That’s the theme of PW’s Summer Guide 2009. So what if it’s the middle of May and it still feels like March? This issue is about more than high temperatures; it’s about high pulse rates and heavy breathing and the heat that’s generated simply by standing next to someone who turns you on. Summer is the sexiest season: all that sweat and lassitude and ice in your drinks. Ice that could be used for other purposes ... ahem.
By Amy Saltzman
The so-called tramp stamp is considered alternately sexy or vulgar, depending on who’s looking at it. Sometimes it’s seen as scandalous: "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Melissa Rycroft’s back tattoo was covered with tacky, sequined stickers on the show so people wouldn’t see it. There are aggressive Facebook groups with titles like “‘Is that a bedsore, Grandma?’ ‘No, sweetie, it’s my tramp stamp’” and “Tramp Stamps are the mark of the Beast.”
By Shahida Muhammad
On Will Smith’s “Summertime,” our favorite West Philly poster child proclaims: “Out in Philly we be up in the parks/ A place called the Plateau is where everybody go.” And it’s never more true than at night, when the parking lot becomes a de facto party and pickup spot. Guys show off their cars’ booming sound systems and hope to leave with a phone number or two. Girls sit atop trunks, playing hard to get. Friends mingle. Sometimes things get steamy; some couples just stay in the car.
By Brian McManus
Obama’s vowed to close Gitmo by year’s end and stop torture for good, but what does he propose to do about the fact that Q102 assaults the citizens of Philadelphia on a daily basis with the world’s most irritatingly banal aural pap?
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