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ENGULFED ³ I KNOW THIS week’s cover photo essay by Michael

M. Koehler is not a local story. But the unfolding ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is important.

When Koehler, a longtime contributing photographer for City Paper, told us he was heading back down to the Gulf, we were intrigued. He’d met a group of shrimpers while volunteering in January 2009, and last summer began documenting their already struggling industry and waning way of life.

Now these fishermen are being employed in the hard-to-see-as-anything-but-futile efforts to clean up after the gushing oil leak that threatens to put a nail in their livelihoods, as well as their rich culture, once and for all.

There’s a lot of ink and blame being spilled in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, as Jeffrey C. Billman breaks down on p. 20.

But underserved are the stories of the people who stand to suffer more immediately from what is only the latest in a series of catastrophes on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast.

Koehler arrived on May 23 and shot through May 28.

“There was chaos down there, like an underlying tension of people needing to do work, to do anything,” he recalls. “So they did the work on the BP payroll. But if they took a second to think about what was really going on, there was this feeling of sadness and anger.”

He was shooting in an environment that was not particularly welcoming of photographic coverage. “The press was not allowed in any of the work sites,” he says. “I had heard stories of deck hands who had brought cameras out while they worked, that the Coast Guard was taking cameras and deleting photos.”

COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL M. KOEHLER DESIGN BY RESECA PESKIN

Koehler — who can’t help but get worked up after having spent time in what’s turning into a pressure cooker — described to me an encounter after getting off the helicopter from which he took his photos of the barrier islands. A filmmaker was shooting footage of seventh-generation shrimper Ricky Robin in tears after seeing for the first time the magnitude of the disaster. “A BP official saw and asked them if they were filming. He said ‘yes,’ and [the official] went outside and got a wildlife agent and also a sheriff to confront him.”

For Koehler, this trip was a mission of mercy. He’d raised some money at an exhibition of his photos of the shrimpers, and was traveling to Louisiana “to deliver the check and to check on my people. If the thing that seemed most necessary was loading boom, I’d have done that. But when I got down there, I felt like the most important thing was giving these people a voice, because everything is so censored.

“We cannot let this be another thing we forget about,” says Koehler, drawing an analogy to the chemical that’s being sprayed on the oil. “It can’t be like the dispersant. We need to keep our eyes on this.” (bhoward@citypaper.net)

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[ + 20] Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay throws a perfect game. “Once my team gave me that gigantic one-unearned-run lead, I felt like I could relax. Really, thanks you guys.”

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Philly PD speaks out against its officers taking personal photos of crime scenes, to keep them from going viral. “We also probably shouldn’t beat the shit out of suspects as much,” adds Commissioner Ramsey.“But right now, yeah, we’re focusing on cell phone pics.”

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Local businessman proposes a Hebrewlanguage charter school to open in Center City in the fall. “And now on the Big Talker, a special comment by Joey Vento who — ow, he bit me. Fucking guy bit me.

He’s barking like a damned Rottweiler now. Oh god. I think … I think he messed himself. And he’s foaming at the mouth.

He may have to be put down.”

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A new “medical concierge” program takes people recently released from hospitals and sets them up in the Ritz-Carlton to recover before returning home. It’s part of a new plan from Independence Blue Cross called Baller’s Choice.

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A Michigan woman sues Trans States airlines for false imprisonment after she fell asleep and woke up trapped in the plane, three hours after landing in Philadelphia. “It reminded me of The Langoliers,” sobbed the woman. “No one deserves to be reminded of The Langoliers!”

Haverford College discovers a letter written by Descartes in its archives, then finds out it was stolen from a collector in Paris.

Of course the authenticity is in doubt, as the letter starts with: “I think, therefore I am glad I’m not a Swatty or a Mawrtyr.”

Drivers in Roxborough are asked to keep an eye out for tiny “daredevil toadlets” making their way across the roads near the reservoir. Also: Don’t lick them. That doesn’t work. And it’s gross.

Police seize $1.2 million worth of pot from a West Philly mixed martial arts trainer.

Now who will rise to the challenge of the Octabong?

[ + 10] Go Flyers.

This week’s total: 31 | Last week’s total: 5

EVAN M. LOPEZ

AMILLIONSTORIES Lazy, slack-jawed loafers bitching about stuff on the Internet

T

o say that pedicabs — those human-powered taxis that New Yorkers and crunchy hippies heart — debuted in Philadelphia last weekend is like saying Stu Bykofsky employs sensible, intelligent, not-batshit-crazy metaphors.

It’s a bit of an exaggeration. After all, pedicabs are banned from Market, South, Arch, Broad, Second, 11th, 12th, Oregon, Pattison, Frankford and dozens of other streets throughout the city. (What streets are even left? Juniper? Cedar? St. James?)

In fact, there’s one entire neighborhood the green cabbies can’t pedal through: Old City.

Tom Dambman, co-owner of pedicab company Chariots of Philly, says Old City is “exactly the type of place” where he wants to see his three-wheeled taxis: The neighborhood is busy, full of tourists and could benefit from fewer cars. However, according to the bill City Council passed in November sanctioning pedicabs, the streets on which they’re permitted is determined “upon consultation … with the Councilmember for the district.” In other words, if a councilperson isn’t fond of pedicabs for whatever reason, or no reason at all, he or she can ban them in his or her district.

And Councilman Frank DiCicco — last seen trying to sue Twitter and Facebook over the flash mobs — doesn’t want pedicabs this side of the Liberty Bell. This isn’t the first time he’s stood up against the big, bad pedicab, either: In 2006, he proposed

legislation that would have banned them in Philadelphia altogether.

However, that bill died after one hearing.

So what’s DiCicco’s problem? We’re not sure. He didn’t return A Million Stories’ calls as of press time, though one of his aides says he “just wants to wait and see if they’re safe or not, or cause congestion.”

Right. And Stu Bykofsky is pro-bike. ³ CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

The unemployed … they’re basically bums, right? Lazy, slackjawed loafers who would rather bitch about stuff on the Internet than get a job, like good citizens do. Good citizens like U.S. Senator and former Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning, R-Ky., who back in February single-handedly blocked an extension of unemployment benefits in a fit of fiscal responsibility — though he did vote for the Bush tax cuts, of course — and then complained about having to miss a college basketball game to do it.

This pissed off unemployed Philadelphian Bruce Shore, who, under the clever pseudonym “Brad Shore from Louisville” — figuring the senator would ignore letters that came from a schmuck from Philly — fired off a slew of e-mails to the senator’s

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website. Whether Bunning ever read them isn’t clear. But, someone in the U.S. Attorney’s Office clearly did — and they were not amused. As The Huffington Post first reported last week, on May 13, Shore got slapped with a grand jury indictment, alleging that, “in interstate communications, [Shore] did utilize a telecommunications device, that is a computer, whether or not communication ensued, without disclosing his identity and with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, and harass any person who received the communication, all in violation of 47 U.S.C. § 223.”

Because he sent his messages through the senator’s website, Shore told HuffPo that he doesn’t have saved copies of most of them, and doesn’t know what prompted the indictment. (Indeed, the indictment implies that his use of a fake name and address may have done him in.) The e-mails that have been made public are, at least compared to your average philly.com commenter, pretty tame (and literate): “ARE you’all insane,” read part of a Feb. 26 missive. “NO checks equal no food for me.

DO YOU GET IT??”

Based on what she’s seen in the press, ACLU of Pennsylvania staff attorney Mary Catherine-Roper, who is not connected to the case, doesn’t see the crime: “If it’s something short of a threat, they shouldn’t be prosecuting this guy. The First Amendment allows you

to criticize anybody, especially a government official.They get angry letters all the time.”

We were unable to reach Shore by press time, so we’ll just wish him luck on his upcoming journey to the Bluegrass State.

Also: Jim Bunning is a dick, even if he did pitch a perfect game against the Mets in ’64.

Also: Fuck the Mets.

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By Isaiah Thompson

It’s only June, but already we may have a winner in the contest for dumbest pseudo-scandal of the year: the job offer the White House dangled in front of Joe Sestak last year to get him to drop his primary challenge to Arlen Specter. (Sestak, of course, declined, and went on to win.) Last week, Republicans everywhere were apoplectic over this supposed raping of Lady Liberty herself.

U.S. Rep Darrell Issa and all seven GOPers on the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded a special prosecutor. On May 26, Pat Toomey, Sestak’s GOP opponent in the fall, went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to lament this “huge distraction” — all while hinting that, yes indeed, laws may have been broken, wink wink — while host and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough amen’d. On Fox News, Dick Morris and Sean Hannity basically masturbated each other while fantasizing about the prospect of an Obama impeachment trial. (Yeah, we know: Gross.)

But since Sestak comes from our neck of the woods, we feel obliged to debunk this latest batch of right-wing dumbfuckery. First, though, a caveat: Sestak should have come clean from the get-go.

That said: Who cares? The official story, as told by the White House on Friday, is that former President Bill Clinton, at the behest of Rahm Emanuel, dangled the prospect of an unpaid executive branch advisory board spot if Sestak abandoned his Senate bid and kept his House seat. That’s it. And yet, Issa still maintains, based on God knows what, that some illegality took place, and criticized the president for what he called “political shenanigans.”

Please. Let’s cut through the bullshit: There is no there there.

Even if the White House offered Sestak a job to get him out of the race, as Jonathan Chait of The New Republic pointed out last week, there could not, by definition, be an illegal quid pro quo: “There’s no such thing as offering somebody a job in return for them dropping out of a Senate race. The acceptance of a job means dropping out of a Senate race.The concept of offering somebody a job ‘in exchange’ for them declining to seek another job is like offering to marry a woman in exchange for her not marrying some other guy.

It’s conceptually nonsensical.”

If this job offer were a crime, then it was also a crime when President Reagan’s White House offered U.S. Sen. S.I. Hayakawa an ambassadorship to drop out of California’s 1982 GOP Senate primary (in which Maureen Reagan, the president’s daughter, was running). For whatever reason, we don’t remember the Republicans trying to impeach St. Ronnie.Weird, that.

In fact, ethics groups, including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington — and anyone with half a brain, a group that apparently doesn’t include the modern-day Republican cognoscenti — concluded a while ago that there’s nothing even remotely criminal about what happened.

So, can we move on now?

³ IT’S ALL ABOUT the libraries. You know it, I know it and the mayor knows it. They’ve become, in a word, symbolic. And so Mayor Nutter’s recent threats to cut library budgets (along with other city services) can’t help but be symbolic, too.

But I’m not sure he’s got the symbols right.

He’d like the libraries to be symbols of what happens when City Council can’t overcome its chronic fear of making hard decisions — like when it passed a 9.9 percent property tax hike instead of the 12.1 percent needed to balance the budget (or, as the mayor wanted, a 75-cent-per-gallon sweetened beverage tax) — leaving a $20 million mess for someone else — the mayor — to clean up. Nutter’s budget, after all, had the libraries back to five-day service.

The mayor wants people to see the threat of newly reduced hours at their beloved libraries, grind their teeth, clench their fists and think, “That Council.”

But I don’t think that’s how they’ll see it at all.

In Philadelphia politics, every vote has its price, and every powerful interest has its sacred cow.

Just as Nutter’s big-business friends have made clear that their taxes can’t be raised, and Council’s made it clear it won’t be giving up cars or its DROP program, residents made clear more than a year ago that the libraries were theirs. The libraries are beloved not because they’re new or grand, but because they’re survivors, like many of the city’s residents, of decades of decay and decline. They survived Mayor Street’s attempts to whittle them down, while Councilman Nutter rallied against him; survived Nutter’s own attempt to close 11 branches; survived the mayor’s keeping all 11 open while keeping most of the money he cut.

It was a hard-won victory: Since then, the libraries have limped along with reduced staff and hours, seeing five to seven unscheduled closures every day for more than half a year, according to Friends of the Free Library. Only recently have they begun to get back on their feet.

But a victory it was, and since then the libraries have taken on the meaning of that victory — that the mayor’s agenda does not trump the residents’. The libraries aren’t Greenworks, 311, Rewards Recycling, or any other of the several ambitious, sleek, futuristic projects the mayor can call his own.

But that’s the whole point.

✚ This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman, Victor Gamez and Holly Otterbein.

E-mail us at amillionstories@citypaper.net.

✚ Isaiah Thompson always gets the symbols right. E-mail him at isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net.

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By Bruce Schimmel

BREAKING (THE) NEWS ³ PRECISE WORD CHOICE matters, especially in the news biz. So what struck me about Greg Osberg — new CEO of the Inquirer, Daily News and philly.com — were the words he didn’t say.

During a recent hourlong interview with WHYY-FM’s Marty Moss-Coane, Osberg may have used the word “news” once, and the word “journalism” never. (Listen for yourself: bit.ly/whyy_osberg.)

Instead, what Osberg talked about was “proprietary content,” “platforms” and especially “consumers.” Osberg was previously the publisher of Newsweek magazine, and most recently headed Buzzwire, which delivers content to mobile phones.

This was Osberg’s first long interview after being asked to head the bankrupt papers in mid-May. I suspect WHYY was chosen as a friendly venue, since the two news organizations occasionally collaborate. But even the mild-mannered Moss-Coane practically gagged on Osberg’s new-media newspeak. At one point, the radio host even offered what seemed to be an ironic apology for using words like “newspaper” and “reader.”

And when one caller tried to remind Osberg that newspapers are not read for content, but for news, his point was ignored. It’s as if, for Osberg, this thing called “news” no longer exists. Instead, he said his newspapers will offer “relevant proprietary content” in “an appetizing way.” And he expects his “consumers” to pay.

Of course, the problem is that journalism is now essentially free. And by its transitory and public nature, news is even harder to keep behind a paywall than genuine “proprietary” products like music or movies. (And we all know how well that’s going.)

So while Osberg may proclaim that it “starts with content,” he quickly adds that “the consumer will determine where we go.”

Unlike paper publishers of yore, who balanced what readers wanted with what was needed, Osberg’s consumers will drive the bus.

This is a problem. And one of Osberg’s excellent journalists in the White Tower of Truth might remind him that playing primarily to consumers will make a mash of journalistic ethics. But for Osberg — at least from what I’ve gleaned so far — the barrier between telling the truth and seducing consumers seems to be disappearing, along with the primacy of print.

Indeed, Osberg previously issued a warning — through an April 30 Inquirer story — to journalists unwilling to embrace new methods of delivery. “That type of person doesn’t fit well into where our overall strategy will be.” Specifically, he wants editors to think about how their stories will play on other “platforms.” Given his recent mobile background, Osberg is particularly enamored of smart phones, where he says the most eyeballs are headed.

So you have to wonder what will become of long, involved investigative stories.Would, for instance, the Inquirer’s fine series on disorder in Common Pleas courts, or the DN’s Pulitzer Prize series on police corruption, make the cut?

Inquiring readers want to know, Mr. Osberg. And since you’ve said you’re eager to collaborate and listen to other local media, please know that our lines are open. We’re waiting for your call. (bruce@schimmel.com)

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Osberg’s consumers will drive the bus.

✚ “A Vicious Cycle,” a UArts documentary on the future of local newspapers, fea-

turing Inquirer editor Bill Marimow, columnist Karen Heller and Schimmel, was shot around the time that Osberg arrived. Watch at vimeo.com/11893796.

feedback From our readers

CATS AREN’T EVIL, YOU ARE In your response to “Disgraceful” [Feedback, May 20], you stated in speaking of cats: “We do believe them to be generally evil.” Well, “we” also believe that newspaper people and particularly in the newsrooms are completely evil and that cats couldn’t begin to do half the harm that the media has already done. Here is a list of the most distrusted people in America: lawyers, politicians, the national (liberal) media, etc., and not once was a cat mentioned in this list.

It’s no wonder you have to give your newspaper away.

Jack Phillippe VIA E-MAIL

ELITIST I read Rachel Garber’s letter concerning the “Tea Baggers” [Feedback, May 20]. All she can do is hurl insults like the epithet “Tea Baggers,” call the Tea Party a “fringe group,” and intimate that members are racists. I find Tea Party types well within the mainstream. They are serious about leadership, sober about the limitations of a government that spends us all into massive debt, and enthusiastic about the renewal powers inherent in our Constitution of free men.

Unfortunately, Ms. Garber is almost a stereotype of what Tea Party

enthusiasts dislike most. She is an arrogant elitist who treasures only her own free speech, thinks playing the race card is an inspired retort, and assigns malign motives to anyone who would upset her smug little world.

Richard Iaconelli NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA

YOUR DUTY Well, I was hoping to keep negativity out of this article [“Civility Now,” Naked City, Holly Otterbein, May 20]. But I have many of the same concerns expressed herein. I stepped back from a position of leadership due to disagreements with national leadership on direction and focus. The Coffee Party is still a great place for people who are new to the political process to come out and get involved. I believe it’s the duty of every citizen to be informed, and to perform their obligations as citizens in this self-governing nation. The reason that we are losing the sovereignty of the electorate is because people are not involved.

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SISTER OF MERCY: Her brother’s life-withoutparole incarceration led Anita Colon to advocate for what she calls “the fair sentencing of youth.”

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DON’T THROW AWAY THE KEY What will a Supreme Court decision mean for Pennsylvania’s juvenile lifers? By Matt Stroud

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t 16, Terrance Graham participated in the armed burglary of a restaurant in Florida. He was caught and sentenced to probation with the understanding that if he didn’t stay out of trouble, there’d be hell to pay.

Six months later, in December 2004, he broke into a house and robbed a man at gunpoint. Later that night, when a police officer tried to pull him over for a traffic violation, Graham fled. A prolonged chase ensued down residential streets before Graham was apprehended. He was convicted and, in May 2006, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in the restaurant burglary. He was given another 15-year sentence, to be served concurrently, for the home invasion.

Graham appealed, arguing that his sentence — for a crime committed at 16 that didn’t kill anyone — was excessively unjust.

On May 17, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled it unconstitutional for “a juvenile offender to be sentenced to life in prison without parole for a nonhomicide crime because it is cruel and unusual.”

Under the ruling, states don’t need to guarantee that juvenile lifers locked up for a non-murder offense will be freed at some point, but they “must provide him or her with some realistic opportunity to obtain release before the end of that term.”

Nationwide, this decision directly affected 129 prisoners. None of them are in Pennsylvania.

In a statement following the Supreme Court ruling, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said the decision “will have little to no impact here in Philadelphia. The decision involves juveniles under the age of 18 serving a sentence of life imprisonment without parole for a crime other than murder. In Philadelphia we believe there are no such cases.”

But the reality isn’t so clear-cut: Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion states that “defendants who do not kill, intend to kill, or foresee that life will be taken are categorically less deserving of [life without the possibility of parole] than are murderers.”

In Pennsylvania, the felony — or second-degree — murder rule imposes a mandatory life sentence without parole for any crime involving a homicide, whether or not that homicide was intended.

And because the commonwealth allows juveniles to be tried as adults in murder cases, there are many cases in Pennsylvania involving juveniles sentenced to life without parole for crimes in which they did not kill, intend to kill or foresee that a life would be taken.

For example, Robert Holbrook. In 1990, the then-16-year-old Holbrook was offered $500 to be a lookout for what he was told would be a drug deal in North Philly. That drug deal, however, turned out to be an armed robbery — and in the process, someone was shot and murdered. Holbrook knew what went down, but didn’t tell the cops about it immediately because he was afraid of what might happen to him. Months later, one of his accomplices was apprehended, and gave up Holbrook. The authorities put out an arrest warrant.

Holbrook turned himself in.

He was charged with murder, robbery and criminal conspiracy. On the advice of his attorney, Donald Marino, Holbrook, who had no prior criminal record, admitted his involvement, and asked the judge to find him guilty of third-degree murder, a lesser offense that carries a 20-year sentence. But the judge convicted him of first-degree murder, which meant life without parole.

“I didn’t believe a life sentence was warranted, and I truly thought the judge would agree,” says Marino in an e-mail interview. (Holbrook is still in state prison.)

Holbrook’s sister, Anita Colon, has since become an advocate for what she calls “the fair sentencing of youth.” The Philly-based state coordinator for the National Campaign for Fair Sentencing for Children, Colon testified before Congress’ Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security in 2009 in support of

Pa. has more juvenile lifers than any state in the country.

the Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act, which would grant juvenile lifers a chance at parole. That bill, proposed by Reps. Robert Scott (D-Va.) and John Conyers (D-Mich.), is currently languishing in Washington, D.C. There’s some discrepancy over exactly how many juvenile lifers are serving their time in Pennsylvania, but Colon says the number is more than 400 — the highest of any state — and that about 30 percent of those are serving time for felony murder.

The others are in for first-degree murders.

Colon believes the court’s most recent decision, following the one in 2005 that prohibited the death penalty for minors, is “a step in the direction of eliminating life without any possibility of parole for juveniles in total. And that includes everyone — not just felony murder cases, but murder cases, too.”

This isn’t about being soft on crime, she continues: “Clearly no one who advocates for eliminating life without the possibility of parole advocates for opening the doors and letting all 2,500 juvenile lifers across the country out. What we want is the opportunity to review these cases on a case-by-case basis and to see if these children, now that they’re adults, have rehabilitated themselves and if they’re still a risk to society.”

State Sen. Stewart Greenleaf (R-12th District), the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, held a hearing in 2008 to investigate why Pennsylvania leads the nation in the number of juveniles it sends to prison for life. “It’s important for us to have justice,” Greenleaf says. “[Juvenile life without parole] is a two-edged sword. …

The legislation we have [in Pennsylvania] is appropriate for people who have committed terrifying, premeditated murders. But not every case is like that.”

Greenleaf thinks the severity of punishment in these cases should be left to judges. He’s also crafting legislation that would allow juveniles convited of felony murder —though not actual killers — a chance at parole.

In the wake of the Graham ruling, Bradley Bridge, a lawyer with the nonprofit Defender Association of Philadelphia, which represents indigent criminal defendants, says that he and other lawyers representing juvenile lifers will file as many appeals as possible in the 60-day window allotted by Pennsylvania law in which they can attempt to apply new court decisions to older cases.

That window expires in mid-July.

Bridge would not disclose the specific cases he’s working on, but he says the next month and a half should be interesting. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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fter the beating we took this winter, no one’s going to bat an eye at a long, hot summer.

But summer comes with its own hazards. Namely, the sun can fry your skin and give you cancer.

As most of us already know, there are easy ways to protect yourself. PhillyHealthInfo. org has the scoop.

UV Radiation We owe a debt of gratitude to that big ball of fire in the sky. Not only does it provide for all

life on Earth, it’s also a great natural source of Vitamin D, which keeps our bones strong and is thought to reduce our risk to many diseases, from cancer to diabetes. Vitamin D deficiency among all age groups is a growing concern in this country, but that’s another article altogether.

Too much sun, however, can be dangerous. Sunlight contains two kinds of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, UVA andUVB radiation. UVB radiation is so strong it can damage your DNA and that’s the dangerous part. The most immediate problem is

Sunscreen is great. It allows us to spend the day in the sun without burning ourselves to a crisp. It is not, however, a magic cloak that makes you immune to the sun’s rays.

Rarely do we have the forethought to apply sunscreen a half an hour before we go out. Rarely do we apply enough sunscreen (3 tablespoons for an adult per application) \to all the exposed parts of our bodies.

Behind your ears? I didn’t think so. And rarely do we remember to reapply every hour or two, especially if we get wet, sweat, or it’s humid outside.

Of course, shade and protective clothing are your best bets against the sun, but if you’re going to rely on sunscreen alone, use one that protects against both UVA and UVB rays with a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of 15 or higher. For children and those of us with fair skin, 30 or higher is the right move.

Also, to avoid sun damage go to the beach or pool before 10 AM or after 4 PM. Easier said than done, I know.

And remember, an SPF 15 sunscreen does not mean you can stay in the sun for 15 hours without getting burned. That’s crazy talk. SPF is not directly related to time in the sun but to the amount of sun you’re exposed to. And if you’re African-American, don’t tell me you can’t burn. You can.

In fact, African-Americans are more likely to die from skin cancers like melanoma than those with lighter skin.

Still not interested in sunscreen? Let’s read through a list of symptoms for photoaging (better known as what the sun does to your skin over time): freckles, age spots, spider veins, leathery skin, loose skin, blotchy complexion, and actinic keratoses (thick wart-like, rough, reddish patches on your skin.) You will pay later for what you do now.

Sunglasses In addition to damaging your skin, the sun’s UV rays can also damage your eyes. Try staring at it sometime. On second thought, don’t do that.

To help avoid cataracts, macular degeneration, and other eye problems linked to the sun, buy sunglasses that offer 99-100% UV protection. This level of protection ensures that the glasses block both forms of UV radiation. Ask an eye care professional to test your sunglasses if you’re not sure of their level of UV protection.

When shopping, don’t assume that you get more UV protection from expensive sunglasses or movie star glasses with vampireblack tint. Also, remember that light can still enter from the sides of sunglasses.

Glasses that wrap around the temples are more effective. Be wary of dark or tinted eyewear sold as fashion accessories that may provide little to no protection from UV rays. And don’t forget about the kiddies. Children should wear real sunglasses that indicate the UV protection level. Toy sunglasses are just that: toys.

Enjoy your summer and check PhillyHealthInfo.org for summer safety tips on everything from public pools to potato salad that’s been in the sun too long.

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³ THE FIRST TIME Stieg Larsson’s characters comment on the implausibility of the plot he’s knitted them into, it’s awkwardly self-aware and kind of charming. By the second time (“It all sounds a bit … improbable”), you will excuse yourself for agreeing with them.

That’s not necessarily a problem. After Memorial Day weekend, outlandish plotting and high page counts, like white shoes or straw hats, magically become appropriate. And if it’s a little less important to choose a book based on believability, then it’s all the more important it grabs hold as long as possible.

Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Knopf, May 25) should be a natural: the third installment of a franchise, with pixie-punk hacker Lisbeth Salander competing in the same weight class as twinkly vampires and Harvard symbologists.

Less a sequel than a continuation of best-selling The Girl Who Played with Fire, Hornet’s Nest picks up after its heroine digs herself out of a shallow grave despite the bullet in her brain.

Larsson takes the lurid velocity of that start, though, and continually saps it. Partially, this is because he separates his main characters for the bulk of the book. But it’s as much a function of his style: No action occurs that is not narrated, then mulled over, then discussed. No conclusion is implied without being explicitly explained in dialogue. By swaddling every event in repetition, Larsson flattens out even the most shocking revelations.

That flatness is a shame, because it steals the prime pleasure of spy stories and horror stories and love stories: the shock of implausibility, the sharp edge of strangeness that punctures a comfortable, immersive narrative. Style can’t make the impossible any more realistic, but it does help to nurture a willing suspension of disbelief. Coupled with a strong command of comfortable genre shorthand and the propulsive pull of plot, the summer novel is born.

The opening section of Justin Cronin’s 800-page vampire novel, The Passage (Ballantine, June 8), overflows with delicious little shocks. Cronin is >>> continued on page 24

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³ RODGER LAPELLE GALLERIES Sarah Hunter’s En Garde, in a pale palette befitting a nursery, depicts a pair of narwhals engaging in playful skirmish, inexplicably surrounded by birds. Hunter’s painted critters in the exhibit “On Birds of Passage” are meant to look like 3-D figures plopped on a canvas — hot-pink Peeps, a series of reptile skulls, metamorphic rocks and even what appear to be feminine hygiene products — to form mythical, futuristic dioramas. “I see it as an alternate or post-human place where the animals have adapted using the structures left behind,” says Hunter. “But I want it to be open to the viewer’s interpretation.” So if En Garde looks like two tampons in a fight to the death, then that’s exactly what it is. Opening receptions Fri., June 4, 6-10 p.m.; and Sun., June 6, 1-5 p.m.; free, through July 3, 122 N. Third St., 215-592-0232, rodgerlapellegalleries.com.

³ PROJECTS GALLERY Confronting the issue of insider art head-on, Projects presents “It’s Who You Know,” in which five artists who’ve previously shown at the gallery — Distort, Conor Fields, Ashley Flynn, Brooke Holloway and Mia Rosenthal — each pay it forward by hand-selecting another artist (a colleague, an idol, a friend, a complete stranger) to show his or her work. The work of the “final five” isn’t meant to be cohesive; it’s meant to stir up debate. “It’s putting

the gallery in a strange place, taking a risk by trusting their artists and not knowing at all what they’ll end up with until they get it,” says local sculptor Darla Jackson, who was chosen by Flynn, a longtime acquaintance. “I know some people will probably balk at the insider aspect, but I really feel like wanting to promote your friends is a positive and inclusive thing.” Opening reception Fri., June 4, 6-9 p.m., free; through June 26, 629 N. Second St., 267-3039652, projectsgallery.com.

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In anticipation of its production of Sunday in the Park with George, Arden Theatre Co.’s taking it to the street: The musical is based on the iconic Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, so to tie it all together, 12 Arden volunteers will spend First Friday staging a modern version of the pointillist masterpiece — actors frozen in various seaside tableaux — outside the theater’s doors. Fri., June 4, 6-7 p.m., 20 N. Second St., 215-922-1122, ardentheatre.org. … Local photographers Mark Havens and Seth Shimkonis share the spotlight for Artspace Liberti’s inaugural exhibit, “Inside Outside.” Their images collectively depict “issues of space and the effects of humans on that space, be it subtle or harsh, beautiful or destructive.” In other words, the city and the people who muck it up. Opening reception Fri., June 4, 7-10 p.m., free; through June 26, 2424 E. York St., artspaceliberti.blogspot.com. (carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net)

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Atlanta singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur is quickly becoming known outside his usual troubadour/Peter Gabriel circles. He’s got his online poetry thing, that 2008 documentary about him, a couple of acting credits and, why not, he’s an award-winning painter, too. Look for Arthur’s dreamy, hazy ink/mixed media masterpieces on the walls at Ven and Vaida Gallery in Old City (June 4-29, venandvaida.com). The reception is Friday at 6 p.m., and word is he’ll play a song or two.

Right now, blissful Montreal indie poppers Stars are doing everything right.

They’re tweeting homage to ?uestlove, boycotting Arizona (zose aczents will get you locked up tout suite), and putting out the prettiest, spookiest release of the summer. The otherworldly Five Ghosts (Vagrant) set puts six colored vinyl records and 13 freaky pieces of art in a little wooden box. It doesn’t come out till June 22, but Stars is playing First Unitarian Sanctuary on Thursday (June 3, r5productions.com).

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For all the spectral synth and operatics on Grey Oceans, CocoRosie’s fourth full-length and their first for Sub Pop, they’re still at their unsettling best in the spots that angels and machines can’t reach: Sierra Casady at the piano, her sister Bianca practically cracking in voice and verse and, on “Undertaker,” their mother showing them how it’s done. CocoRosie plays the Troc on Wednesday (June 9, thetroc.com).

Before blasting off with new-Spock and co., Chris Pine made one last film as an under-the-radar actor — Small Town Saturday Night, directed by former Philly denizen Ryan Craig and out now on DVD. Pine plays Rhett, a country singer taking stock of his life the day before he moves to Nashville to make it big. The lives of other townsfolk intertwine with Rhett’s, including an affecting turn by John Hawkes (Deadwood, Me and You and Everyone We Know) as an ex-con on the edge.

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“You’ve got to mindfuck them.”

now, nine years after their last effort, is fitting.There’s something unlikely about unreliable frontman Scott Weiland getting along with his antsy bandmates long enough to write 41 minutes’ worth of new music, and something equally inevitable. In the macro view, there’s nothing special about the 12 songs on Stone Temple Pilots (Atlantic): “Huckleberry Crumble” is a half-baked pastiche of a handful of Aerosmith songs; “Between the Lines” pastes Kurt Cobain’s vocals over showy hard-rock riffs he wouldn’t be caught dead near. Other songs borrow liberally from The Beatles, Lou Reed and generic truck-stop countryrock. In the micro view, you’ll be able to sing along to songs like “Bagman” after hearing it once, and if you don’t hear it again for 16 years, you’ll still be able to nail the chorus on command.

But STP has always been a synthesis of the unlikely and the inevitable. Chalk it up to Weiland’s drug troubles and attention-sucking side projects (Talk Show, Velvet Revolver). Chalk it up to technical proficiency and an ear for what radio listeners like.

After Core, their 1992 debut, was savaged as faux-grunge opportunism by tastemakers and gobbled up by millions of MTV viewers, Weiland picked up a mild persecution complex and a nasty coke-and-heroin habit. That combination colored Purple,with its no-duh observations about watching (“Silvergun Superman”) and waiting (“Lounge Fly”).

The album topped the charts for three weeks in 1994 and spawned three hits — “Big Empty,” “Interstate Love Song” and “Vasoline” — that have had a fairly long shelf life, considering that Weiland rarely sings a title phrase, or anything particularly tuneful.

Purple’s not without its redeeming qualities.

Weiland’s restrained vocals bring a measure of vulnerability to “Kitchenware & Candybars,” while brothers Dean and Robert DeLeo’s guitar interplay gives the song an understated grandeur. And the meaty riff that anchors “Unglued” almost makes up for a line like “Moderation is masturbation/ What is what, and what makes you feel good.” If the Foo Fighters had come up with it a few years later, you wouldn’t be rolling your eyes right now. (m_fine@citypaper.net)

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GOING GREEK: Rock star Aldous Snow (Russell Brand, left) forms an unexpected bond with music exec Aaron (Jonah Hill) in Nicholas Stoller’s film.

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[ B- ] IN FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, rookie director Nicholas Stoller (with writer and star Jason Segel) did the Apatow brand justice by marrying dick jokes and gross-outs with real human emotion. For his second at-bat, Stoller revives Marshall’s decadent rock star, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), and its hearts-and-farts formula — but this time goes down swinging. Joining Brand is fellow Marshall alum Jonah Hill, who does not reprise his role as the fanboy hotel employee, but instead takes on Aaron Green, a junior music exec who comes up with the idea for Aldous to reclaim his former glory by re-creating a legendary concert at the titular Greek Theater. But the oncesober Aldous is in dire straights: His main squeeze — Jackie Q (Rose Byrne), who sings thinly veiled songs about the pleasure of her asshole — left him; his last album, African Child, was called the worst thing to happen to the continent right behind war and famine; and he’s fallen hard off the wagon. It’s Aaron’s duty to ferry the reeling Aldous from London to L.A. for the big show. Former addict Brand is particularly effective when Aldous is at his lowest, explaining drug dependency in graphic terms. But Greek falls apart when it should be at its emotional height, especially without a likable center like Segel to keep things grounded. That Stoller tried to turn a stupid-but-fun road movie into something more is valiant, but Greek hits its mark when it keeps ambitions low, including a parade of cameos (Paul Krugman!).

While the film allows Brand to show that he’s more than the guy who kisses The Girl Who Kissed A Girl, and Hill to take off his cynical bastard cap, the real breakout star is Diddy. As Aaron’s music mogul boss, Diddy goes off the rails. Unlike Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder, Diddy’s an integral part of Greek, letting go of all inhibitions and saying things like “You’ve got to mind-fuck them … I’m mind-fucking you right now. Do you feel my dick going into your mind?” all without cracking a smile. —Molly Eichel

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little stage time. The focus is more prominently on her ensemble of supporting musicians — especially Levee, a flashy young trumpeter and aspiring bandleader; and Toledo, a pianist and laconic elder statesman who is deeply critical of Levee’s youthful brashness.

The men are natural storytellers, and much of Ma Rainey is their narratives. It’s a talky play for sure, and probably not for everybody. But even at this early stage in his career, Wilson’s poetry and power are firmly in place.

Irene Lewis’ production at the Philadelphia Theatre Co. — a shared effort with Baltimore’s Centerstage, where it debuted in April — preserves much of that power. But unlike some of Wilson’s later works, which often stray from boundaries of conventional realism, Ma Rainey is consistently naturalistic and benefits from a taut, you-are-there approach. Lewis seems to strive for something more symbolic — almost as if to retrofit Ma Rainey with the stylistic developments of Wilson’s later plays. The result is a mixed bag, with some beautifully staged moments alternating with awkward ones, and a generally too-slow pace. The performances, too, are mixed. E. Faye Butler (Ma) makes the most of her few opportunities to sing, and is likewise marvelous in her quiet scenes — but her big moments border on caricature. The band members do some fine work (David Fonteno, especially), but at times are hampered by direction that calls for oration rather than conversation. Riccardo Hernández’s set serves as a good metaphor for the problem. Surrounding a realistic recording studio are dark walls bearing the titles of Ma’s songs, in bold white letters. It’s a handsome effect, and yet it takes us out of the moment — we’re literally staring at Ma’s iconic legacy instead of engaging with her as a living presence. Through June 13, $46-$59, Philadelphia Theatre Co. at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St., 215-985-0420, philadelphiatheatrecompany.org.

Ma Rainey benefits from a taut, youare-there approach.

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August Wilson’s premature death (in 2005, at age 60) robbed us of more than a wonderful playwright. Wilson was by turns historian, philosopher and the unrepentantly angry voice of AfricanAmerican conscience. So it’s no surprise that the 10 plays of his monumental Pittsburgh Cycle are an extraordinary assemblage of past and present, intimate and epic. Wilson’s greatest works — including Fences, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and The Piano Lesson — are astonishing in their seamless blend of humble personal narrative and Shakespearean grandeur.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is among the earliest plays in the cycle. We are present at a 1927 recording session by Rainey, one of the great blues singers of her age — but a difficult-to-manage personality, becoming more so as her popularity wanes. The character of Rainey herself plays a pivotal role in the piece but has relatively

GUIDED BY VOICES: Playwright and former Czech President Václav Havel inserts himself into Leaving, occasionally freezing scenes to indulge in voiceovers that explain his “authorial whimsy.”

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Leaving aspires to instant classic status with a huge cast and lofty musings about government and theater. David Strathairn gives a typically restrained performance as an unnamed country’s outgoing chancellor, Vilém Rieger, a milquetoast reduced to sound bites by his controlling “longtime companion” Irena (Kathryn Meisle) for the one reporter who shows interest (Lenny Haas).

Rieger, perhaps a good chancellor, has become a befuddled platitude-spouting pushover who comes to life only when sycophant Bea (Mary McCool) flatters him into a woodshed quickie. He’s Lear, The Cherry Orchard’s Madame Ranyevskaya and Endgame’s Hamm: toothless, oblivious and stuck in the past, even when the jackal, Klein (Trevor Long), forces him from his home. Since Rieger’s retired when the play begins, the grim future already belongs to Klein.

More interesting is the world swirling around Rieger on Klara Zieglerova’s stunning set of doors, doors and more doors, punctuated by occasional thunderstorms. Janis Dardaris plays his addled mother; Victoria Frings is his gadget-obsessed teenage daughter; and Jennifer R. Morris is his cold adult daughter who might as well pull her husband (Mark Cairns) on a leash. Luigi Sottile and Peter DeLaurier play professional assistants, and Geddeth Smith and H. Michael Walls are home workers. Most pragmatically save themselves, picking Rieger’s bones clean, while Rieger serves them all.

Havel insists that Leaving isn’t autobiographical, and let’s hope he’s right; a play about Havel’s struggles as an imprisoned playwright, cultural leader of Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring and his nation’s first post-Soviet bloc leader would be much more interesting. He inserts himself in Leaving as The Voice, smoothly spoken

by F. Murray Abraham, interrupting to explain his “authorial whimsy” and indulging in self-examination the way Rieger never does, but ought to. The device feels lazy, but we so appreciate the wit and introspection that we’re willing to forgive.

A playwright doesn’t create a classic just by referencing other classics, however, even if he is one of life’s genuine heroes.

Through June 20, $36-$65, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215546-7824, wilmatheater.org.

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“We are humanity. We are here.” That’s the simple message NASA shot into space in 1972 on a pair of satellites, with the hopes of communicating with intelligent (English-speaking) life beyond Earth. Thirty-eight years later, brand-new theater company Swim Pony Performing Arts (formed by the folks who brought Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigious Fantasy in D to last year’s Philly Fringe) wonders what might happen if we finally received a response. “The show is the universe’s message to humanity,” explains Survive! director Adrienne Mackey, who also heads up the collective. The sprawling, 20,000-square-foot basement of Chinatown’s Wolf Building will morph into the expanding universe, allowing audience members to venture boldly through the set and various otherworldly narratives. Part-performance, part-installation, Survive! explores different dimensions of the universe through the guises of quirky characters such as Kinetic Girl and Gentle Scientist. “The journey of the show,” says Mackey, “is really about the audience understanding themselves in relation to all that space.”

—Emily Currier Through June 20, $11-$20, Underground Arts at the Wolf Building, 340 N. 12th St., 847-309-1266, swimpony.org.

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Nice People Theatre Co.’s Nicole Blicher and Miriam White have successfully discovered — and lovingly produced — quirky, obscure works like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit Have a Nice Life and last fall’s soaring Grace, or the Art of Climbing. They go out on a limb once again with Megan Gogerty’s musical Love Jerry, about a family coping with the long-term effects of child abuse. Jerry is a pedophile, that much we know; but can his family find a way to love him anyway? The Child Abuse Prevention Effort (CAPE) will lead audience discussions on June 5 and 11, so the conversation won’t die out when the lights go up.

—Mark Cofta Through June 20, $10-$35, Latvian Society, 531 N. Seventh St., 267-909-3309, nicepeopletheatre.org.

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This is our Bonnaroo, people. Our Lollapalooza, our Coachella, our Sasquatch. Except we’ve got our hometown heroes running the show. Only three years in, The Roots Picnic is this city’s flagship music event, an annual all-day music fest that gets everybody moving in near-unison to hip-hop and rock, and leaves Festival Pier aswirl in empty water bottles and dance sweat. As usual, the steep price tag ($66, four tickets for $198) is probably what keeps the thing from selling out until the very last minute. It’s not the lineup: Joining ?uesto and co. are Vampire Weekend, Raekwon, Method Man, Ghostface, Clipse, Mayer Hawthorne, The Very Best, John Legend, Pattern Is freaking Movement and a bunch more either playing the monstrous main stage or the gloriously air—Patrick Rapa conditioned side stage inside the big tent. Guaranteed unforgettable.

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—M.J. Fine Thu., June 3, 8 p.m., $17.50-$19, Balcony at the Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com.

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✚ PEG SIMONE It takes brass ovaries to open your debut with a 22-minute meditation on a mother and child felled by floodwaters, but the gamble pays off for Peg Simone, who starts her striking Secrets from the Storm (Table of Elements) with “Levee/1927,” which morphs from spoken-word and blues drone into a feedback-drenched rendition of “When the Levee Breaks.” Fans of early PJ Harvey and Carla Bozulich, here’s your new heroine.

—M.J. Fine Fri., June 4, 9 p.m., $12, with Members of Morphine, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, themanhattanroom.com.

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Kevin Baldwin has two strengths: making the booming, brooding beats of ’90s U.K. electronic music relevant in the ’10s, and staying busy. On Tuesday, the production half of long-standing PHL hip-hop duo Jedi Mind Tricks (you probably know him better as Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind) will showcase his recent side collaborations at Kung Fu Necktie.

First, Vespertina — his piano-loops-and-turntable project — makes its public debut. We’re intrigued, but more excited to see Dutch, Baldwin’s ethereal duo with singer/songwriter Liz Fullerton, celebrating the release of its full-length debut A Bright Cold Day.Across a dozenish supple tracks, she plays Beth Gibbons to his DJ Andy Smith, but with a warmth and vibrancy missing from the gloomy doomy trip-hop era. Think of theirs as more of the Siobhan de Maré/Martin Virgo dynamic of Mono — positive pop with a sampledelic cinematic scope.

Bonus: Stoupe will also staff the KFN DJ booth before, between and after his bands’ sets.

—John Vettese Seriously, he doesn’t know how to rest.

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Love Carole King but don’t want to shell out the big bucks/sit in the nosebleed seats/snooze through James Taylor’s songs when the pair plays the Wachovia Center later this month? Try Diane Birch, who captures the spirit of King’s classic Tapestry on her debut, Bible Belt (S-Curve). At 27, Birch missed the 1970s entirely, but her rollicking piano (“Choo Choo”), Brill Building soul (“Fire Escape”), sly horns (“Fools”) and wistful strings (“Magic View”) strongly suggest she worships at the altar of King, Laura Nyro and other queen-bee singersongwriters. (Birch’s dad, a Seventh-day Adventist preacher who tried to shield his daughter from secular music, would no doubt be horrified to imagine her bowing before such heathens, but he merits a measure of immortality in her lyrics.)

With all due respect to King, you can see Birch for a less than a third of the price, in a venue less than an 80th of the size, without having to worry about snoring during the quiet part of “Sweet Baby James.”

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—Adele Magner, Founding Executive Director Congratulations to the winning team of student Jamekea S. Lee and teacher Lori Odum of General George G. Meade School and teaching artist Dwight Wilkins!

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Based on consumer reports, MGM’s foray into on-demand DVD production (available via Amazon) is similarly uneven, which is a shame since it includes a number of coveted titles. I’ve seen Hal Ashby’s The Landlord, a fever-pitch satire on race relations that looks perfectly presentable in a widescreen transfer. But François Truffaut’s swan song, The Green Room (produced under its American title, The Vanishing Fiancee), is reportedly pan-and-scan — the readjustment of widescreen to full screen — and taken from an unconverted PAL transfer, with the sped-up voices and blurry motion that come with it. Warner Bros. continues to do solid if unspectacular work via its Warner Archives on-demand service, including a disc of Local Hero director Bill Forsyth’s ill-starred foray into big-budget filmmaking, Being Human. Starring Robin Williams as a man — five men, actually — scattered throughout time from prehistory to the present, the scattershot film is fitfully diverting but never coheres. It’s worth watching, if only to see actors like Robert Carlyle and Jon Turturro turn up in unfamiliar places (as a tribal shaman and a Roman courtier, respectively), but one might as well nourish a vain hope that Warner will some day dig up Forsyth’s director’s cut, which is 40 minutes longer and lacks Theresa Russell’s cloying narration.

Universal’s Thanks for the Memories Collection packs six Bob Hope features (with and without Bing) into a modestly priced series.

The packaging is unspectacular, but the colors in The Paleface sing out loud, and the standard-def is almost a relief; Jane Russell in high-definition is a frightening prospect indeed. Lost fans mourning the end of John Locke can flash back to The Stepfather, newly out on Shout! Factory’s Blu-ray, where Terry O’Quinn made his name as a suburban paterfamilias whose Reagan-era family values express themselves in homicidal fashion. For more uplifting, and more familiar, values, turn to Milestone’s Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives, which reissues the landmark 1977 documentary that was the first to present gays and lesbians as people rather than case studies. The talking-head format is nothing special, but the stories are.

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latest garish blockbuster, it seems safe to say there won’t be a more important Blu-ray this year than Criterion’s By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two. It’s not just that the three-disc set extends the previous two-DVD edition to more than 11 hours (volume one is available separately in standard-def), but that it’s the first significant release of experimental film in the HD realm. Digitally massaged action swill may light up the display models at Best Buy, but by and large, big-budget movies are so worked over that it doesn’t make much difference how or why you watch them. The cartoon palette of Transformers 2 will pop on an iPhone the same way it does on a 50-inch plasma.

But with avant-garde film, the texture and tenor of the viewing experience is integral to the film; in some ways, it is the film. Stan Brakhage’s films aren’t about what you see so much as how you see it, the physical and neurochemical interaction between the light on the screen and your optic nerve. In some of his films, particularly those he made without using a camera by painting directly onto strips of blank leader, were meant to recall what he called “closed-eye vision,” the hazy, evanescent impressions generated when you look at a bright light through closed lids and press down on your eyeball.

Watch a conventional narrative in an inferior medium and you still get the idea, but with Brakhage’s films, there’s often no idea to get.

They’re about the sensual and synaptic experience of watching them, and if the experience is compromised enough, they don’t exist at all.

Brakhage’s movies themselves are hardly high-definition: Many were shot on 16 mm, and some, like the epic 23rd Psalm Branch, on lowly 8 mm. But they still glow with a special luminescence, each flicker and even every scratch adding to the experience. It’s impossible to sum up a collection this wide-ranging, from an artist with so many different sides. How many viewings might it take to understand the connections between Mothlight, composed by fixing the wings of dead moths to blank celluloid, and The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, a harrowing but strangely lyrical collage of footage shot inside an autopsy room (the title is taken from the Greek word from which “autopsy” derives)? There’s enough here for a year’s study, or a lifetime’s.

It’s unfortunate that production problems forced Kino-Lorber to cancel the Blu-ray for Alexander Sokurov’s The Sun, since the DVD hardly does justice to his magnificent film. Set at the end of World War II on the day of the Japanese surrender, The Sun goes into the darkness with Emperor Hirohito (a magnificent turn by Issei Ogata), whose declared divinity is rapidly coming to an end.

Effectively becoming human, or admitting himself as such, he takes in the textures of lace tablecloths and the flicker of candlelight as if for the first time. It’s a dazzling movie, shot in daringly low light, often just at the edge of visibility, and perhaps it’s not possible that video would ever do it justice. But this blotchy, interlaced transfer isn’t even in the ballpark.

Equally disappointing, and without the excuse of marginal profits, is MGM’s Man With No Name Trilogy, which slaps a thick coat of digital polish on Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti Westerns.

The new Blu-ray set is well-packaged, with commentary by Leone biographer Christopher Frayling, but the textures have been rendered waxy and plastic by broad-brush noise reduction that wipes out grain and replaces it with artificial sheen. At least you’re able to switch off the dreadful, overactive surround-sound remix in favor of the original mono sound, which is superior in all ways.

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“It was a pretty major shock when I got here,” says Dr. Tom Krueger. “You can't describe the smells, the heat on your body, the sweat down your back, the smell of the pus that hits your nose … the smell of your own panic.

You’re not sure what to do. You can't share that stuff.”

And yet, Mark Hopkins’ documentary does exactly that: It shares the horrific and impossible experiences of those who sign up for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders), who travel from crisis to crisis in order to provide temporary aid, to save some lives and leave. In vivid glimpses of diagnoses and surgeries, the film illustrates the “tough choices” facing doctors in dire conditions. In shot after shot, roads are muddy, rooms are small and faces are strained. Observing that doctors who volunteer for any number of reasons — some noble and some less so — Australian anesthetist Chris Brasher says, “I think some people do it to run away from where they’re from.” He smiles, sort of, when he adds, “As far as I was looking to make myself homeless, I think I've succeeded.”

The film doesn’t smooth over what goes wrong and leaves unresolved the stories of its four primary subjects. Such messy narrative structure is to the point, exemplifying the disorder and difficulty of each day, briefly and brilliantly.

—Cindy Fuchs (Ritz at the Bourse)

At 13 years old, Gunther (Kenneth Vanbaeden) is already too aware of how badly things can go wrong. Abandoned by his mother, living with his father, Marcel (Koen De Graeve), and three uncles, he watches them drink and laugh and collapse more often than not. Looking back as an adult (played by Valentijn Dhaenens), Gunther imagines himself an “author,” though he confesses he’s received only a stack of rejection letters thus far. Felix Van Groeningen’s film cuts back and forth between Gunther’s experiences then and now. If he barely survives his chaotic childhood (“This whole family is scum!” he yells during one meltdown), he also admires his uncles’ odd decency, usually emerging after bouts of lunacy and aggression. Rendered in hectic, close shots, such moments feel hard to endure, even when they, sometimes, tip toward funny. When Gunther’s own current, nameless girlfriend (Sofie Palmers) reveals she’s pregnant, he resents her as he always has his mother (“There are two people I hate, two women, one gave birth to me, the other was carrying my offspring”). If his ugliness seems a product of his history, he is able at last to feel responsible rather than only traumatized, and even generous — when it’s too late — to his beleaguered grandmother (Gilda De Bal).

—C.F. (Ritz at the Bourse)

splice |AIn this genetic engineering thriller from Vincenzo natali (Cube), scientists Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody are tasked with creating a synthetic meat substitute, but instead crossbreed themselves a mutant child. Dren

exit through the gift shop|AThe title â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Film By Banksyâ&#x20AC;? would be tip-off enough that the veracity of all that follows it is suspect at the very least, but the provenance and reliability of Exit Through the Gift Shop grows increasingly complicated and ever more questionable as its story unfolds. Banksy, the anonymous, subversive u.K. graffiti trickster, appears on camera at the outset, his face shrouded in darkness and voice altered, to explain how heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d turned from subject to filmmaker when he discovered that the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original director was a far more fascinating character. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclear, however, whether Thierry Guetta â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the eccentric French-born video enthusiast whose footage provides an invaluable document of street artists at work â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is the bordering-on-insane clown presented in the film, a willing

harry Brown|B Michael Caine stars as the title character â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an ex-Marine pensioner who goes on a killing spree to clean up the estate (projects, to us) where he lives.

After his best (and only) friend is killed by a roving young gang, Brown digs up the murderous memories of his days serving in northern Ireland and goes after the estate scum, offing them in various bloody ways. Firsttime feature director Daniel Barber seems to be making a comment on the rise of violence in Britain, but it rings hollow. Brown is a sympathetic killer because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only fleshedout character. But Barber is adept at creating suspense and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aided by the excellent production design of Kave Quinn and cinematographer Martin Ruhe, who work together to truly make Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estate look like hell. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Molly Eichel (Ritz East)

iron Man 2|B Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) resisting pressure to surrender his suit to the military, ensures the government that Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enemies are lagging behind technologically. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the vengeful Russian Ivan Vanko (Rourke), hellbent on righting past wrongs, builds some toys of his own, nearly besting Iron Man with a pair of high-voltage double-dutch ropes. Jon Favreauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s put together an unchallenging, easy-to-watch two

letters to Juliet|C Vanessa Redgrave portrays Claire, a headstrong grandmother who returns to Verona, Italy to find the love she left behind (real-life love Franco nero) 50 years ago. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all because of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), a New Yorker fact-checker on vacation, who discovers the Secretaries of Juliet, a group of women who answer letters asking for advice left at Juliet Capuletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house. She finds and answers Claire's decades-old letter. Redgrave floats across the screen, bringing real emotion to what could otherwise be a superficial romancer. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;M.E. (UA Grant; UA Riverview)

MacgruBer|C+ Adapting a recurring Saturday Night Live character for the big screen is a burden on its own. Make that character MacGruber â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Will Forteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s non sequitur-spewing specials ops buffoon, whose myriad personal flaws prevent him from defusing explosives â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve carved out one hell of a job for yourself. SnL writer Jorma Tacconeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie wants to be a spoof of Michael Bay-style crash-bang-boom cinema, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really just a string of insane (and often uproarious) bluecomedy sequences that seem to have been dreamed up by a brain trust of 14-year-old boys cracked out on Rockstar energy drinks. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;D.L. (UA Riverview)

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Mother anD chilD|BRodrigo Garciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest exploration of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences takes on a perpetually knotty subject: adoption. each of the three protagonists is affected by the arduous process and predictable questions: Adoptee elizabeth (naomi Watts) still feels abandoned by her birth mother and is reluctant to commit. Her birth mother, Karen (Annette Bening), still worries about the decision she made as a teenager. And Lucy (Kerry Washington), making her way through the adoption process, feels beleaguered for not â&#x20AC;&#x153;providingâ&#x20AC;? her husband (David Ramsey) with his own child.

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If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a principle behind Thomas Balmèsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; casually arranged excerpts from the first year of four infantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that, no matter what and no matter where, babies are easy on the eyes. But â&#x20AC;&#x153;aw shucksâ&#x20AC;? isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough of a thesis to hang even a 79minute movie on, and precious little else emerges from the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weak juxtapositions. Flitting from San Francisco and Tokyo to Mongolia and namibia, Babies takes in both ends of the child-raising spectrum. For all the care put into its images, Babies is startling unreflective, a series of elegantly shot drive-bys devoid of insight or empty. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flaccid spine isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly enough to support the heaps of jelly piled around it. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.A. (Ritz Five)

Based on the first book of Stieg Larssonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Millennium Trilogy, niels Arden Oplevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie delivers a story full of intrigue and ugliness, in a manner that might best be called elegant.

Financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael nyqvist) is in need of a job and some measure of redemption after heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s convicted of libel. And so he agrees to investigate the 40-yearold murder of one Harriet Vanger, wealthy, blond and apparently visibly frightened in the photos he digs up.

Mikael is aided by bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth (noomi Rapace), at once vulnerable and kick-ass. It helps the investigation that she has a photographic memory as well as an intuitive sense of whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guilty. As Mikael pursues answers and Lisbeth, she remains resolutely stylized and rather typically elusive. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;C.F. (Ritz at the Bourse)

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While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basically a cautionary tale, Splice is itself a hybrid, mixing genres unpredictably enough that you never know quite where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to go next. natali has an exceptionally sure hand and manages the transitions fluidly, and Brody and Polley infuse their characters with a rare depth of understanding; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re two of the most (even only) credible scientists the movies have created. The movie works a little too hard to manufacture an action-packed climax, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still one of the most thoughtful films of its type to come down the pike in years. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sam Adams (UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)

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AndreWâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S video vAult The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, therotunda.org. Blind Alley (1939, u.S., 69 min.): A gangster (Chester Morris) takes a psychoanalyst (Ralph Bellamy) hostage who starts to analyze the criminal like a patient. not on video or DVD. Mikey and Nicky (1976, u.S., 119 min.): elaine Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Ishtar) directorial debut stars Peter Falk and John Cassavetes as gangsters. Thu., June 10, 8 p.m., free.

the bAlcony 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. Ghostbusters (1984, u.S., 105 min.): Who you gonna call? Mon., June 7, 8 p.m., $3 goes toward a drink or snack.

biStrot lA minette 623 S. Sixth St., 215-925-8000, bistrotlaminette.com. La Vie en Rose (2007, Czech Republic/France/u.K.,

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140 min.): Marion Cotillard turns in a stunning performance as edith Piaf in this biopic of the Sparrow. Mon and Thu, June 7 and 10, 8 p.m., free.

Camden County College 200 College Drive, Lincoln Hall Blackwood, N.J., 856-216-2170, camdencc.edu. The Grapes of Wrath (1940, u.S., 128 min.): Critic and professor Matthew Sorrento introduces John Huston’s adapation of the classic Steinbeck novel, featuring the great Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. Wolverton Learning Center, 9 p.m., free; The Dennis Flyer Memorial Theatre, Sun., June 6, 2 p.m., free.

ColonIal tHeatRe 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-9171228, thecolonialtheatre.com. Cronos (1993, Mexico, 94 min.): Guillermo del Toro’s stunning horror film about a golden scarab that gives its owner eternal youth and a thirst for blood.

Fri., June 4, 9:45 p.m., $5-$8. The Graduate (1967, u.S., 105 min.): Plastics. Sun., June 6, 2 p.m., $5-$8.

mugSHotS CoFFeeHouSe and CaFe 2100 Fairmount Ave., 267-514-7145, mugshotscoffeehouse.com. Benji (1974, u.S., 86 min.): A lovable mutt saves two kidnapped children. Fri., June 4, 7 p.m., free. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Italy/Spain/West Germany): Sergio Leone deconstructs the Western and creates an entirely new genre, while following The Man With no name (Clint eastwood) in his third and final outing. Mon., June 7, 7 p.m., free.

PeaCe CenteR oF delaWaRe County 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, 610-544-1818, delcopeacecenter.org.

Lemon Tree (2008, Israel, 105 min.): The titular plant is used as an allegory for Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Fri., June 4, 7 p.m., free.

PHIladelPHIa CIty InStItute lIBRaRy 1905 Locust St., 215-685-6621.

tabloid photo sparks vicious rumors about an artist and a young singer and a court case, starring Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mifune. Wed., June 9, 2 p.m., free.

RItZ eaSt 125 S. Second St., 215-925-7900, landmarktheatres.com. Jurassic Park (1993, u.S., 127 min.): Dinos come to life and your inner 7-year-old freaks out. Clever girl. Sat., June 5, 11:59 p.m., $9.

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Dave (1993, u.S., 110 min.): After the president suffers a stroke, a lookalike average Joe (Kevin Kline) is asked to fill in. Thu., June 10, 8:15 p.m., free.

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cluding River is Remembering (2009, u.S., 10 min.), History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991, u.S., 32 min.), Little Murders (1998, u.S., 20 min.) and Strawberry Fields (1998, u.S., 86 min.). Mon., June 7, 7 p.m., $5-$10.

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Wooden SHoe BooKS 704 South St., 215-413-0999, woodenshoebooks.com. Crude (2009, u.S., 105 min.): Joe Berlinger’s doc about how thousands of ecuadorians banded together to sue Chevron after a massive oil spill. The film is currently part of an ongoing legal battle involving Berlinger’s rights to his

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Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St., 215-569-9700, princemusictheater.org. a Conversation with tanya hamilton: The filmmaker discusses her Philly-set Sundance film Night Catches Us. Tue., June 8, 6 p.m., free, RSVP to joan@film.org.

Street ales as a base. (We’re hoping one of them will come up with something for the 8 percent ABV Bubbly Wit.) Tickets are $25.

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➤ Forum of the Gods

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➤ Beers Off the Beaten Path

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➤ dock Street Beer Cocktail Competition

➤ Victory’s Summer love ale

It’s still considered heresy by purists, but to more and more bartenders and drinkers, the beer cocktail represents a bold new brew frontier. Once the realm of staid standards like the black and tan (stout/lager) and Black Velvet (stout/Champagne), the beer cocktails of today are more adventurous than ever, as mixologists continue to dream up some unique (Rodenbach and grenadine?), powerful (imperial stout and port?) and wonderful (IPA and rum!) combos. The city’s best bartenders will converge on Smokin’ Betty’s (116 S. 11th St., 215-922-6500) on Sun., june 6, to see who can mix the best beer drink using Dock

The Greater Philadelphia Tourism and Marketing Corp.

(GPTMC) has teamed up with Downingtown-based Victory to debut Summer Love Ale, a specialty brew designed especially for Beer Week. The session-friendly golden ale, brewed with pale malts, German hops and Brandywine River water, will be poured at venues like Chifa, Fork, nectar, P.Y.T. and Standard Tap.

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happening, but there are plenty of events that give props to female drinkers, too.

JUne 5. Check out home Sweet home Brew ladies day, where you’ll get a 10 percent discount at the shop (2008 Sansom St.) if you mention Beer Week between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. From 2:30 to 5 p.m., head over to the ladies Beer tea at the Belgian Café (601 n. 21st St.). They’ll pair beers with tea sandwiches and other goodies.

JUne 7. At 6 p.m., check out happy hour yoga at yards (901 n.

Delaware Ave.) with theresa Conroy, wife of the Daily News’ Don “joe Sixpack” Russell. There’s a beer tasting after class. Tix are $25.

JUne 8. From 6 to 8 p.m., Smokin’ Betty’s (116 S. 11th St.) and dock Street co-host Broads & Brews, with all-you-can-drink “female-driven drafts” (think Scarlet lady) and apps. Tix are $25.

JUne 10. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., Jake’s (4365 Main St.) will host a five-course ladies of Beer dinner featuring Whitney thompson of Victory and denise Jones of Moylan’s ($59 plus tax/tip). That same night, starting at 8 p.m., the ladies of in Pursuit of ale (iPa) will Dj at Johnny Brenda’s (1201 n. Frankford Ave.).

Sly Fox beers on deck.

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shot glass full of H20 every fifth beer, or slamming a bottle of FIJI before passing out in your shoes. It means drinking an equal amount of water to beer — and spreading it throughout an evening. “It’s like rain,” says Peters. “A light, steady rain gets absorbed into the ground, while a quick, heavy downpour runs off to the storm drains.”

Hager turns to pickle juice as his hydrator of choice (it’s said to alleviate cramps), and South Philly Tap Room’s John Longacre has his own remedy. “Drink lots of water,” he says. “If you don’t have any, Miller Lite will work just fine.”

BEHAVE. We’ve all seen our friends do dumb shit under the influence of alcohol, craft-quality or not. Just because Beer Week is a celebration of the stuff doesn’t mean you’ve got carte blanche to act like a moron. “Don’t get voted off the island by behaving boorishly,” says Peters. “Bar owners are very tolerant and patient people by nature, but there is a limit on what behavior is acceptable.”

“Drunk people are stupid people,” observes Ritter, who feels that inebriated wahoos sometimes solidify their own inebriated wahoo status unknowingly. “A lot of these people don’t realize that these are not session beers,” says the bar owner of the ammunition many participants stock. “We’ve got some 15 to 18 percent beers coming.”

Switch up your approach to avoid falling into this high-gravity trap. “Alternate between stronger beer events and session beer [events],” says Hager.

“You will not make it out alive if you only focus on crazy-strong beers.”

ETC. Some parting, unorganized-but-still-sage advice from our bar-owner experts: “Don’t be a douchebag. Enjoy what beer is all about.” —Fetfatzes “Don’t bring credit cards to events. Pay in cash, as if you are gambling.” —Longacre “No shots. Leave that one buddy who insists on a shot of Jameson with every beer at home. You will thank yourself midweek that you laid off the firewater.” —Hager “Go to events in teams. Be sure that each of you orders a different beer and share those amongst your group. That way, you will have an opportunity to taste a wider range of beers at each bar and still be able to visit another venue.” —Peters “When they say last call, listen to them and leave.” —McNally (drew.lazor@citypaper.net)

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“Pace yourself,” says Ritter. “It’s not a race to stupid. It’s OK to embrace the buzz.”

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Maybe you think you know all there is to know about beer — and maybe you think you’ve tried every beer there is. Lynn Hoffman knows you haven’t. The Phillybased author of The Short Course in Beer (Kunati Inc.) will lead a tasting of beers you may never have heard of during the Beers Off the Beaten Path event on Fri., june 4, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Mt. Airy’s Trolley Car Diner (7619 Germantown Ave.), one of the northwest’s best beer outlets. Hoffman will guide guests through the diner’s extensive beer cooler, matching up beers with a series of appetizers.

Admission is $20, or $15 each for three or more people who sign up together. For info: 215-848-1133 or trolleycardiner.com.

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Your Beer Week itinerary is already populated with standingroom-only pint-hoisting opportunities, so why not grab a seat and take in some knowledge from the heavyweights?

(You can still drink while doing this.) The Forum of the Gods panel discussion, scheduled for Thu., june 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. at johnny Brenda’s (1201 n.

Frankford Ave.), will feature commentar;y from jim Koch (founder of Boston Beer, aka Sam Adams), Phil Markowski (Long Island’s Southampton Publick House), Tom Kehoe (founder of Philly’s Yards) and Wendy Yuengling (no intro necessary). Moderating the discussion will be Daily News columnist Don “joe Sixpack” Russell. Tickets are $25 and available at phillybeerweek.org.

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³ AFTER A RELAXING weekend of ball punch-

ing, puck dropping and yelling about Israel busting up Turkish relief ships, it’s back to the grind. This week = everything Roots.I need not add more about Saturday’s Roots Picnic on Penn’s Landing. Go. But if you don’t feel like getting Vampire Weekend mixed in with your jam (can’t blame you), further opportunities to see ?uestlove and John Legend are legion, with appearances at the June 3-5 NONCOMM radio convention at World Café Live co-starring Cyndi Lauper and McDonald’s hater Chrissie Hynde.Plus ?uest and 215 Mag CEO Tayyib Smith host painter Rah Crawford and pals at the new gallery digs at 307 Market. This is how you get over. ³ Nina’s Trattoria:That’s the supposed name of Philly lawyer Nick Nastasi’s spot where the famed Bonuomomarket stood — the thing he bought right before the Italian Market Fest. Now that it got a coat of stucco, Nastasi might want to talk to his back-alleyway neighbors.The grease rumored to be accumulating there has other neighborhood sellers miffed. ³ Back in 2007, Jesse Eisenberg — he of Zombieland/Solitary Man fame — made a flick with comic Jim Gaffigan called The Living Wake.

That nearly lost black comedy is now in limited release courtesy ex-TLA film guy Richard Wolff’s newish NoLibs-based company, Breaking Glass Pictures. ³ In anticipation of his book The Awful Possibilities,Philly author Christian TeBordo wrote a short story called “Bridesmaid,” recorded the song that’s talked about in the tale (“The Angel Behind the Rainbow”) and presents both in exhibition at B2 on June 5. To make matters massive, he paired with painter Kevin Kernan to design the book cover and interior for that night’s reading/installation.

“Everything’s hand-drawn and screen-printed to look like a zine,” says Kernan. “I printed the covers so each is the color of the rainbow, and becomes a sculptural piece when shown together.” Buy the set. ³ There’s a song, “Come Back to Sorrento,” that celebrates the joys of the motherland and returning home. It’s a yearning for the hills of South Philly that returned Sandro Frusone to Gnocchi. He’d previously sold the East Passyunk restaurant to go live in the old country. Now he’s back cooking at the G-spot 24-7. ³ Then there’s the story I broke awhile ago — the one where Stephen Starr bought Broad Street Diner, considered doing Mexican food for So-Wash hipsters, then sold the place over moldy environmental issues. My breaking story went the way of Mussolini. Now he (Stephen, not Benito), too, has come back south to the BSD, and is looking at late 2010 to open something new.

Starr: Go Francophile. Think about it. ³ More ice?

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OPEN WIDE Artists do it outside. And they want you to watch.

By Sam Kaplan ART IN THE OPEN FESTIVAL | Wed.-Sat., June 9-12, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.,

free, west bank of the Schuylkill River to Bartram’s Garden, east bank of the Schuylkill River from Schuylkill River Park north to Fairmount Water Works, artintheopenphila.org

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ow do you get people who don’t go to galleries to see art?

Simple: Bring the artists to the people.

Enter Art in the Open Philadelphia, a new festival on the banks of the Schuylkill River. For four days, 36 artists will set up shop — from Fairmount Water Works down to Schuylkill River Park on the east bank, and in Bartram’s Garden on the west — and create work outdoors. Much of it will be informed by the river itself, as people walk by, perhaps stop to watch and, depending on the artist, even participate in the creative process.

The fest was inspired by en plein air, says Mary Salvante, Art in the Open co-founding producer and director of Rowan University Art Gallery. The term directly translates to “in the open” and is used to describe painting outdoors, long practiced by the Impressionists. But Art in the Open is a little different.

“We wanted to reframe this concept of plein air painting to be more relevant currently, in terms of what kind of art is being produced today,” Salvante says. To that end, the festival’s artists

include photographers, bookmakers, sculptors, knitters, musicians, dancers and installation artists. San Francisco’s Valerie George brings her “Car Kit,” a 1983 300TD Mercedes Benz Wagon modified as a self-contained recording studio. Leah Stein Dance Co. will create a new performance during the fest.

Audiences are invited to create, too; at “art stations,” volunteers will hand out materials to anyone interested.

For some of the artists, the festival’s format presents a challenge. “Photographers don’t usually work in the open, other than in the initial shooting,” says photographer Blaise Tobia, professor at Drexel University. “How could I be a part of such a thing?”

Shooting digitally, editing on a laptop computer and printing from a portable printer, Tobia will construct panoramic images of the river, echoing a seminal seven-daguerreotype panorama taken at the riverfront in 1848.

This connection to Philadelphia history, and the history of the Schuylkill, is an important aspect of Art in the Open. “Historically, the Schuylkill River was popularized by 19th-century plein air painting,” Salvante says.

“Today there is a renewed interest in the river and riverfront as assets that enhance people’s lives in an urban context.”

Tremain Smith agrees. She will paint the Cira Centre using found objects and acrylics. “I think the energy of the river and the people and the other artists and the buildings could combine to help me find a new direction in my work,” she says. “It seems like something I could do past these four days.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

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rine Corps Scholarship Foundation while enjoying an open bar, catered appetizers and music. Sat, June 5, 7pm, $45-$80, The Fairmount Boathouse, 2 Boathouse Row, ageofaugustus.org.

Watch bikers race along the riverfront in the 26th annual International Cycling Classic. Featuring local food, drinks, and kids’ activities. Sun, June 6, 9am-3pm, FREE, Midvale Avenue at Kelly Drive, East Falls, 215-848-8084.

dian/actor has appeared in feature films such as “Dumb & Dumber” and “Half Baked.” Thu, June 10, 8pm, ; Fri-Sat, 11-12, 8 & 10:30pm, $20-$25, Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St., 215-496-9001.

Q NICK DIPAOLO The Emmy-nomi-

nated comedian was one of the stars on “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn” and has appeared in a number of other “Comedy Central” shows.

Thu, June 3, 8pm, ; Fri-Sat, 4-5, 8 & 10:30pm, $17-$30, Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St., 215-496-9001.

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sometime “Tonight Show” jokewriter does impressions based on suggestions from the audience. The show is also a fundraiser for the Autism Foundation, Sat, June 5, 9pm, $20, Comedy Cabaret, Northeast Ramada, 11580 Roosevelt Blvd.

Q TONY ROBERTS The “Michael Jordan of comedy” has appeared on HBO’s “Def Comedy Jam.” Fri, June 4, 8:30 & 10:45pm, ; Sat, June 5, 8, 10 & 11:55pm, $20, Laff House, 221 South St., 215-440-4242.

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festival will highlight local crafters, artists and musicians. Sat, June 5, 10am-5pm, FREE, 7200 block of Germantown Avenue, 7200 Germantown Avenue, 215242-0777.

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Q PHILADELPHIA IRISH FESTIVAL 2010 Celebrate the Irish at

this festival hosted by the PECO Multicultural Series. This family event will include music, dancing and food, including performances by local dance schools. Sun, June 6, 12-8pm, FREE, Great Plaza, Penn’s Landing, 201 S. Columbus Blvd., 267-228-1990.

Q PHILADELPHIA JOB FAIR East

Coast Career Fairs hosts this job fair, featuring many of the area’s top local employers. East Coast Career Fairs will also have a local career expert on hand to provide a free professional résumé review.

Thu, June 10, 11am-2pm, FREE, Radisson-Warwick Hotel, 1701 Locust St., 215-735-6000.

Q RECOVERY NIGHT: AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING

³ MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS The Fairmount Park Art Association will launch its Museum Without Walls audio tour, a storytelling series for prominent public art. Artists and experts explain 51 sculptures in informative sound bites that can be downloaded to portable music players or listened to by dialing in from a cell phone. The clips are engaging, like artist Mark di Suvero explaining the impromptu welding process he used for Iroquois (pictured), the kinetic red sculpture near the Philadelphia Museum of Art, or expert analysis of Henry Moore’s Three-Way Piece Number One: Points, the bulbous yet delicate sculpture on the Parkway. Opens Thu., June 10, free, Fairmount Park Art Association, 215-546-7550, museumwithoutwallsaudio.org.

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Q BIKE RACE BLOCK PARTY

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³ THE SCIENCE OF TASTING BEER AND PAIRING IT WITH FOOD During Philly Beer Week, Monell Chemical Senses Center — dedicated to understanding the mechanisms and functions of taste and smell — is embracing it. Monell food psychologist Marcia Pelchat, who speaks often about wine tasting, will break down the science of pairing beer with food and how your tongue is able to taste. There’s scientific subtlety in pairing. Truth is, a salty food will never bring out the best of a bitter ale. That’s because it’s about more than just taste and smell; there’s a third and lesser-known sense involved called chemesthesis to contend with. Researchers are hesitant to call it chemical irritation, because, well, it isn’t necessarily annoying. It’s a sensibility that allows us to feel the tingling carbonation of a brew or the bitterness of hops. Just don’t expect to feel anything the morning after.

Except maybe a headache. Mon., June 7, 3 p.m., $45, London Grill, 2301 Fairmount Ave., 215-978-4545, londongrill.com. (editorial@citypaper.net) Brian James Kirk writes at Technically Philly (tphilly.com).

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1601 S. 10th St.

435 Spring Garden St., 215-592-8838

951 Frankford Ave., 215-423-8342 Fluid

613 S. Fourth St., 215-629-0565 Kung Fu Necktie

1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919 Landmark Americana Tap & Grill

Tattooed Mom

530 South St., 215-238-9880 The Khyber (upstairs)

56 S. Second St., 215-238-5888 Tritone

1508 South St., 215-545-0475

3333 Market St., 215-222-4500

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Medusa Lounge

Q TIME WARP W 9 y @ Barbary

27 S. 21st St., 215-557-1981 Octo

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w/Robert Drake, Dave Ghoul, John Spaceboy. Old-school goth, new wave nuggets and classic sounds from the dark side, call for price.

Q NIGHT TRAIN 1 e @ Kung Fu

Necktie w/Skipmode, Ian St. Laurent, Dennis Wolf.fang. One of

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Hip-hop House Latin Progressive House Reggae

Illvibe’s finest unleashes some serious shit on the dancefloor, $3.

Q THE ATTIC M G @ Tattooed Mom

w/DJ Foxx Boogie. Tasty old school and underground flavors to get ya mind right, no cover.

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Samba Nightclub w/Down Jones ft. MC Sharpness, Daniella Downs, Jay Shok Octane, Pinky And Da Brain, Trigga Happy, WGK Allstars.

Light It Up and Good Vibes team up for a black light party.

Q MILK PLUS M O G t y @

Medusa Lounge w/Cap’n Harry, Topanga, Gnarwhale. Sweat, puke and twist it out, no cover.

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Silk City w/DJ Apt One, Skinny Friedman. Philadelphyinz is at it again, featuring filthy music past, present and future, call for price.

Q MATERIAL GIRLS M y > @

P.Y.T. w/Dirty, Shawn Ryan, Gun$ Garcia. An ’80s prom extravaganza hosted by Phalla, with photos by Marie Alyse, call for price.

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1601 Café w/Jason Carr, MAD, Pandemix. Inciting Action blend art and music. Candace Price is the featured artist, call for price.

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conia, Jayo, $5-$10. Paper-Street keeps it pumpin’ with their long-running party, re-launching at Octo this week with a new resident DJ, Jayo (Simplefly, 4AM).

Tonight kicks it all off, serving as one of many Roots Picnic after-parties, and will feature the U.K.’s sick production/DJ duo Radioclit (who, in another incarnation, are playing the picnic as The Very Best) rockin’ your body proper.

There’s plenty of outdoor seating and dancing, so go on ’n’ get your summer party season in gear.

Roots Picnic, ladies free before 11 p.m., $7.

friends with a wizard to see, call for price.

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Q BODY+MIND 1 V O A t ! @ Tri-

The Khyber (upstairs) w/Rx, Lady Prowl, John Bean, Dr.Ew. New location celbrates the release of Rx’s Concussions EP, call for price.

tone w/Bubby Folds, Stout Cortez, Capt. Ridiculous, Seanicus. Groovy and eclectic left field electronic music, call for price.

Q SATURDAY @ LANDMARK 1 O G t y @ Landmark Americana

Tap & Grill w/DJ Sega, DJ Ruxbin, Shane Sixten. Celebrating Turq’s birthday, the boys throw down proper at this new hot spot, call for price.

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Q MARAH with Cary Hudson, 8pm,

$21-$33, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

Q ODESSA STAIR with Tiny Ani-

mals, She Ends All & Lucas Joseph Collective, 8pm, $8, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808.

Q DUTCH with Vespertina & DJ Stoupe, 8pm, $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

Q ERYKAH BADU with Bilal &

Janelle Mon&aacute;e, 8pm, $147$291, Tower Theater, 19 S. 69th St., Upper Darby, 610-352-2887.

Q MAUS HAUS with Discuss

& Burn, 8pm, $5-$10, Danger Danger Gallery, 5013 Baltimore Ave., myspace.com/dangerdangergallery.

Q VIRTUAL VIRGIN with Damon

Q NIGHTMARE RIVER BAND with

Q WOE CASTEVET with Astral Throne, 6pm, $5, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

MONDAY 6/7 Q FUN WITH BALLS 8pm, $5-$10,

Psalmships, Like Bells & Johnny Miles, 8pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

Q PLANTS AND ANIMALS with

Lost In The Trees, 9pm, $10, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684.

Danger Danger Gallery, 5013 Baltimore Ave., myspace.com/dangerdangergallery.

Q SETH WALKER with Racecar, 8pm, $10, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808.

Q LOUIS LOGIC with iCON

Q TAMARAMA with Howard Jen-

Q COCOROSIE with Diane Cluck,

8pm, $17-$19, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-5483.

Q GRANDCHILDREN with Carnivores, Selmanaires & Orbit to Leslie, 8pm, $8, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

Q HOLLY GOLIGHTLY AND THE BROKE-OFFS with The Midnight

Beat, The Invisible Friends & DJ Nattie Ice, 8pm, $10, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577.

Q JAMIE LIDELL with Alex B. 8pm, $35-$37, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

Q PEGGY SUE with Peasant & She Keeps Bees, 8pm, $8, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684.

Q SPOKEY SPEAKY with Mighty-

chondria & Parkside Recovery, 8pm, $8, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808.

The Mic King, 8pm, $5, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215291-4919.

nings, 8pm, $11-$13, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

TUESDAY 6/8

8pm, $15, Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215-928-0770.

Byrne, 8pm, $21-$23, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-2221400.

WEDNESDAY 6/9

THURSDAY 6/10

Q ANIMAL TRAIN with Dead

Q BAD MASK with Inaeona & Regretter, 9pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

Q AUSTIN LUCAS with Damion Suomi and The Minor & Prophets, 6pm, $8, Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 267-671-9298.

Q BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE with The Young Sinclairs, 8pm, $16, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011.

Q COUGH with Elder & Dirt

Q TOBY LIGHTMAN with Aslyn,

Zebra, The Hated & The Wake Up Call, 8pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

Q CASSIDY with Shane Alexander,

8:30pm, $12, Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215-928-0770.

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Moon & Diego Paulo, 8pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

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Worshipper, 8pm, $8, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577.

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Q THE GREENCARDS with John

Q CAROLE KING AND JAMES TAYLOR, 7:30pm, $39.50-$275,

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I LOVE YOU sometimes I love you but sometimes I definitely hate you...I hate the fact that you pretend that everything is alright and it is not! I don’t like the fact that you call and try to check on my every move like I belong to you...I don’t belong to you or anyone else...for the record you can kiss my ass

so let me just call you “Handsome” and that is your nickname that I call you! I love you already and I know that you know that...let me show you how much I love you...you need to let that girl go and be with me...for Godsakes she can’t even take care of you when you are sick...I just want to know what you see in her and I know she is a fat ass slob...you can do better...with me! Not only do me...be with me! We could conquer the world together!

LOVE FIRST What did you think that you were getting away with posting your ass on a site that had sex in

The ‘Keep Off The Grass’ signs around the roped off sections of Rittenhouse Square couldn’t possibly have referred to you and your precious furry shitting machines. On any given day there were more of you pompous asses walking your mutts on those areas of lawn than there were on the areas left open to the public. What a bunch of douches.

GET REAL Yo! You make me sick because you are always talking about some guy winked his eyes at you and shit! Didn’t nobody wink their eyes at you...do you know how played out that shit is...nobody winks anymore and definitely nobody thinks that you are fucking sexy! You’re not sexy and anybody doesn’t want to have sex with you! I hate you so much sometimes I want to punch you in your face!

HEY DISCO I am so glad we broke up a few years ago. Your lying cheating ass is getting all the pay back you deserve. They say that Karma is a mother fucker.

And it sure is!!! Many of your so called girl friends are fucking me very well. If I had known this I would have broke up with your cheating ass a long time ago. Those bums that you cheated on me with, I hope your having fun with them. Cause the girl friends that you party with and hang out with couldn’t wait to give me some pussy!!! And I’m having fun with them. They are fucking me within an inch of my life!! I think about you everytime I fuck one of them. Hope life is treating you good.

Cause it damn sure is treating me good. From the man in black.

“NAM” QUY TRAN 1988 You drove a Toyota Celica from Phoenix to Houston and showed me the fishing boat you helped build near Galveston. Your father always had shrimp in the freezer in his garage on Elliott Street. I’ve been trying to find you for over 20 years.

That loves you. She’s the one that wanted to be the one. She’s the one you see, talk to, text. She’s the one that’s in your heart. You are true loves.

True friends. You’re with her now. Remain happy without me.

Playing with the Tiger cubs at the zoo. It’s a shame they’re behind bars, you seem so good with them!

Maybe one day, we could have lunch and you can tell me all about your little obsession with the cute little creatures! I’d love that. Well...until then! xoxo, me because I am not going to stop seeing who I am dating right now and that is the truth of the matter! If you really want to be with me you will show me the respect that I have shown you for all those years! I hate your cocky attitude.

IN RETROSPECT You made the right choice choosing her. I don’t think we’d have been happy in the long run. I don’t want to be your friend. I don’t want to see you.

LET ME! You really should let me take care of you...I am not going to say your name because everyone with that name is going to think that is about them...

it? Did you think that you woman wasn’t smart enough to catch on that you were a fucking freak!

Your ass is going through something and it is pathetic that you didn’t even think about what it was going to do to your so called relationship! Your an asshole to think nothing else is going to happen she is going to fuck around and kill your dumb ass!

REAL FAMILY.. i hate the way u belittle me and make me so aware that i have put on a lil weight, i think i kno wthat already and dont need to be reminded every time i see you that i am the biggest i had ever been. I hate the way u discourage me from doing what i want to do in life, so i decided on something that wont make a lot of money, or maybe it will, support

I know that we’ve been through a lot, good and bad.

I like how we’re somehow always falling back into each other’s lives. It’s amazing how everything that has happened to pull us apart seems to fade away, to create a pathway for us to find each other.

I am so hopeful that our effort turns into a lifelong thing, so we can be together, like the world wants to happen. It would be such a shame if we ended up with different people. Everything reminds me of you, and you remind me of love. To me, you are the most perfect person. Let’s work on this. You Know Who

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Hate u with a passion how can u say u take walk ins but when u walk in u stand in line for an hour then are sent away. You are told only three walk ins will be accepted!!!! what the fuck is with that! people need care, some people need help and dont have the luxury of insurance! how dare ui make people wait in a long ass line just to send them packing with no help. Why bother even saying u accept walkins when all ur gonna do is just send people away! what pisses me off the most was the fact that u knew u could only help three people, but u didnt have the audascity to let the people who have been waiting for an hour to know to check some other clinic in philly. Thank God for the

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me instead of shutting me down and bringing me down. it hurts to have no support, it hurts to know i am standing still and seems like i havent moved forward yet. dont u know that it makes me more depressed and really helps with my self-esteem. why is it that people i dont even know or have known for a small amount of time, or who isnt my family will support me and encourage me to do my best at what ever i choose, while you all just tear me apart, saying its not good enough. shouldnt it be family who builds u up not tear u down, why is it these friends and strangers give me more encouragement then my own mother, father, sister?

Why cant anything ever be good enough, why cant u just love me and accept me for who i am right now, and not compare me, or bring me down. Why must you feel a need to let me know that i have put on weight, and make me feel worse about myself. i love you all and do everything to support u and ur choices, but with me, i am picked apart, and tore down and told what to do and what not to do. Why cant i just be free to choose what i want to do for once. Choose the job, schooling and even what color boy friend i can have. Why is there a need to tell me all the time to go find a blonde haired blue eyed guy, when all i want to be with is men of different races haired brown eyed men! what is so wrong with that? especially if they are loving me for me and treating me right. i could have the most perfect guy but it would never be good enough because hes not what you want, he doenst have blue eyes. the world is different now, and i am different you know i never been with a guy my color, so u have to take the hint, i dont want that for myself. im sick of listening to you and what you want, its time for what i want, what i need, or i will never be happy, i would never truley be me.

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