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The barista took my money, handed me doing this job. the change and didn’t even reply when I Whether it’s conducting interkilled him with kindness in a reply to “thank views, a vibrant place to chat with you, have a good day.” Before I could get my members of our marketing team or just to get out of the office, cof- change, she was already looking to make her exit out. fee houses seem to be my immediLook, I don’t know the past history. I don’t ate go-to. know her past dealings inside this Last week, I was walking to one little coffee shop, but there was no near my office in Center City when reason she should have not been ala woman stopped me and asked lowed service. She wore a shirt, had if I could give her a dollar so she on shoes and other than the way she could buy some food. Customarily, looked was anything but a threat. It I never give out money but instead really opened my eyes to just how offer a sandwich and a drink as an many of us treat the homeless like alternative. For me, I find it part hutrash and not as human beings with manitarian duty and part social exa story to tell. periment to see if the person truly With that being said, I had some wants a bite to eat or if they’re only words for that barista, but I wasn’t looking for me to unknowingly enabout to set it off inside the store. So able a bad habit.

I’ll do it here (and gladly to his face I could tell at first glance she should he ever read this piece and needed the help. She was an older want me to show myself because woman, could’ve been someone’s @SPRTSWTR you know who you are and our pasweet grandmother in a perfect pers are in your establishment). Acworld, but in the one we live in she tually, it should be noted that it was my first was dressed in two ragged coats, clutching a (and last time) inside this particular shop. If plastic shopping bag of her life’s possessions.

It was her approach that caught my attention, there was a reason for which you can tell me she wasn’t so in-your-face as most on-street why you would deny that woman service beapproached, instead it was a quiet mumble yond her simple appearance then please, I’m all ears – the kind you give when you’re too embarMy email address is kgabriel@philadelrassed to ask for something you desperately phiaweekly.com need.

God forbid the answer of “company policy,” I stopped and offered to get her something inside the coffee shop. She followed me into if that’s what you decide to go with then we the building and I asked her what she want- have much bigger issues here.

But if the basis was that she didn’t fit the ed when we got to the counter. But before she clientele of the downtown socialites, shoppers could order the barista shouted, “she can’t be and tourists who pass through that building in here, sir. I can’t sell her anything.”

I responded that he wasn’t selling her any- on a daily, then you need to do some serious thing, he was selling me whatever she chose. soul searching, my friend.

I’m not saying you need to be Gandhi, and The cold shoulder that followed directed at I’m not saying that’s who I am trying to be beboth of us was as offensive as it was humiliating. The woman, obviously embarrassed with cause of my decision to help her. I, apparently onlookers sitting inside the cafe now staring unlike you, are just well aware that most of at both of us, quickly grabbed a drink from us not of the one-percent are just a few paythe refrigerated shelves and said, “I’ll just checks away from being in her shoes.

So consider this a friendly reminder of that take this.”

Defiant, I said, “No, we’ll order you a sand- the next time you put on your apron and stand behind that counter to serve all people of Philwich if you want one.” adelphia.

She thought about it for a second and re-

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“The way I saw it, she’s free to go, with half my shit, but come on, don’t take the dog.

That’s just mean. I didn’t want her to see how sad I was, but yeah, man, it tore me up.”

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– This recently divorced Philadelphian fessed up over a latte at La Colombe in Fishtown that his wife being awarded full custody of their pooch was just too much to bear. Here’s hoping once wounds heal, this guy can get visitation rights or something.

The war on drugs Could the end of rampant price-gouging in the world of big pharma be on the horizon? On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee put seven pharmaceutical companies on the hot seat questioning the validity of exorbitant prices for various medications. In the meeting room was executives from two regional companies in Merck and Johnson & Johnson. You know it must really bad if senators are now questioning why drug prices force people to choose between buying prescriptions and eating. For example, according to an Inquirer report, one executive in the room received a multi-million dollar bonus on the profits of a single drug. You read correctly: multi-million dollar bonus.

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Why the fuck is Starbucks trying to take over Philadelphia?

In less than a year since one of its managers called the cops on two Black guys for not doing a “hurry up and buy,” the Seattle-based coffee chain is actively building some gaudy megastore in Fishtown, the home base of La Colombe and now is said have struck a deal with the city to open one on Dilworth Plaza? I mean we get that its a tourist trap and tourists love a good Caramel Macchiato, but putting something that commercial on the footprint of our city’s bedrock is kinda shitty.

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That’s the birthday legendary Philly mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar will celebrate on March 18. If you’re a fan of his work, then during the week of March 11, the folks at Philly Magic Gardens are inviting people to sign a giant birthday card and enter a raffle for a chance to win one of Zagar’s mosaics. If that tickles your fancy, you can find more info on the website of Magic Gardens.

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She’s one part of a homegrown musical legacy.

He’s forged a hip-hop career organically.

Now, Chill Moody and Donn T put their heads together

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West Philly natives Donn T. and Chill Moody have paired to form R&B duo, &More. | Image: Kerith Gabriel

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eing born into one of Philadelphia’s iconic music families could prove daunting for an artist trying to make their own mark on the industry. But Donn T, the daughter of the late Lee Andrews Thompson (Lee Andrews & the Hearts) and sister to Amir Khalib “Questlove” Thompson (The Roots), has always tried to remain in her “own lane” when it comes to her music. Among Donn T’s many achievements, she has penned a book, Behind the Music, and has worked with the likes of Amy Winehouse, John Legend, Common and Jill Scott. In 2010, Donn T launched her debut album, Kaleidoscope, in London — a location she hoped would create some spatial distance for her to flourish on her own.

“My heart is always going to be in Philadelphia because I'm from a Philadelphia music legacy,” said Donn T from her high-rise apartment that overlooks the Delaware River. “The Thompson name and Philadelphia meant so much, and for me I wanted to explore what that meant outside, disconnected from the city you know.”

Flying back to her musical coop of Philly, Donn T paired with local artist Chill Moody to form &More, an R&B and hip-hop group. The homegrown duo first performed together at the Roots Jam Session last year in Gramercy, New York and are presently on tour to promote their debut album Ethel Bobcat, set to drop on April 5.

Whether the duo will play at Questlove’s annual The Roots Picnic at Festival Pier in Penn’s Landing cannot be confirmed as of yet,

but judging from Chill Moody’s grin, the gig is likely to become an addition to their jampacked calendar. &More can report that they will be performing at Johnny Brenda’s (1201 Frankford Ave) in Fishtown on April 26.

Sitting on the couch next to Donn T, Chill Moody explained that unlike his musical counterpart, he has kept his feet more firmly in the city as he built his career. Appointed by City Council as Philly's official musical ambassador, Chill Moody said he is committed to strengthening the inner-city music scene so that leaving to make it big is “a choice, not an inevitability.”

“I was the kid that sat in an auditorium in high school where they told me, ‘You know Will Smith sat in that same seat’ or ‘Wilt Chamberlain sat in that same seat,’ explained Chill Moody, who attended Overbrook High.

“One day, another kid will be saying, ‘Chill Moody sat in that seat and he built stuff here.

He was able to stay here, build infrastructure here, build [an] industry here and make it so you didn't have to leave to make it.’”

Taking different routes to get where they are, the two West Philly-born artists met at a Grammy party in 2016. Already fans of each other’s music, they chatted about working together in the near future. While collaboration is common small talk among artists, Chill Moody and Donn T followed up immediately after the party, recognizing their similar sound and mission.

“Our styles are similar, in the sense that we use what we feel and put it in the music.

We use what we see, what we're around,” explained Chill Moody, who added that &More

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Images: Kerith Gabriel West Philly natives Donn T and Chill Moody met during a Grammy party in 2010. Then and there, the pair knew they had musical chemistry and a bond that was better together than apart.

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Their collaborative process can be challenging at times due to their alpha personalities but can be magical at others. In a Mad Lib style, Donn T will often send Chill Moody lyrics with incomplete phrases and thoughts for him to fill in.

Many songs in Ethel Bobcat maintain a social consciousness that veers into the political, such as “WHOA,” which satirizes the news cycle, and “4Ever 1st Lady,” which pays tribute to former First Lady Michelle Obama.

But both Chill Moody and Donn T favor “Future Come Around” for its more ambiguous message that allows listeners to judge on the meaning for themselves.

“I think that's what music should do,” said Chill Moody on imbuing larger and current themes into his work. “If you're on a platform, you should be speaking on something worth the platform that you're standing on.”

“And it absolutely has to now,” added Donn T. “Music has to speak to culture right now.

Creativity and art [are what’s] gonna save us.”

Hanging on the wall in the living room of Donn T’s apartment is a white, distressed ampersand, a nod to the group’s name. She explained that the group’s title comes from a nickname she had for a childhood friend with an exceptionally long name, who could not speak English and had autism. Donn T still remembers the boy rescuing her as a child, after her hand got trapped underneath a weighty

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grate that she was trying to lift in order to retrieve a dime.

“Up until this time I was kind of his little angel,” Donn T said of the boy who would follow her around. “I didn't know if he had the wherewithal to be able to run home and get my parents and bring them back, but he was just so clear minded. And he was like an antihero.”

The concept of the antihero or the unlikely hero is one that influenced not only the group’s name, but also the name of their first record. Both adamant about energizing and improving their communities, the duo used the fictitious character of Ethel Bobcat to pay tribute to past local leaders who would unite the people. “[Ethel Bobcat is] the character in the community that looked out for the community and gave you what you needed when you needed it,” explained Donn T. “Whether it was a warm meal, whether it was advice. Sometimes she was political, sometimes she was just loving, sometimes she put you in your place.”

Both artists noted that today’s communities lack that type of “hero or protector” and have consequently suffered. Filling in for that absent archetype, the album is devised to guide the way and to ignite a generation to action.

“We need help, we need a savior, we some type of spark to start some type of movement within society,” said Chill Moody. “The album overall is a spark to start something, whether it might start a conversation, or it might start a protest, or might start a riot, or…”

“It might start love,” added Donn T.

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Philadelphia’s Homeless Deserve Better.

So do SEPTA Police.

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efore that damp and rainy Tuesday night, most of the passengers waiting for their trains at Suburban Station had never met Kenny Solomon. We didn’t know about the car accident that permanently damaged his body, or his recent fall at Suburban Station down an entire flight of steps. We also didn’t know anything positive about Mr. Solomon or his likes and dreams. But his introduction to us, and anyone who happened to be in the vicinity that night was resounding. But the scene that unfolded on a recent damp and rainy Tuesday night made sure none of us waiting for a train at Suburban Station would ever forget him.

Could SEPTA police benefit from sensitivity training as it pertains to the homeless living underground at many of its subway stops? Read this and tell us what you think. Image: YouTube screenshot

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“The homeless deserve the finest support possible, but our public servants like SEPTA police should be no different.”

“Hey, Dumb Dumb!” declared a uniformed ture situations. When the officer was unable to locate the site of the 15th Street Trolley, he SEPTA police officer as he approached Mr. Solomon with his partner. The officer grabbed rolled his eyes and changed his tone. “Where do you need to go? No, come on I’ll walk you the back of Mr. Solomon’s wheelchair with one hand and took off with him. “Let’s go, there. No, let’s go!” After being victimized, I felt that I was close to being arrested by the Dumb Dumb!”

As the barely conscious Mr. Solomon sat SEPTA police whom I had asked for help. The officer who “assisting” me that night was, in slumped in his chair, he was suddenly thrust in reverse, while the only shoe he wore fact, the same officer who referred to Mr. Soldragged limply behind on the wet terminal omon as “Dumb Dumb.”

The SEPTA police have a hard job and floor. The jarring scene made me interrupt an knowing that I do empathize. I applaud the deemail to fellow nurses in mid-sentence to pull cision last week to coordinate outreach workup the video screen on my phone. I wanted ers with their officers if persons experiencing more people to bear witness to the treatment homelessness need to be displaced of a man who could have easily been from Suburban Station. But as a one of my patients. When I spoke Philadelphia nurse practitioner up to raise my concerns to the offiwho treats some of Philadelphia’s cer he aggressively shot back “You most vulnerable citizens, I would want him? Do YOU want him? Then recommend that SEPTA officers reshut up!” ceive some of the same continuing Over the next several minutes training that we receive for working the officer alternated between anwith our most powerless including tagonistically egging me on to keep trauma-informed care, disability filming him, to thrusting Mr. Soland homelessness sensitivity, and omon’s wheelchair at my feet and unconscious bias training. saying, “take him home with you,” Our city also needs to do more to proudly showing me his nameto reduce the number of displaced plate, and ordering me to leave the persons in the first place, by inpremises and go back to my subcreasing access to affordable housurb home (even though I live in the city). @INCLUSIONPHILLY ing, continuing to raise wages, and spending more tax dollars for Unfortunately, instead of being services to assist persons facing or an isolated encounter, we have reexperiencing homelessness. And, in addition cently learned that situations between SEPTA police and Philadelphians experiencing home- to ensuring that officers are staffed appropriately, SEPTA should make sure that their polessness are becoming quite common. During lice are well supported with mental health serthe episode of Mr. Solomon's harassment, vices to deal with the pressures, strains and strangers shouted on video that the harsh treatment of the homeless by SEPTA police secondary traumatic stress on the job. Our persons experiencing homelessness deserve was not new. Mr. Solomon later told a reporter that SEPTA police frequently hassle him and the finest support possible, but our public servants like SEPTA police should be no differthat that same officer who mistreated him that ent. night often mocks him.

Today, Kenny Solomon appears relatively The week before, many read how SEPTA police resorted to using billy clubs and mace okay. He gave an interview the day after the incident and was photographed in his wheelto boot persons experiencing homelessness chair holding a coffee at a Suburban Station from the same station. I could understand why the huddled mass was resistant to flee the shop. While I hope to properly introduce mywarm concourse for the bone-chilling Janu- self to Mr. Solomon and get a chance to buy him a coffee myself, I know there’s more I can ary night. And just two weeks before Mr. Solodo. I’m hoping that my advocacy for SEPTA mon’s eviction, I witnessed another dehumanto both revolutionize the way its police force izing, though non-violent, expulsion. approaches to our homeless citizens and adAnd it’s not just the people experiencing vance the way it supports its officers are comhomelessness who are receiving inferior treatpassionate first steps. ment from SEPTA police. I was assaulted by a small group of female teenagers at the 15th street Trolley stop next to Suburban Station Tarik Sharif Khan is a family nurse practitioner, in December. The officer I was connected an associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Instiwith first scolded me for not calling 911 (I had rung on the emergency call box, but no one tute and a doctoral student at the University of answered) and then instructed me to “just Pennsylvania. start punching people” and “act crazy” in fu-

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Good show, shitty winners Despite head scratching winners, Oscars may be on to something with no host approach

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o, after a lengthy buildup in which ABC and the Academy Awards producers floated one ill-advised travel balloon after another, only to abandon them all, the result of Sunday night’s Oscar Awards ceremony was…the leanest, breeziest, most well-produced Oscar telecast in memory.

It even, in a surprise, managed to reverse the show's years-long rating decline, according to early numbers. It's just a shame about some of those winners.

The Academy, following a double-digit rating decline for its 2018 iteration, has spent the time since coming up with all sorts of gimmicks to bring eyeballs back (see the “popular film” award, presenting some awards during commercial breaks, etc.) but said ideas caused a major backlash and were quickly abandoned. It also took the Academy months later than usual to name a host, but we all know what happened to the idea of Philly native Kevin Hart emceeing the show.

It was the presenters that stole the show during the 2019 Oscars, keeping explainers brief and allowing a steady flow that didn’t seem too dull to deal with for the average viewer. Image: ABC Television Studios

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PHILADELPHIAWEEKLY.COM @PHILLYWEEKLY Most Oscar observers were expecting a disaster Sunday night. Instead, they got a telecast with a handful of memorable moments, not a great deal of wasted time, and an answer to the question of whether the Oscars even need a host. In short, they don't.

There was even a monologue — delivered by the Saturday Night Live veteran triumvirate of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Maya Rudolph – but it was shorter than usual, and the lack of a real host meant we didn't get any of those excruciating comedy bits with pizza deliveries or selfies or visits to the theater next door. There was one classic-movies montage, instead of three. There wasn't even much comedy, besides a funny costume bit with Melissa McCarthy and Brian Tyree Henry, and a killer Mel Gibson joke by Trevor Noah.

The highlight of the night was the musical performance of “Shallow,”

by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, shot seamlessly from nontraditional angles, though not far behind was Gaga's own acceptance speech, as well as Spike Lee finally winning his first-ever (non-honorary) Oscar, and jumping into the arms of his frequent collaborator Samuel L. Jackson. It was also wonderful to see Ruth E. Carter finally win for costume design for Black Panther.

There were not, however, many other award presentations that gave me much joy, because the Academy flubbed the ball in a serious way with several of the winners it chose this year.

Peter Farrelly's odious Green Book won the Oscar for Best Picture, ending Crash's 15-year reign as the most ill-considered film about race to ever win the Academy's top prize. Not only was this gross white savior narrative was somehow honored in the year of If Beale Street Could Talk, Sorry To Bother You, Blindspotting, and BlackKklansman, but its mediocre script somehow took the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, too.

On my personal Letterboxd ranking of the films of 2018, I had Green Book listed 315th.

Not much better was Bohemian Rhapsody, the Queen biopic that applied every music biopic cliche ever devised to provide a factually dodgy and ridiculously chaste look at Queen's history, one that seemed to always center the perspectives of bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor, who co-produced the film. It won four Oscars, and none of the four winners uttered the name "Bryan Singer" – the film's credited director – in their speeches, for obvious reasons.

Rami Malek's Best Actor win was a bit more defensible, although I couldn't help but wish the version of the film that was hard-R and starred Sacha Baron Cohen had been produced, with Cohen winning that Best Actor Oscar instead. Also, Bohemian Rhapsody won for Best Editing, despite being one of the worst-edited movies I've ever seen. (“Bohemian Rhapsody won Best Editing for editing out all the gay sex scenes,” Gonzalo Cordova joked on Twitter).

A Star is Born, directed by local favorite son Bradley Cooper, entered awards season as the Oscar favorite but fell off that perch for reasons I never quite understood. It had to make do with only the Original Song win and the hope that Cooper will have other bites at the Oscar apple with future directorial efforts.

The only local Oscar winner, it turns out, was not Cooper but rather Claire Sliney, a 20-year-old Penn sophomore who was one of the producers of Period. End of Sentence, which won in the Best Documentary Short category.

Roma director Alfonso Cuaron won three Oscars, for Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography, and gave three separate acceptance speeches; I'd love to know the thought process behind which things to say in which speech.

I was happy to see Regina King win for Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk, a film that I thought was better than all eight of the Best Picture nominees, and Olivia Colman was a pleasant surprise Best Actress winner for The Favourite.

In the Documentary Feature category, despite probably my five favorite docs of the year not being nominated, it was nice to see Free Solo upset RBG, while Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was a worthy winner for Best Animated Feature.

I'm the sort of person who wouldn't mind if the Oscars were five hours long, complete with every technical award, Lifetime Achievement speeches, and no time restriction at all on acceptance speech length. But I realize I'm not most people, and I applaud the Oscar producers for stumbling into the solution of keeping the show brisk, and not having a host.

I wouldn't be shocked if they go with the same formula next year.

But if they do, one request: Honor better movies.

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But if they do, one request: Honor better movies.”

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MUSIC

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Feel me flow Anderson .Paak drops true classic neo-soul on a sold-out crowd at the Fillmore

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here have been three transitional phases in the brief career of the awkwardly punctuated West Coast rapper, singer, drummer, and producer, Anderson .Paak. There were the soulful cuts that he made as Breezy Lovejoy, before hooking up with Dr. Dre and releasing songs on Dre’s 2015 album, Compton. There was the proud moment of Grammy acknowledgment for his sandy, sexy 2016 album, Malibu album. Finally, there was the fanfare

that followed his December 2018 appearance on Saturday Night Live with Kendrick Lamar where .Paak and his stalwart band, The Free Nationals, unveiled barnstorming songs from his then-new album, Oxnard.

If ever there was a transformative live performance on SNL – and there have been many, some that date back to David Bowie in a porcelain tux showcase in 1979 to the more recent showing of Kanye West’s 2018 MAGA hat-wearing 2018 escapade – .Paak’s was it.

Anderson .Paak and his band The Free Nationals didn’t disappoint a sold-out crowd Sunday night at the Fillmore in Fishtown. | Image: Wikicommons

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Drumming, singing and rapping next to hip-hop’s reigning deity, Anderson’s steamy new tracks were dynamic, and his live show that night was one you wanted to see again.

Think James Brown and the JBs hot.

Think Parliament-Funkadelic exiting from the mother-ship hot.

Case in point would arrive here in Philadelphia during a sold-out Sunday night show at the Fillmore, one stop on his appropriately named Andy’s Beach Club World Tour.

Starting in shadow behind a thin scrim, Anderson and his band commenced the night with a soft ‘funky drummer’ shuffle from the James Brown days of yore, before quickly moving into an electric piano and muted brass reverie for fan favorite, “The Chase.”

From that first moment – and to cease the need to continue throwing out comparisons – the sound of The Free Nationals live had an early A Tribe Called Quest vibe to go with its West Coast’s heavy bass rumble. That latter vibe came through loud and clear, via the low riding “Milk N’ Honey,” as well as the diabolical brass line that the Free Nationals lent Paak as he sang-rasped his way through “Who R U? Yet, by the time this assembly hit up the live spy-film-soundtrack groove of “Bubblin,” with .Paak jumping on the drum kit, the effect was clear: these guys were more Technicolor jazz, a true Blaxploitation of classic R&B than anything else.

The Stevie Wonder’s Fulfillingness’ First Finale mixed with Curtis Mayfield’s Superfly score, fused with first album Earth Wind & Fire – all themed for rap-soul types, and all played by California session cats who, in their spare time, used to play as a wedding band.

Their mission – like any great wedding band – is to please, broadly, moms and millennials.

Therefore, the rapper and his band might have been jamming to orchestral jazz on songs such as “Glowed Up,” but Paak & Co. proved to be as universal as they were occasionally quirky. Plus, they ran through a 21 song set surprisingly fast – another notable wedding band touch.

Much of .Paak’s raps and vocal song stylings got lost in the wild mix, and the roar of his band. Still, Anderson’s handsome baritone came through loud and clear through the clackity hip hop of “6 Summers” and his raspy gem, “Tints.” More so than his voice, .Paak’s personality was always sunny and bright, whether he was croon-rapping his way through “The Waters” and “Put Me Thru,” or engaging the Philadelphia audience, bravely.

“My sister told me not to crowd surf in Philly since you guys drop everyone,” he said, laughing. “But, I’m going to trust you.” And so, Anderson .Paak braved the crowd-surfing waters, trusted his instincts and dove right in, while the mass that converged the floor at The Fillmore supported him. That’s just the type of night it was.

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White, wheat or rye?

Philly chefs and personalities are prepping their stations for a month-long sandwich competition in Old City

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arch in Philadelphia doesn’t have to just be about a highstakes, collegiate basketball competition. Beginning March 4, Old City’s High Street on Market will host Sandwich Battles, its own culinary iteration of March Madness but served with a heaping plate of Food Network’s Chopped. In its inaugural year, the official Sandwich Battles Bracket currently consists of 12 top chefs and well-known Philadelphians. Each Monday for five continuous weeks, three cooks and personalities will fire up the grill using a specific type of bread and mystery ingredient in an effort to make the tastiest sandwich.

"We've been working on the line up for a while and can't wait to see what everyone brings to the table,” said Andrew Farley, chef at High Street. “This won't be a tea party. These players are going to give it all they got and as host and official referee, I'm excited to give the play-by-play and make sure all of our attendees have a good time. It'll be nice to be on the floor this time and not in the kitchen."

An evolving list of competitors, the lineup already showcases an impressive list of chefs and restauranteurs. Executive chefs competing in the Sandwich Battles consist of Executive Chef Damon Menapace of Le Virtu, Executive Chef Matt Budenstein of Liberty Kitchen and Chef de Cuisine Rob Marzinsky for the Philadelphia 76ers.

Chef-owners on the roster include Jon Nodler of Cadence, Michael Strauss of Mike’s

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BBQ, Keith Krajewski and Matthew Cahn of Middle Child and Nick Elmi of Laurel, ITV, and Royal Boucherie. Restaurant owners and founders Jonathan Adams AKA “Johnny Mac” of Rival Brothers and Kiki Aranita of Poi Dog will also be throwing their bun in the ring.

The competition will also sport personalities, such as former Philadelphia Eagles player Darwin Walker and Street Gazing founder and former Philadelphia Daily News photojournalist Reuben “Big Rube” Harley.

A theatrical experience, participants will be given a sandwich-making station for the showdown to take place. Samples of the final products will then be served to the table-seated audience, all of whom will have voting cards. In addition to sandwich samples and voting rights, guests will enjoy house-made sides and a bucket of beers from a rotating local brewery.

The single-elimination tournament will end with the Final Four Championship on Monday, April 1, where one will earn the title of Sandwich Battles Champion and, of course, bragging rights.

There will be an after-party after each weekly battle, complete with light bites and a cash bar.

Sandwich Battle | Mondays March 4-April 1. 7-9pm. $25. High Street on Market, 308 Market St. eventbrite.com/e/sandwich-battles-tickets-56923358297

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To provide something else to consider instead of a month of college hoops, Old City’s High Street on Market has pitted some of the best chefs, cooks and personalities in Philly against each other to see who among them can make the best sandwich in Philadelphia. Here’s a look at the field, and when they are scheduled to compete.

Competition schedule thus far (subject to change): First Round | Monday, March 4 Damon Menapace, executive chef, Le Virtu Jonathan Adams AKA “Johnny Mac,” co-founder and owner, Rival Brothers Michael Strauss, chef-owner, Mike’s BBQ Second Round | Monday, March 11 Kiki Aranita, founder and owner, Poi Dog Darwin Walker, former defensive tackle, Philadelphia Eagles Third Round | Monday, March 18 Keith Krajewski and Matthew Cahn, executive chef and founder-owner, Middle Child Jon Nodler, chef-owner, Cadence Reuben “Big Rube” Harley, Street Gazing founder and Philadelphia Daily News columnist Fourth Round | Monday, March 25 Rob Marzinsky, chef de cuisine, Philadelphia 76ers Matt Budenstein, executive chef, Liberty Kitchen Nick Elmi, chef-owner, Laurel, ITV and Royal Boucherie “Final Four” Winner-Takes-All Championship Monday, April 1, TBA

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PECO

Power Local Green Jobs campaign says City needs PECO on board for environmental plans to work

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The power is now in PECO’s hands. Earlier this month, roughly 40 environmental activists marched from the PECO building at 2301 Market St. to City Hall. A part of the Power Local Green Jobs campaign, protesters want the electric company, PECO, to increase its use of solar energy above the one percent requirement and to create more green jobs.

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Activist organizations EQAT and POWER marched in the streets, demanding energy company PECO step up its game when it comes to solar energy and green jobs. | Image: Andrea Cantor

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Blowing up Jokes on you if you haven’t heard comedian Chris Distefano, who just KO’d Punch Line Philadelphia

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o look at Chris Distefano you’d never know – and he’d never readily tell – that he’s completely kicking 2019’s ass right now. The Staten Island comedian just wrapped up a threenight headline appearance at Punch Line Philly over the weekend as part of a nationwide comedy tour. He also inked a deal with Comedy Central to include multiple projects, most notably a one-hour stand-up special, Size 38 Waist which debut to rave reviews. It’s a deal that Forbes Magazine described as the blueprint for future comics to aspire to with the network, with an animated series, an unscripted series and the continuation of his Friday night series, Stupid Questions with Chris Distefano, renewed for another season.

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“I don't look forward to bombing, you know, nobody really does, but I’ve learned so much from it and that you just have to have fun with it. I mean, the crowd may just not like you, is a reality.”

– Comedian Chris Distefano

However, to get Distefano to tell you anything is easier said than done. It’s not him being cagey more as it comes from a place of humility as he will readily admit that he’s still surprised himself at just how much his life has changed since the start of the new year.

On the eve of his three-night, sold-out standup at Punch Line, we sat down with Distefano, to see if he’s pinched himself into the reality he’s now facing as a widely successful – and now, highly sought after comic.

What’d you think of Philly? What did you think of the crowd at Punch Line?

I've been to Philly you know bunch of times both personally and professionally. I've done mostly stuff at Punch Line but I’ve been other places too. Philly...it’s such an honest audience, like it's brutally honest.

I like that attitude. I'm from New York and I love performing in front of East Coast fans. To me, the best fans in the world are the ones that are brutally honest. You get that at a place like [Punch Line Philadelphia].

So the past couple of months for you have been fucking awesome, wouldn’t you say?

It’s been absolutely unbelievable, man. I go into these interviews knowing what the questions guys like you are going to ask, but I’m still at a loss because I’m still in shock myself.

Being able to produce a stand-up about my life and to have an unscripted show, it’s just so wild but so great.

I know people may know who I am from my old TV days and some of the stuff I’ve done on radio, but a lot of people have never really seen my standup in long form like that.

It was cool to have an opportunity to and to get an opportunity to showcase me in full force. So far all the all the feedback has been pretty positive.

Even though you were a regular on MTV, you still felt like you were on the outside looking in a bit? What’s the transition been like?

Honestly, I think now I have validation from my [comic] peers that I can do stand-up comedy. I’m in a room now chatting with respected New York stand-up legends who acknowledge my stand-up now. There’s so many good comics out there now, but there are little breaks that bring your game to another level. Where you go from being a YouTube star to someone that can do stand-up and sell tickets. It’s a Big League feeling not a lot of comedians get a chance to experience, so yeah, I feel very fortunate.

Your Comedy Central special, Size 38 Waist was great, but it was the first time you had to tackle a one-hour comedy special. What’s it like having to be funny for an hour?

You have to work really hard towards being good for an hour. I worked extremely hard. So hopefully people saw that when they saw the special.

Talk about those holy shit moments, where your material just isn’t working out.

What’s that feeling like and how does a good comic overcome the embarrassment?

You know when you first start out that’s a fear? Like you’re literally in a green room being like, ‘Oh my God what if I bomb?’ But honestly, the minute you realize that the opportunity to bomb is more prevalent than you know and that’s it’s part of the process, you begin to relax a lot more. I don't look forward to bombing, you know, nobody really does, but I’ve learned so much from it and that you just have to have fun with it. I mean, the crowd may just not like you, is a reality. I just have

a plan every time I go out on stage and know that sometimes it just not going to work out.

Of all the work you have now, what’s perhaps the one thing you’re most excited about?

The only thing I want in my career now and the only goal that I have is to sell tickets.

I want to be the comedian that people want to come see. Laughter is therapy and we live in a world where people want it. You want to be the person they choose to provide that therapy.

So I’m really trying to bring a bit more awareness about my standup. People are starting to come out to the shows and I feel like that is what I really most excited about. I mean I have a scripted show and a scripted cartoon with Comedy Central and I'm extremely excited that all that stuff will work out. But being able to have a really good show in front of a packed club. You know all those people there to see me and enjoy my comedy so that's what I'm most excited about.

You still get nerves though, right?

If anything it's not nerves, it’s more like excitement like before a big game.

How often are you getting recognized?

You know man, that’s probably the best part about all of this, is that I’m really not.

Sure, some people come up and will say hello, but for the most part I can walk down any street unrecognized. It’s not like a Kevin Hart or a Jerry Seinfeld who can’t walk anywhere without being mobbed. I just bought a house in New York City and no one knows me. I like that I can make money doing what I love and enjoy my life walk around freely. To be a success but still have anonymity is a huge plus.

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Rash decision

Philly’s lack of transparency over voting system manufacturer; 18 counties accepting gifts from vendors rubs PA Auditor General the wrong way

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n a press conference on Feb. 22, Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale lambasted Philadelphia’s City Commissioners’ lack of transparency in choosing its new voting election equipment.

In a deal that could be as high as $50 million, according to DePasquale, Philadelphia’s elections committee selected controversial company, Election Systems & Software. ES&S came under scrutiny late last year when it was found that Luzerne County’s elections director had accepted gifts, including a free trip to Vegas, from the Omaha, Nebraska-based company. After the incident Luzerne County, DePasquale underwent a review of 67 counties and the purchase of voting systems.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced in a press conference on Feb. 22 that 18 out of 67 counties accepted gifts from voting system manufacturers. | Image: PACast.com screenshot

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In accordance with the Pennsylvania Dechoose ES&S for reasons other than what’s best for the county. DePasquale noted that partment of State’s ruling last April, counPhiladelphia’s Request for Proposals (RFP) ties must implement a new voting system in time for the 2020 primary, and ideally by the back in November appeared “to favor one vendor.” The auditor general recommended at the November 2019 general election. During the press conference, DePasquale announced that press conference that the City should review 18 counties admitted to accepting gifts from the matter, and if a conflict of interest is found to then reject the ES&S bid altogether and voting machine vendors since 2013. Gifts instart over. cluded paid trips, wine festivals and distillery In the Commissioner's letter, it contended tours, meals at high-end restaurants, tickets to that the RFP was written when there was only amusement parks, and rides on a Pittsburgh one certified system, Unisyn, and that there roller coaster. was no guarantee that the other bids would “The crime here is that no one did violate the law,” said DePasquale. Lobbying is a le- be certified by February 13th. The City had fast-tracked its overall process to implement gal practice, and officials only need to disvoting machines well before the 2020 elections close their acceptance gifts if they exceed but had delayed their final $250 or lodging over $600. decision a week to allow the But while it may not be illeCity’s Procurement Departgal, DePasquale noted “it's ment more time to negotiate just stupid considering how the recommendations made much scrutiny this issue is by the selection committee. facing," particularly with the The public relations upcoming 2020 presidential manager of ES&S, Katina elections. He also stated that Granger explained that Philthe state should strengthen adelphia’s chosen model, the its lobbying and disclosure ExpressVote XL “allows votrules, legislature which Gov. ers to see a full ballot on a Tom Wolf has been working 32-inch interactive screen and on. produces an independent vot"I'd love to know how a lober-verifiable paper record, in ster dinner and a distillery accordance with the Pennsyltour offers any insight into vania Department of State’s how these machines work mandate for voter-verifiable best for your voters," continpaper record voting systems. ued DePasquale, adding that Ballots cast with the Expresshe will be handing over his – Pennsylvania Vote XL [can be fully auditfindings to the ethics commitAuditor General ed]." Moreover, Granger emtee.

Eugene DePasquale phasized the "above the line" In a late response to Destandards of ES&S over its 40 Pasquale’s letter requesting years of existence. further information, the PhilWhen asked about the company’s past lobadelphia City Commissioners denied allegabying with Luzerne County and DePasquale’s tions of accepting gifts from bidding vendors.

The response letter included Nick Custodio, current investigation of elections committees Seth Bluestein, Michelle Montalvo, Commis- accepting gifts from voting machine vendors, Granger stated on Feb. 21, a day before Desioner Al Schmidt and Commissioner Lisa Pasquale announced his findings: Deeley.

“We are not aware of any details in General As to why Philadelphia chose ES&S, the letAuditor Eugene DePasquale's audit. Lobbying ter read in part: “There are many unique characteristics is a normal practice and is common across all industries. about Philadelphia's elections that require a It is governed by state and federal laws and responsible evaluation to include a conversaregulations, and ES&S complies with each law tion on ballot face and physical footprint of a system. We are under a consent decree with re- and regulation.”

DePasquale did not spend his time solely to gards to the handicapped accessibility of our polling places so the ability of a system to fit criticize counties’ election committee processes. He also praised specific counties, such as into our existing polling places and not require major changes in where people vote is a positive Mifflin County for its prompt response to his inquiry and thorough financial reporting. In factor. We also have a large ballot that sometimes attracts larger candidate pools not seen addition, DePasquale pointed to Montgomery County elsewhere in the state. The ability to display all candidates on a screen and the whole ballot as an example for others, supporting its choice of Dominion Voting Systems. Montgomery on the fewest number of screens as possible is a positive factor. This is balanced out against County’s new voter-marked paper balloting price, vendor diversity, training, technical sup- system makes voters fill out ballots in pen but also includes an ADA touchscreen as an alterport, and ability to deliver a secure, certified native option. system.”

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Costly Joint-Pain Injections Replaced By New $2 Pill New pill boosts the same lubricating joint fluid as expensive and painful injections - without using a needle.

Users report dramatic relief from swelling, pain and stiffness without side effects and expense.

Health News Syndicate HNS—A popular needle injection for people with joint pain is now available in an inexpensive nonprescription pill. The breakthrough came when researchers discovered a way to deliver the injected “relief molecule” through the digestive system.

Top US clinics have used these needle injections for years because they deliver powerful relief. Unfortunately, the shots are painful and expensive.

They also only work on the joint being treated.

The new pill, called Synovia, delivers the same “relief molecule” as the injections. However, it has some impressive advantages. First, it’s inexpensive and nonprescription. Also, relief is delivered to every joint in the body because it enters the bloodstream through the digestive system.

This gives it the ability to reduce a much wider variety of pain. Users report greater flexibility and less stiffness in their knees. Hands and shoulders move pain-free for the first time in years. Even neck and lower back pain improve dramatically.

All this without spending over $600 on needle injections and taking trips to the doctor every week.

The medical community is very excited about this new breakthrough.

Dr. Jacob Moss says, “Synovia is a great option for those suffering from joint pain. Injections are usually a last resort because of the pain and expense. However, Synovia should be

BEFORE: No lubricating fluid fluid or or UNHEALTHY: No lubricating cartilage lead to to pain bone-on-bone cartilage leads painful bone-onrubbing. bone rubbing.

taken at the first sign of discomfort.”

New Discovery The needle injection procedure has been given to hundreds of thousands of patients over the last several years.

Doctors use the shots to boost a critical element of the joint called synovial fluid. This lubricating fluid is found between the cartilage and bones of every joint.

According to the firm’s head of R&D, Mike McNeill, “Researchers have been working for years to find a way to boost this fluid noninvasively.

The problem was the tmolecule used in the injections was too large to absorb into the bloodstream.”

Top scientists conquered this obstacle by finding a smaller form of the same molecule. This new glucose form is easily absorbed by your stomach and intestines!

Now those who suffer from joint pain can get relief without painful injections. At less than $2 per day, early users like Steve Young are impressed.

He says, “I’ve tried more pills than I can count, without any luck. Synovia is different. My knees and hands haven’t felt this good in years!”

Impressive Clinical Results Leading clinics use injection therapy because it works. Recent clinical trials show the pill form also delivers major relief.

One example is a landmark study out of Europe. In the study the active ingredient in Synovia was compared

AFTER: Synovia’s HEALTHY: Synovia’sactive activeingredients ingredients lubricatejoints jointsand and nourish nourish cartilage! cartilage so it lubricate can re-grow!

to a popular NSAID pain reliever. The goal was to see if it could reduce pain and swelling around the knee. The results were incredible!

After just 30 days, more than 8 out of 10 people who took Synovia’s active ingredient had NO swelling.

However, only 2 out of 10 people who took the NSAID experienced reduced swelling.

The study also looked at cases of severe swelling. Amazingly, zero cases of severe swelling were detected in the group taking the active ingredient found in Synovia. This means it was 100% effective for the cases of severe swelling!

In contrast, 9 out of 10 people taking the NSAID still had severe swelling. McNeill points out, “The impressive thing about this study is the active ingredient wasn’t tested against a fake pill. It was up against one of the most popular NSAIDs people use every day. It’s easy to see why people in pain are excited to get relief without an injection.”

The New Way It Delivers Relief Getting relief without injections has big advantages. The most obvious is avoiding being stuck by a large needle every week for 5 weeks.

Another downside of injections is the doctor can “miss”. The needle needs to be inserted into a precise spot in the joint to work. Otherwise, you risk the treatment being ineffective.

However, boosting your lubricating joint fluid by taking a pill delivers relief to all your joints, not just one.

There’s an additional reason the active ingredient in Synovia works so well – it nourishes the cartilage.

McNeill says, “This is vital because cartilage does not have blood vessels.

The fluid in the joint serves two very important pain-relief roles: lubrication and giving the cartilage the nutrients it needs.”

Approved By Leading Doctors The new delivery system for this molecule has caught the attention of

NO MORE NEEDLES: A popular needle injection pain-killer for joint pain is being replaced. The key molecule in these injections can now be delivered by taking a new low-cost pill called Synovia. leading medical doctors.

“Needle injections for joint pain have been around for years because they work. Being able to get the same relief molecule through a pill is amazing. Injections may be a last resort, but I’d recommend Synovia at the first sign of pain,” said Dr. Marie Laguna.

Dr. Moss adds, “The research behind the active ingredient in Synovia is very exciting. This product is a great choice for those who haven’t had success with other joint pain treatments.”

110% Money Back Guarantee Amazing feedback from users of Synovia has generated a wave of confidence at the company. So much so that they now offer Synovia with a 110% money back guarantee.

The company’s president, Michael Kenneth says, “We’ve seen how well it works. Now we want to remove any risk for those who might think Synovia sounds too good to be true.”

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Image: Andrea Cantor Protesters went inside City Hall to provide politicians information about their campaign.

PECO: FROM PAGE 19 After reaching City Hall, activists gave staged a three-day action at PECO’s building, speeches and then entered the building to which led to 25 arrests, according to Flanagan.

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has startspeak with City Council members about joining the effort. Activists visited a number of of- ed to roll out his sustainable legislative plans, including the transition of all City buildings fices to deliver information, including Council members Curtis Jones, Jannie Blackwell and to run on 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. Flanagan challenged that the City will be Bobby Henon, the latter of whom still dealing unable to achieve its goals with the aftermath of corwithout PECO on board. ruption charges in the fedThe Power Local Green Jobs eral indictment case against campaign has challenged union boss John Dougherty.

PECO to create 20 percent “We are pushing PECO local solar, in addition to into the future and they've green jobs, by 2025. been very reluctant,” said “We are thrilled that Eileen Flanagan, board Philadelphia leaders are member of Earth Quaker thinking about how to make Action Team. “We know that – Eileen Flanagan, Earth Philadelphia more sustainwe need a Green New Deal Quaker Action Team able,” Flanagan said. “The for this region and their parboard member reason that we're marching ent company Exelon needs to City Hall and asking polito be a part of that.”

This was the latest demonstration in an ticians to join in our message to PECO is that ongoing collaborative campaign since 2015 we don't believe that the region can get where those visions say we need to go without PECO between environmental group EQAT and interfaith organization Philadelphians Orga- and Exelon playing a major role.” nized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild. Last @ANDREAJCANTOR March, activists from both EQAT and POWER

“We are pushing PECO into the future [but] they've been very reluctant.”

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Think you know everything there is to know about The Office?

We’ll own up to it; this is the second “Office”-themed quizzo event we’re including in this week’s Calendar. If you read that entry before this one, we’ll apologize, but only briefly. Because, just as we said there, we dare you and all your friends to bring it.

Seriously. Bring it. We’ve legit watched “The Office” in its entirety so many times that we simply can’t be beaten when it comes to trivia. Bring.

Dare. We wait. Kevin know. | 9pm. Free. City Tap University City, 3925 Walnut St. citytap.com DANCE

Rave Etiquette

Ever wondered what the standard operating procedure for a rave is?

Never been before and hoping to brush up on classic rave etiquette before attending? Well get ready to be disappointed because this event does not pertain to that in the slightest. Ok, maybe a little. Really though, Rave Etiquette is a show for the DIY dancers amongst us, with acceptance, love and respect at the center of the evening’s festivities. | 10pm. $3. Liaison Room at Front Street Cafe, 1253 N. Front St. tixco-540.theticketingco. com

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Taste the brown rainbow at Ocean Prime

Fans of The Brown best be on their toes; there’s no way these tickets last very long.

The Philadelphia Whiskey Society is hosting this event in partnership with Edrington (Macallan, Highland Park) to hook up Macallan’s regional brand ambassador with a crew of scotch-loving Philadelphians for a night of great whisky, great cocktails and great food, highlighted by a flight of premium scotches and rum. | 6pm. $20. Ocean Prime, 124 S. 15th St. eventbrite.com

Franklin Square Spring Opening Spring is about to be sprung.

There may be no better place to celebrate the official arrival of Spring (assuming it’s not randomly below freezing in March – thanks alot global warming – than Franklin Square Park.

Named after our very own Ben Franklin and accounted for as one of William Penn’s five original public squares, Franklin Square is set to kick off a 2019 season that we just know is bound to be historically awesome (See what we did there?). Philly Mini Golf. The Phil-

adelphia Parx Liberty Carousel. A Once Upon a Nation storytelling bench, delicious treats at SquareBurger and, of course, the Franklin Square Fountain; with all that awesomeness, there’s really not much else for us to say.

Except, perhaps this...

We like big parks and we cannot lie, you other Philadelphians can’t deny, when Spring shows out and the carousel spins round, you get sprung, wanna get in on the fun.

You’re welcome.

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WHAT: Franklin Square Spring Opening WHEN: March 1. 8am. COST: Prices vary.

WHERE: Franklin Square, 6th & Race Sts. MORE historicphiladelphia.org

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The Women’s Film Festival is coming.

This is her coming out party

The actual 2019 Women’s Film Festival doesn’t kick off until mid-March, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start the festivities.

Start your pre-festival evening with a half an hour of complimentary hors d’oeuvres. Follow that nosh with a cash bar with drink specials, moving right into a plethora of networking opportunities. And last, but definitely not least, enjoy a glimpse of the films ready to grace the festival screens in 2019. | 6pm. Free. Positano Coast, 212 Walnut St. eventbrite.com

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Philly Black Trans History: A Multigenerational Panel

We owe all we have to those who came before us. That’s as true for you as it is for me. For Trans folks in Philly, the equation is a bit more complicated, even if the end result is just as strong - or stronger even - than what the rest of us feel. Because being MAR trans is a singular experience and, so often, not an easy one. The history of hope is a MUSIC long one, and it’s important to pay respect to those who suffered so we wouldn’t have to. | 6pm. Free. William Way LGBT Community Center, We just learne 1315 Spruce St. … “flow toys.” the first thing facebook.com when you hea “flow toys?” B

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Hang out with the awesomely obscure nobigdyl.

You might think, based on the name, that this event is no big deal. But that’s not the case. In fact, nobigdyl. is, if anything, kind of a big deal. The eclectic hip hopper dropped “Canopy” in 2017, then followed that up with 2018’s “SOLAR.” Dude might be enough of a neophyte to the national scene that he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page, but we’re willing to be that kind of under the radar action won’t be possible for much longer. | 8pm. $14. The Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St. concerts1.livenation.com

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is ready to inspire Philly’s next dance generation

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We just learned a new term … “flow toys.” Now, what’s the first thing you think of when you hear the term “flow toys?” Because we

don’t want to put words in anyone’s mouth, but our guess is that it’s something a little less than G-rated. But that’s ok. Because “flow toys” are just LED toys that you can dance with. At shows.

Like this one. Flow toys. We’d crack a joke but honestly, we aspire to that level of unbridled enjoyment in, well, anything. | 9pm. $20.

Warehouse on Watts, 923 N. Watts St.

If dance is the dream, then Alvin Ailey is the dreamer.

Unfortunately, the titular former leader of this world renowned dance troupe passed in 1989, but his indomitable spirit lives on in a legacy of unique and awe-inspiring performance.

This will be the first show in a series of performances, closing on Saturday evening.

Don’t miss your chance to revel in this American classic. | 730pm. Prices vary. The Academy of Music, 1420 Locust St.

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The Prince + Michael Experience

Assuming you weren’t extremely well-versed in all things pop and/or culture, you might think this event was an in depth look at the life and times of Prince Michael of Kent. You know, paternal first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, grandson of King George V and Queen Mary; Prince Michael of Kent. But fortunately for you (and everyone else), that’s not at all what this event is.

It’s a fun time dance party featuring the music of Prince and Michael Jackson! Which, we gotta say, is just way, way better than the alternative. | 930pm. $10. Voltage Lounge, 421 N. 7th St. eventbrite.com

Who says art only exists on the easel? Or on a wall?

Maybe on the front flap of a book or the back of a CD (wait; they do still make CDS don’t they?). Well, we know better, don’t we? Art is everywhere, including on you and me. If you’re a fan of all things skin art - aka, tattoos - then head on over for an evening celebrating original tattoo art by the mad minds at Art Machine. High five required for admission. | 7pm. Free.

Art Machine Productions, 1345 Frankford Ave. artmachine-productions. com PARTY

Emo Night at XFinity Live!

At this point, we feel like we just gotta ask; what’s with Philly and the whole Emo Night thing? Honestly, does Philly just have an inordinate number of former scene kids?

Was Emo music way bigger in high school than we remember?

Sure, we all love Panic! At the Disco and straight cut bangs and tight black jeans and hating everyone and patches and unintelligible lyrics and unnecessarily sad songs and Saves The Day and Brand New and … ok, ok.

Maybe we do get it. | 8pm.

Free. Xfinity Live!, 1100 Pattison Ave.

MUSIC

Citizen Cope

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Flash Mob

We’d let Citizen Cope carry us through the “Hurricane Waters” of this wild ride we call life any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Seriously though, just the mere mention of The Clarence Greenwood Recordings feels like somebody threw us in the back of a 1998 Honda Accord and zapped us straight back to high school. All we need now are some saggy jeans, an oversized hoodie and a beanie that hasn’t been washed in, well, ever. | Friday 830pm. $39.50. Franklin Music Hall, 421 N. 7th St.

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Cypress Hill + Hollywood Undead

Insane in the membrane, insane in PA. That’s what Cypress Hill’s gonna be when they, along with Hollywood Undead, take Philly and The Fillmore by smoke and storm this weekend, pumping out all the lowriding gangster jams right alongside a whole host of soon-to-be hits ... some from the bong, some not (See what we did there?). | Saturday 730pm.

Prices vary. The Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St. livenation.com

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FLOWER SHOW

Flowers After Hours

Did we mention that the Philadelphia Flower Show, a week-long celebration of all things flower power, will be blooming right under our noses at the Pennsylvania Convention Center all week long? No? Well we’re mentioning it now. The first day of the show kicks off with Flowers After Hours, a Beatles-inspired twirl through the gardens and grounds. | 830pm. $75.

Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St. theflowershow.com PARTY

Goose Island Philly First Anniversary Party

Hey! Welcome to Goose Island! If you’ve never seen or heard one of their fine, fine commercials, you’re likely going to hear that refrain for the very first time when you

step into Goose Island Philly for their one year anniversary party. But if the live music, photobooth, raffle prizes and special Anniversary Beer have anything to say about it, we’re guessing you’ll be hearing “Hey! Welcome to Goose Island!,” again and again and again. | 11am. Free.

Goose Island Philadelphia, 1002 Canal St. gooseisland.com MUSIC

Space Bacon

Space Bacon is back, baby!

Not that they were ever gone.

Honestly, we don’t know where Space Bacon was before this, but we do know where they’ll be for at least a few hours on Saturday night. They’ll be blasting out the beats at Bourbon & Branch for a couple of sweat-inducing sets that are sure to leave the crowd craving another crack at their crunchy improvisational grooves. | 11pm. $12.

Bourbon & Branch, 705 N. 2nd St. theticketingco.com

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Maple Sugar Day at Fox Chase Farm

We gotta admit; it’s hella weird to be touting an event within the cozy confines of Philly that’s also outdoors and also on a farm. Like, a real farm, not some make-believe thing with a broken down barn and a single malnourished cow.

This is Fox Chase’s annual maple sugar event, featuring Maple Tours, candy making, pancake tasting and, as if all of that wasn’t enough, definitely maybe at least a handful of cows. Like three cows. Ok, maybe two. But definitely more than one. We think. | 12pm. $3. Fox Chase Farm, 8500 Pine Rd .foxchasefarm.org

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Puppy Yoga

The all-important proceeds benefit information; they all go to benefit Morris Animal Refuge. Just as important; there are only 40 spots available for each session, and there are only two sessions available. Listen, we’re not saying you should make your more for a ticket this instant … but we think you should probably make your move for a ticket this instant. The other option is no puppies and, just, ya know … no. | 130pm. $25. Amrita Yoga and Wellness, 2306 South St. eventbrite.com

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Paleopalooza

It’s a festival of fossils and everyone - and their brother is invited. Seriously, you want want to miss this deep dive into all that tooth and talon goodness. You - and your brother, should you choose to be the bigger person and call him for once - will get the chance to peruse the paleolithic, talk through some trilobites, and heck, you might even get to meet real, live paleontologists (we thought they were just a hoax perpetrated by Big Science!). | 10am. Prices vary. The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. ansp.org

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GIVE BACK

Brunch Aboard the Meowshulu

Yep. You read that right. The Meowshulu. The more astute amongst us will surely be raising at least a single finger in protest already, but fret not; we know that’s not really its name. Instead, it’s a nod to what this mimosas n’ brunch event is really all about; cats.

And, more specifically, Non Lethal Options for Animals’ efforts to save as many of Philly’s feline friends as possible. | 11am. $25. The Moshulu, 401 S. Christopher Columbus Blvd. eventbrite.com BOOK TALK

Nadia BolzWeber: The Shameless Book Tour

Religion’s often fallen well short of even the most conservative mark when it comes to the issue of human sexuality.

Christianity didn’t just fall short; they actively tried not to be involved.

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But no matter what the God-fearing may try, the gloriousness of our bodies remains. Join author Nadia Bolz-Weber as she discusses the work and life behind her latest book exploring the church’s teachings on sexuality, “Shameless: A Sexual Reformation.” | 7pm. $7.50. Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, 2110 Chestnut St. eventbrite.com MUSIC

Oliver Tree’s Ugly is Beautiful Tour

Oliver Tree isn’t your normal hip hop star. He doesn’t even make normal hip hop music or perform like a normal rapper. Instead, he throws on a bucket hat, hops on a scooter and proceeds to sing/dance/joke/play/act/ scoot from one side of the stage (and your heart) to the other. And by the end, all you know (besides the fact that Oliver Tree’s a weird, weird guy) is that he lives there now. Your heart, that is. He lives in it, now and forever. | 8pm. $15. The Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St. livenation.com

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1¢ Day at the Museum

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is … kind of a big deal. We don’t mean to toot our own civic horn here, but we Philadelphians are all a little spoiled when it comes to culture in the City of Brotherly Love.

That’s why it’s so amazing that the Museum of Art would run a promotion like this on the first Sunday of every freakin’ month. Technically, it’s pay-whatyou-wish, but $.01 is all you really need. For all that culture. Whew boy. | Sunday 10am. $.01. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. philamuseum.org

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Philadelphia Job Fair

Not all events are created equal. Some are gonna be fun (secretly, we hope they’re all at least a little fun, but we recognize that’s not always possible). Some are gonna be wild. Some are gonna be serious or secretive or, heck, even sexy. And some, well, some are just necessary.

Just something we all need from time to time. This is one of those events at one of those times. | 11am. Free.

Courtyard by Marriott, 4100 Presidential Blvd. eventbrite.com

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Academy Town Square: How Will We Survive a Changing Climate

Bunkers? Underwater cities? A mass planetary exodus that results in the colonization of some distant and, as-of-yet-undiscovered world? All great options. All not quite feasible, at least to this point. No, it’s looking more and more like we’re actually going to have to try and fix what we broke. Which, if you know anything about humans … isn’t exactly our strong suit. | 630pm. Free.

The Academy of Natural Sciences. 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. eventbrite.com MUSIC

Jacquees

This isn’t the first time ol’ Jacquees will be gracing the pages at Philadelphia Weekly.

In fact, he made a guest appearance just last week, for a very

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Sprung for Spring Market

Are you ready to shop, eat and share vegan? Well ready or not, here the Sprung for Spring Market comes! Boasting a whole host of local vendors, the Philly Vegan Pop Flea Market is rife with opportunity for upgrading; your look, your eating habits, your whole freakin’ life! Just kidding on that last one … mostly. | Friday 1pm. Free. Tattooed Mom, 530 South St. phillyveganpopflea.com

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similar reason. Ok, ok … it’s the same reason. Same venue, same time, different show. Kid’s popular, what can we say? Born in 1994, first mixtape out in 2011 and already on tracks with the likes of TI, Travis Porter and Quincy … we’re thinkin’ this might not be the last time we mention ol’ Jacquees’ name either. | 8pm. $29. TLA, 334 South St. livenation.com LEARN

Macrame Terrarium Workshop + Beer Tasting

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Pretty Haircut with Reputable Source

Reputable Source may not, in fact, be much in the way of a reputable source, but when it comes to comedy, they’ve got all the info you need.

The crew behind Reputable Source has been killing the improv game for years now.

So buckle up for a wig-tastic evening of hair-raising humor you’ll never be able to forget, no matter how hard you try. | 730pm. $8. Philly Improv Theater, 2030 Sansom St. eventbrite.com GROOMING

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again and again and again if we have to; any event that combines art or learning or making with beer and/or wine is an absolute winner in our book. Seriously, you get to slip into a seat, sip on a cocktail or three and legit make something that you’ll then take home and keep forever. Or until one of your cats destroys it in a fit of jealous rage. How awesome is that! | 7pm. $50. Love City Brewing, 1023 Hamilton St.

Structure With Integrity

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Who out there knows what the real difference between a good haircut and bad haircut is? We’re willing to bet our entire collection of Kill Bill memorabilia that at least 75 percent of people wouldn’t know the answer. Hell, even we didn’t know the answer.

But we do now … . We’ll give you a hint; it has to do with how you cut the hair. | 2pm.

Free. Talking Headz Salon, 4922 Baltimore Ave.

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Born Of Osiris: The Simulation Tour

Osiris is the god of the afterlife … supposedly. To be “born of” Osiris, would make the band a bunch of Horuses. Horus is the son of Osiris and Isis. Of course, as so often tends to be the case with ancient mythology, Horus wasn’t just born after his parents did the hanky panky. Following Osiris’ death by dismemberment, Iris collected his bits (except his penis, which was eaten by a catfish), fashioned a phallus, and made her dead husband’s body give her a child. If there’s a story more metal than that, we haven’t heard it. | Monday 630pm. $18. TLA, 334 South St. livenation.com

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Pączki Day at The Pierogie Kitchen

Look. We’re not going to lie to you. Mostly because we’re in the business of truth, but also because lying makes us feel icky. But here’s the true-iest truth that ever truthed; we don’t know how to pronounce pączki. We just don’t. And maybe we never will, but maybe that’s ok.

Because, as far as we can tell, pączkis are delicious dough balls filled with different custardy concoctions and made specifically for eating, not talking about. | 10am.

Free. The Pierogie Kitchen, 648 Roxborough Ave.

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Philadelphia’s Day of Empathy

Know what the world needs more of? Yes, yes, of course it needs more love, will always need more love; turns out, Jackie DeShannon knew exactly what the hell she was talking about when she wrote “What the World Needs Now is Love.” But that’s not what we’re talking about.

We’re aiming way, way lower; empathy. We all could use a little more empathy. So spend the day remembering what it’s like not to have all you need, and maybe try to help those for whom that still holds true. | 3pm. Free. City Hall, Room 401, 1400 John F. Kennedy Blvd. eventbrite.com

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Inquiring Minds: A Conversation about Philadelphia Sports

We’re all about Philly and conversations and keeping up with whatever’s going on the city and, to a lesser extent, sports. But sports are really just a lens, just another prism through which to view the life and times of late 2010s Philly. Want to have your voice heard, or simply hoping to hear what others like Marcus Hayes and Mike Sielski think of the current state of things? Well, boy howdy, do we have an event for you. | 6pm. Free.

Philadelphia Inquirer, 801 Market St. pmnevents.philly.com

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Speed Dating 30’s and 40’s

Love is a many splendored thing. We’re pretty sure someone, somewhere said that before we did, but that’s not important. In fact, all that matters is the meaning.

Which is that love holds so many secrets, it’s not even worth trying to parse. But that’s ok, because knowing would take away some of what makes it so special in the first place. Finding love isn’t always easy, kiddies, but it is always worth it. So get on out there and give it a try. | 7pm. $25. Infusion Lounge Philly, 16 S. 2nd St. eventbrite.com MUSIC

Dean Lewis

Over 122 million streams.

31 million video views.

Appearances on shows like

Suits, Riverdale and Grey’s Anatomy. Dean Lewis may not be the most well-known singer-songwriter in the world, but there’s a pretty high percentage chance you’ve heard at least one of his songs - probably “Waves” - before now. The only question left to answer is … how does the rest of it hold up? | 8pm. $22. The Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St.

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Eminence Ensemble w/ Tiger Party + Jay Lubes

Six piece. What do you think of when you hear that?

We think of fried chicken, personally, but that’s

just us. Other people think of beer, though that should probably be a “pack.” Still others think of bands, bands like Eminence Ensemble.

Bands wherein the skills of six different musicians with vastly different backgrounds and vastly different ideals come together to create something truly unique and groundbreaking. But also fried chicken. | 830pm. $10.

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Guinness Pint Glass Engraving

Welcome to friendly Port Richmond, and welcome to your new favorite beer glass.

You’ll find a heaping helping of hospitality (and booze, of course; where do you think all those good vibes come from?) when you head on over to Byrne’s Tavern on Thursday night. You’ll also find Guinness pint glasses and an engraving machine just itching to etch “Gritty’s Girlfriend” on your glass. | 730pm. $5.

Byrne’s Tavern, 3301 Richmond St. byrnestavern.net

HERStory Happy Hour

March is Women’s History Month, which means we’re gonna be hitting all the hot historical lady events we can get our suffragesupporting hands on. This one’s all about meeting fellow lady enthusiasts over a brown bag luncheon with Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. You’ll talk, you’ll listen; you’ll walk away better for the experience. | 530pm. Free. Pen & Pencil Club, 1522 Latimer St. eventbrite.com ART

Drink & Draw

We couldn’t even venture a guess as to how many of the drink and draw or drink and

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paint or drink and sculpt or drink and build or drink and dance or drink and whatever events we’ve pointed you to over the past year or so.

But that doesn’t mean we’ve grown tired of the notion.

Quite the contrary, in fact.

That’s why we’re so damn excited for you and your friends to join forces with artist Loveis Wise to sip and simmer and, given time and the just right amount of space, create something truly beautiful. | 6pm. Free.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. philamuseum.org MUSIC

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats

Usually, you’ve got to go to YA novels and summer tentpole films to get your yearly fix of dystopian rigamarole. So when a rock band comes out with a concept album built around the notion of a not-so-distant (or farfetched) future wherein the population is controlled by an unknown entity and force fed information via “propaganda screens,” well, you listen close and cross your fingers, praying that Hollywood never gets the movie rights. | 6pm. $27.50. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. etix.com

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PHILADELPHIAWEEKLY.COM @PHILLYWEEKLY talking to the talent) we’d ask … what does Hippie Sabotage mean? Are you trying to stop the spread of hippies? Are you interfering with a grand, international hippie plan? Or are you the hippies, and you’re planning to sabotage us all, bringing our capitalist columns down on our collective heads!?

Which is it!? We must know!

We must! | 9pm. $25. TLA, 334 South St. livenation.com

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Speak About It: Consent & Communication

We know that not everyone has had the best experience with school-age skits. You know, the groups that come to your high school or middle school to perform skits about how you shouldn’t do drugs and how you should always practice safe sex. But, boring and, in truth, unhelpful as they can sometimes be, this isn’t that. This is that, but for the modern age, focusing on consent and safety, not abstinence. | 6pm.

Free. Philadelphia Theatre Company, 480 S. Broad St. eventbrite.com

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Evil Genius’ 2nd Birthday

It’s Evil Genius Beer Company’s second birthday, and you best believe that, much like a college co-ed who went a little too hard on the hooch her first night

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away from home, they’ll give it a good drunken cry if they want to. But they’ll regroup, eat some saltines, maybe talk through things with one of their friends, and then get around to dishing out a special Birthday Beer and a whole lot of cake cake cake cake cake (Rihanna will not be there). | 4pm. Free. Evil Genius, 1727 N. Front St. evilgeniusbeer.com PARTY

Gender Blender

Honestly, there’s so much in store for any of you hooligans wild enough to take part in this Gayborhood “turn up” for trans and non-binary peoples, that we don’t even know where to start. So we’ll just say this; all are welcome, but this is a trans and non-binary centered event, meaning it’s a place for fun without hangups. So kick off any racist, homophobic or otherwise terrible shoes and get in the mood for fearless fun. | 10pm. $5. Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar, 254 S. 12th St. tabuphilly.com

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“Captain Marvel” Advance Screening

Higher. Further. Faster. No, that’s not the lyrics to the newest Daft Punk hit, though we like where your head’s at and we think you’re a straight shooter with upper management written all over them who’s gonna climb that corporate ladder in no time.

It is, in fact, how one might describe Captain Marvel, the newest superhero set to grace our many, many screens. Want a sneak peek before anyone else? You know where to go. | 7pm. $13.

Philadelphia Film Society, 1412 Chestnut St.

Mat Kerekes w/ Jetty Bones + Jacob Sigman

we’ve gotta take a second to tout Everybody Hits, the batting cages-turned-musicvenue-turned-batting cages.

It’s an awesome concept and an awesome venue. To that end, Mat Kerekes also started with an awesome concept - being a singer/ songwriter and managed to turn it into something just as real and just as awesome. If only there was some event that combined the two … . | 8pm. $13. Everybody Hits Philadelphia, 529 W. Girard Ave.

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Sabrina Carpenter

It seems so many of our pop idols these days have gotten their start on The Disney Channel, with Sabrina Carpenter no exception.

Sabrina, who has now added singer and songwriter to her artist profile, got her start as an actress, playing Maya

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Hart in “Girl Meets World.”

Nowadays though, she’s shed the girl next door label entirely and moved right on into, well, pop idol territory. | 8pm. $32.50. TLA, 334 South St. livenation.com

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We’ve crowed about this venue before, and don’t worry we haven’t forgotten about the actual show, but

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Hippie Sabotage

It’s not often you hear of a band that both frightens and intrigues, but that’s exactly how we feel about this Sacramento-based EDM duo. If we were given the opportunity (which we won’t be; they don’t like us

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Ride, Sally Ride.

According to the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, there are 30 miles of protected bike lanes in Philadelphia. And each one at some point or another gets clogged by a parked car, delivery vehicle or something else. This piece of art found in Fitler Square and shot by Philly-based photographer Heidi Wiley reminds all of us to be more mindful of cyclists. Especially you, the entitled members of the Philadelphia Police Department that think parking in the middle of a bike lane to patrol, or heading in for a quick bite at the neighborhood diner is fine.

That's right, we're calling you out, PPD. Be better.

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Q: I'm a gay guy in my late 40s with a man.

I shall now say something that will delight straight sister in her early 50s. She’s been my bisexual readers: I’m sure you’d like to married for a bit over two decades to guy live in a world where everyone is out, DGBIL, who always registered as a “possible” on my or, even better, a world where no one ever had average-to-good gaydar. But I put “BIL,” aka my brother-in-law, in the “improbable” buck- to be in. But in the world we live in now, bisexuals are far less likely to be out than gays et because he actively wooed my sister, was and lesbians, DGBIL, and the belief clearly in love with her, and fathered that a guy is either gay or straight four boys with her, all in their late keeps many bisexual guys closteens now. I’m sure you already eted. Because if a bisexual guy saw this plot development coming: who’s married to a woman knows It turns out BIL has been far more he’s going to be seen as gay if he “probable” than I thought. He has a tells the truth—if no one will ever boyfriend but is still very much closbelieve he loved his wife or wanteted and denies he is gay. My sister ed all those kids—he’s unlikely has apparently known about this to ever come out. I shall now say arrangement for four years, but has something that will piss off my bikept it a secret for the kids’ sake. sexual readers: a family-minded bi But she recently filed for divorce guy can have almost everything he and told our parents and me what’s wants—spouse, house, kids—withbeen going on. Their kids have been out ever having to come out so informed about the divorce, but not long as that bi guy winds up with about their father’s boyfriend.

BIL needs to gay-man-up and @FAKEDANSAVAGE an opposite-sex partner. Coming out is a difficult conversation and admit the truth to himself and the it’s one many bi people choose rest of his family and start the healing process. That’s obvious. Unfortunately, to avoid. And who can blame them? I wasn’t thrilled by the idea of telling my mom I put there’s no way I can talk him into it (we’re not close), and my sister is left holding this terri- dicks in my mouth, but it was a conversation I couldn’t avoid. Faced with the choice between ble secret while her bewildered kids watch telling my mother the truth and possibly betheir parents’ marriage crumble with no clue why. I think the kids deserve the truth, and ing rejected by her and thereby losing her that neither my sister nor the kids can start or cutting her out of my life in order to keep to heal until that happens. If BIL won’t do my secret and definitely losing her, I chose to the right thing, my sister is going to have to tell her the truth. If I’d been, say, your average hetero-romantic bisexual man instead of tell them the truth. What can I do to help her a huge homo—if I enjoyed sex with men and with this? She’s awfully fragile right now and women but only fell in love with women—I I don’t want to pressure her and I can’t tell the could’ve avoided coming out to her and very kids without causing a big stink. But dammit, Dan, someone needs to start speaking some well might have.

Back to your nephews, DGBIL: they should truth in that house. be told the truth but you shouldn’t be the one – Dishonest Gay Brother-In-Law to tell them. Their parents should. Sit down with your sister and make the argument I Secret second families—and a secret boyfriend of four years counts—aren’t se- did above: Yes, your kids are upset about the divorce and it will add to their upset to learn crets that keep. So your nephews are gonna their father is in a relationship with a man. find out about dad’s boyfriend sooner or later, But they’re going to be angry about being DGBIL, and sooner is definitely better. Belied to when they inevitably find out. And if cause in the absence of the actual reason why she’s keeping this secret solely at BIL’s retheir parents are splitting up—in the absence quest, well, he can’t ask that of her if doing so of the truth—they’re likely to come up with will damage her relationship with her kids. I alternate explanations that are far worse. And don’t think she should immediately out BIL, when they inevitably discover the real reason, but she can and should let him know that she your nephews’ anger at having been lied to or will have to tell the children if he doesn’t. You left in the dark will reopen the wounds.

Backing way the hell up, seeing as BIL ac- should have a conversation with BIL. tively wooed and “was clearly in love with” THERE’S ALWAYS MORE your sister, and seeing as he successfully OF SAVAGE TO LOVE! scrambled his DNA together with hers four times and remained married to her for two Read: PhillyWeekly.com decades, DGBIL, I don’t think BIL is a closetHave a question?: mail@savagelove.net ed gay man. My money’s on closeted bisexual

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Offer ends 3/17/19. Restrictions apply. Not available in all areas. New residential customers only. Limited to the Standard Triple Play with Performance Pro 150 Mbps Internet and Voice Unlimited services. Early termination fee applies if all Xfinity services are cancelled during the agreement term. Equipment, installation, taxes and fees, including regulatory recovery fees, Broadcast TV Fee (up to $10.00/mo.), Regional Sports Fee (up to $8.25/mo.), and other applicable charges extra, and subject to change during and after agreement term. After agreement term or DVR promo, or if any service is canceled or downgraded, regular rates apply. Comcast’s charge for DVR service is $10.00/mo. (subject to change). Service limited to a single outlet. May not be combined with other offers. TV: Limited Basic service subscription required to receive other levels of service. Internet: Xfinity xFi is available to Xfinity Internet service customers with a compatible Xfinity Gateway. Ability to pause limited to home WiFi network. Does not apply to Xfinity WiFi hotspots. Actual speeds vary and are not guaranteed. Voice: If there is a power outage or network issue, calling, including calls to 911 may be unavailable. Call for restrictions and complete details. NPA222270-0005 NED-FRE-PHLWKLY-1-V3

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