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I have a children’s event compaA professional costume designer ny called A Dash of Magic Events, and theater major, Loeks is putting where I dress up as classic fairythose skills to good use as she dons tale princesses using exquisite cosa variety of different fairy tale printumes, makeup, wigs etc...tapping cess costumes and goes online daily into my training as a professional to read books to children who could costume designer and musical theuse a little inspiration in these unater major. I also have a nonprofit certain times. branch where I volunteer at chilLoeks writes that she’s visited dren’s hospitals, group homes and city schools, hospitals and other other charity events to help cheer places to provide a little magic, but @SPRTSWTR up children in need. like so many of us has had to pivot When the shelter in place and soto a digital model, one that’s not as cial distancing orders came in, I thought about lucrative, but for Loeks I feel is equally as reall the kids at home that could no longer go to warding. school, no longer see their friends, and I came As of today, she’s still providing these serup with an idea to adapt my business and bevices via a nonprofit she started for kids who could benefit from a more personal touch gan doing virtual princess sessions online. We play games, read a story, sing songs and talk from a princess to get one. Right now, she’s ofabout the importance of social distancing, and fering virtual visits for a low-income school or how even princesses are doing it! children who are ill.

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The number of signs from the airport to just past the stadiums for those heading on the northbound side of I-95 serving as a reminder that before COVID-19 put a rubber on plans, porn star Katie Morgan had a residency at Club Risque in South Philadelphia. Katie (Ms. Morgan, if you’re nasty) is on two static billboards and one digital billboard all along what amounts to less than a mile stretch of I-95. Not that we were paying attention to that kind of a thing.

The kid’s got it!

We’re like a proud parent this week, as we found out that the rising music sensation Louis Knight has made it to the Top 10 of ABC’s "American Idol" this week. We told you about Knight months ago when he was just getting started with "American Idol" and fresh off of writing a song about a dear friend who had passed. We knew the Narberth kid had clout, but now it appears the whole country does too, after he sang a cover of Coldplay’s “In My Place” to near perfection.

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The highest in terms of a percentage increase of people watching television in March since stay-at-home protection orders became official. As the level of COVID-19 cases spiked over the course of the month, so did live TV impressions. We confirmed what TV execs knew all along: fear mongering is really good for Nielsen Ratings

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“I know everybody’s got cabin fever and people want to get out, and they want to exercise and I totally get that [but] if you can’t put a mask on, what are you saying about your attitude toward your fellow man and woman and your fellow citizens? So just put the mask on and stay six feet apart.”

– Mayor Jim Kenney on Monday during a discussion about reopening Philadelphia and flattening the city’s COVID-19 curve. Efforts to see a dip in the City of Brotherly Love are slow with cases and deaths in the hundreds happening daily.

Arts. Always the first to go We get that in efforts to stop the bleeding from a revenue gash thanks to COVID-19, the city has to make some tough decisions.

But why is one of the easiest decisions in any budget shortfall to eliminate the arts and arts programs? Mayor Kenney recently announced the plan to nix the Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, which would cease the near $4 million funding for cultural groups through the city. So city officials will cut funding for the arts, but pay OT for cops and city sanitation workers to clean up the mess that is the Mummers Parade on New Year's Day. Yep, makes perfect sense.

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“I haven’t had sex in two months. Look at me, do I look like the kind of girl who does well without it? But it’s impossible to even consider right now. It’s like everytime I’m on a [dating] app, I’m like, ‘he’s cute, does he have it? Oh, he’s sexy as fuck, wait, does he have it?’ This is torture on so many levels.”

— One can hear a lot when waiting in line to go into a post office – two at a time. This was overheard Saturday morning in Fishtown from a woman clearly fed up with the fact that COVID-19 has chewed into her sex life.

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n Feb. 6, former state Rep. Movin a massive complex on State Road in Northita Johnson-Harrell began her east Philadelphia. These prisons cumulatively prison sentence at Riverside housed 4,662 inmates the day before PhiladelCorrectional Facility. This was, phia courts closed (March 16), as of May 4, the in her words “before the shit facilities held 3,685 inmates. hit the fan.” During her time in Inmates of the State Road facilities are not the Philadelphia correctional “the worst of the worst.” Most State Road insystem, Movita kept a mates are guilty of low-level drug ofjournal detailing what was going on fenses, non-violent crimes, or simply around her and took the initiative to BY JASON N. awaiting trial and can’t make bail.

PETERS mail her journal entries home from According to city leaders, as of prison.

March 5, cumulative positive cases in Ironically, Johnson-Harrell was the local prisons stood at 194, with 260 voted by her fellow inmates to represent her tests, so about 74 percent of the inmates testblock and communicate with staff throughout ed came back as positive for the coronavirus. the coronavirus pandemic. On April 1, various Some 29 inmates currently have the virus, inmates chosen as “block representatives” down from 60 last week. The methodology befrom throughout the State Road facilities met hind who gets tested remains unclear. with medical staff and leadership to raise conIn the midst of the coronavirus pandemic cerns and answer questions about the general social distancing, personal protective equipinmate population. ment, and basic hygiene are necessities for Riverside Correctional Facility, the Detenpreventing the spread of the virus. When tion Center, Philadelphia Industrial Correcasked about social distancing in Philadelphia tional Center, and Curran-Fromhold all reside prisons, Abernathy said it was “difficult, if not

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Throughout early April, masks were distributed to both correctional officers and inmates. These masks were made by the inmates from the same material as the inmates’ bed sheets at the State Road facilities. Prison bed sheets are notoriously thin with a thread count between 100 and 180.

One correctional officer raised concerns about how sanitary these masks are, saying the masks were made inside the prison, which contains no fresh air. The facilities on State Road use recycled air.

“You’re making protective equipment for us in a contaminated environment,” the officer said. These masks have now become a mandatory part of CO uniforms. “We were told that we are not allowed to bring in our own PPE.” The prison has currently restricted masks for staff to the allotted “sheet masks” or pre-approved masks that must be “white, blue, or tan.”

Before April 1, inmates were making masks “out of wash rags and shoe strings,” said Johnson-Harrell, who was considered an “essential worker” as a member of the inmate kitchen staff. “Women were taking beard nets, folding up paper towels and putting them inside the beard net and using that as a mask. … I don’t know when other units got their masks, but I got my mask the day before I left, which was April 7. So my unit got masks on April 6.” Johnson-Harrell was held in the G-unit of RCF two cells away from an inmate who died with coronavirus on April 14. Upon release, Johnson-Harrell said she tested positive for Coronavirus.

“A good job is not worth your health,” a CO explained while breaking the strict “no media policy” enforced by the Philadelphia Department of Prisons.

Pandemic fear mixed with the implementation of a lockdown has worn down both inmates and COs. “The prisons were slow in their response to COVID-19. I wasn’t feeling safe in there with their procedures as far as (what) testing offers us and the inmates. I decided to get myself tested, and it turns out I was positive and just asymptomatic,” said one high-ranking CO. He went on to say “the inmates have it worse than us.”

On March 23, the inmates were transitioned from their regular schedule, which grants six to eight hours outside of their cell to “restrictive movement,” which limits the number of people allowed outside their cell at a time.

At RCF, this meant restricting movements to groups of 10.

One officer explained the transition: “Normally, there is one CO for every 63 inmates.

Under restrictive movement, that went to groups of 10-20, then under full lockdown it’s one CO for every 5-10.” The prison switched from restrictive movement to a full lockdown on March 30.

The combination of sick officers missing work, officers who fear going to work for their health, and rigorous lockdown procedures are

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straining both inmates and officers. Under a lockdown, inmates are granted between 30 minutes and one hour outside of their cells, but due to the lack of staff, some inmates have been left in their cells for days at a time.

“They made us pick and choose between using the phone or washing up. It was either-or,” said an inmate held in Curran-Fromhold.

“They would have us in chains and then escort us in chains that were used on other prisoners, but not sanitized.”

Malik Neal of the Philadelphia Bail Fund compared the lockdown conditions to “psychological torture.” The Philadelphia Bail Fund has posted bail for 115 people since March 16. Neal went on to say, “The conditions in Philadelphia jails are deplorable in normal times, and the fact that some city officials are trying to pretend that in the midst of a pandemic, these same facilities are now

adequately addressing the concerns of those incarcerated is the height of absurdity.”

Lockdown forces officers to work much more difficult shifts. Rather than supervising 100 inmates in teams of two, they must constantly rotate inmates to and from their cells. President of Union Local 159, which represents correctional officers, Greg Trueheart, said, “The prison wasn’t prepared, the city wasn’t prepared, and the world wasn’t prepared for this.”

Dr. Thomas Farley, commissioner of the Philadelphia Health Department, explained in a recent mayor’s daily press conference, “We do not have the ability to test everyone in the congregate facilities.” He regularly cites the lack of testing available, which comes from a combination of cost issues and production issues.

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told to come back to work. For instance, employees were in the hospital with ventilators, hooked up to machines, and once they get out of the hospital, they are being asked to report back to work. That’s how bad it is, we’re not even getting re-tested,” said an officer who tested positive.

Trueheart explained, “They can use personal time. If they are out of personal time, they can take leave without pay.” Correctional officers fear that taking leave without pay may cost them their jobs. Additionally, the officers are not receiving hazard pay.

On April 24, Eric Hill, business agent for Local 159, formally addressed the prison leadership about concerns regarding contact tracing. “Contact tracing is not happening,” said one CO. Commissioner of Philadelphia Department Prisons, Blanche Carney, responded by laying out the guidelines set forth by the prison system and Prison Safety Officer Patrick Gordon.

Officers and union leadership are not confident that these guidelines are being followed.

Inmates, the officers who guard them, union leadership, and groups like the Pennsylvania Prison Society & Philadelphia Bail Fund all cite “lack of transparency” and “poor communication” as major factors in prison conditions. Carney’s office declined to comment for this article.

The state of Pennsylvania does not fund any formal prison oversight. The Pennsylvania Prison Society is the only independent organization providing oversight for the PA prisons.

The Pennsylvania Prison Society is a nonprofit that employs eight people. Of those eight, there are two employees tasked with monitoring conditions for 76,000 inmates across 25 prisons.

To put that into perspective, New York State funds the Correctional Association of New York, which is given $127,000 annually to provide oversight for the 48,000 inmates in state prisons along with an annual $2.9 million for oversight of the 8,000 inmates in New York City prisons.

Lack of oversight, combined with a delayed response to the coronavirus, has turned the Philadelphia prisons into a vessel of fear, illness, and confusion.

How do you protect yourself from a virus when social distancing is not possible? How do you restrain an inmate without touching them? How can you know that you’re safe without adequate testing?

Only hindsight will reveal the full effects of the virus. As Americans experience unprecedented isolation through quarantine, inmates of Philadelphia prisons are experiencing even harsher conditions than they likely ever expected.

Correctional officers fear for their safety and the safety of the families that they go home to each night while the union fights for clarity on their behalf.

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Philly streets keep people healthy Fresh air has become a luxury, and lifeline, in the time of COVID-19. With parks closing in cities across the U.S. and the orders to stay inside extending into the foreseeable future, getting fresh air from walking outside has become an important ritual of our day-to-day.

Accessing the outdoors, particularly in urban areas, is not just important to our physical well-being, but for our mental health, as well.

Some try to avoid crowded sidewalks by walking at odd hours of the day, while others use databases for finding wide sidewalks to navigate cities.Those who run or cycle look to community groups, like #PRSOLO through Philadelphia Runner, to be motivated to go outside for regular fresh air and exercise.

But the importance of fresh air – and the space to get it during outbreaks of disease – is not something novel to this pandemic. The closing of Martin Luther King Drive to make room for cyclists, runners and walkers to practice safe outdoor distancing is an aspect of urban infrastructure that is baked into the blueprints of Philadelphia.

From its inception, the planners of Philadelphia wanted fresh air to be available to citizens, even those living in the heart of the city. William Penn and his first town surveyor, Thomas Holme, planned some of the famous details of Philadelphia: the grid-like streets, the public squares, and the tidy blocks for houses to line. The way the streets were structured was not solely for ease of movement, but more specifically for openness and to prevent disease in the city.

Penn was a witness to both the Great Plague of London in 1665 and the Great Fire that decimated the city a year later. The small, winding and cramped streets that made up most of early modern London were identified as contributors to these catastrophes. After looking at the failures of the past, Penn decided to improve upon earlier urban plans by making Philadelphia’s major streets much wider than many

of the cities of the 17th century. The main avenues were built to be 100 feet across, the streets along the river were 60 feet wide, and all other roads were 50 feet in diameter. He hoped that this improvement would prevent city-wide fires. Equally so, he wanted the open streets to provide fresh air and space to keep Philadelphians healthy.

The perceived correlation between good streets and good health continued into the 18th century. Benjamin Franklin looked to the upkeep of streets to keep 18th-century Philadelphians healthy. In the 1750s, Franklin was tired of the dirty streets turning to mud in the winter and dust in the summer – both of which left shoes and clothing covered in dirt as it was tracked into stores and homes. In 1757, after discussing the idea with the citizens in his area of town, Franklin proposed a bill to pave the streets of Philadelphia and have it cleaned on a weekly basis. In his autobiography, Franklin notes the happiness of his neighbors when they saw the upkeep of the streets: “All the inhabitants of the city were delighted with the cleanliness of the pavement that surrounded the market, it being a convenience to all, and this rais’d a general desire to have all the streets paved.” In the 17th and 18th century, people looked to street infrastructure to keep people healthy. In the 21st century, we look to them as opportunities to get fresh air and exercise to keep us healthy.

The decision to make space for pedestrians to safely move about outside is something built into the history of Philadelphia. Policies closing roads to make more room for pedestrians are echoes to some of the earliest infrastructural plans that Penn and his team envisioned. In a place that has seen many outbreaks of disease, from yellow fever to the 1918 flu, and now COVID-19, looking to Philadelphia’s urban policies and infrastructures of the past might be one way to support the health of the city today.

Molly Nebiolo is a history PhD candidate at Northeastern University. She studies health and well-being in early colonial cities.

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PRIORITY POSTING Everyone has an opinion – especially on Twitter. We welcomed it all and chose some of what we thought were the most interesting Philly-based tweets we read this week to share with you. Enjoy.

Choose an attitude of gratitude. Your days will flow much smoother. #gratitude #dailygrind #philly #abundance #possibilities #realestate #realtor @Shinda_RE

@60Minutes. 1,300 people last month at a #Philly virtual job fair. People who lost their businesses and jobs, some of have never been unemployed and have gone to food banks. Some are waiting for PPP but can’t get any money. Some people can’t get a hold of unemployment. @David_LaTorre

One thing I have definitely been able to appreciate through all of this is a slow-moving Spring. #philadelphia #philly #phila #phl #realestate #realtor #copperhillrealestate #copperhillre… @RealEstateinPHL

...if you take the time to look around and ask some questions about what you see, you might tune in to some surprising echoes of the past. #philly #westphilly #localhistory @WhitneyMartinko

#Trump went to skool in #Philly, I know riding #SEPTA has always been about #SocialDistancing. #SEPTA and #PA #unemployment checks are not dun by #ME or #Congress. My #COVID19 policy is let state and local governments screw up so people (voters) can’t blame #Trump. I hate #Blame. @ RealFakeDonal11 When I moved to #philly ppl warned me the east coast was unfriendly, but I was met with warmth and kindness almost universally. Now, back in #colorado it’s hot or miss whether on walks/ runs I am met with kindness or alternatively hostility/rudeness. Not so #coloradical are we? @srajabi

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Ignore the nonsense here and absolutely get a bike. #Philly has dedicated bike Lanes and the largest inner city park system in North America. Check #bustletonbikes, a great local business.

Oh....and #goBirds @FrankieNoodles

It’s about time the @PhillyGOP supports & endorses a conservative. The last election in November was a mess, time to wake up #Philly or face the pain inflicted by the progressives in charge!

No more #SanctuaryCity bs especially when our citizens are suffering from the preventable @MASEnergyLink

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Lines. I bust them. Grapes. Yeah. I taste them before I buy them. Got a problem?

That said, weighing as I am on caution’s side, I’ve been wearing masks, scarves, bandanas and schmatas on my face since the onset of C-19, and will continue to do so, more than likely, forever when outdoors. Whether I’m doing it for my safety or yours (OK, my safety), it makes sense to mask up considering the unanswerable questions of what an airborne virus can do.

So WTF are people doing bouncing down the street without masks? The mayor and our city’s managing director claimed during one of their morning press meetings that they’ll up the ante on fines for those who violate coronavirus-related restrictions. I know the fine and the threats of being taken to court is meant to be levied on workplaces like freshly re-opening construction sites, but can we extend it to the messy families, sloppy shoppers and ditzy millennials who bounce through my Italian Market neighborhood – and surely yours as well? Krasner won’t enforce the fining, but at least I’LL KNOW they tried.

Love from Philly Some $80,000 and counting: that’s how much money was raised, so far, during this weekend’s Love from Philly virtual musician shut-in fest with The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile, Low Cut Connie, Ursula Rucker, Bahamadia, Res, John Oates, RJD2, Schoolly D and more.

Yes, I was a Sunday afternoon host from my garden, as was Fox-Philly’s Alex Holey, and if you’re in a giving mood, still, hit up https:// lovefromphilly.live/ and touch the red button in the right TOUCH IT.

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Now, they’ve returned with a joint full-length, the aptly titled “True Opera,” and a fresh video for the LP’s first single, “Look Alive.” Start hunting and pecking.

Dispatched The Philly-filmed “Dispatches From Elsewhere,” the AMC series from Jason Segal, finally ended last Monday with sweetness and light. And no second season apparently – though we should note that the filmmakers did conclude their run with a big “THE END” at its finale. So is this the rare case where the phrase “limited series” actually sticks to its guns?

Hopefully. It was good for a minute, until it got boring, and perhaps this finale should stand as a testament to Segal storytelling abilities AND his way with making Philly.

Biker’s batch Allan Lane, aka Mr. Black Moses, the Philly biker dude behind Dosage mag and HKME, aka Hard Knocks Motorcycle Entertainment, which publishes niche moto-mag titles such as SportBikes Inc,. is making and selling his own coffee. Check out his www.hardknocksmoto.com site and buy into the rich aromatic biking-based blends such as “Get Shit Done” Colombian roast, his “Life is Hard” breakfast blend (man, that sounds bracing and so REAL so early in the morning) and “Less Bitching More Riding” biker’s batch.

Protect yourself Speaking of too REAL, are you digging, as I am, the Mütter Museum-commissioned song, “Protect Yourself from Infection?” Philly’s David Lang composed it, the whole maddening orchestral/choral thing is performed by Philadelphia’s The Crossing choir, as it was part of last fall’s “Spit Spreads Death” showcase at the Mütter. It made its debut on public radio on Monday, and is now already rocketing up the charts – where’s the TikTok? – as we speak.

New diversity chief Did you know that Nolan Atkinson, the city’s chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, submitted his resignation to Mayor Kenney, effective May 8, and that we already have Nefertiri Sickout, deputy diversity, equity and inclusion officer, serving as acting chief diver-

sity, equity and inclusion officer until a permanent replacement is found? It’s true.

Feeding the hungry “Hip City Veg and BarBonBon are two of our favorite restaurants when we’re touring” said Maggie Baird, the vegan actor mom to fellow vegans Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, who – this Monday – included HipCityVeg and BarBonbon owner Nicole Marquis into her Support + Feed program to feed the economically vulnerable, first responders, hospitals and senior centers while helping plant-based restaurants stay afloat. Visit www.supportandfeed. com to pay into a general donation fund or for a single restaurant.

Over a week’s course, restaurants build donations and a large order is ready for a donation center. Support Image | Photo by Luke Jones + Feed coordinates with restaurants for pickup, and donation centers for delivery.

Other participating Philly plant-based eateries include Charlie was a sinner, The Greyhound Cafe, Grindcore House, and Luhv Vegan Deli, AND Marquis just opened BarBonbon to a Bodega, and a corner store option – “plant-based basics plus home essentials, so customers can stock up while they pick up a plant-based brunch, lunch or dinner, and save a trip to (or order from) the grocery store,” said Marquis.

The Colonel will be missed Let us pour a glass of stout out for our old friend, J.C. Dobbs’ publicist, one-time A&M label dude, U of P late-in-lifegraduate and history professor and mega Rolling Stones fanatic Tom Sheehy, who passed away on Sunday from the after-effects of a heart attack.

His oldest and dearest friend, Kenn Kweder, said of Sheehy, “We had been very much in touch these past six months furiously ping-ponging emails about everything . . . music, history, sports, friends, politics, academics, the pandemic, etc. He was kind of an eccentric modern-day renaissance man. He had an impeccable memory. We worked together for over 10 years on many of my most serious projects and I credit him on keeping me relevant during those particular years. He was a great advisor, confident and loyal friend.

A straight shooter when everyone else was shooting crooked.”

That sounds about right, Kenn. The Colonel will be missed.

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Kensington received its second COVID-19 testing site outside Visitation BVM Church on May 4. | Image: Kerith Gabriel

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Kensington church becomes second COVID-19 testing site for underserved community

ow people in Kensington, many of array of other social and medical services in them experiencing homelessness Kensington. FIGHT has also adapted testing and addiction, will have a second requirements to bring them up-to-date with coronavirus testing site to serve expanded CDC guidelines that came out last their needs. week, Bamford said.

Recently, a COVID-19 testing If a person has a cough, fever, shortness facility opened Kensington in a of breath, sore throat, chills, muscle pain, tent next to Rock Ministries, which is coordiheadache, or loss of taste or smell sensation, nating with Esperanza Health Center to proin addition to being over age 50, or having an vide walk-in testing Monday through Friday underlying medical condition, or being homefrom 2-4 p.m. to people showing symptoms, less/unstably housed or living in a congregate health-care and essential workers, people over setting, he or she will be eligible for testing 50, and people with chronic health at the Visitation site. In addition, conditions. health-care workers and first reOn Monday, a second walk-in sponders who present symptoms

BY COURTENAY testing site was to open at Visitamay get tested.

HARRIS BOND tion BVM Church at the corner of Bamford said it is important Kensington and Lehigh avenues. to note that people experiencing The site’s hours will be every Monday, Tues- homelessness or who are unstably housed or day, and Wednesday from 1 p.m-3 p.m., with who live in congregate settings have a difficult no insurance or referrals necessary, as a way time social distancing, putting them at higher of responding to the city’s goal of expanding risk for contracting coronavirus. She also said testing and trying to reach a particularly vulthat COVID-19 may look differently in peonerable population. ple who are using opioids since the drug use “We have been working with Father [Franmight mask a fever, for instance. cis] Mulvaney at Visitation, who is very excit“Prevention Point has supported us with ed to be able to support us and the community some additional screening questions and eduto increase testing efforts in Kensington,” said cational materials specific to COVID-19 in inLaura Bamford, a staff physician at Philadeldividuals with opioid use disorder,” Bamford phia FIGHT and medical director of Clinica said.

Bienestar, a comprehensive HIV primary FIGHT has made this information available care clinic in Kensington. “We really haven’t and will write a person’s date to follow-up at been advertising it [the opening of the new the site on small cards that they will slip into site] because we really want it to be communilanyards people can wear around their necks ty-based. We don’t want folks coming in from and protect inside their clothing, Bamford outside that community to get tested because said. they have other options.”

The city is not involved in operating the VisFIGHT has adapted its testing criteria to itation site beyond providing some personal better serve a community experiencing homeprotective equipment, according to the Philalessness and opioid use disorder, based on delphia Department of Public Health. FIGHT conversations with Prevention Point Philadelis supplying the testing kits. FIGHT will also phia, a syringe exchange that also provides an offer on-site counseling with people who pres-

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The site will be tented on the concrete playground on the Lehigh side of Visitation. Those seeking testing will walk in through one gate and exit through another, providing proper social distancing, Mulvaney said.

“This is a high-risk population on Kensington Avenue in particular, as we know it is associated with opioid use and homelessness,” Mulvaney said. “A lot of people were homeless before COVID-19 – even more so now.

“You’re talking about a population that has a lot of pre-existing medical conditions,” Mulvaney continued. “I mean their daily life is one of survival. It really is. So they’re often physically sick, medically sick. They don’t have money. They often don’t have insurance. Just knowing whether they are or are not positive could help them get easy access to other services “It’s serving people that are oftentimes underserved,” Mulvaney said. “It’s part of our mission, and frankly the physical location, we’ve been blessed with that.”

City spokeswoman Kelly Confrancisco wrote in an email to PW that Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley has “repeatedly expressed a desire to increase testing throughout the city, and FIGHT responded by working to open a site to provide testing.”

The health department will receive results from the Visitation lab tests, just as it does for all Philadelphia residents at every testing site, so the counts will be included in the city’s daily reporting, Confrancisco added.

If people test positive at the Kensington sites, or at any other sites in the city, and meet the eligibility criteria for admission to the Holiday Inn Express quarantine site in Center City, they will be considered for admission, according to the health department.

In addition to the two community-based testing sites in Kensington, the city’s health department, along with the Health Federation of Philadelphia, is working with Federally Qualified Health Centers across the city, with the city providing testing supplies and personal protective equipment for the 12 new testing sites in other underserved neighborhoods.

These sites must make testing available three days a week and preferably five days a week and provide the Department of Public Health regular data of the number of people tested.

A city-run testing location in Center City also continues to serve those who are over 50 and are displaying COVID-19 symptoms, as well as health-care workers who are displaying symptoms consistent with COVID-19. The site is available by appointment only, and a referral is required. Those who meet the criteria and want a test can call (267) 491-5870 to obtain a referral.

There are also more than 20 private testing sites across the city run by hospital systems and other organizations.

At the time of this report, at least 15,137 people had tested positive and 638 had succumbed

to COVID-19-related deaths in the city, with 1,812 COVID-19 patients in hospitals throughout the region, including in Philadelphia, according to the daily press briefing.

Bamford, who has accepted a position as the medical director of the HIV clinic at the University of California San Diego and will soon be moving, said getting the Visitation testing site was particularly important to her.

“I’m leaving FIGHT and Philadelphia at the end of May, so I was stressing that I couldn’t be at Clinica Bienestar and couldn’t see my patients,” Bamford said. “So I feel like this way I am able to continue to support this community that has been so important to me for so long.”

If people want to volunteer at the new Visitation testing site, they should reach out to Kim Chiaramonte at kchiaramonte@fight.org.

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Visitation BVM Church on Kensington and Lehigh Avenues will open as a second site in the underserved community for those experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. | Image: Kerith Gabriel

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am Rosen (aka Samryebread) be- and Sparkman’s follow up to their release gan her music career in Philly at “Homesick,” featuring Philly singer-songMilkBoy the Studio in 2015 and writer Emily Drinker.

PW recently caught up with Rosen to talk has since involved herself in a wide range of recording and mix- about her music and the Philly music scene.

You do a little bit of everying projects. Although thing when it comes to music: specializing in vocal singer, songwriter, producer, mixing and production,

BY EUGENE engineer. Talk a little about Rosen began as a songwriter and ZENYATTA how you became interested in a has a passion for working with artcareer in music. Any early influists to develop their projects and ences? their sound from start to finish.

I started writing music in the eighth Three local Philly artists, Melvin Darrell, Samryebread and Kyle Sparkman, col- grade and became immediately addicted to laborated on the recently released “Grease it. Early on I was influenced by a lot of folk/ Fire,” which was accompanied by a live re- singer-songwriters like Joni Mitchell, Elliot Smith, David Gray, and B.C. Camplight. I cording session on April 28.

A casual writing session between the felt very limited creatively, though, only three turned into the funky-chill Pop vibe working on my own music and only having my own voice to work with, so I eventually of “Grease Fire.”

The single is a shallow dive into the dis- decided I wanted to focus my energy more on engineering. That was a game-changer arranged life of Sam. Given the nickname “Trash Can,” Sam’s lyrics celebrate her for me because it opened the door for me to carefree spirit. “Grease Fire” is Darrell work on all types of music and exposed my

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Once I became interested in engineering, I was all-in in terms of building my life around a career in the music industry because there’s just way too much to learn and explore and to constantly keep me engaged. There’s nothing else I really wanted to do with my time.

Is there a story behind your artist name of Samryebread? How about the nickname “Trash Can”?

I honestly don’t remember where “Samryebread” came from, I think it was something recommended to me in passing and it grew on me.

“Trash Can” is actually a nickname I’ve received from different people at different times. The original, though, was my mom’s teaching assistant when I was in lower school.

She would call me Trash Can because she said I was stinky and I would proceed to protest that I am Recycling Bin and SHE is in fact Trash Can. It was all out of love though, sometimes you gotta keep your friends in check when they smell.

You recently released a collaboration with local Philly artists Melvin Darrell and Kyle Sparkman, “Grease Fire.” Describe how that production came together. Have you worked with Melvin and Kyle in the past?

This was the first Image | @hannahxsnyder time I’d worked with Melvin and actually the first time I’d met him. Melvin and Kyle were already working together and had just released their single “Homesick” with Emily Drinker. They were looking for other artists to collaborate with, and I’d already had a writing session with Kyle after meeting him at a show so it kind of worked out as good timing.

The process itself happened effortlessly once we were in Melvin’s studio. Melvin and Kyle both are super easy to work with because they’re open to trying some wacky ideas out.

They’re great musicians and bring a ton of musical ideas to the table, and they work well as a team to keep the production moving forward. Kyle started playing the bass line to the song and the rest of the song was pretty much

immediately inspired. We ended up creating the meat and potatoes of the song within an hour.

How have you been coping with the pandemic lockdown? Has it impacted your music, either as a performer or as a producer?

The pandemic has definitely changed the way I work. I know this is hitting everyone in the industry hard, but in an odd way the music industry has at least prepared us for the pandemic; you never know what your next week is going to look like anyways and you’re constantly re-adjusting your plan and skill set to adapt. I’m just trying to keep that in mind, stay busy and stay positive.

It’s affected my production and singing because I’ve had a lot more time to listen to music. I’ve been going back through a lot of my original influences, listening to new music, going down obscure rabbit holes and subjecting my neighbors to me trying to learn new singing styles.

What are you working on now?

Any plans for after the stay-at-home order ends?

One of my projects, The Experiment Band, has new music in the works as a follow up to our EP “Full Proof” that dropped recently.

I’ve also been putting final touches on new music that’s coming

by Diandra Ailene, a dope songwriter and artist that I’ve been working with for years.

I’ve been experimenting with some virtual collaboration tools with people and mixing from a distance.

It’s been very important for me in this time to still find ways to collaborate with others so that we can keep each other motivated and inspired.

Once the stay-at-home order ends I want to get to some shows and hear what other people have been up to.

How can people stay up-to-date with what you’re up to? What are the best websites and/or social media outlets they should follow?

I keep my Instagram the most up to date, and you can follow me at @samryebread or check out some of catalogue at www.samryebread.com.

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Important Facts About DOVATO

This is only a brief summary of important information about DOVATO and does not replace talking to your healthcare provider about your condition and treatment.

What is the Most Important Information I Should Know about DOVATO? If you have both human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: • Resistant HBV infection. Your healthcare provider will test you for HBV infection before you start treatment with DOVATO. If you have HIV-1 and hepatitis B, the hepatitis B virus can change (mutate) during your treatment with DOVATO and become harder to treat (resistant).

It is not known if DOVATO is safe and effective in people who have HIV-1 and HBV infection.

• Worsening of HBV infection. If you have HIV-1 and HBV infection, your HBV may get worse (flare-up) if you stop taking DOVATO. A “flare-up” is when your HBV infection suddenly returns in a worse way than before. Worsening liver disease can be serious and may lead to death. ° Do not run out of DOVATO. Refill your prescription or talk to your healthcare provider before your DOVATO is all gone. ° Do not stop DOVATO without first talking to your healthcare provider. If you stop taking DOVATO, your healthcare provider will need to check your health often and do blood tests regularly for several months to check your liver.

What is DOVATO? DOVATO is a prescription medicine that is used without other antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV-1 infection in adults who have not received antiretroviral medicines in the past, and without known resistance to the medicines dolutegravir or lamivudine. HIV-1 is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It is not known if DOVATO is safe and effective in children.

Who should not take DOVATO? Do Not Take DOVATO if You: • have ever had an allergic reaction to a medicine that contains dolutegravir or lamivudine.

• take dofetilide.

What should I tell my healthcare provider before using DOVATO? Tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you: • have or have had liver problems, including hepatitis B or C infection.

• have kidney problems.

• are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. One of the medicines in DOVATO (dolutegravir) may harm your unborn baby. ° Your healthcare provider may prescribe a different medicine than DOVATO if you are planning to become pregnant or if pregnancy is confirmed in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. ° If you can become pregnant, your healthcare provider will perform a pregnancy test before you start treatment with DOVATO. ° If you can become pregnant, you should consistently use effective birth control (contraception) during treatment with DOVATO. ° Tell your healthcare provider right away if you are planning to become pregnant, you become pregnant, or think you may be pregnant during treatment with DOVATO. • are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Do not breastfeed if you take DOVATO. ° You should not breastfeed if you have HIV-1 because of the risk of passing HIV-1 to your baby. ° One of the medicines in DOVATO (lamivudine) passes into your breastmilk. ° Talk with your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby.

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Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.

Some medicines interact with DOVATO. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine.

• You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for a list of medicines that interact with DOVATO. • Do not start taking a new medicine without telling your healthcare provider.

Your healthcare provider can tell you if it is safe to take DOVATO with other medicines.

What are Possible Side Effects of DOVATO? DOVATO can cause serious side effects, including: • Those in the “What is the Most Important Information I Should Know about DOVATO?” section.

• Allergic reactions. Call your healthcare provider right away if you develop a rash with DOVATO. Stop taking DOVATO and get medical help right away if you develop a rash with any of the following signs or symptoms: fever; generally ill feeling; tiredness; muscle or joint aches; blisters or sores in mouth; blisters or peeling of the skin; redness or swelling of the eyes; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; problems breathing.

• Liver problems. People with a history of hepatitis B or C virus may have an increased risk of developing new or worsening changes in certain liver tests during treatment with DOVATO. Liver problems, including liver failure, have also happened in people without a history of liver disease or other risk factors. Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your liver.

Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following signs or symptoms of liver problems: your skin or the white part of your eyes turns yellow (jaundice); dark or “tea-colored” urine; light-colored stools (bowel movements); nausea or vomiting; loss of appetite; and/or pain, aching, or tenderness on the right side of your stomach area.

• Too much lactic acid in your blood (lactic acidosis). Lactic acidosis is a serious medical emergency that can lead to death. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the following symptoms that could be signs of lactic acidosis: feel very weak or tired; unusual (not normal) muscle pain; trouble breathing; stomach pain with nausea and vomiting; feel cold, especially in your arms and legs; feel dizzy or lightheaded; and/ or a fast or irregular heartbeat.

• Lactic acidosis can also lead to severe liver problems, which can lead to death.

Your liver may become large (hepatomegaly) and you may develop fat in your liver (steatosis).

Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of the signs or symptoms of liver problems which are listed above under “Liver problems.” You may be more likely to get lactic acidosis or severe liver problems if you are female or very overweight (obese).

SO MUCH GOES INTO WHO I AM HIV MEDICINE IS ONE PART OF IT. Reasons to ask your doctor about DOVATO: DOVATO can help you reach and then stay undetectable* with just 2 medicines in 1 pill.

That means fewer medicines† in your body while taking DOVATO

You can take it any time of day with or without food (around the same time each day)—giving you flexibility

DOVATO is a once-a-day complete treatment for adults who are new to HIV-1 medicine.

Results may vary. *Undetectable means reducing the HIV in your blood to very low levels (less than 50 copies per mL). † As compared with 3-drug regimens.

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What are Possible Side Effects of DOVATO (cont’d)?

• Changes in your immune system (Immune Reconstitution Syndrome) can happen when you start taking HIV-1 medicines. Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections that have been hidden in your body for a long time. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you start having new symptoms after you start taking DOVATO. • The most common side effects of DOVATO include: headache; diarrhea; nausea; trouble sleeping; and tiredness.

These are not all the possible side effects of DOVATO. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

Where Can I Find More Information?

• Talk to your healthcare provider or pharmacist.

• Go to DOVATO.com or call 1-877-844-8872, where you can also get FDA-approved labeling.

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How we’re – still – playing drinking games….

Some people know Zoom and Skype as great ways to hold virtual meetings during a pandemic. We know them to be the ideal ways to hold virtual drinking games.

Never Have I Ever

You know the drill. Someone names something they’ve never done, for example: “I’ve never sung a Backstreet Boys song in the shower.” Everyone who has actually done that thing takes a drink. As an added twist, assign categories, like food never eaten. You might find out a lot about your friends.

Truth or Drink

A twist on the classic Truth or Dare, but instead of dare, there’s drink. Ask a question. The person on the spot to answer can tell the truth or take a shot. Limit the questions to sex, and we predict everyone is drunk really quickly.

Dance Party

OK, it’s not technically a game, but it still involves drinking virtually with friends, so it’s close enough.

You or one of your more musically inclined friends prepares a mix of music. The music plays. People dance. Whenever one song ends and one begins, everybody takes a shot.

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Most Likely To

Another really simple game to pull off. Start the online session and take turns tossing out topics such as: Who’s most likely to cheat on their spouse? Whomever the group votes as most likely has to take a shot. It’s probably a good idea to rotate the person who asks the question, and everyone should have a list of questions prepared before the game starts.

Spelling bee

Everyone needs a dictionary or access to an online dictionary – or someone sober has to volunteer to be the designated bee master, or whatever they call the person who calls out the words at a spelling bee. Simple rules: If you spell the word correctly, you’re good. If you miss it, you take a shot. Depending on how savage a group you’re playing with, this game could end quickly.

We’d start with “zwetschenwasser,” a type of brandy, which dovetails nicely into the whole drinking theme.

CNN

Or MSNBC. Or Fox News. Any news channel will do. Pick a word or words. Every time it’s mentioned, take a drink.

Short on time? Take coronavirus, COVID or Trump. Have time to spare? Biden, Birx and “we’re all in this together” if you have more time.

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Technically, these deals were proposed as ideal Mother’s Day gifts, and they most certainly would be perfect presents. But, to be honest, we think anybody and everybody would be thrilled with these offers.

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Fond’s pop-up food market with The Dutch will be open all Mother’s Day weekend for ready-to-eat Cinnamon Buns, Lemon Poppyseed Pound Cake, a selection of pastries and breads, and more. Head to fondphilly.com to view the menu, or call ahead and place your order. 1537 South 11th Street | 215.551.5000 | www.fondphilly.com

What we’re getting Mom….

FORSYTHIA

Forsythia, Old City’s modern French restaurant and bar from Chef Christopher Kearse, is treating mom to the ultimate Mother’s Day with a decadent and Frenchinspired gift basket, including: Bottle of Chardonnay, Tulips, $20 gift card for mom to spend later, 4 oz. jar of black truffle Champagne jam, 4 oz. jar of pistachio pistou, 4 oz. jar of Forysthia’s duck spice, 3 oz. portion of lamb chopper cheese (Netherlands, sheep, pasteurized) and 4.5 oz of saucisson sec sausage (French dry cured garlic sausage) – all for $100. There is a limited number available, so those interested should call the restaurant. Pickup instructions will be given upon order. 233 Chestnut Street | (215) 644-9395 | www.forsythiaphilly.com

THE BOURSE FOOD HALL

The Bourse, Philadelphia’s artisanal modern food hall located in Old City, is offering a Mother’s Day Basket with gifts and goodies from four food hall vendors. The basket serves 4-6 people and includes: Felt Flower – Art Star; Bloody Mary Mix with spicy salt for rim and pickled vegetable garnish (12 oz.) – Grubhouse; Spring Vegetable Quiche (ready to reheat and serve) – Grubhouse; 12 oz. Bag of Ground Coffee – Menagerie Coffee; and Half Dozen Muffins, 3 Chocolate Chip plus 3 Blueberry – Scoop DeVille – all for $82, which includes the brunch items, delivery and tip. Visit the website for details. 111 S. Independence Mall E | theboursephilly. com

RESTING GIFT FACE

OK, this one might be best for moms only. Resting Gift Face is offering The Bomb Mom Box, which includes: a You’re the Bomb! card – complete with a custom handwritten note; a Black amethyst bath bomb – like a regular bath bomb but cooler because it’s black; a Sage stick – for good vibes; Hot Mama Matches – for lighting a fire under your ass – among other options (see the website for details). The Bomb Mom Box is available via www.restinggiftface.com for $34 and can be shipped anywhere in the U.S. (1-3 day) for $15.

BLUEBIRD DISTILLING JUNIPERUS GIN

For the gin-loving mom, Bluebird Distilling Juniperus Gin is the ultimate gift. Made 100 percent from scratch, the gin has notes of citrus zest, pepper, evergreen and melon. Bluebird Distilling’s founder and master distiller, Jared Adkins, distills the botanicals in separate batches, allowing him to create a spirit that’s one-of-a-kind. The gin is blended to bottling proof with fresh cucumber water adding a perfect touch of freshness and balanced finishing notes of cucumber and sweet spice.Bluebird Distilling Juniperus Gin is available for purchase online (PA Ship Only) at $39.99. It is also available for curbside pick-up at the Bluebird Distilling distillery in Phoenixville. 100 Bridge St. | (610) 933-7827 | www. bluebirddistilling.com

THE TWISTED TAIL

The à la carte menu includes delicious brunch dishes, such as Blueberry Pancakes ($12) and French Toast ($13) as well as The Twisted Tail signature dishes, such as a Whole Fried Chicken ($32), traditional cornbread ($11) and Beignets ($10). Country Ham ($29), Roasted Salmon ($29) and Prime Rib ($37) are also on the menu for those going all out this Mother’s Day – because she deserves it. All orders must be placed by Thursday, May 7 at 8 pm by calling the restaurant at (215) 558-2471.

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Japan’s Cat Island

See 13 people and 120 cats on an island. Yes, there is a backstory. Back in the 1940s, there were a lot of mice on the island, which angered the local fishermen. So they brought in cats to kill the mice, which they apparently did, and now there’s just a bunch of cats.

Spring travel plans canceled due to the pandemic?

You still can travel virtually – and we found some awesome tours on cultofweird. com. Indeed, the site lives up to its name. Here are a few places you can tour when you head to the website.

Places we’re visiting – virtually, of course….

Black Dahlia Murder House

The Hindenburg

We know the story doesn’t end well for the dirigible that blew up in New Jersey in 1937. But what if you could see what it was like before the fire? You can. The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen contains a full-size replica of a section of the Hindenburg, and you can take the virtual tour at cultofweird.com.

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According to the website: Dr. George Hodel was living with his family in this house in January 1947 when the body of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short was found horrifically mutilated and dumped in a vacant lot in LA. Police had wiretapped the home and were close to making an arrest when Hodel abruptly left the country and never returned. In the book “Black Dahlia Avenger,” George’s son Steve Hodel, a former LA detective, builds the case for why he believes his father tortured and murdered Short in their home. Netflix can wait.

Pripyat

Pripyat is a city abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. You probably don’t want to actually visit here anytime – pandemic or no pandemic. Just go to cultofweird.com to check out some amazing sites.

Paris Catacombs

Had the original death estimates in the U.S. from COVID-19 come to fruition, this might not have been far off-base for modern times. However, by the late 1700s, Paris ran out of room in its cemeteries and things started to become not all that sanitary. So they dug up 6 million bodies and tossed them into mines (the Catacombs).

We thought you’d like to see that too.

Centralia

PA in the house! Yes, it’s the city that has been on fire since 1962 when a fire at a local dump managed to ignite coal in a mine. Now, very few people live there (we don’t know why they still live there, but some still do). Save your gas money, save your lungs, but still see this amazing site.

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This time last year, more than 100 park volunteer groups were planning cleanup days and special events for Love Your Park Week, the annual springtime celebration of Philly parks. This year, we’ve got to show our love virtually. Head over to loveyourpark.org for all of the details. In the meantime, here are a few suggestions we have to celebrate the week, which runs May 9-17.

How we’re loving Philly parks….

MAKE A DONATION

Fairmount Park Conservancy is the nonprofit champion of Philly parks.

Donations to the Conservancy go to support its mission to bring parks to life, by improving and stewarding Philadelphia’s parks, enhancing their historic and cultural assets, and supporting the communities they serve.

Donate here: https://myphillypark.org/ support/donate/.

DAILY FUN

Head over to the website for the complete list of daily activities, but here are a few you don’t want to miss: Sunday, May 10: Celebrate mom by giving her some time to stretch and focus on herself with a free virtual greenhouse yoga class with Fairmount Park Conservancy at 1pm. Wednesday, May 13: Write a love letter to your neighborhood park. Share why you #loveyourpark on social media. Sunday, May 17: Learn how to make a native plant container garden for your home with Bartram’s Garden.

BUY A SHIRT

You can always use another cool shirt. Show off your neighborhood park pride by purchasing a limited edition “Here for Philly Parks” T-shirt ($20/each) from local screen-printer Wider Awake. Half of proceeds raised from the T-shirt sales will support the Love Your Park program. Visit https://www.widerawake.com/ love-your-park for details.

DRINK BEER

Yes, you read that correctly. Love Your Park Pale Ale by Mainstay Independent Brewing Company is the beer that gives back to Philly’s parks. Once sold exclusively at the traveling community beer garden known as Parks on Tap, the new 2020 Love Your Park Pale Ale is available for purchase via the beer delivery service Biermi.com. A portion of the proceeds raised from Love Your Park Pale Ale supports Philadelphia’s parks. Visit https://biermi.com/brewery/mainstay-independent for details.

BUY A POSTER

You can show your park pride with a limited edition 11x17-inch “Philly Parks Need Friends” poster ($20) during Love Your Park Week @ Home. Half of proceeds raised will go to support the Love Your Park program.

Visit https://www.widerawake.com/love-your-park to learn more.

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Philadelphia Parks & Recreation’s virtual programming series “Parks & Rec @ Home” will air daily Love Your Park @ Home-themed videos from Monday, May 11 through Friday, May 15. New programs will be shared at 3pm every afternoon on Parks & Rec’s Facebook page: facebook.com/PhilaParkandRec.

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Amazed and Confused Q: I’ve been with the same amazing man I hate to a dozen years. We’ve had our ups and our like. downs, same as any other couple, but these days life is better than it ever has been for us. Except in the bedroom.

A few years ago he started having fantasies about sucking dick. Specifically, he wanted to suck a small one because his is very big and he wanted to “service” a guy who’s less hung than he is. Which is fine except it’s now the only thing that gets him off.

We seldom have sex since now because his obsession with sucking off a guy with a small dick makes me feel unattractive, and to be honest, I don’t share the fantasy. I even let @FAKEDANSAVAGE him suck a dude off in front of me once and I didn’t enjoy it at all.

He tells me he still finds me attractive, but when we’re having sex the talk always goes to how he wants to take “warm and salty loads” down his throat. I’ve told him I’m not into it but he enjoys talking about it so much he can’t help himself.

I thought by allowing him to live out his fantasy would help him “get over it,” so to speak, but that didn’t happen. So now we just don’t have sex except once every few months. I’m not sure how to make him see that it’s just not my thing and to get the focus back on just the two of us.

– Loves Obsesses About Dick Sucking

think what life with him used to be

There’s not an easy fix here. If you’ve already told your husband the “warm and salty load” talk is a turn-off and made it clear it’s the reason your sex life has pretty much collapsed and nevertheless he persists with the “warm and salty load” talk, well, then your husband is telling you would he would rather not have sex than have sex without talking about warm and salty loads.

Now I’m assuming that you actually told him how you feel, LOADS, in clear and unambiguous terms and that you said what you needed to say emphatically. And by “emphatically,” LOADS, I mean, “repeatedly and at the top of your lungs.” If not – if you’re doing that thing women are socialized to do, i.e. if you’re downplaying the severity of your displeasure in a misguided effort to spare your husband’s feelings – then you need to get emphatic. Sometimes it’s not enough to tell, LOADS, sometimes you have to yell.

You’re obviously GGG – you’re good, giving, and game – but your husband has taken you for granted and been almost unbelievably inconsiderate. Because even if he needs to think about sucking dick to get off, LOADS, he doesn’t need to verbalize that fantasy each and every time you fuck. Even if you were into it, which you’re not, it would get tedious. And it wasn’t just selfish of him to ignore how you felt, LOADS, it was shortsighted. Because women who are will-

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“Women who are willing to let their husbands talk about wanting to suck a dick – much less suck a dick – aren’t exactly easy to come by.”

If you can look at your husband and think, “Things are better than ever!”, despite the dismal state of your sex life, LOADS,

SAVAGE LOVE

PHILADELPHIAWEEKLY.COM @PHILLYWEEKLY ing to let their husbands talk about wanting to suck a dick – much less suck a dick – aren’t exactly easy to come by.

I guess what I’m trying to say, LOADS, is that your husband really blew it. If he hadn’t allowed this obsession to completely dominate your sex life – if he’d made some small effort to control himself – you might’ve been willing to let him act on his fantasy more than once. But as things stand now, it’s hard to see how you come back from this, LOADS, because even if he can manage to STFU about warm and salty loads long enough to fuck you, you’re going to know he’s thinking about warm and salty loads. So the most plausible solution here – assuming that you want to stay married to this guy – would be for him to go suck little dicks (once circumstances allow) while you get some decent sex elsewhere (ditto).

Finally, a lot of vanilla people think – erroneously – that acting on kink will somehow get it out of a kinky person’s system. That’s not the way kinks work. Kinks are hardwired and kinky people wanna act on their kinks again and again for the exact same reason vanilla people wanna do vanilla things again and again: because it turns them on.

randy as he is?

– Completely Lost In Tacoma You don’t need to craft an elaborate explanation, CLIT, as what’s going on here is pretty simple: your husband has a high libido and you have a low one.

What you need is a reasonable accommodation. Opening up your marriage obviously isn’t an option right now, CLIT, and it might not be an option you would’ve considered even if it were possible for your husband to find an outlet (or inlet) elsewhere. But there is something you can do.

Your husband is doubtless jacking off a lot to relieve the pressure. If there’s something he enjoys that you don’t find physically taxing and if he promises not to pressure you to upgrade to intercourse in the moment, then you could enhance his masturbatory routine. Does he like it when you sit on his face? Then sit on his face – you can even keep your clothes on – while he rubs one out. Does he love your tits? Let him look at them while he beats off. Is he a little kinky? It doesn’t take that long to piss on someone in the tub and it wouldn’t mean adding something to your already packed schedule, CLIT, as you have to find time to piss anyway.

It would be unreasonable of your husband to expect sex three times a day – that would be an irrational expectation even if you were childless and independently wealthy – but your husband isn’t asking you to fuck him three times a day. He wants a little more sexual activity, some erotic affirmation, and more couple time. Giving him an assist while he masturbates ticks all those boxes.

That said, this will only work if your husband solemnly vows never to initiate intercourse during an assisted masturbation session. If you catch a groove and start feeling horny and wanna upgrade to intercourse, you should. But he needs to let you lead because if he starts pressuring you for sex when you’re just there to assist then you’re going to be reluctant to help him out.

If he can follow that one rule, CLIT, you’ll feel more connected and you’ll probably wind up having more PIV/PIB/PIM sex – maybe twice a week instead of once a week – but it will be sex you both want.

On this week’s Savage Lovecast, yes it is possible to be both horny and depressed. Also, hear the tale of intrepid mountain climbers, and what they can do in their harnesses. www.savagelovecast.com.

“Even if he needs to think about sucking dick to get off, LOADS, he doesn’t need to verbalize that fantasy each and every time you fuck.”

Q: I have what most people would consider an amazing life. I have two healthy kids, financial security, a stable career, and a husband who is the exact partner I could ever want. I really couldn’t ask for more. I just have one issue: my husband wants to be intimate more often than I do.

We are both nearing 40, and his libido has not slowed down. I, on the other hand, due to a combination of being busy with work and us both taking care of the kids (especially during the lockdown), find myself with a decreased sexual drive. Because of all my (and our) obligations, I find myself alternating between a state of tiredness, anxiousness or distraction, none of which get me “in the mood.”

We’ve talked about the situation, and he is absolutely respectful when we do so, but he has made it clear he’s very frustrated. I think once a week is more than enough and he could go multiple times a day. It’s to the point where he feels he’s begging just to fit some “us” time into our lives, which he says makes him feel undesirable and humiliated. There isn’t anything wrong with him that leaves me not wanting to engage in physical intimacy, we just seem to have different physical intimacy schedules, and it’s putting a serious strain on our relationship. How can we work to find a comfortable middle ground, or at the absolute least, help me explain to him why I’m not as

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Celebrating Irish whiskey in Philly

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his past St. Patrick’s season, the Irish American Business Chamber & Network (IABCN), March Drinks Ireland, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States and Tourism Ireland held an event to “explore the depth and diversity of Irish whiskey.”

At the event, PW asked: Why should Philadelphians be thankful for Irishmen? Some answers: “I am proud of our Philadelphia traditions here. We’ve got a strong Irish community here,” said PJ Stapleton, owner of the Connacht Whiskey Company in Ballina Ireland and a resident of Philadelphia. “The Irish have given much in the way of the arts and literature, but most importantly in the field of drinking, no one can surpass the Irish. We’ve got the greatest of malts, we’ve got the greatest of brews. The whiskey business is proof of that.”

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“Clearly the Irish have been through a lot,” he said. “The Irish memorial here in Philadelphia is proof of that. We’ve seen it in Ireland in recent years. When we started this business, the recession in Ireland was going strong. The Irish economy has fought its way back. The Irish are returning to Ireland from around the world. The population of the island has grown to over 4 million people. The resilient Irish who have gone to the U.S., Australia and England are not coming home.”

Johnny Harte, creator of Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur, personified the Irish warrior: “When the Irish came to Philadelphia, they had nothing, and they built the city up and built the population up, and a lot of them worked hard through different decades in the United States.

“My grand uncle came here unfortunately in 1929, the year of the Wall Street crash. He started at the bottom; his grandchildren are my second cousins today. They are all very successful, but they worked from the bottom up which is very representative of what the Irish did in Philadelphia. They asked for

nothing; we got nothing for nothing, and they worked hard for everything they got.”

John McCullough Jr. with Nightingale Realty, LLC, said he recently had joined the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in Philadelphia, a social organization for Irish Americans founded in 1771 in Philly.

“Philadelphia should be grateful for the Irish because they have worked extremely hard since they’ve come to America to the point of being leaders of the industries that they work in, particularly the real estate industry that I work in, and real leaders of the city,” he said.

Rebecca Gardiner immigrated from Ireland a year and a half ago. Brand ambassador for Slane and living in the Boston area, she thinks the question should be: Why are they grateful for us, and why are we grateful for them?

“The Irish are the ultimate immigrants and you didn’t turn us away,” she said. “It’s a marriage of cultures as well.

“There is a marriage of culture that is phenomenal to see. You look at the amount of people here. One of the things I love most about

the American Irish is that they more than any country in the world value their heritage.

That’s a really interesting thing to see – how much people do value their heritage; other countries take it for granted.”

William Lavelle, president of the Irish Whiskey Association, traveled from his home of Dublin for the event.

“We love the warmth and the welcome we get from Philadelphia. Our brands and our brand ambassadors, who are all represented here today, will tell you that Philadelphia is a really great market for Irish whiskey,” he said. “Sales are increasing; people are flocking to Irish whiskey. We are very thankful to Philadelphia people for the support they are showing the Irish whiskey category.”

Dan Bannister, of William Grant & Sons representing Tullamore Dew, said Philly is one of the top markets in the country for Irish population and Irish heritage.

“This is the No. 3 market in the country for Tullamore Dew. We outsell all the Irish whiskeys combined except for Jameson,” he said.

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We are a quick walk to Graduate Hospital, Passyunk Square, Bella Vista, Point Breeze, and Center City! The community is located only a small city block from the Ellsworth-Federal stop on the Septa Broad St. Line and we offer many bus pick-up/ drop-off locations near the building as well. Our amenity green roof features multiple lounges, fire pits, outside grills, TV’s, city views, corn hole game boards. All that accompanied by beautiful landscaping throughout! Our fur babies have it great too with a private dog park to run and play! Our indoor amenities give our residents plenty of options on the days that going outside is not ideal. On the second-floor amenity space there are two indoor club rooms with fireplaces, two conference rooms, a movie theater, two ping pong tables, a pool table, poker table, Foosball table, 24-hour fully equipped gym, golf simulator, and more! Some other amazing building features include 24-hour concierge, indoor bike storage and workshop, private indoor pet grooming station, and an onsite covered parking garage. Lincolnsquare.com.

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Convenient location – Walk to E Passyunk Avenue and the Broad Street subway. Available for leases starting June 1 or sooner. Monthly Rent: $1475. Utilities: Gas, Electric & Water on your own meters. Initial Payment: 1st, Last & Security. Pets: Cat or small dog OK w/pet addendum, fee and deposit. Lease Agreement: 1 year lease, then month-to-month w/winter term.

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$1795 / 4br - 2000ft2 - Entire Townhouse in heart of Manayunk. Baker St. near Gay St. Perfect for 2 or 3 people.

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Four large bedrooms, high ceilings, immaculately kept apartment. We guarantee this will be one of the most spacious townhomes you’ll see on the market. First floor includes a large kitchen, dining room and spacious living room. Nice city backyard for grilling, hanging out. Apartment was recently renovated and everything is new and has been very well kept.

The house includes: Wall-to-wall carpet in bedrooms and hallways. Tile floor kitchen. Dishwasher. Disposal. Washer/ Dryer inside apartment. Basement access for storage. This is a large, newly renovated house that will allow you to live in roomy comfort in a location that simply can’t be beat: 1/2 block to SEPTA train (20 mins into Center City). 1 block to Main Street Manayunk - excellent bar and restaurant scene.

5 min drive to I-76. Apartment is available immediately. Long term leases only. (646) 734-6860.

$1350 / 1br - 620ft2 - Best Value! Choose from fully equipped rentals with 24/7 doorman & gym (Center City South). www.HDapt.com. Video tours available to share via email & text. Recently redone lobby entrance, an amazing fitness center and one of a kind, beautifully landscaped, with sitting areas, koi pond, and even a doggy park! Extremely walkable location. Also ideal for commuting in and out of the city. On site parking (garage) available for an additional monthly fee.

Bright open layout with great closets. Fully modern kitchen with all the major appliances- Refrigerator, electric stove & range, dishwasher and a microwave oven. Well done tiled Bath.

Laundry room next door. Central heat and cool. Internet and cable ready. Cats & dogs allowed with restrictions and a one time fee. Located on Broad St and Washington Ave. Subway and bus lines right outside the building. A short walking distance from Center City and Rittenhouse, the Italian Market and Passyunk Square. The all new Franklin Plaza with Target, Starbucks, Sprouts Supermarket and more is right across the street. (215) 327-1552.

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Luxury rentals

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$2055 / 1br - 663ft2 - 24 hour concierge, security cameras throughout the building. 121 N. 2nd Street. Our boutique-style Old City apartments for rent combine the historic charm and classic finishes abundant in the neighborhood with modern amenities and luxurious interiors. Our pet-friendly Center City rentals are available as a studio, one bedroom, and two bedrooms. Each Old City, Philadelphia apartment offers exceptional finishes as well as dramatic views of both Center City and the Delaware River. The National is a magnificent apartment building providing its residents with top-notch amenities, such as a rooftop deck with an outdoor fireplace and dining area, fitness center, media room, and bicycle storage to make getting around the city easy. Residents at our Philadelphia apartment rentals will enjoy the vibrant and historical community of Old City, Philadelphia and can also take advantage of the location’s proximity to Center City employment hubs, commuter routes, and endless attractions.

You will be a stone’s throw from some of the best restaurants in Philadelphia, as well as fun bars and a great nightlife scene.

You won’t find a better-located apartment in Old City! Lively social community and events. Pet-friendly community with dog spa. Open kitchens with large islands and breakfast bars.

Professionally Managed by ResideBPG. Washer/dryer in every home. Full-service fitness center managed by Level 1 Fitness.

Stainless-steel appliances. Oversized windows with striking downtown views. Co-working space. Walk-in closets. (855) 328-9895.

$2205 / 1br - 761ft2 - Large one bedroom! Massive living room, Huge walkthrough closet. 121 N 2nd Street. Our boutique-style Old City apartments for rent combine the historic charm and classic finishes abundant in the neighborhood with modern amenities and luxurious interiors.

Our pet-friendly rentals are available as a studio, onebedroom, and two-bedroom layouts. Each apartment offers exceptional finishes as well as dramatic views of both Center City and the Delaware River. The National is a magnificent apartment building in Old City, Philadelphia, providing its residents with top-notch amenities, such as a rooftop deck with an outdoor fireplace and dining area, fitness center, media room, and bicycle storage to make getting around the city easy. Stainless-steel appliances. Lively social community and events. On-site parking garage with bicycle storage. Open kitchens with large islands and breakfast bars. Washer/dryer in every home. Rooftop deck with outdoor fireplace and dining.

(855) 328-9895.

Rittenhouse

$1495 / 1br - 600ft2 - 18th/Pine*recently renovated*central air*W/D*hardwood floors (Rittenhouse Square). Recently updated apartment in Rittenhouse Square coming up this summer. Bright, fully equipped interior featuring hardwood floors and high ceilings. Well done tiled bathroom. In-unit washer and dryer. Central air and heat. Local attractions include City Hall, The Avenue of the Arts, the Walnut Street Shopping District, Philadelphia Art Museum, LOVE Park, the Kimmel Center, and the Academy of Music. Quick access to Suburban, the Market Frankford and Broad Street lines, PATCO, Penn’s Landing, the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, and I-95. Sooo many amazing dining options to name, including Barclay Prime, Friday Saturday Sunday, Devon Seafood Grill, Pumpkin, Tequila’s, Zama, Tinto, Marathon, and Lacroix at The Rittenhouse. (215) 327-1552.

$1930 / 1br - 634ft2 - SPECIAL OFFERS new luxury rentals COUNTLESS AMENITIES doorman(Logan Square/Center City). Only $500 security deposit to reserve a unit. No last month’s rent required up front. Logan Square is the home of Center City’s newest premier Luxury apartment building. Amenities include an impressive, huge rooftop deck with stunning views and fully furnished. Real on-site fitness workout rooms on several floors, where you can get a complete workout without paying for pricey gyms. Basketball court. Beautifully designed lounge area. 24/7 doorman services and property management contact on site. What’s around? Everything! Walk to local landmarks like Rittenhouse and Logan Squares, The Parkway and its world famous museums. Center City’s top dining and shopping districts are all within a short walk away. Easy commuting? Suburban station is only 2 blocks away! Various layouts available and offered. All feature the same high-end finishes throughoutBright and contemporary interior. Hardwood floors in the living area. Carpeted bedrooms. Fully equipped kitchens with top brand stainless steel appliances, granite counters, breakfast bars and wooden cabinetry. Tiled bathrooms with great fixtures. Washer and dryer in every unit. High-efficiency air and heat systems. Cable and internet ready. CHOOSE FROM ONE, TWO OR THREE BEDROOM UNITS. SOME WITH PRIVATE BALCONIES & STUNNING VIEWS. Cat and dog friendly. Convenient application terms. 12 months lease term.

(215) 327-1552.

$1100 / 1br - 340ft2 - 1 BR - Fully Furnished - All Utilities Month to Month (Fitler Square). Nice 1-bedroom furnished apartment in one of the best neighborhoods in Philadelphia.

Perfect for visiting scholar/professor, post-Doc, or others that need short term housing. Located in the Fitler Square neighborhood of Center City. Nice and clean. Fully furnished, with bed, nightstand and lamps, chest, bookcase, desk and chair. This is a bi-level apartment. The first floor has a small kitchen with fold-away table and a full bath with shower (no tub). Tile floors. Quiet bedroom on the second floor with adequate closet space, hardwood flooring.

Approximately 340 sq ft total space both floors. Appliances provided include: air conditioner, refrigerator, electric range, microwave, large toaster oven, vacuum cleaner and small load washer and dryer. Even all the pots, pans, dishes, and flatware are included. Various small appliances available if desired. Within walking distance to 30th Street Train Station, University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, Rittenhouse Square (and restaurants, shops, bars, etc) and close to public transportation (bus/subway/trolley). Short walk to South St. and Avenue of the Arts. 3 Blocks from the Schuylkill River Park and trail. All necessities within walking distance - supermarket, Heirloom Market, Trader Joe’s, laundry mat, etc.) No need for a car as carshare has plenty of pods nearby. Rent: $1100 per month - all basic utilities included. Available immediately. Absolutely no pets allowed. a880fd7d80b1364e931621c32eb419f8@hous.craigslist.org.

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