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[ - 5] A TV camera catches a child drinking beer at Sunday’s Phillies game. And the part where he barfs on a toddler? Hilarious.

[ - 1 ] City Council accuses the Redevelopment

Authority of not obtaining proper Council approval before moving forward on deals.

“Well, pardon us for thinking we had, you know, redevelopment authority.”

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[ 2 ] Gov. Ed Rendell cancels a $30,000 taxpayer+

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funded PR project for himself, saying he “will not spend one dime of the taxpayers’ money on the assemblage of things that are for legacy purposes.” Adding: “And you can hold me to that. In fact, etch my statement in the finest marble so that future generations may also hold me to that!”

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[ + 1 ] Mayor Nutter hires Catie C. Wolfgang to be

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[ 0 ] “I haven’t seen someone use one of those

in a long time,” police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore says about FOP courtesy cards, which carriers flash to cops in hopes of avoiding tickets. Adding: “Cough, cough.”

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[ + 1 ] Tony Danza prepares for his speech at North­

east High’s graduation ceremony. “Class of 2010, I leave you wit the advice I once gave Sam­­­anta and Jonnatin.The nights are long but you’re on your way to a brand new life, a brand new life, a brand new life around the bend.”

[ - 4 ] Urban Outfitters begins selling a contro­ versial T-shirt that reads “Eat Less.” And another that says “Wear Crap.”

[ 0 ] Union leader John Dougherty becomes the

Democratic ward leader of the 1st District.

And then he wept, because there were no more worlds to conquer.

[ 0 ] The state legislature considers raising the gas tax to avoid a budget crisis. “Good luck with that,” says Nutter. “I just got my balls handed to me in a non-biodegradable bottle

by Big Soda.”

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vil has a way of going hand-in-hand with genius. Lucifer, you’ll recall from Sunday School, was the Morning Star, not the Dim Bulb. George W. Bush was dumb as a brick, sure, but he had Dick Cheney. See how that works?

In Philadelphia, there’s Michael Meehan: He’s the longtime head of the Republican City Committee and controls 500 or so jobs at the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) — yet the dude hasn’t been elected by anyone. Instead, he’s the “legal counsel” for the Philly GOP. And despite the fact that Meehan’s shrouded position makes it nigh impossible to unseat him, Republican insurgents keep trying to do just that.

By the time this paper hits the streets, though, the insurgents will have lost. Wednesday night marks the election of citywide Republican leadership by ward leaders, and Meehan’s cronies will undoubtedly win. Then they’ll decide to keep him as “legal counsel.”

Why? Because Meehan’s a g-damn genius, that’s why.

Let’s review how he took down the Republican insurgents — the Loyal Opposition, Al Schmidt, a few Tea Partiers and other fed-up conservatives — one by idealistic one, shall we?

The insurgents’ plan went like this: Get their peeps elected as Re­ pub­lican committee people, whose job it is to elect ward leaders, who, in turn, elect citywide leadership. Once in power, boot Meehan and Co. The strategy might be genius, if only it weren’t so … un-evil.

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In response to the insurgents, Meehan filed 44 ballot petitions in March challenging candidates for Republican committee persons — folks in his very own party. Matthew Wolfe, of the insurgency, found that some of the “challengers” Meehan put up were Democrats, some had never heard of Meehan and one was just plain dead. Meehan chalked it up to mistakes by ward leaders. Shortly thereafter, the Inquirer reported that the PPA was “humming away on Meehan’s behalf” during the primary election, doling out signatures, notaries and candidates to run. A whole government agency behind Meehan, and the insurgents still thought they had a chance. Adorable, right?

Meehan wasn’t done yet. Right before the election, the Republican City Committee voted to change its bylaws, so that write-in candidates for committee positions had to get 10 votes, instead of only one. Schmidt told the Daily News that only seven of the 120 write-ins had 10 or more votes — if the insurgents were screwed before, they were pretty much nuked now. And there’s more: City commissioners recently announced that they would start giving certificates of election to the Republican City Committee, instead of the winners them-

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selves. Insurgents feared that this would keep committee people who were rightfully elected — but not friends with the right people — from finding out that they had won. Then, last week, as we reported on the Clog, city commissioners suddenly reversed their decision, perhaps because Wolfe was threatening to sue.

For Meehan, it was a minor setback. See, in February, the Republican City Committee voted to give the majority of the ward leaders’ voting power to those who resided in the Northeast — Meehan’s most loyal supporters. In other words, the insurgents’ battle was lost from the beginning. Genius. ➤ HOW EVIL IS TOM CORBETT?

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Speaking of evil: Tom Corbett, the attorney general/GOP gubernatorial nominee, scores a 9 on this week’s A Million Stories’ How Evil Is Tom Corbett? Barometer™, which goes from zero to, oh, about 23 or so (we like random numbers). Not bad.

This week’s HEITC?B™ finds Corbett filing a “friend of the court” brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Albert Snyder, a York County denizen who is suing the Westboro Baptist Church clan, those comically deranged self-parodies who wave “God Hates Fags” signs at military funerals. At first glance, this seems admirable, like maybe Corbett doesn’t hate fags — even

though he doesn’t think they should get married, because God hates anal.

But there’s a fallacy with this line of thinking: The slope of restricting free speech is as slippery as K-Y Jelly; after all, the First Amendment isn’t about protecting popular speech. Additionally, with the case’s ties to the military — and the fact that his AG’s office press-released it — Corbett’s move is transparently political. Sigh.

A 9 on the HEITC?B™ puts Corbett well below Michael Meehan, who is so evil he’d snap the HEITC?B™ needle in half upon telling his mother a white lie about liking her bread pudding.

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Spill, Baby, Spill ➤“BP currently operates 156 sub-sea

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

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Harold Wilson can’t catch a break. First, he was convicted of a 1989 triple murder in South Philly that he didn’t commit — thanks in part to the DA office’s ridiculously racist jury-selection practices — and sentenced to death, then held in prisons across the state for 16 years before DNA evidence cleared him in 2005 [News, “The Exoneree,” J.F. Pirro, Sept. 14, 2006].

And then on Friday, a city official told Wilson, 51, he couldn’t leave his car parked in front of the District Attorney’s Office.

Wilson and 15 other exonerees from across the country had gathered outside the DA’s on South Penn Square as members of Witness to Innocence, an anti-death penalty group. Though the South is far-and-away the most lethal-injection-happy region of the U.S. — 1,000 executions out of 1,212 in the country since 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center — Witness to Innocence decided to partake of our brotherly love, anyway, to try to dissuade DA Seth Williams from doling out the ultimate punishment.

True, we’ve only executed three people in the last 34 years, and none in the last decade. Also true, we’ve had a de facto moratorium in place for years, because six Pennsylvanians, including Wilson, have been cleared after being sentencd to die. On the other hand, the commonwealth still has more than 220 souls awaiting dates with the gurney — more than all but a handful of states.

And, moratorium or no, Williams has signed off on a couple of death penalty prosecutions since taking office in January. “[Williams] has been outspoken about reforms in the criminal-justice system in general and in the death penalty in particular,” says Witness to Innocence executive director Kurt Rosenberg. “We just want him to deliver on what he said he would do —which is implementing a more fair capital-sentencing system.”

Ideally, they’d like him to take the death penalty off the table, but that’s not heppening. So, they’d settle for Williams seeking capital punishment less frequently than predecessor Lynne Abraham, because — and they have a point here — death is forever.

Take Sam Millsap, who as district attorney in Bexar County, Texas, in the 1980s, secured the death penalty for Ruben Cantu, who was executed in 1992. In 2005, a Houston Chronicle investigation cast doubt on the veracity of Cantu’s guilt and, Millsap says, brought him to an epiphany.

“Mr. Cantu received what any prosecutor in the country would consider to be the perfect trial,” Millsap told the “crowd” (by which we mean “a handful of reporters”). “And yet, he was convicted because the jury did what we asked the jury to do. And so the system worked —but it’s not entirely clear that it did.”

wells worldwide. … In the next five years BP plans to increase the number of operated sub-sea wells to 320.”

That’s from “BP In the Arctic and Beyond: A WorldClass Company for World-Scale Projects,” released

by BP circa 2004. How bright the deep-sea drilling future must have seemed back then. And how oilydark it looks now: Somehow, it took me six weeks to realize that the so-called worst environmental disaster in American history is really just a statistical blip, a predictable unpredictability against the number of wells operating out there, and the newness of this technology. The only thing remarkable about Deepwater Horizon is that it happened to blow up. And if another blowout preventer fails, or another well casing is faulty, and another well starts spewing? Two? Twenty?

“Hydraulic fracturing … has never contaminated groundwater. … Our top commitment remains producing these resources in an environmentally world-class way.”

That’s from a letter titled “‘Fracking’ is environmentally safe,” to the Lehigh Valley Express-Times

by Kathryn Z. Klaber, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry group that lobbies for drillers. The letter appeared Friday morning. Later that day, a Marcellus Shale well in Clearfield County exploded, spewing from 35,000 to 1 million gallons of toxic fracking fluid for 16 hours. The well’s owner, EOG, is investigating — can it be? — the blowout preventer and well casing. Another young technology goes horribly awry and, yet again, it already surrounds us. EOG operates 117 wells in the Marcellus Shale — at least one of which contaminated a different patch of forest in Clearfield County in August 2009, when it leaked drilling fluids into a forest spring. Some 2,000 new wells are on track to be permitted this year alone. The unique thing about this particular well? It happened to blow up, too. So did another one, on Monday in West Virginia: There, a Marcellus Shale well shot out a 70-foot tower of flame, burning seven workers.

“Isn’t there more your paper can do [to] call for a halt to all [Marcellus Shale] drilling? I have never written a letter to the editor, never joined any activist group, just minded my own business and done my best to survive — but I have children.”

I just happened to get that, a few minutes ago, by e-mail, from a stranger.

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Peace Heroes ➤ Making peace is hard. Take the case of a young man who called

me last fall. He told me of his plans to get on a ship to break Israel’s blockade. He had to do something to ease the suffering in Gaza.

He sounded sincere, though good intentions can take bad turns.

So, I asked what might happen.

“Well, the Israeli Navy will probably stop us.”

“And then?”

“And then, well … I don’t know.”

Considering what did just happen in similar circumstances — the deception, the deaths and the unjust demonizing of Israel — this wasn’t a good way to promote peace.

Making peace is hard. It takes planning, and it takes courage to lay down arms and search for humanity in the heart of your enemy.

So, blessed are the peacemakers, about a hundred of whom assembled last weekend at Moore College of Art & Design.

Unrelated to, though in the shadow of, this violence, we spent a couple of days planning for peace here at home.

For hours, we scribbled ideas on giant Post-It notes, talking and debating — usually peaceably — about a new $80 million Envision Peace Museum in Philadelphia.

We were blessed twice, actually. First, by Deputy Mayor Alan Greenberger, who reminded us that “peacemaking is in the city’s genes” — to say nothing of the actual DNA of many who attended from the Quaker community.

And we were blessed again by Mayor Michael Nutter, who offered warm encouragement with a refreshing splash of reality.

The hundred or so peacemakers came from all kinds of communities. Our overall goal was to plan a place to showcase the heroism of peacemakers, to tell the stories that journalism overlooks. “If it bleeds, it leads” hasn’t been a formula to promote peace.

Where media has failed, this museum will have to carry the torch.

But it soon became clear that telling tales would not be enough.

Not when the City of Brotherly Love is drowning in hate.

If we were going to talk the talk, we’d have to walk the walk. The Envision Peace Museum could also be a clearinghouse, a Greater Philadelphia Peace Alliance. To go into schools roiling in violence.

To send “Peacemobiles” to communities in turmoil. And to celebrate the unsung peacemakers — the mothers, fathers, preachers and teachers — who struggle heroically, often in obscurity.

Nutter arrived as the conference concluded to offer his benediction. “We’re broke,” he announced, forestalling the hope that the city would pitch in financially.

But when asked if the new museum should get into the business of making peace, Nutter concurred: “The real work you’ll do will be in the streets.”

Under the thumb of drug dealers who terrorize neighborhoods, many Philadelphians can’t imagine anything other than violence.

“When disagreements end with a smack across the face,” said Nutter, “that’s all some children learn.”

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Where media has failed, this museum would carry the torch.

✚ For more information, visit envisionpeacemuseum.org.

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feedback From our readers

A TRUE COALITION Read your piece today [Soapboxer, “Message Fail,” Jeffrey C. Billman, May 27]. As you may or may not know, I am working with the coalition that is opposing the soda tax. I would disagree with some of your comments. Though you may believe it had merit as a public health issue, it was never perceived by Council or media as such.

It was a revenue grab from day one. The original proposal from the mayor had only $20 million of the tax going to public health, with $50 million for the budget gap. And then the revised proposal had nothing going for public health and everything going to the gap. Also, retailers told the mayor it was logistically impossible to tax soda as a standalone product, and his response was he did not expect that rather they should spread it across all products — so where was the disincentive to the consumer? Also, the way the tax was proposed was arguably unconstitutional and when the tax had connection with public health, all legal defenses by the city basically melted away. And that is the reason [the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority] even had problem with the tax.

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members all got together to take this one on. More than 30,000 Philadelphians have signed petitions against it as well as approximately 700 businesses. I do not think we have any chance against the mayor if we do not have such a broad coalition. I think this has been a high-level policy debate that did not get nasty or personal.

But I also believe it is not done yet.

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➤ On June 2 — just three days after BP’s “top kill” maneuver

to stem the massive oil leak caused by the April 20 explosion of its Deepwater Horizon rig failed, and one day after the Justice Department announced it was opening criminal and civil investigations against the company — President Barack Obama finally spoke the unpleasant truth undergirding this calamity in the Gulf of Mexico. During a combative 40-minute speech in Pittsburgh, he told the assembled crowd of small-business owners: “[W]e have to acknowledge that there are inherent risks to drilling four miles beneath the surface of the Earth, and these are risks that are bound to increase the harder oil extraction becomes. We also have to acknowledge that an America run solely on fossil fuels should not be the vision we have for our children and our grandchildren.”

There is a good bit of rhetoric here, and it’s not wholly unlike the rhetoric we saw on the campaign trail two years ago. As another campaign season approaches, Obama knows as well as anyone that the longer this mess plays out, and the more his administration is seen as impotent, his poll numbers will suffer. And, to be sure, if there’s one thing this president is undeniably good at, it’s rhetoric.

So, his speech in Pittsburgh was, through this prism, the opening pitch of the White House’s political season. But his diagnosis of the reality is so intrinsically correct that it needs to be seared into our collective consciousness: The age of oil must end.

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This is our crisis, too. It’s also our chance to get it right. In the end, it won’t matter how angry the president is, or how angry the media is that he’s not angry enough. It won’t matter which congressmen whip themselves into a righteous lather of indignation, or what blue-ribbon dog-and-pony show assigns blame where, or how punitive the eventual punishments are.

What will matter is whether we seize this opportunity for change or let the status quo pull us back into the oil-drenched mire.

Last year, the House of Representatives passed by a razor-thin margin an ambitious energy bill that included a controversial “cap and trade” provision, which would cap the amount of pollutants that companies can dump into the atmosphere over time. That bill, even stripped of that provision, has languished in the Senate. The White House has, for much of the last year, focused elsewhere.

But finally, with the BP oil spill as a backdrop, the president has made his case. At long last: “The time has come to aggressively accelerate that transition [from fossil fuels].” That means, in short, eliminating tax breaks for Big Oil, using that money to invest in clean energies and instituting a cap on carbon pollution.

The energy industry basically owned the Bush White House: The latter’s 2005 energy bill granted the former some $14.5 billion in tax cuts and reduced royalty payments, including for offshore drilling — like in the Gulf of Mexico. It even bequeathed Big Oil $50 million a year in research money. According to the Cleantech Group, taxpayers subsidize energy conglomerates to the tune of between $15 billion and $35 billion every year, thank you very much.

In 2008, the General Accounting Office found that, of 104 jurisdictions worldwide, only 11 received a smaller portion of oil revenue than the U.S. In other words, we’re getting screwed, and screwed

The age of oil must end.

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Last year, Obama asked Congress to remove $31.5 billion in tax breaks for Big Energy; Congress didn’t oblige. Of course, this had something to do with the $9 million that industry PACS showered on candidates, and the $175 million Big Oil spent last year on federal lobbying. But it had more to do with our lack of moral fervor and our willingness to dodge the tough choices — capping carbon pollution will increase energy bills in the short term, especially until newer, cleaner alternatives become more viable. No way around that.

Yet, these things need doing. If they don’t happen, it’s because we’ve chosen to shirk the necessary sacrifices.

In this year’s budget request, the administration asked Congress to end $38.8 billion in tax breaks for oil and gas companies. The BP calamity notwithstanding, the upcoming fight won’t be easy. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he’ll press the energy bill this summer, but that will be an uphill climb.

If it fails, we’ll have only ourselves to blame. (jeffrey.billman@citypaper.net)

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➤ “Be brave, be competitive and be yourselves.

Show the world your art,” Sarah Jessica Parker exhorts 14 mostly young and attractive artists early in the première episode of Bravo’s latest reality show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.

The subject is novel, but it’s otherwise a predict­ able and effective formula packed with preten­ sions, clichés and suspense, as well as some pretty good — and some really bad — artworks.

The show’s judges are recognized experts in criticism, collecting and commerce (one is an NYC gallery owner; another, a senior art critic for New York Magazine), and the contestants all seem to already have a degree of midlevel success at their chosen art specialties. Writer and curator Trong Nguyen, for example, has been reviewed in The New York Times, and painter Jaclyn Santos was a studio assistant to Jeff Koons.

One of the two youngest competitors has a Phila­ delphia connection. Abdi Farah, 23, is a UPenn grad (check out his cartoons from The Daily Penn­ sylvanian at abdiart.com) and a recent employee of the Mural Arts Program. It looks like he may do well on Work of Art. The grand prize is a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, a publicity coup for both museum and artist. On the other hand, considering the expenses involved in making art, the top money prize of $100,000 is surprisingly unimpressive.

Yesterday’s challenge: Make a portrait of a fel­ low contestant. In 13 hours. Early in the show, brusque Nao Bustamante coolly announced her willingness to critique her peers and abrasively solidified her status with them by making good on that promise. Nevertheless, Nao’s process diagram of her subject (Miles Mendenhall, who has obses­ sive compulsive disorder) was more substantive than the judges recognized when they placed her >>> continued on page 24

SOLO BRAINS: After years playing with The Ghouls, Miss Argentina and Kid Kreyol, Blayer Pointdujour is putting out an album under his own name. neal santos

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Access Point Local punk journeyman Blayer Pointdujour bares his soul. By A.D. Amorosi

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t 29, Blayer Pointdujour has lived several lifetimes inside local punk-rock circles. The Newark-born/South Phillyresiding vocalist/multi-instrumentalist laughs easily about being one of few black guys in a primarily Caucasian scene.

He drummed for Miss Argentina, recorded with Fugazi/Minor Threat producer Don Z, and rocked out with Kid Kreyol and The Ghouls (later known as Hate and War). His brand new debut solo jawn, the sweet-spirited Access Card, is his most dramatic stuff yet: sample-heavy punk and dub, with spacey soul elements.

Add in his angelic voice and poignant lyrical sensibility and the results are akin to Gnarls Barkley meeting Big Audio Dynamite.

We caught up over e-mail.

City Paper: I know you commuted from Jersey when you

were in Miss Argentina. What lured you to the Philly scene for good?

Blayer Pointdujour: Around that time my work ethic with Kid Kreyol wasn’t syncing up with everyone else’s, so we decided to part and I went strong into the scene with The Ghouls. I was living at Sixth and Tasker and met some South Philly Punks [his capital letters]. I’ll never forget the first day. I was walking down Wharton with my friend from Syracuse. We saw a bunch of brightly

colored people grilling on the street, and as we walked past they asked us to join them. So we did — that was seven years ago and I’m still down wit’ SPP. CP: Some of what you’re doing on Access Card stems from your

Kid Kreyol years, does it not?

BP: When I was in Kid, I’d play samples between songs. I wanted to do something that was 100 percent samples; a completely digital project. I can play drums, bass, guitar and piano, so it’s a cool change of pace to just sing and play samples. Bands are a lot of work, dealing with people who might have good or bad attitudes. Now I just sample, do a bit of pre-production in GarageBand and write lyrics.

I write a song a week now, instead of practicing with a band and working on a song for a month.

I write a song a week now, instead of practicing with a band and working on a song for a month.

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Or something you needed to get off your chest?

BP: Organic. I’m 100 percent Haitian and grew up listing to gospel kompas when at my Haitian church. So, kompa, or island music as I call it, has long been ingrained in me. Kompa isn’t popular in America because Haitians like to keep their culture to themselves, but I’ve loved it. I’ve wanted to do a kompa project >>> continued on page 31

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[ strong but beautifully ill ] ➤ soul

Tonight marks the last of the Live Arts Second Thursday Series (June 10, livearts-fringe.org) before the entire Philadelphia arts community begins its sacred summerlong Fringe preparation ritual. Don’t miss Jaamil Kosoko’s Or Maybe My Mother Was an American Chameleon? — a dance/theater/spoken-word work-in-progress that’ll première in full this September. Kosoko tells me it’s “a work that personifies our country, imagining her as a schizophrenic, depressed, strong but beautifully ill, manic, mothering creature with a hard history.” If that won’t get you there, maybe —Carolyn Huckabay this will: It’s free, and there’s booze.

My my hey hey, retro-soul is here to stay.

Five years after the Winehouse watershed, the novelty factor’s finally wearing off but the musical caliber of the ’60s soul revival is growing steadily stronger. (I’d say 2009’s surprise rookie MVP Mayer Hawthorne represents the current high-water mark.) Boston’s Eli “Paperboy” Reed and his seven-strong True Loves look like a lock for this year’s title (apologies to Sharon Jones), with a forthcoming third LP, Come and Get It (Capitol), that plays like a killer set of Wilson Pickett and Tyrone Davis obscurities, and a reportedly explosive live show to match. Reed and company play the North Star Friday (June 11, northstarbar.com).

—K. Ross Hoffman

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➤ we are the robots The title of Dave Tompkins’ history of the vocoder, How To Wreck a Nice Beach (Stop Smiling Books), is not, in fact, an oldschool hip-hop lyric but a speech-recognition trope (say “how to recognize speech” reeeeeeeal slow). It’s a fascinating look at how a device invented for military coding/ decoding applications became a go-to musical tool for the likes of Kraftwerk and Afrika Bambaataa. And any book with an appendix titled “It’s not the end of the world: Some final thoughts on Auto—Brian Howard Tune” gets a robotic hellz yeah from us.

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that so many masters achieve their greatest fame after death. Not always — Beethoven was the most famous man of his time, and his funeral drew 20,000 mourners to the streets of Vienna — but usually.

Shostakovich and Ligeti, to name two, were wellregarded, if controversial, in their time, but there has been an explosion of interest in both composers since their death. More recently, the same may be said of the work of George Rochberg, a longtime fix­ture of the Penn composition department who died in 2005 at age 86.

Rochberg was an early adopter of serialism, the atonal music style invented by Arnold Schoenberg, and largely credited with nearly killing the new music scene by chasing away audiences. Following a personal crisis, the death of his son, Rochberg sought refuge in music, but according to his own statements, he was unable to find a way to deal with his grief through his own music, and so he slowly began the process of redefining his language. In 1972, his String Quartet No. 3 premièred, featuring the reintroduction of tonality into his work, to the horror of his academic colleagues. Many have since labored under the misunderstanding that Rochberg’s change in direction was a stake in the heart of serialism. It wasn’t, and he continued to keep it in his arsenal of tools. It merely signaled the sensible concept that a composer did not have to be straightjacketed into one writing style.That simple notion has snowballed into the unprecedented eclecticism that marks our musical world today. (That and the iPod.) Two recent CDs from Naxos explore the music Rochberg wrote for solo and duo piano. The material is exquisitely wrought and hugely varied in dynamic and dramatic effect.There is the tuneful, easy swaggering beauty of his Elegiac Pieces, the thundering chromaticism of the Sonata Seria, and the grandly exotic, nearly hourlong Circles of Fire for two pianos.

A recent live performance by Mimi Stillman and Coline-Marie Orliac of Slow Fires of Autumn, for flute and harp, displayed textures so vivid that the music seemed palpably physical.

Rochberg’s flirtations with various styles once made him difficult to categorize. The value of his body of work as a whole now makes that meaningless. More should hear it, even if the man himself is no longer around to relish the appreciation. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)

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minating movie of director Neil Jordan’s career. Bringing together his penchant for fairy tales, which runs from The Company of Wolves through Interview with the Vampire and beyond, and the lyrical realism of The Crying Game and The End of the Affair, the movie crosses the two in ways that don’t become clear until its final reel. Colin Farrell, whose performance likewise synthesizes the best elements of previous and less satisfying turns, is Syracuse, a West Cork fisherman struggling to support himself, let alone his wife and disabled daughter, on the meager proceeds of a life at sea. For him, at least, the fish refuse to bite, until one day he hauls in his catch and finds a woman (Alicja Bachleda) tangled in his nets, who calls herself Ondine. The woman’s rough English provides few clues, but her strange, wordless singing makes fish swarm around Syracuse, a feat sufficiently rare as to seem magical. His daughter theorizes she may be a selkie, an ancient British twist on the mermaid myth — an idea that grows more plausible as the strangeness of her existence sinks in. It’s difficult to walk the line between fantasy and the real world without straying too far to one side (or simply cheating), but Jordan masterfully modulates the movie’s tone. Even as Syracuse contemplates the impossibility, the mossy textures of Christopher Doyle’s camera work provide a tactile sense of the world around him. Even better, Jordan manages to resolve the question without making you feel as if you’ve been led by the nose; you could argue that he’s simply exchanged one sort of fairy tale for another. It’s rare these days to find movies that can create a believable world or make sense of our own. Ondine miraculously does both. —Sam Adams

Jordan masterfully modulates the movie’s tone.

THE FISHER KING: Colin Farrell proves he’s more than a tabloid headline in Neil Jordan’s neo-fairy tale.

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Faces painted, keyboards droning, voices echoing and cooing like a poltergeist kindergarten — Pocahaunted is a pretty scary band to behold. But these California girls still conjure up enough hooks and beats and intelligible words (once in a while) to keep you in sight of the terrestrial plane. Pocahaunted will haunt the shit out of Kung Fu Necktie on Tuesday (June 15, kungfunecktie.com).

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the writing on the wall Graffiti pioneer Darryl McCray won’t let himself get forgotten. By Emily Currier

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TAGALONG: Darryl “Cornbread” McCray has left his mark everywhere from everyday brick walls to the Jackson 5’s private jet. neal santos

pulled off such ridiculous tagging feats, Cornbread seemed a natural candidate for the graffiti wall of fame, or at least some recognition. Instead, an article published in ’71 by The New York Times drew the country’s attention to the NYC graffiti scene — and an artist called Taki 183. “I am the graffiti writer,” says Cornbread, explaining the difference between himself and those who’ve garnered more publicity. “The graffiti artist is the one that gets money.

A lot of artists are worth more in death than in life.”

In a medium contested as simple vandalism, only a handful of artists — such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Shepard Fairey — have gained professional credibility making graffiti in the U.S.; Cornbread is not among them. (The 1975 film Cornbread, Earl, and Me isn’t about the artist, nor did the filmmakers ask his permission to use his name.)

In 2007, he was the focus of the feature documentary Cry of the City Part 1: The Legend of Cornbread. “I thought it was important to tell his story because he’s a compelling person,” says director Sean McKnight. “Cornbread’s tale is at the heart of the birth of hip-hop.”

But the genre pioneer won’t stop there: Cornbread dreams of the day when a Hollywood movie with an all-star cast will garner him the recognition he feels he deserves and the attention he has always craved. According to McKnight, that yen for celebrity is well-earned. “What Cornbread did in the ’60s,” he says, “was to bring graffiti into the spotlight so everyone could see it.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

“That was my pass to get around the city without getting beat up.”

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ornbread is a living legend in our midst, and you’ve probably never even heard of him. While a 2007 documentary on the artist calls Cornbread the father of modern graffiti writing, his — and Philadelphia’s — role in the genre’s development is frequently overlooked in the local hip-hop community. “It’s a culture that [Philadelphia] started and walked away from,” Cornbread laments. “When I go to New York, I am well-received, well-received, much loved. I don’t get that here in Philadelphia.”

Visiting Cornbread, born Darryl McCray, requires a trip through the outskirts of North Philadelphia, to a block where crumbling townhouse façades look as if they’ve barely survived a natural disaster. Across from the homes are projects lined in a neat row and splashed garishly with oversize murals. Cornbread proudly proclaims he was born and raised in Brewerytown — though his original tags popped up all over the city. The walls of his modest apartment are lined with framed posters and pictures that celebrate his stature among those in the graffiti know. Wearing a yellow shirt bearing his own moniker, Cornbread amiably invites me to take a seat on his coach and cracks open a fat scrapbook overflowing with newspaper clippings, film offers, photographs and e-mails from art collectors.

Admitting to a past that includes numerous arrests and problems with drugs, Cornbread says he’s come full-circle: He’s now a youth mentor who lectures at local universities like Drexel and Temple. He receives occasional recognition — he’ll be exhibiting at this weekend’s Art + Soul Food festival in Brewerytown, he’s busy organizing the Bomber’s Festival, a neighborhood cleanup and artist festival set for later this summer; and in 2015, he’ll be part of a Smithsonian Institution exhibit on American hip-hop.

Cornbread began graffiti writing before most better-known NYC graffiti artists were even alive, he says. In 1965, Cornbread, then 11 years old, was sent to a reform school where he picked up his alias. (He’d begged the school’s cook to serve cornbread like his grandmother used to make.) During that time, people were understandably wary of graffiti, which was typically used to denote gang territories. Cornbread found a way to circumvent more violent forms of gang initiation: “Gang members used to come to me because I was a poetic writer and I used to write poetic love letters to their girlfriends for them. … And when I got out [of reform school], I made it my business to go visit every gang I was in [juvie] with and drink wine with them. And that was my pass to get around the city without getting beat up.”

With the freedom to move between gang territories, Cornbread left his mark throughout entire neighborhoods. “The more [people] talked about me,” he says, admitting to the siren song of celebrity, “the more I wrote.” Unlike gang members or political activists, Cornbread simply wanted to garner attention with his large, scrawling tags. “It was a phase that I was going through,” he says.

“I eventually would’ve grown out of it until the media announced my death.” He’s referring to a 1971 newspaper article claiming that a boy nicknamed “Corn,” who had been shot dead, was behind the “Cornbread” tags. “That was a prescription for disaster,” says the artist, who remembers feeling even more than ever that he had something to prove. “I knew what I had to do to bring my name back from the dead.”

So Cornbread began coating his name everywhere — all over brick walls, subway cars and police vehicles, on an elephant at the Philadelphia Zoo, even on the Jackson 5’s private jet. Having

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Fri., June 11, 7:30 p.m., $25-$37, with Tom Hamilton, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

➤ blues/rock

: Mount Carmel Weasel Walter’s hyperaggressive jazz-noise-metal drumming has lain waste to several metropolises over the past 20 years — Chicago throughout the ’90s and the Bay Area more recently. But in late 2009 he relocated to the biggest adversary of them all, and now treks down to Philly with a pair of fellow New Yorkers. Peter Evans’ (pictured) trumpet blows right through jazz and into a far more abstract realm, while bassist Tom Blancarte seems to employ improvisation when metal just isn’t quite extreme enough. Expect the sort of ruckus that Powel House hasn’t heard since the Revolution.

—Shaun Brady

Mon., June 14, 8 p.m., $5, with Birds of Maya and Willie Lane, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.

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Columbus, Ohio, trio Mount Carmel is a blues rock trio.

Not an ironic blues rock trio; not the blues rock trio side project of some trendy bandleader getting in touch with the ’60s. Mount Carmel sound like fucking Cream.

So much do Kevin Skubak and the brothers Reed (Matthew and Patrick) play like Eric, Jack and Ginger on their new self-titled Siltbreeze debut — that strolling bass, nimble-but-assertive drumming and sick, thick, aching guitar buzz — you can’t help but imagine them awash in a glowing-orange tube-amp halo as they bli­ster through searing 10-minute jams. —Brian Howard

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There’s less rock ’n’ roll than there used to be in new mama Allison Moorer’s world, but she couldn’t shake the blues and soul out of her voice if she tried. Her soft and lovely Crows (Rykodisc) came out in February, two months before baby John Henry Earle, but a pro like Moorer won’t let personal happiness get in the way of a good sad song.

—M.J. Fine

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Wed., June 16, 9 p.m., $12, with April Mae & The June Bugs, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-435-9849, johnnybrendas.com.

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Saxophonist Steve Wilson has graced countless stages and even more record dates; much easier to enumerate would be the marquees and album covers that have borne his name. Since he emerged on the scene in the late ’80s, Wilson has primarily been one of those first-call players whose time is overwhelmed by answering those calls, touring last year alone with Blue Note Records’ 70th anniversary septet and Christian McBride’s Inside Straight. Wilsonian’s Grain seems to be an attempt to remedy this, gathering old friends (pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Bill Stewart), to pore back over his own back catalog for some overlooked gems.

—Shaun Brady

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As if swingin’ British sibling-act Kitty, Daisy & Lew­is weren’t enough, here’s further evidence that non­Americans revel in our no­stalgia with greater vigor than we could probably muster ourselves — at least when it comes to 1950s rockabilly and jump-blues.

Dublin’s Imelda May (who’s wisely stopped performing under her maiden name, Clabby), taps an Irish bodhrán while she sings, which doesn’t entirely scream vintage vixen, but otherwise she’s got the vibe sewn up, from her leopard-print wardrobe and tightly coiffed two-tone curl to a voice equally adept at hollerin’ Wanda Jackson rave-ups and smoldering Jessica Rabbit croons.

—K. Ross Hoffman

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â&#x17E;¤ Caught in a Bard Romance When Pennsylvania Ballet last presented Romeo and Juliet in 2005, the leading roles were performed by Zachary Hench and Julie Diana. During the run, Hench used his curtain call to drop to his knee and place an engagement ring on the finger of a surprised but thrilled Diana. Five years later, the married couple are back in those familiar roles.

Choreographer John Crankoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision of story ballet lets dance truly tell the tale. PABâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opening-night performance of Romeo and Juliet was so vivid, you could practically hear Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words as the performers acted out sword fights, ballroom dancing and marketplace frolics. The great Prokofiev score, with its wailing discordant undercurrent, hints at tragedy even in joyful scenes.

At this point, Hench and Diana own their roles. They bring the full confidence and bliss of their own personal relationship â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not to mention their significant talents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to this tragic love story. Diana became virtually boneless, bending backward in her suitorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s embrace; Hench replied physically with lusty, powerful leaps and turns.

Sergio Torrado was outrageously elegant as Tybalt, in command of the stage whenever he was on it. Jonathan Stiles and AndrĂŠ Vytoptov gloried as Romeoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lighthearted buddies, Mercutio and Benvolio, respectively. Gabriella Yudenich turned her role as Julietâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nurse into a fine example of dance acting, while Amy Aldridge transformed her cameo as Lady Capulet into

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a small piece of stage perfection. Jermel Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unbelievable flexibility suited his jester, while in-house stage manager Tony Costandino once again very nicely portrayed Lord Montague.

This is not some old charmer about swans or dolls that come to life. Once the curtain rises, the storyline unfolds in a clear, easily understood manner. Creating graceful transitions, dancers enter and exit from a simple, stunningly lit set of arches that begin as a marketplace and eventually morph into Juliet and Romeoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final resting place. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful melancholy, just as Shakespeare intended. Through June 12, $24-$129, Academy of Music, 1420 Locust St., 215-893-1999, paballet.org.

The Opera Company of Philadelphia closes its season with a production seemingly designed to smash the notion of opera as a bunch of fat old people standing around singing on a stage so far away that you need binoculars to see them. OCP will stage a new production of Gluckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreamy masterpiece OrphĂŠe et Eurydice in the Kimmelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intimate Perelman Theater. OrphĂŠe is a pants role â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that is, a male character sung by a female singer (in this case, Ruxandra Donose) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and her lover will be sung by soprano Maureen McKay. This fetching pair definitely defies the stereotypical image of opera singers. The production also features a sleek, bold design courtesy Mexican artist Philippe Amand. Never been to an opera before? This would be a good one to try. Oh, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only an hour and a half long. If you like it, try tackling the three-hour-long Verdi that OCP has on tap for the fall. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Peter Burwasser June 17-25, $40-$130, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1018, operaphila.org.

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If you think there are no second acts in American lives, Sunday in the Park with George will change your mind. This 1983 show followed the biggest professional disaster in Stephen Sondheim’s career ­— Merrily We Roll Along, a Broadway fiasco that almost ended his collaboration with director Harold Prince. Merrily might have finished off a lesser artist. For Sondheim, it spawned a new collaboration, and a musical that takes on nothing less than the need to create art — whatever the cost. Sunday is more than a great comeback. It’s one of the wonders of modern theater.

In Act 1, the famous pointillist painter Georges Seurat finishes his masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, as his life crumbles. Ill health, the end of a love affair with his mistress, Dot, the jeering reception of his colleagues and the critical establishment — none of it will stand in his way. Act 2 brings us to a contemporary museum and a new artist named George (this one is fictional), who cannily achieves what Seurat couldn’t — commercial success — but as with his namesake, happiness seems out of reach.

Sunday is a dazzling piece of work that’s intellectually rigorous, deeply touching and full of glorious melody. Especially delightful is the clever interweaving of the two stories (where the same actors take on multiple roles), as well as the opportunity to see the artworks come to life.

There’s a lot to admire in the Arden Theatre Co.’s visually elegant production, which uses video to revitalize the art. Jeff Coon (the Georges), always an appealing performer, is at his considerable

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best dramatically and vocally in the show’s cathartic final moments.

Elsewhere, the passion and dark introspection of Seurat’s character don’t fully register. Kristine Fraelich (Dot/Marie) sings superbly but misses some of the charm. The ensemble performers (especially Maureen Torsney-Weir) are excellent, and director Terry Nolen and musical director Eric Ebbenga are to be praised for re-creating the original orchestrations, and keeping amplification to a minimum.

Most of all, there’s Sunday itself, a show to see and treasure again and again. Design. Composition. Balance. Light. Thank you, Mr. Sondheim. Through July 4, $34-$48, Arden Theatre Co., 40 N. Second St., 215-922-1122, ardentheatre.org.

For its inaugural Contemp­orary Photography Compe­tition, Kensing­ton’s Phila­del­phia Photo Arts Center borrows an album title from Sonic Youth and a mood from the Gerhard Richter painting adorning its cover. Images in “Daydream Nation” skew minimal, mysterious and evocative. Daniel Shea frames the gridlike panes of a large studio window, the twin smokestacks of some anonymous factory towering over a harbor just beyond the frosted glass. We see a black-clad pair of women amid autumn leaves in a piece by Samantha Contis, but it’s not clear whether they’re lying in idyll or exhaustion. And George Awde’s singular, nervous portrait of a man exhaling cigarette smoke in front of a Santa Claus decoration is as unsettling now as when it appeared in the 2009 Yale M.F.A. exhibition at Gallery 339.

—John Vettese Opening reception Thu., June 10, 6-9 p.m., free, through Aug. 21, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 1400 N. American St., Suite 103, 215-232-5678, philaphotoarts.org.

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by Kano, Buju Banton and Burial. All of this was happening when I was playing in bands, and when I was teaching a digital recording class at the Honickman Learning Center in North Philly.

After learning how to record on my own, I stopped playing with Hate and War, and lost my job so I had plenty of time to craft music that had been on my mind for some time.

Moore Browne and that all went out the window. I’ve never met more talent-y, driven and blessed musicians. They made me realize I shouldn’t hold back on something I love because it’s branded “being white” by ignorant people. It’s crazy to me how the black community has completely forgotten that rock ’n’ roll was started by black musicians. At times I feel like I’m a soapbox preacher if I mention Bad Brains to my family members. But I love blowing the minds of white people in the music community. A lot of people assume a lot of things about me because I’m black and I have dreads. I try to use it as an opportunity to show people something amazing. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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A haiku: If you can find them, maybe then you can hire these five Nam-scarred psychos. (See Drew Lazor’s review on citypaper.net/movies.) (Rave; UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)

Breathless|A A half-century after its release, Jean-Luc Godard’s opening salvo remains among the most exhilarating of film debuts. His subsequent rejection of narrative, conventional or otherwise, only makes the film’s ability to balance intellectual inquiry and personal charisma more remarkable. With his squashed nose and swollen lips, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s penny-ante hood looks as if he’s gone a few too many rounds in the ring, a battered icon of film noir masculinity, while Jean Seberg’s pixie-cut journalist feels like the harbinger of a new era. In her Herald-Tribune T-shirt, she’s a living newspaper, a blank sheet ready to be rewritten each day. It might have gone unnoticed at the time, but seen in the light of Godard’s later fascination with the interplay between word and image, Breathless is chockablock with textual gags, like the empty packs of Lucky Strikes that spell out “Pourquoi” on a bedroom wall, or the moment when Belmondo skips out on the check by popping out for a newspaper, which he then uses to shine his shoes. Infused with the boundless energy of the B-movie studios to which he dedicated the film, Godard packs it to the rafters with in-jokes and observations, yet still finds time for a lengthy bedroom interlude between his two stars. Rialto’s restored print is nothing short of a revelation, its luminescent black and white glowing from

every frame. —Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)

The Karate Kid|BWhether he’s played by a grinning Italian kid from Long Island or the precocious corn-rowed spawn of Hollywood royalty, the Karate Kid is the hardest person to root against in cinematic history. That’s why it doesn’t really matter that Harald Zwart’s reboot of the 26-year-old classic is far too long (140 minutes), far too melodramatic and far too reliant on fortune-cookie-caliber Eastern philosophical tenets (so many yin yangs) — the faces, backdrops and machinations may be different, but the purest underdog tale of them all remains the same. Dre Parker (Jaden Smith), who tosses around enough tween sass for both him and Ralph Macchio’s aw-shucks O.G. Daniel LaRusso, relocates with his mom (Taraji P. Henson) from Detroit to Beijing. He’s promptly taken to the cleaners by bully Cheng (Zhenwei Wang), the pupil of a ruthless martial-arts instructor (Rongguang Yu) who prioritizes victory over honor. Jackie Chan, in the Pat Morita/Miyagi role as the handyman of Dre’s apartment building, takes the picked-on youth under his Mao-suited wing, using unorthodox techniques to teach his student “real kung fu” — skills he’ll need to slice through open tournament combat against Cheng and his scowling, overgrown buddies.

Much of the movie is so schmaltz-smeared that it could be subtitled The Pursuit of Crappyness, but it’s difficult not to at least half-root for Dre, especially since Zwart takes every opportunity to remind us he’s a stranger in a strange land (dude, using chopsticks is hard!). Smith’s genetic charisma and Chan’s fun-for-all-ages charm should get most audiences hooting and hollering, regardless of how derivative the stars’ kinship may be. —Drew Lazor (Rave; UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)

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The title “A Film By Banksy” would be tip-off enough that the veracity of all that follows it is suspect at the very least, but the provenance and reliability of Exit Through the Gift Shop grows increasingly complicated and ever more questionable as its story unfolds.

Banksy, the anonymous, subversive U.K. graffiti trickster, appears on camera at the outset, his face shrouded in darkness and voice altered, to explain how he’d turned from subject to filmmaker when he discovered that the film’s original director was a far more fascinating character. It’s unclear, however, whether Thierry Guetta — the eccentric French-born video enthusiast whose footage provides an invaluable document of street artists at work — is the bordering-on-insane clown presented in the film, a willing accomplice, a patsy manipulated by Banksy’s puppetry or even the elusive artist himself. Regardless of how much of the backstory can be believed, the result is an authentic assault on the art market, which gleefully hangs itself with Banksy's acidly-offered rope.

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Girl with the Dragon tattoo|B Based on the first book of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, Niels Arden Oplev’s movie delivers a story full of intrigue and ugliness, in a manner that might best be called elegant.

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As Raymond De Felitta's camera wanders up to each member of the Rizzo clan, each surreptitiously enjoying a cigarette out of each others' sight, we're reminded: Everyone in this family has a secret. This is isn't the first time De Felitta has told us this - the film opens, in fact, with Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) promising to reveal his

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If there’s a principle behind Thomas Balmès’ casually arranged excerpts from the first year of four infants’ lives, it’s that, no matter what and no matter where, babies are easy on the eyes. But “aw shucks” isn’t enough of a thesis to hang even a 79-minute movie on, and precious little else emerges from the film’s weak juxtapositions. Flitting from San Francisco and Tokyo to Mongolia and Namibia, Babies takes in both ends of the childraising spectrum. For all the care put into its images, Babies is startling unreflective, a series of elegantly shot drive-bys devoid of insight or empty.

The movie’s flaccid spine isn’t nearly enough to support the heaps of jelly piled around it. —S.A. (Ritz Five)

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“secret of secrets” — and it won'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. Vince, a prison guard, has always wanted to be Marlon Brando, but is too embarrassed by the desire to tell his wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies); he also, it turns out, has a son he abandoned as a baby. They're reunited when the now-24-year-old Tony (Steven Strait) gets locked up in Vince’s jail. Without explaining why, father arranges to bring son home to spend a bit of parole time with the family. Joyce, meanwhile, misinterprets Vince’s sneaking off to acting class as evidence of an affair, and determines to avenge the betrayal by seducing Tony. Their kids, with whom they communicate via exasperating shouting matches around the dinner table, are a college student-turned-stripper and a son with a kink for overweight women. It is, in other words, an Oedipal comedy of errors predicated on a family’s lack of communication, a level of misunderstanding unrealistic outside of the most contrived sitcom situations.

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Michael Douglas’ CV has been short on pricks of late, but he makes up for it in spades with the role of Ben Kalmen, a cocksure car salesman whose luck has finally run out. Written by Brian Koppelman (Rounders, Ocean’s Thirteen), who co-directed with David Levien, the movie opens with a brief prologue in which Ben is notified of an irregularity in his EKG. Cut to six years later, when he’s trashed his car business, ruined his marriage and narrowly avoided jail, all in the name of satisfying momentary pleasures and burning bridges while he still can. In a way, it’s an ur-performance, the culmination of decades’ worth of self-centered jerks, but Douglas isn’t coasting so much as collating, taking everything he’s learned and applying it to a man who resists learning from his mistakes at all costs. If nothing else, he has a flair for self-destruction, bedding a woman (Mary-Louise Parker) with the power to get him back to work, then sleeping with her teenage daughter (Imogen Poots) on a college visit, or buffing up his relationship with his daughter (Jenna Fischer) only to grind it into the dirt. Koppelman doesn’t quite have the heart to take him all the way down, but you get the sense he’d have no trouble getting there in a hurry. —S.A. (Ritz East)

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Financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) is in need of a job and some measure of redemption after he’s convicted of libel. And so he agrees to investigate the 40-year-old murder of one Harriet Vanger, wealthy, blond and apparently visibly frightened in the photos he digs up. Mikael is aided by bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace), at once vulnerable and kick-ass. It helps the investigation that she has a photographic memory as well as an intuitive sense of who’s guilty. As Mikael pursues answers and Lisbeth, she remains resolutely stylized and rather typically elusive.

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Iron Man 2|B Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) resisting pressure to surrender his suit to the military, ensures the government that America’s enemies are lagging behind technologically. He’s wrong — the vengeful Russian Ivan Vanko (Rourke), hellbent on righting past wrongs, builds some toys of his own, nearly besting Iron Man with a pair of high-voltage double-dutch ropes. Jon Favreau’s put together an unchallenging, easy-to-watch two hours that’ll appeal to anyone who got lost in the 2008 original. —D.L. (UA Riverview)

Get Him to the Greek |BIn Forgetting Sarah Marshall, rookie director Nicholas Stoller (with writer and star Jason Segel) did the Apatow brand justice by marrying dick jokes and gross-outs with real human

emotion. For his second at-bat, Stoller revives Marshall’s decadent rock star, Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), and its hearts-and-farts formula — but this time goes down swinging. Joining Brand is fellow Marshall alum Jonah Hill, who does not reprise his role as the fanboy hotel employee, but instead takes on Aaron Green, a junior music exec who comes up with the idea for Aldous to reclaim his former glory by re-creating a legendary concert at the titular Greek Theater. But the once-sober Aldous is in dire straights: His main squeeze — Jackie Q (Rose Byrne), who sings thinly veiled songs about the pleasure of her asshole — left him; his last album, African Child, was called the worst thing to happen to the continent right behind war and famine; and he’s fallen hard off the wagon. It’s Aaron’s duty to ferry the reeling Aldous from London to L.A. for the big show. Former addict Brand is particularly effective when Aldous is at his lowest, explaining drug dependency in graphic terms. But Greek falls apart when it should be at its emotional height, especially without a likable center like Segel to keep things grounded. That Stoller tried to

turn a stupid-but-fun road movie into something more is valiant, but Greek hits its mark when it keeps ambitions low, including a parade of cameos (Paul Krugman!). While the film allows Brand to show that he’s more than the guy who kisses The Girl Who Kissed A Girl, and Hill to take off his cynical bastard cap, the real breakout star is Diddy. As Aaron’s music mogul boss, Diddy goes off the rails. Unlike Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder, Diddy’s an integral part of Greek, letting go of all inhibitions and saying things like “You’ve got to mind-fuck them ... I’m mind-fucking you right now. Do you feel my dick going into your mind?” all without cracking a smile. —Molly Eichel (Rave; UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)

Ghost Writer |BClouded by, but completed before, Roman Polanski's recent arrest, the transposition of Robert Harris' novel is less intriguing for its protagonist, a jobbing journalist gamely played by Ewan McGregor, than for its central character, a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) whose imminent memoirs may contain

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Even before he had reason to look over his shoulder, Polanski’s work has been riddled with paranoia, although it’s less intriguing when it turns out to be justified. As McGregor digs deeper into his subject’s past, trying to rework the dull draft left by his mysteriously deceased predecessor, he finds about what you’d expect: strange cars shadowing him, data that don’t add up, hints at subterranean alliances and backroom dealings. The metaphysical creepiness that underlies Polanski's best films (and even the not-so-good The Ninth Gate) is nowhere to be found. There are a few nifty twists on genre mechanics (especially a novel use for a dashboard GPS), but considering that it's been more than a decade since The Ninth Gate, you'd think Polanski would have had more in store. —S.A. (Ritz Five)

Living in Emergency |A “It was a pretty major shock when I got here,” says Dr. Tom Krueger. “You can't describe the smells, the heat on your body, the sweat down your back, the smell of the pus that hits your nose … the smell of your own panic. You’re not sure what to do. You can't share that stuff.” And yet, Mark Hopkins’ documentary does exactly that: It shares the horrific and impossible experiences of those who sign up for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders), who travel from crisis to crisis in order to provide temporary aid, to save some lives and leave. In vivid glimpses of diagnoses and surgeries, the film illustrates the “tough choices” facing doctors in dire conditions. In shot after shot, roads are muddy, rooms are small and faces are strained. Observing that doctors who volunteer for any number of reasons — some noble and some less so — Australian anesthetist Chris Brasher says, “I think some people do it to run away from where they’re from.” He smiles, sort of, when he adds, “As far as I was looking to make myself homeless, I think I've succeeded.” The film doesn’t smooth over what goes wrong and leaves unresolved the stories of its four primary subjects. Such messy narrative structure is to the point, exemplifying the disorder and difficulty of each day, briefly and brilliantly. —C. F. (Ritz at the Bourse)

The misfortunates |B At 13 years old, Gunther (Kenneth Vanbaeden) is already too aware of how badly things can go wrong. Abandoned by his mother, living with his father, Marcel (Koen De Graeve), and three uncles, he watches them drink

Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature opens with a pointed salvo aimed at 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.

As the title character, Russell Crowe’s 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. Ridley 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. 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. —S.B. (UA Riverview)

The Secret in their Eyes|C+ When not making films in his native Argentina, Juan José Campanella maintains a busy sideline helming TV. He combines those two worlds in The Secret in Their Eyes, which often feels like an overwrought Law & Order episode inflated to feature length with melodramatic flourishes and political pretensions. Sprawling over 25 years, the story centers on a 1974 rape and murder that has weighed on the mind of criminal court investigator Ricardo Darín (Benjamín Esposito) ever since. He reconnects with an ex-boss and almost-lover

Shrek Forever After|C+ After three happy endings, it’s no surprise that Shrek is undergoing a bit of a midlife crisis — as is his creative team, which has fallen back on the tried-and-true It’s a Wonderful Life formula for the series’ fourth and purportedly (hopefully) final outing.

When the domestic routine begins to grate on the big green ogre’s nerves, he inks a contract with the conniving Rumpelstiltskin (voiced by head of story Walt Dohrn) that returns him to his fearsome roots for a day. An improvement over its dreary predecessor but not enough advantage is taken of the alternate reality to freshen up the over-familiar cast.

—S. B. (Pearl; Rave; UA Main St.; UA Riverview)

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

Dren (“nerd” backward) looks purely freakish at first, with her bird-like legs and enormous eyes. But as Dren rapidly matures, she starts taking on human characteristics at an accelerated rate, a phenomenon her surrogate mother embraces a little too readily. While it’s basically a cautionary tale, Splice is itself a hybrid, mixing genres unpredictably enough that you never know quite where it’s going to go next. Natali has an exceptionally sure hand and manages the transitions fluidly, and Brody and Polley infuse their characters with a rare depth of understanding; they’re two of the most (even only) credible scientists the movies have created.

The movie works a little too hard to manufacture an action-packed climax, but it’s still one of the most thoughtful films of its type to come down the pike in years. —S.A. (UA Grant; UA Riverview; UA 69th St.)

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Rodrigo Garcia’s newest exploration of women’s experiences takes on a perpetually knotty subject: adoption.

Each of the three protagonists is affected by the arduous process and predictable questions: Adoptee Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) still feels abandoned by her birth mother and is reluctant to commit. Her birth mother, Karen (Annette Bening), still worries about the decision she made as a teenager.

And Lucy (Kerry Washington), making her way through the adoption process, feels beleaguered for not “providing” her husband (David Ramsey) with his own child. The rather-too-neat convergence of intergenerational stories suggests changes in the U.S. adoption system, as well as unchanging regrets and joys. —C.F. (Ritz Five)

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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. —S.A. (Ritz East)

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and laugh and collapse more often than not. Looking back as an adult (played by Valentijn Dhaenens), Gunther imagines himself an “author,” though he confesses he’s received only a stack of rejection letters thus far. Felix Van Groeningen’s film cuts back and forth between Gunther’s experiences then and now. If he barely survives his chaotic childhood (“This whole family is scum!” he yells during one meltdown), he also admires his uncles’ odd decency, usually emerging after bouts of lunacy and aggression.

Rendered in hectic, close shots, such moments feel hard to endure, even when they, sometimes, tip toward funny. When Gunther’s own current, nameless girlfriend (Sofie Palmers) reveals she’s pregnant, he resents her as he always has his mother (“There are two people I hate, two women, one gave birth to me, the other was carrying my offspring”). If his ugliness seems a product of his history, he is able at last to feel responsible rather than only traumatized, and even generous — when it’s too late — to his beleaguered grandmother (Gilda De Bal). —C.F. (Ritz at the Bourse)

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cheesecake to a ?uestlove visitation at the Wach on game day, I’ve seen and seen Tweeted some weird stuff when it comes to good-luck totems for Flyers fans. Ridiculous. It’s my new sideburns that tricked out the pucksters’ unlikely run. But I dig that you’re spooked. I like a good superstition — it humbles even the smartest and most accomplished among us, and proves that the talisman didn’t go the way of rotary phones and MySpace. ➤ After making John Legend look good and Wu Tang sound vital at last weekend’s Picnic, expect The Roots to get over and open July 4’s Goo Goo Dolls Parkway proceedings. Opening? Stupid Wawa. ➤ Anthony Giordano took over management of the Liberties U.S. Hotel Bar & Grill — ye old Mayor Green manor to you Manyunkians — in time for the big bike race. Sweet. Will he keep the name? Stay tuned. ➤ The Contortions got nothing on saxax-man David Fishkin’s skronking new Above Average Band. They’ll debut as the opener for Les Claypool’s newest signees, the heavy-water wonky Hot Head Show at the Balcony June 16. ➤ Good news coming from the Italian Market says the long-shuttered Spice Corner — rumored to be caught up in a legal snafu of L&I red tape, old licenses and new inspectors — should be opening real soon. Cayenne’s on me. ➤ The last time I saw Adam West he was wearing a sling, worse for the wine and answering ketchup bottles like Batphones at Pagano’s. It’s a different day and West, Patrick Stewart and Bruce Campbell will appear June 11-13 at Wizard World Comic Con at PA Convention Center (wizardworld.com, see pick on p. 41). ➤ L. DeVaughn Nelson has been a playwright, fashion designer and choreographer who won a CP Choice nod for his stuff with Peeka-Boo Revue in ’07. Then he left the Peek and went into hiding. Now DeVo’s back with Hokum Arts (hokumarts.org) and Thu., June 10, will be his first new show in ages, Viva Burlesque!, at this week’s GLBT Arts Fest at the Arts Bank.“I’m doing a historical ballet around Lili St. Cyr, the famous burlesque dancer, and her alleged homosexual tendencies with Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe,” says DeVo, who’ll feature dancers from Peek-a-Boo, Bravissimo, Sister’s Sirens and Cabaret Red Light. “Then it’s on to the Fringe.” Soon we’ll sing “Are We Not Men, We are DeVo” and it’ll be for Mr. Nelson. ➤ Stephen Starr might’ve started his restaurant empire with The Continental in ’95 (though I dare say Starz served a mean steak), but it wasn’t until 1998, Buddakan and Scott Swiderski that Starr Dining became fine. Now Swiderski is out from under the shadow of the Budda (his call) as of June 12. His dry aged beef will be missed. By me. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net) 22

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hether you identify as L, G, B, T or just plain ol’ Q, we’re all members of the same family. It’s a chance for the entire community to congregate in celebration of the trait that binds us — magnificent gayness. We want you to get the most out of this time of togetherness, so we’ve put together the ultimate Pride itinerary. All we ask is that you wave your proudest rainbow flag and sing to the heavens, “We are fam-i-ly.” ➤ Mamma Mia Sing-Along

It wasn’t Meryl’s finest moment, but a good gay can’t deny the magic of ABBA. Hosted by Chumley and Carlotta, this viewing/ sing-along not only gives spectators an opportunity to flex their vocal prowess, it’s also a way to escape the heat. Pride organizer Franny Price suggests bringing a water gun to squirt whenever water appears on the screen. This will also come in handy when it’s time to douse that Christina wannabe trying to sing over the rest of the crowd. Sat., June 12, 8 p.m., free, Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing, Front and Chestnut streets, phillypride.org. ➤ Philly Dyke March

The name suggests otherwise, but the ladies of Philly Dyke

March welcome anyone who wants to get fired up. This is a way to draw positive attention to the lesbian community and create a platform for social activism. When the rally dies down, the party will continue at the park; keep your eyes peeled for performances by the Liberty City Kings, LYFE Dance and spoken word divas Pens, Pussies and Politics. Sat., June 12, 3-6:30 p.m., free, Kahn Park, 11th and Pine streets, facebook.com/phillydykemarch. ➤ Philly Pride Parade

Aside from the horde of floats flanked with hunks in colorful speedos, Price says the mile-long route will be littered with entertainment. Slated to perform are the Artemis M.C. color guard, Philadelphia Freedom Band and Cheer New York. Sun., June 13, noon, free, from 13th and Locust streets to Penn’s Landing.

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➤ Philly Pride Festival

The official Pride Fest is the marshmallow on top of the ambrosia salad. Raven from RuPaul’s Drag Race, the Liberty City Drag Queens and Jennifer Coolidge (Legally Blonde) help make up the six hours of entertainment scheduled throughout the day. Price says the celebration will be sectioned off into health and family zones for all your responsible needs and a dance area so you can whip out your baddest pride moves. You better work. Sun., June 13, noon to 6 p.m., $10, Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing. (josh.middleton@citypaper.net)

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n EYEHATEGOD with Brutal Truth, Nachtmystium, Black Anvil & Tombs, 7pm, $20, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 215563-3980.

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n GORAPHOBIA with Anvil Bitch,

Obliteration & Nekromantheon, 9pm, $10, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577. n SALLY SELTMANN, 7pm, $15-

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Red Robots Kill & Bacio, 9pm, $10, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

Prowler, 9pm, $10, Johnny Brendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-7399684. n SWIFT TECHNIQUE with The Quick and Easy Boys & The Groovement, 9:30pm, $10, Millcreek Tavern, 4200 Chester Ave., 215222-9194. n THIS WILL DESTROY YOU with

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Light Pollution & Slow Six, 7:30pm, $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

SATURDAY 6/12 n DEAD MEADOW with Gondola &

Serpent Throne, 9pm, $12, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577. n DEFIANCE, OHIO with Mischief

Brew & Mirrors and Wires, 3pm, $10, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 215-563-3980. n FRIENDO with Yourself and The

Air, 7:30pm, $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

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n JOE FIRSTMAN with Josh Hoge, Jeff Martinez, Bruce and Gabe of Red Letter Life & Marianne Keith, 9pm, $10, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808. n LAURA SHAY, 7pm, $10, Tin

Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215-928-0770. n SUTTERCANE with Lead Farmer,

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n THE RODDIES with Brett Kull,

Kate Flannery has a love/hate relationship with lounge singers. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sad.

Into themselves. Annoyingly energetic. Still, she finds delight in examining their process. Fortunately, the Philly-born actress explores their world often â&#x20AC;&#x201D; usually in a red jumpsuit. When Flannery isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t playing the alcoholic sexpot Meredith on NBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Office, she is Kassie Chew, one-half of The Lampshades, a faux lounge act she created with Scot Robinson in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s. Flannery describes Chew as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;nauseam of energy,â&#x20AC;? completely invested in what the audience thinks of her. Robinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hori Pismo is her â&#x20AC;&#x153;laissez-faireâ&#x20AC;? co-singer; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the detached, apathetic one with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of Scotch in the other. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like bad lounge you can only bear for about 30 seconds and after that, the joke is done,â&#x20AC;? Flannery says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We sort of weave weird songs together.â&#x20AC;? (Picture Robinson reading a dead celebrity list as Flannery sings Donna Summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last Dance.â&#x20AC;?) Part of the fun is figuring out the relationship between the two contrasting, comedic characters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still not a couple!â&#x20AC;? Chew blurts out between sets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think anyone that knows lounge singers will be pleased with what we do with the genre,â&#x20AC;? Flannery says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and anybody who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about lounge singers will be introduced to this crazy, narcissistic kind of sad world.â&#x20AC;? And, for anyone keeping score, The Lamshades are still not a couple. Wed., June 16, 7 p.m., $20-$25, Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St., 215-496-9001, heliumcomedy.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Katy Bergen

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Fishtown welcomes a new addition to its artistic community, but this ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t your mamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gallery space. Art Machine Productions is a unique workshop that combines art and tattooing, headed by Tim and Suzi Pangburn. The former tattooed for nine years and dreamed of a place where he could provide his customers with a prime tattoo experience away from the stresses of the parlor. But obtaining proper zoning proved difficult, which led to the change in vision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted a space that could be not a shop, not a studio, not a gallery â&#x20AC;Ś but a place for artistic growth and experimentation regardless of the medium,â&#x20AC;? says Tim. The bilevel space features Timâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s private tattoo studio on the second level, with a large workspace for local artists below. The opening reception includes a group show featuring more than 50 mixed-media pieces (including a yeti head!) from about 20 local artists; entertainment by local sword-swallower Lenore Lovelace; plus snacks and music. Opening reception, Sat., June 12, 7-10 p.m., free; group show through July 10, 2424 Studios, 2424 E. York St., 215-925-7676, 2424studios.com. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mandy Bee

March to Victory, Blood of Isis & Lethean, 9pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

8pm, $18, World CafĂŠ Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

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$85.25, PNC Bank Center, 1600 Market St. n MILLIONS with Fight Amp &

Ladder Devils, 8pm, $8, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-2914919. n SCHOOL OF ROCK: BEST OF SEASON SHOWCASE, 11:30am,

$12, World CafĂŠ Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400. n SUPER JAM, 5pm, $35-$75, Lia-

couras Center, Temple University, 1776 N. Broad St., 800-298-4200. n THE B FOUNDATION with

Tsunami Rising & Echo Movement, 7pm, $10-$12, The Balcony (above Trocadero), 1003 Arch St.

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n THE SOBRIQUIETS with Darren

and The Stories, 8pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888.

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Roommates Louis Mansfield and Steve Saturn wanted to make a movie. They didn’t have access to untold millions nor the blessing of free time. But that didn’t stop them from producing the Philly-made thriller Birth of Separation from Mansfield’s script, shooting on a budget that wouldn’t cover a Hollywood set’s craft services table. With Mansfield taking the directorial reins and Saturn starring and executive producing, Birth follows pregnant housewife Elizabeth (Ashley-Rebekah Faulkner) as she is visited by the mysterious Jerome (Saturn), who claims to be searching for a missing person. As the film continues, violence escalates; it turns out Jerome knows Elizabeth more than she realized. “[Jerome] is someone looking to put some meaning to his life,” says Saturn, “and he feels that this woman is the way to do that.” Birth was shot in five days in a South Philly townhouse. Saturn says the long filming days reflect the grueling subject matter of the piece. “The original concept of the film is the idea of being trapped in the moment,” Saturn says. “There’s a lot of scenes where you get this tense feeling that you want to stop seeing these horrible images, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” Fundraising party Wed., June 16, 8-11 p.m., $10 suggested donation, 2424 Studios, 2424 East York St., 215-925-7676, 2424studios.com; screening Thu., June 17, 7:30 p.m., $10, Ritz at the Bourse, 400 Ranstead St., 215-925-7900, landmarktheatres.com.

—Marielle Mondon

n WORLD BURNS TO DEATH with

Blacklisted, Slang, Blood Bomber & Cobra Lung, 6pm, $10, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 215-563-3980.

Orbit to Leslie, Secret Colours & We Used To Be Family, 8pm, $8, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808.

MONDAY 6/14

n D.O.A. with F.O.D., Women & The

n BIRDS OF MAYA with Willie

Lane & Mount Carmel, 8pm, $5, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919. n MAX WEINBERG BIG BAND,

8pm, $35-$50, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400. n MINI MANSIONS, 8pm, $10,

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

TUESDAY 6/15 n AGOUDO with Holy Wind..Elec-

tric Samacha & Yiddish Princess, 8pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888. n BENJY DAVIS PROJECT with

Undersea Poem, 8pm, $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215-928-0770. n BLITZEN TRAPPER with The

Moondoggies, 8pm, $15, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-5483. n HACIENDA, 8pm, $8, M Room, 15

W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577. n NEAR with The Ne’Er Do Well &

Drake City, 8pm, $7, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808. n POCAHAUNTED with Dark Circles, US Girls & Ether Island, 8pm, $8, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919. n TIFT MERRITT with Jason Collett,

7:30pm, $19-$26, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400.

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n ANNUALS with The Most Serene

➤ Wizard world Comic con

Republic & What Laura Says, 8pm, $12, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-684-0808.

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➤ Todd Barry

er, 8pm, $19-$29, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400. n DRAKE with Francis and the

Lights, 8pm, $45, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011. n HOT HEAD SHOW with The Midnight Sounds, Janet Bressler’s Platypus, Something Like A Monument & David Fishkin’s Above Average Band, 8:30pm, $10, The Balcony (above Trocadero), 1003 Arch St. n IMELDA MAY with April Mae and

The June Bugs, 8pm, $12, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684. n JUCIFER with Gloominous

Doom & Grass, 8pm, $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215291-4919. n KINA GRANNIS with Viv Peyrat,

8:30pm, $12, Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215-928-0770. n PAPER THIN ALIBI with

Rushmore & Madam Ink, 8pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888. n THE STAND-INS with Monday

Appreciation Society, Broad Street Blues & Theopolis James, 8pm, $8, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215739-5577.

THURSDAY 6/17 n AN AMERICAN CHINESE with

n DIRTY FILTHY MUGS with

McRad & Gentlemen Prefer Blood, 8:30pm, $10-$12, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-5483. n DISAPPEARS with Woven Bones

& Far-Out Fangtooth, 7:30pm, $8, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919. n JOHN BUTLER TRIO with State

Radio & Angus and Julia Stone, 7pm, $29.50, Penn’s Landing Festival Pier, Columbus Blvd. & Spring Garden St., 215-629-3200. n MATES OF STATE with Todd Bar-

ry & Suckers, 8pm, $14-$16, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 215-563-3980. n MELVINS with Isis, 8pm, $20,

TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011. n PISSED JEANS with Eddy Cur-

rent Suppression Ring, Pop. 1280, 9pm, $10, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684. n THE DUBUTANTE HOUR with

Danydany & Sweetie, 9pm, $8, Khyber, 56 S. 2nd St., 215-238-5888. n THE GUGGENHEIM GROTTO

with Alfonso Velez, 8:30pm, $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 215-928-0770.

✚ Readings/Book Signings n ALEX MCCORD AND SIMON VAN KEMPEN With their parenting

reputation secured in the Bravo series, “The Real Housewives of New York City,” married couple and coauthors McCord and van Kempen will hold a signing for their new book, “Little Kids, Big City,” which gives a run down on the challenges of child rearing in the Big Apple. Fri, June 11, 12:30pm, FREE, Borders, 1 S. Broad St., 215-568-7400. n BUCKS COUNTRY POETRY SERIES: TERRY CULLETON For-

mer Bucks Country Poet Laureate Terry Culleton will share her poetry as part of the three-day literary extravaganza at the Doylestown Bookshop. It’s the independent, local bookseller’s 12th anniversary. Fri, June 11, 8-10pm, FREE, Doylestown Bookshop, 16 S. Main St., Doylestown, 215-230-7610. n CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Best-selling author and self-styled “radicalist” Christopher Hitchens will be interviewed about his recently published memoir, “Hitch-22,” which traces Hitchens’ growth into a hard-hitting intellectual and wry humorist who has taken on Mother Teresa and President Bill Clinton alike. Interviewed by WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane. Tue, June 15, 7:30pm, $7-$14, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-686-5322. n DEBORAH FRIES & ERNEST HILBERT Local poets Hilbert and

Fries will speak and share their poetry. An antiquarian book dealer and editor of the “Contemporary Poetry Review,” Hilbert’s debut collection

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For a sedate, almost soothing comedian, Todd Barry plays a lot of rock shows. It’s a brilliant bit of booking, letting him warm up the crowd with his gentle, logical deadpan — then knocking everybody over with some comparatively chaotic indie-pop.This time, Barry opens for married duo Mates of State, whose new album, Crushes, has them reworking Death Cab, Daniel Johnston and more to fit their high-energy, synth-driven pop style. By the time Barry’s done, the Mates’ Belle & Sebastian cover should hit you like a jolt of caffeine. Thu., June 17, 8 p.m., $14-$16, with Mates of State and Suckers, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.

—Patrick Rapa

n COREY SMITH with Gareth Ash-

Prisoners, 9pm, $12, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577.

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Watch out for the Trekkies, Jedis, vampire slayers and zombies that descending on Philly this weekend. Celebs will sign autographs and participate in panels while vendors present their wares and participants line up for the costume contest. Expect special screenings, a silent auction and trading card tournaments such as Dungeons & Dragons and YuGiOh. Not completely sold? Star Trek’s Capt. Jean-Luc Picard will be in attendance, though he might go by his day name, Patrick Stewart (congratulate him on his recent knighthood).

So will that girl from The Exorcist — you know, the one who threw up pea soup. Count us in. Fri.-Sun., June 11-13, $25-$50, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St., wizardworld.com.

—Katy Bergen

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for our eccentric souls, and preserving our hard-earned cash for PECO. Cash Poor creates an open forum for featured artists, while giving art lovers the chance to expand or begin a collection for relatively dirt-cheap — nothing costs more than $199. This year’s 120 available vending spaces filled up quickly, boasting work like credit card mosaics and reverse glass pornaments. Sat.-Sun., June 12-13, 1-6 p.m., free, Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St., inliquid.com.

—Nyidera Edwards

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and DJ Phsh. The party name is cool, the flier is cool and you know the music will be cool. So don’t contemplate it, just get your ass to the spot and commence with the partyin’ and bullshittin’. gL Productions will bestow this event upon West Philly every other Thursday starting this week. There’ll be drink specials to loosen ya up and always-dope beats to help you get your weekend started early.

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Arts Garage

The Khyber (upstairs)

1533 Ridge Ave., 215-765-2702

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

Barbary

The Raven Lounge

951 Frankford Ave., 215-423-8342

1718 Sansom St., 215-840-3577

Elena’s Soul

Time Lounge

4812 Baltimore Ave.

1315 Sansom St.

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Voyeur Club

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Trace, Shimon, Destin, Synikal, Bishop K, Sharpness. U.K. double header as boys from Ram Records and DSC14 bang your head, $10. n LAZER TAG ADVENTURE M O G t b @ Medusa Lounge w/Dash

613 S. Fourth St., 215-629-0565

1221 St. James St., 215-735-5772

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Thu., June 10

EXP, Teamwerk DJs, Fazer, Pablo Grande. Pawn Lasers settin’ off the rave vibe and free laser pointers for the first 50 in the door, call for price.

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1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919 LAVA Space

4134 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-6155 Medusa Lounge

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

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pril in Paris has nothing on May in Queen Village. Argue if you feel like it, but that will only mark your misfortune of having missed out on Hoof + Fin’s patio in late spring. Was there a More on: better table in town than one beneath the lowwattage light bulbs strung up behind this unassuming Argentinean BYO, where the boughs of a Japanese maple soften the whir of an old air conditioner that sounds like field crickets in courting season?

With weather that rewarded short sleeves but didn’t penalize long ones, the crowd was as pleasantly mismatched as the table linens. A white-haired foursome in clothes fit for the opera paid at quarter till 8, ambled past an indoor eight-top where three children wriggled on their knees and in high chairs, then crossed paths at the door with a hip twentysomething whose dress fell over tights that could have been mistaken for a tattoo artist run

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riot from ankle to knee. The former Gayle space has been recycled into a spot that welcomes all comers.

Hoof + Fin’s tile-floor interior is as loud as a boom box in a storage closet, with or without kids in the mix. Yet anyone who snagged a table outside could hardly complain — even about a pace of service that pushed dinner into a third hour before dessert. In its humble, unadorned way, it was the perfect setting at the perfect time.

But if you missed the moment, not all is lost, because summer figures to flatter Lucas Manteca’s concept more thoroughly than spring. The Argentinean restaurateur has ventured into Philadelphia from his home base down the shore — he owns Quahog’s and is former owner of Sea Salt, both in Stone Harbor, N.J., and heads the kitchen operation at Cape Resorts Group.

Those spots are no doubt eager for high more food and season to hit, and Hoof + Fin was champdrink coverage ing at the same bit in May. The grill is at c i t y p a p e r . n e t / its center of gravity, there’s a raw bar to m e a lt i c k e t. go along with it, and chef Carlos Barroz couldn’t wait to round out entrées with sliced tomatoes and corn on the cob — so he didn’t, even though those pleasures have a while yet to ripen.

He hadn’t skipped over spring entirely. There was a lovely and light risotto studded with fava beans and asparagus, with shaved grana padano to lend a savory edge. Asparagus was even better off the grill, slicked with a silky bacon vinaigrette and scattered with more favas. (Whether a dozen spears under a poached egg rated $12 is another question.) >>> continued on page 48

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that one place: It’s so close to your house you could peg the front door with a pebble, but you rarely ever visit. It might be due to a bad experience.

Or loyalty to a competitor. It could be something as mundane as hours of operation. Many times, there’s just no responsible explanation — you just don’t go.

For me, a resident of Graduate Hospital, that place has been La Va. I can count my past visits on one hand. The La Colombe’s great, the staff is friendly, the couches are cushy and the tall windows make for primo people-watching — and yet I’ve never made a habit out of stopping in.

After eating through a hunk of co-owner Victor Agiv’s menu, that’s going to change. The Israeli’s wife, Liron, deals with the coffee, but the eats are his. And what eats they are; I’m not sure I’ve had more flavorful Israeli food, priced in this manner (everything’s under $10), in Philly.

Start with the shakshuka, the bright, filling tomato stew whose sneaky heat is cut by runny eggs, their yolks gradually hardening into diaphanous hunks that resemble amber. Burekas, from afar, could be mistaken for Super Pretzels, but after your first chomp through the glossy crust leaves your chin covered in phyllo shards, it’s clear these mashed potato-stuffed wonders would scream fire if brought within 300 yards of yellow mustard.

The chicken schnitzel platter sees juicy, lightly breaded breast-meat paillards, strong with the nutty crunch of sesame, over rice, with simple sides of cucumber salad and hummus. That latter dip is something else, its creamy, clingy glory the apparent result of a secret process involving a lot of ice and one badass blender.

The most interesting dish on La Va’s menu is available just once a week — jachnoon, a Yemenite Sabbath specialty Liron grew up eating in Israel, involves sweet brown dough and eggs baked slow and low in an airtight metal pot for up to half a day. It comes out roguishly twisted, like a rung-out washcloth, with grated tomato and schug, a sinusclearing Yemenite hot chili paste. Liron says she can’t start her Saturday without it. A couple more visits to my new neighborhood haunt, and I may start feeling the same way. (drew.lazor@citypaper.net)

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[ i love you, i hate you ] A DESPERATE STUDENT

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Okay so all I’m going to say is: You’re my teacher and I am in love with you. Everytime our eyes met, it feels as though you love me too. I know it wouldn’t be right to say something so I’m putting my feelings aside for now. I know you wouldn’t risk it but I still feel as though there is a chance. Just to let you know, after I graduate, I AM NO LONGER YOUR STUDENT. Knowing that, we should go out sometime after and talk about art. And don’t worry, your age does not exceed my limit.

To the smooth dude in shades drivin past rittenhouse square. I heard johnnie taylor when i got off the bus next to you at the light and had to superfast whip out my copy of Eargasm. at first i thought it was an auditory mirage. you saw me and laughed and we dug it. i just got the disc in the mail THAT DAY! i will never forget that moment, ever.

BANK ON THAT

DO YOU Do you compulsively “feel” in the moment? Do you

say it so cute, with so much love. I, of course, loved it, but sometimes wondered if you were looking down upon me with a pet name like “Dweebie.”

I need you to know that you were my first great love. For that, you will always be special to me. No matter what.

GO GET OFF It was so strong inside you. I watched it as I gripped, pulled and pushed you to the music we loved. The sounds you made, your head back... The places you put your tongue. It was so long ago, I should have forgotten, but quite contrary, every-

Hey I’d just like someone to tell me who told these dorks that mandals are cool. Hey if you’re not sure put some socks on then wear them, jerkoff. If you show up at the bar with that shit on your feet I’ll go to my truck and grab a hammer and you will crawl home, bank on it.

LOOK You need to stop. We had a chance maybe eight, seven years ago, and we both blew it. Even if we both wanted to get together now, we can’t because of her. She’s my friend again, and I won’t betray her again. She said she would never be with my exes, and I have to grant her the same courtesy.

It’s too bad because I really had it for you. But that’s what happens when you don’t get there first.

That’s just the way this life has turned out. It can’t be.

RESISTANCE I don’t think you counted on my stubborness, lack of cooperation, or anti-socialism. Sorry I won’t be what you want me to be, well, I’m not that sorry. I thought I knew who somebody was, who someone was, but I think I don’t know them at all. So easy to manipulate with words. I won’t meet you. I’d rather be alone.

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I am definitely in love with your dick...I don’t know what to do..I want to suck it fuck it and just adore it..only thing is you have a fat girlfriend..what am I supposed to do now..then you tell me that she doesn’t do any of the things that I do to you and for you...so why be with the bitch then. I am not going to be waiting for you to make up your mind on what you need or want to do..I am going to fuck you for the last time and then leave you the fuck alone...I know in my heart of hearts it is the right thing to do because it will benefit me not to fucking have you in my head anymore...that is some good sex though if I must say that...

So sick and tired of seeing you dumb girls walking around the city with your handmade hula hoops.

I know you think it’ll make you look cool and retro but mostly it’s like carrying a sign around that says “ill do anything for a hipster to fuck me.” Go back to art school and finger yourself.

Hey i got some good news for the hater page. I’m in love! No shit i thought for sure I would never feel this way again. It is wonderful! For anyone who is still looking don’t and then it finds you. Trust me 46 and riding a cloud!

Still heartbroken…. Feeling the exquisite pain from knowing that I had loved but still lost. Days seem like an eternity, but somehow they still fly by…. Knowing that you have already moved on to another has me questioning if you ever really loved me. I think you felt that you did, but maybe you haven’t yet grasped what love really is: being consumed with the absence of oneself; and your selfish immature love is obsessed with the feeling and not the person who is then absently discarded. You are truly fire and I am earth. Without limits and boundaries, without having been cautious myself, the fire burned through the grass quickly leaving the field and effortlessly moving on to the woods. All that is left is smoke and ash.

Despite all this, and although now those blissful weeks seem like ages ago, I felt loved- whether it was real or not. Soon the wind will blow away the ash, new grass will grow, and the smoldering flames will be forgotten.

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CLOSURE

E, as near year number 3, I have recently learned that you and your girlfriend are approaching your 1st anniversary. I hope Nurse Tracie knows of me as I do she. Or does she still trust in your ability to be with a woman exclusively? I made the mistake of falling for you. For the sake of argument, I will say for that, I am to blame. But just as you say to me how much you care, I’m pretty certain the story she hears is about the same?I know, well, that you can’t change someone who doesn’t want to and you clearly are not inclined to do so. I just don’t want another woman to go through what I have gone through (with you). I wouldn’t wish it on my greatest foe.

see other people being happy and celebrating over the fact that they have found their one true love and they don’t know how to act! I am not jealous over the fact that some people have someone that is not the case it is just that when the fuck is it going to be my damn turn. I want to be happy too, just like the next person..if I meet someone else again, and if he is married. I am going to say fuck it and date him anyway.

STOP COMPLAINING

laugh when people talk shit about you? Do you bite back? Do you pass on intellectual snobbery?

Do you like to study ideas? Do you create ideas of your own? Do you sing? Ride a bike? Do you have a creative outlet other than ILYIHY? Do you love because your heart is so big that it feels like it will burst out of your chest if it is not shared? Do you believe in love at first sight? Do you constantly fall for the wrong one? Do you friend your exes? Do you love to pleasure yourself? Do you wear pajamas?

Do you make time to be a kid? Maybe we’re not right for eachother. Maybe we only exist online.

Maybe that’s as close as we’ll ever get.

DWEEBIE Do you remember when you used to call me that?

You’d always get this huge grin on your face and

time I remember how you gripped me, pulsating, I get off.

GOOD TIMES I remember you promising your folks that you’d be home after the movie...15 minutes later your ass was in the air in a back room of a cheap motel. We did everything... I can never forget those images.

So filthy bad. Dirty mirrors.

HERE WE GO AGAIN! Seems like everyone that I love disappoints me in some way or fashion. I don’t know if that is how it goes when it comes to shit happening in your life.

Sometimes I think it is because I put myself out there too much and it is not making me happy to

To practically everyone that posts ads in this column: you offend love by voicing your proprietorial declarations. We humans are poly-amorous and have the right to love freely. Blame women for every stab at so-called ‘love’ that is perpetuated, then causes pain to the fools involved because they just aren’t able (allowed?) to get it. We are all children of God and no one can ever own anyone else.

Nobody’s ‘love’ partner is ideal and your sick vision of ‘love’ is corrupt. If you love the person you were trying to control then you wouldn’t try and control them. I hope your hearts keep getting broken because you obviously haven’t clue to what real love really is. If you did then nobody would ever be lonely, jealous or vindictive. Now go to another country and ‘fall in love’ in some other county..... your just lying to yourself. And, as a footnote, women are pretty much glorified porstitutes, so men don’t expect much (unless your Donald Trump) as you play out your ego game called ‘love’. ✚ To place your FREE ad (100 word limit), go to citypaper.net/ILUIHU and follow the prompts. ADS ALSO APPEAR AT CITYPAPER.NET/lovehate.

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ium in Nob Hill Development with 9’ ceilings and exposed duct work. Parking included and a location right off the famous “Manayunk Wall” that is a quick walk to Main Street’s restaurants and shops. Hardwood floors throughout the living room and kitchen area.

Kitchen has stainless steel appliances and a breakfast bar. Large bedroom closet has been professionally customized. Vertical washer and dryer combo in hall closet. All appliances and window treatments are included. Features: Reserved Parking, Central Air, Hardwood Floors, Stainless Steel Appliances, Gas Cooking, Community Grills in Courtyard. Available August 1st. $1350/mo + Utilities (Water & Condo Fees included) 2 Bdrm Apt - Temple Hosp

AVA I L A B L E N O W F O R SHOWINGS! HUGE 2 bedroom apartment available for rent - beginning July 1st, 2010.

Beautiful apt, takes up entire 2nd floor. Newer renovations to kitchen and bathroom. 2 blocks from Temple Hospital, Broad St, and new Temple School of Medicine. Nurses and Students in building. Rent = $700/month + utilities (electricity & gas). First month’s rent, Last month’s rent, and 1 month security deposit due at lease signing for qualified applicant. Approved Renters for building get discount on electricity through PECO! Available now for showings!

Call Today to schedule an appoitment!! Miguel @ 215518-6906 2 BR Apt. in Center City

A beautiful apartment for rent in the heart of Logan Square in Center City Philadelphia.

Located on the corner of 21st and Cherry streets, the apartment is conveniently near major highways, city hall, JFK Blvd. and Market st., and various museums. The apartment includes 2 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom, a kitchen complete with appliances, washer and drier, basement storage, and a backyard balcony overlooking center city Philadelphia. Rental listing is $1700/month, and is available as early as July 2010. Contact Dan at (267) 391-9308 for more details and to setup a time see the apartment. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY PLEASE. ART MUSEUM

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Studio/ Efficiency 15th/Spruce

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Adorable 1 bedroom apartment has hardwood floors, C/A, W/D, D/W and large closets. Spacious living/dining area and tiled bathroom. Pet friendly. Available 215-9257500 ext 213.

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