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o what’s a nice South Philly girl doing way out in Wyoming?

As fans of the Netflix TV series “Longmire” and the Longmire crime novels know, the South Philadelphia character Victoria “Vic” Moretti was created by Craig Johnson. She’s tough, resourceful, somewhat profane, and loyal to her friends. Sounds like a lot of Philly women I know.

Crime novelist Johnson, who lives in a small town in rural Wyoming, lived in Philadelphia for a time and attended Temple University. He met his future wife, Judy, at Temple.

In his 2007 Longmire novel, “Kindness Goes Unpunished,” Walt Longmire, the sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, travels to Philadelphia, accompanied by his huge and fearsome Cheyenne friend Henry Standing Bear, to visit his daughter. Longmire discovers that Cady, a Philadelphia lawyer, was brutally attacked on the steps of the Franklin Institute.

Longmire, Henry Standing Bear, and Vic Moretti and her family of Philly cops all become involved with deadly political intrigue and interconnected crimes in the City of Brotherly Love.

I reached out to Johnson and asked him

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LEFT: Craig Johnson’s 17th Longmire novel is ‘Daughter of the Morning Sun.’ Image | Courtesy of Craig Johnson

about his Philadelphia connections. I also now but remember when our parents would tell us to be decent human beings? That’s the asked about his 17th Walt Longmire novel, “Daughter of the Morning Sun,” (Viking), way I look at Walt, or to put it another way, if you slide off the road in the middle of the which I recently read and enjoyed. night in a Wyoming blizzard and a pair of “I wanted to write a book about the plight headlights appear behind you? That’s the guy of murdered and missing indigenous women, you want in that truck.” but as a novelist I knew I had to Is Longmire in any way autobitell a story, and I didn’t want it to ographical? be another manhunt-in-the-snow “My wife has the best remark novel. I knew I had to come up about that, “Walt Longmire is who with a different kind of idea that Craig would like to be in 10 years would take Walt Longmire some– he’s just off to an incredibly slow where he’d never been before, and start.” on a bus full of teenaged girl basI told Johnson that I love his ketball players seemed to be about character, Vic Moretti. I asked him the most dangerous place I could what a former Philadelphia detecput him,” Johnson said. “There is tive was doing in Wyoming. a young phenom, Jaya Long, who’s “I knew when I was writing the been receiving death threats, and first book in the Longmire series, the tribal police chief invites Walt ‘The Cold Dish,’ that I needed an up to the Cheyenne Reservation, outsider, somebody who wasn’t knowing his participation in the born, hadn’t grown up and lived investigation might heighten the in Wyoming – someone to give the awareness of the situation. The PAULDAVISONCRIME.COM readers an in to a high context fact that Jaya’s older sister Jeanie environ,” Johnson explained. “I went missing a year before after thought the contrast of a character receiving the same kinds of threats isn’t lost on the sheriff, and he figures there from a big city back east and a rural sheriff would be interesting. I suppose I could’ve gone must be a connection.”

Johnson describes Longmire in one word, with the more predictable choice of New York, but I’ve always loved Philadelphia.” decent.

Who inspired you to create this character?

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ABOVE: Crime novelist Craig Johnson dropped character Victoria Moretti, a South Philly cop, into Wyoming in his ‘Longmire’ crime novels.

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“My wife, whom I met while in graduate school there – and she’s some kind of fierce.”

What do you think of Philadelphia?

“There’s so much, but there’s a ferocity that I love above everything else, a bold-faced honesty; I tried to make Vic Moretti the living embodiment of Philadelphia,” Johnson replied.

“When I visit, I always hit McGillin’s Olde Ale House, George’s Sandwiches on South 9th Street and grab a pie at Bella Italia in Ardmore out where my daughters and granddaughter live. I try to catch a Phillies game, grab a Yuengling and a cheesesteak. Trust me, after living away from Philadelphia for 20 years, there are no bad cheesesteaks.”

Did you meet with any Philly cops while you visited the city?

“Oh yeah, and they were great. I remember asking a detective why a particular road in Fairmont Park was called Forbidden Drive and he gave me a look right out of Vic Moretti’s are-you-a-village-idiot manual. ‘Because you’re forbidden to drive on it…’”

Do you plan to have Walt Longmire come back to Philadelphia in a future novel?

“You never know. There were a lot of interesting characters that I added to the ensemble there and Vic’s history is always up for grabs,” Johnson said.

Paul Davis’ Crime Beat column appears here each week. He can be reached via pauldavisoncrime.com.

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Given that City Councilmembers have a or an inside look at what makes base salary of $130,000, and no law stops them Philadelphia politics tick, the corfrom holding a second job, side hustles can ruption trial of union leader John Dougherty and City Councilman become very lucrative. Lowering Council salaries may be necessary, or at least prohibiting Bobby Henon is a godsend. Cutside hustles. Public disclosure isn’t making ting through the campaign sloour politicians any more honest, just more gans, the trial shows how power daring in graft. works behind closed doors. LuckThe bullshit will continue until voters ily for the public, the current corruption trial make it stop. is only the first of two trials, with the second If local voters don’t demand politicians do focusing on Dougherty and embezzlement better, they’ll continue to be pathetcharges. More tea is simmering on ic. The nationalization of politics, the stove, waiting to be spilled. where we have to listen to the canWhat’s holding Philadelphia didates for local dogcatcher ponback? What problems work, like a tificate about how much they love cancer, on the body politic? Allow or hate Donald Trump, has had a the federal prosecutors to explain it horrendous effect on local goverall. A few lessons can be drawn so nance. Why should anyone care far: what a local politician thinks about The power of unionism has bred a national issue? Focus on the job at corruption in this city. hand: public transit, housing prices, The acts alleged in the trial crime, economic opportunity and range from the petty to the truly equity—the small issues are the egregious. Getting a refunded paybig ones in local politics. National ment after you get towed for doutalking points distract from asking ble-parking. Calling a hearing to why no one answers when you call harass a corporation so contract 911 in this city, or why criminals negotiations go your way. Demand@ANTHONYHENNEN walk free after assaulting someone. ing L&I issue a stop-work order to It shouldn’t take a federal investiprevent an MRI machine from getgation to shake people out of their stupor in ting installed at a children’s hospital. this city.

It turns out that having union donations Philadelphia deserves better leaders than flowing into your political war chest goes a the corrupt who think only about political dolong way. Many of Councilman Henon’s cornations and a cushy job. ruption accusations are rooted in his connecWe have a decades-high murder rate, a tion to IBEW Local 98.

The prosecutor’s case against Henon shows growing rent crisis, and a city struggling to him as either too intimidated to go against move beyond poverty and dirty streets. It’s union wishes for the greater good of the city, morally abhorrent that some City Councilmembers cater to union jabronis settling or too comfortable with an extra $70,000 salary in his pocket thanks to a no-show job for scores while ignoring their duty to work for the common good. the union. Organized labor is a big deal in Is this the best that the city’s Democratic Philadelphia, as Dougherty’s lawyer Henry machine can produce? Why have so many Hockeimer noted last Thursday, as noted in other City Councilmembers (aside from Mathe solid coverage of the trial by WHYY. Unria Quiñones-Sánchez) remained silent about fortunately for the people of the city, there are Henon and not called for his resignation? The few restraints on labor power to control govbest-case scenario here is that our city is run ernment action to their advantage.

Local politics is less about civic duty and by cowards.

“All our municipal governments are more more about personal gain.

The Democratic dominance of Philadelphia or less bad, and all our people are optimists,” muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens wrote has eliminated political competition. With Rein 1903. “Philadelphia is simply the most corpublicans in this city either too weak-willed rupt and the most contented.” It’s contented, or too incompetent to lead a push for reform, he noted, because “Philadelphia is proud; the Democratic Party serves as a cash magood people there defend corruption and chine for the unprincipled rather than a party for the people. Sure, there are some reformers boast of their machine.”

Perhaps one day, Steffens will be proved who care deeply about making Philadelphia a better place, but they have an uphill battle wrong. With any luck, led by good people of character who want a better city and not a to undermine those like Bobby Henon on City better paycheck, that day will come soon.

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un God, a Philly indie rock outfit, released their second full-length LP, “Gentle Day,” earlier this month. Originally conceived by Jordan Smith (voice, rhythm guitar) and Mike Paulshock (voice, lead guitar) nearly a decade ago, Sun God showcases their daydream-laden buoyancy while achieving a more expansive sound with the addition of Will Hochgertel (bass) and Steve Kurtz (drums).

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“Gentle Day” is specifically inspired by how the album came together. How can people get the album? aughts-era indie rock, ‘90s college rock, Mike Paulshock: As Jordan mentioned, ‘80s powerpop, and a healthy dose of hometown nostalgia. The album was recorded in we started getting a little more serious about September 2020 at the Bunk in Henryville the band after Will and Steve began playing with Matt Schimelfenig, and mastered by with us. We’d recorded and released a handIan Farmer at the Metal Shop with artwork ful of songs with them, but as we kept writby fellow Schuylkill County native Russell ing and writing, we realized we had a full album’s worth of songs ready to go.

Edling.

We booked nine days to record 13 songs (11 PW recently caught up with the band to of which made the cut) with our friend Matt talk about its music.

Schimelfenig at his studio in the Poconos How did Sun God come together? How called the Bunk. We had a blast recording, did you pick the name?

Jordan Smith: Once I moved to Philadel- but we definitely had our work cut out for us to churn out 13 songs in a little over a week. phia around 2013, Mike began taking me to a We also enlisted the help of a friend, Ian ton of DIY Philly shows at venues like Golden Tee House, Ava House, and random base- Farmer, who mastered the album at the Metal Shop, and had another friend, Russell ments.

Edling, create the artwork for the album.

Watching bands during this time was a Overall, we couldn’t be happier with the huge inspiration to both of us. Mike was alend result. The album is available on all ready a musician for years, so once I learned some cowboy chords, we began writing to- streaming platforms, and we had 200 records gether and haven’t stopped since. After a cou- pressed in Philadelphia by a small-run pressple years of fiddling around, Will and Steve ing plant called Softwax. You can purchase the record at our bandcamp link joined the band to create the precise (sungodpa.bandcamp.com).

Sun God order.

What’s the Philly music scene Around this same time, Mike was BY: EUGENE very into Egyptian mythology, so ZENYATTA like these days? How has the city, it’s music, its culture, etc. influwe tagged the name “Sun God” onto enced your music? our lo-fi bedroom recordings. In Steve Kurtz: Philadelphia has had retrospect, I’m glad we stuck with the name because our vibe of jangly/indie/ a big influence on our music. The DIY scene alone has helped us get our start by playing beach rock has represented the name in a cool way that embodies the classic Sun God house shows and art space venues, and also beginning to network with other artists in sound.

The band started about a decade ago. and outside of Philly.

It’s a unique vibe here, too. There’s so What have been some of the highlights of the past 10 years? What’s still on the much creativity and life in this city that blends together to influence us. We certainly band’s bucket list?

Jordan Smith: Truthfully, the fact that have our style of music that we stick to when writing, but our individual experiences here anyone listens to our music is a highlight for us! We find it super important to include our over the last 10 years work their way into friends and community in everything we do the writing. These days it’s a little tougher to play shows, but the scene is just as supportwith the band, so getting to be creative with a ive as ever! swath of people is super fulfilling.

What’s ahead for you now that the Recording the latest record with Matt Shimelfenig (Three Man Cannon, Gladie) at new album is out? Any live performances his studio, The Bunk, was a huge highlight planned? More new music?

Will Hochgertel: We just keep spending for us. He has been a musician/producer that time together and writing/recording songs. we’ve admired for years, and the experience Sometimes we try to push our songwriting was perfect in every way.

Looking ahead, our goal is to just contin- abilities with different goals – for example, after we finished recording “Gentle Day,” we ue to write music together, have fun, and collaborate with friends. Getting signed to a wrote and recorded the song “Obvious Mulabel would be dope, but honestly as long as sic” in one day, start to finish. It was a fun we’re enjoying playing music with each oth- way to try something new and make commitments quickly in our writing. er, that’s all that matters to us!

We’re playing at Ortlieb’s in Northern LibWhat inspires you to make music?

Will Hochgertel: The community of peo- erties on Nov. 21 – this will be our first live ple who write, play and record music has al- show in a very long time and we’re really ways inspired us. It’s one of the best ways to looking forward to it!

What are the best ways for your fans to spend time with people and share a very intistay connected to what Sun God is doing? mate side of yourself.

Steve Kurtz: We’re on Instagram, TwitSome of our friends are our favorite musicians and artists, and seeing them create ter, & Facebook, and our media handle is @ beautiful music is the most inspiring thing sungodpa. We’re pretty active on Instagram so that’s the best way to catch all the latest to us.

Your second full-length LP, “Gentle updates. Also, our music is streaming online on Spotify and Bandcamp!

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n October 21 at 7 pm. at South he’s worked throughout the past five decades Philly’s 2300 Arena, J Russell and pore over the minutiae of the 1,000-plus boxing events he has promoted, honestly (a Peltz will do what he’s done true rarity in the fights biz) – including over for 50-plus years: He’ll talk 40 world championship fights – all boxing, extensivewhile recalling each-and-every dely and in painful, tail: “Every round, every conversaglorious, pulpy, staBY: A.D. tion, every travesty, and every scantistical, fiduciary AMOROSI dal,” Peltz writes. detail, just as he did Ray Didinger, this city’s beloved in his first book, the and preeminent sports writer and newly-published “Thirty Dollars and multimedia commentator currently a Cut Eye.” He’ll screen some of his hosting at 94WIP Sports Radio and analyzing most memorable Philly-area fights that he’s football for NBC Sports Philadelphia, is celpromoted since 1969. He’ll heartily welcome ebrating his own golden anniversary in the fellow fight enthusiasts, boxers old and young, trainers, corner men, and cut men with whom game (with the recently-published “Finished

ABOVE: Eugene ‘Cyclone’ Hart and Bennie Briscoe sign for their Nov. 18, 1975, match, which ended in a 10-round draw. The fight was rated the second-best fight in the world that year by British-based Boxing News.

The Thrilla in Manila (Ali-Frazier) was first. Image | Courtesy of J Russell Peltz and Michelle Rosado COVER: Philly’s Joltin’ Jeff Chandler, a former world champion, is pictured with J Russell Peltz. Image | Courtesy of J Russell Peltz and Michelle Rosado

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PHILADELPHIAWEEKLY.COM @PHILLYWEEKLY Business: My Fifty Years of Headlines, Heroes, and Heartache”), and has been friends with Peltz since they were at Temple University starting in 1964. “Freshmen together, and journalism students together since day one, even down to being with the daily Temple News,” says Didinger. “I was sports editor one year, he the next, and became good friends ever since…. He was so passionate and knowledgeable about boxing. I can remember going to J Russell’s house in Lower Merion. The first thing he showed me was this archive, his library of scrapbooks, magazines, old films and VHS tapes of fights from over the years. I know he’s viewed each one repeatedly. And he knows where each tape is, where each punch lands, and loves nothing more than pulling out a Rocky Marciano vs. Jersey Joe Walcott film and watching it for the 20th time. That’s when I realized that J Russell isn’t just a fan.

He’s living this thing.”

Peltz agrees that he, his mind’s eye and his level of total recall are invaluable encyclopedic tools. Not only as a boxing promoter, but as a writer.

“The book has it all,” says Peltz from his eponymous-titled boxing promotions office near Eastern State Penitentiary on Brown Street. Peltz’s voice is calm, collected and soothing, not the sort you would expect to set up boxing matches and hawk men beating their brains out. “It’s all about the facts, the figures, the finances. I saved every contract, every profit-and-loss statement, every video, poster and program. Nothing was off limits.

When I spoke with over 30 of the men who boxed for me, some of them had nice things to say – others, not so much. Some told me they wish they had stayed with me. Others said that I didn’t do right by them. That if I had been more about fighters than fights, I would have been a better promoter. Either way good and bad, it’s all in there.”

It’s true. J Russell Peltz can take a punch, even if it is just metaphorically.

“Look, for most of the century, boxing was among the three major sports – boxing, baseball and horse racing, and Philly was at the forefront of all of them. Books like mine have never been written, as boxing books are just about who-hit-who. Nobody ever went behind the scenes as to how those fights came about, a real insider’s history of boxing in Philadelphia. It was an amazing era for sports, especially boxing, in this city.”

The Weekly’s, however, isn’t just a story about a book, no matter how bloody or absolute, no matter how deep in the weeds Peltz had to get into local politics and sports politics. It’s a story about a life of punches to the face and the labanza, of what it means to stand toe-to-toe, alone, mano et mano, with another fighter for survival – and be the guy behind the guy that makes it happen, even when the sport goes in-and-out of fashion. And, OK, there will be blood, too.

An era. That’s how Peltz and I start this conversation – with 50 years of boxing’s domi-

nance as something past. Because he calls the Philly boxing era a “was,” tells me that Peltz (like so many of us) knows that the sport has lost its luster on a national level, as well as a local level.

“You mean, ‘why has it faded… disappeared, become a niche sport,’” he laughs. “Hey, boxing is not what it used to be, and never will be again. The proliferation of world champions is a huge problem. Say, there were no playoffs in baseball this year. Each champion of every different division would walk around claiming that they were the champs. You’d never know who ‘the best’ was because they didn’t play each other – that’s what happened to boxing.

The best fighters don’t fight each other. That’s the number one reason that boxing has receded from the national picture. The death of newspapers hurt boxing, too. There were several editions where sports fans were dedicated to reading about baseball or football as it happened – and of course they saw boxing results too, which were plentiful. When the dailies died, fans of each sport go to their respective websites now – there’s no crossover. There’s a whole generation of sports editors in their 30s who have no idea of the history of boxing,

how big this city was, or how to write about it.… When I was a kid, I could name all of the lightweight champions backwards – from Carlos Ortiz in 1961 to Benny Leonard in 1919. I can’t even tell you who the top three are today, and I’m a historian. All I cared about, coming up, is the Gillette Friday Night Fights. Plus, 95 percent of the money in boxing is being generated by 5 percent of the people boxing now.

When I see boxing today, it is not the sport I fell in love with. Now, it’s a money grab, two guys playing chess and moving the rooks around, not about who is the best, but rather who can make the most money with the least risk.”

So, there’s that.

Peltz makes note of a Floyd Mayweather or an Anthony Joshua making millions per fight.

But, boxing’s middle class – just like in the everyday class wars – is dead. “Everybody wants to be undefeated and waits to fight in a payper-view show. In the days when there was only one champion in each division of eight divisions, the only way to get up was to beat the guy ahead of him, and ahead of him, and ahead of him. Now, there’s four champions in each of 17 weight classes. There are now

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five weight classes between 106 to 115 pounds.

Why not just have a title for every pound on the scale? Besides, no one wants to broadcast fights unless they’re title fights or the boxers are undefeated?”

Peltz’s take-away from all this, currently, is that no one cares about boxing’s fans – being fair with ticket prices and putting together exciting, daring matches that were prevalent in the past; something for which he is renowned and beloved. “No one was a matchmaker on the level of J Russell,” says Joe Hand Jr., the son of Joe Hand Sr. and the president of the self-named, family-run Philly promotions company started in 1971.

Peltz hasn’t taken out a promoter’s license in two years, and isn’t actively running his own fights, at present – instead opting to consult and advise on fights, fighters and matches (Joe Hand Promotions uses J Russell’s services, for example, as does Michelle Rosado’s Raging Babe Promotions), along with managing “a few kids because I’m trying to help them,” he says.

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J Russell Peltz is pictured at the November 1970 pre-fight physical for the Bennie Briscoe-Harold Richardson fight. Image Courtesy of J Russell Peltz and Michelle Rosado

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RUMBLE, FROM PAGE 9 “They kept me out there, pumped up and hustling,” says Peltz of Rosado and Hand Jr. “Right now, I’m helping Joe Hand with his upcoming matches at Live! Casino in November (the debut boxing event at the intimate 1,200seat hall on Nov. 18 starring South Philly’s homegrown heavyweight phenomena, Sonny Conto). With boxing venues few-and-far-between, Hand. Jr. is thrilled to be part of South Philly’s sports complex’s newest venture.

“Ever since the Blue Horizon closed, the city’s boxing enthusiasts, all of its players, have been looking for something to replace it,” notes Hand Jr. “While nothing can ever take its place, we’re certainly excited about newer venues like the 2300 Arena, Parx Casino and now, Live! – all special.” With Hand Promotions’ core business being close circuit TV events and selling pay-per-view screenings to bars and restaurants, and the Cordish Company being hands on when its Live! was being built, Hands, Sr. and Jr., became an instant part of the casino’s entertainment plans.

As entertainment and Peltz go hand-inhand, Hand Jr. says that whenever his company does a show, he asks that “Russell, if he is so inclined, does the matchmaking. If there is one thing that I have learned from seeing thousands of fights in my time, there is – beyond a doubt – nothing like a J Russell Peltzmade show. His matches are terrific. He’s been helping me, personally, since we started doing Parx, always gracious.”

The daily grind of boxing promotion – that’s over for Peltz. “I’ve been consumed by writing the book. It’s been my whole life since COVID started, which was fortunate only because the pandemic followed right after my 50thanniversary show. The stress of getting called on Tuesday for a Friday night main event because he got cut, or he disappeared, or he doesn’t want to fight this other guy because he’s too tall, because he needs to be in the blue, and not the red corner, or because he doesn’t want to fight a guy on somebody else’s turf – I don’t miss the scramble.”

Peltz jokes about how the Whiz Kid-era Phillies had a manager, Eddie Sawyer, who came back to the team in 1960-61, but quit after opening day. When asked why he got out of the game by a local sportswriter, Sawyer said that he was 49 years old and wanted to live to see 50. “I say to you that I’m 74 and want to live to see 75,” laughs Peltz. “Let someone else have a turn at such aggravation.” Besides, Peltz just got back some of the first reviews of “Thirty Dollars and a Cut Eye,” and was told, by one scribe, that he was a better writer than a promoter.

Didinger says the difference that Peltz has made to the sport and the scene of boxing comes down to passion (“He was a great sportswriter and editor, and could’ve been a columnist if he chose”), proximity (Philly’s boxing haven, the Blue Horizon, was right down the street from Temple’s campus on

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North Broad) and self-determinate destiny.

“He always pointed at the Blue Horizon with a ‘there it is,’ and he just knew that he would be there. That was a goal he set for himself, and the year after we graduated – as much as we had laughed about it – there I was, standing in line to get into the Blue Horizon for his first show, Bennie Briscoe vs. Tito Marshall.

His name was on the poster outside. And I bought my ticket at the box office from his mother and father who were working the window. Even though we were friends, nobody got comps. ‘It’s a business, Raymond-o,’ he used to tell me.”

What Didinger admired about Peltz was that, in a business where so many want to cut corners (“and game the system”), Russell never did that. “Russell was an honest boxing promoter. Maybe the first. Certainly, the last.

He revered the sport. Cherished its history.

And, as a promoter, he kept it clean. He ran honest shows. He thought he had ownership of some fighters along the way, he never paved their way to success. If you were going to fight for Russell, his idea was that he was going to make good fights. Russell was a straight shooter, and honest – even if that was something that those who were less honest didn’t want to hear. That’s how he did business” Boxing is legendary for having owners who had fighters, and would attempt to handpick their opponents with a focus on knowing who their guys could beat, pile up wins, and move up in the rankings, and make money. “Sometimes that has been in a dishonest way,” notes Didinger. “That’s when it is in the interest of the fighter and their management and not, say, the sport.”

For Peltz, his fighters had to earn that.

“You had to do that yourself without Russell paving your way. If you were fighting for Russell, whether he had a piece of you or not, you were going to fight good fights,” says Didinger.

You had to fight your way there. And Russell took real pride in being a great matchmaker.

He’s always been true to making good, entertaining fights. And he’s handled some great fighters, whether it is neighborhood guys all the way up to the Roberto Durans and Tommy Hearns. The best boxing promoter in Philadelphia, ever, was the guy I went to school with.”

While Peltz’s present is filled with writing and “Thirty Dollars and a Cut Eye,” certain Philly boxers of his past, winning or losing, stick out for the promoter after 1,000-plus fights. But why? What differentiates a bantamweight like Baby Kid Chocolate from a middleweight such as Bennie Briscoe (Peltz’s first fight promotion), from his “hot-and-cold relationship” with junior lightweight Tyrone Everett (especially his still-controversial title battle with Alfredo Escalera) from Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Emile Griffith, Thomas Hearns, Aaron Pryor, or Joltin’ Jeff Chandler?

“Well, it wouldn’t be Baby Kid Chocolate,” Peltz says when I bring up the North Philly boxer who battled in Philly’s rings 20 times between 1973 and 1983 with a 19-7 / 8 KO record and a rep as a mini-Joe Frazier. “Ben-

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From 1962 to 1982, he had 66 wins, 53 by KO, 24 losses and 5 draws. Briscoe and Hagler fought a 10-round-fight at the Spectrum, no bullshit titles with no TV, and drew 15,000, the largest indoor crowd in Pennsylvania for a non-championship fight.”

Boxing’s most colorful characters at present – like a Gabe Rosado, a great local fighter with a style and personality reminiscent of Philly’s greats – are few and far between, and even pale in comparison to those fighters of the past such as a Foreman, or the eternal showman, Muhammad Ali. Peltz, however, puts this down to the current crop of sportswriters who don’t know how to find, and tell a good story.

“The writers don’t care or can’t imagine that some stories out there could come from people in the fight game,” says Peltz. “Most up-and-coming neighborhood fighters aren’t guys who came up through the colleges where they had to take classes in underwater basket-weaving. C’mon. They come from poor backgrounds – sports’ blue-collar workers – and don’t often have the same thrill as someone playing the main room in Vegas or Madison Square Garden. I’d like to see someone report from small boxing clubs in Corpus Christi, Texas, Ames, Iowa or even smaller local Philly clubs now, and report what it’s like to get hit in the face three, four times a day, then go out, fight for $500 or $700, and support themselves or a family – even having full-time jobs on the side like Bennie Briscoe, who had a rat control business. They all worked after they made it, save for Joe Frazier.”

Besides, there’s a difference – today – between a Philly fighter and a fighter from Philly. Among the fighters in town now, Peltz seems enthusiastic about Boots Ennis, the undefeated local welterweight. “He hasn’t been up against the best, but neither had George Foreman until he fought Joe Frazier,” Peltz says. “Sonny Conto? If he’s handled right, he’ll make more money than Boots Ennis.

He’ll be the hottest ticket in the city – an Italian heavyweight from South Philly. You can’t script that better.”

One thing we save for the close of the conversation is the eternal why: why the hell get into boxing promotion in the first place?

For someone such as Joe Hand Sr. and Jr., coming up in the game along with Peltz has helped define what boxing in Philadelphia has looked like since Russell started in 1961 and Joe Sr. commenced his promotions company in 1971. “Look, our families have known each other for 50 years,” says Joe Hand Jr., who, as of Oct. 21, will celebrate 50 years in the business. “Making it a career for myself, and what I see in Russell and my dad, are two guys who absolutely love and respect the business of boxing. They are the greatest ambassadors for this sport. Russell is always thinking about the fans and their experience – and I know my dad is the same. Both of those guys have

touched, introduced and-or exposed so many people to boxing in this city, hundreds and thousands of fans, over 50 years. That’s truly an accomplishment.”

For Peltz, it was because boxing was in his blood. Upon that realization in 1967, he did anything and everything in his power to make it happen. “When you’re 22, you’re antsy. I remember my wife – at the time, she wrote for the Inquirer – asked me what made me think I could do that, become a boxing promoter. I told her that we were young, I had $5,000 in the bank, I’ll blow it in six months, and I’ll have a hell-of-a scrapbook to show our kids about the time Dad was a boxing promoter.

An independent promoter today can’t do that – take that chance, even with a winner, a legit fighter – without television. Not with their own money. You’d have to kick over half of his contract to ESPN, Fox, DAZN or, to a lesser-extent, DeLaHoya with Golden Boy. It’s a closed shop.”

That Peltz, the promoter, did it all cleanly and fairly – it is his reputation in the boxing biz, and his detail-heavy book’s emotional core. The writer-turned-promoter-turned-writer gets a choke in his throat telling a story about his now-late son, Matthew, at age 14. J Russell had just returned home from the office – the ring – when Matthew Peltz asked his father about why sportswriters wrote terrible things about most boxing promoters, accusing them of stealing fighters’ money, fixing the rankings, and paying off officials and referees. “‘But when they write about you, Dad, it is all good, and cool,’” recalls Peltz. “Money can’t buy that. I think I got a fair shake from the papers, the state athletic commissions, from people who don’t or won’t bend the rules. I’d rather have it that way than open season, and Greg Sirb is – head and shoulders – the finest commissioner we’ve had in my time, and that includes Howard McCall, Zack Clayton, Jimmy Binns, Frank Wildman, George Bochetto. Sirb’s the guy. People call Sirb crazy, but you know what? To be in boxing, period, you have to be crazy.”

With promoters as individual as the boxers themselves, what made or makes Peltz a singular entity within that? What is his signature?

“I was always more about pleasing the fans than protecting the fighters,” he says frankly about loving the fighters, but being deeply and dearly all about the game. “I promoted fights.

Not fighters. I came from a time where the best survived. When I was a kid, if you didn’t come in first, second or third in, say a track meet, you didn’t get a medal, and you had to learn to deal with it. Today, everybody’s in the protection business in boxing. You’re betting the corner – you clean up. Everybody gets a gold star. Not everybody is in boxing now because it was in their blood from the time when they were kids. That was me. That’s still me now.”

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Since when does L.A. pick Philly’s top cheesesteak? er, Larry Krasner is begging City Council for more money so to better work and collaborate with police – because Philly’s men in blue are dying to work with our DA (then again, Philly was picked for participation in that three-year, federal National Public Safety Partnership program from the U.S. Department of Justice which promises to reduce violent crime by providing intensive training and tech assistance to Philly’s police department. No World Cup, but it’s something).

‘Hamilton’ opens When “Hamilton” opens its long “Philip Cast” North American tour run at the Kimmel Cultural Campus starting Wednesday, Oct. 20, look out for CAPA grad Philadelphian Ta’rea Campbell as Angelica Schuyler, the singing sister-in-law to Alexander Hamilton. Big ups too to the fact that “Hamilton” marks the live, onstage, in-your-face return of theater and the Broadway Philadelphia program to the Academy of Music, the Merriam and Kimmel after more than a year and a half. In “Hamilton” speak, “Huzzah.”

Bryce’s place The Phillies’ right-fielding, beard-donning Bryce Harper’s Blind Barber speakeasy restaubar-meets-barbershop-meets grooming product sales salon is grandly opening on Oct. 22 with a VIP event because BB’s initial debut got a lousy shave due to COVID’s 5 o’ clock shadow. Phew.

Land swap plan While our city awaits its new Amazon facility at Southwest Philly’s Elmwood Avenue old GE plant, apparently William Shatner’s best friend and benefactor, space cadet Jeff Bezos’ Delaware depot is more filled with robot workers than it is human employees on its long delivery and storage lines. Dag. Sixteen tons, man. Also in regard to Southwest/ Eastwick, and twice as scary than robot dominion, is the fact that, all of a sudden, certain city agencies are looking to help out that weird, always-flooded-out and literally toxic neighborhood’s residents (I can say weird and toxic since that is where I’m from) with a proposal presented at the Academy of Natural Sciences: a land swap for those prone to flooding in the Eastwick area for houses of equal value, one where each owner would transfer property rights to the City of Philadelphia in exchange for spanking new homes built on vacant city-owned land. Wherezzat?

That alone sounds scary, as in what undeveloped hell does the city have planned for re-housing Eastwickians? Anyway, these potentially swapped-out old houses in low-lying portions of Eastwick, probably closer to the Philly Airport, are then sold off to a conservation foundation, that has something to do with that same area’s John Heinz Refuge, to be managed. THEN proceeds from any sale would go to build up newer homes, then provide tax credits for anyone who invested in the conservation foundation. My question is WHY NOW, all of a sudden with Amazon coming in from one side (67th Street) and the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University buying in from the other side of Southwest Philly (52 Street and its old unused and vacant warehouse plants). Combine all that with the still recent addition of the city’s Food Distribution Center near Jerry’s Corner, and this area is finally something of a gold mine. Trust no one on this sale. Everything is wet in Southwest.

A land swap isn’t going to keep you dry. Stay leery, SWP. Rex restaurant happenings For those of you unsure of what is happening to the intimate Rex 1516 now that Rex at The Royal’s Southern-inspired flare has infiltrated the still-new redo of the legendary, 1920s-era Royal Theatre on 15th and South Street (that Kenny Gamble once own and sold to its new owners), it is true: Rex 1516 is no more. Rex is the new incarnation, and a swell one it is. Opens Oct 22.

Plaque unveiled Hey, suburban olds. Last week, The Main Point on Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr – the long-shuttered, elegantly intimate home to ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s folkies and rockers from Bruce

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Springsteen to Tom Waits – finally unveiled And, personally, beyond enjoying the extra beard-don-the rumored bronze plaque to commemorate time that he was able to have with his family speakeasythe iconic music venue at 874 W. Lancaster. as a result of travel paused and events non-exgroomingThe event took place at the Kelly Center for istent, Greenblatt rededicated himself to fitng on Oct.Music, Arts and Community in Havertown, ness. “It was all about near-daily Peloton rides itial debutwhile everyone waits on 874’s present owner and weight training, as well as taking a lot of 5 o’ clockto allow the plaque’s installation. hikes on trails throughout Montgomery and Delaware counties. With live concerts canOpening soon celled, I watched a lot of live streaming perforWhen I ran to the new Jasper Johns exhimazon fa-bition for its opening Pop salvo several weeks mances. And while I know I’m not supposed od Avenueago, the proposed Victory Brewing Company to talk about film, I of course watched a ton of Shatner’sat 18th and the Parkway was but a shell of it- films, including classics from the AFI and BFI cadet Jeffself. Now, I’m hearing that all is ret and set, 100 that I had either never seen or hadn’t seen d with ro-from its tables to its window dressings. Immi- for years.” ployees onnent opening indeed.

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hiladelphia Photo Arts Center has rebranded as the TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image. The strategic rebrand, led by Deardorff Associates, comes after a yearlong process of research and discussion surrounding the current state of the media-based image, the evolution of the organization, and the role its members would play in the future of photography, an ever-changing art form.

PW recently caught up with Sarah Stolfa, founder and CEO of the organization, to talk about the center and its new name.

What inspired you to found the photography center 12 years ago? Talk a little about how it all came together and has evolved over the years.

TILT, Institute for the Contemporary Image, was founded in 2009 to support working artists in the Philadelphia community. The goal was to offer affordable access to digital photography equipment so that artists could create and continue their practices of fine-art photography in a very open, artistic, and easily accessible environment.

Since then, we’ve continued to be a place where current trends and practices could be shared through exhibitions, artist lectures, and other formal and informal activities. TILT has always been evolving and learning from our diverse audience base about how to best support a broad range of artistic practices and individuals. Although our origin story is rooted in photography, over the years we’ve expanded to include social practice, video, mixed media, installation art, and other multidisciplinary art forms as part of its core. Our new name reflects this evolution as well – and it gives us the space to continue to evolve.

Why the rebrand now?

The rebrand has been a yearlong process of research and discussion. In some ways the advent of the pandemic gave us the space to deeply consider the current state of the media-based image, the future of the organization, and the role of our artists and members.

The pandemic also asked us to pivot quickly.

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We moved all of our programs, educational offerings, and exhibitions to a virtual space.

This allowed us to reach a broader and more diverse audience and erased any sort of geographical barrier. Other important issues related to equity and inclusion, were a part of this rebranding as well. What we wanted to do with our new name was reflect what we do best: pivot and adapt, challenge the thinking of our guests and our members, and constant artistic experimentation.

We think of the rebrand as an important step in opening up the mission of the organization to better expand both artistic scope and TILT’s audience diversity and reach. Rather than a retraction of core values, a rebranding creates new possibilities to examine organizational procedures and begin considering ways to improve and adapt to other artistic forms that incorporate the image beyond photography.

Our name pays homage to our history, and honoring our roots was an important factor

BELOW: The term tilt refers to the use of camera movements that change the orientation or position of the lens. The new name gives a nod to the history of the discipline and encompasses the strategic change taking place in the organization.

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PHILADELPHIAWEEKLY.COM @PHILLYWEEKLY in This theisrebrand. body text_nimrod The term tilt refers to the use of camera movements that change the orientation or position of the lens. The new name gives a nod to the history of the discipline and encompasses the strategic change taking place in the organization. Since opening in 2009, over 125,000 people have participated in TILT programming. The rebranding will allow TILT to shift its focus to an expanded definition of its brand and approach to its mission to serve an even larger community.

Our most recent exhibit, the first show presented by TILT in our newly reopened gallery space, launched on Oct. 1. “Object Lesson” features renowned photographer and printmaker Richard Benson. The timing of the exhibition coincides with our rebranding. Benson and myself were colleagues, first working together while I was a student at Yale. Together, we created the first photo department digital printing lab at the Yale School of Art. “Object Lesson” is really an homage to what led me to open TILT in 2009.

After I graduated, I returned home to Philadelphia with a specific purpose – to open the organization, which began as one of the first rental digital printing labs in the city.

And as it relates to our name, Benson, as a mentor and educator at Yale, made revolutionary innovations in the techniques and philosophy of printing and reproduction. He was continuously pushing the medium developing new ways to print, reproduce, and work with the image. TILT seeks to do the same thing.

In addition to the new name, what other changes are in the works?

Keeping consistent with the pivots we made in early March 2020, we are continuing to offer virtual education services and programming to audiences in Philadelphia and beyond in addition to in-person education and programming in our classrooms in the Crane Arts building in South Kensington.

The duality of online and offline programming is a change that is going to stick with us long term. It became clear that our mission reached far more than we originally anticipated, and we look forward to working with audiences nationally. Educational offerings at TILT will remain flexible, with shorter terms and staggered course start times to accommodate challenging schedules. We understand that everyone is still juggling a lot between work, home, and personal lives – but we want to make sure that all audiences are able to access our educational offerings.

TILT will continue to build and support our community by increasing our services, such as offering a digital co-working space 24-hours a day, seven days a week, by appointment only. We also are excited to unveil a new membership program, which will emphasize the sharing of skills, knowledge, and artistic practices. The new membership program will offer more opportunities for events, conversations, and collaborations between members. TILT will roll out new

initiatives during the next few months highlighting its commitment to making the arts accessible to everyone, including a sliding scale membership.

What are the short-term and long-term goals for TILT? As always, our goals include providing top-tier educational programming, residencies, events, exhibitions, and public programs accessible to everyone. That includes the long-running TILT programs; Artist Residency Program, Teen Photo Program, Contemporary Photography Competition + Exhibition, and Oh Snap!

We are also partnering with artist, professor, lecturer, and activist Jay Simple for an exhibition of local and national artists that engages audiences with concepts related to social justice, equity and inclusion in the arts. Simple is also creator of The Photographer’s Greenbook (PGB), a resource for lens-based artists and makers to learn about inclusion, diversity, equity and advocacy in the field.

Through Simple’s collaboration, TILT has undergone a series of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives designed to create an organization that better serves our artists, teaching artists, and audiences.

Simple has been an important changemaker and collaborator during TILT’s transition from PPAC. Other changes include an emphasis on financial equity. We are looking at changes such as sliding scale membership plans and financial assistance for classes.The task of achieving financial inclusion asks our members, staff, and audiences to examine our financial positions within larger socio-cultural systems so that we can begin to conceive ways of offering our services so that a wider range of audiences and artists can participate. Community is our point of inspiration, but community must be equitable in order to produce enriching experiences that challenge perceptions and push creative boundaries.

TILT’s goal for the next few years is to increase participation with younger, non-academically trained audiences to assist them in their artistic practices. We look forward to rolling out an exhibition calendar over the next few years that supports artists by connecting them with the professional resources they need to grow their practice, giving them platforms to speak in artist conversation events, and offering fellowships to formulate

socially-engaged programmatic activities that go along with their exhibitions.

Long term, TILT will be focusing efforts on balancing online and in-person events.

Expanding both formats helps us reach new workshop participants from different states so that they can take advantage of TILT’s programming. Accessibility is an important feature of digital learning; we can accommodate more schedules, time zones, and individuals who find our physical location a challenge to reach. Continuing to scale our offerings depends largely on having a strong digital presence.

Whether virtually, in-person, or a combination of both, exhibitions will not stand alone in the gallery. TILT wants to connect with the community -- and that includes making each exhibition a welcoming space and Sarah Stolfa a point of public conversation and artist conversations.

TILT looks forward to deepening and building strategic partnerships and alliances with like minded organizations in Philadelphia and beyond. Our goal is to grow programming capacity and work with others outside of our particular artistic practice. We want to see TILT collaborate with artists and changemakers in other disciplines so that our space is a multidisciplinary space where the cross-pollination of artistic practices can live.

Photography as an art form seems to be changing almost daily. What are some of the trends, and how will TILT integrate those changes into its programming?

TILT will be supporting a more inclusive, younger cohort of non-academically trained artists, which isn’t a trend but a reflection of where we feel arts institutions should be moving toward.

As far as our move toward image-making and away from just photography, we explain it as TILT looking at new possibilities for what the image means and exploring the idea of the image creatively. We view the image as any creative 2D display. It could be on screens, in prints, projections, renderings, the possibilities are endless. The definition of the image is not static; it becomes fluid and open for new possibilities – especially as it relates to technology. Photography as a practice has always been tied to technology. From the first cameras to revolutionary printing techniques to the usage of A.I, the image has had a strong relationship with new technolo-

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gies to change and adapt.

By opening up to the concept of the image, TILT moves into the future of artmaking. To tie it back to Richard Benson, we are pushing for creative explorations. Benson, a master printer himself, once said that printing was dead and screens were the way to go. His comment was incredibly insightful, revolutionary for his time, and also deeply ironic considering his line of work, but Benson was onto something. How we think about the image must always be changing.

Photography is so omnipresent in our culture that it allows for a huge amount of cross pollination across sectors and artists; we see different ways of using the image in pop culture, commerce, media, and fine art. And now with moving to digital spaces, artists are exploring it in ways that are becoming more multi-disciplinary and pushing the boundaries. We want to be a part of those types of cross-pollination efforts.

We’re at the tip of the iceberg of what’s possible, and we’re excited to see what’s next.

What are the best ways for people to, first, get involved in TILT, and, second, stay current with what’s going on with the center?

The beauty of TILT is the wide array of ways to become involved with our organization. We welcome everyone with interest in image-based art practice to become a member. Not only does membership offer a network of like minded creatives to bounce ideas off or gain important skills, as well as opportunities to showcase their work, but it supports our education and programming.

Membership makes it possible for us to offer free artist events and youth education opportunities.

TILT also has educational workshops and courses for all skill levels, both online and in person. We welcome anyone with an interest in photography and image-based art to get involved with a class. Our roster of instructors includes extremely talented artists from our community, giving students the opportunity to learn firsthand from experts in the field.

Outside of membership and educational offerings, we encourage everyone to visit our gallery in the Crane Arts Building and learn more from our team about the current exhibitions and upcoming programming. We always appreciate visitors.

To stay current with our upcoming events and programming, I encourage everyone to sign up for our newsletter and follow our social media pages. We will be routinely expanding our community events and programs and including that information there.

We are aware that the pandemic is constantly changing, but we are dedicated to finding ways to connect this wonderful community of artists and art-appreciators no matter the circumstances. Whether it’s artist talks online or in-person workshops led by guest artists and speakers, TILT exists for, and is inspired by, our community.

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PR stunts, many people still derive great joy My girlfriend and I have been arguing latefrom these one-sided friendships. And rely and it’s getting more and more heated. search shows that we gain many of the same But here’s the kicker: it isn’t even about us! psychological benefits from a parasocial relaHere’s the deal: we were both big fans of tionship as a real world one.

John Mulaney, watched his specials togethCelebrities serve as a symbol upon which er and always said we wanted we can project our understanding to see him live at some point. So of society, relationships and ourwhen I saw that he was coming to selves. We don’t actually know these Philly and asked her if she wantpeople, and the reporting on their ed to go, I assumed she would be lives is sketchy at best, but these excited. Instead, she launches narratives function as a way for us into a rant about how she’s over plebeians to connect with each othhim because of him cheating er and share our worldviews. We’re on his wife and getting another not actually talking about Johnwoman pregnant. I thought she ny Depp and Amber Heard, we’re was kidding, but she was entiretalking about our beliefs in gender ly serious. And now it keeps comand the dynamics of abuse. We’re ing up and we get into these stunot really discussing Jennifer Anispid spats about whether or not DR. TIMAREE ton’s marriages, we’re sharing our his personal life should impact understandings of how we think our enjoyment of his comedy. I “successful” relationships look and @TIMAREE_LEIGH what it means for a woman to not think she’s being ridiculous. It has nothing to do with us and have children. it’s not like he is a These fixations sexual predator on stars are not inor anything. She’s herently unhealthy, not normally a pereither. While intenson to get mad for sity of investment no reason, so I’m in parasocial relathinking I must be tionships as a teenmissing something. ager is associated What are your with lower levels of thoughts? satisfaction in real Ahhh, the good old life romances, there parasocial relationis not necessarily a ship. In exchange for correlation between fame (which presumthese relationships ably translates into and loneliness money and power), among adults. For celebrities make the many, these one-sidFaustian bargain of ed relationships are letting fans believe they “know” them. We ofa welcome respite from the difficulties of our fer our admiration and financial support, and real problems. they must give us access to who they are as In grad school, I developed a curriculum people, far beyond their professional work. that used celebrity gossip to teach adolesEven though modern audiences are savvy cents about issues of sexuality. Taking news enough to understand most of these glimpses coverage of stars’ romances, coming out sto-

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shattered and scrutinizing the veracity of his stated timeline for their romance, while others ridicule those people for being so invested in him. There was even an article about what the Catholic church can learn from his precipitous pedestal toppling.

All that is to say: neither I, you nor your girlfriend know the details of this situation directly. That’s to my knowledge anyway, maybe she was another sidepiece he didn’t leave his wife for. Our reactions to this absolute stranger’s divorce and looming fatherhood will tell us a lot about what we believe and our insecurities, hopes, and fears.

To some, this is further evidence that no man will ever possibly be able to stay faithful forever or it ignites fears that if someone chooses to not have children with a partner, she will be left for someone who is willing to. Maybe that’s the case with your girlfriend. I don’t know.

Perhaps instead of arguing about whether her feelings are ridiculous, this is a chance to inquire about their origin. Next time this comes up, try to approach the conversation with compassion and a curiosity to learn more and you might be surprised to find out this was never really about John Mulaney.

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HONOR MOTHER CABRINI

While Christine Flowers is exercised about Mayor Kenney not respecting the people who built this country by not supporting Christopher Columbus as the discoverer of North America, she might want to check out where Columbus actually did land, because he never set foot in North America. His first foray when he traveled West was to the Caribbean Islands and what eventually became Bermuda. He later explored Central and South America, but he never set foot anywhere near the United States.

If she wants any great Italian, maybe she should consider Mother Frances Cabrini (there is even a college in the Philadelphia suburbs named after her). Mother Cabrini was even advised by the pope to travel to the U.S. to help Italian immigrants, starting catechism and education classes for Italian immi-

grants as well as providing for orphans needs, and in fact Mother Cabrini is the patron saint of immigrants.

Pope Francis said his religious vocation was inspired by Mother Cabrini’s ministry to his family and the Italian immigrant community in Argentina.

Among her many honors, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1996. In 2020, Colorado replaced Columbus Day with Cabrini Day. I’m neither Italian nor Catholic, but I’d be overjoyed if instead of honoring someone who never set foot in North America, we honored this great lady, who founded the Missionary Sacred Heart of Jesus especially to help Italian immigrants in the United States. Mother Cabrini was canonized in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

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From laugh-out-loud to a horror convention, here are a few things we’ll be checking out in the coming days and weeks.

Whitmer Thomas

Whitmer Thomas, the Alabama-born LA-based multidisciplinary artist, has announced a December U.S. tour featuring new material and songs. Thomas’ debut comedy special “The Golden One,” was produced by Bo Burnham, Chris Storer, and A24, and was released by HBO in February 2020 to rave reviews. Catch Thomas Dec. 9 at PhilaMOCA. eventbrite.com

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The Biology of Games

Join Thirsty Dice for The Biology of Games: A night of animal themed games, biologists and board game designers. Speakers include Elizabeth Hargrave, designer of Wingspan; Dominic Crapuchettes, designer of Oceans & Evolution and founder of NorthStar Games; Ana Alonso, second-year PhD student at University of Pennsylvania; and Katie McCluskey, Entomology Research Technician/Lab Manager University of Pennsylvania Dept. Of Biology andMES/ML Dual Candidate. Oct. 21 at 6pm. thirstydice.com

Mohanad Elshieky

Comedian Mohanad Elshieky is headlining Philly Punch Line on Oct. 27. He is a digital producer for “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” and earned his stripes in Portland, where he’s a local favorite. Punchlinephilly.com

The Chinese Lady

Directed by Justin Jain. Featuring Bi Jean Ngo and Dan Kim. In 1834, 14-year-old Afong Moy becomes the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, dreaming of bridging the two countries’ cultures with her political savvy and philosophical prowess. But as she delights curious white people with displays of her daily life, does her (side)show bridge the cultural gap or widen it? Presented by InterAct Theatre Company. The Proscenium Theatre at The Drake. Oct. 29 - Nov. 21. interacttheatre.org

Jim Norton

Jim Norton brings his national standup tour to Helium Comedy Club Oct. 28-31. Norton was recently seen in the Netflix feature film “The Irishman” starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino. He is also featured in the most recent season of Netflix’s standup series “The Degenerates,” which premiered on New Year’s Day 2020. philadelphia.heliumcomedy.com

Monster-Mania Con

Monster-Mania Con is bringing the largest horror convention ever to the Greater Philly Expo in Oaks the weekend of Oct. 22-24. Joining will be: Addams Family star Christina Ricci, horror host Joe Bob Briggs, stars from the Halloween film series, and many more. phillyexpocenter.com

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Caamp

Caamp will be making a stop atThe Fillmore on Nov. 12. Caamp was formed

by Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall, who bonded over a shared love of music, love of home and inspiration they culled from Midwest lives they grew up in. The two began writing together, quickly growing a rabid fan base. thefillmorephilly.com

Looking to enjoy a night out at a concert? Here are a few shows that you’ll want to catch.

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Live music headed our way Najee, Michael Lington and Paul Taylor

Hayes Carll

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Hayes Carll will perform at Ardmore Music Hall on Nov. 2 in support of his highly anticipated album “You Get It All,” out Oct. 29 via Dualtone. Produced by Kenny Greenberg and Alison Moorer, “You Get It All” is the award-winning troubadour’s eighth album and followup to 2019’s critically acclaimed release, “What It Is. What It Is.” wl.seetickets.us

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Unwind and enjoy the smooth jazz sounds of Grammy-nominated saxophonist and flautist Najee and chart-topping saxophonists Michael Lington and Paul Taylor when they perform in The Event Center at Rivers Casino on Nov. 26, at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $49. riverscasino.com

Black Dice

Black Dice is an abstract electronic blues band currently based out of Los Angeles and Madrid, Spain. Formed in 1997, the band has roots in American DIY hardcore culture, evolving to incorporate sonic aspects of dub, techno, hip hop, tropicalia, and musique concrete while maintaining a crude punk aesthetic. Catch them Nov. 9 at 8:30pm at Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. eventbrite.com

Frazey Ford

Frazey Ford released her critically acclaimed album “U kin B the Sun” via Arts & Crafts in 2020. With its graceful collision of soul and psychedelia and sometimes ’70s funk, it’s a body of work that invites both self-reflection and wildly joyful movement, and ultimately sparks a quiet transcendence.

Experience the record live at World Cafe Live on Oct. 29. wl.seetickets.us

Ashnikko

Blue-haired alt-pop superstar Ashnikko has had a huge year with the release of her widely acclaimed mixtape “DEMIDEVIL,” firmly solidifying herself as a 2021 Artist to Watch and proving that she has moved well beyond her viral TikTok days. See for yourself when she plays The Fillmore on Oct. 27. thefillmorephilly.com

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Jinjer

After dropping one of the most anticipated metal albums of the year, “Wallflowers” – which commanded the charts worldwide by achieving No. 1 and top 10 rankings in the U.S. and beyond – Jinjer wasted no time hitting the road in Europe, once again proving that if there is a chance to tour, even in these strange times, JINJER will risk almost anything to give their fans a show to remember See Jinjer on Nov. 24 at TLA. venue.tlaphilly.com

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Live music headed our way Christian Leave

Critically-acclaimed alt-breakout Christian Leave is hitting the road with bedroom pop giant beabadoobee this fall.

Beyond piling up 6 million total streams and counting, his latest EP went straight into the top spots in high-profile playlists.

Find out why when you see him at Union Transfer on Nov. 2. utphilly.com

Hayden Pedigo

Texas guitarist Hayden Pedigo is playing PhilaMOCA on Nov. 2 in support of his new album “Letting Go,” out now via Mexican Summer. His first release on the label, “Letting Go” combines the American Primitive guitar picking styles of John Fahey with experimental sound design and manipulation. The album has gained support from NPR Music, Rolling Stone Country, Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp, and more. philamoca.org

Chris’ Jazz Café

Chris Jazz Café welcomes two stellar acts to its stage in November: The John Pizzarelli Trio and Davina & The Vagabonds on Nov. 5 and 6 and Nov. 26 and 27, respectively. Pizzarelli, the world-renowned jazz guitarist, singer and recent Grammy Award-winning producer, debuted his first solo guitar album of his five decade career a few months ago.

Altoona native Davina Sowers fronts this quirky, high-energy, retro-infused, jazz-meets-blues outfit that was founded in 2006 and has steadily won fans around the globe. chrisjazzcafe.com

Mavis Staples

That message – a clarion call to love, to faith, to justice, to brotherhood, to joy – lies at the heart of “We Get By,” Mavis Staples’ 12th studio album and first fulllength collaboration with multi-Grammy Award-winner Ben Harper. You can see Staples perform Oct. 26 at City Winery. citywinery.com

The Front Bottoms

Fueled By Ramen band The Front Bottoms are currently on the road for their first proper headline tour in support of their critically acclaimed new album “In Sickness & In Flames.”

The tour, which features special guests Oso Oso and Sydney Sprague, will stop at The Fillmore on Oct. 22. thefillmorephilly.com

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Sor Ynéz

The Mexico City-inspired restaurant in South Kensington offers an abundance of plantbased dishes with an authentic Mexican flare, including the meat-less and dairy-free Vegan Mixiote ($18) crafted with eggplant, chayote squash, nopales, carrot, celery root, kale, chipotle sauce, and steamed in banana leaves, served with fried red onions and rice, Sikil Pak ($12) prepared with Mayan pumpkin seed hummus, pomegranate, crudite, and house chips, and Alt Pastor Tacos ($12) composed of spit-roasted cauliflower, red chile, pineapple, salsa verde, onions, and cilantro. 1800 N American St. | 215.309.2582 | sorynez.com Photo Credit: Lexy Pierce

World Vegan Day is right around the corner on Nov. 1, and to celebrate the veg-friendly bash we’re highlighting go-to Philadelphia restaurants offering ridiculously delicious plant-based fare.

World Vegan Day Silk City Diner Bar & Lounge

The eclectic Northern Liberties diner and lounge serves up a satiating vegan fare with starters including Silky Hummus ($9) and Seitan Wings ($12), as well as crowd-pleasing handheld sandwiches including Crispy Maitake Mushroom ($14) crafted with vegan buttermilk marinade, shredded lettuce, tomato, pickles, and vegan poblano aioli, served on a vegan sweet potato bun, and the Impossible Burger ($10) prepared with a 4 oz patty, shredded lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, and vegan thousand island, served on a vegan sweet potato bun. 435 Spring Garden St. | 215.592.8838 | silkcityphilly.com

Square 1682

The modern American kitchen boasts a rich and spice-forward, vegan entrée with the signature Cauliflower Curry ($26) composed of madras curry, coconut milk, crispy chickpeas, and spinach. 121 South 17 th Street | 215.563.5008 | square1682.com

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Triangle Tavern

Triangle Tavern on East Passyunk Avenue, home to more than 160 independently owned businesses in South Philadelphia, offers a plethora of creative, unique vegan friendly fare sure to impress the elite of food enthusiasts with all-vegan dishes including Spaghetti & Meatballs ($15), Seitan Wings ($13), Roast Beef ($12), Cheesesteak ($12), Crab Cake ($11), Red or White Pizza ($12), and much more. 1338 S 10 th St. | 215.800.1992 | triangletavernphilly.com

Sabrina’s Café

The locally grown group of popular restaurants puts a twist on the classic Philly cheesesteak with the meatless and dairy-free, fan-favorite dishes Veggie Philly Cheesesteak crafted with marinated seitan as the base, topped with sautéed onions and long hots served with a vegan cheese on a Sarcone’s roll, and Tofu Scramble prepared with spiced tofu, sauteed onions, bell peppers, spinach, mushrooms, garlic, and shallots. Fairmount | 1804 Callowhill St | 215.636.9061 | University City | 227 N 34 th St | 215.222.1022 | sabrinascafe.com

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