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[ - 5] A police sergeant who said he was shot last

month by an unidentified black man in the city’s Overbrook section admits he made up the story and shot himself. “Literally,” he adds. “Though I guess metaphorically, too.”

[ - 2] A drunk driver crashes into a police cruiser

in Frankford. Cruiser later admits it got drunk and crashed into itself.

[ - 3] A Northeast beauty salon owner who obtained 4 million diet pills from China without a prescription surrenders to the feds. Like 100 times in an hour.

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Washington Square residents and the National Park Service disagree over the proposal to remove a 135-year-old tree from the neighborhood. “There’s a hole in the tree,” says ranger. “That makes it more fun!” says resident.“No, it’s a giant cavity,” says ranger. “It should brush its teeth!” says resident. “This tree is structurally unsound. It could fall down,” says ranger. “Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down! Wheeeeee!” says resident.

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[ + 1] South Philly High installs 126 cameras

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1] Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, in her current role as solicitor general, will decide whether Vince Fumo’s light jail sentence was due to political connections. After that, she’ll have the whole day to herself.

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Longwood Gardens hires a Dutch landscape architecture/urban design company to guide their growth over the next four years. “Surprise! It’s me, Darren ‘Dutch’ Daulton. I’m gonna turn this place into an alien airport.”

[ - 5] Philly soul legend Bunny Sigler releases a

new single that ties together the M.O.V.E. tragedy of 1985 and the recent fire that destroyed some studios and memorabilia at Philly International’s headquarters. The B-side muses on the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in 1976 and a cold Sigler had last winter.

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Somebody sticks a knife in Angelo Cataldi’s caricature on the wall at the Palm. Should have been a fork. Ten years ago.

This week’s total: -13 | Last week’s total: -25

AMILLIONSTORIES Making xenophobes tingle in their naughty places, since 1981

o here’s something: On April 22, City Councilmen Darrell Clarke and Bill Greenlee introduced Bill No. 100267, which would encumber event promoters with a slew of new requirements and restrictions. In the words of one promoter, “It’s chilling.” Under the proposed rules, promoters would have to apply for a permit from the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) 30 days before every single event — meaning if you promote a weekly club night, that’s 52 permit applications per year. More than just a bureaucratic nightmare, this would all but abolish last-minute shows or pickup parties. These applications would have to include detailed security plans, the promoter’s business-privilege-license number, the venue’s capacity and the expected crowd. Perhaps most importantly, the bill would hold promoters liable for the actions of the crowds at the events they promote. Additionally, the bill requires that every permit application include a copy of the contract between the venue and the promoter — in effect, making rental prices and rates for each individual promoter a matter of public record.To make matters worse, the cops can deny a permit for any reason and without explanation up to 10 days before the event — which could devastate businesses that fronted costs, to say nothing of destroying the credibility of those trying to book events. “We’re not trying to stop people from having a good time or

those responsible for creating good times from making money,” says Greenlee, who wants Council to pass the legislation by June. “We just have to think about the communities surrounding these locations where a number of events have gotten out of control in the past. All events should have regulations in place.” The bill is necessary, he says, because of event-driven disruptions throughout the city — an oversold event at the Comcast Center, for instance, in which kids flooded the streets and sidewalks of residential buildings nearby. Greenlee says he and Clarke are open to amendments. The permits, he points out, are free: “We just want to know what levels of control are in place. Even in regard to revealing salaries, we’re trying to show that these are legitimate transactions and not just fly-by-night characters. We want to show that there’re true contractual agreements between promoters and venue owners.”

It’s hard to stay optimistic.

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show their papers, because they’re brown-looking — may ultimately benefit the immigrantrights movement. Just as images of racist cops attacking civil rights protesters with dogs and water cannons led to progressive reforms in the 1960s, so, too, might these nativists catalyze the kind of fear and anger necessary to push comprehensive immigration reform through D.C.’s clogged arteries. Probably not, but, you know, we’re optimists. Of course, it’s hard to stay optimistic, surrounded as we are by troglodytes. Like, for instance, state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), who, on May 4, introduced legislation modeled after the Arizona law. It probably won’t pass the Democratic-controlled House, but it will make xenophobes tingle in their naughty places. (Metcalfe, coincidentally, is running for the GOP’s lieutenant governor nomination.) Then there are Philly’s police-immigrant policies. As City Paper previously reported (News, “ICE Cold,” Daniel Schwartz, Aug. 19, 2009), Secure Communities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s latest effort to identify and deport undocumented immigrants, arrived in Philadelphia last summer, implemented at the state level. The program grants ICE access to local police arrest records, effectively making a PPD arrest the first step toward

deportation for an undocumented immigrant. What’s more, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey signed off on a sepa-

rate agreement with ICE in 2008 that connects Philly’s Preliminary Arraignment System (PARS), which contains detailed records of PPD arrests and evidence, with the feds’ immigration records. This has brewed distrust among Philly’s immigrant communities: After all, if immigrants are worried about getting deported, they’re less likely to cooperate with cops investigating actual crimes. And this brings us to last Thursday afternoon at 20th and Market streets, where some 100 Philadelphians gathered outside U.S. Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr.’s office, demanding that he take a stand on comprehensive immigration reform. Amid chants in Spanish, Regan Cooper of the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (PICC) grabbed a bullhorn: “We believe Senator Casey’s heart is in the right place when it comes to immigration reform, but he hasn’t taken a public stance, and we need him start fighting so that people like the Arizona legislators and Metcalfe don’t take immigration reform into their own hands.” Casey wasn’t there; one of his staffers came downstairs to politely tell the crowd that the senator “just didn’t have enough information to make a stance yet.” Jen Rock, co-leader of the New Sanctuary Movement, handed her a bundle of fliers and press releases. “Well, hopefully, we’re giving it to you now.”

manoverboard! By Isaiah Thompson

VEGAS, PEOPLE

✚ This week’s report by A.D. Amorosi, Jeffrey C. Billman and Daniel Schwartz.

✚Isaiah Thompson is programmed to eliminate any element

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When a U.S. Appeals Court ruled last month that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had no authority to stop Comcast from interfering with subscribers’ ability to access peer-topeer network applications, we freaked out a little: Philadelphia’s biggest corporation wants to be able to control how you access the Internet, and a court had just ruled that the FCC couldn’t stop it. The ramifications were huge. As University of Nebraska-Lincoln cyber-law expert Marvin Ammori put it on The Huffington Post May 3, if the FCC didn’t reassert its authority on net neutrality, “There is almost no list of ‘horribles’ that are not fair game.” Among the possibilities: Comcast, Ammori wrote, could “block your tweets, if you criticize Comcast’s service or its merger, especially if you use the #ComcastSucks hashtag.”Another: “Block your vote to consumerist.com, when you vote Comcast the worst company in the nation. No need for such traffic to get through.” Scared yet? Try this: “If you create a small online business and hit it big, threaten to block your business unless you share one-third or more of all your revenues with them.” This is precisely the thing that net neutrality advocates fear — and why a regulatory framework that would prevent telecoms from dictating what you can do on the Internet is so necessary. Good news! Last Thursday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski detailed his plans to to force telecoms to play fair while promising not to over-regulate. Net neutrality advocates and 13 major tech companies, including Google and Amazon, cheered Genachowski’s announcement. Comcast? Not so much. Joseph Waz, Comcast’s senior vice president for external affairs, complained at a Stanford University conference that the FCC’s policy was “scary” and “opens the door to the entire heavy burden of regulation.” According to CNET News, he suggested that more lawsuits were in the offing. Of course they are.

³ WHAT? PENNSYLVANIA IS facing a billiondollar budget shortfall? We were supposed to be swimming in money! We’ve leased a third of our state forest for drilling — and what the hell were all those casinos for? But so has Gov. Ed Rendell announced: The money’s tight, just like it always is, only worse. I’m just going to go ahead and make a prediction: The next governor — or possibly this one — will resurrect the proposal to expand gambling (again), by legalizing “video poker” machines in bars across Pennsylvania. And by “video poker,” I mean slot machines, because that’s what they are: They’re programmed to eliminate any element of chance, and you can take that to the bank. It’s almost happened twice already, in early 2009 and then again late last year, when Rendell, with plenty of eager legislators, proposed that every single bar in Pennsylvania — are you listening? Every single bar — be allowed to host up to five slot machines. That’s not a tweak in a law; that’s a new state. That’s Vegas, people. The proposal was dropped for a different expansion of gambling: table games — oh, and the extension of credit to slots players, and the creation of another casino, and a slew of secretive earmarks. I can’t wait to see what extras they pack into the video poker proposals. Intravenous tubes for loyal “gamers,” maybe? Then you’ve got the pool of potential governors. City Paper interviewed several candidates for this issue (though not Republican front-runner Tom Corbett, who is somewhat more reserved on gambling issues), and when it comes to video poker, all are open — nay, more or less indifferent — to a proposal that would introduce tens of thousands of slot machines, a radical, radical expansion of gambling in this state. Joe Hoeffel says it’s “not a priority.” Anthony Williams is pretty much “Toro! Toro!” on this one. Of the Democrats, Jack Wagner and Dan Onorato have espoused the most radical views so far, limiting that expansion to a couple of machines per bar or fraternal organization — just 28,000 new slot machines, that’s all. The pressure comes from the usual special interests: in this case, the Pennsylvania Tavern Association, which has so far been denied the glorious, glorious spoils of gambling, the spoils that have somehow still left our state a billion dollars short. They know it’s their turn — while we go to vote, thinking it’s ours.

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EARTH ANGEL: Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark. “We are part of creation, and not meant to have dominion over it.”

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³ AS A NICE Jewish boy, I’ve never asked a nun to be my rabbi. But as oil spreads from the Gulf, I find myself sliding into despair. So if someone can steady my soul, I don’t care about their creds. Fortunately, Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark has great experience ministering to those with environmental angst — that sick feeling of being a powerless accomplice in the planet’s destruction. Mary Elizabeth practices her earthcare (as she puts it) at the newly refurbished Sisters of St. Joseph (SSJ) Earth Center, on the campus of Chestnut Hill College. The center is housed in a small stone chapel that’s a replica of the legendary Holy House of Loreto. Its soaring Doric pillars double as downspouts that sluice water to a rain cistern. And, as Mary Elizabeth proudly explains, it’s heated and cooled geothermally. Here, Mary Elizabeth collaborates with all sorts of religions and tribes: Presbyterians, Quakers, Jews and the Lenape. A former Washington lobbyist for social justice, she connects sustainability with spirituality in an ecumenical way, scrubbed of dogma. Hers is a worldly order, in many senses. Like many Sisters of St. Joseph, Mary Elizabeth dresses in street clothes. These women also have (one might say) a habit of independence, having recently been chastised for their public support of the healthcare bill. The SSJ women, along with other “women religious” congregations, also profess a special affinity for the earth that’s earned them the honorific of “Green Sisters” (from Sarah McFarland Taylor’s 2007 book of the same name). Others in the Roman Catholic Church, however, accuse them of pantheism. “Human beings are part of creation,” she explains. “We are one with the earth, and so we’re not meant to have dominion over it.” As we talk, my angst begins to make sense. “Human beings are the Earth reflecting on itself,” Mary Elizabeth says, paraphrasing cultural historian Thomas Berry. I see: So, if you accept that the planet reveals itself in human consciousness, then destroying the world would feel like murder. “We still have time,” she believes, “to prevent the massive destruction of the Earth. I’m an optimist. But I have waves of grief.” I know what she’s talking about. (bruce@schimmel.com) ✚ The SSJ Earth Center will co-sponsor a free Interfaith Green Fair Sun., May 16, 1-5 p.m. at Mishkan Shalom, 4101 Freeland Ave., 215-508-0226, mishkan.org. The SSJ Earth Center will host the“Sacred Earth: Spirituality and Sustainability” conference at Chestnut Hill College June 11-13. Call 215248-7171 or visit ssjearthcenter.com for registration, schedule and pricing.

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OVERLOOKING LESBIANS It’s ironic that in an article (“You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby,” Jeffrey C. Billman, April 29) which purports to restore to view some lesser-known LGBT history, the contributions of lesbian or bisexual women to today’s (relatively) improved queer state of the union are completely erased. Not to discount the importance of the Mattachine Society, but suggesting that we should remember the contributions of “gay men” as fundamental to today’s improved (but still lacking) civil and social standing of queer people while ignoring the significant accomplishments of lesbians toward this end is no less myopic than believing (as, sadly, some do) that the current LGBT rights movement was created by Harvey Milk. How about remembering the contributions of “Lisa Ben,” who created the path-breaking queer publication Vice Versa in the late 1940s? But for her, your Advocate or Out might not exist. Also, you can thank Barbara Gittings, lesbian activist (and longtime Philly resident) for her work toward the 1973 removal of “homosexuality” as an illness in the [American Psychiatric Association’s] DSM-IV. Oh, and let’s not forget Margarethe Cammermeyer, whose fight against DADT captured the public’s attention before Dan Choi had even enlisted. Today’s LGBT people still have a lot to fight for, it’s true,

but if it weren’t for the contributions of queer women to the battle we might never have found ourselves where we are right now, on the cusp of equality. Christianne G. BETHLEHEM

KEEP WORMIN’ It warmed my heart to see an article about worm farming in the Urban Garden Issue (“Worms of Endearment,” Cover Story, Isaiah Thompson, April 29). My family started our worm farm at the behest of our 5-year-old daughter, Cecelia, who loves “wormies,” as she calls them. It is so fun and educational to watch the worms grow and see our food and plant waste be recycled right before our eyes. It is a very easy lesson in green culture that is cleaner than you think, takes up very little space and teaches my Cece about the circles of life as we worm through them. My husband also fishes and the worms we raise save us from spending money on what can be had for free! Keep on wormin’! Diane Fleming-Myers VIA E-MAIL

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Iqbal HussaIn: THe PaInTer of ImPrIsoned souls | Through June 5, Twelve Gates Art Gallery, 305 Cherry St., 215-253-8578, twelvegatesgallery.com

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➤ As A child, Iqbal Hussain knew how his

mother and sister earned a living. Earlier generations of women had been courtesans of Pakistan’s Maharaja of Patiala, but political upheaval reduced them to common sex workers. As a result, the artist — recognized as one of his native country’s premier painters — takes as his main theme prostitutes and entertainers of the ancient red-light district in Lahore where he grew up. Though not explicitly sexual, the voluptuous female silhouettes have a timeless resonance so obvious that they might be clichés if they weren’t more personal. At first glance, Hussain’s paintings are not particularly challenging to American eyes. But from a more insightful viewpoint, the girls and women he depicts become more poignant, more individual. Kohl-rimmed eyes are stoic and filled with pathos. Small, graceful gestures of the hands suggest an inner elegance and sensitivity unnoticed in a crass world of commerce. Hussain’s solo show at Twelve Gates Gallery also includes his delicate calligraphic landscapes of the Ravi River. He will be in Philadelphia this Saturday at 7 p.m. to sign copies of The Painter of Imprisoned Souls, a biographical consideration of his work by noted art critic Marjorie Hussain. With artists like Hussain, Twelve Gates brings something new and significant to Philadelphia. Gallery director Aisha Khan and her husband, Atif Sheikh, moved here from New Jersey, choosing Philadelphia as a city in particular need of contemporary South Asian art. “We changed everything in our lives to open this gallery,” says Khan, who envisions the year-old Twelve Gates as more than a showcase for artists of the Indian and Pakistani diaspora. With music, performance and lively dialogue, she hopes her gallery will become a center for South Asian culture, 7,000 miles away. (r_rice@citypaper.net)

ROBIN QUIVERS: Russell Crowe’s Robin Hood is all dour grimaces and rough charm, unlike other, more roguish Robins.

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In the hood Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood is like none we’ve ever seen. And that’s not necessarily a good thing. By Shaun Brady [ B- ] Robin Hood | Directed by Ridley Scott | A Universal Pictures

release | Opens in area theaters Friday

he 21st-century epic is a rather dingy thing. The pendulum long ago swung from the bloodless spectacles to a dogmatic celebration of “realism” — which translates to the most mangled body parts that CGI can buy, suffered during battles waged in wretched conditions by warriors with even more wretched hygiene. It’s debatable whether legendary tales should be held to the same standards of historically accurate squalor as stories culled from real life, but Ridley Scott makes his case with a nearly unrecognizable Robin Hood. The move from Technicolor green tights to soiled earth tones accompanies the most dour Robin to ever draw a bow, whose men are merry only when indulging in sweaty, drunken debauches at the nearest tavern. Gone are the rakish grin of an Errol Flynn or the mischievous acrobatics of a Douglas Fairbanks (and, yes, the mullet of a Kevin Costner, but that goes without saying). Russell Crowe possesses just the right rough-hewn charm to earn a place among that Hollywood rogues’ gallery, but here his features are almost perpetually frozen in a hangdog scowl. He seems to spark to life a bit whenever fixed by the piercing stare of Cate

Blanchett’s steely Maid Marion, but even their romance is bloated by a few too many trots through the bucolic English countryside. Scott is a filmmaker with an eye for grand scales, so the guerrilla tactics which made Robin’s name would never appeal as much as the battles that preceded his outlaw days. The retooling has made it much easier to shoehorn the story into the boilerplate “setpiece sandwich” now standard for blockbusters — huge action scenes at beginning and end, with plenty of sword-fight skirmishes and arrows thacking into flesh to fill the interim between evil plotting and palace intrigues. This Robin Hood kicks off with a castle siege and culminates in a French invasion that seems to transplant Saving Private Ryan’s storming of Normandy into medieval garb. Instead of the usual tales of derring-do, he offers an origin story complete with troubled past and unrealized glory — with “Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions” the 12th-century equivalent to “With great power comes great responsibility.” The hero doesn’t steal from the rich to give to the poor until halfway through and the band only takes up residency in Sherwood Forest as the credits roll. Instead, Robin becomes a sort of freedom fighter, whether critiquing Richard the Lionheart’s slaughter of Muslims in the Crusades or taking up his long-lost father’s Charter of Rights to oppose King John’s taxation. (Which would seem to place him on diametrically opposed sides of today’s political spectrum, by accident or design.) He comes off more Braveheart than Prince of Thieves, but there appears to be a franchise being established that could remedy that. (s_brady@citypaper.net)

A dogmatic celebration of “realism.”

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After eight years, Broken Social Scene has tamed the noisy tangents of You Forgot It In People into the refined and delicious new Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts). John McEntire’s (The Sea and Cake, Tortoise) pristine production brings out the best in the gang. Tracks like the swaggering “Texico Bitches” and the horn-y “Art House Director” are radio-ready, while string-andharmonies jams like “Sentimental X’s” stick to the BSS formula of complex and dreamy pop songs. Best of both worlds, y’all.

One of the funniest things I heard at SXSW was some dude saying this new band Everybody Was In the French Resistance … Now! was totally ripping off Art Brut’s sing-talking/sweating/dancing/nutty bantering shtick. Uh. Same lead singer and songwriter. It’s his shtick in the first place. Where Art Brut is insanely unpredictable, French Resistance (who play the North Star May 14) is Eddie Argos’ chance to focus. Kind of. Every break is an opportunity for a lengthy, factually obscene lesson on the next song’s place in rock/world history. —Patrick Rapa

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More than 160 local and national artists will set up shop at Penn’s Landing for the seventh annual Art Star Craft Bazaar (May 15-16, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., artstarcraftbazaar.com) — two days of quirky homemade goods and live jams. This year roughly 80 new vendors (including Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll) will contribute to the massive spread of jewelry, ceramics, prints, original artwork, housewares, clothing and other assorted weirdnesses (like those creepy plushes from Horrible Adorables). —Alexandra Harcharek

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PLEASE GIVE [ B- ] NICOLE HOLOFCENER’S FOURTH feature opens with a pointed salvo aimed at

De Staat also hews toward a rock sensibility.

much more intense relationship with music than we do today. In The Republic, Plato warns against “a new kind of music … any alteration in the modes of music is always followed by alteration in the most fundamental laws of the state.” Dutch composer Louis Andriessen deplores the fact that Plato’s formulation cannot be applied today, but was inspired enough to set the words to music in his modern masterpiece De Staat.Andriessen’s music is virtually unknown to Philadelphia audiences, which perhaps explains why a healthy throng of the musically curious came out to hear De Staat on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in May. Then again, the appearance of new music superstar John Adams as conductor could have accounted for some of the draw. He opened the concert with his own music, the three-movement Son of Chamber Symphony,a work which seemed to gain in focus as it progressed, concluding with a crisp, bouncy finale of lucid texture. Superb pianist Jeremy Denk joined the ensemble, a well-rehearsed pickup group of New York City music students, in the neoclassical Concerto for Piano and Winds by Igor Stravinsky. Denk dispatched the piece with tremendous panache. Stravinsky’s spirit imbued the entire program. Andriessen is a self-acknowledged devotee, and he freely borrows gestures and rhythms from the Russian master. But De Staat also hews toward a rock sensibility, with electric guitars in the mix, improvisation and some crazy loudness.Andriessen sets up the musicians as if on a battlefield, in a nearly symmetrical configuration, flanked by trombones, trumpets and horns hurling blasts at one another, in a bellicose version of medieval antiphonal brass choirs. Despite the high volumes he actually achieves a balanced sound, with the assistance of mics and amps, an unusual sight at a so-called classical music concert. Andriessen deserves credit for mixing diverse influences to create what has become a classic of the European minimalist school. But the subtle references to Stravinsky are a dare; can anyone create something as wild and powerful as the (nearly) century-old The Rite of Spring? So far: no. It’s a good guess even Andriessen would agree. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)

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critics who balk at the femme-centric nature of her wry dramas. Holofcener fills the screen with breasts flopping onto a mammogram machine, as if to say, “Now that that’s out of the way. … ” Apart from its protagonists’ anatomical commonality, there’s little in the way of chick flick about Please Give, which treats its characters and its audience like adults with complex needs, not Ephron-bots waiting for the next Motown song or food montage. At the movie’s center, as always, is Catherine Keener, here a well-off Manhattan woman who co-owns a vintage furniture store with husband Oliver Platt. While he doesn’t see the quandary in scanning obits for potential customers and paying junk prices for pieces repackaged as collectibles, Keener is crippled by guilt. She presses $20 bills into the hands of street people and surfs the web for photos of children with cleft palates. The happier she ought to be, the worse she feels. Pretty much all of Please Give’s characters are miserable for one reason or another: Keener’s daughter (Sarah Steele) is a teenager with skin-care issues; her neighbor, mammogram tech Rebecca (Rebecca Hall), is stuck caring for her bitter, caustic grandma (Ann Guilbert). Hall’s sister, Mary (Amanda Peet), is the least apparently troubled, and least believable, a mean-spirited masseuse whose social tone-deafness makes her a caricature in a movie without the style to support one. At best, Holofcener’s technique is nondescript. At worst — a bathroom scene whose edges are distorted by a carelessly chosen lens — it’s unsightly. The drawback is more than aesthetic. It deprives the movie of a layer of distance that might make its characters’ bourgeois concerns easier to abide. Are we supposed to take Keener’s privileged moping at face value? The movie allows no other way. There’s nothing wrong with asking audiences to make up their own minds, but Please Give doesn’t even ask. —Sam Adams

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PRETTY PLEASE: Catherine Keener’s character is racked with moral quandaries, while her husband (Oliver Platt) doesn’t get it.

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ow in her late 80s, abstract expressionist painter Jacqueline Cotter is losing her sight rapidly. She gently requests that guests avoid sitting in front of the window on sunny days, as the light obscures the human form and makes conversation physically difficult. “I haven’t come to terms with it yet,” she says, standing in her apartment, surrounded by decades of paintings — her own and those of other well-known contemporaries. “I’m mad. I’m not sorry for myself. I mean, I’m 89 years old, so you have to have some [loss], but why does it have to be my eyes?” Speaking from his eponymous Old City gallery, Richard Rosenfeld says Cotter’s latest series, “New Work” — all created after her sight began to deteriorate — is her finest, full of the artist’s most distinct paintings to date. “Her shapes used to be more important. Now the edges are blurred,” he explains. “She’s relying more on the actual color and the way the paint goes on the canvas. It gives them a unity and a feeling of suffuse light that is even greater than before.” When told of Rosenfeld’s analysis, Cotter is reluctant to discuss the matter further. “Hmm. That’s interesting.” She pauses. “Simplification,” she finally offers, and that’s all that needs to be said. Cotter’s career began in 1970 after she finished raising four children. She says she could never pursue art as a hobby; she knew it would take over, and she feared her family would suffer. “It would have been impossible,” she says of her parenting decades. “I know

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people can do it now, but things are better for women now.” Above her refrigerator rests a representational landscape of a Pennsylvania country cottage, painted sometime in the ’70s. You have to stretch on tiptoe to see it, as if Cotter were trying to conceal it from view. It’s simply unthinkable to imagine that this piece was created by the same person whose abstractions adorn the adjacent studio. “When I went back to painting, I just picked up where I left off: figure painting, landscape painting,” she says. “Gradually, I started sliding into abstraction. It doesn’t happen overnight. You have to earn it. It’s seeing a whole new way.” By the early ’80s, she could taste the beginnings of that new vision — a simpler, more direct form of expression. The missing link — Franklin Town, a landscape from 1982 — hangs in her bedroom. The particular arc and crest of the skyline viscerally connects with lifelong Philadelphians, but one senses the artist is more concerned with color and composition than in subject matter.

About a decade later, Cotter brought her work to Rosenfeld, after years of shows at the more conservative Hahn Gallery. “It was an instant decision,” says Rosenfeld. “A no-brainer, as they say. … She’s always trying to get deeper into her own aesthetic. She’s come up with something very personal, very deeply felt, and not all artists get to that point.” In “New Works,” Cotter continues to use her favorite mediums: acrylic, canvas and Mylar. Gone are the hard boundaries to the colors and shapes. Gone, too, are the handwritten letters found in previous works. She’s seeing a whole new way. Simpler. And, at this point, it’s at least in part out of necessity. Cotter sees less but, as it turns out, she also sees more. “What else would I do?” she says, when asked why she continues to paint many hours each day. But then she thinks for a moment and corrects herself. “No. It isn’t even that. It’s just … you never get there. It’s the carrot on the stick.” (b_walsh@citypaper.net) ✚“New Works” opening reception, Sun., May 16, noon-5 p.m., free, through June 6, Rosenfeld Gallery, 113 Arch St., 215-922-1376, therosenfeldgallery.com.

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Any band can play an album from start to finish and call it a show. But when your songs are as sharp as those in the Buzzcocks’ repertoire, you’ve got to up the ante. The Brit punks will plow through the two records they released in 1978, Another Music in a Different Kitchen and Love Bites, with time to spare for an encore set of hits from their three-decade career. —M.J. Fine

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Not so long ago, Dr. Dog was that “band playing in the basement” Scott McMicken warbles about on “Shadow People,” the sweetly ambivalent ode to West Philly from their swell, summery Shame, Shame. They’ve been genially sidling toward the big leagues for a while now — the new album’s their first for mini-major Anti- Records, and they’re selling out sizable venues up and down the seaboard — but judging from their indulgently free-spirited recent WXPN Free at Noon set (which stretched on well past the allotted broadcast time slot), they’ve got plenty of love left for the hometown faithful. Maybe even enough to make the cavernous Electric Factory feel as cozy as a crowded basement. —K. Ross Hoffman Thu., May 13, 8:30 p.m., $18-$20, with Deer Tick, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-627-1332, electricfactory.info.

If you ask Baltimore’s Rhymes With Opera, the genre is much more than stuffy melodrama. In 2007, composers Ruby Fulton and George Lam formed the company to capture the passion of opera in a more modern, relevant form. Fulton describes Book of Gazes,the company’s current production, as “taking what you would see at a noisy show and mixing it with opera.” Drawing on opera’s fondness for torrid romance, Book of Gazes follows a love triangle among an abused young girl, her therapist and the therapist’s boyfriend. Composer Jenny Olivia Johnson pays homage to cheesy ’80s movies in the score, brought to life by experimental hip-hop quartet Soul Cannon. The performance will be set in the echoing warehouse of Kensington’s Fidget Space, so swap your pearls for a set of earplugs — you might just find that opera can rock after all.

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In 1979, Fleetwood Mac followed up their gazillion-selling Rumours (1977) with the double-album Tusk. While maybe not as avant-garde as its reputation suggests, Tusk still afforded the band’s resident frizzy-haired control freak, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, ample room to let his freak flag fly. The disjointed, off-kilter arrangements of the title track, “The Ledge” and others helped ensure the album’s overriding cult status. (Upon release, it “only” sold about 2 million copies.) And so, an enterprising group of indie rockers has united to perform the entire album live. For The Lindsey Buckingham Appreciation Society, Tony Goddess, formerly of Papas Fritas, and his wife, Samantha Goddess, are joined by local music vets Charlie Hall, Dave Hartley (both of The War on Drugs), Birdie Busch and Patrick Berkery (The Photon Band, The Bigger Lovers). They’ll play all 20 of Tusk’s songs, none of which can be mistaken for “Holiday Road.” —Michael Pelusi Mon., May 17, 8 p.m., $8, with Jennifer O’Connor, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-4359849, johnnybrendas.com.

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✚ PIMA GROUP With their notoriously überexperimental rep, PIMA Group’s latest venture lures audiences into a nightmarish world created from dance, “found sounds” and video projections. This weekend, Chinatown’s Vox Populi Gallery will morph into a haunted house for ohhorror, a live dance performance born from the brain of artistic director/choreographer Melisa Putz. Though not historically a fan of fright (“I used to sleep through Halloween as a kid,” she admits), Putz recently became entranced by the sense of terror and suspense created in mainstream and underground horror films. For her, the leap between horror films and dance was effortless. “I noticed in my previous dance works, there was a prevalent sense of haunting beauty,” she says. “As I began work on a new dance piece, a lot of the images that kept coming up had a sense of both horror and eeriness.” —Emily Currier Sat.-Sun., May 15-16, 8 p.m., $8, Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St., 215-400-1521, pimagroup.org.

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✚ SWEET-TART SYMPHONY Back in 1997: Cornershop felt like real envelope-pushers with their simmering AngloIndian curry of breakbeat chop-ups, Filmiflavored funk and sunny guitar pop. Back to basics: After a seven-year recording hiatus, they’re staunch Brit-pop old-guardists, lacing their reincarnated riffs with sacred cowbell, goopy gospel singers and scads of sitar (which is pretty darn classic rock when you think about it), and covering both the Kinks and Manfred Mann (who knew “The Mighty Quinn” sounded so much like “Brimful of Asha”?) Back in business: Still sounding most fundamentally like themselves, with quirks sanded down only slightly, the ’Shop can still churn out an unbeatable summer soundtrack. —K. Ross Hoffman

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While Clash of the Titans filled the screen with all manner of mythological beasties, one non-existent creature was left out — the lovable misanthrope, a fairly modern addition to the pantheon. Brian Cox does what he can to breathe life into the being, but is wasted in a mechanical redemption tale which proceeds more out of obligation than inspiration, set in a depopulated, nocturnal Manhattan that suggests director Dagur Kári’s native Iceland far more than anything recognizing New York. Cox plays a crotchety bar owner who caters only to a small band of eccentric regulars and suffers a heart attack in a fit of rage at a relaxation tape — a fine character-establishing moment, but unfortunately the sole attempt. He’s forced to share a hospital room with Paul Dano, a homeless man-child who lives like an animal, sharing cat food from a tin with a feline companion. Dano’s wide-eyed blankness can be effective — as in his ambiguously-motived preacher in There Will Be Blood — but here he’s a complete cipher, a stand-in for innocent benevolence who’s never given a will of his own. That Cox is in dire need of a heart transplant suggests early on a treacly double-entendre in the film’s title, unfortunately fulfilled in garishly sentimental fashion. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)

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against younger violent offenders. While Caine’s Harry could go toe-to-toe with Eastwood’s Walt (and then share a pint after), there’s no meaning behind Brown’s spree. Firsttime feature director Daniel Barber seems to be making a comment on the rise of violence in Britain, but it rings hollow. Brown is a sympathetic killer because he’s the only fleshed-out character; everyone else is a bloodthirsty thug or ignorant lawman (except, perhaps, the detective — played by Emily Mortimer — who begins to suspect Brown). But Barber is adept at creating suspense — even if it’s just for the senseless violence rather than for a purpose — and he’s aided by the excellent production design of Kave Quinn and cinematographer Martin Ruhe, who work together to truly make Brown’s estate look like hell. —Molly Eichel (Ritz East)

LETTERS TO JULIET|C The real-life love story between Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero is ripe for movie adaptation. After falling madly in love on the set of Camelot, the actors split following a high-profile romance, only to rekindle their affair some 35 years later. That story plays as well as the one in Letters to Juliet, in which Redgrave portrays Claire, a headstrong grandmother who returns to Verona to find the love she left behind (Nero) 50 years ago. It’s all because of Sophie (doe-eyed Amanda Seyfried), a New Yorker fact-checker on vacation in Verona with her too-busy fiancé (Gael Garcia Bernal), who discovers the Secretaries of Juliet, a group of women who answer letters asking for advice left at Juliet Capulet’s house. She finds and answers and decades-old letter, leading Claire and her grandson Charlie (Christopher Egan) to the secretaries’ doorstep scant days later. Charlie is all stiff upper Brit who blatantly spells out the movie’s more ridiculous moments (“He even rode in on a white horse,” he says about Nero’s entrance into the film. Yeah, Chaz, we had to sit through that, too) and has no time for romance but, of

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secret ingredient recently joined my pantry. If all you knew about it were the basic facts concerning its historical uses, you would probably not want to come over for dinner. Over the centuries it has been a filling for dental cavities, a stabilizer in painting varnishes, an active ingredient in insecticides and a component of the holy anointing oil used by Orthodox priests. Its natural history is no more appetizing. More on: It is a sap bled from the branches of an evergreen shrub, the way a close genealogical relative is tapped to produce turpentine. Drops fall to the ground and harden into globules of resin that look like a batch of cut-rate crystal meth. I bought some at Bitar’s, at 10th and Federal, where it’s kept out of view under the cash register counter. “Do you sell mastic?” I inquired, and after a bit of searching, a mound of faintly yellow, not quite translucent pebbles landed on the digital scale. Three dollars’ worth would have made a tablespoon look like a soup ladle. A pound of the stuff would have run $240. Which probably explained why the store had only an ounce or two on hand. All I’d wanted was a scant quarter-teaspoon to make some

Lebanese milk pudding. Now that I was in possession of a (modest) surplus, I felt compelled to find some other things to do with it. Mastic has a culinary history to round out its bizarre curriculum vitae. Produced almost exclusively on the Greek island of Chios, it pops up most frequently in eastern Mediterranean cuisines. It once was used as chewing gum — mastic comes from a Greek verb meaning “to gnash the teeth,” and is related to the English “masticate” — but it’s a tad pricey for that now. These days it’s primarily used as a flavoring for desserts. I didn’t want to stop at sweets, but they seemed a good place to start. First I made the milk pudding that had spurred the purchase to begin with, from a recipe by Lebanon native Anissa Helou in her book Mediterranean Street MORE FOOD AND Food (William Morrow). Pulverized to DRINK COVERAGE a powder in a mortar and pestle (along AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / with some sugar to provide extra grit), M E A LT I C K E T. the mastic imparted a woodsy aroma and slightly medicinal flavor that melded with an admixture of orange-blossom water to produce an exotic and very refreshing ramekin of chilled dairy. It was an ideal flavor for a hot day, and the days were only getting hotter. I needed to find a way to incorporate this ingredient into other stages of dinner. In her out-of-print Café Morocco (McGraw-Hill), available from the Free Library, Helou described a strange soup marrying mastic, mint and caraway seeds in a watery broth thickened just barely with a few tablespoons of flour. It took about 20 minutes to make, only two of which involved active attention. I

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building like a booze-guzzling eagle, City Tap House is a beer lover’s venture from the team that owns Public House, mission Grill and Field House. The bar/restaurant/outdoor space has a selection of 60 brews on tap and room for 120 people. (The behemoth beer program, which focuses on both local beers and domestic/import craft brews, is handled by andy Farrell, formerly of Bridgid’s.) Chef al Paris’ (pictured) menu features brick-oven pizzas, sandwiches, large plates, mussels, veggie-friendly stuff and “daily supper” selections monday through Saturday. Right now they’re open for dinner daily from 5 to 11, and they’ll begin lunch on mon., may 17. The Radian (second floor), 3925 Walnut St., 215-662-0105, citytaphouse.com. Bodhi Coffee | Bobby Logue, a former barkeep at spots like the Khyber and Sugar mom’s, finally has a place to call his own, but it’s less boozy than it is bean-y. Bodhi Coffee, which opened last Friday, serves properly poured and pulled Stumptown coffee and espresso, alongside a selection of eats prepared with locally sourced ingredients. The café was crafted with reclaimed materials, plus one-of-a-kind woodwork by carpenter Doug Powley and custom lighting fixtures by designer Robert True Ogden. Right now Bodhi is open mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.-10 p.m., and Sat.-Sun., 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 410 S. Second St., bodhicoffeephila.com. Jake’s Sandwich Board | Gary Dorfman has moved

his Jake’s cheesesteak stand from Liberty Place to 12th and Sansom, where it’s now known as Jake’s Sandwich Board. Here he’s doing sandwiches like the “mensch” (beef brisket, horseradish sauce, fried onions, melted provolone) and the “Classic” (“mom’s” fried meatballs, roasted red peppers, marinara, mozz). The most visible draw is a whole roasted pig — sourced from the Italian market’s Hollywood meats and displayed for passers-by in the window — they’re carving up for sandwiches daily. Hours: Sun.-Thu., 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-mid. 122 S. 12th St., 215-922-0101, www.jakessandwichboard.com. Got a tip? Please send restaurant news to drew.lazor@citypaper.net

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