Philadelphia 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…
I’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 find my community. I’ve never needed to go anywhere else…
Regular readers of The Scene (we know you’re out there) will know that we don’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…
Even though Jan. 1 is technically just the next day in a lineup of days and, if anything, signals an odd-numbered year — which is illogically irritating — many Philadelphians remained spirited by the open possibilities of a new year.And…
There is something to be said for the clean slate a new year provides.I’m not talking about all the bullshit resolutions that never get kept, or the stuff mainstream media tells you to consider, I’m referring to the more subtle…
It’s the countdown to the New Year’s countdown.But as 2018 makes its way out, how will you celebrate the entrance of 2019? Before the New Year’s Day Mummers Parade, a Philadelphia tradition dating back to 1901, the city will be…
In November, Philadelphia Weekly published “Diss Service,” an expose of a controversial exclusion policy of service animals inside the main house at Shofuso Japanese House and Garden.The historic site has since changed its policy, allowing service animals with protective booties…
Here’s my holiday wish, New Year’s Eve aspiration, whatever you want to call it…Next year, we make a vow to consider the things that are important. That will help us out in the long run. What’s important for not just…
New year, new you ... right?Well, probably not. In all honesty, almost definitely not. Really, it's a whole lot more like, "new year, pretty much the same you except for the first few weeks when you try to stick to…
Straight and married but not boring, and heading to my parents’ house for our first family Christmas since my asshole MAGA brother “stumbled over” the Tumblr blog where the wife and I posted about our sexual adventures. (Pics of MMF…