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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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etches name into
3,500-year-old
temple
A Montgomery County
boy, 16, was charged with
stabbing his girlfriend, 17,
to death Saturday night,
reports say. Tristan Stahley
faces charges of first-
degree murder after he al-
legedly killed his girlfriend
Julianne Siller in a wooded
area in their hometown
of Skippack, reports say.
Siller, of Royersford, was
stabbed multiple times
after the two argued about
a broken cell phone and
Siller’s nightlife.
After an attempt to
hide the body, Stahley
emerged from the woods
and told his mother he
killed Siller, reports say.
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Rescued
50trappedin
casino
elevator
Firefighters rescued 50
people from several
elevators that became
stuck in separate inci-
dents at Revel Casino
in Atlantic City Sunday
morning, reports say.
The people climbed
ladders through
elevator shafts to safety.
METRO
Merger
Twoparishes
tocombine
Two Bridesburg par-
ishes, All Saints and
St. John Cantius, will
become one as of July
1, the Archdiocese
said. The combined
parish, to be named
St. John Cantius, will
have a new pastor by
the end of the month.
Geography and at-
tendance were cited
as reasons. METRO
Invaded
Family’s
cookoutfood
stolen
Two men invaded a
North Philadelphia
home Sunday and stole
electronics, money and
supplies for a Memorial
Day cookout, police
said. The two men stole
pills, $5,000, a flat-
screen TV, jewelry, two
smartphones, food and
drinks. METRO
Some parents uneasy
over breakfast options
Once a month, students at
Andrew Jackson and Ste-
phen Girard elementary
schools receive for break-
fast a bag of Sun “Morning
Mix-ups” apple-cinnamon
flavored snack mix, par-
ents said.
The multigrain snack
of bagel buttons and oat
squares has 200 calories, 7
grams of sugar, 6 grams of
fat, 32 grams of carbohy-
drates, 3 grams of fiber, 5
grams of protein and 130
milligrams of sodium. No
vitamins, no minerals and
16 grams of whole grain.
For a drink, the kids
can choose from fruit
juice, chocolate or plain
milk.
The fruit juice has 60
calories, 15 grams of sugar,
15 milligrams of sodium
and 14 grams of carbohy-
drates. No protein, no vi-
tamins.
Parents from the two
schools are asking, “Why
doesn’t the school district
offer healthier options
than a bag of chips and
fruit punch?”
The district feeds all
district elementary school
kids breakfast and lunch
up to eighth grade. For
many students, officials
have said, this may be the
only meals they eat.
Some other items on
the month’s meal calendar
includes muffins and pan-
cakes with syrup. One par-
ent described the muffins
as “unfrosted cupcakes.”
The parent, who asked
to remain anonymous,
called the “Breakfast
Round,” served twice a
month, a “doughnut.”
While fruit is men-
tioned several times on
the menu, some parents
said they have not seen it
available.
Beth Wallace, a nutri-
tionist at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia,
said in regard to the snack
mix, “There are better and
probably less expensive
options.”
“Something like whole
wheat toast with peanut
butter and milk is going
to be less expensive than a
bag of Sun chips over the
course of year, most likely,
and you’re getting a lot
more whole foods and nu-
trients,” Wallace said.
She said oatmeal with
nuts or yogurt with fruit
would be ideal.
“I really think that any-
thing in the morning is
better for a child — but re-
ally to maximize the start
to their day, they actually
need nutrients, not just
calories,” she said.
Fernando Gallard,
school district spokesman,
said, “All breakfast menus
meet or exceed the federal
requirements.”
The snack mix “pro-
vides two bread equiva-
lents according to the
USDA required meal pat-
tern,” Gallard said in an
email. “The current meal
pattern does not require
whole grains. In prepa-
ration for next school
year, we have enhanced
our menu by providing
items that contain whole
grains.”
Diet. Parents say
pupils are given
a snack mix,
muffins, pancakes
and concentrate
juices for meals
at school.
Facts
Wallace said the ideal
breakfast for a child in the
morning is to have some-
thing from three of the five
food groups.
The nutrition facts for the
drinks offered, according
to the district, say:
• Fruit juice: Contains 100
percent fruit juice from
concentrate.
• Chocolate milk: Fat-free,
low-sugar milk, 120
calories, 7 grams of
added sugar, 19 grams
total carbohydrate
• Plain milk: 1 percent
milk, 100 calories, 12
grams of carbohydrate
Quoted
“Something like
whole wheat toast
with peanut butter
and milk is going to
be less expensive
than a bag of Sun
chips over the course
of a year, most likely,
and you’re getting a
lot more whole food
and nutrients.”
Nutritionist Beth Wallace
TOMMY
ROWAN
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What are they
serving our kids
for breakfast?
32Grams of carbohydrates
in a Sun “Morning Mix-ups” apple
cinnamon-flavored
multigrain snack mix
15Grams of sugar in the Suncup
4-ounce fruit punch drink
ZEROVitamins in either option
What parents are saying. Some moms and dads say their children aren’t getting a healthy meal at school
to start their days. What the school district is saying. Officials say it meets federal requirements. PAGE 02
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Tuesday, June 4, 2013
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PHILADELPHIA
There’s a good time brewing at Headhouse Square
Marisa Magnatta, center, enjoys a laugh and a beer with some friends at the opening night of the Philly Beer Week Garden at 2nd
and Lombard streets last night. Philly Beer Week kicked off May 31 and runs through June 9. / CHARLES MOSTOLLER, METRO
Delaware State Police
on Sunday arrested Ray-
mond Warncke, 33, and
charged him with his
fifth DUI offense.
Investigators said
Warncke was driving on
South DuPont Highway
shortly before 4 p.m.
when a state trooper
observed he wasn’t wear-
ing his seat belt. After
stopping him, he said
he smelled an alcoholic
odor.
Warncke was taken
into custody and alleged-
ly found to be in posses-
sion of about 11 grams
of marijuana. Police said
he had four previous DUI
convictions. METRO
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chargedwithfifthDUI
Public safety
Policeseek
serialrapist
Police are looking
for a “volatile” serial
rapist who has since
March assaulted four
Germantown females,
aged 12 to 17. The sus-
pect struck on March
19, April 23, May 19
and, most recently, last
Sunday.
“These are all teen-
agers in that particular
area, approached on
the highway by a single
perpetrator,” Capt.
John Darby of the
Special Victims Unit
said. “He’s armed with
a handgun and forces
them off the highway
into alleys, behind
properties and, most
recently, into a recre-
ation center, where
a sexual assault does
take place.”
Police are asking
anyone with informa-
tion to come forward
before the situation
escalates further. “It’s
a dangerous situation
here,” Darby said.
“We’ve got a guy with
a gun, young female
victims — we can’t pre-
dict what they’re going
to do. We’ve got to get
him off the street, and
we’re asking the public
to do that.” METRO
Guardian Angels debut
reality show in Philly
Volunteer crime-fighting
organization the Guardian
Angels has been around
since the 1970s but has re-
cently seen a new surge in
popularity, as document-
ed by reality show “Angels
in Action,” which debuted
last week at Philadelphia’s
Comic Con.
“We are seeing an up-
tick in people being in-
terested, if not in joining
chapters,insettinguptheir
own in their community,”
Pennsylvania coordinator
Scott Koppenhofer said.
“In part, that’s because
of right now with the fi-
nancial situation, police
departments across the
country just do not have
the funding they had
years ago. Grant money
and government funding
is very slim, and they’re
trying to get creative with
what to do. We’re finding
more police departments
in more cities are willing
to work with us more be-
cause they need the extra
help.”
The show is the brain-
child of the Angels and
Gary Kleinman, who for
more than 20 years
worked at Disney Studios,
departing in 2011 as vice
president of new media to
launch Web-only channel
FirstRun.tv
“They have had offers
for TV shows before, but
they wanted them to fake
things, have stunt doubles
— that’s not who they are.
They didn’t want to com-
promise,” Kleinman said,
noting that “Angels in Ac-
tion” is shot by camcord-
er-wielding Guardian An-
gels on patrol rather than
studio camera crews.
“This is a real show,”
he continued. “I think
reality TV has given itself
a black eye, because no
one believes it’s real any-
more.”
Partially shot in Phila-
delphia, the first episode
of “Angels in Action” de-
tails patrolling members
attempting to galvanize
a neighborhood around
the rape and robbery of
a 63-year-old woman and
performing a citizens ar-
rest on a college student
seen buying drugs in
Kensington.
Koppenhofer said the
Guardian Angels’ leader-
ship is currently going
through a “restructuring”
process in Philadelphia,
training new members
in first aid, CPR, verbal
de-escalation, citizens’ ar-
rests and self defense in
preparation for a renewed
presence, which will start
by targeting the area near
Kensington and Somerset
avenues.
Crime-fighting. The
Guardian Angels
have recently
seen a surge
in their popularity.
Quoted
“If we witness
a crime, we’re
obligated to follow
that all the way to
the court system as
a witness. It’s not for
everybody, but we
always say you’ve
got to do something
in your community
to make a difference.
Don’t just close your
blinds and stick your
head in the sand.”
Koppenhofer
Local tweet
“Omg! Frank
Lautenberg, may
you Rest In Peace!
You came out your
death bed to vote
on gun reform!
At ease soldier. At
ease.”
Philadelphia blogger Natalia
John, @brainbullet, on yester-
day’s passing of U.S. Sen. Frank
Lautenberg at the age of 89
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Ranked
Report:Philly
isfourth-worst
cityforsmall
business
workers
Philadelphia is the
fourth-worst city in
the country for small
businesses employees,
according to a report
released by credit card
comparison website
CardHub.com
The report, “The
Best and Worst Cities
to Work for a Small
Business: 2013,” used
10 different metrics
based on Census and
labor data.
Philadelphia ranked
No. 27 on the list,
coming in ahead of just
Sacramento, Riverside
and Detroit. METRO
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2CULTURE
TELEVISION
By her count, Jessica Wal-
ter has been a member of
the Screen Actors Guild for
50 years, a period of time
that encompasses a vast
body of work — dramatic
(“Grand Prix”), suspenseful
(“Play Misty for Me,” oppo-
site Clint Eastwood), super-
natural (“Dr. Strange”) and,
most recently, comedic
(“Archer”). But for Walter,
the forthcoming return of
“Arrested Development”
offers a reassuring remind-
er that her career has tran-
scended not just different
genres, but different gen-
erations.
“Certainly demographi-
cally, there are probably
people who thought I was
dead,” Walter jokes.
Returning as boozy ma-
triarch Lucille Bluth, Wal-
ter says virtually every line
of dialogue in the 15 new
episodes creator Mitchell
Hurwitz wrote has a double
(or even triple) meaning,
much like those in the 53
episodes of the show that
were broadcast during its
three seasons on Fox. But
because each episode now
focuses on a different char-
acter instead of simply fol-
lowing Jason Bateman’s Mi-
chael Bluth, conversational
contexts shift frequently
— a change that provided a
considerable challenge for
the cast as they navigated
Hurwitz’s latticework of
plot strands and one-liners.
“We didn’t know a whole
lot a lot of the time, which
Guzzlingmartinis
withLucilleBluthmakes it much more dif-
ficult,” she admits. “In the
end, it all worked out, but
it’s a strange way to work
because you don’t have all
of the materials.”
Still, even after a seven-
year hiatus between the
show’s cancellation and
its Netflix rebirth, Walter
says she slipped easily back
into the role. “The thing
about our show, which I
think you probably realize
from watching it, is that
the writing is so character-
specific,” she observes.
She says her maternal
instinct kicked in as soon
as she encountered actor
Tony Hale, who plays her
tragic son Buster, maimed
after he ignored a warn-
ing to beware of what he
thought somebody was
saying was Lucille. As view-
ers will remember, it was
really a loose seal, which
ate his hand whole.
“Once I heard Tony’s
voice and once I saw him,
there he was with the hook
and his pathetic demeanor
— he was my little Busty
again.”
Between “Arrested De-
velopment” and “Archer,”
on which she plays anoth-
er alkie mom, Walter finds
herself in the midst of a
remarkable career renais-
sance, a fact she’s grateful
for, regardless of whether
people know her prior to
playing these cantanker-
ous, irresistibly manipula-
tive mothers.
“I’m so glad they think
of something,” she says
humbly. “At my age I’m
privileged that they think
of something, so it doesn’t
bother me a bit if they
think of me as Lucille.”
Interview. Jessica
Walter slips right
back into the boozy
matriarch role that
made her famous
— again.
TODD
GILCHRIST
letters@metro.us
Flashback
Donotplay
‘Misty’forher
We did not ask Jessica
Walter about that movie
where she has sex with
Clint Eastwood. For his
1971 directorial debut
“Play Misty for Me,” Clint
cast her as a woman
who becomes
obsessed with his
sexy radio DJ. Walter
became cinema’s
first-ever crazed one-
night stand victim,
who begins attack-
ing him and his
loved ones with a knife-
wielding fury. She was so
good she was borderline
uncastable for years —
that’s how terrifying
her performance was.
But she’s not known for
that character as much
anymore, thankfully.
“I have
people that
are my age
and older
who know
who I am, who
remember some of my
work from the old days,”
says Walter. “Then I used
to get, ‘Wow,
my mother
really likes you.’
Then I’d get, ‘My
grandma really
likes you.’ And now I
get ‘I really like you!’ So
how can I be unhappy
about that?”
Quoted
“People have been
really nice — they
don’t seem to think
of Lucille as horrible,
thank God. But as
long as they’re
thinking of me, it
makes me happy.”
Walter
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3SPORTS
SPORTS
mates when the second
minicamp opens today
and when training camp
starts in seven weeks.
First-round draft pick
Lane Johnson will not be
working with his bookend
across the offensive line
because Peters is angry.
The best player on the
Eagles will not be making
his teammates better.
This is hardly the first
time the Eagles have sac-
rificed player loyalty for
the Almighty Dollar. Mike
Patterson, one of the most
dedicated Eagles of the
past generation, ignored
doctors’ orders and played
five games in 2011 after a
brain seizure. His reward?
Patterson was placed on
the same non-football
injury list when he con-
tracted viral pneumonia.
Patterson, risking his
life by playing, got the
$150,000 the Eagles were
trying to deny him when
GM Howie Roseman had
a sudden change of heart
after a strong negative
public reaction.
While it may seem that
Peters missing a couple
of weeks of practice is no
big deal in May and June,
what it says about the way
the Eagles conduct busi-
ness is vital to their future.
An organization that
raised ticket prices after a
4-12 season cannot have it
both ways. It cannot proj-
ect a humanitarian image
while clawing for every
penny the way it has.
The Eagles are embark-
ing on a new era. They
have a new coach, a new
energy and a new outlook.
Now what they need is a
new attitude. They need to
stop their obsession with
profits with an owner
worth more than half a
billion dollars.
Above all, they must
make Jason Peters — and
all of the players and fans
offended by their business-
first style — feel better
about the Eagles than they
do right now.
EAGLES NEW ERA NEEDS
MATCHING NEW ATTITUDE
Jason Peters is the best
player on the Eagles, a
dominant left tackle with
five Pro Bowl appearances
in eight years. He is recov-
ering from two Achilles
surgeries and an entire
season of inactivity. He is
learning the system of an
unorthodox new coach.
He is a team leader.
So why has he blown
off two weeks of practice?
According to the Ea-
gles, Peters isn’t required
to attend OTAs and he is
staying away for personal
reasons. Oh, they’re per-
sonal. He is steamed at the
organization for costing
him more than $3 million
by designating his second
Achilles problem as a non-
football injury.
Hollis Thomas, a
former Eagle and a co-host
on my WIP radio show,
has been reporting that
Peters is not willing to
volunteer his services —
especially at the unusually
rigorous practices being
conducted by Chip Kelly
— because he feels the
Eagles showed no respect
to him last season. Yes, Pe-
ters re-injured himself out-
side of the Eagles facilities,
but he did it while trying
to accelerate his rehab. He
did it for the team.
Who is in the right
here doesn’t matter. The
real issue is that Peters
will be behind his team-
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Baseball is a funny game.
Just when you think
you’ve got it all figured
out, Domonic Brown
comes along and hits
16 home runs for the
Phillies in the first two
months of the season.
In that same time
frame, Cole Hamels goes
1-9. You just never know.
Brown’s dramatic
emergence as a superstar
is the most improbable
story in an otherwise
sobering start for the
declining Phils. He was
written off by all but the
clinically insane after
several failed opportuni-
ties.
Suddenly, he is every-
thing Phillies fans could
have imagined: a five-
tool star with marquee
appeal. Brown is the kind
of player fans buy tickets
to see.
Jimmy Rollins rolled
out the ridiculous theory
that Phillies manage-
ment never gave the
kid a chance. Brown
played 147 games before
2013 and hit 12 homers,
with 57 RBIs and a .236
average. Is Rollins really
saying those numbers
demanded a starting spot
in the outfield?
Maybe Rollins needs
to spend more time
running hard to first and
less time analyzing the
front office.
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Opinion.Allhailthe
king,DomonicBrown
Analysis
McNabb
thinksyou
arearacist
Donovan McNabb can
no longer run fast or
throw deep, but he
is better than ever at
infuriating people.
Last week, the for-
mer Eagles quarterback
had the audacity to ac-
cuse Philadelphia of the
ultimate crime. In his
typical woe-is-me style,
he painted his critics
with the ugly brush of
racism.
His exact quote to
Jason La Canfora of CBS
Sports, while discuss-
ing the current plight
of Robert Griffin III in
Washington, was this:
“It’s depressing to me.
It goes beyond … the
quarterback position
to have people dislike
the kid already and he
didn’t really even do
anything? It’s depress-
ing.
“This is a different
arena he’s in — I lived
it myself — where some
people are going to dis-
like you because of your
skin color.”
In his warped mind,
McNabb’s love-hate
relationship with fans
is simple to dissect. The
people who loved him
appreciated his accom-
plishments.
The people who hat-
ed him did so because
he was black. “I lived
it myself.” Those are
the important words.
And they are a wither-
ing insult to a city that
embraced him.
My own dislike for
McNabb has had a lot
to do with his skin,
actually. It is too thin.
He has never been able
to shrug off a valid criti-
cism without attaching
an agenda to it.
At the height of
McNabb’s career here,
Terrell Owens publicly
ripped his teammate for
folding in the clutch.
The petulant quarter-
back replied by calling
the remark “black-on-
black crime.” When
someone sees every-
thing in racial terms,
the real racist is usually
the person making the
accusations.
ANGELO CATALDI
Golf
Tiger,
Nikeset
toreup
Tiger Woods’
comeback is almost
complete. The
world’s best golfer is
reportedly close to
signing a new deal
with Nike, according
to ESPN. Woods has
been with Nike since
1996. His current
contract is due to
expire at the end
of 2013. The new
deal could be signed
while Woods is in
Philadelphia playing
at the U.S. Open at
Merion.
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“Superheroes have good
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Ph.D.s,” says Brad Bose,
who would know: He’s
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important that Robert
was extremely fit and had
a good muscular build —
only it had to look real-
istic. He’s meant to be a
billionaire playboy. You
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like Captain America or
The Hulk.”
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“He’d recently finished
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and definition for long
periods of time isn’t easy.
He had to get ‘re-buff.’ We
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“Robert’s cardio was
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people don’t want to talk
about it, but the truth is,
he’s 48. He’s above the
curve when it comes to
being a fit individual,
but this is a young man’s
training he’s doing.”
In order to gain
muscle bulk, Downey
Jr. spent the first month
doing traditional weight
training: push-ups,
bench presses, etc. Once
he and Bose were satis-
fied with his mass, they
moved on to functional
performance training, a
technique that engages
all muscle groups simul-
taneously: “FPT isn’t just
for aesthetics,” says Bose.
“All the exercises are
designed to get you mus-
cular through strength.
As opposed to body
building, where you’re
working one muscle
group in isolation, FPT
gets as many muscles
and as many planes of
movement engaged at
any one time (as pos-
sible),” he explains.
The logic behind the
moves is this: “The body
functions as a unit. Every
time you’re doing an
upper-body movement,
your legs should never
be completely dormant.
The core [from the lower
part of your rib cage to
the lower part of your
hip girdle] should always
be engaged. The aim of
FPT is to do things more
dynamically. So we’ll
push sleds, we use bat-
tling ropes, sledgeham-
mers, tires and so on.”
On his day off
“Robert is constantly
doing something. But
in order to spend time
with his wife, he does
a lot of Tracy Anderson
cardio classes. And he’s
a brown belt in kung fu,
so on the opposite days
that he’s not working
with me, he’s sparring
with his coach, Eric
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Dowd has both the mental
and physical smarts needed to
be a perfect astronaut. Dowd,
a physics and maths under-
graduate at Boston’s North-
eastern University, wowed the
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video on Einstein’s theory of
relativity. Meanwhile, Dowd
has been training for a gruel-
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dedication and the gift to tell
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“He is absolutely unique.
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the cost.
Two star: These “econo-
my” lines are generally
more sparse in every way
from the above cruises —
meaning they are less ex-
pensive, smaller and more
crowded.
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The 130,000-ton Carnival Dream — Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest and largest ship — sits off the coast of Monaco, ready to patrol the waters of the Caribbean.
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Check the weather: To a
certain extent, this is an
impossible request. Cruise
planning often occurs
months before the voyage,
so there’s not much to be
done if, let’s say, a hurricane
decides to breeze on by (as it
did on this intrepid re-
porter’s last cruise excur-
sion). Still, it never hurts to
be prepared.
Motion in the ocean: Prone
to motion sickness? Pack
some Dramamine. Duh.
Do your homework: The
most important thing to find
is what will fit your own per-
sonal tastes. World Ocean &
Cruise Liner Society
(www.wocls.org) is a good
place to start.
The newly built Carnival
Dream is the newest
member of what the
company has branded its
“Fun Ship Fleet.”
For the kids
In addition to the
Dream’s “Camp Carn-
ival” play area — includ-
ing age-targeted arts and
crafts, and video game
stations — the ship
sports a 303-foot-long wa-
ter slide, an 18-hole mini
golf course, basketball
and volleyball courts, and
a variety of contests and
group parties.
Adult fun
Performances — comedy
acts and Vegas-style
revues — complement
karaoke, live music and
casinos. Night-time
laser light shows
rock Pink Floyd
and Styx.
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coaches, take classes in
styling, yoga, cooking,
wine tasting and travel
through the Caribbean on
the Celebrity Solstice.
Cruise with
‘The King’
Name: Elvis Cruise
When: Nov. 4-8
Price: $599
Ports visited:
Bahamas
Departs from:
Jacksonville, Fla.
For more informa-
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In honor of The King’s
75th birthday (if he were
alive, that is), this spe-
cialty cruise aboard the
Carnival Fascination
features tribute per-
formers and pre-
sentations by
friends of Elvis,
and includes
many Elvis-
themed activi-
ties. You can
thank us later.
Very much.
Show your
pride
Name: Gay Cruise
When: Aug. 20-27
Price: Starting at $2,290, per
person, per week
Ports visited: Mykonos, San-
torini and other Greek islands
Departs from: Athens
For more information:
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Variety Cruises’ first Gay
Cruise program includes a
buffet breakfast
and one meal
daily, Arabian
Night, a BBQ
(weather per-
mitting), a
Captain’s
Dinner,
use of
snorkeling
equip-
ment and
a multilingual
cruise escort
so you can
explore the
Greek is-
lands in
style.
All hands, feet and
bodies on the decks!
From new lines to destinations,
there’s a cruise for everybody
Take a class on the high-seas
with a life coach Or shake your
hips with an Elvis impersonator
Cruising 101 — for those who might be new to this adventure
Tropical islands
not all the same
It’s a common misconcep-
tion that Caribbean cruis-
es and itineraries are pret-
ty much the same. Each is-
land and has its own per-
sonality and style some de-
rived from their colonial
culture, others from their
geography. It’s quite possi-
ble to take as many as four
or five Caribbean cruises
and repeat very few is-
lands — and have a com-
pletely different experi-
ence on each.
One-week Caribbean
cruises come in three dis-
tinct flavors: Eastern,
Western and Southern.
Short cruises of less than
a week generally include
ports in the Bahamas and
sometimes Key West, Fla.
The Eastern Caribbean is
often the choice of first-
time cruisers and those
veterans who relish more
at-sea days with generally
three or four ports of call.
In addition to sun-
splashed beaches fringed
with palm
trees, the East-
ern Caribbean
appeals to
shoppers en-
ticed by luxury
goods and duty-free
prices in places like St.
Thomas, St. Martin and
San Juan.
The Western Caribbean of-
fers the best options for
water-sports enthusiasts
as it is considered the best
for snorkeling and scuba
diving. Typical Western
Caribbean ports include
Key West, Jamaica, Belize,
Grand Cayman and
Cozumel.
Southern Caribbean
cruises afford the choice
of more island destina-
tions-— usually as many
as five, which often also
means fewer days at sea.
A Southern Caribbean
cruise is generally longer,
often 10 to 12 nights.
San Juan is also a
popular embarka-
tion port for ships
on Southern
Caribbean itiner-
aries, which often
make stops in
many destinations
like Martinique, Do-
minica and Grenada.
And not to be forgot-
ten, winter cruises to
the Mexican Riviera are
also very popular as
they offer the allure of
warm temperatures,
beaches and plenty of
shopping.
Experience
the south
Name: Carnival Fantasy
When: Starting May 18;
various dates
Ports visited: Bahamas and
Key West
Departs from: Charleston, S.C.
www.charlestoncruise
packages.com
Carnival Cruise Lines will
begin year-round service
from Charleston, S.C., be-
ginning with a May 18 de-
parture of the 2,056-
passenger Carnival Fanta-
sy, and will depart from
Charleston’s historic down-
town. Local hoteliers are re-
sponding by putting to-
gether park-and-stay pack-
ages so you can experience
the beauty of Charleston
before or after you cruise.
Calling all the
single ladies
Name: Life Makeover Cruise
When: April 18-25
Price: Starts at $999
Ports visited: Puerto Rico, St.
Kitts and St. Maarten
Departs from: Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.
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Singles Travel Internation-
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Makeover
Cruise, spe-
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signed for
single ladies
needing a
little life-
enhancement
(think Oprah’s self-help
programming but on the
high seas). Travelers will
participate in workshops
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travel experiences.
Hot spots
Top three most popular
cruise routes:
Miami — Key West —
Cozumel
Los Angeles — Mazatlan —
Puerto Vallarta — Cabo
San Lucas
Miami — Grand Cayman —
Belize — Cozumel
Source: Orbitz
Beware sea
monsters!
When Royal Caribbean’s
Allure of the Seas is
launched in November, it
will share the accolade of
biggest cruise ship in the
world with its sister, Oa-
sis of the Seas. These sea
monsters weigh in at
225,000 tons and carry up
to 6,300 passengers and
2,160 crew (now that's a
party!). Since they’re so
large, they can’t visit
every port of call, but
Puerto Rico, St. Thomas
and Jamaica have built
new piers in order to host
them. METRO/DR
The world of cruising can be
daunting to one who has
never experienced the joy of
sitting on a sunny deck and
sipping frozen beverages.
For cruise virgins, Jeanne
Wyndrum, senior vice presi-
dent of Cruise.com, shares
these tips.
Find out
what’s included
A lot of people have mis-
conceptions about what
they will need to cover.
What is included: Meals,
entertainment and accom-
modations. What is addi-
tional once you get on
board: soft drinks and alco-
hol, spa treatments, shore
excursions, certain dining
experiences, the Internet
and gratuities. Those
are the additions
you should be
ready for when
you get the bill at the end
of the trip.
Be prepared
Have all proper documen-
tation when you get to
port. They are being very
strict nowadays so be sure
your name
matches
your documentation ex-
actly. If not, you could be
denied boarding. Since
most cruises now require
that you preregister online,
this is a good time to make
sure your passport isn’t ex-
pired and all of your paper-
work is in order.
Do your research
Learn about ports you will
visit. Most importantly, see
how far the port city is
from the city center, as
that makes all the differ-
ence of what kind of expe-
rience you will have. For
instance, if you are going
to Rome, you’ll find that
the port is far from the
center of the city, so you
might want to prepur-
chase a shore excursion. It
will save you time if you
have a good idea of the
city layout and what you
want to see since your
time at port is limited.
Book your shore
excursion early
It depends on the place
you are visiting, but in
some cases you should
book in advance. If you
wait until you get on the
ship, that’s okay, but
don’t wait until the
morning of.
Arrive early
Although the ship
might leave at 5
o’clock, you can actually
start to board around
noon. You’ll be free to
enjoy the ship and decks
all afternoon — this really
adds an extra day to your
vacation and helps you
relax instead of rushing to
make departure.
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Tips
Oasis of the Seas
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The beauty of St. Thomas is just a cruise away.
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Here’s how one thing af-
fects the other: Heftier
cruise vessels means more
on-deck room for uncon-
ventional dining options.
The culinary tact of cruise
liners has changed quite a
bit in the past decade, par-
ticularly in the following
ways:
Dine when
you want
The top trend in cruise din-
ing has less to do with
what you eat than when
you eat it: Gone are the
days when passengers re-
ceived a set time — typical-
ly 6 or 8 p.m. — for their
sit-down meals. Now, says
cruise expert Stewart Chi-
ron, “People can eat at
whatever time they want.”
For Cruise.com Senior Vice
President Jeanne Wyn-
drum, the open-ended
schedule transfigures the
whole trip: “It kind of eas-
es your day.”
Specialty
restaurants
As ship size increases, so
does the space for new
restaurants: “Like steak-
houses, Italian, French,
Asian,” Chiron says. The
new spots feel less like din-
ing halls and more like
chic eateries — “The food
quality, the atmosphere,
and the accoutrements are
much different,” he says.
Celebrity chefs
More space for restaurants
means more gigs for chefs
— gigs restaurants are fill-
ing with name-grabbing
celebrity cooks. In 2008,
The North Atlantic cruise
line Cunard tapped New
England chef Todd English
to author some menus.
The next year, Crystal
cruises brought Master
Chef Nobu Matsuhisa on
board for the same calling.
Expect to see more: “I
wouldn’t be surprised to
see Emeril [Lagasse] or one
of these guys doing a
cruise at some point,” says
Chiron.
Healthier bites
Cruise lines have tradition-
ally made accommodation
for passengers with specif-
ic dietary needs — just
that, now, those gluten-
free and low-cholesterol
options are starting to be-
come mainstays on cabin
menus. “It’s not like,
‘Here’s a few bits of let-
tuce,’” says Wyndrum.
“These are very good en-
trees, and they’re quite
popular.”
So long, buffets of old Cruises are taking dining to
the next level Trends to expect in 2010 for your
palate Luckily, your ship will also come with a gym
The galleys go
very gourmet
on these ships
Culinary
classes
Here’s where the realms
of food and onboard en-
tertainment start to
blur: Norwegian Cruise
Line packs a training
kitchen on many of its
newer vessels — “They’ll
have like a theater set-
up, as if you were in a
class,” says Chiron.
“You’ll have the table
and kitchen set up, and
the chef will come out.”
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OASIS OF THE SEAS
CARNIVAL
On the Carnival Dream, there’s a speciality pasta bar for when you need your carb fix.
The Oasis of the Sea boasts The Cupcake Cupboard, a
dedicated shop that hosts hands-on decorating classes.
These days, cruising isn’t
just about retired folk
cruising slowly ’round the
Mediterranean. There’s a
new raft of exciting ways
of seeing the world by
boat.
The Gota Canal Steamship
Co., MS Diana, Sweden
The “Good Life on Board”
cruise is one for gour-
mands. Special menus are
conceived from produce
bought from the local
canal area, resulting in
hearty Swedish delicacies,
and there’s a nightly wine-
tasting session with the
crew’s personal sommelier.
Rock your boat: At Berg, ex-
ercise off all the amazing
food with a starlit swim in
the canal, or simply borrow
one of the ship’s bikes to go
for a ride along the canal.
www.gotacanal.se
Lyngen Lodge,
Tromso Coast, Norway
Combine snow, ski and sea
with this unique trip to the
Arctic Circle. It’s based in
the luxurious Lyngen
Lodge, on the shores of a re-
mote Arctic fjord, and each
day you board a boat that
takes you to the foot of un-
touched white, powdery
slopes. Kick off your skis
and wind down with a spot
of fishing on your way back
to a dinner of reindeer.
Rock your boat: Lyngen
Lodge also boats French
windows with breathtak-
ing views across the
mountains — perfect for
admiring the Northern
Lights.
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Sail the turquoise waters
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taking time to relax on
the sailboat.
Over the course
of eight days, you’ll see
many of Egypt’s most spec-
tacular sights.
Rock your boat: At the end of
the day, nothing really
beats a bit of mindless fun.
Hop off the sailboat and on-
to a camel or donkey when
you stop off in El Kab, one
of the oldest cities in Egypt.
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Weekend, May 31-June 2, 2013 THE SEX ISSUE
The biggest sex story of the
past year didn’t happen
between Christian and An-
astasia in some porn your
mom read — it happened
in Brooklyn when Adam
banged Hannah and prob-
ably gave her an STD. The
HBO series “Girls,” with its
frank depiction of bad dirty
talk, venereal diseases,
abortions, miscarriages and
condom spill, is all about
sex. But unlike “Sex and the
City” before it, this show is
a global hit partly because
HERE’S WHAT’S SEXYTrend. With “Girls”
a hit and plus-sized
models becoming
the norm, we
wonder: Are the
days of the blonde
bimbo over?
The model
“It’s ridiculous that
people are arguing.
We should focus on
embracing all sizes.”
Jennie Runk
plus-size model for H+M
The editor
“We don’t airbrush.
There’s something
sexy about that.”
Arielle Loren
founder, Corset magazine
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star/creator Lena Dunham
is, well, average-looking.
She’s a chubby, tattooed,
thin-haired 26-year-old.
She’s normal.
The hype comes at
the perfect time for the
“real beauty” movement
— and for this Metro Sex
Issue, themed “Feel Good
Naked.” Within the past
month, plus-size model
Jennie Runk made head-
lines when H+M debuted
her modeling swimwear
(despite being a dress size
14-16, not 0). Dove soap, on
the tails of an ad campaign
featuring plus-size women,
launched an “anti-Photo-
shop” app that restores im-
ages to their original form.
And “amateur” porn is the
most popular category on
YouPorn, ranking higher
than “blondes.” The house
that Jenna Jameson built is
crumbling. The question is:
How quickly?
Soyes,how
quickly?
In one year, or in five? “I
don’t think five years is
enough,” says Gabi Gregg,
26, a plus-size blogger. Her
work went viral last year
after she posted photos of
herself looking sensual in
a “fatkini” and, this week,
she launches her own line
of swimwear (see story, at
right). “But peo-
ple like Lena
Dunham and Louis
C.K. are opening doors.
Just the fact that her body
makes people so angry —
if you read the comments,
people are telling her to
put on clothes. She has said
that only makes her want
to do it more. It’s my favor-
ite show.”
Arielle Loren doesn’t
watch “Girls,” but also traf-
fics in blunt depictions of
sex. Her magazine Corset
(www.corsetmagazine.
com) features graphic nudi-
ty and first-person erotica,
and resembles someone’s
beautifully photographed
diary. It became profitable
after a year, and Loren sees
it as part of a movement.
“The way we learn about
sex, the pornography in-
dustry drives a lot of that
consciousness,” says Loren,
a 27-year-old American. “It
starts to inform the way
we think about ‘sexy’ from
an early age. But there are
multifaceted aspects of sex
and what it can really be,
which we explore in the
magazine. That goes from
everything you can do in
the bedroom — physically
— but also how we under-
stand our bodies.”
A recent Corset photo-
shoot, “Breasts in Erotic
Daylight,” features a
brown bosom with stretch
marks. “We definitely
don’t airbrush,” says Loren.
“There’s something very
sexy about that. Being able
to see the hair follicles on a
breast or the stretch marks
on a woman’s stomach.”
She now has subscribers
here, in Canada, Peru, Bra-
zil, Sweden and beyond.
And yet post a photo of
a plus size-model online
and you see not everyone’s
as accepting. Exhibit A: Jen-
nie Runk.
Junkin
Runk’strunk
The excitement (and de-
bate) over Runk’s H+M
campaign made it all the
way to Italy, where she was
working in May. It led to at
least one sleepless night. “I
was thinking about all the
media I’ve been getting
and my mom reads a lot
of the comments and she
said, ‘I can’t believe some-
body called you fat,’” re-
members the 24-year-old,
“and some people on the
other side were like, ‘The
curvier bodies are better!’
and it’s so ridiculous that
people are having these ar-
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• Do the self-work. “Start
by walking around your
house naked. If you have
a roommate, shut your
door and walk around
your room naked. The
more you get comfort-
able with your naked self
— not covering yourself
up with a towel every
time you take a shower,
taking the time to be in
your body and open like
that — your confidence
will slowly and steadily
increase.”
Loren, on how to feel
good naked
Sofia Vergara
Olga
Kurylenko
Mila Kunis
Nina Dobrev
Alison Brie
Mindy Kaling
Christina
Hendricks
Jennifer
Lawrence
Rebel Wilson
Emilia Clarke
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Zoe Saldana
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Kat
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Zooey
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says Gregg, “but ... ”
“This argument,” adds
Runk, “is going to be a
thing of the past when —
honestly, I don’t know.” On
Facebook, she was more
hopeful, saying it’s “our
differences that make us
remarkable.”
She laughs when she
hears that again. “I’ve been
told before I’m a little too
naive.”
In school, did you realize
you were bigger than
everybody else?
Yes and no. I wasn’t teased
too much, luckily. It was
mostly internal, feel-
ing insecure next to my
classmates, if they were
thinner than me or had
blonde hair. Nobody had
to say anything. And I
started trying to diet when
I was in middle school and
high school, and it wasn’t
until college that I came to
accept myself.
How do the suits, um,
work?
What do you mean by
work? [Laughs]
They fit so well. Is it made
with a binding material,
with latches or something?
Actually, no. I’ve had
people ask about support,
of course, but there’s noth-
ing special about the fabric
of the suits. It’s normal
bathing suit fabric. In
terms of the Galaxy suit,
what makes it so special
is the print — it’s graphic
and fun and looks great
because it’s so busy that
it — I don’t want to say it
distracts the eye, because I
don’t care about that sort
of thing, but that’s what it
does. And the high-waisted
cut looks great on all
women.
Are you OK with the term
“fatkini”?
Yes. I didn’t use it this
year because it went so
viral last year, and it was
inspiring for many people
but took away from it, for
others, because they were
stuck on the word and got
angry and started com-
menting. It’s a reclamation
of the word “fat,” espe-
cially in our community,
we all get it. When it goes
outside the community,
people get angry and send
emails. But I’m fine with it.
At the end of the day, it’s a
fatkini because I’m fat and
wearing a bikini. [Laughs]
How much do you weigh
now?
I believe I’m around 225.
How tall are you?
I’m 5-foot-5.
Do you get flack for not
being “fat enough?” Early
on, there were some
comments.
I don’t get a lot. Once in a
while, like when the bikini
pictures come out. It’s fun-
ny to see half the people
commenting are disgusted
by my body and the other
half are like, fat women
saying, “She’s shaped so
nicely so it doesn’t count!
I have fat hanging from
my arm that she doesn’t
have!” I try to avoid the
comments on other sites.
Some women wish they
could see women bigger
than me in a bikini and I
understand that but I can
only be myself. SAM CASTONE
‘FATKINI’
DESIGNER
GABI GREGG
TheGabifresh.com
bloggerjustcrafted
alineforSwimsuitsforall.com.
Quoted
“It wasn’t until
college that I came
to accept myself.”
Gabi Gregg, writer, designer
SAM
CASTONE
Metro World News
guments. What if some girl
looks at these pictures and
looks exactly like me: How
is she going to feel?”
She turned to Facebook
with a post. “I’ve noticed
that people like to debate
what kind of body is better
than another,” she wrote.
“This is all wrong! To me,
true beauty is defined by
a healthy lifestyle and a
genuine personality. Bod-
ies are just meaty things
that carry our personhoods
around for us.” A week
later, Runk is still riled up.
She notes that “bigger”
models are getting more
work, but “we should focus
on embracing all sizes,” she
says bluntly.
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Chris
O’Dowd
Jon Hamm
Nick Offerman
Aziz Ansari
Louis C.K.Donald Glover
Oscar Isaac
James Franco
Joseph
Gordon-Levitt
Damien Lewis
Omar Sy
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Friday, 6 p.m.-10 p.m.
2025 Ben Franklin Pkwy.
$25, free for members
215-278-7200
www.barnesfoundation.org
While in a marriage the first
anniversary traditionally means
a gift of paper, to celebrate the
first year of the Barnes Founda-
tion, the museum is going all
out with live Brazilian music by
Minas, cocktails and, of course,
plenty of art. Tickets include
after-hours access to the col-
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Kelly: Sculpture on the Wall”
exhibit. You can still bring a gift
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KIDS
KidsRockfor
Kids:Benefit
ConcertSeries
Saturday, 11:30 a.m.
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut St.
$6-$7, 215-222-1400
www.philly.worldcafelive.com
This concert series benefiting
children’s medical charities,
including Alex’s Lemonade Stand
and Ashley’s Angels, features teen
rock bands from Music Training
Centers’ Rock 101 program. Hang
with your kids and rock out to live
music while feeling good about
supporting charity.
KIDS
BabyLoves
Disco
Sunday, 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
Shampoo
417 N. Eighth St.
Free-$12, 215-922-7500
www.babylovesdisco.com
You don’t have to change
much to make a nightclub
kid-friendly. Think about it:
live DJs, bubble machines and
egg-shakers. But this club
also has a chill-out room with
tents, books and puzzles. If
only grownups could get the
same treatment at the clubs.
Grownups can sip cocktails
and mingle with other parents
while watching the kids get
their groove on.
DANCE
DanceTheatre
ofHarlem
Through Sunday, various times
Zellerbach Theatre
at the Annenberg Center
3680 Walnut St.
$55-$80, 215-898-3900
www.annenbergcenter.org
After an eight-year hiatus, this
tour is back, and it has founder
Arthur Mitchell’s blessing.
METRO
MUSIC
BillKirchen
Friday, 8:30 p.m.
Tin Angel
20 S. Second St.
$15, 215-928-0978
www.tinangel.com
How many of you can say
you’ve worked with Elvis?
That’s what we thought.
This Grammy-nominated
guitarist, singer and
songwriter, whose career
has spanned over 40 years,
was named “A Titan of the
Telecaster” by Guitar Player
Magazine.
$3, 215-821-7575
www.r5productions.com
More than 500 private and
commercial vendors will be
selling everything from old vinyl
records, bicycles, stereo equip-
ment, funky recycled clothing,
applique pillows and jewelry.
You don’t have to be a punk to
enjoy that stuff. Bonus: Your $3
donation gets you admission to
the record fair across the street
at Starlight Ballroom.
BOOKS
Philadelphia
PhotoArtsBook
Fair
Saturday, noon
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
1400 N. American St.
Free, 215-232-5678
www.philaphotoarts.org
Who needs a book fair when you
can get anything on a Kindle,
right? Not so. This is the Photo
Arts Book Fair, and photos just
don’t look as good on that little
digital thing, do they? Plus, the
selection here runs the gamut
from national artists and publish-
ers to local works that can only
be referred to as “publishing
projects.” Featured artists
include Vox Populi and Dominic
Episcopo.
MUSIC
TomJones
Friday, 8 p.m.
Theatre of Living Arts
334 South St.
$50, 215-922-1011
www.tlaphilly.com
You can tell from his most recent
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Jones still has it going on at age
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ExtrABBAganza!
Saturday, 8 p.m.
Prince Music Theatre
1412 Chestnut St.
$30-$55, 215-731-9230
www.pgmc.org
Who doesn’t love ABBA? Espe-
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leotards and sing their songs?
We mean the Philadelphia Gay
Men’s Chorus, of course, who
will perform ABBA hits all night.
You can play the part as well, by
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band into this equation and it
would be fun, but there’s no
better band for it than ABBA.
SimonRattle
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Beethoven
Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.
The Kimmel Center
300 S. Broad St.
$84-$182, 215-670-2300
www.kimmelcenter.org
The Philadelphia Orchestra wel-
comes English conductor, Simon
Rattle as he conducts Beethoven,
Symphony No. 6, which was fea-
tured in Disney’s “Fantasia.” Join-
ing him is special guest Barbara
Hannigan, soprano. While you’re
not necessarily encouraged to
dress up for this event, like at,
say, ExtrABBAganza!, it would
be interesting to see how people
would react if you wore the red
robe and conical blue hat that
Mickey wore in “Fantasia.”
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Weekend, June 14-16, 2013 SUPERHEROES
1940
TheSpirit
“The Spirit,” a noir comic by
Will Eisner about a middle-
class man who fights crime
in a business suit, runs in
Register
and Tribune
Syndicate
newspapers.
It later
becomes a
2008 movie.
1978-80
Monsieur
Mangetout
France’s Michel Lotito,
aka Monsieur Mangetout
(Mr. Eat-it-all), consumes a
Cessna 150 airplane.
1970
ComicCon
The first-ever Golden State
Comic Book Convention is
held in San Diego, Calif. It
eventually grew into Comic
Con, a yearly festival for
costumed wannabes.
1996
Superbarrio
Mexican superhero and
satirist Superbarrio Gómez
declares he is running for the
U.S. presidential election.
1999
Rubberboy
Daniel Browning Smith,
Guinness World Records’
World’s Most Flexible Man
(aka The Rubberboy), gets
his first out of seven records.
2007
KingTooth
“King Tooth” Raja Gigi
(Rathakrishnana Velu) pulls
a train with six coaches
attached weighing 297.1
tons for 9
feet at the
Old Kuala
Lumpur
Railway
Station
using his
teeth.
2008
TheFrench
Spider-Man
“The French Spider-Man”
Alain Robert scales the
52-story New York Times
building without any ropes
or harness.
2010
ElectronBoy
More than 350 western
Washington residents volun-
teer to help make 13-year-old
cancer victim Erik Martin’s
dream of
being a
super-
hero for
a day a
reality.
Martin
died in
2011.
2010
Kick-Ass
“Kick-Ass,” about a regular
kid (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)
who fights crime, is released,
co-starring Nicolas Cage. A
sequel is due this year.
2010
Super
Rainn Wilson stars in dark
comedy “Super,” a film about
a man straddling the line be-
tween psychopath and hero
after deciding to give purpose
to his life by dressing up in
costume to fight criminals.
2011
PhoenixJones
Phoenix Jones, aka Benjamin
John Francis Fodor, begins
fighting crime in Seattle,
wearing a costume. He
chases away car thieves,
stops drunken drivers
and leads a citizens’
patrol called Rain
City Superhero
Movement. He
has also been ar-
rested himself.
2012
Thanatos
Masked man Thanatos, 63,
hands out clothes and sup-
plies to people in need in
Vancouver, Canada.
Superman,who?Meeta
real-life,high-flyinghero
Jetman: Leaping the Alps in a single bound
The Wright brothers may have
been the ultimate aeronautical
dreamers with the first airplane
flight, but no one has come
closer than Yves Rossy to mak-
ing a human fly.
Rossy, aka Jetman, is a
former fighter pilot who says he
had always dreamed of being a
bird since he first witnessed an
air show as a 13-year-old. The
inspiration drove him to invent
and patent a series of jetpacks
that would fire him through
even more epic and courageous
voyages.
From the first experiments
in 2006, Rossy made his first
public flight two years later,
which took him over the Alps
at speeds close to 200 miles per
hour, at heights of 3,000 feet.
The charismatic Swiss even
found a moment to execute
a 360-degree roll and later
quipped, “That was to impress
the girls.”
This was followed by a 22-
mile journey across the English
Channel to France, which he
completed in under 10 minutes,
becoming the first man to
make the distance with a jet
pack. The feat was broadcast
live across the world with
great uncertainty surrounding
the outcome as Rossy himself
confessed his calculations were
fallible.
Since then he has contin-
ued to break ground and world
records for distance. In 2009, he
performed the first interconti-
nental jet flight, and went on
to fulfill a deeply held personal
ambition to fly along the Grand
Canyon. Not all of his missions
have been successful, having
crash-landed off the Spanish
coast when the weather turned
threatening. Rossy is devoted
to spreading his message —
pursue your dreams and
“always have a Plan B.” His TED
talk remains one of the most
downloaded, and he has also
won praise for philanthropic ef-
forts, such as performing shows
for the benefit of disabled
pilot school Aerobility. Rossy
also hosts master classes for
the next generation of jetpack
pilots, which will surely produce
the next great flying human.
Quoted
Pursue your dreams
and “always have a
Plan B.”
Yves Rossy aka Jetman
Rossy gets some sick air. / CONTRIBUTED
Radioactive
Man:The
animalsavior
ofFukushima
When Fukushima’s nuclear
reactor exploded in 2011, all
people living in the area were
evacuated. All except rice
farmer Naoto Matsumura, 53.
Just 6 miles from the plant,
the town had a population
of 16,000. Now it is only
Matsumura there, with 17
times the safe level of radia-
tion. He shelters the region’s
wildlife, caring for everything
from feral dogs to ostriches.
He has the highest known
level of radiation in Japan,
which causes gradual cellular
breakdown, but he may not
feel the effects for 40 years.
Matsumurav / CONTRIBUTED
MuscleMan:
‘ThisiswhatI
doformy
country’
Egypt’s economy suffered
after the 2011 revolution
that deposed President
Hosni Mubarak, and Sayed Al-
Essawy, now 27, took it upon
himself to revive the nation’s
tourism industry with a fight
to the death against a lion in
front of the pyramids of Giza,
proclaiming, “This is what I
want to do for my country.”
The self-styled “world’s
strongest man” had noble
intentions but was met by
criticism from animal rights
groups and the Egyptian
tourist board distanced itself.
Nonetheless, Al-Essawy
entered the arena with shield
and sword and took on the
lion, although the animal
looked bored. Man defeated
beast. The gladiator was
subsequently arrested, yet
supporters point to the re-
opening of the pyramids and
other major attractions after
the fight as proof that Al-
Essawy was a national hero.
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