he filmed perhaps his most famous movie, The Bellboy, in 1960. “When I was little, we’d have a cabana around the pool and he’d get the one next to ours so he could be near us. He’d play with me in the sand, all of that,” Suzan said. “He’d be silly. He say something like, ‘Let’s play ball,’ and then he’d fall all over the place.” Back in New York, they’d arrange discreet meetings periodically and often cross paths by pure chance. After all, they socialized in the same circles. Publicly, meanwhile, Jerry led a happily married life: By 1964, he and Palmer had six sons including one adopted—but no daughters. “He was very affectionate. He gave me gifts, dolls. And I loved dolls,” Suzan said. “He wanted a daughter but he could never tell anyone he already had one.”
herself alone again, but she vowed to look after Susskin just as he had taken care of her. They decided to try to track down Jerry Lewis, whom Suzan hadn’t seen or spoken with in some 25 years. “I started wanting to reach my father even though I was trying to give him some space with his new family,” Suzan said. “But I waited too long and now it’s hard for me to even get in contact with him.” Lewis had finally divorced his first wife in 1980 and married SanDee Pitnick three years later. They adopted a girl, Danielle Sara Lewis, in 1992. Suzan figured she’d try to reach Jerry through his eldest son, her half-brother, Gary. In the years that Suzan was mastering Alouette and enchanting the New York glitterati, Gary Lewis parlayed his name and his drumkit into pop music stardom. The Lewis family lived in Los Angeles and that’s where Gary Lewis and the Playboys took off. Their first single, This Diamond Ring, reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 list and launched a string of seven consecutive Top 10 records in 1965 and ’66. By the mid-2000s, Gary was touring again with a new version of The Playboys. Suzan turned up at one of his shows in Florida and introduced herself as his sister. The encounter was brief. Gary didn’t show it, but he was intrigued by the possibility that his long lost sister was alive and well, according to longtime family friend Rick Saphire, who was working for both Gary and Jerry Lewis at the time. Gary Lewis did not respond to requests for comment for this article. Suzan found Saphire’s phone number on the internet, called him and asked him to help her reconnect with the Lewises. Saphire, who as a child performed a comedic magic act on The Tonight Show with Jerry Lewis as guest host, now owns and operates a magic shop—it’s called The Magic Shop—on Marlton Pike in Cherry Hill. In 2007, Saphire booked Gary for several personal appearances in Florida and Suzan asked to meet her half-brother. “She seemed like a great girl and I liked her,” Saphire told me in an interview at his shop. “I didn’t buy her story, that she was disabled and couldn’t work. [But] I asked Gary if he was willing to meet Suzan. He said yes, but he wanted it kept informal.” That one casual encounter in a South Florida hotel room left no doubt in Gary’s mind of their common bloodlines.
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Riches to rags: Suzan shown here during her International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf Astoria in 1969, has matched in DNA tests with 88.77 percent accuracy to being blood related to Jerry Lewis (below).
In the meantime, her mother had divorced Uchitel, married a film producer and moved to California. Uchitel moved to Miami Beach and had become deathly ill. He would die months after Suzan fled back to the United States, leaving her marriage and French-born sons behind. It’s been a recurring theme in her life: companionship then abandonment, optimism then disaster, hope then desperation. Suzan settled in South Florida and worked as a receptionist and restaurant hostess. Her widowed mother eventually joined her in the Sunshine State. The divorced Suzan met a new beau and after a lengthy engagement married for a second time. But a car accident in 1996 again thrust her life into disarray. She told me that she suffered a severe concussion and whiplash in the head-on collision. Although she was not hospitalized overnight, she claimed that the injuries resulted in “partial brain damage” affecting her short-term memory. The episode rendered her unable to hold a job. Her new husband left her within weeks. Suzan credits her companion, David Susskin, whom she calls her stepbrother, with caring for her through that difficult time. The two met years ago when Suzan’s mother became engaged to Susskin’s father. Their parents never married, but Suzan and Susskin became inseparable as de facto siblings and life partners. “I almost died. He saved my life and got me back to normal. He took care of me,” Suzan said. Susskin worked several jobs to support them both, until he, too, became disabled in a traffic crash. Another motorist rear-ended his vehicle at 100 miles per hour, he said. Suzan survived for a while on the proceeds from a legal settlement from her accident, as well as financial support from her mother, who died in 2004. With her own sons living overseas and out of touch, Suzan found
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“Gary said, ‘I know it’s my sister,’â€? Saphire said. Meanwhile, Saphire— ever the promoter—recognized a great opportunity. Suzan told him she wanted to write a book. He ďŹ gured any buzz he could generate around the project would be good publicity for Gary. Saphire moved Suzan and Susskin into a relative’s home in Northeast Philly and orchestrated a media blitz. In 2009, she appeared alongside Gary on Howard Stern’s radio show and the Inside Edition entertainment news magazine, which commissioned DNA testing. “I think everybody deserves to know where they came from and who they are. And just Suzan holding up a her father’s record in happier times. looking at her, I believe what she’s saying,â€? Gary told Inside Ediapply Vaseline on their faces to protect tion. their skin. Based on Gary and Suzan’s genetic In recent months, they have been samples, the DNA lab concluded that spending a lot of time in the area of chances are 88.77 percent that they Grant Avenue and the Boulevard, and have the same father. “That’s good enough for me,â€? Gary have become familiar to employees of a nearby Walmart. A local patrol cop, said on the program. OfďŹ cer Mark Mazzoni, said he saw But for Suzan, that knowledge Suzan in the store a couple of times didn’t amount to a one-way ticket pushing her belongings in a shopping back to Fifth Avenue or to her elderly cart. Nobody complained about her father’s lavish Las Vegas retirement and she didn’t seem in immediate home. Though Saphire and his wife Sheila spent countless hours interview- distress, so Mazzoni let her go about her business. ing her and crafting a manuscript, Saphire thinks Suzan’s personal Suzan’s day-to-day lifestyle conicted story still has legs. with her host family’s. They also “It was nowhere near to running its disagreed over the direction of the course,â€? he said. “We were just getproject. After a year-and-a-half, the ting started. The sad thing is this isn’t partnership disintegrated, leaving Suhow it had to be.â€? zan and Susskin back on the street. Suzan agrees in one regard, that her Today, they survive mostly on Social riches to rags saga is as marketable as Security disability checks. ever and could be the key to her longDespite their circumstances, Suterm prosperity and well-being. She zan said she manages to maintain minimum living standards. They don’t still wants to publish an autobiography and imagines herself as a motivapanhandle and won’t sleep in the tional speaker and spokeswoman for woods, as many homeless do, because homelessness-related causes. she can’t stand the mud. They’ve bed“I could be helping others fundraisded down in cars at times, in self-storage units and in all-night laundromats. ing for charity, like my mother and Occasionally, they will ďŹ nd temporary father did,â€? she said. “I could do that if I could get a hand up. Not a handlodging with a friend, as they did for out, a hand up.â€? a few weeks over the recent holidays. But for now at least, she’s mired in But that’s rare and never seems to last. Northeast Philly, a stranger to her past When there’s no shelter available, and marooned along a boulevard of they set up for the night outdoors broken dreams. „ behind a strip mall or ofďŹ ce building, using exterior walls and cardboard to TWITTER: @NORTHEASTKENNY shield them from the elements. They
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Flyin Solo Philadelphia’s Steve Gunn teams with Lee Ranaldo to rock PhilaMOCA. BY A.D. AMOROSI
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“Hardcore’s stayed with me only in that I learned from its work ethic, and its DIY feel,” says Gunn. “It was however finding out about jazz through [WRTI 90.1-FM] and the likes of [American jazz composer] Sun Ra Arkestra... that my whole world opened up.” While he began crafting a lush, hypnotic series of his own albums starting in 2007, it was a brief shining moment with Kurt Vile in 2012 to which so many fans and critics cling. “I only played with him for like a week,” says Gunn with a big laugh. “We knew each other forever from the old neighborhood, and have been friends. I started as an opening act for his 2012 shows and he wound up asking me if I could join the Violators to flesh songs for the album he was working on next, Wakin’ on a Pretty Daze. But it was a blip, us actually working together. Now and then, he’s been supportive of what I do, but I was doing my own thing before him and certainly kept doing it.” His own thing at present, Eyes on the Line, is suspiciously non-autobiographical, keeping listeners at a distance, literally and figuratively. “I’m not a confessional songwriter, but rather I keep the language more imagery driven and the ideas intentionally vague. They’re open to interpretation and I love to see what bounces back to me.” Lee Ranaldo, Steve Gunn and Meg Baird: Sat., Jan. 21, 8:30pm. $15$17. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St. philamoca.org
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f anyone can pull complex emotion from threadbare, intimate instrumentation, it’s Steve Gunn. Lansdowne’s Gunn and the Brooklyn-based Lee Ranaldo (formerly of Sonic Youth, currently of The Dust and El Rayo) are normally associated as the guitarists creating those opulent, noisy gigs with the legendary Jack Rose and the very-muchalive Kurt Vile. Now the duo—along with Meg Baird—will showcase their own sound on Saturday at PhilaMOCA. Now Gunn faces a new challenge after a long career in blues, folk and avant-garde soundscapes finally releasing a major label album with Matador Records called Eyes on the Lines in 2016 chock full of his elliptical writing, singing and trance-pop sensibilities. The results of Eyes on the Lines are as gorgeous, hypnotic and rewarding as anything in his past—only now Gunn seems to be longing for the simplicity and sparseness of his earlier days. “I’ve been steadily touring around my new album with a band for the last year and playing solo was something I did before that,” said Gunn fresh off a show in Quebec. “Playing [solo shows] got away from me, so I wanted to return to that. I don’t have as many opportunities to be alone as I once did and wanted to simplify everything a little bit [in an attempt to] reinterpret those new songs.” Gunn recalled the inspiration gleaned from working at University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art, Manhattan’s PaceWildenstein Gallery and for minimalist visual artist Sol Lewitt as a large part of shaping Eyes on the Lines. Such minimalism forced Gunn to “approach things in a more direct way, utilizing repetition and working alone within simpler structures.” All elements he has tried to incorporate into playing and composing. Not everything in his past was so meditative. As a youngster, Gunn developed a longing for punk rock and hardcore and maintained a diet of Fugazi-ish frenzy during his stints both working and living in Philadelphia.
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Collective Action >>From page 1: Additionally, much of the same work from the Collective Action show will be featured on buildings all across the city on Inauguration Day, for the Signs of Solidarity movement, a familial jumpoff to last Saturday’s event. “We were just thinking about what are some things that we can do in the arts world to show people that the election of Donald Trump just isn’t normal,” said Conrad Benner, a long-time activist through art who runs the popular website, Streets Dept. Originally only planning to showcase bannered artwork on abandoned buildings, Benner and other artists came up with the notion of asking recognizable structures throughout the city if they wanted in. “To our surprise, everyone we reached out to said yes. Now we have 30 artists making close to 30 banners that will be all-across to the city on Inauguration Day.” As for Collective Action, it was arranged and executed by Benner, Grace Ahn, Jacob Klensin, Brooke DiLeone and Daniel Levine, in a direct response to the “increasingly dangerous, self-serving people” associated with the President-elect’s administration. The initial idea for Collective Action came by way of Ahn in the post-election slump that gripped so many communities across the nation. The previous iteration of the auction was originally planned to take place in mid-December, at a local bar with a fundraising goal of just $2.5k. Increasing hostility toward the alt-right has created a grassroots movement in reactionary protest. Alongside each artist’s display that night was a note that
offered this poignant message: The recognition of what is wrong with our country, much like any piece of art dedicated to making its viewer see more clearly, can start a dialogue about the codification of disputed values. Thanks to Trump, as a fact of life, citizens are beginning to realize what it means to come together against a common enemy for the first time in a long time. This being no small feat. Collective Action’s message is vital because we need to hear it. From artists reflecting a world that we thought we knew, the difficulty in coming to terms with a frightening truth is one more reason for our acceptance of it. “We’re just people who are disheartened by the kind of campaign and the kind of person Donald Trump seems to be and are worried that he is going to attack the communities he said he was going to attack,” said Benner. “We’re holding this fundraiser to raise money either for those communities or organizations that help and protect those communities.” After reaching out over Facebook, and messages from over 150 artists interested in sharing work—Collective Action moved to a larger venue and decided to reschedule to align when its message would hit home. They also modified their fundraising goal to accommodate the increase in anticipated size. Which again happened to be well-timed. “Before the weekend, before the inauguration, on purpose,” said Benner. “Mainly because we thought hopefully people would be just as pissed as we were.” —AUSTIN MACFADDEN
n Monday, thousands took to streets in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia, some to march against sociopolitical injustice, others to simply clean up untended public spaces, and some simply to honor the late Martin Luther King Jr.’s life of public service. But while his achievements loom large, few would be able to retrace King’s quiet footsteps across the Delaware Valley, especially those he made prior to his stardom. Many might recall the image of King in West Philadelphia in 1965, delivering a seminal speech at 40th and Lancaster Streets as part of his “Freedom Now” tour. An estimated crowd of 10,000 gathered in the streets to listen. Today at that location, Mural Arts Philadelphia has a visual homage to that speech on the side of a building. Just 15 years prior however, King was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., where he worked to receive his Bachelor’s of Divinity between 1948 and 1951. During the same span, he also took philosophy and history courses at the University of Pennsylvania, just blocks from the famed 40th and Lancaster speech. If it weren’t for King’s formative experiences in the area, that speech may never have happened. Biographers attribute some of King’s fire for civil rights to one local incident in particular. While at Crozer, King and several friends were denied service at a long-gone bar called Mary’s Café in the Jersey town of Maple Shade. Details vary about the encounter, but according to Patrick Duff, a social activist who investigated the incident and urged city officials to commemorate the location, there’s evidence that King filed a complaint against the white tavern owner. “Just think if that never happened at Mary’s Café, blacks may not be able to go to the same hospital as whites now,” Duff told the Medford Central Record. Without a doubt, there are other rich details of King’s biography in the Delaware Valley that have yet to materialize. A personal anecdote: Several years ago, an academic scholar crossed paths with this reporter’s family in Crestmont, a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Abington near the Willow Grove Mall. The scholar was looking for whoever lived in my neighbor’s house in the mid-20th century. He had reason to believe one of King’s associates during his years at Crozer lived in the house back in the 1950s, and that King himself might have visited the house. Unfortunately, no one had any recollection of the house’s occupants going back decades and recent attempts to reach the scholar and follow up on his King investigation were unsuccessful. —MAX MARIN
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Facebook that it was like being given some oxygen,” Nathaniel Popkin, one of the reading’s co-organizers, told PW. “I think that’s right. We were hoping to give people the words to resist and have hope.” Hopefully it won’t be a one-off show. Philly’s Writers Resistance hopes to keep its presence thriving throughout the Trump administration. They have a social media presence through Twitter and Tumblr. And the main goal at the end of the day isn’t just to bring Philadelphia’s divergent literary community together. The point was also to turn words into action. Present at the event were three organizations—the watchdog American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania, the refugee-friendly HIAS PA,
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hush swept over the packed theater when Ahmad Almallah said “I’m going to read this poem in Arabic.” Then, a burst of applause. Almallah delivered a moving piece by Lebanese poet Jawdat Fakhreddine in its original language, followed by Almallah’s own English translation. He was more than 30 writers from the Philadelphia area on stage at the National Museum of American Jewish History for the annual Writer’s Resistance event. With every seat full, the 300-plus in attendance overflowed into the aisles and the back of the room. However, no one was there to see any writer in particular. Partly because none of these writers were reading their own work. What they were reading however, were words from blood-soaked centuries of American history. Texts that, in the words of one of the event’s organizers, “challenge the current threats against the U.S. constitution.” The event in Philadelphia was meant to be a venue for civic and literary resistance in wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States. Dozens of similar gatherings happened simultaneously across the country last Sunday, not to mention a few events in Europe, celebrating both democracy and the freedom of expression. And what a venue it was: two hours of nonstop readings that ranged from Arabic poems to American essays to theoretical tracts to political speeches, from the well-known to the obscure. One writer read an anonymous open letter by a gay physician to the American Psychiatric Association in 1972, decrying the persecution of LGBT professionals in their field. Another read Absalom Jones’ 1799 “Petition of the People of Color.” There were love poems to bomb-blasted streets of Baghdad, Iraq. Fragments of Toni Morrison’s heavy prose. The plainspoken lyrics of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. The readings flowed into each other with little introduction. The eclectic range of works—and the choice to have local writers read something other than their own words—was intentional. “Someone said [of the event] on
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and the worksmith incubator Mighty Writers—all hoping to recruit volunteers and donors. Popkin encouraged the overstuffed audience to get involved in whatever way they can. Although it wasn’t the priority of the event, Popkin says that literary communion would be a great byproduct— one that could be cultivated at similar events down the road. “Poetry is the richest community that Philly has, but it’s also all over the place,” Popkin noted. “It’s an embarrassment of riches in a certain way. We have so many writers. But at the same time we don’t have the legacy bookstore where they all gather. We don’t have the cultural hub.” TWITTER: @MAXMMARIN
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History of Cabaret John Jarboe, artistic director of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, takes the audience on a culinary journey through the history of cabaret. Jarboe uses song and storytelling to show the origins from Paris, Berlin and beyond. The performance includes a multicourse dinner prepared by La Peg executive chef Peter Woolsey. | 7pm. $75. FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd. fringearts.com
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The New York native stars on multiple MTV shows, including “The Hook Up,” “Guy Code,” and “Hip Hop Squares.” Catch the funnyman when he brings his unapologetic, street-smart jokes to Philly this week. | Jan. 19-21. Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St. heliumcomedy.com
Celebrate One Book, One Philadelphia with 2017’s featured selection, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” Now in its 15th year, the goal of the program is to promote literacy, library usage and citywide conversation. In previous years, lectures, discussions, films, workshops, exhibitions and performances illuminate specific and universal themes. For this year’s selection, viewers are invited to watch a video from the book’s author Mark Haddon as he describes how he created the central protagonist, Christopher Boon. After the screening, past One Book authors Lorene Cary, Carlos Eire, Christina Baker Kline, Steve Lopez and James McBride will discuss their own creative methodologies for shaping memorable characters and original narratives. The event also features a musical performance inspired by this year’s selection created by Curtis Institute of Music composer Nick DiBerardino and performed by percussionist Neil Rao. —AUSTIN MACFADDEN Wed., Jan. 25. 7:30pm. Free. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. freelibrary.org
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20 DANCE
Doug Varone and Dancers Part of the NextMove Dance performances at the Prince Theater, Doug Varone and Dancers bring the Philadelphia premiere of ReComposed to the stage. The piece is inspired by Joan Mitchell’s pastel drawings, and set to Dystopia, a score composed by Michael Gordon. | Jan. 18-22. $20$60. Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut St. princetheater.org
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Inauguration Day
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STARR Catering Group offers a 90-minute demonstration of food and drink specialties featuring local food experts. Tonight’s class for whiskey connoisseurs features samples from Scotland, Ireland and Japan, accompanied by hearty stews made from local chefs. | 6pm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Pkwy. philamuseum.org
Neil Simon’s comedic play gives audiences a peek behind the scenes of the 1950’s television show, “Laughter On The 23rd Floor.” Censors are trying to make Max Prince’s weekly show more ad-friendly, but pushing the brash comedian will only lead to more temper tantrums and wild one-liners. There will be a free post-performance discussion with the cast after the performance. | 8pm. $20-$85. Through March 5. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. walnutstreettheatre.org
Head to the Constitution Center on Inauguration Day for an educational program featuring a timeline of presidential inaugurations throughout history. Activities include a “Hail to the Chief Quiz Game,” “Constitution 101” interactive show and a simulcast of the inauguration on the big screen. | 9:30am. Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. constitutioncenter.org
Kimino, and The Up Up Up, along with burlesque from Lady Lazarus, Taylor Sweet, Kate Nyx and Liberty Rose. The event also features a raffle benefiting Planned Parenthood with prizes donated by a slew of local companies, including Atomic City Comics, Cake Life Bake Shop, Fairmount Bicycles, Tattooed Mom and more. | 7pm. $8-$10. The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave. riot-nerd.com
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Marcus/Emma The lives of Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman and African-American civil rights activist Marcus Garvey are explored in this mashup of American history from Interact Theatre Company. The battle ignites a firestorm of racial tensions, gender issues and sexual domination. Contains adult language and nudity. | Jan. 20-Feb. 12. Proscenium Theatre at The Drake, 1512 Spruce St. interacttheatre.org
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Party Lines: Inauguration Special Head to this political variety show featuring comedy, music, videos, and squirt guns. Comedians James Hesky, Shannon DeVido and Chris Cotton will offer their take on the new president and what lies ahead for the next four years. Hosted by Max Barth and Joe Messina, the night also features a performance by Cave People. | 10:30pm. $5. Good Good Comedy Theatre, 215 N. 11th St. goodgoodcomedy.com
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 COMEDY
Brandon T. Jackson The actor/comedian has starred in Tropic Thunder, Roll Bounce, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. He has also been named one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Daily Variety and has been named one on the Hollywood Reporter’s “35 under 35.” | Jan. 19-21. Punch Line Philly, 33 E. Laurel St. punchlinephilly.com
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Chinese New Year
Burlesque & Punk Against Trump
The Penn Museum celebrates Chinese New Year with traditional music and dance, Tai Chi and tangram workshops, a Shaolin-style Kung Fu demonstration, and Lion
Riot Nerd presents this Anti-Trump party featuring performances by Kino
| Through Feb. 12. St. Stephen’s Theater, 10th and Ludlow streets. lanterntheater.org
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Broadway Up Close: Vanessa Williams
Center City Restaurant Week
Seth Rudetsky hosts this intimate conversation with actress and Broadway star Vanessa Williams. In addition to singing, Williams has starred in Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives, and has performed on Broadway in Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Into the Woods and A Trip to Bountiful with Cecily Tyson. | 8pm. $69. Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. kimmelcenter.org
More than 120 restaurants will be serving three-course meals for $35 this week as part of Center City Restaurant Week. Enjoy meals at Aqimero, El Vez, Buddakhan, Osteria and more. Many participating restaurants will also be offering a special three-course lunch for $20. Visit m.centercityphila. org for more info. | Jan. 22-27 and Jan. 29-Feb. 3. centercityphila.org
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International House hosts this film festival featuring award-winning shorts from the 2016 New York Children’s Film Festival. All selections are either in English or without dialogue. Featured films include Octopus, Looks, Zoo Story and more. | 2pm. $5. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. ihousephilly.org
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22 DANCE
The Rocky Awards The Rocky Awards celebrate the work of Philadelphia’s best dancers. To commemorate the event’s 15th anniversary, the awards will honor dancers whose careers have spanned 15 years or more. The event will also offer a sneak peek into the work of up-and-comers dancers in the industry. | 7pm. Free. FringeArts,140 N. Columbus Blvd. fringearts.com
TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 COMEDY
Tattooed Momedy Catch a free comedy showcase of some of Philly’s homegrown talent. The show features Charles Blyzniuk, Cassandra Dee, Pete Steele, Marissa Both, Joe Bell, Alyssa Rene, and T.J. Hurley. T-Moms will also be serving $1 tacos and $2.50 Tecates. | 8pm. Free. Tattooed Mom, 530 South St. tattooedmomphilly.com
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Steven Johnson: Wonderland Johnson is the author of the bestselling “Where Good Ideas Come From,” “Everything Bad Is Good for You,” and “How We Got to Now.” His latest, “Wonderland,” is an illustrated look at the movers and shakers in the leisure industry. | 7:30pm. Free. Central Library, 1901 Vine Street. freelibrary.org
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Constellations
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What if? That notion is explored in this play about parallel universes. The play shows the multiple possibilities that could occur when two strangers meet at a party. The two meet and re-meet, get engaged, marry other people, experience a love that lasts forever and a tragic ending. Directed by Tea Alagic. | Through Feb. 5. The Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. wilmatheater.org
In this Philadelphia premiere from Lantern Theater Company, a geneticist travels to research a tribe in the Grand Canyon whose members are suffering from diabetes. At the same time, she must battle a genetic problem in her own DNA that could also affect her 4-year-old daughter. Directed by Kathryn MacMillan.
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Dance Parade. Bring in the Year of the Rooster in the museum’s China Gallery, home to one of the largest collections of Chinese art in the country. | 11am. Free with admission, 3260 South St. penn.nuseum
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bout a year ago, I was pretending to read my boyfriend’s mind and jokingly said, “You want to put it in my ear.â€? Since then, I have seen references to ear sex (aural sex?) everywhere! There’s even a holiday (“Take It in the Ear Dayâ€? on December 8), and I was reading a book just now in which the author mentions how much she hates getting come in her ear. So while I am honestly not trying to yuck someone’s yum, I do have two questions. First, is this really a thing? And second, how does it work? I mean, I like it when my boyfriend kisses my ears, but I don’t think I’d get that hot from him putting his penis there. It just seems loud. Can you enlighten me? —An Understanding Requested About Listeners Ear sex is a thing. But we need to distinguish between auralism, AURAL, and an ear fetish. People into auralism are sexually aroused by sounds—it could be a voice or music or sex noises. (Sex noises can arouse almost anyone who hears them, of course, so technically we’re all auralists.) An ear fetish, on the other hand, is a kind of partialism, i.e., a sexual interest in one part of the body (often parts not typically found in pants). A foot fetish is a partialism, for example, as is an ear fetish or an armpit fetish. Most ear fetish stuff—including the thousands of ear fetish videos on YouTube—is about tugging, rubbing, or licking someone’s ear and not about fucking someone in the ear or coming in someone’s ear canal. Dicks don’t ďŹ t in ear canals, and blasting semen into someone’s ear could cause a nasty ear infection. So both are risky practices best avoided—but, hey, if PIE (penis in ear) sex is actually a thing, I invite any hardcore ear kinksters out there reading this to write in and explain exactly how that works.
I have a particular fetish that I’ve never fully disclosed to anybody. My ultimate fantasy is to be stripped of my assets by a woman and then (most important14 ly) made homeless. I like dressing up
dirty—face, clothing, and all—and even going so far as to look through garbage cans. My question is this: Is it moral to live out this fantasy, considering the plight of homeless people? —Desiring Interesting Role-Play That’s Yucky I’m not gonna lecture you about how homelessness is a tragedy for individuals and a national crisis that the administration of Orange Julius Caesar is unlikely to prioritize. Just like AURAL, DIRTY, I’m not here to yuck anyone’s yum. But this is deďŹ nitely a fantasy— morally speaking—that can’t be fully realized. You’re turned on by the thought of a cruel woman taking absolutely everything from you and leaving you homeless? Great. Find a woman who’s into ďŹ ndom (ďŹ nancial domination) and give her some or most of your money and play dress up on the weekends and sleep in her backyard. But don’t give her everything and actually wind up homeless, DIRTY, because then you’ll wind up competing for scarce shelter beds and other resources with men, women, and children who didn’t choose to become homeless because it made their dicks hard. There’s nothing moral about making their plight worse than it already is. Finally, DIRTY, while you’re able to fantasize about being stripped of your assets and left homeless, there are real people out there who have nothing and don’t ďŹ nd anything about being homelessness arousing. Want to be poorer? Donate a big chunk of your assets to homeless shelters and/or nonproďŹ ts that assist those experiencing homelessness in your area. Bi guy here, who’s way okay with the use of “fagâ€? or “faggotâ€? in the right context. And what FAGS wrote in about—a boyfriend who wants to be called “faggotâ€? while she talks negatively about his cock—is absolutely the right context. There’s an evolution in meaning taking place right now, Dan. These days, “fagâ€? is less about sexual preference and more about sexual submission. A submissive man? Gay or straight? He’s a fag. I’ve been serviced by both hetero and homo faggots and have enjoyed myself, as have the fags who sucked my cock or did my housework. Go onto Tumblr and see for yourself. (Also: I have a sneaky suspicion that sparks would y if FAGS raised the subject of cuckoldry with her boyfriend.) —Bi Guy Into Faggots Thanks for sharing, BGIF. „
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The Ross, New Construction Luxury Townhomes are remarkably customized smart technology-homes. The Ross includes a 2-3 car garage, an Automated 6-story elevator and a 5th oor roof garden with Jacuzzi tub, outdoor gas ďŹ replace, Mahogany walls and a full kitchen with stone counters, a Webber grille, outdoor speakers, video connections and ample accent lighting. Some other amazing features at The Ross include a wine cellar, Ten year tax abatement, cathedral ceilings, and (5) outdoor spaces.
Meet this incredibly unique corner property in the heart of Rittenhouse Square, featuring 3 stories, 2BD/2BA ďŹ nished basement, rooftop deck and parking! Foyer entry leads into the family room with carpeting, two window, large walk-in coat closet, wine closet and a pocket door to a full bath with stall shower. The second oor offers the living room with four window and carpeting, a separate dining room with tile oor, two windows and a built-in bar, and the kitchen which offers a bar counter and skylight.
Beautiful 10 year newer construction 3 story, 3BD/1.5BA home with yard and parking! Located on a low trafďŹ c block with easy parking, right across from Martin Luther Park in the Bella Vista/Hawthorne area of Philadelphia. Step into the living and dining room area with two front windows, pergo orring and coat closet. The newer kitchen features white cabinetry, subway tile backsplash and a pantry closet. Door leads out to a rear patio yard complete with a storage shed and 1-car parking pad off of the common driveway
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