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numb. My group has developed a new approach to letting you feel what the robotic tools are touching.” Kuchenbecker’s group also works with autonomous robots, utilizing cutting-edge sensors to design robots that are more capable with their hands, able to manipulate objects with the agility and adaptability that humans take for granted. “Right now robots are used a lot in factories, in very controlled settings,” she says. “But to operate in a home environment or anywhere they’re interacting with humans and things change from day to day, the robot needs to be able to react and pick up an object even though it’s never seen that object before, it doesn’t know how heavy it is, doesn’t know if it’s slippery or sticky, hard or soft, rough or smooth. We’re working on technology to help the robot estimate what the object will feel like.” The key is haptography, or haptic photography. “We record what a person feels as they touch the real object, either clicking a real button or dragging a tool across a real texture, and use a computer program we’ve designed to analyze it and distill it out into the essence of that touch experience,” Kuchenbecker explains. “I call it a haptograph. And when you come and touch the screen of the computer, we play it, but it’s not the same experience every time. If I push harder or I push softer, or move faster or slower, we have to generate the right sensation. If we played the same vibration all the time, we would break the illusion.” Kuchenbecker seems equally thrilled by all of haptography’s implications. “I delight in working on projects that might have the capability to improve people’s daily life, whether that’s through making a game more fun or helping them recover from an injury faster, helping them learn to do surgery better or to deliver better care to a patient in the operating room.” (s_brady@citypaper.net)

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There’s no end to the illusions that can be created by your smartphone or tablet. Swiping a finger across a screen can turn the pages of a book, strum a chord on a guitar or guide a harried explorer through treacherous jungle ruins. But no matter what appears to be happening visually and aurally, laments Katherine Kuchenbecker, “it always feels like a piece of glass.” Kuchenbecker, an assistant professor in UPenn’s Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department, is working to change that. Pick up a stylus in her lab and start scribbling in a drawing program — the texture feels like pencil on paper, not plastic on glass. Switch your virtual pencil to a virtual pen and the texture changes accordingly. Before long, she says, you won’t need the stylus — start punching buttons on your phone and you’ll feel their rounded contours, not the flat surface that’s actually in front of you. Part of Penn’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab (most famous lately for those robocopters flying around a TED conference), Kuchenbecker directs a group focused on haptics, the science of touch and its relation to human-computer and human-machine interaction. Applications range from simulators for training surgeons to remote telerobotics systems for bomb defusal to corrective

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physical-therapy devices. Students in her haptics class have also designed more entertaining variants, like a vest that approximates the sensation of being shot or burned while playing a first-person shooter, or a wrist cuff that prods your arm when your golf swing goes astray. “Humans are inherently multisensory creatures,” Kuchenbecker explains. “You look with your eyes, you listen with your ears, you taste and smell and you touch. I think the sense of touch is underrated, and not understood as well as vision and hearing and the other senses, but it was the first sense to evolve. The very first organisms that evolved could tell if they were bumping into something and needed to move in a different direction long before they had eyes or ears.” Much of the inspiration for Kuchenbecker’s interest in robotic teleoperation systems came from her father, a surgeon who learned his craft the old-fashioned way — by operating on real patients. The tools that she and her Haptics Group are working on would allow novice surgeons to practice under less high-pressure circumstances and a skilled surgeons to carry out delicate operations less invasively. “The problem with that is that you’re operating with long instruments that are like chopsticks, basically,” she says. “It’s really hard to be dexterous, to make the same kind of graceful, complex manipulation movements that you would normally do during open surgery. Robotic-surgery technology connects your hands, via fancy joysticks, with the movements of long, thin robotic instruments so you can do complicated surgeries without needing huge incisions, but they don’t give you any sense of touch. It’s as though your hands are

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Jameel Farruk has an infectious smile. He can tell you where to get the best grub in town. He’s quick to get up to help a woman having difficulty navigating a baby carriage. He seems like exactly the guy you want marketing your web business. Especially an apartment-hunting business, where a helpful attitude can go a long way. Farruk is the chief marketer for Inhabi (inhabi.com), the web company he and partner David Friedman launched last fall. While Farruk, who has experience in ad, media and PR work, may be the face of Inhabi, he claims that Friedman, whose background is in real estate and artificial intelligence, is the brains. The Inhabi idea is a simple one: matching renters with potential properties and landlords by collecting data from both parties. The information is then run through an algorithm, pairing users with units based on needs, interests and lifestyles, much like an online dating site. Inhabi is one of five companies making a presentation at Switch Philly 3, a Philly Tech Week event where startups demo their ideas and products to compete for prizes to help grow their businesses. “The inception of the idea, like some great ideas, came off the failure of another,” says Farruk, who met

Friedman while working with him at a mobile-payment startup that never quite got off the ground. Friedman introduced Farruk to some of the nichemarket solutions happening in the real-estate world, and they both saw an opportunity in rentals. At the start, they recognized how difficult it can be for apartment-seekers to connect with landlords and real-estate agents. “There was a general lack of effective communication tools, and so the first iteration of Inhabi was one geared toward helping people with scheduling appointments. In its infancy, it was a pretty traditional Internet listing service.” Thus, Inhabi began as kind of a “drag-and-drop” scheduler. The focus in those early developmental stages was on building a product that was approachable and user-friendly. “We spent a lot of time on the user interface and experience, mimicking some of our idols in the field, but really going for a fresh, alternative approach to the big giants out there that really haven’t made too many dramatic improvements to the look and feel of their sites.” In testing their product, Farruk and Friedman found that many landlords wanted to know more about potential renters before committing to an appointment. This got them wondering: “How much information can we provide a landlord, and how much information is the tenant willing to give?” says Farruk. “We took a very eHarmony approach to renting, and Inhabi was born.” Now, when users log in to the site, they are asked to build a personality profile by answering questions not only about price range and type of housing, but also about specific wants and

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YOU WANNA BE AN APP SUPERSTAR?:Jameel Farruk (left) and David Friedman will demo Inhabi at Wednesday’s Switch Philly 3 competition.

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needs, like proximity to certain restaurants or businesses, pet-friendliness, parking, hardwood flooring, and so forth. That information then gets processed through Friedman’s algorithm to produce a list of five or six properties that have a high probability of being what the renter is looking for. Inhabi also benefits landlords by providing a database for property owners to look to instead of having to wait for clients to come to them. “And that,” says Farruk, “is where our profit centers come in; that’s where we make money, by profiling information about our renters while protecting anonymity. When they find someone they want to contact, landlords ping us. We then facilitate the communication.” Since going live last September, Inhabi has grown steadily, gaining hundreds of new users daily. The service is currently offered only in Philadelphia, and while ideas about a mobile version are brewing, Farruk says that they are still trying to nail down the best online experience. Doing so involves a lot of communication with users, something both Farruk and Friedman have stressed from the start. “We have a very different philosophy that we subscribe to. It’s not, ‘Build the product to grow business;’ it’s, ‘Grow business and then let it dictate what the product does.’ So, every change on the site is a result of user feedback.” Consequently, Farruk spends a lot of time making one-on-one contact with Inhabi’s clients. “I think if you have a consumer-facing platform, every product decision has to be made by exactly what the consumer tells you. We’re consistently trying to perfect it.” (editorial@citypaper.net) Switch Philly 3, Wed., April 25, 6 p.m., $10, with judges Mayor Michael Nutter, Josh Kopelman and Ellen Weber, Levitt Auditorium, Gershman Hall, University of the Arts, 401 S. Broad St., phillytechweek.com.

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events in eye-catching outfits to wave pom-poms and deliver geeky cheers for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;citizen science movement.â&#x20AC;? The idea is simple: You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be a scientist to be science literate. They encourage everyday people to get involved in research projects happening in their own backyards. And if they inspire some young girls to consider careers in science, math and engineering along the way, well, even better. Cavalier, a former cheerleader at 76ers and Temple basketball games, is also an exec at Discover magazine and the force behind research hub SciStarter, which is essentially a project finder. People can use the site to get involved in real scientific research,

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from counting birds to sifting through images from the Kepler space telescope. Both SciStarter and the Science Cheerleaders are about opening people up to possibilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our government is spending a lot of money and energy in schools, trying to create these little scientists,â&#x20AC;? says Cavalier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t become scientists or teachers or policymakers, what role do they play in our society when it comes to science, or are they just left at the door? And when I say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;they,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I really mean â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;meâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;? After all, she was a communications major at Temple. At Discover, she started out stuffing envelopes. And though she eventually worked her way up to senior manager of global business development, she felt like something was missing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the point of being science literate if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to end up a scientist?â&#x20AC;? she asked herself. The answer: â&#x20AC;&#x153;To live your life making smarter decisions, and having a more personally enriched life by understanding how the world works.â&#x20AC;? She went back to school specifically to explore that question, creating her own graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania studying science, policy, education and the history and sociology of science. She set out to create a process to unite the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire to be heard, the scientistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing interest in and need for the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help to accomplish tasks, and policymakersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; desire for public input and support. At this Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Science Carnival on the Parkway, the Science Cheerleaders will rah-rah through science-themed routines and promote educational activities. Their appearance foreshadows the nationwide â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Cheer for Scienceâ&#x20AC;? shout-out, which invites students across the country to cheer, shout and stomp at the same time (1:30 p.m., April 27), then check a seismometer to see if the needle moved. Earth-shattering? Maybe not. But it should make an impact. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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EARTH IN CRISIS

On paper, climatologists Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson study ice caps in an attempt to understand climate change. What separates them from others in their field is the

— will focus on the tasty and/or kinky insights of history’s finest scientists, philosophers and medical pioneers. The Chemical Heritage Foundation joins with Philly Improv Theater for this unlikely collaboration.

—Abigail Minor

00Thu., April 26, 7 p.m., $10, Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut St., 215-925-2222, philasciencefestival.org.

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execution. She’s trekked out to Antarctica while he’s scaled the Himalayas, both in the name of science. Lately, they’ve been serving as the 2012 Franklin Institute laureates, and now, by incorporating the permanent exhibit, “Changing Earth,” into their lecture, they’ll attempt to take the layperson to the core of the matter.

It’s hard to say whether most self-described geeks, nerds and dorks would actually run to the bar if they thought the world was going to end, but chances are they’ll gather for this. Following a Meet and Geek speed-dating romp, Frankford Hall will go into full lockdown mode. Disaster theorist/author/recent City Paper feature subject Scott Knowles headlines the discussion along with Mayan expert Simon Martin and scholar Li Sumpter. In addition to going over emergencykit-prep tips, they’ll also look at how pop culture may have us more worried than necessary.

—Chris Brown

00Tue., April 24, 5 p.m., free, Franklin Institute,

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GAMIFICATION FOR NONPROFITS Whether they’re Drawing Something or exchanging Words with Friends, it’s suddenly OK for grownups to play games. The emerging field of “gamification” looks at how we can apply game thinking to non-gaming industries, utilizing our need for play in real-world contexts, from collecting frequent-flyer miles to checking in on Foursquare. This day-long conference explores the possibilities of using gamification for nonprofit outreach. Maybe one day our children will be accruing “green points” for every flyer mile they don’t use. —Nina Willbach

00Tue., April 24, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., $20, Hamilton Hall, University of the Arts, 320 S. Broad St., phillytechweek.com.

LIFE, SEX, DEATH (AND FOOD) This comedic presentation — subtitled “A Historical Look at the Science that Drives Us”

00Thu., April 26, 8 p.m., $5, Frankford Hall,

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SCIENCE CARNIVAL From the cats at Arts in the Age to reps from the Philadelphia Water Department, everyone and their proverbial mother are setting up shop for this, the Philadelphia Science Festival’s main event. The Parkway will be swarming. Expect 100-plus exhibition booths and a fleet of food trucks. This is your opportunity to make your own slime, meet a basketball-shooting robot and play Twister on the periodic table. —Chris Brown

00Sat., April 21, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., free, Logan Circle, 18th and Race streets, philasciencefestival.org.

SCIENCE FILM FESTIVAL Sci Fest adds a film component this year, with a dozen entries (programmed by Awesome Fest’s Josh Goldbloom) ranging from a prescient exposé of breast-cancer funding to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Léa Pool’s Pink Ribbons, Inc. will be the hot ticket, arguing that billions of dollars raised for breast-cancer research — much of it by the now-controversial Susan

G. Komen for the Cure — have been channeled into feel-good initiatives that ignore and obfuscate the disease’s potential causes, as corporate donors steer scientists away from investigating the carcinogens they put into the environment. Ian Cheney’s The City Dark investigates the increasing scourge of light pollution, while local Jeremiah Zagar’s short doc, Flatline, profiles two Texas doctors whose newly designed artificial heart allows life without a pulse. The provocative double bill of Eco-Pirate and Wiebo’s War (pictured) follows environmental activists outside the boundaries of the law, while Chasing Ice depicts a converted climate-change skeptic’s attempt to document the degradation of polar ice. Screenings, which also include a pair of fiction features exploring the gray

areas of fringe science, are spread among the Franklin Institute, International House and the Trocadero, accompanied by giant model hearts or cocktails as appropriate. —Sam Adams

00More info at philasciencefestival.org.

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TETRIS/ARM-WRESTLING TOURNAMENT Clearing a row in Tetris used to require nothing more than an agile flick of the thumb, but here in the days of Wii and Kinect that seems a bit quaint. In an effort to reinvigorate the addictive puzzle game, hacker collective Hive76 has thrown arm wrestling into the mix. Using a specially rigged controller, competing gamers will now have to rely on brute force in addition to quick reflexes to maneuver their blocks; an aggressive makeover of a once-passive classic. —Michael Gold

00Thu., April 26, 7 p.m., free, Hive76, 915 Spring Garden St., phillytechweek.com.

TOOOL LOCKPICKING WORKSHOP It may not be immediately apparent, but the art of hacking existed long before we entered the digital age. In an attempt to acknowledge these old-school roots, the folks from The Open Organisation of Lockpickers (TOOOL) present a hands-on workshop for all the tinkerers and tailors out there. Catering to both noobs and grizzled vets alike, this workshop aims to crack open the inner workings of picking locks. —Chris Brown

00Wed., April 25, noon-4 p.m. and 4-8 p.m., $10$30, Next Fab Studio, 3711 Market St., phillytechweek.com.

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How Bizarre? Like the Mütter, Philly author K. R. Sands wants to have her giant colon and eat it, too. Just as that museum detests comparisons to carnival sideshows — gawk only in the name of science! — so too does Boy of Bone: Twelve Stories Inspired by the Mütter Museum (Siman Media Works, 224 pp.) bend over backwards to appear sensitive instead of sensationalist. Jon Lezinsky’s Sandman-esque illustrations are about as straightup spooky as this book gets. But when you’re starting with reallife anatomical curiosities, why overdo it? Each of Sands’ genre-hopping, time-skipping tales owes its twisted life to some Mütter artifact, be it shrunken heads, mutated bones or a wax model of a leper. In “Madam Sunday’s Horn,” an old lady chalks up her bony protrusions to a message from God. In “The Face Phantom,” a doctor who really, really loves his eye-surgery dummy sees her get seduced by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Marie Curie makes an appearance here, as does Thomas Dent Mütter, conjoined twins and that giant —Patrick Rapa colon. Each is handled with care, as it probably should be.

00Reading/signing with K.R. Sands, Wed., April 25, 6:30-8 p.m., free, Mütter Museum, 19 S. 22nd Street, 215-563-3737, collphyphil.org.

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³ ANYTIME PEARCE BUNTING returns home, it’s an occasion. The Barrymore Award-winning Philadelphian has been away, Broadway-bound with his lead part in Mamma Mia! as well as running around for his recurring role in Boardwalk Empire — his “Bill McCoy” was the first character seen in the Scorsese-directed pilot episode of the HBO series. Within the last 12 months though, Bunting (now a Minnesotan, with his wife and kids) has made two stops in Philly, both for Theatre Exile and both for playwright Martin McDonagh,2011’s Lieutenant of Inishmore and this week’s Exile season-closing A Behanding in Spokane.“It was about time somebody cast me to play someone from England/Scotland/Ireland/Wales as it’s my heritage and I do have a nice and nasty glint in my eye, yet am terrified of people like Fergie and Austin McGrath shaking their heads in disgust at me,” laughs Bunting from an undisclosed location in Philly. (“Exile sequesters me, blindfolds me every night after rehearsal, where I live a cold, solitary existence, terrorized by rats.”) Bunting can say nothing about Empire’s currently filming season (“I keep hoping I’ll have a high-speed boat chase with the Coast Guard”), but will talk plenty about how Behanding has much in common with Inishmore — save for the blood.“There’s terror, the same inane bickering over semantics, desperate characters. The most confounding thing, sometimes, is that his plays are so simple and oddly delicate. You can’t complicate things with too much psychology. You just have to go for it completely, heart and soul, and let the play do its thing.” Bunting’s Behanding character, Carmichael, has no problem torturing people’s minds. “In Inishmore, I was a victim just trying to save my ass when the bullets started flying. In Behanding, I’m the nasty man, the one with the gun.” Pow. ³ Could it be true that the lease to Fourth Street’s ground-level dining spot Latest Dish and its house-n-dub second-floor Fluid is on the market? We hear indeed, but does that mean that baby-faced Tony Schiro is out of the DJs-n-nosh biz? ³ With everyone’s attentions turned to Bart Blatstein’s worst-kept-ever secret of a casino at the Inquirer building, look for another vacant property to make waves when-and-if 12,350 square feet of property on the north side of 16th and Sansom gets approved for a nine-story building of retail, restaurants and condos. Listed under the corporate name of G2S2,the property was once owned by the legendary Sam Rappaport, whose estate sold it to realtor/developer Wayne Spilove, who razed the existing building and made it into a parking lot. One big question remains — is G2S2 a Spilove-owned private corp? Stay tuned. ³ More heart and soul at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

GOING ROBE: Hart breaks past the bit-part and comedy-special circuit to play the hilarious, near-divorced narrator in Steve Harvey’s muchanticipated Think Like a Man. ALAN MARKFIELD

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GOTTA HAVE HART Philly-bred comedian Kevin Hart steers his soul plane toward broader horizons. By A.D. Amorosi

omedian and actor Kevin Hart hasn’t just moved beyond his days of working at a shoe store on Walnut Street, pulling pranks at Northeast Philly’s George Washington High School and hitting the stages of area comedy clubs. Lately, the 33-year-old Philadelphia-born funnyman has had a workhorse schedule of putting out standup specials — 2009’s I’m a Grown Little Man, 2010’s Seriously Funny and last year’s Laugh at My Pain — and is upgrading his roles from cinematic silliness (Soul Plane, Epic Movie) to bigger parts in more deserving films. “I’m trying to separate myself from the pack with the newest slate of films I’m doing, picking my projects wisely and [expanding] on my comedy career,” says Hart, speaking by phone from an Atlanta standup stop about his roles in two upcoming films written by two very different big Hollywood players: Jason Segel’s The Five-Year Engagement and Steve Harvey’s Think Like a Man. “I’ve had the necessary successes and can afford to be more cautious. It’s about boosting me, rather than just taking what’s offered.” Hart’s pal Segel is a good example of a wise guy making solid film decisions, and their relationship made for a ripe camaraderie on The Five-Year Engagement. “We started out together and did television (Judd Apatow’s Undeclared) way back in the day. His

approach to me was that he and [director] Nick Stoller had something smart and funny for me. They were talking my language.” Harvey, whom Hart calls a mentor and a friend, also spoke his language. His best-selling advice book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man opens the door on the secrets Harvey claims men hold over women. “Steve is like that, offering [suggestions] on what to do and how to handle yourself when you reach a certain level, whether it’s handling success in comedy, women or being wise with yourself. He made me realize how important it was to own what I do.” To that end, Hart owns the rights to his standup films, including the soonto-be-released Let Me Explain and is growing as his own CEO. Hart was approached about Think Like a Man before there was a script for the character of “Cedric,” the film’s near-divorced narrator and, in all honesty, the funniest guy on screen. But there wasn’t backbiting among the cast, which includes Jerry Ferrara, Romany Malco and Michael Ealy. “Nobody here thought they were better than the next guy. The hardest part about this film was [finishing] it. It wasn’t work. We got there to have a good time and happened to make this really intelligent comedy.” Hart may be getting wiser, but is he also getting funnier as he gets older and moves beyond the role of shoe salesman with a million yuks? “The funny is older,” says Hart. “I’m learning to get my point of view across more wisely than ever before. It’s nice to be growing in your craft beyond where you started.”

“They were talking my language.”

✚ Think Like a Man opens Fri., April 20; read Cassie Owens’ review on p. 31.

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³ comedy Filthier than his fanciful manchild character on Community, less schticky than his increasingly tiring hip-hop alter ego Childish Gambino, Donald Glover the standup comic is surprisingly engaging on the new Weirdo (Entertainment One). Maybe it’s all the highenergy storytelling (The Moth should pounce on his “pooping in the Home Depot display toilet” story) or maybe it’s his left-field rants (“I’d much rather have AIDS than a baby”); Glover has the audience in his pocket more often than not. —Patrick Rapa

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³ movies/re-release Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street gets a well-deserved moment in the sun courtesy of Criterion’s new edition. Malle took the idea of a post-proscenium production and ran with it, placing the camera on the stage with live actors but never allowing it to take the position of an invisible spectator. With yellow caution tape and rat-gnawed seats visible in the background, the film makes no attempt to camouflage its artifice, but that doesn’t prevent Vanya from being one of the most emotionally raw and, in its own way, faithful theater-to-film conversions ever made. —Sam Adams

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The timeliness of Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Slip/ Shot — movingly premiered by Flashpoint Theatre Company — is obvious, but deceptive. Her searing drama eerily echoes the Trayvon Martin case in some respects (a young black man shot by a white man in Florida), but the play focuses not on the shooting itself, but on its lingering effects on generations of survivors. Kevin Meehan plays security guard Clem, whose rookie fascination with his gun leads to the obviously accidental shooting of young Monroe (Akeem Davis) in 1962. The local sheriff (Keith Conallen) rightly fears reprisal from the local black population, energized by the burgeoning civil rights movement, but the real consequences are personal, not political. Clem’s the son of a notorious Ku Klux Klan leader and denounces his legacy, but his guilt is exacerbated by his history, and he ends up imprisoning himself in his home with his young wife, Kitty (Rachel Camp). We don’t see that deep into Clem, which is Slip/ Shot’s only weakness, but it’s balanced by Camp’s incisive performance as a woman unprepared for tragedy. Monroe’s pregnant girlfriend Phrasie (Taysha Canales) parallels Kitty’s struggle as she faces losing her college scholarship to a life of single motherhood and domestic servitude. She reaches out to Monroe’s bitter mother, Miz Athey (Cathy Simpson, in a vividly honest performance), and with this Slip/Shot leaves the men behind to focus on how these three women, tangential victims, try to break out of the cycle of hatred, violence and misunderstanding. Director Rebecca Wright’s production keeps most of our attention on the women, whose stories overlap in the shared kitchen created by scenic designer Caitlin Lainoff. Framed by encroaching Florida moss and eerily lit by Thom Weaver, the show’s visuals articulate the need to escape the past, and celebrate the power of hope. Through May 5, $18-$20, Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-6659720, flashpointtheatre.org. (m_cofta@citypaper.net)

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[ B- ] “AS A FRESHMAN, it can be pretty tough,” Violet (Greta Gerwig) explains to Lily (Analeigh Tipton), newly arrived at Seven Oaks University. Lucky for her, Violet and her gal pals Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and Heather (Carrie MacLemore) have spotted her looking alone and uncertain about where to go next on orientation day. As the girls named for flowers go forth in Damsels in Distress, they do display an affect resembling confidence. Whether manning the desk at a makeshift suicide prevention office or attending frat parties as a “form of youth outreach,” they see their do-gooding from a perspective that might charitably be described as limited. Fond of pert sundresses and matching shoes, they’re privileged but also primly ignorant. Their view of the world is premised on their rightness, which makes them at once typical and extreme, both the self-serious subjects and easy targets in Whit Stillman’s first film in 14 years. Violet’s sincere cluelessness becomes a particular focus, her life lessons less earned than contingent on the ups and downs of her compatriots. One boy, Charlie (Adam Brody), is misleading in most every way, but cute. Lily’s boy, the barbarically selfish but seemingly refined Xavier (Hugo Becker), poses another kind of problem: monopolizing her time and insisting on her silence regarding his odd sexual preferences. When the story comes out, the girls rally round Lily, and Violet devises her own way to handle both the newbie and her campaign to popularize a dance called the sambola. These episodes proceed as such. That is, the girls don’t so much follow arcs or form a community as they stand in for ideas that are at once broad, narrow and somewhat abstract. The film is flimsy, however intentionally. But it’s also old. Even if it’s set in a timeless world, a make-believe college campus where ambition and naïveté abide, it never picks up speed, energy or much nerve. It simply tells you what you already know. —Cindy Fuchs

Girls named for flowers go forth.

WHITE GIRL’S BURDEN: Recalling Clueless, Whit Stillman’s first film in 14 years follows three privileged young ladies on a mission to bring a dose of do-good to Seven Oaks University.

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The last time Damon Albarn and Tony Allen launched a ponderously-monikered supergroup with an improbable celeb bassist (this time, it’s Flea), it was moody, song-focused and squarely on Albarn’s musical turf. Not so with the eponymous Rocket Juice and the Moon (Honest Jons), a loose, riotous mess of Afrobeat and gently psychedelic funk grooves — punctuated by visitations from Erykah Badu and a host of African MCs — wherein Albarn is mostly relegated to splutteringsynth duties. —K. Ross Hoffman

Words are usually beside the point in Yann Tiersen’s oeuvre, but he captures the feel of Skyline (ANTI-) in two couplets: “All monuments of men / They’re sinking in vain / Tiny moments of mine / They’re floating in space.” Tiersen plays more than a dozen instruments on the disc’s nine tracks, from bouzouki to synths, and the result is sometimes rousing, sometimes woozy and always shimmering. He performs a rare acoustic gig at World Café Live at The Queen on Tuesday and an electric show at Union Transfer on April 26 (queen.worldcafelive.com, utphilly.com). —M.J. Fine

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THE NEXT STEP A Broadway legend looks back. By A.D. Amorosi

en Vereen hits Bristol Riverside Theater this weekend with Steppin’ Out Live, his one-man show that’s half the Broadway legend’s spoken autobiography and half musical review. Vereen sings, speaks and dances to illustrate his life and roles, which have included extensive work with choreographer and director Bob Fosse, a Tony Award as the leading player in Pippin and a Tony nomination for playing Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar, understudying Sammy Davis Jr. in Golden Boy and recently playing the Wizard of Oz in Wicked. (If you’re less familiar with musical theater, you might recognize Vereen from his role as Will’s biological dad on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, among others.) In conversation, Vereen is a joy, starting out by having some fun with this writer’s initials (“After Dessert,” “Always Delicious”), then passing the phone to a surprise guest star: fellow Tony-winning dancer, choreographer and Fosse acolyte Ann Reinking, who starred in the film version of All That Jazz. This is the musical-theater equivalent of having Robert De Niro pause an interview to let you speak with his pal Meryl Streep. City Paper: You’ve been doing this show in one form or another for

a while — you did a smaller version as a cabaret act at Feinstein’s in Manhattan. Can you talk about the show’s evolution? Ben Vereen: It has been a slow process, hasn’t it? We’ve been taking it apart and putting it back together one hundred dif-

CP: You were close to and worked with Sammy Davis Jr., and pay tribute to him in the show. I’m guessing you agree that modern audiences don’t understand his

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BV: But of course! We’re having lunch

— she wants to talk to you. [Hands the phone off.] CP: What do you think about the show? What does Vereen mean to the theater world? Ann Reinking: So far, he sounds good! Ben means everything to me, and to theater. We love what he’s meant to television and film, but to the theater world, he’s unstoppable. He’s honest and enthusiastic. He has soul. [Passes phone back.]

BV: Exactly. People don’t get what amazing music and dances he

created, or how he made it possible for me to do what I do today — and not just because I understudied for him. He was a trailblazer. Sam never saw color lines. He saw people. He had light. CP: You worked with Fosse on Sweet Charity, and he tailored a

role in Pippin for you. Did you find him as calculating and mercurial as others recall him being? BV: Yes, but he was a genius. We had a very simpatico collaboration. I wish he was around today to work his magic. Hell, I wish he were around to direct this show [laughs]. I hope I provided him with the same level of genius. [Sings] “I got genius for you!” ... Know what I think you’ll like? I’m sitting here with Ann Reinking. CP: You’re sitting with Ann Reinking and you’re talking to me?

CP: You mentor youths with interest in theater, but let’s be clear — you’re still out there working and looking for great roles. Should other hoofers and howlers step aside when you’re in the room? BV: They don’t have to stay out of my way, or me out of their way. We’ll all just follow our own journey and each and every one of us will be fine [laughs]. The only person I’m in competition with is myself. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net) ✚ Fri.-Sun., April 20-22, $50-$65, Bristol Riverside

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NEW CHIMPANZEE Read Nina Willbach’s review on citypaper.net/movies. (Franklin Institute, UA Riverview)

DAMSELS IN DISTRESS|BRead Cindy Fuchs’ review on pg. 25. (Ritz Five)

A haiku: Everybody Was in the French Resistance Now! That’s a band name. (Not reviewed) (Ritz at the Bourse)

THE LUCKY ONE|CIt’s easy to dismiss the schmaltzy romantic drama The Lucky One.After all, it came from Nicholas Sparks’ badly chewed ballpoint pen and was directed by Scott Hicks (Shine) with a paint-by-numbers approach to filmmaking. Will Beth (Taylor Schilling), smarting from her Marine brother’s death and coping with her bullying ex-husband, fall in love with Logan (Zac Efron), a chivalrous Marine carrying a big secret? Sparks fans will be thrilled to see their star-crossed lovers wet and kissing (though fully dressed) in a passionate shower scene, but for all the romantic talk of chance, fate and destiny, The Lucky One never quite reaches the deep emotions it tries to mine. Schilling, however, is radiant, and the film is at its best whenever she is onscreen. This is really her story. Unfortunately, it’s also a vehicle built for swoon-inducing Efron, who's pretty, but hardly credible as a Marine. If he really wanted to stretch as an actor here, he should have done it shirtless and reaching for the ceiling. —Gary M. Kramer (UA Riverview)

Kevin Macdonald’s extensive biography of reggae legend Bob Marley deftly weaves together conflicting interviews and archival footage, offering a complex look at an enigmatic music icon. But with a two-and-a-half hour runtime, the director’s thoroughness may impede his documentary’s ability to cut through the smoke. Following a mostly temporal path, Marley traces the reggae superstar’s life from impoverished childhood to untimely death. Macdonald is careful to avoid the soundtrack-driven pitfalls of Behind the Music, leaving no stone unturned as he delves into Marley’s thorny religious and philosophical convictions and lingeres on daughter Cedella’s bitter reflections on her father’s philandering ways. The movie’s greatest flourish, however, is when Macdonald plays “Corner Stone,” a song written about Marley’s absent father, to Bob’s white half-sister Constance. Her tears are the best signal that the doc is determined to cross unexplored territory. The downside to that approach is that Marley glosses over some of the more basic details of the legend’s music career. Marley’s departure from the Wailers gets fairly little attention, and given how little time Macdonald spends discussing Marley’s storied drug use, the movie’s 4/20 release date is frustratingly misleading. Still, that’s a reasonable price to pay for a new addition to the Marley mystique. —Michael Gold (Ritz at the Bourse)

THINK LIKE A MAN|BIn Think Like a Man, women rush to bookstores to devour Steve Harvey’s wildly popular self-help book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment. This comes much to the chagrin of a group of male friends who find their love lives flipped upside down after the ladies

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read the author’s tell-all about how men really work. This a formulaic romantic comedy that asks if young lovers can find common ground, and it predictably responds that they can with the right amount of Steve Harvey-isms. But the film is also more than that: It’s a showcase for Phillybred comedian Kevin Hart’s talent (Read A.D. Amorosi’s Q&A with Hart on pg. 24). Has Hart really arrived? Can his comedy still slay against a rom-com backdrop? Think Like a Man proves that the answer to all these questions is a resounding “yes”. The catch-phrase launching, shamelessly unabashed, short-man physical com-

edy that makes his standup superb is intact, and delivered with fantastic results — and he’s surrounded by an ensemble cast that keeps the comedy rolling way past Steve Harvey’s blahblah-blah. —Cassie Owens (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Riverview)

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director Lee Hirsch nails his targets is in capturing clueless, ineffectual school administrators, who respond to very real parental concerns with baby talk and pictures of their grandkids. These officials, entrusted with the welfare of scores of children, are woefully unable to differentiate between “kids being kids” and brutal harassment. No matter how heartfelt and well-intentioned, Hirsch makes the same mistake, failing to recognize the degrees of difference between rites

of passage and intolerable tragedy. —Shaun Brady (Ritz East)

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS|B+ Joss Whedon and co-writer/director Drew Goddard have created a mashup of Sam Raimi and Joseph Campbell that recognizes the primal appeal of some of our lowest-brow viewing habits. The Cabin in the Woods deconstructs its targets while elevating them to the status of modern mythology. Ultimately, it moves past sending up what we watch into questioning why we watch, albeit in a self-conscious, tongue-in-cheek manner. Down to its satisfying endgame cameo, the film cleverly balances being about horror flicks and still being a horror flick — the rare movie that manages to have its brains and eat them, too. —S.B. (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Riverview) THE KID WITH A BIKE|AThe Kid With a Bike moves at a brisk pace in its efforts to keep up with Cyril (Thomas Doret), whose constant attempts to escape from a state-run group home and seek out his unwilling father (Jérémie Renier) leave little time for rest. From its title to the sideways tracking shots that follow Cyril’s headlong flight, the film is embedded in homage to Bicycle Thieves and The 400 Blows, but the deeply Christian Dardenne brothers are

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✚ REPERTORY FILM BLACK MARIA FILM FESTIVAL County Theater, 20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-345-6789, countytheater.org. Black Maria Film Festival: This film and video festival presents a diverse collection of shorts. Wed., April 25, 7:30 p.m., $9.75.

CINEMATHEQUE INTERNATIONALE L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St., cinemathequeip.com. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970, Czech Republic, 77 min.): A teenage girl’s sexual awakening sparks a bizarre surrealist fantasy. Wed., April 25, 7 p.m., $10.

611 S. 7th St., 215-238-0900, nomadpizzaco.com. Up in Smoke (1978, U.S., 86 min.): Cheech and Chong drive a van full of weed across the border. Fri., April 20, 4:20 p.m., free. The Birdcage (1996, U.S., 117 min.): A gay nightclub owner and his dragqueen partner play straight to placate their son’s conservative in-laws. Wed., April 25, 8:30 p.m., free.

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LOCKOUT|C+ Reluctant hero Snow (Guy Pearce) is enlisted to break into a high-security jail and rescue a hostage, but directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger never manage to make the protagonist’s mission seem particularly impossible. There are a few moments of Bessonian lunacy, including a car chase accelerated to the point of incomprehensibility and the screen’s most ridiculous skydive, but much more time is spent on wandering through steamfilled hallways and bickering. It’s only Pearce’s enjoyably snarky performance that elevates Lockout above direct-toDVD status. —S.B. (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Riverview)

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BEYOND THE BOWL Cooking with weed outside the brownie-and“gooball” mold. By Felicia D’Ambrosio

isclaimer: City Paper does not endorse the use of illegal substances. This article is for entertainment purposes only, and is not intended to make any scientific claims or promote any behavior. Potluck guests were plunking their plates down on the table and affixing descriptive handwritten signs when the hostess grabbed one and carted it away. She returned minutes later with a new label: “Special Brownies. Not For KIDS!” They were the first dessert to go, with most of the evening’s guests sporting at least a few shreds of green between their teeth by the end of the night. Though possessing a certain nostalgic appeal, the weed brownies, tuned-up Rice Krispie treats More on: and peanut butter-oat-and-honey “gooballs” that make up the pot-snack canon are not known for their palatability or innovation. The plant’s reputation for increasing hunger and enhancing the pleasure of food practically demands culinary experimentation. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis, its pain- and stress-relieving properties commonly unlocked by smoking the buds or leaves of the plant. The deleterious bodily effect of smoking is one motivation devotees have for finding new ways to ingest it. The next step is crafting weed-laced food that

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is actually enjoyable to eat. “Pot food always tasted awful to me ... [and] I didn’t understand why this had to be,” says “Mary Jane,” chef and owner of Tastebuds, a local underground caterer hosting recurring supper clubs highlighting her clientele’s preferred vegetation. She has hooked up everything from ricotta cheese and mayonnaise to lollipops, marshmallows and hard candies. (“Why would I make brownies,” she asks, “when I can make meatballs?”) M.J.’s once-annual events morphed into monthly soirees as demand grew from both cancer patients and recreational users. Since THC is highly soluble in fat, effective extractions can be made by infusing ground buds, leaves and trimmings into butter and oil at a low temperature. “You’ve gotta have fat,” says chef Scott Schroeder of South Philly Tap Room, who openly shares his fondness for ganja via his Twitter feed (@foodsyoucaneat). “The best thing I did was make weed ice cream last summer. When you freeze it, the THC crystal bursts, and when MORE FOOD AND you freeze it really hard, then it gets really DRINK COVERAGE strong. You can keep it in the freezer for a AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / long time, but it disappeared really fast.” M E A LT I C K E T. An informal survey of kitchen professionals with marijuana-cooking experience yielded a host of surprising suggestions. Chef Z mentioned that piperine, found in peppercorns, ups the bioavailability of the anti-inflammatory curcumin, which naturally occurs in turmeric. If piperine could help the body absorb more of the difficult-to-metabolize compound, could it release more potential in cannabis? His addition of finely ground black pepper and turmeric to an infusion of leaf clippings dramatically increased >>> continued on page 42

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³ OF ALL THE restaurant concepts to cross my desk last year, Grill Fish Café was damn near the top of the anticipation pile. A joint specializing in the coastal seafood cooking of Vietnam?! I was all over that, daydreaming about mammoth crabs, exotic mollusks and head-on prawns in pungent marinades and fiery oils. And who better to bring it all to us than Benny Lai, capo of Philly’s reigning royal family of Vietnamese gastronomy? Grill Fish opened in January after some redecorating of the matchbox-sized space formerly occupied by the Lais’ Vietnam Café. Now, wrought-iron schools of fish and tranquil, sun-hazed photos of Vietnamese fisherfolk line the exposed-brick walls, setting the stage for a meal rich in tradition, discovery and omega-3s. Or at least so I thought. There were no mammoth crabs or exotic mollusks, and the prawns came decapitated, floured, fried and tossed with sautéed bell peppers, onions, garlic and chili, mushing the once-crisp crustaceans’ coatings. Instead of some rare, unusual specimen from the South China Sea, there was Italian branzino and American fluke, the former grilled whole, the latter sheathed in panko crumbs, fried and posed over wilted, olive oil-slicked spinach. Even in today’s global economy, Lai can’t source much from Asia and makes due with local alternatives. Fluke made a beautiful sub, moist and crispy in the right places, but take away the ginger dipping sauce it loses its already-tenuous Viet identity. The Lais have always been Western-friendly, but never as timidly as this. Chords of lemongrass and garlic in a wicked chicken/sake broth (served with clams and mussels) showed promise, but even that could have used ballsier doses of fish sauce, chili and lime. And while I loved the tender grilled lamb leg marinated in hoisin, honey, lemongrass and soy, I can’t figure out why it’s served with lemon aioli and oily zucchini, squash, peppers and onions. When Vietnam Café lived here, black-eyed-pea pudding and fizzy, fresh-squeezed limeade populated the lacquered tables. In the Grill Fish era, it’s fried calamari and chocolate martinis. At least the Vietnamese coffee — potent, brewed-to-order La Colombe cut with sweetened condensed milk — still tastes the same. Anyone else smelling a proper Saigon-society coffeeshop in the cards for the Lais? A guy can dream. And get crabs elsewhere. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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the effects of his resulting butter. “Put that on anything,” he says. “Rice, popcorn … works great in curry, or as a compound finishing butter.” Chef X saves a half-ounce of shake (the crumbly bits that “shake off” from buds) and sous-vides it with one pound of butter at 150 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour, then strains out the solids using a chinois. This procedure, which dramatically reduces the incriminating aroma of slow-cooked weed, can be recreated at home by deploying a vacuum-sealed FoodSaver bag of butter or oil and ground grass into a pot of gently simmering water. Chef X says he hasn’t smoked anything in nearly a year, but has been contemplating throwing a “dinner party on the sly” for friends. Perhaps he’d consider a menu of a salad dressed with enhanced oil, protein finished with Chef Z’s curried compound cannabutter, and for dessert, Schroeder’s ice cream, the recipe for which you can find below. (restaurants@citypaper.net)

✚ POT ICE CREAM yields about 1 1/2 quarts INGREDIENTS 2 vanilla beans, split lengthwise and scraped 1/8 ounce of marijuana, ground fine 2 cups milk 6 large egg yolks 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar 2 cups cold heavy cream 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

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Fri., April 20, 8-11 p.m., $75 ³ The Lemon Society, a coalition of young professionals supporting Alex’s Lemonade Stand, is giving us a reason to drink for a good cause: It’s hosting the Lemon Society Speakeasy to raise funds for the Annual Childhood Cancer Symposium. Bartenders from Osteria, Continental Mid-town and the Franklin will be mixing lemon-inspired cocktails; guests will vote on their favorite drink while enjoying food catered by Starr Events. Period-appropriate ’20s garb is encouraged. The Arts Ballroom, 1324 Locust St., alexslemonade.org/ campaign/lemon-society-speakeasy. Shucking Contest at Oyster House Sat., April 21,

2 p.m., $5 admission, cash bar ³ For the third year in a row, Oyster House invites all comers to a bivalve-busting extravaganza. Both amateur and professional shuckers are competing, for $200 and $100, respectively. They will be judged on speed and accuracy by Kristina Jenkins of Where magazine, Allison Stadd of uwishunu.com and HughE Dillon of phillychitchat.com. The $5 entry fee includes oyster samples. Oyster House, 1516 Sansom St., 215-567-7683, oysterhousephilly.com. Great American Smoke-Out Festival at Flying Carpet Café Fri., April 20, 4 p.m.-midnight, $25 open

bar, pay as you go for food ³ Enjoy ’cue from Le Cochon Noir and pizza from Pitruco, among other snacks, while jamming to six different bands at Flying Carpet’s festival fundraiser. Twenty-five bucks gets you access to two open-bar sessions. (Cash bar is also an option.) Five dollars of every open bar sale and 10 percent of each cash-bar drink goes to P.A.W.S. Flying Carpet Cafe, 1841 Poplar St., 215-235-2525, flyingcarpetcafebar.com. —Alexandra Weiss

ASSHOLE

FAMILY IGNORANCE I spoke to your mother briefly...and I said to myself...ok when is she going to fuck up the conversation and say something stupid....at least 5 seconds later she said something stupid... why did you have to point out my complexion. I said to myself, what the fuck does my complexion have to do with what type of person I am. I see now that this is going to be a long 18 years of the rest of my life. I have a lot to deal with don’t I. I hope this will not be a long process that I can’t get away from.

from me. I didn’t come to work to go through stupid stuff with you..you are totally nothing to me! Understand that...and let me repeat that for the people who didn’t hear me! You are fucking nothing to me.

SEEING IS BELIEVING I want you to stop telling me that you love me... I want you to stop telling me that you miss me... at this point in my life...I really don’t believe you at all...I am saying that because it is true...I hate the fact that because you have done some horrible things to me...I can’t believe some of the things

TAKING FOOD FROM ME I hate that double sided shit! Who the fuck do you think that you are...are you that paranoid that I will really make a success at something other than what I do...don’t be surprised that make a come up on your stupid asses...you just don’t really know what I am capable of! I love it when I do something that makes you get all fucked up in the head! I need to fucking eat too!

VOLUNTEERING You stupid bitch you know that I want to slap

YOU HAVE BAD WAYS

IT WOULD BE MUSIC TO MY EARS!

LOVE IS BEYOND BLIND

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that you have done. From here on...if you say that you are doing something for me...make me believe it first then we can go from there but from here out...I don’t believe a word you are saying.

SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!

WHERE IS YOUR BRAIN You know that you are a waste sometimes...I say to myself this person is really a piece of fucking work..I felt sorry for you because of the death in your family. But, then it seemed like you took

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I know what my future holds I mean that may sound stupid but I can’t tell either I am going to be happy or whatever. I thought that you fit right in where you were supposed to have been but then again you are just a lier and a user. You knew all along what this relationship was going to be about....I am just waiting for you to put your foot in your mouth again. I don’t care how fucking depressed you supposed to be! When it is over it is going to be over.

the shit out of you...I really wanna slap the shit out of you...you are beyond paying attention anymore. To me it doesn’t make any sense how you keep volunteering for shit then you fuck it up and or fuck up what you are supposed to be doing from the fucking beginning! You are not making yourself look good you are making yourself look like a asshole...PS: We only are flipping burgers you act as if we are at some old corporate job or something.

Your dog shitted on my lawn and I want you to come over and pick that shit up with your bare hands. You think that I don’t know it is you and that mut. I know it is you because the other neighbor on the other side told me that it was you...I can’t believe all the nonsense that you play...you know what I will get you because I am going to pick up some of that shit with some gloves and throw it on your fucking porch!

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I love you...I can honestly say this....I don’t like some of the things that you do because you are annoying when you do bad things...but all around I love you. I can’t believe that you took something out of my house and gave that shit away...why would you do something like that...I can’t believe that you kept me strung along with me asking about my item. Why couldn’t you just tell me the fucking truth. I hate you for that.. I really do. At this point, I don’t really see us together for along time because I don’t trust you too much! We really need to talk. I hope when you come back we can really sit down and do some real talking.

Did you or someone you know find an MP3 player at Tuesday night’s screening of CABIN IN THE WOODS? It would have been found near the theater’s corner at 40th and Walnut, the alleyway where the screening line was formed or inside the theater. It would mean a lot to me to have it back! Thanks!

How dare your stupid ass...I was sincerely the only friend that you had...don’t you know that... I mean I wasn’t your real friend but you and I got along. I can’t believe you being the age that you are acting like a 10 year old. Who gives someone the finger at your age! Then when comfronted by it you say that you didn’t do it. What the fuck did I fucking imagine it. I know I didn’t stay in your fucking lane and how about just staying away

I am not sure of what my future is going to hold with you...at this point I really don’t care...I mean I care but I really don’t, I mention something to you then you snap off like you are crazy. I say to myself. He was fucking serious about that, maybe I should just back off for a while. I am really tired of you and your needy ass. You mom really did a number on you! She told me that you were spoiled but I think this is beyond spoiled. I hope it works...but if it doesn’t that is fine also!

I am tired of your bullshit...I hate you and you hate me so what is the fucking problem...you can’t stay away from me or something...let me guess...you need pussy...or maybe some dick... see people like you make people like me hate more and more! Stay in your fucking lane and stay the hell away from me...and to answer your question....yes I am tired of hearing you fucking complaining...I have my own issues to fucking deal with right now and I don’t need your ugly ass interfering with my happiness.

I was so glad I was bold that time that you were on the bus because I couldn’t believe how instantly you and I went through what we went through and now we are together and we are having a baby together. I can’t stop thinking about how your eyes were so brown and so hynatyzing and looking at me like you were looking in a mirror. You pointed out that my eyes were as light as yours were but nothing could compare to the stare that you have...I will never forget that day that I was glad that I was bold.

MORON

WILL THIS WORK

YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE

I AM GLAD I WAS BOLD

You stupid bitch...you sit up there and move this guy into your house and you still can’t pay your fucking rent, you stupid ass wanna-be! I thought you had more sense than that! It is amazing when some people meet someone they forget all about the person or persons that helped them from the fucking beginning. Who do you think that you are? You know what I would definitely love is for you to stay away from me, don’t call my cell phone or nothing. Don’t even go on my facebook and leave a message because I don’t want to hear the bullshit. If you wanted to kill yourself like you told me...you would of done it... talk it cheap...

that and fucking ran with it. How fucking dare you. I can’t stand your ass. Then you take me to the store and tell me to take my time. Then you come back with a attitude like someone pissed you off. Do you think that I care about you being pissed off. I have my own issues to deal with. Why don’t you grow the fuck up already and do the responsible thing.

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Hey asshole...you know who you are...you like to call and play fucking games all week. You stupid ass...you are lucky that I didn’t send someone over there to beat the shit out of you...you know what you are really dumb trying to get something for nothing....don’t forget we have your address and phone number. You can block us all you want to but we have our ways!

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Diabetic Test Strips needed pay up to $15/box. Most brands. Call 610-453-2525 JUNK CARS WANTED Up to $300 for Junk Cars 215-888-8662 Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903 MR. BASEBALL --- BUYING ALL SPORTS CARDS & MEMORABILIA (203)557-0856

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BUYING EAGLES SBL’s & TICKETS BD Mattress memory foam w/box sprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033 Henredon 8 Dining Chairs - $3,000. China Cabinet, $3,000. Mahogany, traditional, ex. cond. S. Jersey area. 609.391.8630

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21st & McKean Effiency $550 no utils furnished, Call 215-290-8702

54th & Chestnut 1 BR $575+ utils $1725 move in, Call 610-453-0066 10xx S. 52nd St. Lrg 3BR Laundry room, section 8 ok. 215-727-0431 5807 Pentridge lrg 1BR $625+heat & elect. 1st/last/sec. Call (215) 668-0253

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55xx Master St. lg 1 BR $600+ utils renov,w/w crpt, near trans 215-688-7104 56th & Spruce St. Lg 3BR Must see! Sec. 8 ok. Call 215-885-1700 Chestnut & 47th Efficiency $460+utils refurbished 215.663.0128 or 215.471.1365 Landsdowne 1br/1ba $775+elec heat & gas included, LR, kitchen & bath, 1st floor, carport, yard, (215)878-7661

40th & Cambridge 2br $645/mo. free utils, Call or text Scott 215-222-2435 5013 Cedar Ave. Efficiency $500 clean, comfortable. Call 267-259-0430

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AKITA 2 males, 1 female, $550, ready to go, AKC registered. Call (267)981-6496 ALAPAHA (Blue Blood Bulldogs) Pups, rare breed, 1 male, 7 fem., multi colors, $1500. (302)834-4810 or (302)379-1868 Alaskan Malamute pups, AKC, $650+. www.icewindfarm.com. 908-797-8200 AMERICAN BULLDOG PUPS $200. Parents on premises. No Papers. 267-408-2092 Boxer Pups AKC reg., Champ bloodlines, vet checked, $625. (717)806-1044 Bulldog (Valley) pups, shot & wormed 1 year health guarantee. (609)499-3378 CANE CORSO PUPPIES 2M/1F Blues & Brindles 9wks old TAILS DOCKED SHOTS AND WORMED & REG PAPERS PARENTS ON PREMISES $500 215-421-8105 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Puppies available, Call 215-538-2179 COCKER SPANIEL PUPS ACA, vet checked, dewormed, shots, ready 4/19 $350. 717-824-5835 COLLIES - smart, loving, AKC, show groomed. Top eye exam. (856)825-4856

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apartment marketplace 50th & Walton 3 BR/1BA $775/mo. Modern. Avail. now. Call 267-266-3661

Overbrook 1BR &2BR Starting $650/mo.. renov. Call 215-284-7944 Various 1 & 2 BR Apts $725-$875 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

16xx Huntingdon 1br $500/mo Studio apt $400/mo. Pay gas & Electric. 1st/last/security. Call 215-559-9289 LeHigh & Broad St. Studio $550+utils newly remod., close Temple 267.333.3995

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 16XX N. 17th St/16XX N. Willington St. 1BR/1BA $550/Month. Temple University Area $1650 to Move in. Contact Mr. Brooks at 215-235-2235 or 267-974-7319 38xx N. 15th 1br $575+utils 2nd fl, beautiful, renov, n/s, 267.809.7866

45xx Old York Rd 2BR $565+elec basement apt, 1st/last & sec 215.791.2125 53xx N. 12th St 2BR apt, 2nd flr, nr Einstein, Sec 8 ok! $750+. 215-887-8288

5853 N. Camac 1BR $650+utils granite kit, 267.271.6601 or 215.416.2757 5xx W Somerville 1br $595+utils beautiful apt, wall/wall cpt 215-805-6455 LaSALLE UNIV AREA 4BR 1.5BA hdwd flrs, full kitchen, Patio $1700/ month NOT incl utils. 215-850-6618

35xx N. 15th St. 3br $775/mo 3 mo move-in, 2nd flr dplx 267.934.1643

4645 Penn St. 1BR $625. newly renov gas/wtr inc 215-781-8072

35xx RYAN AVE 1br $700+ 2nd floor, section 8 ok. 267-736-9862 Cottman & Blvd 2BR/1BA Very pvt, lovely duplex. 609-476-3942 TACONY 1BR $475 + utils Close to Center City train. 215-355-3548

LAHASKA 2BR/1BA $1450+ ht & utils New Hope Vcty, 2nd Fl Luxury Apt. Call Bill at 215-206-3105

WARMINSTER Lg 1-2-3 BR Sect. 8 OK 1 MONTHS FREE RENT!!! HURRY!! Pets & smoking ok. We work with credit problems. Call for Details: 215-443-9500

Chester 2BR $625 Call 267-242-5675 or 215-920-3851 HIGHLAND PARK 1BR Duplex, 2nd floor, call 267-206-9548

66xx Blakemore lrg effecciency $500 +utils. Move in cond. 215-844-5034

17xx E Wash Ln $450 mo, use of kitch close trans/mall, cable avail 215.450.9353 22nd & Indiana Ave $100/week Room in immaculate cond. 215-888-2476 23rd & Hunting Pk., 2 lrg, clean, renov., w/w, $85-$100/wk., 215-570-0301 25th & Oxford St. 63rd & Ogantz, W.O.L. $90/week. 267-629-0255 28xx N 27th St: Furnished rooms, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683 29th & Ridge $125-$150/wk. furn, new renov, proof of income req 267-702-7914

homes for rent 26xx Parrish 3BR/2.5BA $2,000+utils T/H, garage, read yard, C/A, W/D, no pets, near transp. Call 267-939-4959

31xx Dickinson 3BR $675 $2175 move in fee req. 267-249-6645 Point Breeze 2BR $750+utils newly remod., close to CC. 267-333-3995

25xx Bonaffon. 67th & Elmwood Lg. 3BR, enclosed porch, $850 + utils "The Landlord That Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739 60xx Kingsessing 2 BR $700 + utils. Sec. 8 OK. $2100 move-in. 267-767-4895 65th and Chester Ave 3br $750 1st/last/security, modern, new hrdwd flrs, wall-wall, DW, Sec 8 OK. 215-370-0861 65xx Saybrook Ave. 3Br newly renovated, Sec 8 ok 267-467-0140 70th & Elmwood 2BR $625+utils avail now, 3 mos. needed 215-821-8858

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1XX W Maplewood Ave 1br $595 + elec Hist Dist, nr trans/shops 267-240-2474 4203 Germantown Ave 2BR $600+utils 3rd flr, newly renovated, (215)681-3675 4941 Rubicam St. Big 2Br & 3Br porch, backyard, quiet. 215.833.4297 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1 BR on site lndry, 215-744-9077, Lic# 507568 63xx Magnolia St 1BR $655+utils updated, 1st floor, EIK, W/D hookups, fridge incl., garage. Call 610-547-7355

13xx Weaver St. 1 BR $625+ utils 2nd floor, Call 215-549-7762 1610 E. Roumfort Rd lrg 1BR $765 Section 8 OK. 877-866-8309 16xx Elaine 1BR $685+utils w/w, A/C, W/D, +den. Call 267-357-0250 6700 Chew Ave lrg Efficiency $525+utils nice, must see! Call (215)849-3758 7500Germant’wn Av 1&2 BR Gardentype! SPRING Special! Newly dec, d/w, g/d w/w, hw, a/c, w/d, cable, pet friendly, free park’g. 215-275-1457/233-3322 8306 Pickering Ave. 2BR $800+ 1st flr., Bad Credit Ok. 215-317-3785 Roumfort Rd. 2br $800+utils fully renov., new carpet throughout, open concept w/ breakfast bar, secure building. 973-866-6452 or sjcoak@gmail.com

6801 N. 17th St. sm. 1BR $600+ $800 Move in Special, 215-317-3785

Frankford, Newly renov, nicely furnished, A/C W/D, cable, clean, safe & secure. Call (267)333-0901 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 Girard College Area: Room for rent $200 down, $100/wk. (267)579-7249 Hunting Park: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, internet. 267-331-5382 LaSalle Univ area $125/week Renov furn rooms 215-843-4481 Penrose & SW Rooms: $75 & up SSI & Disability ok. (302)391-0490 South Phila furn room, fridge, renovated, no drugs. 215-465-3080

55XX Ludlow St 2BR/2BA Newly renovated. Sec 8 ok 267-265-7996

244 N. Simpson Street 3br/1ba $895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900 OVERBROOK PARK 3br/1ba $1100 finished basement, Call 610-642-5655

3XXX Lankenau 2BR w/bsmnt $800 Sec sys, garage, w/d, h/w, storage, well kept. Close to train & market. GREAT LOCATION! 215-680-6508 Overbrook Farms 6br/2.5ba $2000 hdwd flrs, garbage disp., dishwasher Wynnefield Ave. 4br/3.5ba $1600 finished bsmt with carpet, dishwasher Woodcrest Ave. 8br/5ba $3000 hdwd flrs, fin. basement. 267.970.2403

11XX W. VENANGO new renov 2BR. 1st, last+1 mo sec. $650/mo 215-228-7543

56xx N. Fairhill 3BR $1,300/mo hdwd flrs, updated, fin bsmt 215.416.0331

resorts/rent JUNK CARS WANTED 24/7 REMOVAL. Call 267-377-3088 WE BUY JUNK CARS Competitive prices paid. (267)246-9415 Brigantine: Pets OK June 3-17 $1400 July / Aug $1350. BrigB.com 856-217-0025

Wildwood 1br Efficiency season $4000 +sec. 1 & 1/2 Blks to Beach 609-707-1990

BrierCrest 5 BR, sleeps 12; Saw Creek 3br sleeps 8, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, (6/10 Race) 6/15 + more (609) 587-9493

automotive A4 2009 $23,600 prem pckg, 40K, 4 cyl turbo 302.584.0631

A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053

GMC 2000 Deluxe 14f ft Contractors Ed Box Truck with lrg side compartments, roof rack, mag wheels, really exceptional, quick private sale, $6,950. 215-629-0630

low cost cars & trucks Buick Park Avenue 2002 $2950 cranberry, lthr, chrome, 267-592-0448

CTS 2005 $8,200/obo 136K miles, runs great. (267)584-6964

CLASSIC COUPE 1985 $11,950 fire engine red w/ removable metal top, full power, A/C, 47000 ORIG MILES. matching #s, must sacrifice 215-922-6113

BUICK RENDEVOUS CXL ’02 , sunroof, 3-seater, 140K mi, needs transmission work. $2000/obo. (267) 975-4483 CAD DEVILLE ’99 very clean, runs great, 202K, may trade, Dlr, $2000/obo. (267)975-4483

Chevy Impala 2003 $2,950 6 cyl, auto, loaded, gd car 215-847-7346 Chrysler Town & Country LX 2005 $3450 Loaded, stow & go seats. 267-592-0448

Broad & Hunting Park 3br/1ba $495/mo handy man special (215)701-7076

Ram 1500 2009 $16,500 4 dr, Hemi, utility body, 31K mi, 5 year 100K mi warranty. private (215)475-0413

50 East Montana nice 3Br $1100+utils Section 8 OK. Call (215)849-3758

HONDA CRV 2001 $6,000/obo safe, reliable, clean, 119k. 610-212-7608

58xx Wakefield St. 2BR Newly renov., hdwd flrs., new ceiling fans throughout, sec. 8 ok. Call 877-371-7368

G35 2003 $9,500 27K miles, pearl, Call 215-537-4969

2, 3br Voucher: Section 8 Welcome 8xx E. Hilton, renovated, W/D, near El. $900/month. Call 215-206-4582

RX350 2008 $20,000 AWD SUV, 85K miles, beige, heated leather seats, moonroof, Lojak, garage kept, newer tires, Call (856)241-7372

Ford Windstar LX 2001 $1,750 4 dr, loaded, 7 pass., clean 215-518-8808 GEO Metro LSI 1997 $1,650 auto, AC, 40mpg, runs exc. 215-620-9383 Hyundai Accent 1999 $1,450 5 spd, CD, 4 cyl., 35 mpg, 215-620-9383 Mercury Sable 1995 $1,900 New paint, only 80K miles, 267-816-2662 Mercury Topaz 1990 $850 Auto., 77K, 4cyl, new insp., 215-620-9383 Pontiac Grand Prix GT 2004 $4500 silver, 3.8 V6, 78K mi, wing 267.592.0448 TRIUMPH TR 6 1971 $1,200 Rusty, no title, garage full of parts. Call 215-605-8718 Volvo 940 GL 1992 $1,250 4 dr, auto, loaded, clean. 267-325-5422

ML 1998 $5,500 114K miles, silver. Call 215-888-3703

SLK 350 Convertible/hard top ’05 $21k fully loaded, 60k mi, Call 215-432-0737 52xx Glenloch St. 2br/2ba $750+utils newly renov, beautiful hdwd flrs, ready now, 1st, last & sec. req. (610) 587-2400 53XX LESHER ST 3BR $850+UTILS CALL 215-778-0907

61st & Walnut - New Rooms To Rent $350 to move in, Call (267)-586-8404

Broad & Wyoming, Broad & Hunting Pk, 60th & Market, fully furn., $200 sec., $85-$125/wk SSI/VA ok. 267-784-9284 Frankford, furnished, near bus & El, $85/wk & up + $295 sec. 215-526-1455

53XX MASTER ST 4BR/2BA $1270 UTILS LARGE NEWLY RENOV., HRDWDS,W/D, AVAIL RENT TO OWN, SCT 8 OK. CALL MR HOWARD 610-716-7679

19xx E. Madison St 3br $1075+utils w/w carpet, w/d, lrg kitch, private yard, 2 mo. dep. req., sec. 8 ok (610) 587-2400

34th and Baring Room for rent. Nice rm w/ DirecTV. Use of kit. Call 215-620-3846 37XX N 19th St Room $450/mo. pvt. kitch & bath. Call (215) 409-8383 40xx Haverford furn. rms for rent Seniors Place $350-$500/mo 267.601.6855 43rd & Wallace, unfurnished, $90/wk, incl. utils, $360 move in. 267-357-5216 56xx Warrington Ave,cln & quiet,no drugs, $200/bi-wkly, $400/mo 215-668-3591 5743 Cedar: LOOK nice rooms for rent, w/access to entire house 215-863-1235

74th & Elmwood and 50th & Girard: New rooms, start $100/wk 267.784.5671 ALLEGHENY $90/wk. $270 sec dep Nr L train, furn, quiet. 609-703-4266 Broad & Olney deluxe furn room priv ent $110 -$145wk. Sec $200. 215-572-8833

SW (Elmwood Area) modern 3br house new crpts, sect. 8 welcome 215.726.8817

Ditman St. 5BR/2BA $1,850 w/d, fridge, section 8 ok. 215-632-5763

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OCEANVIEW, NJ (Shore) 2006, 39 ft Park Model, sleeps 8, sunken BR w/ loft, a/c, 3 season rm. $45k/obo. (267)784-5933

13xx E. Luzerne St 2br duplex newly reno, Sec 8 approved 267.467.0140 27xx Mower St. 4BR/2.5BA $1400+utils W/D, fridge, 2 month sec. 267-243-9229 46xx Naples 3BR $795 recently renov kitch & ba. 215-680-1413

Darby 3br/1ba $950+utils close to shopping & transp. 610.696.2022 Upper Darby twin 4br/1ba $1330+utils kitchen, Living room, Dining Room, Call 215-990-5592 or 215-643-2145

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NJ shore, 40ft Breckenridge park model, screen rm, slps 6 $18K/obo 484.574.9445

Conshohocken 3BR/1.5BA $1,400+ gas heat, sm. yard, pets neg 610.337.0433

Monroe & 17 acres $1,000/mo detached garage & shop, 917-653-0272

Buick Wildcat 1963 $2,500 401cu. in. nailhead engine, auto trans, 57K orig. mi, broken windsheild 609.624.0797

CAD Convertible 1969 $15,000 prof. restored, show qual. (610)667-4829 CADILLAC CONVERTIBLE 1969 $7,500 Good condition, 856-488-2100 Ford Thunderbird 2003 $18,900 007 Collector Series, both tops, in great condition, Call (609)602-5617

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