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ccording to epidemiologists and drive us all further apart. We barely acknowlgovernment officials, we haven’t edge people as is, will the aftermath of this vireached the peak of this virus in rus all but eradicate human contact from the this country, and already we’re ones we actually do acknowledge? experiencing burnout. For weeks Admit it, it’s going to be a while even when now, we’ve been instructed to re- the coast becomes clear where people will feel main inside our homes, which, if comfortable giving handshakes, or hugging or I were single with no children, I a kiss. How will this affect singles looking for love on dating sites and apps? Pretty sure no probably would enjoy more. one is excited about matching on Tinder and But because I’m here each day with two toddlers who don’t understand that undivided meeting up now, and I feel pretty confident attention can’t happen because their parents that it’ll be a minute before the comfort returns of meeting a stranger online are virtually trying to work fulland going back to their place. time jobs – which we hope remain COVID-19 is as mental a bug as it full-time – it’s a scary thought to is physical, infecting our collective know that this is our collective fumindsets with the knowledge that ture. Schools are closed indefinitely, nothing is free from its clutches, and the minimal home schooling we and for most of us life as we know it can do in between taking conference has been irrevocably changed. calls or writing another email just I shouldn’t have to fear going to isn’t enough. my mother’s house, giving her a It’s literally heartbreaking for me hug and asking if she needs anyto watch their little brains regress thing. But she’s nearly 70. Her risk from watching Frozen II for the 97th of infection is great, and according time or as they view God knows to experts, just bringing over growhat content on an iPad for hours ceries could kill her. I think about on end. I’m watching regression, that and then I think about the famconfusion and frustration happen ilies of those in hospitals or nursing on a daily basis but I’m too busy to @SPRTSWTR homes or senior communities undo anything about it. able to visit their loved ones.

We’ve never been more reliant For me, having technology serve as the only on technology than we are when it’s the only thing to pass the time. But it’s also a curse. All way to show loved ones we care or to stay conday at home, we’re being pumped full of coro- nected is perhaps one of the hardest parts of all of this. Well, that and the loss of day care navirus news and updates on confirmed cases, the death counts and the short supply of re- or the ability to hire a babysitter to get some sources to keep the ones who care for our na- damn reprieve. I mean tech was the main source of communication for many of us betion’s sick safe. Then, on the occasion where we have to venture out for food or fresh air, fore this COVID jawn – but at least we had the there’s this weird reticence to acknowledge option.

Also, side note before I go. I’m baffled that I other people. even have to write this, but there are a whole I was at a pharmacy drive-thru on Monlot of people who think that disposing of their day and the cashier came to the window with gloves and a face mask on. He barely said hel- protective gloves or masks in parking lots, lo, mumbled the information needed to verify shopping carts and on the ground is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Don’t believe me? If my prescription and then literally dropped the you live in the city, the next time you go for bag into my hand and slid the window closed. a stroll look around, I bet you don’t get two Grocery stores are Twilight Zone operations filled with people wearing makeshift masks blocks without seeing one or the other laying and Latex gloves. Everyone is afraid to get too on the ground.

I don’t even need to explain how disgusting close to each other wondering if this is six feet or not and don’t tell me you aren’t constantly this is, but what I will divulge is that you are adding to the mental stress of essential workthinking about what you’re touching. ers who have to pick that shit up and dispose The words we have to use to describe this are alienating by their very nature. Self-iso- of it on your behalf. Why should a grocery lation. Quarantine. Virtual. Social distancing. store worker have to pick out your used gloves Our smartphones have made face-to-face in- from a cart so someone else can use it?

Stay safe (and smart), Philadelphia. Catch teractions truly a secondary option, and, yes, I wonder if the fallout from COVID-19 might you all next week.

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Chef’s table STATE With the help of Visit Philadelphia, residents are getting an opportunity to interact (virtually) with many of the movers and shakers in the city. The group has kicked off a weekend streaming series containing food, lifestyle and culture segments on its Facebook page. Last week, Jen Carroll and Billy Riddle from Spice Finch cooked from home all weekend.

Starting this Friday, April 3, local chef Jose Garces is up. Visit Philly tells us that a robust lineup featuring chefs, musicians, artists and more is on the horizon. To tune in, visit facebook.com/visitphilly.

The price tag per month Jeff Freedman, new owner of Hahnemann University Hospital, told the City of Philadelphia it would cost to rent the hospital to act as overflow for COVID-19 patients. Needless to say, city officials told Freedman to go fuck himself (in the most bureaucratic way possible, of course). Fortunately, Temple has stepped up and has modified its Liacouras Center to serve as a makeshift medical facility. We never knew a pandemic had a price tag.

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After repeated inquiries on why there wasn’t one, last week, the city finally created an interactive map for residents to know how many confirmed cases of COVID-19 there are by neighborhood. The map portrays the number of tests administered, the number of confirmed cases and the total percentage of those tested. It’s good information, and we hope is more of a deterrent for people still venturing out, but now that it exists, there’s a small piece of us kinda wishing that it didn’t.

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A list of things to do while mandated not to do anything Consider the following podcasts….

The Why: Philly Explained

explores a local story and then dives into the architecture of how it all began. Hosts Annette John-Hall, who brought us all insight into the man that was Bill Cosby in Cosby: Unraveled is joined by co-host Shai Ben-Yaacov for deep discussion and, admittedly, some really insightful journalism. | podcasts.apple.com/us/ podcast/the-why-philly-explained/ id1439189807

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The Dollop

Imagine learning about the weirdest shit out there by two guys who ply their trade as comedians recalling historic moments in both American and world history.

Chris DiStefano and Yannis Pappas do the damn thing in this hour-long look at life as we’ve come to know it. One of their most recent, which focuses on the history of the stock market is certainly a must-listen. | historyhyenas. com/

Picture this: a pair of grad students studying diseases and their humble beginnings providing insight on how shit like the coronavirus even happens. It goes way beyond a fish market in China, trust me. Plus, these two have no issues talking about pus, vomit, feces or whatever else can kickstart a worldwide pandemic.

Pretty appropriate given today’s times, we’d say. | thispodcastwillkillyou.com/

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Hosted by Ryan Starr, this Philly-based podcast focuses on the creative minds that have helped to transform a variety of spaces. Since 2015, Starr has been hosting a bi-weekly podcast. But thanks to COVID-19, he’s been in production of a daily episode and they’re admittedly pretty enlightening especially when it comes to how attempting to cope as a creative right now isn’t exactly the easiest. | HiResPod.com

Two comedians looking at the history of comedy. It’s a good laugh but it’s also great insight into the history of some of the weirdest or intricate stories out there.

Hosted by comics Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds, we think you’ll be left enlightened and amused after these collections of episodes, now running six years strong. | allthingscomedy.com/podcast/the-dollop

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@PhillyFoodies | Instagram

It might be cheesy (pun intended) to say that this page makes us hungry but it’s no lie. Despite some of our favorite restaurants feeling the effects of the essential business order, this page has been rife with some great looking cuisine from area eateries. What would be the icing on the…(OK, we’ll chill with the puns) is if this page could get some insight on the restaurants offering deals during this difficult time.

But for now, we’ll take what we can get. | instagram. com/phillyfoodies/

Consider following the following... @andrea_cipriani_mecchi Instagram

This Philly-based photographer has created a series of images of people in isolation passing the time from their front door. The black and white series entitled “Family at a Distance” takes a look at how many of us, young and old, are dealing with being forced to stay at home. Definitely worth a follow and as an independent small biz, someone we should consider giving some love to once this all clears. | instagram.com/andrea_cipriani_mecchi/

Cafe Jazz Live Radio | YouTube

For those of you transitioning into working from home with distractions in the background, this station helps to provide some calm during the interludes of quiet. It’s live so it never ends besides the five-to-15 second ads that help pay for your sanity during this time. For us, it’s been the calm to what has been quite a time to be alive in Philadelphia. | youtube.com/watch?v=fEvM-OUbaKs

Racist History | Facebook

Think of the most mundane thing you can imagine: medicine, food, child care, partying and this Facebook video series expertly portrays the racial insensitivity behind all of it. This isn’t hate, it’s just a really good series of digestible mini-docs on Facebook that examine how hate began here in America. Consider it a bit of education in how we shouldn’t act. | facebook.com/RacistHistory-196848580832824/

Tony Baker Comedy | Instagram

Tony isn’t local but we don’t care. He’s hilarious and if you’re an animal lover, you’ll certainly get a kick out of his voiceovers. A touring comedian, we think after going down the rabbit hole of his greatest hits on the Gram, you’ll be amped for when he comes to Philadelphia, which was supposed to be later this spring, until some bitch named COVID-19 C-blocked that idea. | instagram.com/ tonybakercomedy/

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Tom Segura: Ball Hog | Netflix

We’re suggesting this one because none of us can decide if Segura’s latest Netflix special is hilarious or just ehh. There were LOL moments, like his discussion of loving his kids over his wife or telling us just how slutty our moms are, but then there are predictable moments where it’s easy to just shake your head and wait for the next joke.

However, Segura is worth a watch so you can make the call for yourself.

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When We Were Kings | HBO Go

This ultimate David vs. Goliath’s story is probably one of the best in sports history.

Perhaps what’s extremely interesting is that “David” is Muhammad Ali, arguably the best boxer of all time and Goliath would be George Foreman, the former heavyweight boxer and indoor grill magnate. It’s said that 1 billion people watched the epic fight between these two in 1974. This doc goes into excellent detail why.

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Transparent | Amazon Prime

OK, so if you’re not already watching this one you are completely on the backburner. Remember how people went crazy from Netflix’s 2017 “Making a Murderer” mini-series? We think this one blows it out of the water – in fewer episodes. Dive into the life of exotic animals, murder, murder-for-hire and polygamy in just seven episodes. There’s not many shows that expertly can describe the term “degenerate” as well as this Tiger King.

Actress Octavia Spencer freaked us all the fuck out in “Ma,” but she’s so damn inspiring in this Netflix flick inspired by the life of Madame C.J. Walker, whose beauty products made her into the first woman to become a self-made millionaire. If you’re looking for a little hope in all of this self-isolation, this is probably the one film that’ll get you pumped to get back out there – once we all can, of course.

There’s only two seasons of this dramedy created by Childish Gambino (actor name: Donald Glover). Glover plays Earn, who’s trying to piggyback the stardom of his cousin, on his way to becoming a big name in the hiphop game. We like this one because everytime we think we have a handle on what happens next, we realize, yeah, we definitely don’t. It’s a good watch, if you have the time, which, yeah, you do.

Jeffrey Tambor plays a transgender woman named Maura and dives into how family, friends and those on the outside world interact with Maura on a daily. We love this show for an eye-opening insight into how we subconsciously treat each other even if we don’t think that’s what we’re doing.

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QUARANTINIS What we’re drinking….

The CDC has issued three mandates that civilized society must implement to avoid total extinction at the hands of the coronavirus: Maintain appropriate social distance Wash your hands Drink copious amounts of alcohol while self-isolating OK, we made the last one up, but it sounds like a good idea. Fortunately, some of the finest local bars and bartenders are sharing their favorite and simple–to–make cocktail recipes. And, since you also need food, some of the area’s hottest chefs have offered up their best at-home recipes as well. Enjoy, stay safe and do your part by staying home and indulging.

Kinsey Bourbon Lemonade

Courtesy of Lee Noble, Art in the Age mixologist 1.5 oz. Kinsey Bourbon 4 oz. Homemade lemonade Lemon wheel Mint Glassware: Collins glass Garnish: Lemon wheel and sprig of mint Instructions: Add Kinsey and lemonade to a cocktail shaker full of ice, shake and strain into a collins glass.

Garnish with lemon wheel and spring of mint.

Sunny Belle

Courtesy of Fitz Bailey, Coopers’ Craft mixologist 2 oz. Coopers’ Craft Bourbon 6 oz. Yellow Tomatoes or Yellow Tomato Juice 3 Sprigs of Cilantro A squeeze of Lime Dash of Soy Sauce Salt Pepper to Taste Dash of Your Favorite Hot Sauce Glassware: Highball Glass Garnish: Speared mozzarella, celery stalk Instructions: Puree cilantro/tomatoes then combine all ingredients into an ice-filled shaker. Vigorously shake, strain into ice-filled glass, top with garnish.

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Devil’s Tail

Courtesy of George Reilly, Owner of The Twisted Tail 2 oz. Devil’s Cut Bourbon 1 oz. Pedro Ximenez Sherry 2 dashes Black Walnut Bitters Absinthe spritz Glassware: Rocks glass Garnish: Lime wheel + bourbon soaked maraschino cherry Instructions: Spritz inside of rocks glass with absinthe.

Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass, over ice.

Stir and strain into rocks glass, over a fresh 2 inch ice cube. Garnish with a lime wheel and bourbon soaked maraschino cherry.

The Bluebird

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HUNGRY? What we’re cooking….

Since it’s never a good idea to drink on an empty stomach, and you can eat only so many Pop-Tarts and Hot Pockets until your insides violently rebel, we’ve also rounded up some great recipes from some of the most noted chefs in the area.

Potage Parmentier (Potato Leek Soup)

Tortang Talong (Eggplant Omelette)

Courtesy of Forsythia chef/owner Christopher Kearse Serves 6-8 3 large leeks 4 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/2 cup sliced shallots 1/3 cup sliced onions 1 lb (about 1 large) Yukon gold potato, peeled 3 garlic cloves crushed and skin removed 6 cups chicken (or vegetable) broth 1 cup heavy cream Salt and freshly ground pepper 2 sprigs thyme,2 sprigs parsley, 2 bay leaves

Courtesy of Lalo and Bourse Food Hall co-owner Neal Santos 1 medium Chinese eggplant, grilled, cooled, and skin peeled.

2 eggs 1 tsp of fish sauce or salt 1/4 cup of chopped red bell pepper 1/4 cup of chopped sweet banana pepper 2 scallions, thinly sliced 1 tsp of garlic minced 1 tsp of ginger minced 1/2 cup of leftover sausage, or bacon 1/4 cup of cilantro for garnish 1/4 cup of pickles for serving Banana ketchup or regular ketchup for serving

Instructions: 1. Cut away and discard the dark green leaves and roots from the leeks, leaving only the white and palest green sections. Then cut them lengthwise and rinse in water to get rid of the dirt. Chop the leeks into pieces about 1/4 inch wide 2.Melt the butter over medium heat in the saute pan, and add the leeks, onions, garlic, and shallots. Season generously with salt and pepper. Cook the vegetables over medium heat for about 3-5 minutes 3. Cut the potato lengthwise into quarters, then cut crosswise into strips about 1/4-inch thick 4. Make a sachet, wrap the thyme, parsley, bay leaves and some fresh-ground pepper in the cheesecloth and secure with twine 5. Add the potatoes and sachet/ herbs to cook for another 2 to 4 minutes 6. Add the chicken broth to the mixture. Stir, and taste to adjust seasonings as needed. Bring the pan to a simmer, then reduce the heat in order to simmer for 30 minutes. Cover with lid 7. After 30 minutes, remove the soup from the heat and let it stand and cool for 15 minutes. Remove the sachet 8. In batches, puree the soup until fine. Return the soup to the rinsed-out pan and bring to a simmer. Add heavy cream and simmer for 5 minutes

Prepare ahead of time: Roast your eggplant on a grill or in your oven for 15 minutes underneath the broiler, or directly over the flame of your gas burner. The skin of the eggplant should crack until blackened and soft. Cool the eggplant in a ziplock bag and let the steam continue the cooking process. Once completely cooled, the skin of the eggplant should peel right off.

One the day of: Whisk your eggs until creamy and consistent in a large enough bowl to fit your eggplant. Add fish sauce or salt.

Dip your cool and peeled eggplant into the batter and mash the flesh of the eggplant with a fork.

Heat a medium or large skillet with oil to 350 degrees.

Saute your peppers, onions, garlic, ginger and sausage.

Cook until softened and set aside. Clean your pan and reheat with oil to 350 degrees. Gently slide your eggplant from the bowl to the pan and fry your egg and eggplant. Add your filling back to the omelette and let the batter set. About 3 minutes. Carefully flip your tortang talong and cook for an additional 3 minutes.

Serve with the stem on with rice, pickles, cilantro and some banana ketchup.

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STEP INSIDE ZONE 6 Where the beat goes on and on and on

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n a standard weekend night, pre-coronavirus, of course, most Philadelphia clubs and bars close up shop at 2am. There are only a handful of blessed establishments exempt from that strict close time, Pen & Pencil and Zee Bar to name two.

However, there’s a nightlife scene that operates outside the purview of the liquor control board and law enforcement. A major player in that scene is “Zone 6,” an unsanctioned West Philly after-hours club that opens at midnight at closes whenever the party stops.

Zone 6 is run by a pragmatic 27-year-old who goes by “Zell.” The soft-spoken club owner explained that he is much younger than anyone else running an after-hours spot in the

city, of which he could name five or six.

Zell’s operation is extremely fluid by design.

Without proper licensing, Zone 6 functions as a modern illegal speakeasy forced to conceal its existence from police. Zone 6 is not a concrete place, rather a brand that moves from rented space to rented space on a week-toweek basis.

One week it’s in a warehouse, the following week it could be in a home. The only way to find out the location of Zone 6 is by reaching out to its social media pages or being personally invited.

What is offered at an unsanctioned West Philly after-hours club? It offers multiple flavors of hookah and even supplies disposable mouth pieces for hygiene purposes. There is a bar serving a modest range of liquor in trans-

lucent plastic cups, as well as the signature Zone Punch.

Regardless of the location, there is always a stripper pole for the cavalcade of dancers there to work.

When asked why he runs an after-hours spot, Zell replied, “Some of the ones (after-hours spots) that include dancers have a different kind of dancer, they have dancers that get high a lot or sell themselves for money. Those places exist in Philly where you can go and have sex with people.I wanted to be the opposite of that.”

Zell stresses safety, cleanliness, and professionalism whenever asked about the club.

“There have been no fights or shootings in two and a half years,” Zell explains. “No one brings a gun in, not me, not my best friends,

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no one. Only the security guard.”

Flexx, a dancer and bartender at Zone 6, explained, “If I was someone visiting for the first time, I’d be skeptical about safety, but the more I come here, it’s like home. It’s like a family, club type of thing.”

The general atmosphere is not reminiscent of a standard strip club, it’s more comparable to a college party, plus strippers. A DJ plays the hottest new hip-hop, blunts circulate from patrons to staff, and there is a standard level of familiarity between all parties.

It’s easy to gawk at the idea of an unlicensed nomadic strip club, but its very existence beckons greater questions. Zell mentioned the lack of after-hours spots in Philadelphia in comparison to New York: “Zone 6 is an after-hours club, because other bars close at 2 o’clock. … A lot of people like staying out past then. In New York, where there’s a lower crime rate, they allow clubs and parties to continue to operate with no problem.”

Zell has run into legal troubles running this

operation. Zone 6 has been raided, and Zell has been arrested and fined by the Department of License and Inspection.

Pennsylvania has some of the most strict and inane alcohol regulations in America. The restrictions range from forcing bars to close at 2am to the prohibition of beer pong in bars.

Pennsylvania is the most difficult state to acquire a liquor license as state law puts a limit on the number of licenses available, inflating the cost and impacting the price. The only way to acquire a liquor license in Pennsylvania is to acquire one that already exists.

Pennsylvania is the only state in the union that operates this way. States like Vermont and Minnesota simply charge a small annual fee and ask that you fill out a form.

Philly’s unsanctioned clubs exist mostly in neighborhoods where predominately the black clientele feels comfortable going out.

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ing down the street, like in this area (around UPenn’s campus), a bunch of black people at 4am, cops are gonna be drawn to us,” Zell explained. “As black people, we tend to ‘look suspicious’ after a certain hour in the eyes of law enforcement. We get hassled. So a lot of after-hours places are more so in urban areas where there is a majority of black people. We get harassed past certain times. It happens.”

The section of West Philly where Zone 6 is located offers little to no night life. The nearest clubs are miles away in areas of the city where Zell doesn’t believe his patrons would feel comfortable or welcomed.

Where would the hundreds of people go each night if there weren’t places like Zone 6?

When the 2016 Democratic National Convention came to Philadelphia, Gov. Wolf signed a revenue package granting “national event permits” to “bars hosting DNC events”permitting them to push last-call back to 4am. When patrons of Zone 6 want to enjoy themselves past 2am, it is against the law; but when friends of the government (who dictate the arbitrary liquor laws) want to enjoy themselves, the rules are subject to change. Moments like this point to how arbitrary the 2am close time really is.

Zell hopes to one day turn Zone 6 into a legally sound private club. At his current capacity, he brings in close to a hundred patrons on

a weekend night and employs eight to 10 people. Zone 6 functions as a source of extra income for all involved, it’s somewhere for strippers to work after the clubs close at 2am, an extra security shift for bouncers, and is even Zell’s side hustle.

One dancer studied for her midterm as the other dancers got dressed. “I just got off my shift at the airport, it’s always good to come here and make a little extra money,” another dancer explained.

The illegal nature of Zone 6 provides benefits as well as headaches. It’s the only place in Philadelphia where you can smoke a blunt with some strippers and get a Crown & Coke at 5am.

Working in the service industry provides an extremely uncertain lifestyle, working at an unsanctioned after-hours strip club ramps that uncertainty up 10 times. For an operation like Zone 6 to function legally, Philadelphia would have to restructure the entirety of its alcohol laws and fundamentally change the service industry. Zone 6 is the byproduct of a system that is not friendly to change or adaptation and rarely feels pressure to evolve.

In 2016, state Rep. Scott Petri said it was “of tremendous economic benefit for Philadelphia” to keep bars open for two extra hours while the DNC was in town. Why not extend that “tremendous economic benefit” to the entire city?

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hilly R&B artist Jake Cromwell’s its release. Talk a little about how the EP artistry is raw, soulful, unique and came together. Did it turn out the way you nothing like anything out right hoped? now. A multi-dimensional talHonestly, the way the EP has traveled ent who has caught the attention through the industry thus far has come as a of executives at Warner Music, welcomed surprise. The team and I couldn’t Rocnation, YouTube Music, Au- be more thankful.At the time, the process felt diomack and Apple Music, as well as brands slow. I was fiddling around in the studio day after day with nothing really catching my inlike Diageo and Ketel One, Jake is a singer, songwriter, producer, engineer, instrumental- terest. Then one day I just made “Linger.” The second I heard it the whole project started to ist and dancer.

Originally from Ghana, Cromwell has re- form in my head.

People seem to be responding well to it, and leased his debut EP “Good Intentions.” The song “Good Intentions” was handpicked by that’s all I can ask for.

In the past, artists had to rely the head of R&B programming at on radio and personal appearancApple Music Alaysia Sierra BriggsMiles. The song is featured on several BY EUGENE es to get their music to the masses, ZENYATTA but your music is available on nueditorial playlists on Spotify, YouTube merous streaming and internet serMusic, Audiomack and the Alt R&B vices. How has the technology – the Editorial Playlist on Apple Music. internet, streaming, social media – He’s also been a featured artist on the R&B new releases section of Apple Music and impacted your career and how you interact with fans? What are some of the best outR&B trending on Audiomack.

PW recently caught up with Cromwell to lets for people to follow your career and listen to your music? talk about his music and career.

“Good Intentions” was written, recordCan you talk a little about your journey from Ghana to the U.S.? How did your ed, mixed and mastered in my one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia. Technology gave move here impact your music? me complete ownership and control of my art I remember being very excited. My father was already in the U.S. at the time making a from the comfort of my home. I am very grateful to be an artist at this time. home for my mom and brother. I was just a I love the fans. That’s all new to me. So far, young kid who thought life in America was gothey have been so kind and encouraging. I feel ing to be like the movies. like we’re really connecting through the muMoving to the U.S. impacted my music in a huge way. My parents had a classic taste, but sic in the ways I intended.

People from Korea, South Africa and all they were rigid in their taste. Pops was a reggae enthusiast … Marley, Burning Spear ... over.

I’m available on any streaming platform. and my mom, she was big into folk and counWhen you’re not writing and recording try – the Tracy Chapmans and Dollys of the what do you like to do? Any favorite hobworld. I remember Sisqo on the radio in 2001.

I thought “what is this?!” There’s no way I bies? Who are you listening to these days?

I love dancing! Dancing was my first introwould have heard anything like that in passduction to art before I knew art was art. I’m aling back home.

Your music is described as “raw, soulful ways going to have a love for it. That and cooking. My wrist game is next level.The artists and unique.” What sets it apart from other that have me interested at the moment are Jitmusic? What sets you apart from other upwam, Budgie, Dpat, Tame Impala, Knxwledge and-coming artists? & Kyle Jackson.

I try really hard. Music isn’t always an easy What’s ahead for you? More recordings process for me, it’s a constant journey of peeland performances, once the virus passes? ing back “the shit,” my shit. I want to give people the purest version of the ideas as they Where do you hope to be in five years?

I definitely want to start getting in front of come to me, to do that I have to constantly the fans and feel that energy. I’m currently in work at getting out of my own way. the process of putting the next project togeth“Good Intentions” has received a lot er. I cannot wait to share when it’s finished. of media and industry attention since

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money, Temple – and I don’t owe you any, so long with leading everyone in a cheer of “fuck the guy who don’t even try it – but I will offer you a laurel and hearty handshake. I mean, you know, an owns Hahnemann Hospital,” and elbow bump. cheering the mayor for Virus doc cutting off that landlord’s Is the first real COVID-19 docuheartless brand of highBY A.D. mentary in our midst, and is there way robbery at the knees, AMOROSI a Philadelphia tie in? Yes. Yes. And can I just say I’m proud of my alma it just happens to come from a onemater, Temple University, and its Litime local whose raw and newsy acouras Center, for stepping up in a time of real need? Temple might have lost filmic work was first written about, by me, in me for a while in its once-continued devo- the pages of the Philadelphia Weekly in 2019.

Last June, I offered up a cover at PW on tion to the ghost of Bill Cosby, but they won me back with this one. I won’t send you any Philadelphia director and producer Kevin

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PHILADELPHIAWEEKLY.COM @PHILLYWEEKLY Ronca, whose hard life of homelessness and addiction on the streets of West Philly was turned around by self-determination and parlayed into a film school scholarship on the West Coast. No sooner than Ronca began directing and editing his own work for episodes of the 2016-2017 series “The Revolution Televised” (his coverage of the Philadelphia National Democratic Convention and its dressy protests was a particularly sharp and aptly gritty), that he met a soul as troubled as he had once been in Stephen McCoy, a Boston millennial who, like Ronca before him, fell into the cycle of addiction of homelessness.

And like Ronca, McCoy managed to hold onto one thing to keep him sane and human – a camcorder. Through video, McCoy captured the squalor of opioid addiction, one needle at a time. Ronca met McCoy, found a kindred Image | Avel Chuklanov spirit in every way, and the former helped edit over 80 hours of the latter’s literally and figuratively raw footage. Ronca also became a producer of “Nightcrawlers,” and took that documentary onto the festival circuit through the auspices of his Write Brain Studios.

Fast forward to the present: Ronca travelled to and returned home from a vacation in China – late January to mid February – just in time to witness their onset of coronavirus. “I was in the second-most infected region, Guang Dong,” said Ronca. “I was hoping to film a family vacation, but it quickly turned into a pandemic.”

Once home in Diamond Bar, Calif., and self-quarantined, Ronca began hastily putting together his footage for a documentary on the start of Covid-19 with a working title, “The Year of Zi.” Ronca said the zodiac plays a great part in his film, and what he witnessed. “It was supposed to be the Year of the Rat, but it was technically “metal rat,” said Ronca of the zodiac translation, “which forewarns disaster and the collapse of material objects such as metal and gold.”

Along with hoping to ready “The Year of Zi” for screening in May (“while people are stuck at home via Patreon”), Ronca is also hoping to get the documentary into festivals, “even if no one knows where we’re heading.

Hopefully, I’ll get a chance beyond Icepack to follow up on this. We can discuss Ronca’s troubles with Amazon and “Nightcrawlers.”

It’s a doozy.

‘Dispatches’ dispatched?

Sticking with the splashy moving image for a moment, is it me or has all the over-the-top good will that was initially afforded everywhere man Jason Segal’s all-Philly-filmed AMC series “Dispatches from Elsewhere” all but dissipated? At a time when everyone is staying home, C-19 nesting and watching everything they can get their eyeballs on, is anyone still watching it, after they checked out Philly during the first episode?

If anyone is watching, there’s not much chatter or response.

As of March 30, “Dispatches” has not been cancelled or renewed for a second season. The Hollywood Reporter writes that the series was “like watching a quartet of mostly cardboard cutouts figuring their way out of the world’s fanciest escape room.”

Stay tuned. Or maybe not.

Beat the Plague What a difference a month makes. Toward February’s end, acclaimed Philly playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger had not only opened her new future-forward dramedy “Babel” at Theater Exile in South Philly, but was readying an immediate set of premieres and readings at three additional theaters throughout the states, with several additional productions to mount by summer.

It was as if Goldfinger had started a “Babel” franchise, and everybody wanted in.

Then, Covid-19 struck, and beat down “Babel” for the moment. “With many of the productions of “Babel” postponed, I’m shifting my writing and education work online,” said Goldfinger in an email.

Not only is she running a Beat-the-Plague Playwriting Workshop with free reservations “to keep those of us who want to write inspired and accountable in isolation.” Goldfinger took part in an online play project “Stranded” (“to quickly write a monologue play that teachers and students can rehearse and perform over online platforms for free”), and she’s also planning to mount her April writers retreat – now, online – for April 2427 with master class teachers Tammy Ryan, Stephanie Kyung-Sun Walters, and the author.

Everything you want to know about how and where to get to the playwright can be found at www.jacquelinegoldfinger.

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Kevin vs. the Apocalypse I left for work a week ago as usual on a bike wondering how long it would be before the hotel would have to close. It was a rainy day, I rode my bike because I didn’t want to spend money. We had maybe 20 rooms sold out of 235. I hated that I was going to work with the public, but I had to do it.

I’d eat the free food in the employee cafeteria where they had separated the tables a few extra feet apart. Pasta in red sauce. I piled it on my plate having handled the same serving utensils everyone else did. I washed my hands before eating. It was the first of 30 times that I would wash them over the course of the next eight hours.

The restaurant and bar staff were gone, most of the housekeepers were gone, it was a skeletal staff at that point. There were no valets, no concierge, not even security. There was a phone operator, a front desk clerk, a room service server, a cook, a lobby attendant, and me the bellman. Seven of us, in a 235-room hotel. The sense of darkness in the air was palpable.

For the most part, the guests were fucking lunatics. It was the second night that all bars, restaurants, venues, museums, theaters, you name it, were all closed. If I were traveling for pleasure, I’d call that a big signal to cut my trip short. But no. I watched a family of 10 check in. Three adults and seven kids. They were so excited to use the swimming pool. Of course, later that night, I’d be stuck on an elevator with all of them.

A couple in the lobby was walking toward the front door arm-in-arm as if they were going out for a night on the town. The wellcoiffed late 20s guy looks over at me, “Anything open? We’d like to go to dinner.”

“Nope. There’s take-out, delivery and room service.”

“Really?!?”

“Yes.” I want to just grab the guy and shake him, yell at him, “WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE, YOU GODDAM IGNORANT BUFFOON, THE CITY IS CLOSED, THERE’S NOTHING FOR YOU OUT THERE.” Of course not all of the guests were lunatics. One couple that was having their house worked on decided to leave the hotel and go back home. They were the last people I helped with their luggage. They said they would rather endure some unfinished construction than be in a public hotel. I told them I wish I had a choice. They tipped me $50, I thanked them profusely. The next day I put that $50 bill down at the beer distributor for a case of

Victory Hop Devil and marched home with 24 beers and some change. I wasn’t even done putting the beers in the fridge when my HR department called to let me know I had been furloughed for 60 days. Goddamn it. I totally would have bought twice as much shittier, cheaper beer had I known. I didn’t have a job.

Last Friday was sunny and warm with a light breeze. I had a few things I needed to grab from my locker at the hotel. I rode my bicycle up there to grab my things. Everything was changing. I could feel it. People weren’t paying attention to what they were doing, everybody’s mind seemed to be somewhere else.

A driver sails through a stop sign ahead of me.

At the hotel, everybody was quiet. Wash the hands again. I grabbed a to-go box and filled it with rice, mixed veggies and tofu. I’d end up making that fucking rice and tofu last for two days. I wished everyone in the cafeteria goodbye and good luck.

I left the hotel, my head swirling with all of the things I needed to do, all of the bills I’m going to have to cover. I really wasn’t sure how I was going to do it.

I walked out through the employee entrance with the radiant sun shining down on me.

I rode my bike down the Delaware River looking out at the water slowly moving toward the Atlantic, the battleships and tugs, the freighters and barges that I’d watch day in and day out. I glide onward, the families frolicking by the Coast Guard station, knowing full well all of this is coming to a halt. I felt the warm spring air flow past me carrying its memories of every time the land reawakens and how refreshing it usually feels … I still feel it, but it’s more of a memory blanketed with a firm omnipresent grim reality this spring would be different. I stopped to grab a few things at Target. There were more people than would normally be there. Everyone was being polite enough, but there was an emptiness in the eyes.

The loss that people were starting to feel was obvious. You would catch a look and it was vacant, or lost. No more jobs, no more money, no more sitting at your favorite bar, no more baseball, no more visiting grandma, hell, no more grandma, no more art shows, no more concerts, no more parties, no more hugs, no more passing the pipe, no more hospital beds, no more living with abandon, no more movie theaters, no more school, no more gym, no more.

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The president and other leaders had been considering loosening coronavirus-related restrictions on businesses and people.

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CONSTANT CONVERSATION We continue to stay at home and away from the coronavirus, which makes for all types of good stuff you’re all relaying on social media. Each week, we curate some of the best tweets we can find and share them, and this week, once again, Philly held no punches.

Hahnemann Hospital could hold 500 patients. But investment banker Joel Freedman wants to charge the City of Philadelphia nearly $1M/month to reopen it during the pandemic.While the nation suffers, some investors are still trying to get rich. Shameful. @RBReich In case you’re wondering how Philly is coping with this epidemic and the stay-at-home order: Someone drove through my neighborhood playing the announcement from the Purge on a loudspeaker the other night just before midnight. #covid19 #corona #thepurge #philly #stayathome @AmberDawnW My 2020 resolution was to wear less and go out more now I’m just wearing less (I was off to a good start tho). @youngloudproud

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Turns out muscle relaxers and erections don’t mix. @DestroyIdeas WOW: The @PSPCA placed more than 50 animals in foster homes last week. With people working and staying at home more amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the organization has seen a significant increase in foster applications about 100 a day compared to 10 a week before the outbreak. @JanCarabeoCBS3 @CVSHeadquarters why is no one at #chestnut #philly store controlling #of people in store so can keep social distance like Trader Joe’s? Aren’t you in healthcare? @cvspharmacy @etrasmundi

And because people not listening...

Trump says another 30 days on lockdown! Thank the ignorant phuckers out Overheard in #Philly while walking my here in #NYC, those ignorant phucks dog. 40ish yo: my psychic said that in in #Florida #Philly & #Chicago so far 2 mos pandemic will be done. 20ish yo: Every night at 7 our block steps outWhen you think you have it bad...just these are the three places I have seen not sure I believe in psychics but that side our front doors and cheers for the remember someone out there is going blatant disrespect & disregard for the would be great. 60ish yo: shakes head essential workers. Thank you to every- through something worse. #perspec- times we in now! @HGNOFEAR & looks at the sky. one helping all of us get through this. tive #philly @abjordan505 @PhillyNelly2 #stayhome #Philly #Philadelphia @ OhMsBrooke PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY | APRIL 2 - 9, 2020

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Open and Shut Q: My husband and I got married in Auand talking about non-monogamy is all you gust of 2019 and we were together for over five can do right now,” said Taormino. “This goes years before getting married. I’m very happy for everyone: no new sex partners until public and love him with all my heart. I want to have health experts say we can go back to standing his kids and support his entrepreneurial efcloser than six feet apart. Even then, we’re forts as he supports mine. We don’t going to have to proceed with caufight, we just have some tiffs here tion.” and there.

Listen up, people: the woman who The kicker is that I have a tough literally wrote the book on open time feeling him during sex and he relationships says open and poly doesn’t last as long as I would like relationships are cancelled for the him to. We’re adventurous enough time being. “Yup, cancelled,” said to try different things, i.e. toys and Taormino, “unless every one of different positions, but I find myself your partners lives with you.” sexually unfulfilled. He also isn’t While COVID-19 isn’t classified very willing/interested in going as a sexually transmitted infection down on me, in fact he has not once (STI), having sex with someone gone down on me. I’m also finding who has coronavirus would almost myself attracted to and fantasizing certainly result in transmission. about other men.

And since people who get infectIn addition to being honest with ed typically don’t show symptoms my husband, I don’t know what the for up to two weeks, the fact that @FAKEDANSAVAGE solution is. I’m not opposed to opensomeone appears to be healthy ing up a marriage but I worry that doesn’t mean they are corona-free.

I’m just being selfish and that it’s too soon to Someone can look and feel great and be both try or even discuss it at any length. I did bring infected and infectious. So for the time being up a crush I have on a coworker and my huswe should only be having sex with a sex partband said, “There’s nothing wrong with havner we live with. If you have more than one ing a snack.” What did he mean by that? Do sex partner and you’re all staying in the same you have any other insights or suggestions on place, great! Poly isn’t cancelled for you and what to do? your partners. But we shouldn’t be hooking – Married Not Dead up with new partners in person or going to see P.S. I hope you, your established partners we family, and your friends don’t live with. That goes are holding up OK double for meeting up during this pandemic. with non-cohabitating It’s a scary time so I hope partners who have other you’re all ok. partners and whose othI shared your letter er partners have other with Tristan Taormipartners of their own. no, author of “Opening But the good news is Up: A Guide to Creating that sext messages and and Sustaining Open dirty video chats are Relationships.” Through both allowed and enher books, lectures and couraged, kids, so we can podcasts (“Sex Out Loud get off online with new Radio”), Taormino has people as well as estabhelped countless coulished partners who live ples navigate the tranon the other side of town sition from monogamy or the other side of the to non-monogamy. But before we dive into world. Hell, get the whole polycule together on the specifics of your situation, MND, there’s Zoom – just don’t actually get together (or get something Taormino and I want to make clear under) anyone you don’t live with. to all.

OK! With that out of the way, MND, we’re “In this time of a global pandemic, thinking going to answer your question. But bear in

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“I’m glad MND is being honest with her husband about her desires, but let’s take that further with even more specific talk about what’s missing in her sex life,” said Taormino. “In her letter, I heard: pussyeating, intense enough sensation from intercourse, and longer sex sessions. I’ll translate that: she’s missing pleasure, reciprocation, and orgasms for her. She is NOT being selfish for wanting these things. They are pretty fundamental asis all youpects of a sexual relationship, and she needs “This goesto address them with her husband first.” ntil public Backing way the hell up: assuming you o standingknew about my column five years ago, MND, hen, we’reit’s telling you didn’t ask for my advice back with cau-when you realized your new boyfriend was never going to eat your pussy. (Spoiler: I oman whowould’ve told you to dump him.) Since you on openchose not to break up and polywith your boyfriend ed for theover the lack cunnilinled,” saidgus back then and you y one of don’t want to divorce ou.” your husband over it classifiednow, MND, it would infectionseem that going withsomeoneout oral – at least going uld almostwithout at home – is nsmission.the price of admission get infect-you’re willing to pay to symptomsbe with this guy. fact that As for your other e healthyissues about your sex life with your husband orona-free.– you don’t “feel him” during penis-in-vagina nd be both(PIV) intercourse and it’s over too quickly – ime beingthe right toys could certainly help. But if your a sex part-husband ruled out penetration toys that were than onebigger than his cock, MND, or if you didn’t n the sameorder any that were bigger than his cock to r you andavoid hurting his feelings, you’re gonna have e hookingto broach the subject of buying some larger oing to seetoys, MND, ones you can really feel. And since rtners weexperimenting with new positions didn’t help That goesyour husband last longer, you should try altereeting upnating between toys and his cock during PIV, habitatingwhich will make both the sex (and the hushave otherband) last longer. whose oth- “If MND’s husband is really in this relaave othertionship, he should be open and willing to give ir own. most anything a try,” said Taormino. “MND d news isreally needs to see that he’s as interested in sages andher pleasure and satisfaction as he is in his chats areown. And if there’s something she wants to and en-try or something that really turns her on and so we cangets her off that her husband doesn’t know with newabout, now is the time to share the juicy deas estab-tails.” s who live As for opening up the relationship, MND, de of townI wouldn’t advise most people to initiate that ide of theconvo at this moment. Because if the converogether onsation goes badly – and they often do at first her (or get– that could mean sheltering in place with an angry person. But based on your husband’s ND, we’rereaction when you confessed having a crush ut bear inon a coworker, MND, I think you could risk

discussing opening up while you’re locked down. Your husband didn’t say there was nothing wrong with fantasizing about a snack, MND, he said there’s nothing wrong with having a snack. Make no mistake: that’s not a green light to immediately outsource getting your pussy eaten. But his calm, matter-of-fact reaction when you confided in him about your crush is a good sign.

But first things first: you need to work with your husband on improving your sex life at home and you should have a convo about that – and a convo about ordering some new sex toys – before you make plans to open up the relationship and start getting your pussy eaten elsewhere.

“Exploring non-monogamy is one way to address sexual incompatibilities and expand our capacity for love and intimacy,” said Taormino. “But the stuff between the two of them needs to get talked about first. Otherwise, you’re glossing over the issues with something new and shiny.”

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Q: I’ve been in love with a close friend for years. Social distancing has thrown major life “regrets” into high relief and I would be crushed if something happened to him.

We’ve both been distancing for two weeks and neither of us have symptoms. Can I have him come over to hang out? What if we ended up making out or hooking up? He has housemates and I don’t, so he’s around more people than I am, but everyone at his house has been distancing too. I see so many questions about hooking up with randos and that seems like a clear no-no. But what about hooking up with someone you know?

– No Regrets Also a no-no, NR. We’re not supposed to come within six feet of anyone we don’t live with, NR, which means you can’t invite this guy over to play cribbage and/or fuck you senseless. If you wanted to invite this guy over to stay, you could shack up and wait out the lockdown together. But you can’t invite him over just to play.

Instead of inviting him over and hoping for something to happen, NR, you should give this guy a call and tell him how you feel. He might feel the same way and want to be your quarantine buddy. But if he doesn’t feel the same way, at least you’ll know. Rejections we can get over, NR, but regrets are for life.

“If you wanted to invite this guy over to stay, you could shack up and wait out the lockdown together. But you can’t invite him over just to play.”

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Society Hill Office • Pat Conway 215-266-1537 | Kathy Conway 215-850-3842 | Office 215-627-6005 • www.conwayteam.com • VM 215-266-1537                                                                   

                                                               

                                                              

                                                                                

                                                                         

                                                                         

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