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Comcast hires a new senior “VP of customer experience” and doubles the size of its social media team.

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Politicians in Glasgow, Scotland, force the cancellation of a show by Eat the Turnbuckle because of the Philadelphia band’s reputation for onstage acts of selfmutilation. But the Turnbucklers’ tour continued, and they fought like warrior poets.

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PLUS IT UP: Tim Ambrogi Saxon (right) and his brother, Mike Ambrogi Primo, established Final Form Games in 2009.

Their indie studio is based at the Game Forge in Old City.

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WOODEN SHIPS SAILING ACROSS MARS?

A new video game, which imagines Jamestown settlers in the 1600s battling galactic enemies on Mars, wins a Philly indie studio a choice spot on Sony’s PlayStation Store.

THE CITY’S VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY scored a big win last week, when one of its indie studios released a fantastical game for Sony’s PS4 console that was promoted widely on the online PlayStation Store. It was the second time in only three months that a local game studio added a title to Sony’s digital media shop.

Jamestown+ is the brainchild of brothers Tim Ambrogi Saxon and Mike Ambrogi Primo of Final Form Games. Available by digital download, Jamestown+ is a fourplayer, cooperative, 2-D shoot-’em-up game that imagines what life would be like for 17th-century British settlers battling enemies and fighting for survival on colonial Mars.

Tim (both he and his brother took their respective wives’ surnames) explains the underlying premise for Jamestown+ like this: “If people told the story of alien planets of the future, in the 1600s, maybe they’d come up with something like this. It’s like old-fashioned sci-fi.”

Indeed, the game could be characterized as the commingling of steampunk aesthetics, the imaginative faculties of Jules Verne in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and the futuristic sensibilities of entrepreneur and SpaceX founder Elon Musk whenever he talks about colonizing Mars. Add about a dozen wooden ships kitted out with pixelated weaponry that the British Empire couldn’t have fathomed in the 1600s, not to mention seven different levels for players to go gallivanting around in, and you have

Jamestown+.

“We didn’t want it to be [the] Mars that people know today,” Tim says. “We wanted it to be the Mars that people imagined back in 1600.” The fantastical elements of Jamestown+, while inexplicable by definition (wooden ships on Mars?), are precisely what make the game delightfully entertaining.

“We may have gone a little too crazy to the extent to which we ‘plus-ed’ it up,” quips Mike, who was responsible for the penciland-paper drawings and computer sketches in Adobe Photoshop that eventually became the pixel art at the heart of Jamestown+.

Plus, in fact, is the bigger, badder version of Final Form Games’ original Jamestown game, the first game the studio released, in 2011. Original Jamestown was created as, and still is, a four-player co-op shooting game, but it was only a PC game. (In those days, Final Form Games was a three-man shop: Developer Halsted Larsson, who worked on the original Jamestown, recently left the company.) Tim says Final Form had wanted to release Jamestown as a console game — PS4 naturally lends itself to four players hanging out on the couch and playing a game on the television — but only began chatting with Sony about two years ago to get a version of Jamestown available for the PlayStation console.

“We’ve always wanted to put it out on the console,” says Tim. “We had some concerns about how we put out a console [game] with a small team. … [Sony has] been really a great distributor to work with.”

We wanted it to be the Mars that people imagined back in 1600.

Putting console games on the shelves of stores like GameStop requires a chain of middlemen, each of whom takes a cut for services, such as distribution and marketing. A $60 game leaves enough financial cushion for each link in that chain to make some money with some left over for the video game developer, whereas a $12 game like Jamestown+, is impractical to sell on store shelves. But what makes console games viable for small video game studios now is a revolution in the delivery method, namely via digital download, which is exactly how Jamestown+ is being sold. Once players buy the game on the PlayStation Store, they own it, and can connect to the game from essentially anywhere with a PS4 without needing a disc. Of course, at $12, Jamestown+ is considerably more expensive than other games purchased through smartphone app stores, for instance.

“What we found is there is a market who is willing to pay more for a game made by a smaller team,” says Tim. “This is a new era of video games as a whole, big players like Sony dealing with smaller studios like us and Final Form,” says Will Stallwood, co-founder of another Philly-based indie video game studio, Cipher Prime. The credit for the first indie video game release on the PlayStation platform goes to Stallwood and Cipher Prime co-founder Dain Saint: Their Splice, an artistic puzzle game where players rearrange cells to fit an outlined pattern in order to progress to different

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levels, came out for PS3 and PS4 in January.

While the Ambrogi brothers don’t know yet how many people have downloaded Jamestown+ — Sony works on a quarterly basis, and therefore won’t have data for them for several months — Tim says the game was promoted widely on Sony’s PlayStation Store after its March 17 release, and has been well received by the local video game community.

“We’ve actually had a couple people in Philly contact us about making video games,” he says. “It makes me proud to make something that makes Philly look good.

It’s a feather in the cap for the city.”

It’s fitting that Cipher Prime and Final Form Games would be one and two, respectively, when it comes to Philadelphia-based indie studios releasing video games for PlayStation. The two studios, which have been around in Philly since the last decade (Cipher Prime formed in 2008; Final Form Games was established in 2009), would eventually share office space in what is today known as the Philly Game Forge, the Old City co-working space that is home to more than a dozen video game studios.

“It’s not going to be the last big console launch out of Philadelphia,” predicts Stallwood. “The fact that you’re seeing two happen in the last year out of this small place where people make games, I think it’s pretty awesome.”

Philly’s indie gaming scene has grown in scope and size over the last six years. Well-respected by the indie gaming community in the U.S., Philly game studios — and the games they create — have received acclaim and attention at annual events like the Game Developers Conference. At the most recent IndieCade Festival, an international showcase event for indie game developers and studios, Stallwood says Philadelphia had the most games represented from a single city.

“Philly — from a games scene and a money perspective — is absolutely slaughtering nationally,” he says.

“We’re seeing the growth of a million-dollar industry from just a few years ago. If you add everyone together, it’s probably at least over $2 million.”

Count Jamestown+ as another milestone in the development of the local indie game scene.

“It feels like it’s been a really long time, but I realize, in looking back, it’s been maybe five, six years since we first started out,” says Tim Ambrogi Saxon. “Now the scene is really blossoming.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

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COMPLICATED CASES: Dr. Franklin Yates, the lone physician at FIGHT’s Center City health-care clinic, says most of the patients he sees have more than one illness.

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EX-OFFENDERS GET CARE AT FIGHT’S NEW HEALTH CLINIC Barriers to re-entry after prison often are invisible, but still there.

SINCE AUGUST, when Philadelphia FIGHT opened a Center City health clinic to focus mainly on treating ex-offenders, hundreds of patients have come to staff physician Franklin Yates for care. Almost everyone who walks in the door, he says, has not one chronic disease, but multiple illnesses, like “depression, hypertension, diabetes and all three or more.”

“Some of them haven’t seen doctors in years. This population has been neglected for so long that their presentation is com-

plicated and a lot of problems have to be addressed,” he says. “It’s rare that I ask a patient to follow-up in a year for a … checkup. It’s usually, ‘Come back next month.’”

That’s why just seven months after opening its doors, FIGHT’s John Bell Health Center is seeking to expand. A second doctor will join Yates this summer. Additional programs are being considered, including one that would administer the drug that prevents the spread of HIV. There’s also talk of a larger space near the clinic’s current

offices at 13th and Locust streets.

“A lot of people have been expressing a lot of gratitude because we’re actually doing this,” says Jane Shull, FIGHT’s executive director.

“The need is enormous.”

Some may wonder why FIGHT, which is best known for its efforts to stop the spread of HIV and to treat those already infected, is focusing on the ex-offender population. It’s a natural move, Shull says, as this group is known to have higher rates of infectious diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C. The clinic is also affiliated with FIGHT’s Institute for Community Justice, a re-entry program for those recently released from prison.

The ex-offenders need specialized care because of the many obstacles they face when they leave prison, nurse practitioner Angie Norris says. On the inside, they know the feeling of being confined behind cold, metal bars.

There are bars outside the prison walls as well, but they’re invisible and untouchable, but still effective, she says.

“They have so many barriers working against them when they try to find a job, find housing, find health care,” she says. “There are so many things externally that tell them how they should see themselves as broken or damaged or less than, which is not good for health.”

Yates, the clinic’s first doctor, says telling people they have multiple medical issues can be overwhelming for the patients and for him.

The key is compassion, he says.

“The number-one thing to do is to have the patient know we do care, not just by my words, but by our actions — by getting that patient help,” he says. “Even if a patient [has multiple illnesses] on that initial visit, we have to triage their problems, prioritize.”

Besides their physical ailments, a majority of the patients are depressed, Yates says.

Norris, who is also a yoga instructor, leads each patient in a “conscious-breathing” exercise during each appointment. No one has turned down the opportunity, she says.

“We don’t fix or heal anyone. People do that themselves,” she says. “We give them the information and tools like medicines or tests, but they have to do the work themselves.”

Some patients have told her they’re continuing the practice away from her office.

One man in his mid-20s told her taking the time to breathe in deeply has helped him not internalize problems.

“He used to beat himself up over a lot of stuff.

He’s not doing that anymore,” she says. “He’s focusing on moving forward.”

Shull says about 450 patients have visited thus far and she would like to triple that number within a year. A majority of those are former offenders. The others are any person seeking care from a federally qualified health center. Some have insurance. Others work with the clinic to obtain insurance or pay on a sliding scale. Public travel vouchers are available.

“We come from a perspective that everybody deserves treatment regardless of insurance status, regardless of diagnosis,” Yates says.

‘A lot of people have been expressing a lot of gratitude because we’re actually doing this.

The need is enormous.’

One challenge for the health-care workers is getting patients used to the idea of appointments. The clinic has a first-time appointment no-show rate of about 33 percent. That’s on par for centers working with this population, he says, but still high.

“We can call [the patients] before an appointment, call after, but some of these people do not have working phones. Some don’t even have mailing addresses,” he says. “A fair number of patients come in for a first visit and don’t come back, or they’ll show up at an unexpected time if they’re sick or something.”

One of his patients, however, never misses an appointment, never shows up late. The 55-year-old North Philadelphia man, who has been out of prison for about three years, arrived with blood pressure so high that he was given medicine at the office and made to wait an hour until it dropped to a safer level. Yates continued to give him sample blood-pressure medications until he obtained health insurance a month later. Now, his hypertension is being managed and he’s seeing a specialist for treatment for a mass on his lung.

“His prognosis would be much poorer … if he’d never come in,” Yates says. “He’s very appreciative.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

BY LILLIAN SWANSON

What is most heartening in winning these awards is that City Paper was judged the best in so many different aspects of what it takes to produce good journalism.

CITY PAPER REPEATS KEYSTONE TITLE JUST AS WE WERE TAKING A DEEP BREATH after launching City Paper’s jazzy new design last week, we got word that the paper had won top honors in its division, for the second year in a row, in the 2015 Professional Keystone Press Awards contest.

With a total of 11 awards, across categories ranging from news to features to page design, City Paper won the “Sweepstakes Award” as best in its category — large weekly newspapers.

In addition, judges in the contest sponsored by Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association honored senior staff writer Emily Guendelsberger with a second-place specialty prize for Distinguished Writing in weekly publications. Among the articles the judges considered were her “Dispatches from a Medieval War” and “A Bitter End,” a two-part story examining end-of-life issues through the lens of a Philly nurse who fought for a year to clear herself of homicide charges in her elderly father’s death.

Journalists in Michigan reviewed the submissions, 4,100 pieces of work published in 2014 by 133 publications large and small, dailies and weeklies, across Pennsylvania.

What is most heartening in winning these awards is that City Paper was judged to be the best in so many different aspects of what it takes to produce good journalism. The honors give us a big boost to keep moving forward, to keep evolving in print and on the web in step with quickly changing times.

The paper won seven first-place awards, in these categories: • Series. Emily Guendelsberger. For theTeachers Anonymous essays permitting teachers to write without signing their names to articles about the problems and joys they face working in the city’s public schools.

• Feature story. Natalie Pompilio. For the cover story “The Power of Forgiveness,” the tale of a mother’s remarkable journey to forgive a young man accused in the shooting of her son.

• Investigative. Ryan Briggs. “Troubles at a Politically Connected Clinic,” for stories detailing problems at a Kensington mental-health clinic.

• News Feature story. Emily Guendelsberger. “A Bitter End.” • News beat reporting. Daniel Denvir. For coverage of the criminaljustice beat, including stories exposing systemic problems in the city’s prison system, the state’s sentencing laws and a cop who admitted lying but was allowed to continue to testify.

• Feature beat reporting. Mikala Jamison. For a wide range of articles, including “R. Brent Byrne’s Crusade Against the Philly Art Establishment.”

• Front-page design. Brenna Adams and Jenni Betz. For the three cover designs that are displayed elsewhere on this page.

CLEAN KITCHENS?: A cover story and database that rates the food safety of the city’s 3,800 dine-in restaurants.

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The second-place honors went to: Personality profile. Mikala Jamison.

For a profile of Clay Studio curator Garth Johnson. News photo. Maria Pouchnikova. For an image of Michael Whittington and Janice Meeks about to embrace, to illustrate “The Power of Forgiveness.” Video story. Daniel Denvir and Emily Guendelsberger. For a surveillance video they edited showing a Philly guard beating up an inmate.

Honorable mention: Ongoing news coverage. Daniel Denvir. For coverage of Philly public schools.

The awards will be presented at the annual PNA banquet, held on May 30 in Gettysburg.

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IN FOCUS: Mary DeWitt’s portion of the two-part exhibit, “Release”, features portraits of women serving life sentences in Pennsylvania

by Owen Lyman-Schmidt

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THEIR SIDE OF THE STORY A new exhibit shines a light on women living in Pennsylvania’s prisons.

IN THE LAST 35 YEARS, Pennsylvania’s state prison population has risen by more than 550 percent, an unprecedented increase now known as mass incarceration. The overwhelming majority of those prisoners are men, but “Release,” an exhibit at the offices of the Leeway Foundation open through June 30, highlights the often overlooked stories of women caught up in the same juggernaut of prison expansion.

The first half of the exhibit is a series of portraits from local painter Mary DeWitt, who has been working with female prisoners serving life sentences at SCI Muncy since the late 1980s.

Case summaries are scrawled in the margins of each portrait, but it’s the accompanying audio clips that deliver a more powerful blow.

These clips are not claims of innocence or legal defenses. Instead, DeWitt has chosen stories of childhood memories, frustrated dreams and resilience — compelling testimony to the humanity and personality of the women depicted in her raw, close-up portraits. Critiques of the state aren’t necessarily explicit, but DeWitt is happy to articulate them in person.

“It’s become a documentation of the United States prison system,” she says. “It’s particularly interesting since Pennsylvania has the most juvenile lifers in the world.”

She’s referring to the fact that Pennsylvania holds a tenth of all the

people in the United States serving life without parole, and almost a fifth of those who received that sentence as a juvenile. In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court found mandatory life without parole sentences for juveniles to be unconstitutional, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocked retroactive re-sentencing, leaving women like Sharon Wiggins, featured in two portraits, to die in prison in 2013 after being denied commutation 13 times.

“Each of their stories is like a microcosm of how mass incarceration happened in this country and what a mistake it is,” says DeWitt.

“I like the idea of them just telling their stories, so that it isn’t polarizing, it just is.”

If DeWitt hopes to show, Mariame Kaba and Rachel Caidor are happy to tell. They co-curated No Selves to Defend, the second half of the exhibit, which is less a collection of portraits and more a historical survey of women of color who were criminalized for their response to gendered violence.

It begins in 1855 with Celia, a slave in Missouri convicted of murdering the man who owned and raped her from the age of 14. A judge denied her claim to self-defense on the grounds that she was property, and therefore had “no self to defend.” From this point of departure the exhibit follows the stories of 16 women, until it reaches Marissa Alexander.

In 2012, Alexander was convicted in Florida on multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon for firing a licensed gun when threatened by her estranged husband. Her defense team said it was a warning shot against a longtime abuser. A judge agreed with the prosecution that Alexander seemed angry, not fearful, and a jury found her guilty in 12 minutes.

“This country is still invested in an idea of people who are not fully human. That influences who has ground to stand on,” Caidor

says. “A Black person is never going to be the ideal victim.”

For women and transgender people of color, living at that intersection of racial and gendered oppression can mean being a target for both sexual violence and state violence, a fact even their defenders often fail to recognize.

“Either people mobilize along the lines of race and ethnicity, or people mobilize around the lines of gender oppression,” Caidor explains, citing the defense committees of Joan Little and Inez Garcia as notable exceptions. She calls those collaborations a “moment that happened in history,” a moment she notes “is not happening now.”

“While the Black Lives Matter movement is gaining momentum and gaining visibility, it’s still largely focused on the way the criminal legal system comes down on cisgendered black men,” says Caidor. “When Marissa’s case came up, there wasn’t the outcry one would expect from national groups for women who are suffering domestic violence.

We need to think through why that crossissue solidarity has fallen off.”

The portraits in “No Selves to Defend,” rendered beautifully in distinct but largely compatible styles by nine different artists, are supposed to inspire us to take up the cause.

“We’re living in a time where art is crucial because it gives us a language that our words don’t necessarily cover,” says Caidor. “It gives us a point of entry that’s gentle, but also confrontational enough that it makes us think.” (editorial@citypaper.net) ”Release,” through June 30, by appointment, Leeway Foundation, 1315 Walnut St., Suite 832, 215-545-4078, leeway.org.

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IN HER DEBUT NOVELDisgruntled (Farrar, Straus and Girox), West Philadelphia native and Haverford College professor Asali Solomon makes the past relevant and relatable. Protagonist Kenya Curtis, the precocious daughter of Black parents, experiences Philadelphia as a complex and confrontational tapestry. Solomon addresses the MOVE bombing, residential segregation, a privileged Main Line private school, and other historic facets of local existence with a freshness and humor that will shock some readers (one passage in this work of fiction recalls an employee of the real and celebrated Kochâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deli slinging racist remarks) and comfort others.

Influenced by Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience with left-wing parents and attending Bryn Mawrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baldwin School, Disgruntled has received increasing acclaim since its February release. We caught up with Solomon to talk about Philadelphia today and the reception the book has received.

City Paper: You returned to Philadelphia in 2010, after 20 years, to teach at Haverford. Do you think Philadelphia has changed enough since the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s that todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kenya might have a different childhood?

Asali Solomon: The primary way I would say the city has changed is that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reversed white flight. So, gentrification made a lot of the neighborhoods in the book whiter than they were at the time. And more Black kids go to private schools than when I was young â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I know parents whose children go to pre-K with my kids,

and plan to send their kids to private schools, so I know those classrooms look different than they did. You have a similar set of problems now, but the variables are rearranged.

CP: Given these changes, do you think that raising your own children here is different now?

AS: No, I think the concerns are the same, even if the number of people experiencing those concerns is different. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still polarized wealth, deep poverty, a disastrous public school system, avenues to opt out of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worse parts for those with money. â&#x20AC;Ś I think the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still wrestling with that, even if there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as much outright hostility between citizens based on race â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which I experienced as being afraid to go to, say, Manayunk or Kensington, because I was Black. I once went to a barbecue with friends in Kensington, and I got there and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wait, are we in Kensington?â&#x20AC;? [laughs] but now you can do that.

CP: Disgruntled has been out for almost a month. Has it been received in the spirit you intended?

AS: I feel like the risk of writing that novel was â&#x20AC;Ś there are cultural representations of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s that say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Radicals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they were so crazy!â&#x20AC;? [laughs] And that was not my interest at all. I wanted the novel to show that there are a lot of approaches to being Black in America. I hope itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not seen as an indictment of Black nationalism, because I see myself as a Black nationalist. I was also thinking about â&#x20AC;Ś these two people, Kenyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents, are into self-making and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what [the] repercussions of that are. I also wanted to show that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to face issues as someone oppressed for different identity reasons in America, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no straightforward way of facing these things. It seems thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what people came away with.

CP: Does Disgruntled give your students â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially students of color â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a better knowledge for addressing these issues?

AS: A fair amount of students of color at Haverford went to exclusive schools and were transported from working-class backgrounds, and they experienced a lot of dislocation, and the realization that racism is this real thing. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotten feedback from students that they can identify with really feeling different, and that feeling as part of a larger system. So, hopefully, it will be useful to them. (editorial@citypaper.net, @AManCalledSrao) Asali Solomon reads and signs, 6:30-8 p.m., Wed., April 1, free, Free Library, Oak Lane Branch, 6614 N. 12th St., 215-685-2848, freelibrary.org.

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PHILADELPHIA SOUL�JAZZ SESSION TROMBONIST Jeff Bradshaw has played on albums for Michael Jackson and Mary J. Blige, toured with Jay-Z and The Roots, led the house band for Floetry, and smokes cigars every time I speak with him. Stogie breath aside, it was no surprise that the stars came out when Bradshaw and his buddy, avant R&B pianist Robert Glasper, put out a call for participants in a live recording session at the Kimmel last year: Marsha Ambrosius of Floetry, Black Thought of The Roots, Bilal, Will Downing, Take 6, Najee, Eric Roberson, Tweet, Kenny Lattimore, Trombone Shorty and more. That live album, Home (Shanachie), gets the release-party treatment Tuesday at a show that promises several of its players and some added surprises.

City Paper: This whole live Home project started as a conversation with Jay Wahl, an artistic director at the Kimmel Center. Take me inside that initial chat.

Jeff Bradshaw: I performed several times, and successfully, for their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sitting Inâ&#x20AC;? sessions in the smaller room, and had this idea that I could pack the place with this concept I had involving many of my artist friends. We went back and forth on emails about what this would look like, the business of it, and made it happen.

CP: Did you already have some of the songs in place before the gig?

JB: The concept came first, because I hear from fans all the time that live is where I shine. I wanted to make some real impact on the industry with this, my third album, and decided the time was right. It needed to be diverse in terms of its artists, and of course, amazing. Which it is. The music for Home was worked

out weeks before the show too.

CP: You and Glasper seem like an odd team. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a perfect weirdo. Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d you connect?

JB: Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great way to describe him. Rob comes from jazz, yeah, but I knew him first [from] doing R&B with Leela James and Bilal.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jeans and a skull cap. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the GQ guy. Rob and I understand each other. We conceived of Home in Times Square over barbecue sauce and beer at Virgilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a clown, incredibly silly, but he gets every part of gospel, R&B, jazz. He understands that I come from the church, am self-taught.

CP: I spoke to Ambrosius right before that show. She loves you, and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wait to hook up at the Kimmel.

JB: Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like my sister. When she first got to Philadelphia, she was part of this show, a poetry-music monthly event Blue Funk at Chez LaBelle. Remember Pattiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s place?

CP: Please!

JB: (laughs) My band was the first band she played with, and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been family ever since, just as I am with Black Thought. The song that

Marsha and I did as partt of o Home was one that she and I wrote six years ago.

CP: How did you know everyone would come when you called â&#x20AC;&#x201D; both the Kimmel show and this TLA gathering? Were there any surprises when you listen to the playback?

JB: No surprises during playback. It was perfection. Serious. You were there. As for the calls: Remember, these artists are my friends, deeply genuine friends whose time and celebrity I respect. When you have friends in high places, and you have something major, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when you pull the friend card.

Home was major to me. Quincy Jones once told me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You are who you can call. Cultivate relationships and treasure them.â&#x20AC;? Look at Home.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who I am. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m humbled by that, as well as the fact that I did this at the Kimmel where I played three blocks away 34 years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on a corner with a bucket, hustling money for me and my brass band to travel with the church choir.

Ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that something? (editorial@citypaper.net) Tue., March 31, 8 p.m., $25, TLA, 334 South St., tlaphilly.com.

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the first of what aims to be an annual festival of female stories.

Producer Amber Emory’s collection of original works by and for women includes TS Hawkins’ The Secret Life of Wonder: A Prologue in G, ReVamp Collective’s Shit Men Have Said to Me, and Kaleid Theatre’s Take/Sacrifice, premiering tonight and playing all week. —Mark Cofta • Plays & Players Theatre, 1714

Delaney Place, playsandplayers.org.

ART UNLEASHED 4/9-4/14 • “Art Unleashed,”

hosted by University of the Arts, is part exhibition and part art sale. Artwork across all media from gifted University of the Arts students, faculty and alumni will be on display. Proceeds will help support the university’s Promising Young Artists Scholarship Fund.

Jewelry, ceramics, photography, crafts, furniture, paintings, sculpture and illustrations will be exhibited and up for sale. This year’s exposition showcases the visually stunning artwork of UArts alum Dan Walsh, whose geometric paintings are featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. —Sam Yeoman • Hamilton Hall, 320 S. Broad St.,

Stand Up Stand Up on Comedy Central are long gone. Nowadays he’s basically the most well-known podcast host in America, and rightly so. But if you’ve seen his 2013 Netflix special Thinky Pain, you know his standup chops are as impressive as ever. —Michael Pelusi • Trocadero, 1003 Arch St.,

thetroc.com.

sense, because these guys got there way before any of ’em. —Michael Pelusi • TLA, 334 South St., tlaphilly.com.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS 4/13 • An album-length ode to

pro wrestlers might sound like a wild detour for John Darnielle, but

SECOND NATURE � PHILLY ZOO 4/11 • Today’s the opening day

of this installation of sculptures of endangered animals crafted entirely from reused/recycled/repurposed items (i.e. would-be trash). “Second Nature” asks us to consider how our own wasteful natures impact Earth’s other creatures. Must-see piece: a life-size, 200-pound alligator made of chewing gum. Runs through Oct. 31. —Julie Zeglen • Philadelphia Zoo, 3400 W. Girard Ave., philadelphiazoo.org.

THE SONICS 4/12 • Fifty years after their debut delivered deranged garage-rock nuggets like “Psycho” and “Strychnine,” The Sonics have reunited to show Jack White and The Black Keys that their feud makes no

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old heads can tell you: This is kinda, sorta how he rolls. Long before he was laying bare his deepest wounds, Darnielle was masking them in the true-life tragedies of wayward souls and fallen heroes big enough to bear it. Then, as now, as always, it’s his skill for honoring frailty and spreading empathy that keeps listeners coming back. —Patrick Rapa • Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., utphilly.com.

• • • continued

on p. 26

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REASONABLE FEAR 4/16-4/25 • Subtitled “A

Theatrical Exploration of Street Harassment and Rape Culture,” this Touch Me Philly original production features nine new short plays by local playwrights, plus comedy and film events over two weeks that explore the vague legal precedent that makes regulating verbal harassment challenging.

—Mark Cofta • Luna Theater, 620 S. Eighth St.,

TouchMePhilly.com.

PHILLY TECH WEEK 4/17-4/25 • Technical.ly Philly brings the city 104 events over nine days that celebrate all things technology and entrepreneurship.

Start the fun with an arcade and party (beer garden included), then get down to business with speakers, lectures, conferences, workshops and a mayoral forum. Events will be held throughout the city.

—Ryan Hughes

Arts hits The Jersey Devil, The Giant Squid and The Post Show — curate an evening of variety comedy featuring standups, musicians, actors, and, of course, themselves at Plays & Players Theatre. They ask performers to try things they’ve never done before, resulting in a free-for-all ruckus. —Mark Cofta • Plays & Players Theatre,

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FLIGHT MARKET AT THE LINC 4/19 • Flight Market equals Night

Market, but with Swoop, the Eagles mascot, hanging around trying to steal bites of your artisanal cupcake or whatever. Oh, and Eagles cheerleaders, if you’re into that sort of thing. Buy passes before April 1 for the chance to win two tickets to this

year’s season opener, plus lunch with tight end Brent Celek at his American-style food truck, Prime Stache. —Julie Zeglen • Lincoln Financial Field, 1020

Pattison Ave., thefoodtrust.org.

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS 4/20 • This totally happened: A

few weeks ago, I walked into Repo Records and they were playing songs from the first STP album.

As the actually pretty-decent riffs of “Sex Type Thing” and “Plush” roared over the sound system, I made a mental note to buy a coffin.

I’m half the man I used to be.

—Michael Pelusi • TLA, 334 South St., tlaphilly.com.

• • • continued

on p. 28

• phillytechweek.com.

BICYCLE ART BENEFIT 4/18 • Neighborhood Bike

Works invites artists of all stripes to contribute art made from bicycle parts — earrings made from chains, lamps made from frames, that kind of thing — for your purchasing pleasure, with proceeds going toward the Works’ youth and adult programs and the Philly Earthship.

Other goodies: A vegan dinner, D.I.Y.-art activities, and music provided by bands Pluto Is a Planet, Snagwing and Porn Cops. Bring cash for a $5 cover along with a shirt to screen print. The deadline for art donations is March 28, so if you want to do that, you’d better hurry. —Mikala Jamison

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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 4/25 • Back in the day I used to

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call up TMBG’s Dial-A-Song — long-distance charges applied, by the way — and hold a tape recorder

up to the receiver so I could savor whatever fleeting musical treasure the band was sharing that day. (Yeah, I’m old.) That sort of random pop mayhem makes even more sense these days, so the Johns Linnell and Flansburgh have re-upped the service both at dialasong.com and 844-387-6962. That’s a free call here in the future. —Patrick Rapa • TLA, tlaphilly.com.

JAZMINE SULLIVAN 4/26 • We had a good feeling

about her. When we put Jazmine Sullivan on the cover of City Paper back in 2008 we just knew the then-21-year-old singer/songwriter from Strawberry Mansion would make a scene, and she did for a while. Then she took a hiatus, saying she wasn’t having fun anymore.

With the release of Reality Show in January the powerhouse R&B

EX HEX 4/26 • Last year’s debut album

from Mary Timony’s new band, Rips, is still a total blast. Timony, Betsy Wright and Laura Harris have tapped into the punk/glam/indie zeitgeist, and created music that should be the soundtrack of every dive bar in the city. The only thing better is getting to see them play live. —Michael Pelusi • Union Transfer, utphilly.com.

RITTENHOUSE ROW SPRING FESTIVAL 5/2 • Don’t bother eating for the

week leading up to this massive, six-block festival: more than 40 restaurants pop up along Walnut Street to serve samples ranging from octopus, Kobe beef hot dogs, ice cream and gourmet cheese. Between the live music on Sydenham Street, free wine tasting, dancing at Coda, cooking tips at the Starr culinary demonstration stage and outdoor fashion booths from Joan Shepp, Knit Wit and Kembrel (among many others), there’s something for every one of the 50,000 people the festival annually attracts. —Kelan Lyons rittenhouserow.org.

• TLA, tlaphilly.com.

The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes arrives in town for a rare solo show. Pro tip: Make sure you cheer really loudy before, during and after every song. He loves it when you do that.

—Michael Pelusi • Union Transfer, utphilly.com.

THE RAW ONION REVIVAL! 5/3 • The Idiopathic Ridiculopa-

thy Consortium brings The Onion’s absurdly funny first-person essays to life after a two-year hiatus for just three performances at L’Etage Cabaret. These whimsically titled confessionals (“I Don’t Support Feminism If It Means Murdering All Men,” for instance) will be performed by Patricia Durante, John D’Alonzo, Mark Knight and other IRC regulars. —Mark Cofta • L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St., idiopath-

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• • • continued

on p. 32

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Urban Outfitters 110 S. 36th St. Verizon Wireless 3631 Walnut St.

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Auntie Anne’s 3405 Walnut St. Avril 50 3406 Sansom St. Baby Blues BBQ 3402 Sansom St. Beijing Restaurant 3714 Spruce St. Ben and Jerry’s 218 S. 40th St. Blarney Stone 3929 Sansom St. BRYSI 233 S. 33rd St. Bobby’s Burger Palace 3925 Walnut St. Capogiro Gelato Artisans 3925 Walnut St. Cavanaugh’s Tavern 119 S. 39th St. Chattime 3608 Chestnut St. Chipotle Mexican Grill 3925 Walnut St. City Tap House 3925 Walnut St. Cosi 140 S. 36th St. Distrito 3945 Chestnut St. Doc Magrogan’s Oyster House 3432 Sansom St. Dunkin Donuts 3437 Walnut St. Fat Ham 3131 Walnut St. Federal Donuts 3428 Sansom St. Fresh Grocer 4001 Walnut St. Gia Pronto 3716 Spruce St.

CAMERON ESPOSITO 5/8 • Bratty, brainy and hilarious

— not to mention totes adorbs with that denim jacket/side-mullet combo — Cameron Esposito is the hip lesbian comic all of America should agree on. Same Sex Symbol, released last year by Kill Rock Stars, is unpredictably funny and personal with an undercurrent of kindness

Greek Lady 222 S. 40th St. Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar 200 S. 40th St. Hip City Veg 214 S. 40th St. HubBub Coffee 3736 Spruce St. Jimmy Johns 3925 Walnut St. Kiwi Yogurt 3606 Chestnut St. Mad Mex 3401 Walnut St. Mediterranean Café 3409 Walnut St. Metropolitan Bakery 4013 Walnut St. New Deck Tavern 3408 Sansom St. Nom Nom Ramen 3401 Walnut St. Old Nelson Food Company 129 S. 30th St. Philly Pretzel Factory/Philly is Nuts!

3734 Spruce St. Pizza Rustica 3602 Chestnut St. Picnic 3131 Walnut St. POD Restaurant 3636 Sansom St. Qdoba 230 S. 40th St. Quiznos 3401 Walnut St. Saladworks 3728 Spruce St. Sang Kee Noodle House 3549 Chestnut St. Saxbys Coffee 4000 Locust St. Smokey Joe’s 210 S. 40th St. St. Declans Well 3131 Walnut St.

Starbucks 3401 Walnut St. 3421 Chestnut St. Sweetgreen 3925 Walnut St Taco Bell 3401 Walnut St. Tortas Frontera 3602 Locust Walk Wawa 3604 Chestnut St. 3744 Spruce St. White Dog Café 3420 Sansom St.

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be their first release on beloved Omaha label Saddle Creek. The first single, “Waitress” finds the band moving into more anthemic territory, without sacrificing any of the immediacy of Frances Quinlan’s intense vocals. —Michael Pelusi • Union Transfer, utphilly.com.

ART STAR CRAFT BAZAAR 5/9-5/10 • If you’ve lived in

St., worldcafelive.com.

THE REPLACEMENTS 5/9 • Yes, this reunion tour is just

Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson and two hired guns. But the YouTube clips show that these guys play the songs with just the right amount of contained abandon. And Paul remembers most of the lyrics!

The record collector in your life is gonna get kind of emotional at this show. —Michael Pelusi • Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing,

601 N. Columbus Blvd., festivalpierphilly.com.

HOP ALONG 5/9 • The acclaimed local band’s next album, Painted Shut, will

these days, you can expect some old favorites and improv absurdity

Philly for more than a year, you already know about this. It’s the biggest craft-related thing we’ve got. You love this. Or maybe your girlfriend loves this. You buy things for your mom at this — or take her to it, as it’s Mother’s Day weekend.

More than 150 artists make things for this: glorious things, like uglybut-cute stuffed animals, T-shirts with crazy art screen-printed on, every conceivable type of jewelry, really freakin’ nice glassware … just, everything, guys. And it’s on the water, there’s food and music, everyone’s in a good springtime mood; go forth. —Mikala Jamison • Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing,

101 S. Columbus Blvd., artstarcraftbazaar.com.

BEN FOLDS 5/11-5/13 • Backed by his yMu-

sic ensemble, piano-pop nutball Ben Folds is playing three shows in three nights at three different venues. It’s kind of a weird thing to do, but Folds is kind of a weird guy. No matter how “orchestral” he’s leaning

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every night. —Patrick Rapa • 5/11, TLA, 334 South St., tlaphilly. com; 5/12, World Café Live, worldcafelive.com; 5/13, Temple Performing Arts Center, 1837 N. Broad St., templeperformingartscenter.org.

MATT POND PA 5/14 • It’s been a while since

this rootsy bandleader with the salty-sweet voice called Philly home, but he makes sure to check in on the regular. Matt Pond’s got a new album on the way, but this tour’s mostly a 10-year anniversary celebration for Several Arrows Later, the band’s dreamy, heavy-hearted 2005 record. If you’re keeping track, Pond and co. already did an anniversary party for 2004’s Emblems last year.

It’s nice when an old pal drops by to reminisce. —Patrick Rapa

• Union Transfer, utphilly.com.

• • • continued

on p. 34

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MAC MCCAUGHAN 5/15 • Although he’s logged years and years as an indie-rock pioneer (Superchunk, Merge Records, Portastatic), McCaughan is releasing his first solo album, Non-Believers on May 5. Get an early preview at

Raconteurs will do their best to win over celebrity judges with their most absurd, raw, hilarious and profoundly personal tales. Grab your tickets ASAP as this event always sells out. —Sam Yeoman • Underground Arts, firstper-

sonarts.org.

people-powered vehicle engineers.

Register individually or as a team and compete for awards ranging from Best Art to Best Breakdown.

Festival proceeds are used for neighborhood projects and revitalization. —Kelan Lyons • Trenton and East Susquehanna

avenues, trentonaveartsfest.org.

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this show. (And Superchunk will be back less than a month later opening for the Replacements — see p.

33.) —Michael Pelusi • Underground Arts, 1200

Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org.

months before the 100th anniversary of the nation’s oldest outdoor market. Get ready for all-ages activities to mark the occasion — crafts, contests, live entertainment, a variety of treats from special vendors, a beer and wine garden, the annual halfball tournament and procession of saints. Of course, it’s really all about the food, so be sure to drop by on an empty stomach.

—Ryan Hughes • Ninth and Fitzwater streets,

italianmarketphilly.org.

FIRST PERSON ARTS GRAND SLAM 5/14 • First Person Arts’ Grand

Slam is back! Underground Arts will once again host Philly’s biggest storytelling face-off. Winners of First Person Arts’ 14th season of Story Slams compete for the coveted title of “Best Storyteller in Philadelphia,” free FPA Slam admission for life, $250 cash and the elusive microphone trophy.

KENSINGTON KINETIC SCULPTURE DERBY & TRENTON AVENUE ARTS FEST 5/16 • This annual festival — now

in its 10th year — draws 10,000 people with its more than 200 artists and food vendors. The featured event, of course, is the Kinetic Sculpture Derby, a parade of floats and sculptures designed by

GENE WEEN 5/29 • Ween, New Hope’s finest

sons, are still way weird and they’re not even together anymore. Gene Ween comes to Philly with his Billy Joel tribute band. I will never fully understand the reclamation of Billy Joel, but at this point I can live with it. Anyway, this project seems bizarre enough to work. —Michael Pelusi • Underground Arts,

undergroundarts.org.

ROOTS PICNIC 5/30 • This is the eighth year of

the Roots Picnic, and they’ve yet to slack on the bill: The Weeknd, Erykah Badu, Afrika Bambaataa, King Britt. Oh yes, and The Roots, who will also be serving as Badu’s backing band. We should just call this the official beginning of summer, right? —Michael Pelusi • Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing,

601 N. Columbus Blvd., festivalpierphilly.com.

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SOUTH PHILLY

STREET WISE: Renee Gilinger, of the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District, admits she’s a ‘pusher’ when it comes to securing for improving local businesses.

Photo by Hillary Petrozziello

THE 20-MINUTE INTERVIEW:

Renee Gilinger, Powerhouse Executive Director

The five blocks of East Passyunk that make up the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District is home to 150 independently owned shops and restaurants. In conversations with these retailers and restaurateurs about what’s driving rapid change in the neighborhood, one name keeps coming up: Renee Gilinger. Gilinger, who’s been the business-improvement district’s executive director since 2009, recently spoke with City Paper about her work, and how charming-

ly fusty Italian cheesemongers and grocers who stock locally sourced, organic foods are — deep down — essentially the same. The conversation has been edited and condensed.

City Paper: How’d you get your start here?

Renee Gilinger: I was recruited for the job. I had worked with the [then] board chair, Christian DiCicco, on his father’s [former Councilman Frank DiCicco] campaign. I had been doing campaign work for about four years then and I was certainly interested in not doing something that ended all the time. [Laughs] CP: And what is it that you do here, exactly?

RG: It’s a really diverse job, and I’ll tell you that there is rarely one hour that goes by where I’m doing the exact same thing. We work on capitalimprovement projects, public safety, tourism marketing. …

I also help the businesses apply for money as well [from Philadelphia’s storefront- improvement program and other similar small-business grant programs]. Everyone will tell you I’m a pusher when it comes to the money out there.

[Laughs] We do two monthly events. There is an LGBT happy hour called QOTA [Queers on the Avenue] that I started. We’ll have our six-year anniversary this Thursday [March 26] at Paradiso. It’s been a really wonderful event — it’s really changed the dynamic of the neighborhood a lot.

And we have a Second Saturday shopping event every, well, second Saturday.

We have huge events and festivals. On Saturday, we had an Easter egg hunt in the snow, which was honestly awesome. It was the best one we ever had. I couldn’t believe it. I think people were really appreciative that we still did it, despite the snow.

CP: Are you guys still finding white eggs?

RG: [Laughs] No, no. We found all the eggs. We probably had 400 kids, it was definitely the biggest one we ever had.

Some of our events are very family friendly with lots of free stuff for kids, kind of our thank you for the neighborhood.

CP: Everyone I’ve spoken to on the Avenue gives you and the BID a lot of credit. But people outside of the neighborhood have said, “That’s all

because of the money Vince Fumo gave them.”

What’s the story there?

RG: First of all, we are two separate organizations, but I consider us to be sister organizations because we work so closely together.

I would be lost without the crew at PARC — Passyunk Avenue Revitalization Corporation, formerly known as Citizens’ Alliance for Better Neighborhoods. They have a great board, made up of folks from Passyunk Crossing and Passyunk Square.

This was Senator Fumo’s vision: Buy up those properties, rehab them and put in businesses that would actually be beneficial to the neighborhood.

It’s a wonderful dream. While I know that folks will never be OK with how some of that happened, the idea was a wonderful idea and he deserves a ton of credit for that.

CP: So, how do you attract customers for the retail businesses, which are a mix of older ItalianAmerican businesses and newer, younger-skewing businesses. These are two fairly different groups of people.

RG: The people that are coming to East Passyunk are a very diverse group of folks. We have tons of families with little kids, tons of senior citizens.

We’ve got our hipsters, but we have our people from Packer Park, and tons of people from the suburbs.

The really cool thing I’ve learned is that the newer businesses are doing the things that the older ones did. A lot are from the neighborhood.

They might live upstairs [above their shops] — it’s like the dream of proprietorship that first started Passyunk Avenue in its heyday. It’s so alive and well here.

Mr. Mancuso started it all probably. He’s a third-generation cheesemonger here. But the guys (brothers Adam and Andrew Erace) from Green Aisle, they’re the same kind of people.

They’re people who want to do something awesome and make something creative and have their own business. It’s the American dream.

At their heart, these folks are the same. They want a nice neighborhood and they want something that benefits the neighborhood. It’s the same dream.

—Jim Saksa

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Film events and special screenings.

REPERTORY FILM

BY DREW LAZOR

HORROR

SOCIAL DISEASE: Eerie STDs in It Follows

IT FOLLOWS A | At this point in mainstream American horror, it’s fair to say that we equate sex only with spilled blood. Crawl into your boyfriend’s bed or sneak off with your randy girl for a quickie behind the boathouse and there’s a 100 percent chance your entrails are hitting the mulch. It’s this genre in-joke that makes It Follows such a wellspring of low-brow innovation — in this world, teenage intimacy is not an empty consequence, but an actual mechanism for terror.

Aside from the magnetic Maika Monroe, David Robert Mitchell’s feature has a few things in common with 2014’s quirky horror hybrid The Guest — a killer soundtrack, a perceptive sense of style, a cookie-cutter suburban setting that’s chilling in its mundanity. But unlike the Adderall-popping pace of that paean to exaggerated ’80s

action, Mitchell’s film is masterfully deliberate. You can literally see the spooks coming, and that’s what makes them so potent.

Monroe’s Jay, a capable but kinda-lost young woman in search of something or someone, thinks she’s found it in Hugh (Jake Weary), a new love interest. They finally go all the way, which makes Jay very happy — that is, until her new beau explains what he’s done.

By sleeping with her, he’s passed on an inexplicable curse: At all hours of the day, Jay sees inhuman creatures — a muddy, naked long-haired woman, a bent-and-twisted grandma, a bone-white man as tall as a tree — plodding toward her. Her only options: Run, or send the STD down the line by bedding another victim.

It’s a no-maintenance concept with a high-style return, as Jay and her young friends attempt to make sense of her fate when they’re not navigating unrequited crushes and adolescent woes. The manner in which they decide to fight back, and the dread and desperation that ensues, is yet another example of how Mitchell has reshaped tropes for a smart audience that also loves to be scared shitless.

—Drew Lazor (Roxy)

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE

823 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, U.S./U.K., 95 min.): Stanley Kubrick’s influential wartime satire was the first rep film ever shown at BMFI. A 35 mm screening.

Thu., March 26, 7 p.m., $12. The Croods (2013, U.S., 98 min.): The rare contemporary Nic Cage movie that is both family-friendly and not impossible to watch. He voices Grug, the stubborn patriarch of a prehistoric family.

Sat., March 28, 11 a.m., $5. King Lear (2014, Canada, 173 min.): Theatercast of Shakespeare’s Empire-inspiring tragedy, with Colm Feore in the title role. Filmed on the stage of the Stratford Festival in Ontario. Sun., March 29, 1 p.m., $20. The Wedding (1972, Poland, 103 min.): Adaptation of Stanislaw Wyspianski’s play, about a joyous wedding reception that doubles as a look into Poland’s fractured history. Tue., March 31, 7:15 p.m., $12.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE

3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org.

A Quiet Inquisition (2014, U.S., 65 min.): This documentary highlights the struggles of Nicaraguan doctor Carla Cerrato, an OBGYN whose duty to perform lifesaving therapeutic abortions is compromised by political and religious forces. A selection from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Thu., March 26, 7 p.m., $9. Private Violence (2013, U.S., 81 min.): Cynthia Hill explores and explains the harrowing statistics of domestic violence in America. A selection from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Fri., March 27, 7 p.m., $9 The Sky on Location (1983, U.S., 78 min.): Babette Mangolte’s meditation on nature and the American West follows all four seasons in the vast and beautiful region. Mangolte will attend this screening.

Tue., March 31, 7 p.m., free (RSVP required). Babette Mangolte in Conversation. Experimental filmmaker Mangolte will participate in a Q&A about her diverse and critically acclaimed career. Wed., April 1, 6:30 p.m., free (RSVP required).

PHILAMOCA

531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org. 1971 (2014, U.S., 79 min.): In 1971, a group calling itself the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized an FBI office in Media, stealing and leaking highly sensitive documents to the press. They’ve never revealed their identities until the making of this film. Cast and crew will attend. Sat., March 28, 7:30 p.m., $10.

TAVERN ON CAMAC

243 S. Camac St., 215-545-0900, tavernoncamac.com.

The Falls (2012, U.S., 91 min.): Two Mormon missionaries fall for each other while on their faith mission. Part of the qFLIX Philadelphia LGBTQ film festival. Fri., March 27, 7 p.m., free.

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NEW MERCHANTS OF DOUBT | B

Where political discourse is concerned, hard science is flattened by slimy corporatebaked spin so often that we should be permanently uncomfortable. But this caveat always seems to get drowned

out by partisan shouting, a point Robert Kenner’s new documentary aims to bring to the fore. The Two Days in October director, working

off the 2010 book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, profiles the movements of operatives who topple complex debates with the most rudimentary of strategies: They change the subject.

Mostly white males in shirts and ties, they’re salesmen for skepticism, putting their own mark on the misdirection showcased by Jamy Ian Swiss, an illusionist who eats

up an inordinate amount of Kenner’s screen time. But the stakes of those card tricks are comically low compared to the issues the merchants

ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE

work over. They’re paid handsomely by conglomerates to move the discussion of global warming or tobacco use away from charts and graphs and into more abstract and emotional territory; they’ll run end-arounds on the argument, characterizing empirical concern as “an attack on a way of life.” Kenner profiles a number of figures on both sides of this murky world, sometimes turning a little too tangential to nail down his points. But no talking head sums up the crux of it better than Marc Morano, a former Rush Limbaugh acolyte who’s made railing against modern climatology a career. A TV-ready loudmouth with a big smile and an avuncular laugh, he unapologetically views the misinformation industry as show business, and to a large and sad extent, he’s right.— DL (Ritz at the Bourse) QUEEN AND COUNTRY | B

For what he has said will be his last film, John Boorman

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Featuring tension, violence, sweeping mountain locations, and jazz-age costumes that are duly removed for sizzling scenes of a sexual nature.”

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has gone back to the beginning — not his first movie, the Dave Clark Five-starring Having a Wild Weekend, but

1987’s Hope and Glory, which recounted his childhood during the London Blitz.

Queen and Country picks up the story a decade later, with Boorman’s stand-in, Bill (Cal-

lum Turner), serving his turn in Her Majesty’s forces during the early days of the Korean War. Boorman doesn’t repeat the earlier film’s delightful use of subjective style, or perhaps it’s just that one is less likely to mix reality with fantasy at age 19 than age 9, but Queen and Country is subtly inflected by Bill’s burgeoning love of movies. The first thing we see is a soldier dying, not in combat, but during the making of a war film at Shepperton, the famed studio adjacent (at least here) to the leafy island in the Thames where Bill’s family lives. The central plot vaguely resembles a service comedy, with Bill and his partner in crime, Percy (Caleb

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Landry Jones), outwitting stuffed-shirt senior officers and canoodling with comely female nurses. But the capers give way to the realities those movies were designed to shield; Bill is left to ponder the lingering, ever-mounting cost of war, and Boorman along with him.—Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)

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GET OUT THERE

A WINGED VICTORY FOR THE SULLEN/LOSCIL

Some veritable titans of 21st-century ambient music grace our hallowed Unitarian sanctuary tonight; respectively responsible for two of 2014’s most beautiful and subtly inventive releases (both on Kranky). Loscil — Vancouver’s Scott Morgan — has continued to refine and evolve his warmly atmospheric, dub-infused drone work on Sea Island, adding understated hints of vibraphone and vocals, while Winged Victory — Stars of the Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and pianist/composer Dustin O’Halloran — offer the majestic, multi-part Atomos suite, introducing ever-so-slightly more motion and textural variety to their richly cinematic, stately neoclassicism. —K. Ross Hoffman

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a dense rhythmic heft. Who is this guy? —A.D. Amorosi

LA DISPUTE/ TITLE FIGHT

$20 | Thu., March 26, 9 p.m., with Greg D, Dolphin Tavern, 1539 S. Broad St., 215-2787950, thedolphinphilly.com.

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$20.50-$23 | Thu., March 26, 7:30 p.m., Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

ROCK/POP Mostly recorded at Philadelphia’s Studio 4, Rooms of the House — the most recent album from Michigan’s moody La Dispute — tears itself from the staginess of its usual heavy curtain dramatics and post-shoegaze atmospherics into something bristling and poppy. Must be our

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water. The same man who produced that album, Will Yip, did similar honors for Title Fight’s Hyperview. Yet, there he managed to up that band’s shoegazey ante with

JAMES MURPHY

ELECTRONIC/DANCEPUNK It’s hard to believe

LCD Soundsystem is now four years gone (as of next week, specifically) — and equally hard to imagine a time when the band’s spirit won’t remain vitally relevant; when James Murphy will cease to reign, bemusedly but benevolently, over the ever-morphing/ever-staying-the-same indie/dance/ electronic/whatever world, as patron saint and hip dad figure. He’s kept busy — designing coffee and sound systems, scoring movies and “remixing” U.S. Open tennis data — but his highest calling, same as it ever was, is simply sharing some awesome records with the people. —K. Ross Hoffman

AFTERSHOCK

$35-$125 | Through March 28, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St., 215-9850420, koreshdance.org.

DANCE Roni Koresh grew

WING NUTS: $15-$16 Thu., March 26, 8 p.m., First Unitarian Sanctuary, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com. up in Israel and emigrated to the U.S., where he’s made a solid name for himself as artistic director of Koresh Dance Company.

He’s developed a devoted fan following here in Philly for his emotional, athletic

challenges faced in building artistic accomplishments.

“My work is Middle Eastern culture coupled with American experience,” he says.

“Culture shock shakes your core. Then you live, you create, shaken up.” Saturday’s performance is packaged with the company’s fashionthemed silent auction and gala, Koresh Kouture.

—Deni Kasrel

of playfully frothy, electrofried remixes for Yeasayer, Phantogram and Yelle, among others, and scored an aptly viral hit (last summer’s “Dangerous”) with his Internet-themed band Big

DIAMOND RUGS $20 | Thu., March 26, 8 p.m., with New Madrid and Justin Collins, Ortlieb’s, 847 N. Third St., 267-324-3348, facebook.com/ortliebsphilly.

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works that often derive from a very personal place in his soul. Roni’s latest work, Aftershock, reflects on his experiences coming to the States and the subsequent

$15 | Thu., March 26, 7:30 p.m., with On An On and Chappo, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org.

ELECTRONIC Brooklyn producer Alan Wilkis — who’s racked up a series

Rivers Cuomo and more for a muscular, unsubtle-but-effective set that owes at least as much to the bludgeoning filter-stomp of Paris’ Ed Banger stable as to the pages of Wired. —K. Ross Hoffman

LEO PIA

Data — flexes his indie-pop Rolodex and punchy electrohouse synths on the new 2.0 (Warner Brothers). Here he enlists Jamie Lidell, Kimbra,

ROCK/POP After reconfiguring their stage situation this past January, Ortlieb’s had a handful of artists in mind to show off their new setup. Diamond Rugs was on top of that list. This group is an amalgamation of some pretty heavy hitters

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— emanating from Deer Tick, Black Lips and Los Lobos, among others — all of whom have played their fair share of Philly stages.

But this will be the Diamond Rugs’ first Philly gig, and as they’ve been a band for four years, it seems long overdue.

Let’s show them a good time. —Nikki Volpicelli

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3.27 MYTHS, MAGIC AND MUSIC

$40 | Fri.-Sat., March 27-28, 7:30 p.m., Temple Performing

CLASSICAL This is the penultimate production of the superb Philadelphia Singers (there will be a farewell concert in May). It is a typically innovative and intriguing program, including a new work from composer Jack Heggie (best known for his operatic treatment of Dead Man Walking), and an old chestnut from Gian Carlo Menotti, The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore.

David Hayes will conduct for what should be a bittersweet show. —Peter Burwasser

TORCHE

$16 | Fri., March 27, 8 p.m., with Nothing and Wrong, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org.

ROCK/POP It’s easy to find precedents for Torche’s sound in everything from the Melvins to Helmet to take your pick of mid-’90s Touch and Go bands. But maybe

the best illustration of their approach would be a visit to Pompeii, where the slow, overwhelming molten crush preserved hidden treasures. The same goes for the

JANET TE VALENTINE

Hüsker hooks absorbed into the Miami band’s relentless sludge, 10 of which they bulldoze through in just under 40 minutes on the new Restarter (Relapse). —Shaun Brady

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FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY: Smoky paprika and oregano wings at Franky Bradley’s.

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FRANKY BRADLEY ’S // 320 Chancellor St., 215-735-0735, frankybradleys.com. Daily, 5 p.m.-1 a.m. (bar until 2 a.m.). Appetizers, $8-$16; sandwiches, $11-$14; entrees, $18-$29; desserts, $7.

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BY ADAM ERACE

SHADOW BOXING

Franky Bradley’s breathes new life into a storied restaurant space.

F R A N K I E B LO C H WAS A S O U T H PHILLY BOXER. And Jewish, at a time (circa 1910) when the big prizefighters had surnames like Quinlan, Russell, Doyle, O’Brien and Dunn. So to better fit in with his Irish competitors, Bloch became Bradley.

He won. A lot. Saved $6,000 and bought a luncheonette, which he parlayed into several other restaurants, the last of which was Frankie Bradley’s Romanian Inn, a smoky steakhouse and celebrity hang that opened at the backstreet intersection of Chancellor and Juniper in 1933. Bradley died in 1976, a decade shy of his restaurant’s 53rd — and final — birthday.

Frankie Bradley’s became Hesch’s for a while after that, then had a 17-year run as Sisters, the city’s only female-focused LGBT nightclub. When Mark Bee, the early

adopter behind neighborhood-defining operations like North 3rd and Silk City, heard that Sisters had closed, he immediately inquired about the Tudor-style space: “I loved the whole layout,” he says, “and as I did the research, I loved it even more.”

Bee’s Franky Bradley’s — “I always spelled ‘Franky’ with a Y,” he shrugs — opened two months ago. To duck under the black marquee awning and into this resurrected refuge is to step into a surrealist version of the past. Bee’s Bradley’s feels old, but a bit twisted. Thickets of knotted antlers wreath an arched dining alcove. Glasses on brass bar rails dangle upside-down like slumbering bats. Fringed gypsy lamps whisper in invisible breezes. It’s Twin Peaks meetsVFW hall.

A heady reddish glow permeates the place. It feels like it comes from within the

century-old pine-paneled walls, some kind of inner life force activated by its peculiar collection of bewitching objects. They emerge slowly, as if out of a mist: knights charging into battle, a Pam Greer portrait, petrified fish and stuffed pheasants, a High Life Pennsylvania license plate, a picture of ghosts who are either giving each other the Heimlich or doing it doggy-style. Bee is a chronic collector, and what wasn’t unearthed in upstate flea markets, salvage yards and antique shops, his roommate, artist Scott Johnston, painted. “He’s also our doorman on the weekends.”

In my darkened corner of Franky Bradley’s, a hissing medusa hovered overhead, her expression nefarious, hungry. Did she want to turn me to stone, or just the stone-ground Doylestown grits arrayed about my plate of crispy chicken livers and sweet-hot pepper jelly?

That was one of the best efforts from chef Dave Kane, a four-year veteran of Silk City, who also did time at Fork, Pif and Bar Ferdinand. Of the menu at Bradley’s, he says, “We wanted to have something for everybody, but different from what they’re used to at our other restaurants.”

So the food here trends a little more upscale, a little more plated: head-on shrimp with flageolet beans, brandade with piquillo peppers, a grilled bone-in rib eye. Pan-browned gnocchi dotted whorls of butternut squash puree in one entrée; they were a little gummy, with skins that gave them the texture of dumplings, but the flavors were on-point on an ice-cold night: caramelized Brussels sprouts, nutty toasted almonds, tangy cranberry brown butter, salt shaved Parm.

The French onion soup was in need of more Comté and a sturdier crouton. As for the wings, it’s rare to find ones that are both crispy and tender, but these had the right textural contrast — thanks to a two-step process that includes gently cooking the paprika-and-oregano-rubbed chicken in the basement smoker, then quickly crisping them in the fryer. Brown-sugared bourbon barbecue coated the wings in thick maroon lacquer. “I wanted to do something different than Buffalo,” Kane says. “I’m really proud of them.” He should be.

He should also be proud of the escarole salad, the frilly leaves of the bitter greens charred on the grill before getting tossed with punchy Caesar dressing, hard-cooked egg, Parm, bread crumbs and curly boquerones.

This wasn’t groundbreaking — but it was well executed, flavorful and satisfying.

Latkes were spun into crunchy nests with threads of celery root, potato and onion. Peels of lush house-smoked salmon mixed with crème frâiche, celery leaf, lemon and chives sat atop each pancake. Beneath, sticky amber apple butter provided a sweet counterpoint.

The same fruit butter appeared in one of the desserts, a golden deep-fried apple pie (modeled after Mickey D’s) that Kane filled with Honeycrisps, Granny Smiths and Galas and

‘Fringed gypsy lamps whisper in invisible breezes. It’s Twin Peaks meets VFW hall.’ topped with housemade vanilla ice cream.

Flourless chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, Oreo crumbs, whipped cream and candied peanuts layered up for a Mississippi mud in trifle form.

The hibiscus-pink Franky’s Punch was sweet enough to qualify as its own dessert, but sneaky strong with Sailor Jerry, SNAP and Drambuie dosing a vanilla/apple cider base. The cava-topped crème de violetteand-St. Germaine Viva La Diva, meanwhile, was the kind of drink you would give a mom who doesn’t drink. Mine crushed one and promptly ordered another. Beer-wise you’ve got names like Firestone Walker, Neshaminy Creek and Founders in a list of 10 taps and 28 bottles that also includes an unfortunate number of macros. Maybe it’s a tribute to the boxer that gave this address its name. I can’t imagine Frankie Bradley kicking back with a pint of St. Feuillien saison. (adam.erace@citypaper.net, @adamerace)

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NOM WAH TEA PARLOR | NewYork’s oldest dim sum spot has opened a place in Chinatown, and is serving delicate dumplings and dim sum all day, six days a week. In lieu of bustling dim sum carts, Nom Wah provides guests with photo-heavy menus plus a paper checklist and golf pencils for ordering. And while dim sum is best enjoyed with a larger group for a variety of orders, Nom Wah sells samplers of fried and steamed offerings so smaller parties can also taste across the menu. A full liquor license is on the way, but for now Nom Wah’s lovely tea-pairing program is a perfect match. Mon., Wed., Thu. and Sun, 10:30 a.m.- 9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10:30 a.m.-10 p.m. 218 N. 13th St., 267-514-2884, nomwah.com.

BUENA ONDA | The latest from the Garces group is a fast-casual taco shop with beachy vibes and complimentary beer while you wait. This Callowhill counterservice spot focuses on Baja-style fish tacos — think mahi, shrimp and a catch of the day on housemade flour tortillas with avocado, chipotle remoulade and a crunchy cabbage-and-jicama slaw. Chicken, beef and pork tacos are also on the menu, along with nachos, quesadillas and a selection of South of the Border sides. For drinks, there are margs, cervezas, aguas frescas and Mexican Cokes. Open daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. 1901 Callowhill St., 215-302-3530, buenaondatacos.com.

SOUTH BOWL | Cheap beer, tater tots and late-night bowling have made their way to deep South Philly with the opening of the shiny new South Bowl. Housed in a former refrigeration plant, South Bowl has 26 brand new lanes plus plenty of other arcade attractions like pinball and air hockey. The kitchen is turning out a bowlingfriendly menu of wood-fired pizzas, wings and sandwiches.Open daily 4 p.m.-2 a.m. 19 E. Oregon Ave., 215-389-2695, southbowlphilly.com.

LOOKING FORWARD |This month, Tria Café (2227 Pine St.) is welcoming its fourth outpost, this time on Fitler Square. The café will offer the same wide selection of wines by the glass, beers and cheese along with a larger, more diner-centric menu, courtesy of new exec chef Karen Nicolas. Kevin D’Egidio and Michael Griffiths, veterans of Stateside and Fork, are going out on their own with Helm (1303 N. Fifth St.), a mid-priced BYO with a seasonally rotating menu. And finally Triangle Tavern (1338 S. 10th St.), the long-shuttered South Philly barroom at the intersection of 10th and Reed, is poised for a comeback by the minds behind Royal Tavern, Khyber and Cantina. Taking a nod from the neighborhood, the menu blends Philly-Italian-American fare like roast pork sandwiches with vegan and vegetarian friendly versions.

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BLUE SUEDE SALOON

2739 S. 16th St., 215-774-1202 Smoking: A big NO according to the seriously worded signs on the bathroom doors. But few deep, smoky breaths once inside the restroom revealed that maybe the policy wasn’t so strict after all. Bathrooms: Serviceable if not a little worse for wear, but the custom-made Elvis mirror mounted above the sink really brought the room together. Jukebox/Entertainment: TouchTunes, Megatouch and an old-school, sand-covered table shuffleboard game. Head Count/Tab: $23 before tip: two Dewar’s, three Miller High Lifes.

THE SIGNAGE ON T H E B LU E S U E D E SALOON, an Elvis-themed bar on the corner of 16th Street and Moyamensing Avenue, features Presley in all of his hip-shaking glory plus a hand-painted sign advertising “Surf & Suds: First ever Wi-Fi ready FREE high speed Internet.”

When walking into Blue Suede, late on a Wednesday afternoon, I was expecting a room full of South Philly’s finest Elvis impersonators or perhaps a bar full of freelancers who prefer Pabst over a single origin pour-over. Instead, what I found was a single bartender, the owner and a lone regular parked at the triangular bar with a glass of white wine on ice and a pack of Marlboros.

The decor at Blue Suede is best enjoyed minus a full bar. The owner, Bruce, has amassed a serious collection of Elvis memorabilia, including a hand-painted, midcareer plaster bust that obscures the beer taps, a handful of Elvis lives posters, TCB (taking care of business) signs all over the place and a mural featuring Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and the king himself covering the back wall.

Given that it was a fairly slow afternoon, the owner took some time off from inventory and loaded up some songs on the newly installed touchscreen jukebox. First up was “Speedo” by The Cadillacs followed by The Flamingos’ “I Only Have Eyes for You.” Bruce was curious about how I found his place. I told him that I’d passed by it plenty of times on the way to the Penrose Diner. Although the corner spot has been Blue Suede Saloon for nine years, the bartender has been through three owners. “Jesus owned this place,” he joked.

Seemingly a little concerned that I was at the bar alone (a friend was running a little late), Bruce assured me that he gets plenty of girls who come to his bar by themselves. “We don’t get a lot of idiots in here, so you’re safe,” he said.

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JONESIN ’ “AH YES! ” open wide and you know the rest. ©2015 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

ACROSS

1 Wednesday stuff 4 Rehearsed ahead of time 10 Second addendum to a letter, briefly 13 Siegfried’s colleague 14 Quasi-eco-themed Pauly Shore movie 15 Cry of recognition 16 Rock guitarist’s accessory 17 Deviating off-course 18 Danny and the Dinosaur author ___ Hoff 19 Stores owned by the guy who played Frasier’s dad 22 Like xenon or krypton 23 Landing place 25 In ___ (working in harmony) 26 Just ___ (a little under) 31 Hand-held fare 32 Irish-Caribbean island chain?

34 Blackjack component 37 Ready-to-hug position 38 ___ de la Cite (Notre Dame’s locale) 39 Showy birds at the dance?

41 Creamy cracker spread 42 John Denver Band bassist Dick (anagram of SINKS) 43 Laments loudly 47 Carpentry tools 49 Ab-developing exercise 50 Make a circular trip starting between California and Nevada?

56 Columnist Savage

57 It goes up and down while you eat 58 Stare at 59 L squared, in Roman numerals 60 High flier 61 Raymond’s nickname on The Blacklist 62 Big boss 63 Capote costar Catherine 64 ’60s campus gp.

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Cologne brand named after a Musketeer Lots and lots of Tex-Mex ingredient?

Kingly title British party member Levine of Maroon 5 “You’ve ___ Friend” (James Taylor hit) Abu Dhabi VIP Cruise ship levels Rye topper Yearly exam Hangdog Hell-___ (determined) Lord of the Rings beast “Let’s Roll” jazz singer James Throw out, as a question Ogre in love with Princess Fiona Masters of the Universe protagonist Dinosaur in Mario-themed Nintendo games

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Bassoons’ smaller relatives Goat-legged deities Savion Glover’s specialty Cleveland ___, Ohio “Dancing Queen” music group Uno, e.g.

Actor Hector of Chicago Hope and Monk Like “haxored” and “pwn’d” “Chandelier” chanteuse They may be significant Encouraged, with “up” Does 80 in a 40, perhaps He’ll tell you there’s no “I” in “TEAM” Part attached at the hip?

Well-off person, so to speak Stubbed piggy toe, e.g.

Israel Through My Eyes author Pledge drive bag ___ about (roughly) Hip-hop’s Run-___

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