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Gov. Corbett’s plan to privatize the state lottery will likely lead to him hiring British company Camelot Global Services, the only bidder for the contract.“Finally, I won’t have the most disgusting teeth in the company,” says spokesgroundhog Gus.
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Despite the city having declared parking free on Saturdays through the end of the year, Philly drivers seem unaware and are still paying to park.The kiosks are programmed not to accept money on Saturdays, right? They’re not? Parking Authority, you really are just bunch of dirty shits.
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Two local YMCAs combine to become one of the group’s largest chapters, with 140,000 members. “Of course, there will be layoffs to correct some redundancies,” says spokesperson. “For instance, we don’t have much use for two full-time cowboys or leather daddies.”
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Deputy City Commissioner Tracey Gordon agrees to pay fines for sharing her political views on Facebook. “I’m sorry I posted those hateful things about Mitt Romney being a mer-man, Liz Lemon. I was just mad because he never read the screenplay I mailed to him, President Splash.”
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Some say the term “Black Friday” originated with Philadelphia Police and was a reference to traffic jams. Others say it originated with Philadelphia Police but won’t say what it’s a reference to. Mayor Nutter will visit China to raise the city’s business profile and encourage direct flights. “Plus, as far as they know, I wrote ‘Rapper’s Delight.’”
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In Travel and Leisuremagazine’s ranking of 35 American cities on how attractive their citizens are, Philadelphia comes in 33rd; our delicious street food and inactive lifestyles are blamed. They’re just jelly cause we got the leisure thing down cold.
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UPenn scientists discover that mice who eat during the day gain more weight than those who eat at night, even if both groups consume the same number of calories. Drexel scientists discover that if you put a little hat on a mouse, it is totes adorbs.
This week’s total: +2 | Last week’s total: +1
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THE $10 MILLION QUESTION Cash seized on Philly’s streets ends up in an account held by the DA’s Office — but where it goes from there is unclear. By Isaiah Thompson
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here are in this world some contexts in which $10 million is not a lot of money. Departmental budget lines in the city of Philadelphia are not, for the most part, among them. In Philadelphia — where a $1.3 million cut to the city’s emergency shelter system forced the largest men’s homeless shelter to cut casemanagement services; where the mayor once proposed closing 11 public libraries to save $8 million; and where District Attorney Seth Williams asked City Council for an extra $800,000 to spend on witness protection — $10 million is a lot of money. It’s hard to imagine any city department or city agency — not one of which shows up at City Council’s annual budget hearings asking for less money — holding such a sum in surplus. And it’s a lot of money to go unaccounted for by a public agency entrusted to hold it. But that’s exactly what happened to $10.5 million last year, as well tens of millions more over previous years, all administered by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office — and spent in ways the public (and indeed, the city itself) hasn’t been privy to. Since at least the late ’80s, this office, like its counterparts in most Pennsylvania counties, has administered a fund for property — cash, cars, real estate and more — taken via a process known as “civil asset forfeiture.” As outlined in this week’s cover story (see
p. 8) and enabled under a few state laws, the DA can, in certain circumstances, sue to keep property with an alleged link to crimes like drugs or gambling and use those winnings for law-enforcement purposes. It is, potentially anyway, a significant stream of revenue for district attorney’s offices and police forces — a potential of which Philadelphia has availed itself uniquely. In recent years, the Philadelphia DA’s forfeiture program has brought in an average $6.2 million annually; since 1987, the earliest year for which City Paper could find data, the program has raised more than $90 million. Last year, the DA reported a fund balance of $10.5 million, as well as $5.5 million in new revenue and $5.9 million in expenses — all of this on top of the budget allocated to the DA by the city. How is this multimillion-dollar pot spent? The DA won’t say. The office cited confidentiality issues in declining repeated requests to provide details of how this fund is used, let alone a full breakdown of its expenditures. If there is a larger stream of unreported public expenditures in the city, we’ve never heard of it. DA spokeswoman Tasha Jamerson did offer to send a copy of an “audit,” but this was merely a list of 10 general line items (“Salaries,” “Vehicles,” “Real estate expenses,” “Professional fees”) with nary a dollar sign attached. On follow-up, Jamerson would provide no further details, instead advising CP to file a Right to Know request under Pennsylvania law. CP did file a Right to Know request, asking for an accounting of all moneys spent from the forfeiture fund in 2010 and 2011.
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The District Attorney’s Office rejected the request, stating that Pennsylvania law exempted the records from disclosure and required the office to “maintain the confidentiality of its records concerning property and proceeds forfeited.” In an appeal, CP pointed out that the law, in fact, protects only “the confidentiality of forfeited property or proceeds used in ongoing drug enforcement.” CP’s appeal was rejected by the state’s Office of Open Records, which offered, as explanation, a single checked box that read: “OOR lacks jurisdiction over local agency criminal investigative records.” CP isn’t, apparently, alone in noting the opacity of this fund. Neither the city administration nor City Council has access to any of it. A 2010 audit by City Controller Alan Butkovitz noted that certain DA accounts, notably the civil-asset-forfeiture fund, did not include the city treasurer as an authorized signer — in contradiction to a city accounting directive. “It is the controller’s position,” the audit noted, “that an entity the size of the city of Philadelphia cannot be effectively and efficiently administered if individual agencies decide which accounting directives they are going to follow.” CP was, however, able to obtain from the state Attorney General’s Office copies of annual reports required by law for most years since 1987. While the reports include a breakdown of income from seized cash (which accounts for about three-quarters of the revenue) and the auction of forfeited property like cars and real estate, they describe expenditures only in general terms. Of various line items in the reports, two represent the bulk of spending: “Salaries” and “Municipal Task Force Support,” though the report does not clarify whose salaries, which task force(s) or what this “support” consists of. Two line-items stand out in these reports for receiving no money at all: “Community Based Drug & Crime Fighting
Programs” and “Witness Relocation and/or Protection Expenses.” And while numerous officials have made reference to the DA and Philadelphia Police “splitting” forfeiture income, it’s unclear which agency gets what portion of that split. In testimony before City Council, former DA Lynne Abraham claimed virtually all of the money goes to the police. But (now former) Philadelphia Police spokesman Raymond Evers told CP he thought the larger portion went to the DA. The police use their share, Evers said, for everything from crime-lab expenses to vehicles, surveillance equipment, drug “buy” money, software and other expenses related to the enforcement of drug laws — but the bulk pays for police overtime. But these descriptions remain, so far, anecdotal: Neither CP nor, apparently, any other city agency but the DA has access to the kind of line-item examination of this fund that most city finances are subject to. And there are reasons that’s not ideal: Several counties around the nation have seen scandals related to such funds, exactly because they lacked proper accounting: A New York City forfeiture fund was used for gifts and entertainment; a Virginia sheriff was found to have spent $4,500 on meals from such a fund; in Fulton County, Ga., forfeiture funds were spent on football tickets for the county’s district attorney. CP’s seen no evidence of improprieties, and First Assistant District Attorney Ed McCann says in an email that the office is audited regularly by the state Attorney General. “Although the Office has some discretion within [state and federal] requirements,” he adds, “its use of the funds is considerably restricted.” That may be so, but when it comes to $10 million, “some discretion” isn’t nothing. (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)
It’s unclear how the fund is split.
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By Daniel Denvir
CAST AWAY ³ WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL election behind
us, Philly’s politics junkies are beginning to cast their gaze to 2014, when Gov. Tom Corbett — whose approval ratings are in the gutter since he slashed funding for schools — will seek re-election. They might be better served to first look back, to 2010, when only 40 percent of registered Philadelphia voters bothered to cast a ballot for governor. That was roughly 267,000 fewer than the still-piddling 60 percent turnout for president this November. And that’s just counting registered voters. Philadelphians consistently vote at lower rates than Pennsylvanians in general: 7 percentage points less than the statewide average in both 2010 and 2012. Higher Philly turnout may not have saved Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato’s troubled 2010 campaign, but it probably would have stopped conservative Sen. Pat Toomey’s narrow 80,299-vote defeat of Democrat Joe Sestak. If all the Philadelphians who supported Obama in 2012 had voted Sestak in 2010, he likely would have won. The poorest and youngest Americans, key Democratic constituencies, are the least likely to vote, according to Census data. This city has a vast population of poor people who may feel alienated from a political system that panders to suburban voters and big business. It’s understandable — though not beneficial. Meanwhile, many students and young professionals range from indifferent to ignorant when it comes to state and local politics; transplants think of Philadelphia more as a coastal city linked to Washington and New York than as part of a state called Pennsylvania, reading the New York Times online if they read any newspaper at all. And the forces that engaged Philadelphians in politics in the past are waning. Schools obsessed with test prep fail to teach civics; labor unions that educated workers and brought them to the polls have been decimated; and Philly’s two battered daily newspapers have a grand total of three reporters in Harrisburg. The problem of apathy isn’t unique to Philadelphia: The U.S. has one of the lowest voting rates of any wealthy democracy. But its impact is especially damaging here, in a Democratic city wedged into a Republican-run state. “We want to make sure that they don’t get 50 percent [turnout],” Corbett told supporters in 2010, referring to Philly Democrats. “Keep that down.” The state’s voter-ID law, a brazen effort to suppress Democratic votes, may be implemented by 2014. But if Philadelphians don’t get their act together, Corbett won’t need it. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net.
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THE PHILLY DA wins the bulk of forfeiture cases on their first listing in court. Contested cases, as seen in this analysis of the 8,282 (non-real estate) forfeiture actions filed in 2010, last far longer, with varied outcomes.
• Of 8,282 cases, 6,911 (83%) were decided, on average, in 36 days, on the first court listing. 96% of those decisions would favor the DA. • 1,371 cases (16%) lasted past one court listing. • Of those, 937 (68%) ended in successful forfeiture by the DA over an average198 days. • Another 278 cases (20%) ended in a settlement agreement and took an average 284 days. • 116 cases (8.4%) were still active as of August, 2012, an average 695 days later. • 15 cases (0.2%) that lasted beyond one listing resulted in a judge’s denial of DA forfeiture after an average of 205 days.
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³ IT AIN’T LIKE putting on a show in a barn Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney-style, but Gregory Scott Campbell and his Luna Theater Company have found their own silo and should be moving in soon. After running roughshod through Philly’s curtained halls since 2002, holding shows wherever they set their tap shoes, LTC found a producing partner and an actual home in participation with Partners for Sacred Places at the Church of the Crucifixion at 620 S. Eighth St. They’ll show off the digs with an open house Dec. 3. “We’ve been searching for a few years,” says Luna producing artistic director Campbell. “Our demands were high: something large enough to incorporate a performance space, rehearsal spaces, office and storage, all in a locale on our radar.” Campbell is quick to add that every T isn’t yet crossed, but he’s happy with the location. “We’re a South Street kind of company, connected to our counterculture/punk roots.”³ Michael and Jeniphur Pasquarello’s plan for world domination is on. The Prohibition Taproom/Café Lift couple’s long-building pizza joint should be open by midDecember. Bufad(1240 Spring Garden St.) will have a wood-fired oven and super-traditional Roman (sold by weight) and Neopolitan pies, and all of the toppings will be pickled and/or cured in-house. The Pasquarellos are also making moves toward spring with a butcher-block-booze-beer boite at 1310 Frankford Ave. next to the Xhale peeps’ Bottle Bar East. ³ You gotta wait until January to hear War on Drugs bassist Dave Hartley’s solo project Nightlands’ AM-radio-wavy debut disc Oak Island (on Secretly Canadian). Still, you can hear the Night man in action Dec. 4 when he and guitarist Jeff Zeigler will perform an original score to 2001: A Space Odyssey at PhilaMOCA. (See Agenda on p.24.) ³ First-time Philadelphia Theatre InitiativegranteeMary Tuomanenand her roomieAaron Cromie (Dave and Aaron Go to Work opens this week at Plays & Players) got a two-year grant ($60,000) to create a piece about Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec called The Body Lautrec.“I’m directing and Aaron is starring, along with a skeletal puppet and an ensemble of four women: Liz Filios,Christie Parker,Kittson O’Neill andKathryn Raines,”says Tuomanen, who goes on to say how their theatricale is about Lautrec’s body of work and his body itself, deformed from a genetic disorder caused by inbreeding. “It’ll be my first time taking the reins as director, and quite a big project, so I’m excited to have two years to work on the piece.” The finished 19th-century Paris music/art scene Lautrec thing will play as part of 2014’s Fringe, with the Mütter Museum acting as the venue for a work-inprogress show this coming March.³ More skeletal puppetry at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
JINGLE GRILLS: Director and jack-of-all-trades John Waters brings his one-man Christmas show to Philly this week.
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JW: I did. Wow. I showed Multiple Maniacs [1970] and, I think,
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Mondo Trasho [1969] at this tiny movie house. Would I be wrong — Sansom Street Cinema? I got those bookings myself. I used to send things out to the tiniest theaters to see who’d let me in. I would deliver stills to the theaters for advertising, then show up with the print myself and screen it. I’d deliver stills. Isn’t that crazy?
The director and vulgarity pioneer on how Philly appreciated him when few others did. By A.D. Amorosi
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n the scheme of all things entertaining, John Waters is a jack-of-most-trades. He’s the campy film director who made Hairspray and Cry-Baby before they became Broadway musicals; a creepy actor (his newest movie is Excision); a conceptual artist and photographer whose works get exhibited in respected galleries and museums; a best-selling author and memoirist whose upcoming Carsick is about his longtime obsession with hitchhiking; and a monologist whose one-man show, A John Waters Christmas, brings him to the Trocadero this week. Longtime Philly residents, though, will always remember Waters as the kink-and-kitsch carnival barker who made his name here when he brought Pink Flamingos and its star, Divine, to the Theatre of Living Arts in 1972. City Paper: Without getting syrupy, a big part of your film suc-
cess started in Philadelphia. John Waters: Certainly did. You guys were the first city outside
of Baltimore where my films caught on. CP: How exactly did you get to Philly in the first place? Did you
have pre-1972 experiences here?
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mm and 16 mm classics] Hag in a Black Leather Jacket, Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup? JW: Oh my, the master is all there is — I don’t even have a print of them. The last time I handled them was during a museum show where I screened them in a little room. Until we get them on DVD, they will never leave my vaults for fear of being pirated.
“Credited as ‘Chick with a Dick.’”
CP: I don’t expect that you’d remember every character that you ran across in Philly. But I remember you had parties with Divine at Lickety Split, and that one of its bartenders, Elizabeth Coffey, famously appears in Pink Flamingos as the gal who pulls up her dress and reveals a cock. She appears in the credits as “Chick with a Dick.” JW: She was from Philly, but actually lived in Baltimore where we cast her. I still see her from time to time, and she’s doing great. She lives outside of Chicago, has the same husband she’s had for years. They are raising his son together and she’s a happy wife and mom. She’s an AIDS activist and a very active outsider come>>> continued on page 20
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Gabrielle Smith sings in layers of whispered hushes and wails over echoes of wavy, prickly synths, bells and a harmonium on Philly duo Eskimeaux’s self-titled, selfreleased second album (blightrecords.bandcamp.com). The most intimate track, “Vos Es Verum,” pulls close and then retreats with winding, echoing vocals. Even with synthesizers, Smith’s voice sounds isolated, as if recorded in a cave miles away, and producer Benjamin Schurr’s technological influence is never intrusive. —Elizabeth Gunto Eskimeaux is a shrine to quiet exploration.
³ rock/dance/pop LCD Soundsystem may be dead, but DFA dances on. The label’s latest party platter, The Crystal Ark, is the full-length debut from synth wizard/LCD mainstay Gavin Russom’s new-ish project alongside artist-singer Viva Ruiz: an adventurous, bilingual, punk-funk fiesta spiked with oscillator weirdness, tribal flourishes and trippy disco. There’s a lot going on in these grooves, which share a loose, sprawling multiculti flavor all their own, even when they also have a curious tendency to make you want to sing “Us V —K. Ross Hoffman Them” on top of them.
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ducer-turned-singer-turned-(evidently)-rapper fills Les Is More (released via his own absurdly named NextSelection Lifestyle Group) with a determined mixture of Watch the Throne-style conspicuous consumption (he can certainly name lots of designers) and 808s and Heartbreak’s wounded defiance and dopey hashtag flow atop lite-funk and silky pop-R&B. Boastfully pretentious though he is, he can hardly touch Yeezy’s supreme ego-eccentricity — which might make him the game’s most extravagantly delusional self-promoter. —K. Ross Hoffman
³ rock/pop If you’re not quite tired of this hazy/ mousy/gauzy era of indie-rock, you might want to turn your heavy head toward Other Lives.The Oklahoma band (sorry, ensemble) just dropped their Mind the Gap EP on tbd Records, and it’s a total hoot. In this case, “hoot” means echoey vocals, busy beats, shimmering keys, everything woozy with altitude sickness. There’s zero defiance in the way Jesse Tabish murmurs, “They’ll never take us alive,” but it sure is pretty. Other Lives play Johnny Brenda’s on Saturday (Dec. 1, johnnybrendas.com). —Patrick Rapa
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A nose only Orson Welles could love.
FAINT PRAISE ³ ELEVEN YEARS IS an awkward anniversary
to celebrate, but that’s how long it’s been since The Faint released Danse Macabre,the third and best of the punk-industrial-dance-rock shape-shifters’ five albums. Saddle Creek recently issued an expanded and remastered edition, and the tour to support it brings The Faint to the Troc on Dec. 6. The Faint have a history of bad timing. They released Danse Macabre in August 2001 and played the Church on Sept. 12; by then, their eerie electro songs about doomed office drones and police barricades were overshadowed. I mean, the crowd still danced like there was no tomorrow, and some of us appreciated the illicit irony — all protests to the contrary, we knew that wasn’t dead — but any chance of mass appeal had gone out the window like so many doomed office drones. (Too soon?) Too bad, because Danse Macabre is great, a 35-minute thrill ride that accentuates the absurdity of our culture by taking it — and itself — dead serious. “Agenda Suicide” sets the tone with swelling synths and frontman Todd Fink (né Baechle) pondering the worker’s conundrum: If we spend our lives toiling to pay for “pretty little homes,” we’ll never have time to enjoy them. Nine tracks later, Fink’s subdued delivery on the closing “Ballad of a Paralysed Citizen” turns a nimble dance between drummer Clark Baechle’s clipped beats and Gretta Cohn’s moody cello into the chilling testimonial of a lifeguard crippled by a false alarm. In between, the burbling “Let the Poison Spill from Your Throat” and the wheezy “Your Retro Career” careen between tense verses and cathartic choruses. The reissue tacks on two contemporaneous originals, two remixes, two covers and a DVD. But even distilled to its nine-song essence, Danse Macabre is The Faint’s finest; there’s nothing more compelling on their early indie rock or their later electropop. A tour-exclusive 12-inch EP features their first material since 2008’s Fasciinatiion,but even though “Evil Voices” is a hooky slice of synth-punk, The Faint may have set too high a bar too early on. Still, few bands make dour sound so fun. (m_fine@citypaper.net)
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THE OTHER GREAT PROFILE: Thank God ol’ Hitch isn’t around to witness Sacha Gervasi’s biopic, which tells the story of the making of Psycho with an utter lack of cinematic style.
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[ C ] ALFRED HITCHCOCK USED to denigrate the work of his less-visionary fellow filmmakers as “photographs of people talking.” If he could see the pair of films about his life that recently landed simultaneously on the big and small screens, Hitch would probably be less offended that they depict him as a cruel, blonde-obsessed, stress-eating egotist than by the fact that they do so with such an utter lack of cinematic style. Sacha Gervasi’s Hitchcock is the one that stars Sir Anthony Hopkins in a prominent false nose that only Orson Welles could love and focuses on the making of Psycho (the second, HBO’s The Girl, features perennial other-guy-playing-the-same-role Toby Jones as the other guy playing Hitch as he torments Tippi Hedren). Gervasi, previously responsible for the entertaining heavy-metal doc Anvil! The Story of Anvil, falls into the typical biopic trap of allowing the most salacious details of his subject’s life to eclipse those facets that made him worthy of attention in the first place. Here, it’s the great director’s marital strife, which leads to scenes of Hopkins squirrelled away with a cache of 8-by-10 glossies of blonde starlets while his wife is wooed by an ambitious screenwriter played by Danny Huston. Helen Mirren is typically fine as Hitch’s wife, Alma Reville, whose keen eye doubtlessly contributed much to her husband’s work. But Gervasi overcompensates by giving her credit for nearly everything that’s good in Psycho, showing steely confidence while Hitch peeps through blinds and embarks on neurotic food binges. John J. McLaughlin’s screenplay relies on the audience’s hindsight, striving for laughs from boorish studio executives and puritanical censors being proved wrong by future events. Liberties with its title character aside, Hitchcock can’t avoid reminding viewers that they could be watching a better film, one great enough to forgive its director his inadequacies. —Shaun Brady
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dian; a very brave woman to do what she did in that movie. Plus, she worked right across from the TLA back then, which was very handy for parties. I remember all of the TLA crew because I think it’s still a lot of the same people and we’re in contact. I remember lots of the people who came for our movies and the parties where Divine would appear. You know who I really remember? Henri David. He was a sweet man. I still get a Christmas card from Henri every year. CP: As a conceptual artist, were you a big visitor
to the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Duchamp room? They just redid it. JW: Of course. (You guys have great Cy Twombly stuff, too.) Yes, I spent many nights there — wait. I don’t mean that I spent the night there. CP: That would be something. JW: Duchamp started everything, before any-
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body. Every single conceptual-art element — he was there. I doubt I’ll get a chance to get to the museum; usually when I’m on these tours I never get a chance to do anything. I get to town
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late, do the show, leave the next morning at 7 a.m. It’s horrible. I’ve learned that when I’m at work, I don’t get much of a chance to be a part of the scene. That’s why I have to do all of my Christmas shopping early. CP: Speaking of Christmas, the last film your name was attached to was a holiday film, Fruitcake, that never got made. Your last finished film was 2004’s A Dirty Shame. Eight years is a long time between drinks. Don’t you have a cinematic itch that needs to be scratched? JW: No. Between this new show and the books, I’m successful and booked until the end of 2013. Everything else does so much better than any of my movies — besides, it’s not like there’s anything left that I haven’t said already. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net) ✚ Thu., Nov. 29, 8 p.m., $39.50-$42 ($99
VIP meet-and-greet), The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com.
THE ART OF THE STEEL Pedal-steel torchbearer Jim Cohen slides into jazz. By Mary Armstrong
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✚ Sun., Dec. 2, 4 p.m., $10-$15, 7165 Lounge, 7165 Germantown Ave., 215-629-3939, facebook. com/7165Lounge.
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for 10 years. Drummer Grant MacAvoy’s appearance makes sense — he was always tapped to join in when Buddy Emmons played Lancaster County. “Jim is cut from the same cloth,” says MacAvoy. “I consider it an honor to have performed with both. … Jim’s CD is a testament to the continuing tradition.” (m_armstrong@citypaper.net)
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t’s not terribly often you hear a pedal steel guitar on WRTI, but Jim Cohen — the Philly-based founder of Beats Walkin’, a band renowned for playing “bop-a-billy” and Western swing — seems to have worked his way onto those airwaves. His latest, Pedal Steel Jazz (self-released), at least, has turned up in the rotation of revered veteran DJ Bob Perkins, the station’s self-proclaimed arbiter of Good Music. Cohen’s no stranger to the genre, of course. “Western swing was my starter drug for jazz, then I moved to Charlie Parker and bebop,” says Cohen. His obsession started with one of his mentors, Buddy Emmons, and his 1963 LP, Steel Guitar Jazz, cut in New York with jazz players like Bobby Scott and Art Davis. But the early listening for a Long Island kid of the ’60s was typical for the era: Beatles through Buffalo Springfield, with a special fondness for the distinctive sound of steel guitar, especially as played by Rusty Young in Poco. By college in St. Louis, Cohen was already a rhythm-guitar player, one who checked the yellow pages to find new strings. The ad for Scotty’s Music changed Cohen’s life forever: “I saw he had a picture of a steel in the ad and decided to check it out in person. So I hitchhiked over there, like you could do in those days.” The space wasn’t impressive, but the connections were. DeWitt “Scotty” Scott was booking legion halls and putting on acts like Maurice Anderson, Curly Chalker and Barbara Mandrell, who started her musical career as a steel guitarist. Scotty built those shows into the International Steel Guitar Convention, a three-day fest dedicated
to everything steel still going strong every Labor Day weekend in St. Louis. There could be no better place to start on steel guitar; everybody showed up at Scotty’s sooner or later. One, a steel player’s steel player, Jeff Newman, gave advice along with lessons. “Jeff told me, ‘Don’t come to Nashville. You need to play the music that is in your heart,’” Cohen recalls. That’s the kind of a creative blank check that led to 2006’s Home, James (all British Invasion covers, “A Whiter Jim Cohen Shade of Pale,” “Nights in White Satin,” etc.) and 2008’s Cohen Goin’ Country (“I Always Get Lucky with You,” “Tennessee Waltz,” etc.). Pedal Steel Jazz continues the genre-hopping. Songs like “Far Wes,” “Lush Life,” “Fly Me to the Moon” and “Black Orpheus” all get a cool, sophisticated treatment that make them perfect for RTI. “Jimbeaux’s Blues” wraps up the album with a steelconvention jam, legends taking turns freestyling over a solid rhythm section. Maurice Anderson, Randy Beavers, Chuck Campbell, Doug Jernigan, Lucky Oceans, Jimmy Bruno and Buck Reid all got the tracks and created their contributions in their home studios. Cohen kvells about the sidemen who join him on the record. Chico Huff and Steve Beskrone split bass duties. Keyboard player Frank Strauss, Cohen points out, worked with Tom Jones
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NEW CHASING ICE|AGrim serendipity constitutes the thematic foundation of eco-doc Chasing Ice. Jeff Orlowski’s film follows National Geographic photographer and amateur scientist James Balog during his multi-continental mission to provide the world sobering, visual proof of the severity of climate change. By framing such a foreboding narrative in the context of live photography — a profession inherently reliant on kismet and happenstance — Balog’s most desired, sought-after images incidentally become the most apocalyptic. The result is, much like the dawn before a storm, alluringly menacing. Chasing Ice’s visuals are as aesthetically stunning as they are provocative. Sweeping time-lapse shots of a deteriorating Earth could pass as lost footage from Reggio’s extravagantly naturalist Qatsi trilogy. Shots like these have garnered the deserved praise of activist documentarians and visual artists alike — earning the film Sundance’s Excellence in Cinematography award. Chasing Ice is as much a portrait of Balog’s tenacity and obsession as it is a forecast of environmental doom. It details a man’s relentless, nearly self-destructive war against the elements, fleeting time and failing technology. A man hoping against hope to capture that crucial shot that will finally reveal to humanity a glimpse of its fate. Perhaps the timing of its release — as the East Coast still struggles to recover from Sandy — evokes just the grim serendipity that Orlowski’s story demands. —Christian Graham (Ritz at the Bourse) THE COLLECTION A haiku: Actors you never heard of get murdered in this
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HITCHCOCK|C Read Shaun Brady’s review on p. 19. (Ritz Five) KILLING THEM SOFTLY|AAs violently cynical as it is straight-up violent, Andrew Dominik’s dingy but dexterous peek into the American lowlife is soaked in red, but green’s the only color any of its characters see. Set in an unrecognizable industrial New Orleans at the height of the 2008 financial crisis, it’s easy to think of Killing Them Softly as a recession-era crime flick, but it’s less a street-level indictment of Wall Street crookery than it is a stark reminder that it’s always been every man for his damn self. After two dim hoods (Scott McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) knock off a card game run by the distrustful Markie (Ray Liotta), string-pullers set up hitman Jackie (Brad Pitt) with a nameless suit (Richard Jenkins) to suss out the next step. Morose middle managers both, the two are nearly parental in their disapproval of the talent above and below them. Their groans about “public angles” and “corporate mentalities” could easily describe the doldrums of a glum cubicle job — they just happen to rely on the skull-cracking business to make their mortgage. Scored at its best with thematic political jabber and at its worst with too-obvious cuts (“Heroin” for a shooting-up scene, foreal?), it’s a movie seasoned by attitudes — the mournful ache of a former great who’s drunk himself dead (James Gandolfini), the kiddish nonchalance of a reprobate (Slaine) scolded for pocketing a paltry tip off a coffee-shop table. But it’s Dominik’s ambitious and artful insistence that gangsters deal with the same bureaucracy as us white-hats that keeps the pistol from jamming. —Drew Lazor (Franklin Mills, UA 69th Street, UA Riverview)
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1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. Die Hard (1988, U.S., 131 min.): John McClane attempts to save his wife and a group of hostages, proving himself to be the ultimate badass in the process. Mon., Dec. 3, 8 p.m., $3.
BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. Phantom Tollbooth (1970, U.S., 90 min.): Based on the classic children’s novel, this film tells the story of a boy whose boring existence is transformed when he enters the tollbooth that magically appears in his bedroom. Sat., Dec. 1, 11 a.m., $5. Magic Camp (2012, U.S., 86 min.): This documentary follows a magic competition at a camp for young aspiring Houdinis. Director Judd Ehrlich will make an appearance following the film, along with some of the magicians in the movie. Tue., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., $10. Open Screen Showcase: A collection of the best films from the monthly Open Screen Mondays, emceed by Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator and original host Joel Hodgson. Mon., Dec. 3, 7 p.m., free.
Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy., 215-278-7000, cinemathequeip.com. Hugo (2011,
FRIENDS OF THE PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY Free Library, Philadelphia City Institute Branch, 1905 Locust St., 215-6856621, freelibrary.org. Coming Home (1978, U.S., 127 min.): Hal Ashby directed this patriotic movie about a woman who falls in love with an injured vet while her husband is off fighting in the war. Wed., Dec. 5, 2 p.m., free.
THE GALLERIES AT MOORE Moore College of Art & Design, 1916 Race St., 215-965-4027, thegalleriesatmoore.org. The Spanish Prisoner (1997, U.S., 110 min.): A successful businessman is tempted to betray his company. Thu., Nov. 29, 7 p.m., free.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St. 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012, U.S., 90 min.): An informative doc about the groundbreaking AIDS activist group. Sat., Dec. 1, 2 p.m., $9. It’s the Earth Not the Moon (2011, Portugal, 185 min.): An epic doc following a film crew that’s exploring the island Corvo, located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Wed., Dec. 5, 7 p.m., $9.
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WOODMERE ART MUSEUM 9201 Germantown Ave., 215-2470476, woodmereartmuseum.org. 84 Charing Cross Road (1987, U.S., 100 min.): A friendship develops between a British mail-order book salesman and a New York book collector. Tue., Dec. 4, 7 p.m., $5.
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227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-9171228, thecolonialtheatre.com. The Bishop’s Wife (1947, U.S., 109 min.): When a bishop prays for a new cathedral, an angel (played by the dashing Cary Grant) is sent to help him. This was remade in 1996 with the equally dashing Denzel Washington. Sun., Dec. 2, 2 p.m., $8.
3701 Chestnut St. 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Scialla! (2011, Italy, 95 min.): A depressed professor sees life anew when he begins tutoring a young boy. Thu., Nov. 29, 5:30 p.m., free. Appartamento ad atene (2011, Italy, 95 min.): In 1942, a Greek family must open their home to a German officer. Thu., Nov. 29, 8:30 p.m., free. 100 metri dal paradiso (2012, Italy, 95 min.): A comedy about efforts to include a Vatican team in the 2012 London Olympics. Fri., Nov. 30, 5:30 p.m., free. Io sono Li (2011, Italy, 96 min.): A look at the difficult friendship between a Slavic fisherman and a young Chinese woman. Fri., Nov. 30, 8:30 p.m., free. I più grandi di tutti (2012, Italy, 99 min.): Members of a disbanded rock group are forced to reconnect when a fan sets out to film a documentary. Sat., Dec. 1, 5:30 p.m., free. Diaz (2012, Italy, 127 min.): A dramatic recounting of the 2001 protest against the G8 summit in Genoa. Sat., Dec. 1, 8:30 p.m., free. I primi della lista (2011, Italy, 85 min.): A comedy based on the true story of two young students and a singer trying to escape Pisa after learning of an impending overthrow of the country. Sun., Dec. 2, 5:30 p.m., free. Ciliegine (2012, Italy, 85 min.): Convinced all men are pigs, a young woman refuses to let her guard down. Sun., Dec. 2, 8:30 p.m., free.
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U.S., 126 min.): A young orphan living in a train station in 1930s’ Paris tries to solve the mystery of an unfinished automaton. Wed., Dec. 5, 4 p.m., free (reservations required).
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I LIKE ’EM COUNTRY: Loretta Lynn plays the Keswick on Friday.
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✚ FACTORY GIRLS Expect a ruckus. This lady-curated party, celebrating its first anniversary, is sure to be filled with debauchery and scantily clad folks. NYC’s Who Am I joins the residents — Gabonghi, Suga Shay, K|Rex — to bring you electronic dance tunes,
while a wide variety of aesthetic pleasures accentuates your party experience: burlesque by Emily Doofnoggle; hosting by Ariel Leon-Coeur, Madison Rupert, Phalla Sen and Maureen McCloskey; and photos snapped by Marie Alyse. It’s all in the name of good times with good people and good music. The factory churns on. —Gair “dev79” Marking Thu., Nov. 29, 10 p.m., free for girls, $5 for guys, The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave., 215-634-7400, facebook.com/thebarbary.
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✚ PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA So you think you like the music of Wagner, but dread the thought of gluing your tush to the seat of an opera house for five hours? Well, the Philadelphia Orchestra has a concert just for you! Actually, the band has been performing non-vocal Wagner concerts since the days of Stokowski, who pioneered the concept. For this go-around, it will
be a suite of the big tunes from the composer’s masterpiece, The Ring Cycle. Beethoven gets us warmed up with the Piano Concerto No. 1, with the superb Lars Vogt at the 88. —Peter Burwasser Thu., Nov. 29 and Sat., Dec. 1, 8 p.m.; Fri., Nov. 30, 2 p.m.; $20-$130, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, philorch.org.
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✚ R. KELLY Robert Kelly’s had a productive 2012: issuing his spectacularly titled memoir (Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me) in June, providing the inspired opening to Kanye’s otherwise spotty posse record and, most recently, re-upping his tireless Trapped in the Closet saga for a promised 18 new episodes. Meanwhile, Write Me Back (RCA), his 12th album in 20 years, continued in the retro-minded vein of 2010’s Love Letter, drawing inspiration from silky-smooth 1970s disco-soul — blatantly
hearkening back to Teddy, Barry and Songs in the Keyera Stevie — along with two of the corniest ’50s-rock pastiches this side of Smokey Joe’s Café. All was suffused with that ineffable Kellysian wit, complete with outlandish extended metaphors like “Fallin’ from the Sky” — essentially the anti-“I Believe I Can Fly.” Hard to say whether tonight’s set list will favor the family-friendly sincerity of this recent mode or look ahead to the forthcoming, presumably self-explanatory Black Panties (due next year). But it’s called the “Single Ladies Tour,” which could constitute a clue. —K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m., $49.50-$150, with Tamia, Tower Theater, 19 S. 69th St., 610-352-2887, thetowerphilly.com.
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✚ DAVID WAX MUSEUM David Wax Museum’s terrific self-released fourth album,
Knock Knock Get Up, finds the Boston-based outfit expanding and enriching their already exuberant brand of hybrid Mexican-American folk-pop to practically transcendent proportions, slathering on the horns, organs, sparkling synthesizers, accordion and tubular bells for a big, boozy NPR-approved party. But even stripped to their core duo — the debonair Mr. Wax on assorted jaranas (five-string Mexican chordophones) and guitars; the fantastically named Suz Slezak on fiddle and her ever-popular quijada de burro (donkey jawbone) — they’re still capable of raising plenty of righteous ruckus, while offering helpful bon mots and romantic advice: “Don’t trust lovers who fail to recognize you from a distance/ They should know you better than to need visual assistance.” —K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Nov. 29, 9:15 p.m., $12-$14, with Radio Jarocho, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
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✚ LORETTA LYNN In 1961, Loretta Lynn released her first single, “I’m a Honky Tonk Girl,” and she’s spent the intervening 50 years giving voice to those rural women — coal miners’ daughters and blue Kentucky girls, put-upon mamas and their husbands’ other women — who’d always played second fiddle in popular culture. No women’s-historymonth special will tell you more about the rapid pace of change in the 20th century than a stroll through her back catalog, which made hits out of taboos like family planning and divorce. Even though Lynn hasn’t released an album since the Jack White-produced Van Lear Rose in 2004, her career average is still above one a year. So if she
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—M.J. Fine Fri., Nov. 30, 8 p.m., $55-$67.50, with John Francis, Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside, 215-572-7650, keswicktheatre.com.
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✚ RAINBOW DESTROYER With a name like Rainbow Destroyer, you might expect this Philly duo to make sludgy, soul-crushing doom rock. And, sure, Rainbeaux Bite and Brian Reignbow do have a thing for horror-movie fonts, ghoulie facepaint and smoke machines. But that’s a bit of a head fake. Their brand-new EP, Waiting in the Dark is all groovy synth riffs, thumpy dance beats and
—Patrick Rapa Sugar Town, Sat., Dec. 1, 10 p.m., $8, with Sgt. Sass, Glitterlust and EX. by V., plus between-band performances by Messapotamia Lefae, Alaya Richmin, Mr. Fahrenheit, Miss Mary Wanna and DJ Nasty Sinatra, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.
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✚ NUTCRACKER 1776
Sat., Dec. 1, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., $10$40, Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St.; Sat.-Sun., Dec. 8-9, 1 and 4 p.m., $15-$25, Centennial Hall at the Haverford School, 450 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford, 215-893-1999, therockschool.org.
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✚ NIGHTLANDS Under the Nightlands moniker, The War on Drugs’ Dave Hartley sends pop, soul and psych sounds on an evolutionary journey, returning with a retro-futuristic sound that’s
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power choruses about getting down and getting what’s coming to you. Their eponymous anthem — most bands should run screaming from such things, but these kids make it work — is an upbeat Jem/Monkees-style Saturday-afternoon theme song: “Rainbow Destroyer! We’re here to destroy you! Rainbow Destroyer! We’ll steal your hearts and your souls, too!” It’s ridiculous and rad.
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revolutionary. So the setting is Philadelphia, circa 1776, and Ben Franklin is there, as are confetti-firing canons. The titular nutcracker makes a fiery grand appearance — as in there’s real-live fire on stage. Needless to say, this is not your standard Nutcracker. “It’s a similar story to the original, but the main characters and location have changed,” explains Bojan “Bo” Spassoff, president and co-director of the Rock School (which, full disclosure, is the same Rock family that owns City Paper). The cast consists of more than 150 students from the school’s respected pre-professional ballet-training program. All levels of students appear, though Stephanie Wolf-Spassoff, the school’s co-director, assures us that “the dancing is at a very high level. With the lead characters, you know you’re seeing really good dancing.” The choreography for Nutcracker 1776 is original, as are many of the costumes — but rest assured, the music remains the superb Tchaikovsky score, albeit in abbreviated form. According to Bo, the show is specially designed with a “rhythm and pace that’s more what children are used to.” Certain aspects of the story are condensed, or deleted entirely, but the famed pas de deux section remains intact. As Stephanie observes, “Some things are just sacred.”
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CLOSE TO HOME Living-room vibes and uneven fare mark Bella Vista’s Growlers. By Adam Erace GROWLERS | 736 S. Eighth St., 267-519-3242, growlersbar.com. Open
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ometimes, bad restaurants happen to good locations. Like the tony intersection of Eighth and Fitzwater, catty-corner from Cianfrani Park, where multiculti tykes tumble with shelter pooches while the last sentries of the old guard look on from the benches, grumbly or bemused. In the three-story building on the southwest corner, a place called Vesuvio lived seven years, back when Artie Bucco of The Sopranos ran a fictional restauMore on: rant of the same name. I didn’t know the Vesuvio of the early years, when it was supposedly a respectable whitetablecloth restaurant serving quail stuffed with boar sausage and black-truffle-glazed steaks. I knew the Vesuvio of the bleary twilight, when it had devolved into a weird watering hole whose claim to fame was a cheesesteak BLT lauded by The Today Show. Its three stucco-frosted stories formed a poison layer cake, a waste of restaurant space smack in the middle of Bella Vista. Hope sprung when Vesuvio became Little Bar — and fizzled
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when that closed in less than a year amid rumors of funny business and skeevy machismo. Enter Jason Evenchik, whom you know from Midtown Village’s Vintage and Time, and Starr vet Jay Willard. In October, the buddies took Bella Vista’s giant hospital-green elephant and turned it into a neighborhood “bar, kitchen and living room” called Growlers. They’ve got the living-room vibe down, with leather armchairs fronting a roaring fireplace, a familial front-of-house staff and a snug carved-wood bar tucked under the stairs. A larger bar guards Growlers’ front, a fountain of dry ciders and vanilla stouts, holiday ales and hop monsters advertised on chalkboards; it hides the living-room-inspired dining room behind its worn brick back, lending the latter a cozy, private feel that’s as irresistible on an icy night as a gingerbread-spiced Sly Fox Christmas Ale. Surveying the scene, I sipped the garnet-red beer and picked at well-salted housemade potato chips as thin and translucent as panes of amber glass. A baby gurgled in a MORE FOOD AND stroller by the fireplace. A famished senior DRINK COVERAGE gurgled over pulled-pork mac ’n’ cheese. AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / The two bookended the Growlers age M E A LT I C K E T. spectrum, every living generation between represented in the clientele sprinkled about the tables. From Lucky Peach apostles to Hidden Valley inhabitants, dressed-down attorneys to dressed-up crossing guards, Growlers gets them all, a mark of a healthy, interesting neighborhood gathering place, one this address has longed for. As for the food, it’s on the right track (generous, affordable and fun), but still needs refining. Chives floated on the surface of the chips’ provolone, pecorino >>> continued on page 32
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³ UNLIKE NOVELTY TIES or baskets of bubble bath and soap, gifts destined for the kitchen are less likely to get shelved or, even worse, re-gifted. A well-honed knife, a sturdy pepper mill or a really good bottle of olive oil are the kind of gifts that will never end up at a white-elephant swap. Cook, the cozy Rittenhouse kitchen-classroom (253 S. 20th St., 215-735-2665), is the best place in town to get up close and personal with some of the city’s most talented chefs. And while tickets to classes with the likes of Lacroix’s Jon Cichon and Joey Baladino of Zeppoli fame are sure to please all of your food-loving friends, seats at Cook’s classes are only the beginning of the giftables they have to offer. Tucked in a nook at the back of the shop is a closet-sized boutique filled with a cache of kitchenwares, herbs and spices, locally made edibles, aprons and everything else you might need for a stylishly appointed kitchen. Fish scalers and lemon zesters sit next to cheese slicers and pizza wheels in all shapes and sizes. There are all sorts of elegant French imports like candles from Savon de Marseille and ribbon-tied jars of violet- and poppy-flavored pastilles from L’Ami Provencal. On the local tip, Cook’s shelves are stocked with jams and preserves made by Becca O’Brien under the Green Aisle Grocery label. (Full disclosure: City Paper’s restaurant reviewer Adam Erace co-owns Green Aisle.) Made from produce sourced from Green Meadow Farms, among others, O’Brien’s hand-jarred and -labeled raspberry apple-rose and Bartlett-pear preserves pair as well with a slate of Manchego and Taleggio as they would with peanut butter in a sandwich. And if we’re talking sandwiches, Polish-recipe garlic dills from Jersey Gina’s Gems make great sour-crisp sides. Other edible offerings include Side Project Jerky, the hometown “jerky for gentlemen” in flavors like tamari-brownsugar Mongolian, green-chile-spike Southwestern and cheesesteak-y original as well as mixes for making your own sugar-coated beignets. With a wall full of gorgeously catalogued cookbooks ranging from locally authored picks like (on the day we dropped by) Marisa McClellen’s Food in Jars and Jason Sheehan’s Cooking Dirty to hulking volumes of Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine and Thomas Keller’s Bouchon book, Cook’s collection is the kind of library that cookbook connoisseurs dream about. Issues of Lucky Peach are requiredreading stocking stuffers. (caroline@citypaper.net)
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and fontina fondue, a dip possessing the consistency of latex paint and flavor reminiscent of snack-hut cheese fries at a suburban swimming pool. Chef Jerry Donohue, who spent the last few years on the countryclub circuit, is new to the city — he just celebrated three weeks in his new place, less than a mile from Growlers — and a well of fine, fun ideas, but his execution could be cleaned up a bit. I love his ballsiness in serving a plate of bacon as a bar snack — we eat it by the slice at breakfast, so why not dinner? — but he cooks it like my dad, which is to say until crunchy and rigid as a bundle of rulers. Most of the bacon still got a passing grade, especially when spread with the accompanying tarragon-greened bacon dip (a really wonderful flavor pairing), but a few burned strips disintegrated into acrid gunpowder in the mouth, not enough to spoil the whole bunch but worth avoiding nonetheless. Mussels made a splash in a lager broth. Slowly cooked caramelized leeks draped about the shells like tangled boas, adding sweetness to the bitter-edged broth accented with points of chorizo. Four different sauces slather the by-the-pound wings, or you can get them dry rubbed in tandoori spices and baked in the oven, a healthier alternative that lacked the crispness of its deep-fried mates. I did love the convenient, crunchy carrot-andcelery slaw tossed in blue cheese dressing, just next time I’ll enjoy it alongside the Mongolian or Jameson BBQ styles. Housemade cubes of soft-pretzel “stuffing” weren’t so much stuffed inside the Philly chicken as tucked beneath it. Sharp whole-grain mustard veloute and creamy cheddar-Yards sauce enrobed the locally themed, pan-roasted bird in a flow of yellow silk, another clever idea, one that might be better recast as a sandwich on pretzel bread — minus the underdone Brussels sprouts. Then there were the medallions of chuck flap with springy nutmeg-scented spaetzel and sautéed mushrooms and onions, which was great except that I’d ordered short ribs. Donahue says boneless short ribs are cut from the flap, but their pot-roast-like look and texture were so different from the succulent, glazed, fatty idea of a bone-in short rib, it felt like the menu was telling a fib. Bread pudding built for two trembled en route to the table, fissures and faults cracking its laughably massive bulk of brioche, mashed bananas and so many molten chocolate chips the entire dessert looked black as devil’s food. It was a hot mess, but a delicious one. Just-baked cookies (also giant) were topographical maps of crushedcashew ridges, caramel valley and more chocolate-chip hills. Cookies in the living room? Count a brother in. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)
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Doberman Pups, s & w, very cute, black and tan, champ lines , 717-629-3726
English Bulldog Pups, Male & Female ACA, $1000. Call (717) 572-9602 ENGLISH BULLDOG - white and brindle. Call 215-668-4889 Golden Doodle Pups - $800. V e t checked, shots & wormed. 717-927-9483 GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES AKC, Champ lines, parents on site, vet approved, $800, 610-857-0165
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BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 Golden Retriever Pups AKC, fam. raised, 1st shots, $675. Call 302-757-0963
Golden Retriever pups - AKC, parents on prem., health guar, $450. 717-442-8583 GOLDEN RETRIEVERS - AKC, Mom & Dad on site. Ready for Xmass. 610-306-0624 Greater Swiss Mountain Dog pups, AKC, 9 wks, parents onsite, vet checked, shots, wormed, OFA, $1200 (717)442-5648 JACK RUSSELL Mix 6 adorable, 10 weeks, search Tina etc at GreenfieldPuppies.com $275. Call 717-672-1992
Lab puppies, M & F, AKC, vet checked, ready now, $400. Call 717-468-9558 Lab Pups AKC- black, health guaranteed, rdy for x-mas $500. 814-441-2142 Scotties of Princeton- Cute scottish terrier puppies ready for Christmas! Great blood lines, AKC registered, vet certified, first shots and worming. Please call 609-882-0183 Standard Poodle Pups, Chocolate, Reg. $600. Rdy Nov. 30th 609-352-0161 Yorkie Pup, AKC, Male paper trained, 9 weeks, $625. Call (610)331-8233
Yorkie pups, 3M, 2F $600/ea. reserve now for christmas! 610-857-5049 Yorkie pups ACA,home raised 1M 1F, grt w/kids, vet chkd, $600/bo 717.949.2264 Yorkie pups, AKC, $850 Please call 215-355-5123
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LOST DOG, small black & white Male Shih tzu near 71st & City Line. Owner grieving. 215-477-7813
CABINETS KITCHEN SOLID WOOD Brand new soft close/dovetail drawers Crown Molding 25 Colors, Never Installed! Cost $5,300. Sell $1,590. 610-952-0033 Pinball, shuffle bowling alleys, arcade video games, jukeboxes 215.783.0823
29th St. 1BR $725+utils Beautiful, large victorian parlor, kitch w/ all appl’s, patio, off st prkg 215-321-0395
Apartment Homes $650-$925 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
Balwynne Park 2br $810+ 1st flr, w/d, garage. Call 610-649-3836 Balwynne Park 2BR $850+utils W/D, C/A, W/W. Call 215-219-6409
BD a Memory Foam Mattress/Box spring and New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033 BED: New Queen Pillow Top Set $150. twin, full, king avail. Del avl 215-355-3878 Bedroom Set 5 pc. brand new $325. All sizes, Del. Avail. 215-355-3878
Charming & Bright 1br carriage house $1500+ w/glass wall to priv. garden, nwly renov. S/S & granite kitch w/ orig. brick flrs, skylight, washer, dryer, tile & granite bath, avail 12/1 215-545-6677
Refrigerators, washers, dryers, stoves, freezers. Refurbished $159 and up. Guaranteed. Delivery avail. Call 610-469-6107
2013 Hot Tub/Spa. Brand New! 6 person w/lounger, color lights, 30 jets, stone cabinet. Cover. Never installed. Cost $6K. Ask $2,750. Will deliver. 610-952-0033.
WANTED: Rights to Phillies tickets, lower level Hall of Fame Diamond Club. Discrete purchase. Call 609-896-3666
65xx Grays Ave 1BR $550 Very nice area. For appointment to view please, Call 610-322-3416
13xx N 61st St 1br $525+utils 1st, last & sec, w/w crpt 267.278.1492
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1BR $625 1BR Effic. $530 Newly rehab. Sm. street. 215.748.0691
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53rd & Montgomery Ave. 2br $700+util Nice apt, $2100 move in. 484.278.4025
10th & Dauphin 1Br’s $450-$500 Move in cost 1.5 mo rent. 267-902-2585 21xx W. Ontario 1BR $600 1st floor. Call 267-625-0066
Downsizing: assorted oriental rugs and artwork. 6 Kindle dining chairs and misc furniture. Best offer. (215)801-5060
Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-639-0563
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2943 West Harper 2br/1ba $1200+util c/a, w/d, bsmt, quiet area (610) 348-6121
2xx N 63rd St. 1br $600-$700/mo. $1200 move in, nw kit/ba 610.772.4373
331 N 60th St 1br/1ba $600 util inc, 2nd floor, 215-878-5297.
600 Wynnewood Rd. 1BR/1BA $700 Fixed rate for 6 years. A/C, ceiling fans, 1st flr, no mice. (215) 747-5097
Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Call the Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk
W. Phila 2, 3 & 4br apts Avail Now Move in Special! 215-386-4791 or 4792
I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787
5XX N. 40th Street 2BR 1 BA $850 Newly renovated apt! Just 1 yr young! H/W floors, stainless appl. (incl d/w and microwave) W/D. Great location, just blocks from both Penn and Drexel. Steps from trolley and bus stops. 215-879-4950
1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 13xx W Allegheny 2BR $625+util Newly renovated, A/C 215-221-6542 1515 W Lehigh Ave 1br $550+elec $1700 move-in. Reno. 267-596-2270 21st & Susqehanna 2br $650 hdwd floors. Call (267) 694-0591
31xx N. Broad St. 3br $800 w/d, c/a, hdwd floors, call (215) 247-3616 Temple Hosp area 1-2 br $560 water incl Broad & Allegheny. 215-336-4299
Temple off campus luxurious room for rent $400/mo. Norman 267-240-6805
45xx Old York Rd 1br $585+utils Large, 1st,last & security 215-791-2125
5853 N. Camac 2BR $700+utils granite kit, 267.407.6768 or 215.416.2757
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JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. Up to $300 215-888-8662 Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Car 215-396-1903
Melrose Park 2BR/1BA $715+utils 1st floor, private parking, free washer/ dryer use. Call 215-290-4253
1 BR & 2 BR Apts $725-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371
4617 Wayne Large Efficiency $480 heat & hot wtr inc. EIK, 267-756-0130 46xx Polaski Ave 2Br/2Ba $900+utils Vic apt, 3rd flr, W/D, C/A, hdwd flrs, $1500 move-in. Call 215-842-0814
4902 Knox St. 2br/1ba $850+ 2nd flr. Call Erik 215-510-0034 6261 E. Wister St. Effic. $500 + elec. $1500 move-in. Call 215-290-3192 Wayne & Manheim St. 2BR/1BA $710+ spacious 2nd flr 215- 783-4736
72xx Devon St. 1BR $650+ utils garage, yard, prvt entr, 1 block away, R7, Regional Rail, 12/1, 215-913-5121
67xx Woolston Ave 1br $600+utils 2nd flr, $1200 move in, 215-758-7129
36xx Richmond St. 1BR $700 BR, BA, LR, Kitch. Call (484)571-1257
42xx Frankford Ave 1br $475+utils 3rd flr, also 2nd flr., Efficiency, $425/mo., 1st, last & security. Call 215-559-9289
4400 Frankford Ave Efficiencies $500+ 1mo sec dep, newly renov 215.760.9248 Frankford Apt/Effic./Rooms, nr bus & El, $300 sec, $90 wk & up 215.526.1455
50xx F St. 1BR $650+ 2 mo sec, Sec 8 OK, no pets 215.539.7866 Academy & Grant 2br $790+ 2nd floor, wall-to-wall carpets, C/A, off street parking. Call 856-346-0747
Algon & Rhawn 3br/2ba $1100+utils Sec. 8 welcome. Call (215)400-0377 3730 N Bouvier St. Efficiency $550 1st flr, 2 mo sec 1 mo rent, 215-275-5637
Wissonoming/Torresdale 1br $600 Fully Renovated. Call 215-852-9738
5xx N. 40th Street 3BR 1.5BA $1495 New constructon, Bamboo floors, c/a, stainless appl, yard, w/d. 5 blocks to Penn and Drexel. Steps from trolly and bus. 215-879-4950
980 N. 66th Street 3br/1.5ba $995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900 Darby, PA 1br $610+utils 3rd floor, avail Dec. 1st, 484-589-0652 Upper Darby 1BR $650 Modern, pvt. entrance, W/W, A/C, conv. to transp. & shopping. 610-358-2438
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11xx N. 55TH ST. $200/$250 SPECIAL MOVE-IN TO THOSE WHO QUALIFY! CALL FOR DETAILS! 267-707-6129 1547 S. 30th St. furn, fridge, $125 week; $375 move in. no kitchen. 215-892-7198 20th & Allegheny: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, heat. 267-331-5382 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $400/mo. Move in fee: $600. Call 215-913-8659 25th & Clearfield, Hunting Park & Castor, 55th & Media, 15th & Federal. Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 & up, no securi ty deposit, SSI OK. Call 215-758-7572 4508 N. Broad St. Rooms: $380/mo. Move in fee: $570. Call 215-913-8659
45xx N. Broad St. Large room, utils. included. $350/mo. Call 267-847-6626 652 Brooklyn $125 week, $375 to move in Furn w/refridg, no kitch 215-892-7198
homes for rent 16xx Ringold 3br $700 newly renov, sec 8 ok (267)455.3273
13xx S. 56th 3br/1ba $795 hardwood floors, newly renovated, Call 267-331-9255
26XX S 70th St 3br/1ba utils. Call 215-630-8123
Ford 250 2008 $24,000 Black, Loaded, 27 K Miles. 610-896-7473 12XX W. Seltzer 3br/1ba $775 Sec 8 ok Outside Porch 215-991-5837
2238 N. Lambert St. 3br/1ba $800+ must see, Call Erik 215-510-0034
50xx N 16th (near Temple/Lasalle) 3br $875+ util w/w, lg bsmnt,deck,frnt prch, mod kit/BA, $2625 move in 215.758.7129
62x Lindley 3br $1000+utils fresh paint, must see, 215-264-2340
Cash paid on the spot for unwanted vehicles, 24/7 pick up, 215-288-9500
Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted, $400, Call 856-365-2021
JUNK CARS WANTED 24/7 REMOVAL. Call 267-377-3088
8302 Woolson Ave. 3br/1.5ba $1100+ W. Mt Airy, Call Erik 215.510.0034 A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053 905 E. Allens Lane 3br/1ba twin $1250+ (W. Mt. Airy) Call Erik 215-510-0034 19xx Thayer 3BR $695+ 3 mo sec, Sec 8 OK, no pets 215.539.7866 2xx E Cambria St. 2br $525+utils $1575 to move in, Call 610-876-0604
low cost cars & trucks Buick Lesabre 1997 $2,100 Inspec., new radials, clean. 610-667-4829
13xx Airdrie 3br/1ba $700 2 month security, (267)307-6964 44xx Elizabeth 2BR $650+utils. $1950 to move-in. 215-779-1512 Extra large 4BR/2BA, F/Bsmt 1800 sq ft Section 8 is ok. 267-393-4236
Buick Park Avenue 1989 $1800 New bks, radios, insp, (610)667-4829
19xx E. Oakdale 2BR $650+utils. $1950 to move-in. 215-779-1512
Cadillac Sedan DeVille 1995 $1250 102k, new insp., like new 215-620-9383
Cadillac Catera 2001 Economy Sports Edition 4 door, original miles, garage kept, like new $3,675. Carol215-627-1814
Cadillac DeVille 1998 $2300 123k, clean, runs good. 215-906-8841
Chevy Astro Van 1994 $1250 Auto., 123k, new insp, 215-620-9383 Clifton Heights 3br/2ba $1400 renov. Twnhse, fin bsmt, nice neighborhood, sect. 8 ok (484)716-8823 Drexel Hill 3BR/1.5BA $1200 For rent or own option. (215)253-0754
resorts/rent Camelback Mtn. Ski House for rent, weekends, weekdays, New Years Eve. walking dist. to slopes (609)965-6112
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Chrysler Cirrus 1999 $1450 Looks/Runs great 93k 215-947-9840 Chrysler LHS 2000 $3000 Loaded. Call (215)432-3686 Ford Taurus 2006 $4700 new tires, clean, 64k mi., 215-850-0061 Ford T-Bird LX 1996 $999 all power, insp., runs new, 215.620.9383 Ford Windstar LX 2000 $1995 all pwr, 97K, runs new. 215-620-9383 Ford Windstar SE 2002 $1,850 4 door, 7 pass, loaded. 215-518-8808 Jaguar X TYPE 2003 $4275 V6, 5spd stick, clutch, 61k, 267-825-2315
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62nd & Woodland 3BR House Sec 8 ok. Must See. 215-885-1700 6xx S. 59th 3BR/1BA $925 GORGEOUS NEW KITCHEN & BATH, MUST SEE, $2775 MOVE IN. 215-365-4567
Elmwood area 2/3br modern, sec. 8 ok, Call 215-726-8817
TO HIS FAMILY, HE WORKS IN HR. 13xx N. 58th St. 4br/1ba Sec. 8 OK. Call (610) 734-0279 2BR & 3Br Houses Sec. 8 Welcome
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