ISSUE ONE / FEBRUARY 2013

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MUSINGS

THERE IS NOTHING TO CHASE. EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS WITHIN YOURSELF. ASPIRE TO DISCOVER YOUR

FULL ABILITY.

AIM TO BE A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSON. YOU’RE MORE THAN A GOOD SIDE AND A BAD SIDE.

NO MATTER HOW FED YOU BECOME, STAY HUNGRY.

KEEPING YOUR WORD ONCE IS WORTH MORE THAN 1 MILLION PROMISES.

SO MUCH TIME LOOKING AT SCREENS. NO WONDER ALL OUR DREAMS ARE PIXELATED SCENES.

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THE PLASTIC DRESSThe plastic dress was made for the Philadelphia Swadeshi Project, a chal-lenge I have undertaken to collect 10 pieces of completely locally manu-factured garments. Each garment must be 100 per-cent sourced from within 200 miles of my house near Philadelphia. Each part of the process, from fiber collection to gar-ment construction, has to happen within that radius. This dress was made out of 40 used plastic bags that were collected from waste streams nearby. Fiber artist Melissa Mad-donni Haims, who is lives in Chestnut Hill, Penn., cut the bags into strips and crocheted them together. She lined the inside of the dress with a used bedsheet. She sliced a used wine bottle cork to make buttons to fasten the back.

I BELIEVE WE WILL HAVE TO IN-CREASINGLY TURN TO LOCAL

WASTE STREAMS FOR RESOURCES TO MAKE CLOTHING AS CURRENT OPTIONS BECOME MORE UNSUS-

TAINABLE.

To follow my project, visit philadelphiaswadeshiproject.tumblr.com

& envirocrat.com.

FoodSkillet-Cooked Chicken with Pan Sauce and Roasted Potatoes

For the potatoes:

2 medium russet pota-toes

2 sweet potatoes

3 T extra-virgin olive oil

1 t italian seasoning

1/2 t red pepper flakes

Salt and pepper, to taste

For the chicken:

1 1/4 lb. bone-in chicken thighs

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1 t poultry seasoning

1 t each onion and gar-lic powder

1/2 t fresh cracked black pepper, plus more

1 t kosher salt, plus more

2 T unsalted butter

3 T extra virgin olive oil

1/2 cup red wine

1/2 cup apple cider

1/2 cup chicken stock

1 T dijon mustard

Preheat oven to 425d. Peel both types of potatoes and cut them into bite-size pieces. Coat pieces in olive oil, then sprinkle spices over them. Stir well, then place on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 30-40 minutes, turning once, while preparing the chicken.

Heat a large pan to medium heat. Pour in the 3 tablespoons oilive oil. In a shallow bowl (a pie plate works well too), mix flour, poultry sea-soning, onion powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper together with a fork. Dry off chicken thighs with a paper towel, and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Dredge each piece of chicken in the flour mixture and shake off excess flour. Keep the flour for later! Put the chicken in the pan, skin side down, and brown for four min-

utes on each side. Be careful not to crowd the pan or the chicken will not brown. Once brown, remove the chicken to a plate. Add the butter to the pan and let it melt. Once melted, whisk in the flour (saved from dredging the chicken), stirring constantly for one minute, turning golden. Whisk in the red wine, and cook for one minute to let it thicken. Add the stock and the cider. Let cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally, until it has thickened. Stir in the dijon mustard, then add the chicken back to the pan. Cook for 10-12 more minutes, coating the chicken in the sauce, or until the chicken is cooked through.

Serve the chicken and potatoes with lots of the pan sauce, a salad, and some crusty bread.

By Sarah Kowalyk

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By Amy McCourt

Wanting it all is an inte-gral part of the American woman’s identity, but is having it all really pos-sible?

In the July/ August 2012 issue of The Atlantic, Anne-Marie Slaughter wonders if feminists have sold young women a fiction that they can “manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beauti-ful to boot).” Unfortu-nately, she writes, social pressures on career pro-fessionals in the United States require women to sacrifice commitment to family to advance in the workplace.

Similarly, Tracy Mcmillan, author of Why You’re Not Married, argues on FoxNews.com that if a woman’s ultimate goal is lasting love, they “should not let success in their workplace be-come the biggest thing in their lives”.

Turn to pop-fiction, and the either/or mantra is reverberated. Most young women are well

aware of the plots in the trilogies of Stephe-nie Meyer’s Twilight or Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. Fo-cused on love triangles involving the “heroines,” these narratives offer the same two options.

Twilight’s Bella is a clumsy new girl who becomes instantly obsessed with vampire Edward. This Romeo and Juliet inspired story provides a high school marriage, ending in Bella becoming a vampire herself. In line with high Shakespearean drama, Bella actually gives her life for love, abandoning personal aspirations to live within her husband’s familial life and career - vampirism - instead of her own.

Hunger Games’ Kat-niss lives in a futuristic, dystopian society, and only concerns herself with providing for and protecting her fam-ily – she literally hunts and gathers their food. She pays the male best friend who is head-over-heels in love with her no mind, and she grants

no real attention to her true feelings once she finds herself in the midst of a love triangle. After successfully overthrow-ing two corrupt govern-ments, which comes at the cost of the death of her sister, she eventu-ally marries one of the members of her love tri-angle because he hangs around long enough for her to agree.

Why do our “heroines” have to be reduced to extreme stereotypes? Can we instead heed Slaughter and McMillan’s cautions that trying to “have it all’ is a wasted effort, but still try to find a balance between the two? For each woman, that compromise is going to be slightly dif-ferent, but for very few it will mean abandoning career or family entirely. If no two women choose the same path, it means we can stop judging and comparing our “suc-cesses”, which will be liberating on its own. And no woman’s path will have to start with a fork in the road.

Thought

Illustration: Nikolay Miluchev, Sweet Suicide

Let’s admit it: If someone is a marathon runner but

doesn’t have ab defini-tion, we don’t consider her the image of fitness. The question of how to get flat, sculpted abs is one I get on a weekly basis. Here is a question I received recently:

“If I want to work my abs/core hard, how often do you recommend? I don’t want to overwork them, but I don’t want to not do enough either. How many times a week should someone work their abs?”

First things first: You will not see ab definition behind a layer or two of fat, so you must have your cardio and eating on point.

There are three ways to work your core:

1. Doing exercises specifically targeting

your abs and core (i.e. planks).

WORK IT

By Bella Barakowner of Bella Body Fitness, Houston

Personal trainer Courtney Fieltsch Photographed by Jaclyn Mercadante

THE THREE RULES OF SCULPTED ABS

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2. Performing exer-cises that challenge

your core to stabilize your body (i.e. single leg deadlifts)

3. Holding your abs tight through daily

activities like sitting and walking.

For the best and fastest results, you should be doing all three.

The most effective ex-ercises that strengthen your abs are those that have your body depend-ing on those muscles to hold you up, such as the plank position or the boat (sitting, legs and arms raised, body in a 45 degree angle), and any variation of those exercises. It’s also cru-cial to work your abs in all angles and directions, not just linearly like in a crunch.

SUSPICIOUS SUPPLEMENTS

By Dev Sharma

Many guys use supplements, such as whey protein, to aid their muscle building process.

Earlier this past year, I was feeling very tired during my workouts and my friend suggested I try pre-work-out supplement, Jack3d. I bought it over the counter at GNC shortly after and began using it as recom-mended. At the time I started to take the pre-workout, I was also in the process of applying for jobs. In the “proprietary blend” of ingredi-

Incorporating stability ex-ercises into your regular routine does wonders for your core by firing the small stabilizing muscles that are too often ne-glected. It also forces you to engage your abdominal muscles as you attempt to maintain balance. You get toned faster the more you incorporate your abs, so the next time you’re doing shoulder presses, stand on an unstable surface or on one leg, alternating. Or perform single leg squats or deadlifts.

Holding your abs in isn’t just for cosmetic purposes; it creates proper posture because it relieves the pressures from your lower back. But the other major benefit is that you really do see major improve-ment in tone by simply

“sucking it in” throughout the day. That’s because holding your abs in all the time puts you in a habit of making your muscles work continu-ously. Don’t strain to the point where you can’t breathe, but do remem-ber to keep your midsec-tion from jutting out and lead with the hips when you walk instead of your torso.

As far as how often, treat your abs like any other muscle group. You don’t want to overtrain your abs by directly working them every day. Doing a 30-minute ab routine 2-3 times a week is sufficient. You don’t want to go more than that.

What you’ll get: sleek, ab definition, a defined waistline and best part- no lower belly paunch.

ents in Jack3d is a chemical called dimethylamylamine. This chemical shows up in corporate drug tests from time to time as a false posi-tive for methamphetamines! When I learned this, I promptly quit taking the supplement and was lucky to pass drug tests, although I had done nothing illegal. Since then, I have been a little skeptical of any supplement that doesn’t provide full disclosure.

The moral of the story is to be careful as you try to meet your fit-ness goals this year,

Cruising the magnetic highway

We’ve stayed in touch with a hunk of metal with less memo-ry than a basic calucator as it

has hurtled into space for more than 30 years.

By Stuti Singh, Boeing Engineer Illustration by Allison Goldberg

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Have you ever gotten lost while using the navigation services of your smart phone? You entered

in your destination, Siri told you she had you covered, and all of a sudden you were on the wrong street or in the wrong neighborhood or wrong town?

Well, Siri had a bad signal. This excuse may seem reasonable, at least until you compare Siri to NASA scientists on the Voyager program. These scientists have kept track of a vehicle the size of a compact car for over 30 years as it has traveled more than 11 billion miles towards interstel-lar space, all with orders of magnitude less computing power and memory than you have in your calculator or that smartphone.

Traveling at approximately 8 miles per second, the Voyager 1 space probe is currently in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, the region of space domi-nated by the sun, and will probably be the first manmade object to leave the solar system. Designed to expand our knowledge and understanding of our solar system, Voyager has sent us thousands of pictures of Jupiter’s moons and Saturn’s rings, and the first “family portrait” of the sun and planets. Though it is no longer sending photographs, Voyager is still sending us data about the far edges of our solar system such as the properties of magnetic fields in the regions ap-proaching interstellar space, the space between star systems.

So how do we keep track of a hunk of metal as it speeds deeper into the depths of the unknown? If it sounds simple, remember that our point of reference, the earth, is spinning at 1000 miles per hour. We communicate with Voyager through radio waves

sent to and received from a series of large antennas called the Deep Space Network. The network has antennas in the Goldstone Complex near Barstow, Cali., as well as in complexes near Madrid, Spain and Canberra, Australia. These locations are approximately 120 degrees apart so that at any time, at least one of them is facing the deep space probe. Three times a day, com-munication with the probe is switched as each antenna turns away and out of range.

Our planet also has a translational component to its movement as it ro-tates around the sun at 18.6 miles per second. Our varying location in our orbit sometimes results in the sun get-ting in our way. If we are on one side of the sun and the probe is on the other, we cannot send radio waves through the massive star. We may get trapped out of touch with our probe for months at a time, but we use our data and knowledge of astrophysics to calculate where Voyager should be so that when we return to a proper posi-tion, we can find it again.

Putting it all together, as we spin at 1000 miles per hour and rotate around the sun at 18.6 miles per second with periodic interruptions by a giant sphere of hot plasma, we keep track of an object that speeds away at 8 miles per second, billions of miles away to the edge of our solar system, all with technology from before the days of cell phones or even compact discs. These days, a consumer has infinitely more information at his finger-tips with the internet, smart phones, and computers.

It makes you feel a little silly for let-ting Siri get you lost within your own planet, doesn’t it?

By Chris Duray, New Englander

Visit the Philadelphia Museum of ArtKick things off with an old standard! It may be a little conventional but with an iconic Rocky statue and 227,000 piece collection, it’s a classic for a rea-son!Stroll down the Benjamin Franklin ParkwayLeaving the museum you’ll walk right onto the Parkway: A gorgeous prom-enade and statue garden on par with the Champs Elysees!Eat a hot dog from the first vendor you seeThere may be lots of great restaurants in Philly, but you just walked a mile; just put some food in your stomach. Do they have cheesesteaks? Fuck it, you tried.Visit McGillian’s OktoberfestIf your trip is in the fall, why not visit one of the city’s many Oktoberfest events? Drinking is an American tradition, and -Immediately get separated from your friendsFuck, they were standing right behind me. Well, alone time is important — take the opportunity to explore the shops in this historic district.Buy enough drink tickets to cover your entire partyMay as well get the party started while you’re looking for your buddies. Try a local brew like Stoudt’s! If you’re my friend Katie, try answering your fucking phone!Reconnect with your three friendsAlone time was fun, but it’s good to be back with the gang! They’ll be excited to see you magnanimously bought tickets for them. After all, it’s the city of Brotherly Love!Each of them also bought tickets for everyone elseToo much beer? Never fear! ...This is like $200 worth of beer tokens.Fail to receive a refundHow do you expect the four of us to drink 20 pitchers of beer. What kind of a fucking scam are you running? We had plans today!Drink 30 liters of Budweiser for five hoursjuST a sMAlL ToWn gIrl/ liVIng iN HeR lOnely wOoOoRLd/ tOok a bliBMigHt pLaNe gONna anNNnyYyYY WheEEeeeReForget concept of personal space, what ‘up’ is

Also I threw up on a guy in a Tommy Bahama ‘Shake your Bambooty” button-down.

Fall asleep at 5 p.m. but wake up at 3 a.m. to the sound of loud sex some-where in the building. 6 sleepless hours later, make a 5 hour drive home in 8 hours because of traffic on the GW.

This was the low point.

Never go back to Philadelphia.

A Travel Guide to Philly!Based on the last time I was there, visiting a friend in 2009.

Illustration: Nikolay Miluchev,This page: Flying LowOpposite page: Milk All Natural

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On Why Breasts Are Like Those Valentines Day Cards We Used to Swap in Elementary SchoolBy @Nick_Benedetto, Pro-Woman

A disturbing trend has been called to my attention by Victoria’s Secret’s “miracle bra” commercials: trouble filling out. The “miracle bra” attempts to “correct” the adult equivalent of the empty basket on Valentine’s Day, the empty bra.

Now, venture with me inside the mind of every bro.

1. Just like opening that Muppet Babies card and finding my name misspelled and a distinct lack of lollipop in the envelope did in my youth, so too does disappointment swell inside me when I unhook that sucker and find nothing but flat surface area staring back at me. The only “miracle” that may poten-tially arise from this situation would be that I continue to date you after your treachery.

2. I just got your name, number, and I’ve Facebooked you. I’m going through your pictures and I like what I see. But something is troubling; your bust size is constantly fluctuating. Now I’m wondering if you’ve had a reduction, an enhancement, if you constantly crash diet, or if you simply wear a lot of over-sized clothes. Oh, silly me. It’s just a bra that adds “2 full cup sizes” to your already perfectly proportioned frame, and you only have one or two because they’re outrageously expensive. Which brings me to...

3. Why are you paying for an optical illusion? It’ll be a “miracle” (last time, I promise) if you can afford clothes, haircuts, or other things that will natu-rally enhance your overall look after flattening your wallet with one of these

farces. Just stuff the dollars you planned on spend-ing on the “miracle bra” into the bras you already own, take them out after your hot date and put it toward looking good on our second date.

4. I wasn’t always thrilled with getting 30 Rugrats cards and only one Garfield card in the basket on my desk, so I treasured that Garfield card like a steaming plate of lasagna while the rest were avoided like dirty diapers. People conform too much as it is, do we really need 500 million Christina Hen-dricks walking around? Though I will be a sheep and eventually watch some Mad Men. For January Jones.

5. Kids can be easily duped into thinking that the 15 extra cards you brought in from home and stuffed into your own basket are coming from friends in other homerooms. But I won’t be deceived by your high school mentality of being image-obsessed.

If I haven’t convinced you, then do your thing. I’m sure it won’t be the end of the world or your relation-ship, as my dramedy suggests. After all, we’re guys above all else. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some James Blunt and the second season of Girls on my agenda.

RUN THE TRAP

Ascending the ranks of Philadelphia’s trap scene, 26-year-old Garry Ethan Warner, Jr.,

a.k.a. DJ Ethan Dubb, sees 2013 as the year he will break into producing – and

bring back the moombahton.

#ratchetravegirls

“I started using this term to describe all the young girls that go to shows and raves dressed in the sluttiest outfits, doing all the drugs, and dancing like whores on the stage. I started it as a joke and some people have been us-ing it all over twitter. It’s funny because some girls view it as a term of endearment. While others think it’s funny because they can see a ratchet rave girl from a mile away. So if you see one, call em out, lol.” - Ethan Dubb

Ethan Dubb spun house and hip hop music at college parties while he attended Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, and honed his craft as dubstep, moombathon and trap emerged into the EDM scene. He released his first moombathon mixtape in Septem-ber, and by December was opening for Na-dastrom and Diplo at the SoundGarden.

He hasn’t completely acclimated to his sta-tus. Although he and his roommate, drum & bass DJ Chris Frost, share a professional booth in their basement, his original decks still adorn the wooden dresser in his bed-room.

“Like now we have little monitors set up where we spin, but like before I would do birthday parties and stuff, so there’s like these huge subs with 12-inch speakers and I had that as a monitor next to my head blasting in my eye,” Dubb said. “And I thought that was appropriate. Like my ears are probably ruined for the rest of my life.”

Dubb looks up to producers like Munchi, who create what Dubb considers the best moom-ba - heavily infused with latin beats.

“It reminds me of reggaeton like Daddy Yankee and Don Omar, old reggae music like old Sean Paul and stuff like that,” Dubb said. “That’s what gets me excited, when I look for new songs or new tracks, I really stay away from anything that sounds like dubstep on 110 bpm.”

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In a male dominated industry, 21-year-old DJ and producer Cherise Gary, a.k.a. DJ Uniique, is flaunting the girl power. Uniique, a Hillsdale, NJ, native, grew up on Jer-sey club, and that continues to be her signa-ture style. She compared it to Baltimore club but slightly faster. She first DJed at teen parties in New Jersey, and organized her own all female promotion and dance team.

“It was our way of getting money,” Uniique said.

When she turned 21, she met fellow female DJs Gun$ Garcia, of Philadelphia, and Venus X, who the New York Times called “an experimental turntablist.”

A poetry writer as well, Uniique began rapping, and soon after she was being solicited from mu-sic producers around the world through Sound-Cloud to add vocals to her tracks.

In her most popular song, “Boy I gotta Donk,” Uniique blends a simple lyric, “make my shit clap,” over a minimal beat.

Being a female DJ in a mainly male dominated scene comes with its challenges, she said.

“Guys will be like ‘you got it easier,’” Uniique said. “Ok we may get noticed faster, but (ctd.)

Turnt Up

Although he loves the deluge of trap Munchi and others are producing, he miss-es the moombahton, and would like to see it maintained on the scene to keep bal-ance. In the coming year, Dubb wants to begin producing himself, but doesn’t plan to constrain himself to any one genre.

“I’m trying to bring a new side to it by mix-ing it on 45 rpms,” Dubb said. “I switch all the trap from like 140 to 190-195 on the 45 on that and it gives it a whole new feel. I just came up with a short 20-minute mix with 23 songs on it running through them at that speed. And I get people that are like, this is way too fast. This is on fast forward. It does not sound right. You shouldn’t do this. And I agree, like yeah I’m taking a big risk, but you know what, my desired result comes through. It takes the track to a whole ‘nother level, a whole ‘nother energy, especially on the trap.”

For now, Dubb wants DJing to stay a hob-by. He works full time at a mortgage pro-cessing company.

“You get to a point where you’re good at it and it’s just fun for you,” Dubb said. “You can have fun in an empty room like yeah, I really liked that transition and I like this music, and vibe out by yourself. I never want to lose that feeling.”

SoundCloud: Ethan DuBB

Twitter: @2BsIfUrNasty

MUSIC

Called PULSE, the event will debut later this year,

“It’s going to be all genres,” Uniique said. “I want it to be so you never know what to expect when you walk in there. And somewhere we can go and have fun. In New Jersey, there are a lot of clubby clubs. I don’t like those clubs because you gotta impress somebody. Girls are in their tight dresses that they can’t move in and in shoes that hurt their feet. I don’t want it to be like that. I want it to be fun.”

SoundCloud: Uniiqu3 Twitter: @IAMDJUNIIQUE

ETHAN DUBB’S PHILTHY PHVE

1. Rell the Soundbender - Angels x Demons (ft. Clint Mansell)

2. A trak & Zinc - Like the Dance-floor (Party Favor’s ‘Smash the

Dancefloor” remix)3. Ree$e - Molly (LOUDPVCK remix) 4. Rell the Soundbender - Oblivion

5. Skrillex - Ruffneck (Full Flex) (Munchi Anonymous Revolution

Remix)

(ctd.) you know how guys are with their egos. If a female says I want this much and bottle service, (ctd.)she’s a b-word. But I don’t want to get walked over because I’m a girl. Also, lots of guys in the industry they can easily team up. Girls, at least in Jersey, are really catty.”

Uniique released her own clothing line, called Jersey Jawn, in January.

Uniique is also in the process of as-sembling a new dance team through which she hopes to help other females break into the industry. She is also organizing a monthly teen night.

PLAYLIST

Illustration: Nikolay Miluchev, Lost

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wilkommenin der grafikvilla

Hair: Lyna NguyenMakeup: Suchi HongStyling: Vinti SinghPhotographed by: David Vuu

All outfits are thrifted/ models’ own. All accessories are models’ own.

Illustrations by Craig Johnson, II.

Diese wande sind mit der feier des todes dekoriert.

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Diese raume enthalten das geheimnis zurbefreiung.

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Man is temporary

Man is borrowed

Man is fleeting

Man is ebb and flow and rise and fall and sleep and breathing

A vision steeped and seasoned ambles onward bleak and bleeding

A love for sake of love can undermine the deepest reason.

- Zachary Horwitz

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