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FROM THE EDITOR

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o it appears last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column struck a nerve with a few readers, some good, some who claim my words make them â&#x20AC;&#x153;want to throw up.â&#x20AC;?

And while itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never in my design to see someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health take a turn for the worst over something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written, I do appreciate whenever I can write an editorial that pushes belief â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one way or the other. Last week, in my column entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;It Does Matter,â&#x20AC;? I hoped to implore people to register to vote by recalling the moment in American history that opened my own eyes to why hitting the polls is so important.

In the piece, I noted that events â&#x20AC;&#x201C; positive or negative â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that affect our country have a funny way of shaping your role in making a change.

That spurned a beautifully handwritten letter by a man named Gary Gorham, who mailed the following to our ofďŹ ces.

Quickly, before I drop Garyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter, I just want to commend him on his amazing penmanship. I, for one, was jealous that my handwriting has never looked that sharp.

I want to comment on Kerith Gabrielâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does matterâ&#x20AC;? editorial. KG wants us to buy the phony narrative that Republicans are all bad and Democrats are all good. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting that KG never mentions the DROP program. The DROP program is an example of crony capitalism supported by Democrats.

KG rebukes Susan Collins for voting to conďŹ rm Kavanaugh but he never mentions that Democrat senator Joe Manchin did the same thing.

People like KG make me want to throw up because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as phony as the politicians he defends. If I vote for the damn Dems in next monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be holding my nose because thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of deceit and corruption on both sides. And hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a few more facts. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Black man. I was born and raised in Philly.

I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t born with a silver spoon in my hand and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a Black conservative. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Gary Gorham OK, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to break this down bit by bit since there are points that I agree with and some, wellâ&#x20AC;Ś For starters, I in no way shape or form

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tried to dump on Republicans. In the column, I merely referenced instances under the Administration of a then-Republican president in George W. Bush that turned the tide in the way I viewed the importance of voting. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even lean on a side of one or the other, but I do vote on whose beliefs closely reďŹ&#x201A;ect whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best for the greater good.

The line where it says â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interesting that KG never mentions the DROP program,â&#x20AC;? is interesting since the controversial program was the cover story in our Jan. 11 issue. DROP by all accounts is â&#x20AC;&#x153;crony capitalism,â&#x20AC;? but so are most pension plans to city and union-backed employees. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a program that former Republican members of City Council like John Rizzo Jr., had the opportunity to go after during his 16-year run, but instead cashed in on a six-ďŹ gure DROP payoff before peacing out of city government.

I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;rebukeâ&#x20AC;? Susan Collins, I just pointed out the irony that one of the senators happened to be a woman after hearing allegations from another esteemed woman of sexual misconduct from a man the Senate gave the keys to the highest court in the land to. And yeah, Joe Manchin is a Democrat who voted in favor of Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court judge, but Gorham failed to mention or realize that Manchin is a red-state Democrat from West Virginia, actively seeking re-election.

Think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all I need to say about that.

I agree with Gorham that there is corruption on both sides, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think politics on any level of government is a perfect science. From City Hall to the White House there are clear instances of deceit, greed, and the lack sound judgment in decision-making as it pertains to whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best for their constituents on both sides. But to my original point, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we, as the ones electing these people, should listen to all the facts and do our best to vote for the best choice.

Quicklyâ&#x20AC;Ś Mr. Gorham, you being a Black man is irrelevant in this context, but I truly feel that you being a Black man should urge you to speak up and hit the polls, perhaps now more than ever on Nov. 6.

I too, was born and raised in Philadelphia â&#x20AC;&#x201C; admittedly a large swath of that time reared in a suburb of Philadelphia â&#x20AC;&#x201C; by a single mother who worked two jobs just to keep up with the silver spooners you mentioned. However, in her eyes, it was more an attempt to provide us with her ideals of a better life than what was waiting for us in North Philly circa 1990s.

Also, the silver spoon comment is a bit off considering the citizens who voted for our current Republican establishment in our White House are predominantly working-class people from middle America.

Thanks again for taking the time to send me such a well-written letter, Mr. Gorham.

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Staying ahead of the pain Local teen brings awareness of the debilitating reality of chronic migraines

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just a bad headache that will just go away by taking an Advil. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a migraine, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a debilitating disability for many.

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Grappling with overwhelming pain, the The Germantown Friends School junior has decided to look outward and teach others about the realities of migraines, particularly among teenagers. In hopes her story will raise awareness to help destigmatize the condition for others suffering, Goldsborough recently led the Miles for Migraine Walk/Run at Wissahickon Valley Park, which had approximately 600 people participate.

More than 36 million people in the United States suffer from migraines, according to the American Migraine Foundation. Women are three times more likely than men to have migraines, as stated by Medlineplus. In addition, the World Health Organization ranks migraines as one of the top 10 most disabling diseases on the planet.

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In recent years, concussions have become a major topic of conversation and controversy in sports, and a particularly polarizing topic in the National Football League. However, as Goldsborough explained, not much of the media attention has been centered on migraines. She also went on to add that, due to the nature of her own injuries, she has done a lot of research on head trauma in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The coverage of head trauma is great,â&#x20AC;? said Goldsborough. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love the publicity. But it's only very recent, and there's only a little bit of it.â&#x20AC;?

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owerful words were spoken by even more powerful female leaders during the Pennsylvania Conference for Women inside the Convention Center on Oct. 12 The day included a number of speakers, including Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney and Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf, who both took the main stage to welcome the conference and note the importance of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issues in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society.

But the excitement was conversation and lectures from Lebanese-British barrister Amal Clooney and tennis superstar Serena Williams. Other keynote speakers included 16-year-old iOS developer Amanda Southworth and actress, comedian, and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid.

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Across the board and to varying degrees, the keynote speakers touched on the topic of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health and disability.

Amal Clooney Clooney discussed the self-mutilations, including burning of the face, by women and girls trying to avoid abduction, rape and sex trafďŹ cking. For the majority of her speech, she talked about her client and recent Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nadia Murad. Murad was kidnapped by the Islamic State (ISIS) for three months. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nadia Murad is the girl who refused to be silent,â&#x20AC;?

Clooney said to the packed audience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In doing that, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an example to us all.â&#x20AC;?

Clooney then shifted the conversation to the U.S., taking aim at President Donald Trumpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treatment of Dr. Christine Blasey Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sexual assault allegations against now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Williams spoke in conversation with Fortune Magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ellen McGirt and focused on the topic on maternal health, a cause she has been championing since the birth of daughter, Alexis Olympia. During childbirth, Williams suffered a pulmonary embolism, which is when a blood clot blocks the ďŹ&#x201A;ow of blood to the lungs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did some research and I was alarmed that our Black mothers are not being taken care of. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in this country that is supposed to be so technologically advanced. Why are we treating our mothers like this?,â&#x20AC;?

Williams asked.

Black women are three-to-four times more likely than white women to die from a pregnancy-related death, according to the CDC. Interestingly, Williams made no mention of the French Openâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban of her â&#x20AC;&#x153;catsuit,â&#x20AC;? which she wore to prevent the formation of blood clots which she is now susceptible of getting since giving birth. She also did not talk about particulars of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U.S. Open ďŹ nals, speciďŹ cally the controversial calls by chair umpire Carlos Ramos.

She came close to breaching the topic when she discussed the accomplishment of her career postpregnancy: â&#x20AC;&#x153;To get to the ďŹ nals of Wimbledon was really for me impossible. Less than a year before, I was in a hospital bed with a child.

And then to do it again in the U.S. ďŹ nal.â&#x20AC;?

When McGirt asked if there was anything also Williams wanted to discuss, possibly to address the elephant in the room, Williams did not budge. However, Williams did explain there is no â&#x20AC;&#x153;rule bookâ&#x20AC;? on being a changemaker for both race and gender. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You gotta push boundaries that are difďŹ cult to push. If you think of it as a brick wall. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be hard to push. But you gotta keep pushing

at it. One day itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna budge, and when you get that ďŹ rst budge, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really exciting because you know that it is meant to be pushed,â&#x20AC;? said Williams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are here at this conference for a reason. There are so many great women together. [And] this is pushing an incredible boundary because Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve traveled the world, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen anything like this.â&#x20AC;?

Amanda Southworth The timing of the Pennsylvania Conference for Women coincided with Mental Health Awareness Week, which ran from Oct. 7-13.

Southworth, just 16, has struggled with mental health for a number of years. With an eating disorder by the time she was in fourth grade, multiple suicide attempts, a pill addiction, coupled with depression and anxiety, Southworth at last found refuge courtesy of a seventh grade robotics class.

According to Southworth, she and her father eventually left her abusive and homophobic mother and she acquired the therapy treatment she needed. What didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change was her love for technology.

Gay identifying, Southworth is the founder of the software nonproďŹ t Astra Labs and creator of the cognitive based therapy app AnixetyHelper and the LGBT+ safety app Verena. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[I am about] making mental health resources more affordable and more accessible to people because when you look at it, the more marginalized people are, the more likely they are to have a mental health condition and the less likely they are to get treatment,â&#x20AC;? Southworth said in a press interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we want people to get better then we need to tell them about what they are facing and make health accessible to them.â&#x20AC;?

Other than travel expenses, Southworth said she does not get paid for her products â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not the typical response for someone who could be making my money in the health-tech industry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to be very moral and set in my principals,â&#x20AC;? Southworth told PW. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Looking at the start up culture I would say, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bunch of people who never intended to have this much power and now they have it, and now they are abusing it. On one hand, I feel sorry for them, but on the other, I think a lot of them need to grow up and accept they are no longer a startup, and that they

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Composed and well-spoken, Southworth said she came as a representation for teens, those with mental health issues and women, a gender that is largely underrepresented in technology. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we want more women in STEM, we need to make them feel welcome there,â&#x20AC;? explained Southworth, who said she has been stalked by male fans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are already waiting to be there but we just need to open it up for them.â&#x20AC;?

Maysoon Zayid An area also lacking representation is the disability community in the entertainment industry. Zayid has struggled as an actress with cerebral palsy to get parts, even ones depicting CP that she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;literally born to play.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I don't blame people, like the rocker Dustin Hoffman [in Rain Man], who didn't know. I want the new generation of actors to know better, do better and uplift usâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

Zayid told PW. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could have a disabled person be the co-star and still have the movie you want without offensive, cartoonish and inauthentic portrayals that shut us out. When a kid sees disability on the screen and that disability disappears on the red carpet, they think they can't be it.â&#x20AC;?

Zayid is developing an autobiographical comedy series, called Can-Can, for ABC. In the show, the Muslim protagonist with CP will be played by none other than Zayid.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;So when I get on ABC, I'm basically going to make it shameful for non disabled people to play those roles anymore, and they are going to start turning them down,â&#x20AC;? explained Zayid, who had one of the most popular TED Talks in 2014.

But Zayid noted that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimately up to the ones in power, in this case celebrities, to make the change. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[It's] the celebrities that have to start turning down the roles,â&#x20AC;? Zayid argued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can keep calling it out and saying it's offensive and saying it's inauthentic. But until celebrities stand up and say, 'We're not going to participate in the silencing of these voices anymore.' It's not going to stop.â&#x20AC;?

When it comes to people in political power, and the current administration, the comedian in Zayid says she tries to make the situation funny: her speciality. But as a Palestinian, Muslim, disabled woman, Zayid said she ďŹ nds it draining but invigorating. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I ďŹ nd it more exhausting than comedic but the whole center of what I do is CanCan. It's the idea that you don't lie down. It's always darkest before dawn. You get up, you vote, you ďŹ&#x201A;ip it, and we come back. There are so many things that went against us in history and we always came back stronger,â&#x20AC;? explained Zayid. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I'm exhausted. I'd love a day off. But I'm ready more than ever to ďŹ ght for the country I love and make it what I want it to be, because I'm not going to leave.â&#x20AC;? Q TWITTER: @ANDREAJCANTOR

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here one might just see an interesting looking watch, Lorenzo Buffa sees biodiversity, environmental sustainability, deforestation prevention, and economic stability for an entire region of Europe.

Buffa is the co-founder of Analog Watch Co., a fashion house along a stretch of East Passyunk Avenue that makes all of its creations entirely from environmentally sustainable or recycled materials. Buffa, who began the company in 2013 backed by a $75,000 Kickstarter campaign, has turned his tiny South Philly showroom into a leader in sustainable fashion, selling watches worldwide and donating proceeds from every sale to replenish whatever materials were used.

Over those last ďŹ ve years, the company has created fashionable eyewear, purses and wallets all made from sustainable materials, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Analogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest endeavor that returned the company to its watch-making roots, a series of timepieces made from cork and dyed in red, white and blueberry wines, appropriately called the Somm Collection.

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Lorenzo Buffa, right, started Analog Watch Co. in 2013, after struggling to find meaningful work and doing custodial work to make ends meet.

Cork bark comes from Cork Oak trees, a Also deeply entrenched in its roots is Analog ďŹ nanced this project once again through tree that can live for up to 300 years replenKickstarter, seeking just a $10,000 goal, a ishing its bark repeatedly over its lifespan. Acnumber it surpassed in less than 10 days of cording to the CFPA, cork is one of the highthe campaign. At the time of this report, there est paying forestry professions in Europe and were 144 people backing this latest project to with there being enough cork in the forests of the tune of $14,529 with 20 days still remain- Spain and Portugal alone to ensure work for 100 years, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no shortage of job opporing in the campaign.

Not a bad last ďŹ ve years for Buffa, a for- tunities and economic stability. Additionally, mer unemployed art school graduate sick and cork forests are protected by European laws tired of doing custodial work to make ends against deforestation.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Buffa who reminds us of another meet turned entrepreneur and a driver in susimportant fact when it comes to Analogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lattainable fashion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over the years, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always used natural est design and its impact on our planet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are extremely fortunate that cork trees materials in everything we make, and when we started talking about using corks, wine grow because [it lives normally] in a very difcame up given the related concept,â&#x20AC;? Buffa ďŹ cult climate and environment,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s said during a conversation with PW. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we 7.1 million acres that if not harvested and thought â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;why not use wine itself to die the replenished would become barren, deserted cork?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The idea really came out of our own land. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the third-most biodiverse forest desire to continue to produce something with in the world with other plant life living among the forest of cork trees.â&#x20AC;? a natural material.â&#x20AC;?

His passion for sustainability and the enThe watches come in four different wine offerings, Chardonnay, Cassis, Sake and course, vironment probably fueled bloated numbers RosĂŠ. The armbands are then dipped in wine but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not far off. The CFPA claims the which even offers a bit of entire 6.6 million acres science as Buffa notes that of cork forest region wine doubles as a dye bestretches across Spain and â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are so many cause of the tannins, a Portugal, but also extends natural binding substance materials out there that can into Algeria, Morocco, that sticks to everything Italy, Tunisia and France, be repurposed or used that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; even your teeth if you itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a forest that supports doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t affect our world and in a level of biodiversity, drink enough of it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cork products only to the 1.7 some cases actually helps it for second out there, like cork bags, billion acres of the lush cork wallets, but from the better. Working with cork Amazon rainforest. what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reNumbers aside, Buffa serves a lot of good purpose ally nothing extra that hopes the watches not makes them unique or and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped us create a only offer the ideal fashspecial,â&#x20AC;? said Buffa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So statement, but with collection I stand by. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really ion we decided to pursue dyeall of his pieces an opproud of it because I know in ing.â&#x20AC;? portunity to spark conThe idea came from versation about our evera small way, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making a a love of wine but also changing planet. a love of Mother Earth difference.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to us for Buffa. As aforementhat we work with prodâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; LORENZO BUFFA, WATCHMAKER, CO-FOUNDER tioned, a primary mission ucts that help our enviOF SOUTH PHILLYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ANALOG WATCH CO. of his company is to reronment, not hurt it,â&#x20AC;? plenish whatever materiBuffa said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a als were sourced to create a product. Since lot of thought that goes into what we do and the open of Analog, the company has given much of that thought is how can we give back thousands of dollars back to sustainability or effectively impact something else. When I groups to replace trees and repay farmers. For started out doing this I saw a need for wearthe Somm Collection, the same principles are able fashion that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt our planet. in mind, as Analog paired up with the Cork There are so many materials out there that Forest Preservation Alliance to plant another can be repurposed or used that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t affect oak cork tree and continue not just the sur- our world and in some cases actually help it vival of a forest, but ensure cork as a viable for the better. Working with cork serves a lot sustainable material for years to come. of good purpose and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped us create a â&#x20AC;&#x153;The sustainability piece comes in a couple collection, I stand by and am really proud beof different ways [for us at Analog],â&#x20AC;? said cause I know in a small way, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making a Buffa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just using cork itself is really criti- difference.â&#x20AC;? Q cal. More than 90 percent of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cork trees are located in Spain and Portugal, and if Analog Watch Co. | Open Tuesday-Satpeople stopped using cork for materials, the urday, 9am-5pm. 1737 E. Passyunk Ave. farm and farmers would no longer be nec- analogwatchco.com/ essary and the land these cork forests sit on would literally become desert.â&#x20AC;?

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he October sun had burned away the fog, and Courtney Douds was trudging through the scrub on State Game Lands 43, in Chester County, beating the bushes with a broomhandle. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d brought an extra stick for me, so I followed along, whacking away at dewy patches of goldenrod and listening for anything that might be trying to scamper.

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She had bells tethered to her ankles but was otherwise unrestrained. Her mythological namesake, Atalanta, was a boar huntress who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to get married, but Addy was looking out for squirrels and rabbits.

Douds was animated by a less tangible drive. We kicked through the grass up a small hill with no sign of game. Before turning onto another path, Douds looked back toward Addy, whistled, and ďŹ&#x201A;ashed a bit of mouse meat in her glove. The hawk leapt off the branch, bells jangling, and soared across the clearing. She perched on Doudsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; glove and ate the food. Soon she took off again and picked another perch halfway down the lane. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll follow her lead,â&#x20AC;? Douds said.

We had passed a riďŹ&#x201A;e range on the gravel road coming into the gamelands and could

hear gunshots at regular intervals in the distance. Douds was dressed in an orange Tshirt and an oversized hunting vest. She had arrived before me, and sent a text message suggesting I try to ďŹ nd some ďŹ&#x201A;uorescent tees: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Would strongly prefer not to get shot,â&#x20AC;? her text read. But all I could ďŹ nd was a green Eagles T-shirt, so we went without. Neither of us had remembered to bring bug repellent and the gnats were ruthless as they landed in our eyes and mouths. Addy took off into the trees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah,â&#x20AC;? Douds said, approvingly, â&#x20AC;&#x153;letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually go into the woods a little bit.â&#x20AC;?

Douds, who just turned 30, lives in West Philly and makes a living as a psychoanalyst and a piano teacher. She had been training Addy for about a month since trapping her in the wild, and it was only the second or third time she had let her ďŹ&#x201A;y without being tied to the long training leash that falconers call a creance. She has lost birds before â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a kestrel she trapped last year ďŹ&#x201A;ew away one day â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and to guard as much as possible against losing Addy, she kept a loud whistle in her pocket and a dead rat tied to a lure.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking about becoming a falconer, you will need to make room in your pockets for the dead rats.

And in your freezer.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need a cage and a glove and various other speciality items. But most of what you need can be found in the wild, such as it is.

In September, I watched Douds ďŹ&#x201A;y Addy on a creance at a park in West Philly, coaxing her into ďŹ&#x201A;ight with bits of meat, then swinging the rat carcass around on the lure, and ďŹ nally telling the bird it was time to eat by blowing the whistle and dropping the lure on the ground.

In the woods Addy became bolder, ďŹ&#x201A;ying deeper into the trees as we tried to keep up.

The jingling got softer and the riďŹ&#x201A;e shots got louder. We stopped in a small clearing and listened. Douds looked concerned but calm. She pulled the lure out of her pocket and put the whistle in her mouth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This will end things,â&#x20AC;? she said: A feast for Addy would turn her off from hunting.

She stood still for another minute, straining to hear the bells, and then put the rat back in her pocket. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to go just a little further in.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Red-tailed hawks are common in the U.S., and they nest in tall trees and perch on leafless branches, telephone poles, and pylons.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not hard to ďŹ nd them in urban parks and on college campuses, sometimes eviscerating a squirrel or a pigeon. You can tell them apart from similar species by their size and, once mature, their distinctive red tails. The ďŹ rst time I was ever sure I positively IDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d one was at John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge. It was circling high overhead in silhouette. Some seasoned birdwatchers nearby were taking educated guesses at its species when the bird turned its body perpendicular to the sunlight,

and its tail feathers lit up as bright and red as a shiny new penny.

The hawkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice, as described in The Sibley Guide to Birds, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;a distant-sounding, rasping, scraping scream, falling in pitch and intensity cheeeeeeewv.â&#x20AC;? If you live in America youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve probably heard this sound â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not in the wild, but because the fearsome scream is often purposefully misapplied as a symbol of the bald eagle. The bald eagle itself is as likely to scavenge as it is to hunt, and its call, per Sibley, consists of â&#x20AC;&#x153;rather weak, ďŹ&#x201A;at, chirping whistles.â&#x20AC;?

The ďŹ rst time I met Douds, in March, we talked for half an hour at a coffee shop, then paid a visit to her previous red-tail, named Heff, who was living in a ten-by-ten-by-sixfoot mews in the backyard of a big house in West Philly whose tenants sublet the space to Douds for a ďŹ&#x201A;at monthly fee. Then we walked a few blocks to her old apartment.

She had two rats thawing in the refrigerator, next to a bag of kale. She was going to feed Heff after I left, so she took out one of the rodents and, using a pair of scissors, snipped off its tail and hindquarters and ďŹ&#x201A;icked its guts into the sink. Heff would eat the restâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;digesting even the bones, which not all raptor species can do â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and later vomit up a pellet of fur. If a hawk eats another bird, its pellets will contain feathers too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The red-tail is the only bird that I've successfully had and hunted with,â&#x20AC;? Douds told me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a kestrel for a small amount of time, but being in the city, [the red-tail] is the best bird for where I am. They're native to the area. If you lose them, it's not like it's an issue with the wild population or anything. And they hunt bunnies and squirrels. ... Falcons, you need a lot of space to hunt with them.

They're hunting duck and pheasant and quail.

It's totally different depending on what bird you have.â&#x20AC;?

Douds grew up in Buffalo. She learned about falconry in ďŹ fth-grade social studies, but she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hooked until the eighth grade, when â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ugh, it's so lame. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty badâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she saw The Royal Tenenbaums in the movie theater. Then, she began devouring the entirety of falcon literature. She volunteered at a raptor rehab center in Buffalo. She went to Columbia University, where she studied English and environmental biology, then apprenticed as a falconer in South Carolina and spent two years as a trainer at a falconry school in Ireland. Later, she got a dual masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in education and social work, with a specialty in human sexuality, at Widener, which is how she landed in Philadelphia. Somewhere along the way, she worked a brief spell at a garbage dump, ďŹ&#x201A;ying hawks to keep the seagull population in check.

In Center City, Douds practices therapy with individuals and couples, focusing on issues of sexuality, monogamy and nonmonogamy, kink, and sex work. Her psychoanalytic method is based on the work of Jacques Lacan, a French philosopher and follower of

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Clinically, Lacanian analysis has fallen out of vogue in the U.S., Douds admits. Then again, so have her primary hobbies: Blues dancing, crossstitch, and hunting small game with a bird of prey.

Last summer, Douds had been keeping Heff (namesake: Hephaestus) in an aviary near 52nd and Arch. One night, she went to feed him and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hear his bells jingling. Heff was unconscious on the ground, with a brick and a twoby-four laying nearby. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been attacked by a human, Douds concluded. He had brain damage and his depth perception was permanently askew. Douds couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take him hunting after that. She planned to get a different permit and begin using Heff for educational programs. But another tragedy intervened.

I originally intended to write this story in April, and I made plans to accompany Douds and Heff on a visit to the vet and to a wild bird expo in Havertown. But a couple days before the vet appointment, I got an email from Douds saying that she had found Heff â&#x20AC;&#x153;dead and half eaten in his mews.â&#x20AC;? It was confounding. The mews was, from what she could tell, undisturbed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; falconers are required to have their aviaries inspected by a game warden when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ďŹ rst built and every time they renew their licenses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the gate was closed. But Heffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire head, including the skull, had been eaten. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I'm feeling devastated and terrible and not particularly pleased with myself as a falconer,â&#x20AC;? she wrote.

Douds and the veterinarian surmised that Heff had gotten one of his talons caught in the leather strap that holds the bells to the ankles, and a raccoon had somehow shimmied into the mews and taken advantage of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;caught and half blindâ&#x20AC;? bird. She later told me sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been nervous to tell her falconry sponsor about what had occurred, but that when she had, he was supportive and nonjudgmental. She buried Heff and planted ďŹ&#x201A;owers on his grave. She said she intended to reinforce the mews and, if she was feeling up to it, go looking for another hawk in August. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The trap was homemade: Two panels of hardware cloth reinforced with rebar, with a bowl punched into the top and a hinged door on the bottom. Tied to the top were dozens of tiny

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Dodging bullets given a nearby shooting range, Douds takes Addy on her first hunt on State Game Lands near French Creek State Park.

IMAGE: JARED BREY

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be an expert falconer, you have to be OK with keeping a steady supply of rodents in your pockets. Here, Douds has a skinned rat for Addy.

nooses made of ďŹ shing wire. On a hot Sunday in August, I had the whole contraption sitting on a towel in my lap in the passenger seat of Doudsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; car, with two mice scurrying in the cage as we drove around Amish country.

Douds had a recycled playlist for the occasion, with selections including â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beez in the Trapâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trap Queen.â&#x20AC;? We bounced around the towns of Blue Ball and Gap and Sadsbury and Atglen. There were vultures and tree swallows galore, and a few goldďŹ nches. Occasionally there was a red-tail.

Usually Douds traps by herself. The mice get the cage and the front seat to themselves, and when she sees a hawk, trafďŹ c permitting, she slows down and tosses the cage out the window in full view of the bird, then stops

the car a short distance away to watch. With luck, the hawk will take interest in the mice, swoop down on the cage, and get a toe stuck in one of the nooses. Then all she has to do is run over to the trap, put a leather hood on the bird, spray it down with a delousing solution, and put the bird in a traveling cage.

I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to see that part.

That Sunday, we had a close call with a juvenile red-tail perched on a wire outside a feed mill in Atglen, a small borough in Chester County. It eyed the trap as soon as it hit the pavement.

Douds and I got out of the car and hid behind a silo, monitoring the activity with binoculars.

The hawk ďŹ&#x201A;ew low past the mice three times and then took off. We laid the trap again in the parking lot of a high school in

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Douds celebrates Addy, her red-tailed hawk's first wild catch a squirrel she nabbed deep in woods in French Creek State Park in Chester County.

nearby Gordonville, but the hawk perched on top of a telephone pole there showed no interest. Which was for the best: Douds eventually determined it was an adult, and adults, which establish breeding pairs, are off-limits.

On the drive home it began to storm, and I asked her how it felt to strike out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frustrated that I'm going to have to spend at least another three hours in the car trapping again,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And especially now with the trees leafed out, it's just so hard to ďŹ nd them. Just frustrated that it's more time. Once you get the bird, that's the fun stuff.â&#x20AC;?

But donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you ever feel conďŹ&#x201A;icted, I once asked her, about taking a bird from the wild and keeping it in captivity? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not really,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both big and small picture it seems pretty inoffensive.

They're incredibly common species. So many of them die in their ďŹ rst year. And also they're releasable. So it's almost zero impact on the ecology and everything.â&#x20AC;?

OK, I said, but what about at the level of the specimen? Certainly the bird doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be trapped.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe sometimes,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They deďŹ nitely don't at the start, which is why you have to trap them. But once you have them trained, it's more up to you whether

built that kind of relationship for it to stick around. Other birds, they can ďŹ&#x201A;y off at any point if you're not useful to them, and they'll be as ďŹ ne as they would have been in the wild anyway.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once you have them trained, it's more up to you whether they're going to stay or not... they can fly off at any point if you're not useful to them, and they'll be as fine as they would have been in the wild anyway.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; After the ďŹ rst trapping trip, I began to spot red-tails everywhere. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re often on top of tall pillars by the side of the road, or perched in leaďŹ&#x201A;ess branches of tall trees.

Douds said she had spotted a red-tail on a tower at a demolition site on Washington Avenue in South Philly, but when she drove past on her way to pick me up the following Friday, she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ nd it again. So we trolled past the docks on Columbus Boulevard and drove around the Navy Yard for an hour looking for a bird in the open places. But the closest call we had was at a shopping center.

A red-tail was sitting on top of the plaza sign, hunting, and when Douds dropped the trap on a median in the parking lot, the bird ďŹ&#x201A;ew down and started picking at it almost immediately. There were people everywhere. A tour bus pulled in and peo-

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; COURTNEY DOUDS, URBAN FALCONER

they're going to stay or not. The one I had that ďŹ&#x201A;ew away was not heartbreaking, because I didn't train it well enough. Why would it stick around with me? We hadn't

ple began to disembark. A woman in a white truck stopped to take a picture of the hawk, and as Douds ran over to explain what was happening, the bird took off, ďŹ&#x201A;ipping the trap over with its almost-caught talon in the process. It set up in a nearby tree. Douds was determined, and dropped the trap a little further away from the main ďŹ&#x201A;ow of trafďŹ c. But in the meantime, the hawk had managed to catch a pigeon, and it sat on top of a light pylon tearing it to shreds. Feathers were falling down from the perch like snowďŹ&#x201A;akes, and nobody else on the ground seemed to have any idea what was taking place above them.

We gave up as it was getting dark. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there when Douds caught Addy, in the parking lot of a grocery store, on her way home from a baby shower.

How many city-dwelling psychoanalysts are prepared to do such a thing?

The ďŹ rst time we talked, Douds told me sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d often been torn about whether to pursue a clinical career or one working with hawks. Over the summer, riding in the passenger seat, I asked her to venture a self-analysis. Was there some unifying impulse that motivated both interests?

She kept her hands on the wheel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I don't know that there's a connection between the two,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hunting involves life and death, and there's deďŹ nitely a drive, and it deďŹ nitely seems bound up in my sexuality in ways that speak to the way psychoanalysis thinks about those things, or frames them â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ideas of pursuit and desire and wanting things and how that maps onto how I relate to other people. I deďŹ nitely see a connection between falconry and nonmonogamy. Like if this is no longer working, this person has the freedom to peace out. But one of the myriad things I love about birds of prey is that it's hard to project too much onto them. I bite my tongue when I talk about their personalities. I'm never like, Oh, this bird loves me so much.â&#x20AC;?

She was 20 paces of ahead of me in the woods when she called out, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dude, get back here, she got a squirrel!â&#x20AC;?

I hurried to catch up and found her standing over Addy. The birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hackles were raised and her wings were spread out, defensively cupping the catch. In West Philly, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen Douds reach in and touch Addyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feet when she was eating off of the lure, to get her used to the idea of having her meals interrupted.

During hunts, Douds wants the bird to catch the prey, but not to eat the whole thing, so she can manage its weight. To keep the bird from getting hurt she will sometimes intervene to kill the prey, even crushing a squirrelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lungs in her own gloved hand, but Addy had done the job on her own. The squirrel was dead. It was her ďŹ rst wild hunt. Douds threw down the lure to distract Addy, then slipped the dead squirrel into her vest pocket, letting the bird feast instead on the rat.

During the scufďŹ&#x201A;e, which neither of us witnessed, Addy had gotten a cut on her toe. After we left the gamelands, Douds took her to the vet for an iodine treatment and â&#x20AC;&#x201C; since it was a growing concern in the local hawk population â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a vaccine for West Nile Virus. She would ďŹ&#x201A;y her on the creance until she was sure she was healed. Later this fall, before she takes a two-week trip to Mongolia to hunt with golden eagles, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll untie the bells and release her back into the wild. Q TWITTER: @JAREDBREY

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aunchy and witty, Tacony native Brendon Walsh is joyriding the life of comedy.

Walsh has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Conan, The Late Late Show, Drunk History, Another Period, Comedy Bang!

Bang! and his own Comedy Central halfhour special. The comic is also the host of a pair of podcasts, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do You Know Who Jason Segel Is?â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bone Zone.â&#x20AC;?

Now living in Los Angeles, the standup comedian is ďŹ&#x201A;ying back home to Philadelphia to show his daughter his hometown roots.

Additionally while here, Walsh will make a scheduled stop by Good Good Comedy Theater for a one-night show.

Philadelphia Weekly caught up with Walsh in advance of the show about his craft, his preparation, excitement to be coming home and the apparent dangers of stand up comedy.

How did you get into comedy?

I was court-ordered to do it. I got too many DUIs, soâ&#x20AC;Ś

When was your first gig, and how did that go?

I started doing comedy in Texas. I did that a while ago. The ďŹ rst gig went pretty great, the second went even better, and it's just gotten exponentially better since then. So if you come to my show, it will either knock your dick in the dirt or blow your tits off.

Very descript. Well, in the other direction, what was your worst stand up experience?

I got stabbed one time on stage.

I thought you were just going to say no one laughed. When did this happen?

2004.

What was the reason behind the stabbing?

I was doing a lot of [former President George W.] Bush material and the guy

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Did it take awhile to recuperate?

No, not too long. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hit any organs.

Did that incident scare you from doing any more political material?

Not really. I was a little scared to go on stage, but then I overcame that fear and I came back stronger than ever.

Who are your favorite comics or was there a comic that you wanted to be like?

Well, I aspire to be the next Bill Cosby. He was also from Philadelphia. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any bigger than that.

Oh, yeah, umm it sure doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

Always considered myself a Cosby man.

What advice would you give to local comics trying to make it big?

Just ďŹ nd out what is funny to you, and do that. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to be someone else. Unless you are trying to do a whole character thing, because that could work.

For those who have already bought a ticket to your show or are planning on getting a ticket, what can they expect?

They can expect to kiss $15 goodbye. After the show, if you want, you can come and chat, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll sign autographs, so bring any book you have and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll sign it, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also take a punch from any man.

What about a woman?

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Second Annual Big Emerge Fundraise

OK so, this oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little on the pricey side.

But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for a good cause â&#x20AC;&#x201C; maybe the best cause? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re down to promote it. Emerge is a group that identiďŹ es and trains women to run for and hold political ofďŹ ce. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to change the face of PA politics by infusing it with more compassion and a focus on community â&#x20AC;&#x201C; need we say more? | 630pm.

Prices vary. 29 E. Allen St. The Fillmore. pa.emergeamerica.org/

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Mural Arts Month

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echnically this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t week-speciďŹ c, but Mural Arts Month is a celebration of all things outside art, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re giving it a home of this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s must check out event for the remainder of October. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent any time tooling around the city then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve surely seen your fair share of building-as-canvas beauty.

But Mural Arts Month isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really about the art. Or only about the art because, well, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be realistic; of course itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the art. And the artists. And work that only a select few human beings on earth could do with any semblance of competence.

No, what Mural Arts Month really signiďŹ es and celebrates is community. Neighbors, friends, strangers coming together to make a place not just a place, but a home. To that end, all through October and all across the city, Mural Arts Philadelphia will be celebrating the helpers, the hope-rs, the artists and activists, the talented and the too-tough-to-give up, no matter how daunting the project may seem.

Mural Arts Month | October. All month. All over the city. muralarts.org/muralartsmonth/

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Once More, With Pheeling

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping that at least a handful of you heathens are â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buffy the Vampire Slayerâ&#x20AC;? buffs, and are thus already aware of the episode â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once More, With Feeling,â&#x20AC;? which was the only musical episode of the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sevenseason run. This live performance of that episode is sure to leave you wondering just what the hell you thought you were doing before, because it sure as heck wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t living. | 10pm.

Prices vary. 2030 Sansom St. Philly Improv Theater. eventbrite.com/e/once-more

Rumours Rave

Fleetwood Macâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seminal album, Rumours, came out in the early going of 1977.

To honor the epic work of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks on songs like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Go Your Own Wayâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Chain,â&#x20AC;? Underground Arts is hosting â&#x20AC;Ś a rave? Yep. You read that right. Through remixes and edits this rave â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which tours because, of course â&#x20AC;&#x201C; will be mak-

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and let it rip. Or if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not your thing, you can just watch as other people do it. Well, not it. Anywho. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a Halloween hit, but Flauntâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual student showcase, with skills and specialities ranging from pole, lyra, silks, chair dance and more. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to miss this. | 7pm. Prices vary. 1939 S. 17th St. Flaunt Fitness. eventbrite.com/e/flauntfitness

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Spooky Mini Golf

If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two things in the world that absolutely belong together, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Celtic festival turned consumeriďŹ ed cross-and-creepy dressing holiday and â&#x20AC;Ś mini golf? Yeah, not sure how that one got away from us. Either way, this is your chance to round up the kiddies and do something a little different. Mainly play mini golf in Franklin Square. And, slutty cat costume or not, that sounds pretty sweet. | 6pm. $9. 6th & Race St. Franklin Square. blackbaudhosting.com/

LEARN

Robotics for All MUSIC

Black Tiger Sex Machine

If you look at our initial entry for this week, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see us showing the absolutely perfect amount of well-tempered appreciation for the name of an event. We stand by that clearly correct stance. That being said, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also come across a name that, somehow, may be even cooler. Which is a long way of saying; if you know who Black Tiger Sex Machine is then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably already headed to this show. Besides, they have new helmets! Because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a thing! | 930pm. Prices vary. 460 N. 9th St. District N9ne. eventbrite.com/e/black-tiger ing a stop in Philly to knock your socks off and make sure you â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Stop.â&#x20AC;? | 10pm. $12. 1200 Callowhill St. Underground Arts. residentadvisor.net/events

COMEDY

George Lopez

What the hell happened to George Lopez, huh? He was one of those comedians who seemed to appear out of nowhere, was suddenly everywhere and then slowly faded to the periphery. Does he still have a sitcom?

Eh. Either way, we at least know where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be for one night; at SugarHouse for his, The Wall World Tour. Guess what that means?

Lots of jokes about President Prissy Pants.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always fun. | 8pm. Prices vary.

1001 N. Delaware Ave. SugarHouse Casino. ticketmaster.com/george-lopez

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Midnight Madness: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Rocky Horror Picture Showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The iconic ďŹ lm gets the Extra Special Weird (Copyright, PW, 2018) treatment with what the crazy kids in show biz call a shadow cast.

Which is to say that the movie will be played as normal, only there will also be a cast of actors playing out the parts in silence in front of you, on stage and in costume. And that troupe of trolloping actors just so happens to be called Transylvanian Nipple Productions. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be lots of leather, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deďŹ nitely gonna get Extra Special Weird. In a good way. | 11:59pm. $10.25. 400 Ranstead St. Ritz Bourse. landmarktheatres.com/ritzat-the-bourse

a costume contest, rewards and prizes as you check in along the crawl, and, of course, at least one dude in a toga who drank too much too soon and lost his friends and maybe his phone and wallet and canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you just like, let him use your phone? Come on, bro. Just for a second. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not going anywhere. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m basically in slippers and a dress. | 7pm. $17.99. 35 S. 2nd St. JJ Bootleggers. showclix.com/event/ bar-crawl

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 DRINK

Philadelphia Halloween Bar Crawl Meet up at JJ Bootleggers and see where this creepy, crawly, spooky, spider webby Old City-centric good time takes you. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be

Flaunt Fitness Halloween Showcase Speaking of dresses, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to slip out of them and into something more comfortable. Like athletic shorts and the kind of selfconďŹ dence thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll allow you to climb the pole

Every now and then, here in the Calendar section of Philadelphia Weekly, we like to preach at you relentlessly about issues and causes that we ďŹ nd to be of signiďŹ cant, oftentimes vital importance. This is one of those times. And we know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna say â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;a robotics competition? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important about that?â&#x20AC;? Well, listen here, heathen.

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, and if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lucky, your kids wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just enjoy this event; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ďŹ nd a future. | 10am. Free. 222 N. 20th St. Franklin Institute. fi.edu/robotics-for-all

CULTURE

Fashion and Feminism: A Symposium

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a trailblazing painter and one of the great Impressionist painters of late 19th century Paris. The Barnes Foundation is hosting an exhibition of Morisotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, and to honor both Morisotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and work, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be hosting a symposium on clothingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role in political movements and the relationship between sexuality, objectiďŹ cation and empowerment. | 1pm. $30/ nonmembers. 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.

Barnes Foundation. barnesfoundation.org/ fashion-and-feminism

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21 MUSIC

Good Charlotte

*Delightfully rich, soothing, vaguely European accent*: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome â&#x20AC;Ś to the lifestyles of the rich and famous!â&#x20AC;? Just kidding. But

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Hallow-DOOM

What starts as a Halloween-themed market, jam packed with vendors hawking jawns of various shape, size and sellability, soon turns to the dance ďŹ&#x201A;oor from hell. Not really, of course.

Well, it turns into a dance ďŹ&#x201A;oor. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a very nice dance ďŹ&#x201A;oor, full of very nice people trying to have a good time while they eat some food and buy some jawns and then dance until one of the many drag queens in attendance puts their moves to shame. | 7pm. $5. 923 N. Watts St. Warehouse on Watts. eventbrite.com/e/ hallow-doom

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 MOVIE

MUSIC

Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr is a name most music fans might not know well, even if they know his playing. Long a part of Morrissey, Marr is a singer, songwriter and guitar player with a long list of albums and accolades to his name.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s touring now in support of his third studio album, Call the Comet. Maybe Morrissey will make an appearance? | 8pm. Prices vary.

334 South St. Theater of Living Arts. concerts1.livenation.com/event

BOOKS

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;2001: A Space Odysseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Growing up, my dad made a point to espouse the virtues of Stanley Kubrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oeuvre whenever the chance presented itself. Obviously, titles like A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket and even Dr. Strangelove were high on his list of favorites. But there was something about 2001: A Space Odyssey that always seemed to strike a particularly sensitive chord with Old Papa PW. Watching it years later, I have to say; I get it, dad. | 615pm. $15. 222 N. 20th St. The Franklin Institute. tickets.fi.edu/web

MUSIC

The Ravenmaster

A behind-the-scenes account of working with ravens, a remarkable, deeply misunderstood animal, combined with the history, inner workings, folklore and ghost stories of the Tower of London, The Ravenmaster is author Christopher Skaifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exploration of the makings of the mission of keeping the ravens of the Tower of London â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and, by extension, the city itself â&#x20AC;&#x201C; safe. | 6pm. Prices vary. 19 S. 22nd St. Mutter Museum. eventbrite.com/e/ us-book

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 MUSIC

that was a Good Charlotte song. And Good Charlotte is coming to Philadelphia, and the Fillmore speciďŹ cally, to spend a night taking all you pop punk rockers back to your youth.

You know. Your youth. Also known as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;That time before you had kids and a job and college debt thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll follow you into the grave and beyond.â&#x20AC;? | 7pm. $38.50. 29 E. Allen St. The Fillmore. concerts1.livenation.com/

WATCH

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Perfect Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at PhilaMOCA To celebrate the 20th anniversary of director Satoshi Konâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painfully beautiful and deeply original anime, the ďŹ lm will be played in its entirety at PhilaMOCA. Hailed as one of the most important animes of its time, Perfect Blue follows Mima as her life takes a slow, but no less wild turn from pop star sensation to bloody paranoia. | 7pm. $12. 531 N. 12th St. PhilaMOCA. ticketfly.com/event/

LEARN

We Are Crazy For Bat Houses Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s October, so that means weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re legally required to push at least one bat-themed event

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to the public. And if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna do that, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna make sure itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as animal-friendly as possible. And weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pretty sure it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any more animal-friendly than learning about some of the issues facing bats, and then building them little bat homes to live in. We just hope one of the little bat babys doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t watch its parents get murdered and then decide to become some kind of â&#x20AC;Ś vigilante. A Batboy, if you will. | 3pm. $15. 2241 N. Phillips St. The Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden. eventbrite.com/e/were-crazy

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Jazz on the Avenue 2018

Head to the Cleft Club and set your toes to tapping as you take in some hoppinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; jazz alongside all the other hep cats, nibblinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on light fare and throwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; back a few barley pops. Jazz on the Avenue is put on by Friends of the Avenue of the Arts & Philadelphia. So be their friend and enjoy some jazz. | 630pm. $35/nonmembers. 738 S. Broad St. The Clef Club. eventbrite.com/e/jazz

Frogs, Dogs, Birds, Beetle Wings CULTURE Mitch Albom & Alligators Too! Would it surprise you to know that this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the ďŹ rst taxidermy themed event that we here in the Calendar section of Philadelphia Weekly have highlighted? Well, it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.

We specialize in the wacky and weird â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we are an alt-weekly, after all â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wackier or weirder than a whimsical parlor talk by an author and novelty taxidermist? Seriously. We wanna know. Go ahead. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll wait. | 1pm.

Free. 7370 Central Ave. Ryerss Museum and Library. eventbrite.com/e/frogs-dogs

You might know author, journalist, screenwriter and nationally syndicated columnist Mitch Albom from his memoir, Tuesdays with Morrie. His follow-up to the best-selling memoir of all time? The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, which has sold more than 10 million copies in 35 languages. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not exactly sure how book sales work, but that sure seems like a lot. | 730pm. Prices vary.

1901 Vine St. The Free Library. libwww. freelibrary.org/

Courtney Barnett

Courtney Barnett is awesome. Seriously.

And not just because she made an album with Philly-favorite Kurt Vile (side note; have you read PWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sit down with Mr. Vile at his recording studio in the city?). No, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than just olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Vileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sidekick. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a rocker and a hell of a songwriter. Listen to Pedestrian at Best and thank me later. | 8pm. $35. 29 E. Allen St. The Fillmore. concerts1.livenation. com/

LEARN

Wizard School

What. Could. Be. Better. The most honest answer? Probably a lot of stuff. World peace.

The end of famine. Eradication of all disease.

Well, not all disease. Because if nobody died then â&#x20AC;Ś nevermind. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten off track.

Wizard School is part of the Science After Hours series at the Franklin Institute, geared toward the 21-and-over crowd who still keep

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COMEDY

Jim Breuer

And if Soul Comedy isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t your thing, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always Jim Breuer to consider. Jim Breuer, of course, is the man behind some of the best (worst?) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Saturday Night Liveâ&#x20AC;? skits of all time (who remembers Goat Man? I sure as hell do). He also played (to perfection) the stupidest stoner of all time in the movie Half Baked.

Most recently, he was on the travesty of a sitcom that was Kevin Can Wait, but letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s try not to hold that against him. | 730pm.

Prices vary. 29 E. Allen St. The Fillmore. concerts1.livenation. com/ dog-eared copies of The Sorcererâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stone on their bedside table. | 7pm. $20. 222 N. 20th St. The Franklin Institute. tickets.fi.edu/

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Brews & Views

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give you three guesses what this eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about, but I bet youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll only need one. Seriously though, with winter fast approaching, nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the time to hit those hot outdoor spots before the wind starts to howl and the white walkers descend from the â&#x20AC;Ś wait. Wrong reality. Anywho. Go have a beer on the roof of the Free Library. And if you see anyone with blue eyes, well â&#x20AC;Ś you know what to do. | 5pm. Free entry. 1901 Vine St. The Free Library. libwww.freelibrary.org/

WATCH

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Bride of Frankensteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

The horror classic and sequel to Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein will be scaring you out of your seats (OK, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty old, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably just make you chuckle and wonder at how simple people used to be) at the Ritz Five. Dr. Frankenstein plays the role of Jenny McCarthy from MTVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Singles, trying to help his monstrous creation ďŹ nd love in a truly desolate dating scene. Men, amiright? | 7pm. Prices vary. 214 Walnut St. Ritz Five. landmarktheatres.com/ritz-five

COMEDY

Hoffman Improv Group

Whitney Harris, Cole Johnston, Kayleigh Leggitt, Max Scholnick, Andrew Sigwart, Pe-

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ter Szekeres and Jacob Todd are here to spend an evening tickling your funny bone and plowing straight ahead through any awkward pauses. Directed by (improv groups have directors?) Brian Rumble, Hoffman is sure to be a hoot. Hopefully. | 9pm. $8. 2030 Sansom St. Philly Improv Theater. eventbrite. com/hoffman

ďŹ&#x201A;uence them. | 630pm. Free. 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. The Academy of Natural Sciences. eventbrite.com/e/academy

WATCH

BalletX Artist Spotlight

Featuring choreographer Marguerite Donlon and dancer Caili Quan, and moderated

by Anne White, BalletXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fall Artist Series 2018 will be an exploration of world premiere choreography. What does that mean, you ask? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not sure. But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to bet that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be dancing, the likes of which weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never be able to do in a million years. So maybe skip the basketball game and go see a different kind of athlete (and artist) instead? | 5pm. Free. 1923 Washington Ave. BalletX. eventbrite.com/e/artist-spotlight

DRINK

Oktoberfest at the Museum

Who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to drink local craft brews in what has lovingly been dubbed, The Great Stair Hall? No one. But also; are there actually enormous stairs? And what kind of enormous? Are they really long? Really tall?

Were they made for giants, the last remnants of a monstrous civilization lost to the quickening sands of time? Probably not. Probably just normal stairs. But you can drink! | 5pm. $20. 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. Philadelphia Museum of Art. philamuseum.org/ wednesday

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25 MUSIC

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 COMEDY

Ladies Night Out ft. Torrei Hart

Hump dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be all about the laughs this week. And why not? You made it through the worst two days, did just enough to keep your head above water through day No. 3, and now youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at a comedy showcase watching the women of Soul Comedy and Ladies Night Out guide you through to the back nine of the work week with gales of raucous laughter. | 830pm. $25. 1400 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd. Warmdaddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. eventbrite. com/e/soulcomedy

LEARN

Voting for the Environment

The Academy of the Natural Sciences welcomes you to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Voting for the Environment,â&#x20AC;? part of its Academy Town Hall series. Featuring a roundtable with leaders of the League of Conservation Voters, Clean Air Council and other key environmental and advocacy organizations, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn about the important issues that affect the local and global environment and how the upcoming election will in-

MOVIE

Metallica

We were going to try and make a Metallica Madlibs, where all the active parts of the sentences were replaced with Metallica song titles, but honestly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not worth the effort. Sure, our mom would love it. But she loves everything we do, no matter what. Just like James HetďŹ eld, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich and Rob Trujillo. Because, come on, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ nd that much success without the love and support of committed parents. | 730pm.

Prices vary. 3601 S. Broad St. Wells Fargo Center. ev15.evenue.net/

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OmSlay Yoga Party

Are you ready for a yoga party â&#x20AC;Ś at the Hard Rock Cafe? Weird. But hey; so are we.

Anywho, this is a 21-plus event, so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the kiddies tag alone. You should also bring your own mat, because what the yogis wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell you is that ringworm is real, and it is at least as gross as it sounds, if not more. Excited yet? But hey, DJ Dilemma will be there!

And here we thought yoga was supposed to be about inner peace and tranquility. | 6pm. $35. 1113-31 Market St. Hard Rock Cafe. eventbrite.com/e/omslay-yoga

John Carpenterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s They Live

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to let you in on a little movie/ television trivia. Did you know, that in an episode of the animated cartoon South Park, there is a shot-for-shot remake of a ďŹ ght scene from Carpenterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alien horror ďŹ lm, They Live? We swear. No foolinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Go check it out.

They Live, by the way, is campy and awful and supremely enjoyable all at the same time. | 730pm. $7. 529 W. Girard Ave. Everybody Hits Philadelphia. theylivephilly.brownpapertickets.com/

LEARN

Jon Rubin and Nato Thompson

Join Jon Rubin and Nato Thompson as they discuss Rubinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work with ConďŹ&#x201A;ict Kitchen, a restaurant-art piece hybrid. Rubin considers himself to be an interdisciplinary artist who â&#x20AC;&#x153;creates interventions into public life that reimagine individual, group and institutional behavior.â&#x20AC;? Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not sure, but we think that means he sells things with a certain intent in mind? We dunno honestly. We might go to this just to ďŹ nd out what the hell itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about. | 6pm. Free. 2001 N. 13th St. Temple Contemporary. eventbrite.com/e/jon-and-nato

DRINK

Philly Magâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Whiskey & Fine Spirits Festival

Last, but deďŹ nitely not least â&#x20AC;&#x201C; whiskey.

That beautiful brown elixir. It makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside, like when grandpa used to sit us on his knee and tell us the tale of how he heroically burned a Vietcong village to the ground. Charlie was all around us, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say, bouncing, bouncing, bouncing. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a choice, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say, crying a little.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry gramps, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly how we feel about Philly Magâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whiskey festival! Not the crying part. The not having a choice part. | 5pm. Prices vary. 1020 Pattison Ave. Lincoln Financial Field. eventbrite.com/whiskeyfine-spirits

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Help! â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Just A Cock Kraving Safety â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hate to say it, but now that JACKS knows his employee attends these events, he really has to stop going,â&#x20AC;? said Alison Green, the management consultant behind the popular Ask a Manager advice column (askamanager.org) and the author of Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work.

And why do you have to stop going to your beloved JO club? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In an employment relationship where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a position of power,â&#x20AC;? said Green, â&#x20AC;&#x153;JACKS has a responsibility to avoid any remotely sexual situation with an employee.â&#x20AC;?

Green also strongly advises against pulling your employee aside and working out some sort of shared custody agreement â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you get Jacks to yourself every other week â&#x20AC;&#x201C; because initiating a conversation with a subordinate about when and where he likes to jack off would be a bad idea. She also doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you can just keep going in the hopes that your employee wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If he continues to attend and it got back to anyone at their workplace, it would be re-

ally damaging to his reputation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not the fact that he was at the event to begin with, but the fact that he continued to attend knowing an employee was also participating,â&#x20AC;? said Green. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would call his professional judgment into question, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highly likely that HR would freak out about the potential legal liability that arises when you have a manager and a subordinate in a sexual context together.â&#x20AC;?

OK, wait a minute. If it gets around the ofďŹ ce that JACKS attended a JO party, that would mean the employee was gossiping about it at work. Why would a manager get in trouble for that and not the gossipy asshole he was supervising? Why would JACKSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;professional judgmentâ&#x20AC;? be called into question and not the judgment of the employee who spread the news around the ofďŹ ce? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gossiping about it deďŹ nitely wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the employee look great,â&#x20AC;? said Green. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The employee would look like a jerk for gossiping about something that the boss has the right to expect privacy around. But the boss is held to a higher standard: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of his job to understand the boundaries he needs to have with the people he manages, to navigate the power differential appropriately, and to not create potential liability (legal or otherwise) for the company. So for the employee, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to reďŹ&#x201A;ect badly on him personally (heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a gossip) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but for the boss, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to reďŹ&#x201A;ect badly on him as a manager.â&#x20AC;?

It seems crazy unfair to me that you should have to stop going to parties you not only enjoy, JACKS, but that have aided in your recovery. And Green agrees â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fair â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but with great power (management) comes great responsibility (avoiding places where your employees are known to jack off). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never going to feel fair to have to drop out of a private, out-of-work activity just because of your job,â&#x20AC;? said Green. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible for JACKS to ďŹ nd a different club in a neighboring town. Or he could start his own club and offer a safe haven for other managers hiding out from potential run-ins with employees â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jacks for Middle Managers or something!â&#x20AC;?

While I had Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention, I asked her about other sorts of gay social events that might toss a manager and an employee into a sexual context â&#x20AC;&#x201C; think of the thousands of men who attended the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco last month. Read More online!

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Kathy Conway

$890,000

handsome 2-story rowhouse in charming Girard Estates features a gorgeous modern kitchen, private backyard and spacious bathroom, with impeccable updates for comfort and convenience. The well-designed kitchen is a chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream with beautiful granite counters, custom tile backsplash with undercounter LED lighting, and 42â&#x20AC;? cherry cabinets.

$257,900

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Donny and Marie Holiday Tour

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Saturday, December 1

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