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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31

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What to do this week

Summer Nights: Animus Take advantage of the ďŹ nal days of summer with an outdoor concert at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Animus will bring their ďŹ tting blend of ancient and modern vibes, mixing up hallmark sounds of Greek, rock, blues, jazz, Indian and African music.

8 MUSIC King Britt’s Sylk 130 reunion

11 NEWS Shoring Up the Shore

5pm. Penn Museum, 3260 South Street Philadelphia. penn.museum

12 ANIMALS Rescue Me

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Drinks & Demos: EdTech Edition

14 SAVAGE LOVE Client Tell

It’s no secret that technology is changing the world around us, from faster computers to smartphones and beyond, it affects home, higher learning and the workforce. Drinks & Demos takes a look at the technology industry and gives technology demos with education in mind. 6-8pm.

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CEL EBRATION

Poe Picnic

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he life and times of Philadelphia’s Edgar Allan Poe are celebrated this week at a ďŹ tting location, Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Several other cities lay claim to the great American horror and mystery writer’s life story, including Baltimore and Richmond, but we won’t sweat the details. Poe spent his most productive years in Philadelphia, and many have speculated that his tales may have been inspired amidst the graves and gardens of Laurel Hill. “Laurel Hill was founded in 1836, just a few years before Edgar Allan Poe took up residence in Philadelphia,� says Emma Stern, Director of Programs at the cemetery. “During that time period, rural cemeteries were popular recreational sites for the living to enjoy. Over 150,000 visitors would travel through Laurel Hill in one year—and Poe is believed to be among them.�

The Mechanical Theater kicks off the night by bringing the master of the macabre’s haunting

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works to life with “Entombed Alive.� The threeperson performance includes excerpts from “The Cask of Amontillado,� “Annabel Lee,� “The Premature Burial,� “Berenice� and “The Bells.�

After the performance, guests can explore Laurel Hill’s fascinating landscape after dark, while enjoying stories that focus on Poe’s literature, and the many friends, associates and enemies who traveled within his circles. “During Poe’s time living in Philadelphia, he created some of his best known works including “The Tell-Tale Heart,� “The Pit and the Pendulum,� and “The Fall of the House of Usher,� says Stern. “I think Philadelphians generally have a natural appreciation for history—and for a good, chilling story.� —ANASTASIA BARBALIOS

Thurs., Sept. 1, 7pm. $25. Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Ave. thelaurelhillcemetery.org

WeWork, 1010 N. Hancock St. techinmotionevents.com

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 OUT DOORS

Pairings on the Parkway Pack a picnic and head to Sister Cities Park for an outdoor BYOB party with live music. The Logan Square CafÊ will offer a special summer grilling menu and Chaddsford Winery will be on site with wine. This week’s performance features gypsy/cowgirl Hurricane Hoss (as played

by Sarah Williams Larsen).

5:30-7:30pm. Free. Sister Cities Park, 18th Street & the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. ccdparks.org ART

Vlisco: African Fashion on a Global Stage Part of the PMA’s “Creative Africa� exhibition, this display will showcase how the Dutch company Vlisco brought Central and West African textile brands to the forefront of international fashion.

The exhibit follows the path of a textile, from its creation and sale at a market, to how it’s integrated into local culture. Philadelphia

Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Pkwy. philamuseum.org

Michael Reedy: Dust & Moonshine

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 EXHIBIT

Dust & Moonshine + Imaginary Menagerie

Georgia O’Keeffe as well as a glass painting project led by Blue Moon. 6pm. $25. Barnes

Foundation, 2025 Ben Franklin Parkway.

215.278.7200. barnesfoundation.org

Arch Enemy Arts’ presents two new exhibits, Michael Reedy’s “Dust & Moonshine” and the forth installment of the ongoing cryptozoolozy series, “Imaginary Menagerie.” “Dust and Moonshine” (pictured), is the long-anticipated solo show from artist and master draughtsman Michael Reedy.

The collection, nearly two years in the making, blends together Reedy’s realism with medical illustration with op art and classical nudes. For “Imaginary Menagerie,” 13 artists—including Naoto Hattori, Jessica Wolfert, Scott G Brooks, Veks Van Hillik and Jim McKenzie—breathe new life into ancient legends and fabled mythological beasts. 6pm. Arch Enemy Arts, 111 Arch St.

archenemyarts.com SCREEN

Movies in Clark Park: Creed Grab your friends and catch a screening of the Philly-filmed movie under the stars.

Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan), son of famous boxing champion Apollo Creed, taps into the great boxer within himself with the help of Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). Bring a blanket or some chairs and buy snacks from one of the various vendors on site. Dusk. Free. Clark Park, 43rd St. and

Chester Ave. universitycity.org

OUTDOORS

PHS Pop Up Garden Head to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Pop Up Garden on South Street before it closes up shop for the season. Designed by Karen Regan of Tallulah & Bird, the outdoor garden features a array of flowers and fragrant herbs. Operated by Kyber Pass Pub, the menu offers delicious eats including sweet potato summer rolls with chipotle-hoisin sauce, pickled mushrooms and fig toast, bacon guacamole and more. Noon-midnight.

15th & South sts. phsonline.org COMEDY

Double Play Two teams of Philly’s finest improvisers put on one hell of a one-hour comedy show. During PlayBack, Andrew Coppola, Fred Brown, Kevin Pettit, Kristin Finger and Rob O’Neill perform scenes inspired by songs chosen by the audience. Triple Double includes on-the-spot performances

by Caitlin Weigel, Corin Wells, Dan Corkery and Frank Farrell. 10pm. $5. Playground at

the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. comedysportzphilly.com TOUR

Love Letters MUSIC

The Power of Three A First Friday performance featuring Steve Wilson, Paul Bollenback and Harvie S. The trio, led by Steve Wilson, have played with a host of performers, including Chick Corea, Stan Getz, Joey DeFrancesco, Chico O’Farrell and Stanley Turrentine. During intermission, catch a short reading of letters Dr. Barnes wrote to American artist

Fall in love with love at the Rosenbach Museum and Library while exploring the most personal professions of emotion, written by well-known figures like actress Marlene Dietrich, author James Joyce, and poet John Keats. Get up close and personal with love letters across the centuries, including a letter from a dying Civil War soldier. 3pm.

$10-$15. The Rosenbach Museum and Library, 2008 Delancy Pl. rosenbach.org phillyweekly.com | September 1 -7, 2016 | Philly Weekly | 5

Photo by M. Edlow for Visit Philadelphia

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 PER FOR MAN CE

The Secret Circus Celebrate Circus Week at the Morris Arboretum with an aerial performance by The Secret Circus. The high-flying performance features an 18.5 foot portable aerial rig fit for silks, trapeze, and lyra.

11:30am and 1:00pm. Free with garden admission. Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, 100 E. Northwestern Ave. morrisarboretum.org OUTDOOR S

Parks on Tap: FDR Park The traveling beer garden makes the trek from Paine’s Park to FDR Park, bringing its local craft beers and summer snacks along with it. Grab a beer from Yards, Yuengling, Slyfox or one of the several other breweries on draft. On the menu are several different kinds of sliders (including pulled pork, meatball and more), grab-and-go snacks and soba noodles. Stop by for yoga, live music, or a Major League Bocce tournament. Sept. 1-5. FDR Park, 1800 Pattison Ave.

parksontap.com

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

EV EN T M USIC

Budweiser Made in America A Philly original, Jay Z’s Made In America takes over the Ben Franklin Parkway this Labor Day Weekend with performances from Rihanna, Coldplay, 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne, DJ Khaled, Chance the Rapper, Bryson Tiller, Desiigner and just about every other artist on the radio right now. The two-day music fest—now in it’s fifth year—will be live streamed in its entirety on TIDAL and a portion of proceeds will benefit United Ways in Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Berks County. Sept. 3-4. $170. Ben-

of an unexplained, highly abnormal pregnancy.

Catch an in-person Q&A with director Danny Perez following the screening. 7pm. $9. Interna-

tional House, 3701 Chestnut St. ihousephilly.org

and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St. playsandplayers.org

The Pirates of Penzance Mauckingbird Theatre Company presents a queer re-imagining of the classic play. This abridged adaptation takes Gilbert and Sullivan’s well-known story a step further, exploring a “post-gay” vision of the comic operetta. Directed

by Peter Reynolds. 3pm and 8pm. $15-$25. Ran-

dall Theater, 2020 N. 13th St. mauckingbird.org

P E RFORM A NC E

C O M E DY

A theater-in-the-round performance aboard the Tall Ship Gazela featuring burlesque, comedy, live music and pirates! Seven Deadly Seas follows Calico Jack, Anne Bonney and Mary Reed as they awake from a night of revelry to discover they may have made some questionable decisions the night before. The trio must then fight, sing and strip their way out of the mess they’ve created. The performance features live music from members of the West Philadelphia Orchestra. Through Sept. 4. Tall Ship Gazela,

Penns Landing, 101 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd. philashipguild.org

Dave Attell The Comedy Central star, known for his raw and sarcastic humor on The Gong Show and Insomniac with Dave Attell, hits town to share some laughs (and possibly insults) with the crowd.

Sept. 2-4. $32. Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Samsom St. 215.496.9001. heliumcomedyclub.com

A sneak peek screening of the new genrebending psychological thriller starring Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny. Written and directed

by Philadelphia’s Danny Perez, the film follows two stoners, Lou (Natasha Lyonne) and her best friend Sadie (Chloë Sevigny), who spend their days adrift in a druggy haze. Following a wild night of partying, Lou wakes up with symptoms 6 | Philly Weekly | September 1-7, 2016 | phillyweekly.com

TV

Show Casting: The Wall NBC’s The Wall, executive produced by LeBron James, hosts two open calls in Philadelphia on Mon., Sept. 5 and Wed., Sept 7. The game show is a mix of The Price Is Right‘s Plinko mixed with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire-style trivia. To apply, everyone will need a teammate. If you plan on attending the casting call, producers recommend bringing several possible teammates. So grab your hubby, brother, mother-in-law, and uncle, and head down for a chance to compete for millions. Sept 5: Noon-6pm. Chickie’s and

Pete’s, 1526 Packer Ave. Sept 7: Noon-6pm. Dave & Buster’s, 325 North Columbus Ave. nbc.com/the-wall

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 CIV IC

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Beyond the Canvas Exhibit and party featuring the art of Matt Deifer (Bodypaint.Me) and Joy Taney (Skin Wars). Catch DJ sets by Get Up, Aaron Ruxbin, Mr. Manic and Mutomb0, along with bodypainted models, a film screening and free beer. 6pm. Free. Get It

FDR Park Cleanup Join United by Blue, Philadelphia Water, SustainPHL and Aqua Vida SUP for a cleanup of FDR Park and Edgewood and Meadow Lakes. United By Blue will provide water, trash bags, supplies, and gloves. A happy hour at Chickie’s and Pete’s—sponsored by SweetWater Brew—will follow the cleanup. 5pm. Free. The Lakes at FDR

Park, 1900 Pattison Drive.

Gallery, 1119 Leopard St. bodypaint.me STAGE

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Antibirth

Plays and Players hosts a Labor Day open house featuring music, readings, raffles and more. Check out perfromances of 12 Chairs, The Gas Heart, A Feminine Ending and songs from Gigi. 2pm. Plays

STAG E

jamin Franklin Parkway. madeinamericafest.com

Seven Deadly Seas: The Greater of Two Evils

Plays and Players Open House

C O M E DY

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific

Ms. Pat The funnywoman heads to Philly with her brand of honest, in-your-face humor. Ms. Pat has appeared on several shows, including Stand Up in Stilettos and Mom’s Night Out, and is a regular guest on the syndicated Bob and Tom Radio Show. 7:30pm. $23.75. Punch Line Philly, 33 E.

Walnut Street Theatre kicks its 208th season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning American classic, South Pacific. The play follows Nellie, a nurse from Arkansas, who falls in love with Emile, a French plantation owner. At the same time, U.S. Lieutenant Cable falls for a beautiful island native named Liat. Featuring the songs, “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair,” “Some Enchanted Evening,” and “I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy.” Through Oct.

Laurel St. punchlinephilly.com

23. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. walnutstreettheatre.org

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MUSIC | BY A.D. AMOROSI @ADAmorosi

King Britt’s Funk Hits the Fan... Again The Philadelphia DJ/producer’s old school soul revue orchestra of local all-stars returns.

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o hear Philadelphia musical multihyphenate King Britt tell it, one of the reasons that the DJ-producer wishes to reunite his legendary-butlong-gone funk-hop orchestra Sylk 130 for a live gig on September 4 with most of its membership is educational.

Britt, 47, wants to teach the new kids how it’s done. The it is about taking the art of the old school soul revue and making it modern. That it is about bringing memorable melody and real poetry back to hip hop; it’s about the feel of top-notch Philly musicians of all genres working, without ego, in ways rarely tested before Sylk’s first single (1996’s “The Reason”) and album (1997’s When The Funk Hits The Fan).

“It’s that 20 years cycle thing, and the kids need to know,” says Britt with a laugh about moving his most recent musical stance of experimental electronica back several decades into the hot brand of riveting soul hop/gospel/spoken word that was and is Sylk 130. “You do know Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” is “When the Funk Hits the Fan” turned around, right? That’s cool. That means we’re right on time.”

Being on time aside, you can’t tell the players without a program, and you can’t know the future unless you investigate

the past, both of which Britt and his still-Philly-dwelling collaborators in Silk 130—avant-garde jazz bassist/composer Jamaladeen Tacuma, empowered poetry priestess Ursula Rucker, majestic Frippian guitarist Tim Motzer, electro-futurist Vikter Duplaix, etc.—can best attest. For in its prime and since its start, the live Sylk 130 experience (at TLA next week: 15 members strong, including Britt) was the cool culmination of this city’s best and brightest scenes. Based around Britt’s late ‘90s Back2Basics party with DJ Dozia Blakely at Silk City, the mini-orchestra offshoot pulled together the funkiest poets, griots, singers, shouters, jazz-bos, spinners, drummers, samplers, weirdos and more into one churning disco ball.

“Everyone was my super hero,” says Britt.

Think of this reunion, then, as The Avengers: Age of Ultron. And since every great superhero story needs a back story: What happened was...

You could go all the way back to Britt’s childhood in West Philly where he played violin for a year. Or when his barbershopowning dad brought King to Chester Avenue to buy 45s for the shop. Or when mom and dad bought the young Britt a red Danny Kaye turntable (“I still have it!”) for Christmas. Or when, by his first year of high school he’d outworn his Judas

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Priest/Iron Maiden obsession (“of which I’m proud”), and began getting into Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode, as well as neighborhood block parties with the renowned DJ Jazzy Jeff. “That was all dope,” he laughs.

You could move forward to when King was already a star with a hit to his name and that of Josh Wink—his one-time partner in Philly’s future-forward Ovum label—in their 1990 E-Culture smash, “Tribal Confusion,” to say nothing of his DJ-ing successes from Philly’s moveable Vagabond parties to his dance floor tours abroad. You could even mention how his pals in Digable Planets had a hit in 1992’s “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” and brought Britt along for the live band ride as their touring DJ. “I was coming off running with Digables and saw their evolution from demos to being on-stage,” he says, inspired with the lightening bolt thought of starting his own live band. “That gave me confidence.

I could do that. Only I wanted to do it in the context of Philly because we had so much talent.”

For the purposes of expediency however, we’ll start at the now-abandoned Center City mall, The Gallery, during Britt’s sophomore year at Central High when he worked (“under the table”) at the first

floor’s newsstand.

“I was preppy as all-get-out,” Britt laughs, thinking of how he bought all of his Ralph Lauren Polo gear from his pal at Strawbridges: salesman James Poyser— the keyboardist for The Roots.

Upstairs at The Gallery was Chameleon, an upscale men’s clothier and a hub of the local black artistic community. That’s where Jamaladeen Tacuma—even then a legend for his work with saxophone giant Ornette Coleman—worked for a time.

“I was taking a hiatus from the music business to concentrate on family and life as a young man,” says Tacuma. “King and a few other aspiring musicians and DJs also worked there and would come to my store and talk about music, fashion and all things cool. King was younger than I, and expressed an interest in the world and what was going on in it from a creative point of view.”

Britt goes further, and recalls Tacuma saying that he had quit music at that time as it simply wasn’t paying his bills. “It took us talking and Ornette Coleman to pluck him out and get him back into music—literally as Ornette came to the Gallery and grabbed him. Jamaladen quit Chameleon and went back to the bass, but not until he taught me about sequencing and how to stay positive.”

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Around that same time, Britt became friends with a quiet poetess who would date several of his friends in high school and beyond, Ursula Rucker. “Vicki Miles, another Sylk 130 alum, went to Girls’ High with Urs,” says Britt. “She was dating my friend Mark, then Doz. But how I really knew her was, remember when you had to call the phone company for information, before cells? Ursula was my operator—I almost always got her—and her voice was just beautiful. I knew she would sound great on a record.”

By 1993, Britt would make that a reality when he told Rucker about a problematic rave. “Supernatural” had been raided before he got a chance to spin and from there (“she wrote an analogy of the incident without telling me at first”) the pair created the haunting house-hop track, “Supernatural.” Britt says that Rucker was a natural—a two-take wonder—in her initial outing behind the mic.

“It was just so organically productive and prolific,” says Rucker of the beginning of their recording relationship. “It was at my beginning, so shit was so fresh and exciting. I learned a lot. And the nights and times at Back2Basics provided an amazing, sensory stage and backdrop for it all.”

Back2Basics sealed the deal, and made it real. Before 1991 and B2B’s start, Britt had spun at Silk City long before Northern Liberties was NORTHERN LIBERTIES. “One of the two owners was ready to fire me as really it was only you, John

Hicks and his wife who used to show up,” says Britt, mentioning the producer who would help Britt build Sylk130’s debut album from the bottom up.

Once Britt’s old buddy Dozia jumped aboard, and word-of-mouth splayed forth that this was the jam where all rhythms were welcome, B2B became the city’s best party.

Silk’s B2B DJ soiree became one where live musicians of all stripes would come to play, often unprompted, while Britt and Dozia spun. “Chuck Duquesne would bring his congas—mic him up,” says Britt.

“Chuck Treece had his bass, out him on.

Vicki and Lady Alma would start singing without mics over our records? Amazing.

Tim Motzer got a recommendation from Jazzy Jeff to come down and check us out and never left.”

For his part, Motzer showed up in 1996 when trumpeter Jafar Barron (another Sylk 130 alum who’ll appear September 4) invited the guitarist to play with the house band. “It clicked and through that singular beginning, many doorways opened,” says Motzer.

“The best part of being down with the Sylk movement was the tremendous amount of fun everyone had,” says street battle DJ-turned aquatic house producer Duplaix. “It’s rare to do anything every week. But Sylk/B2B was like church for so many people. It was an incubator for so many of the genre-bending Philly artists that ultimately impacted the globe. There was always love, laughter, and great en-

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ergy. We created a culture of cool with a tribe of outliers.”

While the first Sylk 130 album, 1997’s When The Funk Hits The Fan, was a handsome representation of the B2B live experience, its second album—2001’s Re: Members Only, released on the cusp of its label, Philly’s famed Ruffhouse, splitting from Columbia—was more deeply rooted in Britt’s obsession with ‘80s English synthpop and glossy British New Wave. “I couldn’t believe it,” says Britt. “I had Alison Moyet from Yaz staying at my house and smoking weed before singing on the record and Martin Fry from ABC meeting me at 30th Street Station dressed in a silver lame suit like he was popping out of a video.”

Britt didn’t so much leave the live funkhop of Sylk 130 behind as he continued experimenting with electronic music— the sampladelic gospel of Sister Gertrude Morgan, the liquid-y Scuba, the avantjazz sequencing of Saturn Never Sleeps— until his old soul orchestra faded into the rear view mirror. That is until very recently. “It’s that 20 year thing; that and the fact that the girls of KING (no relation) and Maxwell are doing the live soul sound right. Then there’s Frank Ocean tying it together with his new work and his

love of synths.”

With that Britt doesn’t just see the reunion of Sylk 130 as members-only (“I want the old head and the kids to come out”) or a dance down memory lane.

Along with releasing a “best of” compilation this October (What Happened Was….) and a box set of its albums in early 2017, Britt & Co. will be working on a funky old school new Sylk album that will incorporate his fascination with new school electronic soul.

“Great work never needs to be reborn— that insinuates death,” notes Duplaix.

“Classic music is eternal.”

Tacuma adds that the music of Sylk 130 is still a platform for expression and a way to continue to push the boundary.

“With its rebirth, it’s again an opportunity to rekindle a groovy flame and an audio vehicle to reach again a curious audience of music lovers.”

A week before the show is to commence, Britt laughs how his ensemble has not yet rehearsed one note, and probably won’t until just days before the gig.

“These guys though, they’ll nail it in three hours. I know my family.”

Sylk 130 Reunion Show: Sept. 4, 8:30pm. $20. TLA, 334 South St. tlaphilly.com

NEWS | BY WILLIAM KENNY

Shoring Up the Shore

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ublic officials cut a ribbon to open 4.5-acre Lardner’s Point Park on the Delaware River in Tacony in 2012, signaling a new era of public recreation in the neighborhood. But the natural restoration of this waterfront remains a work in progress.

And flooding is still a formidable threat.

Last month, officials from the Delaware River City Corporation and the Pew Charitable Trusts led a tour of the Lardner’s Point wetlands to show how they are being converted into a sustainable “living shoreline” and to encourage the community to advocate for similar nature-based solutions for other urban shorelines across the country.

Standing on a fishing and observation pier just south of the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, Laura Lightbody, a project director for Washington, D.C.-based Pew, said that her focus is on “creating more prepared communities in the face of flood disasters.”

As of early July, there had been 43 major disasters across the nation declared by the federal government in 2016. Among those, 26 were flood related. And that was weeks before prolonged rainfall caused widespread flooding in at least 20 southern Louisiana parishes.

Meanwhile, about 14 percent of shorelines in the U.S. have been hardened by use of concrete structures, bulkheads or seawalls, also known as gray infrastructure.

“We are working through projects like this to make sure that number doesn’t grow,” Lightbody said.

Research conducted by Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in collaboration with Pew has shown that hardened shorelines are less resilient to major storm events than those that employ natural features such as marshes and native vegetation, which also reduce erosion and promote the growth of natural habitats and wildlife populations. Natural shorelines recover from storms quicker, too.

In recent months, Lightbody has coordinated Pew’s advocacy for a proposed change in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permitting process for living shorelines. A public comment period ended on Aug. 1, but the Corps has yet to formally adopt the proposal.

The Corps holds jurisdiction over waterfront construction under federal law. Lightbody said that under current protocols, it’s easier and faster for an applicant to obtain a permit to install a seawall or bulkhead than it is for a living shoreline. The new protocol could streamline permitting from 215 days to as few as 45 days, according to a July 6 article in Scientific American.

“The living shoreline piece is a part of what we’re pushing as a non-structural, nature-based method that is a lot less costly,” said Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, the former Corps chief engineer, according to Scientific American. “It helps with our environmental

focus; it helps us with the endangered species, perhaps. All of that is a natural way that we can reclaim some of our land and take the focus off of expensive infrastructure.”

The Lardner’s Point restoration is an example of what can be accomplished in just a few years, even in urban settings where decades of industrialization, erosion, introduction of non-native species, dumping and neglect have taken a large toll.

The nonprofit DRCC employed a Baltimore-based ecological consultant and engineering firm, Biohabitats, to manage the restoration. DRCC has already spent $1.6 million on the project and is raising more money to expand the natural habitat.

In the 1920s, a ferry terminal was there, said DRCC Project Manager Jim Fries. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, heavy industrial firms like Disston Saw Works and Tacony Iron and Metal Company dominated the riverfront in the area. The TaconyPalmyra Bridge opened to vehicle traffic in 1929.

Today, Lardner’s Point is a trailhead park along the North Delaware Riverfront Greenway, which traverses the Delaware waterfront for 11 miles from Port Richmond to the Poquessing Creek. DRCC is supported by the city and the William Penn Foundation, according to Executive Director Tom Branigan.

Ed Morgereth, a senior ecologist and principal for Biohabitats, said that restorers repurposed many large rocks that they found in the area, as well as discarded concrete chunks, to create breakwaters just off the shoreline. The new underwater sill lessens the erosive impact of the tidal river.

Workers and volunteers, including community members and teens from the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Society, have met some challenges along the way. One of the first tasks was to remove non-native or invasive plants from the shore so that native species could be reintroduced. Certain plants have root systems that protect the soil from erosion.

Litter was also a problem, particularly empty plastic bottles that tend to scour the fragile vegetation, Morgereth said. Canada geese are another issue. Through trial and error workers are learning what the birds will eat and what they won’t. Initially, vandals posed a problem, having destroyed wooden frames used to support seedlings.

Morgereth and his team rebuilt them with beefier materials.

Since establishing the new wetlands in 2012, the plants and wildlife have grown and multiplied. Some shrubs stand 15 feet high.

Biohabitats returns regularly for monitoring.

The shoreline has developed a defined marsh zone at the water’s edge, a secondary zone of willows and dogwoods farther up the slope and then what the ecologists describe as a meadow and coastal forest as the shore transitions into the park’s recreational areas.

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ANIMALS | BY JACQUELINE RUPP @PhillyJackie

Rescue Me

PHOTOS COURTESY ACCT PHILLY

Can improving Animal Control help Philly humans?

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hilly is a dog city, no doubt. For many, going to the dog park is as much a part of downtime as going to the corner bar.

And if they could actually learn to talk human, these critters would admit: It’s good to be a dog in the city. Getting walked on tree-lined sidewalks, drinking outside a cafe with friendly two-leggers, sometimes even getting famous on social media. (C’mon, who doesn’t have a favorite canine Facebook feed?). A dog in the city is basically treated like a human’s furrier offspring.

Unless it’s one of the unfortunate dogs that ends at Animal Control and Care (ACCT), locked in a cage in a warehouse-like kennel that’s packed with other unfortunately lost or discarded pets.

Do not cue the Sarah McLachlan music. This is not a story about why giving 50 cents a day can change the life of an animal in need (OK, maybe it kind of is), but we’re definitely not hitting you up for dough.

Now, with the city’s school district still in shambles, it’s hard to make a case why an agency like Animal Control should get a budget boost—unless you’re Doug Ross and you believe that there are significant trickle-down benefits for human residents of Philly.

Ross is a CPA, he’s a number cruncher, not a politician or animal shelter expert. He doesn’t even consider himself a dog person. His involvement with the plight of ACCT started when he happened to get invited by some friends to volunteer for the day at its North Philly shelter.

It was an eye opener.

“When you walk in, you can see the hurt and the sadness in the dogs, and I felt an obligation to them,” he said. “It opened my eyes to a very unknown, under-appreciated function in Philadelphia.”

The next day he picked up a dog to foster.

Before that day, Ross knew as much about ACCT as most in this city. Namely, “Ugh, the place where they kill dogs?”

With a far-less beefy budget to run fundraising events and ad campaigns, ACCT gets much less attention than no-kill nonprofits like Center City-based PAWS. Indeed, those opposed to euthanizing tail-waggers often shy away from supporting a shelter like ACCT, for fear they’re supporting the killing. In fact, its need for public support is even greater.

ACCT is the only shelter in the city that cannot turn away an animal, whether it’s found on the street or surrendered by a resident. That means a lot more animals coming through its doors, leading to overcrowding, especially during the warmer peak breeding months.

But back to Ross. From being a single-day volunteer, Ross went on to organize a successful fundraiser during last year’s Broad Street Run. Then he decided to use his accounting skills to compare Philadelphia’s animal control efforts to those in other cities. His findings, he said, make a compelling argument for why funding to ACCT should be increased.

“There is a correlation between an animal control function and the community. The cities that have wellfunctioning animal shelters also provide their citizens with higher levels of well-being,” explained Ross. He looked at benchmarks of quality of life, such as poverty, homelessness, and crime stats, and his conclusion: we’re doing pretty shitty.

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“The city of Philadelphia is the second worst out of the US’s Top 10 cities. If you combine these factors together—and in the study I refer to it as the “well-being” index—Philadelphia has the lowest well-being index, out of the 10 major cities.”

Ross also compared animal control spending statistics of the 10 major cities and found that Philadelphia was at the bottom of the barrel. A visit to the shelter doesn’t challenge that stat.

Located along Hunting Park Avenue in the Feltonville section, the animal control hub of Philadelphia is just a blip on the North Philadelphia landscape. Looking more like an abandoned small-scale factory than a place where you’d go to pick your new animal companion, the small one-story brick building has a few outdoor spots for dogs that aren’t much larger than the typical city backyard. Inside, visitors are greeted with a ’70s era reception area with about a half dozen floor-mounted plastic chairs, staffers behind glass and doors that ominously lead to a clinic and the kennels. It’s definitely not a PetSmart vibe.

Sitting in the waiting room for just a short stretch of time, I witnessed a police officer come in with a pit bull dog of some kind. The cop called him Crackers because that’s what he fed him after freeing the dog from an abandoned car. The pit is taken by staff back to the kennels, where row after row of similar-looking dogs bark from their cages.

Back in the waiting room, a woman—told that she can’t have her dog back—started moaning at the front desk. The moans turned to tears as she ran out of the shelter. The receptionist took a long deep breath, and turned to the next client, weighed down with a cat carrier in hand.

It’s not to say there aren’t happy endings coming from ACCT. Fostering programs see volunteers offering up space in their home for cats and dogs and the kill number at the shelter have declined for the past three years.

In 2013, intake was at about 31,000 animals, with approximately 10,000 killed at the shelter. Last year, ACCT reported a drop in intake to 25,000 and a kill rate of 5,750.

It does this on a budget of $4 million a year.

Ross thinks a little bit more money could provide huge returns for the homeless animals of the city. “There are some very simple allocations in city funding that could vastly improve the conditions of our animal control team.

But, the city chooses not to allocate the money needed for the shelter to be run—and that is a cause for concern.”

Pointing to his study, Ross said the link between better animal control funding and better outcomes for humans is obvious. “If the well-being of a citizen and a well-being of an animal shelter are vastly different, that would immediately indicate that Philadelphia is doing a good job in one area. There is a link between the neglect and disrespect of the people around you, and the neglect and disrespect of our animals. When you look at the lack of respect for members of our community, I think it becomes a lack of respect and compassion for all individuals—animals included.”

He argued that the shelter’s current location was never meant to be a permanent home but rather a temporary solution when the city split in 2000 from the wellfunded PSPCA. “So, what you have is an infrastructure that is falling apart and the consequences of a poor infrastructure at an animal facility—like the inadequate draining of fecal matter. Those animals do everything in those kennels—they sleep, eat, defecate. And when you don’t have proper training, animals are at risk for

disease outbreak. So, every animal would become sick. And people want to adopt healthy animals.”

ACCT Director Vincent Medley, who took over the leadership role at the shelter in the fall of 2015, does not agree with many of Ross’s conclusions.

“Just with any report, there’s a lot of information that’s not captured in the report that would inform it better,” Medley said. “It’s like it started with a conclusion and looked for information to support that conclusion. Not every city provides the same types of services.”

In talking about the needs of ACCT, Medley focused far less on the brickand-mortar intake facility and more on community-based programs. “The reality is the shelter environment, no matter what the type of space, is stressful for an animal. It’s really one of the last places we want to see animals. We want to make sure that we provide services to the community and information to the community that allows them to keep animals in the community.” His goals are to make sure animals are licensed, have been micro-chipped and sterilized.

“Once we get the animals, there is already some breakdown that happened, either with us or within the community.

You know, the reality to me is, that if we resolve the problem on the community level, we resolve the problem at the point of its origins. Let’s prevent the animal

from coming in so that we don’t have to cure the problem of shelter euthanasia in the shelter, we can prevent the problem of shelter euthanasia.”

Ross argued that it’s not about lack of money on the city’s part but lack of a public push to divert money from less pressing matters to ACCT. “The question is: Can we find another $4 million to address this crisis in Philadelphia? Yes. I think any reasonable person in Philadelphia would answer yes. All we need is for the people to ask for it.”

Ross pointed to programs like the graduate retention program that aims to keep college residents in the city or a summer youth employment program and nonessential programs that might be able to loan ACCT some funds because of their critical condition.

For now, the mayor’s office sides with Medley.

“People don’t realize that the city council and the mayor’s office need to be held accountable in the area,” said Ross. “The message needs to get out into the community: I need your help. Once people start talking about it, once people start reading up on it—that’s something we can go to City Council with—that’s something we can go to the Mayor with and say, “You can no longer overlook this any more.” And people are going to want that change because change must be made.”

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Client Tell I have been seeing sex workers for 30 years, and I shudder to think how shitty my life would have been without them. Some have become friends, but I’ve appreciated all of them. Negative stereotypes about guys like me are not fair, but sex work does have its problems. Some clients (including females) are difficult—difficult clients aren’t typically violent; more often they’re inconsiderate and demanding. Clients need to understand that all people have limits and feelings, and money doesn’t change that. But what can we clients do to fight stupid, regressive, repressive laws that harm sex workers? —Not A John You can speak up, NAJ. The current line from prohibitionists— people who want sex work to remain illegal—is that all women who sell sex are victims and all men who buy sex are monsters.

But talk to actual sex workers and you hear about considerate, regular clients who are kind, respectful, and sometimes personally helpful in unexpected ways. (A sex worker friend had a regular client who was a dentist; he did some expensive dental work for my uninsured friend—and he did it for free, not for trade.) You also hear about clients who are threatening or violent—and how laws against sex work make it impossible for them to go to the police, making them more vulnerable to violence, exploitation, and abuse, no less.

There is a large and growing sex workers’ rights movement, NAJ, which Emily Bazelon wrote about in a terrific cover story for the New York Times Magazine (“Should Prostitution Be a Crime?” May 5, 2016). Bazelon spoke with scores of sex workers active in the growing and increasingly effective decriminalization movement. Amnesty International recently called for the full decriminalization of sex work, joining Human Rights Watch, the World Health Organization, and other large, mainstream health and human rights groups.

But there’s something missing from the movement to decriminalize sex work: clients like you, NAJ. Maggie McNeill, a sex worker, activist, and writer, wrote a blistering piece on her blog (“The Honest Courtesan”) about a recent undercover police operation in Seattle. Scores of men seeking to hire sex workers—the men ranged from surgeons to bus drivers to journalists—were arrested and subjected to ritualized public humiliation designed to discourage other men from paying for sex.

“These crusades do nothing but hurt the most vulnerable individuals on both sides of the transaction,” McNeill wrote. “The only way to stop this [is for] all of you clients out there to get off of your duffs and fight.

Regular clients outnumber full-time whores by at least 60 to 1; gentlemen, I suggest you

rethink your current silence, unless you want to be the next one with your name and picture splashed across newspapers, TV screens and websites.”

The legal risks and social stigma attached to buying sex doubtless leave some clients feeling like they can’t speak up and join the fight. But sex workers today, like gays and lesbians not too long ago, are coming out in ever-greater numbers to fight for their rights in the face of potentially dire legal and social consequences.

Clients need to join the fight—or perhaps I should say clients need to rejoin the fight.

In The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, which I read while I was away on vacation, author Faramerz Dabhoiwala writes about “Societies of Virtue” formed all over England in the late 17th century. Adulterers, fornicators, and Sabbath-breakers were persecuted by these groups, NAJ, but their campaigns against prostitutes were particularly vicious and indiscriminate; women were thrown in jail or publicly whipped for the crime of having a “lewd” appearance. The persecution of streetwalkers, brothel owners, and women guilty of “[walking] quietly about the street” went on for decades.

Then a beautiful thing happened.

“In the spring of 1711, a drive against ‘loose women and their male followers’ in Covent Garden was foiled when ‘the constables were dreadfully maimed, and one mortally wounded, by ruffians aided by 40 soldiers of the guards, who entered into a combination to protect the women,’” writes Dabhoiwala.

Male followers of loose women, soldiers of the guard, mobs of seamen—not altruists, but likely clients of the women they fought to defend. And thanks to their efforts and the efforts of 18th-century sex workers who lawyered up, marched into court, and sued the pants off Society of Virtue members, by the middle of the 18th century, women could walk the streets without being arrested or harassed—even women known to be prostitutes.

I’m not suggesting that today’s clients form mobs and attack prohibitionists, cops, prosecutors, and their enablers in the media. But clients can and should be out there speaking up in defense of sex workers and themselves. Sex workers are speaking up and fighting back—on Twitter and other social-media platforms, sometimes anonymously, but increasingly under their own names—and they’re staring down the stigma, the shame, and the law on their own. It’s time for their clients to join them in the fight.

There’s more Savage Love!

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