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ttention Philadelphia bloggers: One day soon, the city’s tax collectors may no longer be coming after you if you report
to the IRS the few nickels you got from the seven Google
ads clicks on your site last year.
Ahoy, progress! Last week, Councilman (and maybe mayoral candidate?) Bill Green introduced legislation to scrap the so-called “blogger tax,” a term that emerged out of the hornet’s nest this newspaper kicked in August when we reported that the city had demanded that some small-time “businesses,” including bloggers, pay $300 for a lifetime business privilege license, or $50 for an annual license [Naked City, “Pay Up,” Valerie Rubinsky, Aug. 19, 2010]. This story went viral, and after a few right-wing websites got a hold of it and painted it as some Orwellian crackdown on free speech, the city was barraged with complaints. Green’s bill is an attempt to rectify that: If you make less than $3,000 a year through activities the federal government deems a hobby, the city will no longer consider you a business, and you won’t have to pay for a business license. If nothing else, Green’s legislation — which Mayor Nutter has yet to comment on — might help ice the black eye that is this city’s reputation with small business. And hey, whatever this city can do to combat its infamous brain drain, we support. In other words: More of this, please.
LESS OF THIS, THOUGH It’s been the worst of times of late for the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD), which has been all over the news for notso-awesome things. They’re not only being sued by the ACLU of Pennsylvania and a local law firm because of their allegedly racist “stop-and-frisk” policy, but also, one of their erstwhile stars, Inspector Daniel Castro, a 25-year vet, was arrested on extortion charges — Castro gets the distinction of being the 15th PPD officer arrested since March 2009 — and then another, a cop was suspended for boozing on the job. But back to that whole stopand-frisk thing: It’s not the first time the ACLU has taken issue with this controversial policy. Earlier this fall, City Paper wrote about the PPD and other local agencies’ aversion to the state’s Right-to-Know Law [Cover Story, “Hall of Secrets,” Holly Otterbein, Sept. 9, 2010]. And guess which files the cops were intent on withholding from the ACLU: If you said the stop-andfrisk cases (or records on officers’ interactions with illegal aliens), pat yourself on the back. (We should note that the allegations in this lawsuit stem from different records than the ones we wrote about: After endless obstinance, you’ll recall, the ACLU got a court to force PPD to disclose those documents; after that, says ACLU staff attorney Mary Catherine Roper, the cops became more forthcoming.) Turns out, PPD had good reason to want to keep those records from the public: The lawsuit, citing data from the Police Department’s Research and Planning Unit, alleges that in 2009, about 72 percent of those targeted for stop-and-frisks were
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— surprise! — black. What’s more, the tactic isn’t terribly effective at preventing crime: Only 8 percent of those stop-andfrisks prompted arrests, and of those, Paul Messing, one of the attorneys on the case, told the Daily News, many were disorderly conduct arrests prompted by the frisks themselves. The suit asks PPD to halt stop-and-frisks without reasonable cause, and to monitor the practice more closely.
EVIL Lost somewhere in the thrashing that Democrats took all over the country — and throughout Pennsylvania — last week was this little nugget from Gov.-elect Tom Corbett, who soundly defeated … wait, what was that guy’s name again? We forget. Anyway. During his acceptance speech, Corbett told the assembled that his “role model” in office would be none other than New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. And since Corbett thinks so highly over his comrade across the Delaware, let’s revisit some of Christie’s shining moments from his first >>> continued on adjacent page
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year in office. First, though, one difference: Corbett will govern with an assist from a Republican-dominated legislature, unlike Christie, who has been forced to negotiate with unfriendly Democrats. That means our new gov could very well act like Christie on steroids. We already know that he’ll acquiesce to the avaricious demands of the natural gas industry that bought him — er, funded his campaign — and deprive this deficit-addled state of the billions of dollars a severance tax could bring in, and probably slash social services in urban areas (read: Philadelphia). After all, that’s just what his role model wants to do: Earlier this year, Christie vetoed a tax on millionaires that would have offset increases in property taxes for the elderly — Jersey’s Office of Legislative Services estimated that a retired couple living on a fixed $40,000 annual income would see a $1,320 tax increase under Christie’s plan, while a dude making $1.2 million would get an $11,598 tax cut — while proposing to lay off 1,300 state workers, gut the state education budget and close state psychiatric hospitals to help balance Jersey’s budget. Then there was the weird incident with that education grant, the one in which, according to his former education commissioner, Bret D. Schundler (whom Christie blamed for the debacle), Christie rejected a compromise that would have qualified his state for $400 million in federal education funds because he didn’t want to appear to have caved to the teachers’ union. The union wanted a guarantee that, if there were layoffs, those teachers with the least seniority would be laid off first. Despite the fact that nearly half a billion
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School District Superintendent Arlene Ackerman and Mayor Michael Nutter will lead a blue-ribbon commission on safe schools. “I say we commission an expensive report, blame it on race and sweep it under the rug,” says Ackerman. “On the contrary, I say we commission an expensive report, blame it on the economy and sweep it under the rug,” says Nutter.
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The School District’s new system for tracking job applicants costs $1.1 million, more than twice as much as proposals from other bidders. That’s some blue ribbon shit right there.
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After two years of construction, the new South Street Bridge reopens. Just kidding haha lookit all those people flopping around in the water.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art breaks ground on an 80,000-square-foot Frank Gehry-designed underground expansion project.“Oooh,” say mole men,“post-structuralism!”
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Pat Gillick, the architect of the Phillies 2008 World Series champions, is named a candidate for the Baseball Hall of Fame. “If inducted, I will trade my plaque for Freddy Garcia.”
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The ACLU of Pennsylvania sues the police department over its “stop and frisk” policy, which allegedly targets blacks and produces few arrests. “Uh, if it produced more arrests, would you drop the case?” ask police.
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Fallen leaves on the tracks make it difficult for SEPTA trains to run on time. Currently under way: $1 billion project to move tracks out from underneath leaves.
largest mass-transportation project in the United States, a rail tunnel connecting New Jersey to New York City under the Hudson River, because he was afraid of cost overruns — despite the Department of Transportation’s efforts to ameliorate those concerns, and the facts that $600 million has already been spent on the project, the feds were kicking in $3 billion and the tunnel would have created 6,000 jobs. Oh yeah, and there’s also the recent U.S. Justice Department Inspector General’s report alleging that Christie, as a U.S. attorney, failed to follow federal travel guidelines and billed taxpayers for stays in luxury hotels. His antipathy to government spending, it seems, only applies to other people. For thinking this is role-model behavior, our governor-elect gets a 21 on the 23-point How Evil Is Tom Corbett? Barometer™. ✚ This week’s report by Jeffrey C. Billman and Juliana Reyes. E-mail us at
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LIAR, LIAR ³ IF THERE’S ONE great, confounding hang-up of the news media, it’s the almost-pathologic fear of calling someone a liar. To be sure, there are good reasons: Lies are hard to pin down, and the act of lying requires that slippery eel of intent — to lie, the liar has to know he or she is lying. Still, it’s hard not to wonder if journalists are sometimes a little too comfortable with staring a bald-faced … mistruth … in the eyes and deciding, “Eh. Not my job.” Last week, Kathryn Klaber, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition — a trade group that represents the interests of companies drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale formation — addressed a group of drillers and other gas industry folk at the Developing Unconventional Gas East (DUG East) conference in Pittsburgh. Exactly what she said we don’t know — I wasn’t there. But what she PowerPointed I do, thanks to more than two dozen presentations obtained by Mitch Troutman of the scrappy drilling watchdog group Pennsylvania From Below. Not to say Klaber’s bullet points were at all surprising: She appears to have made the same arguments she typically does in endless press releases, endless newspaper quotations, endless rebuttals of the endless findings that the industry’s claims appear to run counter to facts. Take, for example, the job-creation numbers she’s thrown out there: The industry claims that Shale drilling will create more than 200,000 jobs by 2020, and more than 80,000 jobs by the end of 2010.The figures come from a May Penn State study whose authors failed to disclose that they’d been funded by the gas industry. (Penn State later asked that its logo be removed from the study.) Too bad the industry’s numbers don’t appear to correspond to anything other than, well, the industry’s numbers. The U.S. Bureau of Labor & Industry, by contrast, projects a growth of just over 2,000 workers by 2016. But among Klaber’s talking points at DUG East was one bullet point that makes her job-creation figures look as straight as a right angle: a font-enlarged, underlined, italicized sentence which read: “The Fact: There have been no confirmed cases of negative groundwater impacts from hydraulic fracturing.” It’s a sentence she’s uttered many times before, and a sentence I’ve picked apart before in this column. Hydraulic fracturing, the process by which gas is extracted from the Marcellus Shale, has caused numerous contaminations of groundwater, well documented by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), which has found groundwater contamination in various cases of spills, explosions, dumping and leaks of toxic drilling wastewater. Point this out to Klaber, or anyone else representing the industry, and they will quibble: These incidents were the result of bad well casing, improper lining technique, poor storage
practices — but not the hydraulic fracturing process itself. Yet even that thin strand of rhetorical gymnastics has been snipped forcefully asunder in the township of Dimock, Pa., where the DEP found that fracturing operations by Cabot Oil & Gas had caused the contamination of groundwater from at least 14 wells. Even as Cabot proposed to supply households whose well water had been contaminated with clean — imported — water, the company denied having had any role in causing the problem, and instead blamed the contamination on natural methane, a claim Klaber repeated publicly. In response, the DEP conducted a battery of tests and inspections. “DEP has collected ample evidence tying methane found in private water supplies to Cabot’s wells,” wrote DEP Secretary
What are we to make of this apparent conflict with reality? John Hanger in an open letter issued just weeks before the recent gas conference, adding that, “Sophisticated testing has ‘fingerprinted’ gas samples and matched gas found in five homes to the gas leaking from nearby Cabot wells.” His conclusion: “Overwhelming evidence … proves the Cabot wells are the source of the contamination.” There has, in other words, been a “confirmed case of negative groundwater impact from hydraulic fracturing” — the very thing whose existence Klaber denied last week. Undoubtedly, she will continue to make the same denial, and undoubtedly the news media will continue to print (but not challenge) her statements. What are we to make of this apparent conflict with reality? Eh. Not my job. ✚ For more on the DUG East confer-
ence, read Matt Stroud’s report, “Texas in Between,” at citypaper.net. E-mail isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net.
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KIMMIKA WILLIAMS-WITHERSPOON sits on a sofa just outside her office at Temple, as procrastinating students stomp down the hall to hand her pages of double-spaced type. Williams-Witherspoon is one of the few authorities on the history of African-American arts in Philadelphia, and she also happened to be Sanchez’s TA back in the early ’90s. “On an international level there are still those that recognize her importance, but not in this city,” she says flatly. But then Williams-Witherspoon frames the issue from a different perspective, beginning with the poet’s initial rise to prominence in New York’s Black Arts Movement: “She grew up in the ’60s, in New York, where bohemianism was a big part of the culture of that city. Philadelphia has always been a very conservative, Quaker city. We don’t realize just how much that informs the level of censorship that can be levied here. If you’re an outsider, used to something else, there’s two ways you can deal with that: You can continue to be you and buck the system, or you can eventually get absorbed into the existing culture. She was never absorbed.” Then we come to the other theme that seems to permeate any discussion on Sanchez: She has a gift for gab — a gift like nothing you’ve ever heard. “As her TA, you just kinda sit back. … The students are just in awe. They sit at her feet. And she does wax on,” she says with a big laugh. Sanchez also has a habit of waxing on about subjects many locals would rather forget. In Philadelphia, above all, there are eight syllables that are never spoken in polite conversation: MOVE and Mumia Abu-Jamal. But Sanchez doesn’t seem to have a problem talking at length about either one. In 1981 she was one of three character witnesses to testify on behalf of Abu-Jamal. The newspaper reports point to Assistant District Attorney Joseph McGill’s verbal attacks on the poet, using her writings on Assata Shakur to paint her as a violent radical. In 1985 she was one of the few locals to join other African-American leaders in calling for Wilson Goode’s resignation following the MOVE bombing. “You know, her stature is so demure [Sanchez is 4-foot-11] that I think her opposition sometimes says, ‘Who’s this little lady?’” says WilliamsWitherspoon. “Then when she comes at them with that voice and her spirit … ” But then Williams-Witherspoon thinks for a moment, and says finally, “Let’s face it, the activism of the ’60s is no longer in vogue. Now people want a scholarship like [Henry Louis] Gates or Michael Eric Dyson. They want something that’s palatable, and not so in-your-face.” SONIA SANCHEZ LEANS forward on the edge of her couch, and again weighs the question at hand carefully in her mind. “Did you know I have written most of my poetry, right here, in a place called Philadelphia?” she says, as if she herself were surprised by the answer. It’s true. And in a few more years she will have lived in Philly for most of her life. I spend the next two hours probing for the firebrand radical sometimes
DID YOU KNOW I HAVE WRITTEN MOST OF MY POETRY, RIGHT HERE, IN A PLACE CALLED PHILADELPHIA?
extolled by her fans and often lamented by her critics. If that Sanchez exists, I didn’t find her. “I still challenge authority. But my problem was I sometimes used to do it by cursing people out, you see. I don’t do that anymore, because all people remember is the curse,” she says. “So now I do it in such a way where I slap somebody and hug them at the same time, so at least they remember the hug.” We touch on everything from Jackie Robinson’s first appearance at Shibe Park (not Philly’s finest hour) to Sanchez’s recent arrest for protesting the Iraq war with a group called the Granny Peace Brigade. Her responses tread closer to concerned grandmother than radical revolutionary. On Mumia: “I don’t know what Mumia did that night. I cannot tell you what he did. I came in as a character witness to say how I knew him in this city: always as a progressive person, as a human being, and certainly as a person who I hoped would get a good trial. Which he did not.” On MOVE: “When it happened I went down in front of City Hall with the MOVE people. Not that I believe what they believe, but I don’t believe in capital punishment. … There were children in there that burned. So when I wrote about it, I wanted people to feel the horror of a fireman looking at that. And, also, at the same time the horror of not having done anything about it. … At some point we have to understand that we incinerated those
people, don’t we?” I find the MOVE poem in my anthology. But she wants to read from Part II — a more confrontational stanza not included in the book. It’s locked away in the out-of-print edition, Under a Soprano Sky. She finds it upstairs — her last copy — and reads aloud: 1. philadelphia/ a disguised southern city/ squatting in the eastern pass of/ colleges cathedrals and cowboys/ philadelphia, a phalanx of parsons/ and auctioneers/ modern gladiators/ erasing the delirium of death from their shields 2. c’mon girl hurry on down to osage st/ they’re roasting in the fire/ smell the dreadlocks and blk/skins/ roasting in the fire/ c’mon newsmen and tv men/ hurry on down to osage st and/ when you have chloroformed the city/ and after you have stitched up your words/ hurry on downtown for sanctuary/ in taverns and corporations/ and the blood is not yet dry 3. how does one scream in thunder? But she doesn’t continue. She stops reading there, takes her glasses off and looks in my direction, as if she were offering that last question directly to me. (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ “BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez: A Tribute in Word,
Music and Dance,” Sun., Nov. 14, 6-8:30 p.m., $35, University Baptist Temple, 1837 N. Broad St., 267402-2055, firstpersonarts.org.
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recently moved the tribute to the larger University Baptist Temple due to expected ticket sales. “I just felt Sonia hadn’t gotten the kind of big public recognition in Philadelphia that I think she deserves,” says Solot. When asked why she thinks that is, Solot is frank: “That’s just so Philly, don’t you think? We really don’t appreciate our own people.”
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MORMON-Y, MORE PROBLEMS? ELNA BAKER SEARCHES FOR THE SWEET SPOT AMONG LOVE, SEX AND RELIGION. BY JOSH MIDDLETON
On the surface, 28-year-old New York-based storyteller Elna
Baker has a more interesting life than most of us. She’s zigzagged the globe, published a top-selling memoir and turned up regularly on This American Life and The Moth. On top of that, she’s blonde and pretty and really funny. But what makes her any different than scores of young American authors? She doesn’t touch caffeine or alcohol. Oh, and she’s a virgin. Baker was raised in a strict Mormon household in Tacoma, Wash., where saying “no” to most of life’s pleasures was a matter of routine, and the chance to spend eternity in the Celestial Kingdom with God and Jesus was the only thing worth living for. But there was always a voice inside little Elna that wondered, “Does life really have to be all about restraint?” After high school, she moved to New York City to study theater at Tisch School of the Arts, holding tight to her religious beliefs while also making a conscious effort to say “yes” to most of the questions life threw her way. Suddenly doorways began to swing open. She started making friends from every walk of life, and met non-Mormon men whom she really, really wanted to have sex with. The clumsy battles between morality and natural urges is the stuff Baker’s stories are made of, and she’s not afraid to bare every embarrassing, cringe-worthy detail. Take, for instance, an account from her 2009 memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, when she snuck off into the woods with a cute boy, only to fall and crack her head open. The poor guy had to drive her home with a maxi pad stuck to her forehead. Talk about awkward silence. Ironically, it’s a lack of inhibition at the writing desk that Baker credits as the secret to her success as a raconteur. “There’s been times when I’ll say, ‘I’ll never write that, I’ll never put that on stage,’ but then I start writing it and it’s so funny I can’t throw it out,” she says. “I certainly don’t paint myself that well that often, but it’s more truthful that way, and it’s funny.” For the First Person Arts Festival, Baker says she’ll be wearing several hats. Besides performing a selection of popular stories from her book and radio appearances, she was scheduled to host last night’s Grand Slam and will be leading a workshop on effective storytelling. It’s all about knowing where a story begins and ends, she says, and being able to tie in a nice life lesson. If anyone knows how it’s done, it’s Baker. She may be a nearly-30year-old virgin, but she gives good story. (joshua.middleton@citypaper.net)
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STRANGE POWERS Though this film fits the documentary portion of First Person Arts’ “memoir and documentary” mission, Magnetic Fields prime mover Stephin Merritt is memoir’s antipode. The droopy dog/sad clown of modern American songcraft has been obstinate about the fact that his songs — even those on 2004’s I — are defiantly non-autobiographical. But if Merritt’s been opaque where his personal life is concerned, Kerthy Fix and Gail O’Hara’s decade-in-the-works documentary, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt & The Magnetic Fields,throws back the curtain on the curmudgeonly mastermind to reveal, yes, a dour intellectual who suffers fools ungladly, but also a fragile savant who seems at times incapable of navigating his world without the help of longtime friend/bandmate/manager/“fag hag” Claudia Gonson. The film reveals Merritt’s formative years in Massachusetts, the forming of the band’s quintessential lineup, as well as a bizarre Internet flap wherein Merritt was briefly misbranded a racist due to irresponsible blog coverage of a panel discussion wherein Merritt praised “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.” The doc’s arc feels incomplete, ending abruptly with a move to Los Angeles, but as an examination of a reclusive genius and his particular methods, Strange Powers is enchanting. —BRIAN HOWARD
✚ Screening and discussion with Gonson and Fix, Sat., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m., $15, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 267-402-2055, firstpersonarts.org.
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THE REAL AMERICANS Reporter and actor Dan Hoyle left his liberal elite friends to spend three months in his van — sleeping in parks, front lawns and Walmart parking lots — talking with residents of the red-state small towns Sarah Palin calls “the best of America.” In his solo show The Real Americans,which receives its East Coast première this weekend, Hoyle finds the white, blue-collar fundamentalists the Queen Teabagger adores, but also a surprising diversity of characters, from an anti-war gun salesman and a Dominican-born vet who fought in Afghanistan, to reformed hippies and Reaganite Democrats. The San Francisco Weekly calls The Real Americans “political theater that succeeds in expanding rather than contracting its audiences’ horizons.” Now more than ever, we need Hoyle’s attempt to understand the disconnect between Palin Country and Obama Nation. —MARK COFTA
✚ The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, Thu., Nov. 11, 9:30 p.m.; Fri.,
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✚ Thu.-Sat., Nov. 11-13, 8 p.m., $25, Painted Bride.
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SHIFT/TRANSFER Just when you think you’ve figured out what’s happening in shiFt/ transFer,a different storyline pops into view. That’s a reflection of how the show’s director, Justin Jain, felt growing up as the son of Filipino immigrants in America. With this work-in-progress, he externalizes this experience as part of an arc that arises between anonymity and identity. Performed by a talented ensemble of dance and theater artists, the show combines text, movement and situations derived from each performer’s personal story. There’s comedy, satire and smashing of cultural stereotypes. Jain takes an unconventional approach to the staging, and we won’t give all that away, except to say this will not be an entirely passive experience. —DENI KASREL
✚ Fri., Nov. 12, 8:30 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 13, 10 p.m.; $15, Painted Bride.
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³ MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO is not as well known in the U.S. as he should be. Perhaps it’s because American artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein dominated international Pop Art. Meanwhile the Italian Pistoletto’s most accessible work is his Pop-related “mirror paintings,” in which tissue-thin images of full-scale figures are glued to a mirror background. Visitors see their reflections integrated into unsettlingly real settings. Sometimes, Pistoletto includes a painted figure looking at its own reflection. In one series, architectural elements enhance the illusion of an opening in the wall complete with barriers. The element of real time adds to the resonance of these experiences. The most melodramatic one centers on a noose suspended at around the height of the viewer’s head. The ominous vignette induces an authentic, if momentary, frisson of atavistic panic — at least in those who’ve watched too many reruns of The Twilight Zone. In 1964, Pop Art gallerist Leo Castelli invited Pistoletto to immigrate to the U.S. and join Castelli’s New York stable, where his mirror works would be super-marketable. According to Pistoletto, his response was to shun the U.S. for more than 15 years. His ultimate reply in the mid-1960s was a heterogeneous group of minimal, impersonal sculptures. Recognizable as a house or a generic photograph of Jasper Johns or a table with a pyramid on it, they remain stolidly uncommunicative. Pistoletto calls them “Minus Objects.” I call them boring, but also must acknowledge that they were a necessary cleansing response to the powerful personal vision of the mirror paintings. In a reaction against corporate manipulation of society and in sympathy for the working class, Pistoletto joined the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s. This specifically Italian movement turned to common, non-elite, even cast-off materials in art-making. It rejected the detached irony of Pop and was profoundly anti-hierarchical. Perhaps Pistoletto’s best-known work in this vein is a wall composed of bricks wrapped in colorful rags. Two huge, irregular, mirrored tables represent the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas. They are surrounded by an eclectic collection of chairs and stools meant to be sat on. The metaphor is a simple one: Let everyone, of every culture, come to the table and communicate. (r_rice@citypaper.net)
THE GLASS MENAGERIE: The newly constructed National Museum of American Jewish History, shown here in a night rendering, features a glass wall that serves as a prism, a veil and a welcome mat. POLSHEK PARTNERSHIP ARCHITECTS
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ith a sigh of relief, many observers of Independence Mall will note that its newest addition looks modern. It’s not colonial brick, it doesn’t have sculpted filigrees on the roof line, it’s not brutally monolithic. Instead, it has dynamic planes, a variety of materials and textures, dominated by great gleaming sheets of glass. There’s nothing Jewish about it — architect James Polshek says he designed a building that is spiritually neutral. The National Museum of American Jewish History bills itself as a patriMore on: otic museum, not a religious one, but that’s a tricky line to toe. That glass wall serves many purposes, and Polshek has many names for it: a veil, a prism, a welcome mat. From a distance it appears to be a wire mesh, like some kind of early Frank Gehry experiment. But come closer! — it’s actually fritted glass: There is a ceramic pattern baked into the panes in weave pattern, tiny gray squares becoming the negative space between transparent woven lines. With that gray-scale pixilation, the building announces itself as the new kid on the block — with a nod to its neighbor, the Bourse, of course. That terra-cotta shopping center built in 1895 is refer-
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enced on the museum’s north wall, also made with terra cotta. The dialogue with the Bourse (a kind of Talmud in stone) runs outside in, as a vein of the earthy red clay snakes along the ceiling of the museum’s lobby. One of the main design objectives of the museum is manipulating light. This is how the glass wall is a veil: With light, the building affects some emotional control over the museum-goer. A wall of pure glass lets in a powerful amount of sideways sun, with the frit dampening the flood. A rooftop skylight above a five-story atrium pours light through the building’s core. Four galleries circling the atrium run that light top-down and sideways. On the balcony behind the glass, visitors can enjoy one of the best 180-degree views of Independence Mall — you can take in both Independence Hall and the Constitution Center by simply panning your head left to right. Partial walls GET YOUR FIX: block sunlight from the preview gallery on I C E PA C K ’ S O N L I N E each floor, where multimedia screens tease T H I S W E E K AT the themes explored in the enclosed blackC I T Y PA P E R . N E T / box main galleries, lit artificially to protect CRITICALMASS. the artifacts from sun damage. Those artifacts are, of course, the point of all this fanfare. The NMAJH tells the story of American Jews over 350 years, beginning with the first boatload of expat Jews from Brazil landing in 1654, going through the 19th-century mass migration, pausing over Irving Berlin, glancing at costumes from Yentl, and soliciting video confessions from visitors who can record their own stories and keep the cultural dialogue going. The curators utilize the most modern exhibition technology >>> continued on page 18
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Picking up where they left off seven years ago, Azure Ray sound like they haven’t missed a beat. Even though Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink’s respective solo ventures led them down divergent paths — Taylor towards cloying pop, Fink toward brittle rock — when they work together, the result is spellbinding. In its haunting sorrow and delicate warmth, the new Drawing Down the Moon is the natural successor to their 2003 masterstroke Hold on Love; welcome them back Tuesday at Johnny Brenda’s (Nov. 16, johnnybrendas.com).
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celebrates the grand opening of its retail location, featuring its own 4,000-square-foot, fully staged showroom. Customers can buy their modernly styled products right off the floor — from new, used and vintage furniture to artwork and books — and won’t have to construct the damn things when they get home. —Sean Kearney
³ classical Brahms lovers, get ready for a big day. This Saturday’s Brahms Festival at Church of the Holy Trinity (Nov. 13, astralartists.org) is a triple-header, filled with beloved chamber-music masterpieces from the pied piper of Hamburg and featuring superb young musicians from the current Astral roster — abetted by a number of special ringers, including pianists Natalie Zhu and Cynthia Raim, baritone Randall Scarlata, mezzo Suzanne DuPlantis, and former Philly Orchestra violist/current Curtis boss Roberto Diaz. —Peter Burwasser
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³ theater A new play from either Thornton Wilder or Ken Ludwig would be a major event. The Beaux’ Stratagem, premièring locally at Villanova University Theatre (through Nov. 21, villanova.edu), is sort of both. In 1939, Wilder began a commissioned reworking of George Farquhar’s 1707 comedy on timeless themes of love and relationships, but, distracted by WWII, never finished it. In 2004, his estate contacted prolific farceur Ludwig about completing Wilder’s adaptation. Director Shawn Kairschner says the script synthesizes Wilder and Ludwig’s particular talents, making the seldom-seen Restoration-era comedy sharper and —Mark Cofta more relatable for modern audiences.
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to a political comeback, which so far has entailed sticking his toes in the water with columns at slate.com and The Washington Post, and a headlong dive into his new CNN gabfest. But Gibney is less interested in lending a hand to Spitzer’s makeover than in creating a companion piece to his prior exposés of Enron (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and Jack Abramoff (Casino Jack and the United States of Money). This time, in Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, instead of taking aim at the villains in the tale of America’s political and financial miseries, he hoists up a fallen hero. By broadly hinting that Spitzer was taken down by a cabal of financial titans whom he’d managed to piss off during his crusading stints as attorney general and governor of New York, Gibney draws a perhaps too-straight line connecting Spitzer’s downfall to the economic collapse. The evidence isn’t quite there to prove a hit job, but Spitzer’s enemies were many and deep-pocketed, and several are on hand to gloat on-camera. These include venomous investment banker Kenneth Langone, who veritably twirls his mustache in dastardly glee, and Hank Greenberg, who claims that AIG wouldn’t have suffered its infamous fate had he not been ousted as CEO, despite having presided over the insurance giant’s near-ruin. Gibney’s increasingly familiar template is enlivened during his peeks into the world of high-price prostitution, where he relishes every giggly utterance from the CEO of the Emperor’s Club, Spitzer’s online haunt of choice. He doesn’t exactly let the ex-gov off the hook for his sexual indiscretions, but obviously sides with interviewees who greet it with head-slapping consternation. The sad part is that all of this men-in-suits stuff seems sadly familiar, played out in the endlessly recidivist world of modern American politics, if not quite in the mythic terms in which everyone, not least Spitzer, is quick to frame it. —Shaun Brady
³ “HAVE I CHANGED MUCH?” asks Dr. Astrov. “How did I get so old?” demands Professor Serebryakov. The community of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya may not be ancient — Astrov is only 40, and Vanya himself is 50 — but they’re obsessed with endings. Life’s possibilities and promise dwindle as the group experiences, with eloquent wonderment, the slow march toward death. If this was your family, and you had to spend a hot summer in their company, you’d throw yourself under a train. (I know — wrong Russian literary icon.) But it’s Chekhov’s genius to make the characters of Vanya not only sympathetic, but entertaining. For nearly three hours, we’re gripped by their every concern. We care what happens to everybody, and ride their waves of melancholy. Vanya is also funny, though finding the right Chekhovian tragicomic balance is famously difficult. At Lantern Theater Co.,much of it is performed for laughs, which pays some dividends early on, but ultimately the play’s stature and emotional clout are blunted. Three key performances don’t quite work. Peter DeLaurier (Vanya) is a charming actor, but here he undermines himself with vaudeville shtick straight out of Monty Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks. Charlie DelMarcelle (Astrov) and Sarah Sanford (Yelena), also gifted actors, both adopt an offhand, sardonic delivery that is absolutely contemporary, and they don’t find the necessary sexual chemistry. Sanford in particular is miscast — Yelena may be miserable, but she’s meant to be throbbing with life force. Here she’s as drab as everybody else. Director Kathryn MacMillan hasn’t turned these disparate actors into a cohesive extended family (to be fair, another common problem in Chekhov productions). In the plus column, there is stellar work from David Howey as a deliciously pompous Serebryakov. And Melissa Lynch is a sympathetic, lovely Sonya; due largely to her, the play’s final moments have exactly the mix of sadness and radiance we’ve been waiting for. Through Nov. 21, $28-$36, St. Stephen’s Theater, 923 Ludlow St., 215-829-0395, lanterntheater.org.
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CAUSE AND EFFECT: In Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, director Alex Gibney connects — perhaps too easily — the ex-New York governor’s downfall with the economic collapse.
FOOLS RUSSIAN MARK GARVIN
We’ve all strolled through IKEA’s pristine floor models, only to leave with a box full of fiberboard planks. No longer an issue. Friday (Nov. 12, busybeephilly.com), Busy
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in America (Einstein’s pipe! Kosher processed food!), the visitor exits onto the glassed-in balcony to look over the Liberty Bell, the Constitution Center and Dow Chemical’s Rohm and Haas building. The museum hopes the American ideal — freedom — will look refreshed as refracted through the frit. “In some ways it’s simple, but as we all know in practice it is difficult,” says chief curator Josh Perelman. “It’s challenging for this country to live up to its ideals.” By tailoring itself to trace Jews through three and a half centuries of the American experiment, the museum exploits its location overlooking the birthplace of democracy. (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ The National Museum of American
Jewish History’s grand opening weekend is Nov. 12-14 and opens to the public Nov. 26, 101 S. Independence Mall East, 215-923-3811, nmajh.org.
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In marriage, familiarity breeds contentment, a cherished quality but one that easily shades into complacency. That’s the fate that’s befallen director Katie Aselton and onscreen spouse Dax Shepard, who find themselves happily bypassing sex for competitive crossword-solving. When a newly single friend proclaims her desire to live it up, the wheels start turning, and they hatch a bad idea to rival the one in Lynn Shelton’s Humpday: an open marriage, but just for one night. (Shelton’s movie, incidentally, starred Aselton’s husband, Mark Duplass; I guess we know where they’re working out their issues.) Aselton scrambles the chronology after the first few scenes, so we cut from the restless marrieds working out the details to what seems like the morning after they’ve followed through, so the question isn’t so much will they or won’t they so much as what happens next. Unfortunately, while Aselton is an adroit observer of intermarital dynamics, the movie lacks the shape to provide much in the way of perspective, beyond the obvious implication that desire thwarts our best attempts to control it. The dialogue, entirely improvised by the actors (the film has no screenwriting credit), is on point but lacks the more profound layers a writer might bring to the surface. The movie gives the territory, but not the map. —Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)
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Though he dresses it up in polemic, Bjorn Lomborg’s core argument in Cool It is quite uncontroversial: We have infinite wants and needs, but finite resources. What makes the film, as well as Lomborg’s books and speeches to Congress, so contentious is that he applies this theory to global warming — according to the statistician, if we spend the promised $250 billion per year on mitigating climate change, we’ll reduce the Earth’s temperature only by a fraction of a degree by 2100. So, argues Lomborg, why not use that dough to tackle HIV/AIDS, malaria and poverty? Fully aware that such a proposition will upset many, filmmaker Ondi Timoner shoots Lomborg commuting on his bike, talking about his vegetarianism, insisting that he believes in global warming and feeding African schoolchildren — all in hopes of humanizing him, an effort both unnecessary and laughably unsuccessful. In fact, Lomborg’s ideas are most digestible when he’s off-screen; a particularly affecting scene involves Kenyan youngsters, who insist that the key to making the world a better place is giving more people health care now, not worrying about global warming later. Their foil, of course, is the West, which Lomborg finds “alarmist” and thus ill-equipped to make sharp decisions about climate change. This tendency to conflate all wealthy countries is Cool It’s biggest flaw — though fact-checkers will surely find many. Lomborg’s homeland, Denmark, may be pulling out its eyebrows with worry over polar bears and rising sea levels; the U.S., however, certainly is not. Lomborg would do well to heed his own advice: There are
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Edwards’ alien-invasion thriller concentrates less on the giant space octopi than on its human characters. That would be an admirable trait for a CGI wizard-turned-director if those characters weren’t the least three-dimensional aspect of the film. Six years after a space probe returned with a few unwanted hitchhikers, Mexico is infested by enormous creepy-crawlies and is about to be sequestered by a wall across the U.S. border. A photojournalist (Scoot McNairy) is unwillingly tasked with escorting home the daughter (Whitney Able) of the media tycoon who employs him. She’s engaged to a man of whom daddy approves but, naturally, seems less than enthused, opening the door to a potential romance. … Despite Edwards’ skilled rendering of a sci-fi reality, nothing in Monsters feels any less generic than its title, whose very ambi-
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shit into gold, or else she — and the show — will be canned. At the crumbling helm are co-hosts Colleen (Diane Keaton, who’s settled comfortably into the role of hysterical, exasperated older woman — see Something’s Gotta Give, The First Wives Club), and new hire Mike (an appropriately gravelly, grumpy Harrison Ford), who could’ve been the next Walter Cronkite if it weren’t for his temper and fondness for whiskey. While McAdams’ endearing, if over-the-top, spunk — and director Roger Michell’s wise decision not to linger on a too-easy love story between Becky and a boringly dreamboat colleague — keeps it from dragging, Morning Glory’s really about Ford. His character struggles with media’s reliance on fluff, comparing entertainment-heavy morning shows to eating a doughnut for breakfast instead of fiber cereal. It’s a battle between the YouTube-worthy shock value that could actually save the show and the kind of old-school reporting Mike really believes in. In the end the movie finds a way to have the best of both worlds — a fiber doughnut, Becky proclaims, one that everybody wants to eat. —Carolyn Huckabay (AMC Cherry Hill, UA Riverview)
SKYLINE A haiku: Aliens travel thousands of light years to kill that dude from that show. (Not reviewed) (AMC Cherry Hill, Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)
UNSTOPPABLE|BTony Scott, fresh off his last Denzel Washington train movie (2009’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3), brings his action-fiend eye to this satisfying tale of an unmanned locomotive that folks are having a bit of trouble stopping.
After an idiotic error by Ethan Suplee (he would) sends a half-mile-long train — “a missile the size of the Chrysler building!” — barreling down the tracks in rural Pennsylvania, it’s up to wily veteran engineer Frank Barnes (Washington) and green rookie conductor Will Colson (Chris Pine) to lasso it before it spills its Hazmat payload all over Colson’s Scranton-esque hometown. Disregard screenwriter Mark Bomback’s lazy jabs at corporate avarice and you’ve got a real old-school meat-and-potatoes actioner here, one that takes best advantage of the shortcuts the “groups of people watching a disastrous event unfold” format provides. The old-head/new-head posturing between Washington (the consummate cocky mentor) and Pine (the consummate cocky protégé) keeps the movie on course to a predictable conclusion. —Drew Lazor (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)
✚ CONTINUING DUE DATE|B In The Hangover, Todd Phillips left his cast’s most unlikable traits essentially unredeemed. Due Date initially carries over that unpleasantness to its two stars — Robert Downey Jr. as an architect whose blood pressure constantly threatens to boil over, and Zach Galifianakis as a socially inept would-be actor — but reveals a more conventional soft side as the two bond thanks to a combination of pot, Vicodin and near-death experiences. —S.B. (AMC Cherry Hill, Pearl, Roxy, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Main, UA Riverview)
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FOR COLORED GIRLS|D Tyler Perry’s approach in adapting Ntozake Shange’s landmark play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf is to build a conventional melodrama scaffolding on which to mount several of the original texts. Perry opts not to update the source, thereby retaining outdated segments like a back-alley abortionist, belaboring them with cartoon horrors. If Perry has finally found a way to meld his tastes for maudlin melodrama and broad comedy, it’s by turning the former unintentionally into the latter. —S.B. (AMC Cherry Hill, Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Main St., UA Riverview)
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of a group of would-be jihadis living in London, some acting out of petty grievances and others because they’re too dim to question what they’re told. The jihadis’ absurdity is rooted in real life — Morris’ inspiration was a group of people who loaded explosives onto a boat that sank under their weight — but Morris doesn’t trivialize the danger they represent. Even idiots with bombs can get lucky. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)
HEREAFTER|C+ Written by Peter Morgan with a soggy sobriety in place of his usual glib acidity, Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter interweaves three stories of lives touched by an intimacy with death. The strands inevitably meet up, under circumstances so lazily contrived that the climactic sequence feels like off-brand Iñárritu. Hereafter posits a definite afterlife, but a decidedly agnostic one, and the glimpses Eastwood does allow of the other side are brief flashes of figures silhouetted against a white light. —S.B. (AMC Cherry Hill, Ritz Five, UA Grant)
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culpability of individuals; that they are not suffering consequences is a problem Ferguson refuses to let alone. —C.F. (Ritz Five)
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The Millennium Trilogy finale begins with a recap. Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) is headed to the hospital, as is Zalachenko (Georgi Staykov), the ultraevil father she tried to kill with an ax. The surgery to remove a bullet from her skull is rendered with Saw-like detail, and from then on, she seems a little comatose, then watching others more or less decide her fate. As much as the series has railed against powerful villains for producing the damaged, angry girl who will be their undoing, it has also repeatedly sensationalized their multiple abuses of her, which has been increasingly exploitative and tedious. —Cindy Fuchs (Ritz Five)
ing and frequently galling analysis of the recent world financial crisis, one that focuses on the (current) lack of consequences for those who caused it. As interviewees respond to Ferguson’s off-screen queries, the drama comes in watching subjects think through their answers, using their expertise to explain or obfuscate — sometimes both at once. The film insists on the
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posite. But Tina Fey puts her back into it as a Lois Lanian newscaster, spanning a greater range than she has thus far in the flesh. —S.A. (AMC Cherry Hill, Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2|CParanormal Activity 2 tries to capture the roughshod appeal of its source material, but can’t help but come off comparatively dull. Shifting the first-person home-vid paranoia from original haunted couple Katie and Micah to the family home of Katie’s sister, this Paranormal employs many of the same tricks as the 2009 hit, which
makes for plenty of bland jump scares. But a demon-bait newborn child and a glib teenage daughter are inadequate replacements for the trembling verity that powered the original. —D.L. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)
THE TOWN|B Ben Affleck hands 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. Affleck plays a second-generation thief, the sensitive mastermind behind his team’s heists. He keeps the momentum taut, but the story lacks
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WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”|B+ Davis Guggenheim offers an impassioned argument against the neglect of the U.S. education system in his latest film, and while it inevitably recycles W’s famous “Childrens do learn” gaffe, Waiting for “Superman” is hardly partisan. He not only lodges complaints about the status quo, but actually offers a number of solutions. —S.B. (Ritz East) YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER|B Two married couples, destabilized by their inability to live in the present, quickly become four in this Woody Allen sex farce. Allen’s lost his former snap, but the movie’s uncharacteristically long takes add a degree of intimacy and excitement that he rarely musters nowadays. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)
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IT’S LIKE THAT feeling when the bus or subway pulls in right when you arrive. Like catching a home run ball. Like getting a free cup of coffee. Like finding a parking spot right out front. But a whole lot better. And here’s how it can happen to you. At SugarHouse, Philly’s casino.
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EGG DONORS GIVE couples in need a very special thing — the gift of life. While donating your eggs is undeniably more difficult than the process men go through to donate their sperm, it’s much easier if you know what’s in store for you. As you complete the procedure, it also doesn’t hurt to remember that you’re doing an extremely good thing.
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THERE’S NOTHING LIKE a Philadelphia winter to remind us of how painfully far away we are from the warmth of the Mediterranean. Thankfully, one respite is the fact that a ton of Med restaurants in the city will warm your belly and relax your mind. Make sure you’re frequenting a spot that’s worth a damn by following these few simple rules.
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“The good thing about Mediterranean
that’s complicated by too many ingredients.
food,” says South Street Souvlaki owner
Vasiliades says the best are made daily with
Tom Vasiliades, “is that it doesn’t have to be
simple ingredients like olive oil and lemon
expensive to be good.” Look for a spot with a
juice. “Yogurt sauce is good, too,” he says, “if
moderately priced menu. You’ll get more for
it’s made properly.” Don’t be afraid to ask
your money if you hit up these cheaper estab-
what’s best. If it’s the good stuff, they’ll be
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The Med diet is considered one of the healthiest in the world, so check that the menu has nothing but nutritious ingredients. Vasiliades also
says to look for healthy oils like olive oil when frying; and make sure that you’re served colorful, crisp vegetables with your meal.
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Another indicator of a choice restaurant is an open kitchen. In the Mediterranean, all cooks prepare food in the open so customers can be
assured that the food is coming from a clean, well-organized space.
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You’ll know you’ve found a good spot if the décor is traditional. Look for pictures of the owner’s homeland, as well as blue-, white- and terra
cotta-colored trinkets, says Vasiliades.
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Two dishes that should be on the menu in every deserving Mediterranean restaurant are octopus and moussaka. These are both
complicated dishes to make, so they show off a chef ’s skills, and they’re staples in nearly every traditional Mediterranean home. Also check to see that the eatery has a good house wine, and that it makes at least one home-
Sauces are a very important component to enjoying your
made drink, such as ouzo, an anise-flavored spirit similar to sambuca but
Mediterranean meal. Don’t let yourself get caught up with a sauce
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HE’S POPPED THE question. You’ve picked the date. Now it’s time to choose the perfect gown. There are so many stores and dresses to choose from — how will you ever find the one that’s just right?
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Start off by doing a little research on stores:
gown. Most bridal stores require a 50 percent deposit on
How long have they been in business? What do
gowns, but don’t be afraid to ask about upcoming trunk
the reviews say? How convenient is the location?
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ber, New Jersey charges no sales tax on bridal gowns.
few friends or family members who know you best,
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so they will be accessible for your first fitting.
suggestions, too. Take into consideration your wedding venue, the time of year and your personality
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to help guide you in your selection (most gowns are categorized by moods — romantic, modern, traditional, classic.) Selecting a trying and re-trying on gowns until you find “the one.”
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Leave yourself plenty of time to order your gown, as some designers take up to six months to deliver. But if you’re short on time, you’re not out of
luck — many dresses don’t require alterations, or you can purchase a sample
ing the gown. It’s best to have your gown on when
choosing your accessories; leave time to order these items
open-minded and willing to try on your consultant’s
bridal gown should be fun and not stressful; for most people it’s a process of
Accessories should get as much attention as select-
Once your gown arrives, try it on. If alterations are needed, set them up six to eight weeks before your
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BACHELOR PARTIES ARE meant to go down in history. There are three rules that everyone needs to know when planning a bachelor party. Trust us, bachelor parties are what we do best. Delilah’s — The Gentlemen’s Club & Steakhouse has been voted “Best Place for A Bachelor Party” nine consecutive years by the Philadelphia City Paper.
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It’s all about the groom.What you have in mind may
time with drinking and driving. Since more likely than
not exactly be what the groom has in mind. Tailoring
not, you will be traveling in a pack, reaching out to your
the party to his likings and interests is most important.
favorite watering holes ahead of time will allow them
If your guy is a sports enthusiast, maybe a ball game or
to better accommodate your party. Depending on your
a round of golf is a good way to start off the festivities.
group’s size, most bars, restaurants and clubs offer deals.
Weddings equal obligations. Going over some dates and
Take advantage. That place that you thought was beyond
times with the groom in advance can help ensure that
your means may not be after all. Water and snacks are
the party does not conflict with other scheduled events.
two tools that will definitely help keep the party going.
Creating a guest list together will solve a lot of problems,
Make sure you have plenty of both on hand; you will need
as well. You may not think that Uncle Jim or that dude you
something other than booze to keep your stamina up or
went to high school with count, but you never know.
calm that late-night craving when nothing is open. Hint,
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hint — Delilah’s is your one-stop shop for bachelor parties Lock down a plan of action. Bachelor parties should be fun and easy-
he’ll never forget. Our party specialists are always available to assist you with
going; coming up with plans on the fly isn’t always the best option.
your plans. With several options to choose from, he’ll want to get married over
Selecting a home base or meeting place cuts down on the confusion. If everyone is already together, no one will be left behind. Transportation, reservations and supplies are essential. Methods of transportation are endless, from limos, to buses, to cabs and even dependable ol’ mom. Explore them all; there is something out there to suit everyone’s budget. No reason to ruin a good
and over again.
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Let the games begin. That rule pretty much says it all. … For more information, visit delilahs.com or call 215-625-2800, ext. 109, to book a bach-
elor party package today.
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PHILLY’S ANNUAL FETISH fundraiser, the Diabolique Ball (phillyfetishball.com), raises thousands of dollars for local charitable causes each year. This year’s Medical Mayhem-themed costume ball will benefit three charities providing health care and referrals in Philadelphia: the Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation, Mazzoni LGBT Youth Drop-in Clinic and Leadership Center and Project SAFE.
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Clear your calendars and buy advance tickets. Tickets can
play. If you see hot dancers on the poles or stages of the club, find
be purchased online at phillyfetishball.com or locally at
creative ways to make your donations to our charitable efforts.
Delicious Boutique, PASSIONAL Boutique, Sexploratorium or
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Delicious Sideshow. Advance tickets are only $45 through Nov. 19, and go up to $60 on Nov. 20 and at the door. VIP tickets are
Diabolique Ball meet-and-greet from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. Free
refreshments are provided to guests with Diabolique tickets.
$100 each and must be purchased by Nov. 17.
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Meet other Ball-goers on Friday. Sexploratorium is hosting a
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Create a costume. Diabolique Ball is a costume-mandatory event. This year’s theme is Medical Mayhem, so you may
Get a checkup with your date. The Mazzoni Center is providing a trailer where you and your date can get instant,
anonymous syphilis and HIV testing from 8 p.m. on.
incorporate medical masks, makeup and accessories to match your costume. Required attire includes fetish gear (leather,
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latex, catsuits, etc), corsets, kilts, full Halloween costumes and Victorian formalwear or underwear (Diabolique Ball Fashion Police tradi-
Learn the rules. Diabolique Ball is an introduction to a large, diverse community of adults who practice and preach
tionally strip unprepared party guests down to their underwear and check
sexual freedom. Study the website at phillyfetishball.com and get familiar
their street clothing before admitting them).
with basic ground rules for dressing up, playing and partying.
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Bring donation money. Performers and volunteers are donating services and tips. If using the dressing room, leave tips in the bucket for charity.
If you want to play in the fundraiser stations, bring $5 bills to donate for your
Be bad, feel good. If this is your first foray into fetish and fantasy, you are bound to enjoy the show. Take from this experience some extra hotness
knowing you have contributed to great local charities.
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KEEP YOUR WIFE (AND YOUR MISTRESS) HAPPY THINGS WEREN’T GOING well in the bedroom between you and the wife, so you did what any red-blooded American man would do and found a hot piece on the side. Now you have two women in your life who want your attention. What’s a guy to do? Noel Biderman, president of infidelity service AshleyMadison.com, has five tips on pleasing your wife … and your mistress.
about how much better your brother-in-law is at fixing
cleaning your house: Do the dishes, clean
things around the house. How to please your mistress: If
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How to please your wife: Spend the day
the bathroom, vacuum the floor. How to please
she’s stressed, offer her a full body massage, complete with
your mistress: Spend the day getting busy all
candles, oils and a room at a swank hotel. Need an excuse to
over the house: on the kitchen counter, in the
get out of the house? Business trips are always a good cover.
bathtub, on the newly vacuumed floor.
Order some cheap souvenirs beforehand.
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How to please your wife: Take care of the kids so she doesn’t have to: Get them
How to please your wife: Take the troupe on a funfilled family vacation somewhere the kids will love.
dressed and drive them to school, make them
You’ll be a hero for months. How to please your mistress: Go
dinner, help them with their homework. How
on another “business trip” and take her to an exotic
to please your mistress: Indulge in a bit of
destination. Surprise her with a present. Two words:
dress-up, with her playing the role of naughty
string bikini.
schoolgirl. Pay special attention to her anatomy
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homework. How to please your wife: If she’s stressed, suggest her mother come visit for a few days. Be on your best behavior
— even when the old shrew, I mean, lovely lady makes yet another remark
How to please your wife: Get dirty: Take out the trash, rake the leaves, clean the gutters, winterize the garden.
How to please your mistress: Get dirty: Get out the trashy
lingerie, rake your fingers through her hair, make sure her garden is warm all winter long.
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party kicked off to recapture the glamorous nightlife of the 1920s underground. Vintage Muse’s speakeasy-themed shindig boasts all the fun the Volstead Act tried to suppress: forbidden drinks (likely of much higher quality than bathtub hooch), alluring striptease and a devilish dancing contest. Live music from Drew Nugent and The Midnight Society will keep your flapper flappin’ and the juice joint jumpin’. Periodappropriate attire, though not required, is encouraged. Hit the web site for the password. —Eric Schuman Thu., Nov. 11, 8 p.m., $7, Time, 1315 Sansom St., 215-985-4800, vintagemuse.tumblr.com.
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With the renaissance of burlesque and the popularity of Boardwalk Empire, it was only a matter of time before a
Twelve years ago last month, the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in the tiny town of Laramie, Wyo., shocked the
nation: a gay college student, lured from a bar, beaten and left to die, draped Christ-like on a fence along a cold country road. His death, explored in the play The Laramie Project, forced us to examine our culture’s hatred and fear of homosexuals. Tony- and Emmy Award-winning playwright/director Moises Kaufman traveled from New York City to Laramie with eight Tectonic Theater Project actors to immerse themselves in the town, conducting hundreds of interviews with residents and shaping them into a groundbreaking ensemble drama. The 2009 sequel, Ten Years Later, shines light again on the now-infamous, forever-changed town. Tectonic, in residence this week at UPenn’s Annenberg Center, performs both plays together for the first time anywhere Thursday through Saturday, with pre-show chats and post-show talkbacks that are sure to be cathartic. —Mark Cofta Nov. 11-13, $20-$50, Annenberg Center
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“The threat of violence is a daily fact that I live with as a transgender person,” says upand-coming fabric artist Wolfie E. Rawk. “Using fabric as a medium allows me to visually re-create this, by tearing the clothes and ultimately creating a new image based in healing and mending.” To construct the pieces for his first solo show, he used scraps of clothing acquired from thrift stores, the street, friends and his closet — anything that can tell a story. “It’s really important to me that the clothing has a
When you see tattoos of anchors, roses and seaworthy relics, chances are Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins inspired them. Known to be a bit of a badass, the sea-lovin’ Collins is the patron saint of the edgy, sometimes irreverent flash tattoo, and has influenced many modern tattoo artists like Don Ed Hardy. To pay tribute to his legacy, creative folks of various ink specialties are convening at this soiree to show off their Collins-inspired artwork, and to sip freely from the bar cranking Sailor Jerry rum beverages. It’s
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✚ 14 ICED BEARS It’s kinda funny what happened to twee. Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the dreamy, shoegazy stuff being put out by Britain’s Sarah Records was considered the pinnacle of preciousness and wimpocity. Then things got really plush: Tullycraft and If You’re Feeling Sinister and whatever cuddlecore was. To modern ears, a jangly guitar band like 14 Iced Bears — cult-favorite Sarah alums enjoying a tiny reunion right now — are louder and ballsier than you might expect from that old twee tag. —Patrick Rapa Fri., Nov. 12, 7 p.m., $10, with Brown
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—Deni Kasrel Nov. 16-20, $34-$58, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, annenbergcenter.org.
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✚ FOREVER TANGO It may take two to tango, but when you add six more couples, a vocalist and a nine-piece band, look out, the sparks are gonna fly. Indeed, Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango produces serious fireworks in the form of overt sensuality, expert partnering
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spot on a narrow Newbold corner, has something in common with the holes-in-the-wall I used to buy 40s from when I was underage: a thick partition of bulletproof glass. Partially draped in a red blanket embroidered with gold elephants, it divides the spare waiting room from the register behind it.You’d figure the glass would protect Circles from characters of ill repute, but their Thai is so fly, I think it’s actually in place to dissuade people like me from storming the kitchen and absconding with recipes. Chef/owner Alex Boonphaya, who came to the U.S. from northern Thailand when he was 10, opened this operation as Plan-Eat-Thai with wife, Julie, in 2008, changing the name nearly two years ago.The food is certainly circular, moving (mostly) fluidly in the Thai harmony of spicy, sour, sweet and salty. Should I ever get past the glass, I’m going straight for the formula for pumpkin curry. The orange crescents in the red sauce don’t come from American pumpkin, but from rough-necked kabocha squash turned so tender you can mash it with a fork. I hereby declare this the dish of the fall, and with online ordering and delivery till 11 p.m., Boonphaya makes it Bangkok Dangerous-ly easy to get a fix. That was my favorite, but other options weren’t far behind — green curry with beef and succulent spotted Chinese and Thai eggplants; beef salad laced with lime and fish sauce; delicate pork-and-crab dumplings; and tom kha that’s even better than Café de Laos’. Loaded with chicken and white onion, the chili-lashed coconut soup had all the aggression of a velociraptor — per my request, of course. “Everything very spicy” was my default order addendum at Circles, but the heat level was downright mercurial. The meal that included that killer tom kha, as well as a bowl of mussels, had me talking like Laura Palmer: Fire walk with me. The same request a different night delivered food with child-safe spice, and I really missed the sting in the tom yum soup, its lemongrass broth lacking that hurts-so-good burn. Still, life is richer with Circles on speed dial. Food is packed swift and neat, and when they say it’ll be ready in 20 minutes, it’ll be ready in 20 minutes. But go a few ticks early for field-level views into the kitchen, where Boonphaya and Circles’ cooks toil like busy Christmas elves. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)
THE DUO: Mary Ann Ferrie and Dan Grimes, owners and co-chefs of Chloe at Second and Arch. One of the first BYOBs to make a mark in Philly, the restaurant is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month. NEAL SANTOS
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DON’T EVER CHANGE The owners of Old City’s Chloe celebrate a decade of being themselves. By Drew Lazor
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hat does it take to make it to your 10-year anniversary? If we’re talking marriage, simply select a few buzz words from the potpourri-scattered couples-counseling bowl in the lobby: honesty, loyalty, sacrifice, communication. But what if we’re talking restaurants? The cutthroat, tumultuous dice game of an industry capable of driving optimistic men and women to madness, bankrupting pie-eyed entrepreneurs and boring saucepan-size holes in the most concrete personal relationships? More on: Ten years in the restaurant game is an eternity, a high mark very few food-and-beverage pros have the fortune of reaching. Most restaurants fail. So how does a tiny BYOB that doesn’t advertise, doesn’t take reservations, won’t accept credit cards and hasn’t changed its core menu since the beginning survive? And thrive? Chloe, Mary Ann Ferrie and Dan Grimes’ unassuming restaurant, celebrates a decade in business this Sunday, Nov. 14. They don’t have much of anything special planned for the occasion — in fact, they won’t even be open, since the low-key husband/wife team serves dinner from Wednesday to Saturday only. Among the first restaurateurs to claim their chunk of Philly’s BYO market, Ferrie and Grimes have seen hundreds of high-gloss openings and hun-
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PREVIEWS: Friday, November 19 from 10 - 4 PM Company moving to new location. Selling surplus tools and new stock inventory. Company has been in commercial and residential business for over 25 years. Moving to new location and downsizing. Selling new and used inventory and tools from several service trucks.
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