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[ + 2 ] TheDaily News reports on a wild turkey seen roaming the streets of West Philly. This is in addition to the usual sightings of a Virginia gentleman and an old grand-dad.

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CNN rates Philly the sixth-best beer city in the U.S. A half-hour later they withdraw the statement, saying their source got it wrong. Then Wolf Blitzer devotes a whole Situation Room to the question “What is Beer?”

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Police break up a raucous party near West Chester University, inciting some partiers to flip a car on its side.They say Bam Margera’s boner grew three sizes that day.

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Witnesses to the wild West Chester University party said the event was inspired by a YouTube video called “I’m Shmacked.” “Oh, I see. Carry on, then,” says cop. “Here, let us flip this car together.”

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Articles on local sports sites about Eagles owner Jeff Lurie marrying a Philly woman of Asian descent are plagued by racist comments. Area bigots say they’d like to see something on a Latino person next, or maybe a gay. Adding, “Go Iggles!” Backpacks are banned for spectators at the finish line of the Broad Street Run, and three “evacuation centers” are set up along the route. These provide a safe haven for those whose Facebook walls have been decimated by friends bragging that once a year they run slightly downhill for a little while.

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A tree falls on a SEPTA regional rail train in Delaware County. An obvious “I’m Shmacked” reference. Nice one, tree!

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A Philly man is arrested with eight bags of heroin in his rectum, prompting Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood to call the man an “asshole.” “Because he had drugs up his butt,” explains Chitwood. “And the asshole is part of the butt.”

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A Center City restaurant is closed after a sewage main breaks and several large rats are spotted on the tables inside. “Ay, don’t forgets youse guys,” says Rat King StankTooth Yelloweye IV. “We gets free miles if we reviews it on RatYelp.”

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PLIGHT RAIL: After years of delays, the last SEPTA Silverliner V trains came online in spring 2012. NEAL SANTOS

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HOT TRACKS How SEPTA’s new Silverliner V trains drove a recording engineer clear out of town. By Ryan Briggs

ast spring, Alex Dingley ran across a problem in his home recording studio, in Norristown’s Cigar Factory loft building. At first, the audio engineer thought something was wrong with his 1976 Fender Telecaster — connected to an amp, it emitted “sort of like a really high-pitched, constant chirping noise I’ve tried many times and have never been able to mimic with my voice.” But before he had a chance to bring the guitar in for repair, Dingley realized that all of his recording equipment was picking up the same interference — but, mysteriously, only some of the time. As a professional audio technician trained to weed out pernicious noises, Dingley says he came close to madness trying to locate the elusive origin of the persistent chirping. After months of tinkering, including vainly disassembling his computer to make sure a defective component wasn’t throwing off his recordings, last August he took out a device he owned called an inductive amplifier — a sort of metal detector for electromagnetic frequencies. “I moved [the detector] past the window and I got the burst of noise again,” he says. “There was the [overhead] wire for the train tracks probably 15 feet away.” Dingley couldn’t believe it. He’d lived next to the train for four years and had never had the problem before. And the interference seemed

to occur whether a train was passing or not. But on the street, he was able to pick up interference from as far as 300 feet from the tracks. Things got weirder when Dingley contacted SEPTA. Engineers told him they’d been having the same problem with the publicaddress systems at several train stations. Before long, SEPTA engineers were at Dingley’s apartment waving around frequency detectors of their own. It turns out that something else was happening in spring 2012: The bulk of SEPTA’s new fleet of long-delayed and problemplagued Silverliner V trains were debuting along the regional-rail network. The crop of 120 trains had been supposed to replace much of SEPTA’s aging rolling stock by 2010, but material shortages, labor disputes and manufacturing defects meant the majority of the new trains, built by South Korean-based Hyundai Rotem, weren’t online until 2012. Dingley’s discovery was just the latest hiccup. SEPTA officials explain that the new trains differ from their predecessors in that they are powered by alternating current instead of direct current. Engineers are still examining the problem, but it seems the alternating current used by the new trains is operating at a higher frequency that can get picked up by copper wires — like the one connecting Dingley’s guitar to his amp. Why is the interference present even when the train is not? While direct current travels one way, from a transformer to the train, an alternating current outputs some electricity back to

The trains scrambled SEPTA’s PA systems.

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✚ LAST CALL? As power broker for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98, and Philly politics in general, Johnny “Doc” Dougherty may be going strong. But his days as part-owner of a Pennsport bar? Well, those might be waning. After 11 citations — more than half of which came in the last three years, many of which were related to serving alcohol to minors and all of which resulted in temporary closures — the liquor license for Doc’s Union Pub, at 1843 S. Second St., is now listed as “inactive” in state records. Prudential Fox Roach is listing the property for sale. Doc is listed on financial documents as president of JMB Real Estate, which owns the bar; its liquor license is registered to two other IBEW leaders, Brian Burrows and Michael Neill. According to David H. Conroy, a lawyer who represented Dougherty in the past, Doc’s is “absolutely open.” He said the state liquor records might have listed it as inactive in error. Conroy said the curious may “go drive by and take a look” to see just how open the bar is. For a preview, check out Yelp, where online reviewers called the bar “not very ‘safe’” and rated it an average of 2.5 stars out of five. Three out of eight reviewers recounted instances of violence, and three referred to alleged underage patrons. One didn’t enter the bar, but claimed to have had cigarettes and bottles thrown at him while biking by. “There was a confronataion [sic] between 2 patrons,” wrote one Yelper. “One of the ‘non-regulars’ got cold cocked in the face for ostensibly bumping into someone,” wrote another, quoting a regular as saying, “Who do these kids think they are making OUR bar part of their bar crawl?” The trend: Doc’s patrons apparently have a penchant for kicking the shit out of people they don’t like. Especially people who aren’t from Pennsport. People like, statistically,

most of you. What all this means for your next big night out at an organized-labor-themed bar is hard to say. —Ryan Briggs

✚ MOVING TARGET Terry McNally, co-owner of London Grill, wants to be clear: She’s not anti-food-trucks. But her recent tweets sort of came off that way.They were in response to a specific event: the Fairmount Arts Crawl. “The trucks were all lined up — about 10 of them,” she explains. “I understand they’re a draw, but it hurt all of us on a day that’s usually really busy.” And the trucks had nothing to do with art per se, while the restaurants curated and hung artists’ works. Thus, the Twitter world saw London making comments about “unfair competition” and tweeting that “food trucks need parameters.” Lately, the issue of restaurants wanting food-truck regulations has popped up in cities across the country, from D.C. to Minneapolis to San Francisco. “We have all these costs, like insurance, that keep going up,” says McNally. In Philly, various proposals for legislation have emerged in recent years, without results. SPOT Burgers truck owner Josh Kim, who’s on the Philadelphia Mobile Food Association’s board of directors, calls charges of unfair competition “preposterous. What unfair advantage are they talking about?” he wonders. He mentions a half-dozen food trucks that have expanded into brick-and-mortar operations. If being mobile gave you such an edge, “Why would a truck ever want to do that?” All entrepreneurs have costs. “It’s just a different business model,” he says. “Shame,” says Kim, on people “controlling your competition just because you’re not doing well.” McNally — who says she’s won’t be tweeting about trucks again — still thinks regulations are needed: “There’s a place [for trucks], and it’s not in front of other places.” —Theresa Everline

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THE BROAD VIEW ³ IT’S KNOWN AS one of the fastest 10-mile courses in the country, but the Broad Street Run — which took place this past Sunday — is more than that. For a few hours a year, it stitches together a metropolis that is, like most, profoundly segregated by race and class: 40,000 runners are greeted by cheering residents the whole way down. (And I quote one gentlemen: “Don’t stop, get it get it!”) At least at my pace, the run provided a tour of the city’s glories and troubles, past and future. The first mile passed just blocks from the Logan Triangle, the site of nearly 1,000 homes that began sinking into unstable landfill and were demolished in the 1980s. Mile two bisected the bustling intersection of Erie and Germantown avenues, Black and Nobel bookstore’s “We Ship to Prisons” sign a reminder that far too many Philadelphians sit behind bars — but also that neighbors remember them. A few blocks south, Temple University Hospital’s brightly lit campus occupies the neighborhood with all the grace of a military encampment, but its dedicated trauma surgeons are saving many from gun-inflicted deaths in a place that boasts the highest murder rate of any big city. On mile four, Temple’s marching band delivered an adrenaline boost. The university’s expanding footprint promises needed investment, but also stokes fears of displacement. The shadow of the shuttered Divine Lorraine hotel hangs over mile five, a graffiti-decorated giant whose coming resurrection promises to renew Broad Street’s faded grandeur. Just a few steps farther sits the former Ridge Center, the city’s largest homeless shelter until its occupants — in the poorest big city in America — were evacuated to make room for a Stephen Starr commissary. Mile six: The headquarters of the School District of Philadelphia, aiming to educate a poor and racially segregated student body with consistently insufficient funds. Next, the empty Inquirer building, from whence reporters were relocated to a space better fitting the newspaper industry’s shrunken scale. Developer Bart Blatstein wants to turn it into a casino. By mile seven (City Hall), I was less reflective and more focused on increasing my pace. But I do recall a woman holding a sign with the pleasantly raunchy reminder: “Broad Street isn’t meant to be easy. If it was, it would be named ‘Your mom.’” Philly’s not meant to be easy, either. But if you embrace the whole damn thing, it really can love you back. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net.

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“If it wasn’t for the noise, I wouldn’t be moving.” the copper overhead wires that power the train. In short, the new Silverliners are turning large segments of the overhead wires into giant, highfrequency electromagnetic transmitters. Dingley says he heard conflicting explanations for this: A SEPTA engineer blamed Hyundai Rotem’s new trains, while a Hyundai Rotem employee who stopped by chalked it up to SEPTA’s obsolete infrastructure (noting that Hyundai Rotem’s Asian and European rail clients hadn’t reported similar problems). In any case, Hyundai Rotem says it has already paid to design and install specially made frequency-dampening devices at four major SEPTA stations (other stations, SEPTA says, were not affected because their public-address systems use fiber-optic wires). But Dingley might be out of luck. Although he says that, in March, SEPTA gave him one of the filtering devices for free, it wasn’t much help. The filter, it turns out, blocks all sounds at that frequency, including high notes from Dingley’s Fender. Dingley chronicled his experience on the website Reddit.com last week in the hopes of educating others and, maybe, finding a resolution to his own problem. While his story elicited hundreds of comments

(and helped at least one other person plagued by “the noise”), no clear solutions emerged. Doubtful that any easy fix was on the horizon after nearly eight months of working with the transit agency, Dingley has given up — he’s moving out, to a new home and studio in Elkins Park. “I love my apartment. It’s really great, and my day job is 10 minutes away. If it wasn’t for the noise, I wouldn’t be moving,” he says. SEPTA officials say they still want to work with Dingley on silencing the dreaded chirp once and for all. “We recognize with the manufacturer that there was a problem, and we’ve done everything we can to do a full analysis and come up with a solution,” says SEPTA spokesperson Jerri Williams. “Unfortunately, the solution was too good. It fixed the interference problem but created another problem.” (ryan.briggs@citypaper.net)

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dream walker written by carolyn r. guss

You awake and arise in one motion. Unaware of my presence, you leave the room and you are already wandering in your new wakefulness, exchanging night for day.

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I have watched woods deer do this, move from sleep into wake, the body rising on four straight legs and simply scampering away. Something always stays behind there among the warm and flattened leaves; I feel it as I take the space, even knowing that the whitetail, sensing my scent, will not rest there again for many days. Now I lie on the bed you have abandoned; a part of you is still there, asleep! More than warmth steals into me as I retrace the paths of your sleep journey: your night’s dreams enter through my eyes. Later at breakfast, when you talk of your dreams, I will nod and fill in fragments that you, in your animal hurry, have forgotten.

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judge’s comments There’s an alertness in the gestures, the movements, of “Dream Walker” that immediately catches my attention. This poem, for all its intensity and economy, takes its time, leaves a lot of space for thinking and feeling and moving on. The real becomes unfamiliar, then familiar-but-changed all over again, in this personal poem that somehow, by the end, seems a kind of waking dream. I can’t quite tell if “Dream Walker” is about distance from or proximity to the beloved — and I like it all the more for that. —Daisy Fried

ABOUT THE JUDGE Daisy Fried lives near the Italian Market, was a staff writer for Philadelphia City Paper in the ’90s and currently reviews poetry books for the New York Times. As a poet, she’s received several prestigious prizes and fellowships (Guggenheim and Pew, among others). Her third collection, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, was released March 10. For more information, go to daisyfried.weebly.com.

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³ I THINK THIS weekend’s second annual Center City Jazz Festival is swell. This year, trombonist Ernest Stuart’s game plan expanded into Fergie’s Pub (which just started Sunday brunch; though maybe they should just stay open from the night before?), MilkBoy and the Arts Bank,where pianist Orrin Evans closes the festivities. Good fest, yes, but I’m miffed at one of its venues: Time.The doubledecker Sansom Street bar, which holds weekly jazz bashes, shuttered one of Philly jazz’s most regularly packed nights — the Back in Time Soul Session Mondays. Doesn’t matter if the audiences were thugs or bugs. It’s about community, one getting smaller every day. Right now, Time’s owners are looking at taking over/making over a purported jazz ristorante at 914 N. Second St. Surely, they want more cred in the jazz community. It’s time to reinstate Back in Time, and let the healing begin. ³ I have loved Keith Brand’s Sunday-morning Sleepy Hollow show on WXPN since he started 25 years ago. (I was a teen intern at the station back when Russell Woessner had that morning shift.) Sleepy Hollow is a mellow mood emanating from a gentle soul. That’s why I was sad to hear that Brand was retiring from radio to focus on, among other things, his transition to becoming chair of Rowan University’s Radio, Television & Film Department. No replacement has been named yet, but so you know, I’m always up at that hour. ³ Speaking of DJs, I found out two things after leaving the “Spring at the Mansion” event at the Philadelphia Art Alliance/Wetherhill Mansion last Friday. One is that the PAA’s Rittenhouse Tavern exec chef Nicholas Elmi is leaving to start his own joint. The other is that DJ and 611 clothing designer/owner Nigel Richards (husband of the “Mansion” event’s boss, Nicole Cashman) has Kickstarted a campaign to produce a men’s fashion collection. ³ The Kandy Project’s Kelicia Pitts hosts a rare solo exhibition by Henry Bermudez at the Crane Arts Building (through June 9, reception tonight). She’s the world’s ultimate model who turned her own life into one giant art project. He’s one of her photographers. Now you know. ³ At the end of April, an alert went up around the Gallery after Philly Chit Chat’s HughE Dillon said that Bloomingdale’s execs had eyeballed the Burlington Coat Factory space. In fact, within the last 10 months, there have been more national-chain-store people checking out the Gallery and its extension shops than there have been shoppers. I’ve been hearing that Bloomies’ rival, theNordstromchain, has been sniffing around the Gallery, too. Waiting to see who sets up shop at 11th and Market is more fun than any soap opera. ³ More about the sad state of the modern soap opera at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

CUE FANFARE: Garrett Brown and Sylvester Stallone on the set of Rocky II. Brown’s demo reel for his new invention the Steadicam involved him chasing his girlfriend up and down the Art Museum steps; director John G. Avildsen saw it and hired him for Rocky. COURTESY GARRETT BROWN

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about this was, unlike most inventions, mine could be demonstrated without giving away how it worked. I could show the results — a reel of impossible shots — and just blow away anybody in Hollywood who knew what was possible and what wasn’t, and give them no clue how it was done. Except that we sent a reel to Stanley Kubrick, very smart guy that he was. He sent back a telex saying, “Yes, this is great and should revolutionize the way films are shot and you can count on me for a customer.” But, he said, “You should be aware there are 14 frames in the middle of your demo that show a shadow on the ground that gives you a very good idea how it worked.” [Laughs.] So we went running into the screening room and sure enough, he was right! We had to clip the 14 frames out of reel.

A talk with Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown. By Bryan Bierman

e doesn’t live in Hollywood and laymen might not know his name, but 71-year-old Philadelphian Garrett Brown is an integral part of the way cinema and televised sports look today — he invented both the Steadicam and the Skycam. Before Brown invented the former in the ’70s, movie-camera movement was restricted to heavy rail systems. The Steadicam, a vest-like stabilizer worn by camera operators, introduced the possibility of free-roaming shots that could never have been done before — like Danny’s tricycle ride in The Shining or Rocky running up the Art Museum steps. (Both scenes were actually filmed by Brown himself.) Earlier this month, Brown was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; we spoke with him about his career, running up the Art Museum steps before it was cool and Stanley Kubrick being a pretty decent guy. ³ ON BEGINNINGS: In 1972, I started doing experiments [on the Steadicam], and had a functional object in 1974. It worked astonishingly well — even the early clumsy, big ones, although they were way too burdensome to ever be commercially successful. I finally went into a hotel for a week and looked at all the drawings over again and forced myself to figure out how to make a smaller, lighter one that could actually handle 35 mm movie cameras.

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³ ON THE ROCKY STEPS: The last shot of that reel was me chasing

my then-girlfriend, now-wife, Ellen, down the Art Museum steps and back up. A lot of people saw that reel; one of them was [John G.] Avildsen, who was setting up Rocky. He found us and said, “Where are those steps and how did you do that?” I ended up, just a few months later, chasing [Sylvester] Stallone up those steps. It was an amazing coincidence. ... They tell me that it’s the second-biggest tourist attraction in Philly. I believe it. Any hour, day or night, and in any weather, which is really a tribute to the whole idea of Rocky. It’s >>> continued on page 20

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When Peter Rowan writes and sings of the bluegrass life in “Keepin’ It Between the Lines (Old School),” he does so with authority. In the mid-’60s, Rowan went from college kid to lead singer for Bill Monroe, the man who invented the genre. In the same song, Rowan ventures a bit further than Big Mon might, singing, “There was a place at the table for when Jesus comes/ But somebody took the table and gone.” Save one traditional song, The Old School (Compass) is all plainspoken Rowan originals, including a tribute to the late, lamented Doc Watson. —Mary Armstrong

Coming-of-age movies inevitably see their protagonists through to the next stage of life, but part of being young is asking questions it takes a lifetime to answer. Packaged by Oscilloscope as a two-disc set, the documentaries Only the Young and Tchoupitoulas capture that feeling of open-ended lyricism, the first by shadowing skaters in a parched Southern California ghost town, the latter trailing kids through what seems to be a single New Orleans night (actually shot over nine months). They’re uncommonly beautiful, practically plotless —Sam Adams and especially resonant as a matched pair.

³ rock/pop Not too much changes for The Boy Least Likely To. Theirs remains a twee fairyland of notebook-doodle cartoon covers, anthropomorphized hearts and cheery cotton-candy wisps of melody. Even when they’re singing about heartbreak, death and existential loneliness — as on a considerable portion of the bleakn-cuddly The Great Perhaps (Rough Trade) — they generally sound like they’ve just been given a jumbo-sized lollipop. —K. Ross Hoffman

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³ electronic Tactile Galactics (Beats in Space) is an apt designation for the psychedelic, electronic disco of L.A.’s Eddie Ruscha, whose productions as Secret Circuit bear some family resemblance to the crisp minimalist precision, saturated color and inviting openness of his pop-artist poppa. Galactic fits that meticulous spin on the nebulous cosmic transmissions of Lindstrøm, Prins Thomas, et al, Tactile sums up the vivid clarity and conspicuous thinginess of his sounds: brisk, brittle, highfrequency percs and wormy, spiraling melodics suspended above chewy, acid-touched basslines. —K. Ross Hoffman

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THE GREAT GATSBY

³ TODD RUNDGREN’S ROOTS are always

showing. For those who love him (and the cult of Runt is a powerful lobby), the ’60s is the era to cherish; that’s when the guitarist moved from the blues and psych-pop he created with Philly bands like Woody’s Truck Stop and the Nazz into blue-eyed soul with a twist. The Upper Darby native developed a large part of his affection for all things R&B from a still-familiar force in this city. “We had a disc jockey by the name of Jerry Blavat who came across as ‘black’ to those radio listeners who didn’t realize that he was this white Jewish-Italian kid from South Philadelphia,” recalls Rundgren. After I reassure him that the Geator is still going, he laughs and says, “No doubt.” As with Blavat, the passionate musicality of R&B, from its hard, shivering rhythms to soft, tender balladry, stayed with Rundgren throughout his career, most notably on hits such as “Real Man” (1975),“The Verb ‘To Love’” (1976), “Can We Still Be Friends?” (1978), and “The Want of a Nail” (1989). “I’ve tended to add something R&B to the proceedings on the assumption that it will make it sound just a little bit more like me,” he says. Yet with his new album, State (Esoteric Antenna), purposely mirroring the cutting-edge soul of his first studio-driven epic, 1973’s A Wizard, A True Star, Rundgren is looking to do more than salt-andpepper the past. He’s focusing on soul-pop with an electro-tech edge. “I wanted to sound — to be — contemporary while still sounding like me,” he says. Runt’s State show will feature electro versions of his hits. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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[ B ] IF YOU’RE ONE to chide Baz Luhrmann for overkill, then you probably also finger-wag frogs for being amphibious. Excess is simply hard-coded into the remarkably unsubtle Aussie’s DNA. But “Bazzing,” which should totally be a term, involves more than just sweeping exteriors and scintillating visuals you can pluck off the screen like ripe fruit. At his best (Romeo + Juliet), Luhrmann is an enchanting revivalist, respecting his source without compromising his own bluster. The Great Gatsby is not his best, but it’s difficult to imagine a contemporary director better suited to take on such a volatile challenge. Tobey Maguire, as F. Scott Fitzgerald stand-in Nick Carraway, brings a clean-shaven calm to his narrator role — he’s comfortable enough beyond his boot-strapping means to tuck us into his breast pocket as he hovers in the estate of his cousin Daisy (Carey Mulligan) and her jock-itch Yalie husband, Tom (Joel Edgerton). Then there’s Mr. Jay Gatsby himself (Leonardo DiCaprio), introduced at one of his famous blowouts with fireworks bursting on every side of his gleaming, tuxedo-framed grin. (Bazzed!) The more Nick gets to know Gatsby, the more he realizes his limitless West Egg neighbor is stuck on one thing his new money can’t buy: the unhappily married Daisy, with whom he carried out a romance before leaving for the Great War. Luhrmann treats the many locales essential to Fitzgerald’s American tragedy as demarcated playgrounds, gilded CGI constructs that rattle with the choreographed cadence of a stage-show chorus that knows it’s being watched. This self-awareness is of a piece with Luhrmann’s sonic selections, an ambitious soundtrack curated by Jay-Z that works more often than not. The movie’s long and sometimes long-winded, and its glitz has obvious effects on the novel’s allegorical value. But anyone upset with Gatsby over its lavish come-ons should remember that Gatsby himself relates to the world the same way. —Drew Lazor

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THE GANG’S ALL HERE: Hollywood darlings Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio glitz up Fitzgerald’s classic tale with a little help from Jay-Z.

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GARAGE ROCKS ³ ENJOYABLE EVENINGS OF theater are common, and more than adequate. Rarer, however, are the what-the-fuck plays, those experiences that explode instead of unfold, that follow us home and slap us upside the head while we’re trying to sleep. These are playwright Bruce Graham’s specialty. Graham is in the midst of a rich and prolific period of work — he’s had an impressive output of quality and quantity over the past five years, including recent Barrymore-winners Something Intangible and Any Given Monday, Jefferson Award-winner The Outgoing Tide and last summer’s Mr. Hart and Mr. Brown. Nevertheless, taking nothing away from those plays, he’s eclipsed them all with North of the Boulevard, premiered by Theatre Exile. This harrowing drama — infused with Graham’s trademark earthy humor, which in the first act is more outrageous and profane than ever — confronts the vanishing middle class, slowly being squeezed out of existence by a down economy and widespread corruption. It’s December 2008, and Trip (Scott Greer, who, like Graham, hits new heights here) is watching his life crumble like the wall of his struggling independent garage, which has a rogue tree growing through it. (Matt Saunders’ set ironically reverts Exile’s Studio X in South Philly back to its prior incarnation as a garage, complete with a partially disassembled Nissan Sentra center stage.) With his work troubles and all his other woes — disgruntled wife work-

ing retail, son beat up by black toughs at school, customers who don’t pay — Trip still believes in working through “proper channels,” which lead nowhere. Three friends, drawn with quirky detail by Graham and convincingly portrayed, offer solutions. Freeloading senior Zee, played by too-seldom-seen actor Bill Rahill, rails against the world while indulging in Trip’s booze. Early on, the most outrageous lines are his: “Butchy would crawl over his mother’s casket,” he says of a late local politician, “to fuck his sister.” His succinct political views: “I’d let Palin blow me.” More brews than laughs, however. Trip’s best friend, Bear (Lindsay Smiling), is a black security guard who distrusts the recently elected Obama, and fears that he’ll soon be assassinated. Brian McCann plays Zee’s hapless son Larry, a nurse who can’t live up to his late brother’s success, in a startling performance from an actor who usually plays erudite Brits. All three are fueled by escape schemes: thoroughly fuck-it cynic Zee drifts into dreamland on the perfume of a stripper’s used thong; Larry wants to run for mayor and bust the corrupt regime; Bear hopes to score some quick getaway money through a cache of McDonald’s Monopoly game pieces. Trip’s dream of moving just a few miles away to a safer and cleaner neighborhood north of the boulevard (as this is set in Northeast Philly, that’s Roosevelt Boulevard) requires either a windfall or the sacrifice of his independence for a Pep Boys position. These fascinatingly real and rough characters’ bickering and

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twitchy frustration builds comically through the first act, then Graham gutkicks us right before intermission (no spoilers here). Matt Pfeiffer’s well-tuned production shifts into a new gear, as circumstances offer a fresh, crazy but finally plausible get-out-of-hell opportunity. Trip’s innate nobility emerges — “it’s not right,” he protests, those three words bearing a lifetime’s faith — but a no-strings-attached payday is hard to resist. A powerfully real debate emerges. Can poor and desperate people afford a conscience? Is revenge our right, or does it turn us into our oppressors? Can we ever grow beyond racial fear? Are we doomed to repeat our parents’ mistakes? It’s not some egghead discussion, however; these characters face life-and-death decisions and a ticking clock, an exciting and expertly orchestrated dramatic situation. The both inevitable and frustrating resolution makes North of the Boulevard a play that sticks in the head, the heart and the gut long afterward. (m_cofta@citypaper.net) ✚ Through May 19, $32-$37, Studio X, 1340 S. 13th

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KISS OF THE DAMNED | B

“Unfilmable” is an increasingly popular buzz word in today’s adaptation game, a warning label slapped onto source material that’s simply too dense, too complicated or too outlandish to work onscreen. In the case of Salman Rushdie’s mythic magical-realism opus Midnight’s Children, Deepa Mehta half-sheds the albatross, but she just can’t tighten the screws all the way. A multigenerational epic dissecting India’s national struggles through the frame of family, the story begins with the whimsical courtship of Aadam (Rajat Kapoor) and Naseem (Shabana Azmi), who have three daughters, one of whom (Shahana Goswami) gives birth to eventual protagonist Saleem (Satya Bhabha) at the exact moment of India’s sanctioned emancipation from Great Britain. Except not really: Midwife Mary (Seema Biswas), in an act of class defiance, swaps the well-off clan’s infant with Shiva (Siddharth), the child of a poor street performer, forever linking the two men in a decades-long struggle for independence and identity. It’s hard to think Rushdie, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mehta and narrates the 146-minute marathon, is fully pleased with how the more fantastical elements of his tale translated. Saleem, with one sniff of his prominent nose, can draw together a mystical caucus of every gifted kid born in lockstep with Indian autonomy — “Midnight’s Children.” It’s an imaginative storytelling device in each of our heads, but this adaptation deems a lax sepia overlay and some whooshy sound effects to be an acceptable translation. It’s not necessarily unfilmable, but it shouldn’t have been filmed like this. —Drew Lazor (Ritz Five)

NO ONE LIVES | BTo reveal whether there is truth in titling would spoil the ending of the lean, mean and very bloody thriller No One Lives, so curious genre fans should see it for themselves. In

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The daughter of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, writer-director Xan Cassavetes has underground and art cinema in her blood. Now, her debut narrative feature reveals that she also has a taste for blood. Kiss of the Damned luxuriates in the diaphanous surfaces, otherworldly Goth beauty and surreal dream atmospheres of European filmmakers (like Jean Rollin and Roger Vadim) who dwelled among the sexily vampiric in the 1960s. Cassavetes’ previous film was Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, a documentary about the early L.A. pay-cable station devoted to reverentially airing art films in the late ’70s. The cinephilia engendered by seeing those masterworks at an early age has obviously stuck with Cassavetes, whose vampires watch Buñuel films on TV and haunt video stores, a location now almost as mythical as the creatures themselves. Djuna (Joséphine de La Baume) isolates herself from the temptation of humanity until she meets chiseled screenwriter Paolo (Milo Ventimiglia), whom she transforms during a night of shackled desire. She ushers him into a network of high-society nosferati who pass around quality faux-plasma at backstage soirées like vintage wine, but her sister Mimi (Roxane Mesquida), who’s not so careful about what (or who) she drinks, soon arrives to disrupt this cultivated coexistence. Cassavetes vividly captures the feel of her influences, from the old-world glamour to the off-kilter rhythm of the cast’s mish-mosh of accents, crafting a lyrical nocturne with a distinctively impassioned pulse. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)

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this excessive horror flick Driver (Luke Evans) and Betty (Laura Ramsey) stop at a hotel en route to an undisclosed destination. There is some tension in the couple’s relationship, but it pales in comparison to the drama that transpires when they are captured by a gang of local thieves. At this point, No One Lives introduces a twist it relishes: Driver is far more dangerous than his tormentors. Showing an aptitude for killing in creative ways (we won’t spoil anything), he is soon splashing in buckets of blood and piling up bodies. Although the film is gleefully over-the-top at times — cue needless catfight — Evans is appropriately sinister and relentless. Too bad the lame script sabotages what could have been a decent morality play about

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✚ CONTINUING 42 | BBrian Helgeland’s Jackie Robinson biopic is predicated on the baseball legend having, as Harrison Ford’s cartoonishly crusty character puts it, “the guts not to fight back.” That translates into lots of seething in noble silence while racial epithets are hurled in Robinson’s direction. Early in the film, the tense yet muted approach is refreshing in comparison to the constant insistence on inspiration endemic to most hagiographies. But as the Dodgers get closer to the pennant, the tension dissipates and Helgeland’s reserve settles into a tepid simmer. The orchestra ultimately swells and bases are run in ridiculously protracted slow motion, but there are a few unexpected diversions on the way to that inevitable destination. —SB (Wide release)

THE ANGELS’ SHARE | BThe title of Ken Loach’s latest refers to the small percentage of alcohol that evaporates out of the barrel as it ferments. While The Angels’ Share demonstrates the concern with the U.K.’s downtrodden that marks most of Loach’s films, it seems to dissolve into the ether compared to his higher-proof work. Following a vicious fight, Robbie (Paul Brannigan) is sentenced to community service, a reprieve due in part to the imminent birth of his son. Stuck in a brutal section of Glasgow where violent grudges fester for generations,

Robbie is intent on reforming but trapped by circumstance.The chance discovery of his keen nose for whiskey seems to offer an unlikely opportunity for escape to a more elite environment. But at this point, the film makes its first (but not last) abrupt tonal shift, turning into a breezy semi-documentary on the world of whiskey. Loach stands by impassively through it all, imparting no real urgency to the climactic heist. It all goes down smooth, a wee dram for the septuagenarian social realist. —SB (Ritz Five)

an ideal successor to Iron Man constant Jon Favreau. But while the Lethal Weapon brain smudged his fingerprints all over the third, probably-not-last Tony Stark saga, the proceedings are excessive. Sure, it’s a little shortsighted to chide an Iron Man movie for bombast, but Black, working off a script he also co-wrote, detonates so many unbelieva-bombs that any semblance of decorum is shredded. While most of our heroes suffer from some form of PTSD, Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) might be the only one who gets legit panic attacks — he’s knotted up from The Avengers, of

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP | C Robert Redford may view The Company You Keep as the next logical notch in his late-career lefty directorial belt, but it meanders into what’s closer to a pseudo-political Wild Hogs. The action actually starts off spirited, with Sharon Solarz (Susan Sarandon) deliberately setting herself up for arrest by FBI stiff Cornelius (Terrence Howard). A nondescript mother to most, we learn that Solarz is a former Weather Underground operative, on the lam for decades for a bank robbery gone bad. Albany beat reporter Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) senses more to the story, leading him to the revelation that well-liked, recently widowed local lawyer Jim Grant (Redford) is actually the assumed identity of Nick Sloan, another infamous radical implicated in the crime. As Sloan scrambles to clear his name, tapping into a network of associates that reads like the guest list at Gene Hackman’s last cookout, we’re pummeled with dragging dialogue, inessential twists and a preponderance of nostalgic lamentations. —DL (Ritz Five, Rave)

IRON MAN 3 | C An action-flick outlier with a knack for smartassery, Shane Black seems like

course, and it’s affecting his relationship with the exasperated Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). Things take a crappier turn once cunning Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), Stark’s greatest nemesis in the comics, begins broadcasting terroristic messages on national TV. There are some striking SFX at work here, and Black does well keeping Stark’s motives congruous with past installments. It’s just that this is the super-sequel equivalent of ordering a single shot and receiving a quintuple. —DL (Wide release)

THE LORDS OF SALEM | BIndustrial-metal auteur Rob Zombie has made a surprisingly successful transition to film, but he’s spent most of the last decade rebooting the Halloween franchise, with a pit stop on

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CSI: Miami. But The Lords of Salem isn’t a return to form so much as to Zombie’s roots, back before the psychotronic splatter that inspired House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects. (There’s even a visual shout-out to George Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon.) In essence, Salem is an updated riff on Village of the Damned, with atmosphere by way of Coffin Joe. The director’s wife, Sheri Moon Zombie, plays a nighttime DJ who receives a mysterious slab of vinyl credited to the titular band; its looping drone instills a sort of hypnosis/possession in all who hear it. When Moon is on the mic with her fellow jockeys, there’s a loving ease to their cross talk, but the movie’s spooky mechanics are flecked with rust. Once the latex wrinkles and witch-trial flashbacks start, any sense of fright goes up in smoke. —Sam Adams (Wide release)

MUD | BA Mark Twain-inspired pulp fairy tale, Mud is a story of doomed love through the eyes of an adolescent boy who wants more than anything to believe in a romantic ideal. Matthew McConaughey sports crooked teeth and skin cured like jerky as Mud, a drifter whom two young Arkansas boys discover living in a boat stuck in the branches of a tree following a flood. One of the boys, Ellis (Tye Sheridan), has just learned that his parents are divorcing at the same time that he’s suffering the pangs of a first love. Through his eyes, the reality of his elders looks spoiled and rotten, whereas Mud’s desperate attempts to evade his pursuers and reunite with his Juniper (Reese Witherspoon) seems the only true romance to be found. Director/writer Jeff

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Michael Bay’s accomplished many things in his double middle finger salute of a career, but he’s never quite captured weird. Man, has he made up for lost time with Pain & Gain, a paean to a real-life South Florida crime spree that irresponsibly makes light of people getting chopped apart by psychopaths. A fast-talking personal trainer upset with his limited earning power, Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) wants more. No longer content to keep his ambitions legal, he recruits fellow juiceheads Adrian (Anthony Mackie) and Paul (Dwayne Johnson) to kidnap jerkoff rich guy client Victor (Tony Shalhoub) and shake him down for all his cash. Fast money, drugs, steroids, paranoia — none of that mixes well, and the trio’s descent into madness, and eventually murder, is plucked for laughs throughout. —DL (Wide release)

THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES | B

Graced by sleek, clean white curves and gorgeous digital vistas, Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion is a stunning iApocalypse. But like the director’s previous film, the Daft Punk video passing as a sequel Tron: Legacy, the film is vapidly pretty, utterly empty of ideas beyond, “That would look neat.” The plot seems as if someone dropped their prized collection of dystopian scifi scripts and the pages got shuffled to-

An ambitious drama that hits more than it misses, Derek Cianfrance’s follow-up to Blue Valentine is to 1950s melodrama what Cloud Atlas was to 1950s sci-fi. Opening with an unbroken shot of the tattooed back of Luke (Ryan Gosling) as he moves through a circus and into a motorcycle cage, The Place Beyond the Pines announces itself as a death- or at least convention-defying feat, span-

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min.): A young Diane Lane and Laura Dern start a punk-rock band and members of The Clash and The Sex Pistols cameo. Presented by Ladyfest. Go ’head grrrl. Fri., May 10, 8 p.m., $9. Antonio Gaudi (1984, Japan, 72 min.): Hiroshi Teshigahara’s film is a love letter from one visual poet to another. Sat., May 11, 7 p.m., $9. Chinese Take-Away (2011, Argentina/Spain, 93 min.): A shop owner meets Jun, a Chinese man lost in Buenos Aires with an address tattooed on his arm. Tue., May 14, 7 p.m., free with RSVP.

RITZ AT THE BOURSE 400 Ranstead St., 215-440-1181, landmarktheaters.com. Ghostbusters (1984, U.S., 105 min.): The Ivy League’s loss was your TV-saturated childhood’s gain. Eat your heart out, Columbia University Dept. of Psychology. Fri., May 10, midnight, $10.

SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER 4212 Chestnut St. third floor, 215222-4201, scribe.org. TEZA (2008, Ethiopia/Germany/France, 140 min.): Haile Gerima’s latest focuses on the undertold story of Africa’s brain drain through an Ethiopian doctor’s perilous return home. Fri., May 10, 7 p.m., $5.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Black Box/White Cube:A multi-feature of German experimental filmmaker Harun Farocki’s recent work. Thu., May 9, 7 p.m., $9. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982, U.S., 87

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Ghostface has been plenty prolific in recent years, but his latest project is a particularly enjoyable one. A full-on collaboration with composer/producer/cratedigging sample scholar Adrian Younge, Twelve Reasons to Die (Soul Temple) is a beautifully conceptualized narrative rap opus — doubling as a series of comic books — that pits Ghost’s lively yarn-spinning against sinister beatscapes, steeped in ’70s Italian film soundtracks and psychedelic soul from Younge’s band Venice Dawn. The openly referential but neatly self-contained narrative is the stuff of Wu Tang/Marvel comic-book dreams, recycling familiar blaxploitation archetypes and reinventing the Tony Starks/Ghostface personae in a tale of mafiosi warfare, double-crossing, reincarnation and sweet posthumous revenge

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PIE ASPIRATIONS PIZZERIA BEDDIA | 115 E. Girard Ave., pizzeriabeddia.com. Hours: Wed.-Sat., 5:30-10:30 p.m. Pizzas, $18-$25.

³ LIKE HIS DOUGH, Joe Beddia’s designs on pizzeria ownership have been long fermenting. The lanky pizzaiolo grew up in Lancaster with two uncles who owned pie shops and a grandmother who baked bread for fried-pepper sandwiches. He moved to Philly to brew at Yards, an education in fermentation that dovetailed with a budding passion for pizza. Beddia consumed books about pizza and paid tribute at the hallowed temples in Phoenix, Brooklyn and Naples. He staged at Osteria, moved to Wisconsin to make pies at the famed Pizzeria Brutta and came back to do the same at Zavino. But it was a trip to Japan, to brew beer with the gods at Hitachino, that crystallized his ambitions. “I knew I didn’t want to run a restaurant. In Japan I saw all these little one-person operations, everyone concentrating on one thing,” Beddia says. “I love the idea of that, mastering one thing.” And that’s exactly what Beddia is doing at his eponymous pizzeria, where the dough ferments 36 to 48 hours and the extra becomes strong Italian sourdough loaves baked on Wednesdays. Behind the counter, Beddia works his craft. The kitchen eats up more than half this corner-plot space, leaving only a few sunny windowsills, a selfserve water canteen and pair of butcher-block pub tables. It’s BYOB and BYOC. The “C” is for chairs. The lack of stools doesn’t bother me — I’m the kind of person who stands at a bar — but I could see how it might bug others. Beddia might also want to consider seats for lawsuit prevention; his pizzas are so knee-weakeningly good, twice I almost plummeted to the floor. Only two or three pies are offered nightly, including the mainstay red No.1 pie, with its fresh and dried mozzarella, Old Gold (a local aged Gouda whose sharpness stands in for Parm) and deeply crimson, crushed-Jersey-tomato base. “I thought, ‘What’s the most Italian thing I could do?’ And it was to use tomatoes from New Jersey instead of ones from Pompeii,” Beddia says. House-picked Serrano chilies are a nice touch for acid and heat. The No. 2 is Beddia’s white, a canvas of rich local cream and mozzarella accessorized seasonally. I got ramps, kale, bacon — and tinfoil to take home the extra. As I left I got a heartfelt thanks from Beddia, who bids each customer arrivaderci. He almost glows with gratitude. We should be the ones thanking him. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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SALT AND TIME Three average Joes are banking on bacon. By Shaun Brady

hen Bryan Cohen moved back to Lansdale from Ohio in 2010, he was simply looking for a nice suburban neighborhood where he could raise his kids. It wasn’t until he began to smell the smoke wafting from his neighbors’ yards that he realized he’d lucked into a rabidly barbecue-centric corner of suburbia. “The way we got connected was providence,” Cohen says, leaning against a rack filled with dry rubs in the MontCo shop of the neighbors’ new enterprise, Bespoke Bacon. “We’re all tortured foodies. All three of us not only like food, but we want to make something awesome More on: and different. I could have bought a house anywhere, and I buy a house next to two guys who love food as much as I do.” Cohen’s house directly abuts Kevin Weidamoyer’s — they’ve cut a hole in their shared fence to allow their kids easier access to each other’s yards. Third partner Brian Wolfinger lives three doors down, and once the three of them got together it didn’t take long before the juices started flowing. “It was maybe the second or third time I met Brian that we sat down and accidentally came up with the idea for the company,” Cohen recalls. “The three of us were sitting on our friend’s back porch drinking beer at his son’s birthday party, and Brian said, ‘I

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want to make some bacon.’” The trio started brainstorming recipes and taste-testing them on family and friends; by their second hundred-pound batch of pork bellies, they were receiving offers to buy the savory results. Bespoke Bacon’s website went up last October, while the nascent business was still being run out of their homes. In March, they shifted operations to a 400-square-foot space in a former meat-processing facility in Telford, where they share cooler space with a butcher shop. “We had dates where our wives would come over, the kids would be playing, and three or four of us would be standing over the table slicing stuff up. It really is the essence of a homegrown business,” Cohen says, casting a glance around the shop. “The wives don’t come up here anymore. This is more of a man cave.” Bespoke Bacon gets its name from their made-to-order attitude, emphasizing the company’s artisanal MORE FOOD AND approach and ability to custom-design DRINK COVERAGE flavors. Not everyone quite gets the name. AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / Some have misread it as “Bes’ Poke,” a M E A LT I C K E T. drawling approximation of “Best Pork” — a misinterpretation that the partners don’t mind. The company sources its pork bellies from family-owned farms within a 100-mile radius of Philadelphia, unless they receive special requests for specific breeds. All of their bacon is dry-cured, as opposed to the wet-cure method used by major manufacturers in which a brine is injected into the meat, speeding the process. Once the cure is applied, the pork ages for seven to 10 days, then is coldsmoked over charcoal or wood for about eight hours to impart the smoke flavor without fully cooking the meat. >>> continued on adjacent page

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“Bacon in and of itself is incredibly easy to make,” Cohen says. “You basically need salt and time.” What sets Bespoke’s bacon apart, they say, is their reliance on the traditional dry-curing method and their flavors. They currently offer a dozen variants, from basic cures to Jamaican jerk, honey apple, Szechuan and “Volcano,” which combines the three hottest peppers known to man. (That last one was designed for a group of U.S. Marshals who were looking for something more scorching than Bespoke’s jalapeño-cilantro flavor.) They’re constantly looking for new flavor combinations (“I made a tequila one that was horrible,” Cohen shrugs) and uses for their own product — Weidamoyer suggests the Bloody Mary flavor for BLTs. They’ve also recently started offering pancetta and guanciale, and hope to add a curing chamber for salami and other Italian cured meats. They’ve teamed up with their neighboring business, Back Home Butcher Shop, to offer a bacon burger with Bespoke’s bacon mixed into the patties. Prism Brewing in North Wales has created a chocolate stout using their bacon, which Bespoke has then turned into a bacon jam. Next month, they’ll offer a course at Audrey Claire’s Cook on basic meat curing and recipes utilizing bacon. “Most people who eat bacon eat it in the morning for breakfast,” Cohen says. “That just means there’s two other meals where you’re not eating bacon.” Family men with day jobs (Cohen manages web development for a pharmaceutical company, Weidamoyer is a tree surgeon and stay-at-home dad, Wolfinger is a VP at a digital-forensics firm), the Bespoke team splits the difference between food snobs and six-packers. “I’m the average Joe,” Weidamoyer says, gesturing to his T-shirt and jeans. “The other day I had to wear a suit and it had my senior-prom ticket in the pocket. So we’re reaching out to everybody.” The obstacle for most average Joes, they realize, is price. They offer their bacon for $10.99 a pound, a steep increase over the supermarket variety. “Most people don’t have a brand preference for bacon,” Cohen admits. “Ask somebody what their favorite bacon is, and it’s whatever’s cheapest. You can get two pounds for six bucks, and it might be the crappiest bacon you’ve ever had, but it’s still bacon — it’s like pizza, it’s still good. But we want to be like a microbrew of bacon.” There’s a camaraderie that characterizes the Bespoke atmosphere, one which has simply transferred the backyard barbecue into a small industrial facility. Grunge from the ’90s plays from an iPhone, while the company’s T-shirts reference the latest YouTube craze or make smirking puns like “Bacon Gives Me a Lardon.” “We’re doing this because we enjoy it and because we’re three passionate food guys,” Cohen says. “We don’t have to pay the mortgage with the money we make here.” “Once it stops being fun, that’s when it’s work,” Weidamoyer adds. “And we don’t want to work.” (s_brady@citypaper.net)

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11, noon-5 p.m., free Âł Philadelphia has got sister cities in Japan, Korea, Italy, Poland, Cameroon and Russia â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and on Saturday, you can get a little taste of all of them at Sister Cities Park. The afternoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schedule is packed with traditional dance and musical performances, language lessons and cooking demos from sister-city chefs. While the festival is free, admission to the wine garden will set you back $10; it offers tastings of local wines from Paradocx and Black Walnut Winery. Sister Cities Park, 18th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway, sistercitiespark.org. Fourth Annual Hawthornes IPA Block Party Sat.,

May 11, 2-8 p.m., pay as you go Âł If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re starting to notice a bit of an outdoor-drinking theme here, get used to it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all blue skies, street food and stoop beers as far as the eye can see. On Saturday, join your Bella Vista neighbors on Hawthornesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (proverbial) stoop and celebrate summery IPAs in grand fashion. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be pouring 24 hoppy specimens at five bucks a pop, including Russian River Blind Pig and Hill Farmstead George. Think block-party fare like Mexican street corn and chili-spiked waffles with fried chicken. Cash only. Hawthornes Cafe, 738 S. 11th St., 215-627-3012, hawthornecafe.com. (carly@citypaper.net)

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To those stupid bitches getting on the fucking trains in any town and fucking standing at the door so nobody can get on or fucking get off. Move the fuck out the damn way. I was getting on the train and this stupid ass bitch was standing in the fucking door with her stinking underarms like someone wanted to smell that shit at 7:30 in the fucking am. You dumb bitch did you ever hear of some fucking deoderant or how about moving out the fucking way. Then you try to get out of another person’s way and then bam you are standing in front of another stupid ass acting like they are crazy...spread the fuck out already...I hate when people play fucking games...I hope all of you are reading this..and fucking learn to spread the fuck out and give someone some fucking room already... especially if the train isn’t crowded... of this device showed that the telemarketers have figured out a way to get around that too! If you take a look at the do-not-call law, you will realize how useless it really is. There are so many exemptions to the law that it is a waste of time. Some of the exemptions are....company’s you already do business with, plus ALL of their subsidiaries no matter how remote from the mother company. If I do business with a company that makes donuts, I will also get calls from one of their subsidiaries that makes toilet seats and it is perfectly legal. Company’s calling for donations for just about any cause are exempt. Political calls are exempt., and

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On behalf of the whole neighborhood. I’d like to thank you for bantering on your stoop at 4am on Monday morning. Nothing rocks me to sleep like bedtime stories about workout routine and your girlfriend’s ass.

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8X E Walnut Ln. 4br/2ba $950 Fenced yard, w/d. 610-834-9978

YORSHIRE TERRIER Designer Pups $750 717-951-9582

W. Phila. Apts for 62 & older, brand new eff,1 & 2BR units. Call 215.386.4791

GERMANTOWN 2BR, 2BA $650 276-307-6160 KNOX ST 2br $700/2 mo dep, 1 mo rent + elec & gas. 267-338-9870

Looking for mix male over 2 yrs Mastiff, Boxer or Bulldog 215.900.3238

1201 W. Chelten Ave. 1BR $635+utils . Large, 2mo. sec., avail. now. 215.287.1303 1414 W. 71st Ave 1br $625 incl utils. Close to trans & shopping. 215-574-2111

4500 Frankford Ave. Effic. $490 2nd floor, no pets. Call 386-314-3550 Wilmont & Ditman 3BR/1BA $875 W/D, fridge, sec. 8 ok. 215-632-5763

5846 N. Marvine 1br $600+utils renovated, close to trans (215)480-6460 English Bulldog Pups pedigree, reg, dewormed. Vet Chked. 215-696-5832

83xx Michener Ave 2br 1ba lg LR & DR $750 + sec & 1st & last mos. 215-920-5097

Temple U Campus - Studio $550 & up. Utilities included, Call John at 215-236-1612 or 302-345-6334

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

7300 Ruskin 2BR/1BA $700+utils. Dining area, LR, kitch. 610-908-9330

West Oak Lane 3BR $890/mo Remod Kit & Ba 1+1 move in 215.477.5583

Apartment Homes $650 - $995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

W. Logan St 1Br $499 + UTILS 3rd Flr, Carpet, Pets, 2+1 to move in 215.471.1742

Lawncrest 533 McKinley St. Large 1BR 1BA. $575 per mo. Must see! Call 267-255-0858

Mayfair - 3200 McGee 1BR $750+utils 1st, last, sec. dep, W/D in unit, close to transp. 215-745-8900 / 267-402-6363

YEADON Area Beaut/Upgraded 1 & 2 BR W/D, Spring Special 215-681-1723

Cheltenham TWNP. 2Br/1Ba $800/Mo LaMott Section 1Fl. 1st/Last/Sec Dep. Available June 1st Call 215.540.9183.

SWEDESBORO LG 2BR $890+ util lndry rm, nice, avail 6/1 856-466-4002

16th & Lehigh, 21st & York, 22nd & Allegheny - $325/mo. SSI ok. 215-485-8815 17th & Erie/20th & Erie: Furnished Rooms $100/wk. SSI ok 267.690.0204 2420 N Chadwich St & 2549 N. 16th St. New reno rms, $85/wk. 484.885.6903 2764 N Hemberger Room for rent 350+/Mo, No sec, Call 267-257-3610 507 E. Walnut Lane: $110/wk, utils incl, No sec Dep, Large, Furn 215.760.0206 56xx Wyalusing Ave. $100-$110/wk. Furn. Lg Clean Rms. 215-917-1091

Broad & Lehigh & G’Town Move-in Special, Lg furn rms, Cbl Ready 215.510.0928 G’Town Mens hsng. & emply. program, Meals incl., SSI ok. Call 267-586-8350 Temple Hosp 4 Rms $400-$500/Mo Utils Incl, Kit, Full Ba, SSI/SSD Ok 267.242.2127

11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BLDG Single rms $400, double rooms $600. Rms w/ba $500, Rms w/ba& kit $600. Fully furn w/ full size beds, fridge, & dresser. Couples welcome! SSI/SSD/VA, Payee services, Public assistance ok. Also SW, S., W., N. 267-707-6129 18th & Erie (37xx Gratz) LARGE, clean room. Share kitchn & bthrm. Close to subway. $125/wk Call 484-318-1359 20th & Allegheny: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, A/C. 267-331-5382 20th and Girard, 2 furn. rooms for rent $100/wk, $250 move in. 267-239-4197 23xx Lehigh, $330-$350/mo, kitch priv, income verif./ref’s req. 267-319-4132 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $375/mo. Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 33rd & Ridge Ave. $100-125/week. Large renovated furnished rooms near Fairmount Park & bus depot. 215-317-2708 45xx N. 17th St. - Brand new clean rms, single occupant $350/mo. 267-979-4214 47xx Salem St 3 rooms $425 -$350 Shared Kit/Ba, Near Trans 267.206.2701 51XX Haverford Ave. $400 Big, clean, carpeted, near EL, all utils incl. SSI OK. Drug & Drama Free. Call Now! 267-436-1432 53xx N. Broad St. Rm & Apt. Full fridge, 27" TV, AC. Call 267-496-6448 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $115$145wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 652 Brooklyn St. Furn, 3rd flr., no kitch., $125 wk; $375 move in. 215-892-7198

A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N. & W. Phila. $85-$125/wk. Call 267-760-3148 Apt. for rent 60th & Kingsessing 1+1. Rms for rent share kitch. & bath, $375 & up. 51st & Kingsessing, 52nd & Girard, 15th & Federal, 63rd & Arch. SSI ok. Call 267-888-1754 Art Museum Move-in special luxury rms $450/mo. SSI welcome. 267-632-3286

Broad & Hunting Park & all other areas $75-$125/wk. Newly renov., great transp., SSI OK. Call 267-588-5517

Broad/Olney furn refrig micro priv ent $115/$145wk sec $200 215.572.8833 Broad & Somerville clean, furn, newly decorated, near transp. 215-455-7488 BROAD St: Move in Special $190, Large clean furn rms, w/w crpt, 215.681.3896 Erie Ave. Nice, furn, fridge, micro, quiet, $90wk, $270 sec dep (609) 703-4266

18xx S. 5th St. 2BR/1BA $850 New reno, W/D, sec 8 ok. 215-748-3076

69th & Elmwood 2BR House Sec 8 ok, Reno, must see. 215.885.1700

Temp Hosp area 4br sngl fam Avail Now Move in Special 215-386-4791 or 4792

55xx Devon St. 3BR/1.5BA $675+utils $2,025 move-in. Call 215-242-6910 Ashmead St. & Germantown Ave. 3BR VA and Section 8 ok. Call 215-475-0413

Acura 2003 Luxury 4 dr, 3.2 TL (Sport Edition) with sunroof, super nice condition, quick prvt sale, $6,975. 215-922-5342

7xx E Allegheney 3BR/1BA $795 sec 8 ok, no pets. Call 215-539-7866 Kensington 4BR/1.5BA house. $800 p/m. Section 8 accepted. Freshly painted, hardwood floor. 267-210-5810

BMW 330xi 2003 $7,950 Loaded, sport pack, 100K. 215-237-0109

Chevy Silverado 2007 $5,500 WT series, V6, 1 owner. 267-408-4034

Chrysler 300 2006 $12,500 38K MI, RWD, V6, 215.768.8854 After 5P Ford Fusion SEL 2008 $15,000 Low miles 12K, leather, power sunroof, alloy wheels, rear spoiler. 610-246-6063

Jeep Grand Cherokee 2005 $8,850 4x4, 70K, 1 owner. 215.237.0109

VOLVO V70 2002 $4,850 fully loaded, inspect, 108k 215-416-7005

low cost cars & trucks Buick LeSabre Ltd 1997 $2,650 2nd owner., exl cnd. Call 610-667-4829

4400 Frankford Ave 3BR + Effics $500+ 1 mo sec dep, newly reno 215.760.9248

20XX E. Arizona 2Br/1.5Ba $1200+Utils New Reno Feat New Kit W/Granite Counter, HDWD Flrs, Fridge, W/D, Central Air, Pvt yard, Near trans, Mins from CC, Avail Mid May $75 App Fee Tony 215.435.2457

1xx Albanus St. 3BR/1BA $1,000 Sec. 8 ok. Newly renov. 267-992-3233 3133 Longshore Ave. 3br/1.5ba $1,250 Hdwd flrs., big kitchen, 1 car garage, front yard, 1400 sq. ft. Call (267) 402-0106 81XX Terry St 2br/1Ba $875 + Utils HDWD Flrs, Fin Bsmt, Fridge W/D, C/A $75 App Fee avail 6/1 Tony 215.435.2457 MAYFAIR 3BR/2.5BA $1250+utils Close to transp., W/D, full bsmt., parking, patio. Call 215-947-2805 8am-8pm Tacony 2BR/1BA $800 Section 8 accepted. Completely Renovated. Everything new. 267-210-5810

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Cadillac Seville 1978 $4900 44K mi, original, (302)333-3677 Chevy Astro 2004 Mini cargo van. Fully equip, AC, light commercial $3985 TODAY. Corporate Disposal. 215-922-2165

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FORD 500 2006 $3400/obo 1 owner, runs great, 197K, Insp. 215.740.7911 Ford Explorer Luxury XLS 4 Dr 2002 Fully equipped A/C too nice to trade in Senior Citizen will sac less than book value $3675 not exaggerated 215.627.1814 Ford Explorer XLT 2004 $3,495 4x4, new tires, gorgeous. 610-524-8835

Ford Taurus SE 2006 $2750 4 door, loaded, clean, CD, 215-518-8808

Mercedes Benz Luxry 300 SE 1994 $4975 4 dr w sun roof, positively flawless, senior citzen, sac substantially less than book value, deluxe sound sys 215-922-5342

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282 S. 56th St. 4BR/1.5BA $950 1453 N. 60th St. 4BR/1BA $950 Call 267-784-4500 or 267-767-1794

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