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THE POPULARITY OF our comics issue and the Little Nemo cover last year prompted us to think anew about creating a weekly showcase for Philly’s comic artists. When Josh O’Neill of Locust Moon Comics agreed to curate the series, the deal was sealed. West Philly artist Kelly Phillips, whose work begins the series, says publishing a full-page comic “pays tribute to an art form that is inextricably tied, and indebted to, newspapers.� To see her comic, turn to p. 12.

CP STAFF 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, Bryan Bierman, Shaun Brady, Peter Burwasser, Mark Cofta, Adam Erace, David Anthony Fox, Caitlin Goodman, K. Ross Hoffman, Jon Hurdle, Deni Kasrel, Alli Katz, Gary M. Kramer, Drew Lazor, Alex Marcus, Gair “Dev 79� Marking, Robert McCormick, Andrew Milner, John Morrison, Michael Pelusi, Natalie Pompilio, Sameer Rao, Jim Saksa, Elliott Sharp, Marc Snitzer, Nikki Volpicelli, Brian Wilensky, Julie Zeglen. Editorial Interns Ryan Hughes, Owen Lyman-Schmidt, Kelan Lyons, Sam Yeoman Production Director Michael Polimeno Senior Designer Brenna Adams Designer/Social Media Director Jenni Betz

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A labor leader from the Transit Workers Union challenges Milton Street’s mayoral qualifications, saying he is not a registered Democrat and doesn’t live in the city. “But he says such marvelous things,” say the citizens of Philadelphia. “We shall let it slide.”

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According to a new study, it would cost $18.5 million to reopen PATCO’s long-abandoned “ghost station” at Franklin Square. That’s as s u ming Milton Street’s not ly ing when he says he’s a ghostbuster.

Sixty members of a gunrights group called Citizens for Liberty hold a rally in a Bala Cynwyd park. “Good for them,” say the Citizens for the Pursuit of Happiness. “We really don’t feel safe around those guys,” say the Citizens for Life.

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BLOOM TIME JUST IN TIME FOR SPRING, City Paper today debuts a fresh design that is edgier and more in keeping with these “what’s next?” times than before. You’ll also find some faster, bolder approaches than what we’ve used previously. Longtime readers will see that we’ve managed to keep echoes of our award-winning design from years past in what we are unveiling here. Senior designer Brenna Adams deserves the credit for this new look, our first comprehensive overhaul since 2009. She spent weeks looking at alternative newspapers around the globe and pored over our archives to create what she calls “a grown-up look.” “Basically, I wanted it to look like an alternative newspaper, but not to look like all the rest of them,” she says. Though we updated our design, our commitment to offering the best in investigatory journalism and staying on top of the local arts, music and food scenes remains unchanged. We see it simply as delivering the stories, reviews and events you’ve come to count on in a more engaging way. Among all the changes, from new fonts to more photos, we are proudest of the new cover and the new weekly cartoon. We think the updated cover design gives our original photography more impact, and the black-and-white logo is so retro that it looks modern. The full-page color cartoon is a tip of the hat to our robust local comic-artist community. We’ve offered the artists wide berth — to state their opinion, tell a story or just make our readers laugh. Check it out and tell us what you think. #NewCP.

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says Morrell. The co-worker continued, and got increasingly hostile and aggressive about it. “It got to a point where I didn’t want to go to work because I didn’t want to face those situations every day. And I knew there had to be an alternative.” That, in part, is how Morrell ended up opening a shop at age 28. Morrell’s artistic chops and welcoming demeanor had already garnered a pretty sizable following, LGBTQ and otherwise. “If anything, people were traveling up all the way [to Northeast Philly] to see me, and now I’m way more conveniently located.” When Morrell started a tattoo apprenticeship a decade ago, “I was definitely

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The first LGBTQ-owned tattoo shop in Philly opens on Baltimore Avenue. ABOUT 1 P.M. last Friday, about 25 people were seated on every available surface of West Philly’s Spirited Tattooing Coalition, waiting to get the $13 special at the shop’s soft opening/Friday the 13th party. Owner Jasmine Morrell and colleague Eric Guntor had been hard at work for hours, and would be until 11:30 p.m. Jazz Cattron, a 23-year-old buyer for Mariposa Co-op with a curly Mohawk and a cheerful smile, was thrilled with her brand-new tattoo of an orange slice. (“I love fruit!”) “One of the reasons [Spirited] is such a big deal is because a lot of areas in the city, it’s very intimidating to go and get a tattoo” as a female, queer or genderqueer person, says Cattron, who identifies to a degree with all three. (Note: Genderqueer people like Cattron and Morrell don’t identify as entirely “he” or entirely “she,”

so we’ll be using the pronouns they prefer people use: “they” and “them.”) Getting a tattoo, Cattron says, “should be this experience of owning your body, reclaiming your skin.” But tattoo culture can feel unfriendly to people who fall outside of norms. For example, one time Cattron walked into and out of several shops in Austin, Texas, trying to find one that felt OK. “There was a lot of overhearing misogynistic comments, and the vibe of not really feeling welcome,” says Cattron. “It felt very much like they didn’t want me there.” This is, in part, why Morrell is opening the only LGBTQ-owned tattoo shop in Philly. On the Spirited Tattooing Indiegogo page, which raised more than $11,000 to help open the shop at 4918 Baltimore Ave., Morrell wrote: “The tattoo industry can be a very unfriendly and unwelcoming envi-

ronment for folks outside of certain societal structures and systems. As a queer person of color, I have found myself in positions of either being the target of or being around so much misogyny, racism, transphobia, fatphobia and classism that it’s time to make a space away from all that.” “I always knew something was up with my gender,” says Morrell. “I grew up being tomboyish; my mom thought it was going to be a phase. And it wasn’t.” Morrell laughs. “It just kept going.” Today, Morrell has a wispy mustache and a short haircut with sideburns. “I think when some people don’t understand something, they get mad and frustrated, and they take that out on the person or situation they’re not comfortable with, so they’re not the only ones feeling that feeling,” says Morrell. “Now everyone’s uncomfortable.” At some previous workplaces, Morrell says, “I got a lot of aggressive, frustrated feelings thrown at me, making it hard for me to work.” For example, “I worked with someone who kept referring to me as a lady. And I asked him to please stop doing that, because it felt super inappropriate for anyone with eyeballs to be calling me a lady,”

In many parts of the city, it’s very intimidating to go and get a tattoo. much more female-identified.” Starting to present as primarily masculine in 2009, they say, “played a part in how I was treated, and how seriously I was taken as a tattoo artist. It’s been interesting seeing both sides of that.” Morrell laughs. “I sometimes feel almost like a spy.” “Now when I go to conventions, I get treated differently. Male tattoo artists definitely greet me with more intensity, like — ‘WHAT’S UP, BRO?’” A laugh. “I went from not being taken seriously to being approved to be in this boys’ club and seen as competition.” But the boys’ club wasn’t comfortable. Even before 2009, “A lot of men felt comfortable being very misogynistic around me. … I thought I’d seen the full extent of it, but when men started seeing me as a male tattoo artist, it turned out there’s a lot more!” Morrell sort of laughs. “At tattoo conventions, for instance, it’s almost like an encouraged behavior to be … kind of gross. Like, very lurid, and there’s a lot of aggressive, lewd behavior toward women.”

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Polls consistently find that more American women than men have tattoos, especially among the young. But the industry remains very male-dominated — it’s estimated that there are roughly five male artists for every one female one. “There’s a lot of policing of women’s bodies in the tattoo industry — what they’re allowed to get done, where and how many. Men are just kind of allowed to do whatever they want,â€? says Morrell. “I’ve heard, ‘Tattoos are for men.’ I’ve heard men comment on what their wives are allowed to get done to their own bodies. I’ve heard women clients saying things like, ‘Women don’t get tattoos on their arms.’ Culture-approved feminine tattoos tend to be small, says Morrell — “A bird or an animal or a flower ‌ anything other than that, it seems, women aren’t supposed to have.â€? Does Morrell have any tattoos that women aren’t

‘There’s a lot of policing of women’s bodies in the tattoo industry — what they’re allowed to get done, where and how many.’ supposed to have? “Almost all of them. The ones on my hand and neck, for sure.â€? Morrell rolls up a sleeve to reveal a ghoulish winged figure on a forearm. “Or this guy here. He’s all messed up — he had quite a journey, and now he’s, like, trying to be free, but it’s hard out there, so he’s battered and ‌ he’s had a rough go of it. So,â€? Morrell laughs, a little embarrassed. “That’s not very ladylike.â€? Few $13 tattoos on the Friday the 13th flash sheet would pass as ladylike, though few are ghoulish, either. Cattron’s happy with both the orange slice tattoo and artist Guntor’s attitude. The two had actually met the night before, when Cattron had stopped by dressed more femininely. “I was in total drag — he didn’t know who I was at all today. But yeah, that’s a perfect example — I was in there last night representing as feminine, and I got treated the exact same way as when I walked in the door today.â€? (emilyg@citypaper.net, @emilygee)

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ON HIGH: An artist’s rendering of the Reading Viaduct Rail Park. The former rail line will be repurposed as a green public space.

DEVELOPMENT

BY JON HURDLE

PHILLY TO TEST REIMAGINED PUBLIC SPACES

WITH AN INITIATIVE titled “Reimagining the Civic Commons,” Philadelphia has attracted $11 million from the William Penn Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to help create or rebuild five public spaces that would become links between low-income neighborhoods and wealthier sections that are flourishing in the current construction boom. The project, announced Monday, makes Philly a national leader in the creation of a network of public open spaces that straddle disparate areas. By developing facilities — including a nature center, an elevated park and a new playground — in the five locations, the

foundations hope to bring together new and existing users in public spaces, and help to level the economic playing field. It’s an idea that the Miami-based Knight Foundation had been developing for a while and found its opportunity by partnering with William Penn in Philly. “We had been thinking about this idea of reimagining the civic commons, but we didn’t have a place to test it — it was all conceptual,” said Carol Coletta, the Knight Foundation’s vice president for community and national initiatives, at an event launching the project at the Fairmount Park Horticultural Center. The concept turned into a reality when William Penn invited Knight to

become a partner in the plan to turn the five underused or neglected areas into “reimagined” spaces. The five projects, which were already being developed before the two foundations got involved, and which are now receiving more financial help, are: — The Discovery Center in East Fairmount Park: a center for nature study and outdoor education jointly being managed by the National Audubon Society and Outward Bound Philadelphia on the grounds of the disused East Park Reservoir adjoining the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood; — Reading Viaduct Rail Park: a former elevated industrial rail line that is being repurposed by Center City District as a green public space; — Bartram’s Mile trail project: a stretch of former industrial land being developed by Philadelphia Parks and Recreation and the Schuylkill River Development Corporation along the lower Schuylkill River that will link to a 750-mile regional trail network called the Circuit; — Lovett Memorial Library and Park: the renovation and expansion of an existing library to serve all sections of the economically divided Mount Airy neighborhood; — Fairmount Park Conservancy’s Centennial Commons: an underused section of West Fairmount Park near Memorial Hall will get a new playground on the edge of the adjoining Parkside neighborhood. Backers argue that Philadelphia’s large number of former industrial sites with the potential for conversion to public spaces, the city’s rising national profile and an influx of millennials make it especially suitable as a national testing ground for a new kind of public space. “It’s the combination of tremendous momentum and the opportunity to do more for those who are underserved,” said Laura Sparks, executive director of the William Penn Foundation. The new project, which will be led by the Fairmount Park Conservancy, aims to create more spaces like Dilworth Park or the Schuylkill Banks Boardwalk that have recently enhanced the public environment in

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Center City, but which are not immediately accessible to residents of poorer neighborhoods like Strawberry Mansion or Germantown. “We’ve seen tremendous growth in beautiful public spaces in downtown Philadelphia and we believe that all citizens should have access to assets like that,” Sparks said. But such projects may not succeed without policies that allow longtime residents to stay in gentrifying areas, argued Rick Sauer, executive director of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations, which recently issued a report calling for equitable development. “It’s important we have policies in place that help existing residents and small businesses stay and benefit from the improving

The foundations hope the public spaces will bring together new and existing users, and help level the economic playing field. neighborhood after these projects are complete,” Sauer said. “Without such a strategy, we could push out the very people these projects should benefit.” Joyce Smith of the Viola Street Residents Association in the Parkside neighborhood said she hopes the playground investment in West Fairmount Park will attract more private developers. “We can’t get a lot of interest in the neighborhood to address some of the blight,” Smith said at the project announcement. “We’re hoping that what they are doing in the park will help create and stimulate more development. We believe it’s going to help us leverage what we’re trying to do.” As planned, the overall project sets a national precedent in open-space management, said Peter Harnik, director for city park excellence at the nonprofit Trust for Public Land. Although other cities, including New York and Atlanta, have individual projects that link economically disparate areas, Philadelphia is the first to have a network of them, he said. “It’s where everybody should be going,” he said. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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More Adventurous t’s funny, I was listening to this interview with Bob Mould and he was talking about moving into the middle of the country, to Wisconsin or something like that, and having a farm and how it was like — it was terrible,” laughs Katie Crutchfield, 26. The singer and songwriter behind the red-hot rock band Waxahatchee is two-handing a cup of black coffee in the kitchen of her West Philly apartment. She just moved back after a yearlong exile on Long Island. “Everybody romanticizes that idea, of like, ‘Oh I’m just going to go live in the woods and be by myself and I hate everyone,’ you know? But once you do it, it’s really hard.” Suburban Long Island is hardly Walden, but the feeling of isolation was real. After six months of hard touring behind 2013’s Cerulean Salt, she sought peace, quiet and inspiration. She’s usually the kind of person who wakes up with a checklist in her head: shower, coffee, leave the house, do this, do that. It’s the way she runs band practices, too. But the post-tour comedown left her listless and depressed for the first six months of her self-imposed exile in suburbia. “I just wasn’t productive in that environment at all. It was just too much space and too much time.” Well, to be clear, she wasn’t productive at first, but by the time she emerged from the wilds of Long Island, she’d made her best album yet. In fact, it might be the best rock record you hear this year.

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The Waxahatchee story starts in Alabama where twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield first got noticed as teenagers in the Birmingham D.I.Y. scene. They cut their teeth at an all-ages spot called Cave9, playing in punky rock bands like The Ackleys and P.S. Eliot and finding their way despite their musical peers being mostly older and predominantly male. Looking to expand their horizons, they set off for Brooklyn in 2011 and, for the first time, experimented with the idea of making music separately. Soon, two Crutchfield-fronted rock projects were born: Allison’s loud and catchy band Swearin’ and Katie’s gorgeous, lo-fi act Waxahatchee. The name comes from a creek back home in Alabama, and in fact, it was on a visit to her parents that Katie Crutchfield wrote and recorded her debut full-length. Released by the Don Giovanni label in 2012, American Weekend is intimate, eclectic and engaging. Some songs, like “Be Good,” wrestles with young heartache, while others explore darker, more complicated territory (see “Catfish,” “Grass Stain”). That record was just taking off when the sisters and a few friends decided to uproot once again and settle in a big old house on Hazel << CONTINUED ON P. 16

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HERE TO HEAR The Ackleys/P.S. Eliot These were Katie and Allison Crutchfield’s earliest bands; the ones they played in when they were establishing themselves in the D.I.Y. scene in Birmingham, Ala. The twins are currently reunited in Waxahatchee, fronted by Katie. See Also: King Everything, Bad Banana.

Swearin’ Frontwoman Allison Crutchfield’s fun and fiery band is known for its alt-nation riffs and fighting spirit. (I once saw them completely outwork and upstage The Hold Steady at Union Transfer.) Singerguitarist Kyle Gilbride is making a name for himself as a producer and engineer; bassist Keith Spencer also plays in Waxahatchee. See Also: Big Soda, Great Thunder, Wild Flowers of America.

Radiator Hospital Sam Cook-Parrott’s band is founded on strong indie-pop and pop-punk principles. Basically, the melodies are tight, the choruses are righteous and the joy is palpable. See Also: Very Okay, Vietnam Werewolf, Heavy Bangs.

Pinkwash Everybody needs to hear Joey Doubek and Ashley Arnwine’s guitar/drum/ screaming duo. They’re loud, complex, punky and artsy. Pinkwash will open for Waxahatchee on a European tour. See Also: Goodbye Party, Ingrid, Bleeding Rainbow, Wild Flowers of America, Mass Movement of the Moth, Hume.

Girlpool L.A. transplants Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad are the Crutchfields’ philosophical sisters from another mister, a couple of D.I.Y. kids who started early and moved to West Philly to continue their quest. Musically, they’re a scene by themselves, just bass, guitar, gorgeous vocals and ravishing lyrics. Girlpool’s slated to tag along with Waxahatchee on the second half of a U.S. tour. See Also: Slutever, Heathers. —Patrick Rapa

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Avenue in West Philly, where the living is cheap and the D.I.Y. scene is always percolating. “Everyone that lived in the house pretty much played music,” Crutchfield recalls fondly. Soon enough Swearin’ and Waxahatchee were part of a promising hive of young bands — Radiator Hospital, Pinkwash and more [see sidebar] — playing club and house shows in the area. Artistically, lyrically, any way you look at it, Waxahatchee’s second record, Cerulean Salt, was a leap forward. The sounds were crisper, the melodies more defined, the vocals more confident. Where American Weekend was acoustic and small-feeling, this one — written and recorded at the house on Hazel Avenue — was plugged-in and expansive. Still, it was remarkably intimate and personal. Crutchfield seemed to have realized her sound and discovered her methodology. That’s why, with the West Philly lease expiring, she holed herself up on Long Island to work on Ivy Tripp, which will be released by the Merge label on April 7. Isolation and depression aside, it’s hard to argue with the results. “I find studios sort of clinical,” she says. “I like to take my time. I like to under-prepare and work on the spot.” Hunkered down with engineer Kyle Gilbride and Waxahatchee bassist Keith Spencer, Crutchfield gradually turned “bare-bones songs” into finished tracks. The lyrics and melodies were written, and the rest was hashed out via trial and error and nightly listening sessions. “That’s how I did Cerulean Salt, too. It’s always been a fun way to make a record. It just works.” The conversation turns to the apocryphal recording process of ’60s and ’70s psychedelic bandleader Captain Beefheart. “He would just make them practice at all hours, and feed them drugs, and they would never eat food, and they would just be on drugs and working on his records the whole time,” she laughs. “I would love that.” So that’s the plan going forward? “That’s where I’m headed totally, yeah. It was kind of — it wasn’t kind of like that at all. But when we made Ivy Tripp … we would just work on songs all the time, then get up in the morning and pick up where we left off the night before.” On the new album, “Under a Rock” feels like the runaway hit, with gorgeous vocals and lush guitars. Lyrically, she’s in fighting trim: “I know how to break inside/ The brick house that you built around your cranium/ You wear it like a crown.” On other tracks, other wonders: the droney “Breathless,” the poppy “Grey Hair,” the loud and lovely “Poison.” Says Merge label co-head Mac McCaughan: “I think what got me the first time I heard ‘Coast to Coast’ [from Cerulean Salt] was a familiarity, but also combined with the uniqueness of Katie’s voice and the power of her personality behind the voice.” McCaughan brought Waxahatchee on tour to open for his band Superchunk last year. “Of course the main thing is that Katie writes great songs. And the new album is full of them.” Perhaps it’s because Waxahatchee’s music is so personal, or because American Weekend felt like an indie rock secret for so long, but it was genuinely jarring to hear a character on the highly rated TV show The Walking Dead suddenly start singing “Be Good” last season. The show is known for its musical taste — songs by fellow Merge acts Wye Oak and the Mountain Goats have been used as mood-setters — and the wide-eyed character Beth Greene had previously launched into Tom Waits and Irish traditional tune “Parting Glass” during moodier moments on the show. (At least until she got killed off.) The actress who played Beth, Emily Kinney, is a singer-songwriter in her own right; she went on to record her own clean-as-a-whistle songbird version of “Be Good” and made it the single on a recent EP.

Crutchfield found the entire experience bizarre — and eye-opening. For one thing, she’s never seen the show. For another: “I realized how much I don’t like that song when that happened … it’s cheesy and it’s sappy, and kind of sweet. It’s not really the kind of song I write, usually.” It worked on American Weekend, she says, because the gruff, lo-fi aesthetic helped mask the heart-on-sleeve lyrics. “You don’t wanna be my boyfriend and that’s probably for the best/ Because that, that gets messy and you will hurt me/ Or I’ll disappear.” “Basically that whole package works but seeing it cleaned up and sung in that way made me realize I’m not crazy about that song anymore. So I don’t really play it anymore.” It’s just that song, not American Weekend as a whole, though she agrees she’s improved as a songwriter since she made it. “Creatively, I’m more adventurous … but I’m still really proud of it. I feel like I just had a moment of such emotional clarity and I’m happy that I captured it.” Her next audio TV cameo will be on HBO’s Girls. At the request of the show’s star (and her Twitter-buddy) Lena Dunham, Crutchfield

“She knows about it, but we don’t discuss it.” The next time Waxahatchee plays Union Transfer they’ll be the headliners. And the lineup will be five strong, with her twin sister officially enlisted on guitar and Ashley Arnwine (of Pinkwash) on drums — along with longtime collaborators Spencer and Katherine Simonetti. “We have three guitar players and it’s just crazy up there,” says Crutchfield. With an Ivy Tripp tour looming, the quintet — possibly joined by Gilbride to work the soundboard and Crutchfield’s dog Frannie — seems to have outgrown her old minivan. So the hunt is on for a vehicle that can fit them all. As for practices, Crutchfield runs the show. She wrote the songs and she knows what she wants out of them. “In my head I’m like, ‘OK, today we’re gonna learn this song and tighten up this song and we’re gonna run through all of these songs and that’s what we’re gonna do,’” she says. “I like to stay focused, use the time wisely. … Sometimes if somebody isn’t doing that you don’t get very much done. You just kind of dick around.” In short, it’s a kindhearted rock ’n’ roll dictatorship. PHOTO BY CHRIS SIKICH

recorded a cover of a hit pop song that will likely surprise Waxahatchee fans. For now, she’s keeping the title under wraps. “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times.” That’s the name of a Beach Boys song and Crutchfield has it tattooed in cursive inside her right arm. So what times was she made for? “I don’t know. No times. We’ll see.” A less obfuscating tattoo occupies a decent chunk of her right upper arm: a black-and-tan recreation of the cover to Rilo Kiley’s 2002 album The Execution of All Things. Now defunct, that band and its fiercely idiosyncratic songwriter, Jenny Lewis, remain an inspiration. So it was basically a dream come true to open for Lewis on tour last year. “She’s one of those people who, as soon as you meet her, you’re immediately comfortable,” says Crutchfield. The opening gig at Union Transfer was particularly memorable, with so many friends in attendance and the room filled with giant bouncing balls that exploded when they hit the ceiling fans. “It was wild,” she says Has Lewis ever seen the tattoo?

“That’s why I wanted to do Waxahatchee, because I am the sole songwriter and it’s my passion project. … I feel like for this type of project I kind of need to have that power to veto things.” Then again, this group seems to be on the same page. “I totally have the dream team. There’s been a lot of growing pains and a lot of mistakes. I’ve made a lot of mistakes. At this point, I have a really good handle on it,” she says. “And I’ve surrounded myself with people that I trust and love.” Maybe it’s because she started playing shows at such a young age. Or maybe it’s because, as a woman, she’s survived a million horror stories about being underestimated or mistaken for a groupie. But she sounds like an artist with a game plan. “At this point I’m confident in what I’m doing, I feel like I deserve to be there, and if some guy’s gonna be a dick to me, yeah, I’m not having that.” (pat@citypaper.net, @mission2denmark) Waxahatchee plays Wed., April 8, 8:30 p.m., $15, with The Goodbye Party, Girlpool and DJs Jenn & Liz Pelly, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

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RECOVER STORY: Angela Manfredonia in artist Tess Kunik’s f ilm, Reasons I Want to Recover, featured in the Women’s Film Festival this month. TESS KUNIK

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BY MIKALA JAMISON

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How one film in the upcoming Women’s Film Festival helped its creator heal. IT WASN’T UNTIL she created a 25-minute long film about eating disorders that Tess Kunik realized the impact of her grandmother’s voice. Kunik, 24, a local artist, actress and UArts graduate, dove into filmmaking only about eight months ago. She got her start making promo videos for a Fringe Festival show she co-produced last year, Mad Blood and Other Beauties. Her most

recent film, Reasons I Want to Recover, features Kunik and several other young women expressing through movement, music, writing and more their connections to the pain and struggle of eating disorders. The film will be part of a local festival later this month — more on that later. Kunik calls it a work in progress, and says she’s looking for more people to share

their stories for the film. Kunik’s grandmother is one of the voiceovers in the film — Ann Hill Beuf was the first director of women’s studies at UPenn and had been studying anorexia. She died when Kunik was very young. “My mom found this radio interview of her about a year ago. … I didn’t really take it in [then] like I did when I found it again this year,” Kunik says. It was only about six months ago that Kunik says she acknowledged her own disordered eating patterns, and began to go to group therapy. “When I decided to make this film, I remembered this interview. It was exactly what I needed,” she says. In the film, Kunik’s grandmother says, “They [anorexics] have incredible compulsions about talking about food, looking at pictures of food, concern with weight, self measurement, getting a little bit smaller every day.” And with the phrase “getting a little bit smaller every day,” repeating over and over, the film cuts to Kunik manically writing a series of numbers — weights — on a pad. As her grandmother’s phrase repeats, the scene transforms into a grid, the one image duplicating into nine, then 25, then

49 and more. Kunik says it’s one of her favorite scenes in the film. In Reasons I Want to Recover, which can be viewed on YouTube and will also be one of the films showcased in the upcoming first annual “Women’s Film Festival: Showcasing the Bad-Ass Side of Women” at the Ethical Society of Philadelphia, Kunik makes herself the focus of scenes that speak to the emotional struggles of disordered eating. In one scene, she crams a doughnut into her mouth, wild-eyed. In another, she grabs at the skin of her stomach while lowering herself into a cardboard box. In another,

‘What I see in the mirror isn’t always right.’ she’s duct-taped to a chair in her underwear, sitting in front of the fridge — powerless in the presence of food. Other women in the film — Kunik’s friends, local artists, all people “who have suffered, who watched their loved ones suffer,” she says — are filmed doing things that Kunik says express their individual connection to their struggle. One woman, Angela Manfredonia, smears peanut butter, jelly and sprinkles on her face. Campbell O’Hare, dances in a

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Rarely do we get the sense of extremism that the words themselves suggest.

CURTAIN CALL

BY DAVID FOX

A TAME TRAGEDY Thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it. THUS SHAKESPEARE’S LADY PITHILY sums up her husband, Macbeth. Maybe things would have worked out better for her if instead of aspiring to the throne of Scotland, she’d become a theater critic. Because what she says applies equally to Macbeth the play — and pinpoints what’s missing at the Arden. Ambition it has. But what this honorable but tame production lacks is the play’s illness — that is, the passionate, terrifying grandeur that can make it so thrilling. There are built-in challenges to presenting Macbeth in a relatively intimate space. In many ways, director

Alexander Burns and his designers have found imaginative solutions. The storytelling is clear, and the stage pictures often striking. An elaborate soundscape (by James Sugg) sets the mood. By the end, though, that soundtrack seems to have done more than its share of the heavy lifting. Ultimately, the acting — which really should be what brings size and scale to Macbeth — doesn’t pull its weight. All of the company handles the verse with skill, and the language and meaning are clearly articulated. But only Ian Merrill Peakes as Macbeth brings life and specificity to the text. He, too, could use more grandeur — but it’s a performance rich in detail. The rest of the cast largely choose a single affect and play it from beginning to end. Rarely do we get the sense of extremism that the words themselves suggest. When Lady commands, “Unsex me here/And fill me from the

crown to the toe top-full/Of direst cruelty,” we should quake in our boots. Here, she seems somewhere between bored and slightly vexed. We could be watching *The Real Housewives of Aberdeen. As I said, there are some terrific visuals, and Peakes is absolutely worth seeing. But a great Macbeth should feel like an off-the-Richter-scale earthquake. What we have here is a tremor. Through April 19, $36-$50, Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second St., 215-922-1122, ardentheatre.org.

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kitchen while stomping on cupcakes. Kunik’s 15-year-old sister Olivia sings an original song while playing piano. The tune is perky and upbeat, but the lyrics are heart wrenching: “Stomach rumbles/ You skip a meal/ Because you know that nothing tastes as a good as skinny feels.” And, “Give away a sandwich and chips because a minute on the lips is a lifetime on the hips/Eat one damn thing and hurl/ Because you know boys don’t like fat girls.” The subject of Kunik’s film is one she believes many women — and men — relate to. That sense of connection is at the heart of the “Women’s Film Festival.” Layne Marie Williams, who co-created the festival with Phuong Nguyen, says she plans to make it an annual event. This year, there are 18 films in the festival by local female filmmakers; the films focus on topics like relationships, sexual assault, women in the workplace, catcalling and religion. As far as a filmmaking scene in Philly, Williams says “There is little to none.” There’s a need, she says, “for a women’s film festival that [gives] women of any background the chance to be showcased in a truly empowering light. We hope that people walk away from the festival feeling enlightened, touched or perhaps even healed.” Kunik says that’s what her film has done for her; she says making the film was very difficult but also

extremely liberating. “In a way, [the film] made me look [at myself] objectively, and see myself and realize what I see in the mirror isn’t always right,” she says. “It absolutely helped me in how I see myself.” (mikala@citypaper.net) Women’s Film Festival, March 27-29, Ethical Society of Philadelphia, 1906 Rittenhouse Square, thewomensfilmfestival.org.

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PHONED-IN: Dystopia is dull in Divergent sequel, Insurgent

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/ C- / While it’d be unfair to begrudge an actor of any stature for snapping up a role in a series the size and scope of Divergent, it hurts a little to think that Shailene Woodley is stuck playing Tris Prior for two more PYTs-in-post-apocalyptica installments. Hokier than The Hunger Games and too boring to be enjoyed on its action merits alone, the franchise isn’t worth Woodley’s talent, but here we are. Insurgent, the second of four overwrought movies about a dull future characterized by fashionable activewear and oppressive social factions, represents a regression from last year’s kickoff film. The dialogue’s more stilted, the conflict’s more canned and the characters

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823 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org.The Wicker Man (1973, U.S., 94 min.): The enduring weirdness of this surreal psycho-pagan thriller has not been sullied by the super-bad Nic Cage remake. NOT THE BEES! Thu., March 19, 7:15 p.m., $12.Behind and Beyond the Oscars: A Conversation with Cheryl Boone Isaacs Current Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Isaacs will speak about the state of film and take questions from the audience. Fri., March 20, 7 p.m., $25. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009, U.S., 94 min.): The third installment in the Ice Age franchise features the voices of Bill Hader, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary and John Leguizamo. Sat., March 21, 11 a.m., $5. Love’s Labour’s Lost (2015, U.K., 135 min.): The Bard’s comedy as performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in February 2015. Sun., March 22, 1 p.m., $20.Innocent Sorcerers (1960, Poland, 88 min.): The Old World meets the New Wave in legendary Polish director Andrzej Wajda’s stylish black-and-white classic. Tue., March 24, 7:15 p.m., $12. Althea (2014, U.S., 77 min.): Documentary about Althea Gibson, a pioneering but often overlooked tennis icon. Director Rex Miller and producer Lisa Hoffstein will attend. Wed., March 25, 7 p.m., $12. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE

seem only half-conceived. On the run with her also-Divergent boyfriend Four (Theo James), Tris navigates relationships with several other factions in the hopes of evading the grip of Jeanine, Kate Winslet’s chilly power-bobbed prime minister. But she can’t stay on the lam forever, thanks to a fancy glowing box Jeanine discovers under the floorboards of Tris’ childhood home. To describe this outof-nowhere object as a deus ex machina would be giving it too much credit, but let’s just say everyone starts caring a tremendous amount about the fancy glowing box. Except the audience, because who cares? Watching everyone kvetch over the thing brings out the worst in Insurgent’s principals — even Woodley, who’s made to weep and writhe with stilted guilt so unconvincing that it almost feels more natural to root for the people trying to kill her. (wide release)

side. It’s a classic superhero origin story: the revelation that with great power comes great responsibility, leading Randi to become a lifelong champion for skepticism. Both onstage and off Randi became the heir to Harry Houdini, debunking scam artists who claimed to possess supernatural or psychic powers. His most famous takedowns are recounted in detail — his pursuit of spoon-

bending mentalist Uri Geller from talk show to talk show, his “man behind the curtain” exposing of faith healer Peter Popoff. Both are distressingly intriguing case studies of how resistant true believers are to plainspoken truth (neither man lost his career), though an elaborate Randi hoax to expose flaws in the scientific

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3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983, U.K., 112 min.): “That’s the machine that goes ‘ping!’ That means your baby is still alive.” Thu., March 19, 7 p.m., $9. Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Belgium/France, 201 min.): Chantal Akerman’s experimental epic chronicling the life of a seemingly mundane middle-aged widow. Fri., March 20, 7 p.m., free (RSVP required). Hill Start (2014, Israel, 92 min.): Family comedy starring Israeli funnyman Shlomo Bar-Aba as the patriarch of a highly dysfunctional upper-middle-class family. Part of the Israeli Film Festival. Sat., March 21, 8:45 p.m., $13. A War Story(2014, Israel, 53 min.): Documentary following the challenges Israel’s Channel 10 war correspondents face when reporting on the Gaza conflict. Director Tzipi Baider will be in attendance. Part of the Israeli Film Festival. Sun., March 22, 5 p.m., $13. Seed of Life (2014, Israel, 73 min.): This documentary feature follows one mother’s difficult journey to honor her deceased son with a child of his own. Director Tzipi Baider will be in attendance. Part of the Israeli Film Festival. Sun., March 22, 7 p.m., $13. Il Giovane Favoloso (2014, Italy, 137 min.): Ambitious period biopic celebrating the life of Italian poet, essayist and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi. Mon., March 23, 7 p.m., free (RSVP required). PFS THEATER AT THE ROXY

2023 Sansom St., 267-639-9508, filmadelphia.org/roxy. Filmadelphia at The Roxy. Showcasing six short films from locally based filmmakers. Tue., March 24, 7:30 p.m., free (RSVP required).

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Throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, much of the most memorable music was created by artists whose names never appeared on the album covers. Several recent documentaries have helped remedy that oversight — Standing in the Shadows of Motown for the Funk Brothers, Muscle Shoals for The Swampers and FAME Studios. But no group of musicians appeared on quite as many recordings across a broad spectrum of pop culture as L.A.’s

Wrecking Crew. This looseknit clan of West Coast session cats numbered in the dozens, its membership vaguely defined but essentially comprising the city’s most in-demand players. The Wrecking Crew was shot sporadically over the course of more than 20 years by Denny Tedesco, son of Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco, whose fretwork can be heard on virtually every memorable TV theme of the ’60s (Bonanza, M*A*S*H, Batman) as well as countless pop hits. In its final form the film is somewhat confused, partly a tribute from father to son, partly a portrait of a lost era. But it’s also full of stories from artists whose sound defined an era in multiple ways — omnipresent drummer Hal Blaine, saxophonist Plas Johnson, bassist Carol Kaye (the Crew’s sole female member and a jaw-dropping virtuoso who deserves a film of her own). They’re the band for Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, for Brian Wilson’s Beach Boys, for surf rock and TV themes: The film is most memorable for the number of times it inspires another, “That one, too?” — SB (Ritz at the Bourse)

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An in-demand choreographer, Jessica Lang has created more than 80 works for companies worldwide, including Birmingham Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Japan and the Joffrey Ballet. Both her ballets and contemporary dances display dramatic visual beauty with strong musical underpinnings. Lang grew up in Doylestown, yet her show at the Annenberg marks her company’s local debut. It’s about time we got to see this artful woman’s stellar craftsmanship in a program designed to showcase the breadth of her choreographic concepts. —Deni Kasrel

thursday

to do “The Time Warp” — is encouraged. —Mark Cofta

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE!

$3-$10 | Thu., March 19, 8 p.m., with Amanda X, the Abandos and Cheerbleeders, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org.

$20 | Through March 28, BrainSpunk Theater at PaperMill Arts, 2825 Ormes St., 215-278-9504, brainspunktheater.com. THEATER I first saw the 1975

cult film in 1978 and have seen it many times since, so I can attest that Richard O’Brien’s 1973 stage musical (on which the film is based) has all its great songs, campy innuendo and ’50s sci-fi cheesiness. BrainSpunk’s version, inaugurating the company’s new Kensington home, boasts Deborah Bergen’s rockin’ band, a strong cast including John Schultz as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, and a fun turn-it-up-to-11 approach that’s hindered occasionally by a hinky sound system. Christopher King’s designs include all the requisite tight leather, corsets and fishnets, and his staging fits a big show into a small space well. Rocky Horror “virgins” are “initiated” in a fun way, and traditional audience participation — including coming in costume and joining the cast

PISSED JEANS

PUNK Pissed Jeans lead

singer Matt Korvette once described his band as “the musical equivalent to watching a toilet flush.” Their music is supposed to suck all the energy out of the listener. But in truth, the group’s plodding hardcore punk energizes like no other: BRAD FRY

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GUITAR ARMY

Free | Thu., March 19, 4 p.m.2:10 a.m., The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave., 215- 6347400, thebarbary.org. ROCK/DJ When MC5 bassist Michael Davis passed away back in 2012, Philly’s Guitar Army was born. Three years later, the monthly residency is still going strong — bashing sludgy rock, garage, psych and soul hits from wall-to-wall upstairs at The Barbary’s Barbarella room. Edward B. Gieda III will celebrate another year of Bolan-esque riffs and kickin’ jams with a 10-hour, nonstop rock ’n’ roll DJ set. Wear your good glam shoes. —Nikki Volpicelli

with an unexpectedly fantastical yarn populated by dragons, ogres and knights. Chances are it’s gonna turn some people off — the Inky was nonplussed — but considering Ishiguro’s track record, The Buried Giant has probably earned a shot. —Patrick Rapa

sound belongs in films if they weren’t already there. Rachel Yamagata, meanwhile, isn’t so much Radin’s opener as she is an equal with her own long catalog of haunted arrangements and quirky lyrical viewpoints. —A.D. Amorosi

JOSHUA RADIN/ RACHEL YAMAGATA

$5 | Fri., March 20, 8 p.m., with Whitewash, Jackie Paper and Seismic Thrust, Everybody Hits Philadelphia, 529 W. Girard Ave., 215-769-7500, everybodyhitsphila.com.

SINGING-SONGWRITER

ROCK/PUNK This punk show has seen a few D.I.Y. alterations (specifically, where it would happen) since it was announced in early January, but we’re certain it’s landed exactly where it should. Just picture it: Four violently fuzzy rock acts — Whitewash from New York, the rest from Philly — playing at a place with enough bats, balls and cages to equip a riot. —Nikki Volpicelli

MUMBLR

$25-$27 | Fri., March 20, 8 p.m., with Cary Brothers, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com.

On his last few albums — starting at 2012’s Underwater and continuing through the new Onward and Sideways (self-released) —

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When there’s a release of energy, it’s not draining, it’s cathartic. After more than a decade of piss, the Allentown punks still have tricks up their pants. Consider their brutal 2014 collaboration with hardcore vocalist/professional wrestler UltraMantis Black. —Sam Fox

$15 | Fri., March 20, 7:30 p.m., Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org. READING/SIGNING After a

nine-year hiatus, the author of unforgettable novels Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day returns

ORRIN EVANS/KURT ROSENWINKEL

Joshua Radin has figured out the art of conversational songwriting, with sonically, atmospherically and lyrically picturesque twists. I’d say that his Paul Simon-ish

$25 | Fri.-Sat., March 20-21, 8 and 10 p.m., Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com. JAZZ Only six years separate guitarist Kurt

DRESSED TO EXCESS: $20$50 | Thu.-Sat., March 19-21, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, annenbergcenter.org. SHAREN BRADFORD

Rosenwinkel and pianist Orrin Evans, but that can seem like an eternity to a young musician. So while Evans remembers avidly checking out Rosenwinkel in his younger days, the two didn’t cross paths onstage until about a year ago, when the guitarist sat in with Evans’ Captain Black Big Band at World Café. They’ll reunite this weekend in a more intimate setting, when Rosenwinkel joins Evans’ trio. —Shaun Brady

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MUPPETY MUSICAL MAYHEM: TRIBUTE TO JIM HENSON

$10 | Sat., March 21, 5 p.m., Melodies Café, 2 E. Lancaster Ave., Ardmore, 610-6455269, melodiescafe.com. ROCK/POP/TRIBUTE This

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kid-friendly talent show features local musicians — Reverend TJ McGlinchey, A Fistful of Sugar, David Fishkin, tons more — performing classics from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, etc. We’re not just talking about the hits, like “Rainbow Connection� and “C is for Cookie.� The announced set list so far includes Rowlf’s sweetly sexist “I Hope That Somethin’ Better Comes Along,� Ernie’s emo ballad “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon� and the deep-cut experimental jazz number “Saxophone Factory.� —Patrick Rapa

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ogy as it is a set of modern jazz compositions, integrating interviews with Puerto Rican Americans into the sonic fabric. —Shaun Brady

STEVE LEHMAN OCTET

$25 | Sat., March 21, 8 p.m., Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., arsnovaworkshop.com. JAZZ When jazz neo-cons talk about the “intellectual” jazz that comes out of the university system, they’re talking about composers like Steve Lehman, who uses

heady concepts like spectral harmony to create intricate, complex compositions that defy easy, toe-tapping enjoyment. But Mise en Abîme (Pi), the latest by Lehman’s

jaw-droppingly skilled octet, is also one of the best CDs released last year, a thrilling, multifaceted achievement that intensely rewards those who dig into its knotty, tightly interwoven layers. —Shaun Brady

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PERFUME GENIUS

$16-$18 | Tue., March 24, 8:30 p.m., with Jenny Hval, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com. CHAMBER POP Singersongwriter Mike Hadreas may have pulled off the most dramatic artistic metamorphosis of 2014 with his album Too Bright (Matador). His first two releases, Learning and Put Your Back N 2 It, largely featured minimalist, vulnerable, piano-based tunes. Too Bright, on the other hand, is a maximalist, rage-fueled, experimental romp. Hadreas may don

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IT ’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT MARGARET ATWOOD, Oryx and Crake PETER HELLER, The Dog Stars CHANG-RAE LEE, On Such a Full Sea DYSTOPIAN LITERARY FICTION is the greatest genre of all time. Throw Anna Karenina (the novel) under the train — all we need is a mysterious mass death event and pearly oblique sentences. Even so, the Grumpy Librarian finds Oryx and Crake a tough sell: World-building is at least half the point here, but there’s a reason folks aren’t still buying tickets for The Triumph of Peace (it’s a 17th-century masque people, jeez, duh). Round characters have become fairly central to “the novel,� which is why you should be reading Colson Whitehead’s Zone One. OK, it’s a fancy take on zombies rather than allegorical epidemics or economic parables. But it’s emotionally resonant in both its present-day scenes of struggle and its effectively metered flashbacks, and it shares the surprising humor of The Dog Stars. The GL is still reading On Such a Full Sea, but as of right now she semi-respectfully thinks you’re wrong about that one, too.

wednesday

LIBERACE!

$10 | Wed., March 25, 8:30 p.m., with Okay Kaya, Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 877-435-9849, bootandsaddlephilly.com.

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TOBIAS JESSO JR.

$30 | March 24-April 12, Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., 215-574-3550, walnutstreettheatre.org. THEATER The biggest

surprise about playwrightdirector Brent Hazelton’s 2011 tribute to “Mr. Showmanship� is that it didn’t happen sooner. Pianist Liberace (1919-1987) was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony at age 16 and a MICHAEL BROSILOW

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gold sequins and lipstick, but make no mistake: The man is ruthless on the mic. —Sam Fox

TV pioneer with his own hit show starting in 1952. He won two Emmy Awards and had six gold albums, but is most remembered for his bold bejeweled and feathered costumes, and his joyously flamboyant theatrics. Jack Forbes Wilson plays him in a show that reveals the man behind the myth. —Mark Cofta

ROCK/POP This lanky Canadian writes simple, earnest, decidedly unfashionable piano ballads about heartbreak and friendship and struggling with Los Angeles, and he does it with seemingly zero of the ironic distance of, say, a Father John Misty. The opening moments of his quietly addictive debut album recall things like “Rocket Man� and the theme from Cheers. There’s a song addressed to his (imaginary, I think?) 1-day-old daughter that, amusingly, sounds like Randy Newman’s “Short People.� If nothing else, Goon (True Panther) points up how far we’ve come, for better and worse, since the heyday of Paul McCartney, Carole King and Harry Nilsson. Which, in itself, is surely worth something. —K. Ross Hoffman

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before. Flights will be on offer as well as glasses of Riffault’s vintages. a.bar, 135 S. 18th St., 4-6 p.m., pay-as-you-go. The folks at Tria are taking a trip back to 1989 with pours of 25-year-old D’Oliveiras Sercial Vintage Madeira. These ultra-rare bottles are in limited supply so we suggest getting in early to grab a glass paired with Boerenkaas, an aged Gouda from the Netherlands. Tria, 123 S. 18th St., 4 p.m., pay-as-you-go.

WINE WEEK PLANNER

With Philadelphia Wine Week kicking off on Sunday, here’s a day-to-day guide to the best pours in town. BACK FOR A SECOND YEAR, Philly Wine Week is bringing in an international cast of winemakers, writers and rare pours for awesome happenings all over the city. Look forward to beer versus wine battles, meet-and-greets with winemaker-farmers, a salon with natural wine first lady Alice Feiring, wine-soaked movie nights and plenty of pairings. Here’s a look at the grand cru of Philly Wine Week events. SUNDAY, MARCH 22 Opening Corks, the premiere party for Wine Week, is taking over the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for an evening of festive pours of sparklings, whites and rosés. Along with plenty of Champagne (we’re pretty sure that there will be at least a few dramatically

sabered bottles), light bites are coming from Alla Spina, Tria Café, Jet Wine Bar and Panorama. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118-128 N. Broad St., 5 p.m., $75. Barbuzzo is offering a hearty welcome to Wine Week with a fiercely regional combo of Beef Cheek Bourguignon and Burgundy accompanied by mushroom risotto, glazed carrots and a glass of pinot noir from Domain des Rouges Queues. Barbuzzo, 110 S. 13th St., 5 p.m., $35. MONDAY, MARCH 23 Single varietal Sancerre is the name of the game at a.bar for happy hour. Sommelier Mariel Wega is welcoming winemaker Sebastien Riffault and importer Zev Rovine for an afternoon of Loire Valley sauvignon blanc like you’ve never tasted

TUESDAY, MARCH 24 Watch beer and wine battle it out when importer David “Hardcore” McDuff goes head-to-head against Khyber Pass resident beer dude Jonny “Metal” Medlinski for an evening of food, beer and wine pairings. Diners decide who takes home the title. Alla Spina, 1410 Mount Vernon St., 6:30 p.m., $65. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 Four of Philadelphia’s top women in wine (Lauren Harris of Townsend, Mariel Wega of a.kitchen, Chloe Grigri of The Good King Tavern and Megan Storm of Artisan’s Cellars) are welcoming the grande dame of natural wine, Alice Feiring, author of The Battle for Wine and Love and Naked Wine, for a full day of events. It begins with a Q&A with Feiring at a.bar, with snacks from chef Eli Kulp. a.bar, 135 S. 18th St., 12:30-1 p.m., free. Later in the evening, Harris is hosting a Salon du Vin dinner, five wines handpicked by the ladies and served with a five-course menu from chef Townsend Wentz. Townsend, 1623 E. Passyunk Ave., 7 p.m., $135. Also: Petruce’s Tim Kweeder is taking the night off and heading to Bardot to host Under the Sherry Moon, an evening celebrating the versatile fortified wine. Bardot, 447 Poplar St., 8 p.m., pay-as-you-go. And to cap off the evening, Grigri is hosting a post-dinner soiree with a screening of Senza Trucco, an Italian documentary featuring female natural winemakers, plus hand-picked wines pouring until 1 a.m. The Good King Tavern, 614 S. Seventh St., 11 p.m., pay-as-you-go.

THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Not content to fully relinquish it’s beercentric allegiances for Wine Week, the South Philly Taproom will host an evening of Natural Wines and Funky Beers i.e. wines that appeal to the geekier beer set. Along with beer-nerd bait like Russian River Supplication and Lindeman’s Gueze, they’ll be pouring natural wines from Domaine Guillot-Broux in the Macon and a few special bottles from Sicily-based cult winemaker Frank Cornelissen. South Philly Taproom, 1509 Mifflin St., 5 p.m., pay-as-you-go. FRIDAY, MARCH 27 Vedge and V Street restaurants have been big supporters of minimally manipulated natural wines for some time, and for Wine Week they’re welcoming sommelier Tim Mortimer of Jenny & Francois Imports to talk shop with guests and pop a few special bottles. Vedge, 1221 Locust St., 5 p.m., pay-as-you-go. SATURDAY, MARCH 28 Osteria is heading down to the cellar and dusting off some big guns for its high-end

Look forward to winemakers, writers and rare pours for awesome happenings all over the city. flight night. Head to the bar or make a reservation to try some Italian gems rarely served by the glass. Osteria, 640 N. Broad St., 5 p.m., pay-as-you-go. SUNDAY, MARCH 29 Closing out Wine Week with a bang, Tria is offering glasses of cult Rioja favorite 2005 Lopez de Heredia Rioja Blanco Gravonia at a very deep discount. Head in, sip and be prepared to throw all your white wine preconceptions out the window. Tria Café, 123 S. 18th St., 4 p.m., pay-as-you-go. To wrap up another Philly Wine Week, American Sardine Bar is replacing a few of its beer lines with kegged wine. It’s also going to be opening up its backyard for the season, lighting up a fire pit and roasting a whole pig. American Sardine Bar, 1800 Federal St., 3 p.m., pay-as-you-go. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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W/N W/N | 931 Spring Garden St., winwincoffeebar. com. Mon. 7 a.m.-3 p.m.; Tue. -Thu., 7 a.m.-mid.; Fri., 7 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sat., 9 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sun. 9 a.m.-mid. It used to be that if you wanted to open a restaurant, you’d take one of three routes. You’d court investors or lean on wealthy parents. Or you might drain your savings, smash your piggy bank and max out a few credit cards. The third route was a combination of the first two. That’s all changing — even as our collective understanding of what a restaurant is changes. You can crowd-fund. You can pop-up. You can collab with Drexel’s hospitality think tank like Top Chef’s Carla Hall. At W/N W/N (say it “win win”), a new cortadosto-cocktails hang on Spring Garden Street, a quintet of friends went for a cooperative-ownership model. “Essentially, everyone who owns a portion of the business works on the floor at the shop, and everyone who works with us has a path to co-ownership,” explains Tony Montagnaro, whose responsibilities include “AM kitchen, building, outreach.” When Montagnaro says building, he means it, whether it’s W/N’s physical digs, whose creeping succulents, worn woodwork and dried herb bundles conjure the charmingly disheveled office of an eccentric professor, or the custom crowd-funding platform he and his team created for the project. Even though the Elixr-brewing café is open, you can still buy “shares” at the rate of $25 a pop. A share gets you $30 in-house credit, redeemable in 25 percent increments each time you visit. Here, local sourcing is paramount, from the produce in the fresh-pressed, magenta apple-beet juice to the spelt flour in the nutty, maple-sweetened almond shortbread cookies. “Since variety is rather limited in the winter, right now we’re doing a root- and-fermentation-focused menu that we feel accurately reflects the culinary culture surrounding the Northeastern United States during the cold months,” Montagnaro says. Think sharp, pickled-watermelon radish atop a crispy, krautveined savory pancake crisscrossed with Kewpie mayo and tangy hoisin sauce made from jujube dates. Some of the plates were more win-lose than winwin. I liked the idea of layering a Spanish-style omelet with winter vegetables like beets, celery root, sweet potatoes and rutabaga, but the veggies should not be so dense that you can’t identify the egg. And the wedge of rosemary-scented olive oil cake was so dry, I had to chase it with my cup of Elixr. Fortunately, the coffee — the crux of any café — was spot-on. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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