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Witnesses say Penn campus police gave Assistant District Attorney Kevin Harden Jr. preferential treatment after his involvement in a brawl at Mad Mex restaurant. “Harden pulls a lot of weight around here,” explains your server, Carly. “If he wants extra guac, he’s gonna get extra guac — plus a free serving of El No Bono hot wings and the best stool in the dining area.”

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The 120th annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police brings police chiefs from around the world to Philadelphia. “We, too, have decided to perform some gay marriages,” they say. “Hell of a weekend.”

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SHUT OUT OF THE DREAM A broken system denies thousands of people a chance to get the housing subsidies they desperately need. By Daniel Denvir

ive years after the country’s worst economic disaster since the Great Depression, the dream of a decent home has become more elusive than ever for the city’s poor. Grim numbers tell the story: 28,076 low-income people are waiting in line for a Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) unit; 54,368 want Section 8 vouchers, which subsidize rent in the private market; and 26,382 wait on a third list, for tax-credit subsidized housing. An untold number who need affordable housing, however, cannot even apply. The first two waiting lists are closed. “I’ve been trying to get on it for years,” Farrah Wynn, 32, says of the Section 8 list. “But it’s never available.” It was hard enough for Wynn to afford $800 in monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Mantua when she worked for a cosmetics company. Now, pregnant and temporarily out of work, she finds it is nearly impossible. “Juggling a job and child care and rent is a lot for one person,” says Wynn. “It’s a lot for two people as well.” The economic crisis and flood of home foreclosures pushed millions of Americans out of their homes, and many landed in a crowd-

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ed rental market. That increased demand for a limited number of units — all at a time when unemployment skyrocketed. “The need for affordable housing in Philadelphia is frankly incredible, and PHA does not have the necessary resources to meet that need by itself,” says Kelvin Jeremiah, who was formally named CEO of the scandal-plagued agency in March. The rising cost of rent in Pennsylvania began to outpace household income gains in 2008, according to a December 2012 Philadelphia Federal Reserve study. By 2010, Philadelphia lacked an estimated 68,647 rental units that were “affordable and available” to the poorest households. PHA controls just 14,118 units and 16,631 Section 8 vouchers. The length of waiting lists over time does not reflect actual demand since the lists are often closed. But things have certainly gotten worse. Only about 480 PHA units turn over each year, and the agency has fallen far behind on a 2008 pledge to annually house 300 homeless families in units and 200 individuals with vouchers. “We will never be able to address that demand with only 480 units coming available,” says Jeremiah, who has increased by 50 the share of 500 units dedicated to vouchers. He says that 70 percent of new PHA units are now dedicated to the homeless. According to 2012 Census data, nearly 50 percent of

A scant 480 PHA units turn over every year.

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✚ BANKING ON A BIG IDEA Next week, City Council will begin public hearings on an ordinance that would charge a new agency with the Sisyphean task of managing Philadelphia’s 40,000 vacant properties. Popularly known as a land bank, the agency would serve as a single owner for 10,000 government-owned properties that currently are controlled by an alphabet soup of bureaucracies. The ordinance appears to have a good chance at passage — but critics say there are still big question marks about implementation. While land banks are popular in smaller cities plagued by abandonment, like Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio, Philadelphia would be the largest city by far to adopt such a system. Advocates, like the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC), say the new agency would streamline the city’s process of disposing of vacant land — the current system is wildly inconsistent and properties often sit in limbo for years — and benefit both nonprofit constituents and private developers. “If you look at the other citywide organizations that are part of the larger Philadelphia Land Bank Alliance, they’re representing for-profit builders, realtors, community-garden groups, small-business organizations [and] environmental groups,” says Rick Sauer, director of PACDC, referring to the coalition that has organized to push for a land bank. “There really is a broad range of interest groups around the table.” But the land-bank system is not without its skeptics. Most criticism has focused on the potential of councilmanic prerogative

— the unwritten agreement that Council members have final say over land use in their districts — to warp the dispensation process. “If I were a district Councilperson, the marriage of ‘land bank’ and ‘prerogative’ would make my mouth water,” says Zack Stalberg, director of government-reform group The Committee of Seventy. The land bank could also use its powers to acquire and clear the title of tax-delinquent, privately owned land that is slated for public auction. It would ultimately assemble both public and private lots into larger parcels for development purposes. Even the agency that has been anointed to receive land-banking powers, authorized by Harrisburg earlier in the year, does not have a sterling track record when it comes to corrupting influences. The Philadelphia Housing and Development Corporation has, in the past, been the target of multiple corruption investigations and has seen a string of officials resign or plead guilty to fraud charges. The squeaky-clean Michael Koonce was installed as director last year in what was widely viewed as a move to strengthen the organization’s image in the run-up to the land-bank legislation. Sauer says the possibility of Council members trying to use the land bank to hold up lucrative development deals for political gain wouldn’t be much different than what can already happen under the current system, adding that the land bank’s public meetings would at least bring a level of transparency to the process of pols intervening in property transfers. John Kromer, a University of Pennsylvania political science

There are still big questions about the land bank.

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MAKING SENSE OF A LOSS ³ CANDLES AND THE lights of TV news cameras lit up the crowd in front of Philadel-

PORTRAIT OF GRIEF: Laporshia Massey’s father, Daniel Burch, and his fiancee, Sherri Mitchell, attend the vigil.

phia School District headquarters on Oct. 17 at a vigil to honor Laporshia Massey. The sixth-grader died of apparent asthma complications on Sept. 25 after falling sick at Bryant Elementary. No nurse was on duty. On Oct. 16, Gov. Tom Corbett released $45 million in federal funds to Philly schools. Corbett denied that Laporshia’s death, first reported by City Paper two weeks ago, played a role in that decision. That same day, Acting Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq initiated an inquiry asking Superintendent William Hite for contact information for staff who had contact with Laporshia on the date of her death or were aware of her condition, and any related documents. School nurse Peg Devine says the link is clear: “Corbett was ashamed, and that’s why he released that money.” Corbett had been criticized for withholding funds to exact concessions from the teachers’ union. Philly schools, reeling from a budget crisis, have 3,000 fewer staffers than in June. Their corps of nurses had been cut over the prior two years; those jobs aren’t expected to be restored. There are many unanswered questions about Laporshia’s death. Her father’s fiancee, Sherri Mitchell, says the school-funding increase is a small comfort. “I’m just happy that finally we are making some progress in making the schools safer for the children.” —Daniel Denvir

mobfiles By George Anastasia

WHO WILL GET THE FINGER? ³ THE RETRIAL OF reputed Philly mob boss

“Uncle Joe” Ligambi and his volatile nephew and alleged consigliere George Borgesi is expected to begin on Halloween in federal court. In February, a jury acquitted Ligambi of five out of nine charges, but deadlocked on the remaining four. The 74-year-old Ligambi, who authorities say took over the local mob from “Skinny Joey” Merlino in 1999, could face 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted this time around. The principal charge around which the racketeering-conspiracy case is built involves gambling, so let’s handicap the action: 1. ³ The biggest wild card is Anthony Aponick, a New York mob associate who did time with Borgesi in a federal prison in West Virginia about 10 years ago. Aponick cut a deal with the feds and has promised to deliver “Georgie Boy.” But Aponick may talk a better game than he plays. With his multiple convictions, his credibility is his biggest liability. Prosecutors opted not to call him as a witness at the first trial, so the decision to use him now may be an act of desperation. Is this a Hail Mary pass, or is the government trying to focus the case on the key issue — conspiracy? 2 . ³ Government witnesses usually do better the second time around. That has to be what the prosecution is hoping for with Louis “Bent Finger Lou” Monacello, once a top Borgesi associate. Monacello’s testimony in the first trial was full of rage and sarcasm, which didn’t play well. Has Louie, as one insider predicted, gone to “witness school” to make his testimony more focused? Or will his anger again bubble to the surface? Borgesi now refers to his old friend as “Rat Finger Lou” and “Fuck Finger Lou,” but if the new jury buys what Monacello is selling, it’ll be Borgesi who gets the finger. 3. ³ Where is “Frankie the Fixer” DiGiacomo? He was called as a government witness last time, but his testimony undermined almost everything Monacello said. If DiGiacomo is not called by the prosecution, look for the defense to present him as their own witness. And look for the prosecution to pound away at him on cross-examination. (george@bigtrial.net) ✚ Read more coverage of the retrial at bigtrial.net.

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Philadelphia households earn less than $35,000. And even if the lists were open, some poor Philadelphians would be unable to apply: A criminal conviction often bars applicants from public housing for years. Jacquiline, a 27-year-old mother of two, spent nine months locked up after she was caught with 11 grams of marijuana in a prison parking lot. She lost an $8-an-hour job at Northeast Building Products and now receives cash support from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). She styles hair on the side, barely piecing enough together to make her $625 rent. “I’m suffering for it to this day,” says Jacquiline, who receives no child support from an absent father. Recent cuts to housing and income support have squeezed the poor from two sides. In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett eliminated General Assistance, the $205 monthly payment to recovering addicts, people with disabilities and survivors of domestic violence. In Washington, Republicans have championed the sequester, a deep, across-the-board cut in public spending implemented in March. PHA, which, like other public housing authorities receives most funding from the federal government, lost $42 million. “My opinion is that there is a disinvestment in public housing, and that public housing has been under attack,” says Jeremiah, adding that persistent mismanagement — most dramatically under former PHA CEO Carl Greene — has encouraged opponents. Public housing in Philadelphia was first constructed during 1930s and ’40s to house residents of dilapidated slums and tenements, as well as to shelter wartime industrial workers. By the late 1980s, there was a consensus view that highrise public housing, often populated by AfricanAmericans, was a disaster: vertically concentrated poverty, with crumbling infrastructure and flourishing crime. Insufficient funding, especially for maintenance, made failure a certainty. Tenants, and residents of surrounding neighborhoods, demanded a change, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Hope VI program has over the past two decades funded the demolition of high-rises and the construction of low-rises and mixed-income developments. Nationwide, 260,000 public-housing units have been demolished or eliminated since the mid1990s, according to the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and only about one-sixth of those units have been replaced. Jeremiah says that while the Hope VI program and Greene did a tremendous job of “revitalizing neighborhoods [and] reducing concentration of poverty,” they also “substantially decreased the number of available affordable public housing units” in Philadelphia by more than 6,000. A new partnership among the city, HUD and developers — called “6 in 5” — aims to create or 8 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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preserve 6,000 units of affordable housing in the city over five years. It will barely meet the demand — nor will it provide for PHA’s estimated $1 billion in needed capital spending. HUD provides just $49 million in funding to fix elevators, roofs, heaters and hot water. Chendale, 19, the mother of a 1year-old girl, has been on the PHA unit list for two years, and there’s no telling how long she will have to wait. She shares her childhood bedroom with her own child. “I have a daughter, and I’m getting older. And I need space,” she says. Chendale works as a homehealth aide, but is awaiting a new assignment and is currently unemployed. She is applying for TANF — what’s left of welfare since President Clinton and congressional Republicans ended

A new group aims to build 6,000 units. “welfare as we know it” in 1996. Tyisha, a 29-year-old mother of three who recently left a homeless shelter, now lives in transitional housing. She says that the Department of Human Services (DHS) took her son away because she does not have a stable place to live. Growing up in group homes and foster care, she is now raising her own children in painfully familiar chaos. Having her own place to live would provide a needed anchor, and Tyisha is just the sort of person that PHA is supposed to be prioritizing. “It would mean a lot to me,” she says. “It would bring me stability … and I could start pursuing my goals,” she says. But without more assistance from the federal government, the cash-strapped agency cannot afford to help her. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

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It ignores the key to effectively managing the city’s vacant land: maintenance. professor who ran the city’s Office of Housing and Community Development for nearly a decade, agrees, but says there are other, much bigger structural problems that could threaten the utility of the proposed new agency. “The most marketable properties that had been held in public-sector inventories are likely to have been sold years ago; and the size, condition and location of most of the remaining properties are likely to make them poor prospects for sale, at least in the short term,” says Kromer, echoing points that been raised by other local economists. But, he adds that both advocates and critics have ignored an issue that is key to effectively managing the city’s vacant land: maintenance. “The amount of revenue that property-tax-collection proceeds could generate, at least initially, would not be nearly enough to support a significant property-maintenance capability,” said Kromer in an email. Recently, the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, a government agency whose holdings would make up a sizable chunk of the public land

in the bank, has resorted to selling off its more valuable lots to patch holes in revenue caused by the sequester, Sauer acknowledges. If the new land bank ends up inheriting lots of worthless land, where would the money for maintenance come from? “We’ve been very clear throughout that a minimum threshold for adequate maintenance is critical, as is providing the funding for that maintenance,” says Sauer. “My understanding is there is [maintenance funding]. But that’s subject to the whole budget process.” Kromer, like many who have raised concerns about the new legislation, says he still wants the land-bank bill to be approved. His fear is that, without a business plan and appropriate funding, it might end up looking uncomfortably similar to the dysfunctional system it’s seeking to replace. —Ryan Briggs

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³ RJD2 IS HAVING quite an October. The electro-acoustic artist, producer and label owner just dropped his new Philip Glass-meets-Ice Cube album, More Is Than Isn’t,and quickly announced a tour to support the record that’ll bring him home to Philly and Union Transfer on Feb. 21. I mention “home” because you rarely hear much personal info with regard to RJD2. Is he ashamed? Did he sneak out of Philly and move to Los Angeles like Diplo and, soon, Cheers Elephant (see below)? “No, man, I still live in West Philly,” he said during a long chat. “I just don’t publicize much about my private life. But I love it here.” ³ In case you didn’t catch what I was throwing, our finest practitioners of rootsy, cotton-candy-colored psych-pop in Cheers Elephant are moving to L.A. for fame and nice weather. “To celebrate you, Philadelphia, we’re throwing a Farewell for Now, Philadelphia show on Nov. 23 at the TLA,” writes mustachioed Elephant Derek Krzywicki.Thanks, mang. ³After a weekend of hanging with the Dalai Lama in NYC, homeboy Richard Gere started filming Franny at 15th and Walnut on Monday. Count on at least two weeks (to start) of seeing Gere and Dakota Fanning around Philly and Chadds Ford through October. ³ With the liquor license for Mac’s Tavern2 at 20th and Chestnut now a go (long story), It’s Always Sunny’s Mac and Sweet Dee (married Philly-folk Rob McElhenney andKaitlin Olson) stopped by the original Mac’s on Market in Old City this weekend. ³ Here’s a story-rumor: I’ve been made aware (by venue operators and promoters wishing to remain off the record) of a problem with local club owners and their insurance companies — premiums for liquor liability have recently and suddenly doubled (or worse), to the tune of an extra $30K to $50K a year. Of course, some clubs will struggle with this. One owner is making “the tough call to go out of business.” What defines a club and whether this affects Philly bars (or restaurants) is something I’ll be looking to report on soon. ³The Tin Roof countrymusic-venue chain from Nashville probably isn’t worried (yet) about pricey insurance premiums; their live C&W venue at 15th and Sansom, complete with mezzanine, will open across from Ladder 15in early 2014. With restaurateurs Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook opening both Dizengoff (an intimate hummusiya) and Abe Fisher (with foods of the Jewish diaspora) at 1605-27 Sansom around the same time next year, that tiny block is gonna burst at the seams. Yee-haw. ³ Seems like things are always bursting at citypaper.net/nakedcity. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

TEA FOR THREE: Wilma’s The Convert looks at the effect of colonialism and Christianity in 1895 South Africa; Nancy Moricette (center) plays the titular convert Jekesai, with Irungu Mutu (left) as Minister Chilford and Lance Coadie Williams as the Chancellor. ALEXANDER IZILIAEV

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³ WILMA THEATER I see a lot of theater, and sometimes even good shows lose their vividness in my memory within a day or two. But The Convert is different. I can’t stop thinking about Danai Gurira’s powerful, provocative play, now on stage at the Wilma in a sensational production that’s shared with Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C. If anything, The Convert grows in stature as I think about it — as I have, every day since I saw it. This is all the more impressive because Gurira, More on: who is also a successful actress, is relatively new to what I expect will be a distinguished writing career. Yet The Convert in many ways is a reminder of an earlier, grander tradition of theater. It’s a three-act play (running time approaches 190 minutes, including two intermissions) that’s blissfully free of gimmicks. There’s no narrator, no self-consciously clever shifts of timeline, no surprising and implausible red herrings. Gurira, confident in the power of what she has to say, simply allows her characters to tell the story. (Even when they occasionally tell it in Shona, a South African language, we almost magically find ourselves understanding without any trouble.) And what a compelling story! It’s set in 1895 in Salisbury, South

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Africa (now Harare, Zimbabwe), a world locked in the profound cultural conflict of colonialism — some of it religious, some of it racial. The titular convert is a young black Shona woman named Jekesai who is taken in by a black missionary named Chilford, a practicing (make that proselytizing) Roman Catholic and very much the elegant Victorian gentleman. It’s implied that his religious affiliation has aided his upward mobility, and Chilford is ambitious for more — specifically, he wants to become a priest. Though such a career is unlikely for a black African, Chilford knows that his work with Jekesai, whom he has rechristened as Ester and who is proving very effective at converting others herself, may hold the key to his success. Their relationship is the core of The Convert, and, like everything else about this play, it’s complicated. Is Chilford motivated by generosity or self-interest? Does Jekesai/ WE’RE HALLOWEEN Ester embrace Catholicism because C R A Z Y AT C I T Y PA P E R . N E T / she believes it, or because it’s the only N A K E D C I T Y. certain way of protecting herself? Audiences are likely to debate these points long after the curtain has come down. Gurira commits to nuance throughout The Convert, and not only in her characters. The larger story of an Africa torn asunder by violent political struggle is similarly detailed and complex. From what I’ve written, you may have concluded that The Convert is worthy, but doctrinaire. Trust me, it’s not — it’s riveting, and perhaps surprisingly, it’s often very funny. Much of the first act is cleverly reminiscent of Shaw’s Pygmalion, in which another male authority figure with, shall we say, questionable motives, “transforms” >>> continued on page 26

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a female protégé. (Director Michael John Garcés’ superb production underscores this comparison with the luxurious archness of Chilford’s social circle.) In fact, I was reminded of Shaw many more times by the themes of religious conversion and its motivations that are as central to Major Barbara and Saint Joan as they are to The Convert. The seven actors give marvelously rich, committed performances. There’s not a weak link among them, but special honors go to Starla Benford as Mai Tamba, Jekesai’s aunt and Chilford’s housekeeper, and to Nancy Moricette as a heartbreakingly real Jekesai. If there’s a flaw, it’s that things are tied up too quickly and completely. But even that is a compliment of sorts — when was the last time you wished a three-hour play were longer? Through Nov. 10, $39-$46, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-546-7824, wilmatheater.org.

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Unsurprisingly, Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles is one of America’s most produced plays by regional theaters this season. The 2012 OBIEwinning drama and Pulitzer finalist has an intimate, likable quality, particularly in the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s fine production. Beth Dixon plays Vera, the last of a group of elderly friends, living alone in a rent-controlled Manhattan apartment. Her grandson Leo (Philadelphia actor Davy Raphaely) turns up one night at 3 a.m., sweaty and stinky from a cross-country bicycle trip from Seattle. That Herzog’s title adds an additional thousand miles to that ride’s length is an early hint that Leo’s journey is far from over. At first, 4000 Miles teases gentle humor from the awkwardness of an undisciplined twentysomething living with a hearing-aid-wearing, set-in-her-ways old lady; the two have known each other all of Leo’s life, but they’re strangers. The play scores some “I can’t believe she said that” laughs, as when Vera asks Leo if anyone demanded sexual favors in exchange for lodging during his trip, but never sinks to sitcom levels. Leo’s where-am-I-going life questions take precedence as he confronts girlfriend Bec (Shannon Marie Sullivan) about why she backed out of the cross-country adventure. Tipsy pickup Amanda (2013 UArts graduate Leigha Kato, shown above) shares one great scene with Leo, her nascent wisdom exposing Leo’s difficulties connecting with others. Credit these four capable actors, as well as Herzog and director Mary B. Robinson, with making their characters feel genuine and layered. There are no villains, fools or parodies here, just real people struggling to figure things out. Vera — both the role and Dixon’s performance in it — is particularly impressive. The feisty, foul-mouthed senior is a cheap comedy staple, but Dixon and Herzog (who based the character on her own grandmother) invest Vera with a rich backstory of liberal activism; she’s a powerful personality, an invitation to consider the inevitable problems of aging as peers pass away. This delicate play’s complications build gracefully. Leo could go home to Minneapolis, but issues with his mother and adopted sister make him resist even calling. His first stop in New York is Bec’s apartment, but that’s another messy situation. Vera welcomes his company — her sole companion is the woman across the hall, and they only communicate by phone — but struggles with the physical and mental problems of aging. The play builds to surprising revelations about Leo’s trip, which he started with best friend Micah but finished alone. The story unfolds in a long monologue that Leo shares with Vera one night, a quiet, profound release of the play’s subtly building tension, heart-wrenchingly performed by Raphaely in the near-darkness.

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After an intermission-less 100 minutes, we’re still in Vera’s apartment, but we have traveled a long distance in Leo and Vera’s lives. Through Nov. 11, $46-$59, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St., 215-985-0420, philadelphiatheatrecompany.org. —Mark Cofta

³ PLAYS AND PLAYERS The local Tarell Alvin McCraney celebration continues as Plays & Players’ Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet joins Simpatico’s The Brothers Size (through Nov. 3) and Temple’s staging of the Brother/Sister Trilogy (Nov. 13-24), of which Marcus is the final play. Director Daniel Student’s production of it here, however, does not communicate well the talents of McCraney, a recent MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient. The play unspools ponderously rather than poetically; the languid delivery may suggest Louisiana heat and humidity, but doesn’t drive the story. UArts graduate Erin Fleming plays the title role, apparently wrestling with the question of whether or not he’s gay — though his exaggerated mincing and pink hoodie leave little room for doubt. Best friends Osha (Taysha Canales) and Shaunta (Janan Ashton) push him to admit it. Uncle Ogun (James Tolbert III) knows that Marcus is “sweet,” but wants him to figure it out for himself. Great-Aunt Elegua (Zuhairah McGill) understands Marcus’ disturbing dreams about his absent father, but resists interpreting them. The issue feels stuck on repeat until Marcus meets Shua (Andre Brown), a black man supposedly from the Bronx (though his accent is as Southern as everyone else’s) who wants sex with Marcus “on the down-low.” But it all unfolds in a torpor, with McCraney’s trademark spoken-aloud stage directions (as in Ogun entering while proclaiming “Ogun Size enters”) feeling more redundant than revelatory. Colin McIlvaine’s framework set evokes a decaying Louisiana town, though the platforms and walls feel far away from the audience. Rain effects and a roiling mist create some atmosphere — a storm coming — but the air between the characters feels sluggish and lifeless. Through Nov. 3, $15-$30, Plays and Players, 1714 Delancey St., 866-811-4111, playsandplayers.org.

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ALL IS LOST | A J.C. Chandor’s 2011 debut, Margin Call, took an incisive look at the moral bankruptcy of the banking industry, but was hobbled by its tendency to sit back while actors chewed on page after page of expository dialogue. That makes his follow-up all the more surprising: Aside from a brief opening narration, a few desperate cries for help and a single explosive expletive, Robert Redford remains resolutely silent throughout All Is Lost. It’s a bold decision that even the year’s other movie-star-alone-in-a-hostile-environment film didn’t brave; for all its talk of space’s silence and isolation, Gravity is almost nonstop chatter, with a mawkish Sandra Bullock monologue and a ham-fisted score to boot. Chandor is confident enough to avoid those missteps. Casting Redford in the lead (well, only) role undoubtedly gave him a boost, as the 77-year-old actor creates a character out of pure action. Even in his farewell letter, which strikes a tone of vague apology, we learn nothing of his background or his past; we have no idea why he’s on a boat in the middle of nowhere alone, how long he’s been there or what his plans may be. We don’t even know his name. The credits list him only as “Our Man,” which touches on his role as an audience surrogate as everything goes wrong but is also a nod to Redford’s status in the cinematic consciousness. That history, combined with Redford’s tanned good looks,

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goes a long way towards establishing a personal backstory for his character: a youth of brash cockiness, a lifelong outdoorsman of means, a success built with regrets, as we’ve learned from that letter to an unknown recipient. This is not a film of contrivances. Redford’s character never panics or makes huge mistakes; he is simply overwhelmed by the indifference of nature. Chandor captures this struggle with an austere classicism, finishing the film with an ending as decisive or ambiguous as the viewer desires. This is, after all, not a film about one man’s fate, but about his learning to face it. —Shaun Brady (Ritz Five)

✚ CONTINUING CARRIE | D If anyone had to be given the thankless task of making another adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, Kimberly Peirce at least seemed like an intriguing prospect. Though she’s made only one other film since her acclaimed 1999 debut, Boys Don’t Cry — the uneven 2008 coming-home drama Stop-Loss — the idea of Peirce bringing a similar sensitivity to the pain of otherness and alienation could have added an interesting modern perspective to King’s tale of a telekinetic teen. Sadly, Peirce’s version is an almost beatfor-beat remake of Brian De Palma’s pitch-perfect original with all of the style and nuance clinically removed. Peirce’s cast is cartoonish and broad when not simply forgettable. Julianne Moore whispers, sneers and cuts herself, but never matches Piper Laurie’s tempestuous Bible-thumping fury. Chloë Grace Moretz, who did misfit monster so well in

Let Me In, seems more petulant smart girl than abuse victim in the title role, no matter how much she hunches over and folds her arms. Her fight against the school’s glowering bullies feels less like Stephen King than John Hughes with a few extra buckets of blood. —SB (Wide release)

ESCAPE PLAN | B A goofy and at times genuinely funny crowd-pleaser, Escape Plan features twilight-hour Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger at their most relaxed, less worried about how their Botox is holding up than if their longtime fans are having fun. Breslin (Stallone), a private-prison consultant paid millions to ID security flaws from the inside out, takes a high-paying job analyzing an off-the-books facility, only to realize he’s been double-crossed, left inside to rot. Reluctantly teaming up with hard-to-read inmate Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger), he begins piecing together the conspiracy and planning an elaborate breakout under the nose of foppish Warden Hobbs (Jim Caviezel). Much easier to digest than the 7,000-ounce ribeye that is The Expendables, this is Reddi-wip action at its lightest and sweetest, with both old heads seeming to enjoy each other’s company. Watch for Arnie’s eschatological ranting in his native German, somehow the most lucid he’s seemed in years. —Drew Lazor (Wide release)

THE FIFTH ESTATE | BIt’s often said that journalism is the first draft of history. The Fifth Estate, released three years after the disclosure of classified U.S. government documents that brought Julian Assange’s muckraking website WikiLeaks to the world’s attention, is at best the second draft. Working from a script by West Wing alum Josh Singer, itself an adaptation of a book by former Assange associate Daniel DomscheitBerg, director Bill Condon’s film is something of an info-dump itself, a collection of incidents without an animating point of view. As Assange, Benedict Cumberbatch is only slightly more human than his Star Trek vil-

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now what I remember from my early visits to Jose Pistola’s? Wii Bowling. It was 2007, and virtual-reality leagues were the post-ironic bocce clubs of their day. The gaming system was on fire, but the food at Pistola’s barely smoldered. The April addition of chef Adan Trinidad has brought me back to this dark bar, a restaurant-industry haunt with one of the city’s most unsung beer lists and attic bathrooms a poltergeist could murder you in. Some of Trinidad’s plates, like the glistening tiradito of raw fluke splashed with yuzu and freckled with togarashi, made me want to take a sledgehammer to the overbearing sound system, twist 200-watt bulbs into the overhead sockets and lay a white cloth over my table. Fruity, spicy, sour and fresh, the food demanded a bit more attention. Like so many Mexican immigrants to Philly, Trinidad was born in Puebla. At 13, his family settled in Cherry Hill, where his mom was the kitchen manager at P.J. Whelihan’s. “My parents didn’t want me to get in trouble in the summers, so my mom would take me to the restaurant.” Years later, Trinidad worked under Jose Garces at El Vez before

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moving on to other local spots. He then spent five years in New York working for serial restauranteur Richard Sandoval and developing a talent for ceviches — like cubed tuna in a coconut salve with ginger and habañero, a song of ice and fire you don’t need HBO to experience. Post-Manhattan, Trinidad returned to Philly and reconnected with Pistola’s Casey Parker and Joe Gunn. He knew the bartendersturned-bar-owners from their days at Fergie’s, a favorite spot of the El Vez crew for post-shift mischief, and took over Pistola’s kitchen. “Like a lot of people, I loved the place and the concept, but [the food] was the missing piece,” he says. Not anymore. Guac arrived in earthenware pots, creamy green mounds of impeccably fresh avocado mashed with tomato, red onion, cilantro, roasted jalapeños, lime and olive oil. That’s the O.G. version, but far more interesting are the ones topped with fresh diced mango, pomegranate seeds and swirls of balsamic syrup, or lumps of spicy Maryland crab dressed in vinegary morita chile sauce. The charro beans were a glorious border-town mutt: sort of chili, sort of baked beans, not quite either, but together better than both. Trinidad soaks dried black beans overnight then stews them the next morning with garlic, onion, tomato, spices and a hoppy IPA; it’s the kind of homey sustenance you want to eat on the couch during a snowstorm. Ditto for his tortilla soup, which could have used a stronger salting but was otherwise beautiful, with poached thigh meat and avocado floating in a shiny, brick-red pasilla broth. Trinidad delivers 14 different tacos on featherweight, housemade corn tortillas. Each has its own personality, from the brooding >>> continued on adjacent page

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banana-leaf-steamed goat heady with canela and clove to the butter-poached lobster accessorized with peas, pickled pearl onions, coconut and guajillo. Cooked for seven hours, traditional pork pibil rang with notes of orange and habañero; nontraditional short rib with soy and Asian pear. The wings could have been crispier, but the fireballred Buffalo sauce absolutely electrified. Trinidad hated chewy churros as a kid. The sugared ones he serves here are lightened nicely by pate a choux, but their airy construction couldn’t penetrate the stiff cajeta dipping sauce. Like the food, the beer at Jose Pistola’s has also changed. “It was heavy on imports and crazy styles, and we tried to be the only bar that carried certain things,” Gunn says of the original list. “[Now], instead of trying to outdo everybody else, we constantly rotate the bottle menu according to what a handful of us at Pistola’s are into at the time. We’ll keep some beers on for sentimental reasons or we simply love the sales rep. We keep one Mexican beer on because if we don’t, everyone loses their mind.” Is he talking about me? “The beer menu features over 80 bottles with an oddly heavy Belgian bent,” I wrote in 2007. “I like Chimay as much as the next guy, but it’s weird being in a Mexican restaurant and not being able to get a Dos Equis.” People can change. Restaurants, too. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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Cocktails 2M 7yrs hlthy sing songs & words. Large cage w/whl. Will not sep. Bensalem $425. 215-638-7035 nite/wknd

Bengal Kittens, TICA papers, $500. 2 Shots, hlth guar. Ready. 570.350.2595

PERSIAN KITTENS. Beautiful purebreds, $450 (215)765-8434 SIAMESE KITTENS: M/F Applehead, purebred, health guar. 610-692-6408

WEST OAK LANE 1BR/1BA $700 Water included. Call 267-371-0385

BOXER FULL BRED PUPS- 6 weeks. All Shots. $600. Call 215-432-2430 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Pups, AKC, All 4 Colors, Cute, 215.538.2179

Rednose Pitbull Terrior Puppies - $250 Have 3 males & 1 female. 267.584.3282

CAVALIER KING CHARLES Tri, 1 male, ACA. $795. 215-393-7555 Rottweiler & Doberman Pups - AKC, S/W, family raised, health guar. (717) 768-8157 Doberman Pinscher Pups AKC $1500 Shots, ears, health guar. 570-350-2590

English Bulldog Pups - 9 wks, Pedigree, Reg, dewrmd, vet chkd. 215.696.5832

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13 W. Wyneva 2BR $675+Utils 13 W. Wyneva Effic $560+Utils 2+1. Section 8 ok. 215-688-0559

1xx Manhiem Various $500-$700 Fresh Paint & Carpets. 610-287-9857 601 E. Church Lane 1BR/2BR nr LaSalle Univ. 215.525.5800 lic#494336 9xx E. Upsal St. 2BR $750 New renov., gar., Nr trans. 215-280-9200 Germantown 1BR/1BA $535+elec. Quiet building. Call 215.276.8661

Woodcrest Ave 2BR $795/mo. 1mo + 1mo. sec to move in. 610.990.6008

PIT BULL puppies shots, wormed, chocolate blue’s. Call 215-821-4767.

ROTTWEILER PUPS - Purebred, great temperments, born June 2013, 2 m, 2 f, $500. Parents on site. Call 856-296-6578

SHIH TZU PUP-1 male, 32wks old, ACA reg, Brindle, $325 Call 215.752.1393

18XX W. VENANGO 2BR $650 + utils. Near Temple 267-339-1662 2416 N. 33rd St. Rooms, 2br, 3br. $500-$775. Call Sean 267.223.9151 3208 W CECIL B. MOORE 2BR $600 Freshly painted, 1st mo rent & 1.5 mo sec. 215-828-6651 901 W. Champlost 1BR $695 Studio $550 1+1.5 sec to move in. Call 267.385.5129

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8139 Williams Ave 2BR/1BA $800 /mth, 1st Floor Triplex. Call Roger (267) 496-6323

81xx Rugby St. 2BR/1BA. $775 + utils new ren, LR, KIT. Call 215-868-2751.

66 th S t vic Studios,1br Mgr Special ht/wtr/gas inc sec8 ez cred chk 215-768-8243 6970 Cedar Park 3BR $820 Duplex reno 267.271.6601/215.416.2757

12xx W. Westmoreland 1BR $625 1st flr, incl utils, fresh paint. 215.327.2292

LAB MIX PUPPIES, $195. Cute, very friendly, health guar. 717-355-9131

Sib Huskey Pups-AKC, family raised, vet checked, s/w, males. $595. 717.225.6767

12xx W. Westmoreland Studio $475 2nd flr, incl utils. Call 215.327.2292

YORKIE PUPPIES - 1 male, 1 female, 5 months, 1st shots. 267-351-1270

33xx N Park Ave Studio Apt $525/mo. water & heat included. 610-277-9191

6XXX N 17th St 3BR/1BA $975.00 Newly Renovated 3 Bed 1 Bath. Deck off the Kitchen w Rear yard. Near Trans, $975.00 + Utilities Security Deposit w Rental App (No Fee) (215) 919-3496 mddoffice@comcast.net

2xx of Furley St. 1BR $580 + 1st, last & sec. 267-249-9432

7206 Sommer Rd. 1BR $700 Duplex renov 267.271.6601 / 215.416.2757

341 E. Louden 2BR $725 New Reno, hardwood flrs. 215-290-3192

Broad Oaks 1BR & 2BR Lndry rm. Special Discount! 215-834-1623

YORKIE PUPS: Purebred, vet checked home raised. Call 215-490-2243

American Bulldog/Pit Mix Pups - M & F. Born 8/13/13. $150/ea. 215-768-0926

PITBULL Puppies, $300; Blue Pitbull Pups $500. 267-688-6450

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Snakes, Mealworms, Crickets & Mice. Call 215-537-9170

47xx Longshore Ave. 2BR $700-$750 1 mo sec.+ last mo rent. Refrigerato storage. 215.824.3010; 215.833.588 597 Adams Ave., Large 1BR $700/m Wtr incl. Newly renov. 215-718-5858 LAWNDALE 1BR/1BA $635 + utilities. A/C. Call 609-408-9298

NORTHEAST 1BR $575 -$675 2BR $750-$800 Free Flat Screen With Rental Good area. Newly remodeled. Call 215-744-8271

COLLINGDALE Effic $550 1BR $62 heat & water incl, Dan 610.721.325

66xx Blakemore 1BR + Utils & 1 mo sec Section 8 ok, quiet area. 215-457-4946

SHIH TZU PUPS - Shots, wormed, health guarantee. $400. Call 302-897-9779

Pekingese Puppies (2) 6mo, $249. (4) 8 wks $395. Gorgeous. Call 215-579-1922

16xx Granite St. 1)BR` $675/mo $2025 move-in. w/w carpet 215.356.87 Harrison St. 3BR $550 Studio $475. 917.837.6316/215.983.10

56 W Pomona St. 1BR $625+utils Newly renov. 1mo + sec. 267.549.8946

German Shepherd Pups-AKC, OSA, DNA, Champ pedigree, lrg boned, sec quality Call 609.351.3205

Mini Poodle Pups - Vet checked, s/w, house raised, $300 717.768.8417

E. Oaklane: 66th Ave. 1br $575 ground floor, cozy apt., 215-651-3333

53rd & Mastor 1BR $550/mo. Near transp & shopping. 215.843.9319

Beautiful Wynnefield 1BR, 2nd flr, w/ eat in kitch. Spacious. Nr public trans & St. Joseph’s Univ. Immed occupancy. Serious inquires only. 484-684-7785

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60XX Warnock 1 BR $630+ nr Fernrock Train Station 215-276-8534

53rd & Baltimore 1BR/2BR Lrg apt, 1st, last & sec. 215-474-4074

West Philadelphia 1BR/2BR $600 + up Newly Renovated. Call 215-284-7944

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4xx S. 56th St. 2BR $575/mo. 2nd floor, HDWD flrs, stove & fridge. 1st/last + $500 sec. Call 610.623.5880

56xx N. 12th St. 1BR $700, 2BR $800 ground flr, near transp, available Nov 1st. Call 404-797-1082 quickjc@auburn.edu

69XX N Broad St 1+2br/1ba $735/$850 Large kitchen. Call 215-850-1649

Penn Valley-Tower at Oak Hill 1BR/1B $1050/mo. All amen & utils, on site exe cise room. Avail 11/15. 610-296-5766

10xx Oaklane - Private entran clean kitchen, $420/mo. 215-287-2424 22nd & Tioga priv ent paint use of ww $120wk $290move in 267-997-52 25xx N. 20th St.-3 rms, incl full acces to kitch, bckyrd, LR.$450 each+move Utils included. Call 215.651.6564 4508 N. Broad St. Rooms: $425/m Move in fee: $638. Call 215-913-8659 52nd/Westminster: Near transp tation. $100+/week, 215-748-7077 Broad & Allegheny furn rms, frid micro $90/wk $225 mvn. 215-416-6538 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & E $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-145 Germantown Area: NICE, cozy room Private entry. No drugs. (267)988-58 Logan/NP/WP - Clean, tv, cable. $100-$125/week. Call 609.526.5411

apartment marketplace NE PHILA. $475 + $300 security deposit. Furn rm, kit, lndry rm. Call 267-269-7265 N. Phila. $75 & up. SSI & Vets + ok, drug free. Avail immed. 215-763-5565 N. PHILA $75 & up, SSI & Vets+ok, drug free, Furn, Kitch. Avl Now. 215-817-0893 OVERBROOK $450/month. Must see, immediate move in 267-721-7345 Temple Univ. Hosp Area Pvt. kit & ba $135/wk $435 move-in. 215-416-6538 Tioga/Temple Hospital Area: Large, clean rooms for rent, no drugs. 215-225-4109

homes for rent RITTENHOUSE SQ. STUDIO $1,995 Util incl, 24th flr, balcony, Doorman 24hrs, gym, pool, gar. Smk free bldg, Great view. Avail 1/14 713.292.6957

12xx S Dover St. 2br/ 1ba $775 + util. moderate EIK, original HW, new carpet, W/D capability. Call 215-863-0414

17XX S. TAYLOR ST. 3BR/1BA $895Gorgeous rehabbed row on nice block w carpet, newer bath and appliances. Barbecue ready yard. $895 incl water max $100. Needs nothing. 2.5 months to move in. Pix on craigslist. Please call 215-279-1234

17xx. S. 53rd 3Br/2Ba $825+Utils Large, Open porch, Great street. "Landlord that Cares" Mark 610.764.9739/Keisha 215.207.5544 60xx Trinity St. 3BR $725/month. $725 dep + $1450 move in. 215.740.0200 South West Phila 2BR /3BR "Modern." Elmwood Area. 215.726.8817

Germantown 4BR/2BA Lrg. Sec. 8 ok. Avail. now. 215.888.5605

3300 Frankford 2BR/1BA $700 Front porch, no pets. 215-289-2973

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61xx Algard St. 3BR $1000 + utils Freshly painted, Sec 8 ok 215.264.2340

95XX State 2BR/2.5BA $1,400+ Utils 1st flr, rec rm, gar, side yard, all appls, newly renov, 2 yr lease, 267.261.8896 Mayfair. 63xx Ditman 3BR/1.5BA $920 Fully renovated. Oak kitchen. Finished basement w/powder room. New hardwood & w/w floors. Private parking.Quiet family neighborhood. Call (215) 947-6446

NE Riverband 2BR/1.5BA $1400 2nd flr, LR, DR, kitch, lrg loft, laundry rm incl. W/D, gar, side yrd. Newly renovated. Call 215.639.2991

Delware Cnty 3 &4BR $900 & Up +Utils Section 8 ok. Avail Now. 610-394-0768

Wilmington 7BR/3BA $2500 2 car gar. hrdwd flrs, ADA access, Lots ammenities, pet friendly. 215.222.0222.

automotive Chevrolet Corvette 2002 $24,000 obo. Fabulous condition, 32,000 original miles, torch Red/Black lthr. Call 302-588-6118

Mercedes Benz 280E 1978 $7,900 Classic 280E, 1 owner, 131k, complete maint. records, factory upgrades, leather, immaculate. Call 302-652-1430 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am 2002 $21K Mint condition. Call 484-888-3729

55th & Allison St (off Media) 2BR/1BA $650. New kitch, w/w 215-870-4475 57th/Webster 3br/1ba home $850/mo. avail. now. 267-266-3661 WEST PHILA 3BR/2BA $700/mo. Nr trans, $2100 move in. 215-206-4720 W. PHILA 3BR $750 + utils. First, last & security. 215-718-5980

24xx Master St 5br 1ba $1000/mo+ util new paint, new crpt, bsmt, rear yard Sec. 8 ok 215-888-8662 6150 Charles St. 2BR/1BA $900/mo. Garage. Section 8 ok. Call 516.361.5005

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Southhampton Pumpkin Ale Summit Extra Pale Ale Atwater Double IPA Cricket Hill Smoked Rye Stevens Point Oktoberfest Dock Street Cinna’stout Dock Street Rye IPA - Cask All that and more at the Watkins Drinkery in South Philadelphia. Corner of 10th & Watkins 215-339-0175

PHILADELPHIA EDDIES 621 SOUTH 4TH St. (in the MIDDLE of Tattoo Row) 215-922-7384 open 7 DAYS

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12 Years of experience. Offering personal fitness training, nutrition counseling, and flexibility training. Specialize in osteoporosis, injuries, special needs. In home or at 12th Street Gym. MCKFitness@yahoo.com

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