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[ - 1] A former writer for the Fat Albert TV show alleges Bill Cosby hired two of his colleagues to write the comedian’s doctoral thesis in 1972. “I dictated most of it,” admits Weird Harold. “Ebbin I transcribibbed ibitt,” sighs Mushmouth. “I’m sobo ashambibbed.”

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Forty-five city taxi companies file a joint lawsuit against Uber, calling the company brazenly illegal. “And if it’s not actually against the law to be reliable and clean, then it should be.”

[ - 2] Two women are caught trying to steal from

the Cherry Hill Mall by hiding merchandise under a toddler in a stroller. “Yeah, yeah, goo goo gah gah. Dere’s no way I’m da mastermind of this operation, I’m just a fuckin’ baby over here.”

A WHOLE LOTTA GREEN: With Bob Fishman’s new currency, people can buy foods that have reached their expiration dates, but are still edible. maria PouChnikova

[ - 1] Zoning issues are stalling plans to build a

[ the solidarity economy ]

museum and theater dedicated to Oscar Hammerstein II in Doylestown. The hills are alive with the sound of variances not yet being granted for land-use designations!

A new kind of money bAsed on sweAt equity

[ + 4] Two SEPTA transit officers help deliver a ba-

Supporters of an alternative currency set to launch in Philly later this month laud its benefit to local communities. By Andrew Zaleski

by on the Market-Frankford El on Christmas Day. And bust the child for fare evasion.

[ + 1] A young Flyers fan reacts in disgust after being given a Penguins jersey for Christmas as a joke, and the video goes viral. Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, a hideous mumps-ridden child poops itself and cries and drinks pee from a baby bottle. You suck, Sidney Crosby.

[ + 3] Beloved SEPTA bus driver Eugene “Smitty”

Smith retires after 36 years. “My only regret,” he says, “is that I spent half my life steering this hulking wreck up and down the same pockmarked stretch of asphalt, just to deliver these soulless, blank-eyed automatons from one meaningless mapsmudge to another.” Classic Smitty.

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ver the clatter enveloping us at a Fairmount avenue coffee shop, Bob Fishman invites me to consider the limits on the earning power of an everyday laborer. “If the laborer cannot find somebody who wants to buy their hours for the week, they cannot charge two times their labor the next week to make up for it,” he says, pausing in between bites of a chocolate brownie. right, I reply. and that’s Fishman’s point, as well as the reason he’s holding four notes of an alternative form of money called Commons Community Currency in his hand. “The person who has official currency can earn money on the money, so they have an advantage over those dealing with goods and services,” says Fishman, ending his impromptu lesson. What Fishman was referring to is the interest-bearing nature of the u.S. dollar, the cornerstone of an american economic system he believes doesn’t do much to benefit local communities. What’s needed, he figures, is an alternative currency (in addition to the u.S. dollar), one that people can use to purchase necessities like

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food, shelter and clothing, as well as exchange as payment for local services like tutoring a neighbor’s kid. new-age barn raising, it might be called, courtesy of slips of paper in denominations of ones and fives under the aegis of Fishman’s nonprofit, Creativity in Human Design, which has raised about $1,000 to cover the cost of printing notes and repacking excess foods to be sold. To start, Fishman and Commons Community Currency director Leah Oliver-Brown have printed 1,000 notes, which they’ll start distributing in late January. The idea would sound farfetched had it not been for Fishman’s work launching and promoting another alternative currency, called Equal Dollars, which he introduced to Philadelphia in 1996. In 1970, Fishman, a Bala Cynwyd resident, founded the Germantown-based resources for Human Development (rHD), a nonprofit that now provides human services in Pennsylvania and 12 other states for various groups of people, including the homeless and the developmentally disabled. Later on, as CEO of rHD, Fishman made Equal Dollars the foundation of his vision for a “solidarity economy” in the City of Brotherly Love — one where the value of a person’s sweat equity trumped the value of what could be earned through loans or interest with u.S. currency. Since Equal Dollars was non-interest-bearing, it

It could be called a New-Age barn raising.

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behooved no one to hold onto large supplies of the currency for extended periods of time. “People who cannot sell their labor for a day … they lose the value of their labor,” Fishman told me during a phone conversation last summer. “and if they are only able to be paid in official currency, they are at a point where the owner of the interest-bearing currency can lend their currency to somebody else, make interest on it and not give it to the laborer. That means if we don’t have another way of buying and trading, then we’re totally dependent on one kind of currency that can reward its owners for not feeding or housing other people.” Over 19 years, nearly 5,000 Philadelphians used Equal Dollars as a means to earn money for menial jobs — cleaning vacant lots, refurbishing bikes, running errands for sickly neighbors — and as a way to purchase what they really needed, like food, clothing and, in some cases, apartment housing. around 500,000 notes of Equal Dollars had been issued by 2014, and were used to purchase necessities at 25 businesses around Philadelphia. at its apex, the equivalent u.S. dollar value exchanged in terms of goods and services people managed to buy with Equal Dollars in a year hovered around $2.5 million. In fall 2013, Fishman retired from rHD, ending his 43-year tenure as CEO. By March 2014, rHD abruptly announced that Equal Dollars would be going out of circulation due to funding issues. The nonprofit had been using $300,000 of its nearly $230 million in annual revenues to keep Equal Dollars in circulation and maintain certain services, like paying for pickup and delivery of excess groceries and foodstuffs to the Equal Dollars Food Market. By the end of June, the Equal Dollars bank had closed. By July, the market — where four tomatoes would go for less than one u.S. dollar — was no longer accepting Equal Dollars. Sara reed, community relations manager for rHD, says the nonprofit doesn’t know of any businesses or individuals still accepting Equal Dollars as payment. “That doesn’t mean that it’s not happening,” she said in an email in late november. “If there is still trading happening in the city, it is probably very limited.” In any event, no new notes of Equal Dollars were issued after the March announcement. Fishman says a disagreement within rHD over funding Equal Dollars, among other things, eventually led to his being pushed out of the organization. “We chose to move [Equal Dollars] along by using u.S. dollars. The corporation was very capable of doing that,” he says. “all of that stopped when there was a coup that pushed me out of my position, and that’s because other people disagreed with that.” (rHD spokesperson Kevin roberts declined to comment, but provided the rHD statements announcing Fishman’s retirement and the nonprofit’s decision to stop funding Equal Dollars.) That’s why Fishman is trying to reintroduce an alternative currency by launching Commons Community Currency. He and Brown have already lined up a distribution center, the Germantown Life Enrichment Center, where members of the currency’s network can visit to purchase food that might have outlived a restaurant’s or grocery’s expiration date, but is nonetheless edible. They’ve had preliminary meetings with community groups in norristown and West Philadelphia as well. The currency will operate in much the same way as Equal Dollars, with one key difference. Whereas it cost $10 to become a member of the Equal Dollars network and have 50 Equal Dollars credited to your account, there will be no fee for joining the Commons Community Currency network. But earning units of the currency will depend on completing community service hours at the Germantown distri-

NOT AN ABE OR GEORGE AMONG THEM: Some 1,000 notes of the non-interest-bearing currency, called Commons Community Currency, will be issued in late January. maria pouchnikova

bution center: 25 units for up to four hours of work, and 50 units for between four and eight hours. “The only thing we expect is for people to be courteous and honest,” says currency director Oliver-Brown, alluding casually to what Fishman describes as the occasional “special arrangements” that popped up during the days of Equal Dollars: for instance, volunteers running the food market who would set aside extra grocery items — at no charge — for friends. Whether a brand new alternative currency can survive, let alone thrive, is the question. Craig Borowiak says the success of any new alternative currency depends on the charisma and initial efforts of the founders. an associate professor of political science at Haverford College, Borowiak has been mapping the solidarity economy in Philadelphia — community gardens, credit unions, alternative currencies and the like — since 2010. “a community currency, if it’s going to maintain itself, is going to develop relationships between community members,” he says. “How can it be institutionalized and sustained over time? That’s going to be the real challenge.” It appears to be a challenge Fishman is excited to tackle headon. a thin man of 79, he has almost a grandfatherly bearing: kind eyes peering from behind oval-shaped, wire-rimmed glasses; a goatee spotted with gray flecks; a slow, measured cadence when he speaks, and a voice that feels like a flannel blanket on a winter’s night. Don’t let it fool you — Fishman is out to make sure people get paid. “We don’t have to look far to find communities that are not helped by the present economic system and go into decline,” he says during our talk at the coffee shop in november. “you can’t make money on money? Screw them; they don’t exist. … We don’t take that attitude. We need another system that moves into these communities in which we honor what we can bring to each other without having to make profit, without making money on money.” and, with any luck, without needing much in the way of u.S. dollars to keep a new Philadelphia alternative currency alive. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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➤ released late last noVember, the Joni Mitchell box set Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to be Danced (Rhino) is an achronological, eccentric offering. Compiled by Mitchell herself, the box eschews many (but not all) of her most well-known songs. Instead, the four-CD set frequently lingers in some of the stranger and sometimes more maligned corners of her career. One advantage to this is that Love Has Many Faces sheds light on the diversity of her work over the years. Here are a few songs that show that there’s more to Joni Mitchell than “Big Yellow Taxi.” “All I Want” From Mitchell’s masterful, intensely personal Blue (1971), every line of this song perfectly describes and dissects human need. This is also the song Annette Bening sings in an amazingly raw scene in the film The Kids Are All Right (2010). “Shades of Scarlett Conquering” Savaged by Rolling Stone upon its release, 1975’s The Hissing of Summer Lawns is now considered by many to be a masterpiece of intricate and elegant jazz-pop. The soaring piano and strings of this track accompany a devastating character study. “A Strange Boy” Hejira (1976) is probably my favorite Mitchell album, and this is an excellent representative of its wintry, impressionistic sound. “The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey” Wolves howl, congas rumble and Mitchell atonally beats the hell out of her guitar strings. This song originally appears on Mingus, her 1979 collaboration with/tribute to Charles Mingus and will scare the shit out of you. “Harlem in Havana” One of Mitchell’s most unique soundscapes, this track from 1998’s Taming the Tiger mixes icy synths and grinding guitars with Wayne Shorter’s effortless saxophone. Melodically, the song displays her ability to fully integrate the rhythms and voicings of jazz into something wholly new. (editorial@citypaper.net) 55

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OUTERWEAR GAME STRONG: Mervyn Vowles, who painted this piece, “Six More Weeks,” is among the artists exhibiting at Artists’ House’s “Young Visions” show, opening this week. Mervyn voWleS

firstfridayfocus By Mikala Jamison

a Fresh art start ➤ While Jan. 2 is the first Friday of 2015 as well as of the month, many galleries don’t kick off new exhibitions until Jan. 9 or so. But there’s still art to be seen around Old City particularly. After you’ve signed up for that gym you’re really going to make use of this year — really, seriously, you’re sticking with it — be sure to swing by: ➤ artists’ house, “Young Visions” Five recent graduates from PaFa and other area art schools will showcase their paintings and sculpture this month. We know, “artschool work” is usually a tired euphemism for “not so great,” but these artists’ proximity to school years don’t discount their talent. In fact, they’re that much more impressive. Mervyn Vowles’ detailed, subdued portraits; Theresa aluise’s abstract sculptures, which she says reveal “personal moments of horror” but “[try] to point out the humor of the situation,”; the lush colors and figures by Kala Hagopian, co-founder of the female art collective Chroma Dolls — this is work that’s mature, focused and a breath of fresh air. Fri., Jan. 2, regular Friday gallery hours 1:30-5:30 p.m., call for First Friday hours, Artists’ House, 57 N. Second St., 215-923-8440, artistshouse.com.

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➤ 3rd street gallerY, “assemblage: art” Less is typically more in gallery spaces, but sometimes a show with broad appeal is a smart idea — there’s a greater chance a viewer will connect with an artist or a piece if there is more than just one style of art on view. In this show, 14 artists’ work will allow visitors to take in works across several mediums. among them will be Kathleen Babb’s vibrant landscapes, the trippy mixed media of Franz Fox and the abstract work of painter Jacqueline Ferretti, who says she’s influenced by the Tom Waits poem “Seeds on Hard Ground”: “Can I get up off the mat/ Like a wrestler that has been beaten, beaten/ Can I get up and come roaring back?” Fri., Jan. 2, 5-9 p.m., 3rd St. Gallery, 45 N. Second St., 215-625-0993, 3rdstreetgallery.com.

➤ other old citY happenings Wine and champagne at Pinot Boutique: For $5, continue

your new year’s Day toasting with five tastings from a few local wineries. Pinot will also be serving champagne. Fri., Jan. 2, 6-10 p.m., Pinot Boutique, 227 Market St., 215-627-9463, pinotboutique.com. Memphis hat at Settle down: Bluesy-jazzy Memphis Hat plays

gratis, plus free beer, too. Settle Down realty company is also selling raffle tickets to raise money for the Meredith Elementary School in Queen Village. Fri., Jan. 2, 5-9 p.m., Settle Down Philadelphia, 34 N. Front St., 215-253-3439, oldcitydistrict.org. (mikala@citypaper.net, @notjameson)

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on tHeIR oWn All year long, the talented photo­ graphers who freelance for City Paper accept our assignments to tell stories in a different — visual — way. In this photo essay, we turned the tables and asked them to submit their favorite photos, images that were taken when they were off pur­

suing their own interests. The crite­ ria for submission was pretty loose. The images had to have been taken this year, have a Philly subject and had not been published in City Paper before. You’ll see from the work we chose on this page and the ones that follow the variety of their responses.

by lillian

swanson

From gritty street scenes to the grace of a swan to the wonder of a vulner­ able new life, their choices amazed and surprised us and reminded us why we are so fortunate to work with them. Here are some faves shared by Charles Mostoller, Hillary Petrozziello, Maria Pouchnikova,

Neal Santos and Mark Stehle. And on pages 12 and 13, you will find our New Year’s gift to readers, a 2015 calendar with Maria Pouch­ nikova’s glowing skyline image. We hope you’ll post it on your wall for an elegant reminder of the opportunity for progress in this city we call home. (lswanson@citypaper.net)

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words and photographs by

neal santos Easter Sunday, April 20, was a great day

standing, in conversation as the seated

scene stood out to me: the spacing of

to walk around Point Breeze and see

gentleman gestures while holding a

the foot traffic, the harsh light hitting

parishioners put on their Sunday best.

walking cane in between light and shad­

the side of the building, and the overall

As a photographer, I particularly enjoy

ow. I’m drawn to scenarios like these

composition that pushed three quarters

springtime: The light is rich and steady,

because of the timelessness of the image.

of the frame into shadow — giving a

the days are longer. People generally

In the second photo, taken just out­

dress for warmer, pleasant weather and

side the City Paper offices, at 15th and

shed the layers of winter. This photo

Ranstead, is a scene I like to call “a

shows two men, one sitting, the other

receding line.” Everything about this

heavy emphasis to the lighted areas of the photo. ■

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hillary petrozziello The whole day, Aug. 25, slowed down until I found myself on the banks of the Schuylkill River looking for nothing in particular, except for a place of reverie away from the traffic, the angry motorists honking at cyclists and the hot, hot city. This beautiful creature seemed so out of place as he circled below us, maybe hoping for scraps or company or to fulfill his curiosity about us, as we wondered about him. Clouds perfectly mimicked nature versus man, and I was ready with my iPhone to capture the surreality of the scene. ■

words and photograph by

charles mostoller Abdurrahman “Man-Man” Early, 16, sits on Shadow, after washing, brushing, and saddling the horse before a day of riding. ManMan goes to a humble stable in Southwest Philadelphia every other day in the winter, and practically every day in the summer, to tend to the horses and clear his mind. “Sitting up top of there, taking your mind off things, it’s like meditation,” he says. This image is special to me because it shows Man-Man in his element as a rider. He is both confident and relaxed, which can be hard for teens. Horses seem to help center and focus him, and in this image I think that comes through. ■ 10 | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |

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mark stehle The fear and anxiety that come with a 6-weeks-premature first child is hard to put into words. At only 4.25 pounds, our baby, Anna, withstood many ordeals during the two and a half weeks she spent in the neonatal intensive care unit, days that my wife and I found hard to endure. Tiny Anna’s strength carried us through the painful poking, prodding and insertion of tubes and wires that were always attached to her during those first days of her life. The intensive care unit photo was taken within hours of her birth, and the current photo was taken at seven months. Healthy and happy, Anna continues to inspire! ■

words and photograph by

maria pouchnikova On Dec. 3, I parked my car facing

and saw the trees reflected in each

the Delaware River and watched as

raindrop. I couldn’t help myself. I

the fluffy clouds above me turned a

reached for a mid-range lens and cap-

violent gray, and the sky unleashed

tured this enchantment.

a waterfall. I was a half hour early for an assignment, so I spent 10 minutes in my car

This photo reminds me that if you take the time to be still, you will always see something new and beautiful. ■

listening to the storm. Then I leaned my head on the driver’s side window,

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events listings@citypaper.net | january 1 - january 7

[ dignified refusal can only take you so far ]

LONG HAIR, AIN’T NO SQUARE: Gov’t Mule plays Friday and Saturday at the Tower Theater. anna Webber

Events is our selective guide to what’s going on in the city this week. For comprehensive event listings, visit citypaper.net/events. iF yOu Want tO be liSted: Submit information by email (listings@ citypaper.net) or enter it yourself at citypaper.net/submit-event with the following details: date, time, address of venue, telephone number and admission price. Incomplete submissions will not be considered, and listings information will not be accepted over the phone.

six-stringer has time to think about where Gov’t Mule’s guitar army should go next. My guess is more blues, jazz and r&B, based on the band’s last outing in Philly at the end of 2013. It’s a sure bet they’ll be tapping the Floyd-ian Dark Side of the Mule (Evil Teen), released in December. —A.D. Amorosi

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Gov’t Mule $20-$35 ($60 for two-day pass) | Fri., Jan. 2, 8 p.m., with Cabinet; Sat., Jan. 3, 8 p.m., with Bill Evans Soulgrass; Tower Theater, 19 S. 69th St., Upper Darby, 800745-3000, ticketmaster.com. With Warren Haynes finally free from the allman Bros., the fleet-fingered, country-fried 14 | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |

McRad/ PhiladelPhia Slick $10 | Fri., Jan. 2, 8 p.m., Boot & Saddle, 1131 Broad St., 267-6394528, bootandsaddlephilly.com. Philly multi-instrumentalist/ageless skate punk Chuck Treece is so exhaustingly tireless, this night out is either his second Mcrad gig in one week or he and his funk-skronk ensemble didn’t stop playing since the last show. Philadelphia Slick and its boss noesis start the year with their usual live rap groove and the knowl-

edge that 2015 marks its 15th anniversary. —A.D. Amorosi

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BRielle $8 | Fri., Jan. 2, 9 p.m., with Isthmus and Jacqueline Constance, The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 267671-9298, thefirephilly.com. We wrote about Brielle’s ethereal, atmospheric take on down-beat r&B in our roundup of local artists who kicked 2014’s ass. assuming you’ve taken note, done some Googling and have fallen under the psychedelic spell cast by The Rough Break-up EP’s haunting, insular sound, you get a chance to see one of Philly’s most hypnotic rising singers in action. —Sameer Rao

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Mae $20-$25 | Fri., Jan. 2, 8 p.m., with Kiska and Square Peg Round Hole,

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nabokov’s famous exploration of illicit longing. Instead, the 2003 documentary tells the life story of Lolita the killer whale, who was captured in 1970 and has been performing in the Miami Seaquarium’s Whale Bowl ever since. Why is the film being shown now? On Jan. 17, protesters will demand Lolita’s release in a march in Miami. —Sam Fox

officially launching his new recording, A Mountain and a Hill. The price of admission includes the new CD (Why don’t more acts do that?). also on the bill: Sarah and the arrows, a quintet of women well-known in the local acoustic scene, and the difficultto-track project The Captain — The Pilot — The Driver. —Mary Armstrong

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and Tchaikovsky. actually, the elegant pianist Zhu will be on stage for the entire concert, as Hahn steps aside for cellist robert deMaine, the principal of the L.a. Philharmonic and peripatetic chamber musician, who will play the great Beethoven Cello Sonata no. 5. —Peter Burwasser

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Library, Main Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org. Two young Philly poets strut their stuff. Longmire is the poetry editor for APIARY, a local literary magazine, and a three-time member of the Philadelphia Fuze poetry slam team. His series of “haiku� are stunning and unorthodox. Savich teaches in the creative writing B.F.a. program at the university of arts and co-edits rescue Press’ Open Prose Series. among other things, he is interested in the magic that happens when one mishears “abacus� as “platypus.� —Sam Fox

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JoHnny sHoWcase $15 | Wed., Jan. 7, 8 p.m., with Timur and the Dime Museum, World CafÊ Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215222-1400, worldcafelive.com. If you haven’t seen Johnny Showcase’s eccentric, churchmeets-cabaret brand of live funk rock — complete with pastiche-loving outfits and call-and-response breakdowns — then you’re in for a treat. Perfect for those who rang in 2015 in unspectacular fashion and are looking to course correct. —Sameer Rao

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hen chef William DiStefano began at the Fountain restaurant, he was an apprentice externing from the restaurant School. The year was 1989 and the menu, was full of rich hotel stalwarts like oxtail consommé and eggy sabayon. “It was really classic, but it was 30 years ago,” DiStefano says. DiStefano has worked at the Fountain for 25 of its 31 years, a run that comes to a close with the end of the year. The Four Seasons Hotel is closing in June and gearing up to move into new digs in the Comcast Innovation and Technology Center in 2018. For DiStefano, the timing was just right to end the dinner service. (Breakfast and lunch will be served in the Fountain until the close.) “Why not end it during the holidays when it’s festive? It’s the best time to do it,” he says. DiStefano decided to go a la carte, with seating throughout the evening, making it easier for regulars to chat and enjoy the experience. During an interview in the lounge adjacent to the restaurant, DiStefano seems remarkably composed, considering his longevity there. When asked just a few days before the final service if it

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was an emotional period for him, he replied, “not really — well, it is, but I’m not very emotional.” DiStefano goes on to tell the story of how he rose through the ranks of the brigade system, moving from apprentice to garde manger chef to chef de tournade and eventually chef de restaurant. Then he reconsiders. “It’s emotional for me because of the relationships and working with people. That’s the reason that I stayed so long … because of the team. you start trying to work your craft and learn and then you realize over the years that you’re in a group with a bunch of people with a common goal and that is where you develop your relationships with people. They’re working hard so you’re working hard. It’s totally collaborative.” although the primary techniques used in the Fountain kitchen are based in French tradition, DiStefano never saw the Fountain as a purely French restaurant. He speaks about the size advantage that the hotel brings, with the large staff bringing in influences from around the world. “We had the French chef and the technique of the food, but we would use people’s abilities, their gifts and their contributions. We had people from Laos who were making food for us and it was delicious. We would take that and ask how can we transform this, repackage it and put it on the menu,” he says. DiStefano sees three reasons for the Fountain’s longstanding

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Rachel Kramer Bussel on sex of all stripes.

I don’t know why I have such a Pavlovian response to a hand crashing down hard on my butt, but it’s one of my favorite sexual activities ever. It’s not like this is for everyone, but for me, just getting on my hands and knees — my usual position to be spanked — is enough to excite me. anticipating the first smack reminds me that even if I think I know what’s coming, I never really do. Maybe it’ll be hard, or maybe more of a tap; as a submissive, giving up control (within that limited context) is integral to my enjoyment. asking for it adds another level of intimacy. Then there are the actual smacks. Do they hurt? yes, but it’s not the same as other types of pain. First, because I’m expecting and eagerly anticipating it. a good spanking isn’t only about my butt, but my entire body. I also know the person is doing it because I (and they) want it, not because I’m being punished. Though I might be “punished” as part of a consensual role-playing scene, there is no true anger behind it. Because spanking gets me in the mood, I usually use it as a prelude to sex, but plenty of people enjoy spanking as their main course. I love the intimacy of a hand spanking, especially since I know from having delivered my fair share of them that the spanker also emerges with tingling skin. I’ve been spanked with hands, paddles, rulers, hairbrushes, even a book. (I’m partial to furry paddles that can follow their blows with some sensual TLC by turning them over.) Even though there are plenty of implements that can be used, you don’t need any of them to deliver a quality spanking. Giving a spanking can make you feel wicked and powerful, especially when it leaves the spankee drooling and docile. It’s free and can be done pretty much anywhere, with no need to plan ahead (though you may be overheard, which can be part of the fun). There are endless variations: over underwear or bareskinned, with a vibrator against your genitals, in positions such as over-the-knee, bent over a bed or leaning against the wall. I also like that spanking can be light and playful, or immensely serious. I’ve giggled and trembled and even cried welcome tears as a result. Depending on how hard you do it, you can make sure they remember the spanking for days to come. If you and/or your partner haven’t tried it before, don’t just assume either one of you will like it.

(That’s also good advice for any sexual activity.) If you’re not sure how to bring it up, watch a movie like Secretary, where the spankings James Spader gives Maggie Gyllenhaal are sexy with a playful air. Or, use light strokes or pinches of your lover’s ass; if they wiggle and press against you, you can gently tap them to test out the sensation, for you and for them, then ask in a seductive, casual way, “Would you like a little spanking?” One thing people tend to assume is that the only person taking an emotional and physical risk with spanking is the person on the receiving end. not so. Having the honor of being the top also comes with responsibility. you have to make sure you are hitting the padded part of their butt (thighs are OK too), not bony

Giving a spanking can make you feel powerful, especially if it leaves the spankee drooling. spots like the hip. Even if you’ve given thousands of spankings and think you know how much a person can take, you should still check in with them to see how they’re doing. Give yourself a mental check-in, too; are you enjoying it? Would you rather approach it from another angle? Spanking isn’t everyone’s cup of tea; don’t let anyone talk you into it if you know it’s not your thing. But if you’re curious, it’s worth exploring, and may leave you asking for more. ✚ Rachel Kramer Bussel is the author of the essay collection Sex & Cupcakes and editor of over 50 erotica anthologies, most recently Hungry for More and The Big Book of Submission. She tweets @raquelita.

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