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GLOSSING IT UP ³ THE SUMMER OF our discontent is over. So long,

COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY NEAL SANTOS KEYCIFER BLACK, OF SWELLCO & SWELLCO DESIGN BY RESECA PESKIN

an indispensable cheat sheet. For the first six months we were here, that thing was basically our bible.” Look for it, and its gorgeous Stephen Powers cover mural, at colleges, gyms, apartment buildings, hospitals, hotels, coffee shops, bars and more. (More at citypaper.net/primer.) And on the subject of guides, it’s my pleasure to introduce Josh Middleton as the newest member of the City Paper team. Josh, a Temple grad with the best Kentucky accent, is a former intrepid intern and authors our monthly “Queer Bait” column. As our new editorial assistant, he’ll be tackling our calendar listings with his trademark charm and panache. E-mail him at joshua.middleton@citypaper.net. (bhoward@citypaper.net)

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Naked City/Bell Curve .............................. 8 Soapboxer ..................................................... 13 Man Overboard!/Tom Tomorrow .... 18 Movie Shorts ................................................ 21 The Agenda/Icepack............................... 25 Fall Arts Supplement .............................. 27 Fall A&E Best Bets .................................... 38 DJ Nights ........................................................ 48 Food & Drink ................................................ 54 Feeding Frenzy ........................................... 58 I Love You/I Hate You ............................... 61 Lulu Eightball/Jonesin’ ......................... 68

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blast-furnace afternoons; welcome back, WFCcaliber Phillies. The beginning of autumn is about the time of year we like to tell you what to do. This week’s paper is our annual Fall Arts bonanza, overflowing with features on the artists and events that will shape this year’s season (check Holly Otterbein’s profile on doomsday burlesquers Swellco & Swellco, Peter Crimmins’ take on the “Art of the American Soldier” exhibit and Julia Askenase’s look at local-ish lights The Walkmen). But that’s not the only guide we’ve got on offer. This week ushers the third annual City Paper Primer, a glossy little number spearheaded editorially by CP minister of moving parts Carolyn Huckabay, snapped by photog wunderkind Neal Santos and made all flash-and-dashy by BAJ Design. Primer was conceived as a tuck-it-inyour-tote/plant-it-on-your-coffee-table resource for newbies (hello students/houseguests/carpetbaggers), though we shoot to make it useful for Philadelphians of all vintage. The first half tackles the finer points of city living; the second is a neighborhood smorgasbord with the straight dope on what to do wherever you are. “Putting together this year’s Primer was like moving to Philly all over again,” says Carolyn. “When I first got here in 2006, I was blown away by the amount of stuff there was to do — I think it took me a year to feel like I’d conquered my own little neighborhood. In the Primer, we’ve covered 19 of them — everywhere from Chestnut Hill and Fishtown to East Passyunk and Southwest Philly.” According to CP news editor Jeffrey C. Billman, who’ll celebrate one year in the city this month, “For me and [my wife] Adri, [last year’s Primer] was really

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AMILLIONSTORIES Now with only two syllables per word, so you can understand

e know, we know: You missed us. But, jeez, can’t a column take one little week off? It was Labor Day, for chrissakes. Well, we’re back now. And it gives us no satisfaction to say so, but it seems Philadelphia has a serious case of the stupids. And it’s one of the reasons — a big one, in fact — this city is struggling to remake itself in the 21st-century mold. The modern era of cities, as New Urbanism guru Richard Florida would say, belongs to the creative class; it is no longer the province of blue-collar types working factory jobs, but of intellectually driven industry. In other words: more brains, less brawn. And that’s what makes the following statistics so sobering: According to the Free Library of Philadelphia, 20 percent — that’s one in five, for those of you who flunked math, which we presume is most of you — of the city’s working-age population has “below basic levels of literacy.” Half lack a sufficient enough grasp of the English language to, say, fill out a job application. No, really. Oh, and there’s that nagging fact that more than 40 percent of our high school students will never graduate, and that 25 percent of the city’s population lacks a high school diploma. This is not a recipe for success, folks. We offer you these sad facts not as a depressant, but as a prelude to this bit of applause-worthy news: Last Wednesday, Mayor Michael Nutter and Free Library President Siobhan R. Reardon announced a new literacy initiative and the reinvigora-

tion of the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy, a quarter-century old institution that languished under the Street administration, and will now be housed under the auspices of the Free Library. The idea, Reardon tells us, is to give every interested adult the opportunity to solidify their language and computer skills, earn their GEDs and get into college, and to put people in touch with the various programs that both the Free Library and various literacy groups around the city have to offer. “It’s going to take a huge marketing effort,” says Reardon; and, in fact, that will be the incoming executive director’s job when he or she starts in the coming months. “No matter where you go in this city, there will be a reminder, that there are places in this city that can help you get there.” (And yes, she assures, this advertising campaign will keep in mind that its target audience is comprised of “low literates.”) Bad news: This will cost money. (“Money is always an issue,” Reardon states the obvious.) Good news: It’s someone else’s money: None of the Commission’s $6.3 million budget comes from the city, but from state and federal sources, city spokesperson Maura Kennedy says. The Free Library has also used federal stimulus money to install “mobile tech outposts” in some of the city’s disadvantaged communities, Reardon says. Here again, the goal is the same: to bring technology to those who otherwise wouldn’t have it, and to develop the kinds of basic skills they need in the modern workforce. We have no idea how big a dent these initiatives will make, if they make a dent at all; and surely, the problem is big: Many of

“Money is always an issue.”

the city’s immigrants don’t speak English as well as they perhaps should, and our many bastions of poverty don’t feature a MacBook in every home (or a chicken in every pot, for that matter). But at least the city is acknowledging the problem — and if the 12 steps taught us anything the second time we went through them, step one is admitting you have a problem. And yes, we have a problem.

ASSHOLES Attention RIGHTNETWORK: Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe, just maybe, you’ve chosen the wrong city? You’re in Philadelphia, where Democrats outnumber Republicans six to one, and here you are, a right-wing “entertainment” network on Broad Street that kicked off last week on Video on Demand, Internet and mobile. Couldn’t you have moved to Dallas or Juneau or something? (It’s a little embarrassing for us, you know.) But hey, maybe you like being the underdog: As your president, Kevin McFeeley, told us, “RIGHTNETWORK is for the people on the right who are underserved as >>> continued on adjacent page

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far as media options go. There are a lot more entertainment choices on the left point of view.” Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin’s Twitter, the Flat Earth Society’s message board — these are all conservative entertainment options, no? “Fox News and things like it do news very well. But we do entertainment,” says McFeeley. Entertainment. Oh boy. So, whatcha got for us, Mr. McFeeley (heh)? Well, there’s Running, a show about political newbies “trying to make a difference in their community” by running for public office; Flatbed & Ned, a sort of hipster-y, animated version of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour; and rightnetwork.com’s blog, chockfull of stories about such topics as the “cult” of environmentalists who worship the “false god” Gaia. So not “entertainment” in the sense of “shit we’d actually watch” so much as right-wing schlock for the under-35 set — a population group that, to date, hasn’t come to think that gay marriage is the end of the world or universal health care is going to kill Grandma. But throw enough propaganda at them, and maybe one day we’ll get a Palin administration. Shudder. Then again, perhaps we should be happy RIGHTNETWORK (caps theirs, of course) is here in Philly, if only for one reason: jobs. Granted, the network is only employing 16 people right now. But with Kelsey Grammer — the crotchety WASP star of Frasier, though to us he will always be the voice of Sideshow Bob — funding the whole thing, and the country being as backward as it is, this thing has at least a semi-decent shot at succeeding. And if it’s going to succeed, it might as well succeed here, right?

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You’d be assholes, RIGHTNETWORK — but at least you could be our assholes.

GO DO THIS Though the man is said to have favored a tumbler of cane rum, the Joaquín Rivera Scholarship Fund Committee invites everyone to raise a glass (or two, actually) of wine to its namesake musician, counselor and community leader at “Un Vasito de Vino para Joaquín” (that’s “A Glass of Wine for Joaquin” to you gringos), this Sunday at the New Palladium (229 W. Allegheny Ave.), beginning at noon. Rivera’s death last November, you’ll recall, made headlines two ways: First, because after he passed away in the Atria Health Frankford Campus’ waiting room, he was robbed of his watch; second, because he died in a hospital waiting room. And yet, as galling as the circumstances of his death were, his legacy — and the scholarships that bear his name — looks to the future. Created in April, the scholarship fund awards financial aid to college-bound seniors from both Olney East and West (Rivera was a much-loved bilingual counselor at Olney High School). The event Sunday seeks to raise money for that cause. Tickets are $10 and include two glasses of wine, Latin American food, a DJ, a silent auction (of visual art and Rivera’s personal items) and live music. You can buy them either at Centro Musical (464 W. Lehigh Ave.) or at the door. See you there. ✚ This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman, Holly Otterbein and Juliana Reyes.

E-mail us at amillionstories@citypaper.net. And get your daily fix of news, sports and commentary at the Clog, citypaper.net/clog.

CP’s Quality-o-Life-o-Meter

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When the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s equal-employment officer told Carl Greene about sexual-harassment complaints against him, she got demoted and her salary was cut. “I call bullshit,” says Greene. “Getting named Grand Empress Bonerkiller is definitely a promotion.”

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According to priceofweed.com, the average price for an ounce of low-grade marijuana in Pennsylvania is roughly five times the price of high-quality pot. It’s like the people buying it are, like, on something.

[ + 4 ] An 11-year-old girl from the Northeast leads

the Pledge of Allegiance at President Obama’s visit to Masterman School.Allegiance to Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.

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School District $96 million over the next two years.“I believe I’ll purchase the 76ers,” says Arlene Ackerman.

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“I know it’s bad form to question the greatness of Ed Rendell around here, but I’m wondering if he has lost some of his Midas touch,” says Inquirer reporter Paul Davies about the governor’s involvement in recent scandals. Davies has not been seen since, though this gold cast of him is pretty neato.

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Kevin Kolb gets a concussion in his first game as the Eagles’ No. 1 QB. “I’m amazed at how quickly he learned the system,” says Donovan McNabb.

[ + 4 ] The Germantown Y reopens after two years of repairs. It is now an X.

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Bill Clinton gives Tony Blair the 2010 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center for his “steadfast commitment to conflict resolution.” Funniest part was when Blair dropped it and Clinton was like, “Oops, hey, your hands are covered in oil,” and Blair’s like, “No, that’s blood,” and Clinton’s like, “Iraqi blood?” and Blair’s like, “A fine guess, but no. You see, my heart turned jet black in 2003 and ever since, this is what my blood looks like. Oh, and I cut myself just so I can feel something.”

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³ THIS SHOULD BE a no-brainer.

Inside the Beltway, after all, $2.5 billion is basically a rounding error — pocket change, more or less, in an annual budget (and budget deficit) that runs in the trillions. Meanwhile, this country faces the largest unemployment crisis of the last 60 years, prompted by three decades of capitalism-on-steroids recklessness championed by a generation of Ronald Reagan disciples. This pocket change can, according to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), save nearly 130,000 jobs nationwide, and nearly 13,000 in Pennsylvania. It should be simple. But it’s not. Once again, Senate Republicans — while chiding the president for lackluster job growth — are filibustering; the goal, sadly, is to ensure that even this most meager progress is put off until after the midterms, because a crappy economy is good for them politically. (And yes, I am exactly that cynical.) At issue is the emergency fund of the federal government’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Authorized in last year’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the TANF Emergency Fund alloted $5 billion to help states manage the crush of Great Recession. It’s not a one-size-fits-all program; states, and sometimes counties within states, can spend the money different ways, including emergency assistance to lowincome families. (Only two states, Indiana and Wyoming, have taken no money from the fund.) Among the most common usages,

I am exactly that cynical.

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ceed, but only because his party is deep in the minority (for now), and kicking the unfortunate in the teeth during a recession isn’t likely to garner bipartisan support. And in any event, while Cantor couldn’t rouse enough support to kill this thing dead, Harry Reid can’t get enough senators on board to keep it going. The clock is ticking: The money dries up Sept. 30. Those 130,000 jobs will disappear. Think about this for a second: Right now, Democrats and Republicans are battling over extending Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent — a $700 billion proposition over the next 10 years that would do nothing to stimulate the economy. Rich people, basic economics tells us, save any extra money they come across; trickledown is a busted myth. Poor people, struggling to make ends meet, spend it — which is exactly what this economy needs. In short, this TANF Emergency Fund costs a fraction of continuing George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the rich. This should be a no-brainer — but in the United States Senate, it isn’t. If that’s not an indictment of the whole damned system, I don’t know what is. (jeffrey.billman@citypaper.net)

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says LaDonna Pavetti of CBPP, is to subsidize low-end, private sector employment for poor people (up to $13 an hour); 37 states have chosen this tack, including Pennsylvania. Of the fund’s $5 billion, more than $1 billion went to this purpose. As of Sept. 2, Pennsylvania had received $97.6 million to subsidize employment, Pavetti says — helping cash-strapped businesses defray the costs of jobs for 12,864 adults and another 7,854 summer jobs for teens. All of this has happened rather quickly. Although the fund was established last year, Pennsylvania did not get its program up and running until April. (It, like some other states, had to create a subsidized-employment program from scratch.) In other states, the fund has produced an even larger hiring boom: California’s share has subsidized some 45,000 adult and teen jobs, according to CBPP; Texas’s share has helped fund nearly 40,000. In its annual budget request, the Obama administration sought $2.5 billion to keep the program — which has been endorsed by the likes of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and the far-right American Enterprise Institute, whose director of economic policy praised it as “a pretty cost-effective way to create jobs” — afloat. On March 24, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved this one-year extension. But in the Senate, where good legislation goes to die, every single Republican (and four Democrats) filibustered a six-month, $1.3 billion extension. Given the times, this isn’t altogether unexpected. It is, however, indicative of how absolutely broken-down and pathetic our political system has become. In May — following the GOP’s gimmicky online “YouCut” poll, in which party activists voted on their favorite part of the federal budget to hack; make what you will of the fact that this little bit of aid to the working poor “won” — House Minority Whip Eric Cantor tried to force a vote to do away with the program. He didn’t suc-

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PARTY FOUL The Nutter administration will enforce the rules, whether you like it or not. By Isaiah Thompson

tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often said that the fundamental unit of life in Philadelphia is the neighborhood. But more likely, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the block. A city block is, after all, a micro-neighborhood. There are good blocks, and there are bad blocks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the difference is everything. A good block has flavor, cohesion, leadership, pride: It knows itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good block. And for many city blocks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thousands, every year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; there is no better expression of that pride, no more sacred jubilee, than the block party. Such is the case on the 900 block of South 49th Street in West Philadelphia, where residents have held an annual block party for roughly the past 45 years. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chance for neighbors to meet, and for the diverse block â&#x20AC;&#x201D; young, old, black, white â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to get together. At least, it was all those things until late July, when the blockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s party application was, for the first time ever, denied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has never happened,â&#x20AC;? says Dorothy Myers, a former block captain of 19 years. But happen it did. After applying to the city for a block-party permit, which allows residents to block access to the street, current block captain David Adams was shocked to have his application returned along with the $20 application fee. The reason: The block is on an â&#x20AC;&#x153;arterial roadway.â&#x20AC;? Adams sought the help of his city councilwoman, Jannie L. Blackwell, but an aide told him that the denial stemmed from a new Streets Department policy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[The aide] suggested some alternatives, but there are no alternatives to having a neighborly party on your own block,â&#x20AC;? Adams says.

And, in fact, this year Streets has begun implementing â&#x20AC;&#x153;an existing policy of not issuing block party permits for streets with higher traffic volumes or streets with SEPTA service,â&#x20AC;? writes Andrew Stober, the director of strategic initiatives at the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Transportation and Utilities, in an e-mail. Indeed, blocking off that section of 49th Street for just four hours would mean diverting twodozen buses and possibly slowing emergency response times. Still, that explanation didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t assuage Adams, who points out that state Sen. Anthony Williams held a party of sorts the following week on the even-busier Baltimore Avenue. (Williams, in an e-mail, notes that he obtained a more expensive â&#x20AC;&#x153;festivalâ&#x20AC;? permit, which includes costs for the extra city services festivals require. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love block parties,â&#x20AC;? he adds.) The blockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beef with City Hall comes amid a spate of highly publicized episodes of long-standing traditions conflicting with long-standing, yet long-unenforced city codes: There was the notice given to a church housing homeless addicts-in-recovery in its basement, which the city considered a fire hazard; the Manayunk church that was warned about its loud bell; the recent â&#x20AC;&#x153;crackdownâ&#x20AC;? on the freewheeling Italian Market by the Department of Licenses and Inspections; the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position that bloggers who bring in revenue should obtain business privilege licenses. The block party policy is hardly a massive crackdown: So far this year, Streets has granted 7,168 of 7,305 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 98 percent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; of the permits requested; last year, the department turned down only four requests. But where permits are denied, the administration isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t flinching. Deputy Mayor for Transportation and Utilities Rina Cutler not only

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact is, agencies in city government are getting their act together.â&#x20AC;?

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defends the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enforcement, but also makes a plaintive appeal to Philadelphians to see this and other enforcement policies as part of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;new Philadelphia,â&#x20AC;? where the law is the law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are mad that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re writing trash tickets,â&#x20AC;? Cutler says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we do not create the laws. The fact is, agencies in city government are getting their act together and operating as a professional organization. â&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not better 100 percent of the time, but the departments who are trying are getting blamed for trying.â&#x20AC;? Cutler acknowledges residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; frustration â&#x20AC;&#x201D; particularly the impression that the city is nitpicking small-potatoes issues on the one hand, while struggling to keep up with crime and blight on the other â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but says she sees Philly undergoing a cultural change from a city where rules were easily bent, with a little influence, to one where â&#x20AC;&#x153;the rules are going to have to be for everyone.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have it both ways,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some people have common sense and good judgment who work for government, but some donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. And if I leave it up to individuals, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how people wind up in jail.â&#x20AC;? (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)

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RELIABLE SOURCES In state prisons, allegations of abuse (and retaliation) boil down to whom you believe. By Matt Stroud

t’s nearly impossible for anyone not employed or incarcerated by the state’s Department of Corrections (DOC) to know exactly what happens inside Pennsylvania’s prisons. This goes double for the state’s solitary confinement facilities, or Restricted Housing Units (RHUs), as they’re known. Allegations of abuse come down to the word of prisoners versus that of the corrections officers (COs) who guard them — and almost always, the COs win. After all, prisoners tend not to be the most reliable sources. But what if the prisoners’ complaints are real, and no one believes them? That possibility makes the situation at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas (SCI Dallas) intruiging. For years, the far-left Human Rights Coalition (HRC), based in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, has encouraged Pennsylvania’s prisoners to document in letters to HRC any alleged mistreatment they face. This year, however, the group took a different tack. In April, it released “Institutionalized Cruelty: Torture at SCI Dallas and in Prisons Throughout Pennsylvania,” which alleged that COs routinely abuse SCI Dallas prisoners, and deprive them of “food, water, and other rights” [Cover Story, “A Death in Solitary,” Matt Stroud, Aug. 5, 2010]. In the weeks that followed, prisoners told HRC that COs had retaliated against the inmates. These allegation led to a second report, “Resistance and Retaliation: Continuing Repression at SCI Dallas,” released last month. According to this report, tensions inside the RHU ratcheted up

after the first report went public in April. On April 28, COs performed a cell extraction after a prisoner refused to return a food tray from inside his cell. (During a cell extraction, a group of five armed COs drag an prisoner out of his cell using batons, electroshock devices and Plexiglas shields, often after the prisoner is shackled, while one or two supervisors watch; as required by state law, the whole process is videotaped.) The next day, six RHU prisoners — Duane Peter, Anthony Locke, Carrington Keys, Anthony Kelly, Derrick Stanley and Andre Jacobs — protested by placing sheets over their cell door windows. These prisoners, in turn, were all forcibly extracted from their cells. According to criminal rioting charges filed in state court on July 7, all six prisoners resisted their extractions — in fact, all six police reports describe the events in the exact same language, only substituting the prisoners’ names: “[The defendant] covered [his] cell door window in order to require them to be extracted from their cells. The defendant, while housed in the RHU, also barricaded his cell door, along with five other prisoners, and refused several times to remove the items. This caused the use of the cell extraction team. When the extraction team attempted to remove the defendant he resisted and attempted to assault the officers after they entered.” All six inmates are mentioned in one or both of the HRC reports; they now face a third-degree felony charge that could add seven years to their sentences. Two of the prisoners, Keys and Jacobs — serving time for robbery and assault, respectively — were also charged with throwing feces at the COs, another third-degree felony. These two have been particular thorns in DOC’s side; they’ve each filed numerous lawsuits against prisons officials. (Jacobs won an $185,000 settlement in 2008 after he alleged that DOC officials

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had destroyed legal documents. He wrote in a letter to City Paper that’s he’s been held in solitary confinement for nine years as retaliation for his lawsuits.) Weeks later, HRC lodged a complaint about the extractions with the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office, which has jurisdiction over SCI Dallas. That the criminal charges against the six came soon after HRC’s complaint, says HRC lead investigator Bret Grote, is suspicious: “These ‘cover charges’ are a routine tactic designed to obscure the criminal acts of prison guards and officials and retaliate against prisoners who obstinately continue to assert their human rights,” Grote writes in an e-mail. (In an e-mail, Robin Lucas, assistant to the superintendent at SCI Dallas, denies that COs or prison officials retaliate against troublesome inmates.) A hearing in the cases is set for Sept. 16. If these cases go to trial, the videos of their extractions will become public, and perhaps shed some light not only on the incidents in question, but how DOC deals with prisoners who won’t keep their mouths shut. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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manoverboard! By Isaiah Thompson

BEDROCK OF DEMOCRACY ³ “EXTREMISTS.” NO SHORTAGE of ’em lately, is there? Extremists blowing up soldiers and civilians in the Middle East, extremists threatening to burn the sacred text of one culture to demonstrate the supremacy of their own here. And, to top it all off, extremists lobbying their elected representatives — can you believe it? In America? — to reign in an industry whose power, wealth and sway over government grows daily. Lest that last group seem somewhat, um, unextreme … well, hayseed, just ask the commonwealth. Two news reports out last week indicate that federal and state authorities now consider local anti-gas drilling activists — mostly, from what Man Overboard! has seen, a ragtag collection of homespun activists worried that the companies injecting toxic waste below their water tables and into their streams will somehow pollute one or the other — to be extremist enough to warrant supervision and the covert sharing of covert information with gas companies. Oh yes. The first break came when Pro Publica published the contents of an installment of the Pennsylvania Intelligence Bulletin — a document circulated to local law enforcement and intelligence officials — which listed among “Dates of Interest” several small-town meetings over drilling issues as well as — gasp! — a recent screening of the documentary Gasland at the Piazza at Schmidts. Gov. Ed Rendell spokesman Gary Tuma tells City Paper that these alerts followed five acts of vandalism against drilling sites, including two incidents in which shotguns were fired — though the other three were so “minor” as to lack description, none have been tied to any activists, and Tuma acknowledged there hasn’t been trouble at any anti-drilling activities. But Man Overboard! knows of one such incident: On Aug. 21, Julie Sautner, a Dimock, Pa., resident-turned-activist (this change happened sometime after her well water turned brown and began to bubble with methane) showed up with other drilling opponents at a Cabot Oil & Gas picnic armed with … a jug of her contaminated well water. Lucky for us, the jug was wrestled from her hands by private Cabot security guards armed, several witnesses say, with 9 mm handguns and bulletproof vests. The second revelation of the state’s apparent mistrust of drilling opponents was broken, ahem, by your dear Man Overboard! on The Clog last week.An e-mail composed by state Homeland Security Director James Powers — originally addressed to an anti-drilling activist who had apparently been mistaken for a gas industry insider — was then passed along to yours truly. Along with a warning not to distribute info where anti-drillers might see it, the e-mail contained this mind-warping sentence: “We want to continue providing this support to the Marcellus Shale Formation natural gas stakeholders while not feeding those groups fomenting dissent against those same companies.” The last time I checked,“fomenting dissent” against powerful private interests is the bedrock of democracy, not a threat to it. Rendell apparently agrees. On Tuesday evening, he called a press conference to apologize for the monitoring. “Protesting is a God-given American right,” he said. Extremist.

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CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS I have serious problems with the depth and responsibility of your journalism in this piece [Cover Story, “Idealists for Hire,” Isaiah Thompson, Aug. 12, 2010]. As a former canvasser and the current employee of an organization that runs a canvass, my opinion is that your article’s findings are not truthful. The tone challenges all organizations that run canvasses. You disapprove of how much of a person’s donation goes to the canvasser, while simultaneously criticizing how little canvassers get paid. You cannot have it both ways. The clearest evidence that your article represents inadequate reporting is that you used only two canvasses as a microcosm for all others. To make your job easier, you picked two canvasses that are notorious for how they treat their employees — two organizations that have had multiple lawsuits brought against them. There are scores of organizations that run canvasses and have never been sued, treat their employees well, pay their employees fair wages and ask them to work acceptable hours. You did not even mention those legitimate organizations operating in Philadelphia so you could make your point of trashing canvassing easier. In the political system we live in, money talks. Donations are com-

munity organizing; the two are not mutually exclusive. For honest organizations, those funds that were raised allow programs to exist that directly benefit communities, or for lobbying groups, the money makes each signature it stands behind more powerful. At Clean Air Council, just like most organizations, employees that are around for months are not fired after missing a quota for just two consecutive weeks. Canvassers are not put in pressure situations where they struggle to save their jobs every week. That would not be effective managing. Every single canvasser at Clean Air Council makes well over minimum wage and no one, including the canvass director, works more than 40 hours in a week. You claim that “instead of providing a career path for would-be activists and progressive leaders, the canvassing organizations burn out their recruits and move on.” I can say from personal experience that idea is completely erroneous. I am now starting a career at an environmental nonprofit, not in spite of my canvassing experience, but because of it. Nick Rogers, Sustainable Transportation Associate, Clean Air Council PHILADELPHIA

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DEVIL A haiku: Philadelphia was set in Philly, too, so you could just watch that. (Not reviewed) (Pearl, UA Riverview)

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD|A “I usually put a lot down, then I take a lot away, then I put some more down and I take some more away, so it’s like a constant editing process, usually.” As he describes his painting process for an interviewer in 1983, Jean-Michel Basquiat shifts in his chair, restless. A few minutes later, Tamra Davis’ documentary offers a bit more of this exchange: This time, Marc H. Miller wonders about a rumor, that the artist was once locked in a basement so he could paint. Now Basquiat is less accommodating. “I was never locked anywhere,” he says. “If I was white, they’d just say I was an artist in residence.” With these two moments, the film, a loving and respectful meditation on its subject, lays out its limits, the stories it can repeat and the truths it can only guess at. Some of the stories are well-known: Basquiat was a genius, ahead of his time, and also “too fragile for this world,” as Madonna once described him. He loved women or misread them. He challenged or was foiled by elitism in the art world; he was intuitive and authentic or he was acclaimed too fast. In all versions he died too

MADAMOISELLE CHAMBON|B+ Cinematic infidelities are typically depicted as explosions of uncontrollable passion, but Stéphane Brizé’s Mademoiselle Chambon demonstrates that not all extramarital amour is necessarily fou. Jean (Vincent Lindon) is a mason with a perfectly happy life — which is precisely what makes his sudden attraction to his son’s teacher (Sandrine Kiberlain) so difficult and unexpected. When wife Anne-Marie (Aure Atika) is laid up with a back injury, Jean is called in for a parent-teacher conference, where he walks in on the willowy Veronique Chambon practicing violin fingerings on her elegantly outstretched arm, illuminated by a ray of late-afternoon sunlight. It’s this surprising intrusion of grace into his banal everyday that sparks Jean’s imagination, but it’s when he hears her actually play, back demurely turned, that something stirs inside that he hadn’t known existed. The affair, such as it is, is played out in glimpses, words caught before they’re spoken, slight shifts in posture; nothing obvious to anyone whose sensitivity isn’t heightened by their own desire

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young, at 27, of a heroin overdose, alone, undone by his father’s disapproval or Andy Warhol’s death, or maybe his endless frustrations with the “art world.” The film is built on a 1986 interview Davis conducted with her friend Basquiat, where he’s funny, shy and frank. Other interviewees knew or didn’t know him, appreciated his art or knew the scenes around him; some point out what’s both most obvious and least discussed concerning Basquiat’s perennial, mythic alienation. “The guy obviously spent a lot of time thinking and angry about what his place in the world was and the place of black people and black men in the world,” says Nelson George. “It’s all in all his work, over and over again.” —Cindy Fuchs (Ritz Bourse)

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— or by a wife’s suspicions. Lindon and Kiberlain, in performances complicated by their real-life divorce, are models of yearning restraint, their every muted exchange weighted by the consequences both are aware their decisions carry. The story ends, as so many do, at a train station, but Brizé has long before indicated that he’s not so much concerned in the decision the duo will make so much as the transformations wrought in uncomplicated lives by having to make it. —Shaun Brady (Ritz Five)

EASY A|BOlive Penderghast (Emma Stone) is a high school Hester Prynne, except her lascivious sex life was just a rumor she started to get a pestering friend (Aly Michalka) off her back. Stone is a joy to watch, her Gilmore Girls-ian adult-speak tempered by a relatability adults can appreciate and teenagers can admire; she dances alone in her room on a Saturday night, she does her homework (reading The Scarlet Letter, of course), she waits for some Lloyd Dobler to boom-box his way into her heart. Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci, as Olive’s ultraleft mom and dad, are initially winning as the kind of joyful, supportive parents we wish we had or hope to turn into, but they too quickly become über-quirky caricatures. The essence of Mean Girls shows up everywhere — from the auburn-haired heroine and her prissy blonde foil (in this case, pious Marianne, played by puffy Amanda Bynes) to the random SNLmember cameo (a majorly underused

Fred Armisen, as Marianne’s preacher dad) — and, as in its cinematic mentor, morality plays a vital role: Olive’s happy ending is achieved only when she rights her wrongs. Only this time, nobody gets hit by a school bus. —Carolyn Huckabay (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

THE TOWN|B Ever since The Departed (with maybe a little help from the cult status accrued by The Boondock Saints), Boston has become the capital of cinematic crime. That’s been especially advantageous to the career of Ben Affleck, who has gone from scandal-sheet punchline to chronicler of the Beantown underworld. After guiding brother Casey through the downbeat Gone Baby Gone, Affleck directs himself in this adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves, unfortunately handing himself the thankless challenge of finding life in another criminal with a heart of gold, agreeing to one last job before turning his life around. The setting is Charlestown, Mass., which is depicted as a factory town with bank and armored car robbery being the local industry. Affleck plays a second-generation thief who is the sensitive mastermind behind his team’s heists. He’s hooked in by his debt to childhood friend Jeremy Renner, who steals the film as a sociopath wholly unfiltered by any moral compass — with no significant other, there’s no one’s face to smash fruit into, but otherwise he’s a modern-day James Cagney teetering toward his top-of-the-world moment. Affleck keeps the momentum taut, building to a climax at Fenway Park, but the story lacks the depth of his directorial debut, and his romance with abductee Rebecca Hall is so overshadowed by his interactions with his colorful crew that it feels like an afterthought even though it drives the action. —S.B. (Pearl, UA Riverview)

THE VIRGINITY HIT A haiku: Only a virgin would think it would be awesome to film his first time. (Not reviewed) (Rave)

A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP|BBlood Simple, the Coen Brothers’ 1984 debut, announced the sibling filmmakers’ aesthetic in unmistakable terms, a bold neo-noir where style equals substance and characters are as immutable and distinctive as their environments. Zhang Yimou’s head-scratcher of a remake is just as stylistically assertive and just as distinctly his, but coming more than two decades into his directorial career

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it comes off as the misguided lark of a veteran rather than the brash declaration of first-timers. The terse-toa-fault Texans of the original here become the antic denizens of an isolated noodle shop sometime in the feudal era, introduced as an exaggeratedly mustachioed arms dealer shows off his wares. The set pieces are vividly filmed in the manner of Zhang’s dazzling martial-arts spectacles — a sequence of noodle-making is staged with all the pomp and splendor of the director’s famed Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies — but ultimately feel like hollow exercises for their own sakes. The particulars follow the Coens’ template fairly faithfully, from the plotting to several of the more memorable images (despite the presence of a gun, the bullet-holes are instead made by arrows and knives, but the streaks of light remain). But the tone, especially in the early going, is an exhausting manic slapstick that seems to play well to Chinese audiences but has never translated well. —S.B. (Rave, Ritz Five)

✚ CONTINUING ANIMAL KINGDOM|B+ Depicting a young man’s wide-eyed initiation into a life of crime, Animal Kingdom has been pegged as a sort of Australian Goodfellas. But David Michôd’s directorial debut presents its underworld with none of the Rat Pack bonhomie that marked Scorsese’s swinging gangsters; the Cody family is closer to a pack of rats, scurrying in the shadows and gnawing savagely at scraps. The narration is one of Michôd’s missteps, all of which relate to overplaying his directorial hand: a heavy-handed music cue here, an overwrought metaphor there. Still, for the most part he restrains himself, stirring up a grim, airless atmosphere in the underbelly of sunny Melbourne, peopled by a humorlessly sociopathic clan. —S.B. (Ritz at the Bourse) BRAN NU DAE|CAn oddball glad-hander set in Western Australia in the late ’60s, Bran Nue Dae has all the chastely appealing teens, cartoonish authority figures and bland, unmemorable songs of an aboriginal High School Musical. Willie (Rocky McKenzie) is packed off to Perth to study for the priesthood under the guidance of Father Benedictus (Geoffrey Rush), but would rather be back home with his crush, Rosie. He hits the road, stumbles upon an estranged uncle, and the two hitch a ride with a young hippie

Smoky character actress Patricia Clarkson steps into the lead in Ruba Naddaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sensual romance, playing a magazine editor stranded in the Egyptian capital while her U.N.employed husband is stuck in Gaza. Her absent hubby dispatches former colleague Alexander Siddig to look after his marooned spouse, and they strike up a relationship, although the sparks donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so much fly as gently drift. Naddaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach is classical without being clichĂŠd, an old-fashioned romance for modern times; you feel two people coming together by choice, not simply because their passions or the script dictate it. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sam Adams (Ritz Five)

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GET LOW|B The house is ablaze for a good few minutes before a lone figure suddenly bursts out of a second-floor window, rolls down the slanted porch roof and runs, clothes still burning, away from the scene. This enigmatic opening image promises a secret that will inevitably be revealed — which seems sort of a shame, as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall), squirrels himself away from the world

for 40 years in order to keep it. A neardeath experience convinces the Tennessee hermit to throw himself a funeral while he’s still around to enjoy it (a shindig inspired by a true story), and as he reintegrates into society, his terse utterances show the toll of his solitude. It’s disappointing that Felix’s prosaic truth finally eclipses his legend, but in the end the film is held together solely by Duvall’s valedictory performance. —S.B. (Ritz East)

I’M STILL HERE|B Since Joaquin Phoenix first announced he was giving up acting to devote himself to hip-hop, the suspicion has been that his hairpin career turn was part of an elaborate hoax, which is probably the most comforting frame within which to place Casey Affleck’s maybe-sorta documentary. After an opening montage that estab-

lishes Phoenix’s post-Walk the Line high, Affleck hits us with the image of Phoenix gone to seed, his paunch swollen, his face shrouded by a cloud of hair. Mercifully, he holds off for a bit on Phoenix’s music, but when it does surface, it’s predictably dreadful, mostly weed-slurred whining about the price of fame. Were Phoenix actually engaged in what he refers to as “a hip-hop ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’” there might be some nobility to his failure, but if this is self-expression, it seems he has precious little self to express. A few scenes of debauchery, including one in which Phoenix snorts coke from between a prostitute’s breasts, give I’m Still Here the flavor of an exposé, but the movie’s ostensible subject remains a cipher. —S.A. (Ritz Bourse)

THE LAST EXORCISM|B+ A documentary crew follows Baton Rouge’s Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), an admitted huckster and exorcism “expert” who believes in the power of preaching but has no investment in its precepts. Daniel Stamm’s erratic handheld camera work is nothing we haven’t seen before, and some of his bigger scares you’ll see coming, but all told this is a movie worth seeing — especially since you don’t know much about it. —Drew Lazor (UA Riverview)

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MACHETE|B+ Machete fetishizes the gory, sex-stuffed American B-movie genre, dancing a nihilistic jig around big-ticket issues and milking every last hoot and holler out of its perma-adolescent target audience. The movie begins with Machete (Danny Trejo), a stoic Federale with a penchant for blades, being forced to watch the slaughter of his family at the hands of Torrez (Steven Seagal, very fat), a Mexican drug kingpin who’s sick of the sandpaper-faced do-gooder’s meddling. Cut to several years later, when Machete’s hired to assassinate the sneering Senator McLaughlin (Robert De Niro, having fun), a politician so against illegal immigration he wants to build an electrified border wall. Of course, it’s all one big frame job, which leads to Machete stabbing his way through thugs aplenty en route to clearing his name. —D.L. (UA Riverview)

MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT|BKiller Instinct, the first half of JeanFrançois Richet’s diptych, follows Frenchman Jacques Mesrine from his days as a torturer of Algerian rebels through a series of robberies and murders in Europe, Canada and the U.S. The ferociously charismatic Vincent Cassel plays Mesrine as a star in the making, one canny enough to shout “Vive le Québec libre!” at TV cameras as he’s taken into custody in Montréal. The movie even provides a flash-forward to his outlaw’s death, as a tubby Casell and future belle Ludivine Sagnier are ambushed by a truck full of gun-wielding men. —S.A. (Ritz Five)

career criminal, constantly in and out of prison, his public profile growing with each break-out. Burdened by extra pounds, Cassel seems torpid, an aging man fighting his life’s inevitable endpoint. —S.A. (Ritz Five)

THE TILLMAN STORY|A Six years after he was killed by American soldiers in Afghanistan, the facts about Pat Tillman’s death are still surfacing, a tribute to the lengths to which the military and civilian administrations went to bury them. Amir BarLev (My Kid Could Paint That) grabs a shovel and digs deep, turning up firstperson accounts that Tillman’s death was less a matter of friendly fire than pure recklessness. Tillman emerges as a complicated figure, an avowed patriot who gave up a promising football career to enlist after Sept. 11, yet passionately questioned the conduct of the war. The military continues to claim that the misreporting of Tillman’s death was the result of a series of errors, but if nothing else, The Tillman Story should put that lie firmly in the ground at last. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)

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f I do it right, this song could probably get picked up by churches,” Andrew Lipke muses. “Well, up to a point at least.” Surrounded by mics, mixers and the maroon walls of his Kensington home studio, Lipke plays some rough cuts from his forthcoming album. The music in queue is an interpretation of the Sunday School hymn “This Is the Day”; it’s respite from the apocalyptic vignettes on The Plague. “There are two religiously fueled pillars of this work. One is more optimistic,” the songwriter explains as a jovial church basement piano builds into a rollicking full band. “And one is cynical.” The band peaks and fades. The piano slips into a funereal minor key. Lipke talks of dissonance and spooky children’s choirs. “It descends into a very uncomfortable-feeling place.” Finding beauty in discomfort is no foreign territory for Lipke. His 2008 album Mother Pearl and Dynamite had “Flesh and Bone,” a sweeping, serene song about drowning. In concert, his rendition of Neil Young’s free-associative bad trip “After the Gold Rush” is sublime. And The Plague ponders existence and mortality in a cycle of songs set at the end of the world, a place where blind faith has proven useless and the meaning of life is revealed to be, well, living (this stuff is much more Thus Spake Zarathustra than Left Behind).

The project has taken two years of preparation, from drawing up the themes and building out his basement studio to drafting sheet music. This Saturday, Lipke premières the songs (though not in sequence) at the Tin Angel with West Chester’s Azrael Quartet — violinists Dana Weiderhold and Anida Goga, violist Heather Wright and cellist Krista Umile. On Dec. 29, he gives a full album performance at the Sellersville Theater, backed by the quartet as well as his rock band The Prospects. He anticipates a March release date for the finished product. The gradual rollout of The Plague seems apt. “I’ve always liked grand, complicated things,” Lipke says. “And for me, [mortality] is one of the biggest, if not the biggest thing you have to deal with in life.” It’s a rich subject — and one Lipke feels particularly comfortable digging into. His father, the Rev. Dennis Lipke, is a Methodist minister. Andrew grew up in a very religious environment, and was involved in international mission work as a youth. “It got me comfortable thinking about heavy subjects.” Lipke calls religion “the defining conflict of our age.” But while the songwriter and his current song cycle lean strongly in opposition to organized faith, he is no hardened atheist, either. “There is a transcendent, ineffable spark everybody has,” he says. “It’s not all biology. There is a spirit. It’s all the ways the spirit gets distorted that are frustrating.” (j_vettese@citypaper.net)

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³ IF YOU’VE LOVED Birdie Busch,you’ve witnessed her transformation from gossamer folkie princess to rootin’ tootin’ rodeo queen with a sweet country lilt. How’s it feel to be a cowgirl without the blues and an honest-to-God anthem maker with her 2006 standby “South Philly”? “As someone said to me at WXPN’s Free at Noon two weeks ago, ‘I never thought I’d be listening to a song about 29th and Diamond with a pedal steel in it,’” laughs Busch. She claims her cow-poking around is not a traditional C&W revivalism. She just likes old things — aged National Geographics, the Isleys. “The short history of American music is a precious care of mine. And hearing Willie Nelson’s Red Headed Stranger in the station wagon repeatedly when I was 5 leaves its mark.” When she does a Johnny Brenda’s hootenanny Sept. 17 with Hezekiah Jones,expect new instrumental pieces, lesser-known Springsteen covers and American Primitive guitar done on her old ’58 electric Kay. “The show’ll be a curve ball,” says Busch. ³ More baseball analogies? After what exec chef Adam DeLosso and Jose Garces did with its Trading Co. liquor license and reservation seating (reported on Meal Ticket by me, A.D.: bit. ly/bKxJwg), Jose has finally put together a crack lineup around exec chef Dave Conn (from Village Whiskey) for JG Domestic’s Oct. opening. Bill Hanson (Buddakan), sous chefs Joel Mazigian (Trading Co.), Josh Massaro (Chifa) and Matt Hiesch (Distrito) — a real team of all-stars. And honk when you see Garces’ Guapos Tacos truck at Whole Foods’ 30th birthday party Sept. 19 in the Art Museum area. ³ Drummer Hoagy Wing wouldn’t say much about his upcoming reunion show with Eliot Duhan/Todd Young’sFug-ishEDO(co-starring Stinking Lizavetta at Clark Park Sept. 18) save to say, “According to Eliot there will be at least 50 copies of our new disc available.” Skronk. ³ Uptown downtown shuffle: Jolly Weldon of Dueling Piano Bar(20th and Chestnut) opens a crab shack at ye old Mio Sogno spot at 15th and Oregon this month. East Passyunk’s health-conscious Fuel takes a second bite at 12th and Walnut. ³ After doing their thing with fellow Jerseyites World at Largeand the quaint Tea Club at North Star, the art-popping Banned Books pair with Philly’s just-reformed Mount Joy, at National Mechanics, Sept. 20. ³ Now that Live Arts resurrected Egypt, the flashy DelAve club of the ’80s, for its Festival Bar, is a reunion of the old E crew due? Yes. Check citypaper.net/criticalmass, category: Ice Cubes. ³Where’ll you be on Sept. 21 in regard to Mumia Abu-Jamal/Daniel Faulkner movies? Tigre Hill’s The Barrel of a Gun at the Merriam or Johanna Fernandez’s Justice on Trial at Ritz East? View with your conscience. ³ More ’Packin’ online, citypaper.net/icepack. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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THE ART OF WAR The National Constitution Center assembles 90 years of paintings, straight from the front lines. words by PETER CRIMMINS

very war has a palette. Afghanistan is a dusty ochre. World War II is beige and gray. Vietnam is a brilliant green, with airborne gasses turning a psychedelic red. Iraq is mostly a bland, colorless desert, but pixilated patterns on modern camouflage fatigues have a very subtle hint of pink. For 90 years the Army has sent artist-soldiers into battle, sketchbook in one hand, rifle in the other. There are plenty of other soldiers documenting military maneuvers with cameras, film reels, video, satellite tracking and mountains of binary data to find out who did what to whom, where and when. But none of them are there to record what it feels like. Since World War I, the U.S. Army has considered an emotional record of war important enough to dedicate funding for artists to paint what they see, from the boredom of a chow line to a horrific pile of empty boots, and the thousand-yard stare in between. There is one big caveat: The art must be representational. No abstract stuff. Army brass who set up the program, along with the members of Congress who approve its funding, insists on knowing what they’re looking at. There are almost 16,000 pieces of art in the Army’s collection, most never seen publicly. It’s a treasure trove by any yardstick, but especially for the National Constitution Center (NCC), which normally deals with hoary busts and yellowing documents to showcase the creation and maintenance of American democracy. “It was unbelievably inspiring,” says exhibit director Stephanie Reyer, who culled about 200 items from that deep well of material and split it into three parts — a soldier’s life, duty and sacrifice — for the NCC’s weighty fall exhibit, “Art of the American Soldier.” “At times really happy, at times heartbreaking.” Reyer is the first to admit she’s not an art curator; her forte is historical exhibits. The show she put together has a narrative arc representing each war and the unique perspectives the artists brought to it. Soldier art changes with the times. In the Army collection is an exquisitely rendered, Rockwellesque portrait of a medic in the immediate aftermath of the invasion of Normandy, with telltale bloody rags in the background. There’s also a helicopter landing in a Vietnam field where lush, shoulder-high grass hypnotizes as Impressionistic colors wave in the wind of the chopper blades. Like artists everywhere, soldier-painters are subject to funding fluctuations. There were 42 artists in the field during World War II. There were none in Korea. In Vietnam, small patrols of artists were deployed as their own units. Now, there is exactly one staff Army artist: Master Sgt. Martin Cervantes, who recently was deployed with an airborne unit in Afghanistan, making sketches and taking reference photos. He recently created a painting of what he saw while riding in a Humvee along the edge of a mountain. “It was dusty. But when I took the photo you couldn’t see the dust. So that was something I was able to add as an element, to give it that feel so everybody understands the conditions these guys are in every day.” The artists may have been commanded to be figurative, but many found enough elbow room to get funky with it. In 1966 an artist named Augustine Acuna painted Morning Ritual in Vietnam, with men shouldering one another to get some space in front of a tiny shaving mirror tied to a stake. The flattened style, and the calm, unremarkable moment, suggest Acuna had

Cézanne on his mind. In the NCC show’s online supplement, the sepia-toned color fields of In the Field (1968) indicate that artist David Farrington knew something about Pop Art. Ninety percent of war might be obtuse boredom; that last 10 percent — abject terror — is also in the Army collection. Robert Delassandro of the U.S. Army Center of Military History, which oversees the collection, says regardless of who signs their checks, many of the soldiers painted works that could be considered anti-war. The NCC’s Reyer had a hard time finding words to describe some of the images in the collection; some of the most horrifying were not chosen for the exhibit, with consideration to the NCC’s expected audience (they get a lot of school groups). The dénouement of the NCC show is

Soldier’s Sacrifice, a quiet, enclosed area where patrons can reflect. The Army has not spent the last 100 years painting pictures for the American public, and they weren’t made for purchase (although officers at the Pentagon get to choose works for their offices). The artists are simply trying to capture a feeling their fellow soldiers will recognize. “What is history? How do you paint history?” asks Master Sgt. Cervantes. “If a soldier goes to a museum, I want them to say, ‘That’s where I was, that’s what it was like, that’s what I did.’” There are few better gifts to offer the tens of thousands of soldiers now returning home from Iraq. (editorial@citypaper.net)

¥ “Art of the American Soldier” runs Sept. 24, 2010-Jan. 10, 2011, free with regular museum admission of $12, National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., 215-409-6600, constitutioncenter.org.

TOP TO BOTTOM: That 2,000 Yard Stare (detail), by Tom Lea, WWII, 1944 Landing Zone (detail), by John Wehrle, Vietnam, 1966 Attack at Twilight (detail), by Roger Blum, Vietnam, 1966

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DEATH CABARET FOR CUTIES Swellco & Swellco are biting chickens and killing hookers at the end of the world. words by HOLLY OTTERBEIN | photo by NEAL SANTOS

ow do you still shock people, when 9/11 and the Holocaust, rape and murder, have become clichéd joke fodder? When John Waters has conceded that he’s too tame for today’s 9-year-old? When a thing like the Internet exists? You throw a bestiality-themed party. You install two stripper poles, a swinging trapeze and some blood-splattered shower curtains in your house, the same house you presumably invite your parents to for the holidays. You do a number at Bob & Barbara’s wherein you gnaw on a cow’s actual heart. You do another in which you tear off a dead chicken’s head with your mouth. You make a website catering to “can,” a fetish that celebrates “a damsel in distress being prepared as a meal.” That’s the road Swellco & Swellco has taken, anyway. “We thought: What do people never joke about? We want to do a show about it,” says Swellco & Swellco member Meagan Rumberger. “And of course, that’s bestiality.” Rumberger is lounging in the Kensington headquarters of Swellco & Swellco, a one-year-old troupe of clowns, burlesque dancers, puppeteers, hypnotists and filmmakers, which includes everyone from drag cabaret veteran Needles Jones to taxidermy artist Beth Beverly. Robert Brown, the group’s leader, is wearing a sober black suit and a starched red button-down, but manages to still look odd. A blonde on the ground next to him is buttoning up her bustier. On the wall, there’s a rasterized image of the famous photograph of a 9-yearold Vietnamese girl running naked from a napalm attack. A fat man in the kitchen is dressed like Elvis. And Brown is musing, as he often does, on the decay of man. “I generally feel like things are really miserable out there,” he says, sneering. “Life has gotten really, really shitty. The empire’s burning. Things are falling apart. And if that’s the case, you might as well just have fun and indulge all your urges.” Indeed, that’s Swellco & Swellco’s credo: The world is ending, so throw a party. Though the group has held only three events thus far — the aforementioned bestiality bash, an amateur go-go contest raising awareness about “puppet persecution,” and a screening of the film Dead Hooker in a Trunk — it’s already developed a reputation befitting people with such a hedonistic philosophy. At the “Anti-Bestiality Educational Awareness Outreach Charity Mixer,” a fight broke out among the security guards themselves. Tables and microphones were broken. One performer whipped out his penis, which was covered in fake blood. There are high hopes for the upcoming events, too: For an October birthday soirée, the troupe is planning to obtain a petting zoo — or at the very least, a “furry zoo,” says Rumberger. Also, as part of its monthly movie series headed by former TLA manager Greg Christie, Swellco & Swellco will be screening exploitation films like Stingray Sam and another by the makers of Tokyo Gore Police and The Machine Girl. This is all good fun, but does it mean anything? Is Swellco & Swellco nothing but grown-up Suicide Girls and gothic Merry Pranksters? Or does it portend something that so many people are signing on to the troupe’s doomsday worldview? Swellco & Swellco already has 800-plus Facebook fans. They’ve broken attendance records at Bob & Barbara’s, and are, as a result, on the lookout for a new venue. Recently, some members were even in talks with A&E about filming their own

reality show. (That fell through, however.) Christie, the film programmer, argues that the group is popular because it can wake people up from modern life’s funk. Perhaps such extremism is what it takes these days. “In the wake of Netflix, it’s been nearly impossible to get people away from their laptops,” he says. “But if something’s going to get them away, it’s going to be a topless burlesque dancer biting off a chicken’s head.” He also believes there’s a reason that Swellco & Swellco is catching on in Philadelphia, specifically. “When you look into the history of the city, it’s really a dark history. There’s a lot underneath the surface,” says Christie. Likewise, the group attracts Philly artists who are “involved with more mainstream performance acts, but underneath it they have a burning desire to go a little bit more extreme. I program films. Normally I would be a little nervous about showing Dead Hooker in a Trunk and all the potentially misogynistic connotations of it … but when I work with Swellco & Swellco, I’m free to be myself.” But is Swellco & Swellco misogynistic? On its website swellco2000.com, there are countless images of bloody, scantily clad girls. At the most recent film screening, they held a dead hooker look-alike contest. On their Facebook page, a Swellco &

Swellco fan reports, “I LOVE girls pumped fulla’ formaldahyde!!!! [sic] they don’t ask questions and they can’t say no!” Jim Black, a hypnotist and Brown’s right-hand man, denies it. “If Greg came to us with Dead Construction Worker in a Trunk, that would be great. … We would exploit anyone, regardless of sex, regardless of religion.” Perhaps. After all, there are a million ways to construe Swellco & Swellco’s work, not the least of which is that it’s all one giant mindfuck. Another widely held interpretation is that the troupe is a parody of a sinister corporation, with artists referring to each other as “board members” and fans as “customers.” “Corporations are a lot more evil than they present themselves to be. This is a corporation that’s evil to the extreme,” says Black. Without skipping a beat, Brown asks me, “Do you want mushrooms?” I decline, but stick around for a while. A lot of wine is drunk. People play with animal masks and balloons, and smoke cigarettes on the deck. A few girls take off their tops, as does one guy. Funny photos are taken. There’s cake. At the very least, these guys know how to throw a party. I’d swing by if the world were ending. (holly.otterbein@citypaper.net)

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WALK OF LIFE Spread across Philly, New York City and New Orleans, The Walkmen lighten up and soldier on. words by JULIA ASKENASE

he Walkmen arrive late, in waves. It’s the second day of the XPoNential Music Festival at Wiggins Park in Camden, N.J. The band is prepping to release Lisbon, its sunniest record to date. Frontman Hamilton Leithauser complains about the traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike between here and Brooklyn as he and Peter Bauer (organ) amble toward a picnic table overlooking the Delaware. When bassist Walter Martin approaches moments later, they debate everyone else’s whereabouts. “Every person — including the horn section and the sound person — took their own car,” Leithauser says. The distance and comical miscommunication between band members has come with settling into adulthood. They’re all married and in their 30s now; some of them have kids. And over the past several years, guitarist Paul Maroon, drummer Matt Barrick and Bauer ditched New York City for Philadelphia. The commute is one they’ve come to know and loathe — first by Chinatown bus and now by car — but it keeps the band going. Leithauser, a trim figure towering at 6-foot-5 with a dirty-blond buzzcut, appears uncharacteristically casual today in his gray T-shirt and blue cords. The Walkmen are known as sharp dressers; their affinity for button-downs and slacks has always seemed a natural extension of their appreciation for classic style. They insist on using vintage instruments from the ’50s and ’60s, and still haul an upright piano on tour. They even used to operate an analog recording studio in Harlem. When Leithauser discusses lyrics, he reveals strongest concern for the way turns of phrase fit the music. Perhaps that’s why some folks have misunderstood The Walkmen over the years. The band debuted during the buzzed-about New York City rock revival of the early 2000s (“a little footnote in the Interpol article,” Leithauser remembers) with an alluring aesthetic: Jaded lyrics evoking floundering relationships and ambivalence toward growing up matched the coarseness of Leithauser’s howling vocals and the jagged jangle of Maroon’s guitar. Accented by twinkling keys and swathed in reverb, their early albums played like chilly New York nights. “I remember our old manager telling me that everyone assumes we’re this very serious band. And I was like, “‘No, they don’t.’ And she was like, ‘Yes, they do,’” Leithauser recalls, laughing. “We weren’t like arguing and crying when we wrote ‘The Rat,’” adds Bauer, describing the fast-paced, caustic anthem off their sophomore record, which featured lines like, “When I used to go out, I’d know everyone I saw/ Now I go out alone if I go out at all.” Their bold third record, A Hundred Miles Off, felt somewhat patchy, but hinted at the luminous sonic departure to come on 2008’s You & Me — where hazy organ, horns and ringing guitar created warmth and intimacy on lyrical vignettes of travel and romance. Lisbon, their fifth original record, continues in a similarly light-hearted vein, but with one key difference: The band has shed nearly all its signature reverb. Save for two earlier-recorded tracks, the album’s crisp sound comes mostly from sessions with producer John Congleton at his Dallas studio, using

microphones taped to a concrete floor to capture a natural bounce and slapback echo for guitar delay. “I’ve wanted to dry out my sound for years,” Maroon explains later, via e-mail. “It just never really happened until I realized how much I love the playing of Scotty Moore with Elvis Presley.” Several tracks reflect this raw, back-tobasics approach inspired by Sun Recordsera rock ’n’ roll. The opening drums on “Victory” recall the clickety-clack of Presley’s “Mystery Train,” and the guitarand-drum interplay on “Blue As Your Blood” creates a rockabilly swing. “Angela Surf City” charges toward a riotous chorus with a frenetic surf-rock beat and chiming guitar strums. The guys are already plunging into new material, despite Maroon’s recent relocation to New Orleans. But unlike the old days of late-night meetings on subway platforms to hand off 8-track

tapes, they now e-mail MP3s as ideas develop. “Not seeing each other hasn’t really slowed things down at all,” Leithauser says later over the phone. “Maybe it has sort of streamlined the process.” Onstage at XPoNential, they rip through a vigorous set to an all-ages crowd with a strong families-on-lawnchairs contingent. It might be a far cry from the Greenwich Village rock clubs of their early days, but it seems to fit where they are now. They could easily bring their kids here. They close their set to the leisurely “Stranded,” and Leithauser’s wife, Anna, joins him onstage in the horn section as he delivers a sweet, velvety croon. It’s clear they’ve struck a balance between the music that is their livelihood and the rest of their lives. And that’s no small feat. (editorial@citypaper.net)

¥ Lisbon dropped Sept. 14 on Fat Possum.

RAT KINGS: The Walkmen’s new Lisbon is their sunniest to date.

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TWO’S COMPANY A new wave of theater bucks the economic trend. words by MARK COFTA

hiladelphia theater: stronger than ever? Despite the recession, major companies (the Arden, the Walnut, the Wilma) and smaller ones (11th Hour, Azuka, BRAT) are heading into the fall season with full force, and two new troupes — the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective and Quintessence Theatre Group — are debuting ambitious productions. Both companies, whose sheer existence is encouraging in this age of economic downsizing, have lofty ambitions. Quintessence means “the fifth essence,” explains associate artistic director Pamela Reichen, referencing the ancient Greeks’ four elements (earth, air, fire, water). “The fifth [is] the stardust that makes us all who we are.” “We adapt for modern audiences,” says Reichen. “With Shakespeare, that means cutting to make it accessible, or setting it in a way to make it more relevant.” Their first season at Mount Airy’s Sedgwick Theater (in a 1928 artdeco cinema) starts with Shakespeare’s Henry V, then an adaptation of Plato’s Apology, Molière’s Don Juan and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.“We’ll never tell a story that we don’t think people can relate to today.” The Philadelphia Artists’ Cooperative (PAC) has similar goals with its inaugural production of John Webster’s 1613 drama The Duchess of Malfi at the Broad Street Ministry. “It’s interesting that Quintessence is popping up at the same time as us,” says director Dan Hodge, who founded PAC with fellow Philadelphia actors Damon Bonetti, Charlotte Northeast and Krista Apple. “Theater seems to be in trouble: Now more than ever, technology is changing our lives. We don’t have to leave the house to get things done, don’t have to encounter another human being.” Nevertheless, Hodge sees potential: “There’s something incredibly vital about having people in a room together.” Quintessence, like PAC, wants to engage a modern audience. Henry V will play in the round, so with only 100 seats, everyone will be very close. Moreover, the cast is all male. “A lot of Shakespeare’s comedy comes off better with men,” says Reichen, noting that men played all women’s roles in Shakespeare’s

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theater. “But it’s not campy — we’re honoring the characters.” Oh, and don’t read The Duchess of Malfi before seeing PAC’s production, Hodge cautions. “It’s full of surprises, and remarkably clear and vital,” he says, with political intrigue, sex, espionage and werewolves. The accomplished cast, led by Northeast and Bonetti (Apple is busy with The Wilma’s Macbeth), will have a “clean, tailored, sleek” look designed by Katherine Fritz — not quite modern, but not tied to any one era. “A specific period is a danger in itself,” Hodge says, “because people connect it too much to historical events.” PAC views every production “not just as a theater piece, but a dialogue between different art forms.” Composer David Britton provides live accompaniment, and art by painter A. Martin Campos and his students complements the production. “We’re sowing seeds, and we’ll see what takes,” says Hodge. “We’re trying to find ways to inspire artists.” Both theaters have ambitious future plans. Quintessence envisions a repertory company “in the traditional British sense,”

meaning full-time actors performing a rotating roster of plays. “It’s a way that an actor can live a real life,” Reichen explains, “and actors are better playing comedy one night, drama the next — it’s fresher and more interesting for everybody.” The actor-created PAC plans one major production, plus readings each year, and also aims to empower actors. “All four of us have healthy careers,” says Hodge, “but it’s great to get together and discuss what really jazzes us.” In today’s theater, actors are journeymen: “If you’re a painter, you have skills, you create — but an actor has to wait to be handed the brushes.” PAC wants to cast great actors in small roles, and roles that they wouldn’t normally play. “We’re a collective,” Hodge says, “so casting decisions are shared by the group.” (m_cofta@citypaper.net)

¥ Henry V, Sept. 22-Oct. 17, $10-$30, Quintessence Theatre Group at the Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave., 215-240-6055, quintessencetheatre.org; The Duchess of Malfi, Sept. 23-Oct. 9, $15, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective, Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad St., 800-838-3006, philartistscollective.weebly.com.

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SEPT. 25, 2010 – JAN. 9, 2011 Leonard Baskin: Art from the Gift of Alfred Appel, Jr. was organized by the Delaware Art Museum. Support for this exhibition is provided by Family & Friends of Alfred Appel, Jr. This exhibition is made possible, in part, by grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Images: (top to bottom) Leonard Baskin AET 42, 1962. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). Color woodcut on paper, 32 x 23 1/2 inches. Gift of Alfred Appel, Jr., 2009. © Estate of Leonard Baskin, Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York. | Dutch 17th-Century Artist, 1963. Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). Watercolor and graphite on paper, 27 1/4 x 40 1/2 inches. Gift of Alfred Appel, Jr., 2009. © Estate of Leonard Baskin, Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York.

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Witness more than 70 haunting, dramatic pieces by American artist Leonard Baskin (1922-2000), whose work appears in major museums around the country. This collection is now a permanent part of the Delaware Art Museum thanks to the generosity of renowned professor and Nabokov scholar Alfred Appel, Jr.

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ROCK/POP/ HIP-HOP

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drowsy boy-girl dream-pop.

Oct. 10, Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J., 866-614-4183, livenation.com.

Oct. 14, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-435-9849, johnnybrendas.com.

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THERMALS

CORIN TUCKER

PAVEMENT

First track on Personal Life:“I’m Gonna Change Yr Life.” Last track: “You Changed My Life.” The album isn’t quite that epiphanic, but it is a solid gospel from your favorite indie cynics.

It’s taken a few years, but the divided shards of Sleater-Kinney are starting to dig themselves in. Janet’s drumming with the Jicks and Quasi, Carrie’s doing comedy on IFC with Fred Armisen, and vibrato-voiced Corin is launching a solo career with a heavy, hooky rock album.

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Sept. 17, with Kurt Vile, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave., 215-893-1999, manncenter.org.

NO AGE

GHOSTFACE KILLAH

This noisy L.A. lo-fi duo’s second album — Everything in Between, about to drop on Sub Pop — will burrow into your skull through your headphones like a fuzzy wittle parasite.

Last year’s R&B-burdened Ghostdini the Wizard of Poetry was strange, even for the weirdest Wu in the Tang Clan. How he went from the “hey bitch I fucked your friend” to “no more discussion, we can get to kiss and hugging” is a mystery. Good to hear him wising up a little but, hey Ghosty, you know Houdini wasn’t a wizard, right?

Sept. 20, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, r5productions.com.

SUPERCHUNK / JENNY & JOHNNY Superchunk’s 1991 classic No Pocky for Kitty just got the reissue treatment, but don’t sleep on the new one. Majesty Shredding (on Merge, of course) is a hyper pogo-in-place chunk of indie heaven. That Jenny Lewis/Johnny Rice duo project opens; their I’m Having Fun Now is a bit catchier and less arty than you might expect. Sept. 22, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com.

TITUS ANDRONICUS / FREE ENERGY Riddled with dystopian Jersey anthems and loud, gutty drinking songs, Titus Andronicus’ The Monitor could just be the best album of 2010. That said, you might leave this show saying Philly’s Free Energy was the life of the party. Sept. 23, First Unitarian Church.

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Oct. 12, First Unitarian Church.

Funny. Nirvana covering the Vaselines like crazy wasn’t enough to lure these sweet Scottish folkies back together, but here they are now, writing new stuff and reissuing the old. I’ll take it. Oct. 3, First Unitarian Church.

THE XX One last victory lap for the sultry Brit-goth minimalists, then we’ll require a new album. Oct. 4, Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St., r5productions.com.

HOLD STEADY Doubles as group therapy for your rock ’n’ roll problems, real or imagined. Oct. 5, Trocadero.

BUILT TO SPILL I wanna see movies of my dreams. Oct. 7, Trocadero.

SCOUT NIBLETT Mesmerizingly weirdly brilliant singer-guitarist-drummer-imp. Oct. 7, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, themanhattanroom.com.

GORILLAZ For a cartoon band, Damon Albarn’s hip-hop-rock-A/V club sure does make a lot

Oct. 28, First Unitarian Church.

JEDI MINDS TRICKS Return of the Philly/Camden hip-hop antiheroes. Oct. 29, Trocadero.

Oct. 14, Trocadero.

GUIDED BY VOICES

ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN

This tour reunites Bob Pollard with the “classic” GBV lineup from the Alien Lanes/Bee Thousand era. Hot freaks!

If the Ghostface show sells out, you can hit up some

Nov. 6, Trocadero.

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MANAYUNK ROXBOROUGH ART CENTER

No matter how many times you’ve seen dance master Paul Taylor’s troupe at Annenberg, you likely haven’t viewed the pieces on this program — they’re all Philadelphia premières.

FLY sold out a Kennedy Center engagement and it’s easy to see why, what with this stellar lineup of innovative women choreographers: Bebe Miller, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Germaine Acogny, Dianne McIntyre and Carmen de Lavallade. It’s a rare treat to have such a broad artistic span of the African diaspora all on one stage.

BY ROBIN RICE ¥(r_rice@citypaper.net)

Former Daily News photographer G. Loie Grossmann has moved “From Photography to Dreamscapes.” Her current solo show consists of digitally altered photographs printed on canvas. Through Sept. 26, Manayunk Roxborough Art Center, 419 Green Lane, 215-4823363, mrartcenter.org.

FLEISHER/OLLMAN GALLERY

Sept. 23-Nov. 27, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, 1616 Walnut St., Suite 100, 215-545-7562, fleisher-ollmangallery.com.

PROXIMITY GALLERY

Roland Petit’s dramatic ballet Carmen, still stylish after all these years, shares a bill with George Balanchine’s crisp Concerto Barocco, plus a work by resident choreographer Matthew Neenan. Oct. 21-24, Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St., 215551-7000, paballet.org.

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Oct. 28-30, Painted Bride, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org .

KORESH DANCE CO. One of the city’s hottest dance companies performs two world premières by Roni Koresh, who continues to reflect upon relationships, forgotten dreams, personal aspirations and other multifarious circumstances.

Sharp Dance Co. translates human experience and emotion into strong, clear movement. Now five years old, the company continues to polish its kinetic technique in Revelation.

Oct. 28-31, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St., 215-985-0420, philadelphiatheatrecompany.org.

Oct. 22-24, Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine St., 215-880-2306, sharpdance.org.

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Oct. 1-30, Proximity Gallery, 2434 E. Dauphin St., 267-825-2949, proximityart.com.

PHILADELPHIA OPEN STUDIO TOURS

Oct. 2-3 (west of Broad) and 9-10 (east of Broad), various locations; “Selections from the Studio,” through Oct. 13, CFEVA, 1521 Locust St., lower level; 215-546-7775, x. 13, philaopenstudios.com.

MOUNT AIRY CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS SPACE/ALLENS LANE ART CENTER Sixteen members of the Northwest Artists’ Collective are showing expressive and surreal paintings, photographs and sculpture in “1 exhibition in 2 locations.” Through Oct. 22, Mount Airy Contemporary Artists Space, 25 W. Mt. Airy Ave., 267270-2787, mountairycontemporary.com; and Allens Lane Art Center, 601 W. Allens Lane, 215-248-0546, allenslane.org.

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OF KINGS AND FOOLS Leslie Dworkin and Darla Stanley, two deep-thinking dancers who once graced our local scene, return for a spell with this absurdist production about journeys of self-discovery. Oct. 1-2, Conwell Dance Theater, Temple University, 1801 N. Broad St., 800-2984200, temple.edu/boyer.

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More than 300 artists are opening their workspaces and studios for the annual Philadelphia Open Studios Tours. Visitors can use a free mobile app or a printed directory to navigate the self-guided west-of-Broad/east-of-Broad tours; an explosion of workshops, talks, exhibitions and receptions surrounds the festival. One sidebar show, “Selections from the Studio,” is composed of work by members of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA), a POST organizer; the selections were made by Adelina Vlas, assistant curator of modern and contemporary art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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The Autumn Society and the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society collaborated in organizing “Hallowed Halloween” at Proximity. Thirty-five artists will present personal takes on the nostalgic orange-and-black imagery of skeletons, goblins, ghosts and witches.

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Celebrating John Ollman’s 40th year at Fleisher/Ollman, “Four Decades,” a sort of curatorial retrospective, will feature work exemplifying the gallery’s internationally significant role in the fields of ethnographic, self-taught and contemporary art.

Oct. 21-23, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, annenbergcenter.org.

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Nov. 16-20, Annenberg Center.

BALLET X Philly’s leading contemporary ballet ensemble offers an eclectic program, including a work by Tania Isaac, whose Caribbean-based movement should prove an interesting challenge for these hot-chops dancers. Nov. 17-21, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-546-7824, balletx.org.

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Parsons’ full-length Remember Me combines emphatic rock-opera music, big video projections and über-expressive dance to tell the tale of a tragic love triangle. Is there any other kind? Dec. 2-4, Annenberg Center.

DANCE THEATER X In Dance Theater X’s latest work, World Headquarters, New Age spirituals and traditional African dance propel a science-fiction-based story about being moved to action when justice fails to prevail. Dec. 3-4, Painted Bride.

THE NUTCRACKER, XMAS PHILES, PHILLY-NUTT-CRAK-UP ’Tis the season for holiday fare, from old chestnuts to new send-ups. Pennsylvania Ballet’s Nutcracker, Dec. 4-31, Academy of Music; Philadanco’s Xmas Philes, Dec. 10-12, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter. org; ContempraDance Theatre’s Philly-Nutt-Crak-Up, Dec. 10-11, Mandell Theater, Drexel University, 3300 Chestnut St., 610-225-3007, contempradance.com.

MUMMENSCHANZ An engaging retrospective by internationally renowned masters of mime masquerade and magic. Fantastical, family-friendly fun.

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Dec. 16-18, Annenberg Center.

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BY MARK COFTA ¥(m_cofta@citypaper.net)

THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Two companies are producing Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn’s Tonywinning, family-friendly musical: Theatre Horizon in Norristown and Broad Street’s Philadelphia Theatre Co (PTC). Horizon’s back-to-school version boasts Barrymore Award-winner Jennie Eisenhower and a terrific young cast including Steve Pacek and Alex Keiper in this high-energy, audience-participation romp. Centre Theater’s intimate venue trumps the larger, more staid Suzanne Roberts Theatre for Spelling Bee, but PTC’s co-production with the Papermill Playhouse should be first-rate, too. Theatre Horizon, through Oct. 3, 208 DeKalb St., Norristown, 610-283-2230, theatrehorizon.org; PTC, Nov. 12-Dec. 12, 480 S. Broad St., 215-985-0420, philadelphiatheatrecompany.org.

AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY Hedgerow Theatre reaches into its illustrious past for novelist Theodore Dreiser’s drama about greed, ambition and romance, An American Tragedy, which premièred at Hedgerow 75 years ago. Director Penelope Reed’s revival results from a partnership with the Wharton Esherick Museum (woodworking

craftsman Esherick, 1887-1970, lived in Paoli and designed for Hedgerow) and UPenn, where Esherick will be celebrated as part of a symposium in October. Sept. 22-Oct. 10, Hedgerow Theatre, 64 Rose Valley Road, Media, 610-565-4211, hedgerowtheatre.org.

MACBETH Don’t expect Artistic Director Blanka Zizka’s Macbeth to be anything like your mama’s Shakespeare. The Wilma’s first-ever Bardic play promises to be an apocalyptic tour-de-force, set in the ruins of a crumbling modern civilization (designed by the incomparable Mimi Lien) and inspired by Berlin’s fall at World War II’s end. Broadway veteran C.J. Wilson plays the title role, and Jacqueline Antaramian (9 Parts of Desire, Scorched) is his ambitious Lady. Sept. 29-Nov. 7, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-546-7824, wilmatheater.org.

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THE EARLY BIRD Director Tom Reing’s Inis Nua specializes in discovering plays from “across the pond,” and begins this season with the American première of Leo Butler’s drama about a couple cracked apart when they confront parents’ darkest fear: their child’s sudden disappearance. Oct. 26-Nov. 7, Amaryllis at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-454-9776, inisnuatheatre.org.

RENT Expect a fresh new staging of the oft-seen Jonathan Larson musical when 11th Hour Theatre Co. joins with Drexel’s Mandell Professionals in Residence program in the young award-winning company’s biggest production yet. Barrymore-winner Michael Philip O’Brien (Avenue X) plays Roger, and Steve Pacek, three-time Barrymore nominee, is Mark. Nov. 5-21, Mandell Theater, Drexel University, 3300 Chestnut St., 267-987-9865, 11thhourtheatrecompany.org.

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While Brat Productions’ adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie seems the obvious Halloween choice, Azuka Theatre (nominated for two Barrymore Awards for last fall’s The Long Christmas Ride Home) offers a fresh alternative with Jennifer Haley’s acclaimed shocker about suburban teens addicted to an online horror game and sucked into a Twilight Zone-ish blurring of fantasy and reality. Sure, check out Carrie (already made into three films and a flop musical), but go be scared by a story you don’t already know.

The Tectonic Theatre Project and writer-director Moises Kaufman made history when its actors visited Laramie, Wyo., in 1998 to interview the friends, family, fellow citizens and killers of Matthew Shepard, victim of a brutal hate crime, and created the often-produced Laramie Project. A decade later, they returned and discovered a new story, about how we construct our own history, and created The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Tectonic presents two performances of each play with post-show chats.

Oct. 14-31, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St., 215-733-0255, azukatheatre.org.

Nov. 11-13, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, annenbergcenter.org.

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An encore of local composer Andrea Clearfield’s enticing Lung-ta, directly inspired by her in-thefield musicological work in Tibet.

The most powerful operatic take on Shakespeare has long been absent from Philadelphia stages. It is a highly challenging masterpiece; bravi to OCP for taking it on.

Nov. 21, Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square, 215-848-7647, networkfornewmusic. org.

Oct. 1, 3, 6, 10 and 15, Academy of Music, 1420 Locust St., 215-732-8400, operaphila.org.

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Here’s a terrific collection of early 20th century masterpieces by a redoubtable student ensemble; works by Griffes, Milhaud, Martin and Stravinsky.

The Philly-native drummer returns with his longtime collaborator, French pianist Jean-Michel Pilc.

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A period instrument homage to the music-drenched city of Dresden, which was a hub of the German Baroque movement. This acclaimed local ensemble presents a program of composers who will be familiar to their growing legions of fans: Fasch, Hasse, Weiss, Vivaldi and Zelenka. Oct. 3, Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Ave., Oct. 2, Arch Street Meeting House, 320 Arch St., 215-755-8776, tempestadimare.org.

TAKÁCS STRING QUARTET WITH JEFFREY KAHANE As some of the vaunted names in the string quartet world age, and even go out of business, it is good to know that the younger generation is better than ever. Here is a superb foursome in a wonderful program of Schubert, and a new work by Daniel Kellogg. Pianist Kahane will play the great, sprawling Schubert Sonata in B flat. Oct. 15, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts.org.

Dec. 5, Kimmel Center, 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts. org.

SIMONE DINNERSTEIN Brooklyn-based Dinnerstein scored a huge hit with her unconventionally produced recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. It started here; Astral Artists was her first agent, and Philadelphia was the launching pad for her career. Dec. 6, Church of the Holy Trinity, 1904 Walnut St., 215-735-6999, astralartists.org.

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AMIR ELSAFFAR’S TWO RIVERS The Iraqi-American trumpeter marries influences from jazz and Iraqi maqqam. Oct. 2, Painted Bride, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.

Oct. 8-9, Chris’ Jazz Café.

BOBBY HUTCHERSON AND CEDAR WALTON Two hard-bop greats (and newly minted NEA Jazz Masters) combine forces. Oct. 9, Montgomery County Community College, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell, 215-641-6300, mc3.edu.

CINDY BLACKMAN Lenny Kravitz’s longtime drummer has dedicated her latest project to the energetic fusion of Tony Williams’ pioneering Lifetime band.

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Oct. 15, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Parkway, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.

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ANDY LASTER’S SOUNDS OF CAIRO

Oct. 18, Academy of Vocal Arts, 1920 Spruce St., 215-438-4027, frnd1807@verizon.net.

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DOLCE SOUNO

The always-inventive guitarist performs a solo score to Charlie Chaplin’s classic The Kid.

The saxophonist travels in both space and time to find an unusual source of inspiration in 1920s Egypt, to be performed by a stellar quartet featuring cellist Alex Waterman, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring and bassist Kermit Driscoll.

1807 AND FRIENDS WITH CYNTHIA RAIM Thirty Years! That’s how long this homegrown ensemble has been presenting world-class music in informal and intimate concerts. Farrenc, Fauré and a Brahms piano trio with the terrific Raim as guest.

New music by one of the leaders of the new tonality movement, Richard Danielpour. His Remembering Neda: Trio for Flute Cello and Piano is an homage to a martyr of the anti-totalitarian movement in Iran. Oct. 22, Trinity Center for Urban Life, 2212 Spruce St., 267-252-1803, dolcesouno.com.

PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA

Sept. 26, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, arsnovaworkshop.org.

PHILLY/NEW YORK ALL-STAR BAND

All ears will be on this first concert featuring conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin since his appointment as the next music director of the Orchestra. Symphonies from Haydn and Mahler to test his mettle.

The name says it all, but the band features saxophonist Jaleel Shaw, trumpeter Duane Eubanks, and the rhythm section of George Burton, Johnathan Blake and Dwayne Burno.

Oct. 29, Kimmel Center, 215-893-1999, philorch.org.

Oct. 1, Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-

DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE Talk about history — here’s an orchestra that this season celebrates its 462nd birthday. A single work will be on this program, the grandly humanistic German Requiem of Brahms. Nov. 2, Kimmel Center, 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS “The Scarlet Letter” is a brand spanking new opera commissioned in honor of the 75th anniversary of this vaunted vocal training ground. Philadelphia composer Margaret Garwood has set the brooding Romantic masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nov. 19, Academy of Vocal Arts.

SIMONE DINNERSTEIN

Oct. 21, Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., arsnovaworkshop.org.

DAVE BRUBECK The 50th anniversary of his landmark Time Out has come and gone, but the pianist continues apace as he nears 90 years old. Oct. 26, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-8931999, kimmelcenter.org.

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The soon-to-be NEA Jazz Master weaves his deft soprano sax into a vigorous big band setting. Oct. 30, Chris’ Jazz Café.

CURTIS FULLER The trombone legend and ex-Jazz Messenger will be joined by a band of local hard-bop masters. Nov. 12-13, Chris’ Jazz Café.

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PANAMONK REVISITED Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez rethought the music of Dizzy Gillespie last season, and now returns to an older project dedicated to Thelonious Monk, with frequent collaborators John Patitucci and Terri Lyne Carrington. Nov. 13, Kimmel Center.

No better young band for true Creole and Cajun music made for dancing. Sept. 25, TK Club, 500 E. Hector St., Conshohocken, allonsdanser.org.

SING OUT! SING IN Hard to imagine that Pete Seeger’s Sing Out! magazine is celebrating 60 years. Some of the best of the socially conscious folkies — John McCutcheon, Magpie and John Flynn, among a large group of luminaries — will urge you to lift your voices in a family-friendly late-afternoon event. Oct. 3, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 888-746-4688, singout.org/rus60philly.html.

BUIKA Of African descent but raised in Mallorca, Buika interprets mainland Spanish styles like flamenco, and Mexican songs with Cuban collabs, all with an original yet appropriate touch. Oct. 26, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-8931955, kimmelcenter.org.

SARAH MCQUAID The same Sarah who worked at Vintage Instruments and studied at Haverford is now HQ’d in Cornwall and lionized wherever traditional Celtic song is appreciated. Her voice is distinctive, and likewise her guitar, thanks to her penchant for open tunings.

TIM O’BRIEN & BRYAN SUTTON

Oct. 30, Psalm Salon.

Nov. 18, Rotunda.

Country to the bone but skilled in many popular styles, sweet singer/writer/fiddler O’Brien and multi-instrumentalist Sutton will make you feel at home in the mountains.

GREG OSBY AND 9 LEVELS

Oct. 6, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-2221400, worldcafelive.com.

The progressive saxophonist’s new band serves as an introduction to his label, Inner Circle Music, and several of the young musicians who will feature on it.

DUO JALAL

Alan Reid has been visiting Philly for decades with the Batties. Now the band is moving on to other musical projects, so this is the last chance to see the genial keyboardist and songwriter in his habitual setting.They’ve been breaking in a new guy for months so this farewell tour is more congratulations to Alan than mourning the breakup. The transition promises to be smooth.

CHES SMITH & THESE ARCHES One of the most creative young drummers in modern jazz, Smith makes his first Philly appearance with his new quartet featuring guitarist Mary Halvorson, saxophonist Tony Malaby and accordionist Andrea Parkins.

Nov. 19, Philadelphia Museum of Art.

JOEY DEFRANCESCO The Philly-born organ heavyweight works off the turkey with a Thanksgiving weekend run.

Classical violinist and percussionist collaborate on Middle Eastern-inspired music. The teaser vids are irresistible. Oct. 9, Psalm Salon, 5841 Overbrook Ave., 215-4777578, psalmsalon.com.

Nov. 26-27, Chris’ Jazz Café.

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DAVE HOLLAND BIG BAND

Multimedia stories of biblical women, as influenced by a Persian Jewish upbringing.

One of the most innovative large ensembles in jazz, bassist Holland’s big band makes its long overdue Philly debut. Dec. 11, Painted Bride.

MARIO PAVONE’S ORANGE DOUBLE TENOR The great bassist, best known for his collaborations with pianist Paul Bley (which resulted in one of the best CDs of 2008), has assembled a fantastic new sextet headlined by the twin tenors of Tony Malaby and Marty Ehrlich. Dec. 12, International House.

Oct. 17, Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 215-266-1218, jewishdialogue.org.

Dec. 16, Rotunda.

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CEDRIC WATSON & BIJOU CREOLE

Nov. 12, Sellersville Theater, 24 W. Temple Ave., Sellersville, 215-257-5808, st94.com.

ELAINE HOFFMAN & SUSAN LANKIN WATTS It’s rare to find a mother and daughter carrying on a unbroken line of Klezmer music. These two do it with style and a rush of energy, playing live after the debut of their bio pic: Eateleh: A Life in Klezmer. Dec. 4, Calvary Center.

BRIAN MCNEIL

BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA

On top of being a brilliant interpreter of Scottish music on the fiddle, McNeil is uproariously funny and a devoted champion of working people.

Old-school gospel harmonizing, guaranteed to lift your spirits, no matter what your persuasion or lack thereof, with a special focus on Christmas music.

Oct. 22, Calvary Center, 4740 Baltimore Ave., 215729-1028, crossroadsconcerts.org.

Dec. 10, Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside, 215-572-7650, keswicktheatre.com.

TOMAS FUJIWARA/IDEAL BREAD Double-feature of drummer Fujiwara’s quintet The Hook Up and baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton’s band dedicated to exploring the music of his mentor, Steve Lacy.

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³ ONE FOOT IN AMERICA With the immigration debate getting everyone’s panties in a wad, it’s hard to imagine America was ever able to extend an outstretched hand. But in the early 20th century, boatloads of Jewish refugees were welcomed onto the East Coast, many finding a home right here in Philadelphia. This multifarious exhibit examines this bustling wave of Jewish migration, drawing special attention to the voyages that docked locally. One gallery displays a body of work by Belgian-born artist Eugeen Van Mieghem, whose haunting paintings and sketches offer a firsthand account of emigrants huddled on an Antwerp harbor just before departing their homeland. Another exhibit zeroes in on the history of the Red Star Line, a local shipping company that played a crucial role in transporting millions of passengers to American ports. Through Nov. 21, free, Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St., 215-545-4400, gershmany.org. —Josh Middleton [ kids, etc. ]

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³ TASTING FREEDOM

Nearly a century before the Freedom Riders took off in their buses to raise hell across the segregated South, Philadelphian Octavius Catto began forming his “band of brothers.” This spirited team of former slaves, religious leaders and educators set the state on fire by orchestrating demonstrations against the post-Civil War-era laws that reinforced racial disparity. To shine a light on this little-known revolutionary hero, Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin wrote Tasting Freedom (Temple, Aug. 13), a fat biography that chronicles Catto’s achievements as an activist, teacher and local sports star, and discusses how his local efforts paved the way for more modern movers and shakers like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Wed., Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., free, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org. —Josh Middleton

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For those morally opposed to full-on piracy (file sharing aside), there’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, celebrated every Sept. 19 since 1995.The Independence Seaport Museum has been commemorating the int-arrr-national (sorry) holiday for the past few years, and has even more swashbuckling fun in store this time around. Get your own pirate name, learn about the maritime history of pirating and even meet some parrots from the Philadelphia Zoo. Then, with a special ticket package, you and your crew can explore the Gazela, the 1901 Portuguese ship that sits in the museum’s dock. Though it’s mainly for young scallywags, this afternoon is sure to shiver the timbers of even the saltiest sea dog. Savvy? Sun., Sept. 19, noon-4 p.m., $12, Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd., 215-413-8655, phillyseaport.org. —Eric Schuman

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Q LUKAS JP AND THE NOMAD CLIENTELE with Space Camp,

Jay D Clark Band & Jonathan Waxman, 9pm, $8-$10, The Note, 142 E. Market St., West Chester, 800-594-8499. Q MOORE with Total Fucking

Destruction & Vulcan, 8-12pm, $5, Tritone, 1508 South St., 215-5450475. Q NORTHERN VALENTINE with

The Pointless Forest & Noose of Laurels, 7pm, $5-$7, Green Line Café, 4426 Locust St., 215-2223431. Q PEANUT BUTTER AND JAMS WELCOMES ROCKNOCEROS,

11:30am, $8-$13, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400. Q THE LEGWARMERS, 9pm, $12,

Picking out a gifted gay is like finding hay in a haystack, but once in a while there’s someone who stands out more than the rest. This weekend a panel of local judges will choose six of those shining stars during the second annual Gayborhood Games. Creator Bruce Yelk began the event to provide a competitive platform for singers, comedians and drag queens; the baking, haircutting and bartending contests allow neighborhood businesses to jump in the mix. To up the ante for the 30-some contestants, Yelk invited last year’s winners back to defend their titles. “There’s no reason why [the winners] can’t continue to be the best.” Sat., Sept. 18, 9 p.m., $20-$30, Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., 215-735-5772, nightlifegay.com/tickets. (josh.middleton@citypaper.net) Have an upcoming LGBTQ event? Give it here. E-mail listings@citypaper.net.

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Q THIRD WIRE, 3-10pm, $12,

Crocodile Rock Café, 520 W. Hamilton St., Allentown, 610-434-4600. Q TRANSISTOR RODEO with

Rondo and The Goodes, 9pm, $9, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400. Q WAR HUNGRY with Give,

Salvation, Disengage & Leather, 1pm, $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

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1508 South St., 215-545-0475. Q STRUNG OUT with Rufio, Mute

& We Are The Union, 6:30pm, $14, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 215-563-3980. Q THOSE DARLINS with The

Strangeboys & Gentleman Jesse, 8pm, $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919.

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It may be one helluva trek, but the hourlong drive through Jerz is worth a night frolicking in an amusement park full of homos. Event co-founder Gage Kristofer says he expects nearly 10,000 thrillseekers to flood this all-LGBTQ event. The rides will be running, the food stands serving and, like any bona fide gay soiree, there’ll be music pumping all night long. Fri., Sept. 24, 6 p.m., $45-$150, Six Flags Great Adventure, 1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson, N.J., 646-732-1999, gaysixflags.com.

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EAT THE TWEET ³ PHILADELPHIA’S CHEFS are a bunch of

tweeting fools. But while our favorite local cooks rely on Twitter to keep eaters posted on their latest specials or culinary explorations, they also use the social media tool to rant about topics like sports, the weather, their latest meal and everything else. Here, in no particular order, is a selection of Philly chefs you should follow on Twitter. Matthew Levin, Adsum (@ChefLevin) Following Levin is a peek into the inner workings of a chef who’s just opened a restaurant. Sample Tweet (re: the Philly Naked Bike Ride): “To ride my bike naked through town or not to ride my bike naked through town? I’m gonna go with hell effin no!” Moon Krapugthong, MangoMoon (@mymangomoon) Krapugthongregularly pimps out tantalizing details from her Asian street food restaurant. Sample Tweet: “We just had marinated duck gizzards from the grill … Delicious and crunchy!!!” Scott Schroeder, South Philly Tap Room (@ foodsyoucaneat) Schroeder is bothered by many things, from Top 40 radio to “girls with the same body type as me.” Sample Tweet:“The next person I see with a handle bar moustache that’s under the age of 50 dies” Jeremy Nolen, Brauhaus Schmitz (@BrauhausChef) The beer-bar chef regularly posts sausageriffic photos. Sample Tweet: “Pastrami! It’s like corned beef’s cool uncle.” Delilah Winder, Delilah’s (@ChefDelilah) The 215’s mac ’n’ cheese queen always seems to be traveling. Keep up if you can. Sample Tweet: “Is Philly not the city of Sisterly LOVE too… Hello :)” Gene Giuffi, Cochon (@CochonBYOB) Giuffi fires out plenty of pics from his homey BYOB, but he also takes time to talk a little smack. Sample Tweet: “Tom waits and too much beer=’s a good night” Sean Magee, Time (@chefseanmagee) Sous chef at Time, Magee has a knack for snapping great behind-the-scenes food photos. Sample Tweet: “Hello massive piece of Lancaster pork belly.” Kevin Sbraga, TBD (@KSbraga) The Top Chef finalist (the last episode had not aired as of press time) is hunting for real estate, so followers may be the first to know where he lands. Sample Tweet:“I just saw another amazing restaurant space. This one is in Philadelphia. All I can say is WOW!” Mitch Prensky, Supper (@Supperphilly) Prensky tweets like he speaks, with an enthusiasm difficult to fit into 140 characters. Sample Tweet: “Brunch! Brunch! Brunch! (Trying coin a phrase here). Its ‘brunchalicious’? Huh? Whaddayathink? Anyways, its happening now til 3pm. C ya!” (drew.lazor@citypaper.net)

MR. FREEZE: Gelato prepared with liquid nitrogen is one of several tableside dinner-and-ashow presentations at the Piazza’s Apollinare. NEAL SANTOS

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SHOWTIME AT APOLLINARE This Piazza Italiano puts out solid pizzas, pastas and more. So where is everyone? By Adam Erace

APOLLINARE | The Piazza at Schmidts, 1001 N. Second St., 215-923-

2014, apollinarerestaurant.com. Open Tue.-Sun., noon-11 p.m.; closed Mon. Appetizers, $9-$14; entrées, $12-$40; pizza, $10-$18. Wheelchair accessible.

here there’s smoke, there’s fire — unless you’re at Apollinare, in which case, where there’s smoke there’s vanilla gelato coaxed into a solid state by liquid nitrogen and elbow grease. One recent evening, a waitress worked a More on: giant whisk like a weapon of death, beating the vanilla bean-freckled gelato base in a copper bowl. At the same time, another waitress added the nitrogen in a steady, minus-300-degree stream from a frostencrusted pitcher. They resembled two (younger, prettier) witches at their cauldron, conjuring a Medusa head of icy fork-tongued plumes. The smoke rose and billowed, soon enveloping the sides of the cloth-covered rolling cart and my suddenly-very-cold ankles. All the people in this Piazza ristorante oohed, ahhed. All eight of them — and that included my guest and me, the bartender and the pizzaiolo stationed by a yawning oven. Apollinare sure knows how to put on a show. The question is, for whom?

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Multiple visits to Apollinare, one of them on a Friday, found the restaurant at about 20 percent capacity. Cooks passed in and out of the kitchen, its saloon-style door swinging more than Ryan Howard. With so few customers to charm, the staff milled about the room like sleep-deprived freshmen. A few practiced Italian. Why so quiet, Apollinare? Owner Fabio Auguadro has the cred — he operates three restaurants, a hotel and a catering hall in his homeland of Umbria, from which the Apollinare menus draws inspiration. Up until recently, chef Andrea Scotacci ran the Northern Liberties location, the first of four planned for the U.S. Now, the chef is back in Italy, though his grinning visage still graces the Apollinare website, clutching a 2010 Philly Cooks! award for best dessert (the liquid-nitro gelato), an honor landed shortly after the boyhood friends from Spoleto turned the wine bar Vino into Apollinare in January. MORE FOOD AND Auguadro says he’s just hired two new DRINK COVERAGE chefs to lead his kitchen, meaning I’d be AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / willing to cut the team that cooked my M E A LT I C K E T. meals some slack — if it needed it. You’d think otherwise, but the food isn’t the problem here. Gaffes happened, sure. Halved grape tomatoes come to mind, so over-chilled and tasteless that the pomodorini pizza might as well have been topped with red-dyed ice cubes. So does the loose mussel-stock sauce for the stuffed tortelli, featuring the equivalent of a sun-baked tide pool (scrawny shelled mussels, translucent baby shrimp, fish flakes) rehydrated with white wine. But mostly, Apollinare turns out good food. It’s not as delicious as the fare at James, Le Virtù, Modo Mio or Vetri’s triumvirate, >>> continued on page 56

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Brothers Kyle, Rick and Josh Saini are behind Mumbai Bistro, an in-and-out Indian concept now open in what was Shinju Sushi. There are a few tables set up for sit-in diners, but Mumbaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly takeout â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they have a rotatingdaily selection of fresh-made dal (lentil), vegetarian and chicken dishes on a buffet line, available for the pay-and-weigh price of $4.95 a pound, plus add-ons like bread and fruit lassis. Open daily, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. 930 Locust St., 215-418-0444, mumbaibistro.com.

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Sumo Sushi is a BYO from sisters Wendy Li and Yan Zheng. Specialty rolls at this small lunch-and-dinner joint, located just past the intersection of Broad and Pine, include the Naruto (a riceless combo of two types of tuna, salmon, avocado and tobiko wrapped in cucumber) and the Ocean (shrimp tempura topped with lobster salad, wasabi tobiko and eel sauce). Open Mon.-Thu., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun., noon-10 p.m. 337-41 S. Broad St., 215-985-1115.

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Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney, the long-reigning queens of 13th Street (Lolita, Grocery, Bindi, Verde, Open House), have taken a major step forward with Barbuzzo, a handsome restaurant and bar that also happens to be the duoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first liquor-licensed space. Culling influences from throughout the Mediterranean region, the menu touches on seafood (grilled octopus with piri piri oil; wood-roasted Portuguese sardines); housemade pastas (caserecce, gnocchi, bucatini); Neapolitan-style pizza (baked in a wood-fire oven); and housemade charcuterie (chourico, lomo, sopressata, etc.). Wine, cocktails, beer and sangria round out the booze selection. Dinner served daily, 5 p.m.-midnight. 110 S. 13th St., 215-546-9300, barbuzzo.com.

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Chhaya is a cafĂŠ and casual eatery from husband-and-wife team Brett Shangold and chef Varnana â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vâ&#x20AC;? Beuria. In addition to serving coffee roasted right here in the city by Joe Cesa of Joe Coffee, Chhaya is offering housemade baked goods and an interesting selection of sweet and savory waffles (spicy cornbread, pulled pork-topped, black-and-white marble). They also do brunch, plus small-plate-style dinner service thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available on Friday and Saturday evenings. Open Mon.-Thu., 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri., 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat., 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun., 8 a.m.-3 p.m. 1823 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-465-1000, chhayacafe.com.

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Edna has room to expand her baked-good offerings; she now offers an entirely house-baked selection of fresh muffins and scones, quiches, casseroles and savory bread puddings, plus dessert items. On the caffeinated end, they have a custom â&#x20AC;&#x153;brew barâ&#x20AC;? featuring unique single-origin bean options; thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also French press java on hand for those on the go. Open Mon.-Fri., 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 8 a.m.-5 p.m. 15 S. 20th St., 215-496-9003, nookbakeryandcoffee.com.

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Chef Matthew Levin, who last earned raves at Lacroix, is back with this comfortable bistro at the corner of Fifth and Bainbridge. Levin, teamed with comm-systems consultant Kar Vivekananthan, says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cooking food that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be quick to order himself at this academically themed eatery (Adsumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Latin for â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am hereâ&#x20AC;?), which has room for more than 60 inside and about 20 outdoors. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing foie gras poutine; fried chicken and collards; homemade pierogies; a beast of a burger (topped with pancetta-onion fondue); and â&#x20AC;&#x153;KFCâ&#x20AC;? sweetbreads, among other tricked-out dishes. Preston Eckman, formerly of APO, has designed the cocktail list. Dinner served daily, 5 p.m.-2 a.m.; brunch served Sat.-Sun., 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 700-702 S. Fifth St., 267-888-7002, adsumrestaurant.com.

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MAYBE ONE DAY You will realize how perfect our chemistry was... maybe one day you will see that it was written in the stars... maybe one day I will tell you that I know it’s you... maybe one day I will confess that I read and re-read everything you ever wrote... maybe one day you will see that she will never compare to me... maybe one day I will tell you how I feel... again... maybe one day you will fi-

like you before, I really didn’t even think they existed, kisses!

NO TALK CONTACT We should have a no talk contact because you ask me questions about your personal life that should not even be disgussed and frankly I am fucking tired of it! Who gives a fuck that you have a yeast infection. You need to handle that and do what ever you have to do so that you will not get that in the future...I just don’t understand your way of thinking...especially since I told you that I was on the work phone and ev-

BROKEN HEARTED HOE Oh how I love how easy it is to talk to you, and 90% of the sex we have, and how you always seem to be there when I need you. I love how you are good looking and mature and talented and creative, and of course I love the fact that you are wooing me. I hate that you look exactly like my ex boyfriend, and the fact that I’d rather make out with our co-worker because his hairs longer and am unsure if said co-worker even wants to make out with me anyway.

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nally tell me that you feel the same... maybe one day you will finally let me in... maybe one day you will realize that I will never give up on us.

MY SINGER Since we met at your show the chemistry between us has been amazing! we have been inseperable since August 23 lol. I have enjoyed every date, kiss, and view of your sexy ass!! I hope this can go beyond a few months ,lets make it last! I really appreciate your mannerism,you open the doors for me and all, I really respect how you treat me like the woman that I am. Rock, your personality is amazing and you have no problem with having fun,just really want to say Thank You hun I haven’t met anyone

erything that you were saying is being recorded! I hate the fact that you seem like you aren’t listening! List to what I am saying..stop fucking calling me and telling me about you stank ass pussy and your dumb men problems!

PUSSY FACE This goes out to my old pussy lover! You make me sick because you called me on the phone saying that you wanted to taste me and get it the fuck in! I think that you are pathetic and your girlfriend that you had the baby by, who does she think that she is also not fucking you the way that you supposed to be fucking, according to you because you are coming to me like you want to be with me and that you miss me! Do you really?

This goes to the bitch that was on the train with her stinking ass underarms...what the fuck do you wash your self with a fucking onion or something. I am not understanding what the fuck that was. I said to myself what the fuck kind of man is going to sleep with your nasty ass! I would never sleep with your ass. I thought that I was going to throw up and I had to hold my breath because I was trying to get off at the gallery. I hope that I don’t see you again because you make me so fucking sick! I really wanna throw the fuck up!

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You don’t do shit. You just sit there like a Mary knoll missionary and take it up the ass from all of us. You think we love you? Think again. I swear someone’s making me say this shit, but while you’re at it take your repressed dumb ass to the kitchen and eat a box of Thin Mints. Might give you some flava!

Hey, City & Sanitation department why do you give citations for lame reasons? You give citations for leaves on sidewalk on a day with a wind factor of 45? Then your sister office (City More beautiful) gives out wrong info. They tell callers to bag and recycle leaves mixed with garbage. I thought recycling had to be free of garbage. First, the recycle date for placing leaves out was Dec. 18, and second, I don’t have a car to drop it off. Then you suggest I pay the perpetrators that littered my pavement to clean it. You’re not only insane-you’re stupid. On other days you boast, “IN Delaware County we recycle everything.” I don’t live in Delaware county Mr. I don’t know my job. Your point is moot.

Hey man I heard about you and how you are shitting all over the place. It doesn’t make any sense of how you are shitting here and there! I thought my friend was joking when she told me that you shitted in the street the other day! I said what the fuck is going on with that person. Why would he even dare doing some shit like that, shitting in the street! I hope that I don’t see you because if I catch you..it is going to be you and me! And it isn’t going to be pretty.

Wow! It’s almost been 5 years. Can you believe it?!?! Every single moment with you has not only been a learning experience for the both of us, but just like being in heaven! You are honestly my best friend in this entire world. Thank you for not only 5 years of us, looking sexy as fuck when your on stage and sweaty, but for loving ME FOR ME! You are the true definition of a real man and everything that I could have imagined and more. Happy Birthday and Happy 5 years too! TE AMO BEBE! Your X-TiNasty!

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DAME UN BESO PUMPKIN!

I don’t understand what the fuck the situation is and who you calm to be is a false lie from the beginning. You claimed to have been so cool from the beginning but when I look at your face I could see that you were a lier from the start! I notice that you are a snake and I say to myself, why the fuck are you still running your mouth over and over and there is nothing really appealing about your attitude. I can’t understand your way of thinking and I wonder who the fuck else you plan on fucking over! I hate the fact that you don’t want to say anything else about what is important, but I want you to know to kiss my ass, and this has really changed me and my life from here on!

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UPENN BLOOD PRESSURE STUDY

Is Your Blood Pressure Borderline High? Would You Like To Try Controlling It Naturally With Lifestyle Changes Such As Nutrition, Walking Or Yoga? Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are beginning a new research study examining the effects of YOGA, WALKING and NUTRITION on lowering BLOOD PRESSURE. Qualified participants will receive at no cost: • Study related exams and lab tests • Study related classes, instruction and materials • Compensation will be provided for time & effort If you are not currently on a blood pressure medication or taking regular yoga classes and over 18 years of age, please call the UPENN LIMBS Study Coordinator at (215) 615-6570 or visit the study website: http://limbs. cohenhtn.com

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Working America, AFL-CIO is seeking infor med and enthusiastic candidates to support politicians who will fight for working class families. Working America is an equal opportunity employer and Women and people of color strongly encouraged to apply to: 215-568-2490,

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We have several excellent opportunities in our Northeast Philadelphia office for Master’s-level professionals looking for a rewarding career in the field of Human Services.

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Fight for Working Class Families! Working America, AFL-CIO is seeking informed and enthusiastic candidates to support politicians who will ﬁght for working class families. Working America is an equal opportunity employer and Women and people of color strongly encouraged to apply to: 215-568-2490, or submit resume to: philly@workingamerica.org www.WorkingAmerica.org

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1 BEDROOM WITH LIVING ROOM/KITCHEN - HARDWOOD FLOORS - WASHER/ DRYER - REFIGERATOR - ALARM SYSTEM - NICE BALCONY MUST SEE $850.00 PH#215 287-8063 PETE HUGE 3 BDRM IN N. LIBERTIES

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FOR RENT! Quality 1-2-3 Bedroom Apts. Temple University & International Students Welcome! Call 215-928-8868 TEMPLE OFF-CAMPUS RENTAL

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Temple students - are you looking for a room to rent off campus? - very reasonable, 30 minute commute to school. Non-smokers, please.Very very reasonable. 215-745-2803

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