CONTENTS / Dec. 31-Jan. 7 3 I PHILLYNOW Mummers Parade; Cirque de la Symphonie; Motown the Musical; The Year’s Greatest Wine; Beauty and the Beast; and more.
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Christmas was on a Thursday, your work schedule is all weird, life is crazy in the first place, and you’ve just now really realized that it’s too late to make those hot plans for New Year’s revelry that you’d been vaguely imagining for weeks. No worries, neighbor: There is still much ritual fun to be had—on New Year’s Eve if you’re absolutely determined, on New Year’s Day if you’d like to give yourself some wiggle room, and/or on Friday night (Jan. 2) if you want to milk this holiday weekend for all it’s worth. Let’s start with the core craziness of Dec. 31 in Center City: Never mind all those expensive ticketed bashes that are sold out by now, because MilkBoy is hosting a Free New Year’s Eve Party. Yes, really: Starting at 8pm, the venue at 11th & Chestnut is open to the public with no cover charge, offering free hors d’oeuvres, a free midnight whiskey toast, and a lineup of four live bands including ‘50s- and ‘60s-era throwbacks the Paper Shakers and raucous modern rockers Thee Idea Men. However much fun you have, though, get some solid hours of sleep afterwards—because on Thursday, Jan. 1, it’s time to head down the shore and christen 2015 by jumping into the Atlantic Ocean in one of the many local Polar Bear Plunge events. Three big ones—Atlantic City’s (noon in front of the Resorts casino), Ocean City’s (2pm in front of the Music Pier) and Brigantine’s (noon at the 14th Street South beach)—are all free, though all encourage charitable donations; full details are online at PW’s sister publication, ACWeekly.com. Finally, to celebrate the year’s First First Friday on Jan. 2, the Barnes Foundation has lined up a classy and colorful extravaganza of art, music and fashion. A $25 ticket (free to museum members) opens up an evening with jazz singer M’Balia Singley, roots-gospel-country band Luke Carlos O’Reilly & Friends, a trunk show by fashion designer Wale Oyejide, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres and, of course, some new perspectives on the art of the Barnes. Tickets are on sale now at barnesfoundation.org. // S.H.S.
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9pm. Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. $30$40. westphiladelphiaorchestra.com
West Philadelphia Orchestra, Johnny Showcase & The Mystic Ticket and exotica punks Mercury Radio Theater ring in the New Year with a live celebration and traditional Balkan buffet. The WPO produces melodic blends of Eastern European tunes, including Romanian ballads, Macedonian folk-dance songs and Bulgarian wedding music.
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West Philadelphia Orchestra’s NYE Blowout + Balkan Feast
This Is The Week That Is
As 2014 wraps up and the New Year approaches, 1812 Productions takes a hilarious look back at the year’s local and national headlines. Through Dec. 31. $26-$40. Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey St. 1812productions.org
Thursday, January 1 CE L E B R ATIO N
2015 Mummers Parade
Jazz singer M’Balia Singley will croon at the Barnes’ First First Friday on Jan. 2.
We’ve debated it, appreciated it, celebrated and hated it—and still, the Mummers keep on mumming. The nation’s oldest folk parade blends Mardi Gras revelry, musical cosplay and the eternal risk of cultural insensitivity to keep New Year’s Day in Philly interesting. 10am. Free. Starts at City Hall, 15th St. and JFK Blvd. phillymummers.com
WORK SHOP
Mummers Mask
Create your very own Mummers mask amid the mosaic walls of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens. All materials will be provided to create a mask fit for the parade and inspired by your fantastical surroundings. Noon. Free. Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, 1020 South Street. 215.733.0390. philadelphiamagicgardnes.org
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Wednesday, December 31
PHILLYNOW Friday, January 2 PERFO R MA N CE
Art After 5
Contemporary Asian-American dance company Kun-Yang Lin offers a spiritual integration of mind, body and spirit in their latest production Home; S. 9th St. This New York-based company offers a sneak peek at the production, which explores the diverse community of South Philadelphia’s 9th Street, as viewers engage in a combination of art and cocktails at PMA’s Art After 5. 5pm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. and Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 215.763.8100. philamuseum.org DRINK
The Year’s Greatest Wine
Keith Wallace, founder of Philadelphia’s Wine School, invites guests to join him as he uncorks perfectly aged wine selections to commence the year. 7:30pm. $99.99. Wine School of Philadelphia, 127 S. 22nd St. vinology.com MU SIC
FireBack Records Showcase
Up-and-coming local artists introduce new music in a series of live performances put together by FireBack Records. The showcase will feature Red Rising, Cold Roses and Midnight Mob, while also previewing musical experimentations produced by Melt Like Clouds, an electronic group that works to manipulate the realities of sound. 8pm. $10. The Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com DANC E
JUNK 1.1 Holiday Revue
One man’s trash is another man’s artistic inspiration: Brian Sanders’ one-of-a-kind performance pieces are known for the use of found objects that bridge the gap between dance and physical theater. The Holiday Revue will feature a familyfun program that includes a song from nationally touring children’s show SKINK. 7:30pm. $17.50-$25. 2040 Christian St. 02fc75a.netsolhost.com
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E XHI BI T
Books of Secrets: Writing and Reading Alchemy
For centuries, books and manuscripts were the alchemist’s primary tools for disseminating ideas, techniques and secrets. In a unique visual portrayal, Books of Secrets: Writing and Reading Alchemy places actual manuscripts used by alchemists next to historical artworks portraying their use. Through Sept. 4. Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut St. chemheritage.org
P E R FO R MAN CE
Disney on Ice: Frozen
Mickey and Minnie Mouse serve as hosts of this magical musical extravaganza that’s chock full of everything you— yeah, yeah, and your kids—love about the film. Join Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven, on a magical journey and sing along to the classic hits, including “Let it Go.” 3pm and 7pm. $30-$105. Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. wellsfargocenterphilly.com
Saturday, January 3 PERFOR MA N CE
Cirque de la Symphonie
Two award-winning ensembles merge as the acrobats of Cirque de la Symphonie perform an awe-inspiring routine set to the sounds of the Philadelphia Orchestra. The action-packed performance includes gravity-defying aerialists, jugglers, orchestral showpieces and much more. 8pm. $60-$120. Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. 215.670.2300. kimmelcenter.org
DA N C E
Procrastinator’s New Year’s Ball Kick up your heels at this late NYE’s soiree featuring the City Rhythm Orchestra. Learn some new moves with the Philadelphia Swing Dance Society—who will be teaching the Jitterbug and Lindy during a beginner’s workshop—and celebrate the new year with a sparkling cider toast at midnight. 9pm. $25. Commodore Barry Club, 6815 Emlen St. swingdance.org
P E R FO R MAN CE
Gustafer Yellowgold’s Show
Award-winning illustrator/songwriter Morgan Taylor puts on a family-friendly show featuring songs, stories and animation. Taylor will play songs from his new DVD/ CD Gustafer Yellowgold’s Wisdom Tooth of Wisdom, along with fan favorites from the five previous Gustafer Yellowgold releases. 11:30am. $10. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com
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Mary Poppins
Based on the classic Disney film, Mary Poppins follows a magical nanny who appears at the Banks household to care for young Jane and Michael. Adventure follows as they encounter dancing chimney sweeps and other colorful characters. 2pm and 8pm. Through Jan. 4. $72-$82. Walnut Street Theatre, 852 Walnut Street. 215.574.3550. walnutstreettheatre.org
PHILLYNOW Sunday, January 4 P ERF OR MA NCE
$45-$65. Penn’s Landing Playhouse, 211 South Columbus Blvd. plplayhouse.com
Delphine and Carmela Calamari return with a show full of holiday favorites like “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” “Santa Baby” and “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” It’s been a year since the drag sisters were whisked away from public access cable and ushered into Food Network stardom. Join them for a Feast of the Seven Fishes holiday extravaganza full of food, dance and song. Through Jan. 4.
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Another Christmas with the Calamari Sisters
Beauty and the Beast at the Arden Theatre. (Photo by J.R. Blackwell)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Bored with being treated like a child, Alice follows her curiosity down a rabbit hole and into a surreal world of fantastical weirdoes. Actress Emiley Kiser plays the titular role, supported by Quintessence regulars Sean Close, Sean Bradley, Johnny Smith and Andrew Betz. Through Jan. 4. Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave.
Monday, January 5 E XHIB I T
Pinned: Insect Art, Insect Science
Artist Christopher Marley’s mosaics feature actual specimens of beetles, butterflies, maggots, worms and other such tiny creepy-crawlies. The 3-D pieces reveal the natural beauty of the often-ignored creatures. Through Jan. 11. Academy of Natural Sciences, 900 Ben Franklin
Pkwy. ansp.org EX H I B I T
Body Worlds: Animals Inside Out Take an anatomical tour of the world’s creatures, and explore the biology and physiology of goats, giraffes, chickens, bulls and more. Through April 12. $8-$29.50. Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St. fi.edu
Tuesday, January 6 S TAG E
TA L K
The Broadway hit follows the rise of Motown through the songs of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and more. The award-winning musical features 40 classic songs, including “What’s Going On,” “Dancing in the Street” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” 7:30pm. $50-$100. Academy of Music, 240 South Broad St. 215.893.1999. kimmelcenter.org
Panel discussion on the role of design in creating safe environments for children to play and socialize. Author Susan G. Solomon will also sign copies of her book, The Science of Play: How to Build Playgrounds. This event runs in conjunction with the Center for Architecture’s free exhibition, Constructing Play. 6pm. $10. Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch St. philadelphiacfa.org
Motown the Musical
The Science of Play
E XHIB I T
Wait for the Moon
Arch Enemy Arts’ latest exhibit features 20 hand-picked artists who were each assigned a Grimm’s fairy tale to interpret. The imaginative pieces include works from Naoto Hattori (Little Briar Rose), Kelly McKernan (Rapunzel), Ransom & Mitchell (The Children of Hamelin), Sheri DeBow (Cinderella) and more. Through Jan. 18. Arch Enemy Arts, 111 Arch St. 215.717.7774. archenemyarts.com S TAG E
West Philadelphia’s Storytelling Slam
Young adults take the stage to compete for the title of best storyteller in West Philadel-
phia. Cash prizes—and bragging rights—will be awarded to the best three performances. Proceeds from the event benefit Project Arts’ storytelling classes for young adults. 7pm. $5-$15. Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. 215.573.3234. projectarts.info EX H I B I T
Chocolate: The Exhibition
On a national tour since 2002, this mouthwatering exhibit left Philly with a sweet aftertaste in 2004 and is now back for seconds. Learn about chocolate’s effects on tropical ecosystems, the worldwide economy and more. Through Jan. 24. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway 215.299.1000. ansp.org
STAG E
Beauty and the Beast
Directed by Whit MacLaughlin, this new telling of the classic tale features two sisters who leave London to restart their lives after they lose their family fortune. Cassandra is eager to experience life. Belle is afraid and shy, until she meets the Beast and begins a whirlwind adventure. Through Feb. 1. $18-$36. Arden Theatre, 40 N. Second St. 215.922.1122. ardentheatre.org
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Wednesday, January 7
2014 A to Z
From neighborhood streets to City Hall, it was a hell of a year around Philadelphia. by anastasia barbalios, bill CHenevert, josH kruger, sHeena lester & stePHen H. segal
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A
tlantic City loses a third of its casinos.
2014 turned out to be the last summer that Philadelphians vacationing at the shore would hit the slots in the Showboat, Trump Plaza or Revel casinos, all of which closed for good in the weeks surrounding Labor Day. The Atlantic Club closed earlier, on Jan. 1—while the Taj Mahal has just this month seemingly escaped the shadow of a similar doom. That leaves eight casinos where twelve stood a year earlier. Still, 2015 promises some light on the horizon, as a local college prepares to move into the Showboat building and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay gets ready to open a new destination restaurant at Caesars.
B
ill Cosby rape allegations explode. At the
Trocadero in October, comedian Hannibal Buress delivered this vehement screed: “Bill Cosby has the fucking smuggest old-black-man public persona that I hate: Pull your pants up, black people. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom. Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, turn the crazy down a couple notches.” It was the straw that broke the camel’s back—that is, if straw went viral and you could picture a camel in the shape of Philly’s own Cosby, one of Hollywood’s most powerful, beloved icons for generations. Since Buress’ bit hit social media, over 20 women have come forward with claims that they’d been sexually assaulted by the veteran performer/producer in incidents stretching back to 1965. Whether or not sworn testimony ever follows, the mere imagining of Cos as a serial rapist planted a big, nasty asterisk on his once-sterling legacy.
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arlesha Freeland-Gaither is abducted, then found. As we woke up on Nov. 3 to that sur-
veillance video of Carlesha Freeland-Gaither’s chilling snatching off a well-lit Germantown sidewalk just after 9:30pm, by a brute who violently dragged her petite body toward his waiting vehicle as she fought with all her might, our immediate response was shock, coupled with whispered prayers that she be found alive. Thankfully, a witness called police, and the 22-year-old nurse’s assistant’s own smarts helped save her, said the team of PPD detectives who vowed to bring her home. Authorities IDed her from the cell phone she purposefully dropped during her struggle, traced her ATM card to a Maryland bank and a GPS device to the kidnapper’s car—and recovered the terrified Freeland-Gaither in a Jessup, Md., parking lot three days later.
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ilworth Park opens. After receiving a three-
year, $55 million makeover, Dilworth Plaza, the public space outside City Hall that famously became homebase for 2011’s Occupy Philly, finally reopened as the familyand eco-friendy Dilworth Park. Now concerts, film screenings, pop-up events, an interactive fountain and a winter skating rink fill the bustling space, where we’re no longer required to look America’s social ills in the eye. Um—success?
E
lmi wins Top Chef. Nicholas Elmi, the Season 11 underdog and owner of French-influenced BYO Laurel, took home the top prize on Bravo’s hit cookingcompetition show, despite technical inconsistencies and an audible, ratings-gold dust-up in the kitchen during the
finale. Elmi, originally from West Newbury, Mass., thus became the second local restaurateur crowned Top Chef (after Kevin Sbraga won Season 7).
F
erguson sparks civil rights protests. This
summer saw events acting as the impetus for the ensuing—and ongoing—#BlackLivesMatter protests nationwide, including several in Philadelphia. The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, both unarmed, at the hands of police started a larger conversation about policing, race and privilege in society. Police unions in various American cities have come out figuratively swinging against activists, and neither side seems ready to blink. 2014 is over, but these issues are likely to continue driving national conversation for the indefinite future.
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ay-bashing attack shocks Center City community. Philip R. Williams, Kathryn Knott
and Kevin J. Harrigan are the three infamous suspect names that emerged after an alleged 15-person beating of Zachary Hesse and Andrew Haught near 16th and Chancellor. It was mid-September; Hesse and Haught had just enjoyed ice cream and were headed to get some pizza when they encountered the larger posse, seemingly drunk on wine and privilege and itching to fuck with some gays. “Is that your fucking boyfriend?” they asked the couple, according to police reports and testimony—then the fists started to fly. When the dust settled, Haught had a broken jaw—wired shut for eight weeks. Here’s hoping justice is served for the most notorious local hate crime of 2014.
“A BRILLIANT COMEDY!”
Lynn Eckenrode and Nadya Popil were among the first Philadelphia couples to get a wedding license once marriage equality became the law of the land this spring. (Photo by Bill Chenevert)
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ow to Get Away With Murder puts Philly in primetime. TV hitmaking boss Shonda
Rhimes (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal) scored another monster debut this year with the legal drama How to Get Away With Murder, set at a fictional Philadelphia school, Middleton University. While most of the show is filmed in California (per star Viola Davis’ contract), the series features exterior shots of local landmarks, and interior shots from the pilot episode were filmed at Ursinus and Bryn Mawr College.
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efferson Station is christened. This year,
SEPTA changed the familiar Center City arrival call from “Market East to Gallery” to “Jefferson Station.” The newly renamed train stop joins AT&T Station, formerly Pattison, as one of two hubs named after the highest private bidder. We are better for it: The naming rights deal with Jefferson Health System netted SEPTA some $3 million, going toward improvements affecting hundreds of thousands of Philadelphians.
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KK member kicked out of the Tacony Town Watch. Bill Walters spent years on the
Northeast Philly neighborhood’s town watch—but when news broke this year that he was also a grand dragon in the Ku Klux Klan, the town watch told him he wasn’t welcome anymore. Walters protested that his “True Invisible Empire” is simply a conservative Christian group. Well, conservative might be right: Walters was also a Republican committeeman for years. Christian, though? We don’t think so.
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ouie the lost dog goes viral. City resident J.J.
Pierce used social media to beg Philadelphia to help her recover her black lab, Louie, who’d been sitting in her car when the vehicle was stolen this fall from a Home Depot parking lot on Columbus Boulevard. While we see lots of lost pet flyers around town, the heartstring-tugging of this one garnered 17,000 Facebook followers—none of whom were as happy as Pierce when Louie was finally found seven weeks later.
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arriage equality reaches Pennsylvania.
In late May, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III handed down a decision that would irrevocably change a lot of lives: Gay Pennsylvanians can marry! Tax breaks, visitation rights, benefits shared, all of it—divorce, too. And lo, doesn’t seem like many heterosexual unions have since crumbled as a result. Couples started turning up at City Hall with their $80 cash or money order and two forms of ID on a Tuesday afternoon; by Friday, almost 120 wedding licenses had been issued. For some, nuptials mean a great deal; others’ll shrug and say, “No, thanks.” It’s having the option that matters. We’re here. We’re queer. And we can get married.
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utter signs pot decriminalization into law. It took intense public pressure and a collec-
tive “da fuq?” before Mayor Michael Nutter acted on decriminalizing marijuana, but he eventually did it. Pushed by activists and citizens, with Councilman Jim Kenney leading the political charge, Nutter acquiesced when he realized his past position against the change was untenable. Now, Philadelphians found with small amounts of marijuana will get only a ticket, instead of handcuffs. Given the fact that marijuana arrests mostly seemed to affect African Americans (why is that?), the change is a step in the right direction toward a more just society.
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the essence in 2014, folks we’re already missing—from Maya Angelou, Elaine Stritch and Carmen Zapata to Amiri Baraka, Robin Williams and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Among the notable Philadelphians whose once-bright lights went dim: Tony Auth, 72, Pulitzer Prize-winning Inquirer cartoonist. Franny Beecher, 92, Bill Haley and the Comets guitarist. David Brenner, 78, acclaimed comedian/ actor/author. Bill Campbell, 91, legendary sports announcer. Lt. Joyce Craig-Lewis, 36, first female firefighter to die in the line of duty. Harry Gamble, 83, former Penn coach and Eagles team president. Tom Gola, 81, iconic La Salle University basketball star, Philadelphia Warriors player and former state representative. William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, 90, South Philly native and WWII vet dramatized in Band of Brothers. Lewis Katz, 72, co-owner of the Inquirer and the Daily News, former owner of the New Jersey Nets and Devils. ”Miracle” Matthew Saad Muhammad, 59, former light heavyweight champion. Richard Nichols, 55, longtime manager of The Roots, widely credited for their rise from high-school buskers to international sensation. Roy Scarfo, 88, visionary science and space artist. Chuck Stone, 89, veteran newspaper columnist and founding president of the National Association of Black Journalists. Hannah Ginion, almost 2, namesake for Hannah’s Law, which requires Pa. hospitals to screen newborn babies for six rare disorders.
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bama stops the SEPTA strike. Suburbanites
quivered with trepidation early this summer upon hearing SEPTA regional rail workers had decided to strike. Regional rail and city transit workers are organized in separate unions under separate contracts, and while the federal government never seem to care about city transit strikes (why is that?), they paid quick attention to the commuterrail crisis. President Obama used his presidential authority to end the strike, and service immediately resumed for over 100,000 suburbanites.
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GW sale falls apart. In perhaps the most spectacular womp-womp of Michael Nutter’s mayoral tenure, his plan to privatize Philadelphia Gas Works fell through this December when City Council point-blank refused to consider the deal. It surely won’t be the last time that short-term budget solutions and the city’s long-term civic needs get stuck at loggerheads.
Q
uirk Books has a blockbuster year. The
Old City publishing house that went global in 2009 with the absurd literary mashup Pride and Prejudice and Zombies saw no fewer than five of its titles hanging out on the New York Times bestseller list in 2014: Ransom Riggs’s three-year-old YA fantasy Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, its new sequel Hollow City, and all three volumes of the Star Wars trilogy rewritten in full Shakesperean verse as Verily, a New Hope; The Empire Striketh Back; and The Jedi Doth Return. Meanwhile, filming finally got underway this fall on the long-awaited PPZ movie.
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oots become the Tonight Show band. We’d
all seen it coming: Philly homeboys The Roots are now offically official, becoming America’s premier late-night band when Jimmy Fallon took the reins of The Tonight Show in February after they’d skillfully served as Fallon’s house band on Late Night for five years prior. To us, they’re what makes the show hot: “Slow Jam the News,” “Classroom Instruments,” James Poyser’s hilarious stoicism on “Thank You Notes”—the list goes on. If our main man Stephen Colbert’s gonna compete with Fallon when he takes over for the retiring David Letterman, he’ll have to man his stage with musicians that’re just as good—or better—than Tariq and Ahmir’s crew. Good luck with that, sir.
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choolpocalypse continues. The School Dis-
trict of Philadelphia is the city’s most tragic Achilles’ heel. Classrooms are overpacked and underfunded; parents are asked to pledge cleaning supplies and printer paper. Many schools don’t have a vice principal, a nurse, a librarian or a full-time guidance counselor. In early May, with the help of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, the district begain trying to sell 20 empty buildings in an attempt to net some $55 million; only one has legitimately sold, 12 are pending. Is it possible that our new blue governor could spur Harrisburg to overhaul or even dismantle the School Reform Commission? Maybe—but even if so, Philly’s public schools remain literally decades away from a sane equilibrium.
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aney Dragons become baseball stars.
Mo’ne! That’s all you need to say. Young Miss Davis was the star-pitching centerpiece of a story that won millions of hearts when her team, the Taney Dragons, became the first Philadelphia team ever to make it to the Little League Baseball World Series in August. The 12-member squad, with kids from all over the city, finished third of the eight American teams in Williamsport, Pa., with a 19-4 season. And when they
returned they were treated like kings—and a queen. They practice at Markward Playground on South Taney Street, hence the name, but also at Palumbo, Chew, Citizens Adjusters Park, Columbus Square Park, and FDR Park, too. They’re our team. We love them.
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ber comes to Philly. The gauntlet was dramati-
cally thrown down this year in the faceoff between Uber, local cab companies and the PPA. When the app-based car service decided to ignore local transportation regulations, the PPA cried foul—and launched sting operations to catch Uber drivers violating the law. Uber responded by saying “IDGAF” and paying the fines. Now, taxi owners are suing Uber, and the rhetoric’s gotten heated, with head of the PA Taxi Association, who happens to work for cab companies, calling Uber’s infiltration into Philly “exactly the same menace as ISIS.” Yeah, dude. It’s just like it.
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aping goes mainstream. This year, people
started seeing all these doohickeys on the street and wondered what was going on. Vaping, that’s what: inhaling nicotinized water vapor instead of smoking cigarettes. Users of these devices claim they’re safer than tarridden cigarettes (yep), with some even claiming vaping is as safe as plain old air (nope). City Councilman Bill Greenlee successfully shepherded a vaping regulatory bill that regulates vaporizors the same as cigarettes, barring sales to minors and forcing people to vape outside only. In some folks’ eyes, that’s a step toward Big Brother authoritarianism; most, though, seem OK with vaping sensibly—especially now that cigs in Philly are taxed another $2 per pack.
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olf beats Corbett. We’d all been praying for
a while already that in 2014 we’d hear the second and third words of that three-word sentence— and then came Tom Wolf to let us know that we’d be start-
ing it with a “W.” After four years worth of austerity budgets slashed Pennsylvania spending from education to social services, voters had had enough. Now we’ll see what our new governor can actually manage to accomplish.
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-rated Harrisburg emails. Republicans in the Corbett administration were caught with their pants down just weeks before the gubernatorial election, when news surfaced of on-the-job porn email sharing between state officials. The scandal prompted some Republicans to resign, and Corbett lost reelection, but the licentious lunacy also swept up State Supreme Court Justice Seamus McCaffery, a Philly Democrat, which led State Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille, a Philly Republican, to compare McCaffery to a sociopath. McCaffery stepped down. And everyone is still grossed out.
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It’s the question that answers itself. WHYY embraced its public-radio wonkery perhaps more colorfully than ever this year—from serving up station promos that imagine radio hosts wearing pirate eyepatches, to having Fresh Air host Terry Gross turn up on the Colbert Report finale. Why support public broadcasting? That’s WHYY.
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oo Balloon flies again. During the monstrous
snowmageddon of 2013, the 6ABC Zoo Balloon— which provides a 10-minute trip 400 feet above the Philadelphia Zoo—sustained irreparable damage and was set for deflation. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, a replacement balloon was pressed into service, giving revelers another chance to enjoy the high-flying view of the animals below and the Center City skyline. Although the replacement balloon was only supposed to stick around for one last year, public support has helped fuel an effort to purchase yet another; it’s set to be installed in spring 2015. n
Photo Flashback Moments in the city’s cultural life that stuck in our mind’s eye during 2014. PHOTOS BY J.R. BLACKWELL
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lockwise from above: 1. It was a sold-out night at the Electric Factory when the Pixies returned to Philadelphia in January 2014; electricity was indeed in the air, at least as far as the band’s longtime fans were concerned. 2. “He comes from here!” bellows the dad of the mohawked mini-me at Paine’s Park’s punk picnic, pointing to his crotch. “He’s mine. His hair has been six different colors in the last year.” So noted, sir. So noted. 3. Did you know there are honest-to-god American bald eagles living in Philadelphia? There are. City officials aren’t eager to discuss where exactly they make their homes—they’re still enough of a rarity that disturbing them is a bad idea—but PW caught a glimpse of this patriotic bird flying over park land earlier this year. 4. We always get a kick out of it when quiet, respectable institutions like Morris Arboretum embrace loud, goofy pop culture like The Lego Movie, as they did in setting up a life-sized Emmet scarecrow this fall. 5. After a 12-year hiatus, South Street’s Day of the Dead festival returned to life in 2014. We weren’t expecting to encounter flawless Frida Kahlo cosplay amid the music and sugar skulls, but we enjoyed it nonetheless. n
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A Guide to Wasting the New Year It’s your life—you can do jack with it if you want.
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ere’s a thing about major life changes: You can make them happen whenever. You can choose to start becoming more productive, healthier or happier at literally any second of any day. Yet when it comes to becoming The Person We Could Be, we love arbitrary start times like Monday morning, or New Year’s Day. It sounds so much more official. If you’re doing a resolution this year, I support your endeavor and wish you the absolute best of luck. Success will be more probable if you pick objectively measurable, realistic goals that can be integrated long-term into your existing lifestyle. But—maybe you don’t feel like making actual change. Maybe your life is flawless. What you really want is to lie back on your laurels and wallow in your inertia, enjoying the small pleasures of an unchallenging life without the hassle of growth or the drama of new experience. Okay. I’ve got advice for that too. Here is how to not take opportunity of a new year and successfully avoid change for 2014. Wait, I mean 2015. Oh, whatever: It doesn’t really matter, since it’s going to be the same. Have a huge, vague goal. Learning a language, losing weight, finishing school or becoming wildly famous is actually a series of smaller tasks. But instead of approaching it that way, you can conceptualize it as one gigantic, insurmountable undertaking. So just make your resolution as general as possible, maybe without any clear way to define whether or not it’s been completed, like: “Increase confidence.” “Fall in love.” “Get healthy.” Avoid having specific action steps built into your existing schedule; don’t have any way of assessing your progress day-to-day, and, if possible, opt for something that you literally don’t know how to accomplish. Don’t tell anybody. Writing things down makes them feel more real, so definitely don’t do that. Having accountability to others on your progress is also something you want to avoid. Assume the people in your family and friend network don’t have anything in common with you, and therefore, nothing to offer in terms of their own experience with your dreams or struggles. Expect that your social network is filled entirely of people who are hoping to mock your failures. View competition as purely a bad thing.
The devil you know. So far, your route hasn’t led to major change, so stick with that. Go only to the restaurants you know will be delicious, and pick the thing off the menu that you’ve enjoyed dozens of times already. Hit the nightlife spots where the faces and music will be familiar; order the drink you always get. Talk to people with whom you have lots in common, and stop talking to them if it turns out you disagree on something important. Do things that you’re already good at and only in the way that is certain to work. Making mistakes, especially in public, is literally the worst thing that can happen if you’re trying to perpetually maintain stasis. Buy things. Sinking a lot of money into an ambition makes it feel like you’re invested but doesn’t actually require anything. It’ll look, from the outside, like you’re making big moves without putting in any of the labor needed to accomplish something. So rather than starting with the $12 drop-in rate for a single exercise class, buy some big piece of equipment that will eventually make a fantastic drying rack. Instead of spending hours on YouTube tutorials that will teach you a skill, shop for the big, shiny set of tools, and know that, when you finally get around to learning, you’ll already have the best gear. Be motivated by self-hatred. A great reason for staying in the same place is to avoid criticism. There are lots of voices in the world who will helpfully tell you how to live your life. Take all of those judgmental people and institutions and build them comfortable, convenient, long-term housing in your thoughts. Do not stop to evaluate the expertise of these sources, the similarity of their priorities to yours or their motivation for telling you what to do. Take those voices with you wherever you go. Or, instead, just recognize this: In the quest to be better, do more, and race desperately against the clock to craft a meaningful legacy that lives up to our full potential, it’s hard to really chill and be grateful. It’s challenging to bask in the perfectly good, actually-morethan-enough that we already have. Before getting a game plan for 2015, take a moment to appreciate the victories, no matter how tiny, of 2014. Take a breath, soak in the love. Enjoy it now—it’ll be 2016 soon enough.
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2014 Films: The Year’s Most Likely Our eclectic roundup of provocative movies that gave audiences something to shout about.
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t’s that time of year again: movies get pitted against each other in a ruthless climb to the top. But this year, we decided not to make anybody fight. Instead, we rounded up some of the year’s senior superlatives to discuss rising trends, emerging stars and some of the year’s many great movies.
Most Likely to Succeed: Boyhood. Some years, there’s a movie whose sheer technical audacity would be enough to make it an awards frontrunner: Richard Linklater handily covers this criteria with a film 12 years in the making. But Boyhood goes far deeper than a decade-plus thought experiment. The passage of time pushes to the foreground as the story moves forward in fractions, making this a meditation that turns inward, a film that uses its scope to be both intimate and epic. Revenge Best Served: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. The easy shortcut is to call Ana Lily Amirpour’s movie an Iranian vampire Western—and this deliberately strange and languorous story makes use of visual markers of both genres, from the smoky standoffs of Bad City to the evocative real-life slow-motion of its nameless Girl. But it’s also a myth of broken community, and A Girl Walks Home deals with the subversive thrill of a monster who can fill trenches with the bodies of men who crossed women—an unsettling, aching film that feels like its own afterimage. Best Genre Playground: Only Lovers Left Alive. It’s been a good year for picking apart genre tropes: The Guest gleefully tackled both robo-soldier loyalty and the fragility of masculine identity, and Locke deconstructed the thriller by sticking
Best Portrait of the Artist: Mr. Turner. Hollywood has a love affair with the scrabbling messes behind artists’ gifts. Birdman tackled the mania of a past-his-prime actor; Violette made its heroine’s frustrating a palpable force. But for sheer fearlessness, Mike Leigh takes it this year with Mr. Turner, in which Timothy Spall gives a bravura performance as the seminal painter, delivering half his dialogue in grunts and huffs, his bursts of warmhearted affection and boorish selfishness adding brushstrokes to a portrait as interested in the minutiae of the era as the man himself. Lit like his landscapes, Mr. Turner is biopic as Impressionist painting, and it’s hard to imagine it any other way. Best Old-Hollywood Throwback: The Immigrant. Marion Cotillard has a face like a saint, and it fascinates the camera. Her other painfully present performance, in Two Days, One Night, might edge this one out. But her old-Hollywood stillness centers The Immigrant, James Gray’s tensely melancholy story of a desperate immigrant who turns to prostitution, courtesy of a low-level pimp (Joaquin Phoenix, acing another of his signature pitiable wretches). Cotillard turns her suffering into a whetstone, and cinematographer Darius Khondji’s lush camerawork can only follow as she becomes breathtakingly sharp right before our eyes. Best Starmaker: Belle. Every so often, an actress gets a perfect one-two punch for showcasing her talents, and this was Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s year. In Beyond the Lights, she managed every showbiz-expose trope with a remarkably light and sympathetic touch. And in Belle, a heartfelt period piece which tries to do a lot—follow the extraordinary life of 18th-century gentlewoman Dido Elizabeth Belle, touch on intersectional
feminism, examine the personal as political—Mbatha-Raw provides a magnetic center. Best Sci-Fi Fable: Snowpiercer. There have been several contenders this year, including Jennifer Kent’s terrifying familyresentment parable The Babadook. And the central metaphor of this graphic-novel adaptation isn’t subtle: Post-apocalypse, the privileged live at the front of the train, their employees/ enablers in the middle, and the working class are stuck eating their own at the back. But with Bong Joon-Ho at the helm, the movie becomes a gorgeously-shot fever dream that swings from surreal comedy to frank nihilism, and sometimes both; that classroom scene is some of the most striking cinema minutes this year. Best Way to Convince Somebody Not to Start a Band: Frank. Whiplash garnered acclaim for its gripping portrait of the artist as a traumatized young man. Frank’s intensely awkward, sometimes heartbreaking black comedy—which Michael Fassbender anchors from within an oversized papiermache head—is an equally relentless parable about the damaging creep of mediocrity, courtesy of Soronprfbs, a band as ripe for skewering by director Lenny Abrahamson as the industry that’s trying to saw off their rough edges. Weird, painful and moving, Frank is a reminder of what art can get you—for better or much, much worse. Most Wrenching Mirror Image: Selma. Sometimes, the year gets the movie it deserves. Cynically speaking, 2014 deserves Nightcrawler, a pitch-perfect L.A. satire of news-media expectations with a visible slime trail. But at best, it’s Selma, a movie about the voting rights marches and Martin Luther King, Jr. that manages to avoid easy cliches, and provides a deftly realized and hauntingly-shot drama as much about a moment in time as the man at its center. That its resonance avoids preachiness is just one of director Ava DuVernay’s many achievements with Selma. Its most enduring achievement will be how it managed to bring the past so sharply into the present and illuminated so galvanizing a parallel.
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Best Silent-Film Classic: Ida. It’s not actually a silent movie, of course; this black-and-white gem has some of the most quietly devastating dialogue of the year, particularly in the hands of stars Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza. But Pawel Pawlikowski lets Ida marinate in its own dreadful quiet, so that their grim road trip carries the tense exhaustion of digging up graves. It’s the sort of film that moves quietly and means much, and will have you thinking of it long after it’s over.
Tom Hardy in a car and raising the stakes all night. But this vampire hangout flick, with its Jim Jarmusch going-nowhere resonance, was hypnotic. A showcase for its leads—Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston, leaning into the weirdness and the hipster burdens of immortality—Only Lovers Left Alive is a meditation on long-term relationships, nighttime cities and spooky action at a distance.
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The 50 Best Albums of 2014 We had quite the year in music, right? Here’s our top-pick record releases that made 2014 rock hard. By Bill Chenevert // bchenevert@philadelphiaweekly.com
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Gogol Bordello + Man Man Dec. 31, Electric Factory. Says PW’s own Bill Chenevert of this killer NYE soiree: There will be smells. Hey, isn’t any funk good funk? electricfactory.info A Sunny Day in Glasgow Dec. 31, Boot & Saddle. There’s a fourhour open bar, budget-conscious revelers. And oh, yeah, the dreampop act on the bill’s damn good, too. bootandsaddlephilly.com Hop Along Dec. 31, Johnny Brenda’s. Come usher in 2015 with this killer local crew we’re betting will blow up big in the new year. There’s still room on the bandwagon. johnnybrendas.com Brielle + Jacqueline Constance Jan. 2, The Fire. Two proud Philly girls: A flautist singer-songwriter and a multi-faceted neo-soul performer who’s a mighty tough act to follow. thefirephilly.com Kinyon Lanier Jan. 2, MilkBoy Philly. This venerable Philly singer’s a force, whether up front or playing a support role; tonight, he assembles some of his talented pals to show out. milkboyphilly.com
Gov’t Mule Jan. 2-3, Tower Theatre. Two solid nights of soul-infused Southern rock mayhem, delivered ahead of their sure-to-amaze winter outing (and album!) with John Scofield. thetowerphilly.com Valery Ponomarev Jan. 3, Chris’ Jazz Cafe. The acclaimed Russian trumpeter, former Jazz Messenger and short-film subject reminds us what it was Art Blakey saw in him so long ago. chrisjazzcafe.com
Music For The Arts Benefit featuring HighKick, The Griz Band, Droppin Deuce, Hunter’s Cannon + 40 Ounces Jan. 3, Ardmore Music Hall. Funds raised help fund the Christina Marie Cullen Memorial Scholarship for photography at University of the Arts. ardmoremusic.com
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Losing Streak Jan. 4, The Barbary. This youngish four-piece pop punk pack hails from North Jersey. And obviously we’re not holding that against ‘em. thebarbary.org
Carol Riddick Jan. 6, Miss Tootsie’s. The Philly soul flower’s birthing a brand-spanking-new LP, and you and yours are invited to the shower. No presents; just your presence. carolriddick.net
like making lists like this one. The serve as an archival resource—a permanent snapshot of a fleeting cultural moment. Even when they’re not definitive, then, they’re useful. You’ll probably detect my stylistic biases here, naturally; I’m not that into noise, punk, contemporary jazz, metal, country or modern classical music. Those are just not my lanes—and I’m cool with admitting it—so someone who’s really into those genres is gonna bug out if they feel like taking this list super seriously, which I don’t recommend. But when I look at it, I see a lot of women, which makes me happy, not too much hip-hop, which makes me sad, and a few extra fresh faces, courtesy of Tove Lo, FKA twigs, Kindness, Jungle, Sam Smith and Alvvays. (It’s also worth saying that if a few months at the end of 2013 could be considered fair game, then Beyonce and Sky Ferreira would’ve been in the top five.) Even though I spent an unnatural amount of time trying to make this list right and tight, I will have missed a few. That’s why there are 20 honorable mentions. Feel free to tweet us @phillyweekly with the stray orphans you think should’ve found a home here. Meanwhile: bookmark ‘em, sample ‘em, buy ‘em, own ‘em. Or, hell, take this paper to AKA, Best Buy, Repo Records or Long In The Tooth. Jessie Ware on vinyl is divinity. Oh, and fuck Iggy Azalea. Also, Azalea Banks is an idiot—even though I love her. Happy New Year, and happy listening, y’all! 50. Taylor Swift, 1989 49. Sylvan Esso, Sylvan Esso 48. Schoolboy Q, Oxymoron 47. Real Estate, Atlas 46. Jungle, Jungle 45. Parquet Courts, Sunbathing Animal 44. Temples, Sun Structures 43. Royal Blood, Royal Blood 42. Sharon Van Etten, Are We There 41. Elbow, The Take Off and Landing of Everything 40. Jenny Lewis, The Voyager 39. Merchandise, After the End 38. Alvvays, Alvvays 37. Flying Lotus, You’re Dead! 36. Paolo Nutini, Caustic Love 35. Big K.R.I.T., Cadillactica 34. Damon Albarn, Everyday Robots 33. Kate Tempest, Everybody Down 32. YG, My Krazy Life 31. Banks, Goddess 30. Jamie T, Carry On The Grudge 29. Hurray for the Riff Raff, Small Town Heroes 28. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Piñata 27. The War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream 26. Vacationer, Relief 25. Miguel, NWA.HollywoodDreams.Coffee 24. Perfume Genius, Too Bright 23. Sun Kil Moon, Benji 22. Beck, Morning Phase 21. FKA twigs, LP1 20. Neneh Cherry, Blank Project 19. Sia, 1000 Forms of Fear 18. Kindness, Otherness
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17. Mac DeMarco, Salad Days 16. Tove Lo, Queen of the Clouds 15. Caribou, Our Love 14. Run the Jewels, RTJ2 13. Lana Del Rey, Ultraviolence 12. Lydia Loveless, Somewhere Else 11. Ed Sheeran, x 10. Little Dragon, Nabuma Rubberband 9. D’Angelo, Black Messiah 8. Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour 7. Lykke Li, I Never Learn 6. Future Islands, Singles 5. Aphex Twin, Syro 4. St. Vincent, St. Vincent 3. Angel Olsen, Burn Your Fire For No Witness 2. Todd Terje, It’s Album Time 1. Jessie Ware, Tough Love Honorable mention: Stars, No One Is Lost; Perfect Pussy, Say Yes To Love; SOHN, Tremors; First Aid Kit, Stay Gold; Wild Beasts, Present Tense; Tricky, Adrian Thaws; Hiss Golden Messenger, Lateness of Dancers; Ex Hex, Rips; Robert Plant, Lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar; Hozier, Hozier; Jack White, Lazaretto; Avi Buffalo, At Best Cuckold; Swans, To Be Kind; East India Youth, Total Strife Forever; Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music; The Bug, Angels & Devils; Ben Frost, AURORA; Cloud Nothings, Here and Nowhere Else; Thom Yorke, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes and Hospitality, Trouble.
SAVAGE LOVE By Dan Savage // mail@savagelove.net What is your stance on maintenance sex? I’d never thought about the issue until reading Amy Poehler’s new memoir. I didn’t find anything she said controversial, and was surprised when this quote blew up in the feminist blogosphere: “You have to have sex with your husband occasionally, even though you’re exhausted. Sorry.” I’d never realized many people firmly believe one should have sex with their partner only when they are in the mood! Some articles even made it sound like maintenance sex is a form of nonconsensual sex. I have sex with my husband pretty often when I’m not in the mood. He would prefer sex every day, and I’m more of an every-other-day or twice-a-week girl. I’d say about 25 percent of the time we are having sex, I am doing it for maintenance purposes. I always enjoy it and I get off the majority of the time, but I don’t always go in wanting it or needing it. Is this wrong? Am I not the feminist I thought I was? Maintenance Sex Supporter
I’ve recently discovered that I am a panty sniffer. Though since I’m a gay man, maybe I’m a briefs breather? Whatever. The smell gets me hard and gets me off. I discovered this when a fuck buddy left his shorts behind, and for the next few days I jerked off sniffing his shorts. That brings me to the young millennial techie guys at my work. They are fucking slobs, and they’re always leaving their underwear and socks on the floor of the company’s gym in our office. The janitor picks them up and puts them in a lost-and-found bin. I started checking the bin, and nothing was being removed. No one ever claimed their shorts. So I started taking a pair every now and then. At home, I fantasize about who they belong to, and when I’m done with them, I just toss them. First question: Am I stealing? I assume the guys aren’t
First answer: technically, yes. But a case could be made that you’re reusing and recycling. If there were a Green Building Certification program for kinks, SNIFF, yours would qualify. Second answer: Chester the Molester was a comic strip about a guy, Chester, “who was interested in sexually molesting women and prepubescent girls,” says my old friend Wikipedia. This vile comic strip, which ran in Hustler (of course), made child rape look like harmless and hilarious fun. Dwaine Tinsley, the creator of the strip, wound up going to prison for molesting his daughter—I’m guessing she would argue that child rape was neither harmless nor hilarious. Since you are not interested in prepubescent boys, SNIFF, I don’t think you’re a pervert in the Chester the Molester mold. But a case could be made that your actions have a whiff of the nonconsensual about them—your coworkers would most likely object to how you’re reusing and recycling their abandoned underpants—and you should probably knock it off. There are plenty of guys selling their used underwear and jocks online, from college athletes to porn stars, and if you work at a place with a private gym, SNIFF, you can presumably afford to buy a few pairs. Vanilla straight guy here. As a fellow Washingtonian, I feel proud to live in a state that was among the first to legalize marriage equality by a popular majority vote of the people. I avidly follow the NFL and eat fried bologna sandwiches and do lots of other manly things. However, I have always loved musical theater. Whenever I go to New York, I have to see at least two or three big shows. My question: Is it socially acceptable for me to good-naturedly say, “I’m totally gay for musical theater”? Or is it a slur that I shouldn’t say, no matter how playful or well-intended? The Cautious Joker When someone says, “That’s so gay,” but means, “That’s so stupid,” they’re being homophobic. Obviously. But a straight guy who says he’s gay for musicals isn’t saying he’s stupid for them, TCJ, he’s saying, “I love something that many gay men are passionate about—and I’m not talking about cock.” Not all gay men are passionate about musical theater, of course, just as not all straight men are into football. But a man with a passion for musical theater is likelier to be gay; if not, he’ll at least be comfortable around gay people. I’ve heard gay guys who avidly follow the NFL describe themselves as straight for football. Likewise, a man with a passion for football is likelier to be straight. You saying, “I’m gay for musical theater,” or a gay guy saying, “I’m straight for football,” amounts to a humorous acknowledgment that the majority of people interested in musicals or football are gay or straight, respectively. In neither case is it an insult or a put-down. But while I think you can continue to say that you’re gay for musicals, TCJ, some gay men (or some of our more annoying “allies”) may take offense. You don’t have to pay attention to those people—they’re just gay for taking offense.
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I’m pro maintenance sex, MSS. Sometimes I sex my husband when I’m not feeling it; sometimes he sexes me when he’s not feeling it. We take care of each other. But maintenance sex is not the same thing as enthusiastic sex. The person asking for maintenance sex—the horny partner who’s being indulged/milked/sexed by the non-horny partner—shouldn’t expect mind-blowing, toe-curling, sheet-shredding sex. Maintenance sex is mellow sex, it’s low-impact and low-stress, it’s sex that requires minimal effort, and it’s likely to be non-penetrative sex—and gratitude is the only appropriate response. Another important note: Being pro maintenance sex doesn’t obligate a person to have sex whenever their partner wants it. Proponents and practitioners of maintenance sex still get to say no. There’s a difference between indulging your partner when you’re not feeling it—when you could take it or leave it—and forcing yourself to have sex (or being guilted/pressured/forced) when you’re too exhausted, too sick or too angry for sex. And as you’ve discovered, MSS, and I can also attest, sometimes you go into sex “not wanting or needing it” and then you start to enjoy it, too, i.e., not in the mood when you started but definitely in the mood before you finished. Those are the times when mellow, low-impact, low-stress maintenance sex turns into mind-blowing, toe-curling, sheetshredding sex. I would hate to think of how much great sex I would’ve missed if my feminist principles didn’t allow for maintenance sex.
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new kitchen & bath, Elevator bldg., HW floors, AVAILABLE Laundry on premise. NOW! $1,285 AVAILABLE NOW! ALL UTILS INCLUDED!! $795 CLINTON & 10TH – Renovated Studio on beautiful street, Brand CLINTON & 10TH – Sunny One bldg., Bedroom ElevatorLaundry bldg., H/W Floors, new kitchen & bath, Elevator HWin floors, on premise. Great closet space, Laundry on premise, Short Term Lease AVAILABLE NOW! ALL UTILS Available. INCL. $795 AVAILABLE NOW! ALL UTILS INCLUDED!! $1,025
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Queen Village! Super Duplex! Great Location! Either Unit could be the Owners Unit. Each has its own Private Entrance. The Property runs Street to Street from 2nd St to E. Moyamensing Ave. It features Unique Details, Design and Light and if you’d like it could easily be converted into a large Single Family Home. 912 S. 2nd St - Unit 1 - Private Entrance into a Lovely Large Living Room with Bay Window, Hardwood Floors, Recessed Lighting, Beautiful Custom Book Case Doubles as a Secret Door to the Lower Level. The Lower level is a Nice Quiet Tranquil Bedroom with a Cedar Closet and Cedar paneling + a 2nd Front Room which could be an Office/Den, it also has Lots of Closets, Storage Space and Mechanicals + Stairs to a Direct Outside Entrance. Continuing on to the 1st Floor is a Full Laundry Room with Sink & Storage, Full Bath and a Very Nice Front Kitchen with 2 Windows, Hardwood Floors and Pantry Closet. The Rent on this Unit is $1000. The 2nd Unit has a Private Entrance at 911 E. Moyamensing Ave. Enter into a Foyer - Stairs up to a WOW Large Bright & Spacious Living Room, Hardwood Floors, Recessed Lighting, Dining Area, Breakfast bar and a Well Equipped Kitchen with 2 Windows and Good Cabinet and Counter Space. Next Level has a Front Bedroom, Full Designer Tile Bath with Jacuzzi Tub + a Separate Laundry Room with a Sink and Stairs to a Charming Cozy Loft Sleeping Area + another Bedroom on this Level. There is a set of stairs in the Hallway which leads to the Roof just waiting for you to build the Best Queen Village Deck. It’s Commanding position will dictate the Best Queen Village & City Views. The rent on this Unit is $1600.
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4000 + Sq Ft 4/3.5 Elevator Deck 2 Car Garage & TA
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1107-1121 N. Howard 1101-1115 N. Hancock 1102-1134 N Hope
Zoned and Approved for 16 Town homes + 2 stacked Duplexes 20 off Street Spaces in gated Community $1,975,000
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119-123 Federal N/C 7 Homes, 3 /2.5,
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245 Monroe Street
Courtyard Home. 2/2.5 Deck Garage $369,900
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1118 E. Moyamensing
1000 sq. ft2/1 Prkng, Tx Abmt , lg grdn. $399,900
4/2.5, patio,deck & finished basement $369,000
600-02 N American N/C 3/2.5, Bsmt Garden, Garage, & TA From $650,000
133 Salter Street Fab. N/C
3550 Sq Ft 3 + Den/4.5 3 BalconiesDeck Garden + Garage TA $979,000
1923-1925-2021-2023 Parrish N/C 3 to 4 BR TA From $469,000
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2338 Fitzwater A& C Condos 1/1 TA
118 Catharine St Award Wining,3500 sq. ft, grdn & grg. $1,300,000
Best N/C .3 + Den/4.5 2 car garage, TA $1,599,000
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318 Fitzwater Street “The Dragon House”
4 + office/2.5 Garden & Garage. Lot size 19x136 $1,250,000
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335 Christian
128 Pemberton St
4 /3.5 2 Car Parking
Multi 5/4 + Deck & Garden $649,900
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714-22 Bainbridge St -13 Condos with Garage Parking - 2/2- Gardens & Decks. FROM $379,900
Great Rental 3rd & Bainbridge - Live & work from home in this fabulous space. 2 bedrooms +den,1.5 Baths, hardwood floors, Deck + Gallery space on 1st Fl. $3000 427 Queen St- Beautiful 3 story, 2 bedroom, 1 bath trinity, H/W, EIK & garden. $1400 225 Catharine St - Beautiful 3 BR + Den, 4 BA, H/W, Granite ktchn, grdn & 2 car parking. $3500 776 S. 2nd St - Very nice 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath Bi level apartment w/ CA + Lg Deck. $1350 810 S. 3rd St –Beautiful large 3 BR + Den home with hardwood floors t/o, yard + parking. $2500 1119 E. Palmer St –N/C 3 BR + Media Rm, 3 BA, H/W t/o, Fp, Lg Garden + 3 car parking. $2500 400 Spring Garden-N.C Commercial Space Available-800 to 1600 Sq Ft. Call for Details
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Art Museum Area 2927 W. Girard St. $369,900 BHHS Fox & Roach Point Breeze 2018 Federal St. $389,900 BHHS Fox & Roach Pennsport 325 Tasker St. $369,900 BHHS Fox & Roach Queen Village 114 Kenilworth St. $689,000 BHHS Fox & Roach Queen Village 836 S. Front St. $699,000 BHHS Fox & Roach 12:00-1:30Pm
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Rittenhouse Sq. 2127 Tryon St. $479,000 BHHS Fox & Roach
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Graduate Hospital 1420 Pemberton St. $1,199,900 BHHS Fox & Roach
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point breeze
$239,900
Completely renovated 2BD/1.5BA done by a quality builder with a finished basement, yard, maple floors and so much more! All new mechanicals, electric, wiring, walls, front and more! A wide open living/dining room, a beautiful kitchen, spacious tile bath and more make this house an ideal home!
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$350,000
society hill
$825,000
Stunning new construction beauty featuring 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, a finished basement, lovely yard, security system, intercom, handsome brick façade, a tremendous rooftop deck and more! Plus, seller is offering a 1 year builders warranty and the 10 year tax abatement is pending. Check it out!
Rarely offered super beautiful 3BD/3BA just a stone’s throw away from historic Washington Square Park with 2-car parking! With a living room with a high ceiling, crown molding, a private patio, amazing mater bedroom and a Juliet balcony, there’s so much to love!
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Graduate Hospital 921 S. 18th St. $425,000 BHHS Fox & Roach
Point Breeze 2115 Manton St. $239,900 BHHS Fox & Roach Washington Square West 809 Addison St. B $459,000 BHHS Fox & Roach
Society Hill 508 S. 3rd St. $470,000
Bella Vista 801 South St. E $485,000
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Queen Village
$195,000
Charming 2BD/1BA trinity style home in the MEREDITH catchment! With a gate entrance, living room with hardwood floors, spiral steps, a kitchen with maple cabinetry, utility closet and a pantry, a Juliet balcony and the perfect location, this little abode is in a highly desirable spot that you will just love!
$1,199,900
4500 sqft new construction masterpiece built by a true craftsman! Located on a quiet tree-lined street in a super hot area, this beauty offers garage parking, a 10 year tax abatements, 4 decks, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a finished basement with 9 foot ceilings, an au paire suite, a kitchen of dreams and more! 1 of 2 being sold – 1422 Pemberton can still be customized!
$595,000
Stunning 3BD/3BA 3+story home! 1-car garage, soaring ceilings, wood-burning fireplace, tons of storage space, spectacular main bedroom suite with walk-in closets and walk-out terrace, a den/office area with sliding doors to a gorgeous rooftop terrace are just the beginnings of this magnificent home! Must see!
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