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JANUARY 3-10, 2019

We got all things Bowie ahead of the upcoming week of the Starman SEE PAGE 10

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We partied with Philly partiers to find out their aspirations (and unusual) affirmations for the new year SEE PAGE 6

Connect with us: @PhillyWeekly EDITORIAL Kerith Gabriel, Editor kgabriel@philadelphiaweekly.com Andrea Cantor, Senior Staff Writer acantor@philadelphiaweekly.com CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Barnes, Kriston Bethel, Courtenay Harris-Bond, John N. McGuire, Jared Brey, Jon Hurdle, Dan Savage, Shealyn Kilroy, Mark Makela, Timaree Schmit, Heidi Wiley, Resolve Philadelphia BUSINESS Dan McDonough, Publisher dmcdonough@philadelphiaweekly.com Deidre Simms, Director of Major Accounts dsimms@newspapermediagroup.com PRODUCTION Mark Homer, Design & Layout PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY 1520 Locust St. Fifth Floor, Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 Phone: (844) 469-6336 Classified: 215-354-3054 mail@philadelphiaweekly.com

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Goes to actor Jeff Garlin for his GOT EEM moment on Sixers center Joel Embiid after the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win against the Clippers in Los Angeles on Jan. 1. Pretending to be apart of the postgame media horde, Garlin called on Embiid from the back announcing himself to be from Pirates of the Caribbean Magazine and asked Embiid which film in the series is his favorite. A confused Embiid shook his head and muttered â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, man,â&#x20AC;? under his breath, giving both Garlin and the rest of the reporters an awkward belly laugh at his expense. Q

So did you hear the story of the guy who burned down three porches in West Philly on Wednesday? Well itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, but quick work by police and fire officials led to the capture of a suspect, who when searched had a pocket full of lighters on him. We know innocent until proven guilty and all, but come on, buddy...anywho, the good news is that despite the damages to the structures no one was hurt. According to Fox 29 reporter Steve Keeley on Twitter, the suspected arsonist told unsuspecting residents at the third fire of his aspirations to be a firefighter. Seriously, WTF is wrong with people? Q

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The number of minutes into the new year for Philadelphia to record its first homicide of 2019. A man was shot and killed in Kensington minutes after the ball fell and at the time of this report, police had no suspect and no motive as to why the tragedy happened.

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We regret to inform you that a new year means a change in an old and popular South Philly staple.

Last week, the Penrose Diner announced plans to suspend its 24-hour service as of Jan. 1, open now for dining from 6 a.m.-midnight. Management cites staffing issues as the reason for the cutback, but the only staff we can think of are all the 3-11 p.m. night nurses, police and second shift city workers that now have to find a new place to get scrambled eggs, toast and bacon at 2 a.m. Q

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Earlier this week, Inquirer, and Philly.com reporter Juliana Feliciano Reyes proďŹ led the many Philly area government workers like National Park Service employees and TSA ofďŹ cials who are deciding to feed their families or spend money on gas to drive to work for free during a shutdown of government resources and funding to those workers, one which has now entered into the New Year. It should be noted that Philadelphia tourism board Visit Philadelphia donated $32,000 to assist tour guides and security guards and other personnel with the National Park Service during the holidays. The organization realized itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be criminal to have people work pro bono during the second busiest week of the year for the park system. You read that right.

Our cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own tourism organization gets it, but the Commander-in-Chief of our nation does not. Let that one sink in. Q

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Smokers looking to get treatment at City-run facilities will also have to give up their butts in response to a new ban. While research suggests a positive overall effect in efforts to rid of all vices, some simply donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the need to force people to quit.

Cold turkeys New ban on smoking in City rehab centers feels like a kick in the butt

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hiladelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new nicotine ban that began Jan. 1 in all city-afďŹ liated rehabs and treatment programs is causing much trepidation and speculation. Some people have questioned whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too much to ask those trying to recover from substance use disorders to kick nicotine at the same time. Others say the move is a positive one, and the city has pushed ahead with the order, citing research in support of its anti-cigarette move.

Any treatment program under contract with Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (DBHIDS) Community Behavioral Health

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Division (CBH) has prohibited smoking and all forms of tobacco use with the dawning of the new year. This affects 80 inpatient addiction treatment programs in the CBH provider network, including nine detox facilities, 32 short-term rehabilitation programs, 31 long-term rehabilitation programs, and eight substance use halfway houses. People in these facilities who smoke will be offered counseling and medication, such as nicotine replacement therapy and even Wellbutrin, which has been shown to help in smoking cessation.

What may be surprising to some is that surveys indicate tobacco use kills more people than both opioid overdoses and gun violence in Philadelphia. Surveys also show that smoking among those with a substance use or alcohol

problem is around 69 percent and 48 percent respectively, while smoking among Philadelphians who report not using drugs or alcohol hovers at around 22 percent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People who have a substance use disorder are smoking as much as three times the rate of the general population, and, tragically, they are dying 25 years earlier than the general population largely because of smoking-related diseases affecting the lung and heart,â&#x20AC;? said Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Behavioral Health Commissioner David T. Jones. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Providing substance use treatment in a smoke-free environment will not only help us to improve addiction recovery outcomes for people, it will also help us to improve their overall health outcomes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; consistent with our population health approach to delivering behavioral health services in Philadelphia.â&#x20AC;?

But recovering drug users like Johnny DiPatri (a.k.a.

Pipewrench) who has been in recovery from heroin use for about three years, thinks the ban is a â&#x20AC;&#x153;terribleâ&#x20AC;? move. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have people who are trying to put down one thing, you know,â&#x20AC;? said DiPatri, a plumber by trade who lives in Kensington. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to stop doing drugs, and you take away smoking from them? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a bad idea. It could irritate and agitate people who are trying to put down drugs and alcoholâ&#x20AC;Ś I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand why they would do that because it makes the whole recovery process harder.â&#x20AC;?

However, City ofďŹ cials say the move is based on research that shows combining smoking cessation treatment with recovery settings for alcohol and other drugs is often successful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The perception that cigarette use helps with remaining abstinent from alcohol and other drugs has fostered a culture of smoking among this patient population,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Renee D. Goodwin of the Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, in the text of a study by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse that concluded that smoking in-

creased the likelihood of drug relapse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So far, the bulk of the evidence suggests that concurrent smoking cessation and substance use treatment is the most beneďŹ cial approach,â&#x20AC;?

Goodwin wrote.

But some on the front lines remain skeptical.

Frank Aikens, director of the First Stop Recovery House in Kensington, is in charge of helping people through a 12step recovery model. Aikens, a smoker himself, points out that cigarettes have a â&#x20AC;&#x153;hell of a withdrawal.â&#x20AC;? He feels that â&#x20AC;&#x153;telling everybody to give up the drugs and give up on nicotine â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is simply too much at once. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody has a choice what they want to do in life,â&#x20AC;?

Aikens said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to be a free country.â&#x20AC;? He suggested that these treatment programs set up a smoking section so others wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be affected by second-hand smoke.

A client in the long-term residential treatment program at Kirkbride in West Philadelphia, getting help for his post-traumatic stress disorder, mental health issues, and a substance use disorder, one man told PW under condition of anonymity that he was trying to cut down on his cigarette use in anticipation of the ban. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to be easy, but he felt conďŹ dent that Kirkbride would provide him the help he needed to quit.

Donald Pratt, 69, runs a shop in Kensington. After nearly 40 years of shooting heroin and using other drugs, he has been in recovery from opioid use disorder for more than two years. But Donald still smokes. Nonetheless, he said the ban was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;good thing. Cigarettes are bad for everybody, and second-hand smoke doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help people either.â&#x20AC;? Plus, Pratt said he was sure that the ban would work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[In the end], People will adjust,â&#x20AC;? Pratt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People will just have to handle it.â&#x20AC;? Q TWITTER: @CHARRISBOND

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FROM THE EDITOR

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here is something to be said for the clean slate a new year provides.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not talking about all the bullshit resolutions that never get kept, or the stuff mainstream media tells you to consider, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m referring to the more subtle changes which arrive from being a year older, and a bit more hip to the game teaches you.

So instead of planning to lose weight, eat better, drink less or one of the other things I know would inherently fall to the wayside over the next two weeks, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking long term and plan in 2019 to do more of the following.

Give away shit I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need or use.

You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize how easy it is to accumulate stuff until you look around at all the things you have and the few times you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use most of it. I have books in boxes Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never read, clothes Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve purchased without trying on at the store, only to get home and realize what looked good on the dude in the catalog is not an accurate representation for my body type, and all the half broken or easily mended stuff sitting half-broken and waiting for someone to come easily mend it.

With two kids I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time to tinker.

Living in the poorest big city in America, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cruel to not offer this stuff to someone that could beneďŹ t from it. Besides, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been a fan of the minimalist lifestyle, but that has gone by the wayside. What used to be a chair a TV and a table in the living room of my apartment is now a couch, ottoman and a ďŹ&#x201A;oor full of random toys, so much that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m stubbing my toe on anymore.

So fuck it, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m purging. And I suggest that if you have the time, get some boxes and spend a day decluttering your life, too.

Do more for me.

I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak for other parents of toddlers out there, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been this stressed out in my life thinking about all that needs to be done for little humans that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help themselves. I never understood stress until these perfectly imperfect mini-meâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrived to complicate life and make it exponentially awesome â&#x20AC;&#x201C; seemingly in lockstep.

Compound that with work and relationships and I ďŹ nally understand what other parents often refer to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the struggle.â&#x20AC;? Right now, by the

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Disconnect more.

We all know that as awesome as technology is, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also one of the single most detrimental things to our well-being. The next time youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a public place, take a second to look at all the people looking down at a smartphone. Or the people at an event or just taking in a beautiful setting looking at their surroundings through a screen; most likely so they can quickly share it with others on social media.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guilty and I deal with this in my own life. My phone is my own worst enemy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a constant reminder of the ever-evolving shit I have to do and all the shit thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forthcoming. It would take a full week to answer all of the emails in my work inbox, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on ďŹ ve different company Slack channels and I curse the day I ever put my cell number on my business card. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the life and one of the good things about what I do is that because news is everevolving, this has never been a normal 9-to-5.

Which means life is planned around work, not the other way around. So being more effective with time management so I can stay ahead and check out is the goal this year.

Regardless of who at times it may offend.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know. To me, these all just seem a lot more real that cooking mail-order meals or attending short-lived HIIT classes at a gym.

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to a 2019 in which I hope weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all taking a look at how we can make the day-to-day a bit more manageable and still feel like a we won in the game of life this time next year. Q TWITTER: @SPRTSWTR

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time the kids are off to bed, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roughly 1-2 hours of actual adult time to be had before I pass out on the couch only to do it all to do it over again beginning at 5-6 a.m. the next day.

However, the holidays offered a period of reďŹ&#x201A;ection.

I realized there are pockets of downtime that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not using effectively. I work out, sure but instead of binging another show on Prime or NetďŹ&#x201A;ix, I could work out some more. Instead of putting the kids to bed and jumping back online to respond to work email or aimlessly scrolling my Instagram feed until 11 p.m., I could do almost anything else.

Also hiring someone you can vent lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problems to thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a family member or friend is a GAMECHANGER. A third party who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know you but has to hear you out and offer smart advice on how to be your best self is amazing. Getting a therapist has been the best thing for this always-on working father of two.

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Keep the lofty expectations in the bag. This year, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about the little things to ensure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being your best self.

New Year, New You! Our annual roundup of aspirations and affirmations from everyday people in Philadelphia

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ven though Jan. 1 is technically just the next day in a lineup of days and, if anything, signals an odd-numbered year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which is illogically irritating â&#x20AC;&#x201D; many Philadelphians remained spirited by the open possibilities of a new year.

And with that spirit comes the all-too-notorious New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution.

Keeping your resolution may be the needle in your New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballon, slowly deďŹ&#x201A;ating as your goal motivation dwindles or as your champagne ďŹ&#x201A;ute empties. But for New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve, and usually just New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve, your resolution is an afďŹ rmation of having a healthier and happier new year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and who knows, you might defy the odds and keep it.

We at PW pulled out the umbrella for what was a rainy New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve and headed to

spots like U-Bahn, Stats On 17th and One Liberty Observation Deck. We too counted down the clock with streamers, sequins and plenty of champagne, with others throughout Philadelphia as they danced â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and kissed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; their way into 2019. party hop onto the optimistic bandwagon at Tradesmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, U-Bahn, Stats On 17th and One Liberty Observation Deck and ask partygoers about their New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolutions. Q

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From keeping up on hygiene to going back to school, we spent the night with some Philly partiers to find out their plans for being their best self in 2019. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your plan?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will have as many laughs as I possibly can in 2019.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike Catrino, 24 | Graduate Hospital

â&#x20AC;&#x153;To pass the NPLEX â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to be a nurse!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Margaret Moore, 25 | North Philadelphia

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just graduated from Rowan, and my New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution is to sleepâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;more.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it.â&#x20AC;?

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The historic Sedgwick Theater in Mt. Airy will plays host to playwright Clifford Odetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; timeless classic Awake and Sing! which opens Jan. 23.

Actor Lawrence Pressman discusses the relevance of Quintessence Theater Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming show Awake and Sing!

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hiladelphia playwright Clifford Odets premiered his magnum opus, Awake and Sing!, in 1935. But as the Quintessence Theater Group takes the play to the stage at the Sedgwick Theater, it seems as though it could have been penned today.

A predecessor to Eugene Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neil and precursor to Tennessee Williams, Odete centers Awake and Sing! on the Bergers, a Jewish family during the Great Depression. Three genera-

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tions crammed in a small Bronx apartment, the family is divided into realists and idealists as they each try to survive and strive for their own pursuit of happiness.

Lawrence Pressman plays Jacob, the Marxist grandfather constantly at odds with his daughter, the pragmatic matriarch, Bessie.

Making his Quintessence debut, Pressman is an actor with over 150 television and movie credits and best known for his part as Dr. Benjamin CanďŹ eld in the 1980s TV drama, Doogie Howser, M.D. But the proliďŹ c onscreen actor has alway shared a longtime love for the stage, including on Broadway in Woody Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Play It Again, Sam and Man in the Glass Booth, both directed by Harold Pinter. He was also accepted

into the ďŹ rst repertory theater at Lincoln Center, headed by artistic directors Elia Kazan and Robert Whitehead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Awake and Sing! is about a group of people living together in very close quarters,â&#x20AC;? said Pressman, who currently resides in California. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With all of what is going on in the world around them, they're still falling in love, marrying the wrong guy, being cruel to each other and loving each other, and all of it in the context of the Great Depression.â&#x20AC;?

This is not the ďŹ rst time Pressman has played the part of Jacob. However, it is his ďŹ rst time playing it at the appropriate age of 79. He originally undertook the role as a 19-year-old college student at Northwestern.

However, Pressman noted that the play, while

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Pressmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father had a very different imtury, has been underperformed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasn't done for a long time, because migrant story. Also a Russian Jew, his mothpeople thought well that's just the Depres- er died during Czarist regime and he ďŹ&#x201A;ed the sion,â&#x20AC;? said Pressman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Well, we are out of Cossack army at the age of 12. Traveling alone with a note that contained his Amerithat. We've live a good life now.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

But it through the struggles and strives of can uncleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s information, an Italian woman the Berger family that one can ďŹ nd the strik- on the boat fed and cared for Pressmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ing similarities to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s climate. Mirror- father until they docked in Philadelphia haring the 1930s, there is a worldwide spike in bor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that America always has stood for anti-Semitism, a plummeting stock market of Great Depression proportions and a hu- ultimately generosity of spirit,â&#x20AC;? said Pressmanitarian crises at the southern border with man. And I think Awake and Sing! is about a certain kind of generosity under very difďŹ cult immigration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are back in the 30s in many ways,â&#x20AC;? conditions.â&#x20AC;? said Lawrence Pressman, playing the grandPressmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father would later ďŹ ght in father role of Jacob. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And it's incomprehen- World War I, which would gain him full citisible to me that we still have the race prob- zenship. lems that we have got â&#x20AC;&#x153;The two words I reand the anti-Semitism member my dad saying that we got. That alover and over and over ways goes hand in again are American and hand.â&#x20AC;? freedom,â&#x20AC;?

Pressman As a Jewish man, relayed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You're an Pressman realized soAmericanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;you got cietyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regression after to believe in freedom if the Tree of Life Synayou're an American.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? gogue shooting in PittsThose two words burgh that claimed 11 play on loop in Presslives back in October. manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head each time â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Do you realize he rereads Awake and we, as American JewSing!. It was a time ish children of immiwhere many Jews grant parents, we have wanted to forget the known the longest petragic lives they left beriod of peace any Jew hind, assume new identhat anyone has ever tities as American and known in the history attain the American of the world?,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; PressDream via economic man said, recalling liberation. contemporaries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;And Pressman quotes it ended in Pittsburgh a the play, where Jacob few months ago.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

IMAGE COURTESY: LAWRENCE PRESSMAN says that his grandson Reprising the role of Lawrence Pressman plays Marxist grandfather Ralph â&#x20AC;&#x153;dreams of night Jacob that he played Jacob in Quintessence Theater Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcom- of fortunes.â&#x20AC;? Foreshad50 years ago, Pressman owing a Death of a ing production of Awake and Sing! contemplated not only Salesman type ending on the current threads â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but before Death of of Awake and Sing!, a Salesman was written but also reďŹ&#x201A;ected on the â&#x20AC;&#x153;personalâ&#x20AC;? connec- â&#x20AC;&#x201D; money becomes a central motif to start tions to his own past. again. For Pressman, freedom in its purest Pressmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s maternal grandmother worked idea is one of the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central messages. It at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, leaving is a concept that echoes his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s narrabefore the ďŹ re that took 146 lives. Pulling tive and it is a privilege that many take for money with her husband and other family granted today. members, they road south and settled in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;The synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh small town of Cynthiana, Kentucky, which should be a warning, not just to Jewish peowould be home for Pressmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother and ple, but to all of us that freedom is not a gift himself. that can simply be accepted and exploited, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I look at it now, it was kind of won- explained Pressman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freedom is a gift that derful spectrum of Judaism and Jewish life needs to me constantly renewed. It's like a extended as far as Cynthiana, Kentucky,â&#x20AC;? ďŹ&#x201A;ower that has to be watered. We're learning said Pressman. that again, it's fragile.â&#x20AC;? Q Growing up in the sparsely Jewish town, Pressmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s household was comprised of JewAwake and Sing! | Jan. 23-Feb. 17. $15ish immigrants and ďŹ rst generation Ameri- $35. Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown cans, many of whom spoke Yiddish or still Ave. quintessencetheatre.org/awake-andcarried remnants of the accent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a language sing/

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3 PARTY

Getâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;cha Head in the Game

How frigginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cool. Listen to thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;?a Disney-themed karaoke and dance party.â&#x20AC;? We never knew it was possible to string all of those words together in a single sentence, but someone went and did it (DJ Deejay? Also, awful name, bro, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let it slide) and we legit couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be happier. Karaoke is terrifying to do but awesome to watch and listen to and jeer (lightheartedly, of course). And everyone has at least one (secret or not) Disney song that they love and know by heart and listen to on repeat whenever theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re down. Dancing is cool too â&#x20AC;Ś as long as you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to move too much. | 9pm. $5. The Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St. concerts1.livenation.com

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egular readers of The Scene (we know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re out there) will know that we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much go in for that whole religion thing. Not that religion itself is at issue. Just that religious people tend toward the unnecessarily moralistic and cognitively dissonant.

Whether Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim or any number of other God-fearing options, religion has largely become a vehicle for the, in truth, least moral amongst us to take advantage of the hopes and dreams and, ultimately, fears of others.

Of course, preying on the weak and wanting isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t new; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the means through which religious zealots enrich themselves that are. What used to be hotlines and holy gatherings has turned to online donations and YouTube testimonials.

Otherwise, not much has changed.

But all that being said, the core of what made religion so important to begin with â&#x20AC;&#x201C; spirituality, the search for answers to questions that will never be answered, the desire for community and doing good â&#x20AC;&#x201C; remains. So whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a believer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or not â&#x20AC;&#x201C; take time out this Sunday to remind yourself that spirituality is important. That belief in something bigger than yourself and whatever form that something takes - isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always bad.

That we may be lacking in wise men these days, but that the world had at least three of them once, and they knew that giving, that sharing with those less fortunate, was the only true way to celebrate this one and only life. Q Three Kings Day | Jan. 6. 5pm. Free. The Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. kimmelcenter.org/ threekings

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We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t often include open mics, and for good reason. That reason mostly being that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re everywhere and happening all the time and so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not necessarily noteworthy when one is going down. But every once in a while we like to include one just so people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget the ďŹ ne folks still just trying to make it, the hope-rs and dreamers who pour their heart and soul into something they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have a platform from which to share. Sure, make all the jokes you want, but remember thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at least the people onstage are willing to try, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than most can say. | 630pm. Free. Hussian College, 1500 Spring Garden St. eventbrite.com

Paulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Drag Kitchen

We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know Timothy Antwon Toler aka Paula Deen-White, the drag queen/chef extraordinaire who will be hosting this ďŹ ne evening of food and fun and ďŹ nery, but if we did, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d deďŹ nitely ask if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Paula Deen angle to the stage name and whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meant to mock the former celebrity chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, ahem, questionable cultural choices of the past. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here for. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here for Paulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Drag Kitchen ... just like weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here for whatever funny shit we can all come up with to mock her leathery, overstuffed, racebaiting namesake. | 630pm. $8. Hussian College, 1500 Spring Garden St. eventbrite.com

OUTDOORS

Winter Solstice Bird Walk

No, Sweet Dee wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be there, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hella funny and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re glad you made that connection too. It may not actually always be sunny in Philadelphia, but that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t still plenty of options for the more

outdoorsy amongst us. Take this event for example. Seriously, take it â&#x20AC;Ś just kidding. We were possessed by the spirit of Rodney DangerďŹ eld for a second there. Wait â&#x20AC;Ś Rodney DangerďŹ eld is dead, right? Somebody look that up, Alright, anyway â&#x20AC;Ś where were we?

Oh right. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Always Sunnyâ&#x20AC;? really is an amazing show. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t love the latest season though. | 4pm. Free. The Woodlands, 4000 Woodland Ave. woodlandsphila.org

LEARN

Pop-Up Museum: Sports and Leisure

The holidays are ďŹ nally over, so you know what that meansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Eastern State Penitentiary has ďŹ nally transformed from a spooky, terrifying trips into the bowels of history to, well, a spooky, terrifying trip into the bowels of history. Crazy how nature do that, huh? Just like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy how inmates found ways to stay ďŹ t and even - gasp! - have fun while incarcerated. This pop-up look into the past provides history buffs a glimpse of prisoner-made crafts, paintings, conďŹ scated shanks and other weapons. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just fun â&#x20AC;Ś thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun for the whole family! | 11am. Prices vary. Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Ave. tickets.easternstate.org

FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 ART

Oh! You Pretty Things: A Bowie Inspired Art Show

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be a Bowie-heavy week here in the Calendar section of PW. Mostly because we love David Bowie and all the weird, spaced-out musical amazingness his too-short years in this dimension brought us, but also because the ďŹ ne folks at Philly Loves Bowie have taken it upon themselves to put together a full week of events aimed at celebrating the Prince of Pastels and Face Glitterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life/oeuvre/transmogriďŹ cation. So start with the art show, but gird yourselves for a weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Life on Mars?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;Ś in Philly. | 6pm. Free.

Ruckus Gallery, 27 N. 2nd St. phillylovesbowie.com

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A Bowie Masquerade Ball

Normally, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just make Philly Loves Bowie Week into The Scene and call it a day, but there was so much juice from this particular piece of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fameâ&#x20AC;? fruit and we love that wild space alien so damn much that we ďŹ gured it was better to space it out (see what we did there?) across the entire seven days (or in Bowie Terms, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that means nothing because time is a human construct and my species has transcended the need for such trivialitiesâ&#x20AC;?).

Next up on the docket? A masquerade ball.

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Just like Bowie wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve wanted. | 10pm. $10. Ruba Club, 416 Green St. eventbrite. com

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tural basis of most current popular music - doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get quite the shrift it should. So go to The Twisted Tail and check out the new blues taking root in America. | 9pm. Free. The Twisted Tail, 509 S. 2nd St. eventbrite.com

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dance!

A Bowie Blitz Dance Party

Put on your red shoes and dance the god damn blues. Or greens. Or whites.

Or blacks or browns or oranges or â&#x20AC;Ś ok, you get it. This event is actually something of a mash up, mixing Bowieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Week in the City of Brotherly Love with Sex Dwart, Phillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own long-running Rock of the 80s dance party.

Sex Dwart. Yep, you read that right. And yes, Bowie would have loved this. And also yes, our minds are full of wonderfully disgusting images right now. | 7pm. $5. Club Mousai, 1227 Walnut St. evensi.us

SATURDAY, JANUARY 5 GIVE BACK

Project Save One Emo Night Brooklyn: Philadelphia

Sometimes, we have to stop and wonder just how it is that these events get named. Like, for instance, this one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Emo Night Brooklyn: Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;? is possibly the most convoluted, unnecessarily confusing name in the history of events. And we get itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you started a company called Emo Night Brooklyn, and now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big enough to take it elsewhere. Cool.

But just know that the confusing-ass name is probably keeping at least a few people on the outs. Plus, description like this deďŹ nitely donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help. | 1030pm. $12. The Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St. concerts1.livenation.com

MUSIC

Badfish: a Tribute to Sublime

Tribute bands are kinda â&#x20AC;Ś weird. Like, you love music obviously, which is why you made a band and started playing shows. But also, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the whole point with music to create stuff? To make your own sound that would then draw people in? Like does anybody love any one band that much? Who knows, maybe weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re completely in the wrong here, but all we do know is Bradley Nowell was a genius and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be right there singing â&#x20AC;&#x153;40 Oz. to Freedomâ&#x20AC;? with all the other old people (yes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their debut album, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the third track on that album, you poser). | 8pm. $20. TLA, 334 South St. concerts1.livenation.com

MUSIC

Slim & The Perkolators

Most of you have probably never heard of Slim & The Perkolatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;heck, prior to creating this event entry neither had we. But it feels a whole lot like the blues - a musical genre with a storied history, both in this country and abroad, that essentially forms the struc-

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Like Batman said to The Flash in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Justice Leagueâ&#x20AC;?; save one. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all you can do. And while that movie was a hot steaming pile of Zack Snyder garbage and Christian Baleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Batman is and will forever be one million times better than Ben AfďŹ&#x201A;eckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stiff, old man version, the sentiment still rings true. So this Saturday, spend your morning saving one.

One cat. One dog. Whatever you can do to help. Sure, rescuing an animal will enter you into the running to win $1,000, but we all know thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the point. | 9am. Free. ACCT Philly, 111 W. Hunting Park Ave. acctphilly. org

ART

Me & Mr. Jones: My Intimate Relationship with David Bowie

First off, the most important partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;proceeds from ticket sales go to beneďŹ t the Cancer Center at CHOP. The second most important part? The New York Times has previously referred to performer Raquel Cion as â&#x20AC;&#x153;half witch, half cabaret performer.â&#x20AC;? And while we would never presume to speak for the Spaceman ourselves, we bet heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have at least half a mysterious smile for this event. | 6pm. $20. Frank Bradleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1320 Chancellor St. ticketfly.com

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The Birthday Bash!

Ziggy v. The Thin White Duke

What is it? Where did it come from? Did we bring it into being simply by invoking the name of the demi-god we know as David Robert Jones? All questions you could ask of Bowie himself, as well as this particular event â&#x20AC;Ś the event that started it all, those long, strange years ago. As for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;what is it?â&#x20AC;? end of things, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know. But we know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bowie-inspired and therefore absolutely worth your Saturday evening. | 830pm. $25.

Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. ticketfly.com

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Drop It Like Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hot

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turned into something of an unintended throwback week here in the Calendar section of Philly Weekly. Bowie tributes. Emo Night featuring too-long bangs and The Used. Sublime tributes, which is totally cool and deďŹ -

nitely not at all weird or out of style. But this event just might take the cake. Abercrombie & Fitch. Limewire. Braces. Anybody else feeling the urge to stand awkwardly in the corner and pretend like the sweat building up under your arms isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t making you almost as uncomfortable as the fact that the kid you like pretended not to hear when you asked to dance? No one? Ok. Cool. | 10pm. $10. The Fillmore, 29 E. Allen St. concerts1.livenation.com

SUNDAY, JANUARY 6 FOOD & DRINK

3rd Annual Philly Loves Bowie Brunch

We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t decide whether Bowie wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a fan of brunch or not. On the one hand, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an excuse for the vapid and vain to get day drunk in a socially acceptable situation. On the other, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an oddly formal, yet highly enjoyable chance to dress up nice and sip coffee while snacking on tasty treats. Bowie would probably fall somewhere in the middleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; dressed to the nines, but grinning through his teeth at the excess around him. | 11am. Free.

Chatayee Thai, 1227 Walnut St. phillylovesbowie.com

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Bowie Paint & Create: A Benefit for CHOP

Once again, the most important partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this is a fundraiser for the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hospital of Philadelphia. The second most important

part? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a paint and play at a hair salon.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to love? No painting experience needed, just a wild sense of style and maybe a little love of Bowie. And hey, even if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t love Bowie, we doubt heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d begrudge you an afternoon of fun. | 2pm. $40. Rebel Rebel Salon, 2603 E. Allegheny Ave. phillylovesbowie.com

DRINK

The Philly Loves Bowie Quizzo Night

How old was David Bowie when he ďŹ rst burst onto the music scene? What was his ďŹ rst international hit? What year did he change his name from David Robert Jones to David Bowie? What was the inspiration behind the name change? How old was David Bowie (in human years) when he passed away? What was his planet of origin and what universe houses the planet? If you can answer these (incredibly easy) questions, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably do ok. | 9pm. Free. Doobies Bar, 2201 Lombard St. phillylovesbowie.com

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Free First Sunday Family Day

Every ďŹ rst Sunday of the month brings free entry to The Barnes Foundation, where you and your kiddies can peruse the collection, including Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, and a whole heaping bunch more.

The Big Draw is a British-based visual literacy program that encourages learning through drawing, and you can even join actual artists in creating a â&#x20AC;&#x153;doodle mural,â&#x20AC;? which is a lot less dirty than it sounds. | 10am. Free. The

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MONDAY, JANUARY 7 PARTY

BowieOke!

Sara from Sing Your Life Karaoke is teaming up with Johnny Brendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to put on a free event thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sure to be as fun as it is crowded.

Seriously, if you want a shot at singing your heart out to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Starmanâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rebel Rebelâ&#x20AC;? then you better get there and signed up as early as you can. Time didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist for Bowie, but it sure does for us mere mortals. Also, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even think about doing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dancing in the Street,â&#x20AC;? or weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll boo you back to The Gayborhood. | 8pm. Free. Johnny Brendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1201 Frankford Ave. phillylovesbowie.com

LEARN

Enough Is Enough: Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wellness Group

As long as this support group continues to operate, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll continue to include it here. Join other women of color as they strive to overcome the anguish and anger at living in world dominated by men. Share your stories, listen to the words and winding paths of others, offer what you can to ensure that every woman who joins the group goes home knowing the world is a better, safer place than they may realize. | 630pm. Free. Uncle Bobbieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffee & Books, 5445 Germantown Ave. unclebobbies.com

LEARN

REAL ID Pop-Up Pre-Verification Event

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll admit itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much of an event.

Which isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to say that you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t attend or take advantage because, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be honest, how many of us are going to remember that this whole REAL ID thing is, well, a thing, and make sure we go out and get ourselves one before it becomes legally mandated (youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need it to ďŹ&#x201A;y domestic, for example)?

We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see any hands in the air, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to assume that most of you should get the requisite shit together and go to this not exciting, but entirely necessary event. | 2pm. Free.

Philadelphia International Airport, 8000 Essington Ave. dmv.pa.gov

MUSIC

Spotlight Cabaret: Elena Camp and Rajeer Alford

Wanna know why itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spotlight Series?â&#x20AC;? Oh, you have a guess. Oh, you think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because this event series is meant to act as a sort of metaphorical spotlight for local artists who otherwise wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to get

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top billing? Well, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who you think you are but â&#x20AC;Ś youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re exactly right.

Good job. Or, â&#x20AC;&#x153;good on ya,â&#x20AC;? as the Aussieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s might say. They do say that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they? Why are you looking behind you, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking to you. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got all the answers, big shot, so whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the answer? Huh? Huh!? | 7pm. $20.

The Proscenium Theatre, 302 S. Hicks St. 11thhourtheatrecompany.org

NETWORKING

The Connect: An LGBTQ Hangout

Head on over to The Gayborhood for an evening of cocktails, work tales and that one dude who is just way too hyped for the event and clearly spent the hour beforehand yelling at himself in the mirror about how many connections he has to make before he can go home. Take it easy, Craig. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really not that serious. Just shake some hands, say hello to a few people and â&#x20AC;Ś no. No, what are you doing? Put your phone away. No one wants to see the picture you took when you cornered Dan Savage after a speech at your private college. | 530pm. Free. Writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Block Rehab, 1342 Cypress St. philly.carpe-diem.events

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8 FOOD & DRINK

The Bowie Birthday Benefit Donut

At its center, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark. Luscious. Mercurial. Made to move mountains with a single smack. On the outer rim itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bright. Shining.

A perfectly pressed swirl of pastel paints, glittering diamonds, an ethereal dream of almost mythic proportions. Are we talking about a donut or the man/myth/space creature himself? The only way to ďŹ nd out is to go to a Federal Donuts on Tuesday and see for yourself. | 7am. Free. Federal Donuts, 1219 S. 2nd St. phillylovesbowie.com

PARTY

Acid Bird Spins Bowie

Acid Bird is Johnny Brendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s monthly downstairs DJ night. Only this time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been give a space-a-licious twist. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just Bowie youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be hearing. His inďŹ&#x201A;uences will make many an appearance, from techno trip hop to ambient noise rock to â&#x20AC;Ś showtunes? Yeah, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right. Fuckinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; showtunes.

So put on your red shoes and â&#x20AC;Ś oh, we did that already? Well who cares. But get ready to dance. | 8pm. Free. Johnny Brendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1201 Frankford Ave. phillylovesbowie.com

LEARN

Night Skies in the Observatory

This is, believe it or not, actually yet another entry in the Philly Loves Bowie Week ledger. And not just because it involves space!

MOVIE

Chill & Kill Horror: Mandy

Nicholas Cage is a madman.

You might think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lead-in to the description of this movie, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just our opinion.

Nicholas Cage is, legitimately, a man whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone mad. Now, that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily mean heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to hurt anyone or even himself. But it does mean that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone off the deep end, willing to make whatever movie crosses his path, living his best life with reckless abandon. Of course, the good part about taking the shotgun approach to movie-making is that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bound to hit on at least one killer. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mandyâ&#x20AC;? (see what we did there?). | 7pm. Prices vary. Century, 1350 S. 29th St. facebook.com

Though that is a large part of the reason. But this edition of the monthly stargazing event will actually pay homage to The Thin White Duke via Bowie-themed events ranging from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Starmanâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ziggy Stardustâ&#x20AC;? to a chance to make your own Night Stars Bowie pin. Put it all together and this is sure to be a â&#x20AC;Ś â&#x20AC;&#x153;Space Oddity.â&#x20AC;? | 7pm. Prices vary. The Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St. fi.edu

LEARN

Art Tour - William Rush Statues

Outside of Philly Loves Bowie, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going hard on the opportunities to learn this week.

Is that by choice, you ask. The answer is no, of course not. Well, not entirely at least. We know you heathens, you beautiful Grittyloving disasters could use some god damn culture. But we also know that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the week after New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, which is only a few day afters the holidays, and no one is really up for anything too serious. So â&#x20AC;Ś go. Learn. Grow as a person before you drink it all away in the new year. | 10am. Prices vary. The Masonic Temple in Philadelphia, 1 N. Broad St. pamasonictemple.org

to make icing? | 7pm. $435. The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College, 4207 Walnut St. walnuthillcollege.edu

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 MOVIE

The Sigma Kids The year is 1974. David Bowie, already riding the rising tide of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fame,â&#x20AC;? journeys to Philadelphia to record his newest album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Young Americans.â&#x20AC;? A group of kids, fanatics of the utmost order, camp outside the studio in the hopes of getting just a glimpse of the mythical creature known as Bowie. Only, in true Bowie fashion, they got so much more. From local ďŹ lmmaker Anthony Crupi comes this look at the lucky few known simply as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sigma Kids.â&#x20AC;? | 630pm. $8. Roxy Theater, 2023 Sansom St. filmadelphia.secure.force.com

ART

LEARN

Introduction to Pastry Arts

Tuesday is quickly becoming Learning Day. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the itch for information, a little need for knowledge, then this week our calendar section will be dispensing thoughtprovoking events left and right. This particular event will teach you all you need to know about the art of dough. The skill of scone. The mastery of macrons. Actually, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just an introductory course, so maybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn how

Drink & Draw If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been to a drink and draw event, you really should do yourself a favor.

Not that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like, a transcendent experience or anything. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to suddenly

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unlock hidden talents you never knew existed. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nice way to spend an evening, chatting with the people you came with or whomever is around you, sipping a drink or four as you all try your best to mimic what the teacher made look so easy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like bonding over shared incompetence. | 6pm. Free. WeWork Northern Liberties, 1010 Hancock St. philadelphia.aiga.org

NETWORKING

Speed Dating | Ages 22-39

Ugh. Dating is the fucking worst. No two ways about it, if we here in the Calendar section of Philly Weekly had to choose between using Grittyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surely sweat-soaked undergarments as a blanket for the next six months or taking part in a speed dating session, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d choose those hateful Hanes every day of the week. That being said, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not you. And some people really love to just â&#x20AC;Ś wait. Who are we kidding? No one loves speed dating.

You do it because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re unhappy and desperate. Just like us, nestling beneath the elastic waistband of death. | 7pm. $20. Rosyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taco Bar, 2220 Walnut St. eventbrite.com

MUSIC

COMEDY

Philly Song Jawn with Sean

Does anyone know where the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;jawnâ&#x20AC;? actually came from? Like, we have a vague memory of someone in middle or high school using the word without any prior warning, and then suddenly it was just everywhere. Sure, certain publications say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somehow derived from the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;joint,â&#x20AC;? which sorta makes sense if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got that hard South Philly accent. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confusing as hell, honestly, but either way you should go to this parody song showcase jawn. Hosted by Sean. Seanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jawn. Sean jawn. | 8pm. $8. Philly Improv Theater, 2030 Sansom St. eventbrite.com

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Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna go out on a limb here (rim shot) and say that this is probably gonna be one of those events with insufferably loud music, drinks sold in tiny plastic cups, and a dude on stage standing behind a computer pretending to push buttons as he does his best to look intensely focused. Or maybe not. Who knows? Certainly not us. Maybe you. Do you know? Does anyone? We think maybe weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent too much time thinking about David Bowie this week and sent ourselves into something of an existential tailspin. | 10pm. Free.

The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave. residentadvisor.net

LEARN

Intro to Data Science: Build a Predictive Model

Sure, data science doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound all that exciting, but do you have any idea how much money data scientists make? No? Well, we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t either. We were kind of hoping youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d know and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d all just ooh and ahh over that. Anyway. Data scientists probably make a fuckton (thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s metric for those of you who are wondering and also have no shot at ever

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becoming a data scientist) so get on your metaphorical horse and learn to build predictive models already. | 7pm. Free. Citycoho, 2401 Walnut St. eventbrite.com

of failures. Did we say lots of failures? | 9pm. $20. The Liaison Room, 1253 N. Front St. thefunktion011.theticketingco.com

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10 MUSIC

The Funktion 011: Emalkay & spacegeishA

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the â&#x20AC;Ś conjunction funktion â&#x20AC;Ś whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your funktion? Does anyone else remember that? Pretty sure itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from â&#x20AC;&#x153;Schoolhouse Rock.â&#x20AC;? What? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at us like that.

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re an alt weekly thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been in circulation in one form or another since 1971. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re old as heck. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we have so much wisdom.

The wisdom of age. Of experience. Of lessons learned through lots and lots and lots and lots

The 3nd Annual Philly Loves Bowie Memorial What do colored chalk and David Bowie have in common? Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both washed away by the tides of time (which, again, Bowie himself does not believe in because, as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already said on numerous occasions, his species had transcended such constructs, though his human form obviously had not). Which is our way of saying that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to pay tribute however you can, even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the form of a drawing that will disappear the ďŹ rst time it rains. | 3pm. Free. Doobies Bar, 2201 Lombard St. phillylovesbowie.com

MUSIC

Through Being Cool EMO NIGHT Was the emo scene like, way bigger in Philly than we remember? Sure, The Used and Saves The Day were big bands in the way back when (along with black bangs and pants that were at least two sizes too tight), but the sudden ubiquity of emo nights is truly startling. Now, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not in any way, shape or form suggesting you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t attendâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;you

absolutely should. We just think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to live the examined life. So â&#x20AC;Ś what the fuck, Philly? | 10pm. $3. The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave. barbarylive.com

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Baby Can Dance: A Bowie Burlesque Show

We just learned a new termâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;stage kittens.

Apparently, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a thing, at least where burlesque is concerned. It sounds hot â&#x20AC;Ś sorta.

But also not really? Maybe not at all? Maybe weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent too much time around actual kittensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not sure. But either way, this event is all about local buskers, bustiers and, well, stage kittens. Stage cats. Kitty cats. See? It just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work. | 8pm. $10. Ruba Club, 416 Green St. phillylovesbowie.com Q

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SAVAGE LOVE

Lost Kinkster DAN SAVAGE Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a 19-year-old bisexual woman really into orgasm denial and edging. With the recent Tumblr ban on all NSFW content, I have no idea where to indulge my kinks and ďŹ nd my community. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never needed to go anywhere else to ďŹ nd porn, explore my sexuality, and be surrounded by supportive peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m at a loss. A few Google searches have been really disheartening. Clearly Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been spoiled by all the easily found porn made by women, for women on Tumblr. Hell, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m used to it being made by bisexuals, for bisexuals. I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m 15 again, desperately scouring the internet for anything that applies to me. Please tell me where I can ďŹ nd my porn! â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Missing My Porn Community P.S. You wrote about how this ban harms sex workers, Dan, but please write about how it harms queer and kinky people, too! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many people are scrambling to relocate their fetish communities in the wake of Tumblrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;adult content,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Alexander Cheves, a queer writer who lives in New York City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Porn is more than hot videosâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;porn creates communities. I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know half the gross stuff Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m into if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for Tumblr!â&#x20AC;?

Luckily, MMPC, the men and women who created and/or curated the content that spoke to you and afďŹ rmed your identity didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t evaporate on December 17, the day Tumblrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s porn ban went into effect. Many have taken their clips, captions, GIFs, and erotic imaginations to other platforms and some are creating new platforms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;MMPC should devote some time to scouring Twitter for bisexual women into orgasm denial and edging, some of whom may be uploading their original content to platforms like Just For Fans,â&#x20AC;? said Cheves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The creators of JFF are right now working on a more Tumblr-like social-media extension to their site. Other startups like Slixa or ShareSomeCome and social platforms like Switter have emerged in the wake of this crackdown. These are corners of the internet where

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MMPC can ďŹ nd her porn.â&#x20AC;?

Cheves wrote a terriďŹ c piece for Out that connects the dots between Tumblrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban on porn and the anti-sex, anti-porn, anti-sexwork, and anti-queer crackdown that was already under way on other platforms (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dangerous Trend of LGBTQ Censorship on the Internet,â&#x20AC;? December 6, 2018). While thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still tons of porn on the internet, as many people have pointed out (myself included), the crackdown on explicit content on social-media platforms is fucking over vulnerable queers. As Eric Leue, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, told Cheves: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many people in straight, heteronormative communities donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand what the big deal is [about the Tumblr adult content ban], because their lives and cultures are represented everywhere. For those in queer, or niche, or fetish communities, Tumblr was one of the few accessible spaces to build communities and share content.â&#x20AC;?

And as long as sex-education programs donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cover queer sex or kinky sexâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no sign of improvement in either areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;LGBTQ youth and young people with kinks will continue to get their sexual education on the internet. And the harder it is to access explicit content, particularly explicit noncommercial content, the harder itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be for young queers to ďŹ nd not just smut that speaks to them, but the education they need to protect themselves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More youth will get hurt and more will get HIV thanks to Tumblrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s content ban,â&#x20AC;? said Cheves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not scaremongeringâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; that will happen. Case in point: I grew up in a ďŹ ercely religious home on a 500-acre farm in the middle of Georgia with dial-up and a pretty intense parental blocker. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t access pornâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even access articles with sexual illustrations, including sexual health illustrations. When I went to college in 2010, the same year Grindr hit the App Store, I knew absolutely nothing about HIV and nothing about my community. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no wonder that I tested positive at 21.â&#x20AC;?

Shortly after getting the news that he was HIV+, Cheves started an educational queer sex blog. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I answer sex questions from anyone who writes inâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I stole the idea from you, Dan, to be honest,â&#x20AC;? said Cheves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to reach those kids in the middle of nowhere, kids like me.â&#x20AC;?

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