Theater in Process Music, Fashion, Tech
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Erie’s only free, independent source May 1 - 14 / Vol. 3, No. 9 / ErieReader.com for news, culture, and entertainment E I R E READER Chuck Scalise Erie Reader Downtown Debate Series The Boston Marathon Bombing The Spring Show Reviewed Free Comic Book Day Kopecky Family Band Chris Hardwick Theater In Process Music, Fashion, Tech FREE 2 | Erie Reader | eriereader.com May 1, 2013 CONTENT May 1, 2013 CULTURE FEATURE 7 arT rEvIEW The Erie Art Museum Spring Show 8 Editors-in-Chief: Dramashop 12 IF WE WErE YoU... Brian Graham & Adam Welsh Theater in process Here’s what we would do managing Editor: Ben Speggen 14 To-Do LIsT Contributing Editor: NEWS AND NOTES London Underground, Free Comic Book Cory Vaillancourt 4 UpFroNT Day Contributors: It's conduit time 16 mUsIC Alex Bieler Brennan Donnelly 5 sTrEET CorNEr SOAPBoX Reviews, Kopecky Family Band Q&A Pen Ealain The Boston Marathon bombings and justice 17 FashIoN Matthew Flowers The Street Fashionista John Lindvay 6 ThE WaY I sEE IT Leslie McAllister Outer Space edition 18 LGBT VOICEs Rich McCarty Marriage Equality Jay Stevens TECh WaTCh Rebecca Styn 6 Twitter hack moves the Stock Market 19 YoU oUGhT To KNoW Bryan Toy Chuck Scalise Copy Editor: Alex Bieler Pictured on the the cover, clockwise Designer: from bottom left: Susan Baxter, Burim Loshaj Zach Flock, Jess Ciccone, Dom Cover Design: Del Greco, Shawn Clerkin, Bryan Burim Loshaj Rall. Photo by Jessica Yochim photographer: Jessica Yochim Republican candidates Tom Loftus and Don Tucci. Both debate will Interns: From the Editors be held at the Jefferson Educational Anna Cipriani Society Monday, May 13, and both Samantha Myers re we living up to our city right, you get the county right,” future. Don’t want more condos? debates feature the opportunity for 32 W. Eighth St. #500 potential of what Erie Tamulonis said. Attend. Want more condos? Attend. you -- our Reader readers -- to ask Erie PA, 16501 could be? And now is the time we need to Think we need intelligent, mixed- the candidates questions via social [email protected] It’s a simple enough get it right, as we hold the key to un- use property on our Bayfront? At- media. question. And we asked a similar one locking Erie’s potential for decades tend. Want another Applebee’s? Again, our future is at stake -- our The Erie Reader is Erie’s only free , inA our last issue. to come. And to plan the Bayfront, Attend. Want more local businesses immediate future, as the results of independent source for news, culture, and In our last issue, we discussed a the city, the county, and the region, to... you get the point: Attend. these elections will determine who’s entertainment. The Erie Reader is a forum presentation at the Blasco Library it takes -- as we wrote two issues ago Our future is at stake -- our vying for the position of managing for ideas and discussion, and seeks to drive regarding the city’s waterfront prop- -- an “us” and a “we,” not a “you” or a long-term future. The plan created our county for the next four years. two-way communication with its readers. At erty. Destination Erie: A Regional “me,” as we’re all keyholders. through this process is designed to And during those four years, the the Erie Reader, we endeavor to highlight the Vision brought in Eric Tamulonis -- That being said, we residents now meet the economic, social, and en- plans for Destination Erie will see best of Erie by providing in-depth, magazine- one of the principals from WRT, a have the opportunity to ensure our vironmental challenges of the 21st fruition and impending implemen- style journalism that cuts to the heart of the national collaborative practice of city voices are heard. Tuesday, May 7 and century, as Destination Erie enters tation. That is, our long-term future. issues that matter to Erie. The Erie Reader and regional planners, urban design- Wednesday, May 8, Destination Erie Phase 2: “Shipbuilding.” Erie, from our waterfront to our is published every other week at The Corry ers, landscape architects, and archi- is hosting four -- count ‘em -- public And as we begin our shipbuilding, city to our county to our region, we Journal, 28 W. South St., Corry, Pa. 16407. The tects headquartered in Philadelphia workshops free and open to all. we need intelligent, capable people are needed now more than ever. At Erie Reader is distributed at over 250 high and currently working with Desti- On Tuesday, the first workshop at the helm to steer us through our the Erie Reader, we have great hope foot-traffic locations in Pennsylvania from North East to Girard to Edinboro. The Erie nation Erie -- to speak to a packed will be held at St. John’s Parish Cen- immediate future. Enter the Erie for the Gem City’s future, which is Reader is also available by mail subscription; auditorium Tuesday, April 23. ter in Girard from 9 to 11 a.m. Later Reader Downtown Debate Series. why we’ve continued to be as active one year (26 issues) for $49.99. Send check or Tamulonis, a landscape architect, that day, a second workshop is slated After a strong start in 2012 -- see as possible in all things Destination money order payable to Flagship Multimedia, discussed Erie’s potential based from 7 to 9 p.m. at Fort LeBoeuf this issue’s Upfront for a more de- Erie as well as local politics. We’ll be Inc., to the address below. In addition to on its waterfront, illustrating 10 High School in Waterford. tailed history -- we’re continuing to at the upcoming meetings, and we’re appearing in print, Erie Reader adds new principles to follow in getting the Wednesday’s first workshop -- provide the community with debates proud to bring you the Erie Reader content daily at www.ErieReader.com as Bayfront “right” for people to “live, from 9 to 11 a.m. -- will take place at in front of a live audience that are 2013 Downtown Debate Series once well social media sites. All rights reserved. work, and play.” If you weren’t able to Fairfield Social Hall in Harborcreek. also televised. This time around, again. We ask now that you, our All content © Flagship Multimedia, Inc, 32 W. attend and want to see all 10 of those The final workshop rounds out the we’re focusing on the Erie County Readership, join us in the building Eighth St., Suite 500, Erie, Pa, 16501. No part principles, check our Twitter feed, as series at the Avalon Hotel in Erie Executive race, featuring debates of the ship that will set sail, charted of this publication may be reproduced without we were there, livetweeting the event from 7 to 9 p.m. between former U.S. congress- for our future. Because if you’re not permission. Direct inquiries to 814.314.9364 with #YouHaveTheKey. Two morning sessions, two eve- woman and Democratic challenger on board, you can’t chart our desti- or [email protected]. “If you get the Bayfront right, ning sessions, four locations, and one Kathy Dahlkemper and democratic nation from dry land, as the rest of you get the city right; if you get the big reason not to miss these: Erie’s incumbent Barry Grossman, and us sail onward. May 1, 2013 eriereader.com | Erie Reader | 3 study the "reach and dispersion" of human "vom- itus," especially its aerosolizing. Working with nauseous patients would be impractical, and thus, UPFRONT NEws researcher Catherine Makison created "Vomiting It's Conduit Time! Larry," a puke-hurling robot with a range of al- most 10 feet. (According to a University of Cam- bridge researcher, one can be infected by fewer By: Cory Vaillancourt of the than 20 norovirus particles, each droplet of puke can contain 2 million particles, and the virus re- mains active on hard surfaces for 12 hours.) egun during the 2012 Pennsylvania Prima- WeiRd esearch published in February by Britain's ry Election, the Erie Royal Society science association found that Reader Downtown By: Chuck Shepherd Rmale guppies in mating mode prefer to congre- Debate Series – so named be- gate with plainer, less colorful males, probably Bcause the first two debates were for an obvious reason: to look better by com- held at the Masonic Temple in parison. Said Italian researcher Clelia Gasparini, downtown Erie – was intended "You want to impress (a female potential mate)." to further the Erie Reader’s Smarty Pants Would you "look more attractive in comparison mission of serving as a two-way he Precocious Tots of Finland: A University with (the dowdy, awkward comic star) Mr. Bean conduit for conversation in this of Kansas professor and two co-authors, in or George Clooney?" community. researchT in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of In the first-ever Downtown Finance, found that children age 10 and under ottentot golden moles reside underground, Debate in April 2012, both substantially outperformed their parents in earn- which is not so oppressive because they're Jason Owen and Regina Smith ings from stock trading in the few days before Hblind and navigate by smell and touch. Nonethe- looked great, but Owen pre- and after rumors swirled on possible corporate less, some scientists spend years studying them, vailed in the Republican pri- mergers. A likely explanation, they said, is that and in a recent issue of Mammalian Biology, mary election in State House the parents or guardians were buying and selling South African researchers disclosed that females District 3. In the second debate for their children's accounts using illegal insider choose mates largely by penis size.