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WHILE WE DO HAVE some trouble believing the last panel of award-winning Philly cartoonist and comic publisher Box Brown’s comic this week — no traffic on 676? — every other part of his recap of the night of April 13 rings true: An excellent Chinatown meal, gushing over The Mountain Goats at Union Transfer and pro wrestling shout-outs are every bit the delightful details of the perfect Philly evening that Brown brings to life.
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THE OUTSIDERS IMPROVISED & CREATIVE MUSIC POP-UP FESTIVAL Bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma has plied his other-worldly jazz-funk sound in a remarkable variety of situations since his days with Ornette Coleman’s groundbreaking Prime Time band. Many of those stylistic worlds collide during this one-night event, which Tacuma dreamed up to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month. King Britt, Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen, pianist Orrin Evans and Buchla Music Easel wizard Charles Cohen are just some of the Philly jazz experimentalists on tap. 4/24, Community Education Center, jamaaladeenmusic.com. —Shaun Brady
+1 Police are looking for two men who impersonated police officers in a Juniata Park grocery store and attempted to arrest an employee. “The badges, the uniforms, the way they brazenly manhandled an honest citizen — these guys did their homework.”
The chess club at a Wilmington charter school needs to raise $5,000 to travel to Kentucky to defend its title at a national competition. But down there they call it tall checkers. And the knights are called horses. And castling is a sin. And the bishop is in charge. And the queen is 16 and pregnant. And the black pieces can’t move freely. And … OK we’ll stop.
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For the second year in a row, the Philadelphia School District invites proposals on how to improve the city’s school system. This year’s program is titled, “Besides Adequate Funding.”
Swarthmore students end their monthlong sit-in to demand the college divest its holdings in oil and gas. Of course, at Swarthmore, activism is a major, just like optimism and rainbow brightening.
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City Council members say Philly should install the ShotSpotter program, a microphone network that helps to pinpoint where a gunshot has gone off. “Yippee,” says the owner of the city’s only all-night silencer store.
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Officials in Camden, who have used the ShotSpotter program since 2011, say shootings are on the decline. “Silencers! Why didn’t we think of that?” say Camden’s murderers. “Thank you, Bell Curve.” Well, shit.
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Action News reports that the Philly Pretzel Factory has created a “Tebowing” kneeling pretzel figure in honor of the newest Eagles player. Ever wish somebody would open up the Ark of the Covenant in the middle of this city and everybody you hate just gets their faces melted down to goo by the wrath of God?
8-BIT NIGHT The Philadelphia Science Festival begins this year with a 21plus video game extravaganza. Over 60 activities are planned, including Galaga in the Fels Planetarium, arcade machine dissections and lessons on how to play music on an old Game Boy. Attendees can toast with Yards Brewing Company’s official Science Festival beer, Parallel Brewniverse (a Belgian-style white IPA). 4/24, Franklin Institute, fi.edu. —Sam Fox
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS In the nearly 30 years since TMBG’s eponymous debut, the band has gone on to apply its geeky brand of alternative rock to children’s music and numerous film, television and advertising projects. The group still makes music for adults, though. This year’s Glean is the first hard-copy segment of the band’s characteristically genre-traversing, 52-track Dial-A-Song project. 4/25, TLA, lnphilly.com. —Sam Fox
TONI MORRISON What could we possibly say about the inimitable Toni Morrison that hasn’t already been said? The 84-year-old Pulitzer, Nobel and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner just published her much-anticipated 11th novel, God Help the Child (Knopf) — it focuses on the suffering of a dark-skinned Black girl born to lighter-skinned parents who are appalled by her. Morrison will sign and speak with novelist Veronica Chambers at this event that no true lit lover would want to skip. 4/29, Free Library, freelibrary. org. —Mikala Jamison
EX HEX Not only was the inaugural all-killer hookfest from Mary Timony’s power-pop power-trio declared City Paper’s third favorite album of 2014, it’s also a fun fill-in-the-blank game. Rips up the rock ’n’ roll rulebook and starts over? (Well, not exactly.) Rips off The Cars/The Pretenders/Cheap Trick/whomever? (Yeah, but, what’s your point?) Rips you a new one? OK, how about just flat-out Rips? 4/26, Union Transfer, utphilly.com. JONAH TAKAGI
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RED PARTY: Hajra Jayani (left) and Maria Qureshi at the April 4 Holi celebration at Penn Park. EMILY GUENDELSBERGER
CULTURE
BY EMILY GUENDELSBERGER
COLOR IT GREEN
As various ‘color 5Ks’ come to Philly this spring, their Hindu origins are left in the dust. IF YOU’RE OUT AND ABOUT this Saturday morning, you’re likely to run into people walking around looking like they’ve been assaulted by Rainbow Brite. This weekend, Philly hosts not one, but two 5K “color races,” during which volunteers stationed along the course will pelt runners with fistfuls of colored cornstarch — the Color Run, along the Camden waterfront, and the Color Vibe 5K in the far Northeast. Another color 5K, Color Me Rad, is in town next weekend. There’s several for-profit knockoffs of the original Color Run, billed as “The Happiest 5K on Earth.” It’s not surprising, as these types of races bring in serious green. Maybe the number of knockoffs is karma — the Color Run was itself either “inspired by” or “ripped off of” the Hindu festival of Holi, depending on whom you ask. “Holi is the Hindu festival of colors; it’s usually done at the start of spring in India, says Harikesh Muralidhar, the chair of Rangoli, the Indian graduate student association at the University of Pennsylvania. The festival isn’t tied to an exact day — in India, where it originated, it tends to happen in late March, but in colder climates, Holi happens whenever it gets warm enough to be deemed squirt-gun weather. For Penn grad students, that was Saturday, April 4, sunny and beautiful, if a bit brisk. Rangoli threw a Holi celebration at Penn Park, and around 2 p.m., a couple hundred color-covered grad students ran around like maniacs, laughing and shrieking and hitting each other with fistfuls of colored powder and cups of water. Others relaxed in the sun or ate homemade Indian food. “The colors symbolize rebirth and revitalization — that the cold winter is done and you’re able to get back to the warmth,” says Muralidhar, breaking off as a pair of gleeful students chased each other through our
conversation. More than a few times, random people walk up, declare me too clean and smear my face with colored powder. It’s difficult to tell under all the paint, but the group of Penn students in attendance is very diverse. “We encourage all students to attend our events; we want more people to learn about Indian culture,” says Muralidhar. “We have a lot of Indians coming over to study at UPenn, so we want to act as a bridge between the Indian community and the rest of UPenn.” Muralidhar, a firstyear chemical engineering grad student, says he loves seeing Holi in Philly. “I just came here in September, so I’ve been in a new culture, trying to get adjusted. Things like this help remind me that I have ties back home,” he says. What’s Holi like in India? “Just imagine this multiplied by a thousand,” Muralidhar says, gesturing out at the park. “Thousands of people, thousands of colors, a thousand times the food. It’s a big, big party.” Holi has religious significance in Hinduism, but people I speak with who grew up celebrating it say it’s now more of a cultural and social thing. Is there a comparable American holiday? Some mention the everybody-in carnival atmosphere of New Orleans Mardi Gras; others, the marking of changing seasons like Memorial Day; others, the family-food nexus of Thanksgiving. But there really is no Western equivalent, it’s generally agreed. Holi is unique to South Asian culture. That’s why it bothered Sonalee Rashatwar when, a few years ago, she started seeing the trappings of Holi being used to sell 5K tickets, with marketing materials primarily featuring white college students. Rashatwar has fond memories of Holi growing up. “It’s always a family activity. I’m really lucky to have quite a bit of family in New Jersey, whereas many second-generation folks, a
The colors symbolize rebirth and revitalization — that the cold winter is done and you’re able to get back to the warmth.
lot of their family is still back in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, somewhere else.” She remembers running around with 20 or 30 cousins at one particularly big Holi. “The color throw doesn’t just involve color powder — it involves color squirt guns, shaving cream, people’s skin being dyed for few days,” she laughs. “Color powder always ends up in your ears, for days. That’s just inevitable if you’re playing it right. “When I see color throw removed from its cultural context, I can feel … plagiarized, like credit wasn’t given to where it was taken from,” continues Rashatwar, a Widener grad student who grew up in South Jersey and attended Temple as an undergrad. “Like the source wasn’t worth the time to credit.” She couldn’t even find a mention of Holi on the Color Run’s website at the time. (There’s now a single citation deep in the site’s FAQ, alongside other inspirations, like Disneyland.) Kyndall Clark and Celiena Brady, both second-year education grad students, noticed the event on Facebook and attended on impulse. Neither had heard of Holi before, though Clark had participated in a color race. She says the vibe was similar. “The Color Run is all about happiness, too. Happiness
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RUN ROOTS: Grad students spattered with color powder eat samosas at one of Penn’s recent Holi celebration. EMILY GUENDELSBERGER
and positivity, celebration of spring and all those things.� It’s about profit, too, though. Weirdly enough, the trend of color races started in Utah, where in the ’90s a large Hindu temple began tailoring its annual Holi celebration to appeal to nearby students at Brigham Young University. Mormon students eager for a fun event that didn’t involve alcohol grew the Utah celebration to what’s now the largest in the U.S., with 55,000 attendees this spring. Brigham Young alum Travis Snyder put on the first Color Run in 2011, and grew that first 5K into a for-profit company that annually puts on over 200 events worldwide for more than two million participants. The Color
Run’s site says they’ve donated more than $3 million to charity since then, but first and foremost, the website says, it “is neither a charity nor a nonprofit organization. The Color Run, L.L.C. is a ‘for profit’ event company.� (Ditto its knockoffs.) In Philadelphia, The Color Run is partnering with homeless-advocacy group Back on My Feet, which is still recruiting for this weekend: “For a race that hosts 13,000-plus runners, hundreds of volunteers are needed to make it a success. Back on My Feet can raise $40 per volunteer we recruit to staff the Color Run,� says Back on My Feet’s website. Though the Color Run didn’t return City Paper’s calls, the math is clear: A single ticket to participate in the Color Run costs between $40 and $50. So, 13,000 tickets would gross about $585,000 at just this
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one race, cornstarch is cheap and staffing with volunteers keeps overhead low. In short, the Color Run and other for-profit companies like it are making a killing off selling Holi to Americans as their own idea. Rashatwar says she doesn’t blame people who participate in color races for not knowing about Holi. The for-profit companies putting on the races are another story. “We live in this capitalist system that benefits from the consumption of people’s traditions and cultures, and it’s really shitty, because it feels like my own culture’s being repackaged and sold back to me, and that doesn’t feel good,� she says. How could the Color Run and groups like it do a better job of acknowledging where they got the idea for the “unique events� that make them so much green? “They could say that some of the money would go to support — I know there’s a women’s shelter that focuses on South Asian women in North Jersey called Manavi,� says Rashatwar. “Or they could be more transparent about it — say, ‘This is where we got the idea.’ We know where you got the idea, you know?� (emilyg@citypaper.net, @emilygee)
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CALLING ALL GROWNUPS: Assistant Public Defender Paula Sen says she’s still ‘a little sore’ after a cop allegedly hit her from behind. She was more concerned about the injuries to Anthony Jones, who was arrested on disorderly conduct charges.
POLICE
BY DANIEL DENVIR
COP ALLEGEDLY PUNCHES DEFENDER IN COURTHOUSE
ASSISTANT PUBLIC DEFENDER Paula Sen alleges that Philadelphia Police Officer David Chisholm punched her in the back of the head in a Criminal Justice Center hallway while attempting to assault Anthony Jones, a client who had been kicked out of a courtroom and was in a verbal exchange with officers. “We kept trying to move away from them and they kept approaching us,” Sen says, referring to the cops. “There was certainly no need for violence. … We were both attacked from behind.” Sen says that after the attack she went to the emergency room for treatment of a sprained neck and bruising on her knees. “To the best of my knowledge Mr. Jones was never given medical treatment, and he was beat up pretty bad,” she says. Officer Chisholm, according to the police arrest report filed about the April
10 incident, said that Jones was “yelling and screaming” in the hallway and that another officer approached him. Chisholm alleges that Jones then took “an aggressive stance” toward that officer and “turned his hat backwards.” (“Jones turned his own baseball cap backward, not the cop’s,” according to Public Defender Brad Bridge). The police report says Chisholm then “approached [Jones] from behind in an attempt to arrest him for disorderly conduct.” Jones then allegedly turned around and “Chisholm, fearing [Jones] was going to assault him, put the defendant in a headlock and took him to the ground.” Chisholm said that Jones was trying to “pull away,” so he “punched the defendant one time in his face.” Sen says that she was in the courthouse on an unrelated matter when she observed a heated discussion between Jones and
a court crier over Jones wearing a hat in the courtroom. The crier physically removed Jones from the courtroom, she says, and into the hallway. Jones “was upset,” she says. “And rightfully so. Someone put his hands on him for no reason.” Sen says that between eight and 12 officers in the hallway, who were waiting to testify, then “start[ed] laughing and pointing at him and making comments.” In response, Jones was “kind of being like, ‘Fuck you, guys.’” As Jones and the officers continued to exchange words, Sen says she tried to get Jones to ignore the officers and talk to her. “Then two plainclothes officers get up and actually approach us and they’re saying to [Jones], ‘Do you even know who you are talking to?’” she says, and “things to that effect.” The officers then told Sen to tell Jones to leave, she says. Sen says that she told the officers that she did not have the authority to tell someone who had been subpoenaed to leave the court. Jones had been arrested in February and charged with simple assault and other charges. “‘Well, you don’t have the fucking authority to tell me what to do,’” she says one of the officers responded. “I said, ‘OK, I was just hoping we could act like grownups,” and then led Jones away. The exchange continued as they walked down the hall. Sen says that she was standing with Jones and his girlfriend when “very suddenly a group of, I would say, about six police officers … kind of rushed us.” One officer got in Jones’ face, she says, shouting at him. Another officer, she says, tried to pull the aggressive officer away. She says that she was standing between Jones and the officers “because I became concerned for his safety. “And then from the left and behind us, Officer David Chisholm, who is in plainclothes at the time, basically runs at [Jones] from behind. He swung his right arm. I think his intention was either to strike [Jones] or get him in a headlock.” But Sen was standing in the way. “I was punched in the back of the head, with enough force that it caused me to hit the ground.” Sen saw a “pile of officers” on top of Jones, who was by then lying on his back.When Jones was pulled back up, he was bleeding from his mouth, she says. “The cops are still taunting him and he’s taken away, put into custody and ultimately charged” with disorderly conduct, terroristic threats and resisting arrest. Sen says that officers at no time told Jones that he was under arrest.
Sen has filed a complaint with Police Internal Affairs. First Assistant District Attorney Ed McCann said Monday that he couldn’t yet comment on the case because the office is still reviewing witness statements. City Paper was unable to reach the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 or Officer Chisholm. The Police Department confirms that Internal Affairs is investigating the incident. “The assault, arrest and continued detention of Anthony Jones is another example of a reckless police department lacking oversight,” emails Jonathan A. McDonald, Jones’ lawyer and an attorney at McDonald Wilson & Morlok. “It is disturbing to see police behavior of this nature in our neighborhoods and on our streets, but it is astounding that this brazen aggression occurred in our courthouse. The initial police reports of this event are inaccurate and contradicted by multiple witness accounts that have been recently provided to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.
‘It is disturbing to see police behavior of this nature in our neighborhoods and on our streets, but it is astounding that this brazen aggression occurred in our courthouse.’ Mr. Jones should be released immediately.” Jordan Barnett, Sen’s supervisor and the head of the Defender Association’s Southwest Division, said that he had a physical description of the officer, and finally tracked down Chisholm in the courthouse. According to Barnett, Chisholm stated, “’You let them [your clients] behave like animals, this is what happens.’” Barnett says Chisholm then threatened him, saying, “Keep pushing and we’re going to have a conversation.” Sen says she is still “a little sore” from the attack, but her main concern is about what happened to Jones. “I’m much more upset about what happened to Mr. Jones. … It is deeply concerning to me that if these officers felt that it was appropriate and OK to behave the way they did inside a courthouse with all these people watching, what do they do when no one’s looking?” (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net, @DanielDenvir)
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DOES IT MATTER? Political candidates all want their names to be listed at the top of the ballot. But an analysis of Democratic Council at-large election results reveals some surprises. MARK STEHLE
DATA ANALYSIS
BY STEPHEN ST. VINCENT
HOW BALLOT POSITIONS ARE LIKE BASKETBALL SHOES
ON MARCH 18, candidates for elected offices filed into a City Hall courtroom for the traditional pulling of ballot positions — written on glorified ping pong balls — from an old Horn & Hardart coffee can. Despite being more political ritual than electoral substance, the afternoon wasn’t without its entertaining moments. Mayoral candidate Anthony Hardy Williams didn’t even show up and drew number one, prompting a bemused chuckle from the audience. City Council candidate Isaiah Thomas let his infant son pick for him, and the poor little guy grabbed 20 out of 21. Another candidate for an at-large Council seat, Paul Steinke, drew 11 and quipped, “Well, I said I wanted number one, and I got two of them!” The event received a lot of attention from the candidates and the media, in part because the general consensus is that ballot position can go a long way toward
deciding who wins and who loses elections. Conventional wisdom says that drawing a poor position means it’s nearly impossible to win, while drawing a good position means that victory is much more likely. But anecdotal evidence — which, until now, is pretty much all we’ve had — provides plenty of counter examples. In 2011, Thomas drew number two, but finished eighth out of 14 at-large Council candidates. On the other hand, Blondell Reynolds Brown drew dead last out of 29 candidates in 1999 and still ended up winning an atlarge Council seat, even garnering the most votes. Are those examples the exceptions that prove the rule, or is the importance of ballot position more myth than fact? To answer that question, I went straight to the historical records. I compiled election results for the Democratic Council at-large races going back to 1987 to see if there was a statistical trend showing that ballot position
Was Michael Jordan a better player in high-end Nikes than he would have been in penny loafers? Yes.
has an effect on election outcomes. Analyzing the numbers produced some interesting observations. Since winning is what matters most — in a race where the top five candidates win, finishing sixth isn’t any better than finishing 20th — I first tested whether the winners’ ballot positions tend to be better than the losers’ spots. They don’t. Although they tend to be slightly better on average, the statistics weren’t strong enough to show a real difference between winning ballot positions and losing ones. In other words, there isn’t a clear link between ballot position and winning. However, that simple analysis doesn’t control for any variables that might muddle the results. Those who follow Philadelphia politics closely know that there’s one key characteristic that typically separates winners from losers: incumbency. Since 1987, 31 incumbents have run for re-election, and 27 of them have won — an 87 percent success rate. On the flip side, 96 challengers have run, but only eight have won — a meager 8 percent success rate — and four of those wins were for open seats. And, if we look at incumbents and challengers separately, we can better test the importance of ballot position. Instead of just seeing whether or not a candidate won, I looked at how much their ballot position differed from how they finished when all the votes were counted. I found that for each separate group, ballot position does have an effect on finishing order; however, that effect is very small, and ballot position alone is just about useless at predicting how a candidate will fare. Another way to explain this is to consider Michael Jordan’s shoes. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Nike ran a series of ads featuring Spike Lee proclaiming the reason for Jordan’s success on the basketball court: “It’s gotta be the shoes!” Was Michael Jordan a better player in high-end Nikes than he would have been in penny loafers? Yes, but I think we can all agree that Jordan still would have been dominant in penny loafers. The shoes helped a little bit, sure, but his talent, athleticism, work ethic, teammates and coaches were all far more important factors in his success. In general, we would expect basketball players who wear better shoes to perform better. But because there are so many other factors that are so much more important to determining basketball ability, the shoes are practically irrelevant. Ballot positions for Council at-large seats are like basketball shoes. Yes, they can make a small difference, but there are many other factors — including money, party support and charisma — that will have a much bigger effect on who wins those elections than ballot position. Based on the evidence, no candidate can be written off or assured victory based on ballot position. If you want the real predictor of success, look no further than whether a candidate is an incumbent. (editorial@citypaper.net) Stephen St. Vincent is an attorney and policy consultant in Philadelphia.
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HEADS TOGETHER: Raul Davilla, a third-year Penn dental student, consults with Sandra Salvatierra while her son undergoes a dental exam.
On the Map:
A center offering medical care and social services for undocumented immigrants finally opens a permanent home on South Street. WORDS BY JON HURDLE / PHOTOS BY MARK STEHLE
SINCE 2006, Philadelphia’s undocumented and uninsured immigrants have quietly been receiving the medical care that has been denied to them by the mainstream health-care system. This care has been provided in the back room of a gas station, the basement of a church and during off hours in a suite of doctors’ offices. A team of doctors, nurses, medical students and communityliaison workers, nearly all of them volunteers, has been providing very low-cost primary care to immigrants who have neither the
legal status to obtain medical insurance, nor the funds to pay for treatment out of their own pockets. The dedicated team, which calls itself Puentes de Salud, or “Bridges of Health,” has provided everything from dental care to family-planning advice to oncology referrals for as little as $10 per visit to patients, most of whom are Latinos. Now, the long-sought dream of providing a permanent home base for this care, and expanding its hours, is about to become
a reality. Puentes finally has its own space, a 7,000-square-foot office and education center on South Street at 17th, where it will offer its array of medical and social services — focusing on prevention at least as much as cure — under one roof for the first time. “For this holistic vision to have real traction, it needs a home, and it [then] becomes a model that can be replicated,” said Dr. Steve Larson, a Puentes co-founder and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. “I can step back now. There are so many good people who are part of Puentes. It gives them a platform and a foundation to continue to do the great work they do.” The Puentes de Salud Health and Wellness Center, due to begin with an open house on Saturday, has converted a former Penn IT center into a space that will offer primary-care medical services as well as education to help its clients navigate unfamiliar systems in their adopted country. The facility houses medical examining rooms, three dental chairs, an office for counseling on behavioral-health issues such as substance abuse, and an education space providing classes including yoga, meditation and an early Head Start program. In a new kitchen, clients will be able to take healthy-eating classes given by the chef at Tequilas, a Philadelphia restaurant that employs many Latino immigrants. The new center will be open five days a week plus two evenings, representing a big increase over the two evenings a week that Puentes now operates in nearby borrowed offices, also on South Street. In addition to medical care, it will offer a range of social services and advice from Spanish-speaking volunteers. Immigrants seeking legal advice, for example, will be able to get free consultations from volunteer students from Penn’s Law School. Other Penn contributors include the Graduate School of Education, which has designed a curriculum in English as a second language and a summer reading program; the nursing school, which supplies volunteers, and Wharton, which is already offering investment classes to Puentes clients. “It’s like the Thanksgiving table,” Larson said. “Everybody brings something, and I don’t value my turkey over your cranberry sauce.” The new building has been rented to Puentes for $1 a year by Penn Medicine, which has also donated some furniture. Other free goods and services, ranging from drywall for office partitions to computers, have kept costs down. In total, the renovation has cost some $1.2 million, about
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half of it from donations. The remainder of the capital cost has come from in-kind donations. With a projected 10,000 patient visits a year, Larson is figuring annual income of $150,000 to $200,000, which will allow the center to hire a nurse, a laboratory technician and an office manager, in addition to the full-time nurse and three other part-time staffers who are currently the only paid employees. The low patient costs are based in part on the Puentes philosophy of preventing illness, and addressing a range of socioeconomic factors that have an important influence on health outcomes. “Our aim is to keep them out of the hospital,” Larson said. The preference for prevention rather than cure is echoed by Dr. Jack Ludmir, the other Puentes co-founder, who is chairman of Penn Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Years ago, Ludmir identified a shortage of prenatal and general medical care among Philadelphia’s Latino immigrants. “My total frustration was that these women, because they were unauthorized, could not get prenatal care,” Ludmir said. Costs would be much lower if women got treatment that prevented problems during pregnancy rather than waiting for problems to arise, he said. Among the locations where Puentes is practicing prevention is Southwark School in immigrant-rich South Philadelphia. Clients there, most of whom are Mexican, pay little for dental and prenatal care while taking free English lessons and sending their children to after-school programs, all run by Puentes volunteers. Justina, an undocumented mother of two who came to the United States from her native Mexico six years ago, is among those who have received help at Southwark, which will continue to operate even after the new Puentes center opens. Justina, 30, said she has obtained medicine for her 7-year-old daughter’s thyroid condition for only $20 a month, and takes art classes from an instructor who encourages participants to express their feelings about the experience of coming to the United States. Justina, who works in an ice cream factory, also gets free interpretation services for any Englishlanguage letters that arrive at the South Philadelphia home where she lives with her husband, a restaurant worker.
‘My total frustration was that these women, because they were unauthorized, could not get prenatal care.’
Without Puentes’ services, it would have been “very difficult” to navigate the American system, she said, through an interpreter. Previous patients include Mery Martinez, a 38-year-old Honduran who went to a Puentes clinic in January 2014 after being turned away from a local emergency room — where she had gone for treatment of leukemia — because of her undocumented status. Martinez walked across the Texas border in 2003, and had been working as a house cleaner in New York until she moved to Philly because of its lower housing costs. She had no health insurance and no money. With a life-threatening condition, Martinez was, in fact, eligible for treatment under Pennsylvania’s Emergency Medical Assistance program and was eventually able to qualify for that after getting assistance from Puentes. She was treated by Penn health system oncologists over the past year, but the chemotherapy failed and she was discharged from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on March 15 after what Larson described as a “lengthy palliative stay.” At Puentes’ expense, Martinez was flown back to Honduras, where she was reunited with her children, whom she hadn’t seen for 11 years. She died there on March 23, four days after her arrival. “It was a sad moment for all involved in her care,” Larson said. While Puentes has previously helped to return the bodies of those under its care who have died in the United States, Martinez was the first living patient to be flown home at the organization’s expense, Larson said. Although Puentes serves mostly the Latino community, other patients include Liberians, Moroccans and Pakistanis, Larson said. It will also help an uninsured U.S. citizen who needs emergency treatment and is having trouble navigating the health-care system. For such a patient, Puentes will typically provide temporary care until a longer-term solution can be found. Larson got the idea for Puentes when caring for Latino workers in the mushroom fields of Kennett Square, in Chester County, in the early 2000s. Larson recognized them as an underserved community that was largely shut out of the conventional medical system. He and Ludmir began offering health care in a shoestring operation, and by 2013 were treating some 3,300 patients on an annual budget of $350,000.
OPEN WIDE: Josue Salvatierra, 10, undergoes a dental exam by two Penn dental students, Krushan Patel (left) and Daniel Mariche, earlier this month in the clinic’s borrowed space.
CHECKING IN: Carlos Pascual (right) welcomes Angelica Garcia, and her daughter, Vanessa, to the clinic, which was operating during the evening one day last week. Puentes de Salud’s permanent center will hold an open house on Saturday. Operating hours for the medical center will be expanded.
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NO DOWN TIME: Silvia Huerta (left) conducts a health-education session while patients wait for their appointments.
Calling Puentes a “disruptive innovation,” Larson said it proves that effective community medicine does not have to be the high-cost, high-tech model that has made the U.S. system the most expensive in the world. By focusing on prevention as well as cure, and by drawing on the goodwill of a legion of volunteers and donors, Puentes has proved that an underserved community can be provided with inexpensive and effective health care, he said. That doesn’t necessarily sit well with the medical establishment, which relies much more heavily on treatment by physicians rather than by the nurses, nurse-practitioners and community-liaison workers, the so-called “promotores” who have been crucial to the Puentes model. “We’ve pissed off a lot of people,” said Larson, who despite a 30-year career at Penn Medicine, clearly enjoys being a thorn in the side of medical orthodoxy. Medical research is among the mainstream practices that miss the mark, Larson argued, because it exists only as long as it’s funded, and so can leave community-health investigations unfinished. “Academics go where the money is,” he said. The Puentes principles, though they have been applied mainly to the Latino immigrants so far, are equally relevant to all kinds of impoverished communities in Philadelphia and beyond, Larson said. In a presentation to Penn medical students in February, he said that the mainstream medical system fails to address the underlying causes of many of the conditions it treats. As his Power Point slide showed a photo of a blood-stained young man lying on an operating table, Larson argued that emergency-room physicians like himself can only treat symptoms like gunshot wounds, but should really be seeking solutions to underlying causes such as poverty and underfunded public education if they really want make a difference. “We’ve never done a root-cause analysis of the
‘If you are growing up in West Philadelphia, you get dealt a bad deal.’
17-year-old dying in front of you,” he told the Penn students. “The idea isn’t to wait for the gunshot victim to come to my emergency room. Let’s take the battle out there.” Larson, a burly 54-year-old with long, gray-streaked hair, worked hard to convince several dozen students that they needed to consider what he called the “structural violence” of cities like Philadelphia if they are to succeed as physicians. “Don’t just treat the symptoms, treat the causes,” he said, noting that West Philadelphia High School spends only $15,000 per student per year, while Lower Merion High School on the Main Line spends more than $26,000 per student. “If you are growing up in West Philadelphia, you get dealt a bad hand,” he said. His approach has led Penn medical school students, as well as others at Temple and Jefferson, to donate many hours of their time. They are evidence, Larson said, that a new generation of physicians is looking for a more effective approach to community medicine, and will be demanding that their medical schools teach it. To that end, Puentes is formalizing its links with Penn’s Nursing School to supply students, and is continuing to build relationships with local medical schools. “The kids want it,” he said. “If you are a medical school that doesn’t have a program, you are losing out.” With Puentes now well established in Philadelphia’s Latino community, Larson is seeking to replicate the model among other ethnic groups that are underserved by health-care providers. They include immigrant and refugee Africans and Caribbeans who typically go to Philadelphia’s city health centers, but face long lines and treatment that may not be culturally appropriate. Those communities, which number around 60,000 people, are represented by the African Family Health Organization (AFAHO), a group that was set up in 2005 in response to the death of an undocumented African woman who did not seek treatment at local hospitals because she feared deportation. AFAHO’s executive director, Oni Richards-Waritay, is seeking to set up a Puentes-like center
that would provide more and better care to the arriving Africans. The center she has in mind would combine Western health care with traditional African practices that would be more familiar to immigrant patients from Africa and the Caribbean. But in order to provide more culturally appropriate care, healthcare professionals would have to develop a more accurate picture of the specific needs of those communities than is now provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, which classifies Africans and Caribbeans simply as “Black,” Richards-Waritay said. Like Puentes, the new center would treat patients holistically, recognizing that many of their health issues can be addressed by changes in lifestyle instead of, or in addition to, medication. Following Puentes’ close links with Penn, the African center would form a close working relationship with a local hospital, RichardsWaritay said. AFAHO is hoping to acquire an abandoned building from the City of Philadelphia and to raise $100,000 for its renovation through a capital campaign. Other funding would come from crowd-sourcing, she said. The new center, which would open in 2017, is more likely to be located near the African and Caribbean populations of Northeast Philadelphia, where existing health centers are relatively scarce, than in West Philadelphia, where the city’s other major African population is concentrated, but which already has a number of city health centers, Richards-Waritay said. Meanwhile, Larson brushed off the idea that Puentes might be seen as abetting the politically fraught issue of illegal immigration. He likened the Puentes mission to that of faith-based organizations that believe they have a responsibility to care for people who have no voice, even if they lack the necessary papers to remain in the country. “I’m a health-care provider,” he said. “I signed an oath that didn’t have anything to do with geographic boundaries or anything but a life. The way I look at it, that’s my responsibility, and if you want to take that up as a legal issue, please feel free.” (editorial@citypaper.net)
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DOESN’T SUCK: Several out-of-print albums from FOD’s back catalog — including 1996’s Everything Sucks — have been re-released by SRA Records.
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THE UNWAVERING FLAG OF DEMOCRACY
Why Philly’s long-running punk band just won’t quit. IT WAS 1 IN THE MORNING in a cold, mostly empty warehouse on Lancaster Avenue the first time I really paid attention to Flag of Democracy. This was December 2001. The Philly punk band had already been playing for almost 20 years at that point, and it wasn’t the first time I’d seen them. Nor was this show particularly notable for them.
What blew my mind that night and what turned me into believer was the energy these three guys were putting into their performance. It didn’t matter that the only people still left at the show were a few drunk, spiky punks and the entirety of the band Thorazine who, despite having just played, spent the entirety of the FOD set moshing and going absolutely wild.
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FOD played hard, they played fast, and most of all, they clearly had a lot of fun doing so. It was extremely infectious. It was what they did best. It’s what they still do. “Other bands played fast but I think we were the first kind of U.S.-hardcore fast, that Gang Green fast, that Hüsker Dü fast,” says Jim McMonagle, guitarist, singer and one of the founding members of FOD. The lineup hasn’t changed since Dave Rochon (bass) and Bob Walker (drums) joined back in 1983 and 1986, respectively. FOD had a plan early on, says McMonagle: “Gang Green are good but we’re going to be faster than Gang Green. All of a sudden you had this new word in your vocabulary, this skill where you can say, ‘Wow, you can do this.’” Mind you, when the band played its first show — opening for Minor Threat, Agnostic Front and SS Decontrol alongside other locals Crib Death at Buff Hall in Camden in November 1982 — McMonagle was, at 17 years old, the oldest member of FOD. Thirty-three years later, the band’s back catalog, much of it long out of print, is seeing the light of day again thanks to Bruce Howze Jr. and his SRA Records label. Howze has been a devout fan since he was 15 and living in Delaware County. “I felt that it was a real crime that this stuff wasn’t available [so] I took matters into my own hands and turned my fake label into a real label, securing distribution and maxing out my credit cards.” FOD never stopped and never changed paths, avoiding both the awkward heavy metal-crossover record that plagued so many punk bands in the ’80s and the nostalgiadriven “reunion circuit” of has-beens that exists today. FOD didn’t break up because, “[Playing music] was a fun thing to do. We thought what we were doing was right and what other people were doing was wrong,” says McMonagle. “We could do whatever we want.” Although they toured internationally in the ’80s and ’90s, family and other responsibilities have kept the band happily tethered to Philadelphia in recent years. According to McMonagle, “It’s a lot harder to do it now because you’re an adult with an adult life and children and responsibilities and you can’t always just say, ‘Fuck it all, I’m going to go play a gig somewhere.’” Still, the band has continued to release new music and play out. It’s earned them some lifelong fans. Nancy Petriello Barile — who along with
others at the Philadelphia chapter of the Better Youth Organization, booked that Buff Hall show all those years ago — still loves them. “They do an excellent job of representing Philly in their sound because they’re loud, fast, raucous fun.” That sound, which mixes the anger and force of hardcore punk with the unadulterated glee of pop music, has come to represent them both in style and attitude. “[FOD is] one of the lone bands of that era and milieu who stayed intact, developed and continuously evolved and experimented while maintaining their original energy level,” says Philly punk veteran Chuck Meehan. You can still see him at every FOD show, up front and singing along with the same exuberance he’s shown for the band for the past three decades. Joel Tannenbaum, of the bands Plow United, Ex Friends and, most recently, The Rentiers,
‘There’s no expiration date on us, there’s not a door slamming shut at any time soon.’ is an obsessive fan. He also calls himself “the world’s only FOD conspiracy theorist.” While the title might be slightly tongue-incheek, he explains that, “A handful of bands that got really famous for playing melodic hardcore in the 1990s did so by systematically ripping off early FOD records and, to cover their tracks, making sure the band never got a fucking break.” They might have never gotten that break but they also never stopped making music on their own terms. “I think being in a position of not giving a fuck gives you power,” says McMonagle. “There’s no expiration date on us, there’s not a door slamming shut at any time soon.” SRA Records and fans around the city and around the world will make sure of that. Along with the re-releases of the band’s back catalog that have been ongoing for the past couple years, Howze is putting out new FOD music in the form of a series of split 7-inch records and an LP, the band’s ninth (working title: No School No Core). Flag of Democracy is approaching middle
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THE UNWAVERING FLAG OF DEMOCRACY
POWER TRIO: FOD plays an illegal generator show on the banks of the Schuylkill River in 2000. JAMES BORDERS
age at the same breakneck speed they’ve maintained since 1982. McMonagle recalls posing this question to Meehan in the ’80s: “You can’t be playing fast music for the rest of your life, like, when you’re 50, can you? And Chuck was, like, ‘Oh, I’ll still be playing.’ And I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ But here we are,” he says. “I think at this point in Philadelphia we’re like air or water.We’re there and we’ve always kind of been there. It’s, like, ‘The sky is blue and FOD is playing.’” (editorial@citypaper.net) Flag of Democracy is playing Sun., May 3, 7 p.m., with +HIRS+ and Soul Glo, LAVA, 4134 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-6155, lavazone.org.
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ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS: Lindsey Scannapieco says the ques�on asked at the first public mee�ng about the proposed project at the Edward Bok Technical HIgh School was this: ‘What would a public living room look like?’ Photo by Hillary Petrozziello
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Lindsey Scannapieco of Scout Ltd. Development Company Scout Ltd., an urban design and development company, has big plans for the Edward W. Bok Technical High School. Scout plans to redevelop the shuttered school as a mixed-use development and recently won a Knight Foundation grant to make the “South Philly Stoop” — an outdoor living room in front of Bok on the corner of Ninth and Mifflin streets. City Paper sat down with Scout’s managing partner, Lindsey Scannapieco, for some Bok talk. This interview has been edited and condensed.
Edward Bok, legendary editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal, is credited with coining the term ‘living room.’
City Paper: So, what’s up with Bok? What do you have planned there? Lindsey Scannapieco: Bok isn’t your typical school. It was created as place for making and training. We have culinary kitchens, science labs, wood shops, auto mechanic shops. So, the idea is to create a new space for makers, entrepreneurs, innovators, artisans, smallbatch manufacturers. CP: This project is a bit of a homecoming for you, isn’t it? You founded Scout in London, but you’re originally from Philadelphia? LS: I am. I was born in the Art Museum area. I grew up primarily in New Hope. Then I went away for undergraduate and grad school. I ended up in London for almost seven years. CP: In London, Scout focused more on temporal projects, right? And Bok is your first really permanent project? LS: Yeah, our work started by looking at the temporal, [and we also] did a lot of consulting work. I was a project manager for interim usages on the Olympic site for the London Legacy Development Corporation. My work there really focused on how you can [start to] do something temporary … that starts to imbed social, physical and economic value in the long term. There is a lot of rhetoric about how much a temporary use can help a space but, actually, the long term is what’s important to the community. So we said: OK, who controls that longer-term vision? That’s either the public sector that holds the master plan or the private developer that holds the lot. We picked private development. CP: What made Scout decide to come Stateside, and to Philadelphia specifically? LS: When we realized that we were interested in development, well, the cost of development in London is astronomical. I realized that in Philadelphia [I would] actually be capable of buying a property at my age and at our age of the company. CP: Tell us about what you’re doing with the Knight Foundation grant. LS: The project is called the South Philly Stoop. One of the things we’re really interested in is Edward Bok, who he was, his heritage and legacy.
Bok is credited with coining the term “living room.” There is this great quote by him: “We have what is called a ‘drawing room.’ Just whom or what it draws, I’ve never been able to tell, unless it draws attention to too much money and no taste.” With our first community engagement session in November, we said: “What would a public living room look like? This space to share, to meet, to exchange and to gather. … What could that mean in the public realm?” We noticed that people were using it as a dog park. The nearest dog park … was over a mile away. We [also] noticed a lot of parents were leaning against Bok’s fence, waiting for their children [who attend the neighboring Southwark School]. And then we noticed there was a bus stop — just a signpost — and we thought: What if something better could be there? Those are quite basic elements. So we proposed an engagement session with the children at Southwark. We’re planning to ask them what a living room means to them: Is it a place for gossip, for talking, for sharing, for waiting, for watching? And we’re starting to think about how some of those elements can be incorporated into the design. And, for us, a living room was for sharing stories. So we also put aside some funding to invite StoryCorps [the oral history project frequently featured on NPR] to come to South Philly, to capture the stories of South Philly. Some people have been in the neighborhood [for generations.] … There are a lot of Southeast Asian immigrants that have been there for [decades], and then a lot of new people moving in. … Trying to understand all of those stories and experiences is going to be really interesting. CP: Developers can sometimes face a lot of local opposition to ambitious projects — just look at all the plans for Mt. Sinai Hospital that have come and gone. Are you worried that the community might not get behind you? LS: I’m not. It’s really hard for people to trust developers, and that’s unfortunate, but I hope they get a sense of who we are. Our design is very much rooted in the context and the history of the place. And I hope that the people see that, or that they at least see our love for the project, because I totally love Bok. —Jim Saksa
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In dissecting the couple’s guilt over the presumed deaths of their kids, Crowe is at his clumsiest, setting a amateurish precedent for an ambitious film. (“You can find water, but you can’t even find your own children!” shrieks his heartbroken partner at one point.) His decision to travel to Turkey to recover the remains of his boys kicks up some tremors, but there’s an unstable return on investment. Introducing Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), a reserved innkeeper with demons of her own, is necessary for Joshua’s redemption, but only intermittently does Crowe advance this relationship beyond the realm of hammy rom-com montage. Turkish actor Yilmaz Erdogan, meanwhile, makes a lasting impression as the compassionate Ottoman officer Hasan, a role that won him acclaim at the Australian equivalent of the Oscars. Inconsistency creeps into Crowe’s decision-making behind the camera, as well, where big-boy action sequences glance off quieter moments that seem like they’d be better-suited for a television drama. All told, the production is respectful of sacrifice, even if Crowe struggles to make that clear. —Drew Lazor (wide release)
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227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-917-1228, thecolonialtheatre.com. The Princess Bride (1987, U.S., 98 min.): As you wish. Sat., April 25, 2 p.m., $5. Sorcerer (1977, U.S., 121 min.): Exorcist director William Friedkin’s underappreciated thriller about four men tasked with transporting truckloads of volatile nitrogylcerin through the jungles of South America. Sun., April 26, 2 p.m., $9. American Flyers (1985, U.S., 113 min.): A pair of estranged brothers (Kevin Costner and David Grant) duke it out in a treacherous three-day bike race. From the writer of Breaking Away. The screening is a fundraiser for Phoenixville Area Community Services. Tue., April 28, 7 p.m., $10. COUNTY THEATER
20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-345-6789, countytheater.org. Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982, U.S., 117 min.): Ridley Scott’s influential sci-fi classic as he meant you to see it. Soon to be Ryan Gosling-fied. Thu., April 23, 7:30 p.m., $10.50. The Hard Problem (2015, U.K., 100 min.): Theatercast of Tom Stoppard’s latest play, following a researcher flummoxed by the clash between technology and emotion. Sun., April 26, 12:30 p.m., $18. Cantinflas (2014, Mexico, 102 min.): Óscar Jaenada plays Mario “Cantinflas” Moreno, the Mexican comedic legend, in this biopic. Presented by Sociedad Hispana Doylestown. Thu., April 30, 7:30 p.m., $10.50. THE GERSHMAN Y
401 S. Broad St., 215-545-4400, gershmany.org. Touchdown Israel (2014, Israel, 81 min.): Paul Hirschberger profiles the Israel Football League, which sees Muslims, Jews and Christians suiting up to play together on the gridiron. Hirschberger will participate in a Q&A via Skype. Mon., April 27, 7:30 p.m., $12. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
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2023 Sansom St., 267-639-9508, filmadelphia.org/roxy. Rear Window (1954, U.S., 112 min.): Enjoy Hitchcock’s original before it gets remade with Ryan Reynolds and Ellen Pompeo.Thu., April 23, 2 p.m., $8. Kicking and Screaming (1995, U.S., 96 min.): Noah Baumbach’s directorial debut, a comedy about the weirdness of life after college. A 35 mm screening. Thu., April 23, 7:30 p.m., $10. PHILAMOCA
531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org. Beyond Clueless (2014, U.S., 89 min.): Fairuza Balk narrates this documentary about Hollywood’s interpretation of the teenage high school experience. Part of the 2015 Cinedelphia Film Festival. Thu., April 23, 7:30 p.m., $12. Dwarves Kingdom
(2013, U.S./China, 76 min.): Exploring a surreal theme park in Western China that employs a staff of people with dwarfism. Director Matthew Salton will be in attendance. Part of the 2015 Cinedelphia Film Festival. Thu., April 23, 9:30 p.m., $10. Moron Movies Retrospective Broomall native Len Cella looks back live on the legacy of his cultfavorite short films, featured by the likes of Johnny Carson and Dick Clark over the years. Part of the 2015 Cinedelphia Film Festival. Fri., April 24, 7:30 p.m., $10. Best Worst Movie Marathon Cineadelphia 2015 closes out with an all-night marathon of terrible crowd-pleasing flicks, including Troll 2, The Skid Kid and White Cop. Sat., April 25, 7:30 p.m., $17.
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Known for their rambling roots and guitar-rock tendencies, fun Philly duo Low Cut Connie may sound a bit more soulful these days. For their third record, Hi Honey — just released on Contender Records — they enlisted esteemed producer Thomas Brenneck, who’s worked with Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley and Amy Winehouse, among others. The album’s list of guest stars is equally intriguing: Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, Dean Ween and the guy who played Big Pussy. At Friday’s release party, LCC’ll get support from The Silks, a knee-slappin’, harmonicizing blues-rock trio from Rhode Island. —Nikki Volpicelli
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THE THREE MUSKETEERS
$27-$34 // Through May 10, Quintessence Theatre Group at the Sedgewick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave., 215-9874450, quintessencetheatre.org. THEATER Quintessence concludes its fifth season of classics with a new adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ oft-told 1844 tale of swashbuckling comrades and rousing calls of “All for one, and one for all!” Connor Hammond plays zealous young d’Artagnan, who’s willing to give his life for honor — to a fault. He’s tutored by Alan Brincks, Gregory Isaac and Michael Brusasco as the titular trio, and is soon embroiled in protecting the French queen (Julia Frey) and her English lover Buckingham (Brusasco) from King Louis XIII (Sean Close) and Cardinal Richelieu (Isaac). Alex Burns’ production keeps all clear, staging the action in the round with 13 actors, most playing at least two roles. The bare stage allows maximum space for Ian Rose’s terrifically witty battles, including a five-on-
four sword fight that’s a work of choreographic brilliance. Anita Holland plays Dumas, narrating not only to provide information, but to share the author’s droll point of view, as when d’Artagnan and Madame Bonacieux (Rachel Brodeur) share “the most passionate kiss in the history of time.” While overlong at nearly three hours — which only covers part one of Dumas’ novel — it’s never dull; we’re always only moments away from another clash of swords. —Mark Cofta
KENNY GARRETT QUINTET
$35 // Thu., April 23, 7:30 and 10 p.m., Philadelphia Clef Club, 738 S. Broad St., 215893-9912, clefclubofjazz.org. JAZZ Saxophonist Kenny Garrett served apprenticeships under two of the most demanding mentors in jazz history, working with Miles Davis during the trumpeter’s electric period and recording with a later incarnation of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Since then, he’s steered his sharp, forceful alto to the modern edge of post-bop with sometimes exhilarating, sometimes flat results. His last few albums have refreshingly focused on the strength
HI LOW COUNTRY: $12 // Fri., April 24, 8 p.m., with The Silks, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org. PHIL KNOT T
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JEFFREY DAHMER: GUILTY BUT INSANE
$20 // Through May 8, BrainSpunk Theater at PaperMill Arts, 2825 Ormes St., 215-278-9504, brainspunktheater.com. THEATER Josh Hitchens’
one-man show about one of America’s most infamous serial killers promises to bring us up close and personal with Dahmer (1960-1994) himself. Also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, he raped, murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the last few also involving necrophilia and cannibalism. Hitchens’ play asks: Can one be both insane and guilty? Dahmer
was murdered by a fellow lifer in prison; would we rather he received treatment? This BrainSpunk premiere, the company’s second show at Kensington’s PaperMill Arts building, raises the tough questions. —Mark Cofta
CREEPOID
$10 // Thu., April 23, 8 p.m., with Dead Heavens, Gondola and Void Vision, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org. ROCK/POP Last year Creepoid released their slow burning self-titled album as a follow-up to 2012’s Horse Heaven, moved to Savannah and came back to play Philadelphia all the time. The hazy melodies and vocals on Creepoid bear a striking resemblance to OK Computer-
era Radiohead, but it was still very Philly in its sort of lonely, guitar-driven sound. Now they’ve moved back to town and have another record already in the works. Tonight at Underground Arts, they’ll premiere a new song and kick off a tour that leads them to Austin Psych Fest. —Nikki Volpicelli
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$35 // Thu., April 23, 8 p.m., Venice Island Performing Arts Center, 7 Rector St., 267-2795388, phillycatsinhats.org. JAZZ The fact that Wallace Roney was the only trumpet player who Miles Davis taught one-on-one has been both a claim to fame and an albatross, as Roney has never quite shaken the “Miles
clone” accusations. But over the years Roney’s sound world has widened considerably, and now he’s mentoring a new generation. His sextet features a front line of young players backed by the veteran rhythm section of Buster Williams and Lenny White. —Shaun Brady
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TIM BERNE’S SNAKEOIL $15 // Fri., April 24, 8 p.m., Barnes Foundation, 2025 Ben Franklin Pkwy., arsnovaworkshop.com. JAZZ With their sprawling, muscular themes and unpredictable twists and tangles, it’s never difficult to identify a Tim Berne composition. That holds true for the music he writes for his latest band, Snakeoil, even with this band’s chamberjazz atmospherics. For his latest ECM release, You’ve Been Watching Me, Berne expanded the group to a quintet with the addition of guitarist Ryan Ferreira and complicated the textures by
adding electronics to Philly pianist Matt Mitchell’s arsenal. —Shaun Brady
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$29-$249 // April 24-May 3, Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St., 215-893-1018, operaphila.org. OPERA Giuseppe Verdi’s literary hero was Shakespeare, and he wrote three grand operas (Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff) directly modeled on Shakespeare’s plays. But nearly everything Verdi created bore the influence of the bard, with their shared penchant for layers of dramatic nuance, brought to life by his bold and magnificent music. Perhaps the best example is Don Carlo, an epic portrayal of aristocratic dysfunction in 16th-century Spain and the court of Philip II. Opera Philadelphia’s new production features a star performance from the pride of North Philly, world acclaimed bass-baritone Eric Owens, as the king. —Peter Burwasser
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$10 // Sat., April 25, 8:30 p.m., with Sunflower Bean and Surfbort, Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 267-6394528, bootandsaddlephilly.com. ROCK/POP Last week, bubble-gum grungers The Pretty Greens released a gorgeous turquoise tape on Negative Fun called Lonely Hearts Club: No Jerks Allowed. Now
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SUBURBAN LIVING $7-$10 // Sat., April 25, 8 p.m., with Dream Safari, Lithuania and Vacationer, Bourbon & Branch, 705 N. Second St., 215-238-0660, bourbonandbranchphilly.com. ROCK/POP Singer/guitar-
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THE GRUMPY LIBRARIAN
BY CAITLIN GOODMAN
Send the Grumpy Librarian two books you like and one you hate and she’ll tell you what to read.
DO AS OPRAH DOES? LOVED: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall LOVED: Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan DIDN’T: Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
A THOUSAND ACRES JANE SMILEY
(Anchor)
THE GRUMPY LIBRARIAN has been grumpily providing advice to readers for just about two years now, and poor Franzen is heads and tails the most hated — just goes to show, don’t use GL columns to predict sales figures. These three books have … well, not much of anything in common except being well-reviewed big sellers, and if the GL were doing things library proper she’d ask a couple of follow-up questions. Instead, she’s going to suggest Jane Smiley’s 1991 family saga A Thousand Acres, a solidly approachable story with historical sweep and bonus points for being a loose adaptation of King Lear. It isn’t “funny” exactly, so if you’re looking for more Shteyngart than Mantel, try Joshua Ferris’ Then We Came to the End, which is a funny/sad/funny window into cubicle life, successfully written in the unusual first-person collective (“we” the narrator) to which you will eventually adjust. Or buy whatever Oprah just picked, although you’re probably reading that already.
(grumpylibrarian@citypaper.net)
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$32.50-$37 // Tue., April 28, 8:30 p.m., with Apocalyptica and Vamps, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215627-1332, electricfactory.info. ROCK/POP If it ever
actually ends, Mötley Crüe’s current farewell tour is now contractually obligated to be its last. For better or worse, that still won’t be the end of bassist and chief songwriter Nikki Sixx, who seems to have substituted side projects for heroin as his addiction of choice. Sixx:A.M. was originally formed to provide soundtracks to Sixx’s
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REVIEWS // OPENIN GS // LISTIN GS // RECIPES
CLUB CULTURE: The Vesper cocktail at the newly reopened Vesper. CHARLES MOSTOLLER
VESPER // 223 Sydenham St., 267-930-3813, vesperphilly.com. Open daily 4:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.
COCKTAIL HOUR
BY CAROLINE RUSSOCK
SOCIAL GRACES
Once a members-only destination for well-heeled Philadelphians, the revamped Vesper Club is returning to its former glory, only this time it’s open to the public. WALKING DOWN SYDENHAM Street, it’s easy to see new and old Philadelphia colliding. Just south of Walnut, there’s a thirdwave coffee shop specializing in single origin pour-overs. A few doors down, you’ll find a renovated supper club that was once a members-only spot, where live music played and the only things being poured over were martinis and Manhattans. Back when it was a private dining club, Vesper was the place where the who’s who of Philadelphia came together and closed deals over drinks and Delmonicos. When the Vesper Club shuttered back in 2012, it seemed like another piece of old Philadelphia was fading into the past. “We met about five years ago and we were
just talking, dreaming and we at looked about four different places,” says John Barry. He and Brendan Smith of Smith’s Restaurant and Bar teamed up with Chuck Ercole of Misconduct Tavern to take over the space and start renovations in September of 2014. The revampedVesper opened to the public — no more members-only policy — a little over a week ago. While the majority of the bi-level social club has been transformed into a moodily lit den of dining, dancing and drinking, plenty of key elements of the original club remain. That includes a filigreed stone floor inlayed with Vesper’s logo, a mural of the city as seen from across the Delaware and
The balance of old and new is enough to keep former members satisfied.
the downstairs bar. But Barry, Smith and Ercole have made sure that the club has also gained a new level of accessibility. With cocktails such a key part of the equation in such a place, bringing on a cocktail specialist with a penchant for the classic was a must. With a résumé that includes Chick’s Social, Sbraga and most recently, Franky Bradley’s (another nod to the reinvention of an old-school Philadelphia spot), Jesse Cornell was the ideal candidate. Stocking the front bar with a sprawling collection of bottles, Cornell decided that standbys like daiquiris and French 75s were the way to go, at least with the opening cocktail menu. “I think it’s a nice introduction to let people know what we’re all about. There’s a classic feel to the space and I wanted the cocktail menu to reflect that.” At Vesper, you can enjoy a Manhattan made with Angel’s Envy rye and Carpano Antica vermouth or a namesake Vesper with Tito’s vodka, Bluecoat gin and Cocchi Americano. Upstairs, there’s a view of both the raw bar and one of the bands that soundtracks the restaurant on a nightly basis. Or, you can opt for a cocktail in the Hideaway, a subterranean lounge that’s accessed via a call made on a rotary phone and then a walk through a sliding bookshelf and down a flight of stairs. A hidden lounge was hardly the only curiosity that Barry, Smith and Ercole discovered when gearing up to reopen Vesper. Although it’s a place that lives in the memories of so many Philadelphians, there was not a menu or a cocktail list to be found. “It was actually very hard to get that information, really difficult. There’s nothing online,” Barry says. Instead he ventured over to another venue with similarly old Philadelphia vibes, the Union League. He spoke with bartenders there as well as some of his clientele from Smith’s Bar, lawyers whose fathers and grandfathers had been Vesper members. Ken Wallace, a Michelin-starred chef, was brought in from Ireland to create a menu that speaks to the social and convivial nature of the new Vesper, not necessarily sticking with the meat-and-potato fare that was surely long served there. With just a few nods to the classic fare — Chateaubriand and creamed spinach — the majority of the menu is geared toward sharing — think deep-fried chicken livers with a curry-raisin mayo, a risotto with beef cheek ragout and beignets. Somehow the balance of old and new is enough to keep former members satisfied. “They were really happy when we kept the logo here [pointing to the bar floor] and the mural back there,” Barry explains. “At first I don’t think that we knew what we were getting into. We were a little taken back about how much it meant to people. There’s so much history.” (caroline@citypaper.net, @caroline.russock)
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Buena Onda // 1901 Callowhill St., 215-3023530, buenaonda.com. Daily 11 a.m.-9 p.m. // Appetizers, $5-$9; tacos, $3-$3.50. THE FIRST THING someone asked me when I arrived at Buena Onda was whether I wanted to try some free beer. The staffer was standing at a mobile keg tucked between the counter, where you order, and a concrete brise soliel wall hung with menus that are huge in physical size but small in scope: tacos, nachos, quesadillas with assorted fillings, but an emphasis on seafood. I forgot which brew he was sampling, but I happily accepted a Dixie cup full while waiting my turn in the queue of Fairmount post-grads, lazy Granary residents — the swish apartment complex rises above this Baja-inspired spot—and après-Barnes motor mouths. Buena Onda loosely means “good vibes” in Spanish. The person putting those vibes out is Jose Garces, who wasted no time between opening Olde Bar and this poised-for-replication, quick-serve concept. It feels a little tossed-together: a chopped kale salad, tank tops for sale from a Jersey Shore outfitter, iced cans of Modelo, wooden crates stuffed with beach tunes on vintage vinyl, a manager who looks unsure of what he should be doing. You can only wander around this small (and busy!) space so many times. Expectations are high for food at a Garces restaurant (even a quick, casual one) and Buena Onda rarely meets them. The vegetarian quesadillas were mostly rice, which tumbled out of the sides because there wasn’t enough melted queso to glue them down. Carne tacos starred tough, sopping-wet brisket that turned their corn tortillas to tissue paper. Nachos — always spot-on at the Distritos — were unevenly topped and not very hot. Good thing the seafood tacos were on standby. Buena Onda does shrimp, mahi and a daily catch, all available grilled or dunked in an AP/rice flour batter and fried, tucked in made-to-order flour tortillas and topped with smoky chipotle remoulade, tangy jicama slaw and awkward plops of avocado. My orders of shrimp and mahi done each way were perfectly cooked. I particularly liked the fried versions; a shot of vodka helps the batter fry up into crispy, airy cocoons. Another might help me forget Buena Onda’s shortcomings. (aerace.citypaper@gmail.com, @adamerace)
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