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One of the Philly police officers arrested earlier this month for allegedly stealing heroin says it wasn’t the only time he did it. “See, I have ways of making me talk. I hope to make detective some day.”
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Philadelphians who turn their guns over to the police receive PlayStations and Xboxes. “What could I get for, say, a lump of heroin?” asks Philly cop. “Because I stole some.”
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Rich Subbio, a former staffer for U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, says he may run for City Council in 2011. “Either that or move to Central West Africa to live among the silverback gorillas,” says Subbio. “I believe my experience qualifies me for both.”
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The city hires a new tugboat operator in place of the one involved in this month’s Ride the Ducks accident. “Not only is it good policy,” says Mayor Nutter, “but it’ll make an adorable children’s book.”
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City Controller Alan Butkovitz says former Free Library president Elliot Shelkrot accepted an improper $230,000 bonus. “Shhh,” says Shelkrot.
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Friday Night Lights shoots at Temple University. The 22 actors who portray high school football players on the show instantly become the 22 best football players to ever set foot on Temple University’s campus.
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Rumors circulate that Philly’s first Apple store will open on Friday. “I’m gonna pick up a nice Red Delicious,” says Stu Bykofsky, just not getting it at all.
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Food Network films a meatball contest between two South Philly restaurants. And, by sheer coincidence, they’re cooking meatballs.
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A construction workers pension fund with a $57 million stake in the struggling luxury 10 Rittenhouse Square project takes over the building. “Yous can come in, siddown, wawtch da Philz,” says Frankie Lunchpail to his pal Jimmy Hardhat. “Try duh foey grass. Just uh don’t put yer dirty boots up on dat white cayshmere automaton.”
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AMILLIONSTORIES Humping your leg since 1981
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nd now, an A Million Stories Special Report: Back in October 2009, we told you about the troubles on Earp Street: specifically, 739 Earp St., and its smelly emanations of shit and death. Neighbors, you’ll recall, had to shut their windows and told us that their attempts to confront the house’s owners were met with frightening hostility. Sheets obscured the house’s windows, leaving neighbors to speculate on what was going on inside: A googol of cats? A dog-fighting ring? What’re they building in there? Neighbors continued to log complaints with the Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I) and the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSPCA); last week, one such grievance made its way to our tipline: “Since September 2009, the residents of the 700 block of Earp Street have been contacting police, L&I, PSPCA, the Pennsylvania Department of Health to no avail regarding a residence at 739 Earp St.,” the missive read. “The neighbors have compelling evidence that indicates the home is the base of a dog-fighting operation, and that there are dead dogs/bodies rotting in the home. … L&I logged a complaint six months ago … yet L&I has still not been to the property.This is the second summer in a row where residents of this block cannot even open their windows, due to constant barking and crying of dogs that no one has seen outside of the home, and the smells of death, urine and feces.”
So what the hell was L&I waiting for? Last Wednesday, July 14, we started our search for answers with some phone calls to L&I and PSPCA. And lo and behold, the very next morning, the Inquirer broke the most serendipitous WTF news imaginable: PSPCA had raided the house, and found 50 Chihuahuas inside, living in filth and yapping like motherfuckers. But there’s more, and since we started this story, by God, we’re gonna finish it. As it turns out, there were 85 Chihuahuas, not 50, says PSPCA Law Enforcement Director George Bengal — and two of them were dead. Oh, and there were two cats, as well. Here’s the thing that bothers us: That Wednesday, the day of the raid, L&I told us that 739 Earp St. had been hit with some violations for its exterior, weeds and trash. But, they assured us, all those violations were taken care of, and the house was in complete compliance with city code.As far as they were concerned, 739 Earp St. was all right by them. Which means that, presumably, at some point, some L&I official scoped this place out, and simply failed to notice the unavoidable, pervasive stench of dog shit, even after the neighbors complained repeatedly to L&I about
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this very thing. In the end, it took the PSPCA’s discovery of a Hell’s Legion of rat dogs for L&I to decide that the house was condemnable — which it did, right after the raid. That’s some nice work there, boys. In order for the PSPCA to obtain a search warrant, they — like any other police organization, which they are — had to have probable cause.“We had complaints going back to December of ’09 regarding that location,” Bengal says. “The owner of property” — listed in records as Frank and Antoinette Rotonta — “would never contact the officer, never let us in. We never had enough probable cause to be able to get a search warrant to get in. Every time, we could never see anything.” Eventually — and coincidentally, right around the time we were calling them — something came along that provided a foundation for a warrant, though Bengal won’t say exactly what. Probable cause, he explains, is established on the basis of “an investigation, or someone has to come forward as an eyewitness or give photographic evidence.” Why L&I didn’t obtain an administrative warrant allowing it to inspect 739 Earp St. — which it can do — is anyone’s guess, and since no one at that agency will get back to us, we’ll just attribute their ineptitude to an inherent character flaw they simply can’t help. But don’t get too down on yourselves, L&I. At least you have
complete job security and pensions fatter than this publication’s payroll. Feel better? We thought you might.
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RUIN TO ALL ³ “OVERWHELMINGLY,” BEGAN A June 21
New York Times story, “Americans think the nation needs a fundamental overhaul of its energy policies. … Yet a majority are unwilling to pay higher gasoline prices to help develop new fuel sources.” We are now three months into the worst environmental calamity in American history, and although — as of this writing — it appears oil is no longer gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the ramifications of the spill will be felt for years, if not generations, to come. Earlier this month, NASA reported that the first six months of 2010 were the absolute hottest on record, going back 131 years; what’s more, this comes as “minimum of solar irradiance is having its maximum cooling effect” — in other words, at a point in the solar cycle when we should be seeing cooler temperatures — which is NASA’s way of telling you that, yes, global warming is real. We continue to buy oil from regimes that give money to those who wish us ill. Last year’s so-called “Climategate” scandal has been debunked in report after report after report. And yet, Democrats are struggling to get even a watered-down energy bill through the U.S. Senate. The legislation currently making the rounds won’t go nearly as far as the version that passed the House last year, which included a cap-andtrade provision. Nor is it on par with the first draft of the American Power Act, a bill introduced by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman that would reduce greenhouse gas levels by more than 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050 by imposing fees on big carbon emitters. This bill would have done all of this at minimal cost to consumers, according to an EPA analysis, while shaving $19 billion off the deficit over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Nonetheless, it, too, was a non-starter. Instead, Kerry, Lieberman and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are pushing for a scaled-back bill that will focus on offshore oil drilling, reducing oil consumption and creating green jobs — noble goals, sure, but also low-hanging fruit — along with a proposed cap on pollutants from power companies that may or may not ever see the light of day, because this might trigger rate hikes, and we can’t abide that. It’s not like our kids’ futures are at stake or anything. As the aforementioned Times poll indicates, >>> continued on page 8
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You’ve probably heard about the $10 million grant the state budget set aside for a library honoring (soon-to-be-former!) Sen. Arlen Specter, and the other $10 million grant reserved for the John P. Murtha Center for Public Policy (where, one imagines, you can learn how to be anti-abortion, get an “A” from the National Rifle Association, be routinely listed among Congress’s most corrupt members and still persuade Democrats to vote for you). But what about the other $288 million allotted for the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP, but pronounced “R-Cap,” because this state is dyslexic), which Gov. Ed Rendell defends as a way to grow Pennsylvania’s economy and create jobs? Let’s review some RACP projects throughout the state. Well, there’s the $10 million going to the “construction, renovations, infrastructure and other related costs for a headquarters facility for a Fortune 100 global company” to be named later. (Optimism!) Ten million dollars more is bequeathed to the “expansion of the Sharon Regional Medical Center” in Mercer County, wherever that is. Here in Philly, $15 million will go for the redevelopment of the old Tasty Baking Co. facility at Fox Street and Roberts Avenue. For the American Revolution Center, also in Philly? Twenty million bucks. Then there are the projects that can’t possibly be bringing in more than a handful of jobs, no matter what Fast Eddie says: In Luzerne County, $5 million is going to the “redevelopment of an abandoned historic former schoolhouse,” and King’s College, a private Catholic school with 2,200 students, will obtain $3 million for a rec center. In Lycoming County, Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc. — a construction company — will receive $390,000 to “extend existing siding across public road onto Hawbaker property.” Premium Fine Coal will get $220,000 to build 600-foot siding in Schuylkill County. But here’s our favorite: Two million dollars is going to Antrim Township for, well, the state doesn’t know yet. Or, at least, it’s not saying. “There really aren’t any more details available on this,” Gary Tuma, Rendell’s press secretary, told local media. We’re not saying RACP is all bad — after all, this state needs jobs, and the program requires beneficiaries to match dollar-fordollar the state’s buy-in — but in a state whose annual debt costs have risen from $80 million to $250 million since 2003 (the year Rendell took office), legislators may want to pay closer attention to who and what gets these grants. Conservatives, meanwhile, are incensed that almost a third of the state’s RACP money is headed toward Rendell’s hometown. They’re crying favoritism, and who knows, maybe they have a point. But don’t worry: The state has $300 million more in RACP money to throw around. “Legislators will have input on what will happen to the other $300 million,” Tuma promised the Pennsylvania Independent.Wonderful, no? Related: The budget the legislature passed earlier this month assumes Congress will come through on $850 million in Medicaid funding — a prospect that looks increasingly unlikely. Layoffs of up to 20,000 state workers are quite possibly coming. But hey, Specter will have a library named after him. Just saying.
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university junior guard Evan Turner’s stat-line, you could simply queue up the “team leaders” section of OSu’s website: Turner’s 20.4 points, 6.0 assists, 1.7 steals and — despite playing the majority of his minutes at point guard — 9.2 rebounds per game all led his team, and his .9 blocks per game were second. He led the Buckeyes to a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament, and — considering the team was 26-5 with him in the lineup and 3-3 without — it is not a stretch to say he did it alone. There are more NBA teams than not that, if they had the second pick in last month’s draft, should have selected Turner. unfortunately, none of those teams were the 76ers, who did own the second pick, and who didn’t pass. It may take the franchise a decade to recover. It’s not that Turner isn’t talented; he is. His ability to both play and defend three NBA positions is really valuable. His worst-case scenario is a postinjury Grant Hill. That’s a really high floor. unfortunately, his ceiling is also low. For all of Turner’s talents, he lacks the physical gifts that the NBA’s elite have: He has short arms (despite being slightly taller than Xavier Henry, the other shooting guard selected in the draft’s lottery, Turner’s wingspan is more than 3 inches shorter) and average jumping ability. Since 2001, the first year NBA draft combine stats are readily available, the complete list of All-Star shooting guards with wingspan/vertical jump measurements at or below Turner’s contains exactly one name: Mike Redd. Redd earned his All-Star berth with one of the prettiest jump shots the league has ever seen — something Turner does not have. Turner’s backers explain this away by comparing Turner to Brandon Roy, another alligator-armed shooting guard who relies on craft and guile to get his points. What’s unmentioned in this analysis is that Roy’s max vert at the combine was a full 7 inches higher than Turner’s, which allows him to get easy buckets, as well as contested ones. Turner doesn’t have that luxury. He isn’t a bad athlete — he’s an average one, by NBA standards. Average athletes do not emerge as superstars. For the 76ers, who lack a superstar, that is a problem. In the NBA, stars win. If you ignore the Detroit Pistons, you have to track back to the 1978-79 Seattle Supersonics before you find a NBA title winner without a current, future or former MVP in its starting lineup. Worse, both of the other viable directions the 76ers could have moved in — Georgia Tech big man Derrick Favors or Kentucky center DeMarcus Cousins — would have netted the 76ers a player who could be that star. Favors, whose measurables compare to a young Dwight Howard, will never have his athleticism called into question. He works hard on defense
and understands the game’s fundamentals. If jrue Holiday and Favors are your point guard and center, even Eddie jordan couldn’t make your team bad on D. DeMarcus Cousins, who went fifth to the Sacramento Kings, has star potential, as well. He is the rare giant who knows how to pass (scouts drool over his ability to split a double team) and rebound (his 17.4 rebounds per game led the NCAA). Both Favors and Cousins have considerable downsides. Favors is raw (read: bad) on offense, and the list of physical freaks drafted for their athleticism includes not only guys like Howard, but also Kwame Brown. And Cousins is a crazy person. If you had to bet your life on someone from the
It may take the 76ers a decade to recover. Turner-Favors-Cousins triumvirate playing NBA basketball in 10 years, you’d pick Turner a thousand times out of a thousand. Counterintuitively, this is actually another strike against Turner, at least as far as the 76ers are concerned. Remember those stars who win championships? There are two ways to get them: you either sign one — a process that requires ample cap space, creative management and something that makes your city an attractive destination, or you draft them, a process that requires a lot of losing. If the 76ers took a risk, they would not only have the shot at the payoff being great — a true superstar — but also the benefits of spectacular failure: namely, another shot at someone who can be great. Evan Turner will be good. Not great, not terrible, but good. And so will his new team: Welcome to another decade of fifth to eighth seeds in the East. E. James Beale reaps the benefits
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THE FABLE OF THE BEES ³ WELL HELLO, AND WELCOME: On what nicely happens to be the 40th incarnation of Man Overboard!, the column appears this week in its new space — a spot heretofore graced by former City Paper founder/publisher/editor/columnist Bruce Schimmel. For the uninitiated, a quick introduction: Man Overboard! is (mostly) a news column, with a deep, abiding affection for hypocrisy, double-talk and sleazery. But less so this week. It’s hot. It’s the middle of summer. So let’s take it easy, sip the old lemonade. Let’s have us a critter story. In honor of Bruce, who chronicled his own adventures in beekeeping, I bring you: the Fable of the Bees. The story begins — where else? — in the greenery, splendor and quiet self-satisfaction of West Philly, where, one day, a beehive — man-made — appeared in the yard behind my apartment building. I looked out my bedroom window one morning, and there it was, a little rectangular box with a cloud of bright things flitting to and from it: bees. “This guy asked if he could put it there,” explained my downstairs neighbor later that day. She had not objected, and there it was. I felt a vague sense of trepidation. Bees, I soon discovered, are attracted to light — light, for example, from my bedroom window. This, combined with a missing window pane, made for a nightly situation: If I left the light on or the bedroom door open, an errant bee would inevitably find its way in and occasionally — as in, on several occasions — get flustered and sting me. I like bees just fine. But after rolling over in bed one night only to have the sensation of a little elf stabbing me in the back with a sewing pin — and waking to find a writhing honey bee beneath me — I wanted them out of my yard. But Bee Dude was clever: The hive had no name or contact information. I was trapped by an absentee beekeeper — and the unknowing vassals of his sweet little empire. And then, just like that, the hand of God intervened. Or so it seemed. A few weeks ago, you might remember, the skies suddenly darkened and unleashed upon Philadelphia — West Philadelphia in particular — a torrential hailstorm, lashing the city with winds that tore down trees like they were celery stalks. Watching from my office window, I wouldn’t know until later that those winds had grabbed a massive tree in my backyard and yanked it straight at the little beehive below. But it missed: Two tons of falling hardwood had come straight at the hive, and missed by inches. Were I a man of faith, I would have questioned it then. God, apparently, had sided with Bee Dude. Or so it seemed. But then, building management (speaking of absentee) left a message — on my phone (!): “This is about the beehive,” a voice said. “Call us back immediately.” Apparently, workers sent to remove the fallen tree had encountered the hive, turned around, and left. Management was pissed. A day later, the hive was gone. How Bee Dude was located, I’m still not sure, but my neighbor reported that he had shown up to — grudgingly — remove the hive. “He was pissed,” she said, and the stupid smile that crept up my face stayed there a long while. Every fable needs its moral, and this one’s easy: Keep your bees, Bee Dude — but mind your own beeswax.
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BANDWAGONER I assume Mr. Beale is a Yankees and Lakers fan, too, right [Sports Complex, “Soccer, In; MLS Out,” E. James Beale, July 15]? After all, those are the teams with the stars. I’ve never understood how alleged sports fans swallow this argument when it comes to soccer, when they’d make fun of it for any other sport. Don’t “root, root, root for the home team,” just figure out which team has the biggest superstars and jump on their bandwagon. Is that how you pick all your teams? And yes, every Union game, home and away, is broadcast locally in HD. Blackpool F.C. played in the English League Championship last year, and I don’t believe a single game of theirs was broadcast on American television. This kind of basic factual error makes it clear that Mr. Beale is more interested in taking a swing at an easy target than in soccer, foreign or domestic. Chris Hapka V I A C I T Y PA P E R . N E T ✚ Send all letters to Feedback, City Paper, 123 Chestnut St., 3rd Floor,
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dismissing its workers’ safety concerns. “I don’t think they wanted people to die,” says Fred Speece, another former Ride the Ducks captain. “But the company set themselves up for this by putting money above safety. When you tried to talk safety, it was all, ‘Shut up, get the hell to work or you’re fired.’” Ride the Ducks routinely swaps its managers, equipment and policies from city to city. So, while no Philly employees could be reached for this article — the company is shielding workers from the press — the Baltimore employees are able to shed light on what they describe as the company’s modus operandi. Salmon says that some of Baltimore’s boats are now in Philly, though he doesn’t know if they were in storage or being used before the July 7 accident grounded the fleet. If it’s the latter, there’s reason to be concerned: Louderback says the vehicles’ mirrors were routinely broken, their lights often didn’t work, and “when you said you needed 10 pieces of equipment, you’d only get one, weeks and weeks later.” Two captains, both of whom asked to remain anonymous, say one boat was in such poor shape that, for eight weeks, they started it by lifting its trap door and rigging the starter with a crowbar. “It had a 40-gallon gasoline tank,” a captain explains. “Sparks were jumping off it.” The aforementioned mechanic tells of a boat that took on water, but “instead of fixing the problem, they [wanted employees] to drain it every day.” Speece says he could see daylight through one boat’s sheet metal lining— meaning there was a hole in it — but was brushed off when he informed management. These complaints go on and on, but two jump out: Nearly all of the half-dozen captains interviewed say their proper horns went unfixed for weeks at a time, and in lieu of addressing the problem, management gave them handheld air horns. (Duck 34’s captain told
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n Sept. 8, 2009, Ride the Ducks mailed a UPS package to each of its 30-odd Baltimore employees, informing them that the company would cease operations in that city immediately. “We lost a lot of money in Baltimore,” says Bob Salmon, vice president of marketing and sales at Ride the Ducks, a Georgia-based company that operates amphibious tours in five cities. “We truly didn’t know if we could ever be profitable there.” A subsequent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) investigation, however, casts doubt on this explanation: Ride the Ducks took in more than $500,000 in gross revenues in Baltimore the year before it closed. And the laid-off employees believe the company had an ulterior motive. In interviews, they claim Ride the Ducks shut down in Baltimore to block workers from joining the United Steelworkers Union (a vote was scheduled for Sept. 11, 2009). The workers say they weren’t organizing for better wages or benefits but, rather, for safer working conditions. “Their safety standards were abysmal, despite lip service to the contrary,” says former Ride the Ducks Capt. Daylin Louderback. Another captain, who asked to remain anonymous because he agreed in his severance package to not speak publicly about the company, says the safety conditions “really endangered people.” A mechanic who also asked to not be named was most blunt: “It was the most fucked-up place I’ve ever seen.” This labor tiff matters to Philadelphia: On July 7, a 250-foot, cityowned sludge barge in the Delaware River slammed into a stranded Ride the Ducks craft — Duck 34 — killing two passengers and injuring 10 others. According to police, the tour boat’s engine had shut down following an on-board fire, the cause of which is yet-to-bespecified “mechanical trouble.” Though Ride the Ducks maintains that this was an unforeseeable accident — “You’ve been in a car that randomly broke down before, haven’t you?” Salmon asks — former Baltimore employees say it might have been preventable. In their telling, the accident was a tragic consequence of the company long neglecting its vehicles and
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investigators that when he tried to alert the approaching barge of danger via his air horn, the device didn’t sound.) Louderback and other Baltimore captains also say that Ride the Ducks regularly made its crews work more than 12-hour days, without breaks. They suspect the company did the same in Philadelphia. “[The accident] was right after the July Fourth weekend. I’m sure they were running them ragged in Philly,” says Louderback. One captain gave his sworn affidavit, used in the NLRB’s investigation in Baltimore, to City Paper. (He asked not to be named.) It supports Louderback’s argument: “The company was assigning captains to around six tours a day, which could end up being a 13-and-a-half-hour day with no breaks. … I remember that the company brought in a captain from Philadelphia around that time to talk to us about how to do six tours a day.” Ride the Ducks settled the NLRB complaint for $48,469, and remained closed in Baltimore. In Philadelphia, the Coast Guard and the Mayor’s Office say they’ve not yet determined if Ride the Ducks will be allowed back into the city. (A National Transportation Safety Board investigation is pending.) If not, it wouldn’t be the first time Ride the Ducks was booted from the Delaware: Gregory Adams, the Coast Guard’s local port captain, banned the company from operating off Penn’s Landing from 1998 to 2002 because he deemed its presence in the channel too perilous. His successor reversed that decision in 2003. In retrospect, Adams might’ve been onto something: From 2002 to 2010, the Coast Guard has logged 38 incident reports involving Ride the Ducks vehicles around the country; these reports are limited to “reportable maritime casualties,” which include striking a bridge, losing propulsion, related deaths or injuries requiring professional medical treatment, and other issues. Of those 39, five involved Baltimore’s Ride the Ducks. Philly’s Ride the Ducks made an appearance in 22 reports — considerably more than in any other city. (In this same time period, the Spirit of Philadelphia, which operates dinner cruises, was involved in two incident reports. RiverLink Ferry, which runs between Penn’s Landing and Camden in the summer, was in none.) Ride the Ducks, meanwhile, says last year’s events in Baltimore have no connection to the July 7 incident. “I don’t see the relevance of any of this to the tragic accident in Philadelphia,” says Salmon, adding, “Safety has always been of paramount importance to us.” (holly.otterbein@citypaper.net)
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THE PIZZA IN Philly sucks.
You have heard someone say this. And there’s a good chance that someone was you. After all, a loathsome view of our native pizza-craft is Philadelphia parlance in its purest form. To malign this city’s reputation for heat-blistered dough is to embrace Philly’s tortuous, punch-drunk hate affair with its own geographic inferiority. People blame the water. People blame New York. Some even blame La Cosa Nostra — the old South Philly wives’ tale goes that the mafia, in its heyday, had such an unshakable chokehold on deliveries of flour, cheese and tomato sauce that every pizzeria in town ended up with the same mediocre products. It’s easy to malign a food as universally familiar as pizza. In my summation, though, the state of Philadelphia pizza is stronger than ever. This city’s stable of respected pizzerias has been bolstered by an influx of passionate dough-stretchers, so-called “artisans” who raise the construction of the common slice from expressionless task to tempestuous art form. But Philadelphia pizza is about much more than just them.
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THE LOGICAL PLACE to begin an examination of “Philadelphia pizza” is defining what that actually is. Do we have a pizza identity, a standout approach that anyone can spot and brand as a product of the 215? There’s the focaccia-like tomato pie squares stocked at Italian corner bakeries, as well as the sauce-on-top, cheese-on-bottom thin-crust rounds (also called tomato pie, confusingly) served in Northeast Philly, but both are too comfortable in their respective niches to speak for an entire city. After talking to multiple pizza authorities, chefs and pizza-makers, I’ve reached a dual conclusion. The polite answer is no, there is no widespread style visible above all others in Philadelphia. The impolite answer? Yes, there is one — but it’s no good. When Inquirer restaurant critic Craig LaBan arrived here 12 years ago, he most commonly uncovered “big, Greek pizzeria pies, a sweet kind of profile, a lot of cheese. … Nothing that [would stand] out in a national search for pizza.” “If there’s a signature pizza, I don’t like it,” says Frank Maimone of Rustica in Northern Liberties, “because it looks anemic and white and not cooked.” Marlo Dilks, who with her husband, Jason, owns the SliCE parlors at 10th and Federal and 18th and Sansom, grew up at 20th and Ritner and remembers her father refusing to eat South Philly-sourced pies her mother brought home on Fridays, when the Italian-Catholic family refrained from eating meat. At your run-of-the-mill Philly pizza place, Dilks feels, “you don’t get very Italian pizza — you get very Americanized, fast-food pizza.” “Go anywhere in the country to a pizza joint [and] most places have signs boasting that they’re this style,” says Brian Dwyer, a Kensington-based artist so fanatical about pizza that he actually curated a lighthearted exhibit on the topic at Rocket Cat Café this May. “You don’t get a lot of that around here. You just have … well, pizza.” And so it goes: What constitutes Philadelphia pizza cannot be summed up in a tidy, Wiki-friendly sound bite. The onus, then, falls into the flour-dusted hands of this city’s individual pizza-makers, whose disciplines, influences and inspirations vary as wildly as their beliefs of what it takes to turn an everyman snack into an elemental experience.
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music fans and their cameras didn’t easily mix. In the ’90s, the heavy-handed Troc crew confiscated even the most basic Kodak disposables from concert-goers. Restrictions were equally draconian at larger venues like the Spectrum, where the press covering the show up close was more obvious — a frustrating thing to see from the stands. Lisa Schaffer remembers that feeling from a 2003 White Stripes concert at the Tweeter Center. “I had really bad seats,” she recalls. “And I watched these photographers walk right in with their bags and I was like, ‘Why am I not doing that?’” With this goal in mind, Schaffer set to work and became one of Philadelphia’s most prominent music and concert photographers. But in recent years, it’s become a less exclusive club. Venue security is increasingly lax about people bringing their smaller, personal cameras to shows, instead going after advanced models with interchangeable lenses, meaning anybody with a point-and-shoot and a desire to push to the front of a crowd can now snap once-unattainable photos. With the summer concert season rolling onward, and outdoor festivals like June’s Roots Picnic and next month’s Philadelphia Folk Fest bringing greater visibility to attendees with lenses, I convened a roundtable of some of Philly’s ubiquitous concert photographers to discuss the current state of what we do. Michael Alan Goldberg of Philadelphia Weekly has a significant photographic presence on the alt-weekly’s Make Major Moves blog. He catches >>> continued on page 24
MY GENERATION: Married couple Nic (Annette Bening, left) and Jules (Julianne Moore) try to welcome their kids’ biological father (Mark Ruffalo) into the family.
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SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE Lisa Cholodenko vividly presents an unconventional family in the most conventional of ways. By Sam Adams [ B+ ] THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT | Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, a
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isa Cholodenko isn’t a groundbreaking filmmaker, but there’s one character at which she particularly excels. From High Art to Laurel Canyon to her new movie, The Kids Are All Right, she focuses on a kind of middle-aged female bohemian, self-questioning and sexually fluid, and she’s lined up a string of exceptional actresses to play them. At first, Kids’ Jules (Julianne Moore) doesn’t seem to fit the lineage of Patricia Clarkson’s Nico-esque muse and Frances McDormand’s earth mother. True, she’s married to Nic (Annette Bening), a doctor, and they have two teenage children, Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson), conceived with the help of a sperm donor. But for a putatively nontraditional family, they seem awfully mundane. Jules was once the couple’s free spirit — Laser is her son, while Joni (as in Mitchell) was birthed by the far more clenched Nic. But the progression of half-baked home businesses that
might once have made her seem creative now makes her feel like a fuck-up — a sentiment not discouraged by her more professional-minded spouse. If The Kids Are All Right were a ’50s Hollywood melodrama — which, in some ways, it quite deliberately is — Jules would be the bored housewife, seeking extramarital adventure before learning the lesson to stay close to home. Temptation, as ever, arrives in the form of a dark, handsome stranger. As Joni gears up for her first year of college, her brother presses his newly adult sibling to find out the identity of their father (or, as their moms would put it, their donor). After a few demurrals, Joni gives in, and they set up a lunch date with Paul (Mark Ruffalo), an organic restaurateur who in some ways is living the life Jules could have had. He has a beautiful girlfriend (Yaya DaCosta) with whom he never lets things get too serious, he runs a business but also works with his hands, visiting nearby growers to pick out fresh produce. So it’s not a surprise when he hires Jules and her nascent gardening business to redo his terraced backyard, or when the two of them fall into bed together. Even a decade ago, Jules’ apparent bisexuality would have come with a healthy dose of hang-wringing, but Cholodenko and her co-screenwriter Stuart Blumberg breeze right past the “is she or isn’t she?” agonizing of identity politics. This is a movie where a
Temptation arrives in the form of a dark and handsome stranger.
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[ it’s only going to get weirder ] ³ welcome back to the jungle
Plenty of things could kill us (global warming; shark attack) — but most of us assume our kids and their kids will live long and prosper before shit hits the fan. Not Junior Thibodeaux: The seriously brilliant/seriously flawed protagonist in Ron Currie Jr.’s Everything Matters! (Penguin), out in paperback this week, hears a voice in his head that tells him the world’s going to end, and when, and how. Should he try to stop the apocalypse? Or smell as many roses as possible before it’s too late?
Don’t wanna bum you out but Steven Adler, the drummer on Appetite for Destruction, has a band called Adler’s Appetite with nobody else you ever heard of and they play Guns N’ Roses songs at every show. (Ask for “Mr. Bownstone” when they hit the Millcreek Tavern July 27, millcreektavernphilly.com.) Look at it this way: Adler and Axl are tied for relevant post-G’n’F’n’R projects (zero). And these days, Rose is the one who can’t get his shit together, and —Patrick Rapa Stevie’s the touring rocker. That’s fuckin’ crazy.
³ music/fashion/art/whatever Break out the canvas record tote, dust off the Doc Martens and bring your game face — Sunday is Punk Rock Flea Market day. Expect business as usual from R5 Productions’ biannual thrifter’s paradise, save for one exception: It’s gonna be huge. Relocated to a warehouse across the street from its former Starlight Ballroom home, this summer installment (July 25, 461 N. Ninth St., r5productions.com) boasts some 250 vendors shelling out skateboards, posters, furniture, stereo equipment, instru—Julia Askenase ments, art and more. It’s gonna be huge.
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³ not jazz Maybe you can forgive Cap’n Jazz now? Yes, the fantastically influential but short-tenured Chicago band has much to atone for, like, for instance, every sad-sack emo band ever and, most egregiously, Tim Kinsella’s early-aughts experiments in quantum pretentiousness. But now that the band that launched 1,000 pale imitations has finally lined up that reunion tour (sold out in Philly July 24, Starlight Ballroom, r5productions.org), is it safe to admit that if we got to hear “Little League” live one more time, it’d make us so, so happy and probably make us cry a little bit, too? Aw, kitty kitty cat. —Brian Howard
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METROPOLIS [ A- ] IN 2008, PAULA FELIX-DIDIER, the curator of Buenos Aires’ Museo del Cine, came
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since 1996, earning a cult following for its psychedelic indie sensibilities and inventive guitar athleticism. They rocked on stage. They rocked on albums like Back Down to Earth, It’s a Lonely Planet and Oh the Sweet, Sweet Changes. Now Photon Man Art DiFuria tells us he’s taking an art historian job in Savannah, Ga. This Saturday’s gig at Johnny Brenda’s probably isn’t Photon Band’s final show ever, but it’s definitely the last for a while. City Paper: Will you play music down there? Art DiFuria: Oh, definitely. I’m working on another album right now and have decided not to refine it into a “unified package” of nine or 10 songs. It’s going to be a quadruple album, vinyl only. And I’ll be looking for guys to play with down there, too. CP:What’ll be Photon Band’s legacy in Philadelphia? AD: We’ll bequeath our good looks to the city’s younger musicians. Seriously, though, I was a part of that generation of people from back in the mid- to late ’80s who made it OK to get up on a stage in any of this city’s punk rock venues and play music that wasn’t hardcore. We felt like it was OK to explore melody, noise, different tempos, different instruments, different structures and lengths of songs. The Photon Band is the band of mine that carried that approach into the ’90s and into the present. If you listen to all of the recordings, we’re about exploration. And it’s only going to get weirder. CP: Any parting words/shots for the Philly music scene? AD: Oh, I don’t know. Philly’s been a pretty good place to play. If you’re putting out, they like it. Hey Philly, don’t go changin’. (pat@citypaper.net)
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across the cinematic equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls: a (nearly) uncut version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, which had been slashed nearly in half after its 1927 première. Kino’s The Complete Metropolis contains nearly a hundred instances of restored footage, ranging from brief reaction shots to entire sequences. Subplots resurface, most notably involving the adventures of the worker who is freed from his mechanized drudgery by Freder Fredersen (Gustav Fröhlich), the son of the city’s ruler. Worker 11811 (Erwin Biswanger), or Georgy, as he is now known, hotfoots it to the pleasure district of Yoshiwara, where he is apprehended by the elder Fredersen’s skeletal henchman. Although the Yoshiwara sequence was likely eliminated for reasons of censorship (the primary villain being Lang’s American distributor, Paramount), the loss of the Georgy subplot also transforms the movie from a collective drama to a heroic narrative. In the restored version, Lang parallels the plights of Joh, Georgy and Josaphat (Theodor Loos), the ruler’s right-hand man, who is fired after a fatal accident with the city’s monstrous Heart-Machine. (In a city defined entirely in terms of work, losing one’s job is equivalent to a death sentence.) Effectively representing the workers, bourgeois functionaries and the ruling class, the restored Metropolis’ trifold protagonists profoundly deepen its conceptual riches. Even the demonic inventor Rotwang (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) is humanized somewhat, his creation of the monstrous Man-Machine (Brigitte Helm) motivated by his longing for his late wife. They also restore to narrative coherence a movie that for decades has been possible to appreciate only as a jumbled treasure trove of indelible imagery. For the first time, Metropolis actually makes sense. Lang’s creation is still far more successful at imagining its dystopian future than its individual characters, but now it’s more of a fair fight. —Sam Adams
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YOU GOTTA SEE HER: The creation of Rotwang’s Man-Machine.
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details that often fly by — set lists, marquees, broken drumsticks — and arranges them in narrative, magazine-style galleries (he’s also shot for Spin and Blender). “You can get caught up in getting the perfect picture of the guy singing,” Goldberg says. “But that doesn’t tell the whole story.” Schaffer occasionally shoots for Pollstar, but developed a strong niche covering the Philadelphia folk and roots music scenes surrounding venues like The Fire and The Grape Room. The local concentration propels her candid style. “I don’t just focus on the stage, I end up getting to hang out with my subjects, more so than I would with a big band,” she says. Tiffany Yoon’s lively work, most often seen on local music site phrequency.com, takes in the whole scene — musicians, fans and surroundings — in broad shots, putting the viewer in the middle of the action. Her images of lo-fi duo Reading Rainbow at Kensington DIY space The Ox were taken from behind the band, looking out at the room. “When I’m in the crowd, I can see there’s so many people there,” she says. “But if I was to take a shot from [in front], you’d just see Rob and Sarah. You turn around, and you see everyone.” Even with an influx of casual shooters at shows, all agree that concert photography is more than just having a camera and being in the room. Photo students might recall the oft-cited Robert Capa quote, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” Take that a step further: Even if the fan gets right up in an artist’s grill with his iPhone, he still needs to know how to frame his shot, or the result is a sloppy picture where a microphone is covering half of someone’s face. “You have to have the eye for it,” Goldberg says. “You can see a million decently exposed photos, but they’re not well-
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composed; they don’t tell the story.” Yoon encounters overzealous first-time shooters who don’t understand simple etiquette — things like giving your fellow photographers room to work and sharing the space, especially in more crowded rooms like Fishtown’s Kung Fu Necktie. “I get angry,” she says. “But then I remember I did the same thing years ago. You can only learn by shooting more, so I try not to judge.” Conversely, Schaffer takes umbrage with overly competitive professionals she encounters at festivals, with ostentatious lenses and tendencies to shove her out of the way. “And then you look at their photos, and they’re all shit,” she laughs. So there are drawbacks on both sides of the club. Goldberg thinks a decline in film goes in tandem with a decline in patience. “I’ll never say that digital is better than film or vice versa,” he says. “But the way film worked, it was a slower process. … You grew into it a little more.” The capability to shoot five frames per second nurtures what I once heard a band’s manager describe as “spray ’n’ pray” photography: busting off hundreds of photos of the stage in a short time span, hoping something usable comes out. Truly good photos require more care, attention and immersion. But immersion can come at a price. You shoot concerts because you love music, but you lose that ability to enjoy concerts as a music fan, a civilian. “I’ll go to see one of my favorite bands, and I’ll take a lot of photos,” Yoon says. “I’ll get home and my roommate will ask, ‘How
“I’m thinking visually, no matter what.” was the show?’ And I don’t even know what it sounded like. I was just looking the whole time.” For that reason, Goldberg purposely does not bring his camera to certain concerts. “And then I’m into the show, and I see That Shot. And I’m kicking myself. I’m thinking visually, no matter what.” Schaffer hates not having her camera on hand; she always carries one with her, even if it’s a Polaroid. But she also says she enjoys concerts more when she’s shooting them, to our collective surprise. (“I never thought I’d hear that!” remarked Goldberg.) But Shaffer’s reasoning makes sense, considering how and why she shoots. “I feel like I’m very intimate,” she says. “I’m watching closer, I can still hear.” And she can get up as close as she wants. (j_vettese@citypaper.net)
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Some monsters troll down the hallway, collecting shadows of fictitious proportions. Pat Alusio and Adam Fergurson’s do not. Their funky grab bag of abstracted comic creatures, racy ’80s ad clippings and bleach-doused collages summon instead a tie-dye landscape of expressionistic tomfoolery. A product of their longtime friendship, this multimedia exhibit gathers its colorful gaiety from Alusio’s David Lynch-inspired critters and Fergurson’s go-with-the-flow found art approach. Highlights include a triptych and an 8-foot mural layered with both artists’ variegated work. As it turns out, by far the most impressive and monstrous piece in the entire show isn’t mystical at all: It’s an inky basilisk formed out of hundreds of old VHS tapes pouring out of the wall in terrifying tribute to the BP oil spill. —Will Stone Through Aug. 13, free, Pterodactyl, 3237 Amber St., fifth floor, 215-501-7158, pterodactylphiladelphia.org.
CHASE ME, COMRADE!
You’d think that after eight straight Ray Cooney farces, the quality of Hedgerow Theatre’s summer comedy event would start to slip. But their ninth, Chase Me, Comrade! — a 1966 forgotten gem inspired by Soviet-era ballet star Rudolph Nureyev’s defection to the West — shows no signs of slack in script or production. Director Jared Reed employs Hedgerow mainstays Zoran Kovcic and Susan Wefel as amusing support, but Comrade! showcases energetic young resident company members in a madcap kerfuffle skillfully built on a teetering tower of lies. Comrade! is instigated by dancer Alicia’s (Rachel Holmes) scheme to rescue randy Petrovyan (David Polgar, speaking no English but pirouetting ridiculously), and the efforts of friend Nancy (Tara Haupt) and her boyfriend Gerry (Carl Smith) to hide him from Nancy’s naval commander father (Bob Liga). Even more fun than the spiraling tizzy caused by deceit, drink and naughty innuendo is Cooney’s loony wit, from nonsensical exchanges (“He’s an agent.”/ “Travel or estate?”/ “Secret.”/ “Oh, you can tell me!”) to tossed-off gems (“You should have a —Mark Cofta rest.”/ “A rest? Silly girl, I work for the government”). It’s a hoot.
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Through August 29, 2010
One museum in each state is receiving 50 works of art from the Vogels. Come see Delaware’s share of this remarkable treasure.
And don’t miss Pennsylvania’s Vogel collection at PAFA, on view June 26 – Sept. 12, 2010. The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States is a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. | Fifty Works for the First State is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by the Emily du Pont Memorial Exhibition Fund and a group of the Delaware Art Museum’s individual donors and Members. | Images: (left and right) Photograph (detail) by Nathaniel Tileston, 1975. | (center) Violet/Black Zone Study, 1996. Robert Mangold (born 1937). Acrylic, charcoal, and graphite on three attached sheets of paper, 30 1/4 x 66 7/8 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, 2008. © 2010 Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Through Sept. 12, $22-$25, Hedgerow Theatre, 64 Rose Valley Road, Rose Valley, 610-565-4211, hedgerowtheatre.org.
Meet Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, a librarian and a postal clerk. Inside their tiny Manhattan apartment, with very limited means, they amassed one of the world’s most outstanding collections of minimal art.
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There’s nothing about Busses that says they’re from the windswept beaches of California, or have Viking ancestry. Still, you can hear elements of each on the Philly trio’s self-released eponymous debut full-length. The songs are intimate and the instrumentation is spare, but there’s also some Zep-esque sex-warrior hollering and precocious Beach Boys-ish harmonizing on top of all the progpop and jazzy punk. When Busses is in full swing, it feels like a tiny raging orchestra singing about revolutionaries and houses on fire. —A.D. Amorosi Thu., July 22, 9 p.m., $10, with Eastern Conference Champions, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-435-9849, johnnybrendas.com.
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WTF is this? Some Memento-tatted Vanilla Ice-looking dude rapping about being “fantastically poor with patience like a stalker”? A Shobijin-voiced chick cooing hooks like “I-ee-I-ee-I, I am your butterfly” over and over? With straight-faced but comical, occasionally ultra-violent lyrics sung in both English and Afrikaans, Cape Town’s Die Antwoord is tough to nail down. Are hard-boasting MC Ninja (“with razor-sharp lyrical throw-stars”) and strangesexy vocalist Yo-Landi Vi$$er pulling off some kind of blurry Ali G/MF Doom-type deal, where it’s all a game, or do they maybe mean it a little? It’s hard to say. They’re way too clever not to know how ridiculous they are, but they’re also really convincing at being ridiculous. —Patrick Rapa Making Time, Fri., July 23, 10 p.m.-3:30 a.m., $15, with Midnight Juggernauts and the Making Time DJs, Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., 215-735-5772, igetrvng.com.
Once upon a time, there was such a thing as an instrumental pop hit. If the charts still had room for the likes of the Allman Brothers’ “Jessica” and Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” not to mention the JB’s and MG’s, then Erik Deutsch would be assured a place atop them. Instead, his latest CD, Hush Money,gets labeled strictly as jazz, and while that’s not wrong, exactly — Deutsch served as keyboardist with guitarist Charlie Hunter’s trio for three years — it’s an imperfect fit for the disc’s mélange of funk, ’60s soul, New Orleans groove, R&B ballads and pop hooks.
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The words “jazz” and “history” seem more and more inextricably linked in Philly these days. Despite a list of giants that have sprung from the city that could more than fill this space, the physical evidence of that legacy is becoming increasingly hard to find. The demise of Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus a few months back felt like another nail in an already well-secured coffin, cutting off one of the music’s most traditional lifelines: the club’s long-running jam session, which has supplemented all the book-learnin’ that local college students get with invaluable bandstand trials-by-fire. Fortunately, Ortlieb’s storied rhythm section — bassist Mike Boone, drummer Byron Landham and the legendary pianist Sid Simmons — has re-emerged with a new home for its invaluable Tuesday night apprenticeship system. It’s a much-needed transplant that will insure the life of this patient for the foreseeable future. —Shaun Brady ALAN JACKMAN
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Tuesdays, 8 p.m., free, Grey Social Club, 132 Chestnut St., 215-925-3379.
Sat., July 24, 7 p.m., $10-$12, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.
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✚ GEORGE BURTON QUARTET It takes a strong pianist to stand up to the might of nine saxophones, which should give some indication of George Burton’s forceful touch, given his long tenure with Odean Pope’s Saxophone Choir. Heavily influenced by McCoy Tyner’s emphatic approach to the keys, Burton has found himself sharing many a stage with musicians like Pope, older players who like their tradition with a bit of edge. For this date, though, Burton will be leading a quartet of his peers, with drummer Kendrick Scott, altoist Tim Green and singer Gretchen Parlato, whose airy voice should cushion some of the pianist’s sharper angles. —Shaun Brady Fri., July 23, 8 and 10 p.m., $15, Chris’ Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com.
If The Kids Are All Right has a fatal flaw, it’s that Nic and Jules’ marriage is almost too ordinary. lesbian couple try to jump-start their sex life by breaking out the vibrator and popping in a DVD of vintage gay male porn (picture construction helmets and sleeveless work shirts and you’re most of the way there). The moms’ choice of visual aphrodisiac is played for laughs, coupled with a dash of intense discomfort when the kids find out what their parents are using to get off. But it’s not treated as anything out of the ordinary. What’s remarkable is how unremarkably it’s presented. If The Kids Are All Right has a fatal flaw, it’s that Nic and Jules’ marriage is almost too ordinary. Dramatists have been wrestling for centuries with the difficulty of turning the stuff of everyday life into something people will pause their everyday lives to watch. Cholodenko is so concerned with communicating that Nic and Jules are a married couple like any other — and that their offspring, per the title, will be no more nor less screwed up by their parents’ shortcomings — that she doesn’t really explain why we’ve landed on their house and not the next one over. There’s truth in her depiction, but not much insight. That said, few long-term relationships have been portrayed with such a palpable feeling of shared history. When Nic tells the story of how she and Jules met — in an E.R., naturally — you can feel the ingrained fondness between them, and the satisfaction of the life they’ve built together. They could be people you see on the street and hope to end up like someday. Bening is brittle, as always, but there’s a sense of an underlying softness even before she has one too many and belts out an a cappella rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “All I Want” at the dinner table. Moore gets to be earthy and insecure, lustful and confused. It’s a full characterization, a human being realized in all her contradictions and imperfections. She could as easily be watching the movie as appearing in it. (s_adams@citypaper.net)
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THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN|B Grégoire (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) is all business at the start of Mia Hansen-Løve’s film. Making his way along busy Parisian sidewalks and in and out of offices, he keeps one cell phone to his ear and another in hand, massaging assorted crises on the sets of films his small company is producing. That’s not to say he’s not devoted to his wife, Sylvia (Chiara Caselli), and three daughters, only that he’s frequently distracted by increasingly panicky calls and mounting debts (“I have too much going on,” he tells one caller, “I need some time”). His confused and sometimes sulky eldest, Clémence (Alice de Lencquesaing),
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT|B+ See Sam Adams’ review on p. 22. (Ritz East) METROPOLIS|ASee Sam Adams’ review on p. 23. (Ritz at the Bourse)
RAMONA AND BEEZUS A haiku: Beverly Cleary’s version of Cain and Abel. Minus all the death. (Not reviewed) (UA Grant; UA Riverview)
SALT|B That thing where the Feds busted real-life Russian sleeper agents in North Jersey last month? Brilliant cross-promotion. Almost makes you believe the Cold War is alive and frosty. Salt, however, with its awkward mutations of old-school red scare tactics, is a bit tougher to swallow. Angelina Jolie is the titular CIA agent, suddenly accused of being a spy by an old Russian dude who just walks in off the street to say so. Even after the Russki turns around and kills two feds, the good guys still believe him, so the impossibly resourceful Salty’s gotta hit the
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AGORA|C Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora is visually sublime. Breathtaking CGI setpieces transform modern-day Malta into fourth century Alexandria, complete with soaring columns and immense statues of the gods. If only Amenábar’s films (The Others, Abre Los Ojos) felt as epic as they look. Here it’s no fault of Rachel Weisz, who takes on astronomer Hypatia with equal wonder and strength; the film flounders whenever she’s not front and center. At first, Hypatia’s arc is framed as a love triangle — dismissive of the affections of the haughty Orestes (Oscar Isaac) and ignorant of those of her devoted slave (Max Minghella). But her scholarly life is thrown into chaos as Christianity — newly legitimized by Augustus — envelops Alexandria and puts a target on the pagans’ backs. Then, for all of its grandiosity and beauty, Agora loses sight of Hypatia and focuses on the debates of religion and politics. WithWeisz at the wheel, she could fill an epic film. Sadly, it’s not this one. —Molly Eichel (Ritz Five)
resents his lack of attention (Sylvia explains to him, “She’s a worrywart like you”), but can’t begin to fathom the extent of his pressures or, at least at first, the unexpected past he’s kept hidden. Reportedly inspired by the life of producer Humbert Balsan, the film changes focus partway through, as the family must cope with tragedy. And in fact, Clémence’s story is more nuanced and unconventional than her father’s. As she sorts out her own expectations and disappointments, she also comes to see herself as a responsible, creative individual as well as her parents’ daughter. —Cindy Fuchs (Ritz at the Bourse)
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road to either clear her name or make big trouble for moose and squirrel. Salt is a nice-looking spy thriller, with elegant brutality and visceral action sequences worthy of the Bourne series. And things move fast enough that you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time to wonder whether scrawny liâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l Salt actually can punch like a mofo, or jump from truck to truck, or do so much damage while handcuffed. (Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doubtful Tom Cruise, who backed out of the role, could have delivered the icy slickness any more convincingly than Jolie.) So: Is Salt a double-agent or a regular one? Will she stop the whatever assassination plot or fulfill it? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really only suspenseful for a minute or so. Try not to overthink it and you might have fun. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Patrick Rapa (Rave; UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)
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Jan Kounenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s double-barreled biopic Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start well. For one thing, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s its book-report title, which seems to promise a rote rehash of its protagonistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lives without shape or insight. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saving grace is its performances but Coco & Igor offers inconsequential insight into its titular titans of modernism. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)
CYRUS|C+ Despite the presence of name actors and a relatively inflated budget, Cyrus is of a piece with the mumblecore mavens the Duplass brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; two earlier films. John C. Reilly plays John, a divorced schlub whose ex-wife (Catherine Keener), soon to be remarried, drags him to a party where he meets the charming Molly (Marisa Tomei). Their relationship quickly blossoms, despite a hint of secrecy on her part â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which turns out to be her son, Cyrus (Jonah Hill), with whom she shares a slightly tooclose relationship. The stage is thus set for an escalating battle between lover and â&#x20AC;&#x153;child,â&#x20AC;? but aggression is alien to the Duplass worldview, so a few early bouts of passive-aggressive sparring eventually flatline until everyone just shrugs and decides to be nicer to one another. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Shaun Brady. (Ritz Five)
DESPICABLE ME|A Despicable Me nets that elusive in-between all but guaranteeing feature-length grins from tykes and parents alike. Gru (Steve Carell) is a supervillain settled into the doldrums of suburbia. When heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s denied a loan necessary to finance his theft of the moon he hatches
an elaborate revenge plan to adopt three children. Despicable has the rare distinction of being defined by its inclusive storyline and good, clean laughs instead of its all-star cast, all of whom seem more interested in shaping funny characters than merely building up their respective vocal brands. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Drew Lazor (UA Grant; UA Riverview)
THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE|B As in the first film based on Stieg Larssonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Millennium Trilogy, Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) is agonizingly efficient, fixated and alone. She does her best to avoid contact with Mikael (Michael Nyqvist), the investigative journalist with whom she teamed on the seriesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; previous mystery. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to know the specifics to appreciate Lisbeth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as potent a cipher as any franchise hero: as resourceful as Bourne, as lethal as Bond. What makes Lisbeth resonate is that she combines these conventionalities with complications male counterparts could never manage: She gets herself, she knows how she looks to others and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s willing to suffer consequences because she knows she can. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;C.F. (Ritz Five) GROWN UPS|CWith all of its leads neutering their personal comedic styles for the family-friendly market, Grown Ups follows childhood buds reunited by the death of their basketball coach. Because there is little to no conflict built into the plot, the film progresses with everyone playing the parts weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all seen them in before. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;M. E. (Rave; UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)
I AM LOVE|ALuca Guadagninoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sprawling family saga is a gloriously overwrought beast that aptly lays claim to its charactersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Russo-Italian heritage. The movie begins in classical style, with a grand banquet at which the future of the family-run textile concern is laid out with a sense of occasion usually reserved for matters of state. But Guadagninoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus is not the filial succession of the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s industrial empire but its immigrant matriarch, a transplanted Russian played by Tilda Swinton whose attempts to efface her own past crumble as the family rushes into the future. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pointed stylistic eccentricities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; drifting zooms that gravitate toward incidental detail, a booming score composed of repurposed John Adams compositions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are so reminiscent of Arnaud Desplechinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kings & Queen and A Christmas Tale that the resemblance can be distracting. But then Desplechin never cast Swinton, whose very presence acts as a
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INCEPTION|B+ Dom Cobb (Leonard DiCaprio) infiltrates minds for a living. He uses dreams as a gateway, conducting industrial espionage in the targetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subconscious. The trick is to convince them to surrender the information willingly, or at least let down their guard long enough for Dom and his henchmen to slip in and out unnoticed. Trouble is, high-powered businessman Ken Watanabe doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want them to steal information; he wants them to leave it. He needs rival Cillian Murphy to break up his dying fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business empire, and to think he came up with the idea himself. That means constructing a dream within a dream, and another within that, planting a simple notion so deeply that by the time it flowers into action it will be indistinguishable from his own thoughts. Director Christopher Nolan handles the mechanics of his Russian-doll worlds expertly, and with far more clarity than the jumbled set-tos of The Dark Knight. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear after a single viewing whether Nolan has taken his own advice and put a single, simple idea at the center of his elaborate labyrinth. A candidate surfaces late in the game, but it feels like an afterthought, and very nearly a cheat. He builds a heck of a maze, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure he finds his way out, or if he wants to. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.A. (Rave; UA Grant; UA Riverview) JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK|BRicki Stern and Anne Sundberg followed the self (deprecatingly)professed comedy icon, exposing the fragility of a performerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ego and the challenges of growing old in show biz. But the film is less brutally honest than it is a desperate assertion of relevance and a plea for work. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.B. (Ritz at the Bourse) PREDATORS|B Director Nimrod Antal (Kontroll) and producer Robert Rodriguez havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reinvented the wheel with Predators, but at least they give the Dreadlocked Ones a vehicle worth their skill. Unlike the first film, Predator doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to its prey, but instead orders delivery, including international soldiers (Alice Braga, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali), a drug cartel enforcer (the ever-welcome Danny Trejo), the FBIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most-wanted (Walton Goggins, always a treat and having a blast), a
THE SORCERERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S APPRENTICE|D Beginning with a clumsily truncated Arthurian prologue, the story hews closely to the Harry Potter model â&#x20AC;&#x201D; young boy discovers heretofore unknown magical powers, trains under a more established wizard, and comes to realize heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sort of chosen one while being targeted by evil forces. But that story is here forced to the background, behind a stock beauty-and-the-geek comedy. National Treasure series director Jon Turteltaub squanders his two greatest resources: Nicolas Cage, who one could assume would relish the chance to go batshit as an immortal sorcerer, but is reduced to impersonating an NYPD cop and brandishing an occasional pickle; and magic, which is almost entirely limited to plasmablast shoot-outs. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.B. (Rave; UA Grant; UA Riverview)
Essentially extending the loss-of-childhood montage from its predecessor to feature length, Toy Story 3 finds Woody the cowboy (voiced by Tom Hanks), galactic superhero Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and the rest of the gang abandoned by their once-faithful Andy, who is counting down the few days left before he goes to college. Too many of Toy Story 3â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elements feel like slightly modified versions of the first two films. As always, the visual textures and the attention to detail are dazzling, lending the toys a degree of sentience without compromising the limitations of their plastic forms. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.A. (Pearl; Rave; UA Grant; UA Main St.; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)
LIBERTY LANDS N. Third and W. Wildley streets, 215-627-6562, nlna.org. Popeye Cartoons Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong to the finish, cause he eats spinach, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Popeye the sailor man. Toot-toot! Tue., July 27, 8:45 p.m., free.
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THE BALCONY The Troc, 1003 Arch St., 215-9255483, thetroc.com. The Runaways (2010, U.S., 106 min.): Kristen Stewart plays Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning plays Cherie Curie, the heart and soul behind the titular â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s girl rock band. Mon., July 26, 8 p.m., $3.
BISTROT LA MINETTE 623 S. Sixth St., 215-925-8000, bistrotlaminette.com. Russian Dolls (2005, France/U.K., 125 min.): Xavier hits 30 and discovers nothing in his life has changed since college. Mon. & Thu., July 26 & 29, 8 p.m., free.
THE CLAY STUDIO 139 N. Second St., 215-925-3453, theclaystudio.org. Young Frankenstein (1974, U.S., 106 min.): Philadelphia Film Society presents the first film of the Old City Film Series. Mel Brooksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hilarious parody of this classic tale, featuring Gene Wilder. Thu., July 29, 8 p.m., free.
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WORLD CAFĂ&#x2030; LIVE 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com. Wet Hot American Summer (2001, U.S., 97 min.): A few SNL favorites (Molly Shannon, Amy Poehler) join Paul Rudd and David Hyde Pierce in this laugh-out-loud comedy about making the most of the last day of summer camp. Dress like
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PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY 1905 Locust St., 215-685-6621, freelibrary.org. The Magnificent Seven (1960, U.S., 128 min.): Seven gunmen are out to protect a farming village from bandits in this classic American take on The Seven Samurai. Wed., July 28, 2 p.m., free.
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enshoebooks.com. The Coca-Cola Case (2009, Canada, 86 min.): Follows the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stop Killer Coke!â&#x20AC;? campaign and law battle between Colombian union workers and the Coca-Cola Co. Sun., July 25, 7:30 p.m., free.
2600 Ben Franklin Parkway, 215763-8100, philamuseum.org. The Grand Illusion (1937, France 114 min.): Second Jean Renoir Summer Series screening. Two French officers in WWI must put social rank aside when both become prisoners of war. Sun., July 25, 2 p.m., $6-$8.
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SCHUYLKILL BANKS 25th and Walnut streets., schuylkillbanks.org. Best in Show (2000, U.S., 90 min.): Anythingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible at the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. Just ask Gerry (Eugene Levy) and Cookie (Catherine Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara) Fleck. Thu., July 22, 8:15 p.m., free.
SOUTH STREET HEADHOUSE DISTRICT 400 S. Second St., 215-625-7988, southstreet.com. The Village: Teens from â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Villageâ&#x20AC;? in North Philadelphia showcase their short films in honor of the innovative work and neighborhood revitalization done by the Village of Arts and Humanities. Wed., July 28, 8 p.m., free.
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Ridge and Hermitage sts., gorgaspark.com. Up (2009, U.S., 96 min.): A young boy scout, a grieving old man, a dog named Doug and a lot of balloons makes for one hilarious and touching animated film. Squirrel! Tue., July 27, 8:20 p.m., free.
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³ SOME PEOPLE LEAVE town and you could
care less. Others you’d pay train or plane fare to hit bricks quicker. Liz Rywelski and Ryan Trecartin, not so much. We love the performance artist/photographer and the installationist/filmmaker who both split town and each other at July’s end. Wolgin Prize-winning Trecartin debuted his flick Roamie View (starring Philly roommate Liz Ryw) in his soon-to-be new city, Los Angeles, over the weekend. Rywelski — I’ve seen her rip tampons from her body and viewed her works on self-perception (see lizrywelski.com) with awe. Not only is she publishing a blog-mag in September with Space 1026 Mummer Tip Flannery called Sex Injury (“about how people who’ve had serious near-life-altering or -threatening sex injuries don’t talk about them as much as they should,” says Liz) and starring in Trecartin’s movie. She’s heading for U at Buffalo for an M.F.A. in Emerging Practices. Before she goes, she’ll read from Sex Injury, screen Roamie View and invite pals Amanda Blank, Pow Pow Powell, Jayson Musson and others to see her off with tribute performances at the Fringe-preview/Needles Jones b-day jam I’m throwing at National Mechanics July 26. The only two people I’d miss more are me and then me again, if I came back. ³ Pride of New Hope and Internet fishing sensation (brownietroopfs. com) Mickey Melchiondo — oh yeah, he’s also in Ween — got his formal certification as a captain from the federal authorities, and can now offer services as a fishing guide. Mickey’s Guide Service, home of Archangel Sport Fishing, can be found in Belmar, N.J. ³ Speaking o’Weenie music, masters of swank Distant Orange (pals of the whole dippy Great Vibration/Carriage House scene), Lamagier and the sweet-n-quirky Black Horse Motel do a late-night slumber at the Balcony July 24. ³ L&I was supposedly all over Old City, first bugging the long-closed-but-looking-to-reopen Glam for rumored old violations, then Crocodile, which postponed its opening for a day. The Croc’s up and running now. ³ The Franklin got voted a Top 10 Best New Cocktail Bar by Bon Appetit mag. Glug. ³ Aaron Levinson isn’t only Philly’s finest Latino-music producer (although you can check what he’s done for salsa kings BioRitmo’s new La Verdad when he DJs their July 23 World Café Live gig). He’s a spokesmodel for the Sylvan Learning Center’s new version of what used to be the Paul Green School of Rock. And he’s an adjunct at the Sorbonne of North Philly, aka Temple U, and president of Bell Tower Music, Temple’s kickass new online label. “I’m teaching fresh-faced college kids about the secret of the Pyramids,” says A-Lev. ³ More ice? Citypaper.net/icepack. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
STARS AND STRIPES: Grand Slam competitor Leah Walton weaves a yarn at a previous StorySlam. ERIKA VONIE
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JAM AND SLAM First Person Arts is throwing a party. Want to come? By Julia Askenase FIRST PERSON ARTS’ SUMMER GRAND SLAM AND BLOCK PARTY | Sat., July 24, 5 p.m. party, 8 p.m. show, $15 (show only)-$30
(slam and party), Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 267-402-2055, firstpersonarts.org
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uring show and tell, what you had to say about your Pog collection, pet rock or family heirloom was ostensibly as important, if not more so, than the item you shared. Perhaps that’s what the folks at First Person Arts had in mind when they selected “Show and Tell” as the theme for their next StorySlam. But this is no ordinary slam. It’s a Grand Slam, wherein winners of past events will duke it out for the enviable title “Best Storyteller in Philadelphia.” For the past three years, First Person Arts has incorporated Grand Slams into its annual fall First Person Festival, but the Summer Grand Slam and Block Party will be a standalone over-sharing extravaganza complete with barbecue, beer and music. The festivities begin with some edibles donated by Sweet Lucy’s Smokehouse, Narragansett Beer, Art in the Age ROOT liquor and Herr’s, with Brooklyn band Peculiar Gentleman providing the soundtrack. “Part of the reason we wanted to have a party beforehand was so that the audience will get a chance to tell stories and maybe, who knows, create a situation where stories will be born,”
says First Person Arts’ managing director, Dan Gasiewski. The slam itself kicks off at 8 p.m. inside the Painted Bride’s main theater, where competitors will weave their best five-minute stories before three judges — mommy blogger Cecily Kellogg (uppercasewoman.com), StorySlam superfan Eduardo Careaga and Dee Johnson of the First Person Museum. While there’s certainly an element of theatricality — even standup — to the best storytelling, the medium is meant to be democratic. Anyone can participate. But not everyone goes for laughs. Past storytellers have opened up about addiction and loss, Gasiewski says. It’s this willingness to divulge something that is private and often embarrassing, even painful, that elicits such respect from StorySlam attendees. “Audiences never boo a storyteller,” he says. “Everyone has this vested interest in who’s on stage.” The addition of a second Grand Slam per year is further evidence of the StorySlam series’ growing popularity since its launch in 2007. After selling out numerous events, First Person Arts made slams bimonthly earlier this year. Saturday’s competitors are previous winners of these chronicle competitions. First Person Arts’ Philly-based slams are a part of a growing national community of competitive storytelling. Gasiewski cites how the popularity of these events dovetails with the tell-all tendencies on social-media formats like Facebook and Twitter. “That’s bigger than us and what we do,” he says. But there’s one difference about StorySlams that makes them so appealing: the intimacy of shared experience in the flesh. (julia.askenase@citypaper.net)
“Audiences never boo.”
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Doylestown, 215-340-1003. n SinGleS niGht Who says a
good old-fashioned night of drinking can’t bring two hearts together? It may not be match.com, but then again, the Internet doesn’t serve up $5 pub grub. Every Sat, 10pm-2am, Free, Slainte Pub, 3000 Market St., 215-222-7400. n StriPaOKe SUndayS you
n 8th annUal Philly’S larGeSt aFter-WOrK Mid-SUMMer SinGleS Party Beer and
liquor tastings, drink specials and DJs at this singles’ gathering. Thu, Jul. 22, 6-10pm, $9.99-$15, Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant, 4120 Main St., 215-482-8220. n aBS and BOOty POle ClaSS
If fitness classes with names like “Running 101” and “Spinning” bore you, this pole dancing course may be more your style. Every Sat, 11am-12pm, $10, Master Jay Moves Dance Studio, 1807 Chestnut St., 215-564-2575. n end OF SUMMer araBian niGhtS Party Prepare your
1,001 stories and magic carpets for this Harem-inspired party. Wed, Jul. 28, 9pm-3am, $30, Pleasure Garden Club, 61st St. & Passyunk Ave., 800-493-1591. n GOOd ViBratiOnS BUS triP
Take a couples only, X-rated tour of Philadelphia (dance pole included), ending just in time for breakfast. Sat, Jul. 24, 7pm-3am, $170, Pleasure Garden Club, 61st St. & Passyunk Ave., 800-493-1591. n hO dOWn Party! Channel
Daisy Duke and be the sexiest cowgirl you can be at this night of rodeo mayhem. Fri, Jul. 23, 9pm-2am, $30, Pleasure Garden Club, 61st St. & Passyunk Ave., 800-493-1591. n KinKy COUPleS and Sin-
n ladieS niGht BiKini COnteSt Women can earn a cash prize by strutting their stuff in skimpy beachwear. Every Thu, 9pm, $8-$10, Club 27, 27 Bank St., 215-922-3020.
n PeeK-a-BOO reVUe The neo-
burlesque cabaret troupe will perform classic and modern striptease, accompanied with singing, comedy and dance. Sat, Jul. 24, 8pm, $25$30, World Café live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400. n POle danCinG FOr BeGinnerS This aerobics class alternative will get you into shape without boring you to death. Every Mon & Wed, 6-7:30pm; every Tue, 6:30-7:30pm, $20-$60, Poise Dance Studio, 234A Moore St., 267-699-6636.
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n 20th anniVerSary OF the aMeriCanS With diSaBilitieS aCt CeleBratiOn An
outdoor party with music and food celebrates the signing of the Americans with Disabiities Act of 1990. Mon, Jul. 26, 11am-3pm, Free, Independence Visitor Center, 1 N. Independence Mall W., 215-221-4537. n CUltUreS ClOthinG’S BeneFit A silent auction, art gallery,
live music, DJ and fashion show highlight this event, which benefits the Cancer Research Institute. Sat, Jul. 24, 6-10pm, $35, Moshulu, 401 S. Columbus Blvd., 215-760-7871. n dOG dayS OF SUMMer This
celebration is all about your pet and includes a costume contest and obstacle course. Sat, Jul. 24, 10am-2pm, $10, Aloft Hotel, 558 Fellowship Rd, Mount laurel, NJ, redcrossbcnj.org. n MG FeSt 2010 Film screen-
ings and workshops on motion and sound design this educational and networking event. MG Fest 2010 Sat-Sun, Jul. 24-25, 10am, $199 $199, Future Media Concepts, 325 Chestnut Street Suite 220, mgfest. com/#philly. n SUMMer ale FeStiVal
Explore the zoo’s exhibit of life-size lEGO brick animals while you pack away seasonal ales from over 15 microbreweries and tastings form area vendors. VIP ticket holders will get a super exclusive beer tasting, put on by Great lakes Brewing Co. Tickets available by online purchase only. Sat, Jul. 24, 6:30-10pm, $25-$80, Philadelphia Zoo, 3400 Girard Ave., 215-2431100. n SWeet COrn & BlaCKBerry FeStiVal A jam-packed day
dedicated to the current corn and berry crops. Sample treats at linvilla Grill and the Farm Market, try the berries in the orchard, and come see a cooking demonstration. There’s also a pirate theme, so make sure to clothe up your little maties in their finest sea-farin’ dress for a treasure hunt, sea stories, and much more. Sat, Jul. 24, 9am-6pm, Free, linvilla Orchards, 137 Knowlton Rd., Media, 610-876-7116. n the CreatiVe COlleCtiVe CraFt and Fine artS Fair
local artisans share their crafts and pieces in an open-air environ-
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don’t have to reach any high notes during this adults-only stripping karaoke - just high poles. Every Sun, 6pm-2am, Gold Club, 1416 Chancellor St., 215-670-9999.
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encountered my first boiled peanut a couple of weeks ago at Cooperage, a wine and whiskey bar in the Curtis Center. A handful of them arrived in a little white dish inside an oblong tin bucket lined with brown paper. The soggy shells opened with a crack on the teeth, More on: oozing dark brine. The legume meat slipped out of its encasement; it was velvety soft, with a mineral tang of salt, more creamy than crunchy, more bean-y than nutty. How had these little treats eluded me for so long? The answer was obvious. I live in Philly, where sub-Maryland fare makes only fleeting appearances on the restaurantscape, mostly in the form of barbecue. Crescent City closed a few years back, and ever since Erin O’Shea left Marigold Kitchen to open Percy Street (in Crescent City’s place), there’s been no serious ham and grits slinging within city limits. So if ever a time were ripe for a contemporary pan-Southern concept like Cooperage’s, it’s now. Owner Joe Volpe, who caters events in the Curtis atrium (he also
has Cescaphe Ballroom), has filled out his nook nicely. The dining room is bisected by a horseshoe-shaped bar, behind which lies a long list of whiskeys. Copper subway tile, dark oak and glass cake-dome fixtures lend a sleek yet rustic vibe. Cucumber water served in mason jars and tabletop votives nestled in dried black-eyed peas are the subtle signifiers by which this urban eatery evokes the South. In the daylight hours, a café turns out coffee, light salads and sandwiches. By happy hour, the bar fills with area workers imbibing mean blueberry juleps or house cocktails like the Philadelphian (Jefferson bourbon, brown sugar, chocolate bitters and Champagne) to the tunes of Fela, Beach House and Santigold. In print, chef Ralph Kane’s menu is appealing, giving Southernfried a new freshness — hush puppies are served with blueberry jam, pulled pork “nachos” are updated with sriracha sauce and Cajun-poached shrimp are given a cool dunk in a gin cocktail. On several fronts, the kitchen delivers on MORE FOOD AND its promises. The cornbread, another mealDRINK COVERAGE starting freebie in an attractive tin, was AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / sugar-crisped but not too sweet, its crumM E A LT I C K E T. bling interior layered with chipotle and corn kernels. Gumbo, aswirl with chunks of chicken, andouille sausage and okra, was hearty and intensely spiced, ringing with cayenne and black pepper. Chicken-fried gator bites, tasty nuggets enlivened by a Colonel-pleasing blend of herbs and spices, were appropriately matched with a smoked tomato and red pepper remoulade. There was a wonderful precision to the flank steak, dusted with ancho chili powder and grilled to a rosy medium-rare. The tender slices of meat came fanned out over a brilliantly conceived side of
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³ A FUNNY THING happened at Monday ’s Food and Beverage Forum: Food proved hard to find. Sure, there was pabulum aplenty, courtesy of a roomful of food-industry exhibitors, but, alas, no toothpicked treats. Settling for a soft pretzel, a sexy hologram-encased Coca-Cola concoction and a scoop of ice cream, I spent the day satisfying a different sort of hunger: In its first year, this Pennsylvania Restaurant Association gathering brought members of the food world to the Community College of Philadelphia to talk relevant trends and issues. Former White House chef Walter Scheib, who cooked for the Clintons and Bushes, presided over much of the day, recounting his ascent to the First Chef spot and divulging juicy presidential dining quirks, including W’s distaste for “green things” and “wet fish.” (Aren’t they all wet at some point?) While the showing of big-name Philly restaurants was meager, the city’s growing base of sustainable food organizations arrived in full force. Scheib moderated a panel titled “Fresh, Local, Sustainable,” which brought together Fair Food Philly, The Food Trust, sustainable purveyor River & Glen and the Center for Culinary Enterprise, a West Philly community-building project. Prefacing his talk by claiming to be a “simpleton” and a “college dropout,” Scheib himself dished out questions about sustainability (“What’s that?”) and locally grown produce (“Where do I go?”). The green team then fielded more complex questions from an audience whose concerns were myriad. They chatted about the pressure to serve popular but threatened species (think Chilean sea bass) and educating consumers about the inherent limitations of local/seasonal sourcing. Ultimately, a pivotal question facing Philly restaurants hinges on the casual diner: Do, and should, Philadelphians trust the credibility of chefs when they say the tail cut is as delicious as the fillet? Can everyone accept the certitude that tomatoes don’t grow in Pennsylvania during the wintertime? “Above all else, delicious food relies on full flavors, done simply, with fresh produce,” said Scheib, recalling his first family dining philosophy, rooted in no-nonsense, homegrown American cooking. “People will eat seasonal, if that’s what’s best.” The panelists agreed. “This is a call to arms,” said Fair Food Executive Director Ann Karlen, echoing Scheib’s gung-ho approach to local and fresh food. “Go up to your grocer. Ask him, how he can call himself a grocer while selling you this crummy tomato? And don’t settle.” (will.stone@citypaper.net)
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3400 bldgsqft. Retail with bilevel three bedroom apartment and garage, fishtown, Philadelphia, minutes to center city, near to all public transportation. Profitable deli/ grocery store with pa lottery goes with it. Hot location. Lot of space. great investment. appr. 836 sqft retail/deli 1400 sqft 3 bed/one bathroom bilevel appartment 836 sqft full concrete basement with
Apartments for Rent 1 BEDROOM APT $699
3317 Spring Garden Street. 1 Bedroom, Bathroom, Galley Kitchen and Living room. Hardwood floors. Includes heat and water. Across street from bus stop, 8 blocks to 30th Street train station. 4 blocks to Philly Art Musem. Quiet
apartment building with other students, patrolled by Drexel Security. Front porch and entrance setback from street. Tree lined neighborhood with easy on street parking. Available immediately, or for fall term. Call 302-598-3420 or eMail : brodrigu@wlgore. com 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT $1099
3317 Spring Garden. 2 large bedrooms, bathroom, galley kitchen,dining room and living room. Hardwood floors. Heat and water included. Front porch set back from street. Across street from bus stop, 8 blocks from 30th street train station. 4 unit apartment building with other students. Patrolled by Drexel security. 4 blocks from Philly Art Museum. Available immediately or for School terms. 302 598-3420, brodrigu@wlgore.com 4ROOMS IN SOCIETY HILL
SOCIETY HILL Roof deck great 4 room apar tment hardwood floors $800’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 $750 / 2BR – GORGEOUS 2 BED
This two bedroom apar tment sits on a quiet street in Lansdowne it is clean, comfortable and convenient. All public transportation and shopping are just a couple of short blocks away, excellent school district. This is a very nice apartment and I prefer long term tenants: Credit check, 1 year lease minimum, 1st and security due at lease signing. Please email above or call Tony at 347-462-6386 to schedule an appointment to see your new home today.This is the one you want to see! You will not be disappointed! $795 STUDIO AT YORK NORTH APTS
Transfer lease for a studio apartment at York North Apartments. It includes all utilities - hot water, cold water, heat, electricity, air conditioner, gas, internet and cable. Laundry facilities are available in the building. There is also a penthouse lounge, fitness center and cafe in the building. Parking is available. Apartment complex is one block from
the subway station.York North provides free shuttle service to Temple University. (Great for student housing.) Pictures of the apartment can be seen in the website for York North Apartments: http://www.yonoapartments.com/index.html
EAST GERMANTOWN APARTMENT
ART MUSEUM
Graduate Hospital Renovated apartment lots of windows pets ok $500’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400
ART MUSEUM No credit check renovated 2 bedroom parking air hardwood floors bring pets $850 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 BEAUTIFUL FACTORY LOFT
Fishtown area 3br2b w/tons of style! Avail. 8/1. NO DEPOSIT! $2400/mo. for 8mo. sublet. $200 off 1st month rent! For full details & photos search craigslist.com post #1841831252. Call Liz: 267.235.5820 BUSTLETON
BUSTLETON Large 4 room apartment big kitchen appliances pets ok $600’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 CENTER CITY
Center City No credit check 4 room apartment private entrance basement air LOCATORS 215 922 3400 CHESTNUT HILL 1 BEDROOM
CHESTNUT HILL “No credit check” 1 bedroom 2 story apartment yard private entrance “negotiable lease” pets welcome $800’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 CLOSE TO TEMPLE & LASALLE
Feels like a cottage in the country, walking distance from all transportation. Charming and spacious apartment on the ground floor of an historic house. Well maintained. Must see. 2 working fireplaces, private front and back door, closets, off street parking and nice grounds incl. a private outside sitting area just off the kitchen. Pets OK. $1200 per month includes all util. except cooking gas. Avail. August 1st. 215850-2657 CRESCENTVILLE
Crescentville Renovated 1br duplex yard patio large kitchen $600’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400
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EAST GERMANTOWN 1 bedroom renovated & cute apartment Large kitchen pets ok No credit check! $500’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 GRADUATE HOSPITAL
MAYFAIR 1ST FLOOR 1BEDROOM
MAYFAIR 1st floor Renovated 1 bedroom apartment hardwood floors basement storage pets ok $600 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 NORTHERN LIBERTIES AREA
Historic,gated Friends Housing Cooperative.$850 per month.(1 bedroom) Free gas/ hot water/heat; Free storage; Free parking; Onsite laundry; Pet friendly. Close to Center City & Temple U. Call 215922-4622, Mon-Fri 9:30am to 5pm ROOMS AVAILABLE
Rooms available, no drugs, clean, secure, cable ready, kitchen, common,security, storage, near public transportation. please call 267-408-2941 SOCIETY HILL
Society Hill Roof deck great 4 room apartment hardwood floors $800’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 SOUTH PHILA
South Philadelphia Large Renovated apartment utilities paid Storage hardwod floors $400’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 TEMPLE DUPLEX
Temple 1st floor 2 bedroom Duplex fenced yard pets ok Big closets $600 LOCATORS 215 922 3400
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BREWERYTOWN Have pets? 1 bedroom apartment Near transpor tation hardwood floors LOCATORS 215 922 3400 CENTER CITY 1BR DUPLEX
Center City No credit check Bring pets 1 bedroom Duplex with patio $500 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 CONVERTED WAREHOUSE
Center City 1 bedroom Converted Warehouse apartment high ceilings pets utilities paid LOCATORS 215 922 3400 DUPLEX IN CENTER CITY
CENTER CITY No credit check Bring pets 1 bedroom duplex patio $500 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 HISTORIC GERMANTOWN
Historic Germantown Victorian 1 bedroom hardwood floors pets ok $500’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 MANAYUNK
MANAYUNK Renovated 1 bedroom with hardwood floors Near transportation bring pets! $600’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 MANAYUNK: MAIN ST-
2BR. Wall-Wall Carpet, Central Air, Washer/Dryer. $775+. No pets. Call 215-4324695, between 9am-10pm. **RENTAL SPECIALS MOUNT AIRY
MOUNT AIRY No credit check 1st floor apartment hardwood floors storage appliances $500 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 QUEEN VILLAGE: 4TH + FITZWATER-
1BR. Wall-Wall Carpet, Central Air, Washer/Dryer, Dishwasher. $745+. No pets. Call 215-432-4695, between 9am-10pm. **RENTAL SPECIALS
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Temple University No credit check Lovely 2 bedroom apartment fenced yard Negotiable lease bring pets! LOCATORS 215 922 3400 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY- ALL NEW
Available Immediately ! 2nd & 3rd Flrs of Duplex-Extra Privacy- Totally renovated First flr: Kitchen, full bath, large living area (can also be used as additional bedroom) Second flr: Laundry, full bath, large sunny bedroom & living area(can also be used as additional bedroom) each room seperate climate contol, all electric,large closets... only a few blocks from main campus...schedule an appontment text or call 267-205-5922 $1600/per month UNIVERSITY CITY
University City No credit check 1 bedroom yard 1st floor bring pets $500’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400
One Bedroom 15TH/SPRUCE
Beautiful Art Deco High-rise 1Bdrm Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitch, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location! Avail Sept. From $1080/Mo. 877-8562947. Lic #219789. 15TH/SPRUCE
Lrg 1B in Charming Brownstone, Updated Kitchen, Deco Fp, Built in Shelving, HW Flrs, Intercom Entry, Onsite Laundry. Avail Late Aug. $1035/Mo. 877-856-2947. lic#220402
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316 West Wildey, 2 fire places, back yard. A/C Hardwood Floors. $900 plus Utilities. (610) 3580723 ART MUSEUM AREA
Ar t Museum Area Cozy 2 bedroom 1st floor Near park private entrance $650 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 BELLA VISTA
Bella Vista 2bedroom 3bath Bring pets! Great View! appliances $800 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 BELLA VISTA
BELLA VISTA No credit check 2 bedroom private entrance No security deposit $800 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 SOUTH & AMERICAN STS-
New 2BR, Wall-Wall Carpet, Central Air, Washer/Dryer. $975-$1150+. No pets. Call 215-432-4695, between 9 a m - 1 0 p m . * * R E N TA L SPECIALS
Three+ Bedrooms 6BR HOUSE IN ART MUSEUM
ART MUSEUM 6 bedroom home parking hardwood floors washer/dryer pets ok LOCATORS 215 922 3400 AVENUE OF THE ARTS
PENTHOUSE Avail! One of a kind spacious bi-level penthouse in historic Art Deco High-Rise, 3bdrms/ 3 Full
Baths/ 2 half baths, 4 Lrg Terraces w/Amazing City Views, Entertainment Rm w/ Wet Bar, New Kitch w/ Granite Countertops, W/D, CA, Vaulted Ceilings, HW Flrs. Avail Sept. $4300/Mo. 877-856-2947. Lic #219789. HARROWGATE PETS WELCOMED!
HARROWGATE 3 bedroom 2 story house No credit check yard pets $650 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 MANAYUNK 3 BEDROOM HOUSE
Manayunk 3 bedroom 2 story house yard patio washer/dryer appliances $1200 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 NEAR COBBS CREEK PARKWAY
Cobbs Creek Parkway Area Lovely 3 bedroom home yard large kitchen $800 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 NORTH PHILADELPHIA
NORTH PHILADELPHIA Updated & nice 3 bedroom home patio alarm $700’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 NORTHEAST HOUSE NEAR RIVER
Northeast Near River No credit check required 3 bedroom home 2 story pets LOCATORS 215 922 3400 OLNEY SINGLE HOUSE
Olney 3 bedroom Single house 2 patios finished basement Near transpor tation $750 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 OVERBROOK
Overbrook 3 bedroom home Near the Park hardwood floors washer & dryer Bring your pets $800 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 OXFORD CIRCLE
OXFORD CIRCLE No credit check required Renovated 3 bedroom house pets ok garage $900 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 PENNYPACK PARK
PENNYPACK PARK Have pets? 3 bedroom 2 bath Home parking yard $800’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 RHAWNHURST 3BR HOME
RHAWNHURST A 3 bedroom 2 story house Near trans basement storage $800’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
Enormous 3bdrm w/ 2 Full Baths in Beautiful Historic Brownstone, Full Size Washer/ Dryer in Apt, HW Flrs, 2 Decorative Fireplaces, Hi Ceilings, Newly Remodeled Kitchen w/ Granite Countertop, Separate Dining Rm, Living Rm, & Family Rm, A/C, Spacious Rooms, Terrific Location! Avail August. $2850/Mo. 877-856-2947. #216850 SOUTH PHILA
South Philadelphia Have pets? 3 bedroom Single home big windows deck $600’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA
SOUTHWEST Good location 3 bedroom home with deck No credit check $750 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 SPRING GARDEN AREA
SPRING GARDEN AREA Have pets? 2 story 3 bedroom home washer/dryer basement $900’s LOCATORS 215 922 3400 TEMPLE AREA STUDENT HOUSE
WELL MAINTAINED 3 BEDROOM 3 FULL BATHS NEW
APPLIANCES HARDWOOD FLOORS THROUGH OUT WASHER,DRYER HOOK UP AVAILABLE IN BASEMENT MUST BE 21 YEARS OLD TO APPLY HOUSE IS SET UP FOR 3 STUDENTS SHOPPING BANKING AND TRANSPORTATION IS WITH IN WALKING DISTANCE TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
Temple University No credit check 3 bedroom 2 story yard basement pets $500 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY 3BR/2BA
Look no further! These beautiful, newly renovated three bedroom apartments are waiting for you. Located at 1920 N. 7th St. on a quiet, residential streetess internet and free Direct TV hook-up For additional photos, see: http://picasaweb.google. com/1025829870624731566 28/N7thStApartments?feat=d irectlink For more information, or to schedule a viewing, call Eve at 215 990 9680 or e-mail: 1920seventh@gmail.com TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOUSE
4 Bedroom 2-1/2 Bath House Three blocks from campus on 1600 block of Edgely Street. Central Air, Alarm, Washer, Dryer and much more. House was newly renovated in 2009 with brand new kitchen and bathrooms. Call Don at 267304-4679 for more information. UNIVERSITY CITY
Beautiful 1st Floor, 3 BR Apartment w/Front Porch. New Bathroom, Freshly Painted.Available Immediately. $900/mo. 4628 Sansom St. 610-609-1671.
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ACADEMY GARDENS 6 room house parking bar yard washer/dryer $725 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 ALL AREAS-HOUSES FOR RENT
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Allegheny West 3 bedroom 2 story house yard basement storage $800 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 ART MUSEUM 6 BEDROOM HOME
ART MUSEUM 6 bedroom home off street parking hardwood floors washer/dryer LOCATORS 215 922 3400 AVENUE OF THE ARTS
Ave of the Arts Have pets??? 4 bedroom 2 story house yard basment storage LOCATORS 215 922 3400 AVENUE OF THE ARTS 4BR
AVE OF THE ARTS Have pets? 4 bedroom 2 story home yard basement $850 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 CASTER GARDENS
Caster Gardens Lease purchase & Own! 6 room 2 story home pets ok $725 LOCATORS 215 922 3400 CEDAR PARK
Cedar Park Have pets? 4 bedroom 2 story house yard off street parking air LOCATORS 215 922 3400 CENTER CITY 7ROOMS 2 BATHS
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