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Point Breeze is enjoying a real-estate boom.

Actually, that might’ve been a gunshot.

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A placenta is found in an alley behind a Center City McDonald’s. In France, they call that a Royale with Après-Birth.

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The Philadelphia Parking Authority plans to increase penalties for late payments on parking tickets. “And — what the hell — we’re gonna start just towing cars away and launching them into churches. We’re done trying to be liked. We want you to hate us so much it hurts you.”

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Eagles cheerleaders debut this season’s outfits, designed by Vera Wang. Poor Joe Conklin is driven mad trying to craft the perfect cheerleader/wang joke.

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Phillies farm team the Lehigh Valley IronPigs wins a Golden Bobblehead award for its “interactive urinal gaming systems.”Which is an awful fancy name for a glory hole.

POINT OF PRIDE: Nancy Santiago, 55, of North Philadelphia, is highlighted in Galaei’s “Positivo” campaign, designed to underscore the Latino community’s affirmation and acceptance of its gay and HIVpositive members.

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The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation invites out-of-town bloggers on a weekend-long tour of the city’s neighborhoods. Well, certain neighborhoods. Actually, they just circled Chestnut Hill for a couple days.

The Streets Department now allows residents to put their trash by the curb at 5 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. But they admit you can continue putting shit anywhere any time you want, as per tradition.

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A Bensalem High School junior starts a charity program called “Make the Homeless Smile.” But it’s quickly overshadowed by the “Make Them Fucking Beg For It” campaign.

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Delaware brewery Dogfish Head, which trademarked the name Namaste, says it hopes to resolve its issues with the newly formed Texas-based Namaste Brewing.

“Do we get a say?” ask representatives of the culture that has been using the word for more than 4,000 years.

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Some Wawa locations are installing outdoor seating. Plus umbrellas, so the tables don’t get too Sizzli. (Bell Curve sorry.)

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POSITIVO OUTLOOK How a grandmom became a face of HIV in Philly’s Latino community. By Samantha Melamed

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n March 2002, Nancy Santiago learned she was HIV positive.

That July, she tried to take her own life. But by December, she was being featured in the Inquirer as an example of the growing number of Latinas being infected with the virus.

Today, Santiago, 55, has spent a full decade telling her story as the face of HIV in Hispanic Philadelphia. “Wherever they need a voice and a face for the Latino community, I’m out there. I don’t care who knows that I have it. I have it under control; it does not control my life. And HIV is not me,” she says. “I’m a mother of five and a grandmother of 10, and I’m a Latino woman — and I’m HIV positive.”

Last Wednesday, Santiago was sharing that message on Lehigh Avenue outside Prevention Point, the public-health organization and needle-exchange provider where she works as a cleaning lady.

There, she was promoting her latest HIV/AIDS awareness endeavor: She’s one of five local people being featured in Positivo, a first-of-its-kind traditional- and social-media campaign run by the social-justice nonprofit Galaei. The campaign sets out to recast what it means to be Latino and HIV positive or gay in North Philadelphia.

Elicia Gonzales, Galaei’s executive director, says the idea was born after Galaei conducted a survey of North Philly Latinos, and found that most people “are affirming of gay Latinos and also of HIV-positive people.” But at the same time, they found, “There’s

this myth out there that Latinos are homophobic, and that there’s still a lot of stigma around HIV in the Latino community.”

So, they decided to reclaim the term “positivo” or positive, says Louie Ortiz, who helped develop the campaign, which includes a series of postcards, posters and T-shirts featuring local people who are gay and straight, HIV positive and negative. “When people see the ‘positive’ symbol, they tend to think HIV, and then death,” Ortiz says. “I thought, if we can reappropriate and attach new meanings to it, then when people see that sign and see the word positive, they can approach it from a place that’s more loving.”

Galaei is releasing a new postcard each week through Oct. 12, which is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day. Each includes a black-and-white portrait by Ortiz and a unique “positive” message.

Santiago’s reads: “I am positive that caring for my family means knowing my status.”

The final postcard will feature Ortiz himself. He was “adamant” at first that he would not be featured in the campaign — but, it turns out, there just aren’t that many Nancy Santiagos out there.

Many of the people Ortiz approached for the campaign declined to participate, or backed out at the last minute.

“Being a brown gay man, I’m always living in the stereotype that I am [HIV] positive, or that being positive is only a gay man’s issue,” Ortiz says. “So it was difficult to get young, gay men to be a face of [this campaign]. It wasn’t just a one-time thing. It’s going to be hanging up. It’s going to be on social media. Your friends, your

“It’s a myth that Latinos are homophobic.”

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✚ ADVANCED RETREAT Teachers in at least one Philadelphia high school say they were called into a meeting last week and told that funding has been cut for Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, two types of honors programs that, with the payment of costly exam fees, can enable students to receive college credits.

Then, they say, they were told not to tell the students.

Philadelphia School District spokesperson Fernando Gallard confirmed Tuesday that there is no funding for the fee schools must pay to participate in IB, for the required IB-teacher training or for test fees. Nor is there funding for AP tests or training.

“The good news is the IB teachers are still in the IB programs, so the students are still taking IB courses. The bad news is that they are taking IB courses that are not being credited to them

yet, because we are not able to afford the school fee,” he says. Gallard says restoring those funds is important to the District. “That’s why we are continuing to push … for more funding out of the negotiating table. Whatever we are able to save out of the negotiations with our unions, we are able to use to pay for things like this.”

The cuts extend to Philly’s esteemed magnet schools.

The IB coordinator at one such school tells us, “Teachers have been rostered to teach these classes, but have not been trained.”

“These are the programs that, as a public school, still make us an attractive place for parents and students — college-preparatory, rigorous curricula,” says another teacher, who like others asked to remain anonymous because he was told not to speak about the matter. He says the school spends about $50,000 per year on training and fees for IB programs and exams, and also covers the cost of hundreds of student AP exams. “Students need to be regis-

tered by November [for IB or] … they will not be able to take the exams. And we’ve been told not to say anything to anybody yet — but time’s a-ticking, and it’s not fair to these students.”

An AP and IB teacher at another magnet high school says her students in the past have used the courses to get into better colleges, earn scholarships and skip entire semesters of (pricey) college coursework. “It’s their chance to compete with kids at premier suburban public and private schools for the college process,” she says. Shifting the funding burden onto kids and their parents is not an option, she says. “If schools in Philadelphia stop offering AP and —Samantha Melamed IB, we’re letting kids down.”

✚ ONE-MAN SHOW Point Breeze developer Ori Feibush was the target of a protest Aug. 24 in which a group called the Point Breeze Organizing Committee (PBOC) attacked what they described as Feibush’s “profits-first” business model. In a lengthy manifesto, they demanded, among other things, that developers like Feibush enter into community-benefit agreements that would channel part of their profits back into neighborhood improvements and affordable housing.

Now, it looks like Feibush is taking their advice … sort of.

Feibush tells City Paper he’s planning to open a privately funded community-development organization and community center at 20th and Federal streets that would assume some duties normally undertaken by business-improvement districts, like street cleaning, installing trash cans and lighting, assistance with 311 complaints, and dispensing grants to local businesses for façade improvements and security cameras. To that end, Feibush has hired former Francisville Neighborhood Development Corp. manager >>> continued on page 12

“The Puerto Rican Day Parade was held in Center City, but the real excitement was way up in the barrio,” says Michele Frentrop, who captured this image during festivities on Sunday on North Fifth Street near Lehigh Avenue, known as “El Bloque de Oro.” There, celebrations in the streets continued all day long.

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By Daniel Denvir

CHOICE WORDS ³ THIS WEEK, wealthy donors interested in the

future of public education gathered at the Union League for a conference entitled “All of the Above: How Donors Can Expand a City’s Great Schools.”

The event, organized by the conservative Philanthropy Roundtable, was closed to the press and public, and restricted to those who make $50,000 in charitable donations per year. And despite what the name might suggest, attendees were not in Philly to counter state budget cuts or to cut checks to rehire laid-off school counselors. Instead, they were here to meet with activists who want to move yet more students into privately managed charter schools, and even private schools. (The broke Philly School District (PSD) estimates each student who attends a charter costs the PSD an extra $7,000.)

To school reformers, Philadelphia represents not a cautionary tale, but a road map for the privatization of public education. Standing amid the ruins of city public schools, they like what they see: an opportunity to remake public education according to their own design. This is a city that shows what can happen when dollars and decision-making move into private hands — and behind closed doors.

In early 2012, one of the movement’s key funders, the William Penn Foundation, spent and funneled millions of dollars to bankroll the Boston Consulting Group’s “Blueprint” to “transform” the PSD.The plan called for gutting the District’s central office and breaking up schools into “achievement networks” that could be operated by private managers.

William Penn also spent $15 million on the Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP), which has become the most powerful school-reform group in town. In some cases, PSP has taken on the direct governance of city schools, running a public-private entity called the Great Schools Compact. It’s unclear what else PSP and the Compact have been doing: their internal operations aren’t public. What is clear is that a number of conservative and corporate power brokers sit on PSP’s board. The PSP-allied organization PennCan, a conference presenter, recently advised Gov. Corbett to exploit the Philly schools crisis to mount an attack on the teachers’ union and thereby boost his sagging re-election chances.

All this may be happening behind the scenes, but a recent article in the Roundtable’s magazine spelled out the mission with refreshing clarity: “The conventional mass school district” ought to “be replaced by a new ‘system of schools,’ governed by the revolutionary practices of chartering.”

Only public opposition can put a stop to this private revolution. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net

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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT Is privatizing legal representation for poor defendants a dangerous precedent?

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

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ince last year, Mayor Michael Nutter’s administration has quietly sought to revolutionize how court-appointed lawyers are provided to poor Philadelphians, through a new office of conflict counsel. But on Monday, Oct. 7, City Council will hold a hearing to air concerns about the plan.

And there are lots of them.

Since the city put out — and then extended — its request for proposals (RFP) for the contract, it received only one substantive bid.

Two of Philly’s major nonprofit legal organizations declined to bid.

The one comprehensive bid that the city did receive, and which it appears prepared to accept, came from two ex-prosecutors now in private practice. And even before their bid was accepted, one of the co-bidders withdrew in the wake of a scandal.

“This has been tainted by collusion, lack of transparency and the conflicts we see by creating a private law firm,” says Councilman Dennis O’Brien. O’Brien, who sponsored legislation calling for the hearing, argues that the very RFP was designed to bypass City Council input, and therefore public scrutiny.

Contracts for a year or less, like the one proposed for the conflict office, don’t require Council approval.

In an interview with City Paper earlier this year, Nutter’s chief of staff, Everett Gillison, himself a former public defender, described the new office as his brainchild. “I know that the public-service attorneys that do this work need additional resources, and that’s why I want to

bring this different model to the conflict counsel,” he said, citing the lack of funding for support staff such as paralegals and investigators.

“My focus is on the person that needs the lawyer,” he said. “I want them to have the investment that’s necessary.”

The conflict office would come into play in cases the nonprofit Defender Association of Philadelphia doesn’t handle. That includes cases where the Defender has a conflict of interest, such as representing one of several co-defendants, and cases of parents whose kids are being removed by the Department of Human Services.

Up until now, finding qualified lawyers to take on these cases has been a challenge. That is “largely a function of the miserable rates we’ve been paying for years,” says Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Senior Judge Benjamin Lerner. Last year, the Philadelphia courts refused to continue appointing defense lawyers and paying them out of the court budget. That left the city paying the tab for the more than 20,000 attorney appointments made in Philadelphia every year.

That, in turn, set the stage for the city’s request for “creative and innovative” conflict-counsel proposals. And that led to the one substantive bid submitted: a $9.5 million plan for a new law firm run

by Daniel-Paul Alva, founder of the four-member Alva & Associates law firm, and Scott DiClaudio, who also has his own firm. It is not entirely clear why the Alva-DiClaudio bid was the only substantive one submitted (one bid was just to handle the administrative process and another involved fewer than half a dozen attorneys). Nor is it clear how it was vetted. The administration declined to comment.

DiClaudio — who sources say is known for his business acumen and passion, if not perfect propriety — resigned from the project after the Legal Intelligencer reported on two Facebook postings he had made.

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In one post, DiClaudio shared a page titled “American White History Month 2” with an avatar,“Never Apologize for Being White.”

In another, he commented that he had spent almost 20 years “representing scum.” (He told the newspaper that the first post had been an accident, and the second was a joke.)

DiClaudio also had a past disciplinary history for failing to file appellate court papers on time or at all, failing to provide a written fee agreement to a client and “for making false and misleading statements” to the state bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel.

In an interview, Alva said, “Scott has voluntarily resigned from the project.”

DiClaudio confirmed that he had stepped back, but declined to comment further.

Lerner, who before becoming a judge was the chief public defender, says he is not certain, given the costs involved, that the math works on Alva’s proposal.

Catherine Carr, executive director of Community Legal Services, says her organization considered bidding to expand its representation of parents in family-court cases, but decided against it because “the money per case is very low.” Carr did not think CLS >>> continued on page 10

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“What do you think — grandmoms don’t get AIDS?” family may have conversations around it.” To his relief, the feedback has been positive; friends and family told him the campaign was long overdue.

As for Santiago, this is well-worn territory. She says she can’t even count how many times she’s told her story. First, back in 2002, she told her children: Her daughters cried. One ran to the trash can and vomited. Her son punched a hole in the wall.

Then, before that first Inquirer article came out, she told each of her co-workers, one by one. She’s told reporters for the Al Día and El Sol newspapers.

She’s told school assemblies and audiences at City Hall. She told the world in a 2003 ad campaign for the Philadelphia AIDS Consortium (TPAC).

“It’s nothing to be ashamed of, in my opinion. I can imagine how many people might think, ‘Did she get it because she was using drugs? Or did she get it because she was out in the street, doing unprotected sex?’” she says. “I’m not down on nobody, but that’s not how I got it. I fell in love and trusted the wrong the person, and this person had AIDS. I say, ‘What do you think — grandmoms don’t get AIDS?’” She says the stigma of HIV is still out there, especially among more recent immigrants in her Puerto Rican community. But for those not yet ready to share their status publicly, she’s a role model.

Santiago used to ask her kids if they’d mind her telling her story; now, she just lets them know when to pick up the paper or turn on the TV. On Wednesday, her daughter, Zemaida, 33, was there to see the excitement. She says the message of the campaign — one of love and acceptance — is spot-on. “I accept my mom no matter what. She’s still my mom no matter what she has. It doesn’t make her no different,” she says.

“She’s strong enough to [be the face of this campaign]. There’s a lot of people that wouldn’t be.”

Santiago says she participates with one goal: To encourage more Latinos to get tested and take better care of themselves, because “if you do all this, you’re going to live a long, long time.”

She herself plans to continue speaking out for HIV awareness well into her 60s. “My next thing,” she says, “is I want to be on a billboard.” (samantha@citypaper.net)

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Is it appropriate for for-profit firms to handle conflict cases? could do high-quality legal work within the budget constraints. Lerner and others said the Defender Association was asked by the city to run a separate conflict-counsel office, but decided against it. The Association did not respond to requests for comment.

But Lerner is also hopeful. He says he’s impressed because Alva’s proposal involves a “significant number of really excellent lawyers.” Alva says that no lawyers with less than 10 years of experience will be hired: “We really wanted to go blue chip.”

He argues that the new office will benefit clients, because its salaried attorneys would have no incentive except the client’s best interest. Currently, court-appointed lawyers get paid more if they take their cases to trial — even if it would be better to settle, Alva says. Further, he argues that salaried lawyers can handle more cases by being assigned to one courtroom throughout the day.

Court leaders and Alva’s team have already started to meet to discuss centralizing cases, according to both Lerner and Alva. But, critics say, before things move further many questions ought to be answered.

For starters: Is the plan even an appropriate way to handle conflict cases? “I don’t understand the words ‘for profit’ in the same sentence as ‘indigent defense’,” says Marc Bookman, a former defender

who’s now a leading advocate for sufficient pay for lawyers appointed in capital cases. Poor clients’ interests are served well by nonprofits, he says. But a for-profit firm has conflicting motivations: “Do you maintain your profit? Or do you properly represent your client, which often costs resources and money?”

O’Brien hopes the hearing, though late in the game, could highlight alternative conflictcounsel systems. He would prefer a system like the federal one, in which an independent panel certifies that defense lawyers have sufficient expertise. He’d also like to see court-appointed counsel get a checkup every three years.

Councilman Bill Greenlee, who joined O’Brien in calling for a hearing, says, “We don’t want to have fights with the administration all the time.” But, he adds, despite Nutter’s stance that “transparency is the best policy,” Council still does not have the answers it needs. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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ment to justify privatizing public service.”

Barbara Kelley to lead operations at the center at 1155 S. 20th St. “Point Breeze has lacked — for many, many, many years — leadership and direction, and access to otherwise-available resources,” Feibush says. Comments like that can be read as a shot across the bow of local organizations like South Philadelphia HOMES (SPH), a nonprofit that does economic-development work in the neighborhood. The longtime executive director of SPH, Claudia Sherrod, announced her resignation in September, a day before City Paper published an article about an illegal dump located partially on land she owns in Point Breeze. But Feibush says his center is intended to “support” existing organizations in the neighborhood.

Interestingly, Feibush also notes that he has been paying the real-estate taxes for “five businesses” on Point Breeze Avenue. Additionally, a source familiar with SPH’s activities said that the developer recently donated $5,000 to SPH. Feibush disputes that, saying he has contributed “roughly $3,000” to SPH and a total of $30,000 to neighborhood charities this year.

Feibush has had well-documented disputes with the city and with City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson. Probably not coincidentally, Feibush announced earlier in the year that he plans to challenge Johnson for the 2nd District Council seat in 2015. Historically, Council members have relied on constituent services — similar to the planned offerings at Feibush’s new community center — to win favor with the electorate. But Johnson says he “support[s] any effort to improve the quality of life for the residents of the Second Council District” — including Feibush’s initiative.

But some in the area see it as one more way to control Point Breeze. Gary Broderick, a PBOC organizer, called Feibush’s plan “anti-democratic.” He added in an email, “It’s part of a larger pattern going on in this country, and in this city, of starving the

✚ CROWD CONTROL “We came for Lecrae!” shouts a group of teenage girls, referring to the emerging gospel hip-hop star set to perform at the Harvest America Crusade at the Wells Fargo Center this past Saturday.

“And for God,” interjects another girl. They all laugh.

It’s easy to see how priorities could get mixed up given the nature of this religious service/international spectacle, attended by a crowd of 17,500 and simulcast to more than 3,000 venues in 22 countries. The modern presentation (the Crusade has an app) relies explicitly on youth activism and enthusiasm. Founded by Pastor Greg Laurie in 1990, the evangelical crusade has evolved into a 21st-

“I want to show the devil who’s boss.”

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When Laurie made the call to the altar, hundreds came to the arena floor, accompanied by “decision follow-up” counselors, most of them in their 20s. Ed Chantigian, from Calvary Chapel in Chester Springs, spoke about the process of becoming a counselor. Trainings started in July. “We learn to pray with people, answer their questions and do some crisis management if it’s necessary.” They also took the contact information of new converts, and plan to distribute that information to local churches.

—Dotun Akintoye

century pop-concert confessional, featuring live performances,

spontaneous chants of Jee-zus! Jeezus! Jee-zus!, youth groups wearing T-shirts with slogans like “Jesus First Bro” and a failed attempt at doing the wave. Saturday’s crusade also included, at the instigation of Pastor Levi Lusko, an attempt to get all those in attendance and watching the simulcast to take, what he called the “largest simultaneous selfie in human history,” using the Twitter tag #HarvestAmerica. Even Laurie’s sermon was littered with pop-culture references ranging from Dave Chappelle to botox, Macklemore to Hugh Hefner.

Eric Mason of local Epiphany Fellowship was asked to give the opening prayer. “I believe Pastor Laurie has a supernatural ability to evangelize,” he said. He later told the assembled in his prayer that he wanted Jesus “to basically show the devil who’s boss.”

CORRECTIONS

A caption for the Sept. 26 cover story “Dispatches from Killadelphia” incorrectly stated that a street-side memorial on Dover Street in Brewerytown was dedicated to Shaheed Jackson, 18, who was shot to death on Sept. 17. In fact, the memorial — a block away from where Jackson was shot — was created for Senita Waters, 29, who died this summer of natural causes.

In addition, the article quoted a mourner who said that murder victim Jaymire Rustin was his brother. Rustin did not have a biological brother.

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AUTHOR/MUSICIAN WESLEY STACE IS FINALLY PUTTING HIS NAME ABOVE L PELUSI THE TITLE. WORDS BY MNICTHOASE

Costello. And then there was that pseudonym, taken from the 1967 Bob Dylan album and song. On one early song, he knowingly sang “Bob Dylan was my father/ Joan Baez was my mother/ And I’m their bastard son.”

Born in Hastings, East Sussex, England, he’s lived in America since 1991. In 2010, he moved to Mt. Airy, with his wife, Abbey, a Philadelphia native, and their two children, Tilda and Wyn. After those early albums, he began exploring different ideas and sounds on his albums. Trad Arr Jones (1999) was a tribute to British folk musician Nic Jones. The Sound of His Own Voice (2011) was a bright, jangly affair, recorded in Portland with Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, members of The Decemberists and others. And Stace co-wrote every song on Personal Record, the June solo album from Eleanor Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces.

But his latest album, Self-Titled (Yep Roc), recorded in town at MilkBoy’s studio on North Seventh Street and released on Sept. 17, is a departure in more than one aspect. It’s a muted affair, filled with autumnal strings and occasional R&B rhythms. He sings in a soft, conversational tone. Nearly every song is autobiographical, something of a first for him. And, appropriately, Self-Titled is a debut of sorts; it’s the first album credited to Wesley Stace. John Wesley Harding — for now, anyway — is no more.

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usically, Stace says he drew inspiration for Self-Titled from some of his favorite singer-songwriters from the ’70s, particularly those with “soft voices”: Colin Blunstone, Duncan Browne, Cat Stevens. “Mostly blokes,” he admits, “but definitely Joni Mitchell” as well. Additionally, a strong soul influence emerges on songs like “A Canterbury Kiss” and “When I Knew” (one of two songs on Self-Titled that also appear on Eleanor Friedberger’s album). Stace cites favorites like Donny Hathaway and Curtis Mayfield.

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On any given day, Wesley Stace might be biking along Kelly Drive. Or he might be taking his family to the Franklin Institute. Or he might be inaugurating the reopening of the Boot and Saddle on South Broad with a short set opening for Ted Leo and Aimee Mann.

You might hear him on NPR, emceeing a crowded New York stage of musicians, comedians and writers. Or giving a reading of his latest novel somewhere.

Or teaching a class at Princeton University. Or curating the Words and Music Festival (WAMFEST) at Fairleigh Dickinson, where he might arrange an appearance from some guy from Jersey named Bruce.

“Writing novels, making music, teaching and emceeing a show — they’re all very different skills done at different times in different ways,” he says. “But they’re all the same project. And they all reflect me. And they all come somehow quite naturally to me, otherwise I wouldn’t do them.”

hai tea in hand, Stace, 47, is sitting in Old City Coffee on a blazingly beautiful fall day. He explains how he wrote the album, and why he decided to release it under his real name. It all started on the book tour for his third novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer (2011). “I was kind of at a bit of a low ebb when I was on this book tour. I wasn’t feeling great.

And I couldn’t go out and do what I normally do, stay up late and have a good time,” he says. “And so I just started writing songs to comfort myself and cheer myself up.”

The songs that came out were autobiographical in ways he’d never really attempted before. “And it just got to the point where in two of the songs I referred to myself as ‘Mr. Stace’,” he continues. “It just seemed ludicrous to put it out under John Wesley Harding.”

And anyway, it seems the whole John Wesley Harding thing was a little inadvertent. “I took a fake name in the first place probably as the element of disguise,” he says. “And suddenly I had a record deal with [British label] Demon, and [they said], ‘You’ve got 50 fans in London, why would you want to alienate them?’

And that’s always the decision. I remember one time I was vaguely considering it, and my agent at the time said ‘Wes, every time I book a date for you, I’m going to have to say “Yes, Wesley Stace. Yes, it’s John Wesley Harding. No, you can’t use the name. You can say he’s formerly known … ’ So for people that you know, you’re just making their life more difficult. Back in the day, it used to be, ‘Oh, you won’t have a rack in Tower [Records]. They’ll have to make a whole new rack.’

“What happened in the last 10 years is I started writing novels, and for that I used my real name. So now, it doesn’t feel weird using my real name.”

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N A I C I S U IS M / R O TACE H T U A SLEY S WE made me cry. You can never fucking record that song, ever.’ ‘I don’t even mention you by name.’ ‘It’s irrelevant, people would know. You can’t sing it.’ From which I learned this lesson: Don’t send people the songs,” he laughs.

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ack in 2009, when he lived in Brooklyn, Stace began putting on a show he called the Cabinet of Wonders. “The Cabinet was, I think now, my unconscious-subconscious effort to bring my writing and music together.

It’s like me saying, ‘How can I get me as a writer and me as a musician in one room? And then maybe I’ll stick a comedian in there as well.’” Over the years, Stace has presented the likes of Eugene Mirman, Stephin Merritt, Nick Hornby, Mary Chapin Carpenter, John Hodgman, John Darnielle, Janeane Garafalo, Sarah Vowell and many more, usually from the Cabinet’s home base of City Winery in New York City. Last year, NPR began broadcasting and podcasting edited highlights of Cabinet shows, heard locally on 88.5 WXPN. A new season of episodes is expected to be starting soon.

On the Cabinet of Wonders, you might hear Stace and Kelly Hogan recreate their stunning duet version of Conway Twitty’s “It’s Only Make Believe” (originally recorded for Bloodshot Records in the ’90s). Or you might hear Ted Leo leading a crowded stage in a raucous rendition of Paul McCartney’s “The Back Seat of My Car.” “It’s created a community for me,” says Stace. For instance, “I knew Ted. But he’d never have asked me to support him and Aimee Mann the other day if he didn’t know I was a stand-up guy because of the Cabinet.

“I’ve always been quite a good person for getting people to do things they wouldn’t otherwise have done. Not things they didn’t want to do. But things that were maybe not their first choice. I have a certain enthusiasm — a friendly enthusiasm — that seems to make people go, ‘Oh, he asked me to, I think I’ll do it.’”

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Overall, though, the muted sound of the album was not just the sum of these other artists. On the original demos, he sang in a much lower, quieter register than usual. He realized how much he liked the sound. “I couldn’t have a thundering band behind it, making them into Springsteen songs, or making them into power-pop,” he says. So he instructed the musicians — members of his frequent backing band the English UK, plus renowned local drummer Patrick Berkery — to play sparsely. Add some lovely string arrangements and “I could sing them low and intimately like I was whispering.” The result is a warmly alluring album. Despite the low volume, Stace still delivers plenty of memorable melodies and thought-provoking lyrics.

So how autobiographical is Self-Titled? “Nothing on the album isn’t true, but some of [the songs] refer to literary things more than others,” he allows. “‘The Woman’ is about being obsessed by a villain or your nemesis, like Sherlock Holmes was obsessed with Irene Adler. ‘Canterbury Kiss’ is a very romantic song. Is that exactly how that happened? Probably not. But, it’s how it happened in my memory. I’ve been thinking about that event for 31 years. Have I got it right now? Probably not.”

During the album’s early writing sessions, Stace wrote a song he was particularly happy with, one about a past relationship. He then sent the song to its subject. “She wrote, ‘Wes, that song is so beautiful. It’s true, just like it was. It

t’s going to be a busy next few months for Stace. He’ll be reading at the 215 Festival in a few weeks. His tour for Self-Titled also begins this month; half of the dates will be a traveling version of the Cabinet of Wonders. His fourth novel, Wonderkid, is due out in February. For the winter, he’s curated (“a posh word for ‘thrown together’”) Fairleigh Dickinson’s next WAMFEST, which will feature Rosanne Cash talking with poet C.D. Wright, Loudon Wainwright III discussing Appalachian ballads, a screening of the film Matewan and more. Beginning in February, he’ll teach another of his “How to Write a Song” courses at Princeton, along with Irish poet and Princeton professor Paul Muldoon.

And, of course, there’ll be time for some of Stace’s favorite Philly activities: taking the kids to Smith Memorial Playground and Playhouse in Fairmount Park; dining at Morimoto; maybe a stop at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction for some ROOT or SNAP. “As Eugene Mirman always says, we’re cobbling together a life in the arts,” he says. “I’m very lucky to be able to do what I do. I love writing books.

Ironically, as my accountant once told me, ‘Wes, you’re a writer, not a musician.’

She was proving a point. It’s lovely to be more relaxed than ever about making music. And while knowing that [Self-Titled] will never be my debut album in the eyes of SPIN magazine or whoever, I feel that I’m happier than ever doing what I do.” (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ Wesley Stace plays Thu., Oct. 3, 8 p.m., $20-$22, with Pete Donnelly, World Café Live, 3025

Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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³ I’LL CLIMB ON a limb and say “The Unflinch-

ing Eye: Works of the Tiberino Family Circle” exhibition — unveiled at the African-American Museum last week — is 2013’s most thrilling show (and opening party). Old art/poetry heads, Bacchanal habitués and nu-hipster goofs who hang at the Tiberino Gardens have a chance to rediscover the full funky force that West Philly’s first family has been wielding for five decades running. While “Unflinching Eye” runs into 2014, it’s not all history lessons from the Tiberinos these days.

Sculptor/painter Ellen Tiberino leads the family through Oct. 3’s “Artists of the Tiberino Museum” show at 30 Main in Berwyn (660 Lancaster Ave.).

Comics maven Raphael Tiberino takes part in Oct. 5’s Locust Moon Comics Festival at the Rotunda (more on that in a sec). Not to be outdone by his kids, father Joseph Tiberino will unveil new works, big and small, at Vintage Wine Bar (on 13th Street) starting Oct. 17. And the whole family heads home to the Tiberino Museum for its fall art salon, Oct. 19. Phew. ³ Josh O’Neill’s aforementioned Locust Moon is University City’s best comics shop, and this year’s Comics Fest doubles as the release party for Rob Woods’ brilliant, frightening 36 Lessons in Self-Destruction.“Rob’s been to hell and back, and these stories are what he brought with him,” says O’Neill. (More on Woods to your right.) ³ Rumor has it that the folks behind the 23rd Street Café (known for their Tuesday jazz jams) are looking to sell that sweet but sadly underused spot, along with additional properties nearby. With last week’sSchuylkill River Bridge lighting and overall expansion of the recreation path, to say nothing of Sotto’s swellegant menu, that block might be getting hot. ³ Everything’s turning up French in October. When I stopped into Chris’ Jazz Café for its 20th anniversary show with Pat Martino,chef/owner Mark DeNinno told me that the restaurant part of his livejazz boite would switch from Nola-nese cuisine to Parisian with the addition of chef Laurent Leseur.

“He walked into the kitchen and I decided to walk out,” said DeNinno with a laugh about bringing in a new French chef (who once cooked at Zinc) and a menu that will include escargot dishes and duck parmentier. Then there’s the word that the recently shuttered Chick’s Social on Seventh Street (near South) would be taken over by daughter-and-dad duo Chloe and Bernard Grigri.Stay tuned for their newly named the Good King Tavern and shiny new chef Paul Lyons, (one-time chef de cuisine at Barbuzzo and Morgan’s Pier) and his brand of Southern French tavern food. Ooh la la. ³ There’s always more Icepack — with photos — at City Paper’s news/A&E blog, Naked City (citypaper. net/nakedcity). (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

AFTER LIFE: Slumville is a land-of-the-dead version of Philadelphia, a frequent setting in Rob Woods’ 36 Lessons in Self-Destruction.

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penis-shaped being named Danny tries to kill himself in Rob Woods’ new comic book, 36 Lessons in Self-Destruction (The Depressed Punx Collection), out this week through West Philly’s Locust Moon Press just in time for the second Locust Moon Comics Festival on Saturday. Danny tries to hang himself, but the rope breaks. He finds a big knife in the kitchen and cuts off his arms, but still doesn’t die. He asks, “Why iz dying so damn haRd?” Danny runs to the park to find a more effective way to die. There, he encounters Forrest Gump, sitting on a bench yapping about how “LoFF IZ LOK A BOX … ” Danny sits, listens and reaches a life-affirming conclusion: “Wow! That Retard wuz Right. Heck, this world ain’t All Bad. it’s Time To stop Gittin Bizzy DyiN’ And Start Gittin Bizzy LIVIN.” As Danny walks away, he slips on a banana peel and falls off a bridge.

“Dead.”

Danny’s death is an accident, but there are eight successful suicides in 36 Lessons. Most of them are committed by a character named Bob, who kills himself at least once in each issue of the Depressed Punx series. Rob Woods, 31, has self-released the series in zine format for about three years; they are collected here for the first time. But the tormented characters have been haunting

Woods for much longer.

Woods comes from a family of West Philadelphia artists. His father, Roosevelt, has been a cartoonist, painter, graphic designer and photographer throughout his life. “He was my first teacher,” says Woods. “It wasn’t an easy life. Back then, it was hard for him to get work because he’s black. But even when he would get a job doing something other than art, he would quit because it wasn’t what he wanted to do.”

Rob is the youngest of eight siblings, many of whom are also artists. His brother Jeremiah was a well-known Philly graffiti artist in the ’80s; his sister Joy, a dancer and visual artist, has a collection of the family’s work at her home. “Whether it pushes us to homelessness, losing friends or whatever, art is our religion,” says Woods.

“We’re set on making it. That’s my family.”

In 2007, Woods bought a one-way ticket to New York City, bringing a few dozen paintings to sell on the streets. “I wanted to be like Basquiat,” he says. Woods sold them all the first day. He lived on the streets or in shelters for the next seven months. He spent everything he earned from his paintings on booze. He’d arrived in New York with a troubled history of alcoholism and several stints in mental-health treatment facilities, and his problems were exacerbated by living on the streets.

“I blacked out from drinking every day,” remembers Woods. “I’d wake up in hospitals, in a restraining jacket, fighting with doc-

“I’d wake up in hospitals in a restraining jacket.”

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tors. I couldn’t remember what had happened. I’d wake up in strange shelters with blood all over me.

That’s when I started creating the characters.”

The Depressed Punx live either in Philadelphia or in Slumville, which is where people go when they die. In Slumville, there’s a place called Squirrel Park, an alternate-dimension version of Clark Park. A living, schizophrenic character named Rob sits in Clark Park and communicates with the Squirrel Park dead, including the machine-gun-toting White Jesus and a crossdressing Adolph Hitler.

Woods adds a fantastical spin, but the stories are mostly autobiographical — a character fights with a SEPTA security guard; something similar happened to Woods. He appears at the end of each issue, sometimes wearing a straightjacket or a shirt that reads “editor.”

In one of the new stories, “HOW I GOT HERE,” Rob the editor sits in an AA session with Bob, Danny, “Rob” and several other Depressed Punx characters. It’s therapeutic to write about his life in this way, Woods says. His characters are depressed and self-destructive, but also defiant and oddly heroic. They are driven, but it is not clear by what.

For Woods, though, it has always been his art.

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For better or worse, no matter where his creative urges have led him, Woods has followed.

“I will have a nice job and a nice place to live and a healthy relationship,” he says, “but then I feel like these things are taking too much time away from my creativity, so I will get rid of all of it. Fuck this job, fuck this girl, fuck this apartment. I don’t need that shit. After I get rid of it all, I get depressed because I’ve lost everything. But things are always getting in the way of my work.”

“At times,” he continues, “my work is optimistic. It’s all for laughs. It’s both. It’s anything. I get suicidal. I’ve been in mental institutions. Sometimes they have to drag me there. But, for the most part, I’m optimistic.” (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ Locust Moon Comics Festival, Sat.,

Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., suggested donation $5-$15, Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., 267-403-2856, locustmoonfest.com.

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³ LANTERN THEATER COMPANY Though not a “Janeite,” I’ve read Jane Austen novels, and had high hopes for the Lantern Theater Company’s staging of Emma — especially since they’ve launched a Jane Austen Festival (Oct. 11-15) around it, which is a great idea.

Unfortunately, Michael Bloom’s adaptation and Kathryn MacMillan’s production won’t swell the Janeite ranks.

Adapting novels for the stage — or any work from one medium to another — is risky business, as Bloom’s script shows. The play’s conclusion, for instance — no secret, really, for anyone who’s seen Clueless or another film adaptation, or read the program notes, or pays attention to character names and realizes that “Knightley” will live up to his — occurs about 20 minutes from the end of the nearly three-hour play. Three more dramatically anticlimactic scenes, plus their scene changes, follow.

Events — and those mind-numbing furniture-rearranging changes — give the sense that every moment in the novel has been included for accuracy. And while Emma (Lauren Sowa, shown left) occasionally narrates in asides to the audience, action unfolds at a leisurely pace.

Sowa captures Emma’s youthful egotism — “Is there anything so glorious as being proved in the right?” she crows about a bit of matchmaking, which she mistakenly considers her special talent — but she never becomes the complicated heroine who grows through self-realization. She and other youthful leads — Jake Blouch as Frank Churchill, Harry Smith as Mr. Knightley, Lee Minora as Jane Fairfax, Angela Smith (shown, right) as Harriet and Mrs. Elton —

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seem like teens playing dress-up alongside seasoned veterans Charlotte Northeast and Peter DeLaurier, whose mastery of the period’s style and accents appears effortless. The older actors are also adept at making crusty characters likable, which the younger actors don’t do in romantic roles. DeLaurier’s curmudgeonly Mr. Woodhouse (Emma’s hypochondriac father) and Northeast’s brittle Miss Bates are the evening’s most memorable and enjoyable characters.

They achieve this despite a production that forces awkwardly quick costume changes: Most of the cast members play multiple roles, sometimes leaving a scene and rushing back a moment later as another character, even though one actor is added only as a silent dance partner. The script calls for two more actors, so this extra difficulty might result from an attempt to save on salaries.

Alisa Sickora Kleckner’s costumes seem similarly haphazard. I’m no expert on Regency-era fashion, but I can see when a dress puffs out awkwardly, appears a wrinkled mess, or covers strange, lumpy shapes, and can’t help but notice when Emma praises the elegance of a character whose dresses are frumpy and shapeless. I can also see

when a man’s sleeves hang too low, and when an aristocrat’s boots look like cheap galoshes.

Even the loveliness of Dirk Durossette’s fanciful set — representing Surrey, “the garden of England,” and various rooms in the village of Highbury, with the audience on three sides — is compromised, its plank floor marred by constellations of colored tape used to mark where furniture is set.

The script forces all those scene changes, but there are easy ways to make them less cumbersome and distracting. And what’s with that ugly green wash in Shelley Hicklin’s otherwise sunny lighting?

By the end of Emma’s nearly three hours, the commitment should pay off in meaningful revelations, sparkling moments and genuine emotions, all of Shakespearean comedy proportions, but nothing comes close. I suspect Janeites will want to love it anyway, but they’ll better recruit fans to their ranks with the novel. Through Oct. 27, $10-$38, St. Stephen’s Theater, 923 Ludlow St., 215829-0395, lanterntheater.org.

—Mark Cofta

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Baba Wawa. TV-watchers of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s will know instantly that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m talking about Gilda Radner, the wonderful comic actress whose vibrant presence as these characters and many more brightened the first Saturday Night Live ensemble. On a show where female performers were often underutilized, Radner was a genuine star. It was her warmth as much as her humor that beguiled us, so when she died at age 42 of ovarian cancer, even audiences who never met her felt as if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d lost a friend.

For Radnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legions of fans, Bunny Bunny â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Alan Zweibelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir play, which is receiving a skillful, affectionate production by 1812 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will be self-recommending.

For Zweibel, the loss was personal. He met Radner on SNL (he was a fledgling writer), and for the remainder of their lives they shared a deep friendship that almost but never quite became a romance (think When Harry Met Sally, minus the happy ending). Given the context, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unsurprising that his recollections take the form of a series of quirky-funny vignettes focused on the two of them.

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The show, then, stands or falls on the two leads. Leah Walton (Gilda) looks enough like Radner to convince, and, more important, is a charismatic, talented performer in her own right. Matt Pfeiffer (Alan) reminded me of both Patton Oswalt and Woody Allen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in this context, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing.

The touching script has its flaws. As you might expect from an SNL writer, some episodes work better than others, and some go on too long.

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✚ NEW GRAVITY | B+

HAUTE CUISINE | C Food porn for the farm-to-table crowd, Haute Cuisine makes an insubstantial meal from the experiences of Danièle Delpeuch, who unexpectedly became the private chef for French president François Mitterrand. Rechristened Hortense Laborie for some reason (presumably her story has been fictionalized, but with so little drama, the name change seems unnecessary), she is a little-known chef committed to popularizing traditional French cooking when she’s called upon to cook for the aging head of state, who simply wants to be reminded of the food his grandmother used to make.

Inevitably, Hortense runs up against the machismo and pretention of the Élysée Palace’s official kitchen and the bureaucratic self-interest of its staff. Catherine Frot plays her with no-nonsense charm, a steely strength focused on nothing more than a job well done. But there’s very little for her to work with here; her struggles are simply those of someone in a high-pressure work environment, and the screenplay shrugs off any rumors of illicit behavior. As the film opens, Hortense is finishing up a yearlong stint as a cook at an Antarctic research facility, but that job proves no more dramatic and is little more than filler added by director Christian Vincent to beef up his rather thin soup, a tactic that his subject would surely never tolerate in her kitchen.

—Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)

RUNNER RUNNER Read Drew Lazor’s review at citypaper.net/movies.

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For months, partisans of Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity have been lobbing claims that the movie, which nearly amounts to a real-time account of stranded astronaut Sandra Bullock’s attempt to return from orbit, represents a bold new frontier — a redefinition, even, of cinema’s possibilities. But it’s more accurate, if less starry-eyed, to say that it takes us back to the beginning, to the primal astonishment of seeing a locomotive rush by on the screen. The difference is that there’s no locomotive, and, if you see the movie in IMAX 3D — sit close — there’s no screen. It’s as if the movie theater’s black and the vast darkness of space are part of a continuum, and when Bullock spins loose from a space shuttle pelted with hurtling satellite debris, Earth whizzes by over our heads as well. When she quips, early on, “Just keeping your lunch down is harder than it looks,” she’s not just speaking only for herself.

What plot Gravity has is pitched between elemental and crude: Bullock and fellow spacewalker George Clooney pin their hopes of survival on a nearby space station, and deal with some personal demons on the long, lonely trip over. But the lyricism of Cuarón’s filmmaking overwhelms the leaden clumsiness of his dialogue (co-written with son Jonás), which often functions simply as subtitles for the subtext-impaired. When Bullock floats in the safety of an airlock and the camera pulls back to focus on a single, weightless tear, words aren’t just superfluous but unwanted. Steven Price’s Hans-Zimmer-meets-theQueen-Mary score mistakes bombast for grandeur, and the moments when sensory overload gives way to clunky character-building are painful, but there’s legitimate awe in Cuarón’s approach to the cosmos. Gravity’s technical

achievements are doubtless substantial, but they’re so seamless they become irrelevant: Eventually, you stop asking “How the hell did they do that?” and just accept that it’s done. —Sam Adams (Wide release)

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WADJDA See Shaun Brady’s review on p. 19.

(Ritz Five)

WEDDING PALACE | D+ It’s wife or death for the cursed Jason (Brian Tee) in this ugly and shrill Korean-American rom-com. Jilted at the alter, Jason needs to get married before he turns 30, or, according to the family curse, he will die. So when he meets his soulmate Na Young (Hyejung Kang) in Seoul during a business trip, Jason thinks his problems are solved. Of course, they have only just begun. After a series of long-distance calls and emails, a dinner over Skype and, finally, a proposal, the lovers reunite and Jason discovers something about Na Young that gives him pause and shocks his marriageminded family. (Two members have heart attacks because of the news.)

The comic “problem” that has to be overcome is meant to emphasize the importance of love over looks, but it’s lame and offensively handled. To poor effect, Wedding Palace exaggerates the personalities of its characters, making parents overbearing, brides whiny and men stupid. While Tee is an affable hero, and Kang is an incredibly good sport, this comedy misses its mark, triggering more winces than laughs.

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ENOUGH SAID | AIn the latest rom-com by writer/director Nicole Holofcener, the late James Gandolfini is Albert, a single, long-divorced dad who half-jokingly describes himself as a disorganized slob. At a party, he meets Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a peppy masseuse who is also a divorced parent with a col-

lege-bound kid. As fate would have it, Eva becomes acquainted with Albert’s ex-wife Marianne (Catherine Keener) and takes her on as a client, unaware of the identity of her former husband.

While Albert woos Eva, Marianne gripes to her about him. Even after Eva connects the dots, she keeps asking her “human TripAdvisor” about Albert, allowing Marianne’s venomous replies to poison her relationship because, after her divorce, she’s too cautious to take another romantic leap of faith. With a face as expressive as Louis-Dreyfus’, every wince and smile is magnified, making each scene that much more emotionally affecting, and the nimble dialogue, expertly alternating between wisecracks and expressions of vulnerability, makes us both laugh with these flawed, trueto-life characters and feel for them.

—Paulina Reso (Ritz East)

PRISONERS | D Essentially a tarted-up Criminal Minds episode in prestige-film drag, Denis Villeneuve’s vile kids-inperil thriller is stocked with enough crucifixes to outfit a Catholic school, but its musings on morality and faith are risible when they’re not enraging.

After contractor Hugh Jackman’s young daughter disappears, suspicion soon falls on local simpleton Paul Dano.

Detective Jake Gyllenhaal can’t make charges stick, so when Dano’s released from jail, Jackman builds a makeshift torture chamber and proceeds with his own enhanced interrogation against the man he’s sure took his daughter. From there, matters go steadily downhill: Gyllenhaal’s investigation stalls, and Jackman devises ever more gruesome means of testing Dano’s resolve, but the movie keeps the question of his guilt or innocence open for so long that it starts to feel like a tease — and then like a

bore. There’s no easier way to engage an audience’s fears than to put a child in danger, which the movie does with reckless abandon. But those emotions have to be earned, and Prisoners doesn’t even come close. —SA (Wide release)

RUSH | B Taking the real-life rivalry of ’70s-era racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda and distilling it to its basest motivations, Rush is the rare sports-oriented feature that’s actually about sport.

A long-haired Brit who’s quick both on and off the track, Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) is a playboy of Europe’s lower-echelon race leagues. Anticipating domination once he reaches the top-tier F1 series, Hunt’s immediately knocked back by upstart Lauda (Daniel Brühl), an antisocial outsider who has ignored his family’s urges to take on a sane profession. They’re both fast, they’re both arrogant and they both crave the checkered flag.

Cue exhilarating death-trap pissing contest. Howard sets up Hunt and Lauda’s connection with their vehicles via repetition and proximity, wedging us into pit crews and strapping us into driver’s seats in lieu of wider, more fashionable looks at the race as recreation. His manversus-man micro-focus does have its casualties — Hunt and Lauda’s wives (Olivia Wilde and Alexandra Maria Lara), given nothing to do, non-respond accordingly — but the drivers’ relationship with each other, so uncomplicated in its volatility, is dynamic enough to make up for it.

—Drew Lazor (Wide release)

THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI | B Starting with his 1960 Olympic gold medal in Rome and shuttle-running through his bitter, fascinating square-off with public (white) opinion,

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The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers a tremendous amount of ground, and director Bill Siegel is at his most conclusive when addressing our evershifting understanding of Muslim life.

Coronated as boxing’s savior when he was nothing more than “a young fella who wanted to be great” in workingclass Louisville, Ali (then Cassius Clay) made all the right moves for an up-and-coming fighter. At some point — Siegel never explicitly nails down the “when” — Ali became fascinated by the teachings of the Nation of Islam.

The faith’s then-contentious relationship with the majority stews with his motor-mouthed persona, creating Ali the iconoclast. Admirers solely focused on Ali’s in-ring prowess won’t find much value in Siegel’s sociocultural approach, but it’s a fascinating documentary for those who hope to pick up on the particulars of Ali’s there-and-back-again life. —DL (Ritz at the Bourse)

✚ REPERTORY FILM EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY 2027 Fairmount Ave., 215-236-3300, easternstate.org. Pull of Gravity (2013, U.S., 66 min.): Doc on what happens to three released inmates when they return home. Wed., Oct. 9, 8 p.m., free.

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toman Turks. Q&A with Albanian cinema scholar Bruce Williams postscreening. Sat., Oct. 5, 7 p.m., $9. This is Not a Film (2011, Iran, 75 min.): An Iranian director placed under house arrest by the Islamic Republic shoots a secret doc detailing his appeal process. So the film could be screened at Cannes, it was smuggled into France in a birthday cake. Wed., Oct. 9, 7 p.m., $9.

PHILAMOCA 531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org. Deadly Prey (1987, U.S., 88 min.): A group of mercenaries train by kidnapping and hunting innocent people in this Sylvester Stallone-like action-adventure. Twenty-five years later, the original cast is back in the sequel, Deadliest Prey (2013, U.S.).

Thu., Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m., $10.

WOODMERE ART MUSEUM 9201 Germantown Ave., 215-2470476. woodmereartmuseum.org.

Gambit (1966, U.S., 109 min.): A cat burglar enlists the help of a showgirl to pull off what he thinks is a foolproof heist. Naturally, everything goes wrong. Tue., Oct. 8, 7 p.m., $5.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Oldboy (2003, South Korea, 120 min.): A powerful, brutal tale of revenge. Catch the original Korean version before Spike Lee’s remake hits theaters later this year.

Fri., Oct. 4, 7 p.m., $9. The Second November (1982, Albania, 93 min.): The Albanian Cinema Project presents a historical drama about the country’s fight for independence from the Ot-

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✚ BILL CALLAHAN/ LONNIE HOLLEY

—K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Oct. 3, 8:30 p.m., $15, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

smart. Cook, a 2011 Kennedy Center honoree and a 1957 Tony Award winner for The Music Man, is 85 years old but shows few signs of slowing down. Her solo show ventures far from her Broadway successes, with new interpretations of Hoagy Carmichael’s rustic jazz, Dan Hicks’ witty rockabilly and even “The House of the Rising Sun,” the traditional folk song made into a top-40 hit by The Animals in 1964.

—Mark Cofta

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✚ BARBARA COOK Morgan’s Cafe, the cabaret program at the Prince Music Theater, returns with four shows between now and May, starting with Barbara Cook’s “Let’s Fall in Love.” It’s a tony affair, with cabaret seating (that means little tables with candles) and cocktails starting 90 minutes before the show in the Prince’s upstairs black box theater, so dress

Through Oct. 5, 6:30 p.m. cocktails, 8 p.m. performance, $56-$70, Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St., 215972-1000, princemusictheater.org.

Award winner for Outstanding New Play is just so tight and so clever — and still manages a great deal of heart, as do all of the Philadelphia resident’s plays. Red Herring has been produced all over the U.S. and even in France, and now receives a revival directed by Villanova University professor Harriet Power. It’s a great play for Villanova’s grad students, since five of the six actors play multiple roles and the sixth, Victoria Rose Bonito, plays a female detective — and even more fun for audiences, with its three love stories, murder mystery/ nuclear-espionage plot and noir overtones.

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✚ RED HERRING I’ve heard stories that Michael Hollinger’s Cold War-era comedy was rewritten over and over right up to its 2000 opening night at the Arden Theatre Company, but I’m not buying it. This Barrymore

—Mark Cofta Through Oct. 13, $21-$25, Villanova Theatre, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, 610-519-7474, villanovatheatre.org.

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✚ LYNN POVICH Back in the mid-’60s, female staffers at Newsweek — and

in newsrooms all over the place — often found themselves pressed up against a glass ceiling. While they were stuck sorting mail and doing research, their equally qualified male colleagues scored all the glory jobs, like writer and reporter. So the women banded together in secret, hired a kickass civil rights attorney in Eleanor Holmes Norton, and launched a major offensive in the war for workplace equality. Author Lynn Povich, who was on the front lines from the beginning, recounts the landmark case in her new book, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace. Considering the fact that sexual discrimination suits are still being filed at newspapers today, this little-discussed revolution certainly warrants a fresh look.

—Patrick Rapa Thu., Oct. 3, 6 p.m., free, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, 215-746-7636, writing.upenn.edu/wh.

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Through his dozen or so albums as Smog and, especially, the handful he’s made more recently under his own name, Bill Callahan has etched out a reliable, dependably unhurried furrow for his

in his songs — arrives at a similarly thoughtful optimism amidst markedly stranger circumstances in the surreal pronouncements on her second record, Keeping a Record of It (Dust-to-Digital). She’s got a decidedly more dynamic, colorfully expressive voice and considerably chintzier musical accompaniment.

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quietly affecting musings.

But it’s rarely felt as cozy as his latest, Dream River (Drag City), which settles into a loose, surprising ’70s soul-jazz vibe. Callahan’s laconic, iconic baritone drifts atop congas, claves and electric piano like Leonard Cohen moonlighting with Gil Scott-Heron’s band, while his roving ruminations share space with fragrant flute and fiddle leads and guitarist Matt Kinsey’s subtle atmospheric heroics. The title befits Callahan’s typically cryptic, trancelike stream of cast-off observations, cockeyed profundities, corny jokes and come-ons, which circle here around familiar themes but with a cautiously more sanguine outlook, finding mundane beauty and savage splendor in the natural world and solace in the smallness of human relationships. Lonnie Holley — an Alabama-born African-American artist who has, arguably, actually lived the kind of outsider’s perspective Callahan often adopts

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Sat., Oct. 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., $15-$100, FDR Park, 1500 Pattison Ave., 610608-7097, wifflefallclassic.com.

In Ceramic Dog, he’s accompanied by bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith, both equally skilled at phasing in and out of the virtuosic and the anarchic. On their second disc, Your Turn (Northern Spy), the trio tackles an Italian labor anthem, delivers a scathing takedown of music downloaders and dismantles Dave Brubeck’s iconic “Take Five.”

—Shaun Brady Sat., Oct. 5, 9 p.m., $15, The Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 267-6394528, arsnovaworkshop.org.

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Sat., Oct. 5, 8 p.m., $25-$30, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-9259914, paintedbride.org.

Punk rock was always better at being anti-everything than proanything, but with the snarling art-populism of his power trio Ceramic Dog, Marc Ribot posits the sound of punk born with a manifesto to accompany its attitude. Born of no-wave and downtown, Ribot has done distinctive session work for the eccentric likes of Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, as well as shredding jazz propriety alongside John Zorn and The Lounge Lizards.

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Sat., Oct. 5, 8 p.m., $6-$8, Highwire Gallery, 2040 Frankford Ave., museumfire.com/events2.

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Philadanco’s performers are superbly trained, not only in various dance techniques, but in how to entertain a crowd.

They’re out to put on a show, and that attitude trickles down to the training companies, where certain participants are primed to ascend to the professional ranks. So if you want to catch a rising star or two, then head over to “’Danco on ’Danco,” featuring works created by the company’s own emerging choreographers, set on dancers from Philadanco, its D/2 apprentice company, D/3 youth ensemble and other instructional programs. This always-enjoyable showcase is a homegrown deal that lets dancers’ personalities shine.

And while it may be less refined than the formal shows at the Kimmel Center, it’s got just as much heart and soul.

“These pros don’t just use a lawn chair as a strike zone,” says Joe Kerins, founder of Saturday’s Philadelphia Wiffle Fall Classic round-robin Wiffle ball tournament. “There is a real strike zone with a backstop and inflatable walls.” It’s true: This isn’t quite the backyard game you remember from your youth. Those thin yellow bats are still around, but lots of pros opt for the next-gen equipment. “In the yard-style format, the average pitch comes in at a 45 miles-per-hour speed limit. The bats we use are the same diameter as the yellow bats, but are made of Kevlar and composite material. In the fast-pitch-style format, some of these guys can throw the ball 95 miles per hour,” says Kerins.

He goes on to describe yellow bats with wooden handles for improved grip, and balls scuffed with knives for wicked curves.

Saturday’s Classic — at press time, they were still looking for more teams to participate — will have nonscuffed balls, traditional plastic bats and no faster than 35-miles-per-hour pitching, but Kerins hopes it will drum up interest in the sport so one day Philly can challenge Wiffle ball powerhouses like NYC and Boston. In the meantime, it’ll raise funds for the T21 Club of the Delaware Valley’s prom for people with Down syndrome.

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and Michael Evans, all creative musicians with a laundry list of collaborators but a more exclusive interest in the theatrical, making their shows as much performance art as concerts.

Their tunes are given titles like “:” or “?” or “%” — fitting for a group that so often requires a shift from the standard.

Kontanis specializes in Greek and Turkish music; guitarist and violinist Emmanuel H. During in Flamenco, Balkan and Middle Eastern traditions.

Together, they craft something that truly earns the title “world music.”

10.6 [ jazz/world ]

—Shaun Brady

✚ KAMA Iraqi-American trumpet and santur player Amir ElSaffar has spent much of the past decade integrating jazz and Middle Eastern music. He spent time in Iraq studying maqam in 2002, just as war was looming, and has lived for much of the past two years in Egypt and Lebanon. Those journeys are reflected on his new CD, Alchemy (Pi Recordings), the richest and most fully integrated fusion of his influences to date. He’s not the only musician who’s looked to diverse cultures to forge a new sound, however, and in the quintet KAMA he joins forces with other well-traveled artists: French flutist Sylvain Barou draws on Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and Indian music; percussionist Keyvan Chemirani on sounds from Africa and his native Iran; oud and guitar player Mavrothi

Sun., Oct. 6, 6 p.m., $25-$30, Painted Bride, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.

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✚ SERENGETI David Cohn, who hails from Chicago but is “in California often,” raps as Serengeti. Well, he actually raps as seemingly anyone, including Kenny, the ALEX BEH

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Kenny Dennis (Anticon) LP. Cohn’s not what you’d call a rap traditionalist. He collaborates with Son Lux and Sufjan Stevens in S /S /S. His astoundingly prolific 11 years of output is so eclectic as to constitute a sui generis body of work, and his bars are thoughtful, funny and generous: “If I can get amnesia … / Change my name to Peter Panakos … / Get the fuck out of Lagos/ Buy my own street cart/ Specialize in beef hearts/ Be a man of the people.”

—Dotun Akintoye Sun., Oct. 6, 9 p.m., $12, with Jel, Sole and Open Mike Eagle, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

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✚ PICTURE DAY

white, middle-aged, workingclass Chicago sports fan who is the eponymous character of one of his two 2013 releases, The

In the same way that elementary school class portraits document awkward haircuts and delayed growth spurts, Picture Day aims to capture the essence of Philadelphia’s art scene as it exists in 2013. All of the city’s

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✚ FIGMENT All in favor of transmuting Clark Park into a bona fide wonder emporium, say “Aye.” OK, good, because FIGMENT, a participatory art project that began in New York City in 2007 (and has been springing up in all sorts of cities around the country since), has some righteous ideas for doing so.

—Marc Snitzer Sun., Oct. 6, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., free, Clark Park, 4398 Chester Ave., figmentproject.org.

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✚ TRAVI$ SCOTT The latest Internet rapper of the moment has got the web all in a tizzy about how hard his sound is biting, or whether

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Sun., Oct. 6, 2 p.m., free, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy., 215-763-8100, practicegallery.org.

Take this Sunday’s pop-up. It’s a here-now-gone-tomorrow confetti explosion of interactive art projects fit for all ages, a response to the notion of art as exclusive or out of touch. At this free fest, you can touch the works, dance with the Group Motion dance company, construct metallic cities on Bevan Weissman’s magnetic Neodya II piece, smooch some dogs at a pit-bull kissing booth, take a hands-on trapeze lesson or grab some friends who are bigger than you to heave around Melanie Armer’s Sisyphus 2.0 — a massive steel sphere adorned with speakers.

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artists and arts workers are invited to gather at the PMA steps in full creative garb — be that paint-splattered overalls or a Mummers costume — for a community photo organized

by Practice Gallery, with the result to be displayed as part of the massive artist-collective collaboration Citywide this November. And as the heart of the indie art scene is a DIY ethos, participants are invited to take their own pictures of the picture-taking, to possibly be displayed alongside the final portrait.

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it’s the stars he rubs shoulders with who are jacking his erstwhile underground swagger.

Puhleez. Travi$ is interesting because he’s a swirling mass of influences, from Kanye to Cudi to Future et alia, to trap to the “screw music” that’s

a product of his hometown, Houston. Years ago, an artist in this stage of self-creation would be under development, working with A&R guys and making things like Owl Pharaoh that would never be released. Ignore the detractors. His bass is excessive, they say, his synths unrefined, his flow regurgitated, his content — say what? About his beats there is no question. Except, Who’s influencing who?

—Dotun Akintoye Sun., Oct. 6, noon, $15, with Sneaker Pimps, TLA, 334 South St., 215-9222599, tlaphilly.com.

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✚ SAINT RICH/ WILD BELLE If post-rockers could talk, what would they say? Here’s your chance to find out: Monday’s double-bill pairs two new song-oriented projects from musicians better known for their instrumental-only affairs. Steve Marion makes curious, captivating wordless guitar-pop with/as Delicate Steve, but he’s switched over to drum duties behind bandmate (and North Jersey high school buddy) Christian Peslak in the recently minted duo Saint Rich. Their debut, Beyond the Drone (Merge), is a rollicking, rootsy, riff-tastic rip through ’60s rock and ’70s boogie that feels a bit like Foxygen without all the anxious posturing (and with notably witty lyrics).

Meanwhile, jazz-steeped

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saxophonist/experimental tinkerer Elliot Bergman made his name fronting (too-long dormant) avant-Afrobeat heroes NOMO, with whom his sister Natalie has occasionally featured as a touring member; now the siblings are slinging globally conscious indie-pop as Wild Belle. Their predictably groove-rich, sonically adventurous Isles (Columbia) sets them up as something like a world beat She & Him, pulling from African pop and Motown but with a particular emphasis on Caribbean rhythms, which make it well-suited to help pass the time before the reemergence of summertime and/or Santigold.

—K. Ross Hoffman Mon., Oct. 7, 8:30 p.m., $13, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 877-987-6487, r5productions.com.

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✚ LONDON GRAMMAR If you’re feeling cynical, you could dismiss London Grammar as all ointment and no fly, an icy buzz band that plays it soft and safe. And it’s true, this British trio’s music is beautiful in all the classical ways.

Simple synths, mildly moody plinks, percussion echoing up from the other end of a corridor — and all of it’s just a carefully assembled chassis for Hannah Reid’s steel-belted vocal chops.

Every song on their debut, If You Wait (Columbia), is built like this, and why not? Reid’s voice is a sublime tectonic force, the deep, dark energy that turns pawnshop power ballads into heavy, gorgeous, pop geodes.

—Patrick Rapa Mon., Oct. 7, 8 p.m., $12.76, with Jaymes Young and Les Professionnels, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org.

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CASE TO CASE: Alicante grapes ready for the crush.

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GRAPE EXPECTATIONS Cherry Hill might not have an AVA, but there’s some serious winemaking happening at The Wine Room. By Caroline Russock

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n industrial park in Cherry Hill does not have the same visual appeal as, say, the sun-drenched hills of Napa Valley, but just off the New Jersey Turnpike, they’re making some serious juice at The Wine Room (1 Esterbrook Lane). Owned by husband and wife Kenton (“Master Wineax”) and Kathy (“Quality Control Taster”) Nice, The Wine Room offers a chance for amateur wine enthusiasts to create custom-blended bottles from grape to cork. Head winemaker Michael D’Auria refers to himself as the customer that never left. The former chef walked into The Wine Room some 10 years ago and ended up coming on full-time, managing both More on: The Wine Room and the Nice’s Franklinville winery, Coda Rossa. At the winery, D’Auria specializes in native Jersey grapes like chamborcin petit verdot along with more widely known varietals.

But at The Wine Room, the grapes come from a bit further away; California grapes are brought in in the fall and Chilean fruit arrives in the spring. Customer “winemakers” are offered a chance to create custom blends, ranging from a powerful meritage that brings together old-vine zinfandel, petite sirah and carignan to a simple vino da tavola with alicante and grenche. Aged in oak bar-

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rels from Missouri, wines at The Wine Room are available in full, half and quarter barrels, which come out to 20, 10 and five cases of wine, respectively.

While loading a crusher with inky-purple alicante bunches, D’Auria explains that 750 pounds of grapes go into a full barrel.

Imported from Italy, the crusher uses rubberized gears to squeeze the grapes and separate the stems. “We want to crush the grape but not the seed. If you bite into the seed, it’s bitter. We want the seeds to go through fermentation since the skins and seeds are what gives the wine tannins.”

In a warehouse painted with tromp l’oeil murals of an Italian village, the wine-making process happens in five very hands-on stages — after an initial visit to taste the varietals offered for blending, the customer-vintners return for the crush; the pressing of the grapes a week later, racking (removing the sediment from the wine) and 10 months later, the bottling.

“The wines that we make here are not MORE FOOD AND for aging, they’re for drinking,” D’Auria DRINK COVERAGE says. “They’re not as high in tannins and AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / we don’t use a whole lot of sulfites as a M E A LT I C K E T. preservative. You want to have it consumed within five years.”

Of course, consumption isn’t really an issue for winemakers at The Wine Room. The breakdown per bottle comes in at around $11, a damned good deal for a custom-made wine complete with your own private label. Oh, and if you harbor fantasies about crushing your grapes the old-fashioned way (aka. the old foot stomp), The Wine Room is more than happy to accommodate. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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³ SMALL-BATCH COFFEE house. Indie art gallery. Bike boutique. If there were an amenity checklist for gentrifying neighborhoods to complete before officially “arriving,” it would read something like this. A craft-beer bottle shop and a new-school sandwich place are two other must- haves, and in Brewerytown, whose main drag still looks more Crip than hip, the new Rybrew definitely satisfies one requirement, maybe both.

Rybrew is an offshoot of Rybread, a cheery crust cubicle in Fairmount that shares a block with firstworld businesses like London Grill along with a pet groomer and a holistic massage studio. Meanwhile, just a few blocks north is more of a mixed bag. Such is life in a transitional hood. But for savvy business owners like Rybrew’s Ryan Pollock, who lives two blocks away with his girlfriend, being an early adopter can pay dividends.

Located in the middle of the block, 40-seat Rybrew occupies a onetime toy store with a wrought-iron mezzanine and a table fashioned from an old toydisplay carousel. It’s a big room with cool bones but little charm, and a gloomy paint job that made me feel like a character in a Zoloft commercial.

Or maybe it was just the drab weather outside, keeping walk-in customers at bay and the phone ringing off the hook? But with the friendly staff buzzing around fielding takeout, my eat-in order got delayed. Waiting 25 minutes for a few sandwiches seems a bit excessive when you’re the only customer in the place. I used the time to browse a paradise of 250 craft bottles.

When the named-for-cities sandwiches did arrive, I was half-pleased. The Le Bus bread was impeccable, and Pollock’s mom’s chicken-salad recipe (the Denver), bursting with juicy grapes, had that fresh-poached flavor. But the sourdough-slabbed San Antonio and the panini-pressed Buffalo starred industrial Boar’s Head lunch meats, which makes it hard to take Rybrew seriously. Pollock says he plans to start roasting his own meats; with the larger kitchen, there’s no excuse not to.

They were out of soup, but I did try a salad — the Austin, a very nice Southwestern setup with chicken, avocado, corn and a peppy lime vinaigrette. Dessert was limited to a lonely chocolate cupcake. Rybrew feels less like a fully developed, independent establishment and more like a glorified commissary with beer. The menus at Rybread and Rybrew are the same. If only my enthusiasm were. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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merchandise market BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 CABINETS KITCHEN SOLID WOOD Brand new soft close/dovetail drawers, Full Overlay, Incl. Crown, Never Installed!

Cost $5,300. Sell $1,590. 610-952-0033 Mattress Set New Queen Pillow Top Inplastic!$150Call/Text(302)709-1830

2013 Hot Tub/Spa. Brand New! 6 person w/lounger, color lights, waterfall, Cover, 110V or 220V, Never installed. Cost $7K Ask $2990. Can deliver 610-952-0033

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

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apartment marketplace 1, 2, 3, 4 BEDROOM

58th & Cobbs Creek 1BR $550 +Utils newly reno, Call 215.695.5194

Eagles (2) great seats! Sec 224, Row 1Most Games. Call 215-872-9616

Tires New & Used Starting at $20.00 5019 Cottman Ave 19135 (267) 266-3134

Bed Pillow top mattress Q$175 K$250 exfurn.com 215-752-0911 Can deliver

JOHN DEERE 2006: 4320 with loader, 48HP, 3-point hitch, nice tractor, price $9500, berym9@hushmail.com, 267-2237952

5th & Tasker St Call 215.7689151

Effic. 2rooms/1BA

***215-200-0902***

33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ Really Paid

**Bob610-532-9408***

Broad St. near Jackson 2br $825+utils 2nd floor, sec dep req. 215-468-5334 South Phila 2 BR $800+utils beautifully remodeled, 267-333-3995

COINS, CURRENCY, TOYS, TRAINS

Call Local Higher Buyer - 7 Days/Wk

12xx S 51st St. 2BR/1BA $800 Incl Heat/Water, 2nd Flr. 267-600-9569

I Buy Anything Old...Except People!

Military, toys, dolls etc Al 215.698.0787

53xx Chester Ave 1br $450+elec.

1st, last & sec., nwly renov 215.559.9289

Dr. Sonnheim 856-981-3397

pets/livestock Chocolate Lab Pups- AKC reg, shots, wormed, vet checked, family raised, 30 day health guar. $625 Call 717.355.0587 DOBERMAN PUPPIES European international sire, ears cropped 609.969.7659

English Bulldog Pups - Pedigree, reg., dewormed, vet checked. 215.696.5832

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Pups, AKC, All 4 Colors, Cute, 215.538.2179

JUG PUPS- $200. Vet checked, shots & dewormed. Brwn/White/Tan. 717.768.0889

5818 Vine St. Studio $575+util 1/2 off 1st mo. special, 215.688.1363

Apartment Homes $650-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

252 W.Ruscomb 3br/1ba $800+util newly renovated, bsmt, 2 months securi ty, 1 month rent, (215) 888-2025 341 E. Louden 2BR $725 2nd floor. Call 215-290-3192 5xx W eleanor st 1BR/1BA $525+utils $1575 to move in now near transp. (1 block off 5th & blvd) text or call 267-338-6078

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

Germantown X-Lg 1 BR, $550 + water Victorian and hardwood, walk in closet, eat in kitchen, fireplace, close to Septa. Eff $500 + water. Sec 8 OK. Text 267-581-8193

SHETLAND SHEEPDOGS - 11 Wks & up, 4M, Sable & White, $550, Vet Chked, DW & S, Akc & CKC Reg, 302.535.3732

1520 W Champlost 2BR $675 Fresh paint, 2 month sec. 215.779.6914 67xx Woolston Ave 1br 600+utils 2nd flr, $1200 move in, 215-758-7129 7206 Sommer Rd. 1BR $680 Newly renov 267.271.6601 / 215.416.2757 Broad Oaks 1BR & 2BR Lndry rm. Special Discount! 215-681-1723

29xx D St. 1BR/1BA $400 + electric $1200 move in. 2nd floor. 215-779-1512

45xx Frankford Ave. Studio $500 2nd floor, private kitchen. 215-289-2973

53xx Montgomery 1BR $600+Utils HDWD Flrs, Near Trans, 610.659.7177

16xx W Huntingdon 1BR $450+Utils $1350 move in, no pets 484-450-6553 1948 N JUDSON ST. 2BR $600 NEW RENO, AVAIL ASAP. 215.768.8410

SHIH TZU PUPS ACA, 29 Wks, $400 Solid/Tan & White. Call 215.752.1393 Westies - M&F, shots/wormed, home raised. Call 484-868-8452

16xx Woodbrook 2BR $750+utils Modern. Call (267) 549-5897 7500 GTN AVE Garden type 1BR! FALL SPECIAL ! Newly dec, d/w, g/d w/w, a/c, laundry/cable, off st prkg.

Pets OK! 215-275-1457/233-3322 83XX WILLIAMS 2br/1ba $875 Renv, w/d, hw flrs, d/w. 267-528-9275

Strawberry Mans. (3)2BR Apts $550 newly renov. 267.639.9942/215.765.4300

1 BR & 2 BR Apts $735-$845 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 21xx Chelten Ave. Effic. $525 Cozy, Elec & gas not incl. 215.549.8859 46XX Pulaski Ave 2br/2ba $900 + utils.

Split-level, a/c, w/d, gar disp, hdwd, near expressway/train/trans. 3rd flr walk-up.

215-842-0814 5201 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1BR On site Lndry 215.525.5800 Lic# 311890 5220 Wayne Ave Studio & 1BR on site lndry, 215-525-5800 Lic# 507568 5321 Wayne Ave. Effic. $550 1 BR $625, 2BR, $700. 215-776-6277

4630 Penn St. Large 1Br $550 & $600 w/w, close to transp. 267.235.5952 4733 Leaper St. Studio/1BR Spacious, Lic. # 585162 215.525.5800 47xx Leiper 3BR/1BA $865 For more information call 267-591-5296 4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1BR, 2BR, Ldry, 24/7 cam lic#214340 215.525.5800

1412 Princeton Ave. 1BR,1BA $800/mo.

All util incl. No smoke/pets. 267.970.9106 14xx Robbins 1BR $750 utils. incl.

1st floor, all kitchen appl. 215.954.9925

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CAVALIER KING CHARLES Tri, 1 male, ACA. $795. 215-393-7555

55th & Wyalusing 2Br/1Ba $575+Utils Very good condition. Call 215-836-2476

48xx Broad St. 2 & 3 BR $700 + Utils Sec 8 OK, 2nd Flr, 2+1, 610.623.0497 50xx N. 10th St. 2BR $595+ elec.

Very lrg. $1,785 move in 267.259.8759 Rockland St. Large 1BR $575 w2w carpet. Avail now. 215-329-3013

MALTESE PUPS, Ready to go.

Call 856-562-3220

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

French Bulldogs - 4M, ACA reg, 2 Tan 2 Cream, Rdy 10/14, $1800, 717.202.7038

4xx S. 56th St. 2.5BR/2BA $750/mo.

1st floor, finished bsmt, hrdwd flrs, stove & fridge, 1st/last + $500 sec.

2nd floor 2BR $650/mo. hrdwd flrs, stove & fridge.

1st/last + $500 sec. Call 610.623.5880

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

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

DOMINO LN 1 & 2BR $750-$895 Renov., parking, d/w, near shopping & dining, 1ST MONTH FREE! 215-500-7808

42xx Otter St 1BR $650 Large, $1650 to move in. 267.402.8836

CLEAN 1BR. hdwd flrs. $595+utils.

Close to transp.

215-880-0612

Labrador Retriever Pups BYC All health clear. $1800. ybrfarm.com 301.514.5334

Beagle pups AKC -shots,wormed,health guar.,M-$400,F-$500.215-2561575

Boxer/Border Collie Mixed Pups- Ready 10/4. Vet checked w shots 717.442.9378

4808 N. Broad St. 2BR $700+utils Please Call Tom 215.796.3173

33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $

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

300 Block of N 61st. 1BR, $625/mo $1,875 down. 2nd floor, heat & hot water included. 610-259-5746

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. 215.275.7477 Corner of Wissahicken & Chelten Av 1br & 2br Sec 8 appvd 215-843-4481

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Dining Room Set - Cherry, 65 x 44 in, 97 X 44 in, rect table, 6 chairs, seats 6-12, 2 pc, China cab, good condition, $900/obo, 856.803.7881

Flyers pair of lower level tickets for full regular season $3,772 per ticket ($92 per game), Sec 103, Row 18, Seats 3, 4 Shoot x2. 609.670.0770

15th & Jackson 1Br $825+util Penthouse, c/a, EIK, marble BA, Jacuzzi, hdwd flrs, S/S appl, W/D, 215.463.7374

FURNISHED APTS Laundry-Parking 215-223-7000 12xx Airdrie St. 2 BR $650 Sp Rooms, 267.872.4709 267.304.3220 33xx N Park Ave Studio Apt $525/mo. water & heat included, 610-277-9191

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apartment marketplace 4528 Magee 3BR $850 New paint, fin bsmt. crd ck. 215.498.1807 6325 Calvert St 2br/1ba $725 completely renovated, parking included, Call 646-322-4109

72xx Oxford Ave. 1BR/1BA $600+utils 2nd floor, priv. entry, newly remodeled.

Credit Check, 1st, last, sec. 215-828-6304 Castor Gardens 1BR/1BA $685+ No pets. Call 267-872-7125 LAWNDALE 1BR/1BA $675 + utils.

Balcony, a/c. Call 609-408-9298

COLLINGDALE Effic $550 1BR $625 heat & water incl, Dan 610.721.3252

St. Davids Park Condo 2BR/1BA $1490 Storage area, laundry room 610.304.5129

Upper Darby 1 BR. $650 + elec.

Great locoation.

(215)223-9575

Abington 2BR Duplex $750 + utilities Near trans. 215-657-1065

Norristown 2BR $975+utils lg Kit, A/C,W/D, 2nd Flr, 610.265.1568

DREXEL HILL. $450 Furnished Room. Includes utilities. $225 security deposit. Call John 610-259-7039

22nd & Tioga priv ent paint use of kit ww $120wk $290move in 267-997-5212

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2800 Oxford - Large rooms, $125/week Share Kitchen & Bath, 267-625-6867.

NP Area- $350-$550 1 mo. rent. full kitch.

BA. Newly renov. Call 267.285.3806 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

N Phila- Lrg rm, king sized bed, use of kit, utils inc, SSI & SSD ok 215.307.2645 N.Philly $75-115/wk,Utilities included Clean/safe newly ren.,furn rms .Shared bath/kit.Cable avail.Call Tee2675754088 NP/WP/Logan - Clean, tv, cable. $100-$125/week. Call 609.526.5411

Oaklane & Germantown furnished rms for rent, $100-$125/wk 215.280.4675 S. Phila Furn Rooms. SS & Vets welcome.

No drugs, $100/wk & up. 267-357-5148 W. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome.

No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-586-6502 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren, Spacious clean & peaceful, SSI ok, 267.255.8665 W Phila new renov, nicely furn, ac cable, clean safe secure 267-253-7764

homes for rent 22xx Hemberger 3BR/1.5BA Credit check req’d. Call 610-659-2452

27xx S Marshall St. 3BR/1BA, $850.

Sec dep. req. Sec. 8 ok. 267-972-0022 4XX Fitzgerald St.,Philadelphia 2BR/ 1BA $1200 Renovated, C/Air, Granite, S/S Aplian.,Hardwood 267-210-5810

52xx Rodman St 3BR $775 hd flrs, lg LR, mirrors, Sec 8 267.401.9727 55xx Wheeler 2BR $725+utils hw flrs, lrg yd, nr transp., 215-280-9200 65th & Chester area 3BR $750/month $2K move in. New renov. Chase 267.607.9111 South West Phila 2BR /3BR House "Modern." Elmwood Area. 215.726.8817

42nd & Westminster 4br/1.5ba $850 full bsmt, yard, porch (215)237-4737 53rd & Parrish St. 3BR Newly renov. Sec. 8 ok. 215.836.0720

29xx Oxford St. - Large Rooms $75 & up SSI ok. No drugs. Call 215.240.9499 33rd & Ridge Ave. $100-125/week. Large renovated furnished roomsnear Fairmount Park&bus depot.267-712-9893 38xx N. 15th . Furnished room, $105/week plus $300 security. Call 267-809-7866

45xx Frankfort Ave. Share Bath 22xx Fontain St. Share bath, + Effic $425- $550/Month. Call 267-670-6689 5523 Media St. Clean, furnished rooms, $125/wk. Call (267) 333-4586 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $120$145wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572-7664 Bridge/Pratt neat cln rms & effic $90$125/wk Sec dep req 215-432-5637 Broad/Olney furn refrig micro priv ent $100/$145wk sec $200 215.572.7664 Frankford near L Train. Furn, fridge, quiet $90wk.$270sec dep. 609.703.4266 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 Germantown Area: NICE, cozy rooms.

Private entry. No drugs. (267)988-5890 Germantown Rms, $120/wk utils incl, share kit/ba, $500 move in 215.849.5861 MT. AIRY (Best Area) $130/wk SSI ok. Furnished, Cable. 215-730-8956 NORTH & WEST PHILA-FURN ROOMS AVAIL. $90-100/wk; EFFIC $120. 267-228-1143, 215-416-2075

225 N Gross St. 3BR/1BA $895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

xx E Collom 4BR/1BA $900+utils Newly remodeled. Sec 8 ok. 215.698.7840

62xx N. Bouvier St. 3BR /1.5BA Beautiful, garage, finished bsmt, C/A & S.S appls. Section 8 ok. 1-877-371-7368

21xx Margaret St. 2br/1ba $700 + All utils. Sec. 8 OK. 215-740-4629

29xx Mc Kinney 3BR/1BA $800 +Utils 62xx Brous 3BR/1BA $800+Utils 267-746-0224 or 215-796-3173

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

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Sharon Hill 2br $825 No pets, reno, 1 mo sec 1 mo rent, near Trans, Free Alarm system, 610.586.5562

Upper Darby 3BR/1.5BA $1,150 + Utils Near Trans, Nice Area, 484-358-8861.

low cost cars & trucks Buick Century 2000 $1,900 OBO Runs great & clean. Call 267-441-4612

Buick LaCrosse CXL 2005 $5000 OBO Leather, roof, runs exc.Call 267.755.8021 Cad Convert 1969 $4,500 New top, rugs etc, 215-920-0929

Temp Hosp area 3/4BR Sngl Fam Avail Now. Move in Special 215-386-4792

Ford Explorer XLT 1993 $950 5 spd, 4x4, new insp. 215.620.9383

Chevy Astro Van 2000 $1500 All pwrs, Nu Insp Runs Exc, 215.620.9383

Chevy Trailblazer LTZ 2004 $3,950 Black, Lthr, S/R, 1 owner, 267-592-0448 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN 2003 $1750 4 door, loaded, clean. 215-280-4825

Ford Windstar LX 2000 $1,450 All powers, insp., runs exc., 215.620.9383 Lincoln 1995 Luxury 4 dr Towncarcontinental, mint cond., original miles, Garage kept, $2,975. Call 215-922-5342

Nissan Maxima 1995 $1,350 All pwrs, new insp, runs exc 215.620.9383 Town & Country LXI 2000 $2,500 OBO V6, Auto, overdrive, all pwr, 215.677.6135 Volkswagen 2001 4 door Jetta Station Wagon, full power, A/C, few original miles, well maintained (not exaggerated), Quick private sale, $3,975, 215-627-1814 Volvo S40 2004 $3495 Leather, sunroof. Gorgeous. 610.524.8835

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VIAGRA 100MG, 40 pills+/4 free, only $99.00. Save Big Now, Discreet shipping. Call 1-800-374-2619 Today!

CHESTER COUNTY Apts. 3br 2.5 ba, w/w carpet, nr Exton Train Station. $1950. Don 215-485-0215

Ridley Twnshp 4BR/1.5BA $975 + utils Avail immed. Call Kay’e 267.266.1728

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Rhawnhurst 3BR/1.5BA $1300+utils Garage. Sec 8 ok. Call 267-337-3923

Darby/UpperDarby2/3BR $875-1000 Rec reno. Sec 8 ok. Call 610.534.1302

with loader, 48HP, 3-point hitch, nice tractor, pr ice $9500, berym9@hushmail. com, 267-223-7952

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Chevy Impala LS 2004 $2,975 Gold, 3.8, lthr, S/R, A/C, 267-592-0448

41XX Greene 3BR/1.5BA $925+Utils V/Nice, W/W, Driveway, bsmt, pvt yard, encl patio, Near Trans, 215.242.3221

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23xx Smedley 3BR/1BA $850 Renov. 1st month + sec. 856-627-7979 2751 N JUDSON ST. 3BR $675 NEWLY RENOVATED. 215.768.8410.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ANDERSON South Carolina Department of Social Services, Plaintiff,vs. Ngoc M. Tran andThomas Nguyen, Defendants,IN THE INTEREST OF:Lynn T. Nguyen

SUMMONS AND NOTICE AND NOTICE OF RIGHT TO LEGAL COUNSEL

The PRE-TRIAL HEARING has been scheduled in the above-captioned matter for Thursday, October 31, 2013, at 9:45 am.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that you have the right to be present and represented by an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, the court will appoint an attorney to represent you. If you desire an attorney to be appointed to present you, you should contact the SCDSS office at 260-4100 and speak with your case manager. This is a new action. If you had an attorney appointed in a previous action, that attorney is NOT your attorney for this action.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that: (1) the Guardian ad Litem (GAL) who is appointed by the court in this action to represent the best interest of the child will provide the family court with a written report that includes an evaluation and assessment of the issues brought before the court along with recommendations; (2) the GAL’s written report will be available for review twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the hearing; (3) you may review the report at the GAL Program county office.

S.C. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

Dated: September 12, 2013 Anderson, South Carolina.

Dottie C. Ingram, SC Bar No.: 66313 Attorney for Plaintiff S.C. Department of Social Services P. O. Box 827 Anderson, SC 29622 (864)260-4100

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YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for termination of your parental rights in and to the minor child in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Anderson County, a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at P. O. Box 827, Anderson, SC 29622, within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time stated, the Plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against the Defendants for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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