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Aida Guzman, seen on a viral video being struck by Lt. Jonathan Josey last year, reaches a $75,000 settlement with the city. Says Guzman: “This’ll buy sooooo much silly string.”

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Donovan McNabb says he will retire as a member of the Eagles. “I just wanted to quit on Philadelphia one last time.”

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Former Flyer Riley Cote announces he will host the second annual Hemp Heals Music Festival at Penn’s Landing in September. “Wait,what? Uh,Riley,you’re the bouncer. This thing’s gonna be like Half-Baked meets Roadhouse.”

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Shootings by Philadelphia Police resulting in death or injury are at a 10-year high.“We can do better,” say cops, in a tone that’s hard to read.

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The Old City Civic Association votes to dissolve, citing a lack of funds. There’s no money like old money, and apparently there is no old money.

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Members of local Tea Party groups say they’ve been harassed by the IRS. And there is evidence they’re right. Bell Curve is questioning everything right now.

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City Councilman Mark Squilla proposes extending horse-drawn-carriage work days by two-and-a-half hours in the summer.“You will hear from our union head,” says carriage horse rep Daisy. “Check your pillow in the morning.”

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Animal-rights group the Peace Advocacy Network counters Squilla’s proposal by suggesting the city get rid of its horsedrawn carriages altogether. And the National Centaur Committee needs to pick a side already.

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Police arrest three at a New Jersey senior center on drug and prostitution charges. Well, it is the oldest profession.

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Students march on Broad Street to protest the Philadelphia School District’s budget and program cuts. Most of the protesters agree:These flash mobs are getting lamer and lamer.

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TEST DRIVES: At a recent free mobile screening, (from left) Ta-Wanda Preston and Gladys Thomas tend to Danielle Parks. neal santos

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Help on wHeels Hepatitis C could be Philly’s next big publichealth emergency. But one possible solution is already on a roll. By Samantha Melamed

tepping out of the high-tech medical lab on wheels and into a sunny afternoon in the projects, mcHale Colman, 28, doesn’t seem to notice that he has experienced something revolutionary. “anytime I see these buses, I try to come get tested and get it out of the way,” he says with a shrug. “I jump on it: It’s private, I don’t got to go nowhere, I’m in the ’hood.” after all, free mobile screening programs have become common sights in neighborhoods like this one — Bartram’s Village in Southwest Philly — as public-health organizations try to capture poor residents who tend not to access regular primary care. But the lab that Colman visited is unique: It’s the first in Philadelphia — and possibly the first in the nation — to pair rapid HIV testing with rapid hepatitis C testing, follow-up confirmatory testing and immediate connections to care. The program, called Do One Thing, is spearheaded by amy Nunn, a medical researcher at Brown University. It rolled out with HIV tests last summer and added hepatitis C in December, targeting hot spots in Southwest Philly zip codes where the rates of HIV infection are among the highest in Philly — in fact, higher than in some countries in africa. (Risk is increased due to factors like intravenous drug use or unregulated tattooing, such as in prison or at “tattoo parties.”) The van is

out three days a week, sending outreach workers knocking on doors, handing out flyers and explaining those alarming statistics, working toward a goal of testing 12,000 area residents. It’s an aggressive approach to a disease that Philly Health Commissioner Donald Schwarz recently called a “time bomb” — particularly if Gov. Tom Corbett doesn’t agree to medicaid expansion in Pennsylvania. “There will be a very large number of people in Philadelphia who will require diagnosis and treatment for hepatitis C. We have been trying to do something about this epidemic that is invisible for the moment,” Schwarz told City Council recently. Hepatitis C is about five times more prevalent than HIV nationwide, but infected people can remain asymptomatic for years, often to be diagnosed only after severe liver damage, including cancer or cirrhosis, has occurred. Now, with an aging baby boomer population expected to manifest hepatitis C in record numbers over the coming decade, public-health officials are worried. “This could be really costly to the health-care system, in terms of liver transplants, or you’ll have a lot of people potentially dying,” says Philly viral hepatitis prevention coordinator alex Shirreffs. “There’s definitely a concern that if we don’t start paying attention to hepatitis C, we’re going to be catching people too late.” But experts are also hopeful. The past few years have been a time of extraordinary progress in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C, bringing the creation of a rapid test, new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) screening guidelines and radically improved treatment regi-

An epidemic that’s invisible at this time.

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✚ COMMONS COURTESY “The view is nice from here; not scenic or nothing, but nice,” says West Philadelphia resident Curtis Lipscomb, glancing out the second-story window of the Fresh Grocer at Walnut and 40th streets. “This is a social spot, and a lot of people come here. It’s something to do.” The 24-hour supermarket provides seating for customers in a lounge outfitted with floor-to-ceiling windows. It’s almost never empty, drawing workers on break, neighborhood couples on dates and regulars who work on their laptops, play chess and chat. “This is a place you can go and not be hassled, and everybody comes here: geeks, old people, retired professors, community kids,” says a woman known to regulars as Nancy. The West Philly expat now lives in Point Breeze, but takes her dinner at Fresh Grocer most nights before catching the bus home. “All my sense of community is still over here.” A full-time activist, Nancy is fiery in defense of Fresh Grocer’s community space. One evening a few weeks ago, a security guard marched up to the lounge and, as Nancy and a few others looked on, ordered a middle-aged, African-American Muslim woman to leave.The woman indignantly refused, and the guard promised

to return. But when he did, Nancy was waiting for him with a Fresh Grocer employee, who vouched for the woman, whose family regularly shops at the store. The guard apologized. “There are people who come up here and sleep, but I always try to wake them up,” says Nancy. Such behavior might lead management to more closely enforce the signs posted throughout the lounge, which limit shoppers’ visits to one hour. (The McDonald’s across the street allows a mere 20 minutes.)

Around Penn’s campus, such quasi-public spaces — the alwayspacked Penn Bookstore is another — have become vital hubs for students, neighborhood residents and the homeless.These spaces serve the same purpose as public libraries, but with several advantages: You can eat, talk with friends or, as one group of AfricanAmerican teenagers did recently at the Penn Bookstore, push a bunch of tables together and play Dungeons & Dragons for hours. More importantly, the hours are consistent and far longer than those of Philly’s cash-strapped libraries. The branch across the street from Fresh Grocer is open just five days a week; on three of those days, it closes at 5 p.m. “That’s why I came up here today. I was going there but the library wasn’t open,” says Lipscomb. The Fresh Grocer, by contrast, is open every day, and doesn’t clear the lounge until around midnight — depending on the whims of management, of course. —Jake Blumgart

✚ STICKER SHOCK Recently, we noticed a sticker tag reading “I am a job creator” on one of the honor boxes in front of the office and put it up on Instagram. The person who put it there, sticker artist Curly, commented on the photo to clarify that the sticker was, in fact, a message to CP news editor Samantha Melamed, who spoke with Curly around the time that CP’s honor-box-licensing fees had increased 400 percent, nominally so the city could more effectively fine us for his “artwork.” Did he care that his work was so destructive, we had a staffer who probably spends a lot of time cleaning up after him? He did not: “I figure that that means us sticker artists are job creators. Some people may hate us, but we help the economy.” … OK, sure. Any cleanup crews want to rebut? —Emily Guendelsberger

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JOHN MCAULEY

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PERK ROLL ³ BEING A PHILLY OFFICIAL has its benefits — think Eagles tickets, exclusive dinners and lavish parties. But some politicos get more perks than others. And, based on lobbyist reports and annual Statements of Financial Interest — which were due May 1 for 2012 — some are more careful about reporting them than others. This is the first year we can compare the officials’ self-disclosures with the reports lobbyists were required to submit starting last year, though the statements aren’t posted online, to the outrage of good-government advocates like the Committee of Seventy. In addition to gifts over $200, officials must report information like sources of income: for example, Councilwoman Marian Tasco lists Revel Casino as one of hers. City Council members’ statements range from a spreadsheet from Councilman At-Large Bill Green, citing thousands of dollars’ worth of tickets and travel, to a handwritten denial of receiving any gifts at all by Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell. Aside from the personal tastes the gifts might indicate (Coldplay tickets, Councilman Green?), some eyepopping numbers like Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds-Brown’s reported $6,500 birthday party and gifts from A. Michael Pratt, vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, and the dominance of PECO as a foremost gift-giver, the statements raise some questions: Why did City Commissioner Stephanie Singer fail to file a statement as of May 8? (She told CP she’d get on it.) Why does Blackwell list no gifts, when PECO claims to have given her $525 worth of Mann Center tickets? Why does PECO claim it gave Councilwoman Maria Quinoñes-Sánchez $300 worth of Phillies tickets, when Sanchez makes no mention of them? Some of it might be chalked up to error or confusion. However, Shane Creamer of Philly’s Ethics Board says that lobbyists must notify officials in writing of gifts they’re reporting. And gifts must be reported regardless of whether they’re kept or regifted to constituents. Ellen Kaplan of the Committee of Seventy says Philly’s policies are too lax. Other cities, she notes, limit the value of gifts officials may accept or ban certain gifts, like sports tickets: “When you read reports about politicians who are accepting airplane rides or vacation houses or tickets to events that would cost the regular taxpayer a lot of money, the question is: Why are those gifts being given? There’s always the perception that the gifts are being given to influence action. The best way to make sure that perception doesn’t exist is to set a very low limit.” —Samantha Melamed

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mens that have doubled cure rates among the hardest-to-treat patients. Here in Philly, Do One Thing is just one of several public-health innovations around hepatitis C, including an unprecedented viral-surveillance initiative, a planned public-awareness campaign and a behind-the-scenes effort to educate doctors about new standards of care. as of now, though, there’s still very little money to go around — not for treatment and not even for screenings. So, for example, while the rapid test was hailed as a major advancement when it was released in 2011, “unfortunately, because the [federal] government didn’t provide a lot of funding for governments to deliver rapid tests, it didn’t … get many done,” says Shirreffs. In Philly, at least, all that could change, says Drexel professor Dr. Stacey Trooskin, who, with Shirreffs, co-chairs the year-old, so-far-unfunded coalition Hepatitis C allies of Philadelphia (HEP CaP). “We’re really focused on trying to put Philadelphia on the map as a city that is facing hepatitis C head on, and trying to address it as the public-health issue that it is.” To that end, Do One Thing isn’t the only program pushing hep-C screenings: Philadelphia Health management Corp., for one, is running a pilot effort funded by the CDC. But there’s hope that Do One Thing’s model — which brings testing to the most affected neighborhoods — just might launch a national movement. Still, to get a program like this up and running means facing numerous regulatory and technical hurdles. In Nunn’s case, those included identifying a lab that could process confirmatory blood tests — a challenge because blood has to be analyzed within six hours of being drawn, and the van keeps late-night and Saturday hours. But the tests are necessary because one in five people who initially test positive do not have chronic infections. Then there was the problem of connecting those who test positive to care — which can be hard when phone numbers are disconnected or housing is unstable. That’s why the same-day tests results are so important, Nunn says: Otherwise, “you lose a lot of patients to follow-up.” and, finally, there’s what Nunn calls “the real bugaboo”: paying for treatment. Hepatitis C is increasingly curable, but a 12-week course of Incivek, one of the newer drugs, is priced at a jaw-dropping $49,200. So far, most of the people who’ve been diagnosed on the Do One Thing van have either had insurance or been medicaid eligible — linkage-to-care coordinators can help them apply — and they’ve all been connected to care. Some people who know they’re positive come in for testing anyway, Nunn says, and get linked to care again. Up to now, Do One Thing has administered 3,000 HIV tests (about 1.3 percent positive) and 550 hepatitis C tests (5.5 percent positive). The CDC has shown interest in the Do One Thing approach, Nunn says. The federal public-health agency is now two years into its own hepatitis C action plan, which among other things designated age-based screening guidelines. The CDC suggests people aged 47 to 67 get tested; previously, tests

were based on risk factors alone. Epidemiologists considered that change a victory— but in some cases an empty one. Today, Trooskin says, “Primary-care providers are just not testing.” Even the city’s own health centers, which offer risk-based screening, don’t routinely follow the CDC guidelines. “There’s a lot of misconceptions among primary-care providers about what treatment is available and who’s eligible for it. a lot of primary-care providers aren’t aware that hepatitis C is curable, and they certainly aren’t aware of the rapidly evolving treatment paradigm,” Trooskin says, noting that several experimental treatments offer hope for a 90 percent cure rate. “To get that message out to primary-care providers is really important. Even if [patients are] not treatment

Bring testing into the community. candidates today, they may be in a year or two.” HEP CaP has been getting experts to visit primary-care practices beginning this month and provide education on the guidelines, treatment and referral options. But more targeted efforts remain elusive, since, as Trooskin puts it, “What we know about the epidemiology of hepatitis C is really the tip of the iceberg.” That could soon change, since Philly was one of seven cities nationwide to receive a federal viral-hepatitis-surveillance grant to study the city’s epidemic. “This idea of a neighborhood-based approach, going out into the community and linking individuals to care, is really going to be the next frontier when it comes to finding individuals that are [hepatitis C] positive but are not currently in care or are unaware of their infection,” Trooskin says. “I don’t think we can just wait for folks to come into the doctor’s office. We need to be out in the community.” (samantha@citypaper.net)

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THE ULTIMATE PLAYLIST A father-daughter team goes on the hunt for Philly’s next, best playground. By Ryan Briggs

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Michael Froehlich and Zora at Clark Park

ora turned 4 just this February — but, already, she has visited more playgrounds than most Philadelphia residents (and Parks & Rec employees, for that matter) will see in a lifetime. This surplus sampling of swing sets wasn’t all her idea. “I got tired of going to the same two playgrounds,” says Zora’s father, Michael Froehlich, between her demands for increased swing velocity. “So one day I said, ‘Zora, we should bike to some different ones.’” I met Froehlich on a return visit to Clark Park, still one of Zora’s favorites after visiting 93 different playgrounds in just over a year. Froehlich, a Community Legal Services lawyer by day, is known around the neighborhood as co-founder of the West Philadelphia Tool Library and president of Cedar Park Neighbors. He is perhaps less well-known as the creator of zoraplays.com, the online extension of his quest to explore the city’s entire collection of playgrounds. He chronicles each visit with photographs of Zora testing out the equipment, hand-drawn diagrams of the playground’s facilities and reviews of the best and worst Philly Parks & Rec has to offer. “It was a way to show Zora other parts of Philadelphia, and then it just became this exciting thing. We would call it ‘going on a playground adventure,’” Froehlich says. “Once we got to 30, I wondered, ‘How many more can we do?’” Apparently, quite a few. Within a year, they had visited every playground they could find in West and Southwest Philly — most via public transit or a kiddie trailer attached to Froehlich’s bicycle — and stopped by a handful of South Philly parks in borrowed cars.

In the process, they’ve traversed some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city and some of the most poverty-stricken. Froehlich admits you can tell one from the other by the state of the playgrounds alone: “The nicer playgrounds, by and large, are in the wealthier neighborhoods, even though there’s no difference in how busy the playgrounds are,” he says. “Whether we go to a nice playground or a not-as-nice playground, they’re always busy if it’s a sunny weekend.” Still, given Philly’s famously cash-strapped Parks & Rec Department, he’s been impressed. He’s aware of the recurring security problems at city rec centers, but has not personally experienced their effects. The odd missing swing or bit of graffiti were the biggest structural problems Froehlich encountered. Well, except for one, more abstract, problem: repetition. “Zora lights up when she sees something new to play on, but we could go to three different playgrounds in a day and not see any new kinds of equipment,” says Froehlich. Parks & Recreation Commissioner Michael DiBerardinis acknowledges the limitations of an “imperfect” system. “In the ’90s, playgrounds were very well funded by the city’s capital program, and we

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replaced almost all the equipment in the city. So there will be a certain repetition to the play equipment,” says DiBerardinis. He adds that the department is planning to start introducing some more modern and varied playground equipment soon. He notes that the disparity between neighborhoods has been magnified by the well-intentioned efforts of friends-of-the-park groups, which wealthier neighbors are more likely to have the time and money to support. But whether they’ll actually visit every Philly playground is up to Zora. (The project ground to a halt for a few months as she decided she was temporarily “over” the whole playground thing. She has since revised her stance, following the discovery of swings.) Exactly how many playgrounds exist is uncertain, anyway. Parks & Rec maintains 142, but others are kept by the school district, nonprofits and civic groups. Given Zora’s connoisseurship, the real question is: Which one is her favorite? Like a true Philadelphian, she reports that two parks in her own neighborhood — Cedar Park and Malcolm X Park — are the best in the city. (ryan.briggs@citypaper.net)

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On Aug. 31, 1995, Eugene Gilyard was just one of a group of young men hanging outside the bulletproofglass-encased Chinese store at 17th and Venango, dealing crack. When Thomas Keal, a local businessman, was murdered early that morning, police did not initially suspect that the 16-year-old was involved. “I was actually on the scene of the crime three minutes after it happened,” says Gilyard, sitting next to his lawyer at State Correctional Institution (SCI) Mahanoy, 100 miles northwest of the old block in Tioga. “I knew [Keal], seen him coming and going from his businesses. He was a regular face in the neighborhood.” Keal was accosted by two men and shot dead as he exited his seafood

shop, Kela’s Fish Bowl, a block north on 17th Street, carrying $2,258 in cash and the .357 Magnum he kept on him at all times. His daughter, Tonya Keal, witnessed the attack from her apartment above the shop. Like the police, she did not readily identify Gilyard. “I looked out my bedroom window” and saw a black male walking “up and down 17th Street,” she told police, according to a statement taken two days later. The streetlights shone brightly on a dilapidated North Philly street that has in recent decades lost many homes, jobs and people. It was 2:30 a.m, and she heard her father in the store below, where he often stopped for a Tastykake after closing Kela’s Cafe, the bar he owned on the block. As Keal turned away, she later testified that she heard her father’s keys locking the door, then his voice — and then gunfire. She rushed to a window. Peering between the blades of a motionless window fan, she saw her father on the ground. A second man held a pistol against the back of his head. “The guy was standing over my father, and point blank, and fired two more times into my father,” Keal told police at the time. She would later testify that she was in a state of panic. “I

then ran for the phone and called 911.” Officer Carl Benson arrived within minutes and found Keal, a parishioner at the church where the policeman served as associate minister, facedown in a spreading pool of blood. The right pocket of his jeans was pulled inside out. The police questioned Gilyard, who was picked up along with other young men who hung out by the Chinese store. He recounts: “It was, ‘Were you out? Were you present on the block that day? What did you observe?’ So I answered those questions.” Tonya Keal, who reviewed mugshots of potential suspects two days later, told police she did not recognize the killers from the neighborhood. The police investigation halted by mid-September. But in December 1997, Detective Dennis Dusak showed Keal new pages of mugshots, called photo arrays. The Special Investigations Unit detective’s job was to solve cold murder cases. One photo array he presented to Keal included Gilyard; another included his friend Lance Felder. Defense lawyers say the photo of Gilyard, who had recently been arrested on robbery and drug charges, was taken at age 18. He’d grown two years older since the murder, and he looked it.

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FAMILY ANGUISH: Eugene Gilyard’s mother, Christine, worries they’ll “take his whole life away for something he didn’t do.” NEAL SANTOS

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y neighborhood, I wouldn’t say was a good neighborhood,” says Gilyard. Many of his old friends have spent time behind bars. “I was hanging out with the wrong individuals. I didn’t have too much guidance at that time.” His jailhouse connections, however, have provided Gilyard with several surpris-

[sic], And I Just Want to own up to my Wrong doing. I mr. Welborn Am willing to Testify to these facts.” Gilyard wrote to the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, with which he had been in touch since its founding at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law in 2009. Lawyers visited Rolex that June and took a detailed threepage statement. After years of lonely pro se filings researched in the prison

THE RIGHT MAN?: Ricky Welborn, aka Rolex, has confessed to the killing.

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tifications are vulnerable to the frailty of human memory and to even the most subtle police suggestion. Everyone in the arrays was black, young and male, but the arrays may have included no one else who lived near Tonya Keal. Asked why her memory captured things in 1997 it had not in 1995, Keal responded, “Maybe it’s better now.” Today, Gilyard is going on 15 years in prison for a murder he has always denied committing, and of which he now believes he can conclusively prove he is innocent. “I’ve had times when I felt little hope,” he says. “I believe that I will get out of here one day. I believe that the courts will eventually see the truth.”

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ing rays of hope. The first of those came in late 2010, when Christine Gilyard received letters from Lance Felder and from a friend named Sheldon Odom.The latter had been locked up with a violent West Philly stickup man named Ricky Welborn, aka Rolex. Felder and Odom both wrote that Rolex was ready to confess to killing Thomas Keal. On Feb. 3, 2011, Eugene Gilyard sent a letter to private investigator Robert Dash describing Rolex’s confession as he understood it. “I pray that you can be of assistance to me,” he wrote. Dash interviewed Rolex the next month at SCI Frackville and gave Rolex a copy of Gilyard’s letter. “Rolex read the letter,” Dash wrote in a summary of his visit, “and acknowledged the facts presented in the letter were accurate.” There was, Rolex told the investigator, only one discrepancy: Gilyard had heard that Rolex took Keal’s gun out of his holster before fleeing. Actually, Rolex “took the .357 handgun out of Keal’s hand.” Rolex provided Dash with a short written statement: “My reason for Coming forward is Cause I Always Knew that these two men where [sic] incarcerated for a Crime they didn’t commit. And this crime that I committed has Always been on my Consience

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Keal identified Gilyard on Dec. 31, 1997. “Yes. This one here,” she said, pointing to Gilyard’s photo. “He’s the one that I saw walking back and forth in front of my father’s house. He was pulling a red bandana up over his face. Right after that I heard my dad saying something and then I heard the shot.” Gilyard was arrested nine days later in the early morning. “I slept with my door open,” recalls his mother, Christine Gilyard, who was an addict at the time. She heard a racket downstairs, and when she got up, “I see all these cops running up the steps with black [on], and kick Gene’s door in.” Christine Gilyard had also been at home the night of the murder. When she heard shots fired, she biked to the Chinese store looking for Eugene. She found him and his friend Kenyatta Felder, the brother of co-defendant Lance Felder, on the way. A crowd had formed near the crime scene, and mother and son watched the police for nearly an hour. On March 15, 1998, Tonya Keal picked out Gilyard again, this time in a lineup. “I’m not sure,” she hesitantly told police. At trial, neither Gilyard nor any of his friends or family testified to his alibi, perhaps because it would have placed him just one block from the murder. “I didn’t know anyone who had been locked up for something they didn’t do,” Gilyard recalls. “I didn’t know that was a possibility.” The police say they never showed Tonya Keal a separate 1995 photo array that was in their possession and included Gilyard — a skinny young man among eight other skinny young black men. At trial, Dusak contradicted himself as to whether police had showed her this photo in 1995. In any case, Keal testified at the trial that she was “absolutely sure” that Gilyard had murdered her father. “The only reason I said I was not sure is because I was being rushed” by police. “I will never, I would never forget his face.” At the preliminary hearing, she had said she watched Gilyard for a “couple” of seconds before the shooting. At trial, Keal testified that it was 10 seconds: five seconds with his face uncovered, five more with it covered as he adjusted a red bandana. She revised the estimate upward after consulting with Assistant District Attorney John Doyle. Gilyard was sentenced to life in prison based on Keal’s eyewitness

identification alone. Keal identified Lance Felder as the man with the handgun, something she had failed to do from photo arrays in both 1995 and 1997. Keith Williams also identified Felder as one of the shooters from a mugshot in 1997.Two years earlier Williams stated he knew Felder, but that he was not one of two armed men he saw run by his house. Inconsistencies abounded: Keal’s description of the shooters’ skin complexions changed, as did the number of shotgun blasts she heard. Williams testified that he would see Felder two or three times a day before the murder but he didn’t see him at all over the next two years because “I travel. I go places.” Dusak testified that the idea that Felder was involved in the murder came to him immediately after he reviewed Williams’ 1995 statement. It seems this is when he began to suspect Gilyard, recently arrested for robbery and drugs, as well. Dusak used a randomized computer system to create photo arrays built around images of both men. “People don’t happen to recognize descriptions of clothing, heights or weights or ages,” Doyle told the jury. “They recognize faces. They recognize people. That’s how people make an identification.” Research shows that eyewitness iden-

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library, trained lawyers would finally take up Gilyard’s case. Gilyard has filed a new petition under the state’s Post-Conviction Relief Act, laying out Rolex’s confession and new evidence that corroborates it. Exhibit D includes Gilyard’s two mugshots, along with a 1995 mugshot of Rolex. It is striking: The 18-year-old Gilyard looks more like Rolex than he does his own 16-year-old self. Gilyard’s lawyers also have fresh witnesses, prepared to testify regarding Rolex’s likely guilt. Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, however, is fighting the reopening of his case and has, unlike DAs in other cities, so far declined to cooperate with the Innocence Project. Gilyard has filed other petitions over the years, raising questions about eyewitness testimony and pursuing relief following U.S. Supreme Court rulings barring mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles. But his claim of innocence may be his most compelling chance. Christine Gilyard is hopeful the justice system will give it a fair hearing. “They already took 14 years away from him. Don’t take his whole life away from him for something he didn’t do.”

he way Rolex tells it, he and a friend got the idea of targeting Keal from a neighborhood man they knew named Rob,

whom they ran into outside the Chinese store. Word was that Keal kept $50,000 in cash at home. The two had driven across town to 17th and Jefferson to buy marijuana, Xanax and “syrup,” and stayed to commit an armed robbery. As he recalls it, Rolex walked up to Keal carrying a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. His friend approached from behind holding the .22. “I ain’t givin’ you shit,” Keal declared, pulling his .357. Rolex’s shotgun blast to the leg knocked Keal to the ground. His friend, standing above, shot him three or four times in the head. “What the fuck did you do that for?” Rolex asked. “Man, you shoot everybody,” his friend responded. “I want to shoot somebody, too.” A woman screamed across the street as Rolex rifled through Keal’s pockets. He took Keal’s .357, his friend tossed the .22 into a nearby abandoned house, and they fled back to West Philly. “I had to pry [the .357] out of his hands,” Rolex recalls. “I gave the .357 revolver to a friend named Chink whose grandmother lived on 57th and Catherine.” He says that Chink, who is now in prison, used the .357 in another robbery. In their haste, they never got the $2,258 in cash later found on Keal’s body. Rolex also confessed to shooting a

man named Anthony Stokes that afternoon near 58th and Christian streets in West Philly, “with the same gun I used to shoot the man on 17th Street.” The Innocence Project located Stokes at SCI Camp Hill. He confirmed that Rolex had indeed shot him that day. In fact, he says that Rolex shot him on two separate occasions. “Rolex was a robber and drug dealer,” said Stokes, who has never met Gilyard or Felder. “He robbed anything and anyone.” Rolex says he used the same shotgun to rob people at 46th and Walnut that fall, a crime to which he plead guilty. The first time Stokes was shot, an injury confirmed by hospital records, was about 12 hours before Keal’s murder. Really, the old neighborhood feud being intensely violent — “I stabbed him four to five times,” Stokes stated — he refused to tell police who shot him at the time. But Rolex’s confession was a sign that a code of silence could be broken, and corroborating statements poured in. “I know that Eugene Gilyard did not participate in the shooting of Mr. Keal because I was with him,” a friend, Michael Griddle, told Innocence Project investigators. Griddle was standing with Gilyard, Lance Felder and others in front of the Chinese store. “I told the police this at the time.” >>> continued on page 18

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What Griddle did not tell police, but says that he told Gilyard’s lawyer, is that he met Rolex and a man who went by the name Tizz that night. They approached the Chinese store and announced they were planning to rob the Bee Hive, a bar just across the street. Griddle objected to a robbery so close to “where we hang out.” Ten minutes later Keal was shot one block to the north, and the two hopped into a car and drove away with a third man. “I know who this third person is,” Griddle stated, “but I do not want to say unless that is the only way to get Eugene out of jail, because Eugene is innocent.” Kenyatta Felder, the brother of Gilyard’s co-defendant, confirms most of this account. Gilyard maintains that he did not hear what Rolex and Tizz said that night. But he does say that he knew the two were involved in the killing, though he did not know their real names. Rolex is serving a life sentence for a separate murder and has little or nothing to lose by confessing. But police had evidence implicating Rolex and Tizz from the very beginning. It is unclear what they did with it. Donita Mickeals was sitting on her stoop at 2:30 a.m. and “heard a loud blast from 17th Street, followed by two or three smaller pops.” She recognized the three men running down the street. They were, she said, the “same three guys I had talked to earlier outside the Chinese restaurant.” The afternoon prior to Keal’s murder, Mickeals walked into the Chinese store and caught a man’s attention. “He told me his name was Tizz,” Mickeals told police after the murder. “He asked me for my phone number, and I gave it to him. And he told me that because I drive, I could come by where he hangs out at, in front of the Chinese restaurant at 54th and Baltimore.” Mickeals, who heard Tizz call out to a man named Rolex before walking off, told police she could readily identify the pair. In 1997 Dusak never showed her Gilyard’s or Felder’s photos. “We eventually spoke to [Mickeals],” he testified. “Didn’t put anything down on paper.” Gilyard’s lawyers planned to call Mickeals to the stand in 1998 but were unable to locate her. She says she is now prepared to testify.

n July 2011, an inmate approached the Innocence Project with another piece of jailhouse gossip: Tizz had confessed to the Keal shooting to a man named Donnell Wiggins in the late 1990s when the two were locked up together at

Graterford state prison. It took investigators three months to find Wiggins in a Philadelphia halfway house. Wiggins, a onetime acquaintance of Gilyard’s, also knew Tizz. The two had met in North Philly — Tizz, Wiggins says, was actually with Eugene Gilyard at the time. The two were buying Xanax and syrup. Today, Gilyard cannot recall whether he was with Tizz, but says it is possible: He was using drugs at the time. Tizz told Wiggins that he had killed the “old head,” and, “I told Tizz it was messed up that Lance and Gene are doing life for his work.” “It is what it is, man,” he recalls Tizz saying. “That’s what happens when you play the game.” But the evidence suggests that Gilyard was played not just by the justice system but by his friends as well. Many seem to have had information that could have cleared him. “I believe

Conviction Integrity Unit. “He was talking about opening up an office to investigate wrongly convicted inmates,” says Gilyard. “I don’t think that ever happened.” Unlike district attorneys in Dallas, Houston, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Philly’s first African-American DA has refused to move forward on an idea he said he was “seriously considering” just three years ago. Indeed, Williams has surprised advocates by opposing the Innocence Project at every turn. “In every case, motions to dismiss based upon procedural barriers have been filed,” says Marissa Bluestine, legal director at the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. Her organization is currently litigating its first batch of cases, 10 of which are from Philadelphia. That, she says, is “including cases where we have identified — and obtained confessions from — a person who has admitted being

THE DA HAS OPPOSED THE INNOCENCE PROJECT AT EVERY TURN. so,” Gilyard acknowledges, though he is not angry that others waited for Rolex to speak up. “I also know that individuals aren’t going to put their lives on the line to help me,” he says. There is a “nosnitch mentality in my neighborhood.” His mother is frustrated that Rolex held his tongue. “What took ’em so long? Why did they let him sit for all these years?” Today, the man who lives next door to where Gilyard sold crack, a newcomer residing in one of the block’s few inhabited houses, has never heard of the murder. The Chinese store where Eugene Gilyard sold crack still stands. Tonya Keal no longer lives on the block and did not respond to City Paper requests for an interview. But she did sign a letter asking the DA and police to reopen their investigation. “We see nothing wrong with the way this case was investigative or prosecuted,” Keal and Innocence Project lawyers wrote. “We are simply concerned that an innocent man is being punished while a guilty man is not.”

eth Williams’ 2009 candidacy for district attorney appealed to Philadelphians eager to turn the page on ironfisted Lynne Abraham’s controversial, nearly-two-decade-long reign. What Eugene Gilyard found most appealing, however, was Williams’ campaign-trail suggestion that he might create a

the true perpetrator of the crime. Including cases where we have discovered critical evidence had been withheld from the trial. “Rather than engage with us in trying to learn the truth, we have been met with simple rejection.” Nationwide, the number of people cleared of crimes with prosecutor assistance skyrocketed last year. But of the 1,089 people exonerated nationwide since 1989, the Philadelphia DA has helped clear only three, none of them under Williams. In Gilyard’s case, the DA is making a technical argument for dismissal, claiming Gilyard missed the deadline to file his petition. The Post-Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) allows defendants 60 days to file a petition after discover>>> continued on page 20

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ing new evidence, and prosecutors say that window began closing the moment Gilyard heard that Rolex confessed. That would, however, put Gilyard in an impossible position: If Gilyard had filed a petition based only on the jailhouse rumor when he first heard it in late 2010, it would likely have been dismissed as hearsay. But by the time he was able to dispatch Dash to interview Rolex in prison, and then to file his own pro se motion less than two weeks later on March 18, 2011, it would have been too late. Williams, who declined an interview request and would not answer questions about Gilyard’s case, sent CP a message defending his efforts. He noted that he’s made an unprecedented investment in ensuring that the right people are conflicted. He has “tripled the number of prosecutors assigned to the charging unit to review all arrests and warrants.” The “appeals and PCRA units constantly review cases post-conviction, to do exactly [what] ‘conviction integrity’ units do elsewhere.” Bluestine says that’s laudable, but does “absolutely nothing, zero, to deal with people who are already in prison. … We have seen absolutely no movement from this office.”

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In March, the Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Integrity Unit helped a man named David Ranta walk free after serving 23 years for the highprofile 1991 murder of Rabbi Chaskel Werzberger. Ranta, like Gilyard, was convicted based on eyewitness testimony that was eventually called into question. Later, another man was credibly identified as the killer. Last week, the Brooklyn DA announced they would review about 50 convictions that

Gilyard began to sob when I asked if it was difficult to be absent for her successes. “I’m happy for her,” he told me. Gilyard hopes that, if he is successful, co-defendant Lance Felder can use his case as a road map out of prison. Felder has filed his own PCRA petition. Unlike other states, Pennsylvania provides no restitution to the wrongly convicted, who often can end up destitute after being set free. David Ranta suffered a serious heart attack

GILYARD SOBS WHEN THINKING ABOUT MISSING HIS MOM’S SUCCESSES. involved one particular detective who often relied on a single eyewitness. In June, Gilyard will likely have a hearing where a judge will consider both the new evidence and the DA’s timeliness objection. Earlier this month, Christine Gilyard married a man she met in recovery, and she now lives in a tidy apartment in Logan, two miles and a world away from the half-abandoned rowhome blocks that devoured her son. Eugene

two days after his release. Gilyard is nonetheless hopeful that he will soon return home to see his mother and the woman he married from prison, whose son he has adopted. To Gilyard, the prospect of freedom seems close. But he reminds himself that Rolex’s confession and Tonya Keal’s letter will not matter if the DA succeeds in having his petition dismissed. Eugene Gilyard could still die in prison. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

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³ PHILLY-BORN comedian Todd Glass may

spend most of his time in Los Angeles now, but he’s forever thinking about his hometown. “I always want to know what you guys are doing,” says Glass. “What are you doing?” It’s what he’s up to that’s important. The 48-year-old comic has just finished the first draft of an autobiography (“that sounds so serious, that word”) that will be published later this year.“My ghostwriter says that we received very few notes from the publisher. That means we’re nearly there.” Equally pressing is the green light that Glass got from Comedy Central this week to go forward with the pilot to The Todd Glass Situation,a sitcom based partially on his real life. Having come out in January 2012, the “situation” of its title alludes to his past as a formerly closeted gay man. “Before I came out, I used to refer to the dating thing as ‘my situation,’” he says with a laugh. “My friends who knew about me found that funny.” The main action of The Todd Glass Situation revolves around his dream job of owning a restaurant/bar. “I’m a pretty meticulous guy, so I always thought I’d be good at it. The biggest part of the show would be my interaction with the restaurant’s clientele. I wouldn’t be a Soup Nazi — far from it — but the show will reflect my feelings that the customer isn’t always right. I’m all about consumer satisfaction, but I wouldn’t be afraid to throw even the most faithful diner out of my place.” Damn, he sounds like a real restaurateur. Though no cast or final script is ready, Glass points to next winter as a possible series start. ³ For everyone who likes to start their drinking early (this means you, Icepack reader), you’ll be pleased to know that this year’s Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby passes by Johnny Brenda’s around noon on May 18, and a special outdoor cafe will be set up for enhanced viewing pleasure. More on the KKSD in Agenda on p. 32. ³ There’s been cool news from the Jose Garces Restaurant Group lately. His boutique restaurant at the Kimmel is being fast-tracked. He’s turning his intended planxa bar, at Revel in Atlantic City, into a ramen noodle spot and driving Distrito’s taco truck onto AC’s beach for Memorial Day. Plus, there are rumors that Garces is taking on several restaubar spaces in the Moorestown Mall’s foodie row, and that there’ll be possible cuisine and design changes at Chifa, his Peruvian and Cantonese hybrid on Chestnut Street. Summer’s heating up for the Iron Chef. Find a home for Chifa’s Chinese 5-Spice Pork and I’m happy. ³ Aficioanados of Italian horns, pepperoni on sticks and Connie Francis records, take note: The Italian Market Festival takes place May 18 and 19 along Ninth Street’s ethno-corridor. Abbondanza. ³ Icepack gets illustrated every Thursday at citypaper. net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

LUMIÈRE SQUARES: Sabrina Gschwandtner makes quilts from old classroom films.

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³ FROM A DISTANCE, Sabrina Gschwandtner’s quilts may seem indistinguishable from the wares in the windows of Lancaster’s Amish gift shops. But look closer and the geometry of the folk-art patterns fragments into tiny, incrementally changing images. Gschwandtner creates her quilts in the traditional way, sewing together strips of material to form intricate, multi-hued patterns. But she crafts them from a decidedly nontraditional material: 16 mm strips of film, culled from educational documentaries about textile crafts such as knitting, crocheting and, naturally, quilting. “To me, it feels like I’m making movies, but in a 2-D format,” Gschwandtner says. “I’m thinking of the overall quilt design while sewing, but within each square I’m thinking about making edits, about whether the scenes go together thematically or visually.” The New York City-based artist has been synthesizing film and textiles in her work since 2004. She studied film and semiotics at Brown University and Bard College, which she combined with an interest in knitting to create artwork and installations that explore the feminist traditions of craft-making. Her quilting began in 2009 when she received a stockpile of 16

mm films deaccessioned from the collection of the Fabric Institute of Technology. Some were deteriorating while the rest simply weren’t being used in the classroom, the subjects and the technology both seeming increasingly archaic to teachers. The films were handed over to New York’s Anthology Film Archives, which kept some for their collection and turned the remainder over to artists and filmmakers who work with found footage. “It covered such an interesting range of textile uses from feminist expression to military camouflage to scientific metaphor,” Gschwandtner recalls. “Then one day I pulled some of the film off a reel and held it up to the light, and I realized that this film about textiles really looks like a textile.” A number of Gschwandtner’s quilts will be exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Alliance in the new show “Sunshine and Shadow,” the title of which refers to a popular quilting pattern associated with the Amish. Using the pattern provided a challenge, being somewhat more complex than the basic patterns she had used in the past, and a literal interpretation of the name gave her a thematic starting point for the work. “Visually, I was really drawn to the pattern,” she says, “but it also seemed like there was so much I could do with interpreting the idea of sunshine and shadow.” One of the pieces utilizes footage from a documentary about the Bradford Dyeing Association, a textile mill in Rhode Island

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Though they may not dominate the playgrounds like wearers of Lightning McQueen sneakers or Dora backpacks, there’s a generation of kids being raised on Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro, which comes to Blu-ray this week (along with Howl’s Moving Castle). The story of two little girls who move to the country to be near their convalescing mother and meet up with a massive furry forest spirit has a sense of open-ended magic that’s often missing from focus-grouped Hollywood movies. It’s a movie that children explain to adults, rather than the other way around. —Sam Adams

Synth duo Dungeonesse resurrects a slew of turn-of-the-’90s dance styles on their joyous self-titled debut (Secretly Canadian): hip-house, Hi-NRG rave, even a touch of new jack swing. But their best stuff — giddy swoon-along “Show You,” break-beat torch-ballad “Soon” — is closer to the sophisticated electro-R&B of Soul II Soul or Walking Wounded-era Everything but the Girl, with Jenn Wasner (of Wye Oak) as a dulcet Caron Wheeler/Tracey Thorn substitute. Now I just —K. Ross Hoffman really want them to tour with Dragonette.

³ pop/rock Don’t let the grisaille cover art fool you: Modern Vampires of the City (XL) earns its summer-baiting release date. It may be the subtlest, quirkiest Vampire Weekend LP yet — it’s arguably half ballads, and those overproblematized Afro-pop guitars are long gone — but the ineffable lightness remains. Even in the face of religious differences and ticking mortality, there’s plenty of room for contrapuntal finery, hip-hop hypertext and ’50s rock ’n’ roll dalliances. Meanwhile, Ezra Koenig’s singing voice has blossomed into a minor miracle. —K. Ross Hoffman

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³ roots The rockabilly is so fresh on Bill Kirchen’s new Seeds and Stems (Proper) that even fans from his Commander Cody days will love the new edge. That’s the magic of taking a tight road band into the studio. “Down to Seeds and Stems Again” puts life’s trials in perspective, with a nod to certain legal sea changes in places like Colorado. “Too Much Fun” comes in a little darker and more resolved; rather than a flip of the bird, think of a cold squint on the refrain “ain’t nobody’s bidniz whatever I do!” The album’s not really out till June, but you can pick it up when he plays the Tin Angel May 18 (tinangel.com). —Mary Armstrong

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KON-TIKI [ C+ ] THOR HEYERDAHL’S 1947 expedition across the Pacific on a balsa-wood raft

A true tall tale that unfolds at a tension-free pace.

Words are hardly sufficient to capture how painfully retro this CD is. ³ YOU KNOW THAT guy who owns every David

Byrne solo record (on vinyl), deeply respects the work of Beck and won’t shut his stupid mouth about how brilliant and eclectic the music on NPR is? Well, that asswipe is gonna cream all over Fool Metal Jack, the latest from Brazil’s Os Mutantes — a band that has existed, in one form or another, for nearly 50 years. Music critic Tim Page once penned a famous essay in which he postulated that 1974 was the worst year in the history of rock music. With its dated Doobie Brothers production, Eagles guitar riffs and lyrics via the Jackson Browne School of Songwriting, Fool Metal Jack sounds more like a recording that was discovered stuffed into a time capsule along with a fringe vest and a pair of bell-bottoms than the 21st-century product of a band once know for its cutting-edge approach to music. Words are hardly sufficient to capture how painfully retro this CD is: It’s the audio equivalent of watching the Bee Gees in the Sgt. Pepper movie. There is simply, and sadly, not one single note on this CD that rings as fresh or experimental. Verdict: The world doesn’t need to relive 1974. Just as we didn’t need bands like Phish, who glorified an era they were too young to properly comprehend, this legendary Brazilian combo doesn’t need to be playing catchup with a period in American music that would best be forgotten. (r_anonymous@citypaper.net)

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SHIVER ME TIMBERS: Norwegian seafarer Thor Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen) embarks on a dull voyage across the Pacific via handmade raft.

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never quite settled the point he set out to make — that South American voyagers settled the Polynesian islands — but it did motivate a generation of young dreamers to embark on improbable adventures. Having already told the story of WWII resistance fighter Max Manus, directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg turn their attention to this most famous of Norwegian heroes via an old-fashioned seafaring yarn that doesn’t let the truth get in the way of a few good archetypes. Pål Sverre Hagen plays Heyerdahl with blond, hands-on-hips determination, but the filmmakers are as impatient to get to sea as any young boy with a toy raft. The early scenes of Heyerdahl making his case before professors and magazine editors feel rushed and rudimentary, more re-enactment than drama. The unflappable hero’s stubborn confidence is off-handedly established in a childhood flashback, where the young Heyerdahl falls into icy water; his parents implore him never to take such a risk again, but the boy’s reaction to his awestruck peers is a virtual wink to the camera. But once the Kon-Tiki raft is knocked together and set adrift, the true tall tale unfolds at a brisk if surprisingly tension-free pace. The logs of the handmade craft threaten to pull apart, sharks circle, fear causes the crew to make some risky errors. But none of it ever carries any real feeling of danger. The filmmakers seem as calmed by the lapping waves as Heyerdahl himself, and even they appear unconvinced by the obligatory presence of the clumsy coward or the reckless cameraman. That these stock caricatures apparently bear little relation to the real-life characters is hardly as troubling as the fact that the actors’ less-than-exhilarating actions lend nothing to the leisurely pace. —Shaun Brady

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Early film editors were women with sewing experience. that, when it closed in 2011, dated back to the Civil War. “It’s a documentary about the factory, painting a really happy portrait of the workers who work there and the way the fabric was made,” Gschwandtner says. “But it left out a number of darker elements, like the fact that they were the biggest producer of camouflage for the U.S. military and they have over the years been accused of a number of evil deeds, like pollution and disbanding their union. I wanted to bring up this idea of them making camouflage and the film camouflaging the darker aspects of the factory.” Gschwandtner supplements the FIT films with her own footage, colored leader (the blank film that attaches to the ends of a reel for threading into a projector) and film she has altered through scratching, painting or bleaching in order to achieve the design she envisions for each piece. “The colors are amazing,” she says of the original footage. “The films that I received were printed anywhere from the ’50s to the ’80s, so there are different kinds of film stock and the stocks changed over the years. The blacks from a certain stock in the ’50s will look different than the black from a stock in the ’70s. The chemical baths that

the stocks were printed with and how they’ve been treated over time also affects their color, so I have quite a range to choose from. I mostly start with the content of the film that I’m working with, and the color is an outgrowth of the content.” Although her fusion of textiles and filmmaking is unique, Gschwandtner sees historical ties between the two arts. The Lumière brothers adapted their pioneering designs for their film camera and projector from the intermittent motion mechanism in sewing machines, and in the early days of Hollywood most film editors were women due to their experience with sewing and the similarity of editing equipment. “I’m interested not just in the content and history of the film material, but also the content and history of different quilt patterns,” she says. “I’m drawing from both traditions.” (s_brady@citypaper.net)

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The American title of Olivier Assayas’ hazy memory piece portends great things to come, but in the original French, Après Mai (“After May”), it’s clear they’ve already happened; the “something in the air” is smoke from a fire slowly burning itself out. A suburban high school student who dutifully hawks copies of Communist newspapers as his classmates file out for the day, Gilles (Clement Metayer) is only a few years too young to have been part of the student revolts of 1968, which were so world-shaking they became known as simply “the Events.” But the knowledge that he just missed the defining act of a generation — or at least the act by which a generation would prefer to be defined — hangs over him always, whether he’s playing catch-up by spray-painting slogans on his school or digging Captain Beefheart in a heroin addict’s crash pad. Assayas is plainly drawing on his own experience, dwelling on redolent details like the contents of his protagonist’s record collection; the camera peers over his shoulder as he flips through his LPs like a nosy younger sibling. In a sense, little happens to him, but you can feel the novel experiences being filed away for future reference: his first heartbreak, courtesy of girlfriend Lola Créton, or his recurring encounters with a free-spirited American (India Salvor Menuez) who schools him in protest songs. The film likewise works with a light touch, but it leaves a surprisingly lasting mark. —SA (Ritz at the Bourse)

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As bold an attempt at rewriting American myth as The Place Beyond the Pines, Ramin Bahrani’s broadly drawn fable is also a substantially more foolhardy one. Bahrani’s departure from the neorealist style of Man Push Cart, Chop Shop and Goodbye Solo is emphatic, even audacious, replacing his customary nonactors with Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron, whose father-son conflict plays out against the shifting landscape of the Plains states. Henry Whipple (Quaid) is a farmer and seed salesman struggling to get ahead in agribusiness and Dean (Efron) is his prodigal son, intent on abandoning the family business for a shot at NASCAR. They’re cocky and ruthless and up against it, willing to do anything for their piece of the dream, but their ambition isn’t matched by their cunning, and the odds are against them. As sketched by Bahrani and co-writer Hallie Elizabeth Newton, this is a world where striving is not enough; everyone takes shortcuts, but only some are clever enough not to get caught, or have the power to avoid the consequences when they do. Bahrani manages the story’s epic sweep and primary colors reasonably well, but his inexperience with professional actors shows in the scattershot performances. Efron hits one note — smoldering arrogance — and makes it count, but Quaid is at sea, ill at ease with the role’s allegorical cast. (Kim Dickens brings a flinty authenticity to her scenes as his wife, but she’s not on screen enough to tip the balance.) Bahrani shares his characters’ ambitions, and also their lack of perspective. —Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)

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probably also finger-wag frogs for being amphibious. Excess is simply hardcoded into the remarkably unsubtle Aussie’s DNA. 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.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, tuxedoframed grin. 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 (Carey Mulligan).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

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IRON MAN 3 | C An action-flick outlier with a knack for smartassery, Shane Black seems like an ideal successor to Iron Man constant Jon Favreau, but 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 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 nem-

esis 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)

MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN | C “Unfilmable” is an increasingly popular buzz word in today’s adaptation game. 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, 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. It’s not necessarily unfilmable, but it shouldn’t have been filmed like this. —DL (Ritz Five)

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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 Nichols maintains a delicate balance between the Southern-fried realism of Ellis’ home life and the fantasy of his secret alliance with Mud until it collapses in an avalanche of melodrama, with the bitter tinge of disillusionment remaining. —Shaun Brady (Ritz Five)

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RITZ AT THE BOURSE 400 Ranstead St., 215-440-1181, landmarktheatres.com. Army of Darkness (1992, U.S., 81 min.): Klaatu Barada nic—howdoesthatlastpartgo? Fri., May 17, midnight, $10.

RITZ EAST 125 S. Second St., 215-925-7900, landmarktheatres.com. Cleopatra (1963, U.K./U.S./Switzerland, 243 min.): As if it wasn’t excessive enough, it’s been restored to its full 4-hour length. Wed., May 22, 1 and 7 p.m., $7.

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. Future Weather (2012, U.S., 100 min.): Mama ditched her, but she’s got her Earth mother. Producer Kristin Fairweather hosts a Q&A after the film. Thu., May 16, 7 p.m., $10.50. Yo Yo (1965, France, 92 min.): Riches to rags to circus to scions who buy back castles. Tue., May 21, 7 p.m., $10.50. Wagner and Me (2010, U.K./Switzerland/Russia/Germany, 89 min.): Stephen Fry tackles an old question: Is it OK to love the beautiful work of bad men? Wed., May 22, 7:30 p.m., $10.50.

PHILAMOCA 531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org. Lloyd the Conqueror

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The Avenue Delicatessen | Lansdowne’s newest resident seeks to merge Italian and Jewish deli cultures into one cohesive whole — not always in one dish, though chef Laura Frangiosa’s menu does include Reuben arancini and Jewish wedding soup (that’s meatballs and matzoh balls). The menu is a bit shorter and healthier than at most delis, but you’ll still find standbys like meatball and chicken-cutlet sandwiches and house-cured pastrami and corned beef. Becca O’Brien (Green Aisle Grocery, Creperie Beau Monde) is in charge of the in-house pickleand-preserve program. Open Tue.-Sat., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; 27 N. Lansdowne Ave., 610-622-3354, theavenuedeli.com. Beiler’s Doughnuts and Salads | While doughnuts and salad may not exactly be a classic combination the name makes a lot more sense when you figure out that the doughnut shop has moved into the old AJ Pickle Patch space in Reading Terminal. Pickles and salads-by-the-quart are still available — but now they share space with a wide array of doughnuts. Open Wed., 8 a.m.-3 p.m.; Thu. and Sat., 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; ReadingTerminal Market, 12th and Arch sts., 267-318-7480, readingterminalmarket.org. Noord Eetcafe | Pre-opening buzz around Noord ran at fever pitch, and not only because its East Passyunk address guaranteed insta-intrigue. Chef-owner Joncarl Lachman was coming home and he was bringing with him a cuisine that Philly’s been more or less starved for — Northern European, loosely interpreted but heavy on Scandinavian and Dutch dishes. Look for the nutmeg-spiked meatballs known as bitterballen,a rotation of smørrebrød (Danish openfaced sandwiches) featuring house-smoked fish, and plenty of vinegar-steeped delights.1046 Tasker St., 267-909-9704, noordphilly.com. Got A Tip? Please send restaurant news to restaurants@ citypaper.net or call 215-735-8444, ext. 207.

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att Buehler isn’t trying to fool anyone: “We’re not hardcore like Brauhaus,” says the chef of Center City’s raucous, wood-clad new indoor beer garden Brü Craft & Wurst. The 36-year-old is referring to Brauhaus Schmitz, of course, the local touchstone for rigorously researched traditional and modern More on: German cuisine. That ain’t what’s cooking at Brü, where the house kraut ferments with a yogurtwhey shortcut, beer flows from self-serve kegs controlled by iPads and post-grad frat bros and dips in jean jackets devour sticky buns lathered in foie-gras buttercream at communal picnic tables facing McGillin’s across Drury Street. Throughout the night, the dueling watering holes trade the clammy of skin and bleary of eye back and forth like a two-bit hooker, and the street assumes the damp, revelrous atmosphere of a Cancun block party. Grab a sombrero, because despite this, you should still go. Owner Teddy Sourias’ portfolio (Finn McCools, Prime Lounge) isn’t exactly what you’d call inspiring, but the restaurateur has real-

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ly done right by the old Mitchell & Ness showroom. A forest of felled planks panel the long, narrow space in varying shades and grades. A glass garage door rolls up to the street, and carnival lights lope across the ceiling. The self-serve draught tower really is impressive, even if some of its six beers (ahem, Corona) aren’t. Above each tap, a tablet inlaid into the rounded copper cladding dispenses beer at a finger’s touch, but the directions on how to operate the system aren’t so clear, leaving me wondering where to buy my rechargeable “Brew Card” and arbitrarily tapping buttons like my grandmother might if I handed her my iPhone. Eventually I abandoned the hope of Jetsons beer and ordered a pint from a good old-fashioned (and brew-savvy) waitress. With crowds deep and rowdy as Brü’s and a layout so parsimonious even the slenderest of servers has to squeeze and shuffle between the crowded benches at the back of the restaurant, excellent service isn’t what you’d expect. Yet that’s what I received. My MORE FOOD AND server deserves double props for keeping the DRINK COVERAGE attitude sunny and the beers refilled; a lessAT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / er man would collapse under the onslaught. M E A LT I C K E T. Like I nearly did under the onslaught of food. Gose in hand (tepid, with a sputtering fizz), the Drury Street breeze fanning me like a boxer’s cornerman, I prepared for the arrival of the hulking $48 mixed-meats-&-wursts platter, which Buehler describes as “basically the whole menu.” The carnivore carnival sees a dam of pointy, crispy, skin-on fries, the juicy, edgy, whey-fermented kraut (whose secret accelerator I’m stealing for home) and potatoapple latkes constructed for a slew of proteins. There were sausages both housemade (fresh pork greened with marjoram and chive, >>> continued on adjacent page

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2xx N. 52nd St 1Br & Rms Near Trans, Reasonable, 484.358.0761 3xx E Olney 1 Room $125/Wk Utils Incl 1st Flr, Near trans, Furn, $500/Move in No Drugs/Pets, 267.333.2080 4500 N. 17th St. $350/mo. new luxury room, Free Cable! Henry 267.974.9271 NE 1br $120+sec. Nice hse, room for rent. 215-535-0958/267-312-5039 N. Phila Apts/Rms/Effecs $300 $600/Mo Furn, SSI Ok, 267.602.6128 N.Phila, No Kit/Pvt Ba $75-$95 Wk No Drugs/Pets 2nd Flr 267.650.6197 SW Phila - 2 Rms/Effec $100 - $125/Wk Incl Utils, 1st/Last, Ba, 267.648.8466

18th & Erie (37xx N. Gratz St.) LARGE, clean room. Share kitchen & bathroom. Close to transp. 484-318-1359 20th & Allegheny: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, A/C. 267-331-5382 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 30th & Dauphin vic rms $300/mo or 2Br $600+ 215.888.4907 Or 267.975.4602 33rd & Ridge Ave. $100-125/week. Large renovated furn rms near Fairmount Park & bus depot. 215-317-2708 3430 N 22nd St priv ent paint use of kit ww $120wk $290move in 267-997-5212 4th & Diamond $110/wk $225 to move in, ref/micro. 215-416-6538 53xx N. Broad St. Rm & Apt. Full fridge, 27" TV, AC. Call 267-496-6448 Allegheny $90/wk. $270 sec dep. Near EL train, furn, quiet. Call 609-703-4266

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1xx Albanus St. 3BR/1BA $1,000 Sec. 8 ok. Newly renov. 267-992-3233 22xx S. Hemberger St 3/1.5 $800 plus util. 267-476-0224 Broad / Allegheny RMs rent $400-$450 & 26 CB Moore. Furn. Call 267-978-1487 BROAD St: Move in Special $190, Lge clean furn rms, w/w215-681-3896 C & Roosevelt Blvd. Furn Room. Share bath & kit, freee cable. $125/wk. $375 to move in 856-217-2477 after 12pm

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48xx N Warnock 4Br/1.5 Ba $1400 + Oaklyn NJ 2br 1B row 5 mins Ferry Av Util New Kit, Sec 8 ok, 215.264.2340 Speedln. Sec8ok $950+. 609-417-4650 628 Anchor St. 3BR/1BA $850 plus Northeast, good cond, finished bsmt, gar, no pets. Call Tom 267-844-9340

2011 $39,300 BMW 328i Hardtop convertible. Grey, Loaded, 4,600 miles, mint condition. Free service. Office- 215-497-3150 or Home- 215-5987017. Ask for Walter. 2002 $5,200 HONDA CIVIC LX Manual, A/C, power windows & locks, 121,000 miles. Call 215-550-7109

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Lincoln 2000 Luxury 4 door towncar with formal roof, mint cond., 49,000 ORIGINAL MILES, special car for a particular buyer, reluctant sac., $5,975. Lynn 215-627-1814 Mercedes Benz S-500 4Matic 2005 $16,800. Blue ext, Black int, 76k mi, Navigation/6 disk CD. 302-494-3309

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Buick LaCrosse CXL 2005 $3250/obo 73K MI, V6, Auto, 267.825.2315 Buick LeSabre Ltd 1997 $2,500 2nd owner., exl cnd. Call 610-667-4829 Cadillac Eldorado 2001 $3900 or As is $2400, 127K Mi, 856.875.1764 CHEVY IMPALA 2005 $3475 Gold, Loaded, CD, Clean, 267.592.0448 Chevy Venture Deluxe 2000 8 pass Mini -Van, Full pwrs, A/C $3450 215.922.2165 Chrysler 300M 2001 $1,650 All pwrs, sunroof, CD, insp. 215-620-9383 Ford 2002 F-150 deluxe pickup truck, extended cab w/ fiberglass cover $5,985. A/C, lite commercial. Call 215-922-5342 Ford Explorer 2002 $3,000 Insp, Clean, 117K Mi, 267.303.5326 Ford Explorer XLT 2004 $3,295 4x4, new tires, gorgeous. 610-524-8835 Ford Taurus GL 1997 $1,150 All pwrs, clean, runs excel. 215-620-9383 HONDA Accord EX ’94 $3900 No negotiation, this is a 1 owner car and has been kept in garage. It has 166,000 miles and has brand new, not rebuilt, transmission and shock absorber. Clean. Force to sell due to death in family. Interested parties call Richard 215-382-7920 Lincoln LS 2003 $4,999/neg. Fully loaded. Call 215-739-2160 Mercedes 420 SEL 1989 $2,500 175K Mi, Clean, Good cond, 484.534.0779

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52xx Rodman St. 3/1 $800 + Utils Pvt yard, hdwd flrs, W/W Carp, W/D 4XX Clapier St 5br/1ba $1020 hookups, New reno, 2 + 1 215.473.1560 Beautiful lrg house looking for family. Sec 8 OK. ref req 407-221-8010 55xx Regent 3BR new rehab, Sec 8 ok, 215-432-3040 8X E Walnut Ln. 4br/2ba $950 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, 60xx King Session 2br $700 Fenced yard, w/d. 610-834-9978 $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 Sec. 8 ok. $650 + util. 267-767-4895 Ross St. 3BR/1BA $950+utils Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms new renov., sec 8 ok. Call 215-698-7840 Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 North Phila. - $100/wk, New reno, Furn 1x Hirst 3br House if Needed, 2+1 Move in, 267.702.8899 N. Phila: clean, modern rms, use of kit, Newly renov, Nr El. 484.358.0761 16xx Roumfort Road, 2br. $900+util. no drugs,reasonable rent. 215-232-2268 52XX Hazel 2br/1.5ba $900 wall/wall, w/d, air, g/d, 2 mo sec, 267N. Phila - Room for rent 30xx N. 24th Newly reno’d, hdwd flrs throughout, gar. 872-2472 disposal, d/w & c/a. 215-747-3853 St. $300/mo. Clean. SSI. 267-357-5454 Near Cheltenham Mall 2br $850+utils 5839 Walnut St. 4BR/1.5BA $1,000 plus Newly remod, garage. Call 267-218-1543 util. Nice block . Rear parking Avail 5/1. OAK LANE $100-$125/week. Furnished Call 215-701-7355. No vouchers. rooms incl use of house. 267.266.1156 West Phila 1br- 6br $800+ 18XX Penfield Ave. Beautiful 2BR S. 59th St near El, furn, A/C, fridge, Sec. 8 housing. w/w, h/w, w/d, 1BA $800 Incl washer and dry. $100/wk, $100 sec. 215.472.8119 Call 267-773-8265 Contact Curtis 215-651-1847 SW, N, W Movein Special! $90-$125/wk 71xx N 18th St 2Br/1Ba New Hdwd flrs, Clean furn rms SSI ok 215.220.8877 Sec 8 Ok, No Pets 215.740.46.29 SW Phila - Newly renov, close to transp. 24xx N. 24th St. 3br/1.5ba $675/mo. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 2+1, Near Trans, Pvt Yard, 215.529.8916 W Phila clean med rm, pvt entr, nr tran Must be workg/avl now215-494 8794 29xx W. Norris St. 3br/1ba $795 43XX Devereaux St. 3BR/1BA $840 W. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, Rehabbed, free HDTV. 215.354.0404 Porch, sm yd. 215-725-6074 No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-586-6502 5264 Glenloch 2BR/1BA $800 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren, Spacious Section 8 ok. Call 267-808-8432 clean & peaceful, SSI ok, 267.255.8665 Temple Univ. area 3BR $1,100+utils. W. Phila - Near Trans, use of house. Pvt Beautiful, completely renovated, new 62xx Farnsworth 2BR $950+utils Newly renov. Sec. 8 ok. 215-421-9606 yard, Quiet block, $110/wk. 215.470.2418 appliances. Call 215-820-2219

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ANSWER TO THE NRA I’m guessing that most americans, being the independant bastards that we are, wont obey any orders from the government to turn in our guns. I know I wont and I am not an NRA member. I, like you, oppose government interference in my life. you still haven’t addressed the impossibility of forcing all those die hard gun owners who have multiple weapons and ammo. I say there is no harm in limiting the access to assault weapons. no one needs one.

hate you because your a fucking loser..you make me sick...I hate the fucking ground you walk on... you are really nothing to me. Did you ever meet someone and they just didn’t seem like you were the one that you thought they were...well this is just one of them cases...I hate everything about you...I wish all bad things to happen to you...you just don’t even know...you can take your love and stick it up your fucking ass because I don’t fucking need it.

LONELY FOR YOU Some things that you do really make me so extra excited that I am your girl. I love how you hold

your own two feet. I hate the fact that you are just so fucking dependent on everyone and there situation...you never bother to find out about your own situation...how about getting that under control. You are a fake ass piece of nothing...you mom raised you to depend on her fat ass. What ever would you do if something happened to her fat ass! Fuck both of yall!

NOW I KNOW I am at my wits end with you. I am glad that I said what I said to you the other day...I wish that it would of been face to face though...you are the only one that I truly loved but now it is like who gives

BASKET CASE Why do you even bother to come outside? Just a big question because of the way that you seem to act. You need to go home and give your wife a good fucking pounding. Don’t you think that would be appropriate? You just walk around whining all the time and it is frankly getting on my nerves and everyone around you! Shut the fuck up already about the situation. Go home fuck your wife and smoke a nice long cigarette.

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me and tell me that things are going to be alright. I love the fact that through our whole relationship you never changed on me and never raised your voice to me. I love how we get along...I miss you touching my skin and looking deeply into my eyes...I take and have taken alot from you...I am still lonely for you...let’s see where this goes...call me!

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RUDE ASS HOUSE GUEST Nobody has a sense of etiquette how you gonna say that you are coming to stay the weekend and then you don’t call or nothing or show the fuck up...that is just bloody rude and nobody is going to wanna deal with your dumb ass in June when it get hot.

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You make me so fucking sick...why don’t you try stop sucking your mom’s saggy fucking breasts for a change and just be a fucking man and stand on

a flying fuck if you are around or not. I know that you want me to be away from you because you say I am boring no I am not! You are just a loser and can’t appreciate when you have something good. You can just kiss my ass!

When you came into the restaurant you ordered and then you said you wanted something else on the side...I said to myself...is he fucking serious. I don’t want what you want...you are digusting. If you want to go down on someone who the fuck has time to talk about it...just fucking do it and be the fuck done...just as long as you know you will never touch this or eat this!

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I really can’t describe what you do to me...you really make me sick...I hate your using ass so fucking much..but I will be the first to admit that I will need you only to watch our child. Other than that you can take your dick and everything else and give it to someone else. I really don’t want you anymore. The attraction is not even there...do me a favor and go to hell!

I went on facebook just now for about 3 minutes and all i see is these posts about their mothers. What ever happened to actually calling or going to see your mother and telling her that. Everybody is posting on how their mother is the “BEST” like it’s a competition or something. These idiots do the same thing with their kids posting pictures of every movement they make. Facebook has made people idiots and I can’t wait until it goes away like Myspace did. Actually to be honest I don’t care if it stays I hardly ever use it like 3-5 minutes every 2-4 days.

because of your laziness and your dumbness...I

I keep running into you in West Philly, although we met @ the Plazza a few years back, where you used to work. Saw you today with my friend who just so happened to be a male. I was asking you what was up with you and you said you’re done on the bouncing scene and that you’re back in school. You wished me well and went off toward eastbound stops. I know it seem like I had my hands “full” but I wanted to continue to talk about life. There is just something about you. I would love to just be your friend. You just see so sweet. Shawn/Sean, I hope I run into you again, soon, at five-two or five-six. Always the chick with the red hair & freckles.

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Are you worth anything..do you know your worth...you keep asking me the same question over and over again...and then I try to respond the best way I know how...but I finally realzed that you and I are going through the same nonsense...I don’t want to go through this shit...I think you do...maybe we can sit down and talk to each other and come to some type of understanding...we need each other and we have to hang in there...

I can’t wait until the summer begins so I don’t have to see you dumb ass school kids on the train. You can look stupid and stand on the corner all day and get caught up in some dumb shit for all I care... least I don’t have to deal with yall getting on the train looking like zombies and not knowing what train to get on.

Hey, you jackasses who don’t turn off your g**damned cellphones and pagers during Philadelphia Orchestra concerts: you are such idiots. Right during the gorgeous closing moments of the violinist’s solo a few weeks ago one of you dumbasses had your phone on and of course it had to ring right then. I hope you spend a century in purgatory. Meanwhile, stop coming to the concerts!

Why would you take a job somewhere and you really don’t fit the criteria...you aren’t friendly at all. You walk the fuck by like you are better than other. I got a news flash for you sister...you are fucking nothing to me. If I could get away with it. I would slap the shit out of you and just stand there and laugh at your reaction like I can’t believe that she just slapped the shit out of me! Yeah...but that is is just wishful thinking. Get over yourself honey...I think you are a joke.

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Kitten, I know I blew it. I had no intention of ending our relationship and I waited to long to tell you that. You were the only light I had in my life and now it is gone. We were soul mates sweetie. I said the most awful things to you because I wanted to hate you so bad. When in all actuality I was so sad because I loved you so much. My only hope is that if we are meant to be together. Then in time we will be. I hope you and your family can forgive me. I will always love you.

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