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By Brian Howard

5 & 34 ➤ The long ciTywide nightmare is over. With the trade of Donovan McNabb to division rival Washington racistnameds for a couple of draft picks, a whole decade of the Eagles being merely really good has come to a merciful end. after 11 seasons, nearly 5,000 passes, 82 wins and, of highest import, zero Super Bowl rings, the most dysfunctional relationship in philadelphia — that between No. 5 and his coach, andy reid — has come to an end.

This is a moment that’s seemed both pre-ordained and eternally unlikely, each disappointing season followed by assertions that the quarterback reid hitched his hopes to back in 1999 would remain so.

No more. No more! as our sporting fool award-winning sports journalist E. James Beale wrote on Jan. 14, reid and McNabb, while awesome individually, together produce an effect pharmacologists call “synergism” — when two drugs’ negative effects “exacerbate the problems associated with the other.

Here two plus two can equal five — or 500.”

Beale had already filed this week’s column (p.

11) when the “Easter surprise” broke — on the eve of No. 34 roy Halladay’s pinstriped debut. So we caught up with Beale for his take on the biggest 24 sports hours since Brad lidge threw strike three.

“They’d come to the point, with all the talk, where it was going to be really hard for [McNabb] to come in and be the starting quarterback,” figures Beale. “But they got good value [for him].” as to the idea that it was folly trading McNabb to a team the Eagles will face twice a year, Beale is pointed: “i’ve watched him in enough big games to say i’m not afraid of him in big games. i wish him the best for 14 games a season.” it reminds me of one of our favorite jokes from the Bell Curve, one that neatly sums up McNabb’s

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tenure. Originally published Nov. 17, 2005: “Eagles suffer lastminute loss to the Cowboys on Monday Night Football. Oregon Diner adds the McNabb Special to its menu: Two minutes before you’re ready to leave, they hand you a turnover. Minus 4.”

Donovan, go gentle into that good swamp. and Washington, have you tried the McNabb special? it’s to die for. as to the kinetic sports news of this week — actual people on an actual field — roy Halladay (the subject of Beale’s July 2009 column “Get roy or Die Trying”) made his first start as the phillies ace with an exclamation point, dominating the Washington Nationals behind an 11-run drubbing by the offense.

Beale has his concerns.

“The back end of their bullpen’s a problem. They’re an old team. i know they say their bench improved, but if ryan Howard goes down for an extended period, are they still a good team?”

Then he admits he’s stretching: “Halladay’s gonna win 20.

He’s awesome. My fears for the phillies come with the knowledge that they’re awesome. This team’s armor has some chinks, but if all the teams got shuffled up and we ended up with this one, we’d be like, ‘Oh, fantastic.’” (bhoward@citypaper.net)

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[ + 3] Shortly after relaxing penalties for pot

possession, DA Seth Williams sends out a press release stating, “We are not decriminalizing marijuana.” Adding: “I don’t know what I’m saying right now. Who the fuck ate all the Bugles?”

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Casino developer Steve Wynn assures the city that a South Philly casino would be “Wynn top to bottom.” Then he winks at Mayor Nutter, makes that clicky sound with his tongue and says, “You know what I mean, Mikey.”

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Gov. Rendell gets a letter from an antigovernment group ordering that he resign.

“Patience, doodz,” says Rendell, sucking on a spleef, chomping on some Bugles.

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A jury finds a local doctor guilty of running a “pill mill.” Also of smoking Pall Malls and listening to Pell Mell. And polling Richard Moll. And the thing he was doing to Martin Mull, well, it’s not illegal but he should really close the curtains.

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[ + 1] City engineers begin to work on an iPhone

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Philly AIDS activist groups give a fake $9 billion check to Sen. Arlen Specter and Congressman Chaka Fattah. Specter tries to cash it anyway because what does he possibly have to lose.

[ + 1] Police arrest a man who climbed through

a McDonald’s drive-thru because he was sick of waiting for his Filet-o-Fish. “Fuck right I’m pressing charges,” says flopping plastic fish mounted on the wall.

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At a protest on Good Friday, gun-rights advocates taunt gun-control supporters and sing “God Bless America.” Then they sing “We Are 4.2 Times More Likely To Get Killed By A Gun Than You Are.” It’s not very catchy, but it’s true.

[ + 1] The TV show Ghost Hunters films at the

Philadelphia Zoo. “My God,” says one researcher slowly removing his infrared goggles. “Ghost monkeys. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”

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he Year of Our lord 2010 is shaping up to be an, um, OK year for domestic violence service providers. Of course, compared to the Year of Our lord 2009 — when both philly and the state saw the need for domestic violence services (and domestic homicides) go up while the funding for those services went down — what isn’t an OK year?

But let’s not be Cynical Cynthias. after all, the health-care reform bill bans insurance companies from denying battered women coverage on account of domestic violence being a “preexisting condition,” which eight states (not pennsylvania) and the District of Columbia allowed them to do. additionally, the federal Family violence Prevention and Services act (FVpSa) just might be reauthorized, if U.S. rep (and U.S. Senate candidate) Joe Sestak (D-Delaware County) has anything to say about it. Enacted by Congress in 1984, the FVpSa provides partial funding for more than 2,000 domestic violence shelters around the country — but hasn’t been re-authorized since 2008. This means that funding for the shelters is established on a year-to-year basis, leaving it more open to attack by politicians, especially during an economic downturn. locally, one of FVpSa’s beneficiaries is Women against abuse (which bears the cringe-inducing acronym Waa), the philly domestic violence shelter we told you about last month [News, “4,671,” Holly

Otterbein, March 18, 2010], which had to turn away 4,671 victims in 2009 due to lack of funds.

Sestak is pushing U.S. rep. George miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Education and labor Committee, for a vote on FVpSa, as well as a $75 million increase in domestic-violence services funding across the country.

“We’ve been working on this type of legislation for some time because domestic violence is a very serious problem here, specifically,” says Jonathon dworkin, a Sestak campaign spokesman. “in 2009, there were 179 domestic homicides in pennsylvania, and only a few years before that there were 120, so things are clearly getting worse.” if Congress reauthorizes FVpSa, it’s not immediately clear how much money will trickle down to Waa. But, at least, the shelter would find out soon after its passage, and could then plan for its next fiscal year accordingly — a simple thing that is all but impossible to do under the current system. as of press time, no vote has been scheduled.

Note to Congress: Get on the ball, please.

Note to Congress: Get on the ball, please.

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after 20 years of studies, analyses, reanalyses, lawsuits, protests and counter-protests regarding the delaware river deepening project, guess what the Government accountability Office (GaO) just published? another report! released april 2, this one is a follow-up to the GaO’s 2002 report on the controversial project, a $300 million plan to deepen the river’s navigation channel from 40 feet to 45 feet, thus attracting bigger ships and bigger business. in its first report, the GaO found that the Corps had overstated the project’s annual economic benefits by $26.8 million, and asked the agency to conduct a reanalysis. in the GaO’s 2010 reanalysis of the Corps’ reanalysis (yeah, we know), things have ostensibly gotten better.

The GaO writes that the Corps’ new report (first released in 2004, then updated in 2009) “corrected miscalculations and important omissions we identified in 2002 that affected the project’s benefit and cost estimates.” One such correction: in 2002, the GaO found $4.7 million in unaccounted economic benefits that the Corps later blamed on a computer error.

Eight years later, there’s no such thing! progress! as you inch your way down the 67-page report, however, the GaO’s tenor becomes less fulsome. The office says that the Corps’

claim that containerized cargo will bring in $6.1 million in economic benefits per year may not be “fully resolved.” Specifically, the Corps makes this claim based on “more direct delivery of goods to philadelphia” on two trade routes; the GaO says one such trade route may not yet exist. Oopsies.

The GaO also calls the Corps’ suggested economic benefits related to crude oil — which account for 49 percent of the project’s total benefits — “not consistent with current market and industry conditions.” Of course, some of these market and industry conditions may iron themselves out when the recession passes.

But the GaO says that others likely won’t ever return to what they were in the early aughts. The Corps is moving forward, anyway.

“There is nothing in the GaO’s final report that even approaches a deal breaker,” says Corps spokesperson ed Voigt. “Note their report is entitled ‘Comprehensive reanalysis Corrected Errors, but Several issues Still Need to Be addressed’ — this is a far cry from the ‘Comprehensive reanalysis Needed’ of eight years ago.” in other words, close enough.

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On March 30, a throng of lGBtQ folk led by the group SePta raGe (riders against Gender Exclusion) gathered outside Centre Square plaza (the one with the clothespin) to protest SEpTa’s alleged inaction on fixing gender designations on transPasses that sometimes result in haranguing or the revocation of passes. Specifically, raGE argued that SEpTa had not given them a streamlined avenue to file complaints or laid out a plan for fixing the problem. SEpTa says it has.

We’re here to render judgment. if you’ve kept up with the world of SEpTa and/or lGBTQ, you know about the flashpoint between the two over gender designation on Transpasses: Female transsexuals use cards marked “M” (or vice versa), get harassed by overpaid SePta workers sitting in booths and sometimes have their passes revoked. last October, a delegation of the concerned held a meeting with SEpTa brass to discuss how to more efficiently lodge complaints and figure out when the gender designation would be abolished. The verdict: Transsexuals would have access to the personal phone number and e-mail of rochelle Culbreath, SEpTa’s government affairs coordinator, if any problems arose, and the passes would be changed when a new pay system is instituted, which should be, oh, you know, eventually.

To date, however, Culbreath hasn’t gotten a single call: “We could have talked to her, but we couldn’t guarantee anyone that they would get their money back” if employees prevented them from using their passes, says Max ray, raGE’s spokesperson. “There wasn’t a big effort because it didn’t seem like a real solution.”

Culbreath was supposed to be a temporary contact; by January, however, SEpTa hadn’t yet figured out who the permanent contact would be. “after months of waiting, raGE realized that SEpTa was not committed to doing anything tangible for riders harmed by their discriminatory Transpass policy, and that raGE would have to do the job of SEpTa. We chose not to advertise the temporary SEpTa system that had no accountability … ,” ray e-mails. point conceded. let’s call this a tie. after all, it’s one thing to demand that SEpTa take action. But expecting them do it competently? let’s keep our expectations realistic.

thought, let’s make it Say Stuff Month, because I say so!

Embrace it, a la casino mogul Steve Wynn, who revealed the plans for the new Foxwoods casino this week. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Wynn replied to Mayor Nutter’s “concerns about the casino fitting in with the city’s overall plan for the waterfront” by nonchalantly telling him that “he could envision buying” nearby land for … a hotel for his new casino!

Fascinating stuff: Of the many things I “could envision” myself, Wynn building a hotel doesn’t rank high — especially since his casino, like most of the casinos magically pouring money into our local governments’ pockets, is of the “convenience” variety, aimed not at tourists but at you and me. And especially since Wynn was quite explicit in telling the Gaming Board, media and his investors that he wasn’t going to build a hotel. Maybe, he’s just saying stuff … stuff that Nutter wants to hear. Keep up the good work, say I, Steve: Say Stuff Month doesn’t last forever (and Do Stuff Month is a killer).

Mayor Nutter shouldn’t mind, anyway. He’s been saying some stuff of his own, of late: like how he’s tired of people saying stuff about him not cutting the size of government. In a letter to the Inky last Friday, Nutter noted that he’s cut the budget by $160 million and that “since December 2008, the city’s general-fund work force has shrunk by about 800.” He said it, it’s stuff — and so his stuff has been said.

Of course, the mayor picked his words wisely.

He did cut 800 jobs between December 2008 and last April 2 — but December 2008, it turns out (about four months after the economy had crashed) saw the second-highest staffing levels of the Nutter administration.

According to the city’s projections, Nutter will have actually added about 200 employees to the city’s payroll by this June. The city’s Five Year Plan shows us adding another 165 positions in 2011 and another 174 on top of that by the end of fiscal year 2012.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not getting all anti-government on you (talk about saying stuff). But if you’re going to get that messy with your numbers … well, say it, don’t spray it.

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Will The Fightins become a full-time job? a­ $6 Miller lite bottle outside McFa­dden’s, he wa­ved me over. “i mea­n, i didn’t even mea­n to sta­rt the site,” he expla­ins. “if i’d ha­ve been a­sked to write a­ Flyers blog, i’d ha­ve proba­bly done tha­t.”

Just think: Jim Ja­ckson’s musta­che wa­s this close to becoming Sa­rge Ma­tthews’ ha­ts.

Given tha­t so ma­ny of the blogs The Fightins bea­t out a­re either run by ma­instrea­m sites or, like CSN’s the700level.com, a­re now officia­lly under a­ corpora­te ba­nner, you ha­ve to wonder how fa­r a­wa­y The Fightins is from becoming a­ full-time job. “Fa­r,” sa­ys meech. For the foreseea­ble future, this is a­ hobby. and, while meech would love to do nothing but write, don’t expect much to cha­nge even if he does go ma­instrea­m. He wa­nts nothing to do with the press box, a­nd vows never to clea­n up his la­ngua­ge. and why should he? The Fightins ha­s a­ title to protect.

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➤ If you’re one of the million or so phila­delphia­ns who both love your hometown ba­seba­ll tea­m a­nd tend to procra­stina­te a­t work, you ha­ve just found yourself sma­ck da­b in the middle of a­ hell of a­n era­. With more tha­n 60 phillies blogs up a­nd running, if you know where to look, you ca­n enterta­in yourself for da­ys with in-depth a­na­lysis, spot-on commenta­ry a­nd inside a­ccess to your loca­l tea­m’s to-ings a­nd fro-ings. and if you don’t? Well, you’re likely to spend ha­lf your da­y rea­ding the philly.com comments pa­ge a­nd wondering why philliesblog.com won’t ever refresh (it doesn’t exist).

Fortuna­tely, The phield (thephield.wordpress. com), a­ recent online tourna­ment set up by a­ former senior writer a­t philliesna­tion.com tha­t ra­n pa­ra­llel to Ma­rch Ma­dness, ha­s sepa­ra­ted the delicious online whea­t from the ta­steless online cha­ff. The ba­sic premise of The phield wa­s simple: Sort the best 65 (!) phillies blogs — a­n eclectic combina­tion of phillies bea­t writers, die-ha­rd fa­ns a­nd a­ gentlema­n who simply a­ppea­rs to wa­nt to go to the zoo with roy Ha­lla­da­y — a­nd let the voting public decide the winner. in a­ ra­re win for democra­cy, the fina­ls sa­w the two best — Beerlea­guer (beerlea­guer.typepa­d.com) a­nd The Fightins (thefightins.com) — squa­re off for the cha­mpionship.

The Fightins took home the chip.

The winning site, which will turn three in June, is the bra­inchild of a­ guy best known a­s meech.one, the site’s founder a­nd ma­in contributor. Unlike ma­ny of the contesta­nts, meech isn’t a­ professiona­l writer or blogger, ra­ther a­ fa­n with a­ 9-to-5 (hence the moniker, to a­void the boss). Yea­rs a­go, meech wa­s a­n online commenter when Jesse pugh, who wa­s sta­rting a­ site ca­lled Bugs & Cra­nks, a­sked him to cover the phillies. Over persona­l objections — “i don’t think i’m a­ good writer, i rea­lly don’t,” he (incorrectly) dea­dpa­ns — meech a­greed, a­nd a­fter severa­l months, wa­s getting twice a­s ma­ny hits a­s the next most popula­r contributor. He ha­d outgrown the site. Soon, The Fightins wa­s born.

How did meech a­nd his ga­ng end up the BFCs, though? Simple: tone. in a­ sea­ of phillies a­na­lysis, commenta­ry a­nd insta­-punditry, The Fightins is a­ brea­k from wha­t ca­n sometimes feel like the rigors of fa­ndom. You won’t find a­ deba­te a­bout the merits of pla­cido pola­nco’s UZr, but you might find a­ joke a­bout his huge dome, a­nd if he does something a­ma­zing, you’ll proba­bly find a­ post with lots of excla­ma­tion points celebra­ting it. The Fightins ha­s ma­na­ged to ca­pture a­ll the off-the-field hila­rity tha­t comes with a­ slow-pa­ced ga­me pla­yed over a­ long, long sea­son. When the television ca­mera­s spot someone with a­ bootleg “Cole Ha­mles” or “Sha­ne Victornio” jersey, you better believe the site is going to ca­tch it, a­nd meech’s obsession with a­nnouncer Ga­ry “Sa­rge” Ma­tthews — there a­re more tha­n 50 posts ta­gged “Sa­rge Ma­tthews,” a­nd meech’s 2008

Christma­s ca­rd wa­s a­ picture of himself, his son a­nd the Sa­rge — ha­s become a­ running in-joke. The site is ha­lf-sna­rk, ha­lf-fa­nboy a­nd it’s ca­ught on in the clubhouse. la­st august, Ja­yson Werth wa­s seen wea­ring a­ The Fightins Tshirt postga­me, a­nd Todd Zolecki, longtime phillies bea­t writer, is on the ba­ndwa­gon: “it’s funny. it’s irreverent. and you know their Tshirts a­re good when pla­yers a­re a­sking a­bout them.” i ca­ught up with meech la­st weekend, a­fter the phils’ fina­l spring tra­ining ga­me of the yea­r. a red phillies ca­p topped his round, stubble-covered fa­ce, a­nd his World Series-edition customma­de Cha­rlie Ma­nuel No. 41 jersey wa­s left unbuttoned over a­ red tee celebra­ting the 2008 cha­mpionship. Drinking from

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By Bruce Schimmel

EDUCATING RINA ³ CITY HALL IS charging forward with plans for street furniture,

and it’s surprising how little is known about what we’ll be seeing, sitting in and tossing trash at for the next 20 years.

The unknowns: how much the redecorating will cost, whether the financing is viable, what hundreds of the new transit shelters, bike racks and trash bins will even look like.

What is certain is that all this new street furniture will be paid for by advertising on them. Little ads, big ads and very likely hundreds of e-billboards that blink a new scene every six seconds.

The city’s targeting companies that build street furniture for cities, which will then sell the ads and (hopefully) kick back some cash. Spearheading the project is Deputy Mayor Rina Cutler, who declined to speculate about what the companies would offer.

“It’ll be interesting to see what the dollars come back at,” said Cutler. Though in a post-crash world, “it’ll be nowhere near what it was several years ago.”

On the question of what new furniture will look like, Cutler was pointedly agnostic. “Far be [it from] me to make that decision in advance of having the community involved.”

Now, that may sound like the public will have a substantial say.

But when you look into the details, Cutler’s answer is, um, diplomatic.

Cutler’s assignment isn’t easy. She’s under the gun from Michael Nutter to get the furniture on the street and revenue flowing as quickly as possible. So going too public could slow things down.

And here’s where I disagree: This should be very public.

Last fall, when she announced that a request for proposal (RFP) would be issued, I wrote that the public and local designers are being wrongly cut out of the process (“Decorating in the Dark,” Nov. 12, 2009). Several groups, including Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture), subsequently echoed my concerns, writing Cutler to ask for design excellence, “advertising restraint” and a “Philadelphia look.”

Cutler declined to meet them personally, though some of their ideas did get into the final RFP. Originally slated for December, the RFP came out in late March. The delay seems only to have tightened the timeline, further limiting public participation.

Vendors must come up with cash-flow projections and designs for transit shelters, bike racks and trash bins by early May. Yes, in about a month. Sure, big transit/ad giants like Titan, JCDecaux, Clear Channel, Cemusa and CBS Outdoor are in the business of designing city furniture. But it’s doubtful they can do anything really good that fast. Yet when asked if the public could get a peek at the top five entries before a final decision, Cutler decided to limit public comment to after a winner is selected.

That ain’t right. Philly’s good at charrettes — from the South Street Bridge to picking the winner of the President’s House. This after-the-fact comment is almost a parody of public participation.

Undaunted, Drexel’s Department of Architecture + Interiors is dedicating its third annual design charrette (April 9-12, drexel. edu/charrette) to Urban Connection with an April 9, 6 p.m. panel on Urban Transportation and Street Furniture in Philadelphia.

Cutler told me she won’t be there. That’s a shame. Because she should at least see and hear first-hand what the public wants before making decisions we’ll have to live with for decades. (bruce@schimmel.com)

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LAND GRABBING: WCRP members Sarita Broadnax, Alex Nopper and Marcus Persley (pictured left to right) stand in one of the vacant lots they want the city to turn over to a nonprofit land trust. neal santos

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GoinG hardball Former allies are frustrated with Councilwoman Quiñones-Sánchez. By Isaiah Thompson

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wo weeks ago, some 150 members of the Eastern North philadelphia Coalition (ENpC) — a nonprofit representing the neighborhood bounded by Front and 10th streets to the east and west and Girard avenue and Diamond Street to the south and north — crammed The Temple presbyterian Church at Seventh and Thompson streets, filling its pews and turning the church, already hot, into a sauna.

“We didn’t know if you’d be bringing enough heat with you,” joked the rev. Valeria Harvell, who presided over the gathering.

“So we turned the heat up ourselves.”

Jokes aside, it was, in fact, exactly what the meeting’s organizers are hoping to do: Turn up the heat — maybe even light a fire — under 7th District Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez.

The councilwoman, ENpC leaders charge, has brushed them aside and failed to deliver on a promise to help the coalition achieve its dream of obtaining vacant lots and turning them into a community-based “land trust” — a nonprofit that would own community land and give residents a say in development in the neighborhood, which has started to see gentrification in recent years, despite its dozens of trash-strewn, vacant lots. The area is surprisingly diverse — economically, racially, religiously — and rarely unified: The meeting’s attendees were black, Hispanic, arab-american and — a newer, younger demographic — white. land and potential, residents feel, are abundant, and they want to capitalize.

The Women’s Community revitalization project (WCrp), a member of ENpC, which has a long record of building rental units specifically for the low-income and poor, would be a potential developer.

The coalition has already identified five parcels of vacant land for either housing or green space — now they want Quiñones-Sánchez to commit to the project.

So they organized this meeting and put Sanchez’s name on the flier, effectively daring her not to show up. it was a showdown.

For an hour, speakers rallied the crowd, alternately preaching the need for a land trust and taking swipes at the councilwoman.

“in us we trust!” shouted the crowd. “Why doesn’t Maria?”

But the councilwoman took her own swipe: She didn’t show. instead, she sent aide Justin DiBerardinis, who, after apologizing for (but not quite explaining) his boss’s absence, began to delve into the details of land acquisition, to the nonsatisfaction of the crowd.

They asked if Sanchez would commit to meeting with them within 30 days, but DiBerardinis would make no such commitment.

The showdown had ended, for now, in a draw. But both parties are keeping their holsters on. “The truth is that if Maria wanted to give us the land, she could,” WCrp executive director Nora lichtash told City Paper after the meeting. “Why won’t she meet with us?”

Quiñones-Sánchez, for her part, will have none of it: “i meet with the group every three months and had asked them to wait until May or June,” she says. “They took it upon themselves to put my name on their flier because they figured they could force me there.”

This was only the latest in what appears to be an escalating feud between the councilwoman and the ENpC — although they both purport to want vacant land for community nonprofit projects. So what’s the beef? The answer seems to be a combination of politics, personality and ego. But there wasn’t always bad blood. When they first met, Quiñones-Sánchez and ENpC seemed like a match made in heaven. it was spring 2007, and then-candidate Quiñones-Sánchez was facing a tight primary race for the 7th District seat; ENpC, looking for a way to move forward in establishing a community-owned land trust, hosted a voters forum where they quizzed candidates on the group’s goal. Coalition members say Quiñones-Sánchez shined on the land-trust issue. That September, Democratic nominee Quiñones-Sánchez wrote a letter supporting ENpC’s application for a grant to help start the land trust. When, in late 2008, ENpC began an in-depth land-use planning process, QuiñonesSánchez attended the kickoff celebration; her aide, DiBerardinis,

“We pissed her off. We really did.”

served on the plan’s steering committee.

The trouble started last year. ENpC leaders charge that, starting in early 2009, their councilwoman began to grow increasingly distant, rescheduling meetings and failing to give updates on the land acquisition. Quiñones-Sánchez says she worked with them throughout. Whatever the case, by mid-2009 ENpC members felt sufficiently frustrated to try a new tactic: They had members collect postcards to send to her office requesting a meeting. it marked a turning point: The councilwoman found out. relations began to sour rapidly.

“We pissed her off. We really did,” says Felicia Coward, executive director of the Friends Neighborhood Guild, an ENpC member. “There were a couple of us who initially wanted to be conciliatory. … it wasn’t until after she continued turning her back to us that it became unanimous that we just have to go hardball here.”

Coalition leaders describe QuiñonesSánchez as remote, negative and unwilling to give straight answers or commitments.

“Her tactics are to always keep you waiting,” says lichtash, of the WCrp, the only housing developer in the coalition. “Why can’t she tell us that yes, these five acres or some other five acres can be used this way?”

Quiñones-Sánchez points out that her office is already working with the WCrp on two other projects in the district, and accuses coalition leaders of using political theatrics to brush over competing claims to the lots they’ve selected, including plans by the asociación of puertorriqueños en Marcha (apM), a powerhouse developer of affordable housing. “They wanted to show the public they were doing something, but it was at my expense,” she says.

But then, there’s the chance that both parties will lose if they don’t patch up.

Without the councilwoman’s help, the ENpC isn’t likely to get its hands on some of the approximately $4 million in Neighborhood Transformation initiative funding for the district. Without the WCrp, the district might not get the kind of low-income rental housing the group specializes in.

So far, neither side shows signs of backing down. “i am committed to their long-term goals but i will NOT be threatened by a group i meet with quarterly and that had NO reason to go down this road,” QuiñonesSánchez said in an e-mail to City Paper.

“We could lose, there’s no question,” says lichtash. “But we can’t back off when we’ve gone so far down the road. … There are no permanent enemies. and no permanent allies.” (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)

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WALKING MAN: Mike Gallagher and his 40-pound backpack will spend the next year or so traversing the country, en route to San Francisco. neal santos

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Walk on A Philly man will walk across the country. He’s not sure why, either. By Eric Pettersson

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’ll kill you.”

Mike Gallagher isn’t joking. His dream is to walk across the country, from philadelphia to San Francisco; he’s put months of time and preparation into this adventure, and he’ll be damned if he gives it up to some two-bit mugger. He’ll be carrying some small knives, mace and a police baton that his father, who used to work for the FBi, bought him for protection.

Still, he hardly cuts an imposing figure.

His thin frame is covered with tight-fitting clothes, topped with thick-rimmed glasses and long, choppy red hair. after a stint touring as a videographer for his friends’ underground rock bands (most notably on Warped Tour ’05), he ended up working a “geeky” job as an iT guy for St. Joseph’s University. He’s trained by reading about other peoples’ similar journeys in the past, and going on 12to 20-mile walks with his loaded backpack daily.

But still, he’s never done anything quite like this before; he’s not an outdoors enthusiast. “But that’s kind of how i want it to be,” he says. “i don’t want to be this super-prepared outdoorsy guy. … i want to be like any ordinary person just thrown into a situation like this.” and he is taking a decidedly urban, tech-guy approach to what is, essentially, a cross-country camping trip that officially began april 5, his 27th birthday. He’ll camp on the side of the road or use couchsurfing.org to find places to stay. He’s meeting up with a photographer friend in indiana. in Michigan, he’ll stay with a woman who is currently boating from Brazil to Boston, and who will then bike from Boston, through Canada, to Michigan.

Every two weeks or so he’ll find a real camp site and take a shower.

Gallagher will have about 40 pounds on his back — a tent, sleeping bag, small stove, some freeze-dried food, a change of clothes, a solar charger for his cell phone and camera and myriad other necessary tools — making the pace a slow and steady 10 to 20 miles per day, as he travels northwest to Wyoming and then down the pacific Crest Trail. (See his full route on Google Maps by following the link on his

blog, thewalk2010.com.) as he goes, he will be blogging daily from his phone and filming constantly; the goal is to eventually turn his adventure into a documentary. The blog (along with Twitter and ustream.tv) will capture the daily happenings of the trip, allowing the world to join Gallagher on his walk, getting a glimpse of both the country and his year of solitude. “it’s not just a point-a-to-point-B thing,” he says. “it’s going to be a serious analysis of one person’s head, when they have nothing to do but think about what they’ve done, what’s going on, what they want to do.”

But why is he doing it? Good question.

When he first told friends of his plans, he says he had no clue what the answer was. He just felt it was something he had to do. “i’m still kind of fuzzy on the whole, exactly, ‘why’ thing,” he says.

One part, he says, is simply the love of travel. it’s a chance to see new places closer-up than is possible in a car. a second part — probably the most significant — is that for Gallagher, this trek represents a rite of passage. “i have this really kind of sick feeling that my whole life i’ve had my hand held for every part of it,” he says. “i feel like i’ve accomplished a small amount, you know, but i really want to do something that’s 100 percent me, and big.” looking at himself in a cubical one day, he thought, “No, i don’t want this. This is really scary, because i could do this for the rest of my life.” His journey, then, begins by stepping outside of the standard american narrative — high school, college, career — and onto a path created on his own terms. (His last day of work was March 30.)

While the blog will consist of simple updates on the walk, keep-

“I’m a big believer in just not being a douche to people.”

ing a careful balance between newsy and personal elements, the documentary will be more introspective, exploring the inner workings of Gallagher’s thoughts and feelings. He speaks of the walk with such importance that it almost takes on a spiritual nature. He is clear, however, that this is not a religious journey. “i used to go to church every day, and i used to be president of [the Fellowship of Christian athletes] in high school and i did that whole thing. and then i went to college and i realized that a lot of religions are pretty equal, and have a lot of the same beliefs.”

Still, having that background has influenced the way in which Gallagher has gone about planning this journey.

For starters, he knew he couldn’t take much with him and he didn’t want to pay rent back home while he was away, so he just gave away everything he owned to people who needed it.

“Even though i’m not Christian anymore,” he says, “i’m still a very spiritual guy and i’m a big believer in just not being a douche to people, which in my opinion is what all religions teach. Just don’t be a dick, you know? Just avoid being a dick, and you’ll be fine. Some of my friends are less fortunate than me, so i just ended up giving a lot of my stuff to them, trying to improve their life a little.”

He experienced setbacks even before hitting the road — or, at least, the sidewalk — including the need for a new tent.

One morning, after a practice camping run, he woke up to find it raining inside; he also discovered that he had a batch of malfunctioning camera memory cards. and then there’s his miscalculation: He originally thought that if he walked 10 miles per day, he’d make it to the Emerald City in six months. Turns out, he was wrong: it could take twice that long. “i made an egregious error,” he confessed on his blog.

Gallagher began the morning of his departure at friend Max’s house on Second and Federal streets in South philly, where he was eating breakfast.

Max was fiddling with the radio.

“Do you listen to pBr every morning?”

Gallagher asked. He meant Npr, and quickly caught himself: “Can i have a pBr?” His friend asked if he seriously wanted a beer, at 8 a.m. “Do you have an ipa?”

His friend did, in fact: Victory Hop Devil, his favorite. “i could use the carbs,” Gallagher replied. (eric.pettersson@citypaper.net)

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“i don’t think lo-fi means anything if you don’t have good songs.”

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dreams and strange adventures in lo-fi.

“She’s got a terrific voice. That initial track i heard was a cover of Springsteen’s ‘prove it all Night’ which she’s reconstructed so it almost sounded like Suicide doing it.

But her original material was the same; very cool and sparse, synthetic with a great use of a rhythm or drum machine. and then you add her singing over that, i dunno, she just struck me as an artist i’d want to work with.”

So he did. Before even meeting remy (born Meghan Uremovich), lax put out her first lp, Introducing, on Siltbreeze in 2008. last month they followed it up with Go Grey. Music by U.S. Girls also turns up on singles and compilations put out by even smaller labels. You’re at least as likely to find her on vinyl, or even cassette, as you are a compact disc. remy likes the distinct physicality of vinyl, and the warm sound. “CDs are digital,” she sighs in her charming Chicago accent. “it’s a laser. You know, i don’t know nothing about lasers.” She gets up several times during our interview to choose and flip records.

There’s a utilitarian, almost low-tech vibe to many aspects of remy’s life, whether it’s by choice or necessity.

She doesn’t own a computer, so she goes to the library to check her e-mail and borrow movies and books.

Somewhere along the way her DVD player’s remote control got lost; she and her boyfriend/roommate have small piles of borrowed VHS tapes piled near the TV. Compared to some of the sketchy apartments she had in Chicago, where she grew up, her current place is pretty sweet: OK neighborhood, nobody close enough to complain about noise, no inside walls but plenty of room. Still, she had to talk the landlord down on price a little. right now she’s working two jobs, at a bakery and a record store, and financial issues seem to be in the background of many of her creative decisions. To hear her tell it, her music wouldn’t be quite so lo-fi if she could afford to do it up right.

For the time being, she’s kinda stuck with the $10 fixer-upper guitar she got at a Goodwill in South philly,

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the hand-me-down four-track recorder that sometimes behaves like a three-track, the drum machine with the broken output jack, forcing her to hold a mic up to its built-in speakers. None of her equipment adds robotic bleeps, or loops her sound. For shows, she prerecords tapes to sing and manipulate feedback over, with her mass of wires and effects pedals laid out on a table.

The table is a new addition; until recently she simply crouched down on the floor, hunched over, almost hiding inside the sound and behind the equipment and the headphones. “i became bipedal a few months ago,” she says with a laugh. “’Cause you sing a lot better when you aren’t in a crumpled mess on the floor. You can project.”

So far everything she’s recorded has been in her bedroom, wherever that bedroom may be. But she would like to move on to a studio. “i wanna sound like Tom petty,” she says. “i would love to make a record that was clear.”

That’s why she’s working her ass off this summer, to save money for a computer and, hopefully, some studio time with a full band. “again it just comes down to financial kind of things. … i can use the internet and photoshop, i’m sure i can figure out how to use the goddamn Garage Band or something.”

N bRuce sPRingsTeen’s “PRove iT all nighT,” from his 1978 album Darkness on the Edge of Town, is a rollicking rock song about young lovers on the run. it’s got room for pounding pianos, a quick saxophone bridge and a blazing guitar solo.

U.S. Girls does a version of “prove it all Night” on 2008’s Introducing, and it’s pretty much unrecognizable. a percussive clang goes boom boom-boom for the entire two minutes while remy’s strong, spectral voice hovers overtop, but also reverberates as if at the other end of a subway tunnel. Thin hisses and breaths materialize and disappear periodically. >>> continued on page 20

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N since 1989, ToM lax has Run silTbReeze records out of his residence on South Seventh Street. it’s a small but revered indie label that’s released music by a number of lo-fi notables including The Dead C, Monkey 101, Guided By Voices and more recently Times New Viking and pink reason. lax first heard U.S. Girls on “art for Spastics,” a mixed-bag radio show on KDVS in Davis, Calif. He did a little Web searching and was soon hooked.

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armed with a magic counterfeit Greyhound ticket, she crisscrossed the U.S. and Canada for three months in 2008, playing rock shows and looking for a new place to call home. Would it be the lazy left coast? Big, beautiful, clichéd New York? Montreal? Toronto?

She recalls the day she had some time to herself in philadelphia, walking around Center City. at Broad and Chestnut she heard a voice singing to her from across the street. The singer was mainstay street performer Sonny Forriest Jr. perhaps you’ve seen him around? He serenades passers-by with a microphone and speakers attached to his motorized wheelchair.

The song was “What’s Your Name,” a 1962 doo-wop classic by Don and Juan. it’s one of remy’s favorites.

They talked for a while and by the time they went their separate ways it was settled in her mind. philly won the sweepstakes. a young veteran of the music scenes in both her native Chicago and portland, Ore., remy performs under the curiously plural moniker U.S. Girls. The “band” is just her and a whole mess of equipment: microphones, a busted drum machine, a failing four-track, an old reel-to-reel player and other less-than-cutting-edge electronic devices. Her songs are noisy, hazy things. Ghostly and all but incoherent, her voice rises and falls beneath thick layers of distortion and snippets of white noise. There are hints and glimmers of recognizable rock conventions — a little bit of pop energy, an occasional catchy chorus — but it’s pretty safe to say U.S. Girls is not for everyone.

The catch-all label that fits here is “lo-fi,” although there are few stylistic similarities among the many bands and artists that get sorted that way. Suicide, a synth-punk duo that got its start with a few messy albums in the 1970s, is one of the earliest and most influential lo-fi groups. These days, garage bands with fuzzed-out vocals like No age, Times New Viking and pissed Jeans get the tag. “i think U.S. Girls can be put into a subgenre within the female ‘bliss’ movement,” says KpC, a DJ at princeton’s free-form radio station WprB. He points to artists like la Vampires, psychic reality and pocahaunted. “The thing that separates U.S. Girls from this crowd, however, is her harsher sounds and use of extreme delay and echo.”

She goes for gritty and low-tech, not pretty.

For her part, remy says she feels little philosophical kinship with her contemporaries. She’s really into Springsteen and ’60s girl-groups. “i don’t think lo-fi means anything if you don’t have good songs, or something else going on,” she says over cigarettes and a mug of red wine in her powelton Village apartment. “Who wants to listen to static?”

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³ IT IS NOT obvious from his paintings that Emil

Baumann is sometimes called an “outsider artist.”

His abstract compositions have won two prizes at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Nairobi; locally, he’s shown in well-regarded spaces including PAFA and Nexus Gallery.

Painting is a primary means of expression for Baumann. He does not title or explain his paintings, but they speak vividly to the viewer. They do not represent things or tell stories in expected ways.

However, with surprising ease, the networks of bands and irregular areas of color communicate a palpable, ineffable emotional aura; we feel content to simply be with these paintings.

Baumann’s vocabulary of materials is sophisticated and clearly the result of experimentation and experience. Oil pastels, watercolors, acrylic and pencils are worked together in layered, lucid harmonies. He seems to use masking as a way of defining shapes and patterns. Baumann consistently treats lines, including ribbon-like dashes, as forms that are often themselves decorated with additional elaborated lines. The feeling is active and vaguely urban. We might think of girders or bridges or faces or signage, but none of that is explicit.

University City Arts League’s materials on this work relate it to dreams and to the lost continent of Atlantis. As culture critic Celeste Olalquiaga has pointed out, the Atlantis disaster myth has perversely evolved from that of undersea death trap into a nostalgic vision of luxury.

From Wassily Kandinsky to Philadelphia’s Moe Brooker, abstract painters have often linked their compositions to music, and the viewer senses that relationship. There’s structure and order in Baumann’s paintings, but it feels more like the rhythm of living sounds than like composed, even improvised, music. I think John Cage might have understood it. (r_rice@citypaper.net)

MAN UP: Soccer star Eric Cantona (left) plays guardian angel/imaginary friend to a down-and-out postman in Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric.

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hen the Cinema Alliance announced in January it was canceling its annual Cinefest due to lack of funding, a gaping hole was left in the calendars of Philadelphia cinephiles. Never fear: The Philadelphia Film Society has swooped in with a Spring Preview — three days of never-seenin-Philly films all for the low, low price of absolutely nothing. The 11-film mini-fest is a precursor to the full-length version planned for the fall (Oct. 14-24), which PFS says will consist of more movies than last year’s 18 1/2 Philadelphia Film Fest. Tickets for this weekend’s films can be reserved ahead of time at PFS’s Web site (filmadelphia.org); a limited number of rush tickets will be made available at each screening, with lines forming an hour prior to show time.

³ THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD | Title notwithstanding, the movie Kim Ji-Woon’s (A Tale of Two Sisters) self-dubbed “kimchi Western” most resembles is Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, an operatic genre riff in

which style drives the stagecoach while story chokes on dust in the back. There’s plenty of plot, mostly involving the possession of a map that points to an unknown treasure somewhere in Japanese-controlled Manchuria, but trying to follow the hectic back-and-forth would only distract from the fun. Kim, who contrives to light sawdust-strewn saloons in the emerald and scarlet hue of the nightclubs in A Bittersweet Life, shoots every scene and builds every sequence as if it’s his last, pushing past mere excess into almost surreal abandon. You don’t feel the mad passion of Leone behind it, but a steadily spreading grin that never stops growing. —Sam Adams (4/11, 5 p.m.)

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³ HARRY BROWN |

Michael Caine stars as the title character — an exMarine pensioner who goes on a killing spree to clean up the estate (projects, to us) where he lives. After his best (and only) friend is killed by a roving young gang, Brown digs up the murderous memories of his days serving in Northern Ireland and goes after the estate scum, offing them in various bloody ways. First-time feature director Daniel Barber seems to be making a comment on the rise of violence, but it rings hollow. Brown is a sympathetic killer because he’s the only fleshed-out character; everyone else is a bloodthirsty thug or ignorant lawman (except, perhaps, the detective >>> continued on page 24

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[ you know it’s a special occasion ] The fact that John Huston’s The African Queen wasn’t on DVD was like having

Chase Utley on your team but never letting him play. Finally, Queen gets its due on DVD and Blu-ray. Katharine Hepburn plays a heroic Methodist missionary who must rely on the gruff, handsome Charlie (Humphrey Bogart) to ferry her out of German-controlled East Africa during WWI. After you’ve caught this flick, watch Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter, Black Heart, loosely based on Queen’s plagued production.

—Molly Eichel

³ theater Theatre Horizon’s production of Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig (April 9 to May 1, theatrehorizon.org) examines an unbalanced relationship — the woman is twice as large as the man. In this dark rom-com, the male lead must decide whether to stand up for the voluptuous lady he loves, or cave to pressure from his critical friends.

“Audience members think they’ll feel a certain way after it,” says artistic director Erin Reilly, “and will come out feeling something completely different.”

—Emily Currier

If we’re sending you to a frat house, you know it’s a special occasion. This Saturday, “anti-frat” Pi Lam (3914 Spruce St., myspace.com/thepilam) continues its Human Barbecue tradition — a full day of food and bands. The lineup: Blues Control, Home Blitz, These United States, The Extraordinaires, Hot Guts and a whole bunch more. Starts at noon.

Never ends.

—Patrick Rapa

³ tv show Tuesday nights are chock-full of gotta-see-it TV, but if you aren’t watching Justified (10 p.m. on FX), you need to re-evaluate your life. The series centers on Elmore Leonard character U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), shipped off to police the Kentucky hill country where he was born. Leonard’s work translates exceptionally well to the screen, and each character walks, talks and acts like his stock player, slinking around with a cool, calm badassery. For Olyphant fans, it’s a modern-day Deadwood, sans the constant use of the word “cocksucker.”

—Molly Eichel

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MID-AUGUST LUNCH [ B ] AS SHIMMERING AND insubstantial as heat haze, the first film by Gianni

A co-writer of Gomorrah, Di Gregorio put himself on screen as a bachelor caring for his mother.

LADIES LUNCHING: Writer-director Gianni Di Gregorio plays a bachelor caring for three older women in Mid-August Lunch.

³ NO ONE HAS more ambivalence about The

Wallflowers than The Wallflowers. Nearly five years after their last album, they’ve made no movement toward recording, and last year’s tour to support a greatest-hits collection included singer-guitarist Jakob Dylan,longtime bassist Greg Richling and a few more recent recruits, but not mainstay Rami Jaffee, whose keyboards are as integral to the band’s sound as Dylan’s voice.

Dylan’s got little reason to revive the group; with his second solo album, he proves he’s more than capable of bearing the weight. Not that he’s out on his own. Women + Country (Columbia) reunites him with producer T Bone Burnett for the first time since The Wallflowers’ 1996 breakthrough, Bringing Down the Horse, and they’re joined by sterling session players, including pedal steel master Greg Leisz and guitarist Marc Ribot. Best of all, Neko Case and Kelly Hogan’s harmonies elevate melancholy material like “Everybody’s Hurting” and “Down on Our Own Shield.” These people know what they’re doing, and they’ve done it well; though Dylan’s as loquacious a songwriter as ever, you’ll be able to sing along to the choruses by the second listen.

If history serves as a guide, you’ll be able to sing along for quite some time. Fourteen years after its release, Bringing Down the Horse stands tall, with each hit propelling the next: “One Headlight” into “6th Avenue Heartache,”“Three Marlenas” into “The Difference.” Dylan’s delivery — equal parts passion and reserve — sears the lyrics into your skull, and the guitar twang and organ whir have aged well. At the time, radio’s wholehearted embrace was met by a backlash just as instant. Critics found it particularly galling that the upstart had as many top-10 hits on one disc as his dad had had in his whole career, and that he went platinum quicker than his old man ever would. But charges that he was riding Bob’s coattails don’t stick; any resemblance is due as much to Jaffee, whose organs are eerily reminiscent of Al Kooper’s work with the elder Dylan. Listening to it now, it’s hard to hear anything but a young frontman finding his footing, and gratifying to know he’s still forging his own path. (m_fine@citypaper.net)

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Di Gregorio is an evanescent pleasure, an airy morsel that dissolves on the tongue, imparting only the faintest hint of flavor. A co-writer of the far meatier Gomorrah, Di Gregorio capitalized on that film’s success to put himself on screen as a saggy-eyed bachelor caring for his elderly mother, played with leathery resolve by nonprofessional Valeria De Franciscis. With no apparent personal needs beyond a steady stream of chilled Chablis, he’s content to bake in the small-town sun, but exigencies come calling in the form of unpaid condo fees and the building manager’s aged mother, whom he’s keen to fob off so he can split for the August holiday. After a nagging ailment flares up, Di Gregorio finds himself in charge of his doctor’s mother, as well, running an ad hoc summer home for spirited golden-agers. At less than an hour and a quarter, Mid-August Lunch is fleeting and almost purposefully slight, devoted to the intangible pleasures of aimless conversation, even the contentious kind. The old women quarrel over TV privileges and frustrate Di Gregorio’s attempt to enforce a restricted diet, which eschews heavy sauces and breaded cutlets in favor of baked pasta and vegetable broth. That bill of fare, repeatedly characterized as “light,” serves as an apt metonym for the film itself, with its casual, unstudied performances and offhanded camerawork. It could use a dash of salt, but it leaves plenty of time to grab a real meal afterward. —Sam Adams

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personal history (a former police chief agrees to an interview only because James’ mother, who also appears, browbeats him into it). No Crossover, made for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, suffers from James’ inability to land interviews with players in the trial — specifically Iverson. But, where a lesser documentarian might have drawn broad conclusions from his research, James does not fall into those same traps. —M.E. (4/11, 7:45 p.m.)

³ THE SQUARE |

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— played by Emily Mortimer — who begins to suspect Brown).

But Barber is adept at creating suspense — even if it’s just for the senseless violence rather than for a purpose — and he’s aided by the excellent production design of Kave Quinn and cinematographer Martin Ruhe, who work together to truly make Brown’s estate look like hell. —Molly Eichel (4/11, 9:45 p.m.)

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Luca Guadagnino’s sprawling family saga is a gloriously overwrought beast that aptly lays claim to its characters’ 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 Guadagnino’s focus is not the filial succession of the family’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 movie’s pointed stylistic eccentricities — drifting zooms that gravitate toward incidental detail, a booming score composed of repurposed John Adams compositions — are so reminiscent of Arnaud Desplechin’s Kings and Queen and A Christmas Tale that the resemblance can be distracting. But then Desplechin never cast Swinton, whose very presence acts as a ballast against Guadagnino’s fanciest flights. —S.A. (4/9, 5 p.m.)

The story of a depressed Manchester postman (Steve Evets) whose guardian angel takes the form of soccer star Eric Cantona returns director Ken Loach to the heights of Riff-Raff and Raining Stones — winning stories of working-class life whose politics were integrated rather than smeared on top. A devoted Man U fan, albeit one who can’t afford tickets in the Rupert Murdoch era, Evets is a good-natured but weak-willed single father to two teenage stepsons, plagued with panic attacks and a tenuous sense of self. But when he’s at a particularly low ebb, Cantona begins appearing in his bedroom, dispensing French proverbs and helping Evets take back the reins of his life. The conceit could be irreparably coy if Loach didn’t play it absolutely straight, and were Evets not such a lovable screwup that we’re happy to see whatever he sees. —S.A. (4/9, 7:30 p.m.)

³ THE JONESES

³ NO CROSSOVER: THE TRIAL OF ALLEN IVERSON |

If product placement seems to invade your living room set every night, just wait until it moves in next door. The newest arrivals in an affluent suburban community seem like the perfect family — gorgeous, stylish parents (David Duchovny and Demi Moore), picture-perfect kids (Ben Hollingsworth and Amber Heard) — but that’s because they’ve been planned that way. The Joneses are, in fact, not a family at all, but a guerrilla marketing campaign brought to life. First-time director Derrick Borte assembles an enticing package, but as soon as the pitch is made,

Hoop Dreams director Steve James turns his lens on Allen Iverson, who grew up in his hometown of Hampton, Va. While James was living in Chicago, his dad — a lifelong local sports fanatic — sent him clippings of the promising “Bubba Chuck,” whose easy path to stardom was impeded after he was arrested and convicted of participating in an allegedly racially motivated fight in a bowling alley (Iverson said he was shuffled out of the alley before the violence erupted; prosecutors disagreed). James dissects Iverson’s case via a discussion of buried small-town racial tensions and

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he engages in a fatal bait-and-switch. Halfway in, the film suddenly strives for grand tragedy, burdening each member of the faux-family with soap opera secrets and defanging the satirical bite inherent in its premise. —Shaun Brady (4/10, 10 p.m.)

A lesser documentarian might have drawn conclusions; James does not fall into those traps.

Delivering on the promise director Nash Edgerton displayed in his short, Spider (which unspools here, too), The Square alternates between nervous hilarity and gasp-inducing shock. After Carla (Claire van der Boom) discovers her husband’s bag of cash, she gives her married lover, Ray (David Roberts), an ultimatum: Help her steal the cash and escape or she will end their relationship. Ray reluctantly, perhaps foolishly, agrees. Using the kickbacks he’s getting at work, Ray hires an arsonist (Joel Edgerton, the director’s brother and co-screenwriter) to mask their crime. This being a film noir, nothing goes as planned. Soon, Ray is being blackmailed, and he must discover his tormentor and cover his tracks. Edgerton ratchets up the tension throughout, boxing Ray and Carla into tight, uncomfortable situations that are riveting to the end, when the filmmaker pulls the rug — if not the floor — out from under everyone. —Gary M. Kramer (4/9, 9:45 p.m.)

³ TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE | Anthology films are scattershot by nature, but Cristian Mungiu’s partial follow-up to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is at least committed to its incoherence. Devoting its five Mungiu-scripted segments to illustrating urban legends from the heyday of Romanian communism, the movie pairs Mungiu with four relatively unseasoned directors and assigns credit collectively.

Rather than 4 Months’ urgent naturalism, Tales tends toward the absurd, emphasizing the baroque contortions of totalitarian life: villagers who scurry making preparations for a delegation that never arrives, or the panic that sets in at a small newspaper over the precise management of a dictator’s photograph. It’s unremarkable but well-managed stuff, albeit not nearly wide-ranging enough to justify the movie’s lengthy running time. —S.A. (4/10, 3 p.m.)

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TALKING IN MATHS For multimedia artist Jebney Lewis, global warming is an equation waiting to be solved.

By Bruce Walsh

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he vintage defroster isn’t quite doing the trick in Jebney Lewis’ 1989 Toyota pickup.

He leans over the wheel and rubs his shirtsleeve across the windshield. “Coming from a tech theater background, I hardly ever say, ‘If I could do anything I want, what would I do?’” he says, working the glass. “I’m usually more like, ‘Well, I have this twig and four nails, what can I do with that?’”

Since 2005, Lewis has been a go-to technical director for experimental theater artists like Pig Iron Theatre Co. and Thaddeus Phillips. He specializes in doing a lot with a little (read: bringing taxidermied animals to life in the 2008 Live Arts Festival’s Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl).

But with works like the sculptural “Bifurcation, Hysteresis, Catastrophe” — which opens tonight at Nexus Foundation in Fishtown — Lewis is finally starting to lead his own conceptual projects.

The independent turn began with last year’s “Yard Songs,” a multimedia elegy of the American train industry. Built with salvaged industrial steel, Lewis constructed a hand-pumped vintage railcar that glided down abandoned trolley tracks in South Kensington. With live period music and lectures by area scholars, the Crane Arts show brought together dozens of artists and enthusiasts.

“Basically, work is an excuse to bring people I love together around an idea,” he says, driving down Columbus Boulevard, en route to a meeting with his current collaborators.

His latest project is much smaller in scale — and therefore more intimate for the three involved: Lewis, artist K.R. Wood and mathematical biologist Todd Parsons. The close friends are attempting to create a visual experience that viscerally communicates the complex math behind environmental collapse.

Hunched over a hot cup of tea in Wood’s kitchen, Lewis recalls a conversation that inspired the project: “I think I asked you, ‘What topic in your field is the most important for people to understand?’”

“Bifurcation, Hysteresis, Catastrophe”

“I guess I said something about dynamics in hysteresis,” says Parsons, who studies and writes about environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania.

“The idea is that you can go a long time with the temperature changing, but then you cross a tipping point, and there’s an instant transformation: All of a sudden the forest becomes grassland. …

When that happens, even if you went back to the original temperature, you couldn’t correct it. You actually have to take the temperature way, way back to hit a different tipping point. That’s the hysteresis loop.”

Standing in her basement, Wood runs her finger across one of the seams on the sculpture. She has painstakingly sewn hundreds of plastic bag fragments onto a lightweight wooden frame.

“I’ve been collecting different colored bags for several years. It’s a little unhealthy,” she says with a laugh. “I guess I just think they’re beautiful.”

Lewis saw a similar tapestry by Wood at a recent show, and decided to connect her art with Parsons’ concepts.

He began crafting delicate armatures out of reclaimed industrial pallets. The frames work with Wood’s translucent quilts to create a stained glass effect. Each panel spans about 14 feet, representing separate ecosystems. When the panels are finally suspended in the gallery space, the creators hope to shed some light on the environmental math: Forest can become grassland, grassland can become desert. And it can all happen much faster than we think.

“Without being really heavy-handed about it, to make a piece about environmental degradation and change using plastic bags and discarded wood seemed really fascinating to me,” says Lewis, as he holds one of the panels up to the light.

Total production budget for “Bifurcation, Hysteresis, Catastrophe”: $25. Maybe less. (editorial@citypaper.net)

“Basically, work is an excuse to bring people I love together around an idea.”

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p.m., free, through May 8, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, 1400 N. American St., 215-684-1946, nexusphiladelphia.org.

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“Imagine a triangle with corners at Kingston, Jamaica; New Orleans; and Memphis,” says Randall Grass, keyboards man with Philly Gumbo since day one. Simmering in that gumbo you’ll find reggae, funk, R&B, blues. Playing in Philly Gumbo was an act of love, not a career move, as there’s been precious little playing beyond the Delaware Valley. But round here they are a groove institution that this Friday will be celebrating 30 years of getting people up on their feet, with four of the original members still putting their hearts into it.

—Mary Armstrong

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Cleveland’s Baby Dee (pictured) has been a church organist, a circus tricyclist, a harpist, a go-go dancer, a barkeep at Manhattan’s famed Pyramid Club, a Johnson for Antony and the Johnsons and, once upon a time, a man. It took all those experiences to create the confessional cabaret and rickety operatic vocals of Safe Inside the Day and the softer-strung spare new CD Book of Songs for Anne Marie. Sharing the bill at World Café Live is David E. Williams, the interpreter of Northern (Philadelphia) Gothic death, decay and medical oddities and a local legend since the ’80s. He has recorded a slew of delightfully panicky and theatrical albums but played far too few shows to promote them. Now that he owns GERM Books and Gallery in Fishtown and last year released his most accessibly melodic album, Every Missing Duck is a Duck Missed (Disques de Lapin), Williams is playing the big rooms and filling them with his quavering vocals and scary-ass stories.

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✚ TUNE-YARDS tUnE-yArDs, the one-woman deconstructionist pop project of Oakland’s Merrill Garbus, has gotta be the oddest inclusion in this year’s Roots Picnic lineup. Then again, she’d be an odd bird in just about any company — uncommonly-of-a-feather current tourmate Xiu Xiu excepted. Her viscerally intimate creations filter homemade art-funk, freak-folk ukulele warbles, punkish clatter, primitivist wailing and dangerously slinky R&B through a dirt-simple recording setup, folding together violence and sweetness in a manner that’s hard to fathom even after multiple spins of her striking, surprisingly captivating debut BiRd-BrAiNs (4AD).

—K. Ross Hoffman Tue., April 13, 8 p.m., $12, with Xiu Xiu, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.

From their serendipitous beginnings busking in the streets of Breckenridge to serenading thousands at Red Rocks Ampthitheater last year, these Denverite darlings have soaked in all the best their home state has to offer, and they’re here to share some of that Colorado lovin’ with us back-Easters. The septet’s A Sky Underground EP — just reissued by Philly’s own Park the Van — boasts a potent, passionate blend of old-timey mountain soul, feisty modern folk and a sprinkle of vintage hot jazz, replete with banjo, trombone and heavenly trio harmonies.

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✚ UNIVOX Maybe it’s that dirty garage sound offset by those mesmerizing, multi-tiered vocals (everybody sings! at once sometimes!), or maybe it’s the dark, smirking lyrics. Not sure, but there’s something really right about the way this Philly four-piece thinks rock ’n’ roll should sound. Univox’s new self-titled debut is an ambitious and confident opening statement: clever, Kinksy, punky, poppy and pretty, but not too pretty, you know?

—Patrick Rapa

Sat., April 10, 9 p.m., $12-$15, with Mason Porter and Tom Hamilton’s American Babies, and Wed., April 14, 7:30 p.m., $13-$15, with Tao-Rodriguez Seeger and Marc Silver, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

Mon., April 12, 7 p.m., $8, with Thinking Machines, Ornery Little Darlings and Br’er, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215787-0488, northstarbar.com.

✚ ROCKY VOTOLATO/ BROOKE WAGGONER With a voice like aquarium gravel (just rough enough), Seattle singer-songwriter Rocky Votolato has made his bones singing urgent little broken-heart anthems and strumming his acoustic. The newTrue Devotionis his most fleshed-out and upbeat record to date, and it’s still a damn lonely place to get lost. You’ll take a little more comfort in the angelic orchestrations of Nashville’s Brooke Waggoner, who’ll play dawn to Votolato’s dusk.

—Patrick Rapa Sat., April 10, 6 p.m., sold out; 9 p.m., $12; First Unitarian Side Chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.

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✚ JOTTO They put up a decent façade of arty, antsy dance rock, but make no mistake: Jotto has always been keen on understatement. Their quartet’s best songs — say, “The Girl Who’s Seen Too Much (in II Acts)” from their self-titled debut EP, or “Against the Background” from 2008’s Good Friend Electric — use simple, subtle narratives to study what a Bukowski-ish mess the post-collegiate/pre-adulthood crash can be. On the just-released New Century Courting, Jotto narrows its focus very specifically to love in your mid-20s. In “Lost Man,” a young couple realizes they are complete strangers; by “Little Coyotes,” they’ve parted ways and aren’t really sure whether to cry or laugh. In the past, you’d have to listen through layers of hella interesting, innovative music to get these points; this time out, the music is also understated, bringing the substance into focus more quickly. Yeah, they live in Brooklyn now.

Welcome them home anyway.

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If Minus the Bear had a more dashing experimental streak — to say nothing of their avant-jazz kick and deeply emotional lyricism — they’d be Ohio-born’s Aloha. They extend that subtle drama and improvisational largesse on their new CD Home Acres (Polyvinyl). Some standout tunes — like “Waterwheel” — are denser and prog-rockier than their usual stuff and doubly melodic to boot.

Fri., April 9, 10 p.m., $12-$13, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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Citizen Kane (1941, U.S., 119 min.): Orson Wellesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cinematic shot heard â&#x20AC;&#x2122;round the world. Tue., april 13, 7 p.m., $5-$9.50. Dare (2009, U.S., 92 min.): locally shot movie about sexually experimental high-schoolers; free filmmaking class with director David Brind starting at 2 p.m. Wed., april 14, 7 p.m., $5-$9.50.

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mUGShotS coffeehoUSe AnD cAfĂ&#x2030; 2100 Fairmount Ave., 267-514-7145, mugshotscoffeehouse.com. Capitalism: A Love Story (2009, U.S., 127 min.): Michael Moore takes on the economic system that allows him to be a filmmaker. Mon., april 12, 7 p.m., free. Evita (1996, U.S., 135 min.): Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cry for her, agrentina. Wed., april 14, 7 p.m., free.

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Eragon (20006, Hungary/U.K./U.S., 104 min.): a boy travels down a predestined path after finding a dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s egg. Sat., april 10, 2 p.m., $4-$8. Eight Men Out (1988, U.S., 119 min.): John Saylesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; film about the disgraced 1919 White Sox. Sun., april 11, 2 p.m., $4-$8.

flicKerinG liGht film SerieS Mount Airy Arts Garage, 542 Carpenter Lane, flickeringfilms.com.

Best of the MiX Festival: Greatest hits from the experimental lGBTQ NYC-based film fest. Sat., april 10, 7 p.m., free.

internAtionAl hoUSe Ibrahim Theater, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. timothy Carey Film Screening: Short films by the artist to complement his â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dead Flowersâ&#x20AC;? exhibit at Vox populi. Fri., april 9, 7 p.m., $5-$8. an evening with Kamal aljafari: Two films by aljafari, including Visit Iraq (2003, Germany, 26 min.), a humorous look at the rumored iraqi airways, and The Roof (2006, palestine, 61 min.), which shows palestinian resettlement in israel via aljafariâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal history.

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Benito Mussolini may have been a fascist ideologue, but Marco Bellocchioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vincere suggests that he was also a spectacular lay. Ducking into an alley to escape the police, the young Benito (Filippo Timi) bumps up against ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), and within minutes theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve locked lips and then hips, their bodies writhing in near-darkness as she cries out in ecstasy. after his bellicose philosophy splits the italian socialists in two, she sells her possessions to finance a print organ for the new movement and bears him a son, also named Benito.

But Mussolini has more grandiose aims, and their sexual chemistry turns out to have little to do with love. pushed aside in favor of a more palatable spouse, Dalser and son are confined to an asylum, their existence drowned out by the shouts of the mob. Vincere is hot-blooded, bordering on overwrought. its images are indelible, if oddly romantic, as dangerously seductive as il Duce himself. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.A. (Ritz Five)

Trocadero Theater, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-LIVE, thetroc.com. The Lost Boys (1987, U.S., 97 min.): Memorialize Corey Haim by watching his best movie. Tue., april 13, 8 p.m., $3 goes toward a drink or snack.

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³ WHEE. DONOVAN MCNABB’S gone and

anyone caught with 30 grams-and-under of marijuana gets a fine and no jail time. It’s spring in Philly. Beee-u-t-ful. Not everything’s rosy. But it’s close. Like I noticed Walnut Street’s Philadelphia Home Art Garden house-ware salon (P.H.A.G., y’all) was doing a going-out-of-biz sale. Where’ll I get snazzy pillows? Online, sweethearts. They’re moving their biz to thephagshop.com. ³ Goodnews-bad-news-good-news: Between Barkley Hendricks and Malcolm McLaren,I spent plenty of time at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts last year. I’ll do so again in 2011 now that PAFA dropped conceptual designs for Lenfest Plaza, a Piazza-ish thing at Cherry and Broad designed by OLIN’s David Rubin. Sadly Gina Lamm won’t be there. PAFA’s PR mistress leaves the gig April 9.

Sob. No sob: Lamm’s starting at Arden Theatre as director of PRrrr 10 days later. ³ A staff meeting last week at Electric Factory found the venue’s higher-ups invoking the name of Larry Magid — the booking honcho who left Live Nation in February. He’s responsible for the venue and is gearing to put on concerts — like EF’s first nonLive Nation show, June 6’s Broken Bells gig? I hear LN’ll be back doing shows at the EF by autumn. ³ When multigenre genius Martin Bisi’s Son of a Gun tour hits the M Room April 8, his guitarsy Howard Harrison will be doing double-duty. HH’s scary pop ensemble with Marc Laurick,Yeah Clementines opens the show. YC’s next appearance (April 19) finds them, Jukebox Zeroes, Beretta76, Janet Bressler, Ladyfingers and John Train covering the Stooges for American Red Cross/UNICEF Haiti charities at National Mechanics. Can’t wait to hear Ladyfingers’ merry maudlin rockabilly tunes? Hit Patou in the OC April 9 as they gig with luv-er-ly chanteuse Dena Miranda’s The Jass. ³ Mike Stollenwerk’s Little Fish is closed. Building probs.

Not the Fishy’s fault. Stollenwork’s looking at new spots for his tiny swim-food. Get the bigger stuff at his fish, 17th and Lombard. ³ The funniest musician we know, Mikey “Galactic” Gallagher, springs his wack debut CD on a post Bo Burnham audience April 10 with Misstallica and Squidling Bros’ Hydrogen Jukebox in tow at the Troc’s Balcony. ³ Starting April 9 with the opening of Shining City, Philly thespian Scott Greer will do seven performances with two theater companies in one weekend: Theater Exile’s Shining at Plays & Players and Romeo & Juliet’s final week at the Arden. Orson Welles did as-much in the days of old Broadway, zipping crosstown in an ambulance between theaters. Scott played Welles in It’s All True (for InterAct) and won a Barrymore. If he wins one for Shining City, will Greer thank SEPTA? (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

STRONG KAFFE: The quilting legend, who will lecture at the Ethical Society this week, models a Cosby sweater.

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uthor and international quilting sensation Kaffe Fassett likes to stop and smell the roses. But while down for a whiff, he’s evaluating those bad boys to find the colors and shapes that will arouse inspiration for his next quilted creation. The notion of keeping your eyes attuned to life’s minute details is at the heart of his new book, Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts (STC Craft, $35). If he heeds his own advice, we may be seeing elements of Philly creeping into his assembly of patchwork soon.

Fassett is teaming up with local crafting hub Spool for a book signing and discussion about how to be a fantastic quilter. “Any idiot can sit down and sew two pieces of fabric together,” he laughs, but the key is to not let your brain get wrapped up in the process. “The people who are spontaneous get the most out of it.”

His appearance is timely to the students taking part in Spool’s spring classes, happening now through June. On the curriculum are tutorials geared toward first-timers like introductory sewing and beginning quilting, and ones for the learned, such as how to

create a snazzy zipper pouch, a smocked sundress or a piano key quilt. (For a full list, visit spoolsewing.com/spoolclasses.html.)

Most students won’t begin their journey with quilting as triumphantly as the San Francisco-born, London-based Fassett (his very first design appeared in Vogue Knitting in 1971), but if you ask him, there’s more to this art form than fame and fortune. “[Bonding with others] is a huge part of it,” he says. “If you’re painting a serious painting or writing a poem, you can’t gossip with your friends, but there’s something very communal about sewing and knitting.” Unity, coupled with the frugality of quilting, he suggests, makes it an ideal hobby for gals and yes, even guys. “The male mind looks at things in an architectural kind of way,” he says. “We like patterns and how they play with each other.

That’s half the battle with quilting.”

The other half is searching daily for elements of color and repetition and then figuring out how to meld those ideas into a quilt that grapples with the mind. Some of his most stimulating inspiration comes from the most unexpected places. “I love old parts of town that haven’t been fixed up very much, so you get the old crumbling paint, fading fabrics and old tiles. [Decaying surfaces] teach me more about color than anything else.”

And what would a quilt inspired by his trip to Philly look like?

“It would be full of amazing murals, that’s for sure. And I could see doing an amazing quilt on the rows of houses,” he says. “There would be no lack of inspiration there.” (joshua.middleton@citypaper.net)

Unity, coupled with frugality.

TION CHOCOLATE SYMPHONY AFTERPARTY Mingle with young

professionals and sample desserts from some of the city’s top chefs.

Tickets include a drink ticket and complimentary light fare and beer; proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. Sat, Apr. 10, 10pm, $65$65, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 1200 Market St., 215-627-1200.

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Public Relations Student Society of America hosts an all-day event focusing on successful and bizarre public relations efforts. Every second Sat, 9am-7pm, $65, Radisson-Warwick Hotel, 1701 Locust St., 215-735-6000.

Q CARNIVOLUTION Run by the

artsiest family in West Philly, this party features music by The Hydrogen Jukebox, burlesque shows, carnival sideshow antics and the potential to lose your mind with such over-stimulation. Every second Fri, 8pm, $5-$8, Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum, 3819 Hamilton St., 215-386-3784.

Q CIVIL WAR RE-ENACTORS HOST ENCAMPMENT Re-enactors

representing the 71st Pennsylvania Voluntary Infantry encamp at Graeme Park to train recruits and demonstrate the life of the Civil War soldier. Sat, Apr. 10, 9am-4pm, $2$2, Graeme Park, 859 County Line Rd., Horsham, 215-343-0965.

oppose Philadelphia gun violence at the same time. Fifty organizations have partnered to provide interactive exhibits for event-goers immediately following the race.

Sun, Apr. 11, 7am-12:30pm, $25$30, St. Joseph’s University, 5600 City Ave., 215-765-8703.

Q PEACE FOR PUPPIES BOWLING BENEFIT Go bowling, help

homeless animals, have fun. Tickets include unlimited bowling, unlimited soft drinks, contests, prizes, a bake sale and more. Proceeds benefit the Humane Society and the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society. Sat, Apr. 10, 5-7pm, $20-$20, Wynnewood Lanes, 2228 Haverford Road, Ardmore, 610-642-7512.

Q SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONFERENCE: THE IMPACT OF DESIGN ON SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS Meet Philadelphia-re-

✚ GALLERIES Galleries are usually open Tuesdays through Saturdays; please call the gallery for exact days and hours. Receptions are denoted by a *.

Q DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE, 704

Catherine St., 215-829-0466. ENVISIONING HENRY IV, PART I, Features theatrical art that draws influence from Shakespeare. Runs through Apr. 25. Panel discussion, curator’s tour, and awards reception Sat, Apr. 10, 4pm, *.

Q HOME FINE ART GALLERY,

2 Church St., Mount Holly, NJ, 609-261-8634. INTERPRETIVE FIBER WORKS, Features the work of Vickie Mathas, Rose Dunaif and Alice Waldeck, who challenge themselves to create new interpretations of fiber media, seeking to show a unity in their vision. Runs through May. 2. Meet-the-artists reception Sat, Apr. 10, 5pm, *.

Q INDIGO ARTS GALLERY, Crane

Arts Building, 1400 N. American St., 215-765-1041. GRABADOS DE OAXACA: GRAPHIC WORKS FROM OAXACA, MEXICO, Features graphic works from Oaxaca, Mexico. Prints will focus on Oaxaca’s rich history and landscape, borrowing many traditions from American Indian culture. Runs through May. 8. Opening reception Thu, Apr. 8, 6-9pm *.

Q THE KNAPP GALLERY, 162

N 3rd St., 267-455-0279. WHY IS IT WONDERFUL? AN ART OF EXPERIENCES, Features oil paintings by Tom Brady. Subjects include landscape, houses and faces. Texture and rich color are key elements. Runs through May. 2. Opening reception Sat, Apr. 10, 6-10pm *.

✚ LGBTQ Q BLACK TIE BINGO This fund-

raiser for the AIDS Fund includes a silent auction, dinner and of course GayBingo with those crazy-ass drag queens. Fri, Apr. 9, 6:30-11pm, FREE, Crystal Tea Room, 100 Penn Square E., 215-627-5100.

Q GAY SCAVENGER HUNT Twist-

ed Life hosts this scavenger hunt that will lead participants from bar to bar in the Gayborhood looking for clues. Sun, Apr. 11, 1-6pm, $10, Stir Lounge, 1705 Chancellor St., 215-732-2700.

Q ISLAND ESCAPE CASINO NIGHT & SILENT AUCTION

Crack some coconuts and throw on a hula skirt. Proceeds from this island-themed luau will benefit the Sapphire Fund. Sat, Apr. 10, 6:30-10pm, $50, William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St., 215-732-2220.

Q K.M. SOEHNLEIN READING

Soehnlein reads from his novel “Robin and Rudy,” which is par-

³ PHILLY ROLLER GIRLS SEASON OPENER Balls will be to the wall as the fierce females of the Philly Roller Girls roller derby league take on their first-ever international challenge. For their longawaited opening bout, the Philthy Britches battle the London Rollergirls.

The main interleague event features the mighty Broad Street Butchers versus the ferocious Heavy Metal Hookers. The adrenaline-charged event will also debut the PRG’s new home arena. Warning: Boys who are afraid to get their ass kicked by girls should probably stay home. Sat., April 10, 5 p.m., $12-$20, Class of 1923 Arena, University of Pennsylvania, 3130 Walnut St., 215-898-1923, phillyrollergirls.com.

—Mandy Bee [ uke shook me all night long ]

³ PHILLY UKULELE JAM “When you pull out a guitar, people expect some measure of talent. You have to be able to play ‘Wonderwall’ or Goo Goo Dolls or something,” says jam organizer Tina-Marie Joaquim. “When you pull out a ukulele, though, nobody expects anything. You can do whatever you want.” Sunday marks the first jam, with subsequent uke sessions every second Sunday of the month.

Don’t play ukulele? Don’t worry. Joaquim says they don’t discriminate; all instruments are welcome. Sun., April 11, 1 p.m., free, Rittenhouse Square, West Rittenhouse Square and Locust Street.

—Sam Kaplan [ under the big black sun ]

³ X: THE UNKNOWN SCREENING The high-voltage meeting of science and art has produced emotional reactions within humans that even chemists can’t explain.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation mixes with Secret Cinema for their “Marvels and Ciphers” exhibit. The second in a series of four sci-fi screenings at CHF is X: The Unknown, a 1956 Hammer horror film in which a Scottish town is attacked by radioactive mud (Secret Cinema’s Jay Schwartz likens it to an intelligent forerunner to the Phoenixville-filmed The Blob). “We want to break down the barriers of how art and science interject,” says CHF outreach coordinator Gigi Naglak. Fusing movies with an exhibit that already features scientific instruments along with satiric New Yorker cartoons seems to be a strong working hypothesis. Wed., April 14, 6:30 p.m., free, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut St., 215-925-2222, chemheritage.org.

—Julia West [ so fresh, so clean ]

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gion designers, artists, entrepreneurs, students and business professionals to explore how creative design and new business ideas can work to shape a more eco-friendly future. Thu, Apr. 8, 8am-noon, $20,

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University of the Arts is the place for you at this open house. Talk to faculty and students and learn about the school. Sat, Apr. 10, 124pm, FREE, University of the Arts, Hamilton Hall, 320 S. Broad St., 215-717-6000.

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Q LGBT PROM Relive your high

school prom, only this time try not to give it up so easily at the end of the night. Sat, Apr. 10, 10pm-2am, $15-$20, Sin City, 258 E. Allegheny Ave., 267-709-0216.

Q LEAH B. READING Author of

evening affair will culminate with the crowning of the new “queen” of New Jersey. Sat, Apr. 10, 6-9pm, $70, Nevermore, 6426 Lower York Rd., New Hope, 215-862-5225.

Q REVENGE OF THE 1-4-5 SHOW

Local comedian Neil McGarry and four others team up for a night of LGBTQ-friendly hilarity. Fri, Apr. 9, 8pm, $10, Tuscany Cafe, 222 W. Rittenhouse Square, 215-772-0605.

Q WEXIST This is a support group for female-to-male transsexuals and those born female with gender identity questions. Every Second Fri & Fourth Fri, 7pm, FREE, William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St., 215-732-2220.

✚ MUSIC ³ rock/pop THURSDAY 4/8 Q 100 MONKEYS, 7pm, $13-$15,

North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808.

Q BABY DEE with David E. Wil-

iams, 9pm, $15, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

Q BONOBO with The Invisible,

8pm, $15-$17, The Note, 142 E. Market St., West Chester, 800-594-8499.

Q LE FITS with Red Heart the Tick-

er, 7:30pm, $5, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

Q MARTIN BISI with Notekill-

Q NA SADAA with Halo of Snakes

& Jail, 9pm, $6, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-5483.

Q ONE CHILD BORN: THE MUSIC OF LAURA NYRO, 6:30pm, $22-

$36, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

Q THE DAY LIFE, 9:30pm, FREE,

Triumph Brewing Co., 400 Union Square, New Hope, 215-862-8300.

$36, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

Q ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE with

Over Gain Optimal Death, 9pm, $12, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684.

Q ADAM CROSSLEY, 7:30pm,

$12, Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215928-0770.

Q AVI WISNIA with Elana Arian,

7pm, $15, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

Q UP THE CHAIN with Anna

Jarosz & Hezekiah Jones, 8:30pm, $8, Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215928-0770.

FRIDAY 4/9 Q ONE CHILD BORN: THE MUSIC

Sun., 4/18, 2010 – 4PM. Church of the Holy Trinity. 19th and Walnut Sts $24 door. $20 seniors, students, advance (610) 352-3565 . www.thephiladelphiachorus.org

Q CELLARDOOR with Paths 2

Glory, Kennedy Red, The Straps, Ruckus at the Zoo & Se7en Heads, 7pm, $15, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-5483.

Q DINOSAUR FEATHERS with

Conversations with Enemies, Shark & Sunny and the Kid, 9pm, $5-$10, Danger Danger Gallery, 5013 Baltimore Ave., myspace. com/dangerdangergallery.

Q FREEZEPOP with Plushgun,

Canon Logic & Pants Velour, 9pm, $10-$13, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808.

Q JEFF CAMPBELL with Megan

Slankard & Sean Hoots, 10:30pm, $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215928-0770.

Q KARA DIOGUARDI, 9pm, $45$55, Borgata Casino, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, NJ, 866-6926742.

Q LUPE FIASCO, 8pm, $30-$70,

House of Blues, 801 Boardwalk Ave., Atlantic City, NJ, 609-2362583.

Q MOYA BRENNAN, 8pm, $25, Sell-

ersville Theater 1894, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville, 215-257-5808.

Q POSITIVELY SICK ON SOUTH STREET, 9:30pm, $5-$8, Tritone,

1508 South St., 215-545-0475.

Q SILENT DISCO, 10:30pm, $12-

$15, The Note, 142 E. Market St., West Chester, 800-594-8499.

Q SOUL CANNON with Kuf Knotz

Magic, Lion Versus & Kettle Pot Black, 9pm, $8, Millcreek Tavern, 4200 Chester Ave., 215-473-2880.

Q THE GERUNDS with Super Con-

sumers, Eagle and Prey & Vinny Vegas, 9pm, $10, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

Q THE NEW CONNECTION with

Like Trains and Taxis, Nobody Yet & Black Flower, 9pm, $10, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

Q THOM MCCARTHY with Sonni

Shine, 7pm, $5, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

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Attic Dancers, 9pm, $8, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577.

Q TALL TALL TREES with Cuddle

iNFiNiEN, Children of Nova, Pasadena & Attia Taylor, 9pm, $7, Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 267-671-9298.

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Track and Field, 9pm, $27.50, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011.

Orchid & the Creeks, 9pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888. wick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside, 215-572-7650.

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Q BLUE OCTOBER with Stars of

and Tom Copson Jr., The Lizards of Mars & New Age Crew, 9pm, $7, Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 267-6719298.

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“-- And Her Brain,” uses stories, artwork and photographs to archive her life as an M2F transgender. Thu, Apr. 8, 7-8:30pm, FREE, Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South St., 215-413-0999.

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Âł METRO DASH PHILLY Ever wanted to participate in The Amazing Race, sans the desire to leave the city?

Frawgstomp Urban Racing indulges your adventurous inclinations. The roughly 10K competition unleashes teams of two on Center City and guides them with brain-teaser clues to the next location. Once at their destination, participants attempt strongman fitness challenges such as flipping tires, burpee blasts and box jumps. The winning team gets a $300 prize and the chance to participate in the July finals in D.C. About 150 to 200 teams typically contend, but to participate, registration is required at frawgstomp.com/philadelphia before 8 p.m. Fri., April 9. Grab your most in-shape friend, sibling or spouse now and start warming up with some crosswords and stretching. Sat., April 10, check-in between 10-11:30 a.m., race at noon, $65 per person, Independence National Historic Park, Arch between Fifth and Sixth streets, frawgstomp.com/philadelphia. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Emily Currier

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Q MASCHER SPACE CO-OPERATIVE: FRESH JUICE Mascher

Space Co-op, an experimental dance studio, kicks off the spring edition of its biannual Fresh Juice performance series. The evening includes Kate Speerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Walrus and the Camel,â&#x20AC;? Zornitsa Stoyanovaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Lady,â&#x20AC;? Eleanor Goudie-Averillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Banana Dance Machine,â&#x20AC;? and Annie Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lovertits.â&#x20AC;? Bring your own fruit for free juicing. Runs through Apr. 10, $8-$10, Mascher Space Co-op, 155 Cecil B. Moore Ave., 530-906-5073.

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Philly Spring Cleanup is back, aiming to beautify our blocks and eliminate litter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to inspire people to clean up not just for this one day, but a sustained effort throughout the whole season,â&#x20AC;? says Deputy Streets Commissioner Carlton Williams. Volunteers can sign up for one of 200-plus project sites across the city at phillyspringcleanup.com. Come equipped with a hard work ethic; all other necessary tools are provided.

You might even end up on a team with Mayor Nutter, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be pitching in throughout the day. Sat., April 10, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., various locations, free, phillyspringcleanup.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Alexandra Harcharek

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Q MOMENTS OF LOVE The Xhale

Dance Co. presents a mixture of jazz, tap and modern dance to explore emotions and relationships.

The night features a live band and choreographers Michael Susten and Billy Larson. Sat, Apr. 10, 79pm, $15, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914.

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Q PHILADANCO In this 40th an-

niversary program, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar premieres his new ballet in addition to performances of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Element in Which it Takes Placeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gate Keepers.â&#x20AC;? Thu, Apr. 15, 2:30pm, $34-$46, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999.

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Q BEDBOUND An ashamed fathers

holes up his polio-ridden daughter in her bedroom. Then one day the father skips work to stay with his daughter, but why? Runs through Apr. 25, $15, Adrienne Theater, 2030 Sansom St., 215-123-4567.

Q BLUE MONSTER Written in

1764, the rarely seen commedia dellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;arte uses masks and puppetry to tell of an adventure with a mystical blue monster, a seven-headed Hydra and two young lovers.

Directed by Aaron Cromie. Runs through Apr. 17, $5-$20, University of the Arts, Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St., 215-545-1664.

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ing her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent death, an 11-year-old girl finds the key to reuniting her family in Justin Timberlake. Directed by Michael Osinki. Runs through May. 8, $12$18, Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-563-4330.

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Q DZIECI THEATER: MAKBET

Dzieci, an experimental theater group, transforms â&#x20AC;&#x153;Macbethâ&#x20AC;? with gypsy and ritual influences into a therapeutic theater experience. Sat, Apr. 10, 8pm, $16, PSALM Salon, 5841 Overbrook Ave., 215-477-7578.

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As a gay comedian, Neil McGarry (pictured) knows what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to be heckled because of his sexuality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the stage or in the audience,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;comedy clubs arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always a great place for minorities.â&#x20AC;?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why McGarry put together standup extravaganza Revenge of the 1-4-5 Show. To complement his own routine, he has included local comedians â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including Carolyn Busa, Samita Pendse and Jeff Soles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; because of their â&#x20AC;&#x153;brainy but sillyâ&#x20AC;? approach to joke-telling that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cross over into the not-so-funny realm of disrespect. McGarry is quick to point out, however, that people shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come expecting a cushy love fest thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have everyone singing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kumbaya.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll still make fun of everyone,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making fun of everyone, no oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to feel like an outsider.â&#x20AC;? Fri., April 9, 8 p.m., $10, Tuscany CafĂŠ, 222 W. Rittenhouse Square, 215-772-0605. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Josh Middleton

speare Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of this whimsical comedy is influenced

by Indian music and movement.

Directed by Carmen Khan. Runs through May 9, $20-$35, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St., 215-496-9722.

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If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a garden, composting is a no-brainer: Pile it up, wait and throw it on your plot. But what about those of us who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the outdoor space? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what Compost Matters seeks to address for the 5 millionplus residents of the heavily urbanized Delaware Valley. Composting advocates and local representatives from both government and the private sector will speak at the conference, including Will Allen, who won a 2008 MacArthur â&#x20AC;&#x153;geniusâ&#x20AC;? award for his work promoting sustainable farming in low-income neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Fri., April 9, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., $30, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., compostconference. eventbrite.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sam Kaplan

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pie piper The pizza at Zavino is good — but it’s far from the only reason to visit. By Trey Popp Zavino | 112 S. 13th St., 215-732-2400, zavino.com. Open for lunch daily,

11:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; open for dinner Sun.-Wed., 5 p.m.-mid; Thu.-Sat., 5 p.m.-2 a.m. Cured meats, $6; vegetables, $5; pizza, $8-$13; seasonal specials, $7$20; cheese, $3-$12.

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t has all but become a law of philadelphia dining: Whenever the city is ready to turn the corner on a culinary trend, 13th Street is where the steering wheel spins.

Are those scents of a Mexican revival wafting out of South philly? Bam, Stephen Starr plunks down El Vez at 13th and Sansom. is Tiffin about to conquer the market for indian 2.0 from a random perch More on: on Girard Avenue? Time for Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney to add Bindi to their gourmet empire one block east of Broad. And say, are philadelphians starting to show a hankering for upscale cocktails?

Welcome to 13th Street, ApO Bar + lounge.

Trends aren’t born on this corridor, but it’s where they get anointed and gather strength to spread. if Malcolm Gladwell ever updates The Tipping Point, look out for that Fletch F. Fletch Afro bouncing along the street between lolita and Capogiro.

He’ll want to duck into Zavino along the way. Those first two

letters signify the latest blip of good news for long-suffering philadelphia pizza lovers. Flatbread fanatics who can’t be bothered to reserve their dough ahead of time have gotten a few strong alternatives to Tacconelli’s lately. Stella has become the standardbearer in the Center City sit-down game, SliCE has elevated the downtown delivery scene, and Mount Airy’s Earth Bread + Brewery is the best thing to happen to family-friendly dining in ages. Zavino, a casual trattoria that’s been bustling on the corner of 13th and Sansom since January, marks another important milestone: good pizza at a place where the pizza is only the third- or fourth-best reason to go.

Chef Steve Gonzalez hails from Southwest philly but has spent the last decade or so out of town, including a stint at New York’s Co. under dough darling Jim lahey, godfather of the no-knead bread craze. His résumé also includes Vetri, and that’s the one that shows.

More on the merits of his pizza in a minute — his homemade pasta is what’s really distinguished Zavino in its more food and first few months. drink coverage First, though, let’s qualify that praise. at c i t y p a p e r . n e t / There’s nothing precious or fussy about m e a lt i c k e t. these $8 and $9 plates — which are smaller than your standard entrée, but definitely bigger than a snack — so don’t come in expecting to find shredded scallop meat reconstituted into post-modern “spaghetti.” That doesn’t play in a bar kitchen that boasts a whopping six burners. But Gonzalez has turned that limitation into a virtue, drawing on his whole-animal cooking philosophy to turn out some of the best down-home noodle dishes in town.

On a day when a salad claimed all the kitchen’s octopus tentacles,

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holding it down in Philly — our very own Jose Garces, with six restaurants; Masaharu Morimoto, with his eponymous Stephen Starr landmark; and now Bobby Flay, who opened his fifth Bobby’s Burger Palace location in the Radian (3925 Walnut St.) on Tuesday. We caught up with the celeb chef earlier this week; for more, see Feeding Frenzy on p. 46.

How do you describe the BBP concept? To me, this is a very American concept. The burgers are flavored [based on] different regions of America.

It’s a way of bringing what great ingredients this country has and putting them on a burger.

What about Philly appealed to you? I love Philadelphia. The people in Philadelphia have always been really warm to me. … The chefs here have always been very supportive. The people here are really gutsy. They tell you what they want, and that’s a good thing.

Did Morimoto or Garces encourage you to come? I asked them a couple questions. [They both] just said, “Look, Philly’s a great food town. Just do your thing and people will get into it.”

You’re offering a Philadelphia burger with Cheez Whiz on it. You like Whiz? When I order a cheesesteak, I always get Whiz. You can’t have a Philly Burger and not offer Whiz.

Have you tried other Philly burgers? I haven’t, and I’ve done that purposely. I don’t want to be influenced by anyone else’s stuff. There are particular things about the burgers that we do here that are important to me, and I think that they are successful in getting people to crave them.

What is this “crunchified” thing we keep hearing about? [It’s] very simply thin, crisp potato chips on any burger for free. … I would get a cheeseburger with extra American cheese, and the cheese would [drip] onto my potato chips, and those were the ones that I would eat first. So I said, “Fuck it, why not just put them on a burger?”

Do you have a personal favorite on the burger list? I get the L.A. Burger [avocado relish, watercress, cheddar and tomato] crunchified pretty often. If I was going to order myself, I’d probably get an L.A. Burger crunchified, a side of fries and a pistachio shake.

Get any flak from New York for opening up your first urban Burger Palace in Philly? My wife and my friends and my family are driving me crazy because they love these burgers, but there’s not one in New York. I have high-end restaurants in New York, and if I do something [there], the microscope goes on it. I just wanted to open a fun burger place. (drew.lazor@citypaper.net)

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Zavino serves good pizza, but it’s only the third- or fourth-best reason to go.

Gonzalez channeled the head meat and some fish-bone stock into tufts of capellini so thoroughly oceanic you could practically hear seagulls. (He’s got a knack with fisherman-style food in general; if you like anchovies, don’t miss the bagna cauda that dresses his leafy shavedroot salad.) Meanwhile, trimmings left over from a pig that had mostly gone to make hams and terrines became a ragu whose awesome depth demanded — and received — a plate of ethereal gnocchi to absorb the richness. Too bad they’d run out of the pig’s head ravioli already. A previous afternoon had featured one featherweight version stuffed with Swiss chard under fried sage and browned butter, and another filled with bacalao. Whether he cuts his dough in ribbons or tubes or fills them with ballasts as substantial as salt cod, Gonzalez imbues his pastas with a lightness that is hard to match.

The pizza lineup is comparatively static, consisting of about half a dozen options that don’t change much, though they do span a decent range of flavors. Tomatosauce pies are as simple as garlic and oregano, or as busy as sopressata and olives with pickled red onions and pecorino. White pies feature a judiciously applied béchamel — a particularly effective foil for the woodsy Kennett, with its fragrant cargo of local mushrooms (mercifully free, for once, of truffle oil). The toppings here outshine the crust, which i kept wishing had a crispier bite. But at $8 to $13 for a meal-size pie, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better deal.

That value proposition extends to the wine service, which, after the pastas, is the second big reason to squeeze into one of Zavino’s tight tables — or nestle up to the cream-colored marble bar. reasonable markups and offbeat varietals are enough to make for good exploring; throw in a staff that’s quick with down-toearth suggestions and complimentary sips and you’ve got the tasting trifecta. right now the list leans toward Europe, embracing unusual stuff like a single-varietal Nerello Mascalese from Sicily and best-drunk-young quaffs like a Dolcetto di Dogliani redolent of eucalyptus and a ribera del Duero Joven that had me searching the plCB Web site to make a special order as soon as i got home. Gonzalez says he’s keen to bring more domestic juice into the mix, but his yen is for far-out styles that can be hard-to-get, like the experimental Scholium wines, made by an ex-philosophy professor whose methods are so unorthodox he readily admits to pouring failed batches down the drain.

Take that attitude too far, and trouble awaits. But Zavino’s down-to-earth cooking and pricing keep everything in balance. So does its service. Tired of the bottledwater hard sell? “Welcome to Zavino. Would you like filtered flat water, or complimentary sparkling?” Want to linger over that excellent mint panna cotta until the bittersweet slick of chocolate underneath it is nothing but fingerprints? No check came to end either of my two visits until i asked for it. Those are the kinds of touches that make it easy to breathe. So welcome to 13th Street, Steve Gonzalez. We’ve been waiting for you. (t_popp@citypaper.net)

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➤ NOW SEATING Bobby’s Burger Palace | Bobby Flay opened his fifth Bobby’s Burger palace location — the rest are in suburbs of New York — in philly on Tuesday. it’s the first city location for Flay’s slick patty-flipping concept, which brings together a selection of burgers inspired by regions of the United States. The 6-ounce certified Angus patties are seasoned simply, with kosher salt and cracked black pepper, to let the toppers take main stage. There’s an l.A. Burger, with avocado relish, watercress, cheddar and tomato; the Dallas, with slaw and a barbecue-sauce slather; and even the philly, with grilled onions, hot peppers and your choice of provolone or Whiz (just get the Whiz, c’mon). Fries are hand-cut, and you can “crunchify” any burger with lay’s at no extra charge. Drink-wise, hit up the beer list or milk shakes both spiked and virgin.

(Check out p. 45 for a Q&A with Flay.) The Radian, 3925 Walnut St., 215-387-0378, bobbysburgerpalace.com.

Mexico on the Square | The friendly folks who turned

out that delicious Mexi fare in the former Savoy at 18th and Spruce now have their own takeout spot. Mexico on the Square (not quite “on” the Square — 15th and pine) is offering tortas, tacos, picaditas, flautas, sopes, tostadas and burritos, plus hoagies (with Boar’s Head meats), cheesesteaks and other grillable eats. They deliver, too.

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145 N. 9th Street(Center City), Two Bedrooms, Good size of living room, One full Bathroom and One Kitchen, Kitchen with garbage disposal,Washer and Dryer. Central heat and central air. Contact# 610-382-8009 (day time) ApARtmEntS FoR REnt

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CoBBS CREEk

No credit check! Fee paid!

Bring pets, deck $450 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400 dREXEL CoLLEGE

3 bedroom house apartment rehabbed! Appliances $750 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 GRAdUAtE HoSpitAL

Walk to Center City! Bring pets! Just renovated $500’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400 immEdiAtE moVE in

Great little apartment at 6 th and Dickinson must have someone move in within a week. So if you are looking and are ready so are we! 2 Bedroom, bath, combo living room and kitchen, 3 rd floor walk up in a residental house.

Full size washer and dryer, almost new appliances. You pay gas and electric. Need 1st last and security to move in, $550.00 monthly/ $1650.00 move in. Must have references and a job. Contact Toni 215-620-1670 This is a quiet house not looking for partiers or trouble makers. mAnAyUnk

Walk to Main Street! Utilities paid, private apartment! $425 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 nEW tEmpLE ApARtmEntS

We have brand new apartments currently being built for Fall 2010. Apartments are either on campus or within walking distance. We have about 15 locations that we are looking for renters. 2 person/3 person/ 4 person/ 5 person.

Please email bibgripladies@ aol.com for a list of prices and locations. Thank you. noRtHERn LiBERtiES

1126 C Oniel. 2 bedroom, A/C, W/D, D/W, Hardwood Floors, Intercom, Private Courtyard.

One block from the Piazza $900 + Utilities. (610) 3580723 noRtHERn LiBERtiES

Move up to Mt Airy, trade concrete for trees. Large bright apartments, near Manayunk and Chestnut Hill. 15 min to Center City. Oak parquet floors, modern European kitchens, A/C, laundry, DSL & Cable available. On site super, easy parking. Studio, 1 & 2 Bedrooms available. Rent includes heat. 215-438-1076 or info@cliveden.net Check out floor plans & pix at www. cliveden.net

Pets welcome! All utilities paid!

Hardwood floors, appliances, parking $500’s LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400

CAStER GARdEnS

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House apartment! No credit check! Patio, pers ok $400’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400 CEntER City

Cozy house apartment, air, just renovated $500’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400 CEntER City

Cozy house apartment, air, just renovated! $500’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400

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Utilities paid! Hardwood floors, parking, appliances pets ok 500’s noRtHERn LiBERtiES

Utilities paid! Hardwood floors, parking, appliances, pets ok $500’s LOCATORS 215-9223400 No credit check! large windows! Utilities paid $800 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400

Studio/ Efficiency RittEnHoUSE SQUARE

Lovely Studio in Beautiful Brownstone, Block to Rittenhouse Sq, New Kitchen, HW Flrs, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry. Ask About Move-in Discounts! $875/Mo. 215-7358030. # 216850 RoomS FoR REnt noRtH pHiLLy

Room for Rent in North Philly Newly renov-rooms w/ Cental Air & New carpet. Freshly painted. Utilities incl. No pets. $110.00 Weekly Very clean and cable TV /phone ready rooms. Contact No# 215.882.0791 Any time tEmpLE AREA RoomS + EFFiEC

Nicely maintained clean boarding house has -Furnished Rooms for rent $100.00 a week. -Furnished Room With kitchen 140.00 a week. -”Small” 3 room efficiency furnished or unfurnished. kitchen bath and bdrm/lvg area $575.00 a mth utilities included.Call 215 803 1189 Sylvia.

One Bedroom 15tH/SpRUCE

Beautiful Art Deco High-rise 1Bdrm Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitch, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location!. From $1080/Mo. 215-735-8030.

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Sunny, Clean 1BR Apt. C/A. W/D on premises. Avail: immediately. $900/mo. 215983-0887 ARt mUSEUm

All utilities paid! Renovated 1 bedroom, basement, washer/ dryer $650 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400 ARt mUSEUm

Renovated 1 bedroom, yard, basement, washer/dryer utilities paid! $650 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 ARt mUSEUm

Renovated 1 bedroom, yard, basement, washer/dryer, utilities paid! $650 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 BELLA ViStA

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4 rooms, no credit check! Just redone! Pets ok $500 LOCATORS 215-922-3400

1 bedroom duplex! 1 st floor, basement, air, fenced yard $625 LOCATORS INC 215922-3400

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Four rooms, no credit check!

Just redone! Pets ok $500 LOCATORS 215-922-3400

1 bedroom Duplex! 1st floor, near park, pets ok $500 LOCATORS 215-922-3400

1 bedroom duplex! Fee paid!

Porch, 1st floor $500 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400 GREATER NORTHEAST

1 bedroom, hardwood floors, parking, 1st floor, patio $600’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400

parking, patio, bring pets $550 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 UNIVERSITY CITY

Renovated 1 bedroom, No credit check! Bring pets! $450 LOCATORS 215-922-3400

two Bedrooms

JUANITA PARK

1 bedroom, no credit check!

Bring pet, utilities paid $500’s LOCATORS INC 215-9223400 MANAYUNK

NORTHERN LIBERTIES

Extremely Large Bi-level 1 Bedroom, 1 and 1/2 baths, W/D, Hardwood Floors, eat in kitchen, high ceilings, private back yard with overlooking deck... $975 + utilities. 856 985-8357 NORTHERN LIBERTIES AREA

Friends Housing Cooperative rental. Gated community. $850 includes gas, heat and hot water. Call 215-922-4622.

Laundr y on-site. Free off street parking. Free storage.

Pets OK. ONE BEdROOM/RENT

Ave.of the Arts/1500 Kater St. Fabulous converted Warehouse Spacious and sunny 1 bdrm, gourmet kitchen, large living room, w/d, central a/c.

Well maintained bldg. $1295 + util April/May Availability Call 215 440-5320 QUEENS VILLAGE

1 bedroom renovated apartment, utilities paid! Large kitchen $500’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400 RHAUNHURST VCT

1 bedroom house apartment, parking, patio, bring pets $550 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 RHAUNHURST VCT

1 bedroom house apartment,

OXfORd CIRCLE

2 story, 2 bedroom house, No credit check! $600’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400

2 BEdROOM, 1 BATH HOUSE

Avenue of the Arts / Italian Market/ Passyunk Square area. 1 Block to Broad Street.

W/D, Spiral Stairs, Patio off Kitchen. No pets. $1300.00 A Month + Security. 267-7678750 AVE. Of THE ARTS 2 BEd ROOM

2 bedroom apartment, good location! Big kitchen, negotiable lease $500’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

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2 bedroom house apartment, no credit check! Parking $750 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 EAST MOUNT AIRY

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2 bedroom Duplex, fenced yard, air, fee paid! $600’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400 NORTHERN LIBERTIES

1126 C Oniel. 2 bedroom, A/C, W/D, D/W, Hardwood Floors, Intercom, Private Courtyard. One block from the Piazza $900 + Utilities.

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3 bedroom, 2 story, no credit check! Pets $900 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 GREATER NORTHEAST

ART MUSEUM VCT

2 Story 3 bedroom, no credit check! Parking, pets LOCATORS 215-922-3400

3 bedroom, 2 bath home, parking, yard, pets ok $850 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 GREATER NORTHEAST

ART MUSEUM VCT

3 bedroom 2 baths 2 story, parking, basement, pets $900’s LOCATORS 215922-3400 ART MUSEUM VCT

3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 story, parking, basement, pets $900 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 AVENUE Of ARTS

3 bedroom 2 story house, great area! Yard, basement $695 LOCATORS 215-9223400 BELLA VISTA

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1st floor, 1 bedroom house apartment, fee paid, near park! Pets $400 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400

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QUEEN VILLAGE

3 bedroom 2 story home, parking, hardwood floors, bring pets $550 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 OLNEY

3 bedroom, 2 story house, lease purchase & own! Garage $800’s LOCATORS 215922-3400 OVERBROOK

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Lease Purchase & Own it! 3 bedroom 2 story, garage, pets ok $695 LOCATORS INC 215922-3400 TEmPLE mEDICAL SCHOOL AREA

Two Blocks from Temple Medical School 3 large bedrooms Washer/Dryer Eat in kitchen, dishwasher, Large Living room hardwood Floors First, and 1 month security please contact 610-696-9062 email topcatwc@hotmail.com Walking distance to Temple Medical School, Temple Shuttle, R7, Rite-aid, banks

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Open Floor Plan with 3 decks 1,742 Sq. ft. living space 3 large bedrooms, 2 ½ Baths Gas Fireplace, Gas Heat and Central Air Conditioning Oversized Garage plus outside parking for 2 cars Outside enclosed hot/cold shower Large yard Fully Furnished right down to the silverware

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Broad Street! Fee paid! 4 bedroom with utilities paid $1400 LOCATORS INC 215922-3400 CENTER CITY

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3+ bedroom 2 bath 2 story, Lease Purchase & Own it!

Pets $1200 LOCATORS 215922-3400

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3+ bedroom 2 baths 2 story , lease purchase and own it!

Pets $1200 LOCATORS 215922-3400 CHESTNUT HILL VCT

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3 bedroom 2 story, near all schools! Newly renovated! $900 LOCATORS 215-9223400

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WEST PHILADELPHIA

Lease purchase & own it! 3 bedroom, 2 story, yard, pets ok, parking LOCATORS 215922-3400 WEST PHILADELPHIA

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QUEEN VILLAGE

6 room 2 story house, patio, yard, washer/dryer pets $700’s LOCATORS 215-922-3400

GERmANTOWN

2 bedroom 2 bath 2 story house, hardwood floors, basement, pets LOCATORS 215-922-3400

4 bedroom home, nice location! Pets ok $725 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 4 bedroom 2 story house, no credit check, pets ok $1200 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 HOmE 4 RENT-TEmPLE STUDENTS

C.R.P. & Co. is pleased to announce the availability of a (3) story, single-family home with 6/7 bedrooms and 2 baths.

Fully refurbished and is ideal for student housing. The property offers new kitchen, windows, roof, central heat and air conditioning plus ceiling fans in every room. Alarm System installed and smoke alarms in every room. Washer/dryer hook-up, hardwood floors, car peting and basement storage. Fenced rear yard, great for barbeques. Located approx. 7 blocks from Temple University Campus. PLEASE CALL PAT BANTOM @ 609560-4613 IMMEDIATE availability for $3,250.00 per month plus utilities.

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3+ bedroom 2 story house, lease purchase & own it!

Deck $700 LOCATORS 215922-3400 SOUTH PHILADELPHIA

4 bedroom house, fee paid!

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7 rooms, 2 story house, fireplace, patio, hardwood floors, basement $1100 LOCATORS 215-922-3400

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