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ast week, in one of his last political acts as governor, Ed Rendell announced the commutation of life terms for

three long-serving felons — Keith Smith, William Fultz and Tyrone Werts — who had been sentenced to life in prison despite not having killed anyone. They were, however, accomplices in three separate crimes in which someone was killed — under Pennsylvania’s felony-murder rules, that’s good enough to make them de facto second-degree murderers. Rendell explained his decision, noting that none of the men was the “actual killer,” that the Pardons Board had recommended commutation, and that in some cases the “actual killer” had received a shorter sentence or been released. What he didn’t explain was why he chose those three men, and no one else. There are no figures available on how many of Pennsylvania’s 4,814 lifers fall under the same category, but the number is probably large. And unlike other prisoners, criminals sentenced to life are ineligible for parole — whether they pulled the trigger or not, and regardless of how they conduct themselves in jail. For these prisoners, the only way out is commutation. “The idea of reconciliation, of forgiveness, of grace, of giving a person a second chance is totally obliterated by the Pennsylvania state laws where people convicted for life are concerned,” says Joe Heckel, a longtime activist with Fight for Lifers, an organization that advocates for lifers.

“I think it’s wonderful that three men received commutations,” he adds, noting that testimony before the Pardons Board revealed that two of the men had saved the lives of correctional officers while prisoners themselves. “But I can’t think of why only three men deserve commutations and not many more.” Commutations, in fact, have diminished over the past few decades to a trickle. Under former Gov. Milton Shapp, for example, more than 300 life sentences were commuted from 1971 to 1978. But in 1997, the Pennsylvania Constitution was changed to require a unanimous decision for all commutations from a five-person Pardons Board that now includes a prison warden and a crime victim. Since then, only six commutations have been

The idea of a second chance.

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And don’t hold your breath for more: Gov.-elect Tom Corbett who, as attorney general, was on the Pardons Board, didn’t appear at four of six such votes during his tenure. “Most of us now feel commutation is dead,” Heckel says, “no matter what [lifers] do, however well they turn out, however respectable citizens they are inside the prison.” —Matt Stroud

But for years, the government declined to release info on the performance of individual dialysis providers — until recently, when ProPublica, a nonprofit journalism organization, obtained the data through a Freedom of Information Act request. The ProPublica data reveals mortality rates, how well infections are treated, and the likelihood of receiving a kidney transplant, among other factors. Most of Philly’s 40 centers performed just fine, according to the government data. Some — like the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia — even passed with flying colors. But five Philly facilities received troubling scores: 1. Fresenius Medical Care, at 4216 Market St., has a transplant rate that’s 49 percent worse than the government expected, meaning patients will have to wait longer than usual to receive their first kidney transplants. This, in turn, lowers their chance of survival. 2. The overall mortality rate at Albert

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expected. Its mortality rate for first-year patients is 42 percent worse. 3. The mortality rate at DaVita’s Cobbs

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Creek, at 1700 S. 60th St., is 56 percent worse than expected.

4. The mortality rate at Fresenius’ Fairmount location, at 1241 N. Taney St., is 52 percent worse than expected. Its first-year mortal-

ity rate is 66 percent worse, and its transplant rate is 84 percent worse. 5. Nearby, the Girard Dialysis Center, at Eighth Street and Girard Avenue, has a mortality rate that’s 54 percent worse than expected, and a transplant rate that’s 89 percent worse. Now you know. —Holly Otterbein

KIOSK-ER THE GROUCH Criticism of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) — the body that oversees Pa.’s state-controlled alcohol sales — isn’t exactly hard to come by. But we’ve never heard of anyone delivering it with the passion, and surprising literary gusto, of David Wanamaker, president of the Independent State Store Union (ISSU), which represents 730 state liquor store managers. His energy is understandable: Gov.-elect Tom Corbett has proposed selling off the state’s wine and liquor stores to private buyers, which would presumably destroy his union. Wanamaker’s most recent comments, however, have been directed not at Corbett but at the PLCB itself, which, just before Christmas, shut down 30 wine-vending “kiosks” in supermarkets across the state. The kiosks — obtained via a single-bid contract with a company whose owner donated money to and worked for Gov. Ed Ren-

dell’s campaign — featured a built-in Breathalyzer, ID scanner and video link to live PLCB employees. It was all part of a pilot program to see whether Pennsylvania could offer wine in grocery stores — you know, like most states do (without resorting to automatic kiosks). But the machines were having problems — among them, failing to dispense wine. Auditor general Jack Wagner has announced an audit of the kiosk system. Wanamaker, however, declined to wait for that investigation’s outcome to announce his verdict — at length and with veritably Shakespearean intensity: An open letter from the ISSU titled “‘Rube Goldberg’ PLCB Wine Vending Machine Boondoggle” calls the shutting down of the machines “proof of the intentional, internal sabotage of the state store system,” for example, and calls the state’s use of its legally entitled 30 days to respond to the union’s Right to Know request for incidents of kiosk malfunction “an overt, deliberate attempt to stonewall” them, representing “deliberate sabotage” of the state stores. In an article by trade publication Marketing Business Weekly consisting almost entirely of quotations from Wanamaker, he waxes even more poetic, calling the kiosks “paradigms of the state stores’ destruction,” and asserting that the PLCB’s statewide computerized system is “an unparalleled disaster,” and, what’s more, that a $10 million contract to rebrand the PLCB is “unparalleled waste.” Despite his ire for the PLCB, though, Wanamaker is even more explicit in his defense of the state store system — the proposed elimination of which, he says in conclusion, “is paramount [sic] to an unfettered assault on the control system and the common good — internally and externally.”

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The Friends of the Barnes Foundation continue to hold protests against the museum’s move. “You know what else we’re against?” ask the activists. “Windmills.”

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A police arbitrator overturns the suspension of a cop who, at the request of the Hells Angels, ran an undercover police officer’s license plate. Bell Curve gives up.

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More than a million Pennsylvanians buy Mega Millions tickets, hoping for $330 million payout. The Bell Curve staff expects to be rich soon, so consider this the last Bell Curve. The last funny one, anyway.

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The state’s $5 billion budget deficit will be the biggest challenge for the new legislature and governor. If only there were some burgeoning industry in the state we could levy a small tariff on. If only. If only.

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Mummers tell Inquirer their secrets to urinating while in costume, from hoses to Depends to group-peeing in circular formations. Bell Curve gives up again.

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An ex-employee of the Philadelphia Housing Authority files a lawsuit alleging that he lost his job after criticizing the agency’s waste. This seems highly likely.

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month’s automatic 1.7 percent pay raise. Bucket, meet drop.

[ + 1 ] Incoming Gov. Corbett says he’ll donate his raise to charity. Namely, the Coalition To Drill The Shit Out Of Rural Pennsylvania.

[ + 5 ] Gov. Rendell nominates Barbara Deeley to become Philly’s first female sheriff. We look forward to reading about your harassment lawsuit.

[ + 1 ] “Philadelphia needs something sexy, and

maybe I am the one to give it to them,” says Georges Perrier about his plans to renovate Le Bec-Fin’s basement. Pretty sure Heidnik said the same thing.

[ + 3 ] The Official Jersey Shore Parody,a locally Mummers Parade, 2011 (Broad and Chestnut) ALAN BARR

produced porno, is up for an Adult Video News award. Surprisingly, fewer J-Plows, Sticky Situations and Ooky Snookies than the original.

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itch Marzec and his bandmates used to haul a vintage organ to all their shows. It was a Lowrey Genie, one of those bulky wood-panel things with oblong, multicolored preset knobs; something you’d expect an old lady at the front of a small-town church to be playing. Down the steep steps for an in-store at The Marvelous, up the narrow hall at Johnny Brenda’s — all this physical exertion and effort, just so they could use the organ on a single song. They don’t do that anymore. “We just got rid of ‘Chasing Rabbit’ in our set list,” says Joy Marzec, Mitch’s sister and a keyboardist/ vocalist in An American Chinese. “It made things so much easier!” The song is a standout on the band’s finally completed debut full-length, Utopian Tree, and fans will certainly miss it when An American Chinese plays its record release at Kung Fu Necktie tonight. But they’ll appreciate the reasoning. After three years of tinkering, recording and reworking, the album is ready, and the band is anxious to pick up the pace. “We were learning how to record, how to use all this equipment, as we went,” says Mitch. “That’s part of the reason this album took so long,” adds Joy. Gathered around a blue bedroom piled with books and decorated with drawings on the second floor of the Marzecs’ Grad Hospital-

area house, the band expounds on how “Chasing Rabbit” came to be. Guitarist Mark Skierski recalls finding the organ, and playing with the presets. “Those old organs have drum-machine loops.” This led to the skittery, not-quite-bossa-nova, not-quite-two-step beat that opens the song. Mitch says, “We pressed three of those keys together and hit this fucked-up combination.” Next, Becca Huston came up with a muffled, minimalist bassline. Keyboard trills were added later, and live drums, and Mitch and Skierski eventually leapt head-on into a fierce acoustic guitar duel. As the song unfolds we hear stuff that sounds like pan flutes, vocal echoes and modulations, mixed to keep the driving folk-pop song in the forefront, but with a surreal bed anchored by the Lowery loop. Over months upon months, these parts were recorded to tape and refined, finally getting flown into Mitch’s Mac work station last spring. “The file at the end was huge,” says Huston. “We watched it run and were like, ‘Wow, that’s a 34-gig song.’” Mitch laughs, adding, “That song was three years in the making.” That’s only a third of the time he’s been making music under the An American Chinese moniker, and accumulating gear. (Walking into the house is like walking into an obstacle course that dares you “go ahead, try not to knock over this 40-year-old, thousanddollar microphone.”) The project began in 2002, when 19-year-old Mitch left his childhood home of Albuquerque, N.M., for Philadelphia. He’d record Joy’s vocals when visiting her at home over the holidays,

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sand-stepping during a farewell bash with the Beach Boys (nothing says Philly like “Kokomo”), Fast Edward Rendell is trying to throw money at this city like a virgin bachelor at a cheap strip bar. Something like $100 million from the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program will — assuming Rendell can beat mean old Tom Corbett to the punch — get lobbed at some of this city’s most welcome projects, if they can get matching funds and submit all paperwork by Jan. 14. Phew. Good luck to the Pavilion at Market East, the Franklin Institute, the William Way senior housing center and the long-discussed Waterfront Arts Center, amongst others. You’ll need it. ³ Hey, Atlantic City wants some money, too. After the boost of confidence the Jersey shore got from Nucky Thompson’s Boardwalk Empire, not only is AC gearing up for Restaurant Week No. 3 (Feb. 27-March 5), but plans are under way for the building of a bohemian arts area with aid (or at least a few $20 chips) from Joisey’s Casino Reinvestment Development Authority.³ Philly expatriate guitarist Rick Iannacone ain’t returning to Portland just yet. His Dec. 26 New Ghost gig with partner/sax-iac Elliot Levin (as well as the Meneses/Motzer Ottokar) that got snowblinded has been rescheduled for Jan. 8 at Tritone. ³Anyone surprised that Georges Perrier isn’t selling Le BecFin like he promised in July 2010, raise your hand. Notalottayou. That’s because you read Icepack, which predicted then that the LBF closing was more of a French threat/rouse/money hunt than an actuality.Yay, Georges. ³No more Engelbert Humperdinck Keswick shows for Jen Corsilli.The soccer ma’am is AEG Live PA’s regional marketing manager, now. Big shoes. Mann shoes. Ha-cha. Then there’s Scott Johnston,the lion-maned filmmaker/Peek-a-Boo Revue boss who, after nine years, will no longer sweat his ass off producing the Philly 48 Hour Film Project (ben@48hourfilm.com is the contact for y’all brave and stupid enough to take that rough gig). Why? “Because in my book it was 10 years,” says Johnston, who sounds hurt that 48HFP didn’t remember that auspicious date. “And that’s a long time assisting in other people’s dream-projects while ignoring my own.” ³ Top chef David Katz’s Méméis looking for a new sous chief. Help Katz keep his duck abreast. ³ Send love, lust and winning wishes to Brian Bangs and Spock Buckton for this weekend’s Adult Video Awards in Vegas. They produced“The Official Jersey Shore Parody” and several other shorts up for porn-y prizes. Bangs and Buckton run TLA Video’s PopPorn.com blog with TLA’s retail site tlaraw.com, up for a best-retailer nom. Now this does Philly proud. ³ More Ice at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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Abandoned houses, no matter how many windows or doors are missing, always look unbearably heavy. But Kelly Wallace’s graphite-and-pen drawings of shuttered homes are tragically light, like you could blow them off the page with the same breath needed to push away dandelion seeds. In “Capital Salvage,� the Canadian artist sands down her gessoed panels till they’re veganthin, leaving you with a disturbing reminder of how frail our built environment is. Anne Canfield provides a fine balance to Wallace’s seriousness in “No Match for My Tiny Fortress,� a series of oil paintings depicting mermaids, castles and cats so mischievous they must be from the same neighborhood as the Cheshire. Opening reception Fri., Jan. 7, 6-8 p.m., free, through Feb. 13, 1108 Pine St., 215-923-7000, seraphingallery.com.

Âł F.A.N. ART GALLERY The name of Rick Buttari’s pencil drawing is Sam and Bike (pictured), not Bruce and Bike, so it can’t be The Boss — despite the fellow’s dark kinky hair, snug jeans, slick deportment and the Philly townhouse background. Buttari, a PAFA-trained local artist, has a way of making his subjects in “Recent Paintingsâ€? look famous, or at least like people you knew in a past life. His pieces are imperfectly framed, like pages from family photo albums and newspapers. His subjects — women with shoulderpadded blazers who stand impatiently in line, forlorn adults awaiting a parade, bony teenagers who avoid eye contact — are all captured lovingly, but casually, like in Dad’s Polaroids. Opening reception Fri., Jan. 7, 5-9 p.m., free, through Jan. 29, 221 Arch St., 215-922-5155, fanartgallery.com.

Âł EXTRA EXTRA Akhil, a 25-year-old living in India, must be the envy of his office. For the multimedia project “Virtual Assistance,â€? artist Andrew Norman Wilson hired Akhil, an employee of the company Get Friday, to be his personal assistant. Under normal circumstances, Akhil would do Wilson’s taxes, organize his calendar and, according to Get Friday, perform other “tedious tasks, leaving you to pursue more important things.â€? Instead, Wilson seeks to treat Akhil like a collaborator — no, a partner-in-

crime — and the two make boats together, envision the end of the IT boom, simultaneously take each other’s pulses, and analyze Get Friday’s business tactics. Wilson’s exhibit (made up of written and taped correspondences between the two) criticizes the power imbalances inherent in outsourcing by embracing them — meaning he and Akhil can never truly stand on equal ground. Still, they get closer than even Thomas Friedman thought possible. Opening reception Fri., Jan. 7, 6-10 p.m., 1524 Frankford Ave., eexxttrraa.com.

Âł AND THEN THERE’S ‌ Still suffering from New Year’s Eve-induced wet brain? Put off the gallery stroll for another week. The Institute of Contemporary Art waits till Second Thursday to take on misogyny, war and death (via two characters adorably and inappropriately named “Bloodieâ€? and “Peg-Legâ€?) in “The Illuminations

Like people you knew in a past life. Project.â€? Opening reception Thu., Jan. 13, 6-8 p.m., through March 20, 118 S. 26th St., 215-898-7108, icaphila.org. ‌ Gallery Joe’s exhibit “Sebastian Rugâ€? features abstract drawings that look like deconstructed maps, but not till next Saturday. Opening reception Sat., Jan. 15, 6-8 p.m., through Feb. 19, free, 302 Arch St., 215-592-7752, galleryjoe. com. ‌ Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art’s show “Anosognosiaâ€? is a series of mixed-media works that draw parallels between the titular neurological condition that causes disabled people to be unaware of their disabilities, and current environmental disasters. It’s worth the wait, unless you’re in denial. Opening reception Thu., Jan. 13, 6-9 p.m., through Feb. 26, free, 173 W. Girard Ave., 267-5193884, rebekahtempleton.com. (holly.otterbein@citypaper.net)

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✚ CONTINUING 127 HOURS|B+ Devout outdoorsman/loner Aron Ralston (James Franco) finds the sticky end of solitude when he’s trapped at the bottom of a ravine, his right arm pinned by a boulder. Like a steroidal Into the Wild, the movie follows Aron to the logical end of his lone-wolf lifestyle, leaving him with nothing but his wits and the contents of his backpack. It may take a while to recover from the movie’s stomach-turning climax, but that’s only because Danny Boyle succeeds so thoroughly in getting under your skin. —Sam Adams (Ritz Five)

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Although it’s set in the world of ballet, Darren Aronofsky’s movie hits a pitch that would normally be called operatic. Natalie Portman is provisionally cast in her first lead, but she needs to prove she can dance both white and black swan in Swan Lake. Portman nails the glacial perfection of the first, but it takes bad girl Mila Kunis to get her in

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“In reality, mediocrity is where most people live.” Or so Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey) tells himself. Abramoff was notorious for his schemes and delusions, not to mention the lies and thievery that sent him to prison in 2008. But in George Hickenlooper’s movie, Abramoff gets another chance. He appears before a Senate committee, questioned by the very men who benefited from his crimes against American Indian tribes and third-world populations. This Abramoff strides across the hearing room to point fingers at his fellow guilty parties — the politicians currently judging him. It’s a briefly thrilling, surreal moment, from which the film must duly retreat in order to narrate what actually happened: Abramoff took the Fifth, the scandal sold newspapers, and the politicians went back to business as usual (save for Rep. Bob Ney, a central interviewee in Alec Gibney’s far more compelling documentary on the same subject, Casino Jack and the United States of Money). In departing from the historical record, Abramoff’s hearing-room outburst allows the movie to underscore its argument: He was only pursuing the same sort of “American-style democracy” as Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich. If he was busted for his excesses, that was only because he was, as the film shows again and again, immersed in his own cartoonish delusions. Abramoff indulges in all manner of material pleasures — gaudy home décor, lavish parties and junkets — here rendered as montages under antic music. Casino Jack makes clear the unreality in Abramoff’s self-image, whether as devoted father, adamant patriot or observant Jew (“I know what it feels like to be a persecuted minority,” he tells a tribal representative on the St. Andrews golf course). Arrogant and obtuse even as he thought he was

special and clever, Abramoff was mostly, the film submits, just one of many. —Cindy Fuchs (Ritz at the Bourse)

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touch with her dark side. As Portman’s transformation progresses, Aronofsky makes over her body, as well; she decomposes and renews in a manner worthy of a Cronenberg heroine. The trouble is, Portman’s role too closely matches her own limitations as an actor. —S.A. (Ritz East)

THE FIGHTER|B+ While the true story of “Irish” Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) has all the makings of a Rocky-style “triumph of the human spirit,” David O. Russell finds plenty of fodder for his more caustic imaginings in Ward’s family. The most monumental obstacles Ward confronts come out of being born into a large Massachusetts clan seemingly intent on undercutting any chance of success in the name of a delusional family honor. Russell at times succumbs to a penchant for cheap caricature, never deciding between black comedy or hardscrabble drama. But he wisely keeps all the direct brutality within the aggressive messiness of life outside the ring. —Shaun Brady (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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GULLIVER’S TRAVELS|DThis is yet another adaptation that takes only the idea of a man amongst tiny people from its source, here employed for another spin on Jack Black’s obnoxious slacker-makes-good persona. This Gulliver is a magazine mail-room drone whose crush on travel editor Amanda Peet leads to an assignment in the Bermuda Triangle — best not to worry too much about the plot inanities. All loose ends are sewn up via a performance of Edwin Starr’s “War” that suggests that the script’s final page read simply, “Fuck it — insert Tenacious D shtick here.” —S.B. (UA Grant, UA Riverview)

HOW DO YOU KNOW|BFor a movie about a woman who’s lost her career and a man who’s being indicted by the feds, nobody seems particularly bothered. Lisa (Reese Witherspoon), a pro softball player just cut from the team, distracts herself with goofy, philandering Matty (Owen Wilson); meanwhile George (Paul Rudd) is being investigated for a crime he’s sure he didn’t commit. Their lives intersect on a blind date, and a love triangle with a completely predictable ending ensues. How Do You Know lets its characters fall in love during the crappiest days of their lives — but how do you know their happy ending isn’t just a Band-Aid for their bigger problems? —Carolyn Huckabay (UA Riverview)

I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS|C+ This story, of a Texas con artist whose schemes were fueled by his love for his cellmate, has roots in fact, but coasts glibly on shiny visuals and movie-star charm. Jim Carrey plays Steven Russell, and Ewan McGregor is his prison romance. Once the two meet, the film finds its footing as a lovesick farce. McGregor is released, Carrey breaks out and tracks him down, gets caught, in between passing himself off as anything likely to generate fast income and few questions. Carrey’s low-key performance is commendably campfree, but without shtick to fall back on, he can’t get his hooks in. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)

INSIDE JOB|A Charles Ferguson’s new doc provides a remarkably coherent, galling analysis of the recent financial crisis, focusing on the lack of consequences for those who caused it. As interviewees respond to off-screen queries, the drama

comes in watching them think through their answers, using their expertise to explain or obfuscate. The film insists on the culpability of individuals; that they are not suffering consequences is a problem Ferguson refuses to let alone. —C.F. (Ritz Five)

THE KING’S SPEECH|B+ As the soon-to-be George VI, Colin Firth is a reluctant royal with a stutter that acts up around his domineering father. It grows bad enough for him to seek help from an offbeat Australian, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush); Speech boils down to a series of confrontations between patient and therapist. Rush’s flamboyance is tempered by Firth’s muted sorrow, and his character’s gradual opening gives Firth a chance to push past the boundaries of his own interiority. —S.A. (Ritz Five) LITTLE FOCKERS|D+ There’s not much to say about Little Fockers that you couldn’t guess from the title. But if a Fockered-up Home Alone is what you’re after this holiday season, think again: The kids in this film series’ third (and hopefully last) installment have no purpose except to recite lisped one-liners and projectile vomit on Ben Stiller. Most worrisome is that such an all-star cast would collectively, or individually, agree to participate in such nonsense. —C.H. (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview) MADE IN DAGENHAM|BFemale workers for Ford in Dagenham, England, circa 1968, perform what’s been recently termed “unskilled” labor, but they’re convinced that as a group, they can make demands of the auto giant, including equal pay. This means they’re at odds not only with the company, but also with the

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U.K.’s male-dominated unions. Against these considerable odds, their real-life protest against sexual discrimination — on which Nigel Cole’s film is based — paved the way for the Equal Pay Act of 1970. —C.F. (Ritz at the Bourse)

RABBIT HOLE|B By the time Rabbit Hole opens, Becca and Howie (Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart) have already lost their son, a 4-year-old who dashed out in front of a car eight months earlier. John Cameron Mitchell’s film examines their grief but avoids wallowing in it, keeping a cool but unflinching distance as the couple redefine their lives in the presence of an overwhelming absence. Nicole Kidman is perfectly cast as a woman defined by control; it’s easy to overlook Aaron Eckhart as the husband more comfortable displaying his pain, but his is perhaps the more complex character

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TINY FURNITURE|B Fresh out of college, Aura (Dunham) makes an awkward return to a spacious Manhattan loft owned by her mother, a successful artist, where her bratty younger sister bristles at giving up her “special room.” Dunham doubles up on the Kubrickian chill by shooting in widescreen; when she and her sister talk through the wall of their adjacent rooms, they’re shot as if they’re in a dollhouse with the wall pulled away, each pressed against the edge of her own little box. But while her observer’s eye is acute, Dunham doesn’t have much insight into her characters. They’re sharply drawn, but they’re all edges. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)

THE TOURIST|C The Tourist spends as much time with the watchers as the watched in the spy game, but here the former are nothing but interchangeable Scotland Yard functionaries under the command of a constantly frustrated Paul Bettany. The end result is that focus is repeatedly yanked away from stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, and the script contrives to keep them apart. Aside from one sequence set in a Venetian canal, meaningful glances and endless conversations take precedence over gunplay and movement, but this isn’t a thinking man’s action film so much as a dullard’s. —S.B. (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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GEEKADELPHIA 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. Machete (2010, U.S., 105 min.): When Federale Machete discovers he was betrayed by his former employers, he sets out on a hardcore rampage of revenge. Mon., Jan. 10, 7 p.m., $3.

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includes the mighty Mozart Requiem. This is the final music of that great genius — left incomplete, but still brimming over with some of the most haunting choral music ever written. The ethereal Debussy “Nocturnes” will make for an excellent counterweight. —Peter Burwasser Thu., Jan. 6-Sun., Jan. 9, $22-$132, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215893-1999, philorch.org.

ery of a life-threatening brain tumor. D’Angelo’s cancer battle was recounted movingly on his blog, but however his confrontation with mortality has changed him, don’t expect it to be in the form of musical gentility. The altoist’s confrontational style survives intact, so expect a fair share of Molotov blowing in conjunction with new collaborators culled from Seattle’s up-andcoming jazz scene. —Shaun Brady

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✚ ELECTRIC KULINTANG “Kulintang” refers to both Filipino folk music and the eight-gong instrument used to create it. What the “electric” refers to is obvious, though the music made by this duo is anything but, a richly colored wash of folk music, electronica and trance. Filipina-American

percussionist Susie Ibarra, bestknown for her mid-’90s stint behind the drum kit in David S. Ware’s fabled quartet, inaugurated the project, which weaves field recordings of traditional musicians into the nontraditional manipulations created by Ibarra’s composer/husband, Cuban-born Roberto Rodriguez. —Shaun Brady Fri., Jan. 7, 5:45 and 7:15 p.m., free with admission of $16, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Parkway, 215763-8100, philamuseum.org.

“Hanging on the Telephone” before Blondie did — and The Beat. As a solo artist, Collins has leaned more toward twangy Americana, but the recently rekindled Paul Collins’ Beat (as they later became known) is still making vintagey two-guitar rock ’n’ roll. —Patrick Rapa Sat., Jan. 8, 9 p.m., $8, with Mondo Topless, Electric Mess and Midnight Beat, Tritone, 1508 South St., 215-5450475, tritonebar.com.

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By the time he hit 21, Webb had written smash hits such as easy country-ish “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and softcore soulful “Up, Up and Away,” with the eerily ethereal “Wichita Lineman” and the hammy recitation “MacArthur Park” following in quick succession. Can four songs seal a reputation and make you the type of coin one could retire on? Ask Webb. Other smashes followed like “If You See Me Getting Smaller I’m Leaving,” “Didn’t We,” “Galveston “ (the last one, like “Wichita Lineman” and “Phoenix” responsible for Glen Campbell’s career trajectory) but it was mostly those first titles that made Webb the industry gold standard. He’s made some deep throaty solo albums, spawned three sons (better known as The Webb Bros), oversaw Michael Feinstein’s 2003 album Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb and in 2010 recorded the duet-y Just Across the River (E1 Music), where he sweeps into his catalog for something

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IDEAS FOR DINNER ³ MANY PROFESSIONAL CHEFS who go the cookbook route rely on their texts to prove just how unprofessional they’re capable of being, the starched-white formality of the restaurant kitchen shunned in favor of rolled-up sweater sleeves, carefree pinches of coarse sea salt (it’s rustic!) and more familial whimsy than a Hallmark Channel movie marathon. Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work (Clarkson Potter, Dec. 28) is a diametric response to this school of culinary authorship. It’s the print realization of the blog Ideas in Food (ideasinfood.com), written by H. Alexander Talbot and Aki Kamozawa, Levittown-based chefs known for approaching dishes with the chem-lab exactitude some have come to associate with the so-called “molecular” cooking realm. “The crux of our philosophy in and out of the kitchen is that there’s always something more to learn. This book describes many of the things we’ve discovered thus far,” they explain, those discoveries doubling as didactic (and sometimes dry) breakdowns in the book’s introductory section, designed for amateur cooks. From the moment Talbot and Kamozawa reveal that they season their dishes “at a level of 0.5 percent of the weight of what we are cooking,” it’s clear that Ideas in Food is not a typical rainy-Sunday, chef-in-repose cookbook — they’re as much students of science as they are stove jockeys, explaining everything from the causes of sublimination (aka freezer burn) to the myofibrillar breakdown that takes place during a meat brine in indomitable detail. The chefs’ shared rationale is that a curious home cook should understand all there is to understand about even the simplest tasks — for example, scrambled eggs are something most can pull off, but few of us have a grasp on the discrepancy in coagulation temperatures between whites and yolks. Good thing there’s an entire egg chapter. Ideas in Food’sback end, designed for the authors’ professional peers, goes next-next-level, breaking down the complex techniques surrounding the use of materials like xanthan gum (“my first hydrocolloid”) and methylcellulose. It’s likely this section will prove impenetrable for all but the most academic home cooks, since it’s not written for them anyhow. You’re better off pursuing the straightforward comfort-food-style recipes — buttermilk biscuits, mac ’n’ cheese (learn why they use evaporated milk), BBQ rigatoni, fried chicken (OK, cold-smoked fried chicken) — that populate the book’s first half. (drew.lazor@citypaper.net)

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1 Bdrm in Charming Brownstone, HW Flrs, Updated Kitchen/Bath, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry. $930/Mo. 215-735-8030. #216245 APARTMENT IN DREXEL HILL

Drexel Hill Renovated apartment 1 bedroom hardwood floors fee paid! $600’s Locators 215.922.3400 CHELTENHAM/ELKINS PARK

SPRINGFIELD APARTMENT

1 Bedroom, Unfurnished Water & Heat Included Wall-To-Wall Carpeting Parking 830 West Springfield Rd Call 610-543-7680 UTILITIES PAID 1 BEDROOM

Pennypack Park Utilities included Renovated 1 bedroom apartment appliances! Locators 215.922.3400 UTILITIES PAID IN MANAYUNK

Manayunk Rehabbed 1 bedroom apartment appliances storage utilities paid $600’s Locators 215.922.3400

Renovated 1 bedroom apartment Dishwasher, Hardwood, or W/W Carpet Air conditioned, Near Transportation, Shopping Easy commute to Center City Philadelphia (215) 395-6611

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HISTORIC GERMANTOWN 1 BED

2 STORY WITH PARKING

Historic Germantown Great Space! 1 bedroom hardwood floors utilities paid! Locators 215.922.3400 RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Beautiful & Spacious (1000 sq ft) 1 Bdrm 1.5 Bths Apt in Historic Brownstone, HW Flrs, Renovated Kitch, 2 Deco Fireplaces w/ Marble Tile, HUGE Master Bthrm Suite w/ Sep Shower Stall & Soaking Tub, Beautiful details & woodwork throughout, Cat/Dog Friendly, a MUST SEE! $1835/Mo. 215-7358030. #216850

Oxford Circle 1 bedroom apartment utilities paid appliances storage! Locators 215.922.3400

Two Bedrooms South Philadelphia 2 bedroom 2 story off street parking hardwood floors private entrance pets ok! Locators 215.922.3400 DUPLEX WITH OFF ST PARKING

Overbrook Secure 2 bedroom Duplex apartment parking private entrance pets ok $650 Locators 215.922.3400 LARGE APT NEAR EVERYTHING

Art Museum Area 2 bedroom Sunny apartment large near everything $800’s Locators 215.922.3400

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Frankford 3 bedroom No credit check yard pets basement $700’s Locators 215.922.3400

Port Richmond 3 bedroom 2 baths Negotiable Lease basement $850 Locators 215.922.3400

Rent to own! 3 bedroom 2 story home with patio and garage! $800’s Locators 215-922-3400

We have a 3 bedroom, 1 bath row home in South Philly that is available for rent. All the rooms have new carpeting, except kitchen and bathroom. The rent does not include utilities, the heating is gas. There is also an enclosed backyard. If you are interested in this home,we can be reached at (202) 544-5599 for more information. Thank you for your response. Manton at Grays Ferry (google map) (yahoo map)

FRANKFORD

PETS OK LOWER KENSINGTON!

3BEDROOM OFF STREET PARKING

2 STORY REHABBED HOUSE!

Richmond Nice 3 bedroom 2 story Rehabbed house yard appliances pets ok! Locators 215.922.3400 3BED NEGOTIABLE LEASE!

Section 8 ok! 3 bedroom 2 story home with a fenced yard for your pets! $650 Locators 215-922-3400 GERMANTOWN NO CREDIT CHECK

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Queen Village No credit check 2 stor y 3 bedroom home lease purchase! Locators 215.922.3400 MANAYUNK HOME WITH YARD

Manayunk 3 bedroom 2 story

NO CREDIT CHECK SEC 8 OK!

Southwest Philadelphia NO credit check 2 story 3 bedroom Section 8 ok! $750 Locators 215.922.3400 OXFORD CIRCLE

Lower Kensington 3 bedroom 2 story basement yard Bring pets! Locators 215.922.3400 RENT TO OWN “OXFORD CIRCLE�

Oxford Circle 3 bedroom 2 story house Lease purchase! Garage $800’s Locators 215.922.3400 RENT TO OWN NORTH PHILA

North Philadelphia No credit check 3 bedroom Rent to O w n ! $ 7 0 0 ’s L o c a t o r s 215.922.3400 RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Enormous 3bdrm w/ 2 Full Baths in Beautiful Historic Brownstone, Full Size Washer/Dryer in Apt, HW Flrs, 2 Decorative Fireplaces, Hi Ceilings, Newly Remodeled Kitchen w/ Granite Countertop, Separate Dining Rm, Living Rm, & Family Rm, A/C, Spacious Rooms, Terrific Location! $2650/Mo. 215735-8030. #216850 SO PHILA RENT TO OWN!

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We have a 3 bedroom, 1 bath row home in South Philly that is available for rent. All the rooms have new carpeting, except kitchen and bathroom. The rent does not include utilities, the heating is gas. There is also an enclosed backyard. If you are interested in this home,we can be reached at (202) 544-5599 for more information. Thank you for your response. Manton at Grays Ferry (google map) (yahoo map) 4 BEDROOM WITH FIREPLACE

University City Have pets? 4 bedroom home fireplace yard No credit check! Locators 215.922.3400

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Modern 3 Bedroom House for Rent Hardwood Floors, New Tile Kitchen, Washer/Dryer, Fridge, $795/ month Call Pete: 267-307-0371 8 BEDROOM WITH DEN IN LOGAN

Logan 8 bedroom 2 story den finished basement parking utilities paid Lease purchase! Locators 215.922.3400 A 8XXX MERCER ST. (FISHTOWN)

BEAUTIFULLY MODERN 3 BEDROOM ROW-HOME, N E W LY R E M O D E L E D, BACKYARD, BASEMENT, AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. $1100 A MONTH + UTILITIES. CLOSE TO CENTER CITY & OLD CITY. 215-4982383. BREWERYTOWN

Spacious 2 story 3 bedroom home with a finished basement! $695 Locators 215922-3400 BRING PETS IN CARROLL PARK!

Carroll Park 3 bedroom 2 baths 2 stor y Renovated house patio pets ok $825 Locators 215.922.3400 CHESTNUT HILL VICINITY

5 bedroom single house with high ceilings! Pets are ok! Pond! Locators 215-9223400 COBBS CREEK

3 bedroom 2 story house with patio and full basement. Formal dining room and nice yard! $825 Locators 215922-3400 HOUSE IN BREWERYTOWN

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Unique 3 bedroom 2 story home with patio and a finished basement! $725 Locators 215-922-3400 NORTH EAST PHILADELPHIA

5 bedroom 4 bath single home! Office, patio, and bring your pets! Locators 215-922-3400 NORTHERN LIBERTIES HOUSE!

4 bedroom 2 story house in Northern Liberties yard basement hardwood floors! Locators 215.922.3400

Commerical/ Warehouse APARTMENT AND ART STUDIO

Apartment and art studio for serious working artist. Two floors. Top floor cozy large studio apartment. Ground floor, large art studio with high ceilings, concrete floors, sink. Reply to 215 386 1804. Leave message. $1200.00 monthly.

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