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[ + 2] Gambling mogul Steve Wynn announces
that he will not build a casino on the Philly waterfront. “Holy shit,” says Casino-Free Philadelphia. “We’ve never celebrated a non-moral victory! Do we drink now?!”
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“We feel very much victimized,” says Foxwoods lawyer Stephen Cozen about Steve Wynn’s decision not to build a casino in Philly. And the whole city cries. A hat is passed around, so that a monument may be built with an eternal flame lit and a prayer said that this never happen again, a corporate lawyer having his time kinda wasted, even though he still gets to bill for it.
[ + 1] A pastor, a reverend and a rabbi bless the
baseballs used in the Phillies’ home opener. Soccer balls used in the Union opener blessed by a bartender, a horse and a 12inch pianist.
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A film crew for Dark Fields transforms 19th and Market to look like a New York City intersection. By shitting on the curb.
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[ + 3] The Pennsylvania SPCA throws a dog
“garage” sale in North Philly. Afterward, all overstock is left in the “garage” with the “car running.”
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[ + 1] A University of Pennsylvania dental school
alum leaves $17.3 million to the school. It is a giant sack of gold teeth, and it is gross.
[ + 6] Using DNA evidence, detectives solve four decades-old “cold cases.” Those heavyhanded flashbacks set to songs popular at the time of the crimes helped, too.
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The Franklin Institute announces that Bill Gates has won the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership. Presenting it will be the previous two winners: a skinned and plastinated peasant striking a humiliating pose, and Boba Fett.
[ + 2] Bicycling.com votes Philly No. 27 in Amer-
ica’s top 50 bike-friendly cities. Everyone knows it’s best to stay with the peloton until the very end.
[ + 8] Two Daily News reporters win a Pulitzer
for their “Tainted Justice” series. More importantly: Since those stories first ran, there has been real reform in the world of judge grundles.
This week’s total: 22 | Last week’s total: 7
AMILLIONSTORIES Now with 34 percent more spine
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obs With Justice (JWJ), the labor organization whose Philly chapter has dedicated its entire existence to raising hell about security service giant AlliedBarton, is used to not getting quite what it wants. When it tried to unionize Temple guards, it ended up winning the workers a few sick days. When it tried unionizing Penn guards, it won them a few sick days, plus a $5 per hour raise specifically for guards who ride bicycles (weird). And for the past two years, its dogged attempts to get the Philadelphia Museum of Art to look it in the eye and tell it to fuck off have proven mostly fruitless. But in the past month, JWJ has seen two of its biggest victories against AlliedBarton yet. On March 16, the Northumberland County Commissioners stopped subcontracting security work out to AlliedBarton for $193,000 a year, because, “We want to be fair to the employees,” Commissioner Kurt Masser told local paper The Daily Item (famous for being the most adorably named newspaper in Pa.). Then City Councilman Bill Greenlee received a March 31 letter from Art Museum director Timothy Rub saying, “The museum urges AlliedBarton to respect the wishes of the majority of the security officers and bargain in good faith with the [Philadelphia Security Officers Union].” The PSOU is the union the guards voted to approve Oct. 10, 2009 — though AlliedBarton filed an appeal with the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) alleging “inconsistencies in the election,” thus
preventing the union’s recognition ever since. Finally, it seemed, the museum was taking a stand. But that supportive statement didn’t come completely from the benevolence of the Museum’s vividly colored heart: Greenlee had dangled the prospect of withholding the museum’s $2.3 million appropriation. Sort of. “To be honest, I’ve never said that directly,” Greenlee says. “I’ve said we don’t want to have a problem with the [Council] hearing [April 12].” At that hearing — at which council members took turns berating AlliedBarton, according to the account posted on the pro-union thatfinalstraw.com — Rub said that, although AlliedBarton’s contract was now month-to-month and the museum would consider competing bids, he also planned to let the NRLB process play out, no matter how long that takes. That part about the museum growing a spine? Not so much.
Sorry about that, Sparky.
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small amount of joy that we celebrate the recent (albeit partial) victory of the Brattleboro, Vt.based Prison Legal News (prisonlegalnews. org) — seriously, we cannot believe you’ve never heard of it — over the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC), which apparently does not think you are entitled to know how much money it has paid out in legal damages to prisoners and employees in recent years, even though they’re writing those checks with your money. “The litigation spending,” explains PLN editor Paul Wright, “is a barometer of how well or poorly run a prison is.” According to court records, in February 2009 Wright filed a request under the state’s Right to Know Law (RTKL) for records related to any claims in excess of $1,000 that PDOC paid out between 2001 and 2008. PDOC told him they’d be happy to … right after Wright cut them a check for $8,750. By PDOC’s guesstimate, he was asking for 35,000 pages of information — 175 cases per year (!) times 25 pages per case times eight years — and they were charging him 25 cents-per-page for copies. Wright refined his search, and asked for electronic records and a spreadsheet listing the settlements and payments the department had issued. PDOC’s response: The electronic records don’t exist, so $8,750, please. “When they say they don’t track their litigation, that’s quite the
stunning management failure at every level,” Wright says. The
department also denied Wright’s request to waive the fees, a courtesy the RTKL allows for requests made in the “public interest.” Wright appealed to the Office of Open Records (OOR), arguing that the price the PDOC was asking far exceeded what other agencies — state, federal and local — had asked for similar requests. OOR decided that PDOC’s fees were legit; however, it also said that PDOC had to make the records available for Wright to inspect — though not copy — within 30 days. Both sides appealed to the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania: Wright, because he thought the fees were prohibitively exorbitant; PDOC, because it wanted the chance to go through the records and see if there were any to which Wright wasn’t entitled. On April 8, a three-judge panel remanded the case back to OOR, and ordered PDOC to provide a better explanation for its estimates and why it had denied the fee waiver. Meanwhile, the judges instructed OOR to allow PDOC to review the records before turning them over. Wright considers the ruling a victory, although “weaker than I hoped for.” In an e-mail, PDOC spokeswoman Susan McNaughton says the fee that the department demanded was for copies, and that PDOC never tried to charge Wright for labor costs. Also, she says, Wright rejected PDOC’s proposal that he review cases from a smaller time frame at a lower cost. Wright says he came away from the experience with the distinct impression that PDOC would rather him not see those records: “I’m disappointed that government agencies in Pennsylvania are basically so intent on concealing this information. I think it’s just a sad commentary on both the lack of openness and accountability that they don’t want to disclose this stuff.” ➤ DEPT. OF YUPPIE PUPPIES
This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman, Holly Otterbein and Andrew
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By Isaiah Thompson
MAGIC WATER ➤ THE TUBE, ABOUT 10 feet tall and sticking
out of the ground like a bird feeder from Mars, gobbled: It made a sound, that is, like turkeys gobbling — “Gobblegobblegobble!” “Methane,” explained Julie Sautner, pointing at it from in front of her house in Dimock, Pa., in the northeast corner of the state. “It bubbles.” Bubbling is only one of the magical properties the Sautners’ well water has taken on since they first leased land to Texas-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. for natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale geologic formation two years ago. The water has also turned brown, tested positive for strange salts, metals and chemicals and started clogging things: “[Cabot] cut into a pipe that was less than a year old,” says Craig Sautner, “and it looked like solid peanut butter in there.” This magical water, unfortunately, isn’t much good for drinking. Cabot, the Sautners say, denies any role in contaminating their well. Nonetheless, the company began supplying them with a giant vat of fresh water from elsewhere. It has to be refilled almost every day. Down the street, Jean and Ronald Carter tell a similar story: They leased their land to Cabot for drilling, and wound up with their own methaneemitting gobble-tube. Cabot again denies any role — but supplies them with water, too. I met these families on April 12, as part of a “tour” of Dimock organized by a ragtag team of residentactivists who are calling for a moratorium on new drilling permits until more studies are done on its impact. To this end, they also invited Democratic gubernatorial hopeful (and underdog) Joe Hoeffel, the only candidate in the race who supports such a moratorium — and who has not taken campaign donations from drilling companies, unlike frontrunner Dan Onorato. Dimock is tiny, but busy these days: Helicopters fly overhead, taking underground measurements. Giant tanker trucks barrel up and down the small country roads. And problems — spills, fish kills, well contaminations — are cropping up, and with them, resistance. The little town has become a vision of the future of the still-young Marcellus Shale gas industry in Pennsylvania. Dimock, you might say, has a message for us — for environmentalists, gas drillers, politicians, all of us here in Pennsylvania. Listen close, maybe you’ll hear, too: “Gobblegobblegobble.” Still can’t hear it? Listen online at citypaper.net/manoverboard. E-mail Isaiah Thompson at isaiah.thompson@ citypaper.net.
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Here at A Million Stories, we’re animal lovers. We really are. But there’s just something a little crazy about the fact that over the past few years, as the economy slid into the first, then the third, then the ninth circles of Dante’s hell, the pet insurance industry boomed. That’s right: Around the same time Grammy was being told her skin cancer treatment wasn’t covered because of some “pre-existing” freckle she had a few decades back, Pooky, that goddamned 8-year-old Chihuahua who will just not shut up, was enjoying regular checkups and preventive flea treatments. For instance, according to Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. (VPIC), the company insured 916 pets in Philadelphia in 2004. But in 2010, 2,072 — more than twice as many — have insurance. No one, not even the PR guy who hipped us to this fascinating news nugget — and then declined to be quoted, because, well, who the fuck knows — knows why there’s been a spike. Funny thing is, it turns out that pet insurance has nearly as many loopholes as ours does. For instance, if you try to sign up your 11-year-old cat for insurance, you’ll be turned away: Age 10 is the cut-off for VPIC. And any pre-existing condition that your pet’s been treated for — or even shown physical signs of possessing — won’t be covered. Sorry about that, Sparky. Guess you’re gonna have to live with those heartworms after all.
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LIBERTY HERSELF ➤ AND, THERE THEY were. Almost out of nowhere — but not really
— waving flags and brandishing signs, warning of socialism and fascism and other isms and more often than not degenerating into a sort of unfocused, disaffected rage that seemed to boil at everything and nothing. They didn’t like President Obama. They didn’t like Nancy Pelosi. They sure as shit hated health-care reform. And, just as quickly, the left was there to ridicule them as uneducated, as bigoted, as hateful, blithering idiots. Some of this derision was warranted — much of this movement was undeniably racist, insipid and anti-intellectual; other parts, hyperbolic. But over the last year, the Tea Party became a zeitgeist. The oft-derided tea baggers became the angry face of an obstinate Republican Party, all the while wrapping themselves in the flag and the founders and the principles of liberty herself, and casting those in opposition, especially those who thought that universal health care was an idea whose time had come, as the very antithesis of freedom. Much ink has been spilled trying to make sense of how this movement became the flavor of the month (answer: an attention-deficient media that prefers heat to light), and for how long the fury can sustain itself (answer: the clock is ticking). In this week’s cover story (p. 12), Holly Otterbein does an admirable job going beyond the caricature and reporting on the avowedly not-racist people who are trying to make the Tea Party influential in this urban environ. But before you get there, let’s look at the bigger picture. First,
at what the Tea Party isn’t: destined for longevity. The history of third-party movements in this country, a political science principle known as Duverger’s Law — single-member district, plurality-wins systems like ours will render third parties impotent — and the demographic tendencies of the Tea Partiers (white, old, conservative) all indicate that this largely leaderless faction will, sooner rather than later, be reabsorbed into the GOP borg. Its success or failure won’t be measured on its merits as a freestanding entity, but how it changes the political debate during its existence. That brings us to something else the Tea Party isn’t: irrelevant. Almost certainly, a few years hence, the Tea Party will amount to little more than a paragraph in a history textbook. If it succeeds in moving the Republican Party sharply to the right, the Tea Party will set up the GOP for a colossal defeat in 2012, a la Barry Goldwater. It is a minority movement, true, but a voracious, outspoken one. And yet, to a significant subset of the American body politic, it resonates. Understanding why requires going beyond both the Tea Party rhetoric and the left’s blithe dismissals to the reality that there is a fundamental fear both buttressing and drawing people to this movement: They see the world changing, and it scares them. Though not about the Tea Party movement itself, the insightful book Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics by political scientists Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan D. Weiler, is instructive. Released last year, it argues that authoritarianism — and an accompanying need to maintain social order and black-and-white mores — is the central driver of public opinion on “culture war” issues: When some people feel threatened by a new social evolution, be it the civil rights movement in the 1960s, the gay rights advances of the early 2000s, the agitation against the
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Iraq war or perhaps — just perhaps — the election of a black, Ivy League-educated president today, they react viscerally. It’s not a stretch to view the Tea Party as the vanguard of authoritarianism; the degree to which President Obama embodies that amorphous term “change” is debatable, but the generation that propelled him to the White House is certainly less religious, less traditionally oriented, and, importantly, better educated and more tolerant than their elders — and many in the Tea Party. Authoritarians are losing the war, no matter the battles they win in the short term. The rest of this hue and cry about the dissimilation of freedom is but a proxy for those fears. Meanwhile, actual affronts to liberty go largely unnoticed: Last week, a federal court ruled in favor of local telecom Comcast, which wants the ability to decide what you can see on the Internet and how easily you can see it, because net neutrality is insufficiently profitable. In the Information Age, such a proposition should be terrifying. There were no Tea Party protests marking the occasion. (jeffrey.billman@citypaper.net)
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PAY DIRT! ➤ PHILADELPHIA HAS ALL the fixings needed to turn toxic lots
into fields of green. That’s what several hundred composters and would-be soil farmers recently heard from an icon of urban gardening, Will Allen. Allen is a former pro basketballer and MacArthur genius who brought farming, food and jobs to Milwaukee. At 61, his business acumen wowed a crowd of some 275 potential merchants of muck at the International House’s “Compost Matters,” hosted by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Allen’s message was simple: “It’s all about the soil.” Good soil grows good food, and good jobs. The soil farmers got Allen’s message, loud and clear. But it’s still uncertain what the mayor heard when Allen personally tried to tell him that composting makes money. Others are already cashing in. Nelson Widell showed off his profitable and pristine soil facility in Wilmington, located “within 200 yards of $400,000 houses.” Closer to home, Marvin Dixon, director of engineering for Philadelphia’s Four Seasons, documented the dollars saved by collecting peelings from the hotel’s kitchens. The compostable stuff is then trucked to Montgomery County, because Philly has no commercial composting industry. Which is why entrepreneurs here smelled money. As more of our big institutions go green, they’ll need a place to compost nearby. With trucking costs, the nearer, the better. Philadelphia families also toss out an estimated 95,000 tons of wannabe compost yearly, costing us more than $6 million to bury it in distant landfills. Meanwhile, we pay greening groups like PHS to bring topsoil back. Yes, it’s nuts. “The message I’m taking to Mayor Nutter,” said Allen, “is that composting is a huge asset to the city. It makes money.” Meenal Raval owns Philly Compost, and her business is booming, but it’s stunted. “We can’t keep up with the demand,” she said. “We need space.” Two acres would do. “Philadelphia doesn’t even need two acres,” offered Allen, who got space near Milwaukee’s water-purification plant. But Philly’s infrastructure czarina, Deputy Mayor Rina Cutler, doesn’t share other cities’ enthusiasm. At a Town Hall forum last year, she described her compost nightmare: rats crawling through rotting garbage — something that is not a reality for a well-run composting facility. (Asked if she now wanted to refine her vision, Cutler demurred.) She didn’t meet with Allen. Is Philly’s City Hall so much less evolved than Milwaukee, or Wilmington? Not entirely. Sustainability Director Katherine Gajewski told the soil farmers that “composting touches everything in the Greenworks Plan.” But it’s unclear what she can do. So what did Nutter get from Allen? After their meeting, I asked the mayor. “We want to have fresh food within a short walk of everyone,” he intoned, as if reading from the Greenworks plan. Hmm. Nothing about composting. So I asked, why don’t wannabe composters have a single go-to place in the government? “That would silo it,” our carefully accoutered mayor cautiously replied. He seemed to wince at the mention of composting, perhaps haunted by Cutler’s vision of vermin and rot. Mr. Mayor, fear not compost. To be the nation’s greenest city, you need good soil. And there are literally hundreds of soil farmers waiting to hear from you, ready to turn waste into pay dirt. (bruce@schimmel.com)
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handcuffed too tightly or how their arm was twisted, does not indict an entire municipal police department of misconduct, including the commissioner. A Philadelphia Police Officer VIA E-MAIL
NECESSARY FORCE Police officers are permitted to punch/kick/choke/stab/strangle/ and/or use deadly force to overcome the level of resistance being faced [Naked City, “See No Evil,” Andrew Thompson, April 1]. I’m assuming that the comments regarding the infamous “baby shower” arrest came from the complaint against the city, which was probably filled with lawyer-ese and asked for a settlement of $50,000. I cannot answer for the alleged actions of some officers; I can only speak from experience and ask you: Have you ever been present in a hostile neighborhood when attempting to arrest someone for any offense, no matter how trivial? Every neighbor, cousin, nephew, friend, stepson and their brother come out of the woodwork to complain that, “You got the wrong guy.” We get no help from the residents of their own neighborhoods, as evidenced by the resistance and bad press we received for removing a dangerous armed felon from the streets of Germantown in the past week. Aside from one officer’s alleged behavior, how many of these complaints of physical abuse — “a 20 percent increase in a single year” — were actually founded? Police are allowed to use force in making arrests. Just because the person being arrested didn’t agree with how they were taken into custody, how they were
PROBLEM SOLVED I once asked a [SEPTA employee] working the ticket booth at Market East what he does if a transgender person asks to buy a TransPass [A Million Stories, “Annals of Bureaucracy,” April 8]. How does he negotiate the Male/Female sticker issue? His response was to ask the individual purchasing the TransPass, “Is this for a man or a woman?” Problem solved (sort of). Anonymous V I A C I T Y PA P E R . N E T
THE NEXT MIKE GALLAGHER? Awesome story [Naked City, “Walk On,” Eric Pettersson, April 8]. My dad biked across country in his younger years and its something I’ve wanted to do ever since. Good luck to Gallagher! Sounds amazing! Shailer V I A C I T Y PA P E R . N E T Send all letters to Feedback, City Paper, 123 Chestnut St., 3rd Floor,
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some unlikely juxtapositions this spring. First, the tail end of the Boston photographer’s “SHOW” at Gallery 339 — a bawdy, campy exploration of the burlesque world, done in pointed black and white — ran up against the opening of “Looking at Animals,” a more family-appropriate exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences collecting sepia abstracts from the zoo, the farm and his own backyard. Striking perhaps a starker contrast than nudesand-tattoos versus antlers-and-hooves images (both depict bodies, after all), the Academy hangs Horenstein’s work alongside specimens from its collection, juxtaposing what artists and scientists find interesting in the animals they study. Upon entering the dimly lit second-floor gallery, one of the first photos to stand out from the left wall is Giant Pacific Octopus. Shot in fluid soft focus, its tentacles wrap and fill most of the frame in overlapping mounds; in the top third, we see the reticent animal’s eye protruding, and the blackness of the ocean (or aquarium, perhaps) backdropping it. The warm image of this Pacific octopus sits next to a Plexiglas cylinder lit in iridescent yellows, blues and greens, containing “Walter” — a full-body octopus specimen that’s been at the museum since the 1960s. Floating in an alcohol solution, Walter is crumpled and lifeless, a rubbery tangled mass bearing little resemblance to the resplendent creature depicted in Horenstein’s image. The dichotomy is even stronger when you compare how the artist and scientists see giraffes. Both avoid making a thing of the neck, which is refreshing. Horenstein’s Smoky Giraffe hones in on three of the animal’s muscular legs, bunched >>> continued on page 25
JOY DIVISION: Helmed by Joan Myers Brown, this local dance troupe sticks to its goal of bringing accessible, joyous movement to Philadelphia. LOIS GREENFIELD
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THE CONSTANT Philadanco’s 40-year-old mission statement holds steady in an ever-evolving field. By Deni Kasrel
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oan Myers Brown isn’t into high society. Sure, it’s Philadanco’s 40th anniversary — prime time for pricey fundraisers and fancy shindigs all in the name of marking major milestones. And while gala events indeed will be part of this celebration, the troupe’s longtime artistic director stresses the importance of accessibility: Anyone who attends a Philadanco performance this week automatically becomes part of the troupe’s jubilee bash. It all goes down right on the stage, in a new piece titled By Way of the Funk. Created by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Brooklyn’s Urban Bush Women, Funk, naturally, is set to the sounds of Parliament and Funkadelic. “I thought, ‘You know what, I want to do a piece to celebrate,” says the choreographer, who’d originally planned something more somber. “Plus, [funk has] been around about 40 years, as well.” The other three selections on the anniversary program are fan favorites — first performed in the ’80s and reprised many times since. And while each has its own character, Brown says they all bear a company trademark of “joyous dance.” That’s an anomaly in a city where heady postmodern dance is so popular, but Brown doesn’t mind. “I want people to leave dance feeling good about being there, not wondering, ‘What did I just see?’” This winning formula of high energy, stellar technique and acces-
sibility has made Philadanco one of this city’s best cultural ambassadors. “From the top down there is a focus on integrity and excellence,” says Zollar of Danco’s reputation. “Anybody who’s around 20-plus years, if you don’t have a vision of excellence, you don’t stay around.” That vision’s been explicitly shaped by the dedicated, nurturing Brown, whose dancers call her “Mom.” She handpicks members, trainers and choreographers, and plans all concert programs. Although Philadanco is integrated, it’s still mostly AfricanAmerican. “It’s not about color anymore, it’s about great dancers,” says Brown, who still stresses the original mission’s importance. “The opportunities for African-American youth are still limited.” Even so, she’d like people to see beyond color and recognize Philadanco as the adventurous company it truly is, rather than constantly calling it “Alvin Ailey-like.” “It’s probably because we’re a black dance company,” she figures. “But how come they don’t compare us to Hubbard Street?” No matter what the comparison, the company will always be associated first and foremost with its eponymous city — which is part of the reason Brown chose not to name the troupe after herself, as many choreographers do. “That’s in case my kids want to carry it on,” she explains, “[so] they don’t have to drag my name along. It’s still viable. Because it’s the Philadelphia Dance Company, and Philadelphia is not going away.” (deni.kasrel@citypaper.net)
“I want people to leave feeling good.”
Philadanco performs April 15-18, $34-$46, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St.,
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Things to do on Record Store Day (Sat., April 17): Head to Manayunk’s Main Street Music and catch emergent Brooklynvia-D.C. electro rock combo Exit Clov. They put out the Coverboy 7” specifically for the occasion, and it’s got a killer rendition of Devo’s “Mongoloid.” Follow them to Johnny Brenda’s, and buy some T-shirts from delightfully heady psych dudes The Armchairs, who open — they need funds to get their debut LP, Science and Advice, out on the racks. And stick around for Pepi Ginsberg. Have you heard the Philly expat/current Brooklynite’s husky, heartrending “Coca Cola” from this year’s East is East? In another generation, it would have been a top-selling soul platter. —John Vettese
We’re not gonna lie: We like Joe Boruchow’s black-and-white paper cutouts depicting the Eagles, Mayor Nutter and local cops partly because they’re set in Philly. So what? (Isn’t that why you watch M. Night Shyamalan movies?) If the Philly thing ever gets old, though, Boruchow’s got plenty of talent and wit to keep us smitten. He’s throwing a free party for his new graphic novel, Stuffed Animals: A Story in Paper Cutouts, tonight at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens (1020 South St., philadelphiasmagicgardens.org). Course, it’ll feature Philly-themed music and a Philly-themed slideshow. —Holly Otterbein
➤ book When it comes to guidance, there’s probably nothing less helpful than You’re a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice (Vintage). Michael Cera, Jim Gaffigan, Samantha Bee, Bob Odenkirk, Lizz Winstead — these people have nothing useful to tell you (or the advice-seekers who supposedly wrote to them) about how to live. But, for a bathroom book, it’s pretty damn funny. —Patrick Rapa
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THE EXPLODING GIRL [ A- ] ZOE KAZAN DOESN’T actually explode in Bradley Rust Gray’s finely cut feature,
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Frédéric Chopin. There is a bit of hoopla about it, but not on the scale accorded to similar milestones from Mozart and Beethoven. Why not, because he mainly wrote solo piano music — no epic symphonies or operas? Perhaps, and yet within those singular solo piano compositions, there was the work of one of the most original and consistently inspired musical minds of all time. The story of Chopin’s creative life is wonderfully paradoxical. He was an epic trailblazer, a key figure in the early Romantic era in music. Schumann famously declared, after a recital by the young Chopin in Paris, shortly after the young man’s flight from his native Poland, “Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!” Chopin was flattered, but did not return the favor. He found the music of Schumann, and also Liszt, another generous admirer, to be vulgar. He considered the late music of Beethoven, conceived in Chopin’s lifetime, wayward. When he was not composing, he happily played Bach and Mozart, his heroes. In the meantime, he was writing music of harmonic daring and dramatic impact that continues to challenge listeners to this day. Above all else, it is Chopin’s melodic gift that distinguishes him in the pantheon of the great ones. Bach was the master of polyphony, Mozart the technician par excellence, Beethoven the hammer, but Chopin had the tunes. The richness, variety and unflagging high level of his prolific work, in a short 39 years, is still a thing of wonder. There has never been a lack of terrific Chopin recordings. You can pretty much throw a dart at the catalog and come up with something worthwhile. Pianists adore Chopin. He was himself one of the great pianists of his time, so he wrote with the insight of a performer. Even amateur musicians appreciate the natural way the notes fall under the fingers. You can spend a premium for recordings by such legends as Rubinstein, Horowitz, Cortot, Argerich and others, but there is also much pleasure to be derived from excellent budget versions from Naxos and their ilk. Better yet, take a few piano lessons and learn the music firsthand. You could do no higher honor to the memory of a unique master. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)
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but she’s always about to. She lives her life like she’s cradling nitroglycerin, taking care lest too firm a jolt set her off. Although she’s a New Yorker, home in the city between years of college, she seems too fragile for its clamorous chaos. The whoosh of sirens drowns her out; passing buses threaten to wipe her off the screen. While her mumblefuck boyfriend remains a distant cell-phone presence, Kazan’s Ivy strolls the city with her childhood friend and college classmate Al (Mark Rendall), whose puppyish crush somehow escapes her notice. Or perhaps it’s just one issue too many, an unwanted stressor that might trigger her epilepsy, a condition that dictates a moderate, evenkeeled existence of the kind utterly alien to young adulthood. Zoe, granddaughter of Elia, has acting in her bones, which may be why her moon-faced performance seems utterly effortless; like Greenberg’s Greta Gerwig (albeit with a substantially broader range), she’s more fascinating the less she does. Kazan and Gray turn the momentary disconnections of modern life into understated metaphors for human disconnection. The hitch between a cell-phone call’s origin and its first ring yawns like a tiny gulf. When her evasive boyfriend finally drops the hammer, she asks simply, “Why?” Her resigned tone suggests that knowing the answer would be no use. Gray’s limpid compositions draw plangent stillness from urban darkness, counterpointing but not unbalancing his actors’ understated naturalism. Their words convey universes of nothingness — at one point, Al ventures, “I guess I should be more assertive, maybe” — but their hesitations are softly eloquent. Kazan’s broad, translucent face has room for emotions to play out without crowding each other; she lets each minute flicker softly into place. The movie might be perfect if it ended a few seconds earlier, but it’s still a rare and precious thing. —Sam Adams
Zoe Kazan has acting in her bones.
IVY LEAGUE: Zoe Kazan plays a college student teetering on the edge in Bradley Rust Gray’s The Exploding Girl.
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➤ HISTORY REPEATING William Shakespeare’s histories receive few productions stateside: We don’t know enough about our own relatively short history, let alone another country’s centuries of bloody succession struggles. Lantern Theater Co.’s Charles McMahon sees that they offered Shakespeare opportunities outside the comedy and tragedy labels, as his engaging Henry IV, Part I shows. The play covers the instability after Richard II’s death and Henry IV’s ascension, and though titles and motivations blur occasionally (due, in part, to inevitable role-doubling, despite Lantern’s great cast making a spirited effort at character clarity), the personal stories shine through. Henry’s son Hal (Allen Radway) coasts on his impending legacy, partying with degenerate Falstaff (Peter Pryor). Henry admits he’d rather have violent-tempered warrior Henry “Hotspur” Percy (Andrew Kane) as son and heir. Showdowns are inevitable: Hal must shake off his frat-boy lifestyle, reconcile with Daddy and prove he’s England’s next king. Along the way, though, the nearly three-hour play never falters, with strong performances from Jered McLenigan, David Blatt, Tim Moyer, Mary Lee Bednarek and Russ Widdall as both Hal’s drinking buddies and Henry’s allies and enemies. McLenigan shines as clever Poins in a scheme to humiliate Falstaff, and as rabid Scot warrior Douglas. Kane’s Hotspur is saved from all bluster through amusing, affecting scenes with his neglected wife (Rachael Joffred). In a production where humanity trumps history, McMahon makes one significant miscalculation: doubling Pryor as Henry and Falstaff. This defines them as Hal’s competing spiritual fathers, but its obviousness offers little while its execution sacrifices much. Pryor’s smart, fiery king is overshadowed by his ridiculous Falstaff fat suit, which seems to be the only characterization the actor and director attempt: Its back fat-mounds are distractingly false, as is the thin man’s head poking out the top and the skinny legs holding it up. He just doesn’t move like a man of Falstaff’s famous girth and appetite. An actor devoted to Falstaff, one of Shakespeare’s funniest characters, would make both Falstaff and Pryor’s Henry more significant and genuine. Still, McMahon and co.’s efforts make exciting theater of a play that dares to juxtapose a brutal battle (sword-clanging by fight director J. Alex Cordaro) and Falstaffian slapstick in its climax, revealing the history plays’ seldom-seen potential. Through May 2, $27-$35, Lantern Theater Co., 923 Ludlow St., 215-829-0395, lanterntheater.org. —Mark Cofta
➤ RISE AND SHINE Few things gladden a critic’s heart more than seeing admired artists exceed even their own best work. That’s precisely what’s happening at Theatre Exile, where director Matt Pfeiffer and some marvelous actors bring a near-perfect combination of simplicity and breathtaking assurance to Conor McPherson’s haunting play, Shining City. This is great theater. But come prepared: Onstage you’ll find four characters and two boxes of Kleenex, a fair measure of the deeply sad world McPherson offers up. In the drabbest imaginable room in Dublin, John and Ian meet for psychotherapy sessions. John, the patient, is a voluble man in his late 40s whose wife recently died in a horrific car accident. He wasn’t there, but he’s shattered by feelings of guilt — and the sense that his wife’s ghost is still with him. Ian is the therapist here, but his life has a difficult history of its own,
SPILL YOUR GUTS: Peter Pryor’s Falstaffian fat suit in Lantern Theater Co.’s Henry IV, Part I is “distractingly false.” MARK GARVIN
including a failing marriage and a not-entirely-seamless transition from his former life as a priest to this new career. McPherson, a born storyteller, is especially adroit at working in miniature, and the power of Shining City lies in the details. This isn’t a barnstorming play; the revelations aren’t surprises but rather the exposure of inevitable human frailty. To be fair, much of this emotional landscape is familiar territory in Irish drama (though we should all be grateful that alcohol makes only a cameo appearance). But what heartrending, astonishing skill is here in the delivery. Watch Scott Greer as John when he talks about the expensive coat he bought for his wife, and a mundane story becomes monumental. Greer’s emotional engagement and his command of McPherson’s halting language are so absolute that he seems to be discovering every word for the first time. It’s an unforgettable performance. In the less virtuosic role of Ian, William Zielinksi is equally fine — completely and appropriately devoid of glamour, extraordinary in his ordinariness. Geneviéve Perrier and Keith Connallen fill out the cast — their roles are smaller, but their subtle, nuanced performances are full-scale. Guiding all of this is Matt Pfeiffer’s masterful direction — even the transitions between scenes are as eloquent here as McPherson’s monologues. The designs (set and sound by Jorge Cousineau, costumes by Alison Roberts, lights by Thom Weaver) unerringly complement the tone. Shining City is a brilliant, powerful, not-to-be-missed event. Through April 25, $25-$30, Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St., 215-218-4022, theatreexile.org.
Appropriately devoid of glamour, extraordinary in his ordinariness.
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➤ A PERFECT CIRCLE Ten years ago, Jeanne Ruddy performed her solo Significant Soil at the Wilma. She was a newcomer, former Martha Graham principal dancer and cancer survivor. Ruddy appeared by herself on the stage, surrounded by nothing but looping translucent tubing. She moved in and out of the mortal coil, reaching a place of renewal. A decade later, Soil has expanded into a full company production. At opening night of the choreographer’s Decade of Dance retrospective — appropriately, back at the Wilma — Janet Pilla took on Ruddy’s famous solo. Red-clad dancers weaved in and out of red fabric stretched across the stage as a Philip Glass violin concerto soared above, conjuring notions of fading fear and emerging opportunity. Ruddy’s work retains some of Graham’s high drama, although she looks not to Greek legends but to newspapers for inspiration. Following Soil, 2008’s superb Breathless uses dance to explore actual domestic violence cases. Black-and-white video provided the backdrop as, one by one, female dancers were dispatched to watery graves. Images of women floating amid seaweed, distorted by rippling water, were projected behind them. Ruddy closed with her cheerful 2009 Lark.
Bathed in golden light, five dancers connected and frolicked to Ellen Fishman-Johnson’s jaunty score while their shadow images flickered in step. In one lovely sequence, each stood balanced on one leg, the other lifting upward at the knee, recalling a small flock of beautiful flamingos. With her sure dance eye, Ruddy has formed a troupe of the city’s best independent dancers: Pilla has been with Ruddy from the start, bringing her own José Limón modern dance training; Christine Taylor learned Graham technique from Ruddy as a college undergraduate; Rick Callender, who also performs with Miro and BalletX, has outstanding stage presence; and Ian Dodge, impish and well-balanced, is terrific. All 10 dancers deserve individual acknowledgment — but none more than the woman at the helm. Thu., April 8, Wilma Theater. —Janet Anderson
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The theater-bound rock musical is the slipperiest of slopes. Hit it too hard and it sounds like Meat Loaf. Hit it too soft and it’s Rent. Never fear: 11th Hour Theatre Co.’s production of Rooms is solid in the hands of Philadelphia’s Michael Philip O’Brien (the company’s producing artistic director) and actor Alex Keiper (Little Shop of Horrors, The Rock Tenor). Leaping from ’70s Glasgow to London to NYC, the story finds an ambitious chanteuse and a reclusive old rocker getting involved both romantically and aesthetically. It’s not wimpy like Once, nor silly like Words and Music, yet writer/Scottish musician Paul Scott Goodman certainly borrows the yearning idealism that made those stories magical. —A.D. Amorosi Through May 2, $24-$27, Prince Music Theater, Independence Studio, 1412 Chestnut St., 267-987-9865, 11thhourtheatrecompany.org.
—Mark Cofta Through May 2, $25-$35, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., 866-811-4111, lunatheater.org.
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If this company’s name conjures images of dancers doing naughty things on stage, get your mind out of the gutter. This group is into good, clean fun — they’re accessible and entertaining, lively but certainly not blush-inducing. Bad Boys’ founder, Rasta Thomas, has an eclectic background that ranges from ballet to Broadway. His troupe mixes those styles up with hip-hop, jazz and even capoeira; their soundtrack is pop-heavy — think U2, Prince and Michael Jackson. High-falutin’, deep-thinkin’ dance aficionados, beware: This show is all showbiz. —Deni Kasrel Thu.-Sat., April 15-17, $24-$48, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St, 215-898-3900 annenbergcenter.org.
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BALLETX Christine Cox hasn’t danced on stage for more than two years, but she’s had her hands full. BalletX’s coartistic director/new mom steps out for her company’s fresh spring program. “[I’m] back at the ballet barre and icing my ankles,” says Cox, who’ll dance with Tara Keating in Carry Me, a duet created by Monica Favand and SCRAP Performance Group’s Myra Bazell. In addition to works from Thang Dao and UArts grad Lauren Putty, Cox will also showcase her own choreography in the Mozart-meets-electro-tango X or Y. “The music inspired the movement,” she says. “One composer is a master; the other’s finding his way.” —Janet Anderson Through April 18, $30, Wilma Theater, 265 Broad St., 215546-7824, balletx.org.
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The Krebses aren’t well in Luna Theater Co.’s Philly première of Zayd Dohrn’s Sick. Maxine Krebs (Sally Mercer) wears a protective mask and holds her teenage children (Bethany Ditnes and Michael Tomasetti) captive in their antiseptic white-on-white townhouse. Do they really suffer from MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity), an aversion to the modern world’s impurities, or is it all in their heads? Husband Sidney (David Hutchman) brings an outsider (Gregg Pica) home to test and tempt his children, setting up an explosive showdown with Maxine. Dohrn’s script, a reaction to 9/11 and communicable-disease scares like SARS and swine flu, makes these issues intensely personal.
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The history of art is full of instances of government censorship, but for John Haberle, the problem wasn’t work that offended the sensibilities of the powers-that-be — it was simply that his depictions of currency were a little too realistic for the tastes of the Secret Service. Haberle’s trompe l’oeil paintings are wonderfully detailed and often witty — his Torn in Transit (pictured) is a tacky landscape painting, exposed by its brown-paper packaging; A Bachelor’s Drawer looks down upon a collection of playing cards, risqué photos, spare cash and a pamphlet titled “How To Name Baby.” Born in New Haven in 1856, Haberle was forced to cut his career short in the early part of the new century when his own eyes were fooled by fading vision — which presumably also ended any counterfeiting threats to his country.
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The Feelies never enjoyed the early-aughts adulation accorded to plenty of their class-of-’80 post-punk peers (Gang of Four, Joy Division, Talking Heads, PiL), but lately they’ve started getting their due. Following a few tentative returns to the stage in 2008 (even in its heyday, shows were notoriously infrequent, often on holidays), Bar/None reissued their early albums last fall, most notably the landmark debut Crazy Rhythms, nearly 30 years after its initial release and 20 since its most recent CD pressing. But it’s no great surprise that The Feelies’ influence (and acknowledgement) should come about in a somewhat indirect fashion: The Jerseyites have always beaten a singular, laconically quirky path, from their understated, un-punkish button-down visual sense to their unmistakable musical approach — a clean, hyper-precise twin-guitar front line, playful yet powerfully insistent percussion parts and plenty of Beatles covers, coalescing in a hypnotically simple, stripped-down trance-rock that swells from meditative drones to frantic, jittery abandon. —K. Ross Hoffman Sat., April 17, 8 p.m., $24-$34, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.
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Fri., April 16, 8 p.m., St. Mark’s Church, 1625 Locust St.; Sat., April 17, 8 p.m., Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Ave.; $15-$35, 215-235-8469, piffaro.com.
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RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL “Space Rock” conjures images of knob-twiddling excesses — long, amorphous drones punctuated by the occasional blip and bleep, a Pink Floyd (Syd years, natch) beat sometime rising from the haze. And, well, that isn’t too unfair a description of Radio Massacre International. But compared to so many of their peers, who are merely the musical equivalent of stoners lying on the hoods of their cars, staring in dumbstruck awe at the vastness of it all, the British trio play with the precision and intellect of astrophysicists. Spacy they may be, but they sound more often than not like some transmission beamed from what Sun Ra used to call “somewhere there.” —Shaun Brady
FOL CHEN What’s more obnoxiously pretentious than convoluted conceptual rock-opera backstories? Convoluted conceptual backstories you don’t bother to explain to anybody. Arty L.A. upstarts Fol Chen seem to be attempting some kind of next-level mindfunk with their shadowy non-identities, fugly cover art and inscrutable dystopian liner-note letters. But I’ve got a better idea: Ignore it and just listen to their glammy, genre-jumping indie-disco funk-pop instead. It’s twitchy and catchy and the dime-a-dozen Prince/ Bowie comparisons are surprisingly relevant. Plus you can usually dance to it. JULIANA PACIULLI
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KONK PACK Composer/multi-instrumentalist Tim Hodgkinson’s legacy of experimental quirk would be cemented if he had left off after co-founding Henry Cow with Cambridge classmate Fred Frith in the late ’60s. But his work in the decades since has followed an equally eccentric path through free improvisation, prog rock, new music and whatever else doesn’t quite fit. Formed in 1997, Konk Pack is an improvising trio featuring Hodgkinson on tabletop guitar, electronics and clarinet, Thomas Lehn on analogue synth, and Roger Turner scraping and banging on drums. —Shaun Brady Thu., April 15, 8 p.m., free, Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., arsnovaworkshop.com.
CLEAVER’S WAY Ohio’s little Wussy takes on the big mysteries. By Michael Pelusi
ONE TRACK MIND ➤ TITUS ANDRONICUS “A More Perfect Union” The Monitor, the sophomore album from Glen Rock, N.J.’s Titus Andronicus (playing The Barbary April 15), is the early favorite for most frantically intense of the decade, and Dirty Jerz and the Civil War are its muses.The seven-minutes-plus opening track kicks off with that Lincoln quote about living forever or dying by suicide, takes the piss on Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” riffs on Billy Bragg’s “New England,” exhorts us to “rally around the flag” to guitars as bagpipes, and closes with a quote from William Lloyd Garrison. In other words, “A More Perfect Union,” a song which fancies New Jersey as the setting for its own little civil war, sets the bar impossibly high, and yet it’s a bar the band hurdles repeatedly and defiantly over the course of 60 anthempacked minutes on what very well could be the indie rock album of the year.
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huck Cleaver is a burly, 50-year-old stonemason living in the Cincinnati area. He used to be the lead singer of the Ass Ponys, who scored a deal with A&M Records during the post-Nirvana frenzy of the ’90s, yielding the minor modern-rock hit “Little Bastard.” Nowadays Cleaver is in a band called Wussy. They mostly play in Ohio. They release their albums through the tiny Shake It Records, operated out of the Cincinnati record store of the same name. But Wussy is not a group of weekend warriors. It’s one of the best bands in America right now. Over the course of three albums — Funeral Dress (2006), Left for Dead (2007) and Wussy (2009) — Wussy has revitalized scrappy, catchy indie rock. They effortlessly blend guitar-jangle, noise-pop, weird Americana and bar-band brawn. Cleaver and his co-frontperson and erstwhile romantic partner, Lisa Walker, write amazing songs about life, love, sex, infidelity, nature, God and death. “Her songs tend to be a little more mysterious,” Cleaver says over the phone. “My stuff tends to be a tiny bit more literal.” A lyric by Walker, like in “Gone Missing,” will begin like this: “We met the other day on the catapult/ When they threw us to the dogs, you were at my throat.” Cleaver will start his tales with something like the opening of “This Will Not End Well”: “Mother-daughter banquet at the Bethel Baptist Church/ You forgot her. That was bad, but I did something worse.”
When they sing together, it’s weirdly harmonious. “I’m not tone-deaf but I live right next door,” says Cleaver, whose Midwestern drawl contains a sardonic world-weariness. “I taught her how to sing like shit, and she taught me how to sing a lot better.” The band — Cleaver, Walker, bassist/utility player Mark Messerly and drummer Joe Klug — has garnered raves from Rolling Stone, Spin, NPR and others. Critics try to do the math: Just how much of these pained, tumultuous scenarios are an accurate description of Cleaver and Walker’s on-off-on-off relationship? “If Lisa and I would’ve lived through everything we write about, we’d be dead,” Cleaver says. Maybe he’s thinking of “What’s-HisName” from Left for Dead. It begins with Cleaver seemingly contemplating castration, and ends with Walker threatening to drive “you and me and What’s-His-Name” right into the river. The band members can’t quit their day jobs yet. It’s hard for them to afford extensive tours. But, as Cleaver told a friend recently after a show, “I would rather be lugging these amps out of this fucking shitty club at 2 in the morning than be at home watching a rerun of Project Runway. I would rather be out there and doing it than not doing it at all.” (m_pelusi@citypaper.net)
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celebrating poetry of the African Diaspora featuring Joshua Bennett ~ Performance Poet Joshua Bennett is currently a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, double majoring in Africana Studies and English with minors in History and Spanish. A professional performance poet and the youngest poet ever to hit the finals stage at the Individual World Poetry Slam, Joshua gained national acclaim as a veteran and poetry slam champion of HBO’s Brave New Voices, a national teen poetry competition. Joshua has performed his original work such as “Iron,” a poem about Mike Tyson, in the ESPN documentary, One Night in Vegas ( July 2009), “Vanguard,” a poem about Russell Simmons’ effect on hip-hop culture, at the NAACP Image Awards (February 2009), “Derrick,” a poem about mentorship in West Philadelphia, alongside former U.S. Poet Laureates Billy Collins and Rita Dove, at the Institute for Advanced Study (August 2009), “Ultraviolet,” a poem about environmental racism, at the Sundance Film Festival ( January 2009), and “Tamara’s Opus,” a poem about his own struggle to communicate with his deaf sister, which he performed at President Obama’s evening of poetry and music at the White House. In addition to performing his poetry, Joshua recently published Jesus Riding Shotgun, a collection of autobiographical poems. Recently awarded a Marshall Scholarship to earn a Masters of Arts in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick next year, Joshua plans on pursuing a PhD after his time abroad. He hails from Yonkers, NY. Shout out to Brooklyn.
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THE EXPLODING GIRL|ASee Sam Adams’ review on p. 23. (Ritz at the Bourse)
THE JONESES|CIf product placement seems invasive on 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 ideal 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, equipped with the latest fashions, gourmet microwave foods and techno-toys, all primed to make the neighbors covetous. First-time director Derrick Borte assembles an enticing package, but as soon as the pitch is made, 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. Duchovny and Moore are perfectly cast as the couple-whocame-with-the-picture frame brought to life, he all bored, insinuating charm, she the aggressively stylish object of dagger-eyed envy by everyone in the local book club. His pangs of guilt and her uneasy ambition, however, let them off the hook, reserving condemnation for their corporate minders. —Shaun Brady (Ritz East)
KICK-ASS|B+ See Drew Lazor’s review on p. 24. (UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.) THE PERFECT GAME A haiku: A heartwarming tale about kids and sports? The Bad News Bears all vomit. (Not reviewed) (UA Riverview)
THE WARLORDS|B When General Pang Qingyun (Jet Li) first appears in Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s film, he’s alive. He’s also surrounded by carnage — limbs, heads and bloody bodies — following an apparently arduous battle against the Ho Army, during the Taiping Rebellion in 1860s China. He survived, he confesses tearfully to Lian (Xu Jinglei), by playing dead. His display of vulnerability is shortlived, however, as he soon dedicates himself to revenge, and goes about soliciting Lian’s lover, Er-Hu (Andy Lau, House of Flying Daggers) to commit to the cause as well. It happens that Er-Hu and his closest friend Wu-Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Red Cliff) lead a band of bandits, all of whom throw in with Pang, who convinces them that fighting and killing for the government pays better than their usual freelancing. Though Pang is a cagey leader, the war-making is wearing and the psychic costs dreadful. Wu-Yang’s narration reveals that Pang’s self-styled image as fierce warrior looks less brilliant over time — and certainly less honorable as he pursues Lian, despite her commitment to her “good man,” Er-Hu. The mix of brutal combat scenes with melodrama is oddly potent, drawing some perverse parallels between emotional and martial bloodletting. Pang’s own education comes hard, of course, and Li is very effective in all modes. —Cindy Fuchs (Ritz at the Bourse)
Everyone in this family has a secret. The film opens, in fact, with Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) promising to reveal his â&#x20AC;&#x153;secret of secretsâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be the last. City Island may be named for an incongruously quaint fishing village on the outskirts of the Bronx, but it unfolds with all the subtlety of a Bronx cheer. It is an Oedipal comedy of errors predicated on a familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of communication, a level of misunderstanding unrealistic outside of the most contrived sitcom situations. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.B. (Ritz at the Bourse)
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a case of mistaken identity cribbed from North By Northwest. While their characters are stock dorks-out-ofwater, Fey and Carell are on familiar enough turf to endow them with wit and just enough diluted passion to make their marriage seem worth saving. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re especially good when confronted by a host of game guest stars, including Mark Wahlberg as a perennially shirtless security expert and James Franco and Mila Kunis as the criminal couple whose missed reservation causes all the trouble. All involved are above the no-brainer material, but they transcend it in engaging fashion. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.B. (Pearl; UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)
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DATE NIGHT|BPlaying a bored suburban couple out to spice up their marriage, Steve Carell and Tina Fey seem like a perfect match. The two are undoubtedly the two smartest comedians on television today, but both have been ill-served by films not bearing their writing credits. Their hook-up was made less promising when their third wheel turned out to be Shawn Levy, whose specialty is overwhelming gifted comedians with action and noise (The Pink Panther, both Night at the Museum films). Fortunately, while gunplay and car chases abound, the director never diverts his focus for too long from his leads and their interplay, much of which seems to have been significantly improvised. As in Woody Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manhattan Murder Mystery, a coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s missing spark is replenished by life-threatening circumstances, here instigated by
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO|B Based on the first book of Stieg Larssonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Millennium Trilogy, Niels Arden Oplevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie elegantly delivers a story full of intrigue and ugliness. Financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is in need of a job so he agrees to investigate the 40-yearold murder of one Harriet Vanger. Mikael is aided by bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace). It helps the investigation that she has a photographic memory as well as an intuitive sense of whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guilty. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;C.F. (Ritz Five)
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While visiting her estranged father (Greg Kinnear, who is at a loss as to how to fix this bad part), she meets very tanned, very un-miserable beach-volleyball-boy Will (Liam Hemsworth). A few minutes and several montages later, they are deeply in love. And oh yes, they have to negotiate that crucial last part of the formula, death. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;C.F. (UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)
MID-AUGUST LUNCH|B As shimmering and insubstantial as heat haze, the first film by Gianni 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 filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s content to bake in the small-town sun, but exigencies come calling in the form of unpaid condo fees and the building managerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aged mother, whom heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Gregorioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to enforce a restricted diet, which eschews heavy sauces and breaded cutlets in favor of baked pasta and vegetable
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A PROPHET|B Set largely in a French cell block, Jacques Audiardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Prophet is less a film noir than gris, its scuffed-up surfaces suggesting a world where everything and everyone is just about spent. Malik el Djebena (Tahar Rahim), a young Arab with no family, is slapped with a six-year term for a minor offense, and quickly becomes the latest tool in a conflict between the Corsican gangsters who control the prison and its large but disorganized Muslim population. Malik doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to choose sides: The Corsican leader, CĂŠsar (Niels Arestrup), solicits Malikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aid in murdering an Arab informant who has been briefly transferred to the prison on his way to court and then informs Malik that, since heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in on the plan, either he kills the informant or CĂŠsar will kill him. Malik must proffer oral sex and then, when his targetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guard is down, slice his jugular with a razor blade hidden in his mouth. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go quite so smoothly, but the killing, conducted in the cramped quarters of a prison cell, retains a horrible intimacy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an approach that serves Audiard, as well. Although the movie stretches over more than two and a half hours and several years, it sticks to the details and avoids mythologizing its hero; Audiard has called it his
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AMBLER THEATER 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215345-7855, amblertheater.org. Mon Oncle (1958, France/Italy, 117 min.): Jaqcues Tati’s Monsieur Hulot discover he’s not up to modern times while visiting his sister and her family’s technically advanced home. Thu., April 15, 7:30 p.m., $4.75-$9.75. Frida (2002, U.S., 123 min.): Julie Taymor directs Salma Hayek in her best role, as the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Wed., April 21, 7:30 p.m., $4.75-$9.75.
THE BALCONY Trocadero Theater, 1003 Arch St., 215922-LIVE, thetroc.com. Pulp Fiction (1994, U.S., 154 min.): It’s the one that says “Bad Motherfucker” on it. Tue., April 20, DVD release screening of This Time Tomorrow at 7 p.m., 8 p.m.,
Sell: The locally born producer talks
824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. Animal House (1941, U.S., 119 min.): Toga! Toga! Thu., April 15, 7:30 p.m., $5-$9.50. Millions (2004, U.S., 98 min.): Danny Boyle’s adorable movie about a boy who finds a bag of money. Sat., April 17, 11 a.m., $5-$9.50.
about his years putting films like Father of the Bride and his own Oscar-nominated The Celluloid Closet onscreen. Sat., April 17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., $30-$50.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
35 N. Lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, 484-461-7676, cinema169.com. Garbage Dreams (2009, U.S., 79 min.): Follows three boys growing up in Cairo’s “Trash People” culture. Fri., April 15-Thu., April 22, 2, 7 and 9 p.m., $5-$7.50.
Ibrahim Theater, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. ODDSAC (2009, U.S., 53 min.): See Julia West’s piece in Agenda Picks for more info. Fri., April 16, 7 and 9 p.m., $5-$8. Why We Laugh (2009, U.S., 95 min.): Reel Black presents Robert Townsend’s doc critically tracing the roots and evolution of African-American comedy. Tue., April 20, 7 p.m., $5-$8.
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227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610917-1228, thecolonialtheatre.com.
7141 Germantown Ave., 215-2473020, mtairyvideolibrary.com. Afghan Star (2009, U.S., 87 min.): Follows four contestants in an American Idol-esque competition in Afghanistan. Fri.-Sat., April 16-17, 8 p.m.; Sun., April 18, 7 p.m.; $6, includes popcorn.
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Mr. Movie Film Fest: Forbidden Planet (1956, U.S., 98 min.):
Honor Steve “Mr. Movie” Friedman, who passed away last year, with a screening of this notorious sci-fi flick. Fri., April 16, 7:30 p.m., $20-$25. Princess Bride (1987, U.S., 97 min.): Make yourself a nice MLT and watch out for the ROUSes as you watch the epic love story of Buttercup and her farm boy. Sat., April 17, 2 p.m., $4-$8. Field of Dreams (1989, U.S., 107 min.): Ray Kinsella built a baseball field because they told him to. And then they came. Sun., April 17, 2 p.m., $4-$8. Living in Oblivion (1995, U.S., 90 min.): Tom DiCillo’s meta-indie about the financial difficulties about making a film. Preceded by Sphere College Short Film Contest. Tue., April 20, 7 p.m., $4-$8.
DOWLINGS PALACE 1310 N. Broad St., 215-236-9888, dowlingspalace.com. The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders (U.S., 85 min.): An examina-
tion of the murdered gangsta rapper. Producer Josh Potash, who also wrote the book the doc is based on, will be in attendance. Thu., April 22, 7 p.m., $5.
COUNTY THEATER 20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-3456789, countytheater.com. Frida: See Ambler for more info. Mon., April 19, 7:30 p.m., $4.75-$9.
FLICKERING LIGHT FILM SERIES Mount Airy Arts Garage, 542 Carpenter Lane, flickeringfilms.com. Diamond Film Festival: Temple’s film program honors its best and brightest. Sat., April 17, 7 p.m., free.
GREATER PHILADELPHIA FILM OFFICE Stein Auditorium, Nesbitt Hall, Room
MUGSHOTS COFFEEHOUSE AND CAFÉ 2100 Fairmount Ave., 267-514-7145, mugshotscoffeehouse.com. The Sword in the Stone (1963, U.S., 79 min.): Arthurian legend sans the scandal. Fri., April 16, 7 p.m., free. The Wrestler (2008, U.S., 109 min.): A heartbreaking story of camaraderie and redemption under the guise of a wrestling movie. Mon., April 19, 7 p.m., free. A League of Their Own (1992, U.S., 128 min.): Two sisters join the All American Pro Girls League, a women’s baseball league during WWII. Wed., April 21, 7 p.m., free.
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PUFF Piazza at Schmidts, 1050 N. Hancock St., atthepiazza.com. Eve’s Necklace (2009, U.S., 80 min.): An allmannequin cast stars in this thriller about a couple (who are mannequins) threatened by past secrets (brought to light by other mannequins). Fri., April 16, dusk, free.
SECRET CINEMA Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut St., 215-925-2222, thesecretcinema.com. Love It: Celebrating Ten Places We Want You To Love (1956, U.K., 81 min.): Rare
documentaries will be screened to celebrate Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Thom Lessner’s mural celebrating 10 organizations that make our city better than all the rest. Sat., April 17,
8 p.m., admission by donation, RSVP by texting “LOVE” to 44144 with the name of your favorite featured organization, like Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), Indie Hall, Girls Rock Philly, West Philly Tool Library, Mill Creek Farm, Mazzoni Center, Breadboard, Free Library of Philadelphia, Smith Kids’ Play Place or Mighty Writers.
WOODEN SHOE BOOKS 704 South St., 215-413-0999, woodenshoebooks.com. From the Other Side (2002, Australia/Belgium/Finland/France, 99 min.): Renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman turns her lens to the U.S./Mexican border. Sun., April 18, 7:30 p.m., free.
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Benito Mussolini may have been a fascist ideologue, but Marco Bellocchio’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 they’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. —S.A. (Ritz Five)
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“anti-Scarface.” Anti- or no, however, A Prophet too closely follows the outlines of the up-from-the-streets gangster movie to convincingly subvert it. It’s a gritty, accomplished take on the genre, and newcomer Rahim’s terse, muscular performance makes for a forceful debut. But it’s genre film nonetheless, falling into rote patterns that are only slightly disrupted by a brief foray into the supernatural. Audiard has said he believes Malik may represent “a new type of human being,” but his film doesn’t follow suit. —S.A. (Ritz Five)
N. 3RD 801 N. Third St., 215-413-3666, norththird.com. Fancypants Cinema: Weekly open screening for shorts — bring your own VHS or DVD. Tue., April 20, 9 p.m., free.
PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY 1905 Locust St., 215-685-6621. All About My Mother (1999, France/ Spain, 101 min.): Almodóvar’s Oscarwinning film about a woman who goes in search of her dead son’s father: a transvestite named Lola. Wed., April 21, 2 p.m., free.
PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St., 215-253-3599. Shadow of Doubt (1943, U.S., 108 min.): Charlotte “Charlie” Newton’s (Teresa Wright) Uncle Charlie (the great Joseph Cotton) may not be what Mobile Users: For Showtimes - Text Message DATENIGHT and your ZIP CODE to 43KIX (43549)
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➤ LOOK AT TAX time pragmatically. How bad
can things be for you if, on April 18, Black Landlord’s Maxx, GPTMC’s Sabrina Tamburino Thorne, PAWS prima donna Dana Spain and TIME owner Jason Evenchik are gonna do the cha-cha and quick step, foolishly and willingly, for charity? I guarantee you’ll feel more pain for Maxx than you might coughing up real estate tax. If these Dancing with Philadelphia Stars (at Penn’s Landing’s Hyatt Regency, benefitting the Sickle Cell Disease Association) are willing to be that uncomfortable to help others, you gotta buck up. ➤ When Bradley Cooper hits Union Trust (and Del Frisco’s and Happy Rooster) for Dark Fields’ filming starting this week, will Old City’s steakhaus have The Mezz ready? That’s U-Trust’s new tapas-y mezzanine. ➤ Funny funky art-rawk with a soulsonic twist: That’s South Philly’s The Great Vibration. Beardos David Kisleiko, Greg Diehl and Jeremy Blessing finished their eponymous CD and hit Kung Fu Necktie April 16. Opening is Julia Rainer, South Philly’s answer to “What if PJ Harvey and a beat-up acoustic guitar had a kid?” ➤ Sounds as if ex-Live Nation booker/managers Bryan Dilworth and T.J. have gotten together to form a company to book stuff in the area and are looking for office space. When I asked Electric Factory’s Larry Magid (last week) if Dilworth was working for him (like the venue’s new manager Mike McNally is), Magid said no. OK. That doesn’t mean he’s not working with him. Stay tuned. ➤ Opening Day for Ronnie Norpel’s Baseball Karma & the Constitution Blues is April 16 with a book reading at Ninth Street’s Connie’s Ric Rac. Norpel’s son Adrian’s Dirty Princess, Three Rooms Press’ All-Stars and Fire Museum label pals Gondola, Crazy Dreams and Curanderos (wooly Bardo Pond offshoot) join so Norpel won’t be so Blue. ➤ Two ends of town have re-found their latenight mojo. After opening, closing, then reopening, Strongbox (April 7’s reopening got closed by cops for overcrowding), RitRow’s Brett Perloff held a renovation/reopening April 9 with interior-istes Nouveau Image. Then there’s the RUBA Club in NoLibs, which is under new creative management (G. Rich Goldberg?), and which held a party with mission statements for film- and science-industry peeps. “Build audiences for artists, organizations and physics through social arts-entertainment,” read the notes. ➤ When Roger Waters launches The Wall’s 30th anniversary tour Sept. 15 (Philly gets it Nov. 8 and 9), he won’t have A’s guitarist Rick DiFonzo on board, like he did in Berlin, July 1990. “I’d love to do THAT again,” says DiFonzo. “He should get in touch if only to hear the last 20 years worth of my jokes. His were awful.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
STYLE FILE: Blade, the self-proclaimed king of graffiti, says he’s tagged more than 5,000 subway cars. Shown are three caught by photographer Henry Chalfant’s lens. HENRY CHALFANT
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WRITINGS ON THE WALL Photographer Henry Chalfant and artist Blade celebrate graffiti culture with a book signing and a screening of Style Wars. By Emily Currier UNDERGROUND ART | Thu., April 22, 7 p.m., free, Drexel’s Bossone
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s it art or is it vandalism? That’s the question graffiti photographer Henry Chalfant says he gets the most. He’ll seek to answer it with collaborator Martha Cooper and New York graffiti artist Blade at a Q&A, screening of street art doc Style Wars and signing of the 25th anniversary edition of Chalfant’s book Subway Art (Chronicle), which includes 70 additional photographs and a new intro. Though Chalfant began his career as a sculptor, he became fascinated with graffiti and started photographing it in the mid’70s. New York City was facing financial crisis and widespread poverty, but youth culture flourished on brick walls and the sides of trains with relative impunity to punishment. “It seemed that something that had started out as mischief turned into real art,” Chalfant says. With director Tony Silver, he produced Style Wars to document a clash in aesthetics: graffiti artists vs. the city. While big corporations can flog people with their opinions through horizon-swallowing billboards, Chalfant argues,
“Graffiti introduced to the world a venue for youth, especially marginalized youth, to express themselves. Similar to hip-hop, it gave voice to people who did not have other forms of media.” The centerfold of Chalfant’s Subway Art is a piece by Blade, the self-proclaimed king of graffiti. Though his work is now exhibited internationally, Blade fondly recalls his graffiti roots and echoes Chalfant’s sentiment. “By the mid-’70s you have thousands of teens not having any trouble with each other, just running around the underground having fun,” he says. “Graffiti was a way to express your creativity because all the school programs were being cut at that time.” Between 1974 and 1982, Blade says he tagged more than 5,000 train cars. Want to know how he did it without ever getting arrested? Ask him during the Q&A with Chalfant, Cooper and Blade following the screening. Filmed during the early ’80s, Style Wars highlights the heyday of graffiti and the beginnings of hip-hop culture, featuring prominent artists and scene celebs like breakdancer Crazy Legs from the Rock Steady Crew. But the film has seen better days and needs restoration. Inspired audience members are encouraged to make donations to the Style Wars film fund and get their names in the credits of a rereleased edition. Since the event is meant to celebrate the finest of graffiti culture, Blade suggests you be prepared when you get in line for the book signing. “Don’t bring some Sharpie,” he says. “Bring me a silver paint marker to sign with.” (emily.currier@citypaper.net)
“Mischief turned into real art.”
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Sound works by seven artists, including Andy Warhol, Ryan Trecartin and Laurie Anderson, examine the use of the “queered” voice. Sets have been assembled to present the voice in a way that encourages viewers to reassess gender definition and confront notions of what sounds strange. Opening reception Thu., April 22, 6-8 p.m., free, through Aug. 1, Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St., 215-898-7108, icaphila.org.
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➤ HERE & NOW Members of the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus warm their pipes for a two-part spring concert. “Friends,” is an upbeat collection of familiar tunes that focus on the importance of camaraderie. The mood switches in the second half when the songbirds take on meth addiction. Making its Philadelphia debut, Through the Glass, Darkly is a high-energy rock opera that illustrates the toll meth can take on users and the people in their lives. Members of the Mazzoni Center will attend performances to offer guidance to those struggling with drug dependency. Fri., April 16, 8 p.m.; Sat., April 17, 2 and 8 p.m., $20-$50, Arden Theatre Co., 40 N. Second St., 215-731-9230, pgmc.org. ➤ MR. GAY PHILADELPHIA This star-studded affair has garnered appearances from celebs — like Sirius’ Frank DeCaro and actors from Logo’s Big Gay Sketch Show — but the brightest spotlight is on the 15 contenders vying for the top prize. Creator Bruce Yelk says while the “very pageant-y” affair allows for hotties to impress with their bods in evening and swimwear competitions, the deciding factor comes down to the thought-provoking Q&A. The fellow who wins will represent Philly when the nationals comes to town in November. Sat., April 17, 8 p.m., $25-$60, Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St., 215-735-5772, nightlifegay.com. (joshua.middleton@citypaper.net) Have an upcoming LGBTQ event? Give it here. E-mail listings@citypaper.net.
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ACTION/ ADVENTURE ■ 15TH ANNUAL DASH FOR ORGAN AND TISSUE DONOR AWARENESS Run 5K or 10K
or walk 3K to support organ and tissue donation. Every Third Sun, 8:30am-noon, $25-$30, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Parkway, 215-763-8100. ■ GENER8TION RUN: 8K RUN, .8K WALK & FAMILY FESTIVAL
COMEDY ■ GUY TORRY The comedian has
written for shows like “Martin” and “Moesha,” as well as appeared in “American History X.” Fri-Sat, Apr. 16-17, 10:30pm, $20-$30, Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St., 215-496-9001. ■ LAFF HOUSE’S STANDUP THURSDAYS Damon D. and
Danny Ozark host a different lineup, featuring a national headliner, each week. Every Thu, 8:30-10pm, $10, Laff House, 221 South St., 215-440-4242. ■ PAULA POUNDSTONE A regu-
lar panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, tie-wearing Paula Poundstone draws on her weekly news knowledge and twists it for her humorously wry standup. Sat, Apr. 17, 6-11pm, $39.50-$50, Sellersville Theater 1894, 24 W.
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ceeds benefit Students Run Philly Style, which helps young people through mentoring and long-distance running. Sat, Apr. 17, 1-5pm, $15-$25, Please Touch Museum, 4231 Avenue of the Republic, 215963-0667.
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School sponsors this flea market. Sat, Apr. 17, 9am-4pm, FREE, St. Mary Interparochial School, 436 Locust St., 215-923-7522. ■ M.A.L.T. BALL Take dance lessons
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and try out your moves on the dancefloor to benefit Mount Airy Learning Tree’s “Make This Our Home” campaign, which helps enrich the Mount Airy and Northwest Philadelphia community. Features food, a cash bar and music. Sat, Apr. 17, 7pm-1am, $15-$20, Commodore Barry Club, 6815 Emlen St., 215-843-8051. ■ PECHA KUCHA NIGHT: PHILA-
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DELPHIA, VOLUME 5 Presenters get 20 slides, and 20 seconds per slide, to tell a story. Features restaurateurs, Geekadelphians, designers and dubbers. Sat, Apr. 17, 7:30-10:30pm, -$10, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave., 215-387-3434.
■ PHILADELPHIA PHOTO ARTS CENTER BOOK FAIR The Phila-
delphia Photo Arts Center hosts a book fair featuring a number of international presses, independent artist and publishers. Sat, Apr. 17, 12-6pm, FREE, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 1400 N. American St., 215-232-5678.
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more than two dozen local artists to support PathWays, a regional charity that helps low-income women, children and families move from poverty to self-sufficiency. Sun, Apr. 18, 4-7pm, $25, Radisson Valley Forge, 1160 1st Ave., King of Prussia, 610-337-2000.
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Passyunk Ave., 267-639-6070. IMAGES OF A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY, Features photographs by architect and yoga instructor Maria Camorrato, who journeyed through the holy cities of India. Runs through Apr. 30. ■ CERULEAN ARTS, 1355 Ridge
Ave., 267-514-8647. SHADOWS & VEILS, Features paintings by Kassem Amoudi. Colors are complementary to the title of the exhibits.
➤ ODDSAC Celebrate 4/20 a few days early with the eye-assaulting visual album directed by Danny Perez. The appropriately apeshit score comes courtesy of everybody’s favorite musical weirdos, Animal Collective. Perez is known for his alien, quick-clip videos for acts like Love As Laughter and our own Kurt Vile. ODDSAC is a natural progression for the director; it’s Philip Glass going to a horror movie after several dozen hits of acid. The breakneck speed of the shots makes the scene-to-second ratio brilliantly tilted, causing viewers to attempt a 53-minute stint of not blinking. But the movie doesn’t come to International House on its own: It’s got a posse. Perez and members of Animal Collective will be there to help ease you into the experience. Even without the tiniest toke, the curious ride will make you giddy, paranoid and certain that you understand the meaning of life, man. Fri., April 16, 7 and 9 p.m., $8, Ibrahim Theater at International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-895-6555, ihousephilly.org. —Julia West [ swatch dogs and diet cokeheads ]
➤ DUMPSTA PLAYERS’ PROM TRASH: MEAN GIRLS For many, the word “prom” conjures mascara-stained memories of prickly corsages, tacky taffeta and a mound of hair that was too poofy for its own good. Fortunately, it’s these nostalgic horrors that could garner you the crown at Dumpsta’ Players’ 14th annual Prom Trash debacle. Artistic director Ricky Paul says he expects to see a diverse variety of drag performers scratching for the chance to be coronated trashiest queen. “Past contestants have been gay, straight, men or women,” he says, “It gives people a chance to be something they never could be.” This year’s spectacle pays homage to our favorite mean girl flicks, so watch out for a pack of Heathers in the audience testing the competitors with their heckles, hisses and bitchy glares. Wed., April 21, 11 p.m., $1.99, Bob & Barbara’s, 1509 South St., 215-545-4511, dumpstaplayers.org. —Josh Middleton [ monumental accomplishments ]
➤ ANCIENT MESSAGES FOR MODERN TIMES Stonehenge, the Great Pyramids, the Angkor Wat, the Easter Island statues, India’s temple caves, the Temple of Apollo at Delphi: These ancient monuments have secret messages for us, so say theosophists, who believe that all religions strive to bring humanity closer to perfection. To outsiders, it sounds like something out of a Dan Brown book, but theosophy has actually been around since 1875 (way longer than Scientology, for those counting). The United Lodge of Theosophists hosts this symposium, which features >>> continued on page 40
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around the rink with your gay buddies. Bring your own skates or rent them for $3. Every Third Mon, 8:3010:30pm, $10, Cherry Hill Skating Center, 664 Deer Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ, 856-795-1919. ■ MR. & MISS BLACK GAY PRIDE Members of PBGP crown
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wasn’t a hater, y’all. This workshop teaches why homophobia has no place in the Christian church. Sat, Apr. 17, 1-5pm, $15, Empowering Word Ministries, 4958 Lancaster Ave., 215-878-7000. ■ TRIBUTE TO JAMES H. BRYSON The Attic Youth Center
■ BEYOND BAYARD ARCHIVAL EXHIBITION Profiles of the gay
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ladies of Revival Burlesque put a spin on more than their pasties in this satire on Norman Rockwell, American idealism and ’50s culture. Annie A-Bomb, Normal Rockhard, Randi Warhol and Svedka von Shotz are among the evening’s performers. Runs through Apr. 17, $15, Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Ave., 215-427-2822.
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presents an evening of duets, featuring performances by Annex Dance Co., Sharp Dance Co., Vada Dance Collective and more. Fri, Apr. 16, 8pm, $12, Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-1911. ■ BAD BOYS OF DANCE Rasta Thomas, an International Ballet Gold Medalist, assembles an equally impressive group of dancers for this Philadelphia debut. Combining hip-hop, ballet, tap and more, the dancers, moving to pop music, tell stories in two parts: “Beautiful Day” and “Rock You.” Runs through Apr. 19, $24-$48, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-6701. ■ BALLETX SPRING SERIES
Contemporary group BalletX premières four diverse ballets, Thang
Dao’s “One Word Play,” Lauren Putty’s “Hide,” and Christine Cox performing “X or Y” and “Carry Me.” Runs through Apr. 16, $20-$30, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-893-9456. ■ INSIDE THE MIND OF A DANCER BalletX choreographers
Matthew Neenan and Christine Cox present this interactive lecture-demostration on how choreographers devise dances. Sun, Apr. 18, 11-11:45am, FREE, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-893-9456. ■ TAP TEASER FIVE CEC sponsors
an “open mic night” for tap dancers and jazz musicians, including performances by Loose Screws Tap Company, Footwerx and Tapaholics Phenomenous. The audience is invited to participate. Sat, Apr. 17, 8-9:30pm, $10, Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-1911. ■ TRES COMPADRES WITH FLAMENCO DANCER Tres Compadres combines traditional and modern flamenco dancing to the sounds of a live band. Sat, Apr. 17, 8pm, $16, PSALM Salon, 5841 Overbrook Ave., 215-477-7578.
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ROME, IF YOU WANT TO Amìs is Marc Vetri at his most casual — but the food’s still blow-you-away good. By Trey Popp AMÌS | 412 S. 13th St., 215-732-AMIS, amisphilly.com. Lunch Mon.-Fri.,
11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.. Dinner Mon.-Thu., 5-11:30 p.m. (late-night menu 11:30 p.m.-1 a.m.); Fri.-Sat., 5 p.m.-midnight (late-night menu midnight-1 a.m.); Sun., 5-10:30 p.m. (late-night menu 10:30 p.m.-1 a.m.). Brunch Sun., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Reservations recommended. Wheelchair accessible.
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he pilgrims have been coming for almost 12 years now, their tongues tugging them toward Spruce Street like dowsing rods tuned to the treasures of Marc Vetri’s kitchen. They’ve come for milk-simmered, spit-roasted goat. They’ve come for almond tortellini, asparagus flan, paccheri with scorpionfish. They’ve come for whatever Vetri has felt like cooking, and gone away murmurMore on: ing praise the way ants lay down pheromones, marking the trail for the next wave of seekers. Lately the path has been splitting. It forked when Vetri opened Osteria in 2007, and again this January when he debuted Amìs at 13th and Waverly, a couple of blocks from the chef’s eponymous flagship. He is a regular presence at all three — and at home, where 3-year-old Maurice (picky eater) and notquite-2-year-old Catherine (gourmand) just got a baby brother — but by necessity a more fleeting one. Now the faithful are encountering an increasingly common sight: that of Marc Vetri
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walking away from a restaurant they’re walking toward. So it was on a recent evening, the chef striding away in his white jacket and stubble, leaving Brad Spence in charge. Vetri credits Spence, a longtime presence in his original kitchen, with making Amìs a reality. Familiarity must have bred trust: The Roman-style menu Spence executes embodies his boss’s credo to the fullest degree. As Italian chef Fulvio Pierangelini phrases it, “The more simple the preparation appears, the more attention to detail is needed as the margins of error increase.” Concrete pillars break up the room, exposed ducts crisscross a black ceiling and metal pipes snake up brick walls. But the exposed bones of this old warehouse are a backdrop for a mixed forest of wood — floorboards as lustrous as shampoo-ad hair, hardback church-pew seating, striped laminated tables that toggle between tones beginning at birch and ending just shy of ebony. The hard surfaces conspire to create what amounts to a score of cocoons; you’ll be able to hear your tableMORE FOOD AND mates, but servers have to lean in close to DRINK COVERAGE impart their guidance. AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / As long as it’s spring, you’ll want to M E A LT I C K E T. start with vegetables. Any vegetables, really — you will not go wrong — but pray that there are artichokes cooked in the style of the Jews. Hearts stripped bare but for a ring of the tenderest leaves, they are fried first at low temperature to soften them through, then once more at high heat, crisping those leaves brittle and brown. They come out like overturned sunflowers in a color spectrum compressed between olive and auburn. Either you’ve never had artichokes like these, >>> continued on page 49
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April 21, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.
’CHOKE ARTIST: It took Marc Vetri and crew plenty of tries to get Amìs’ beautiful fried artichokes, which resemble overturned sunflowers, just right. But they got it.
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books have dealt with fidelity, beauty and religion; fast food should’ve been a cakewalk. Yet the author didn’t take the easy road for Appetite for America, an exploration of Fred Harvey’s immense influence on our country’s hospitality industry. “The idea was for it to work as a business book, a history book, a foodie book, a cultural history and something I’d read for pleasure,” says the former Philly Mag editor from a train tour taking him from Chicago to L.A. — the original Santa Fe railroad route beloved by Harvey. It’s along this stretch that the British-born businessman built his Harvey Houses, trackside restaurants noted for quality food, a polished international culinary approach and female employees — all things unheard of in post-Civil War America. “His company was the leading hospitality firm in the country, probably the world, from the 1880s through the 1940s,” says Fried of Harvey’s reach — restaurants, lunch counters, dining cars, hotels. When considering how taken Americans were with Harvey’s food, it’s hard not to wonder whose fault it is that the fast-food nation he essentially founded — so stylized and culinarily conscious — went to hell. Trains would typically stop at Harvey Houses for only 30 minutes, giving the “Harvey Girls” (his carefully selected all-female serving staff) and the kitchen about 20 minutes to prepare and serve full-course meals cooked to order — salad dressing made by hand tableside, fresh-baked bread, fresh-made desserts. “What Fred realized in the 1870s [was] it isn’t about whether or not the food is fast,” says Fried. “What matters is whether it is good, made fresh with the absolute best ingredients, and served with an idea that the customer really deserves the best service possible.” So if Harvey was able to consistently uphold such standards close to 150 years ago, what’s stopping today’s fast food giants from doing the same? Nothing, at least in Fried’s view. “Since trends we admire in American cooking — proliferation of regional cuisines, Americanization of different international styles — were started by the Harvey company,” he says, “it just goes to show that all our fast and franchised food can be, basically, as good as these companies want it to be.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
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Viet brings a wholly different Vietnamese vibe to South 11th Street, which already features lots of pho-and-otherwise competition. For starters, Le Viet is easily the prettiest entrant on the strip, with lots of glossy wood and metal, a separate bar and high-back black leather chairs. Chef Sinh Cao (Bruceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father) is offering an affordable 50-item menu. House signatures include pho dac biet; a slow-simmered traditional tomato-based crab soup (one pot a day, so get there early to call dibs); plus bun (rice vermicelli) and grilled meat/rice entrĂŠes. What separates the cooking here are the festive presentations, which match the polished feel of Le Vietâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior. A liquor license is on the way; they are open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 1019 S. 11th St., 215-463-1570, levietrestaurant.com. â&#x17E;¤ WAITING LIST Michael â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scoatsâ&#x20AC;? Scotese, owner of Grey Lodge
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[ i love you, i hate you ] COMFORTABLY NUMB So imagine you are walking down a cc street around 11 p.m. From a side alley you’ve already walked 40 feet past, you hear a female scream and cry out for help. How likely are you to turn around, go down an alley you barely noticed before? Would you chalk it up to domestic violence, tell ourselves it’s not rape or murder. homeless man passed out in the middle of the sidewalk, blocking foot-traffic: we walk by him. How likely are we Philadelphians to respond to a cry for help?
Long ones, short ones, kinky ones, your utterly disgusting an take no pride in your job! You funking re-re’s! Instead of removing the snow, as it fell, you fucks waited till the fucking roofs caved-in an we couldn’t get the fuck out the main door to the building! An one of you had balls to asked who called the fire dept.?!! You fuckin han job! Since when does it take 3 people to look at a refrigerator that’s leaking inside! The 3 of you came back twice, an still didn’t fix shit! Then you want to drag another dirty-ass refrigerator around the development to replace the one we have with. Even with two of you idiots in the
wants to be with you! I surely don’t and I know the next girl is not gonna wanna be with you either!
JUST STOP ALREADY! I don’t know what your deal is but you need to fucking stop! I can’t help the fact that I am popular and people like me! Are you mad because people fucking hate you! I hate you just because your an asshole and I think you got alot of shit with you! You’re an asshole and I thought that if would were gone out of my life things would be better! But, it just seems that you keep holding
COMPUTER LOVE Three weeks ago, but you were always in my head. you are mysterious and sweet. your eyes and body are marked with history. You’re geeky with your little KFC lemon towels and “sitting right next to me” texts. you sit in comfortable silence filling the space with your simplicity and thoughtfulness. And I love every bit of it. “Excuse me sir, I will be your candy girl, spare a dime and donate to your foundation.” Call me crazy, but I really like riding this train with you. choo-choo, kiss-kiss. Tu es beau! (don’t worry about the last line, it’s clean. lol)
SINGLE MULTIRACIAL FEMALE It was bad enough that you cried tears of anger and jealousy when we got engaged (did you think we didn’t notice?), but to choose the exact same engagement ring?? If you are trying to be like me, I am flattered, however - Be yourSELF. The alternative is that you stole the ring, in which case you will have charges brought up against you. So either way...find a new ring.
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It was a happier situation when I felt sure of who was writing, at least then I knew who to address and the appropriate topic/choice of words. Now, not so sure who is writing and not so sure I want to be writing to who knows who. I don’t feel like a new game. Thanks though for the offer.
My business is my business, RIGHT? wrong according to the fucking neighbors you wanna mind my business and I am really getting fucking tired of it! How many hours is it in the dag gone day! How many days out of the week from the time that I leave the house and the time that I put out the trash on the fucking curb do I see your ass and your bullshit! You need some fucking pussy and when my fucking family visits don’t sit outside counting how many people come in and out! Mind your fucking business! And if you think that you are gonna marry one of my good looking cousins think again! Your ass will never marry into my family if I have something to do with it! I hate you!
You didn’t even show up for the lunch that you planned for us to do! Instead I had to worry about your dumb ass fat ass wife showing up to my lobby door, asking me did I have an affair with you! You and I didn’t even go that far for someone to think that you and I did anything! I hate the fact that I can’t punch you in the face because I might catch a case and I really don’t have time for this shit! Answer me this..does that pussy taste better tham mine? I bet she is sour, you know it is and I know it is! Dude, stay away from me!
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A heartfelt FUCK OFF AND DIE to you pieces of shit who went out to eat on Easter and could not be bothered to leave your server a tip. What the fuck is wrong with you ignorant assholes? someone gives up their holiday to wait on you and you fuck them over like that. In the future, keep your fat asses as well as your screaming kids home for the holidays. YOU PEOPLE SUCK!!!!
SO BORED WITH THIS LOVE I think I’ll just fall asleep and dream something different forever. if you want to get back in my graces...build me a time machine and accompany me and my cats to a past life. otherwise...not interested.
I HATE ALL OF YOU Maintenance Men - you guys are the worst! I hate every last one of you! I thought the last bunch was bad - at least they were hot hispanics to look at. You guys are the blind leading the blind. A three ring circus of idiots! They should do away with the title and job description - it’s a waste. You don’t fix shit! Who the fuck puts up half of a chain-lock on a front door, no towel rack in the bathroom, buuttt put hooks on the back of the bathroom door that need 2 screws, NOT 1! They come with 2 screws, wat da fuck did you do with the other screws? Or maybe it’s under the bathroom floor, where you can see n feel a screw or nail was left under the floor, when you dum fucks laid the floor! Let me ask you this, “If there was hair around it, would you be able to find it then?” Jerk-Offs! The floor was peeling up the day you put it down! What’s up wit da the paint, you leave hairs an paint right over them!!
world to me I would do anything for you. Oh yeah and my sister said your new boyfriend is a douchebag. I wish I could be with you again. You are an angel and I love you. Come back to me sweetheart... I will give you the world. I promise I will not let you down again. I will never hurt you sweetheart. Come back to me.. No other girl is ever even interesting to me.. You have my my undivided attention and love!! I promise.
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cart, you still let the refrigerators topple over in the street. Mor-rons!! You drive that ugly ass golf cart of yours around all day not doing a fucking thing!!!! You pieces of SHIT!! I HATE ALL OF YOU!
I WANT YOU! You know that I want you and you keep playing games with me and you think that I don’t know what your life status is! I wish that you would just be a man and tell me what the hell is going on! I can’t stand the fact that you are playing games with my mind and you think that I don’t know what you are doing! I know exactly what you are doing! I think that you are an asshole for believing that somebody love you and someone
the fuck on and it is getting on my nerves! Why can’t you just go away all fucking ready! Go to Europe, I heard that it is wonderful this time of year! Your buddie already warned me about your attitude, after all you slept with his mother, when you still had a girlfriend! Oh my fault was I not supposed to say anything about that, or will you become angry knowing that I know! You hate me and I definitely hate you!
I think that a friend is there when you need them to be! I think a friend stands there when there friend is in trouble and defends them! How dare you take off and now want to speak to me! Why do you think that I get rid of you so quickly. Is because I really don’t want to be bothered with you anymore! I think you are a weak person, and if you are reading this and think it is about you then your a weak person! I hate you and I can’t describe the fact how I feel about you! Let’s stop playing faked concerned and shit go enjoy your life!
KAY...AN ELF JUMPED OUT Kayleigh... Sure you’ll probably never see this, but I want everyone to know that I so am in love with you. You are such a beautiful girl inside and out. I’m sorry I left you and went to the marines. I shouldn’t have left your side. You mean the
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Apartments for Rent APARTMENT FOR RENT
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
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 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.
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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
Utilities paid! Hardwood floors, parking, appliances pets ok 500â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
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. -â&#x20AC;?Smallâ&#x20AC;? 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. Ask About Move-in Discounts! Lic #219789. 1BD RM 21ST & INDIANA
**SPECIAL** Newly Renovated Bldg *1Bd RMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S starting at $585.00 & $600.00 a month plus utilities/owner pays water.Quiet area.call Sylvia 215 803 1189 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.
Two Bedrooms 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
Townhouse,yard W/D+ $1,195 e-mail me bpol51@aol.com 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) 358-0723
Three+ Bedrooms AVENUE OF THE ARTS
PENTHOUSE Avail! One of a kind spacious bi-level penthouse in historic Art Deco High-Rise, 3bdrms/ 3 Full Baths/ 2 half baths, 4 Lrg Terraces w/Amazing City Views, Entertainment Rm w/ Wet Bar, New Kitch w/ Granite Countertops, W/D, CA, Vaulted Ceilings, HW Flrs. Avail Sept. $4300/Mo. 215-735-8030 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 TEMPLE UNIVERSTIY AREA
Two Blocks from Temple Medical Schoolplease contact 610-696-9062 3 large bedrooms Washer/Dryer Eat in kitchen, dishwasher, Large Living room hardwood Floors First, Last, and 1 month security
email topcatwc@hotmail.com Walking distance to Temple Medical School, Temple Shuttle, R7, Rite-aid, banks
utilities paid! Patio $700 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 SOUTHWEST
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4 bedroom, no credit check! Utilities paid! Patio $700 LOCATORS 215-922-3400
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Roommates wanted for Summer and Fall 2010. 5 bedrooms available for summer 3 bedrooms for August/ September through December. 7 Bedroom house. Spacious living room, dining room, kitchen. Newly renovated kitchen. dishwasher. Porch, Backyard, Basement. Washer/Dryer. Furnished. Quiet street. 2 Blocks form UPenn Campus. $662/month.
Homes BELLA VISTA (HOUSE)
3 bedrooms, 1st floor modern kitchen, living room, dinning and power room, laundry room w/washer & dryer. With a backyard. 2nd has 3bd and bath. Walking distance to Center City, Italian Market, bank, Acme, Superfresh, Whole Foods & Rite Aid. Close to public transportation. Available May 1, 2010. Rent is $1,800 heat is included. 215-755-4856. HOUSES FOR RENT
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2 bedroom,carpeted, new cabinet, appliances which includes refrigerator, dishwasher garbage disposal, washer and dryer in the basement, back yard. NO PETS. $1000 a month + utilities. 215-755-8643. Ask for Julia. Vicinity 10th & Snyder. NORTH PHILADELPHIA
4 bedroom 2 story house, fee paid! Parking, office $800 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 NORTH PHILADELPHIA
4 bedroom, 2 story, fee paid! basement, fenced yard, office! $800 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400 OAK LANE
4 bedroom 2 story house, yard, basement, parking, washer/ dryer, patio $1050 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400 PENNYPACK PARK VCT
4 bedroom corner lot! No credit check! Garage $1150 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400 PORT RICHMOND VCT
2 story 4 bedroom house, no credit check $775 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 PORT RICHMOND VCT
2 story 4 bedroom house, no credit check $775 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 QUEEN VILLAGE
Seven rooms, 2 story, lease purchase! garage, yard, pets ok $900â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LOCATORS 215922-3400 ROXBOROUGH
7 room home, fee paid, pets ok, no credit check $950 LOCATORS 215-922-3400 SOUTH PHILADELPHIA
3+ bedroom 2 story house, lease purchase & own it! Deck $700 LOCATORS 215-9223400 SOUTH PHILADELPHIA
4 bedroom house, fee paid! Lease purchase/make it yours! $875 LOCATORS 215922-3400 SOUTH WEST PHILADELPIA
4 bedroom, no credit check!
No credit check! All utilies pd! 4 bedroom, patio $700 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400 TEMPLE
6 bedroom large home! Yard, washer/dryer, hardwood floors, students welcome! LOCATORS 215-922-3400 UNIVERSITY CITY
4 bedroom 2 bath, No credit check! Near park, pets ok $1050 LOCATORS INC 215922-3400 UNIVERSITY CITY
4 bedroom, 2 baths, 2 story, no creid check! Great locale! Pets $1100 LOCATORS INC 215-922-3400
Condos RENT GREEN TREE RUN CONDO
Manayunk/Roxborough Area: 2 Bedrooms, 2.5 Bath, Spacious Living Room/Dining Room, eat-in Kitchen, Refrigerator, Washer, Dryer. Gas Heat included, Free parking, Indoor and Outdoor Pool, Fitness Center. $1300.00/month rent, call 215-275-4991.
Commerical/ Warehouse COMMERCIAL (STORE)
Store on the corner of 10th & Christian 1 big window on each corner of the store. 1 block away from the Italian Market. Available Now! Make a store, $1,650 heat included. Church is 1/2 block away! Busy, Busy corner! (Good for a new business ready to start!) 215-755-4856.
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