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C olumnists from Columbus and New York City, the other cities said to be in the running to land the DNC, take potshots at Philly. Bell Curve invites Columbus and New York to kindly look at the scoreboard.

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The Center City Residents Association opts not to oppose the building of a $125 million boutique hotel at 17th and Chancellor, essentially signaling the end of Little Pete’s Diner. “Hey guys, we should totally all go back there sometime, for brunch, if we can all make it, if we can get a sitter, oh, but parking’s such a mess and Jaxon has soccer practice.”

[ + 1] Mo’ne Davis fools Kevin Hart with a cross-

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Forty-eight percent of Camden’s public school students who graduate do so via an appeals process, not by passing state tests.

“Hey, looks like you kids can turn something in on time,” says depressed teacher.

How police perjury is eroding the credibility of Philly’s drug war. By Daniel Denvir

S cheduled inspections of city-owned brid- ges are delayed due to bitter cold condi- tions. “Plus, way we look at it, ice is probably holding some of them things together.”

[ + 1] Philly comedian Kevin Hart will perform the first-ever comedy show at Lincoln Financial Field in August. Strangely, the announcement was made by a tiny little clown making a crybaby face.

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SLIPPERY SIX: The narcotics officers indicted in July for allegedly robbing suspected drug dealers and beating up some of them. Top row, from left, Thomas Liciardello, Brian Reynolds, Michael Spicer.

Bottom row, from left, Norman Linwood, Perry Betts, John Speiser.

Longtime Harrisburg activist Gene Stilp, best known for inflating a 25-foot pig at the Capitol in 2005, announces his retirement. “Ssssso ssssad,” said the obviously deflated pig.

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llegations of abuse, corruption and misconduct against Philadelphia Police officers in recent years have upended hundreds of cases as defense lawyers and District attorney Seth Williams’ office review and debate whether testimony by scandal-tainted cops is credible in court.

The impact has been greatest in drug prosecutions because narcotics units, which typically make a large number of arrests, have been at the epicenter of the recent scandals. and drug cases, more than most, often hinge solely on an officer’s word on the witness stand.

“Police corruption has a corrosive effect on the entire judicial system,” says veteran public defender brad bridge in an email. “The judicial system cannot stand behind convictions called into question by tainted police officers.”

The fallout from the arrest in July of six narcotics officers, who are accused in a federal indictment of robbing suspected drug dealers and severely beating some of them, has already prompted the Da’s office to withdraw more than 300 cases related to the officers, says first assistant District attorney ed McCann. The process of throwing out cases began in December 2012, he says, when the Da alerted the Police Department that most of the officers would no longer be

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called to testify. (Civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner says the Da was late to the game, contending that federal prosecutors decided to stop calling some officers years before Williams followed suit.)

Old cases connected to the officers are also subject to scrutiny. The Defender association of Philadelphia has filed about 1,400 petitions to reopen convictions tied to the officers, and 65 convictions already have been reopened, says bridge. He says that another 165 convictions involving Officer Jeffrey Walker, who has pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and gun charges and is reportedly cooperating with federal prosecutors in the case against the six indicted cops, have been vacated.

McCann says that the Da is evaluating how to deal with police who should not be testifying, and how best to provide discovery information on questionable officers to the defense.

“We understand that it needs to be more formalized and structured, and that we should have a formal policy. and that’s something that we’re working on,” says McCann.

The indictment of the officers, Thomas Liciardello, brian reynolds, Perry betts, Michael Spicer, Linwood Norman and John Speiser, has also created some mysteries.

One involves Stephen Dmytryk, a narcotics officer who is quasianonymously referred to as S.D. in the federal indictment, but has not been charged. The indictment states that Dmytryk falsely

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filled out police paperwork (and suggests that he did so intentionally) to cover up a theft, and also falsely prepared paperwork to charge a person with possessing a gun that clearly belonged to someone else.

It’s unclear, as City Paper reported last week, why Dmytryk hasn’t been charged. but a joint fbI-Philadelphia Police Department task force investigating police corruption has not provided defense attorneys with information related to the allegations, according to court records, apparently because of grand jury secrecy rules. as a remedy, defense attorneys have, with some success, been asking judges to bar Dmytryk’s testimony. This, like other cases, puts the police and Da in a very awkward position: Having to rely on officers on the street, who are making arrests, but whose testimony might prove so toxic that prosecutors can’t win what otherwise would be slamdunk convictions.

Take, for example, the narcotics officers whose alleged misconduct was reported in the PulitzerPrize winning Philadelphia Daily News 2009 series “Tainted Justice.” The series uncovered evidence that the cops fabricated search warrants, looted corner stores and, in one officer’s case, committed sexual assaults. None have been criminally charged, and it seems likely none will be.

Without a criminal conviction it will likely be impossible for the Police Department to get rid of the officers — or even keep them off the streets. and it could then prove extremely difficult for prosecutors to win a conviction in any case that requires any of the officers’ testimony. for Krasner, the resulting skepticism could help make police testimony in general what it should be: a matter that juries and judges must evaluate on a case-by-case basis.

“The general public [might] do what should have been done a long time ago, which is to treat the police, as the jury instructions say, essentially like any other witness.” ➤ The DA’s prosecuToriAl headaches aren’t

going away anytime soon because the perennial appearance of fresh scandals means that more prosecutions and convictions could be vulnerable.

Two weeks ago, Da Williams made the unusual decision to charge two police officers, Sean McKnight and Kevin robinson, in the brutal assault of Najee rivera, and for lying about it in a cover-up effort. Down the road, convictions in other cases that were substantially based on the two officers’ testimony might be reopened and overturned.

“The Defender association will have to examine the arrests made by these officers to determine whether their credibility was an issue in the convictions,” says bridge. “If it was, then their arrests demonstrate that convictions based upon the officers’ credibility are likely infirm. Their arrests demonstrate that they lied to their superiors about

their actions. If they lied then to justify their actions, then it is likely that they lied on other occasions to justify their actions.”

McCann, the first assistant district attorney, says that his office will examine the issue “on a caseby-case basis” and is “already internally reviewing convictions where defendants were charged with assaulting” the two officers.

The Da, however, has continued to defend Officer robinson’s credibility in court, at least in its prosecution of Chauncey young and Michael fuller, who were arrested in an alleged gunpoint robbery committed less than three weeks after the two officers allegedly beat up rivera. In court filings, prosecutors have asked the judge to exclude any testimony regarding the recent charges against robinson.

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Juries aren’t going to rely solely on a cop’s word. opposing the Da, a.J. Thomson, young’s defense attorney, complained that prosecutors failed to alert defense lawyers that it had been investigating robinson for 18 months, “all the while trying cases and forcing guilty pleas on defendants who had the right to know that the very entity that was prosecuting them, based on arrests by Kevin robinson, had initiated an investigation of him based on his illegal use of force and crimes of dishonesty.”

If robinson took the stand even once while he was under investigation, Thomson argued, it would constitute an “ethical breach by the office to the interests of justice [and] represents an irreparable chasm that should call into question the public confidence in ethical prosecutions in this municipality.”

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the one against young and fuller, however, may be harder to throw out based on one bad cop because, unlike drug cases, alleged victims can also testify.

Thomson, a former assistant district attorney, has said that he was fired last July after complaining about the Daâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reliance on the testimony of Officer Christopher Hulmes, a narcotics officer who had admitted to lying under oath. (The Daâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office has hotly disputed this, accusing Thomson of poor performance.)

The case involving Hulmes, who in 2011 admitted to lying under oath in a drug and gun case, has particularly angered defense lawyers. The episode was quietly known to some prosecutors and defense attorneys for years, but was first widely exposed by City Paper last august. The Police Department then quickly took Hulmes and his partner, Officer Patrick banning, off the street, and placed them under investigation. (banning signed an allegedly perjured search warrant affidavit in the case.) but much to defense attorneysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; consternation, the Da has insisted on calling them to the stand in drug cases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seth Williams recently stated â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no one â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not even police officers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is above the lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in reference to Officers McKnight and robinson,â&#x20AC;? writes annie fisher, east Zone chief at the Defender association of Philadelphia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to take him seriously when the very same office not only refuses to prosecute police officers who admit to perjury, but actually encourages them by continuing to call them as witnesses. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to imagine a system less trustworthy than one that relies on the word of officers who admit to perjury.â&#x20AC;? but prosecutors do seem to believe that Hulmes and banning are a problem, since they are conducting a review of the officers. and they are clearly reluctant to put either of them on the stand.

In many cases where Hulmes or banning are listed as the arresting officer, charges of felony drug dealing have been dismissed or defendants have been allowed to plead guilty without any jail time, including to misdemeanor possession charges. Hulmes has testified only twice at trial since the City Paper article was published, as far as fisher knows, and banning only once. Defendants have been found guilty once and not guilty twice.

The scandals have cast a pall over narcotics officersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; credibility as a whole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all dependent on your word alone,â&#x20AC;? says one source close to Philadelphia law enforcement, who requested anonymity because his employer would not permit him to speak on the record. â&#x20AC;&#x153;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the one who says that this guy committed a crime. youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the one who says that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I saw him do it,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I bought the drugs from [him] or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I used an informant,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; [and] the [confidential] informant never testifies. â&#x20AC;Ś Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very hard to get any kind of conviction when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re using somebody whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not credible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would have to venture a guess that juries would

not be willing to listen [to] what narcotics cops have to say anymore unless thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s additional evidence. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to rely on just their word,â&#x20AC;? he added.

The recent assault charges against Officers McKnight and robinson may signal that the Da plans to take a harder line against police excessive use of force in the future. a crackdown on perjury may be the next shoe to drop. In the wake of City Paper and Daily News investigations, the Da instituted a reform requiring that before charging they view any video evidence of Philadelphia Prison System inmates accused of assaulting a guard â&#x20AC;&#x201D; apparently to ensure that guards accusing inmates of assault are telling the truth, and not simply covering up their own abuse. but the guard involved in two assault cases reported by City Paper has not been charged.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to imagine a system less trustworthy.â&#x20AC;?

Krasner finds Da Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; approach wanting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[former Da] Lynne abrahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long legacy, some of which has continued into the earlier phases of Seth Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; term, has been characterized by the ostrich approach of sticking their head in the sand [and] trying not to see what was pretty obviously going on with certain officers. [Prosecutors are often] defending them vigorously as if the Daâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office was somehow a defense lawyer for police rather than an independent entity thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to pursue justice.â&#x20AC;? abraham, who did not respond to requests for comment, is running for mayor. Williams has just begun his sixth year in office. His legacy is yet to be determined. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net, @DanielDenvir)

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: New THe lasT five years | B+ richard LaGravenese’s adaptation of Jason robert brown’s musical isn’t a great movie. In some ways, it’s a terrible one: awkwardly staged, badly shot (some scenes look as if they might have been captured on an old-school iPhone); the list goes on. but it has greatness in it, in the precise size and shape of anna Kendrick, who cradles the movie under her arm like a petite, mellifluous linebacker and carries it over the goal line. The structuring conceit of brown’s through-sung piece is that Cathy (Kendrick) and Jamie (Jeremy Jordan) are walking though their scenes in opposite temporal directions: She’s starting at the end of a doomed marriage, poring over all the mistakes and the should-have-beens; he’s moving forward, with no idea of the anvil hanging over his head. your head spins to think of what, say, alain resnais could have made of that idea, but LaGravenese doesn’t even try to exploit the possibilities of cinematic time-hopping; it’s all he can manage to point the camera in the right direction. Jordan, who goes from a beaming, struggling writer to an insufferable young novelist, is perhaps too perfectly cast as a shallow young enthusiast; his antic performance grates from the first, and never recovers. but Kendrick — Kendrick is the best screen singer we’ve seen in years, and this is her finest showcase. She doesn’t sing the songs; she lives them, including a magnificent romantic spat on a boat dock that might be the best song-fight since West Side Story.

Can one performance make a movie? Not normally. but you’d be a fool to miss this one.—Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)

wHaT we do iN THe sHadows | B+ Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s mockumentary

about New Zealand vampires is an exuberantly silly bit of fun. The central gag is that despite being hundreds of years old, they still behave like layabouts in their 20s, as if not only their bodies but their emotional growth were frozen when they were bitten. They feud over who does chores in the flat they share with other vamps — Clement tries to pass off dragging a corpse down a dusty hallway as sweeping the floor — and carry on a childish rivalry with a gang of werewolves led by Clement’s Flight of the Conchords colleague rhys Darby. They may be undead, but they’re still idiots.The vampires’ centuries-old routine is shaken up by a new arrival, local boy Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, who’s so giddy at the prospect of being turned that he can’t stop telling humans he’s no longer one of them. (He mentions Twilight a lot.) but the best moments in What We Do in the Shadows are when nothing happens. Clement and Waititi share directing and writing credits, but many of the interview segments, where the film is loosest and funniest, feel improvised.What We Do riffs lightly on the vampire genre: The house’s eldest vampire, and the only one that’s ever remotely frightening, is a dead ringer for Max Schreck’s Nosferatu, and Clement adopts the posture of someone trying (and largely failing) to act out Gary Oldman’s Dracula. but this isn’t Shaun of the Dead, where the references pile up in lieu of genuine cleverness.

It’s a comedy about awkward dopes who only incidentally happen to dine, often messily, on human blood. It’s easy to think that both vampires and faux docs have outlived their usefulness, but pulse or no, this proves they’re still kicking.—SA (Ritz Five)

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$15-$34 | Feb. 19-March 29, Hedgerow Theatre, 64 Rose Valley Rd., Rose Valley, Pa., 610-5654211, hedgerowtheatre.org.

Cheers for Hedgerow Theatre for reviving this backstage mystery by Welsh playwright emyln Williams, best known

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for Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green. His 1930 hit, directed by Sarah Gafgen, takes place in a haunted theater, making Hedgerow’s stonewalled, century-old former grist mill an ideal setting. Joel Guerrero plays Sir Charles Jasper, an occult expert who’s about to inherit a fortune — if he can just survive his birthday party. —Mark Cofta

[ jazz ]

Anker/TABorn/CleAver $15 | Thu., Feb. 19, 8 p.m., Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., arsnovaworkshop.com.

Pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver have achieved renown as two of the most influential and boundary-expanding artists on the modern jazz landscape, with extensive discographies attesting to their far-reaching talents and in-demand status.

If saxophonist Lotte anker is

not as well known in the States, she’s been no less crucial to the music’s evolution in her native Denmark. The three have been creating breathtaking, shape-shifting improvisations together for more than a decade. —Shaun Brady

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Hold THese TruTHs $15-$30 | Through March 1, Plays & Players, 1714 Delancey Place, 866-811-4111, playsandplayers.org.

Plays and Players has developed an entire festival around Jeanne Sakata’s one-man show about the american mass incarceration of citizens with Japanese ancestry during World War II. Local actor Makoto Hirano plays college student Gordon Hirabayashi, who fights the unlawful imprisonment all the way to the Supreme Court. events include Saturday night’s postshow gathering with the Green

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Party, and Sunday’s post-show talkback with actual camp survivors. —Mark Cofta

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Milk like sugAr $10-$25 | Through March 8, Simpatico Theatre Project at the Skybox at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 267-437-PLAY, simpaticotheatre.org.

Kirsten Greenidge’s engaging play fills the need for more theater featuring black actors, and also provides credible teenage urban characters and situations without condescension or cliché.

Nastassja baset shines as 16year-old annie, whose friends (Melanie Lawrence, Danielle Lenee) judge guys by the quality of their smartphones and see pregnancy as an opportunity to score designer baby gear. annie wants something more “romantical,” but struggles to even articulate her dreams — “maybe there’s another way to be?” — let alone pursue them.

allen radway’s smart direction brings out the passions in these young characters and in annie’s mother, played by the alwaysterrific Kimberly fairbanks.

—Mark Cofta

[ singer-songwriter ]

Jeffrey fouCAulT $10 | Thu., Feb. 19, 8 p.m., World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

If neo-folk stars like Mumford and Sons are slinging cheap, sweet bourbon, then Jeffrey foucault’s music is hard, aged Scotch. The longtime singersongwriter’s work is consistently pensive and soulful, with lyrics that remain small and honest where others might tend toward the grandiose. foucault has shown a bit more comfort with pop influences in recent years, but he keeps his touring lineup spare, allowing his haunting, bluesy voice to shine. —Alex Marcus

2.20 friday [ jazz ]

MosTly oTHer PeoPle do THe killing $15 | Fri., Feb. 20, 8 p.m., Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., arsnovaworkshop.com.

The jazz community expended lots of breath last year proving that it lacked a sense of humor, taking fist-shaking umbrage at everything from a New Yorker satire to an Oscar-nominated movie. Nothing inspired quite as much haughty indignation as Blue, the note-fornote re-creation of Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue undertaken by Moppa elliott’s irreverent quartet, Mostly Other People Do the Killing. Of course, those most outraged were also those most tenaciously clinging to 1959 as jazz’s final frontier,

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compositions a simmering narrative momentum, while engaging in lithe interplay with his empathetic quartet.

—Shaun Brady

D a N a yaV I N

making the album an undeniably effective conceptual prank. —Shaun Brady

Mike kennedy $15 | Fri., Feb. 20, 8 p.m., Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com.

Lansdale native Mike Kennedy celebrates the release of his latest CD, Insulation, an alluring, introspective set of quietly focused originals.

The guitarist, a graduate and now faculty member of uarts,

draws on influences from rock music, but without delving into fusion pyrotechnics.

Instead, he uses the memorable melodies and lyrical storytelling of pop to give his

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HugH Masekela & Vusi MaHlasela $30-$75 | Sat., Feb. 21, 8 p.m., Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215898-3900, annenbergcenter.org.

Musical activism played a key role in South africa’s struggle against apartheid, and now two of the country’s cultural icons are marking the 20th anniversary of its fall. Trumpeter Hugh Masekela left his homeland in 1960, finding success in jazz and pop before returning upon Nelson Mandela’s 1990 release. Singer Vusi Mahlasela, known as “The Voice,” provided inspiration through his songs of protest. The pair is celebrat-

ing the landmark anniversary with their first tour together.

—Shaun Brady

2.22 sunday [ movies ]

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things and commandeers his Motörhead and Iron Maiden T-shirts. a decade later, she’s established herself as the town outcast, given to drunken tractor joyrides and blasting her flying V for the family cows. bragason’s frosty drama finally achieves a warmth worthy of a burning church through the catharsis of heavy metal. —Shaun Brady

[ classical ]

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$10 | Sun., Feb. 22, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 23, 7:30 and 10 p.m.; PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org.

$24 | Sun., Feb. 22, 2:30 p.m.; Mon., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.; Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-8931709, chamberorchestra.org.

Icelandic filmmaker ragnar bragason’s minor-key Metalhead finds the tears behind the corpse paint. after losing her long-haired brother in a farm accident, 12-yearold Hera bonfires her frilly

Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 is one of his shortest orchestral works, although it still runs as long as three Mozart piano concertos played in a row.

It is also one his loveliest, an ode to nature concluding with

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Timber Timbre $15-$17 | Sun., Feb. 22, 7 p.m., with Thom McCarthy, MilkBoy Philadelphia, 1100 Chestnut St., 215-925-6455, milkboyphilly.com.

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Canadian indie folk act Timber Timbre have been recording lush, nocturnal music for almost a decade. It’s true

that Taylor Kirk’s velvety croon — often compared to elvis — is typically the first thing listen-

ers notice, but Mika Posen and Simon Trottier’s delightfully creepy instrumentals deserve close attention as well. Last year’s stellar Hot Dreams (arts & Crafts) includes some of the group’s most mature, controlled work yet. —Sam Fox

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a rapturously beautiful song for soprano solo. Maestro Dirk brossé will pair this delightfully quirky composition with the dark, lush Transfigured Night by arnold Schoenberg, a glorious last gasp of the late romantic era. —Peter Burwasser

tuesday [ rock/pop ]

Ariel Pink $20 | Tue., Feb. 24, 8:30 p.m., with Jack Name, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com. a decade after his animal Collective-abetted emergence as home-taping neo-lo-fi hero (and improbable chillwave forerunner), ariel Pink has somehow morphed into indiedom’s reigning king of the freaks; a cartoonish mutant-pop ringmaster and a relentlessly trolling social media instigator.

Last year’s powder-puff-pink

pom pom (4aD) is his twisted, taste-defying magnum opus: an overstuffed 17-track schlocktacular that plays like frank Zappa by way of John Waters (but somehow also manages space for some effortlessly pretty psych-pop ballads). Several of its campy/creepy hyper-retro goof-offs were co-written with L.a.-misfit Kim fowley (r.I.P.), whose spirit looms large.

—K. Ross Hoffman

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West tAVeRN | 1440 Callowhill St., 215-563-6134, westtavern.com

smoking: No Jukebox/entertainment: TouchTunes and a dusty Megatouch sitting on a table next to a space heater Bathrooms: Passable, with lino floors that have seen better days Head Count/tab: two people, $34 before tip: Two Magic Hats, one Treögs Hopback, one Boulevard Pale Ale, 10 hot wings and a plate of bacon-and-cheese-topped fries ➤ as we walked into West Tavern, my date remarked that the dark blue walls lining the barroom reminded him of the conference room at his office.

And while I’m pretty sure that his conference room isn’t stocked with bottles of Drambuie and 15 taps, there’s something about this bar that was bland to the point of feeling nearly anesthetized. Of course, the anesthesia analogy works well after a few minutes of looking around. With its proximity to Hahnemann University Hospital, Westy's — as it is affectionately known — is a doctor’s hang.

Settling in to two seats at the long, rectangular bar, a pair of hospital workers took turns charging their phones over beer-and-shot combos both regular (Yuengling and Jameson) and kinda weird (Miller Lite and chilled blackberry brandy) and absentmindedly watching a Celebrity Jeopardy! spoof on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special.

The temperatures hovered right around zero, but that didn’t stop one of a trio of ladies sitting at the bar from ordering a Sex on the Beach. Michelle, the substitute bartender for the evening, mixed one up for her, after which the customer promptly left, declaring the pinky-orange cocktail “meh.”After the disappointed Sex on the Beach drinker departed, Michelle poured the cocktail left in the shaker into plastic cups and passed them around the bar. The verdict? Not bad for a drink that’s never very good.

Aside from reasonable draft prices and totally mellow Sunday night vibes, one of Westy’s biggest draws is its Sunday night wing deal. At 50 cents a piece, the wings here are spot-on and some of the best/most underrated in the city, perfectly fried and hot-sauced and served with a housemade blue cheese dressing that’s miles away from bottled. (caroline@citypaper.net) 18 | P h i l a d e l P h i a C i t y Pa P e r |

DOUBLE DIP: Fennel and beets await a swipe of Gran Caffe L’Aquila’s garlicky bagna cauda. neal SantoS

[ review ]

The ITalIan Job Gran Caffe L’Aquila brings world-class gelato and southern Italian fare to Rittenhouse.

By Adam Erace

Gran CaFFe l’aQUila |1716 Chestnut St., 215-568-5600, grancaffelaquila.com. Mon.-Thu., 7 a.m.-11 p.m.; Fri., 7 a.m.-midnight; Sat., 8 a.m.-midnight; Sun., 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Soups and sandwiches, $6-$13; appetizers, $6-$14.50; pasta and entrees, $12-$29.50; desserts, $4.50-$9.

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magine if Philly got rocked by an earthquake and everyone moved to Camden.” This is how riccardo Longo describes L’aquila, the medieval town in abruzzo that was decimated in 2009 by one of the deadliest quakes in Italian history. “It’s a dead city now,” says the roman-born restaurateur. “everyone either left or moved to the periphery.”

When Longo, who owns Toscana 52 in feasterville, was visiting L’aquila in 2012, he met chef Stefano biasini, World Cup of Gelato champion, and coffee roaster Michele Morelli, whose bean blends have earned the highest rating from Gambero rosso, Italy’s version of Zagat. The pair, whose Gran Caffe L’aquila in the city’s main piazza was destroyed by the quake, was running an outpost on the outskirts of town. “I was blown away,” Longo remembers. “It was best gelato and the best coffee of my life — in

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the same place. I had to find out who these guys were.”

Wine bottles were opened, numbers exchanged and not long after, biasini and Morelli came to Philly to visit. Jokes became hypothetical discussion became serious discussion became a business plan. a building on Chestnut Street was purchased.

Italian architects and interior designers arrived and set about transforming it into a Stateside Gran Caffe L’aquila.

The result is a double-decker stunner. Glowing pastry cases and beverage coolers entice with ponies of Pellegrino, croissant pumped full of Nutella and panini awaiting pressing. upstairs, in the airy mezzanine is a gleaming glassed-in gelato lab. biasini would only get Italian equipment, so, Longo laughs, “Our basement is full of transformers just to convert the electric.”

It’s worth it. biasini’s gelati and sorbetti are the fittest challengers for Capogiro’s crown I’ve encountered in our city. rose-pink and speckled with seeds, the strawberry sorbetto was an aria of fresh berry flavor. The amaretto gelato channeled the toasty, nutty almond notes of a Termini’s amaretti cookie. Magic, even in the dead of winter. you don’t necessarily need to hit up the gelato case up front to try biasini’s creations. Most of the sit-down desserts, like the warm ricotta cheesecake, come topped with a scoop (fior di latte in this case), as do some of the savory dishes like the raw oysters (mojito

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;I passed on the mustard gelato in favor of a Calabrian chile sauce.â&#x20AC;? sorbetto), pasta carbonara (pancetta gelato) and lamb skewers (mustard gelato). Those skewers, called arrosticini, are staples of abruzzo, cooked on grates over troughs of charcoal. Here, they follow tradition, skewering alternating cubes of lean and fatty lamb so one bastes the other as they cook. Smoky, greasy and gamy, they delivered backyard barbecue satisfactionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; though I passed on the mustard gelato in favor of a Calabrian chile sauce. biasini makes the arrosticini, as well as the menuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other abruzzese classics like pasta alla chitarra. The rest of the long menu are Longoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recipes, informed by his travels through Italy and executed ably by a team of cooks: sweet-and-sour Sicilian caponata paired with tangy buffalo-milk mozzarella flown in from Campania; pudgy gnocchi enrobed in funky taleggio bĂŠchamel; tender medallions of woodsy veal saltimbocca accompanied by the best potatoes Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever eaten. Skinned, drenched in extravirgin and roasted in the stone oven, the spuds had crusty black corners and fluffy insides that tasted almost smoky. each week features a group of specials based on a different region. Torino was highlighted the night I was in for dinner, accounting for the royal quantities of butter blended into Gran Caffeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potent take on the anchovygarlic-olive-oil dip, bagna cauda. raw and cooked vegetables escorted the elixir, the cruditĂŠ usuals like carrots and celery but also unexpected crops like fennel and beet. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nakedness to this dish â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to many of the simple, unadorned dishes here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that feels very legit. but the team also has some bad habits to unlearn.

The look and feel of the huge, confusing menu makes me think of a diner, and Longo puts misguided trust in his network of chef-pals in Italy a bit too much, like one Michelin-starred guy who created the crudo mosaico.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what was worse about this setup of tuna, salmon, pineapple and grapefruit: the sorry knife-work, the grapefruitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jarring bitterness or the mealy fish. friendly servers in jaunty fedoras could be better informed, especially on the intense, thoughtful wine list Longo has assembled. but the more troubling interaction came from the manager: I originally ordered lemon granita for dessert, then was told they were out of it after my bill was already rung up and signed for (the server dropped the check way early, which is a whole other issue). So, instead, I ordered strawberries in a sweetened-to-death zabaglione, which costs a couple bucks more. It felt a little slimy when the manager scooped up the check to â&#x20AC;&#x153;adjust my bill.â&#x20AC;?

It would have left a bad taste were it not for Morelliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;aquila roast, which I got brewed in an americano to go from the coffee bar. One of four house blends, it was smoky and powerful and kept me up late, researching gelato production and looking for flights to abruzzo. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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Nanny needed immediately Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm, no weekends.Permanent service needed but non live-in.Preferred English speaking and if other language good but should be able to speaks fluent English, good communication skills with children. Car provided for work & personal use. $350 weekly. Interested applicant should write Mr Dawn for details via email dawn07.w@gmail.com or text .412-397-8291

Apartments for Rent OLD CITY

Beautiful 2 bdrm, 1.5 baths.Newly renovated kitchen and baths.

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