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Letter from the editor
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Letter From the Editor Creepy Comix Corner
a thrilling Halloween By Tim Dougherty
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Rocks With A Fox
Soulive Royal Family Ball
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By Shawn “Fox” Rybacki
Tim Dougherty
A Head of the Game
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Written by Becky
Featuring Country
18 Best Fests of Summer 2012
Interview by
Alessandro Satta
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epic proportions
20 Spaced Out Events
21 PEX
By Mandie Pandarella
Become part of the experiment
munchies 13 Thanksgiving Recipes
By Grace Baldino
22 Terror Behind the Walls
- Sausage and chestnut
The Penitentiary comes alive
stuffing
By Giorgio Satta
- Mom’s apple crumb pie By Mary Jo Gurreri
14 How to Brew Pumpkin Beer... Inside a Pumpkin! With Juan Vila
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ith Thanksgiving right around the corner and the holiday season not far off, it’s important to remember those less fortunate. There are two charities I have chosen to highlight in this issue’s letter. Both truly strive to better our world and they can use all the help they can get. The Rex Foundation was established “as a non-profit charitable organization by members of the Grateful Dead and friends. The Rex Foundation enabled the Grateful Dead to go beyond responding to multiple requests for contributions, and proactively provide extensive community support to creative endeavors in the arts, sciences, and education. Since 1984 the Rex Foundation has granted $8.7 million to over 1,000 recipients.” Strangers Helping Strangers is a charity based out of Massachusetts that you may have seen this summer at festivals in the surrounding area. “The origins of Strangers Helping Strangers (SHS) dates back to 1997, when fans of the Burlington, Vermont, band Strangefolk saw an opportunity to help those less fortunate by collecting non-perishable food at the various Strangefolk concerts throughout the Northeast and donating it to food banks and charities in the cities and towns Strangefolk played.” Please consider becoming involved with these programs or others, as we approach the holiday season the demand for help always increases. We have been blessed to live in such a kind and loving community and therefore we must continue to support these charitable endeavors to ensure they are able to keep offering help for those less fortunate.
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24 GoggleWorks Presents “Get It While It’s Hot”
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By Alessandro Satta
Shawn “Fox” Rybacki
Mandie Pandarella Becky Blumenthal
26 The Art of Jangala
Juan Vila
Grace Baldino
Interview by Alessandro Satta
Kaley Iacovetta
30 Creative Writing
Giorgio Satta
Mary Jo Gurreri
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rating it into my own practice, it appears to hold a lot of benefits for struggling relationships. It has been believed to dispel confusion and anger, and has also been associated with increasing telepathy between partners. Moldavite and emerald have also been thought to amplify and strengthen unspoken bonds between partners and pairing either with kyanite may be helpful for friends or lovers. An easy way to incorporate these stones into relationships is to sleep with them under your pillows, which is especially useful if neither person likes to wear jewelry or meditate. Always talk about utilizing this new approach with your partner, though. Since kyanite can assist you during communication, talking to them should be a little easier. So everyone take a deep breath, think before you speak, look before you leap, and together we’ll carve a much cooler autumn! Written By Shawn “Fox” Rybacki Photos by Joe Gurreri Specimens and jewlery provided by 2012 Philly Hotlist winner Mineralistic 319 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19147
JANGALA BATS CREEPY HALLOWEEN BACONFEST COUNTRY PEX SECTORNINE HOT KESWICK HUNTER SIX BEER KYANITE LETTER CLOWNS
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to the brim with heat and activities, I think I can speak for many when I welcome autumn! To celebrate and usher in this well-needed change of seasons, the mineral of choice for this issue is kyanite. Kyanite is a silicate mineral found in aluminum rich metamorphic pegmatite or sedimentary rock, which can grow in quartz, gneiss and schist veins. It is part of the aluminosilicate series that also includes andalusite. Kyanite’s chemical formula is AL2SiO5 and is anisotropic, meaning that its hardness (4.5-7) depends on its crystallographic direction. It has a splintery fracture with brittle tenacity. This is still a delicate stone so wearers beware. One hard smack to a piece of kyanite can cause it to crack, scratch or chip. The colors most commonly found are blue, black and green, but it can also grow as orange, pink, white and grey. Major deposits are found in Brazil, Switzerland, Norway, Myanmar and even some places in the U.S. Like many other blue stones, blue kyanite is splendid for assistance during meditation; invoking a serene sense of
calmness. Speaking from my own practice, I find that blue kyanite’s effects can be amplified by pairing it with clear quartz. It’s a unique combination that feels like a breath of fresh air. Whether you’re back-to-school needing to get your head back in the game, or you’ve got yourself wrapped up in a project and desperately need a reboot, kyanite is a marvelous tool to help replenish yourself and find equilibrium. Kyanite has also long been associated with development of intuition, clairvoyance, lucid dreaming and communication with spirit guides. If you’ve been searching for a little assistance on your Earthly journey, kyanite may help you recognize a totem animal or other spiritual archetypes. If you feel the need to cleanse your stones, even though kyanite is said to never retain negativity, I recommend smudging with sage rather than putting in water. Sometimes when left in the sun, kyanite may bleach and lose its color. Kyanite is also one of the few stones believed to cleanse other stones, making it a great match for almost any other crystal. Through studying kyanite and incorpo-
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a head of the game Featuring Country
Good Vibrations Get You Places HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THIS SCENE?
WHAT KEPT YOU COMING BACK?
I grew up just outside of Athens, Georgia, and my mom and my uncle’s were into the hippie scene. They liked the Allman Brothers, Crosby, Stills and Nash, and the Grateful Dead. They were into all that jazzy stuff. I think the scene was calling me for a long time. I really started getting into Widespread Panic pretty heavily while I was in high school in Athens. Being in school I didn’t really have time to tour so I would just hit a few Southeast shows during the summer. Going on runs here and there. Hit Bonnaroo a couple times in the early years, which opened me up even more to the Grateful Dead. When the Dead did their run in ‘09 my buddy and I didn’t really have a lot going on so we decided to do the whole run. That’s when I got into hitting shows anywhere they were going on. Until that point I stuck mainly to the southeast but then I decided to do this full-time.
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The friendships I’ve made. The light. It’s a different reality; one full of acceptance. The music is the main thing though. I’ve always wanted to surround myself with music. This scene has become a lifestyle for so many people because it’s easy to find your part. I found mine and wanted to keep coming back. TELL US ABOUT YOUR PROMOTION WORK. Country Fried Productions started off as a little side work in 2009 at Bears Picnic. I met some old heads from Pennsylvania earlier that year and they were telling me about the festival Bears Picnic. Basically I started working the street team that year. It got me into a couple free shows, which for a tour rat, hard up on cash, sounded awesome. That year I got to see the production side and I fell in love with the family and way things ran. So I talked to the promoters and told them, “Hey if you need help in any other way, I
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would love to be a part of what you guys have going on here.” It really started to grow from there. Those guys throw a New Years party that I also helped out with. Basically I hung around like a little puppy dog waiting to be fed, waiting for my turn. All I could do was shine as hard as I could and work my ass off and in the last three years it has helped me get some great jobs. TELL US ABOUT THE BANDS YOU WORK WITH. WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU DO? All this kind of started because of my southern hospitality and southern cooking. My first big gig was New Years with the 7 Walkers featuring Bill Kreutzman. Papa Mali and I ended up partying until the sun came up; talking about great times and life. Of course us two fat boys ended up on the subject of food, and I told him I would love to cook them something when they came to Bear’s Picnic later that year. He mentioned BBQ, and I don’t mean to brag, but I consider myself one of the best in the smoked meats and BBQ department. My girlfriend Patty is a great baker, so we cooked them up something and they liked it so much they asked us to cook for them at more gigs. So I did that for like 5 or 6 festivals and got to watch Bill K. drum every night. Just cooking them some country food and hanging out. This led to me being able to do a whole west coast tour with them. I got a chance to work with Ben Jammin personally. He did tie-dye backdrops for the Grateful Dead in the 90’s and currently helps 7 Walkers. I got to hang out in that tight knit group and I started to learn a lot more about production work, which was an amazing experience. I also started working with smaller regional bands to help them get their names out there. Trying to get them over the next hump, which is a big hump. A lot of work and a lot of time goes into these small projects. More time and effort goes into these projects than most would even notice. Bands are really busting their asses and just haven’t gotten their music out there like Dr. Slothclaw, MIZ and Cabinet, just to name a few. I also recently
started working with Melvin Seals and JGB. How many times did I listen to some of these musicians while I was growing up? All of a sudden I found myself riding in the bus with Bill K. or moving Melvin Seals’ organ to the spot he wants it, or having a laugh with those guys, it was cool for me, I still just felt like some youngpunk lot kid. WHAT’S YOUR MOST MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE FROM YOUR TIME IN THE WORLD OF PROMOTION AND PRODUCTION? While I was out west with 7 Walkers, Bill K. invited Bob Weir and Mickey Hart to play with him at the Great American Music Hall, a small venue. I never got to see Jerry Garcia, but being in a room with 500 people and getting to see those three guys playing together and helping with things like getting Bob Weir’s guitar out of the car or pulling Mickey Hart’s drums out and helping them set up was tiny for them, but was incredible for me. I don’t know what could be better than getting to be a part of the other side of shows and being backstage with those legendary musicians.
Photo top left and top right by Joe Gurreri
Interview by Alessandro Satta Illustration by Ross Marinaro
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at populations on the east coast have literally taken a nosedive. Over the past six years the U.S. Forest Service estimates six million bats in North America, sometimes entire colonies, have been massacred during winter hibernation. The culprit: Geomyces destructans, a fungus that accumulates on their muzzles, ears and wings, also known as White Nose Syndrome (WNS). Geomyces destructans, is well-suited to infest hibernating bats, maximal growth occurs between 40-60 °F, exactly the temperature range of bat caves in winter. Once WNS is contracted bats develop skin lesions and the ensuing fungal proliferation on the membranes of their bodies causes the bats to rouse early from their natural hibernation cycle. Infected bats quickly overexert their metabolism, deplete their fat supply, dehydrate, starve and fall to the cavern floor. The resulting extermination has been transforming our caves into multi-sarcophagi for the innocent bats’ pre-mature eternal slumber. WNS is a persistent and seemingly ubiquitous disease. Scientists know very little about it and currently there is no accepted cure. Since 2006, this fungal blight has crept silently across the nation, strangling bats in their sleep, like a pestilent ninja. In less than seven years WNS has spread at an alarmingly swift rate and is now reported in twenty U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. Around the country caves are being closed to cavers and once thriving cave tour economies are being shut down to protect bats everywhere. David S.
Blehert of the U.S. Geological Survey reports on the hypothesis that, “the fungus was introduced from a foreign source to North America where it is acting as an emergent pathogen among a naïve population of hosts.” If this is true it would be a classic case of an invasive species running rampant, un-checked by any natural means. Powerful anti-fungal sprays or chemical treatments will not be used to combat WNS because of the risk they pose of inducing total ecosystem collapse inside the caverns. Insects, microorganisms and beneficial fungi also reside in these resonant passageways. Treatment of the caves with fungicide is not a logical option, leaving scientists feeling powerless in the face of death. Sixty million years ago in the Eocene epoch, just after the last of the dinosaurs died, mammals shrunk in size and modern day recognizable species such as bats started to evolve. Today, approximately 5,600 species of mammals are known and 20% of all species of mammal are bats (1,250 bat species total). The only mammals capable of free flight, bats are able to launch at will in any direction. Bats have adapted beautifully to every type of environment on Earth. Desert ecosystems rely on bats to pollinate giant cacti such as the famous Arizona saguaro and even agave plants, from which tequila is made. Bats live on every continent besides Antarctica and they are crucial pollinators of a wealth of tropical plants such as bananas, beans, mangoes, avocados, guava, peaches, papaya, cashews, tropical hardwood timber, rope, latex, etc. etc. Bats are keystone species, some plants are entirely dependent on bats to provide pollination
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and seed dispersal services. Potentially, these plants could be crushed by a tidal wave of sterility within the grand tsunami of bat extinction. Back home in the U.S., it’s recognized that one Little Brown Bat can eat 1,000 insects per hour. In addition, bats save important cash crops from pest damage and help reduce pesticide usage every year. In a recent analysis, scientists put an estimated $22.9 billion annual price tag on insect control provided to our agriculture industry. Pesticide demand will increase when bat populations continue to decline. Potent toxic chemicals will be utilized to combat the surplus of night-flying insects whilst
jeopardizing humans and other crucial aspects of alreadycompromised ecosystems. This past summer was record-breaking, for the sheer number of mosquitoes per unit
ing 41 deaths. To keep mosquito-borne disease at a minimum, we need to keep bat populations at a maximum. Conditions are perfect for White Nose Syndrome to ravage bats to the point of extinction. For their size, bats are extremely slow at reproducing. Female bats only birth one pup annually, so the natural rate of bat reproduction is low. Bats can live for more than thirty years, for their size they are the longest living mammal in existence. Therefore the lives of bats are fragile and valuable. Similarly to humans, it’s thought that bats mate for life, and duties of child rearing have been seen as split between parents. They
have five bony fingers too, which are used to climb like primates. Also like humans, bats have excellent senses of smell, taste, sight, and hearing.
Bats are a keystone species area. Expect the mosquito situation to worsen exponentially in coming years. In 2012, the U.S. endured the most vicious West Nile virus outbreak ever with 1,118 reported cases in over 38 states, includ-
Although there is a sensory perception in which many members of the order far excel. A bat’s sense of echolocation is more highly tuned than any one human
sense alone; it allows them to see the landscape with their ears. The openmouthed, bared-teeth face that we perceive as ‘scary’ is actually a resonation chamber, allowing the bats to recover the echoes of their aural sonar. They use their skull to hear where they are going, and their navigation is better than any technology our most skilled engineers have yet invented. Human beings display extreme ignorance towards these facts, slaughtering bats with the obtuse and myopic mindset that killing bats is similar to swatting flies. Bats are close relatives, cooperating to keep them alive (to kill flies so we don’t have to!) is a much more enlightened option. However, in 2009 Pennsylvania issued a mandate to euthanize all bats coming into rehabilitation, though at the time WNS was only known to affect five of nine bat species native to PA. This ban was cited by many as foolhardy and ridiculous. In February 2012, the ban on bat rehabilitation was rescinded and PA officials started to offer more proactive solutions. Fast forward to August 11, 2012 the PA Game Commission issued a bulletin outlining actions they are considering to protect remaining members of three native bat species. Populations of the Northern Long-Eared Bat, Tri-Colored Bat, and the Little Brown Bat have declined by 99% in PA since 2008! Once common throughout the state, these bat families have suffered mortality on a mammoth scale. From the PA Bulletin, proposed mitigation strategies include “seasonal restrictions on timber cutting in close proximity to known maternity sites,
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protection of hibernacula, restrictions on winter hibernacula human entry and use, seasonal curtailment of wind turbines in critical areas and others.” They are now seeking public comment. To start a colony on your property, Bat Conservation International will link you to official easy-to-construct bat houses for around $70; each retailer is specific to the state. Complete instructions for setting up and attracting insect-devouring tenants to your new beneficial safe house are included with the purchase. To order bat houses in PA please visit batmanagement.com. During the course of my mission to find a contact person in Pennsylvania to provide pictures and information for this article, I became sourly despondent. My quest began by contacting a long list of PA nature reserves, caves, and state parks which offered bat tours and bat education in past years. No one was able to help me because no one has bats on their land anymore. Slowly but sadly, I came to the depressing realization that WNS has already completely wiped out most bats in PA and that all of the once thriving hibernacula are GONE. Not one to succumb to melancholy, I pushed forward on my research mission into the neighboring state of NJ, which hasn’t been hit as hard as PA by WNS. I was incredibly lucky to find a bat advocate with which to share my mounting concern. New Jersey’s own BATMAN, Joseph D’Angeli, is a bat fanatic, and rightfully so. He is the founder of NJ’s Wildlife Conservation and Education Center, the only facility in a 3-state radius that specializes in bats. The fruit bats he houses are not native to this area; however they are important
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Bat Facts: dispelling the myths!
Thanksgiving Recipes
- Bats seldom transmit disease and most bats do NOT carry rabies. - Bats are NOT blind; their vision is colorless yet excellent. - With their eyes, they are able to see better than humans in the dark. - Bats can use biological sonar to echolocate insects in complete darkness. - They will not entangle themselves in human hair, navigation is their strong suit!
2 lbs. ground beef 3 lbs. Italian sausages, skins removed ½ medium onionminced 3 tsp. Italian parsley-chopped
- Bats are not rodents; in fact they are closer relatives to humans. - Bats aren’t dirty; they groom themselves by licking their fur, like a housecat. - Only 0.2% (3 out of 1250 species) of bats actually suck blood and ‘vampires’ only live in Latin America. - Only 1 out of the 3 vampire species feeds on mammals (livestock), virtually ZERO threat to humans. -Less than a dozen people (US + Canada) in the past 40 years experienced a bat-related death. -Comparatively, in 2010 alone, 400,000 people (US only) experienced cigarette-related deaths, car crashes terminated 33,000 lives, and circumcision killed 100 infants.
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in rainforest flower pollination in the wild. They are nothing less than adorable and their pictures are featured throughout this article. Joe leads a local effort to help erase stigma surrounding bats by letting the public get up close and personal with these amazing creatures. Although they are close in our mammalian lineage, humans tend to harbor paranoia and irrational fears about these misunderstood creatures. “Because bats are sweet-tempered, useful, and fascinating animals, it makes you wonder less about the bats than about our human capacity for terror,” naturalist Diane Ackerman poignantly writes. Untruths and urban legends about bats continue to keep devastation of these intrinsically important animals below the public’s radar. Ms. Ackerman goes on to say “most people can be appealed to if they are shown pictures of a cute and cuddly ‘glamour’ animal [like a panda] with a sledgehammer over its head. It takes a better educated more knowledgeable person to really get concerned about bats… Some of the ugliest animals on earth are the most valuable either ecologically or economically.”
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References: www.whitenosesyndrome.org www.batcon.org www.njbatman.com www.batmanagement.com www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/ PMC3400555 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/ PMC2984388 www.conservewildlifenj.org/downloads/ cwnj_120.pdf www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/ vol42/42-32/1555.html www.amazon.com/The-Moon-WhaleLight-Crocodilians/dp/0679742263 www.fws.gov/whitenosesyndrome/pdf/ WNS_Mortality_2012_NR_FINAL.pdf www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/ nyregion/new-jersey/05batsnj. html?pagewanted=all www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/ touring-worlds-first-manmade-batcavebuilt-wild-bats
Directions: 1. Mix all ingredients until thoroughly combined. 2. Salt and pepper to taste if desired.
8 chestnuts oven or fire roasted, cut into pieces ½ cup dry white wine 1 beaten egg ¼ tsp. nutmeg
3. This should stuff a 16-18 lbs. turkey. Adjust recipe for larger/smaller birds. Bake turkey according to its weight.
¾ cup sugar ¼ cup flour ½ tsp nutmeg ½ tsp cinnamon Dash of salt 9” pie crust 6 cups peeled, cored, and thinly sliced apples
Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. 2. Make or buy a 9” pie crust. 3. Mix dry ingredients. 4. Pour over apples and stir.
Crumb Topping 1-cup flour ½ cup cold butter cut into little pieces ½ cup packed brown sugar *4 cups tart apples and 2 cups sweet)
5. Put apples in pie crust. 6. Mix all of the topping ingredients until crumbly and sprinkle on top of apples. 7. Bake on cookie sheet for 50 min. 8. Cover pie with foil for the last 10 min.
Written by Mandie Pandarella Photos (pg 10-11) from thinkstock.com (pg 12) by Tim Dougherty
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. . . r e e B n i k p m u How to brew P Inside of a Pumpkin with Juan!
Autumn is finally here, and humidity-drenched summer air is giving way to crisp, invigorating
winds. It’s now time for a kaleidoscope of falling leaves, hayrides, and best of all…pumpkins! Instead of making the same old jack-o-lantern the way you have every year, why not try something a little different? Below you will find instructions on how to make your very own pumpkin beer inside of a pumpkin. You can find the majority of the following ingredients (with the exception of the pumpkin and butternut squash) at your local homebrew store.
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1 large pumpkin (1-2 gallon capacity) 3 lbs chopped butternut squash 5 gallons purified water 4 oz German Weyermann Caramel Wheat Malt 4 oz U.S. (Briess ) Roasted Unmalted Barley 6 lbs Briess Golden Light Dried Malt Extract 1 lb Demerara sugar 1450 Dennys Fav 50 Wyeast 1 oz Fuggles hops 1 oz Liberty hops 2 tsp Pumpkin pie spice Brown sugar Campden tablets (potassium metabisulphite) ¾ cup priming sugar
Carve out and sanitize your pumpkin. Cut off an even square at the top of the pumpkin and pull out the guts. Once the pumpkin is empty, pop in 1-2 Campden tablets (depending on how big your pumpkin is) and fill the pumpkin with water. This will kill any wild yeast that may be living in your pumpkin. Let the sanitizer sit in the pumpkin overnight and then rinse it out thoroughly. Cut a small round hole at the top of the pumpkin, a little smaller than the size of your airlock. Once you have filled your pumpkin with beer, you will seal off the original square that you cut off the top of the pumpkin with duct tape or any other sealant you choose to use.
Roast the butternut squash. I like to use butternut squash because it tastes more like pumpkin than pumpkin does. Roast your squash in the oven after covering it in brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice until its golden brown and soft.
Brew some beer. Activate the yeast, and get 2.5 gallons of water boiling. Once the water reaches 160° F, turn off the heat. Place your German Weyermann caramel wheat malt and U.S. Briess roasted unmalted barley in a large cheesecloth or grain bag and allow it to steep in the water for 30 minutes. After this, remove the grain from the water, making sure not to wring it out (wringing out the spent grains will release nasty bitter flavors that you don’t want in the final product.). Bring your water to a boil, and then add the Briess golden light dried malt extract until it dissolves completely. Add your roasted butternut squash to the boil once the malt dissolves. Wait 15 minutes, and then add the Fuggles hops. In another 15 minutes, add the Liberty hops. In the last 15 minutes of the boil, add the Demerara sugar and any extra pumpkin pie spice you want to add (I usually go light on the spice with 2 tsp, but you can season it to taste). The wort should be boiling for 60 minutes total. After the boil is done, take your wort off the heat and allow it to cool to 75° F. Add the other 2.5 gallons of water and then pitch your yeast into the wort, mixing it in well. Once the yeast is fully activated, siphon off 1-2 gallons of the wort into the pumpkin and the other 2-3 gallons into a fermenting bucket. Seal the original hole you cut into the pumpkin with duct tape and the nontoxic sealant. Place your airlocks in the pumpkin and the fermenting bucket, and wait for the magic to happen! * If you notice your pumpkin is starting to decompose, you have the option of transferring your beer into a secondary fermentation bucket. Use your best judgment on this, since a decomposing pumpkin could give your beer a funky flavor.
Bottle your beer. After you have allowed your beer to ferment for about 7-10 days, rack it into a bottling bucket. You can add an extra teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice at this stage to give it a pumpkin-flavored kick. In order to keep the beer you brewed in the pumpkin separate from the beer fermenting in the bucket, begin by bottling the beer which is inside the pumpkin first. Rack your pumpkin beer into a bottling bucket with 1/6 cup of priming sugar. I like to bottle this special pumpkin batch in 22 oz bottles in order to differentiate between the other beer. Once you have finished the beer inside of the pumpkin, bottle the rest of the beer in your fermentation bucket with 2/3 cup of priming sugar. Allow your beer to carbonate for about 2-3 weeks, and then enjoy your delicious pumpkin creation!
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It’s a funkin’ party! The soul-funk trio, Soulive, will be joining label-mates and fellow funksters Lettuce on November 2 at the Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia for their annual Royal Family Ball, a true celebration of getting down and funky. Headspace Magazine was thrilled to sit down with Soulive to ask them a few questions about their summer, upcoming tour and future projects.
Royal Family Ball:
What can you tell me about the Royal Family Ball tour? Let’s see, it started down in New Orleans actually, during the Jazz Festival. Instead of bouncing around and playing a bunch of random Jazz Fest gigs, we just decided to pool our resources and have everyone come together for one show. We called it the Royal Family Ball. After that everyone was digging it. At first it was just us and Lettuce, then we had George Porter and Ivan Neville, you know, all the New Orleans cats. Then we just decided we should do it in different cities. We’ve been doing it for about four or five years now. How many other shows are you doing on this tour? Is there anywhere special you are particularly excited about? We are doing four shows, in Connecticut, NYC, Philly and D.C. Then we are doing Bear Creek in Florida, we have a Royal Family stage there that we will all be playing on. Is there any other special guests or performers that we might get to see in Philly?
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tunes few years. We don’t really put a lot of stress into it, we enjoy our time with Soulive, and we enjoy our time away from Soulive. You know it’s funny; I just went on tour with my other band, The Alan Evans Trio, and I realized how lucky I am to be well known enough to go out and do different things and experiment. Do you think that playing in so many side projects makes Soulive better by incorporating so many different styles of music into your repertoires? Oh, without a doubt. You know, we come together after we’ve been playing different music and listening to different music, and you definitely carry all those experiences with you into whatever you do. So yea, it definitely helps. I mean the thing is I’ve seen bands in the past that all they did was play together, they lived together, and they didn’t even really hang out with other people. You could totally hear it in their music. It was so just about them. Things kinda fall apart when you get like that, like I said you get really burned out, it’s just really not healthy. Just to give a brief recap of your summer, what have been some of your favorite shows and festivals that you’ve played at this summer? Gathering of the Vibes was really good; we haven’t done that in a long time. The Telluride Jazz Festival was awesome; it’s just such a beautiful place. They were some awesome surprises, like this Funk and Ribs festival we played in Columbus, Ohio, it was awesome! Your Catskill Chill performances were awesome, what did you think of that festival?
You know what; I’ll tell you it’s always a possibility. I mean honestly a lot of times we don’t plan special guests. Usually it’s just like somebody’s in town or they just show up. We don’t really plan secret guests or anything.
Oh yea that was a great time, I loved Catskill Chill. We know the people who run it really well and they just do a great job. There’s always chilling music there. You know that’s the type of festival I really dig. It’s got this vibe where it’s still pretty big, but it’s still a grassroots festival. There’s this certain vibe where you can just walk around and chill with people and it’s so relaxing and refreshing.
With all of the various side projects that Soulive members have going on, is it hard to focus on Soulive itself?
Any other news you would like to share about any upcoming shows or albums or anything of the like?
You know, it’s not hard to focus on Soulive, I guess it’s just that 100% of our focus isn’t on Soulive anymore. In a way, it just is what it is. I mean really for us, that was never really the intention. Obviously we have to put in a lot of time in the beginning for the first few years. But focusing on just one thing is really just an easy way to get burnt out. I mean, we work on albums or music when it’s the right time; we try not to force anything. In the end it really is all about having fun for us. So we’ll come out with a new album every
Umm I know Eric Krasno is working on an album right now. Then right after the Soulive shows for Halloween in Burlington, I’m recording the second Alan Evans trio album. We are also working on recording another album of SPARK! with Karl Denson, but you know, we gotta figure out the logistics for that obviously. Royal Family Ball tickets $20 at www.tla.com. Interview by Tim Dougherty Written by Becky Blumenthal
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Best Fests of Summer 2012 Recently, we may have taken over your Facebook status feed with our Festie Polls. We asked you what your favorite music festivals in the area were and you definitely let us know. This is what you had to say:
Best bathroom
Favorite Goods Vendor
Mint Green - Woodstown, NJ August 24-25 “Mint Green - Ms. D is the shit (pun intended)” -Jedd Buller
Best local bluesgrass festival
Delfest - Cumberland, MD May 24-27 “Delfest. Hands down. Amazing festie, amazing music, and an awesome river about 2 mins from the stages” -Eric Brumberg
Favorite festival within a 4 hour drive Catskill Chill - Hancock, NY September 7-9
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Favorite food vendor Shady Grove Wraps “Shady Grove ultimate domination” -Jeremy Yunkin
Favorite long distance festival Umphrey’s Summercamp - Chillicothe, IL May 25-27
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Best “bang for your buck” Catskill Chill - Hancock, NY September 7-9
Delfest - Cumberland, MD May 24-27
Best festival with water access:
Dave’s Mini Donuts Dave’s Mini Donuts!!!!! Love them!” -Carly Shields
Best campground
Best EDM festival Starscape - Baltimore, MD August 24-25 Starscape is more edm than camp bisco...so starscape for the win! -Upstate Sugar
Camp Minglewood at Catskill Chill Hancock, NY September 7-9
Favorite band-featured festival
Best late-night
Steal Your Fest - Shartlesville, PA Aug 2- 4
Camp Bisco - Schenectady, NY July 12-14
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Spaced Out Events Check out strange happenings in your area
OCT 16
Uncorking the Past: Ancient Ales, Wines and Extreme Beverages – Beer Tasting, Lecture and Book Signing Blackwood, NJ – $45
OCT 25
Philadelphia Whiskey and Fine Spirits Festival Philadelphia, PA – phillymag.com/whiskeyfest $90 adv. $100 door
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Punkin Chunkin – Bridgeville, DE www.punkinchunkin.com – $10
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Headcount Participation Tour 2012 Philadelphia, PA – www.theblockley.com $20-$40
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Montgomery Bucks Music Awards Show Triumph Brewing Company – New Hope, PA www.triumphbrewing.com – Price TBA
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show – Philadelphia, PA info@twcpma.org – Free
Atmospheric Exhibition Haverford, PA www.mainlineart.org – Free
Reading Peace and Love March Reading, PA – 10/21 – Free
Philadelphia Mural Arts Month Mural Arts Celebration: The Roots Mural Project Philadelphia, PA – info@muralarts.org – Free
Sugarloaf Crafts Festival – Oaks, PA sugarloafcrafts.com – $10
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Bacon Fest – Easton, PA eastonfarmersmarket.com – Price TBA
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Heavy Seas Chili and Cheese Festival Halethorpe, MD http://www.hsbeer.com – $50
Annual Artisans Show Yorklyn, DE ccarts.org - $6
First Person Arts Festival Philadelphia, PA www.firstpersonarts.org – Price Varies
PEX
If you are a Philly-area artist, student, inventor or dreamer, you’ve probably heard of the Philadelphia Experiment (PEX for short). If you haven’t, consider this a long-overdue introduction. Every year around Halloween, PEX hosts one of the most happening haunts in the region. They also throw other electronica parties throughout the year, run a stage at Camp Bisco, and host their own PEX Summer Fest. This year’s Halloween venue has been revealed! PEX has announced that the event will be held once again aboard the U.S.S. New Jersey in Camden. Get ready for a night both naughty and nautical as you mark your calendars for an evening of truly epic proportions.
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etc. So we’ve pretty much made the decision that we’re not going to do any more large-scale underground events anymore. So we have to find a legitimate, legal venue, which is the difficult thing. What venues are there available in the area that can actually hold 2-3,000 people? Really not that many. And then, because we are dealing with more commercial venues, a lot of times the management isn’t cooperative with what we want, or they’re so restrictive that it kills the vibe or the energy that we’re trying to provide to our participants. It can be difficult sometimes, but we do our best.
Feed the Kids Benefit II Concert/Food Drive Reading, PA – Price TBA
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Philadelphia Winter Beer Festival Philadelphia, PA www.theblockley.com $25-$40
Phoenixville Firebird Festival Phoenixville, PA – Free
Illustration by Ross Marinaro List by Mattie Cassady
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essential components of a successful event?
L: One of the main things for us is we
try to have multiple rooms and multiple stages, because we don’t want to just have one type of music. I think it’s good to have multiple rooms so you can have different styles of music, enough space that you can do deco or build different atmospheres, and then have a space where you can bring in volunteers so members of the community at large feel like they’re contributing and being involved in the event.
H: Is there a lot of pressure to continually up the ante with PEX events?
I had the pleasure of chatting with Lee Mayjahs, one of PEX’s founders and resident DJs, about this year’s upcoming Halloween party. We also spoke of his event production and the organization’s progression throughout the years.
L: Well, yeah, we kind of feel like we’ve created this monster that we have to keep feeding. We have bills to pay and we have storage spaces. These are all things we have to continually raise money for to keep going. Every six months or so the treasury starts to get low and we’re like “hey guys, we have to do another fundraiser.” When we sit back and think about how much time and energy we put into PEX-related stuff throughout the year, sometimes it can add up to three or four months of our year just working on PEX. We do get paid for the summer festival, but everything else we do throughout the year is a fundraiser to keep the treasury alive. Sometimes there’s definitely a bit of burnout there.
H: In your opinion, what is the toughest aspect of putting on a production of this size?
L: I think the main thing is trying to find
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H: What do you think are the most
a venue. It seems like we go through this every year. You know, we started doing events in underground warehouses and then as we grew and got bigger and bigger. The risk-to-benefit ratio of continuing to do underground parties just didn’t make sense. It was too much risk for us and we all (the entire PEX board of directors) came to the same conclusion that it just wasn’t worth the risk anymore. Because, you know, when you’re dealing with an underground venue, no matter what type of precautions you take, it’s still a risky endeavor just in, like, personal safety; whether there’s enough exits for everybody to exit if there’s a problem,
For more information on the 7th annual PEX Halloween Ball on October 27, visit http://www.thephiladelphiaexperiment. org/. Tickets are on sale now. Written by Grace Baldino Photos by Joe Gurreri
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Left page: Top- Infirmary - Photo by Douglas Alan Bailey Bottom left- Night Watch Gate Photo by Andrew Garn Bottom right- Guard - Photo by Jeff Fusco Right page Top left: Nighttime Façade Photo by Tom Bernard Top right: Man in Cellblock 7 Photo by John Van Horn Mid right: Gary with Bars (2) Photo by Sean Kelley Bottom right: Lock Down 2 - Photo by Jeff Fusco
Eastern State Penitentiary comes alive
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hat could be better than a twomonth Halloween celebration at one of the creepiest historical sites in the Philadelphia region? Nothing, according to visitors and staff at Terror Behind the Walls (TBTW) at Eastern State Penitentiary. Terror Behind the Walls is not for the faint of heart. Unlike any other haunted house in the region, it is situated inside the foreboding walls of a real abandoned prison at 22nd Street and Fairmount Avenue, the Eastern State Penitentiary.
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This season, TBTW introduces a new attraction, Detritus. Detritus expands into areas of the penitentiary that have never before been viewed by the public. In this part of the haunted house, visitors are taken throughout an original 1800s cell block, past the greenhouse into an outdoor area of overgrown plants and twisty vines. Headspace Magazine was fortunate to speak with one of the actresses from Detritus, Samantha Brodsky. This is Samantha’s first season at TBTW. It is her role, along with 129 other actors, to make sure that we scream as many times as possible during our time inside the haunted house. Between now and November 10, within the confines of Cellblock 2, Brodsky will be attempting to make thousands of visitors yelp. She explained that it’s much different to act at a haunted house as opposed to in the theatre. To her, “working at TBTW is like living in a scary movie. In this movie, I’m a prisoner with a big creepy family.” She also explained that if a visitor is too frightened at any point, all they have to do is say “monster be good!” and the actors and actresses will back down. Costume Director Keith Lambert and Make-Up Director Lauren Palmer ensure that all the TBTW actors and actresses have extreme costumes. Palmer explained that with 130 actors per night, make-up has to be done quickly and meticulously. Her and her talented team of make-up artists spend three to twelve minutes on each actor. They are responsible for sculpting all the masks and prosthetics as well. Lambert ensures
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that TBTW has “no naked monsters.” Rather, he is responsible for marking and altering all of the costumes used at the attraction. Eastern State Penitentiary is not only used for Terror Behind the Walls. All year long, you can visit the penitentiary to learn about its expansive history as the home to some of the most hardened criminals in America. This gothic structure, in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park neighborhood, was designed by architect John Haviland and opened for use in 1829.
With its soaring 30-foot high and eight-foot deep walls enclosing 10.5 acres, the building is imposing, to say the least. The architecture was originally constructed in the shape of a wheel with spokes, with the cellblocks in a hub-andspoke design that meet in the middle with the concept “confinement in solitude with labor.” The Pennsylvania System’s hub-and-spoke design was iconic, inspiring 320 other prisons to be built similarly. The penitentiary was built with seven cellblocks for 256 inmates, but as the years went on cellblocks and inmates were added. By the 1920s, Eastern State was home to 1,700 inmates, including the infamous Willie Sutton, “Pep the Dog,” and even well-known gangster Al Capone. The Penitentiary has been closed since 1971, but it’s still a vital part of Philadelphia’s landscape. Since 1994, the site has offered daily historic tours to the public. Show Manager, Amy Hollaman, explained, “Terror Behind the Walls and Eastern State Penitentiary have a symbiotic relationship. They cannot exist without each other. The money raised by TBTW goes right back to funding the historic site.” Hollaman was proud of the haunted house’s success, noting that this is their 21st season running. However, she reinforced that a trip to the frightful attraction is much different than visiting the historical site during the day. Daytime at Eastern State is not scary, but rather time to reflect on prison issues, see art exhibits on the grounds and to enjoy a themed tour from an educated guide. For those especially interested in the prison
and what it was like to live within its gargantuan walls, each spring the Penitentiary holds an alumni day inviting former staff and inmates back to tell their stories. Whether you are in for a scream, or learning about an integral part of Philadelphia’s historic landscape make sure to head over to Eastern State this fall. Terror Behind the Walls runs on selected nights from now until November 10. Tickets are $20 online at www.easternstate.org or $40 at the door. The Eastern State Penitentiary historic site is open from 10am – 5pm everyday and adult tickets are $12. Written by Becky Blumenthal Design by Joe Gurreri
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GoggleWorks presents “Get It While It’s HOT!” The ultimate glass blowing experience Written By Alessandro Satta
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ave your oven mitts ready ladies and gentleman, because Reading, PA is about to turn up the heat. Join us Saturday, November 17, to be part of a rare event called “Get It While It’s HOT!” This night will showcase the art of glass blowing in support of the Goggleworks Center for the Arts. The event promises to mold your perspective on glass art and the complicated processes and the time that goes into making glass pieces. This is one of the annual events at this community center that adds to the building’s rich history.
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Goggleworks is a community art center serving Berks County, central and southeastern PA from the corner of Washington and 2nd street in Reading, PA. The center was originally founded in 1871 by Dr. Thomas A. Willson and his father Gile J. Willson. Thomas A. Willson & Co was the first factory in the world to produce optical glass for spectacles and reading glasses. During WWII the company helped our countries efforts by manufacturing aviator goggles and high altitude oxygen masks for pilots in the Army’s Air Corps. The factory went through a slew of different owners before it was ultimately closed in 2002. In a community push to revitalize downtown Reading, the factory was reopened in 2005 as the Goggleworks Center for the Arts. Since then Goggleworks has developed into “145,000 square feet of dynamic space, including galleries, classrooms, dance and music studios, a darkroom, a glass blowing facility, plus a warm and cold glass studio/classroom, a woodshop, ceramics and jewelry studios, a 131-seat film theatre, café, community meeting places, 34 artist studios, and offices for 26 local community arts and cultural organizations.” Goggleworks
has brought much needed attention to its cause by establishing programs and events such as “Get It While It’s HOT!”. “Get It While It’s HOT! is the best glass blowing experience I have ever been a part of,” Scott Krenitsky, glass studio manager and resident glass artist at Goggleworks, said. The night includes extreme live glass blowing that attendees are able to bid on while the teams of artists are hard at work. Renowned glass artists will be placed into small teams to help each other create masterpieces during the exhibition. “Get It While It’s HOT! is very unique because of the energy from the different artists who are from all over the country, mixed with all the collectors’ energy. It really makes for a spectacular evening,” Krenitsky says. Guests will also be treated to a reception that includes alcoholic beverages. General Admission tickets cost $50 and there are V.I.P. packages available for $75 that will include a Q&A session with two top artists. Get out of the house and go see some truly unique artwork being made right before your eyes. If your pockets are feeling heavier than usual, do yourself a favor; bid on some art.
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I have a couple other products available such as the skullcaps that have an eye where your third eye would be. It allows people on a smaller budget to own a Jangala piece. Find Jangala on Facebook @Jangala Designs LLC Interview by Alessandro Satta Design by Eric Tonzola
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Nightshade By: Kaley Iacovetta Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. -Frank Herbert, Dune It dwells in the shadow lands. The corner of the eye glimpses. In the I think I just heard something, saw something, felt something. In the clamminess of your skin and the pulsing of your heart when you get the feeling, something is there. Switch on lights. Call out. Hello? Anybody there? Check locks. Nothing. Alone. Just a shadow. Just a shadow? All it needs is a tiny corner of your consciousness, just a shred of doubt, enough to sink a single claw. It creeps slowly, patiently. And then it has you. And you find yourself throwing back shower curtains just to make sure the bathtub isn’t filling up with blood. But secretly, you hope it is. You hope to find it. You want to know it’s real. You want to touch it. But at the same time, you want to run away. Tell yourself it’s all in your head. Well, isn’t everything, my dear? What do you do? When the blackness vines and begins to crawl up the walls. When the monsters under the bed begin to take form. When the ghosts in the attic prepare to take on substance. When the severed limbs and rattling corpses are looping in your brain.
When you can’t pass a hardware store without thinking of buying rope. When you can’t drive your car without wanting to close your eyes and jerk the wheel. When you can’t even hold a knife without having the inclination to quick flip the wrist and plunge into flesh. When the boundaries between reality and fantasy become terribly blurred. You can’t remember if you saw it in a film or in your mind. Or at the bottom of the stairs? Boney fingers winding up the rail? Yellowed teeth glinting from the shadows? Lights flicker. It’s gone. For now... Well, didn’t you know? We all get our own personal demon. Some of us two or three. Hell, I’ve got a whole closet full. Dancing in our peripherals. Clawing us to shivers. Cackling at our ignorance. But now you know. And they are begging to reveal their names. Epithets of power. Ancient and dark. Invoke and beware. So what do you do? Light the candle. They will flee. Burn them into brightness. They will flee. Unless you invite them. And then, well, your soul’s as good as sold. Oh, they’ll talk a pretty bargain. But on the day you draw the final breath, the shackles clamp and the chains coil. And away you go, down and deep, to serve the darkness eternal. They’ll all have a good laugh. Another fool who traded peace for a pocket full of pyrite.
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