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Silver Linings Playbook is nominated for eight Oscars. The biggest surprise?

Modell’s is up for Best Costume Design.

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A thief who posed as a fire inspector to steal expensive equipment from the Academy of Music, Independence Visitor Center and the Art Institute is caught when he signs his real name in a visitor logbook.

He’s already working on his autobiography: Catch Me Because You Can.

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Mayors from area suburbs join the national Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign. “In fact,” says one mayor, “we are opposed to all illegal things, including crime.”

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Cell-phone videos capture a massive fight in Old City, with people beating a woman on the ground, kicking a car and firing a gun. “OK, now, we are not into any of those things,” local mayors declare.

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A U.S. District judge rules that a Mennonite furniture maker is not exempt from the law requiring he pay for employees’ contraceptives. “No matter. I’ll have this crew working the wood so hard they’ll be too sore to have sex,” says the furniture maker.

“What? What’s so funny this time?”

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Developers eye the Disney Hole site at Eighth and Market as a possible location for a casino. “MMM, DREAMS,” bellows Disney Hole. “I LOVE TO EAT DREAMS.”

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A SEPTA engineer is injured when somebody throws a rock at a train in West Philly.

The train took no notice because trains are fucking professionals.

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Philly police raise $14,000 to purchase two Suzuki dirt bikes to use in the 24th District. The cops take turns confiscating them from each other.

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Citing the ticket-fixing scandal, state Sen. Dominic Pileggi suggests the city’s Traffic Court be closed, and traffic violations be handled by Municipal Court. “AND WHEN THAT COURT FAILS, A NEW COURT WILL BE SUMMONED. IT IS IN THIS MANNER THAT THE CYCLE REPLENISHES ITSELF. IT HAS BEEN DONE THIS WAY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS,” explains Disney Hole.

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RED INQ: The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com reported net revenue losses last year, despite cost-saving measures like moving to a new location in Market East.

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PAPER TRAVAIL New owners bring fear and confusion to Philadelphia’s dailies. By Daniel Denvir

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he new owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News have, according to the newsroom union, threatened to “liquidate” their assets by this Friday if workers represented by the company’s 11 unions refuse immediate concessions. When word went out on Thursday, Jan. 10, it seemed a dark art conjured from co-owner George Norcross’ political world, the tactic of a South Jersey Democratic boss who once pressured a small-town councilman wearing a government wire to dump a political enemy. “Fire that fuck,” he told him. “You’re gonna get your fucking balls cut off,” he advised another.

The language rang more prosaic for one former Inquirer reporter.

“Liquidation?” he mused. “It’s like a furniture store or something.”

The owners — less than one year after they took over the papers and Philly.com under the banner of Interstate General Media — are demanding $8 million in savings in wages and benefits from the newsroom alone, according to the Newspaper Guild. It’s the latest twist in a story of rampant palace intrigue, including turmoil in newsroom management and company ownership, often accompanied by competing (sometimes personal) agendas. The impact on the old-fashioned business of news-gathering, not to mention those who undertake it, has been devastating.

Over six years, ownership of the fiscally troubled papers has

ricocheted from the Knight-Ridder and then McClatchy chains to a group helmed by Republican PR powerhouse Brian Tierney. They were picked up in bankruptcy by Wall Street’s Alden Global and Angelo, Gordon & Co. and then, finally, purchased in April 2012 by the present consortium of local corporate and political heavyweights led by parking magnate Lewis Katz, philanthropist H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest and Norcross. Former governor and mayor Ed Rendell dropped out of the group before the sale went through.

The transition was bumpy starting even before the sale was finalized. When management interfered with coverage of the sale last February, reporters angrily protested. The new owners, whom critics worried would have every reason to meddle in the newsroom, pledged not to. More importantly, they promised to ensure that the diminished company would thrive. Norcross told the Inquirer in April that they had “every confidence in the world, and have invested tens of millions of dollars in our belief that we are going to make this successful and do things that people said couldn’t be done.” He told the journalism-news site Poynter that layoff rumors were untrue.

The goal, Katz added, was to “build employee morale.” He said they could afford to take a long-range view thanks to their investment of “patient capital so the banks don’t get in the way.”

Newsroom morale, however, quickly dropped.

Last October, Inquirer editor Bill Marimow — installed by the new owners in April — orchestrated a flurry of curious reassign-

The owners threatened to “liquidate” their assets.

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✚ WELFARE CHECKS Pennsylvania’s state legislators — who last session brought us bills reducing social-service budgets and restricting personal freedoms but failed to pass a transportation funding package or tackle pension reform — are eager to get a jump on the business of lawmaking for the coming year. Among the flurry of proposals already unveiled is one by Rep. Tim Krieger (R-Westmoreland) to require drug-testing of all applicants for public assistance.

This controversial proposal has been on the table before. A version of the law, passed in 2011 and rolled out as a pilot program last year, mandated drug-testing of welfare applicants convicted of drug felonies in the past five years. It was billed as a cost-saving measure, and that drew criticism. After all, when Florida imposed a drug-testing program for welfare recipients, its program caught few users and actually cost the state $45,780, notes American Civil Liberties Union Pennsylvania legislative director Andy Hoover. That’s not to mention the legal costs it incurred while defending the law against a (successful) lawsuit by the ACLU. Before Krieger’s plan moves forward, it might be instructive to ask: What has drug-testing of Pennsylvania’s convicted drug felons turned up so far? According to Department of Public Welfare statistics, 28 people took the drug test in the program’s initial phase. One failed, and one declined the test and dropped off the welfare rolls; 26 passed. So one could deduce that around 7 percent had used drugs, less than estimated rates of drug use in the overall U.S. population. Of course, this sample is meager, which is one argument against introducing a broader drug-testing program. “There are multiple issues, some practical, some legal,” says Hoover — and a legal challenge, he says, would be inevita-

ble. “Any time the government is taking a person’s bodily sample,

that is a search. The government has certain requirements if it wants to search someone: They have to have some suspicion they’ve committed a crime. Being poor is not an indication that you may have committed a crime.”

—Samantha Melamed

✚ PRAYER FOR RELIEF Various recent tough-on-crime measures have yielded an overall decline in violent crime, the city trumpeted not long ago.

They’ve also yielded a nasty byproduct: overcrowding in the Philadelphia Prison System. A class-action lawsuit against the prisons, set aside as populations dipped in 2011, has been reinstated.

And hundreds of individual cases filed by inmates related to jail conditions are in federal court. In December, the city won one of those cases, filed by four Muslim current and former inmates of Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, the city’s largest jail. The men argued that their religious rights were violated because they weren’t allowed to pray in day-rooms or return to their cells to pray; there was no room in cells with extra cots to roll out prayer mats; and they were allowed to attend Jum’ah services only intermittently, not weekly as the religious practice requires.

Among its defenses, the city pointed the finger at Philly’s Muslim community. “We’re just having a little trouble recruiting people of the Islamic faith to come here and volunteer,” says prisons spokesperson Shawn Hawes. She says system has no trouble recruiting volunteers of other faiths. It has 21 contract and volunteer chaplains, including a single part-time imam.

But Jerry Williams, who represented the inmates, says the root of the problem is a matter of policy rather than lack of vol>>> continued on page 9

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ROE TURNS 40 ³ FOUR DECADES AGO on Jan. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a woman’s right to obtain an abortion via the landmark case Roe v. Wade.

The 40th anniversary of that decision, though, hasn’t brought much cause for celebration.

“We are experiencing the greatest threat to reproductive freedom since Roe was decided,” says Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia. “The right-wing, conservative, antiwomen forces have recognized that it’s very hard to overturn a Supreme Court precedent like Roe v. Wade, and they have moved their efforts into the states — and provided massive resources to enact restrictions that make abortion more difficult, particularly for vulnerable women.”

Despite a more tolerant public and laws that have scaled back protests, abortion providers are still harassed and “pro-life” lobbyists have been extraordinarily successful at the state level. Over the past two years, states have enacted more laws to restrict access to abortions than ever before: 92 in 2011, and 43 more in 2012, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion-rights nonprofit. Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of that, legislating one of the nation’s most abortion-hostile climates.

Ahead of the new state legislative session, which began this week, legislators were already resurrecting burdensome proposals from past sessions.

They’re circulating co-sponsorship memoranda for bills that would prohibit insurers in the new state health-care exchange from covering abortions even when medically necessary without a special rider, and permit “conscientious objections” by doctors who opt not to provide birth control or emergency contraception. So far, last year’s most controversial anti-abortion measure — a bill that would have mandated pre-abortion ultrasounds and made headlines after Gov. Tom Corbett suggested women who didn’t want to view the sonogram could just “close [their] eyes” — hasn’t re-emerged.

The assault on abortion rights may have picked up in intensity, but it’s not new. The grounds for it, says Tracy, stem from another landmark case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v.Casey, testing the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982. The Supreme Court affirmed Roe and struck down a provision of the act requiring women to notify their husbands before an abortion — but it determined that state regulations could be imposed, as long as they didn’t create an undue burden for women. In 2011, Pennsylvania’s legislature pushed the limits of that decision like never before, imposing cripplingly expensive requirements on surgical>>> continued on page 10

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“The result will be even more abortions.” abortion providers, which must now be certified as ambulatory surgical centers.

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania chief executive Dayle Steinberg says her organization — the subject of yet another bill, proposed last spring by state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, to defund it statewide — paid for costly renovations. “They were totally politically motivated and didn’t serve any purpose. They had nothing to do with safety. And providers in Pennsylvania were already regulated by five different sets of regulations.” (Though, as Philly learned in the grisly case of the Kermit Gosnell abortion mill, they weren’t always enforced.)

Susan Schewel of the Women’s Medical Fund, which helps poor women pull together money for abortions (Medicaid in Pennsylvania covers it only in cases of rape, incest or life-endangerment), expects the price of the procedure to increase as a result of the more stringent standards. That, she says, in tandem with efforts to exclude abortions from insurance coverage, has become not merely a civil-rights issue but an economic one: It’s harder for poor women to improve their situations — or stay off welfare rolls — without reproductive freedom.

Schewel says her group gave financial support to 1,532 women last year, but isn’t close to meeting the need across Southeastern Pennsylvania.

She adds that a law allowing doctors to abstain from prescribing birth control can have only one result: “More women will be seeking abortions.”

With all this legislative activity, one would imagine the tide has turned against abortion-rights advocates. In fact, 64 percent of voters polled by Quinnipiac last year said they supported Roe v.Wade; just 31 percent thought it should be overturned.

David Cohen, a Drexel law professor who studies abortion access and the harassment of abortion providers, traces the restrictions to the Tea Party electoral sweep in 2010: “They exerted a lot of pressure on members of state and federal legislatures to get back to the business of the cultural wars,” he says. “It’s just this renewed sense that’s out there that it is for the government to control women’s bodies and women’s sexuality. That’s what the regulation … is about.”

Those culture wars never stopped, but around clinics, at least, they became less visible due to the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act in 1994. “Prior to that,” says Steinberg, “we would have protests that were, like, 300 people in front of our entrances, and they would lie down and have to be carried away. It’s a different environment now.”

But protesters are still fixtures outside clinics.

“There’s no other health-care provider that needs to wear a bulletproof vest,” Tracy points out. “The reality is, women have abortions whether it’s legal or not — but when it’s not, women die.”

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“Marimow can be vindictive.” financial decline in an industry where advertising-fueled, double-digit profit margins have been decimated by the Internet. Interstate purchased the company for about $55 million, whereas the previous Wall Street owners paid $139 million in 2010. In 2006, Tierney’s group paid $562 million. Last August, publisher Bob Hall announced that revenue was down $16 million for the first half of 2012, meaning more net losses despite cost-saving moves. The company had reported $17 million-plus in losses in 2011.

Meanwhile, Philly.com (which has a content-sharing agreement with City Paper) continues to be criticized for its poor layout and story placement. New pay-walled Inquirer.com and DN.com sites are supposed to be unveiled soon.

Philly.com is moving to create its own original work, like a “Philly420” column by local pot activist Chris Goldstein.

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³ THE DAILIES ARE already running bare-bones operations. The Inquirer’s Washington, D.C.,

Trenton, and Harrisburg bureaus are now the only ones outside of metro Philadelphia.

Not long ago, they posted correspondents worldwide. Saffron had stints in Moscow and Belgrade. Today, the paper is crowded with wire reports, and local reporting in a city and state plagued by poverty and corruption grows dangerously thin.

The papers have also cut back on opinion writers. Liberal Inquirer columnist Dick Polman was asked to reduce his column from weekly to monthly and to accept a lower pay rate. Polman, like former Inquirer cartoonist Tony Auth and science writer Faye Flam, sought refuge at WHYY. Investigative reporter Patrick Kerkstra’s weekly contributions are now also monthly.

The deteriorated news operation mirrors the papers’

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ments of veteran staffers to unfamiliar and, in some cases, less-desirable beats. It was perceived by many to be an effort to push some older reporters to take part in the round of buyouts offered soon thereafter; some did just that. The Guild has filed a grievance. Many regard it as part of a strategic move to strengthen New Jersey coverage as small local papers there are downsizing. Yet numerous reporters see Marimow’s reassignment of widely respected if cantankerous editor Kathy Hacker to South Jersey obituaries (which she now writes under her married name, Kathleen Tinney) as a measure of retaliation against someone he did not like. Marimow and Hacker both declined to comment. Reporters are on edge.

“Bill Marimow can be rather vindictive,” says one newsroom source. “And Norcross and Katz are very hard-headed businesspeople. If they see somebody as disloyal, they can make trouble for anybody.”

Over at the Daily News, reporters suffered yet another wearying round of paranoia in December, when Katz hinted in an interview with the American Journalism Review that they might close the working-class People Paper.

And last week, the owners announced yet another round of buyouts — even as the company continues to hire new, often younger, reporters. Though all of the other unions’ contracts expired in October 2012, the newsroom’s contract is in force until October 2013. Owners want givebacks now.

“I can’t help seeing this as a bluff — a crude, self-destructive bluff,” says Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron. “I don’t think the owners realize how much they are damaging the papers’ reputation and credibility when they say such things.

We know that this is not about being legitimately broke because they are hiring at a steady clip. It is about bringing down labor costs. They probably do need to reduce operating expenses, but this is not the way to do that.” Many believe the threat is an empty one, including Inquirer business columnist Joe DiStefano, who says this tough talk is par for the labor-negotiations course.

Expectations in the newsroom are mixed — after all, the ownership would lose credibility if the threat passes unfulfilled. But a representative of Interstate declined to comment for this story, and the company has itself never made the threat of “liquidation” publicly. Norcross and Katz, according to newsroom sources, are experiencing some sort of rift. That would be familiar ground. A dispute between the newspapers’ two former hedge-fund owners, according to a September 2012 New York Post article, was what had ultimately prompted them to sell the company: Alden Global Capital’s Randy Smith wanted to merge the company with the Journal Register Co., a newspaper chain that Alden also owned.

But the two hedge funds could not agree on how to divvy up the savings they would reap.

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Older staffers felt targeted. never had the luxury of presiding over a profitable newsroom — the sort of Inquirer newsroom that nurtured him, where he wrote his Pulitzer-winning stories on police abuse of civilians.

After he returned to the Inquirer last year, a controversial “newsroom merger” with the Daily News, introduced under previous management, was halted. Marimow reportedly protested a similar proposal at the Sun, when the Tribune Company had pushed its various papers to share stories.

Marimow wouldn’t comment for this story. But whatever his motives, they may be irrelevant if Interstate’s owners make good on their pledge to put the Inquirer on the block once again. As to what Philly’s dailies would be worth in 2013 — and whether anyone is even willing to not just buy them but actually invest in their survival — that’s another story. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

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³ THERE HAVE ALSO been questionable editorial choices. In November, the Inquirer ran an effusive profile of Amway tycoon Richard DeVos, one of the country’s wealthiest and most powerful right-wing activists, on the premise that DeVos is a major supporter of Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center. The reporter traveled to DeVos’ Michigan home for the profile — headlined “A key Constitution Center backer has small-town Michigan roots” — an odd expenditure for a cashstrapped paper, especially since DeVos makes frequent visits to Philadelphia. Lewis Katz sits on the Constitution Center’s board.

The paper also shelled out for a helicopter so that a photographer could take aerial shots of the Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge, a charity event orchestrated by Cooper University Hospital, where the political boss chairs the board and wields vast influence. In December, they sent a reporter to cover Mayor Nutter’s visit to China.

Some changes have been cheered by the staff.

In May, the new owners replaced widely disliked Daily News editor Larry Platt with former editor Michael Days. The newsroom burst out into applause when the changeover was announced — right in front of Platt.

But the owners’ decision to return longtime Inquirer editor Marimow to the helm has proven controversial. Some see a pattern in Marimow’s tactics, dating back to his tenure at the Baltimore Sun, where Marimow worked as editor and managing editor. In Baltimore, management made it a priority during contract negotiations to weaken protections against forced transfers, according to former Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild president Bill Salganik. Management eventually won the authority to transfer newsroom employees between bureaus and job titles. “As in Philadelphia, our perception was that it was disproportionately [impacting] older people,” says Salganik. “Some of the people during some of the buyout periods were pressured through reassignments.”

“There was definitely a pattern in which experienced, middle-aged reporters were shunted to less-than-desirable beats,” says mystery writer Laura Lippman, a former Sun reporter.

“Marimow appeared to be uncomfortable with people with whom he could not have a mentorprotégé relationship.” Lippman says she was reassigned to a suburban bureau after complaining about unethical behavior by a young reporter Marimow had hired.

Former Sun columnist Mike Littwin, according to sources, infuriated Marimow by writing a union memo critical of management. Littwin came to Marimow’s office and told him, “Bill, it isn’t personal.” Marimow opened a copy of The Godfather

and pointed out the passage where Michael Corleone says, “Don’t let anybody kid you. It’s all personal.” Littwin was transferred soon thereafter; he filed a grievance and won a settlement, sources say.

Marimow’s highest-profile critic is Lippman’s husband, David Simon, a former Sun reporter and creator of the HBO series The Wire. Simon dedicated a season of The Wire to depicting a Baltimore Sun crassly obsessed with squeezing savings and winning Pulitzers, and named one of the show’s most unsavory police officers Lt. Marimow.

This is a characterization that Marimow and others who have worked with him have vociferously denied. Marimow is known as an old-school reporter who relishes hard-hitting and attention-grabbing investigative journalism. Yet, as an editor, he has

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here was just a really similar mind-set between what I wanted out of graffiti and what a candy wrapper would provide.” Steve Powers says this as I’m driving him to buy spray paint at a Center City art-supply store, where it’s kept under lock and key, triggering a joke about how much faster it used to be when he just shoplifted the stuff. He also tells me about a prison-initiation ritual as a way of illustrating the idea that there’s no free lunch. But I’ll get back to that.

A native of Overbrook and a one-time graffiti artist, Powers, 44, knows his way around cans of spray paint and outlaw art. But that was years ago. Manhattan galleries now exhibit his work. In 2010 he teamed with the Mural Arts Program for Love Letter, an endearing, eye-catching series of 50 murals on buildings along the Market-Frankford line in West Philly featuring offbeatly sweet messages (“This love is real so dinner is on me,” “See me like beautiful I see you”). But his newest Philly project is part of a decade-long quest to

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WHEN POWERS STARTED doing his graffiti in Philly he came

signs and attractions in Coney Island.

Powers, for example, painted the cars of the iconic Cyclone roller coaster.

When they first approached Coney Island businesses, Powers says, “People were suspicious of our motives” for giving away signs for free. By way of explaining this mistrust, he relates a perhaps apocryphal, or possibly Snopes-worthy, but nonetheless apt anecdote: On a guy’s first night in prison he’ll find a Twinkie on his cot, and he’ll eagerly eat it, and the next morning a hulking guy will come up to him and say, “That was my Twinkie.

You’re now in my debt.”

Icy Signs, however, really is giving away the Twinkies — Powers can do

of getting its space rent-free — thanks not to New York art-world hookups, but to an “aw, how cute” toddler connection.

“My oldest and one of my closest friends is one of Steve’s guys, [workshop manager] Mike Levy,” says David Waxman, co-founder of MMPartners, a real-estate and development company in Brewerytown. “He and I have been friends since preschool.”

When Powers recently lost the huge space he was using in Brooklyn, Levy called Waxman, and a few days later a truck pulled up in front of the MM-owned storefront at 2819 W. Girard Ave. that would become Icy Signs’ Philly home.

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HE’D PAINT HIS ESPO LOGO ON ABANDONED STOREFRONTS, CREATING WHAT LOOKED LIKE ESPO STORES. this because, he explains simply, “I sell art.” In September he had a solo show at a Chelsea gallery of his enamel-on-aluminum signs, which according to a 2008 New York Times article sell for as much as $20,000. He was once represented by high-powered gallerist Jeffrey Deitch, who went on to become the director of Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. And some of Icy Signs’ jobs are indeed paid commissions. For the Brewerytown outpost, Icy Signs also has the advantage

space might not sound like an obviously smart business practice, but Waxman sees multiple benefits. “Number one, it’s supporting an artist whose work we really, really like a lot. Second, it’s a friend, so any time you can do a favor for a friend it’s great. Third, it’ll go a long way to helping us create this urban environment that we’re trying to create here [in Brewerytown] that’s organic and just sort of arts-driven. ... It creates some good >>> continued on page 16

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up with the name ESPO, which stands for Exterior Surface Painting Outreach. He’s still known by that moniker. He moved to New York in 1994, at 26, by which point his efforts had become “mostly legal, with a few illegal things sprinkled in.”

Eventually, he recounts, “I fell in with a self-described outcast named Revs, and he was painting really nontraditional graffiti.

He was just going around with a bucket and a roller, and he was starting to write his biography in the tunnels of the New York City subway system, and enlisted me as an assistant and collaborator. It ended up being a six-year project — he painted, like, 235 pages in different tunnels in the subway system. So me meeting him was like it suddenly took traditional graffiti off the table and I wanted to do different things.”

One of those things was graffiti that looked like advertising.

He’d find abandoned storefronts where the sign above had been covered over with white paint, and he’d paint his ESPO logo on those blank signs, effectively creating what appeared to be ESPO-branded stores.

Icy Signs is an outgrowth of efforts that began about 10 years ago, when he and his crew moved into Coney Island on a mission to paint signs for local businesses for free. In 2004, the idea became more formal (and funded) with the help of Creative Time, an organization that commissions large public-art projects such as the twin beacons of light that rose from the World Trade Center site six months after 9/11. Called the Dreamland Artist Club, the project involved more than 20 artists painting

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revive a humble craft: the hand-painted storefront sign. He and his crew are designing and giving them away for free.

The project, dubbed Icy Signs, has outposts in Brooklyn, South Africa and, as of a few weeks ago, North Philadelphia’s Brewerytown section, with the aim here to create signs for businesses along the West Girard Avenue corridor. My short odyssey with Powers to get supplies was prompted specifically by the need to paint a peeved-looking cat sitting in a washtub next to a resigned-looking dog for Best in Show, a pet-grooming operation on the 2700 block of Girard. Powers and Mike Levy, Icy Signs’ workshop manager, agreed they didn’t have the right orange for the cat.

“What I really love about signs is that they’re obvious. That’s what’s so great,” says Powers. “Art is confusing. It’s opaque. The best art sometimes is the stuff that’s hardest to get. Whereas the best signs are the ones that are the easiest to get — the ones that you understand immediately what that sign is trying to tell you.” His team’s first sign on Girard was for a restaurant called Chicken Master, whose owner walked three doors down and knocked on Icy Signs’ door shortly after they set up shop. The sign consists of the establishment’s name in black against an Easter-egg-blue background and a chicken head in the middle.

It’s simple. It’s stylish. It’s a little goofy. For Best in Show, Powers explains, “It’s got to be a successful pet-grooming sign. It can’t be my interpretation of a pet-grooming sign.” Although that annoyed cat comes close to poetic license.

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ance costs, and when it comes to his MM landlords, “There’s talk of artwork changing hands. I feel I’m going to get taxed at some point,” he says with a laugh).

The focus on Brewerytown is useful for the time being. “Just as a staging area, it makes sense and it cuts down on expenses — commuting and everything else,” he explains. “We can just walk to

AFTER THE CONEY Island project, says Powers, “We just keep opening up sign

buzz around the neighborhood as well.”

MMPartners has been focusing its efforts on both residential and commercial development in Brewerytown for several years now. Waxman and business partner Jacob Roller have rehabbed row houses and constructed new buildings. They’ve lured businesses to Girard: A Mugshots Coffeehouse, a bike shop, a pharmacy. Their deal to bring in a Mike Stollenwerk restaurant fell through, but it shows their ambitions.

Icy Signs’ mere existence helps MM’s cause by filling an empty storefront. “This does tie in with us and our overall development strategy for Brewerytown,” says Waxman. “So much of it revolves around creating this vibrant commercial corridor on Girard Avenue, and signage is such a big thing in terms of the urban environment.” Populating Girard is key: MM aims to create, says Waxman, an “interesting commercial corridor, with the right retail tenants that we want to see up

“SIGNAGE IS SUCH A BIG THING IN TERMS OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT.” shops in different places ever since.

Sometimes it’s in gallery settings. It’s been in a couple museums. Ideally, it’s in a storefront in a community like Brooklyn or North Philadelphia or Johannesburg.”

He is happy to have a Philly presence and to get a production space for free (actually, not quite — there are insur-

the site, install the sign, carry our tools back. It’s a lot more simple and it’s a way of streamlining the process. Once we’ve exhausted all the opportunities in the immediate area we’ll branch out from there. But,” Powers notes, “there’s a lot to do on Girard Avenue.” (theresa.everline@citypaper.net)

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Pennsylvania Lottery couldn’t stay a state-run concern evermore. Tina Fey can’t always be the wryest woman in the room (thanks, Amy Poehler).

The White House couldn’t stay mum to the Death Star petition forever. At its present rate of cruel stupidity, the NRA will surely fall soon. Please. ³ “Seven years is an eternity for a club,” says Joe Beckham, who, on New Year’s Day, shuttered his long-running house-centric Walnut Room, the dance-lounge above Alfa at 17th and Walnut that he co-owns with Giancarlo Dipasquale.(The pair also own Kenzo-Fishtown’s Loco Pez.) Even that room’s retirement couldn’t last long, as tonight, Jan. 17, the hot spot gets reopened as the Mod-era-Britinfluenced Ten Six Club.“You can’t stay closed long in this business,” says Beckham. Named for the price tag on the Mad Hatter’s chapeau from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (10 shillings/6 pence), the duo’s new London-ish boite features wood paneling, mannequins, luxurious Chesterfield couches, beaded drapery and a black/gold/pink/purple color motif that’d make Austin Powers green. “I think Ten Six is a mash-up of the Korova Milk Bar,a swinging London cellar and Alistair Cooke’s study,” he says.

Switching up DJs, Beckham is looking forward to a new dance card that includes dubstep nights, Bowie bashes (!) and vintage British rock ravers.

He also hinted big time that he and Dipasquale are always looking to maximize their current holdings and expand upon their dominion. Pip pip, old chap. ³ If you weren’t paying attention to the flogosphere last week, Churchville, Pa.’s A.J. Daulerio — a one-time editor at Deadspin and writer at Philly Mag — just stepped down from his ed-in-chief post at Gawker,passing the mantle (and a “desktop covered in Vaseline,” stated a staff email snagged by the NY Observer) to Gawk-wonk John Cook. ³ You don’t look an issue over 90: Congrats to Albert “Black Death” Mudrian and his 10th and Arch-based Decibel magazine as it celebrates 100 issues of metal (and strong sales) with a Jan. 19 grindcore bash at Union Transfer with Converge and Pig Destroyer. Grr. ³ Jennifer Lawrence won a Golden Globe for it. Bradley Cooper got hit on by Hollywood Foreign Press’ boss on live television for it. Why shouldn’t it be a tourist destination? GPTMC — Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp. to you — has a Silver Linings Playbook-specific trip available at visitphilly.com/ itineraries. See Jewelers Row and Ben Franklin House in one sitting then drive out to the now-hardto-get-a-booth-at Llanerch Diner in Upper Darby. I hope Paranoia or Dead Man Down don’t snag any Globe noms — my Italian Market’ll get even messier. ³ Come on, let’s go dance at citypaper.net. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

WHAT WAS: The Weeds — from left: Devin Greenwood, Emily Zeitlyn, Thomas Bendel and Colin Boylan — released their new album at their farewell show.

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he Weeds played their last show two Saturdays ago, in the small living room of a South Philly rowhome, surrounded by family and friends.

Some leaned against the walls with mugs of wine. Others sat cross-legged on the floor with their kids. Everyone was all smiles.

Between songs, singer-guitarist Emily Zeitlyn thanked all the names she could think of.

Oddly, this intimate gathering was a hello as much as it was a goodbye, a final show that doubled as the release party for a record that took its sweet time getting here.

Though they’ve existed in one form or another for more than a decade, The Weeds managed a mere two albums, The Faraway Flying of Broken Beating, which came out in 2004, and a stunning new capstone, aptly titled What Was and Will Never Be. This record is lovely, a warmly insistent collection of songs that ebbs and flows with tidal grace, its gentle opening lines gathering steam for pretty, mid-tempo rock ’n’ roll tempests. One minute we’re waltzing with the “The Dead” and the next we’re bobbing our heads with “Waitress.” And when the needle suddenly swings into the red on “You Finally Climbed the Hill,” well, it’s a gritty counterweight to all the simple, folk-pop beauty.

Zeitlyn has an ear for matching holy, Leonard Cohen-esque

melodies with urgent, mysterious lyrics. “An eye for a limb and a tooth for a heart. It’s a terrible thing to mix vengeance and art,” she declares on “Forgiveness.”

“Religion” is a ghost story — or at least a horror story, unspooling with twisted tension: “You set the scene: It was after the night / that you said you were clean and you gave up the fight / in the car that was borrowed, gun that was swallowed / it took out your teeth as it shot through the marrow. You said you felt nothing. You walked to the neighbor’s.” Zeitlyn’s assured and plaintive tone performs extrasensory sorcery, making you imagine the feeling of cold steel on enamel.

Perhaps the most remarkable song from the new batch is “Smarty Jones,” which tangles up this city’s underdog reputation with the reallife story of the eponymous undersized horse and adopted Philadelphian who came within a breath of winning the Triple Crown in 2004. It’s a passionate meditation on winning and losing. “You little runt,” she marvels breathily. “How’d you get to be out front?”

The story of this album, and this band, is more of a steeplechase than a horse race. Not everybody made it to the release show.

“I coated my fingers with crazy glue when my calluses fell off.”

³ IN A GENERAL sense, it’s a sad old familiar song for a working band: too little money, too many obstacles. For The Weeds, it’s sadder still. When you ask Zeitlyn what caused all the delays, she >>> continued on page 24

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Sparhawk’s other, louder band, follows last year’s hook-y li’l Revolution EP with 3 (Chaperone), which comprises merely two monolithic, 20-minute sides. It’s a definite yin-yang affair. “Can’t Walk Out” is the expected onslaught, all portentous sludge-riffage and scrawled, desperate skronk. It’s epic, and fairly interminable. (Also, it’s in 9/4.) “Seven” is the payoff: bleary-eyed but surprisingly sweet, full of shimmering, Pinback-y layering and a veritable lullaby chorale, with sideman-to-the-stars Nels Cline joining in the inexorable six-string-wringing glory. —K. Ross Hoffman

³ dvd Compared to the tectonic emotions of Still Walking and Nobody Knows, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s I Wish (Magnolia) is slight, an airy tale of brothers separated by divorce who make a wish on a passing bullet train. (The film was commissioned by a rail line, which led to charges of selling out.) The kid-focused tale is occasionally syrupy, but its winsome charms persist. As always, Kore-eda shows a gift for drawing rich, unprecocious performances from young actors, and an appreciation for life’s little moments.

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—K. Ross Hoffman

³ bluegrass Softly sweet and not quite pop — that’s the prevailing wind from Blue Cactus Choir’s latest, Once in a Bluegrass Moon (Porgy). Marty Atkinson of the original Cactus Choir and Katy Boyd are the core, playing acoustic guitars and layering harmonies up to the skies. Atkinson’s songs run to sweet little snippets of life: encouragements (“Go ahead and take a chance, it’s your move”) and sad observations (“Don’t the towns all look the same in the rain?”) — particularly when you’ve been kicked to the curb.

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Sheldon Candis’ saga of expedited manhood.

MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER: In LUV, newcomer Michael Rainy Jr. and Common navigate former alliances in Baltimore.

VICTORY LAP ³ WHEN JANUARY WAS a reliably frigid month, noteworthy shows by out-of-town bands were scarce. But as Philadelphia winters have grown warmer, a new tradition has taken hold: the annual Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker two-fer at World Café Live. (Friday’s gig is sold out.)

This year has an added draw: La Costa Perdida (429 Records), the first new CVB album in more than eight years, comes out Tuesday. And while this extended ode to Northern California isn’t as ambitious or as engaging as 2004’s dark geopolitical fantasia New Roman Times,it has its moments. Best are the thorny title track, the warped instrumental “Aged in Wood” and the bouncy “Peaches in the Summertime,” which pivots between singer David Lowery’s rapid-fire vocals and Jonathan Segel’s astringent violin solos. Listeners with a taste for the psychedelic, noodly and, frankly, wanky may favor guitarist Greg Lisher’s work on “Too High for the Love-In” and “You Got to Roll.” But there’s no use trying to untangle the qualities you like and those you don’t in CVB’s music. Their compulsion to mix things up is what set them apart from their peers during college rock’s golden age.

Their 1985 debut, Telephone Free Landslide Victory, is a patchwork of genres — earnest ethnic instrumentals, punk irony, goofball pop — that somehow constitutes a cohesive album. Lowery establishes his idiosyncratic vocal style from the outset; he’s cultivated that blend of laconic, irritated and excitable in his decades with CVB and Cracker, but it’s all right there in “The Day That Lassie Went to the Moon.” There’s also a satisfying drollness to “Where the Hell Is Bill?” and “Take the Skinheads Bowling,” which stands as one of the most impassioned nonsense songs of any era. But half of the tracks are instrumentals and they’re the ones that feel freshest today. With titles that hint at their global roots (“Mao Reminisces about His Days in Southern China” ), the brisk, bewitching tunes are the heart of Telephone.Without those early explorations, Lowery and his bandmates wouldn’t be around, nearly 30 years later, to probe the dark corners of Northern California, sunny Philadelphia and beyond. (m_fine@citypaper.net)

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its two massive, impressive lead performances will catch eyes. LUV is the director’s semi-autobiographical stab at recounting his boyhood relationship with his uncle, whose willingness to share life lessons overshadowed his criminal reputation.

Playing hooky from school at the behest of smooth-talking Vincent (Common), 11year-old Woody (powerful newcomer Michael Rainey Jr.) kicks around Charm City with his mother’s brother, a former drug-game general fresh off an eight-year bid and anxious to go straight. After buying Woody a beautiful custom suit, a symbol that becomes more than sartorial as the movie plays out, Vincent’s application for a loan to finance a restaurant along Canton Harbor is shot down. It forces him to take his nephew on an unexpected tour of the life he used to live, entering into a treacherous two-step with Fish (Dennis Haysbert) and Arthur (Danny Glover), a pair of brothers who used to employ Vincent — and had more than a little to do with his incarceration. Candis navigates his hometown of Baltimore, a town so cinematically associated with the institutional failure of David Simon’s canon, with refreshing familiarity, jumping from public landmarks to private residences with a native confidence. But it’s Vincent and Woody, whose relationship is the unflappable reference point for the film’s dissection of surrogate fatherhood, who tighten up the slack produced by the script’s more obtuse asides. It’s an airtight role for Common, allowed to flex beyond the limiting rapper-first/actor-second mold, and an auspicious beginning for young Rainey, whose fragile reactivity makes up for the film’s klutzier moments. The onscreen strokes Candis throws around are often too broad to stick, but when they do, they stay put. —Drew Lazor

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“I needed to get it out into the world through a safe, warm portal of support.” sums it up in one word: “Life.”

The basic tracks on What Was and Will Never Be were recorded down the Shore at a place called Scullville Studios back in 2007. Bassist Devin Greenwood manned the soundboard.

“Scullville was in a compound of low-lying buildings on a country road near the Shore, and it felt very remote,” recalls Zeitlyn. “It was practically sinking into a marsh and smelled of saltwater.”

The band — Greenwood and Zeitlyn plus guitarist Colin Boylan and drummer Bobby Wolter — recorded everything live. Between takes, they’d watch Curb Your Enthusiasm while Wolter, who had cystic fibrosis, self-administered his treatments. This involved “wearing a crazy, sci-fi-looking vibrating vest and breathing through an industrial-strength nebulizer,” says Zeitlyn.

“We laughed a lot that week. I coated my fingers with crazy glue when my calluses fell off. It was the first time I was away from my 1-year-old son for longer than a few hours,” she remembers.

“After that, we each went back to our lives, scraping together livings, full-time mothering, producing music for people that paid and playing shows once in a while.”

The unfinished tracks, meanwhile, made progress only when Zeitlyn found time to lay down some vocals at Greenwood’s home studio.

Momentum picked up a bit one night in January 2009 when The Weeds threw a fundraiser/concert at Isaiah Zagar’s Magic Gardens.

“When I turned around to look at Bobby at the end of the night, he looked happier and more exhausted than I had ever seen him. Pale, but grinning ear to ear,” Zeitlyn remembers.

The proceeds from the show covered the cost of recording the strings and horns that would help give this moody rock album a more lush and layered sound.

Soon, however, everyone went their separate ways, and again the album was put on hold.

That summer, Zeitlyn made plans with Wolter, who’d recently been in and out of hospitals, to get together and catch up. But he hadn’t been feeling well and called that morning to cancel.

“He died the next day,” she recalls. “His lungs had given out.”

At that house show two weeks ago, Zeitlyn fought off tears at the microphone to toast the memory of her fallen friend and bandmate.

She smiled when she recalled his love for dirty jokes. The album, for sale in the kitchen, praised Wolter’s kindness and drumming skills in the liner notes.

After Wolter died, life pulled the remaining Weeds in different directions. Greenwood, for

example, moved to Brooklyn to open a recording studio called Honey Jar.

³ “BY NOW [THE ALBUM] was feeling like an albatross. A monster. Unfinishable. It kept me awake at night,” recalls Zeitlyn.

But like all monsters, it had to be confronted.

She started driving up to Honey Jar to take a few swings at the beast. “We would listen, talk, add background vocals.

Devin added organ, accordion, guitars, percussion, sci-fi synthesizer, and we started mixing.”

With glacial persistence, The Weeds managed to get the record finished, mixed and mastered by spring of last year.

“As soon as it was done, I formed a new band called Divers and started playing shows and writing new material. It was like a dam broke. It needed to be a new band, a new project.

The future. I felt more energy on stage than ever before, and the songs were coming easily again,” says Zeitlyn.

All that was left for The Weeds was to get the album out there and plan the goodbye show. It wasn’t easy. When the venues were available, the band wasn’t, and vice versa.

“Every time I started to plan it I would feel overwhelmed with anxiety,” she recalls. Finally a friend volunteered her living room. They’d keep it small.

Invite-only. BYO. “It felt right to do it in that way. I needed to get it out into the world through a safe, warm portal of support.”

So now the hard work’s done.

Smarty’s out to stud. The album is uploaded to CDbaby and iTunes, ready for purchase.

“I am good at a lot of things, but marketing my own work is not one of them,” says Zeitlyn.

“My hope for this album is that it slowly — or quickly — makes its way into the ears of folks who will appreciate it. I feel very proud of it. It was a labor of love for sure.” (pat@citypaper.net) ✚ More info at diversband.com.

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The two central characters are named Nick and Nora (above, played by Kate Czajkowski and Kevin Meehan), which gave me a glimmer of hope for some Thin Man-style sophistication. But that’s not Headland’s plan — instead of martinis, Nick and Nora surreptitiously slurp pilfered whiskey out of coffee mugs in between swigs of Red Bull. And though there’s some attempt at brisk repartee (or what passes for it among the just-graduated climbing class), they’re all so hysterical over missed phone calls and other potentially firingworthy errors that they can barely squeak out a coherent sentence.

But the problem with Assistance is that it’s a comedy that’s not very funny. (At least, not to this 57-year-old — maybe twentysomethings starting their first jobs will feel differently.) It’s clear that the dialogue is intended to shock, but though it’s vulgar, it’s also familiar and largely witless, producing at most mild blunt-force trauma.

It all might seem more amusing if the situation were the slightest bit plausible, but everything — especially the acting — in director David Kennedy’s production is so cranked up that we can’t

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In the end, they didn’t even try. Instead, they went with Assistance, a snarky little 90-minute Generation-Y workplace comedy. Now, I have nothing against comedy. But on the heels of Angels, this feels a wee bit odd, like a double-bill pairing of legendary Holocaust doc Shoah with Weekend at Bernie’s.

Leslye Headland’s play might better be called Assistants, since the focus is on six young people who’ve had the fortune (or misfortune) to be hired by gazillionaire corporate media mogul Daniel Weisinger.

(The boss is never seen, nor do we learn precisely what his company does, but seems like an amalgam of Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump, with all the warmth and charm that implies.) The upside: the possibility of unimaginable success. The more pressing drawback: To get there, they first have to survive working for this asshole.

There’s nothing fresh about the premise, but Headland keeps things moving and entertaining, and draws rich and distinctive characters among the group: rapacious Vince, eager-to-please Justin, preternaturally poised Jenny, and so on. Different though they may as individuals, what all the members of this merry band have in common is a willingness to do anything and everything to get ahead. (Assistance is the “greed” play in Headland’s ongoing

believe these kids would last a minute in an office environment. The actors knock themselves out striving for comic virtuosity, but nearly all would have made a better impression by doing less. (The young and appealing Michael Doherty, for example, here mystifyingly seems to be channeling a middle-aged Charles Nelson Reilly at his most manic.)

As if there wasn’t already more than enough frenetic energy on stage, Headland’s play concludes with a strangely tacked-on finale — though it (ahem) brings down the house, it has virtually nothing to do with the rest of play, and, in fact, almost seems to contradict it. Though I believe this scene is actually part of the script, I can’t help thinking of it as a sort of Jiri Zizka Memorial Coup-de-Theatre: the Wilma’s late co-artistic director, who passed away a little less than a year ago, was similarly fond of ending productions with visually dazzling non sequiturs.

Any way you regard it, it was a perplexing end to a perplexing evening. (d_fox@citypaper.net)

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³ THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT a flood that is structured like a story. Not just any story — the kind that’s mostly worried about afterward. A mystery, or a horror story, or something that combines the two — a Gothic tale about the return of the repressed, where something you’ve tried to bury or forget comes back to haunt you.

A flood starts with something cataclysmic, like a hurricane or a tidal wave, but the ensuing narrative is all about uncovering what’s left in the event’s aftermath. Revealing a history of destruction and damage. Finding out what remains beneath the water.

Elizabeth Black opens The Drowning House (Jan. 15, Nan Talese/Doubleday) with a clutch of clues about what kind of story we’re in for.

There’s her damaged heroine Clare Porterfield, grieving her daughter’s death and leaving her husband in Washington, D.C.; there’s the childhood home she returns to in humid, sleepy Galveston, Texas; there are the dropped hints about Clare’s difficulty returning after a decade, having skipped even her father’s funeral; and there’s the unresolved mystery of another daughter’s drowning 90 years earlier in the hurricane that leveled Galveston at the turn of the previous century, hair wrapped up in her diningroom chandelier.

All these Southern Gothic trappings show the outlines of dark family secrets, like the corners of a trapdoor underneath a carefully placed rug. And Black unrolls each of her mysteries in turn, teasing them out over the length of the book. Each is uncovered, held up for examination point by point; they’re like exhibits methodically catalogued.

The dutifulness that Black shows to her plotting very nearly takes all the joy out of her story; she’s so measured, in fact, that there’s little distinction between the way Clare narrates the story of her banishment from Galveston — in a slow, multi-chapter reveal — and the way she uncovers stories that are entirely new to her.

The book begins to open up and breathe only when it gets distracted by something else, moving away from its damaged, self-sabotaging heroine and immersing itself in its setting. And the half of the book that becomes a love letter

to Galveston, its peculiar barrier-island ways and the shape that its isolated, ingrown history gives to relationships and events, is much less predictable and much more absorbing.

A much different attitude toward history — and toward plotting, for that matter — animates Jesse Bullington’s The Folly of the World (Dec. 18, Orbit), even if he takes a similar kind of pleasure in Gothic elements. If it’s hard to call a book with a five-page bibliography careless, it’s entirely fair to call it cavalier, with Bullington’s gleeful anachronisms and delighted implausibilities running amok over a carefully researched backdrop of 1420s Holland.

Bullington’s best inventions are his set pieces, especially early on: an unrepentantly erotic hanging of a criminal,

How is a flood a bit like a Gothic horror story? a rogue swindling a dirt-poor fisherman out of his daughter, and the con that both try (and fail) to pull off. If anything, the intrusion of research (in the form of endlessly debated political allegiances) only adds a taste of dust.

If he’s fast and loose with his history, though, Bullington is careful with the implications he draws from it. His plot is equal parts hard-boiled and horror — a con game gone wrong, a series of killings, a narrator unable to trust his own perceptions, like a Jim Thompson character in a codpiece.

But the underwater countryside the story plays out over, devastated by a flood brought on by shoddy levees (er, dikes), makes a clear enough indictment: “All for what?” asks the criminal. “A little coin was the answer, was always the answer, no matter the question.” (j_bauer@citypaper.net)

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These “jokes” aren’t even undertaken with the prevalent anything-for-a-shock approach; they’re simply lazy stereotypes played for mean-spirited laughs. The few times the film does focus on its alleged target is when it comes closest to resembling actual humor, as when the cast gleefully mocks a ghost for its Ouija-board misspellings. But too often the genre frame is just a peg on which to hang tired fart, pot and sex gags, many of which are wholly recycled from Scary Movie. That Wayans thinks any of this constitutes comedy is what’s truly scary. —Shaun Brady (Franklin Mills, Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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GANGSTER SQUAD | BLike a high-gloss video game stretched to fit a feature-length canvas, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad is heavy on the fireworks and light on the consequences, its association with real-life lowlifes and the white hats who want them cuffed more incidental than historical. Though racketeer-run 1949 Los Angeles is a gift-bowed setting for a director as visually minded as Fleischer (Zombieland), this tale of an off-the-books police force tasked with taking down snarling kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) is shaded more like Sin City than L.A. Confidential, with aesthetically perfect sets that lurch off the screen and a square-jawed, comicbook approach to good and evil. Built atop muscly noir dialogue as thick as the neckties worn by the single-minded shooters on both sides, it’s a triumph of style that’s short on substance. One of a few LAPD officers not intimidated or bribed by criminals, war hero Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) is secretly recruited by police chief Bill Parker (Nick Nolte) to piece together a band of can’t-be-bought brothers to get results however they can, no badges flashed. Recruiting a crew of skilled shooters (Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie) that also includes his womanizing buddy Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling, having fun with period haberdashery and noir accents), O’Mara begins ripping through L.A.’s underworld holdings

with his squad, including Wooters’ work on Cohen’s best girl Grace (Emma Stone). There are fistfights and car chases and shootouts and wistful references to the ugliness of war galore as the team inches closer to toppling Cohen’s Left Coast empire, but the dynamic between the do-gooders always seems surface and flimsy. A hesitant undertone pervades both the players (Peña, misplaced; Stone, miscast) and the game. All the suits are impeccably pressed, but it’s tough to tell if any of the bodies inside are warm. —Drew Lazor (Franklin Mills, Pearl, UA Grant)

RUST AND BONE | B Fleeing a bad relationship in Belgium, Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) crashes at the Antibes apartment of his mostly estranged sister Anna (Corinne Masiero). A bouncer gig at a local club puts him in front of Stéphanie (Marion Cotillard), a sullen killer-whale trainer who’s unhappy with her everyday. Looking to get back into the ring, trained kickboxer Ali begins taking on underground brawls, while Stéphanie, who’s grown attached to her friend’s tender, sexual side, fights from the inside out. Schoenaerts and Cotillard turn in ingenious performances, with both characters’ emotional impenetrability made more stark by the paradisal French Riviera. Director Jacques Audiard lightly falters in his over-establishment of Cotillard as damaged,

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SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK | B On provisional release from a mental hospital after administering a beatdown to his estranged wife’s lover, Bradley Cooper moves back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert De Niro). Cooper’s jittery mannerisms quickly wear thin, but he’s balanced by a policeman’s widow (Jennifer Lawrence) whose no-nonsense bluntness brings him back to Earth. The movie settles into a wellworn rut once the two start training for a ballroom-dance contest, cruising toward a resolution it never earns, but it tries so hard to please it almost can’t help but succeed. It’s clever and cute and never lets you forget it, and winning in spite of how much it insists on it. —SA (UA Riverview)

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In fact, the scenes in which presumed Islamic terrorists are subjected to waterboarding and hung in stress positions occupy only a tiny fraction of the film, and information thus extracted is one small stone on the path that eventually leads the CIA “targeter” played by Jessica Chastain to Osama bin Laden. The question of whether the movie distorts the role coercion played in finding bin Laden — senators and journalists say yes, while the CIA’s acting chief is less categorical — is critical, but it also points to a more amorphous and engaging question: Why? Like filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, who have answered questions about their sources and intent with cagey generalities, Zero Dark Thirty

TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D | CIt’s taken nearly 40 years and seven slicey-dicey features for the minds behind the Texas Chainsaw franchinse to decide a seismic shift was in order.

But most longtime fans of lumbering, cross-dressing murderers fond of creative dismemberment will be flummoxed by the direction of this new chapter, which attempts to humanize a classic baddie no one wants humanized. Beginning with a recap of how the 1974 original went down, John Luessenhop’s loosely bounded 3-D riff begins with Heather (Alexandra Daddario), an extremely attractive supermarket butcher (aren’t they all?), discovering that her grandmother has left her a Texas estate. Roadtripping there with perma-shirtless boyfriend Ryan (singer Trey Songz) and friends Nikki (Tania Raymonde) and Kenny (Keram Malicki-Sánchez), she’s excited about the inheritance, but that’s before good ol’ skin-wearin’ Leatherface (Dan Yeager) emerges from the wine cellar with his favorite gas-powered woodsman’s tool. You can probably already connect the dots as to the relationship between Heather and Leather, but the real crumminess comes in the cornball exposition.

(Many of the kills are awesome.) Are we expected to care that one of the greatest slashers in American horror history is a grossly misunderstood family man with “the emotions of an 8-year-old”? Go to therapy and get back to buzzing pretty people in half, please. —DL (Frankln Mills, Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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11 a.m., $5. The Longest Yard (1974, U.S., 121 min.): Burt Reynolds stars as an inmate quarterback organizing a prisoners vs. guards game of football.

Tue., Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m., $10.50.

COLONIAL THEATRE 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-9171228, thecolonialtheatre.com. Dark Passage (1947, U.S., 106 min.): Bogie and Bacall team up to find his wife’s killer. Sun., Jan. 20, 2 p.m., $9.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St. 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The Janus Collection: Daisies (1966, Czech Republic, 76 min.): This feminist farce follows two women who refuse to take anything seriously. Fri., Jan. 18, 7 p.m., $9.

L.A. Rebellion: As Above, So Below and Short Films (U.S., 100 min.): Larry Clark’s 1973 look at the L.A. Rebellion and a selection of related shorts kick off the three-part series.

Sat., Jan. 19, 2 p.m., $9. L.A. Rebellion: Your Children Come Back to You and Short Films (U.S., 115 min.):

has a disturbing moral blankness at its core. Framed as a factual account, even if Chastain’s Maya is pseudonymous, the film climaxes with the raid on bin Laden’s compound, the longest sustained departure from its protagonist’s POV and a troubling sop to action-movie enthusiasts. The joyless intensity with which Maya (whose name means “illusion” in Sanskrit) pursues her goal, her resolve redoubled after a colleague falls prey to a suicide attack, echoes the country’s all-consuming fury, especially as it threatens to eclipse any other reason for her existence. With no life apparent outside of her job, Maya serves as a mirror, reflecting the concerns, or lack of them, that audiences bring.

One moment peddling militaristic rah-rah, the next questioning it, Zero Dark Thirty works both sides of the razor-wire fence, a gambit that places it at war with itself. As in life, the guys with the biggest guns come out ahead, but that’s not quite the same as winning. —SA (Franklin Mills, Pearl, UA Riverview, UA Grant)

A single mother’s difficult path to provide for her daughter in this halfhour 1979 movie. Sat., Jan. 19, 5 p.m., $9. L.A. Rebellion: Black Art, Black Artists: Short Films (1971, U.S., 70 min.): A look at black art beginning in the 19th century featuring commentary from woodcut printer Van Slater.

Sat., Jan. 19, 8 p.m., $9.

PHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St., 215545-4400, pjff.org. Six Million and One (2011, Israel, Austria, Germany, U.S., 93 min.): After unearthing his late father’s memoir, director David Fisher travels to Austria to retrace the Holocaust survivor’s journey.

Mon., Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m., $10.

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Rango (2011, U.S., 107 min.): Johnny Depp voices a chameleon sheriff in this animated Western. Sat., Jan. 19,

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seven community members with unique connections to the tragedy. I felt stricken and disturbed — in a good way — when I had the good fortune to catch Renegade’s brief 2011 run. Simpatico not only adds enhanced production values and more performances, but teams with the Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia to join the suddenly intense national debate.

—Jess Bergman

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✚ ONE BOOK, ONE PHILADELPHIA KICKOFF

Thu., Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m., free, Central Library, 1901 Vine St., 215-686-5322, freelibrary.org.

Through Feb. 3, $10-$22, Walnut Street Theatre, Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., 215423-0254, simpaticotheatre.org.

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✚ THE AMISH PROJECT Although the Simpatico Theatre Project chose to revive Renegade Theatre’s incisive production of Jessica Dickey’s The Amish Project long before the Sandy Hook shooting, the decision proves timely. In this exploration of the 2006 Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in Lancaster, Janice Rowland plays

✚ SPIDER BAGS The “garage rock” label sometimes feels as random as the disparate collection of stuff you might find in an actual garage.

But maybe it’s perfect for Spider Bags, a Chapel Hill-based band with Jersey punk origins that’s capable of turning out a satisfying cover of Ram-era Paul McCartney when needed.

Last year’s Shake My Head — a

—Bob McCormick Thu., Jan. 17, 8 p.m., $10, with Larcenist, Gross Ghost and Mat Burke, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.

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✚ NEXTFAB GRAND OPENING PARTY NextFab has been providing Philly innovators with hightech tools and workshop space

for the past three years, and now they’re movin’ on up. To mark the opening of their new-andimproved facilities — located in a former custom-iron workshop that, at 21,000 square feet, is five times larger than their original University City location — NextFab is opening its doors for an evening of food, drink, tours and demonstrations of some of the newest equipment, like water-jet cutting and 3-D printing. And anyone looking to join the NextFab community to play with those toys can take advantage of a special membership deal being offered that night.

—Jess Bergman Thu., Jan. 17, 6 p.m., $15, NextFab Studio, 2025 Washington Ave., 215921-3649, nextfabstudio.com.

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✚ DAVID JOHANSEN When David Johansen got started in the biz as a New York Doll, he came across like the bastard progeny of Howling Wolf and Bowie with all his

tart glam swish and chunky, bluesy swagger. As solo albums ensued and time went on, the puckish Johansen kept his boogie-woogie shoes twitching (“Funky but Chic”), found urban blue-eyed soul (In Style) and a sense of kitsch hearkening back to his glitter-rawk days with high-haired lounge act Buster Poindexter. He also found himself deeply immersed in the arcane and rootsy Americana of blues and folk when, in 2000, the singer and harmonicat released an album as “David Johansen and the Harry Smiths” that dashingly covered the likes of Lightnin’ Hopkins and Muddy Waters.

Lately, he’s recorded and toured with the Dolls (or what’s left of them — only he and Syl Sylvain remain), which left little time for solo shows. This live outing, then, is a rare treat, with Johansen making stops at every point in his career.

—A.D. Amorosi Thu., Jan. 17, 8 p.m., $15, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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The city-wide One Book project returns for its 11th year, this time focused on Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic. The best-selling novel centers

—Mark Cofta

standout even in a particularly strong year for indie/garage releases — melded the rowdy post-punk of frontman Dan McGee’s old band, DC Snipers, with the Southern-tinged, warped sprawl of Spider Bags’ own overlooked 2009 album, Goodbye Cruel World, Hello Crueler World.The streamlined result turned out to be a woozy, reverb-drenched best-of-bothworlds that felt like that golden moment between last night’s party and tomorrow’s wellearned hangover — which may explain the band’s growing rep as a kick-ass live act.

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around a group of Japanese women brought to San Francisco as “picture brides” in the early 1900s. Otsuka, who recently received the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, will kick off OBOP with a free talk at the Central branch, followed by an original musical work inspired by the book and a dramatic reading by the Distant Voices Touring Theater.

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✚ INTERNATIONAL HOUSE SPRING ARTS PREVIEW The upcoming season at I-House includes a screening of Kayo Hatta’s quietly stunning 1994 English-Japanese language Picture Bride (a One Book, One Philadelphia tie-in — see our pick on the Kickoff on p. 29) and a noisy Ars Nova twin bill by Merzbow and Mats Gustafsson. This week, though, I-House looks a little further into the future with its spring preview. A Sunny Day in Glasgow — the Philadelphia-by-way-of-SydneyAustralia abstract fuzz-pop ensemble — will play before screenings of film clips from two directors who’ll be featured in April and May: the blobby, nature-based science films of Roman Vishniac and sinister showman Kenneth Anger’s psilocybin-laced visions.

—A.D. Amorosi Thu., Jan. 17, 7 p.m., free, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org.

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Best known for magnificent architectural human entanglements, Pilobolus presents a unique blend of zaniness, theatricality and athleticism.

The company’s body-bending creative constructions have wowed audiences at the Academy Awards and the Olympics. Pilobolus is one of the most popular companies to visit Philadelphia through the Annenberg’s Dance Celebration series, now in its 30th year. But even if you’ve seen them here before, you haven’t seen this program, which includes four Philadelphia premieres. One of the new works, “Azimuth,” is a gravity-defying collaboration with experimental master juggler Michael Moschen; another, “Skyscrapers,” features six dancers making 32 costume changes in a four-and-half-minute piece that fuses tango and street dance. As usual, Pilobolus aims to entertain in the most amazing ways.

—Deni Kasrel Jan. 17-20, $20-$80, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.

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³ VALENTINE’S FINDS It doesn’t matter what your current standing is with the one you’re boning, you should know better than to shop at the box stores when it comes to his or her Valentine’s Day gift. Cozy up to the local joints to find something as interesting and freaky as your partner. With all these options, you’ll have no excuse for giving your boo a bad gift.

If your girl has expensive taste, treat her to something sparkly from Concrete Polish. Low on the cash flow? Not a problem, order jewelry online by Jan. 17 using the promo code “BEMINEORELSE” and you’ll get 20 percent off. 716 N. Third St., 267-324-5201, concretepolishjewels.com.

For those who dig the shabby-chic look there’s the Clover Market.Typically located in Ardmore, the market this month will sneak into the 23rd Street Armory for convenience and warmth. Got a honey who digs vintage? They got it. Antiques? Please, there will be tons. In addition, there will be gorgeous décor from Olde Good Things and furniture from Spotted Horse Textiles. You can also get your paws on vibrant scarves or striking socks from Jay McCarroll Accessories, as well as gifts from the beloved Art Star. Sun., Jan. 27, $5, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., 23rd Street Armory, 22 S. 23rd St., theclovermarket.com.

If you prefer to wait until the last minute, but still long for something handmade, there’s the debut of the 30th Street Craft Market, put on by VIX Emporium. Set the mood with all-natural beeswax Mellifera Candles, and get frilly with lace and tulle mash-ups by Nicole Rae Styer. Check out kids, gear by Tadpole Creations for the little snugglebots in your life. Sat., Feb. 9, free, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., 30th Street Station, 2955 Market St., 215-471-7700, vixemporium.com.

The newest shop on the block is fetish and fantasy boutique, Kink,in Old City.

You’ll have to stop in to get a load of the sales and specials, but your valentine will thank you for it. 126 Market St., 267-908-5465, kinkshoppe.com. (julia.west@citypaper.net) Have an upcoming shopping event? Give it here. E-mail listings@citypaper.net.

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South Jersey journalist Kevin Riordan will lead discussions after all four performances.

—Mark Cofta

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Jan. 18-20, $25, Waterfront South Theatre, 400 Jasper St., Camden, N.J., 866-811-4111, southcamdentheatre.org.

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Witness a theatrical resurrection with South Camden Theatre Company’s workshop version of Exorcism, Eugene O’Neill’s lost play. The semiautobiographical drama about suicide by the author of A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Iceman Cometh was to debut in 1920, but O’Neill canceled the production and ordered all scripts destroyed; the one copy secretly saved by his second wife wasn’t found until 2011. Director Joseph Paprzycki mines the play’s ironic humor and reveals how Exorcism explores themes

✚ ERNEST STUART Musicians have to have strong opinions about the best ways to connect with an audience, but few put their money where their mouth is like Philly trombonist Ernest Stuart. Most notably, bemoaning the lack of a jazz festival in the city after the stalwart West Oak Lane Jazz bit the dust in 2011, he produced his own, raising the funds for last year’s first annual Center City Jazz Festival via Kickstarter. But he takes a similar approach to his

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✚ FRANK ABAGNALE JR. Terrence McNally’s Broadway adaptation of Catch Me If You Can is playing at the Academy of Music for a limited run, and this Friday’s performance will be followed by a Q&A session with the man who inspired the film that inspired the musical: Frank Abagnale Jr. himself.

Abagnale, perhaps America’s most famous impostor (or at least the only one with the distinction of having been played

by Leonardo DiCaprio), now uses his powers of deception for good. The man who assumed

—Jess Bergman Fri., Jan. 18, 8 p.m.; Catch Me If You Can runs through Jan. 20, $20-$100, Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

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✚ JESSIE WARE Jessie Ware is a charmer. First, the elegantly understated smooth-soul songstress won over the U.K. electronicmusic community (like Lisa Stansfield, Tracey Thorn and Beth Orton before her), lending her dulcet pipes to collabora-

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no fewer than eight identities over the course of his con career has become a leading fraudprevention consultant, working mostly for the U.S. government these days. The audience for the Friday performance will have the opportunity to ask Abagnale about his life and work — a rare privilege, since he doesn’t do many media interviews.

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tions with Joker, SBTRKT and dubstep diva Katy B, and inspiring the most inordinate glut of remixes since Lana Del Rey. Next, she wooed the international indie blogosphere and the British record-buying public; her sterling debut LP, Devotion, went top-five in August. Now she’s come to court the U.S.A. Her label here, Cherrytree, is evidently plotting a restrained, time-biding campaign, leading with an album-sampling EP featuring “If You’re Never Gonna Move” — a song retitled (from “110%”) and rerecorded due to, of all things, a sample-clearing scuffle with Big Pun. They’re holding the real firepower, like pure-pop miracle “Wildest Moments,” in abeyance for the chart domination soon to follow.

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from anyone nearing 70, but somewhat more remarkable given the brain aneurysm that erased Martino’s memory in 1980. He reconstructed enough of that first half of his life to author his autobiography, Here and Now!, last year, and on recent releases he’s revisited his days accompanying Philly organ greats (Undeniable) and falling under the spell of Wes Montgomery (Remember).

His most recent release, Alone Together (High Note), reissues

—K. Ross Hoffman Fri., Jan. 18, 8:30 p.m., $15, with Rochelle Jordan, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

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idiosyncratic compositions, music that further sharpened the skewed angles of his mentor Thelonious Monk into off-kilter, era-hopping eccentricities.

Culling its members from the interconnected avant-jazz scenes of Amsterdam, Chicago and Boston, The Whammies are uniquely suited to navigate the strange turns of Lacy’s work.

ICP Orchestra co-founder Han Bennink actually performed with Lacy, while saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra studied with him at the New England Conservatory shortly before his 2004 death. On their recently released debut, the sextet approaches Lacy’s compositions with appropriately irreverent reverence, conjuring a drunken stumble through an Old West saloon on “As Usual” and transforming Jeb Bishop’s trombone into a bird call on “Ducks.” Their approach is raucous, playful and offbeat, a combination that

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own music: Feeling that jazz has become too far removed from its populist, dance-hall roots, he folds elements of modern soul, funk and R&B into his sound and leads raucous jam sessions on a regular basis at Time. At Art After 5, he’ll play tunes from his debut CD, Solitary Walker, welcome his protégé, singer Chrissie Loftus, and premiere new material inspired by sounds he’s heard traveling the world with Bhangra party band Red Baraat (themselves in town Jan. 26).

✚ PASSING STRANGE 11th Hour Theatre Company’s Next Step series continues with Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s fourth-wall-shattering, genrebending, 2008 Tony Awardwinning musical. Inspired by Shakespeare’s rowdy Elizabethan crowds and the sizzling energy of rock concerts, the character Stew (on Broadway played by the real-life writer Stew) invites us to share his adventures in religion, sex, drugs and music while he searches for “the real.” Barrymore winner Michael Philip O’Brien directs a great cast led by Tony nominee and Barrymore winner Forrest McClendon in a concert version that will hopefully lead to a full production.

—Mark Cofta Jan. 19-21, $15-$25, Off-Broad Street Theatre, 1636 Sansom St., 267-9879865, 11thhourtheatrecompany.org.

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✚ PAT MARTINO Guitar legend Pat Martino has spent the past few years looking back — to be expected, perhaps,

a dual-guitar date from the late 1970s with old friend Bobby Rose, but it must have put Martino into a duet mood. This weekend’s gig finds him recalling a more recent collaboration: He’ll perform in tandem with pianist Rick Germanson, who was a frequent sideman during the first half of the aughts. A Milwaukee native, Germanson’s deftly swinging style has landed him high-profile gigs in Louis Hayes’ Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band and with bassist Kyle Eastwood (Clint’s kid).

—Shaun Brady Sat., Jan. 19, 8 and 10 p.m., $25-$30, Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com.

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✚ NEUROSIS OK, hear me out: Pretty much everyone at Decibel’s sold-out 100th Issue Celebration Saturday night is gonna be back for tonight’s incredibly rare performance by Neurosis.

So, rather than commuting all the way home only to commute all the way back, let’s all just meet behind Union Transfer after Converge’s set and have

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✚ RICHARD GOODE Beethoven’s colossal late piano

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music exists in its own world.

Essentially, it is the very germ of musical Romanticism, but there are also exotic elements that point a century ahead to the classical avant-garde of the early 20th century, and even jazz. The reliably wonderful pianist Richard Goode will present a program that includes the master’s final utterances in the solo-piano format, including the last three sonatas and his final set of bagatelles. Goode is, aesthetically, an excellent match for this music — smart, a bit dreamy and a bit quirky.

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a classic all-night-in-the-alleyway hang. In addition to a ton of hot dogs, someone should definitely bring a boom box and the new Neurosis album, Honor Found in Decay (Neurot). Much like Swans’ The Seer, it’s sprawling, pondering and gorgeously apocalyptic.

Scott Kelly sounds even more tormented than usual — totally kaput and barren, his only company the luscious, dense, slow music and the promise of imminent disintegration.

Someone should probably bring hot-dog buns, ketchup and mustard, too. And soda.

—Peter Burwasser Wed., Jan. 23, 8 p.m., sold out, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts.org.

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RED-GRAVY TRAIN Italy-by-way-of-Jersey BYO Eatalia has its neighborhood-spot charms, but proves predictable. By Adam Erace EATALIA | 2723 E. Cumberland St., 215-423-6911. Open Mon.-Fri., noon-

9 p.m.; Sat., 5-10 p.m. Appetizers, $7-$10; entrees, $15-$22; desserts, $7.

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pushed into Eatalia, a half-busy BYOB with a pretty front and a doofy name, and found Frank Crocetto wearing a blue button-down and aglow. A freshly minted restaurateur’s flush, perhaps, or a product of the balmy dining room?

Coat off. Sleeves up. Can I get a mojito over here? Crocetto opened our wine instead, offered menus and read some specials. “No tuna,” he said, then said it again, just to be clear.

More on: Crusted in sesame seeds and glazed in Triple Sec, it didn’t sound like a terrible loss to me, but the orange-liqueur-licked fish might be the outof-the-box showstopper at this Eye-talian bistro, a neighborhood place where diners pass around their babies, family wanders in and out and the staff sucks Parliament Lights on the back stoop on Salmon Street. The tuna sounds like the wild card among the menu’s resident marsalas and alla vodkas.

Crocetto has been immersed in this kind of mom-and-pop, nostalgia-powered cooking for the past 14 years, riding the red-gravy

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train from La Locanda del Ghiottone in Old City to Il Cantuccio in Northern Liberties. After more than a decade working for others, he’s finally got his own place, a major accomplishment for the onetime manager/waiter, but the approach seems to have been simply importing his former employers’ hit list to the charming corner Fishtown spot previously occupied by Bistro Juliana.

Crocetto even recruited an old Cantuccio cook, Ernesto Lima, as his chef at Eatalia, and the duo seems comfortable and practiced.

But for a restaurant less than two months old, I’m not sure that’s a positive attribute.

The kitchen is wide open to the dining room, and I didn’t see Lima or Crocetto tasting the food before it left, which would explain the parade of underseasoned dishes. Sautéed calamari, a special, chewed like latex, a wan, warm, white-wine sauce wilting the bed of mesclun mix beneath. I reached for the salt. Fat rigatoni and flakes of smoked salmon backstroked through a brandycream sauce that tasted of neither. I MORE FOOD AND reached for the salt. Flavorful, blush-pink DRINK COVERAGE risotto had all the flow of LFO, cooked so AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / long it was able to be mounded into a hill M E A LT I C K E T. colonized by shrimp, clams, mussels and squid. I reached for the salt.

There’s a place for restaurants specializing in this type of midlevel “Italian” fare. It’s called “New Jersey.” No disrespect to our neighbors across the river — by my estimation, that state claims the region’s finest Italian restaurant in Collingswood’s Zeppoli.

But after that, it’s a sharp drop-off to an abyssal plain of out-ofseason tomato Capreses, veal Francescas and chicken Giannas. >>> continued on page 38

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³ IF YOU’VE NEVER clocked in time working front or back of the house at a restaurant, chances are the term “staff meal” is not part of your vernacular. For the uninitiated, here’s the deal: In most establishments (the kinder ones, at least), the staff sits down together for a meal before service.

Of course, depending on where you work and who is in charge of the staff meal, this early dinner can range from an abysmal afterthought (think a hotel pan of barely boiled hot dogs, crumbly stale buns and a gallon of brand-X mustard) to inspired plates of Filipino-grandma-inspired chicken adobo.

Sean Magee’s crew at Time fills up on hearty plates like waffle sandwiches of pork roll, egg and cheese courtesy of sous chef Craig Russell. On the gloomier side of family meals, an anonymous former line cook shares tales of Hamburger Helper/ shepherd’s pie hybrids maliciously made to give the front of house digestive discomfort by a disgruntled cook, and worst-case-scenario creations like chili made from past-its-prime gazpacho and suspect burger meat.

But regardless of the food, the staff meal can be a team-builder, a chance for coworkers to sit down for a second, take a moment to chat and fuel up, preparing for the shift to come.

Come In, We’re Closed (Running Press, October 2012) provides a glance at the pre-shift meals served at some of the world’s finest restaurants, and many of the menus are enough to entice you to quit your day job and take up dishwashing.

At Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc, meals are served to the public family-style, so feeding the staff in a similar manner is a given. The sheer volume of business means that staff meals don’t happen every day, but every Monday afternoon, chef de cuisine Dave Cruz lays out charred-scallion-stuffed skirt steak and chocolate-peanut-butter-crunch bars.

A bit closer to home, Masaharu Morimoto talks makani, the Japanese tradition of the staff meal.

Morimoto explains that in an environment where junior cooks are usually relegated to menial tasks such as cleaning and prep, cooking a meal for the restaurant’s employees provides an opportunity for younger chefs to gain some actual cooking experience. Morimoto’s staff-meal menu is made up of leftover odds and ends repurposed into inventive dishes like fish-bone soup with jalapeño oil made with cast-off skeletons from the sushi bar.

Next time you’re eating out and you catch your server hungrily eyeing your plate of pappardelle, that’s a pretty good tip-off as to that restaurant’s staff-meal situation. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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Eatalia, thankfully, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any dishes named after anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughters or nieces or favorite saints, and the dining roomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dark wood floors and champagne walls with columns of white stenciled scrollwork broadcast the modest sort of style and class enjoyed at indie BYOBs like Matyson and Fond. CafĂŠ windows wrap the corner on two sides, and when the sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slunk behind the skyline, wall sconces and tabletop lamps provide the light. Never mind that the latter are votives twinkling in wine goblets with vellum-paper shades resting on their rims. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resourceful, and kind of charming.

Eataliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food can be, too, despite its predictability.

Things got off to a good start with roasted-vegetable pesto served alongside a basket of warm, sesame-seeded Carangi bread.

Slit and stuffed with provolone and prosciutto, the oven-blistered long hots were as wrinkly as a witchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fingers and about as wicked. Here, too, I reached for the salt, but the bold cuts of the stinky cheese and fat-laced ham powered the peppers forward. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all had stuffed long hots like this before, but when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re well prepared, satisfaction can easily trump novelty.

The same can be said for the chicken pizzaiola, served in a brash crimson tomato sauce that â&#x20AC;&#x201D; charged with briny black olives, woodsy oregano, red pepper and capers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; managed to make the sanitized medallions of boneless, skinless chicken breasts appealing. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even imagine how much better this dish would be with legs and thighs slow-braised in that vibrant sauce, or maybe with a pan-roasted breast on the bone tarped with salty, crispy skin. But for now, the crowd-pleasing white meat does the job.

Coffee and espresso followed, hot and strong, with a verbal dessert list not too hard to predict: cannoli, tiramisu, cheesecake, cream puffs. But Lima makes them all, admirable when many restaurants of Eataliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ilk simply pick up the phone and place an order from Italian-dessert giant Bindi, purveyor of the infamous sorbet-in-a-fruit-shell.

The tiramisu was exceptionally light, and came doused with cinnamon the way I like. The plump cream puffs were crowned with waves of bittersweet chocolate ganache, delicious but so rich I could eat only one. OK, maybe two.

Outside, icicle lights lacing Eataliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s black-and-burgundy-striped awnings swayed in the soft winter wind like a grass skirt. If I lived up one of the tidy, tree-shaded streets surrounding the restaurant (as many of the diners seemed to), I might make visiting a habit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the prices are certainly weeknight-dinner and date-friendly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but Crocetto has work to do to cultivate a following from outside the immediate neighborhood, as well as to retain customers from within. This might be Eatalia, but Italy it ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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$150 Âł Chef Ben Puchowitz has invited his peer and pal George Sabatino to serve up one seriously luxe dinner, with wine pairings provided by savant Greg Moore of Moore Bros. wine shops. The eight-course offering includes all the lobster, truffles and foie gras youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect for the price, all bearing the modern, nuanced signatures of the chefs at the helm. Think truffles with lobster cannelloni and preserved Meyer lemons, foie gras paired with gooseberry and tatsoi, and a plate of beef cheek, loin and marrow with burdock and black garlic. Matyson, 37 S. 19th St., 215-564-2925, matyson.com.

La Cottora at Le VirtĂš Sun., Jan. 20, 5 p.m., $70 Âł Bundle up for this annual event held in Le VirtĂšâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful garden, with hearty food cooked outdoors, fire pits and warming drinks to keep the cold at bay. Chef Joe Cicala will get an assist from George Sabatino (Stateside) and Scott Schroeder (American Sardine Bar, South Philly Tap Room). Look forward to steaming bowls of sagne e fasciulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (a dish of pasta and beans), grilled lamb shanks, Sarconeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bread piled with spicy tripe, and albacore crudo with olive oil, poached potatoes and broccoli-rabe vinaigrette. Mulled wine, Abruzzese punch and actual chestnuts roasting over an actual open fire will complete the idyllic scene. Proceeds benefit Project H.O.M.E.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to end homelessness. Le VirtĂš, 1927 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-271-5626, levirtu.com.

Shiprock Pop-up at 12 Steps Down Mon., Jan. 21, 9 p.m., pay as you go Âł Philadelphia has plenty of tacos, but if you want to get a taste of Navajo tacos, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been on your own â&#x20AC;&#x201D; until now. For the uninitiated, imagine a base of freshly shallow-fried, puffy frybread topped with a hearty portion of your choice of fillings. For one night only, you can get yours served up by La Calaca Feliz chef Lucio Palazzo, food artist Hawk Krall and jerky-crafter/blogger Marcos Espinoza. (Still not convinced? Espinozaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mom, who owns a Navajo-taco spot in Salt Lake City, will join Palazzo in the kitchen.) The massive tacos will go for $8 apiece; filling options will include chili beans, chicken ropa vieja, vegetarian black beans and spare ribs (keep your fingers crossed for traditional mutton stew to make an appearance as well). For dessert, frybread gets slathered in honey butter for $3. Cash only. 12 Steps Down, 831 Christian St. (carly@citypaper.net)

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✚ AMERICAN THE MILDRED

To date, chef Michael Schulson has been known mostly for Asian cooking (Sampan, Izakaya), but his new Main Line project is unabashedly American. Find steaks, chops and a full raw bar alongside red-sauce classics like spaghetti and meatballs and a slate of sweets that reads like a description of the Thanksgiving dessert table. Starters take inspiration from everything from Super Bowl Sunday (pigs in a blanket) to Jewish deli (smoked-trout dip with everything-bagel chips) to classic bistro (filet tartare). For $25 per person, you can opt for a familystyle service of the nightly special, which rotates through homey choices like chicken parm and a taco-night spread. Suburban Square, 30 Parking Plaza, 610649-6200, saintjamesphilly.com.

✚ BAKERY South Philly’s house of chickenand-doughnut worship has expanded north with a second location. The simple concept is the same; the new digs bring a whole new array of not-so-simple flavors.

Hot, fresh doughnuts come rolled in flavored sugars like strawberry-fennel or Turkish mocha, while prêt-à-manger fancies include spicy PB&J, maple bacon and green-tea sesame. The fried chicken is good enough to eat plain — but why, when you can order it tumbled in dill-pickle glaze? If you go, get there early to avoid disappointment; chickens start frying at 11 a.m., and doors close when the last bird has flown the coop. 1632 Sansom St., federaldonuts.com.

✚ BAR EMMANUELLE

PYT owner Tommy Up brings highbrow cocktails to the Piazza in a setting that celebrates the highest of the lowbrow — the soft-focus, softcore French porn classics from which Emmanuelle takes its name. The menu — courtesy of local cocktail royalty Katie Loeb and Phoebe Esmon — includes must-have

✚ BARBECUE FETTE SAU

The newest entrant into Philly’s blossoming BBQ scene is this Brooklyn transplant brought to life by chef-owner Joe Carroll in partnership with Stephen Starr.

Hewing closely to the example of the Williamsburg original, the focus is on dry-rubbed, locally sourced meats, sold by weight, that don’t pledge allegiance to any one particular barbecue tradition.

The menu changes daily, rotating through selections like beef short ribs, brisket, flank steak, Duroc pork belly and ribs, Berkshire pulled pork, chicken and sausages from New Jersey’s Nicolosi. Sides are classic (including burnt-end baked beans with a near-cult following) and desserts simple. The bar focus is on whiskey and PA and Brooklyn brewed beer, including their custom-brewed Vienna Pale Ale from Sixpoint. 1208 Frankford Ave., 215-391-4888, fettesauphilly.com.

✚ CAFE ULTIMO COFFEE GRADUATE HOSPITAL

With this shop in G-Ho, Ultimo expands the devoted following they’ve built at their original Newbold location. They’re brewing beans from Durham, N.C., roaster Counter Culture, using milk from Lancaster County’s Maplehofe Dairy, and selling baked goods and other treats from local producers like Betty’s Speakeasy, Coco Love and Four Worlds Bakery.

Head upstairs for some intensive training at the on-site Counter Intelligence training center, dropping knowledge on coffee pros and amateur enthusiasts alike.

2149 Catharine St., 215-545-3565, ultimocoffee.wordpress.com.

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FEDERAL DONUTS CENTER CITY

The Fishtown boom continues with the recent opening of this low-key neighborhood spot whose name pays homage both to the owner’s father and the eerie bartender from The Shining. The full bar boasts classic and original cocktails and a selection of local brews on tap and in bottles — but the real draw is a collection of more than 70 whiskeys. Husbandand-wife ownership team Scott and Taylor Coudriet relocated from NYC, where Scott’s resume included single-malt mecca The Whiskey Ward. 529 E. Girard Ave., 215-425-4600.

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Setting up shop in the former James space is The Mildred, a British-inflected concept from Michael Santoro (formerly of Talula’s Garden and of Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck) and Michael Dorris. Menu highlights include stuffed quail, vitello tonnato, and bratwurst with charred onions, grapes and lovage. Expect a high-caliber wine list, heavy on acidic varieties to complement the food. 824 S. Eighth St., 267-6871600, the-mildred.com.

champagne-based classics like kir royale and French 75, as well as original Francophone concoctions featuring Marie Brizard cordials, pastis and Dubonnet. Dim lighting, velvet wallpaper and a little kitsch set the stage. The Piazza, 1052 N. Hancock St., 215-7918090, drinkemmanuelle.com.

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[ i love you, i hate you ] To place your FREE ad (100 word limit) ³ email lovehate@citypaper.net A MARK IS A MARK You stupid bitch you supposed to know so much... well guess what a bitch like me don’t give a fuck about you at all. You told me that my child had a mark on his forehead which I had already knew about. Then you are gonna fuck around and say you had to take a picture of it. Bitch he fucking scratched himself. I could just slap the shit out of your bald-headed ass. I definitely don’t like your attitude and I can’t wait until I can’t see you again.

Smooches bitch!

BITCH CALLED HOPE years wasted. Raising my two midgets as you’re own, making such a bong with them...only to be a miserable cunt and make them think santa isn’t coming this year. To call the cops on me on Xmas and take the baby away from her father over 2 weeks now. To use all the kids as bargining chips to get visitation on the very kids you hurt so bad.

Kicking them out of school. Out if there home.

You’re a weak person. So many chances to open you’re mouth and change a lot of whats happened.

You weren’t strong enough to try and now your not taking responsiblity for you. You know what kind of man/father I am. Yet you make me out to be monster. You are the monster, just like your mother! Bitter ol bitch that makes fun of lil children. Scumbags, all of you. Draggin a bitch called hope. Cause & effect.

us. I truly miss you and just want to see you. I am so tempted to see you and I want to be with you.

So what have you been doing? Do you miss me? I really wanna drop the guy that I am with now and be with you. I truly miss your touch and your soft gestures that you brought around me. The person that I am with is truly miserable and I hate him. I hope to see you again.

LADY ON TRAIN You stupid ass bitch why the fuck were you staring at my cousin and I while we were talking.

We weren’t loud we were just tallking amongst ourselves in a nice tone and here you go sitting

and look at me with that dumb look on your face!

You are a waste of fucking skin and space. I can’t believe that you and I have a child. You are nothing to me and I feel like I wanna do something to you so fucking bad because you make me angry. Your mother did a fucking number on you! The keep enabling you and it sickens me. I hate you!

remember everything else or be the nosiest person on the block knowing who goes into everyone’s house and who’s doing what. If you don’t know the number to your card you should of told the cashier that you didn’t have one. By you doing that you would of made the line go alot faster and you would not have waisted people’s time. Stupid old ass lady!

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I keep hearing you through the walls arguing through the phone with someone. Why are you arguing and I can hear you and your girlfriend. I know me and my boyfriend are having problems but you take the cake and the batter. I can’t take it

You know I don’t even have to say your name because it isn’t that serious, but you are one sexy ass man. I would love to take you out and just be with you. You make me want to start my life over and do all the right things. Hopefully with you included in that. Tell me you don’t have a wife or a girlfriend.

I would love to take you with me. Seriously. I hope you read this because you already know. I have eyes for you.

SLOW ASS CASHIER Of all days the dumbass young cashier at Rite Aid wants to answer the phone. Meanwhile the line was long and waiting for this dumb bitch to get off the phone. You knew the call was for the pharmacy department why you couldn’t just transfer the call immediately. Any other time you dumb bitches dont answer the phone you were trying to be smart well how about this if you don’t want to work get welfare or ssi I am sure they can hook you up!

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Fucking leitch, all you care about is your fucking self and that bothers me, it really bothers me and it seems like you don’t have a fucking care in the world. I can’t stand the fact that you know that I am trying to survive. You need to hold your own and try to do what you need to do for yourself. I am not going to be supplying you with anything. You drink up my fucking juice and eating my fucking food. Learn to keep your own.

I saw what you did when you went to the store and stole that item. Then a friend of mine told me that when you use the item you take it back to the store as a fucking return. I hate your cheap ass. I don’t think what you are doing is fair because when you do it, it fucks up others when they purchase that item and to find that it has been used already is really fucked up! If I see you in the store that we frequent and I catch you doing what you did I am going to call the store manager on you. I hate you and your cheap fucking ass

YOU ARE NOT A MISTRESS

You straight up gave that lady the finger and she was turning around to do some serious harm to you. Were you ready for that? I don’t think that you were, when you ride the train it is important just to keep minding your own business. How dare you try to start some shit on there. It was seriously going to be a problem if that guy would of gotten up out of his seat. I really didn’t want to see anything happen to that woman.

There is a big difference between a mistress and a fucking hoe! You are a fucking hoe! I can’t believe what I hear coming out of your mouth. You supposed to be a lady and your talking about sleeping with someone’s husband that supposed to be your best friend. I can’t believe that you would do that shit. Then you slept with the grandfather and then you sleep with the grandson. Looks like your a fucking hoe to me...you are nobody’s mistress. If you were, you would be doing things a whole lot different and getting alot more for it.

I DON’T LIKE YOU

YOUR NOT HELPING ENOUGH

GUY ON TRAIN

Did I mention that I didn’t like you at all. I hate you. I wonder why you even come to work sometimes. All your co-workers hate you can’t you take the hint by now and quit. How about smoke your ass into a corner you smoke like a chimney. That is all that everyone see you doing. What do you have to show for it. A fucking crazy ass girlfriend that you believe is everything and she is nothing. I guess you both can be nothing together. Stay away from me because I can tell you honestly I hate your existance.

there right in our face looking like a dumb bump on the fucking wall. If you wanted to join in the conversation we would of loved to have you in the conversation. Then when you go up you had the nerve to turn your noise up at me like I was beneath you...no bitch you are beneath me! If I could of slapped the shit out of and just looked at your reaction after I did it would be great. See you tomorrow bitch!

I LIKE YOU

LAZY FUCK

I wish that things would of been better between

You sit on the fucking couch and fucking lay there

anymore, then all of a sudden I keep hearing the fucking dog barking and it it keeping me up and it is fucking annoying. I wish that you would move again and not come back! I wish your family would grow a pair and not let you back in if you move! Get a fucking muzzle or something for your dog and work out your differences already.

I ask you one thing and you damned sure do another thing. I am super fucking tired of it. Why not even do what needs to get done. You are selfish and you only think about yourself. I think that it is pathetic that you always want something Can it be on time that you don’t want something? I am just tired and you know it!!

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merchandise market Laptops Net Ready, MS Office, Wireless From $145. Call 610-453-2525

BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826

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

HAMMOND ORGAN - with 251 Leslie, excel. cond.. $4,000/OBO. 610-554-3411 PIANO - Kimball Spinet 38in. high, natural wood & bench $625bo 215.266.7273

Sanyo 32" Flat Screen TV. $225 22’’ Emerson TV. $125 Call 267-528-1974

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Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.

Ragdoll Kittens: Beautiful, guaranteed, home raised. $500. Call 610-731-0907

AMERICAN PITBULL PUPS - S/W, ADBA reg., $400. 215-834-1247 Cavalier Spaniel Tricolor and ACA registered. Vaccinated and vet checked. Mommy is house pet. $700.00 OBO. Call or text at 717-669-5493.

Chihuahua Pups home raised 1st shots $300. 484-557-1391 Chihuahua pups shots and wormed, $200 M, $250 F, Call (484) 571-1257 DACHSHUNDS PUPPIES - Males, Females, $350/ea. Call 267-506-4061 English Bulldog OLDE English BULLDOGGE Pups 2M 2F 8wks Red/White SERIOUS BUYERS ONLY $1000 267-997-2456

ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS - AKC, home raised, 2 males, $1,800. 610- 287-9680

German Shepherd AKC Pups- European bloodlines, shots, wormed,both parents are OFA hip certified: excellent.

Black & Tan, $900 each 717-529-6213

I Buy Guitars & All Musical Instruments-609-457-5501 Rob JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. Up to $300 215-888-8662

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Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-639-0563

everything pets pets/livestock

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I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787

33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ Really Paid

BD a Memory Foam Mattress/Bx spring Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399 610-952-0033

Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,

Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Call the Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk

Golden Retriever Pups AKC super temperaments healthy $750. 717-368-0244 Irish Setter pups, AKC, vet chkd, shots, parents our pets, $600+. (302)328-1720 Maltese/ Jack Russell 8 wks, friendly, shots and wormed, $195. 717-445-7931 Maltese Yorkies Mixed Puppies - Beautiful. Call for info. 610-497-3093 Pekingese Pups: 16 wks 3M shots vet checked $395. 215-579-1922 PITBULL PUPS - 9 wks., parents on premises. NE Phila. $300. Call 215-868-7279 Pit Bull Terrier Pups for sale $225. Mom and dad on premises. Call 267-253-5129 Poodle Miniature, apricot, M/F, www. imperialpoodles.net $400+. 607.321.5957 Puli Hungarian Sheep Dog, "World’s Smartest Dog ", AKC, white & black males, 8 weeks, shots, agility parents on premises. Call 856-358-0396

Rottweiler Pups - AKC, Champion, shots, wormed, dewclawed, vet checked, health guarantee, family raised, ready now, $850/ea. Call 717-442-0212 STANDARD POODLE PUPS, AKC Reg., Vet check and ref. Call 610-220-2020 Yorkie Puppies - A KC reg. vet checked home raised, $650. Call 215-490-2243 Yorkie / Terrier Pups 100% Pure bred, AKC, gorgeous, shots. 610-497-3093 Yorkshire Terrier, 3 year old female, will make a good house pet, ACA reg and vet checked. $400. (717)768-3418

Old records, CDs, DvDs, Books, Musical Instruments. Call (215)939-5493

apartment marketplace 5XX S. Juniper Street Avenue of the Arts. 1 Bedroom/1 Bath 3rd Fl. unit. Hardwood Floors. Water incl in rent $1050 per month. Close to transportation. 1st, last & security. Credit Check $40 app fee.

267-825-7788

jobs Dental Assistant Springfield, PA

Must work evenings. Experience & X-ray certification necessary. walinchus@gmail.com

Auto Body Estimator Philadelphia

Oppty for an Exp’d Estimator in a modern multi loc. facility. Health bnfits and 401k plan. Vac. & pers. days. On going co. training & I-Car. Must have Pa Appraiser lic. & Pathways training. Fax res: 215.546.

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Environmental Project Manager / Engineer West Chester, PA

Oversight of site characterization and remediation projects, PA UST and Act 2 experience, remediation design, budgets & estimating, regulatory compliance, business development, contractor oversight, staff oversight, & report writing / review. PA P.G. and / or P.E. License required. Full benefits. Some travel required.

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NEWLY RENOV APTS $650 2BR & 3BR Spacious, modern apts in newly renovated house on small quiet block in N. Philly.

New walls, new neutral carpet and floors. $1950 to move in. MUST SEE! Call 267- 973-2284

WYNNEFIELD 1BR/1BA $750/mo.

Lg, ac 1.5 blk from City Ave on 54th St 1st flr designer decorated lots of closets + storage off st prkg 610-517-4822

18xx W. Venango 1/2br apt start $550 + utils. near temple. Call 267-339-1662 30xx Broad St. Efficiency $500+ utils 1st, last & security dep. 267-975-8521

1342 28th St. 1BR $650/mo.

W/D, newly renovated. 267-588-5403 13xx S 22nd St. 2br $725+utils recent reno, hwd flrs, w/d 856-906-5216 S 16th St. Efficiency $475+utils 3rd floor, 1st, last, sec. 267-235-6670

Field Service Technician Philadelphia Area

CCI is seeking Field Technicians to provide meter services for both electric and gas customers in the Philadelphia vicinity. All training (paid program), tools, as well as a company vehicle will be provided.

High degree of daily job independence with performance based bonus structure and company benefits. A valid driver’s license and clean driving record are required.

Customer service skills and a desire to work outside are a must. Drug screen and background check required. Please email your contact information with resume or work history to fieldservicescareers@ contractcallers.com and put "Utility Field Technician - Philadelphia" in the subject line.

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Major Food Corp seeks reps to service new and existing accounts locally. µNo cold calling µAll appts furnished µExisting account base 75k+ + + first year Call Bill 800-772-7786 x 221

1100 S 58th St. 1BR & 2BR Apts heat/hw incl., lic #362013 215-525-5800 1900 S. 65th St. 2BR Apt Newly renov, Lic #400451, 215.525.5800 20XX Salford 2br $590 fresh paint, W/D hookup. 267-230-2600

512 N. 54th St. 1BR $600 New carpets. 267-709-2704 / 912-5942 540 N. 52nd St. 1 BR Newly renov. 215.525.5800 lic# 333911 54xx Market 3BR $725 Great loc. Call (215)471-0100

3422 N. 22nd St. 2 Efficiency $450+elec each. (215)514-9684

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000

N. Bouvier St. 4br/2ba $800 Fully ren., everything new, beautiful blk, close to Temple Hosp. 732-642-6370

11xx Rockland St. 2br/1ba $650+utils backyard, basement. (215) 906-7574

1614 Ruscomb 4BR $800 full liv rm, din rm& kitch. (215)224-5493 45xx Old York Rd 1br $585+utils Large, 1st,last & security 215-791-2125 48xx N. 13th St. 2/3BR Sec 8 OK. Call 610-623-0497

600 Wynnewood Rd. 1BR/1BA $700 Fixed rate for 6 years. A/C, ceiling fans, 1st flr, no mice. (215) 747-5097 60XX Market St 2BR/1BA $625 (2nd Fl Apt) 267-296-9298 61st/Chestnut Vic 2 BR $650+util Spacious, 2nd flr, balcony. 215-796-3944 Parkside Area 1br- 4br $700-$1,600 Newly renov, new kitch. & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. Call 267-324-3197 W. Phila 2, 3 & 4br apts Avail Now Move in Special! 215-386-4791 or 4792

53xx Spruce St. 2BR $725 Spacious, 2nd flr, updated (215)668-4531

6239 Haverford Ave. 2br $750+utils 1st flr, 5 rooms, backyard, 215-747-9098 Apartment Homes $650-$925 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900 City Line Area 2br Apts beautiful, Holiday Special, 215.681.1723

5000 N. 8th St. 1 BR 1 BA $650+elec 1 mo rent & 1 mo sec. Call 267-816-6907.

Broad & Windrim 1BR Newly renov., must see. 215-885-1700 Broad & Windrim 1BR Newly renov., must see. 215-885-1700

57xx Park Ave. 2BR/1BA $725+utils.

Wall to wall carpets. 267-249-6301 60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ nr Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534

Upper Olney - 5729-31 N. 3rd St. New 1Bd-1Ba $585 incl. gas & water. 24 hr security system. Call Kevin 267-237-0220

Broad & Erie Effic. $525/mo All utils inc. $1000 move in 215-416-6538 Broad & Hunting Pk 1st flr 1br $650+util priv entry, $1950 move in (215)559-5039

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West Oak Lane 3BR/1BA $1,200 Completely renovated Wall to wall carpet Dishwasher - Dryer/Washer - Refrigerator - Large Bsmnt - Showings on Tuesdays and Saturdays (By request) 267973-7378 or: inquiries@proficientmanagement.com CREDIT/REFERENCES WILL BE CHECKED!

51XX Ranstead 1br apt, 1st flr apt all new $550+267-645-9421

18 & Ontario 1BR $625 (3 apts avail) 1mo rent/1mo sec. to mv in 215-416-6538

16xx Elaine 1BR $685+utils W/W, A/C, Mod. Kitchen/Bath, Wash/Dry! Avl. Garage, at Bus/Shpg! 267-357-0250 16xx Woodbrook 1BR $650+utils Modern. Call (267) 549-5897 262 E. Cliveden St 1BR/1BA $675 Updated apartment in Mt. Airy. Updated kitchen, new windows. Wall to wall carpets. Off street parking, laundry on site.

Gas included! 215-844-1200 66xx Chew.

3br/1ba $875+ New kit/ba, hdwd flrs. 215-805-2821 7500 GTN AV Garden type 1&2BR! New Year Special! Newly dec, d/w, g/d w/w, a/c, lndry/cable on prem, off st prkg. Pets! 215-275-1457/233-3322 80xx Fayette St. 2BR/1BA $750+utils 1st floor. Call 215-410-6907

1414 W. 71st Ave 1br $625 Utils incl.

Close to trans & shopping. 215-574-2111

13xx Fanshawe St. 2BR $680+ utils $35 credit check. Call 215-498-1807 Fox Chase - Chandler 2BR $850 2nd flr w/d hkup,bsmt stor 215.785.0819 Frankford Ave. & Torres. Ave. 2BR $785 + utils. No pets. 267-255-4373 Northwood Lg. 2BR $750 2nd and 3rd flr apt. (215)289-9642 Philmont 2BR duplex 1st flr $850+ C/A bsmnt,w/w, garage 215-752-1091 PHILMONT HEIGHTS 2BR $825+utils 2nd floor, new kitch, fridge, W/D, w/w & paint, garage. Call 267-467-1596 Red Lion / Verree Rd. Vic. 1BR, Duplex $690/mo. + utils. 215-808-8863 Tioga 1br $400 Share home, all appls. Call 215-226-0321

Germantown Beautiful furn rms, cable ready, kitch $450-$500mo 215.438.8911

Germantown - Large furnished and unfurnished rooms, $100-$150, close to train and XH Bus. Call 215-514-8173 Mt Airy, 61xx Chew Ave, Univ City 41xx Popular $85-$125/wk. 215-242-9124 Mt. Airy spacious rooms, $400/mo., kitch. use, $25 application (215)924-3292 North Phila - Rooms for rent, SSI ok, utils. incl. Call 267-702-7927 N Phila. 2 6 xx York St. Rooms from $110/wk utils incl., SSI ok. 267-784-5534 N. PHILA $75 & up, SSI & Vets+ok, drug free, Avl Immed. 215-817-0893 N. Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up No drugs, SSI ok. 215-763-5565 Overbrook,room with priv bath, no sec dep. priv ent., Washer and Dryer, Please call 484-479-4836 SW Phila room, $300 to move in, $100 week, clean, drug free, (267)414-7805 W. Phila. $100 rms for rent, new kit/ba. 267-348-7708 W Phila. 42xx Girard Ave. Rooms from $110/wk utils incl., SSI ok. 267-784-5534 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren lg, lux rms /apts very peaceful SSI ok, 267.255.8665

16xx Etting St. 3BR/1.5BA $750 $1000 sec. Call 267-292-5274 19xx Beechwood 3br $700 newly renovated,sec 8 ok (267) 455.3273 23XX F ederal L g 4 BR 2B, F ridge bsmt yrd $1150+ 267-645-9421

19xx S. Salford 3br/1ba $700+utils $2100 move in fee. 267-249-6645 23xx S. 63rd St. 2BR/1BA $675 $1000 sec. Call 267-292-5274

34XX Tampa St. 2BR/1BA $740 + util.

Newly remodeled for 2013 with quality improvements throughout. New appliances, W&D, secure fenced in backyard. 1st, last, & security deposit moves you in.

Hsing Choice Voucher (sec.8) ok. Ask for Mr. Scott (267) 258-7637 Kensington 7XX Willard 3BR/1BA $750/mth House. Freshly Painted, Laminate. Great location. 267-210-5810

Elmwood Area 3BR/1BA $750+utils Modern house, sec. 8 ok. 215.726.8817

Ford Explorer XLT 1997 $1450 4WD, 116k, new insp 215.620.9383

Cadillac 2003 4 door Deville, $4,975 woman driver, like new, 79,000 miles, garage kept, Call Carol 215-627-1814

FORD TAURUS 1999 $3,700 Excellent condition. 610-872-0236

Cadillac Eldorado 1997 $2,600 Lks & runs great, all pow 267-259-6577 Chevy Caprice Classic 1991 $1950 Mint, 114K, runs new. 215.620.9383 Chevy Impala 1963 $4,295 Numbers matching, 2 door automatic.

Call 856-240-7382 or 266-3206 Dodge 2004 deluxe cargo work van, $3975, A/C 89,000 Original Miles.

Corporate disposal, Call 215-627-1814 Ford 2001 F-150 deluxe pickup, $4950.

A/C stick shift (new clutch) lite commercial, corporate disposal. 215-922-5342

64th & Elmwood Ave. 3BR/1BA $850 hdwd flrs, deck. Call 267-249-6301 65xx Allman St. 3br $750/mo.

New remod, come see! 215-463-2403

Buick LeSabre 1990 $2500 64,000 orig. miles. (610) 667-4829

Ford Taurus 2003 $4,000 48k mi., nice car, PW. 215-850-0061 2002 $1750 Ford Taurus SE 4door, loaded, clean. 215-518-8808 Ford Windstar GL, 1995, $1250 All powers, 93k, insp. 215.620.9383 Honda Civic EX 2000 $3000 Fully loaded, new insp, (856)314-8566 Hyundai Sonata GLS 2002 $3,500 Well maintained. Call 267-271-2948 Lincoln Towncar 2004 $3595 High miles but looks and runs great!

Pictures available! 610-597-1047

14xx Church St. 3BR/1BA $900 Sec. 8 ok, hdwd flrs. 215-289-8328 16xx Filmore St. 3br Newly renov, sec. 8 ok. 215-669-1304 20xx E. Pacific 3br $750 Spacious, Sec. 8 ok. 267-230-2600

13xx N. Wanamaker St. 3BR/1BA $850 1st, last, 1mo. sec. req’d. 267-255-1895 2XX N 56th Street 3BR/1BA 267-296-9298

$750

39xx Wyalusing Ave. 2BR/1BA $700 + utils. Sec 8 / SSI ok. 877-868-7605 6xx S. 59th St. 3BR $925+utils Fantastic new bathroom and kitchen 1st, last and sec. Call 215-365-4567

W. & SW Phila 2br-3br Houses $700-$850. 1st/last/sec. 215-878-2857

980 N. 66th Street 3br/1.5ba $995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

20xx W. CAMBRIA ST 3br/1.5ba $650 porch, 2 mo rent + sec. 267-246-7017 24xx block of N. 24th St. 3br/1.5ba $700/mo. Call 215-529-8916 27xx W. Huntingdon St. 3BR/1BA $750 + utils. Sec. 8/SSI ok. 877-868-7605 2800 block of Taney St. 3br/1ba $750 + sec. New reno, Sec 8 ok (267)259-4521 30xx Clifford St. 3BR/1BA $700 + utils LR,DR, yard. Sec8/SSI ok 877.868.7605 31xx Chadwick 2br/1ba $650+utils 1mo rent, 2mo sec, sec 8 ok 215.858.7240 3219 N. Bambrey 3BR/1BA $650 2mo. sec. 1mo. rent. Close to shopping, transp., & schools. 215-924-3292

234xx Strahle 2BR $1,100+utils 1st flr., duplex. sec. 8 ok. 215-264-2340 43xx Benner St. 3BR/1BA $900+ Newly renovated, section 8 ok. Call 609486-6261 Upper Darby Lg. 2BR $850 + utils.

Excel. cond. sec 8 ok, 610-284-5631

NORRISTOWN 800 blk Haws Ave 3BR, porch, yard, clean, sec 8 ok! $1200. Mr James 215-766-1795

1638 Ferry Ave. 2BR/1BA $950 Sec 8 ok. Close to bus stop. 5 min walk from Ferry Ave speed line. 856-793-8875

automotive GMC 2002 G3500 14ft HiCube deluxe box truck $6975 AC dual rear wheels Quick private sale 215-922-5342

Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted, $400, Call 856-365-2021

2xx Linton St. 3BR $900 W/W carp, bkyrd, ceramic tile, new kitch.

Call 267-879-1750

BMS MOTOR SCOOTER Heritage 150cc ’12 red, $1,400/obo 609-868-3828

2xx W. Fisher Ave. 4BR/1.5BA $950 plus utils. Reno, W/D, Sec 8 ok, hardwood floors. Call 609-851-0925

62x Lindley 3br $1000+utils fresh paint, must see, 215-264-2340

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

6231 Magnolia St. 3br/1ba $1050+utils Large kitchen, close to public tranps. 1st mo. rent + sec. dep. Call 215-849-3758

E Mt Airy 2BR Row House $750+ 1st/last/security. Bus line. 610-405-5926 Zeralda St. 3BR/1BA $900 2 mo. sec. dep., sec. 8 ok, front porch.

Call 215-680-5666

xx Montana and Grmtwn 3br $875+ newly updated, Call 215-839-6468

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20th & Cecil B. Moore Ave $400 Per Mth Utilities Included Free Internet Cable Ready New Shared Apts 215-520-7750

Bryn Mawr Suburbs, Serene, a/c, Cable, Near Trans, no kitch or laundry, No Smoke, Avail 2/1 $425/mo 610-525-5765 Germantown 53xx Wakefield St: Huge rooms for rent w/Cent. air, 215-852-2965 Germantown Area $85 or $150/wk Call 215-817-4898, 267-800-9004 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890

29xx CORAL ST 2BR, refrig, bsmt, yard. $635+.

267-645-9421 34XX N 18TH 3BR $750+ Refrig, bsmnt, yard, 267-645-9421

Ford E250 2001 $2750. OBO Runs great, V8 auto. 267-825-2315

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18xx Harrison 1BR/1BA $500 + Newly renovated, section 8 ok. Call 609486-6261 20XX Orthodox 1br $550/mo. spacious, painted, sec8 ok 267-230-2600 21xx Orthodox 2BR $650+utils 2nd flr, spacious, W/W, 215-537-9860 4500 Frankford Ave. 1BR $600 LR, kitch., no pets. Call 267-325-9535 4711 Leiper St. Studio renovated, lic#493309 215-525-5800 4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1Br, 2Br Ldry, 24/7 cam lic#214340 215.525.5800 Frankford Apt/Effic./Rooms, nr bus & El, $300 sec, $90 wk & up 215.526.1455

908 N. 29th St lrg 4BR close to Girard College 215-525-5800

Buick Century 1990 $950 All pwrs, 88k, runs new. 215.620.9383

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1 BR & 2 BR Apts $725-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 2xx W. Duval 2BR $700 2nd flr, newly renov, d/w 216-225-9304 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio, 1Br on site lndry, 215-525-5800 Lic# 507568 5321 Wayne Ave. Efficiency $550, 1br $625, 2br $700 215-776-6277 Seymour or Greene 1br $585- $700 incl. heat & water Call 610-287-9857

11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BUILDING Single rms $400, double rooms $600.

Fully furnished w/ full size beds, fridge, & dresser. Couples welcome! SSI/SSD/VA, Payee services, Public assistance ok.

Also SW, S., W., N., & Frankford.

Please call 267-707-6129 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $375/mo.

Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 2500 W Lehigh, Studio, pvt BA, Ent & Kit $135/wk, $405 mv in, 267.250.0761 25th & Clearfield, Hunting Park & Castor, 55th & Media, 15th & Federal.

Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 & up, no securi ty deposit, SSI OK. Call 215-758-7572 30xx Aramingo Ave. $95/week, private bath, w/d, SSI ok, 215-920-6394 3800 block of Park Ave. Rooms $250$375. Call (267) 602-6128 38xx N. 15th: Lg furn rm, $105/wk, $300 sec. Call 267-809-7866 4508 N. Broad St. Rooms: $375/mo.

Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 46xx Torresdale Ave. $450-$500 2 furn. rooms (215)995-2243 50th & Girard Newly renovated house clean rooms $100-$120wk (267)784.5671 51xx N. Broad St. 1BR/1BA apt.

Room, fridge, 27" TV. Call 267-496-6448 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $125wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 56xx Morton St: Quiet victorian row house, newly renov., near trans., $125/wk, $300 sec., 1st week rent req.

Call Mrs. Mac at 267-351-5547 59th Street S. near El, furn. room, a/c, fridge, $90/wk., $90 sec. 215-472-8119 8th & Allegheny - $450/mo. Furnished, SSI ok. Call (267) 304-0887 Allegheny $90/wk. $270 sec dep.

Nr EL train, furn, quiet. 609-703-4266 Broad/Olney lg delux furn priv BA, priv Ent $145/$110 wk sec $200 215.572.8833

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