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Power Struggle What’s at stake if Philly becomes a major

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By Jon Hurdle

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STANDOUTS: Caucus members have been visible in their red T-shirts at rallies, protests and public hearings.

Here, WE member Kristin Combes attends a City Hall hearing.

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Philly teachers hatch a militancy Plot The Caucus of Working Educators is shaking up the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.

What’s on their agenda? By Daniel Denvir

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hen the School district of Philadelphia announced its latest round of mass layoffs in June 2013, Science Leadership Academy teacher Larissa Pahomov created “Faces of the Layoffs,” a simple website that featured posts about those who had lost their jobs along with a photograph and explanations of what each loss would mean. overbrook High School counselors Tonnie davenport and melissa Lawson were “the thread that holds the school together.” one student credited northeast High School teacher dave Sokoloff with having “opened my eyes to the world.” Kim richardson, a history teacher, changed jobs after a career working for the city because she had “always dreamed of being a teacher. … Kim has a big heart, open enough for all members of the Girls’ High community. don’t break it this way.”

Pahomov started the project to support a friend, bartram High School english teacher Anissa Weinraub, who was among those who had been let go. The website ultimately collected about 200

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profiles and exploded on social media and into local news coverage.

“That started with me getting a call from Anissa [on Saturday] in the afternoon, knowing she had gotten a pink slip, and we had to do something by monday,” says Pahomov.

The site was heartfelt and straightforward, and humanized teachers and other staffers who in recent years have been under attack. And it was the sort of bottom-up initiative that inspired Pahomov, alongside fellow teachers, counselors and nurses, to form the caucus of Working educators (We), a group of militant members shaking up the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT).

The group, founded in march, recently held its first convention.

As a caucus, it is working within the union to focus on reengaging and educating members, developing new leaders and building relationships with community and parent organizations. And its very existence stands as a pointed criticism of the PFT’s often moribund status quo.

“We have become a union that has become more stratified,” says Pahomov, co-chair of the We Steering committee. “There is some distance between the leadership and the rank and file. I feel that both parties are equally culpable. … As a rank-and-file member, what can I do? I can energize my fellow rank-and-file members.”

We members have been visible in their red T-shirts at rallies,

Its existence is a criticism of the status quo.

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opposing funding cuts to city schools, and at public hearings, denouncing the actions of the School reform commission (Src).

When the Src announced its unilateral decision in october to make teachers pay part of their health-care benefits, the We website quickly posted the real-dollar cost to teachers. (A local court has stayed the Src’s action.) many labor unions were founded in the last century by militant workers who went on strike, sometimes broke the law and often called for radical change. but in today’s labor movement, bureaucracy has become the norm, and the relationship between workers and their union is typically based on the services the latter provides: benefits, grievances and negotiating a contract behind closed doors.

Today, organized labor in general, and teachers’ unions in particular, are in decline and losing political battles. With all the layoffs, membership in the PFT has declined to 11,232 today, compared to 16,408 in the 2010-11 school year, according to School district figures.

For years, PFT president Jerry Jordan’s collective bargaining Team has been the union’s sole caucus, and activist teachers have complained that its leadership is too complacent and insular — failing to educate, involve and mobilize its members.

The PFT has suffered repeated defeats since the state takeover of Philly schools in 2001, and then under Gov. Tom corbett, who imposed deep cuts to education spending. A well-funded movement of self-described reformers identify teachers’ unions as a key problem facing public schools. They tout as the best solution evaluating teachers based on standardized-test scores, weakening job protections and the establishment of privately managed and mostly union-free charter schools.

The PFT has failed to mobilize an effective counterattack.

Ismael Jimenez, a history teacher at Kensington High School for creative and Performing Arts and We Steering committee member, points to last week’s PFT meeting at Girls’ High School, where he says only about 100 of the union’s members showed up.

It was “depressingly empty.”

“I think there is a huge disconnect from the average member to what the union’s actually doing, to the point where most PFT members within the union don’t feel like the union is supportive of them as educators,” says Jimenez. “I think that the [We] caucus can really fill that gap and say, ‘no, the union is you. It’s not just the PFT off in the distance who you get emails from occasionally.’”

Jimenez, for one, says he has never voted in a PFT election of officers. “And that’s coming from somebody who’s highly interested in unionism, philosophically,” he says.

In an interview, PFT president Jordan said that it was hard for many members, especially young mothers, to be involved. “certainly I think that members being active in the organization is a good thing,” says Jordan. “We have meetings, we advertise it.

Some people come, some people don’t. And again there are a lot of reasons for that. As you know we have a lot more younger members now. … The vast majority of our members are female, many are young mothers. They are really very, very busy with doing their jobs, and then having to balance doing their jobs and their time after school with the task of raising their own families.”

Jordan agreed that the union needed a more active membership, and said that he had taken the lead in trying to boost involvement. “over a year ago at a membership meeting, I talked to the members about things that were going on in the school system and in the country relative to education and the word ‘reform,’ which

VISUAL AIDS: Alison McDowell, left, and Diane Payne show their support for Philly teachers who are concerned about the time and financial costs of high-stakes standardized testing.

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I’ve learned to almost hate, and the reformers,” says Jordan. “And what I said to the members at the meeting is that, as a union, we have to become very active. And I suggested to them that we form something called an Action Army.”

The Action Army, according to PFT spokesperson George Jackson, is basically an e-mail list to publicize protests and events.

We, which boasts 141 dues-paying members, held its first convention on nov. 8. Its quick growth could shape the larger fight to defend public education in Philadelphia, where thousands of jobs have been eliminated, charter schools have expanded rapidly with little financial oversight, dozens of schools have closed, preparation for high-stakes testing dominates much of the curriculum and now, because of the attempt to impose health-care cost-sharing, underpaid teachers face what is effectively a salary cut.

The PFT is the single most powerful force fighting for fair funding for city schools and opposing school closings and layoffs. Its weakness and inability to mobilize its members undermines the entire movement to save Philadelphia public schools.

The Action Army is basically an e-mail list.

➤ the we caucus takes inspiration from chicago’s militant

caucus of rank and File educators, or core, which took over leadership of the chicago Teachers Union in 2010. Then, in 2012, they led teachers out on a high-profile strike that grabbed national attention and, more important, received widespread support from parents and community members. core had poured money into training rank-and-file teachers as organizers and formed strong ties to neighborhood and parent groups. It also prioritized opposition to tax-increment financing, or TIFs, which funnel property-tax revenue to often-private development (not so different, in terms of its political and economic implications, from >>> continued on page 6

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Philadelphia’s property-tax abatements).

The support core had built was evident when a phenomenal 90 percent of cTU members cast ballots in favor of going on strike and community groups took an active role in organizing strike actions.

“You could just tell when you were in chicago that this was a union whose rank and file was extremely invested in the strike that was going on, and really took ownership of it,” says micah Uetricht, the web editor at the left-wing magazine In These Times and author of the book Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity.

“Labor [knows] they’re supposed to have community groups working with them, so it becomes sort of this thing they check off their list,” Uetricht adds. “It’s much different with the cTU, which doesn’t just have them at their press conferences, but has them involved in the day-to-day decision-making of the union.”

Polls showed that a majority of parents backed the teachers in their contract fight against mayor rahm emanuel. now, they are the backbone of chicago’s left, and playing a leading role in seeking to oust him in the 2015 mayoral election.

For years, many have called on the PFT to strike even though Philadelphia teachers are specifically barred from doing so under the state takeover law. A strike could still be successful, however, given that the state department of education’s only means of retaliating would be to revoke teachers’ certifications, and the agency couldn’t decertify thousands. but, given the union’s current level of member engagement, would it be ready to mobilize its members and the community in the streets?

Jordan denied criticism that the PFT was a bread-and-butter, wages-and-benefits union that failed to take social movements seriously. As an example of the leadership’s commitment, he pointed out that he was vice chair of the American Federation of Teachers standing committee on civil and human rights, and that the union maintains relationships with groups like Jobs With | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |

Justice, and speaks out against mass incarceration.

Last week, Jordan spoke at a city council hearing on highstakes standardized testing — a hearing packed with members of We and their parent allies from the group opt out Philly.

“I am also a supporting member of We, which is in the early stages of creating a committee to support the needs and amplify the voices of parents and community members in addition to the educator members,” says Alison mcdowell, a masterman parent and chair of opt out Philly, a committee of the Alliance of Philadelphia Public Schools. “Some [We members] are parents and educators who have made the choice to refuse testing for their own children.”

Strong community ties are necessary to fight off the many threats to Philly public schools, according to We. In the past, student and community-group leaders have often joined the PFT in fighting for fair funding — but have been wary of the union leadership’s commitment to forming real partnerships. but strong school-level organization among teachers and staff is a prerequisite for effective community outreach.

Some schools have strong PFT committees in the buildings, but many don’t.

In schools where We has a strong presence, like Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences, teachers and staff have taken militant actions independent of union leadership, setting up pickets and protesting a School district award.

“I think the first way we started engaging members is starting in our own schools,” says Feltonville teacher Amy roat, the PFT building representative and a member of We’s Steering committee. “If something pops up in the newspapers say, [we ask,] ‘What do you think? How do you feel? Are you upset? Should we do something about it?’ … The morale is extremely low in the School district” and it makes a big difference “just having somebody listen and say, ‘I care about what you think. did you read that article?’”

School District morale is extremely low.

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Jordan seemed satisfied with the union’s building committees, contending that the degree of involvement depends on an individual school’s culture.

“We have building committees in all of our buildings, and we have building reps in all of our buildings. And it varies from building to building, and that has always been the case and will probably always be the case. It depends on the people who work in the building and, by that, I mean not only the staff, but also the administrators,” he says.

The PFT has long been the equivalent of a one-party state: The collective bargaining Team caucus has run the union since 1983. In 2007, Jordan, then PFT vice president, was appointed to complete outgoing president Ted Kirsch’s term. Jordan was then elected to a full term in 2008, and reelected in 2012 — sort of.

That year, Jordan says, there was no opposition slate. “If there is no submission by anyone for an opposing position or slate, then the secretary of the executive board casts the vote for the slate that has been submitted. And the last election [we] ran unopposed,” he says.

There is a sense that PFT leadership is nervous about the caucus, and the We’s website’s Frequently Asked Questions included answers to questions including, “Is this kind of work allowed?” and “does being in a caucus undermine the current union leadership?”

“The emergence of the caucus of We has unsettled some people,” says eileen duffey, an outspoken school nurse leader and We Steering committee member, in an email.

“We have found ourselves being accused of being disloyal. That misses the point.”

We is not currently challenging PFT leadership in union elections. but given what happened in chicago, it seems possible.

“Patience only goes so far,” says mark Stern, an assistant professor of educational studies at colgate University, who is studying We (and who is also a member).

“I imagine that given the national trends it’s something the caucus thinks about.”

We members said that it is not currently on their agenda.

“I think that we have so much on our plate right now, just keeping our jobs and not letting the reform monster gobble up our schools and our students, that that hasn’t been a consideration,” roat says. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net @danieldenvir)

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power Stru Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at stake if Philly becomes a major energy hub.

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said, “There’s room in the world for boosterism, but you couldn’t ask for a clearer demonstration of what happens when boosterism runs amok.”

If the energy industry does not bring environmental, community and neighborhood advocates to the table, it will risk slowing its own development, he warned.

“Here’s the big risk to the boosters: If they do not attend to the concerns to all of those mobilizing constituents, through litigation and endless politics, those groups can channel those concerns into actions that can slow or stop this agenda,” he said.

The risks of even the appearance of cutting important parties out of the process has been seen lately in city council’s failure, so far, to approve the proposed sale of the city-owned Philadelphia Gas Works to UIL, or even to hold a hearing on the plan.

Some council members, notably marion Tasco, who also chairs the Philadelphia Gas commission, have complained that mayor michael nutter didn’t do enough to involve council in details of the deal.

And even if creation of the energy hub doesn’t depend on the sale of PGW to the private sector, council’s abrupt rejection of the city-backed $1.86 billion deal, after millions of dollars were spent on due diligence by all sides, raises serious questions about whether the city really is open for more energy business, Hughes said.

“Why would anybody think that Philadelphia city government could take on the management or facilitation of this larger, more complex thing?” he asked.

Hughes contends that the city’s proposed contract with UIL should be amended so that some of the $420 to $630 million in sale proceeds earmarked for shoring up the depleted public pension fund would instead pay for promotion of a regional energy hub, to build public support and improve environmental protections.

Approval of the PGW sale to UIL would put the council in a better position to influence the bigger and more complex questions of how to manage an energy hub, he said. “city council has its best opportunity to play a leadership role on the larger energy-hub strategy by proceeding with an amended sale of PGW to UIL,” he said.

Hughes predicted that regulation of an expanded energy complex will be tightened at the state level, where the administration of incoming Gov. Tom Wolf will likely take steps to avoid the accusations of lax oversight of the oil and gas industry made about the corbett administration.

The hub’s business backers, too, are concerned about the signals that council’s response on PGW have sent to potential energy investors, according to michael Krancer, an attorney who leads the energy practice at blank rome, and is a leading advocate for the hub.

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“We have a company that was willing to put $1.8 billion into this city and region and it was not met in a very professional way by city council, and that certainly sends a negative signal to investors,” he said. rinaldi of PeS — which currently processes domestic crude oil arriving from north dakota by rail — took council to task at its own energy hearing on nov. 13, saying its conduct around the PGW sale risked alienating investors beyond just those who might buy the utility. Investor confidence in Philadelphia’s energy assets is based, in part, on political will, rinaldi said at the hearing, and the events surrounding PGW cannot been seen as a showcase for that process.

“Prospective manufacturers are focused on the city council through a lens that measures whether the council’s actions foster or impede the development of an energy-centric economy,” said rinaldi, also at the hearing. (He declined to be interviewed for this article.)

In another sign of the importance of an inclusive approach to the energy hub, Krancer argued that mayor nutter shares responsibility for the hiatus in the PGW sale process because he didn’t make council a full partner.

“He did not enfranchise city council early and often enough to make it a partner in the process, and that engendered some of the negative reaction from council, part of which was, ‘You froze us out,’” Krancer said. nutter has denied this, arguing in a statement mArK STeHLe

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BOOMTOWN: If Philly becomes an energy hub, the city could expect to see more pipelines, refineries and petrochemical plants. At right, crude oil headed for the PES refinery is carried into Philadelphia on aging railroad tracks and trestles. Environmental groups are already raising safety concerns about the oil trains.

BUST THE HUB: Tracy Carluccio of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network testifies against an energy complex in a hearing at City Hall. She says an energy hub would turn Philly into a “sacrifice zone.”

that members had many opportunities for input, including briefings for council members and their staffs. His statement also asserted that council President darrell clarke passed up the opportunity to put a member of his staff on the sale’s steering committee, and that clarke met privately with six short-listed bidders on dec. 9 and 11, 2013, giving him the opportunity to propose ways of making the deal acceptable to council. despite the acrimony, recent events will prove to be just a “hiccup,” Krancer said. He predicted a sale, to UIL or another buyer, will ultimately happen because the private sector is far better equipped to incorporate PGW into the energy hub — including replacing its aging pipelines — than a city-owned entity that does not have the same kind of access to capital markets.

Krancer, a member of the host committee for the

dec. 5 event, predicted it will kick-start a series of business deals that will allow the hub to take shape.

He said the event will be short on “conference chitchat” and long on specific business deals.

Host companies will include dow chemical, exelon, PSeG Power, Sunoco Logistics and UGI, in addition to Philadelphia energy Solutions.

Krancer cited a long list of advantages that gives Philadelphia an edge in the energy industry.

They include proximity to the marcellus Shale, among the biggest and most productive natural gas deposits in the world; good rail, road and port links; a location amid the populous market of the U.S. northeast; and access to the expertise of the region’s many universities.

The event is being organized by the Greater Philadelphia energy Action Team, a group of business and government leaders whose goals include the removal of “policy barriers” that they say impede the growth of the energy and manufacturing industries.

For the nutter administration, the energy hub is an enticing prospect that would burnish Philadelphia’s credentials as an economically competitive city, but only if it is managed “responsibly,” said Alan Greenberger, deputy mayor for economic development.

“What we want to see is the responsible expansion of the city as a place for energy usage, production and conservation,” Greenberger said. “If the city wants to be a competitive city in the 21st century, it needs to figure out how to use energy more efficiently than others.”

The city recognizes the environmental risks of fracking for natural gas, expects that construction of any new pipelines would be controversial, and shares a long-term goal of reducing fossil-fuel use, Greenberger said. but it also sees the need for more energy now.

“There clearly are environmental issues with the marcellus Shale, but we’re foolish to say the answer is, just don’t do it,” he said.

The nutter administration, which wants Philadelphia to become “America’s Greenest city,” sees itself steering a middle course between those at either end of the energy-hub debate, Greenberger said.

“We need to be thinking about the well-being of the citizens of Philadelphia,” he said. “We can’t just sit idly back and say, ‘bring it on.’” but the risks of an energy hub need to be understood accurately rather than through “speculation and ideology,” he said.

“From the city’s perspective, we want this. We want the expansion of manufacturing; we want cleaner burning fuel; we want the expansion of sustainability, and it all comes with having to be responsible about the environmental issues. It comes with being accurate about what the environmental issues are.

“If there’s boosterism on one side and radical environmentalism on the other, then I guess that’s the middle ground,” he said. (jonhurdle@gmail.com)

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N COLLINGSWOOD, NJ LADIES AND GENTLEMEN – we just described Collingswood through the holidays. The adorable ‘burb goes into full winter wonderland mode in November and December. It’s absolutely anti-mall: The quarter-million twinkling lights the town strings, snow machines and strolling carolers alone make it worth a trip but to top it all off parking is free in December.

We’re wondering why we ever bothered with the pushand-shove mania of the mall. If you actually want to enjoy a few evenings Bedford Falls style this winter, get thee to Collingswood for a night out. And if you’re

looking for the “Where did you get that?!” gift - the boutiques, gifts shops and galleries have goodies tucked in every corner ranging in price from stocking stuffer to showstopper (and everything in between).

DINING: It’s no secret that Collingswood’s downtown is lined with some of the best restaurants in the area and they are all packed practically nightly. It’s hard to miss at any spot in town but check out newcomer Table 8 Bistro at 8 Powell Lane. Don’t take our word for it, Inside Jersey said Table 8 was “another Collingswood standout” where “each plate was breathtaking in its composition.” If you feel like heading (far) east, you can grab Asian on almost any block. The Borough boasts three Indian restaurants alone with each establishment giving the cuisine its own twist. Take your pick from Indiya (612 Haddon Ave), Clay Oven Palace (329 Haddon Ave) or Indeblue (619 Collings Ave). No matter where you go, grab a bottle before you get there – Collingswood’s restaurants are BYO.

SHOP! SHOP! SHOP! Give something old school from the funky little thrift boutique Frugal Resale (740 Haddon Ave).

There are tons of vintage pieces to pair for the holidays and cruising the racks can be a step back in time. If you dig that Mad Men style for your house, stop by Dig This (717 Haddon Ave) for retro-cool housewares and some great gifts. Want to give something truly one-of-a-kind? The team at Red Dog Glass (583 Haddon Ave) makes personalized gifts and specializes in etched glass like barware and mirrors.

Remember: Small Business Saturday is November 29 and Collingswood is the perfect place to show local business owners your love. Spend a day here – locals love you more!

EVENTS: 2nd Saturday (December 13, January 10) is especially gorgeous this time of year considering the streetscape. Independent artists and musicians set up on corners and in shops to sell jewelry, art and play live music.

During the entire season, shops have extended hours to get gifts for everyone. This year, Collingswood’s makerspace at The Factory (13 Fern Ave) will host Art for the Holidays on December 12 and 13 where more than 30 local artists will showcase affordable, handmade fine arts and crafts.

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ARTS: The town is home to a 1,000 seat stunner of a venue â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Scottish Rite Auditorium (315 White Horse Pike). David Crosby called it the â&#x20AC;&#x153;coolest placeâ&#x20AC;? heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever played. Winter shows include Michael McDonald on December 5, Hot Tuna on December 11, Nick Loweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Quality Holiday Review on December 13, the Indigo Girls on January 8 and 10,000 Maniacs on January 24. Appreciate art in dozens of local shops including Galerie Marie (709 Haddon Ave), which is owned by a Former Barnes Foundation director. Collingswood is also home to Perkins Center for the Arts (30 Irvin Ave) where you can browse the artwork and jewelry of local artists in their gallery during their winter Small Works Show.

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Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots of curb space to watch the antique cars, Mummers, the Phanatic and floats jammed with rosycheeked kids waving to mom and dad. It was named best Main Street Experience by South Jersey Magazine.

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The Idiopa­thic Ridiculopa­thy Consortium, a­ Fringe fa­vorite for its ta­ke on Eugène Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, offers up pa­rodies of works by Tennessee Willia­ms a­nd Sa­m Shepa­rd, “the dyna­mic duo of domestic dysfunction” (ha­rd to a­rgue tha­t). A series of short works by Christopher Dura­ng will send up cla­ssics like Streetcar, The Glass Menagerie a­nd A Lie of the Mind.You’ve only got tonight a­nd Frida­y left to kick off the holida­ys with a­ pa­rodied presenta­tion of the sa­me domestic dysfunction you might persona­lly experience a­t Tha­nksgiving or Christma­s. Sorry. Wed., Nov. 26 and Fri., Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m., $20, L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St., idiopathicridiculopathyconsortium.org. [ one-man shows ] ➤ IN BetweeN

Ima­gine the cultura­l a­nd interpersona­l complica­tions of being the son of a­ Pa­lestinia­n Muslim fa­ther a­nd a­ Jewish Isra­eli mother. Oh, right — then, ma­rry a­ Jewish America­n woma­n. This show a­bout such a­ thing, written a­nd performed by Ibra­him Mia­ri, is “semi-a­utobiogra­phica­l” a­nd dives deep into childhood memories, wa­r a­nd a­ncestors from different cultures.There a­re “complexities a­nd contra­dictions inherent in Pa­lestinia­n-Isra­eli identity,” a­ show sta­tement sa­ys. Mon., Dec. 1, 6 p.m., Free, The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., therotunda.org. [ fashion ] ➤ SelectIoNS from “ruNwAy of Brotherly love”

Pa­trick Kelly’s “Runwa­y of Love” a­t the PMA runs through Dec. 7, so in ca­se you ha­ven’t seen it yet, ma­ybe check these two out on the sa­me weekend: Moore College of Art & Design’s Jump/Sta­rt fa­shion show this yea­r, “Runwa­y of Brotherly Love,” is, of course, inspired by “Runwa­y of Love,” but ha­s a­ Philly twist. Moore students pa­y homa­ge to Kelly using the sa­me wild, whimsica­l a­nd cheeky prints, colors a­nd unconventiona­l ma­teria­ls, but in “Brotherly Love,” expect to see a­ gia­nt pretzel sca­rf or the Love Pa­rk sta­tue iconogra­phy gra­cing some ga­rments. Through Dec. 13, Free, The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art & Design, 1916 Race St., , 215-965-4027, moore.edu.

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DON’T YOU THINK THEY’D NEED HEAVIER COATS IN ENGLAND?: The cast of A Christmas Carol at the Walnut Street Theatre, which runs through Dec. 21.

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season’s stagings Mark your calendars with what’s being presented in theater through the holidays.

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hiladelphia’s theaters reach out to families with big productions during the holiday season, staging both traditional and new fare that, while not always referencing christmas, celebrates its themes. malvern’s People’s Light & Theatre company leads the way with a new musical panto, Arthur and the Tale of the Red Dragon (through Jan. 11, peopleslight.org), written by choreographer Samantha bellomo and director Pete Pryor, with music by michael ogborn, featuring the hilarious mark Lazar as the dame of the Lake as well as barrymore Award-winner Liz Filios. This unique take on the traditional british holiday musical comedy form has become an annual must-see.

The Arden Theatre company puts an equally stunning array of talent and resources on stage for its big children’s production with charles Way’s new telling of Beauty and the Beast (nov. 26Feb. 1, ardentheatre.org) — not the disney musical, but an adventurous staging by new Paradise Laboratories’ Whit macLaughlin.

The Arden’s family-friendly version of charles dickens’ Great Expectations has been extended on the upstairs Arcadia Stage

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through dec. 21.

Quintessence Theatre Group is starting its own tradition with Lewis carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (dec. 10Jan. 4, quintessencetheatre.org) after the success of last year’s The Wind in the Willows, and enchantment Theatre company revives its puppet and dance version of The Snow Queen (dec. 13-Jan. 4, enchantmenttheatre.org). The Walnut Street Theatre’s Mary Poppins (through Jan. 4, walnutstreettheatre.org) offers another familiar family delight. charles dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a staple for three area professional theaters: as an hour-long musical at the Walnut Street Theatre (nov. 29-dec. 21), in nagle Jackson’s superb adaptation at Hedgerow Theatre for the 22nd consecutive year (dec.

5-28, hedgerowtheatre.org), and in mccarter center’s big-stage version (dec. 5-28, mccarter.org). other shows this season are aimed at adults. The cabaret Administration’s The Nutcracker (dec. 19-21, cabaretadministration.com) is director-designer Anna Frangiosa’s burlesque-inspired music and dance version that revels in the dark sensuality of e.T.A. Hoffmann’s original 1816 short story, not the sanitized Tchaikovsky ballet. FringeArts presents the Pig Iron Theatre company offshoot Team Sunshine Performance corporation’s The Sincerity Project (dec. 4-13, fringearts.com), described as an “anti-play” about authenticity that features a 10-

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: New ANtArcticA: A YeAr oN ice | aAnthony Powell makes plenty of mistakes in the construction of his debut documentary — bombastic soundtrack choices, underexplored ideas, a reliance on time-lapse footage that sends many sequences into over-caffeinated spasms. but this is all forgivable, as he’s provided us with unprecedented access to one of the least understood places on earth. more than a decade in the making, Antarctica: A Year on Ice is an effort by Powell, a photographer and engineer, to address and debunk misconceptions about the barren continent. Though the incredible visuals alone are a mind-blowing blessing — Powell modified his own camera equipment to withstand insane sub-zero temps — the new Zealander accomplishes his goal by focusing on the everyday people who make Antarctica “go.” It’s not just intrepid scientists, though there are dozens of international research bases on the ground. The population, which fluctuates between 700 and 5,000 from winter to summer, is also home to a blue-collar workforce that just so happens to punch a timecard on the bottom of the planet. each Antarctic employee — Powell focuses on the community of America’s mcmurdo Station — has his or her reasons for moving to Antarctica, where a -40 day is considered mild and winds akin to a category 5 hurricane whip across the tundra like autumn breezes do back home. The film is at its most insightful when exploring the contrast between the sunny summer, when the ice seems to hum with a collegial energy; and the jet-black, eight-month winter, when isolation drives some mad — and suits others just fine. (The filmmaker actually met and married his wife in 18 | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |

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Antarctica.) As a part-time resident and full-time booster, Powell is a most qualified guide for this introduction to the world’s most mysterious landmass, a tricky gig since very few of us possess any frame of reference more sophisticated than an elementary-school atlas. by focusing on Antarctic life rather than the lack of it, he reveals that most people want the same simple things — these folks are just willing to travel to secure them.—Drew Lazor (Ritz at the Bourse)

Horrible bosses 2 | D Surely there have been films that called for a sequel less than Horrible Bosses, but after sitting through the second round of this slapdash revenge fantasy, it’s hard to call any immediately to mind. However you felt about the first installment, its “revenge of the wage slaves” plot had a recession-era timeliness, its leads quickly established a manic chemistry, and it benefited from game supporting turns from an unlikely cast — colin Farrell, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx. All but Farrell return to do more of the same, which is all anyone shoots for this time out. Writer-director Sean Anders (whose credits include Sex Drive and the Adam Sandler low-among-lows That’s My Boy, if you need further red flags) follows the Hangover sequels formula of repeating the same jokes with minor, winking tweaks. Foxx fares best as the inscrutable thug motherfucker Jones, and Spacey all-too-briefly lends the film a little bite, while Aniston is simply left to toss out Urban Dictionary euphemisms, the shock value of which was depleted by the end of the last movie. An overeager chris Pine and an utterly wasted christoph Waltz are added to the mix. Jason Sudeikis and charlie Day have been let off the leash to the point where their incessant, mostly impro-

vised yammering (especially Day’s dog-whistle screech) become little more than background noise for Jason Bateman’s variations on eye-rolling irritation. —Shaun Brady (Wide release)

: continuing citizenfour | aThe scariest thing this Halloween was Edward Snowden swearing in disbelief at the end of Laura Poitras’ gripping, disturbing documentary. Citizenfour, whose core is the now-(in)famous meeting between Snowden, Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald in a Hong Kong hotel room, offers a limited catharsis through Snowden. Sure, he’s exiled from his own country and branded a traitor by many opposed to his disclosure of information on U.S. surveillance programs, but he’s done what he set out to do. In the last scene, though, Greenwald tells him of another whistle-blower who claims the U.S. has more than a million people on various watch lists, to which Snowden can only respond, “That is fucking ridiculous.”

It’s an unforgettable reminder: No matter how jaded we are, there is always something that can shock us. It’s easy to assume that the government’s ability to collect effectively infinite amounts of information will only harm bad people, but when it’s controlled by the same institution that determines what’s bad, the potential for misuse is equally boundless. We should be afraid, and Poitras’ essential film reminds us why.

—Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)

the equalizer | BIn following up Olympus Has Fallen, easily one of the most ’80s movies of 2013, Antoine Fuqua pricks the decade’s veins again, adapting The Equalizer to suit an audience with no frame of reference. Not that one’s needed: The show, starring Edward Woodward as a hardass vigilante haunted by his CIA misgivings, was far from original then, and Fuqua wisely does little to tweak the formula now. Primed and predictable, Denzel Washington is a logical pick for the role of Robert McCall, who ditches his violent black-ops past for a humdrum job at a Lowe’s-like home-improvement chain. But when he catches a whiff of an innocent in serious trouble — call girl Alina (Chloë Grace Moretz), a regular at the diner he frequents — he slides back into scales-of-justice mode, and his decision mushroomclouds into a war with the Russian mob. Fuqua has always handled action

in the most satisfying and unsubtle manner possible, and Washington does well keeping pace — it’s just that you already know the route from start to finish, and there’s never any sense that our hero might fall behind. —DL (Wide release)

foXcatcher | aAlthough it’s not entirely free of the plodding About America-ness of Money­ ball and Capote, Bennett Miller’s latest has a secret weapon at its center, and it’s not Steve Carell’s nose. As John Eleuthère du Pont, the unstable millionaire who murdered Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz on his Newtown Square estate in 1996, Carell disappears beneath layers of latex and padding, but he never sinks into du Pont’s skin. That’s where Channing Tatum’s performance as Dave’s younger brother, Mark Schultz, comes in. Although he was also an Olympic gold medalist, Mark was overshadowed by his more charismatic brother, which in Dan Futterman’s version of the story, leads to a psychic bond between him and du Pont. Tatum’s quiet, selflacerating bearing gives the movie its broken soul, part wounded puppy, part attack dog. With an early scene where du Pont and Mark look out over the Valley Forge battleground, Foxcatcher lunges for symbolic significance: Mark is an abandoned veteran, a national hero, cast aside once he’s served out his term, reduced to regaling middleschool assemblies for $20 checks. But Miller’s grasp is sure, and the movie’s steady march toward its tragic foregone conclusion feels inevitable rather than redundant. Foxcatcher softens the extreme nature of the real du Pont’s lunacy so as not to make the Schultzes seem like saps for staying at his compound, succumbing to the lure of steady pay and well-appointed training facilities, and the movie plays loosely enough with the timeline to make it best seen as a generalized statement rather than an interpretation of the real case. But on those terms, it’s a powerful simulation of the whirlpool of wealth, and how people sell themselves a little at a time and then suddenly all at once. —SA (Ritz East)

force Majeure | aA freak occurrence puts strain on a marriage in Ruben Östlund’s crafty melodrama. Johannes Kuhnke and Lisa Loven Kongsli seem like a happy couple as they embark on a ski trip with their two children, but a moment of weakness on his part brings their troubles to the surface like a zombie

bursting from a shallow grave, turning their vacation into a marital gauntlet.

The subject matter is so familiar as to be mundane, but Östlund stages the couple’s gradual unraveling as a sly comic horror, where once the floodgates have been opened every minor infraction becomes a major issue. It’s painful and darkly hilarious; as the screws tighten, you lose track of whether you’re grinning or wincing.

—SA (Ritz at the Bourse)

the hoMesMan | B Tommy Lee Jones has finally found a director who can bring out his best: himself. Especially in the early scenes of The Homesman, a feminist Western adapted from the novel by Glendon Swarthout, there’s a lively playfulness we haven’t seen from him in years, and possibly decades. Unfortunately, that lightness evaporates as he and Hillary Swank, a single woman who’s taken up residence in the Nebraska territory,

squire three insane women toward the Iowa border, as the land grows hard and the movie grows harder. Swank, whose marriage proposal is rebuffed by a toothless man lives squarely in her character’s desperation to find a man with whom to settle down, although the failure to explain how she came by her unusual situation, or the significant fortune she seems to hold, leaves the part feeling half-finished — as, eventually, does The Homesman itself. The abrupt turn that starts the final act doesn’t help, effectively undoing what the movie’s built thus far and letting an off-the-shelf action sequence intrude like an unneeded cowboy savior. —SA (Ritz Five)

that NASA has continued in secret, run by former professor Michael Caine, who is working on a long-shot rescue plan for the human race. Nolan has a tendency to get explainy — this is a film, after all, where gripping suspense is mined as much from the ramifications of relativity as from daring spaceship maneuvers. Ultimately, Interstellar is an epic-scale debate over what it means to be human, as dispassionate reality conflicts with irrational emotion. Nolan ultimately does pass over that aforementioned event horizon, and when he does, the film’s admirable dedication to hard science is crushed into gooey sentiment. But when it succeeds, which it does much of the time, Interstellar is a gripping adventure that’s equal parts ’50s sci-fi thrills, heady 2001 thought experiment and tortured philosophical debate. —SB (Wide release)

john Wick | B+ More action movies should be directed by stuntmen. If even a few of them turn out as enjoyable as David Leitch and Chad Stahelski’s John Wick, it’ll be a mitzvah for a genre long in need of a little back-to-basics counter-programming. It might seem odd to use the word “sincere” to describe a movie that literally consists of Keanu Reeves killing dozens of suited-up schlubs over his dead beagle, but that’s what it is. No high-falutin’ wire work, no egregious CGI, no laughable attempts at a twisty Guy Ritchie plot — just an hour and a half of slick ass-kicking. As Wick, a legendary hitman who left the underworld behind for love, Reeves isn’t exactly King Lear, but anyone who’s looking for that is in the wrong theater anyway.

Leitch, a prolific action veteran, and Stahelski, Reeves’ stunt double going all the way back to Point Break, understand what works and what doesn’t, mixing flashy Hong Kong-inspired gunplay with close-quarters MMA grappling that leaps off the screen. The stiffs, mini-bosses and big boys Wick works through en route to redemption are sculpted with humor and economy.

That might actually be the film’s most valuable trait: getting you in fast and out satisfied. —DL (Wide release)

interstellar | B Real emotion remains something of a black hole for Christopher Nolan, and for much of the three-hour running time of Interstellar, the cerebral director teeters on its event horizon. The film takes place a generation into the future, after ecological disaster has turned the world into a giant dust bowl.

Matthew McConaughey is a former astronaut turned farmer who discovers

nightcraWler | aDan Gilroy’s shadow-cloaked debut might just contain Jake Gyllenhaal’s meatiest and most marketable role in years, a performance so eye-opening you’ll find yourself making excuses for some of the film’s flimsier devices.

A hard-driving but directionless petty criminal in L.A., Louis Bloom is relentless without having anything to

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be relentless about, his unblinking discipline pushing him toward a goal he hasn’t yet set. (The autism spectrum is hinted at.) His ambition finds its outlet in “nightcrawling” — risky freelance camera work that places him, and later his stammering street-kid partner (Riz Ahmed), in violent and compromising situations. Bloom’s footage soon becomes invaluable to struggling TV producer Nina (Rene Russo), leading to a complex professional and personal relationship shaped by their shared appetite for control. Unpredictable, unscrupulous and often straightup spooky, Gyllenhaal is so good here that you find yourself rooting for his character — even if the right thing to do is to root for him to be arrested.

—DL (Wide release)

the theory of everything | C How do you capture the brilliance of someone as incalculable as Stephen Hawking? It’s a hearty challenge for any filmmaker, given the abstract, internal nature of the physicist’s work.

James Marsh tries his best to laymanize the equation with The Theory of Everything, but sticks his digits into a few too many melodramatic mousetraps along the way, creating a string of cringes that overpowers two solid lead performances. Based on Hawking’s exwife’s 1999 memoir, this version of the story begins at Cambridge, where the young Ph.D. candidate, captured in all his gawky glory by Eddie Redmayne, meets his future mate, Jane (Felicity Jones), at a smoky cocktail hour. Marsh takes aggressive advantage of an able-bodied Hawking prior to his ALS diagnosis, rushing the smitten couple over romantic footbridges and under Disneyland fireworks displays as if they’re tourists on a tight itinerary. As the disease begins taking control, Redmayne dedicates himself to Hawking’s swift physical breakdown, while Jones does well as an honest, loving woman whose patience is tested by extraordinary odds. But there are simply too many moments, from beginning to end, that knock hollow, from Hawking mastering space-time singularity after staring into a swirling cup of tea. —DL (Ritz Five)

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SOUNDS LIKE FUN: Bleachers play Union Transfer tonight.

Events is our selective guide to what’s going on in the city this week. For comprehensive event listings, visit citypaper.net/events. IF YOU WANT TO BE LISTED: Submit information by email (listings@ citypaper.net) or enter it yourself at citypaper.net/submit-event with the following details: date, time, address of venue, telephone number and admission price. Incomplete submissions will not be considered, and listings information will not be accepted over the phone.

11.26

wednesday [ rock/pop ]

BLEACHERS $25 | Wed., Nov. 26, 8 p.m., with Vacationer, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

Lest you think Bleachers emerged from nowhere this summer, fully formed with a set list of feel-good anthems in its hand like a damned indie-rock/ 20 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

power-pop miracle, know this: Lead singer Jack Antonoff is also in — and I shudder to type their band name the way they want it (all lowercase, with a period at the end) — fun., so he knows a little something about making large numbers of people dance around like goofballs. That said, Bleachers is a lot more fun than … them.

—Patrick Rapa

[ comedy ]

observational humor shift through the birth and death of “alt-comedy,” the first wave of podcasts and some intense personal struggles. Few opportunities exist to see someone at this comedic mastery level. Take this one. —Sameer Rao

11.28 friday

TODD GLASS

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$18-$33 | Wed., Nov. 26 and Fri.Sat., Nov. 28-29, Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St., 215-4969001, heliumcomedy.com.

PLEEZER/BROASIS

Anytime this Gen-X comedy legend makes a hometown stop, it’s a party. Glass’ 30-plus-years in comedy — documented with remarkable insight and candor in his memoir The Todd Glass Situation (published by Simon & Schuster in June) — have seen his irreverent take on

If you miss the ’90s, or missed them entirely, Friday’s doubleheader tribute night should scratch your itch. Pleezer — featuring members of Philly acts It’s a King Thing and Adam and Dave’s Bloodline — are doing Weezer’s 1994 debut Blue Album from front

$10 | Fri., Nov. 28, 8:30 p.m., Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 267-6394528, bootandsaddlephilly.com.

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to back. You know: “Buddy Holly,” “Sweater Song,” etc.

The mysterious Broasis, meanwhile, will do 1994’s Definitely, Maybe in its entirety.

We’re talking “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” “Shakermaker,” etc. Back in the day we’d have marveled at this mismatched lineup of goofy slackers and Beatlemaniacs. Now all I can think about is how weird both bands have been ever since.

—Patrick Rapa

[ outdoors ]

BLUE CROSS RIVERRINK & WINTERFEST $3 SKATING ADMISSION, $10 SKATE RENTAL | Nov. 28-March 1, 101 S. Columbus Blvd., 215-9222386, delawareriverwaterfront.com.

Once, in college, I fell while ice-skating, and sliced open my left shin with the blade on my right foot. It was bloody and embarrassing but kind of farcical — the EMTs who

came to retrieve me off the ice didn’t have skates on, so they were falling, too. Even after that, I still want to skate at Winterfest. You can’t beat hot chocolate, music, fire pits, Garces food, a light show and a lodge with heat lamps. If I can do it, so can you. Godspeed.

—Mikala Jamison

of “Hey Sandy,” the three-piece reunited in 2012 for a Pete and Pete reunion show in L.A. Danny Tamberelli, aka Little Pete Wrigley, was in town a few weeks back to protest the purposed demolition of Little Pete’s diner, so who knows?

Maybe he’ll show up with some of those legendary Blue Tornado bars. —Caroline Russock

[ rock/pop ]

POLARIS SOLD OUT | Fri., Nov. 28, 8 p.m., with Radiator Hospital, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

If the names Artie the Strongest Man in the World, Endless Mike Hellstrom, Mr. Tastee and a mermaid tattoo named Petunia get you all watery eyed with nostalgia, chances are you are well aware of Polaris, too. Known for kicking off every episode of Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete and Pete with a lawn performance

11.29 saturday [ metal ]

GWAR $17-$20 | Sat., Nov. 29, 8 p.m., with Corrosion of Conformity and American Sharks, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-627-1332, electricfactory.info.

Countless bodies have been left in the wake of GWAR shows over the years, but last March one death actually

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made a profound impact on the monstrous band. Founder dave brockieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing left the Scumdogs without their leader, oderous Urungus, and raised questions over whether they would continue on their path of destruction. It finally took two new members to fill oderousâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; foam-latex phallus â&#x20AC;&#x201D; new singer blĂłthar and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;cybernetic female assassinâ&#x20AC;? vulvatron. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Shaun Brady

[ dance ]

KĂšlĂş MèlĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Danzas De Cuba $12-$25 | Sat.-Sun., Nov. 29-30, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.

The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preeminent presenter of Afro-cuban dance celebrates 45 years of exuberant performance. donning traditional costumes and combining dance, drumming and song, KĂšlĂş mèlĂŠ offers an authentic slice of traditional culture thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spiritual and entertaining. The anniversary show features the added treat of oyu oro Afro-cuban experi-

mental dance ensemble, a kindred spirit on the cross-cultural continuum. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Deni Kasrel

11.30 sunday [ metal ]

exoDus $49.50 | Sun., Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m., with Slayer and Suicidal Tendencies, Tower Theater, 19 S. 69th St., 215922-1011, lnphilly.com. bay Area thrash pioneers exodus have always hovered just below the heralded big Four, marred by lineup changes and occasional breakups. Founding guitarist Kirk Hammett left to

find greater success with then scene-mates metallica, while exodusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; more snarling, aggressive sound made the crossover success of their peers unlikely. of course, those qualities have endeared them to diehard fans, especially with venom-spitting prime-era vocalist Steve â&#x20AC;&#x153;Zetroâ&#x20AC;?

Souza back in the fold again on Blood In, Blood Out (nuclear blast). â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Shaun Brady

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Free | Tue., Dec. 2, 8 p.m., The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., arsnovaworkshop.com

â?¤ Loved: Karen Russell, Swamplandia!

As part of its ongoing Ars Norge series, Ars Nova Workshop will present the Norwegian trio Ballrogg, which marries the spacious and atmospheric strain of Scandinavian jazz with unexpected Americana colors. The trio was originally founded by saxophonist and electronic musician Klaus Ellerhusen Holm and bassist Roger Arntzen, but the addition of pedal steel and banjo player Ivar Grydeland brought an

â&#x17E;¤ This is the cotton candy cupcake of book lists; the Grumpy Librarianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first instinct is to recommend a tincture of Hemingway and a vigorous tooth brushing.

This is probably the first time sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever been tempted to suggest reading more Chuck Palahniuk and maybe checking out a CrossFit class or something.

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Café soCiety LA CoLombe | 1355 Frankford Ave., 215-800-0759, lacolombe.com. Mon.-Thurs., 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri.Sat., 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun., 7 a.m.-5 p.m. $5-$15. ➤ ON saturday mOrNiNgs, the jaw-drop-

ping, 11,000-square-foot Fishtown HQ of local coffee roasters, La Colombe, could be the set of an HGTV show. Nestled into padded banquettes or crouched over steaming pour-overs at the long communal tables, prospective homebuyers and their real-estate agents shuffle through printouts of nearby MLS listings.

If I sold homes, I would take clients to Colombe’s new café, too. The roaster’s OG blends may not carry the cache of younger third-wave indies, but co-founders Todd Carmichael and JP Iberti have something that upstarts like ReAnimator and Rival Bros. do not (money), and they’ve out-cooled the cool kids with this spectacular clubhouse, over a year in the making, on Frankford Avenue.

“When I first came into the space, it was like a giant, industrial cave with pigeons in it,” Carmichael remembers. “Most of the floor was mud and standing water, and you needed to have a flashlight to walk around.” Now, it’s a lively brick barn with “everything I love under one roof,” including a full kitchen, a bakery producing artful loaves and pastries, coffee labs and a distillery for one of Carmichael’s passion projects, Different Drum Rum. Handling the F&B is a crack team of veterans from Talula’s Garden and Zahav (Taryn Goodman, chef), Parc (John McGrath, baker) and Lacroix (Angela Fetti, pastry). The best stuff here comes on bread, like McGrath’s crunchy ciabatta smothered in “onion soup”-style caramelized alliums and melted Gruyère, an instant classic with an intriguing funkiness that made me think of fish sauce.

Meanwhile, the blistering cast-iron skillet of Mornay-drenched cauliflower gratin was unrelentingly rich; beneath a dusting of texture-enhancing bread crumbs, I wanted herbs and acid. Rolled in ground espresso like truffles, orbs of goat cheese beaded a beet-and-bibb salad scattered with toasted hazelnuts, which matched well with some of Carmichael’s coffee-enhanced rum on the rocks.

The amber liquid was smoky and warm going down, with a back-kick of caffeine.

I’m still on the fence about a house in Fishtown, but La Colombe’s new digs? Definitely sold. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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Dinner at isaiah’s A series of communal dinners, starting with a Mexican feast, is coming to Isaiah Zagar’s South Philly warehouse. By Caroline Russock dinner at isaiah’s | $95, Mon., Dec. 15, 6 and 8:30 p.m. 1002-1012 Watkins St. dinner-at-isaiahs.ticketleap.com.

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he name of the event is Isaiah and Julia Are Throwing a Dinner Party,” explains Lucio Palazzo, chef of Taqueria Feliz. The people Palazzo is referring to are Isaiah Zagar — the artist responsible for covering a good portion of South Street in rainbow-colored swaths of mosaic made from pieces of glass, mirror, china and tile — and his wife, Julia, proprietor of the eye’s Gallery.

“The idea is,” Palazzo continues, “Isaiah wants to do a series of dinners here. correct me if I’m wrong, Isaiah. Almost like cultural events?”

“Soirees,” Zagar jumps in. “I like it, I like it — soirees.”

The first in the series, a ticketed event open to the public, will be held on monday, Dec. 15, at Zagar’s warehouse at 10th and Watkins streets. The dinner is a collaboration between Palazzo, Justino Jimenez of the vetri Family restaurants and cristina martinez and

benjamin miller of South Philly barbacoa, a well-loved taco truck that pops up on weekends at eighth and Watkins streets.

So how did these four chefs end up hosting a dinner at Zagar’s breathtaking, bi-level work space? The backstory is as multifaceted as one of Zagar’s mosaics. “ben, I met through cristina,” Zagar says. “And cristina, I met when she first came to this country. She was delivering a meal by bicycle from a restaurant on Girard Avenue ... to the men who were doing masonry work in this building. Then I forgot about her completely. Later, I tried to get in touch with her because I thought cristina is a very special person.”

Zagar reconnected with cristina a few years later when she and ben were working at Kanella, the cypriot restaurant at 10th and Spruce.

Just about a year ago, they approached Zagar, proposing to open a restaurant in a part of his Watkins Street warehouse. before telling the rest of the story, Zagar explains that the whole thing was off the wall from the get-go. He had been fighting a bout of depression for the previous year and when cristina and ben came to him with their idea, he went with it. Zagar knew the neighborhood was never going to go for the idea, but he went to the zoning meeting, where the plan was, indeed, shut down.

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A weekly column on sex of all stripes.

By Rachel Kramer Bussel

Sex leSSonS to be thankful for

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➤ Since it’S thankSgiving, I’m thinking about all the lessons about sex that I’ve learned over the last 22 years and for which I’m thankful. What I have to say might surprise you. Firstly, I’m grateful to live in a country where homosexuality and abortion are legally protected — for now — and to have received decent, though not perfect, sex education.

Now, for the personal blessings. Unlike the Duggar family of reality TV show 19 Kids and Counting, I don’t believe saving sex for marriage is the key to happiness. Instead, I’m convinced all my previous hookups, dates and relationships have shaped me into who I am today. They weren’t all positive, but they did each teach me valuable lessons. So without further ado: I’m grateful to the 31-year-old man I lost my virginity to the summer between high school and college. Having an older man shower me with attention made me feel glamorous. Of course, looking back, I find the age difference creepy, but in the moment, I wanted to feel sophisticated (even though I was actually just the opposite), and our fling provided that air of faux adulthood I took with me freshman year. Plus, it made me feel “caught up” with my more sexually advanced friends.

I’m glad I slept with a woman for the first time the night before taking the LSATs (law school admission test). While I doubt it helped my test score, I remember I was blushing and giddy with new-relationship energy when I took the exam.

I’m thankful for the guy who told me he just “wasn’t into” going down on women — after I’d gone down on him — for showing me the kind of pompous lovers I don’t want in my bed.

I’m thankful for a friend’s invitation to my first sex party, and that I had the courage to attend solo. I was around 22, and too enamored of the idea to be nervous. Afterward, I spent the night with the hosts, who showed me a couple can share another person and still be madly in love.

I’m glad I attended an impromptu BDSM play party, where I was non-consensually handed a rope attached to the limb of a woman in the midst of a bondage scene — for what it taught me about how to say no. Instead of doing so immediately and unequivocally, I wanted to seem “cool,” so I pretended I knew what was going on. At this party, I was scolded for wanting to be a mere voyeur. My takeaway: consent matters in any kind of sexual or kinky encounter. Any sex event in which you’re made to feel uncomfortable or pressured into engaging in certain behavior is one

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I regret, but am still grateful for, having cheated on my former girlfriend, for showing me how guilty it made me feel during and afterward. I couldn’t even say I’d done it because of love (not that that would have been a good excuse), but rather simply because the opportunity presented itself. I learned that cheating isn’t just something “other” people do, but something most of us are probably susceptible to if the circumstances are right. Now, when I promise not to cheat, I mean it.

I’m glad I spent the night in the Atlanta airport cuddling

Avoid any sex event in which you are pressured or made to feel uncomfortable. and giving and getting handjobs with one of the sweetest men I’ve ever met (we’d both missed our planes). Yes, I felt the thrill of possibly getting caught, but I also learned you can have flirty, tender casual sex, the kind that, were we not headed off to different countries, might have led to something more. I think of it more as a romantic one-night stand that just happened to occur at the world’s busiest airport.

Having just turned 39, I’m still discovering my sexual wants and needs, rather than assuming that because I’m “settled down” I know all there is to know about my body (or my partner’s). I always have more to learn, and that is what I’m most thankful for. ✚ Rachel Kramer Bussel is the author

of the essay collection Sex & Cupcakes and editor of over 50 erotica anthologies, most recently Hungry for More and The Big Book of Submission. She tweets @raquelita.

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are you checking around everything that I do! Then you have that stupid-ass grin on your face thinking that shit is funny and it is not! I really don’t care for you and I know that you don’t care for me! When I see you smirking I think to myself, I wish that I could smack the taste out of your mouth. Then you look at people with that long blank look on your face like you are zoned the fuck out! do you even know your fucking job? I don’t think that you do! Please find something else to do besides watching me, I think it is getting lame! oh but the lamest part

BLEEDING GUMS! damn, why we gotta play that game again, your breath is smelling and it is fucking killing me! How dare you think that you and I are going to do things together with your breath smelling like that? I am tired of the shit! don’t you have enough respect for yourself to know that your breath is stinking and stuff? do you brush in the fucking morning or you just start your day? I hope not because I am simply tired of it! Please PeoPLe brush your teeth, I mean really brush your teeth! cause I, like millions of other people, am frankly tired of it!

CHILL OUT ALREADY You whine about stuff all fucking day long! It doesn’t make any sense! Then you sit on the fucking phone all day talking loud worried about what someone else is doing, why can’t you just sit there and mind your own fucking business. How hard is that...it isn’t hard you just have to focus on what you are doing instead of focusing on what everyone else is doing. Sounds like a good idea to me? How about you...

CONCENTRATE You know who you are I really don’t have to mention your name because I know that you read this section of the paper! You're an asshole because you are making your life harder and harder, if I showed you something and you do another with something that you think that i don’t know about then you're a damn fool! I am going to play fool with your ass cause I think that it is funny and it is going to be for my benefit not yours! don’t think that I don’ t know about your personal log on me! cause I do!

DON’T ASK ME! oK you were gone and I know when you come back you are going to ask me what the fuck happened and I am saying to you don’t ask me because if you can’t take control over your own business then don’t ask me anything pertaining to your absence because I am not going to be your snitch bitch! I don’t like telling on anyone and I don’t want to be asked what happened so stick with your numbers bitch and don’t ask me anything! I just want you to leave me alone! do you think that you can arrange that? Huh?

DON’T SMILE NOW! The only thing that I want to know is why the fuck

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It has been awhile and I can’t wait until you come over my house and spend a damn night...I just want to make sure that you have everything that you want and deserve and I can’t wait to give you a bath and just get you to relax and throw on some good music so you can unwind and just enjoy your environment.

You looked out for me when I wasn’t feelin well and I really appreciate that to the fullest...why do you think that I want to give myself to you to the fullest...

I think that you are the coolest and the cutest...can't

You make loving you so hard. I just don’t understand what you want me to do regarding looking out for you! I try to pay my bills and do what I need to do for myself but you are making this shit impossible for me to hang in there! Why do I hang in there with you I keep asking myself over and over. Why do you bull shit me all the damn time? Why do I allow you to enter my mind and play games with it. I am tired of you...I hope you move on...cause I know I am going to!

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I DID EVERYTHING could put up with. You can deny all the emotional abuse you put me thrugh..I can forgive but cannot forget. I loved you as you know, and still till this day am shocked by what you claim you can not do.Time for sleep, as it is the only way I can forget. I loved you with a love so deep and true and what did I get in return? Fix it, if I mean anything to you, fix it.I am tired of trying to explain your actions. Is there a chance?

I know we barely know each other.. you probably know me as the girl that had a crush on your husband but what you did three years ago restored my faith in people. You’re a good woman and I just hope one day you’ll realize that what I said was out of jealousy and I really appreciate your ability and your desire to understand where I was coming from.

Thank you. now I’m doing really well and am planning to reach out to people that are down and out the way you did for me. The world would be a better place if more people like you and your husband were in it.

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wait to feel you inside of me again...and thanks for fixing the stupid television downstairs....now we can smootch on the couch...

LOOKING BAD bitch!! What is your deal...I can’t stand you and you know that I can’t, you make me wanna punch you in the face! I can’t believe how two-faced you are and I can’t believe that your husband didn’t kill you already, because if you were my bitch I would have killed you already...but I will say this the last laugh is on your dumb ass! eat shit and die bitch...and remember all of us aren’t created equal enough for me not to hate your fake-ass guts!

In the middle of August around 10:16 pm, 7th and christian- to the girl that just squatted and pissed beneath my bedroom window and her friends that stood in front of her while she did- you all make me sick and I should have pushed my air conditioner out the window on top of you. next time, find a dark alley and not a main street. better yet, wait till you find a toilet. I hope someone pisses on your head later when you’re passed out drunk from finishing all of those beers you were trying to hide.

SEVER THE TIES Yo mother-fucker, thanx for reminding me what i dont want in a relationship, let alone a marriage! everybody has fucked up ways, but deceit overrides stupidity on the breakup scale..I hope this gap in communication shows what should’ve been for the last few years. Hurt is a muthafucka, but hardrocks brush it off. Wanna friend? buy a fuckin dog. I’ll smoke a husky dutch and pour out some jack for you.

WATCH THIS DUDE To all the husbands who have a wife that works near the airport...A word of advice...Keep a close eye on your woman, there is a HomeWrecKer working there! He is mid 40’s, bald, overweight and preys on the married women there. His woman left him because he has a small dick. He like to go to lunch with the girls. They also hang out at a bar & Grill.

This guy is a real piece of shit and will say and do anything to get some pussy. WATcH oUT!

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