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Associate Publisher Jennifer Clark Editor in Chief Lillian Swanson Senior Editor Patrick Rapa Arts & Culture Editor Mikala Jamison Food Editor Caroline Russock Senior Staff Writers Daniel Denvir, Emily Guendelsberger Copy Chief Carolyn Wyman Contributors Sam Adams, Dotun Akintoye, A.D. Amorosi, Rodney Anonymous, Mary Armstrong, Meg Augustin, Bryan Bierman, Shaun Brady, Peter Burwasser, Mark Cofta, Alison Dell, Adam Erace, David Anthony Fox, Caitlin Goodman, K. Ross Hoffman, Jon Hurdle, Deni Kasrel, Alli Katz, Gary M. Kramer, Drew Lazor, Gair “Dev 79� Marking, Robert McCormick, Andrew Milner, Annette Monnier, John Morrison, Michael Pelusi, Natalie Pompilio, Sameer Rao, Jim Saksa, Elliott Sharp, Marc Snitzer, Tom Tomorrow, John Vettese, Nikki Volpicelli, Brian Wilensky, Julie Zeglen Editorial Interns Indie Jimenez, Alyssa Mallgrave, Nia Prater, Sam Fox Production Director Michael Polimeno Senior Designer Brenna Adams Designer & Social Media Director Jenni Betz Contributing Photographers Jessica Kourkounis, Hillary Petrozziello, Maria Pouchnikova, Neal Santos, Mark Stehle Contributing Illustrators Ryan Casey, Don Haring Jr., Joel Kimmel, Cameron K. Lewis, Thomas Pitilli, Matthew Smith Human Resources Ron Scully (ext. 210) U.S. Circulation Director Joseph Lauletta (ext. 239) Account Managers Colette Alexandre (ext. 250), Nick Cavanaugh (ext. 260), Amanda Gambier (ext. 228), Sharon MacWilliams (ext. 262) Classified/Adult Advertising Sales Alexis Pierce (ext. 234) Editor Emeritus Bruce Schimmel 22

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[ + 1] Despite the team’s 2-18 record, attendance

is up at Sixers’ games this year over last. And they owe it all to that promotion where they randomly select the starting lineup from the crowd.

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smoke signals: Protesters from 19 environmental organizations rally outside an energy hub conference at Drexel University.

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A hunter kills a 693-pound bear on the first day of New Jersey’s six-day bear hunt. Hey congrats, guy. Say, any money inside the bear? No? Just bear meat? Oh. A Bucks County school guidance counselor is placed on administrative leave after tweeting that she would shoot the die-in protesters tying up traffic at the Eagles game. Pro-Tip: Murder-ins take even longer to clean up.

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A U.S. Airways flight bound for Philly from Israel is forced to make an emergency stop in Rome after several passengers and crew members begin vomiting uncontrollably. It was prophesied that a nauseous, metal bird would bring ill tidings to House Philadelphia. Brace yourself. Wing Bowl is coming.

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he noisy scene outside the student center at drexel University appeared to be just the latest installment in the longrunning confrontation between the natural-gas industry and its opponents in the environmental movement. The meeting of energy executives, bankers, politicians and academics last Friday was held to attract investors to Philadelphia’s proposed “energy hub,” where natural gas and its associated liquids from Pennsylvania’s marcellus Shale would be pumped, processed and exported — to be used as fuel for a resurgent manufacturing industry. Inside the creese Student center, some 250 participants were given a day-long sales pitch from the Greater Philadelphia chamber of commerce and the South Philadelphia refiner Philadelphia energy Solutions at a conference called “Greater Philadelphia: The Next energy Hub.” Outside, on chestnut Street, about 150 demonstrators from 19 environmental groups marched up and down, waving “no fracking” signs and calling for investment in renewable fuels rather than natural gas. Speakers accused the industry of being rapacious capitalists who recklessly pursue fossil-fuel development at grave

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risk to the environment. The street protesters seemed to be in no mood to find common ground with the energy industry executives inside the meeting, but a surprising number of speakers at the conference acknowledged the environmental risks of natural gas development and urged the industry to take its opponents’ concerns seriously. “There are potential environmental impacts associated with natural gas development,” said carol collier, senior advisor for Watershed management and Policy at the Academy of Natural Sciences of drexel University, during a panel discussion. “I think we need to listen to them,” she said, referring to the environmental groups. collier, the former executive director of the delaware river basin commission, an interstate water-quality regulator, argued that the industry’s environmentalist opponents are not a bunch of wild-eyed idealists with a tenuous grip on reality, as sometimes claimed by energy-industry leaders. most environmentalists understand that there doesn’t have to be a trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality, and so could become industry supporters but only if they are included in the conversation over natural gas development in general, and the energy hub in particular, collier said. “If you can get more people to the table, you have more openness,

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taught by veteran cops on the streets.” Police brutality and misconduct mostly go unpunished, including for officers with repeated, credible complaints of using severe excessive force. Structural fixes, demanded in the heat of periodic crises, are hotly opposed by the politically powerful Fraternal Order of Police and rarely implemented. In 1995, five officers were convicted in what is known as the “39th district scandal” for planting drug evidence, lying under oath and assaulting and robbing civilians. In response, the city created a Police Integrity and Accountability Office to examine police misconduct.

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The police’s no-snitching ethos is a deeply ingrained cultural code. Police describe a defensive camaraderie among those carrying out a dangerous and complex job, one they believe civilians don’t understand. Whatever its rationale, it is another reason that Nutter’s call for sensitivity training misses the mark. As former NYPd capt. and brooklyn borough President eric L. Adams recently argued in the New York Times, “The training taught in police academies across the country is not being applied in communities of color.After six months in the police academy, that instruction is effectively wiped out by six days of being

Experiences like these shape the characters of many people’s everyday lives By Corey Mark

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Last week, while I was on my way to work, two police officers stopped me. Without any explanation, they asked me several questions; and I had to ask the officers multiple times why I had been stopped. eventually, they explained that I fit the description of a reported mugger who was active in that area of West Philly: male, near 6 feet tall, late 20s/early 30s, appearing light-skinned, possibly African-American, Hispanic or Arab, with some facial hair and wearing a grey knit hat. This profile seemed really general. So I asked the police whether they were stopping every person who fit that description. In reply, one officer said the color of my bike (pink) seemed strange for a guy. “Is that your bike?” he asked. I stood there feeling angry, embarrassed, indignant and — most of all — fearful of what the police would do next. meanwhile, person after person — several of whom fit the assailant’s profile — went passing by. I produced a ticket stub for a movie that ran during the reported time of the mugging, and which I had picked up at will-call. but this seemed to be immediately and completely dismissed as a viable alibi. It may be that you’ve never gone through something

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BRUTAL FORCE: askia Sabur was beaten by a police officer in West Philadelphia after a dispute over loitering. Sabur was charged with assault, but a jury later acquitted him.

Findings from its december 2003 report were disturbing. Nearly half of all officers who “clearly warranted formal discipline” after having allegations sustained by Internal Affairs between January 2000 and may 2002 “received none.” When sanctions were imposed, they were often “astonishingly lenient.” The office’s director, ellen Greenceisler, wrote that an “incestuous” relationship between officers and higher-ups made effective discipline impossible, and called for an independent disciplinary body. In response, then Police commissioner Sylvester Johnson called her findings “false” and “disgraceful,” and mayor John Street accused her of harboring “political” motivations. The office became defunct after Greenceisler left in 2005. (She is now a court of common Pleas judge). Nothing much has changed since. The city’s Police Advisory commission (PAc), operational in 1993, remains underfunded and understaffed. “We still need to have some better ability to analyze the patterns, where they’re occurring, and which officers are involved in it, and things of that nature — and we’re struggling to do that with our meager resources,” says Kelvyn Anderson, the PAc executive director

like this yourself. Or, maybe this experience seems like just an annoying but otherwise harmless instance of “bad policing.” And, perhaps my experience doesn’t seem all that related to the recent media focus on black people dying by lethal police force. but consider this: In my 12 years in Philadelphia, I’ve personally dealt with more experiences of police negligence and abuse than I can count. On more than one occasion, I have sincerely and legitimately feared for my life at the hands of police. And, I have seen this happen disproportionately to other people of color as well, on a regular basis. I’ve never shared my experience of police harassment in a public forum before now. I didn’t think it was worth the potential blowback. I had burned out on people with different experiences being critical or unconvinced. I got tired of my own terrifying trials becoming random, exciting stories for other people, with no room to understand the actual impact. So here I am going out on a limb. I am speaking out here and now for a very specific reason. In the shadow of the recent grand jury verdicts on use of lethal force by police, if you still have doubt that there is a deep-seated problem in how our nation’s police

and a former journalist. The PAc employs two investigators to probe individual complaints and systemic problems in a police force of more than 6,600. That is far smaller than New York’s office, which employs 164, according the PAc’s recently released annual report. Legislation introduced by councilman curtis Jones would increase funding and make the PAc a permanent fixture of Philadelphia life. The commission currently exists only by virtue of an executive order that a future mayor could easily overturn. This modest proposal to boost oversight has been met by resistance from the FOP, as expected, and, more surprisingly, from mayor Nutter, a onetime critic of excessive force when he was on city council. It’s unclear if recent events have changed his mind. “We will offer testimony on the bill if and when it comes up for hearing in city council,” emailed spokesperson mark mcdonald. In 2013, I reported on Officer eric burke, whose thick file of civilian complaints and lawsuits includes two separate occasions when he was accused of stomping on civilians’ heads. multiple civilian witnesses corroborated one of those incidents, in Kensington in 2010. “He immediately slammed me to the ground, put his boot against my head and said, ‘You tell me what you’re doing here or I’m going to kick your fucking head in,’” said the victim, a psychologist from the suburbs who was accused of being in the neighborhood to purchase drugs. “And then … he began stomping my head with his boot.” Internal Affairs found that Officer burke had

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forces function, you need to listen openly to the stories of the people who are being most affected. And, if it’s difficult to see how racism is not just particular individuals doing bad things, but endemic to our society and therefore a fundamental part of how our nation is policed — you must look deeper. Police abuse and brutality is not just a matter of isolated incidents. It is an actual part of everyday life for millions of people in the United States. This is not an opinion. This is not a misunderstanding. This is not a political view. This is a fact. As for my latest experience: eventually, I was released by the police. There was no explanation for why it took so long for them to do so. There was no apology for wasting my time. On its face, it might seem like just an aggravation. In reality, experiences like these shape the character of many people’s everyday lives — mine included. So, the next time you hear an account of police abuse, listen. And when you see police detaining someone on the street, stop, open your eyes and truly witness it. (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ Corey Mark is a musician who lives and works in Philadelphia.

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President Obama’s selection of Philadelphia Police commissioner charles ramsey to co-chair a Task­ Force on 21st century Policing has been criticized by the Partnership for civil Justice Fund, which condemned him for having “a record mark­ed by excessive force, false arrests and complete disregard for constitutional rights.” “If the president’s idea of reforming policing practices includes mass false arrests, brutality and the eviscerating of civil rights, then ramsey’s his man. That’s charles ramsey’s legacy in d.c.,” mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the public-interest law firm told the left-wing news site Alternet. She called on the president to rescind ramsey’s appointment. Her criticism was pick­ed up in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Democracy Now! and the Philadelphia Daily News. The Partnership’s problems with ramsey stem from his tenure as chief of Washington’s metropolitan Police department. From 1998 to 2006, he presided over the policing of numerous mass demonstrations and, by any fair account, wantonly violated protesters’ civil rights. The most glaring instances occurred in 2000 and 2002, when police under ramsey’s watch wrongly arrested hundreds of protesters in demonstrations surrounding World bank­ and International monetary Fund meetings. class-action lawsuits filed by the d.c.-based Partnership stemming from the mass arrests led to settlements of about $22 million, according to the Washington Post. The judge presiding over one of the settlements credited the lawsuit for having spark­ed a 2004 d.c. law that “set out policies for police to follow at demonstrations, including a prohibition against encircling protesters without probable cause to arrest them.” but civil rights advocates in Philadelphia, who mak­e a career of criticizing and suing the Philadelphia Police department, paint a far rosier pic-

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ture of ramsey. No doubt, he has presided over brok­en-windows policing in some districts, which targets residents for the lowest-level crimes.And the number of people stopped and frisk­ed under his watch has remained incredibly high. He also joined mayor michael Nutter and district Attorney Seth Williams in unsuccessfully opposing marijuana decriminalization. but he has instituted important changes to interrogation and witness-identification practices developed alongside the Pennsylvania Innocence Project and the American civil Liberties Union. As a result, he won the Pennsylvania Innocence Project’s Hero of Justice Award. “my experience with ramsey has been as police commissioner here,” says leading Philadelphia civil rights lawyer david rudovsk­y, “and he has been an advocate of some significant reforms in criminal justice, including the videotaping of interrogations and the adoption of best practices for witness-identification procedures.” rudovsk­y also pointed out that police shootings declined after ramsey instituted new training and brought in the department of Justice to conduct a review. He emphasizes, though, it is still far too early to k­now if the downturn is meaningful or a temporary fluctuation. And the Police Advisory commission (PAc) says that the Police department has refused requests to turn over completed investigations of all policefirearm discharges, mak­ing it impossible for the commission to review the incidents. PAc executive director Kelvyn Anderson says, “We still don’t k­now why the officers tak­e those actions, we don’t k­now who those officers are and a lot of other important metrics we should have available to us.” Last week­, ramsey launched a pilot program to outfit a small number of police with body cameras, which could reduce both use-of-force and civilian complaints. Ultimately, he hopes to expand the program to the entire department. city police, however, have recently come under heavy criticism for arresting people recording them in action, despite a September 2011 memo from ramsey instructing officers that individuals have a First Amendment right to do so. The arrests have prompted four separate lawsuits. “I don’t think­ he’s a bad choice” for the new task­ force, says Larry Krasner, one of the city’s top civil rights lawyers. “I think­ he has been pretty vigorous in pursuing integrity issues and misconduct issues and to some extent also issues of excessive force and violence within the Police department. There is still plenty of the rizzo-era mentality, that the police are the biggest gang within the city, within the department. And he does not stand with that.” Krasner, who has represented Occupy protesters, also credited ramsey for dealing calmly with local demonstrators. “Honestly, when he came here a lot of us were really k­ind of worried,” Krasner says. “And I think­ the truth is that experience [of facing a back­lash against heavy-handed protest policing in d.c.] may have changed him.” (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net, @DanielDenvir)

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committed the assault. but the Police board of Inquiry, the panel which metes out discipline to officers, issued him a mere reprimand. “The whole supervisory function, it’s not work­ing,” John rightmyer, a lawyer who represented another of burk­e’s alleged victims, told City Paper. “I don’t think­ anyone goes into the academy wanting to beat the crap out of people … [but] they start to learn that you can do certain things and it doesn’t matter. Nothing really bad is going to happen to you.” rightmyer complained that “the FOP k­ind of runs the show.” between 2009 and 2013, there were 3,773 Internal Affairs complaints filed against officers, according to the Police Advisory commission. Physical abuse has been the top complaint. but Internal Affairs sustained only 14 percent of all complaints. On the rare occasion when tough discipline is imposed, it is often overturned by arbitrators in a system that critics, including Police commissioner ramsey, say favors members of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5. PAc records show that of the 26 dismissal appeals ruled on by arbitrators between 2008 and 2013, 19 resulted in an officer being reinstated. “It’s very hard to maintain discipline in a police department, especially when at every turn you have cases that wind up getting overturned, people brought back­, and in many cases for some very, very serious allegations,” ramsey told Nbc 10 last year. Anderson credits ramsey with increasing the staffing of Internal Affairs, which should allow for quick­er and more thorough investigations, and other reforms. [see “civil rights Advocates debate ramsey’s Performance.”] but strict discipline is elusive. The FOP defends the arbitration process as an essential protection of due process for officers. but some decisions are unfathomable. Tak­e one 2007 case, when ramsey fired Officer michael Paige after a man accused Paige of forcing him to perform oral sex in his squad car. Paige was found not guilty at trial

and, back­ed by the FOP, won reinstatement from an arbitrator who, according to the PAc, ruled that the sex was consensual. “Have consensual sex at home, don’t have consensual sex in my car!” ramsey fumed to the Daily News after the officer’s 2009 reinstatement. A more polite, more honest and less abusive police force would still not solve the larger problem facing low-income black­ people: mass incarceration. many hoped that Seth Williams, elected the city’s first black­ district attorney in 2009, would inaugurate a progressive “smart on crime” era of law enforcement. He would, it was believed, supplant the narrow perspective of long-serving predecessor Lynne Abraham, a law-and-order dA who attack­ed judges who had the gall to doubt police testimony. but disillusionment with Williams has set in, in part because he has aggressively fought the Pennsylvania Innocence Project’s efforts to free wrongfully convicted prisoners. And he has aggressively prosecuted the drug war, back­ing a narcotics officer who admitted to lying under oath, unsuccessfully opposing city legislation to decriminalize marijuana and publicly defending a massive civil-assetforfeiture program that allows law enforcement to seize property, including the homes of people allegedly connected to a crime, even if there is no conviction. The program, detailed by reporter Isaiah Thompson in City Paper in a 2012 investigation, is now the subject of a federal lawsuit and has become a national emblem of the war-on-drug’s failure. For good police, excessive enforcement mak­es their job harder. One officer, who spok­e on the condition of anonymity, put it bluntly: “I fuck­ing hate the drug war.” It is not a matter of individual cops being “a bunch of white racists,” he argues, but rather that mandatory minimum sentences and other such “policies are racist.” combined with poverty and underfunded schools, the drug

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So the Bible tells us, but you wouldn’t know it to look at the history of American plays, whose writers seem to dwell in stygian gloom, often cloaking their plays in cynical hopelessness. Happily, John Patrick Shanley missed the memo — I can’t think of a more openhearted playwright. I don’t think it’s giving anything away to say that Outside Mullingar, beautifully done at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, is heartwarming. Fans of Shanley’s breakthrough film script for Moonstruck (I’m one) will find much that is familiar here. The location is different — here we’re in an Irish country town — but the central idea is strikingly similar. Anthony and Rosemary, middle-aged neighbors, both a bit lost and broken, haltingly try to connect, while a pair of elders (his father, her mother) observe with a salty sense of wisdom. But rest assured that Outside Mullingar is not simply another trip to the well. Setting, character and language are distinctive. Shanley, one of our most poetic playwrights, is in top form here in terms of providing flavorful dialogue. This is not a big play — it’s more gossamer-fragile. But it’s lyrical, lovely and altogether winning. I do think there could be a bit more cloud-cover in this mostly excellent production. Moments of quiet seriousness could be deeper. But much of it is first-rate, including fine performances across the board, and a superlative one by Anthony Lawton, who manages to make every nuance look easy. It’s also handsomely staged by director Mary B. Robinson. My British partner, who attended with me, nodded approvingly at seeing a three-pronged plug for the tea kettle. God is in the details — and here, they shine. (d_fox@citypaper.net) ✚ Through Dec. 28, $52, Philadelphia Theatre Co. at the

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STAY SIC: The members of Dixy Blood are all alums of O.G. Philly punk band Sic Kidz.

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Sic and TwiSTed A pack of old-school Philly punk Kidz take a wild turn into hillbilly country. By A.D. Amorosi

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he first-gen Philly punks in dixy blood could’ve kept on doing the punk thing. It’s what they know best. It’s what they’re known for. Their surprising zig into country and honky-tonk comes down to one man’s obsession and his pals’ willingness to play along. Separately, clarence “mick” cancer (the obsessed one), rich “Lustre” cohen, Gloria “betty Loo Gee” Goodrich and Joe “moe Jo” Ankenbrand are a murder’s row of musicians who played in bands like Pink Slip daddy and das Yahoo. Together, they share one credit, the bugged-out, cramps-like rockabilly of Sic Kidz, founded in 1978. cohen and cancer are original Sic Kidz. That band broke up in 1985 and re-formed in 2000 with bassist Goodrich (from meth 25), and on-and-off drummer Ankenbrand. “I’ve known clarence and moe Jo over 35 years,” says “string thing” instrumentalist cohen. “besides the 15 years when clarence and I wouldn’t speak — typical band shit — we’ve been brothers.” (Push cohen to discuss their decade-plus argument and he won’t budge. Neither will cancer.) “moe Jo loves his dixy blood companions,” says Ankenbrand (known for drumming with bunnydrums, Autistics and Jukebox

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Zeroes) with an odd, third-person grunt. “dixy blood is an extremely simpatico group,” says singer/lyricist cancer. “Our interaction is unlike any other I’ve ever experienced. dixy blood’s a real family, a true family.” “Our chemistry and creativity keep us evolving,” offers Goodrich. Their evolution into twangy country, Southern murder ballads and hillbilly honky-tonk stems, somehow, from the 2009 death of cramps’ Lux Interior. A friend to cancer and an influence on Sic Kidz, Interior had no overt connections to country music. dixy blood’s inspiration was more philosophical. “We felt compelled to pay tribute [to Interior] with a show whose lineup offered intriguing possibilities towards where I was going,” says cancer, who immersed himself in old country recordings. “I locked myself in a dark room for like a year swallowing the genre whole,” he says. “clarence said he wanted to start a country band,” says cohen. “I didn’t think there was any way my style of playing would fit his concept. I should’ve known better. The songs clarence came up with were mind-blowing. Then again, the same thing happened when he asked me to join Sic Kidz. He had great, obscure songs he wanted to cover, as well as clever, funny lyrics for original songs.” cohen realized he didn’t need to sound “country” to make dixy

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Exodus: Gods and Kings

: New exodus: gods aNd KiNgs | cI have no idea whether or not ridley Scott is a religious man. After spending two and a half hours watching him lavishly retell one of the bible’s most vivid stories, that’s kind of a problem. After all, there was never any doubt that cecil b. demille skimmed his Good book to get to the bits with flesh and spectacle. but Scott’s version of moses’ showdown with the pharaoh is less crowd-pleasing than massappeasing, hedging its bets on the miraculous. christian bale’s moses may or may not be hallucinating the stubborn-child God who orders him to free his people from 400 years of slavery — the patriarch does have a penchant for slamming his head into unyielding surfaces and is often spied angrily talking to himself by righthand man Joshua (a near-silent waste of Aaron Paul’s frenetic energy, putting him in the company of the barely there Sigourney Weaver and ben Kingsley). moses’ guidance through the desert might be sheer blind luck, the parting of the red Sea could be chalked up to currents, and the plagues that afflict egypt are caused by a carefully drawn 18 | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |

chain of plausible events, beginning with a visceral crocodile attack that turns out to be this would-be epic’s most thrilling moment. Then Scott gets to the ultimate plague, the death of the firstborn, and realizing that he has no rational explanation just sends a shadow to do the dirty work. That lack of inspiration pervades the film, as the director seems torn between the daunting prospect of recreating oft-filmed moments and the demands of an effects-craving blockbuster audience. The result is a dull paralysis, throwing up a shrug to heaven that should prove unsatisfying to the faithful and the nonbelieving alike.—Shaun Brady (wide release)

wild | b+ Like Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-marc Vallée’s adaptation of cheryl Strayed’s peripatetic memoir is the best kind of hackwork: utterly impersonal, but clean and professional, and home to one of reese Witherspoon’s better recent turns. (Think of Vallée as an Oscar delivery system.) As a woman both fleeing and confronting her demons by solo hiking the Pacific crest Trail, Witherspoon gives cheryl a commendable prickliness that filters into the performance; she

doesn’t want to be loved, or even known, which makes her all the more engrossing. —Sam Adams (Ritz East)

: coNtiNuiNg tHe BaBadooK | aThere is no fear like a child’s, and though the protagonist of Jennifer Kent’s astonishing first feature is a grown woman, the monster that invades her house through the mind of her 5-year-old son brings with it the kind of terror that can’t be banished with logic or a splash of holy water. The Babadook — a name that only sounds silly until you’ve heard it croaked in a voice like the cracking of a tomb — first comes to Amelia (essie davis) and Sam (Noah Wiseman) in the pages of a children’s book whose illustrations combine the Victorian dread of edward Gorey with the jagged edges of a crude charcoal smear. At first, the boy’s insistence that the creature is real, and inside their house, is just one more thing pushing his mother toward the brink of mental collapse: She’s been widowed since his birth — the boy’s father died driving her to the maternity ward — and his insistence on bringing homemade anti-monster weapons to

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school constantly lands him in trouble, to the point where even a mild whine makes her apoplectic. but the babadook starts to make his way into her mind as well, embodying her grief over her husband’s death, and her irrational, unexpressable anger at her son for causing it. We become terrified for Amelia, and of her. Kent, who quotes maria bava and George méliès alongside Skippy the bush Kangaroo, goes back to cinema’s earliest monsters, using jerky stopmotion rather than slick cGI; as the babadook moves towards Amelia at 12 frames a second, your mind fills in the gaps with the stuff of nightmares. davis’ performance, with its shades of catherine deneuve in Polanski’s Repulsion, is a tour de force, and Wiseman captures both the innocence and aggravation of a child’s attachment to imaginary worlds. but good as both are, the real star is Kent, who made a masterpiece her first time out.—SA (The Roxy)

citizeNfour | aThe scariest thing this Halloween was a wide-eyed 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. We should be afraid, and Poitras’ essential film reminds us why. —SA (Ritz at the Bourse)

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 (mark ruffalo) 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, self-lacerating 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. 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)

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 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

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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 closequarters 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. — Drew Lazor (Wide release)

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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 harddriving but directionless petty criminal in L.A., Louis bloom is relentless without having anything to 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 straight-up 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)

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12.11 thursday [ rock/pop ]

Modern BaseBall $15 | Thu., Dec. 11, 7 p.m., with Knuckle Puck, Somos, Crying and Foxing, TLA, 334 South St., 215922-1011, lnphilly.com. A quick round of applause for these sweet kids as they return home in the midst of a giant headlining tour; last I heard, the modern baseball boys were set 20 | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |

on resuming their college educations at drexel and chestnut Hill this fall. but I guess when your second record is as charming, poignant and successful as You’re Gonna Miss It All (run for cover records), you’d be touring your ass off, too. —Marc Snitzer

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$30-$35 | Thu., Dec. 11, 8 p.m., Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-627-1332, electricfactory.info. For nearly a decade, the Flossatradamus team — chicagobased dJs J2K (Josh Young) and Autobot (curt cameruci) — have been the beating electronic heart behind the new wave likes of The cool Kids, rapper Kid Sister (Young’s sis) and Iggy Azalea. Their own stirring singles and ePs just get better and bolder; check out the last 12 months’ worth of releases including “mosh Pit,” “TTU (Too Turnt Up)” and “rebound.” —A.D. Amorosi

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CyMBals eat Guitars $10-$12 | Thu., Dec. 11, 9 p.m., with Alex G and Belgrade, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com. When we last left cymbals eat Guitars, it was unclear whether they could escape the general indie rock buzz they rode in on in the late-’00s. Turns out they have. This year’s LOSE (barsuk) is a defiant, post-blog rock record, Joseph d’Agostino’s suburban New Jersey musings often coming off as challenging on multiple levels, as if he’s daring us to ask if his band is still a symptom of a passing trend. —Marc Snitzer

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MuMMensChanz $30-$75 | Thu.-Sun., Dec. 11-14, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St., 215898-3900, annenbergcenter.org. Looking for good cheer this

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holiday season? Head to mummenschanz, where you can laugh and be wowed by the sheer ingenuity of this Swiss troupe that uses only shadow, light and simple props to create extraordinary experiences. There are no words and no music, just the performers and artful manipulation of everyday things. certain segments are whimsically abstract while others present metaphorical insights into the human condition. It’s an imaginative presentation that works on several levels to enchant young and old alike. —Deni Kasrel

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Joe louis Walker $15 | Fri.-Sat., Dec. 12-13, 7:30 and 10 p.m., Warmdaddy’s, 1400

S. Columbus Blvd., 215-462-2000, warmdaddys.com. Guitarist Walker isn’t a new school bluesman tossing metal, psychedelic soul or hillbilly punk into his mix. He’s a downin-the-dirt blues slinger conjuring the hard magic of muddy Waters and b.b. King and the razor-sharp gutsiness of Albert King in his fingerings (and covers of those legends’ gutbucket classics). That doesn’t mean Walker can’t write his own bad blues stories, which he does with relish on his recently released Hornet’s Nest (Alligator records). —A.D. Amorosi

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Junk’s 1.1 holiday revue sPeCial $17.50-$25 | Dec. 12-Jan. 3, 2040 Christian St., 267-269-6945, briansandersjunk.com. While brian Sanders’ JUNK is best known for raucously fun dance-theater shows like

Sanctuary, Urban Scuba and Patio Plastico, the Philadelphia-based company also tours its kid-friendly SKINK and holiday themed SNOWBALL this time of year. The company’s weekends-only holiday show at its playroomgym-circus headquarters showcases JUNK’s unique delights in 1.1 hours (hence, the title). —Mark Cofta

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rennie harris and MiChael sakaMoto $25-$30 | Fri.-Sat., Dec. 12-13, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org. Two distinct dance forms — American hip-hop and Japanese butoh — commingle when rennie Harris and michael Sakamoto present Flash. conceived as a “conversation,” the 45-minute show presents a mash-up of locking, popping, contorted movement and

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Marco Benevenuto $15-$28 | Fri.-Sat., Dec. 12-13, 9:15 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com. Known as art rock/jam band music’s best friend, multi-instrumentalist marco benevenuto goes the dance-pop route on his new album, Swift. He does it not with glossy dr. Luke production and Auto-Tune vocals, but rather a frug-worthy, ’60s soul sound, Tom Waits’ drummer Andy borger and a couple of Ween alums (bassist dave dreiwitz and lyricist Aaron Freeman, aka Gene Ween). Plus, for the first-time on record, benevenuto sings. —A.D. Amorosi

[ metal/post-rock ]

russian circles $15 | Fri., Dec. 12, 8 p.m., with Mutoid Man, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org. chicago instrumentalists russian circles made their latest release, Memorial (Sargent House), with Pink Floyd’s Animals in mind. did you know that? I didn’t until the Internet

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told me. You can’t really tell either way and that’s probably a good thing. Like everything else in their discography, Memorial is far too languidly oppressive to recall any other source text than russian circles, a dystopian array of densely layered guitars and cymbal crashes. —Marc Snitzer

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[ folk/pop/country ]

Honky tonk Holly-Dei $20 | Sat., Dec. 13, 5-11 p.m., Old Swedes Church, 916 S. Swanson St., sextonsideshow.org. Suffering from festival withdrawal or holiday overload? How does six hours of the finest local bands wrapping themselves around the Honky Tonk Holly-dei theme sound? dei is a nod to the event’s locale, Gloria dei (Old Swede’s) church. come early for dinner and beer, included in the bargain ticket price so you could pop in for only a while and still feel like you got your money’s worth. That said, the tempta-

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simply shabu | 1023 Cherry St., 267-273-0354, simplyshabu.com. Sun.-Thurs., 5 -10 p.m.; Fri., 5-11 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and 5 p.m.-11 p.m. $2.50-$26. ➤ Fried toFu skin. Cellophane noodles. Fu

zhou fish balls. Dungeness crab. Pork blood. The a la carte menu at Simply Shabu paralyzed me with choices, over 50 of them, all yearning to be delivered to my table raw and bathed in simmering, shimmering broth at this slick new hot pot spot from a 26-year-old Taiwanese-American ex-banker. Dennis Tuan is a great example of the young entrepreneurs giving Chinatown a new energy. He opened Simply Shabu nearly a year ago, filling a long, narrow space with barnwood walls and a big U-shaped bar.Arranged along a pew-like banquette, each table is equipped with an induction burner to heat a sloshing tureen of fragrant broth. New to shabu shabu? Choose from five broths, pick your items — or just order a combo — and start adding the latter to the former. In a few minutes, the raw proteins and vegetables are cooked, fondue-style, and ready to consume. After putting away a dish of addictively spicysweet pickles and two orders of golden-fried dumplings — come for the shabu shabu but don’t miss these — I tested a split pot of Tuan’s house broth — a honey blond elixir made with three parts pork bones and one part chicken bones — and the kimchi broth — a vegetable base fortified with housemade kimchi. Both could have used some salt, and at first taste, the kimchi version lacked heat. But as the broth began to bubble, petals of the fermented cabbage began floating to the surface, the chile marinade stoking a pleasant fire. In went the outsourced cuttlefish balls (bouncy) and beef tendon balls (umami-rich and faintly sweet). In went the mushroom medley: creminis, shiitake caps, enoki and — the hit of the night — meaty oysters. That was just round one. My warm but harried server swiftly arrived with more shabu shabu additions: thin ribbons of chicken and beef, pork belly, bok choy, tofu, surf clam. As each item cooked, I plucked it from the broth, dipped it in a mix of chile oil, garlic, scallions and black vinegar I created at the D.I.Y.“sauce bar,” and ate.The family next to my table openly stared, their eyes getting wider when dessert, a giant bowl of shave ice crowned with mango, peanuts and condensed milk, arrived. Not too shabu. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

TO MARKET: Maglio’s aims to bring the best of the Italian Market under one roof. Maria pOuchniKOva

[ market watch ]

The MarkeT, The MeaTball and The MobsTer Sinatra, sausage and a bit of serendipity come together at the newly opened Market at Maglio’s. By A.D. Amorosi the MarKet at MaGliO’S | 3632 S. Third St., 215-465-3902,

magliofoods.com. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-6 p.m; Sat., 9 a.m.-5 p.m; Sun., 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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n the morning after the market at maglio’s opened on Third Street below Pattison, it’s business as usual — a routine started when the Philly meat-men moved here in 1978 from Sixth and dickinson. Shop owners and sandwich-makers back trucks onto the maglio Sausage co. loading dock to get their daily order of the family’s famed product. Only now after the opening last week, they can grab a hot sausage-and-peppers sandwich along with other Italian specialties. This South Philly plant always had walk-in trade for its spiceblended links and aged provolones, but with neighborhood elders getting older and little word-of-mouth spreading to hipster inhabitants, co-owners Anthony maglio Jr. and Jerry mcNelis

(Anthony’s nephew) thought change was necessary. “The younger generation didn’t realize we were here, like they know Ninth Street,” says maglio Jr. So, they carved out 1,500-square-foot of airy, open space for the market at maglio’s, a spot for local gourmands “looking for uptown quality at downtown prices,” says Anthony L. maglio, maglio Jr.’s cousin and another co-owner.. The Italian specialty salon offers Philadelphia-based brands such as cento tomato products, fresh breads from cacia’s bakery, olives and pasta from Severino and citterio cured meats. “can’t call ’em salaaaamis anymore,” says Joey “Squirrel” carasquillo, a market manager, with a laugh and a shrug. Of course, in the center is a maglio’s section stacked with sausages, aged cheese wheels and sauteed broccoli rabe. Along with a dietz & Watson’s deli counter, there’s a sandwich station with menu items like the “Jerry Harp” (a bologna and American cheese combo named for mcNelis) and “The Goon,” ( a more traditionally Italian duo of sharp provolone and prosciutto) named for the late Anthony maglio Sr., a butcher, one-time boxer, Palumbo’s bouncer and “genuine tough guy,” according to his son. The market at maglio’s also has a prepared-foods station with sausage-and-peppers, eggplant and chicken Parms, sweet and spicy sausage, strombolis and meatballs packed and ready to go for sta-

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dium tailgaters and nine-to-fivers lacking time or motivation to cook for themselves. “The days of Anthony’s mom, God rest her soul, and my mom, where the wife stayed home cooking, are gone,” says Angelo Lutz, a maglio Jr. childhood pal turned business associate. “This generation wants grab-and-go, so maglio’s market is here, not reinventing the provolone wheel, but refining it.” He snickers, then continues his rat-a-tat-tat chatter. “Once we get ’em here, we wow ’em with everything the Italian market on Ninth Street has, save for the trouble with parking.” maglio Jr. holds his head and laughs at Lutz’s comments. “To some, Italian food is throwing frozen meatballs in ragu,” snorts Lutz. “That’s why I’m doing marinara exclusive to the market at maglio’s, that and my signature sausage meatballs made with Ant’s [Anthony’s] sausage.” It’s important to explain Lutz’s connection to the maglios. Without it, you know nothing of their feeling of family, heritage and loyalty amidst the changing neighborhood around Pattison Avenue — “an empowerment zone” says Nick Triolo (a food-industry giant who came out of retirement to consult for his pals, the maglios, and help expand the market for their sausage meatball), with its to-come casino. The famously chatty Lutz was convicted of racketeering, gambling and extortion in a 2001 trial (where Joey merlino was sentenced to 14 years), receiving the same sentence as two “made” members of the merlino mob. Out of prison by 2008, Lutz only got more talkative when thenInquirer/Philly.com publisher brian Tierney gave him an online cooking show. One day while having lunch at mr. Joe’s café with reporter George Anastasia and radio host Steve martorano, Lutz says he had a brainstorm: “I could do this. People think this is gourmet — [in New York] rao’s charges $27 for pasta — but growing up, this was peasant food.” Lutz found a deal on a small restaurant once owned by Weber’s root beer in collingswood, N.J., (“only thing I knew about collingswood is that it was near the cherry Hill horse track,” and named it Kitchen consigliere café. His first hit was a happy accident with a helping hand from the maglios. “I had no money when I opened the café,” Lutz says matter-of-factly. “No one lends money to a felon. These guys here though,” Lutz says, pointing at the maglios, “they did, just like always. They believed in me when no one else did.” In Lutz’s early catering days, his old pal Anthony Jr. had his back. “We might not have seen each other every day, but we knew where to find each other,” says maglio Jr. continues Lutz, “When I started catering, I couldn’t buy big portions, so they made smaller packages for me. If I couldn’t pay upfront, I could sign for what I needed, and pay them when I got it. On the record, off the record, everybody knows about me. I messed up. but the maglios were always cool with me, never shut me out. A lot of guys 26 | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |

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“It’s not just pork ground and stuffed into casing, you know? They curate that sausage.”

Anthony Maglio Jr., Joey "Squirrel" Carasquillo, Angelo Lutz and Anthony L. Maglio

from South Philly turned their backs on me. That’s OK, ’cause Ant never did.” maglio Jr. says that Lutz was always a man of his word. “If he didn’t have the money and said he’d give it to you later, he did.” Fast forward to the Kitchen consigliere café’s opening and maglio’s was there, letting Lutz sign for the sausage, meats and cheese. “How could you not use their stuff? It’s all specially blended. It’s not just pork ground and stuffed into casing, you know? They curate that sausage. Their provolones? They’re the guys doing the aging. It’s their investment.” One day, Lutz received a delivery of 40 pounds of sausage, rather than his usual 20. With little refrigeration, he did the only thing a man could do: make a maglio sausage meatball. blending the sausage with bread crumbs, fresh parsley, cheese and egg, he paired it with polenta, bitter greens, a long hot, some provolone and created a sales monster. Lutz’s next brainstorm? marketing that sausage meatball beyond his café and maglio’s market. While the Lutz/maglio meatball partnership is part of the array of specialty prepared goods at the market, it will also sell through Lutz’s new deal with QVc, marketing food items inspired by his Italian bYOb, such as a specialty prime rib cut that he premiered on dec. 5. “This sausage meatball is gonna be mine and Ant’s Facebook,” says Lutz. both men dedicate the spirit of what they’re doing with their meatballs and at the market at maglio’s to their parents: Lutz to his mom, Helen, (a daughter of the Giunta brothers family of Italian food importers), who died while he was in prison, as well as to maglio Jr.’s dad. “When I went bad, his father would grab me, talk to me, but always stand for me,” Lutz says. maglio Jr. says his dad would love the new market. A pal of Frank Sinatra’s (the old man used to send Ol’ blue eyes sausage and deli platters), master butcher and literal taste-maker, maglio Sr. opened his original butcher shop at 18th and moore in 1947 and made his son learn every aspect of the business. “I swept driveways, cleaned bone marrow, stuffed sausage into casings and learned how to make everything spotless,” recalls maglio Jr. with a chuckle. “There’s not a speck of dirt to be found here. my dad would love our new place.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

let’sgetiton Rachel Kramer Bussel on sex of all stripes.

No caNiNg please, we’re British ➤ Feminist pornographer petra Joy has

been making X-rated films for a decade, but new online porn regulations in the United Kingdom, which went into effect on dec. 1, are already hurting her business. She’s shelved the launch of her streaming service in light of the new regs, which ban online hosting of everything from caning, spanking and bondage to fisting and face-sitting. Verbal abuse is also a no-go, even if it’s consensual. What’s most galling to Joy? Giving female ejaculation the same status as urine, which, as Joy explains it, can be shown but it cannot touch another person or be consumed. male ejaculation is treated differently, and Joy says these rules offer a disturbing double standard. “Why can we have bukkake parties where 20 men jizz into the mouth of a woman and she has to swallow it all, but if a guy wanted to drink a drop of female ejaculate he can’t? basically what they’re saying with this law is that female ejaculation doesn’t exist.” Joy calls it all a “double whammy” because, as a feminist filmmaker, she’s already battled the mainstream porn industry. She cites a scene she created in the film Female Fantasies, in which a woman wearing a strap-on enters a men’s bathroom and gets a blowjob from a man. “It won a Feminist Porn Award, but one of the biggest porn-distribution companies in europe, [which will show] women receiving triple anal, [refused to] distribute the film with this scene because it’s ‘dirty.’ (Joy cut the scene, but released a director’s cut that includes it.) “It was because it was a dominant woman doing it. That’s why the web is so important for feminist pornographers; you don’t rely on the distribution that is largely in male hands.” U.K. porn fans can still access porn with the acts cited above from non-U.K.-based sites, and it’s doubtful they’ll let these new regs dictate the material they watch. In fact, porn-sharing site PornHub reports “caning” is “200 percent more popular as a search term in the United Kingdom than in the rest of the world.” Joy’s adamant that protecting “children” from explicit images, the purported reason for these rules, will never happen via wholesale censorship. “The answer is education, to talk with kids about porn, sex, boundaries and consent. These films won’t go away and whoever wants to find them will find them,” she says. Furthermore, this kind of censorship assumes a misguided, out-of-sight, out-of-mind outcome, when the opposite is likely the case. “I bet a lot of U.K. youngsters have never

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heard of fisting or squirting before, but now that it’s outlawed, they’ll [enter it in] search engines and find it from producers abroad. Now that it’s forbidden, it’s going to be so much more desirable,” Joy predicts. A protest is scheduled forFriday outside the House of Parliament, which Joy plans to document, and an online petition (epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/72693) has been started, with 2,803 signatures as of monday. Joy likens what’s happening to a “witch hunt,” saying the laws will particularly affect creators of feminist, bdSm and gay and lesbian porn. “You can’t think … that the current british government has the interests of women in mind,” she says. “They clearly don’t.” American readers who think that what happens in the U.K. doesn’t affect them need to think again: This is part of a larger problem of government judging what’s sexually acceptable for others. After all, our obscenity law is predicated on “contemporary community standards,” which leaves plenty of wiggle room. There’s an inherent judgment call in these new rules, such as one against “aggressive” whipping. Who gets to decide? by saying these acts aren’t acceptable to show on film, the british government is attempting to impose its views about sex on its citizens. That should be disturbing wherever you live, and whether or not you like to watch porn. ✚ Rachel Kramer Bussel is the editor of over 50 erotica anthologies. She tweets @raquelita.

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to place your free ad (100 word limit) ➤ email lovehate@citypaper.net FRIENDS I am sure that you know that I like you. How much? I cannot measure the distance between my hands because it’s so large and heavy. I am comsumed by the thought of you. I shake,perspire, studder, and never say what I really want to say when talking to you. The fantasy you in my head is so perfect but I will take your every flaw in real life if I wasn’t so shy and it wasn’t just my own impulses. Some older woman at work said you were kinda cute. cute is for babies and puppies. Attractive, handsome,sexy in my eyes. When did this happen? Slowly maybe a few years back, maybe more. It really sucks to be friends now because I don’t know how. but I am making the effort. No matter how much it hurts me.

the courage, I would call you this very moment and tell you how all the while I had a boyfriend. I will do nothing to alleviate your guilt but this anonymous admission is enough for me. Wishing you the best of luck this time around. Some people never change and I urge you to consider all the ways in which this applies to your life.

LATE ON WATER BILL The city of Phila has more fucking ways to put its hands into our pockets. I got my water bill with a

both wanted to get together now, we can’t because of her. She’s my friend again, and I won’t betray her again. She said she would never be with my exes, and I have to grant her the same courtesy. It’s too bad because I really had it for you. but that’s what happens when you don’t get there first. That’s just the way this life has turned out. It can’t be.

MY OLDHEAD I see you in the morning and you and I always

and I wish that you would stop trying to be stubborn and just call me! I really miss talking to you and laughing with you about our good friend “K.” I wish that you would not be like that with me! Not me! I am your real friend. I hope that you are doing fine and I hope your dad is ok! Your sister don’t really care about that fat bitch but I hope that everything is alright. I really hope that you and I can really get passed whatever you are going through. I really miss our friendship and I wish that you would call me!

MY SATISFACTION Waking up, sweat on my sides, I felt comfortable, your breath was present but still, still your skin was apparent to me underneath the comforter, I felt I could not only unbutton but unbend with you. my stomach twist in knots from the trip to your apartment was worth it? However in jeopardy I felt sulking down shaded South Philly streets alone, with a backpack filled with riike, condoms, and pajamas. I wish you picked up the phone and said I was worth it! I wish you could acknowledge the time we spent together. I hope you’re okay, but most of all I want you to know that no matter what anyone says, you are the easiest person to be around and I have never felt more at ease with your hand in mine.

HERE WE GO I saw you the other day and I couldn’t believe that you were so nonchalant about the whole situation of you and I. I really wanted to be with you but I don’t understand what this is about. When you like someone you go and make it so that person is happy, you told me that I was making you feel less of a man. You felt less of a man because you needed to get your shit together. This doesn’t make any sense. What am I supposed to do now about us. Is there an us?

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Oh you dirty dog...at least that is what you used to call me in a playful way! I want to come down there and ride that dick...if you send me another dick shot I will get on a plane and do the dam thing with you! I really don’t care about your wife...all I care about is the sex...what are you going to do for me when you come up here..I can’t wait until you and I are combining as one! You are the only one that I ever dreamed about! I love you Andre!

You are far away from me right now but you and I will be together soon! I can’t wait to fill you in with things that are going on in my life..I can’t wait until you are in the bed with me and we are sleeping, and you act like you are sleeping and then you wake me up and then we make love...I love to make love to you..it is really so much into it..I want you to stare into my eyes and tell me you love me over and over again. I enjoy the fact that you are able to make me cum over and over again! Not everyone can do that to me! Did you know that...as soon as we get to know each other again, everything should be alright! I love you more than life itself..nobody should come between us again! Nobody!

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IF YOU NeVer WOrKeD IN A reSTAUrANT... Don’t come in and seat yourselves- if there is a hostess stand, its there for a reason- for you to go up and let the host know how many are in your party and that you will need a table. Don’t be picky on where you are sitting because the host/hostess sat you there for a reason. They try to go in a rotation so that the servers all get to have a somewhat equal amount of tables. and if you ask for a booth and it’s in the middle of the day, not during a lunch or dinner rush, and the host/hostess tells you no because it’s for a reservation, they’re probably lying because you’re being a pain in the ass. If it is busy and there are only 2 people in your party, please don’t ask for a table that can hold up to 4 or more people. that’s just ignorant. If you are one of these people, PLeASe JUST STAY HOme. No one wants to serve people like you.

I want to thank you for what was the best birthday of my life. The gift that meant the most was time with you - time to talk, time to laugh, time to touch, time to be quiet, time to be us. That you gave me a day of my favorite things in that place that fills my soul with so much happiness with you who fills my heart with so much love was just great :-) I am missing you right now. even when I cannot see you, you are in my thoughts and in my heart, and I am a stronger happier fuller woman for your presence in my life....always know that the little ways you love me matter. every other beat belongs to you, and I love you.

late fee attached even though it was sent 5 days early, as I usually do. The city gave most of its workers off 4 days WITH pay during the recent snow and OF cOUrSe, all the work piled up. U’d think that someone in the joint would have turned off the “late fee generator” in the computer. but NOOOOO! Let the late fees roll! Philly is cash strapped. Are these clowns now being paid OT to catch up on the work?

flirted back and forth and I think that it is cute and I just wanted to say that I know your wife should be very happy when she comes home to you! I will always remember the morning when you said that I gave you a “bonner.” I thought that was the most funniest thing in the world and I can’t wait until the next morning to see you! You said to me that you were attracted to me and you know I am attracted to you! Well what is next...

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www.canalsliquors.com D O M E S T I C W I N E - 750ML 7 DEADLY ZINS $13.33 APOTHIC RED & WHITE $9.19 AVALON CALIF. CAB $9.09 BERINGER FOUNDERS ALL TYPES $7.19 CLOS DU BOIS CHARDONNAY $9.33 CONUNDRUM WHITE $17.99 CHATEAU STE. MICHELLE RIESLING $8.09 CHATEAU STE. MICHELLE CAB, MERLOT $13.09 COPPOLA DIAMOND CHARD, PINOT GRIGIO, SAUV BLANC $11.09 COPPOLA DIAMOND CAB , MERLOT $13.09 CLARET $14.09 COPPOLA PRESENTS ROSSO CLASSIC $8.09 CUPCAKE ALL TYPES $8.09 GNARLY HEAD ZINFANDEL $9.01 ESTANCIA CHARD $9.19 CAB $12.09 FAR NIENTE CHARD $44.09 FRANCISCAN CAB $19.09 HESS SELECT CHARD $10.99 CAB SAUV $15.98 J. LOHR CHARD $9.79 CAB SAUV $12.99 J. PHELPS INSIGNIA 2009 $159.00 2010 $179.09 KENDALL JACKSON CHARD $11.09 SAUV BLANC $8.39 KENDALL JACKSON PINOT NOIR, CAB, MERLOT $15.33 LA CREMA SONOMA CHARD $16.09 PINOT NOIR $16.99 SIMI PINOT NOIR $16.99 MARK WEST CALIF. PINOT NOIR $9.39 MEIOMI PINOT NOIR $19.99 SHAFER MERLOT $49.99 MONDAVI PRIVATE SELECTION ALL TYPES $8.49 RAVENSWOOD VINTNER’S ALL TYPES $8.01 RED DIAMOND CAB, MERLOT $8.19 RODNEY STRONG SONOMA CHARD $11.09 CAB $15.09 SEBASTIANI CHARD $11.39 CAB, PINOT NOIR $13.00 SILVER OAK ALEX. VALLEY CAB 2010 $65.00 SONOMA CUTRER SONOMA COAST CHARD $20.09 ST. FRANCIS CHARD $11.09 CAB $16.50 TOASTED HEAD CHARD $9.09 I M P O R T E D W I N E - 750ML ALAMOS MALBEC $7.29 DR. L RIESLING $8.99 BRANCOTT SAUV BLANC $11.09 NOBILO SAUV BLANC $9.09 DA VINCI PINOT GRIGIO, CHIANTI $9.19 ECCO DOMANI PINOT GRIGIO $8.19 GEORGES DUBOEUF BEAUJ. VILLAGES $9.09 KIM CRAWFORD SAUVIGNON BLANC $13.33 LOUIS JADOT BEAUJOLAIS VILLAGES $10.09 OYSTER BAY SAUVIGNON BLANC $10.09 RUFFINO CHIANTI RISERVA TAN $19.09 GOLD $29.99 SANTA MARGHERITA PINOT GRIGIO $20.09 ZACCAGNINI MONTEPULCIANO D’ABRUZZO $11.39 V A L U E S I Z E W I N E - 1.5LT OR LARGER BAREFOOT ALL TYPES $10.29

facebook/CanalsLiquors BERINGER WHITE ZIN $8.69 BOLLA ALL TYPES $12.69 CITRA ALL TYPES $9.49 CK MONDAVI ALL $10.29 CORBETT CANYON ALL TYPES $7.19 FETZER CAB, CHARD, MERLOT $10.39 FLIP FLOP ALL TYPES $9.09 REX GOLIATH ALL TYPES $9.09 RUFFINO LUMINA PINOT GRIGIO $12.19 SUTTER HOME ALL TYPES $8.99 WOODBRIDGE ALLTYPES $10.41 YELLOW TAIL ALL TYPES $11.09 CARLO ROSSI 4LT BURGUNDY, PAISANO, RHINE, CHABLIS, SANGRIA, CHIANTI, VIN ROSE, BLUSH $13.09 BLACK BOX 3LT BOX ALL TYPES $20.00 CHAMPAGNE&SPARKLING ACE OF SPADES BRUT $250.00 CRISTAL BRUT $219.99 DOM PERIGNON BRUT $144.09 LUC BELAIRE ROSE $25.99 COOK’S BRUT, DRY $6.09 KORBEL BRUT, DRY $11.09 M&R ASTI $11.09 CUPCAKE PROSECCO $9.99 RUFFINO PROSECCO $10.09 FREIXENET CORDON NEGRO BRUT, EXTRA DRY $9.09 LA MARCA PROSECCO $11.09 MOET & CHANDON BRUT $37.09 NECTAR IMP. ROSE $58.09 PERRIER JOUET GRAND BRUT $39.99 VEUVE CLICQUOT YELLOW LABEL BRUT $44.09 VODKA ABSOLUT 80, CITRON, MANDRIN 750ML $19.09 1.75LT $31.09 BELVEDERE 80 PROOF 750ML $27.09 1.75LT $44.09 BURNETT’S 80 1.75LT $15.09 FLAVORS 1.75LT $15.99 CIROC 80, PEACH, BERRY, COCO 750ML $29.09 1.75LT $56.09 CIROC PINEAPPLE 750ML $29.09 1.75LT $54.09 FINLANDIA 1.75LT $24.99 GREY GOOSE 80 750ML $27.49 1.75LT $55.09 KETEL ONE 80 1.75LT $39.00 LUKSUSOWA 1.75LT $21.09 NEW AMSTERDAM 80 1.75LT $19.09 PINNACLE 80 1.75LT $19.09 FLAVORS 750ML $11.99 SKYY 80 1.75LT $21.09 SMIRNOFF 80 1.75LT $18.79 FLAVORS 1.75LT $19.99 STOLI 80 1.75LT $29.09 FLAVORS 1.75LT $29.99 THREE OLIVES 80, CHERRY 1.75LT $24.09 TITO’S 1.75LT $29.09 GIN BEEFEATER 1.75LT $32.09 BOMBAY 1.75LT $31.09 BOMBAY SAPPHIRE 1.75LT $41.09 BURNETT’S 1.75LT $15.09 GORDON’S 1.75LT $19.09 HENDRICK’S 750ML $33.39 NEW AMSTERDAM 1.75LT $19.09

856.665.4202 TANQUERAY 1.75LT $37.09 TEQUILA 1800 SILVER, REPOSADO 750ML $25.09 DON JULIO SILVER 750ML $40.09 JOSE CUERVO GOLD, SILVER 750ML $17.09 1.75LT $32.09 PATRON SILVER 750ML $39.09 1.75LT $82.39 RUM BACARDI SILVER, GOLD 750ML $13.09 1.75LT $19.19 CAPTAIN MORGAN SPICED 1.75LT $27.09 MALIBU COCONUT 1.75LT $24.09 B O U R B O N , R Y E , & F L A V O R E D W H I S K E Y BULLEIT BOURBON 750ML $24.09 1.75LT $44.09 BULLEIT RYE 750ML $24.09 1.75LT $42.09 EVAN WILLIAMS 1.75LT $22.09 JIM BEAM 1.75LT $28.09 GENTLEMAN JACK 750ML $28.09 1.75LT $51.09 JACK DANIELS BLACK & HONEY $24.09 1.75LT $43.09 KNOB CREEK 750ML $30.09 1.75LT $54.09 MAKER’S MARK 750ML $27.09 1.75LT $49.09 WOODFORD RESERVE 750ML $30.09 FIREBALL CINNAMON WHISKEY 750ML $16.99 B L E N D S & C A N A D I A N BLACK VELVET 1.75LT $15.09 CANADIAN CLUB 1.75LT $19.09 CROWN ROYAL 750ML $25.09 1.75LT $46.09 SEAGRAM’S 7 CROWN 1.75LT $19.09 SEAGRAM’S V.O. 1.75LT $19.99 S C O T C H & I R I S H W H I S K E Y CHIVAS REGAL 12 YEAR 750ML $30.09 1.75LT $56.09 CLAN MCGREGOR 1.75LT $19.09 DEWAR’S 750ML $19.09 1.75LT $32.09 GLENLIVET 12 YEAR 750ML $38.09 1.75LT $72.09 INVERHOUSE 1.75LT $16.79 J&B 1.75LT $31.00 JOHNNIE WALKER RED 750ML $19.09 1.75LT $33.09 JOHNNIE WALKER BLACK 1.75LT $59.09 JOHNNIE WALKER BLUE 750ML $179.00 LAGAVULIN 16 YEAR 750ML $87.99 JAMESON 750ML $27.09 1.75LT $48.09 TULLAMORE DEW 750ML $24.49 1.75LT $44.09 BRANDY&COGNAC COURVOISIER VS 750ML $25.09 1.75LT $54.09 XO 750ML $99.99 HENNESSY VS 750ML $29.09 1.75LT $59.09 REMY MARTIN VSOP 750ML $37.09 XO 750ML $119.09 $1 OFF ANY 22oz or 750ML BEER BOTTLE WITH THIS AD No quantity limit. Cannot be combined with any other discounts or with items already on sale. $1 OFF GROWLER FILL-UPS WITH THIS AD. Expires 12/25/14 $1 OFF ANY 750ML RED BORDEAUX THIS AD No quantity limit. Cannot be combined with any other discounts or with items already on sale. Expires 12/25/14

OVER 1000 BEERS AT HIGHLY COMPETITIVE PRICES SOUTHERN TIER, TROEGS, FIRESTONE, CLOWN SHOES, STOUDTS, HARPOON, FEGLEY'S, FOUNDER'S, FLYING DOG, STONE, GOOSE ISLAND, WEYERBACHER, FLYING FISH, YARD'S, OMMEMANG, RIVER HORSE, VICTORY, DOGFISH HEAD, ALLAGASH, LOST ABBEY, BEAR REPUBLIC, JOLLY PUMPKIN, McNEILL'S, BROOKLYN, SLY FOX, KASTEEL, TERRAPIN, ANDERSON VALLEY, UINTA, NORTH COAST, TRAPPIST, CORSENDONK, CHIMAY, LINDEMAN, LAGUNITAS, WESTMALLE, ROGUE & MORE!!!

NEARLY EVERY BEER AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE BY THE BOTTLE +GROWLER STATION - 8 ROTATING SEASONAL & CRAFT BEERS ON TAP Some pricing only available while supplies last. We have made every effort to have enough inventory to last the whole sales period, but some items may not last at advertised price. EXPIRES 12/25/14. For up to date sales listings after 8/20, please visit www.canalsliquors.com.

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