Philadelphia City Paper, April 2nd, 2015

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APRIL 2 - APRIL 8, 2015 ISSUE #1557

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more picks on p. 23 SPUNTINI TAKEOVER South Philly Taproom/American Sardine Bar chef Scott Schroeder is hosting a onenight-only spuntini takeover at Brigantessa and bringing a selection of bar snacks to the bilevel Passyunk pizzeria. Be on the lookout for Italian-inspired plates like grilled fennel with olive oil-poached potatoes and a chili vinaigrette, plus lemonmarinated sardines with horseradish and a decidedly un-Italian hot dog nacho pizza. 4/2, Brigantessa, brigantessaphila. com. —Caroline Russock

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One hundred lawyers and law students say they got food poisoning after attending a banquet at a popular Chinatown restaurant. We’re sure a heartfelt apology will settle this.

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A police officer is accused of driving drunk and puncturing three tires on his police cruiser. Congratulations! You just earned the Least Egregious Philly Cop Story of the Week.

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An allegedly drunk cab driver already accused of trying to run over his wife leads police on a chase through the city. “Anyway, we caught him, cuffed him and hauled him downtown to enroll in the Police Academy.”

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The city’s bikeshare program will launch on April 23. That night, the masked vigilante Stu Carkofsky begins his reign of terror upon these two-wheeled monstrosities and the leftist government that welcomed them onto our streets.

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A Seattle man is accidentally invited to a bachelor party in Philly, and decides to show up anyway. He returns home, unblinking and unspeaking. The things he saw. The things they made him do. He is ruined, empty, ashamed.

A 4-year-old girl sneaks out of her house in the Tacony section at 3 a.m. and boards a SEPTA bus, after which the driver contacts the authorities. “Thanks for returning me to my mommy, Mr. Bus Driver,” says girl. “By the way, your app is bullshit. I was freezing my ass off waiting for a fucking dot to move across a fucking map.”

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Philly Archbishop Chaput presides over a Mass commemorating Terri Schiavo that is followed by a dinner at the Union League with keynote speaker Glenn Beck. “I believe the Catholic Church can be a powerful advocate for social justice,” says the archbishop. “But sometimes you just wanna host a clown parade, you know?”

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A MUSICAL GARDEN AT THE BARNES There’s a lot going on at the Barnes on Friday: $25 gets you performances by the Al-Bustan Takht Ensemble with members of the Philadelphia Arab Music Ensemble and the Moffet Arab Music Ensemble, plus a chat about the upcoming “Cézanne Uncovered” exhibit and full access to the Barnes collection. You can also buy some snacks (lamb kabobs, hummus) and cocktails. Al-Bustan, BTW, means “the garden” in Arabic. For more First Friday events, see p. 18. 4/3, The Barnes Foundation, barnesfoundation.org. —Mikala Jamison

SHE SHREDS Portland, Ore.’s guitar-based magazine She Shreds is hosting showcases all over the country to shine a light on shredders they’ve featured on their pages — and anyone else who fits the bill. Philly’s stop is stacked: Swearin’, Mannequin Pussy, Amanda X, Anomie and Girls Rock Philly’s Jane Doe (just added), plus DJ Sad 13 spinning bet ween sets. 4/4, PhilaMOCA, philamoca.org. —Nikki Volpicelli T.C. BOYLE The latest novel by the author of The Road to Wellville, Talk Talk, etc. explores the “American psyche” through the eyes of aVietnam vet, his angry son and that son’s right-wing anarchist older lover. The Harder They Come (Ecco) is already crushing the critics; the Times called it Boyle’s “most powerful, kinetic novel yet.” 4/2, Free Library, Central Branch, freelibrary. org. —Patrick Rapa

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PARTNERS IN DESIGN: Software developers Chris Brown (left) and Nathan Zimmerman present their app, Social Vote, a platform aimed at increasing voter participation, at the Apps for Philly Democracy 2015 hackathon. HILLARY PETROZZIELLO

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Members of the Code for Philly brigade spend the weekend turning databases into useful tools, from an app disclosing matches between city contracts and campaign contributors to one showing SEPTA elevators that are working. THEY COULD HAVE SPENT their precious weekend downtime lazing on couches, gathering with friends or watching the Flyers or movies or mindless TV. Instead, they chose to give back to their city, joining Code for Philly for its three-day “Apps for Philly Democracy 2015” hackathon. Armed with election databases recently released by the city and other open-data sources, dozens of civic-minded folks worked on projects to make that information more easily available to the public. They worked from Friday night until Sunday morning, presenting projects on Sunday afternoon that ranged from a phone

application that would answer questions about a voter’s registration and polling place to a “One Stop Transparency Shop,” which would, among other things, allow citizens to see if there was a connection between those who received city contracts and campaign contributors. “All of the ideas were amazing,” says Chris Alfano, the all-volunteer group’s “brigade captain.” “I’m really excited to see these keep going. I think a lot of them are ready to stand on their own. It’s unlimited what they can achieve.” The Code for Philly brigade, which is affiliated with the San Francisco-based,

nonprofit Code for America, is about 2 1/2 years old. Its goal, its website notes, is to make the city “a better place to live, work and play through technology.” For two years before that, Code for America fellows worked with elected officials and “the red carpet was really rolled out for us right into City Hall when we started. They really laid the groundwork,” Alfano says. Alfano wasn’t sure how many active participants the group has, but noted Code for Philly has about 1,200 people on its list to receive information about weekly workshops and meetups as well as how-to classes. He easily pointed to two Code for Philly projects that have made a difference. One is the bike routetracking app CyclePhilly that the Regional Planning Commission is using. The other is Unlock Philly, which uses SEPTA data to let those who need to use elevators know which ones are working. Alfano stressed that the group isn’t only for the computer code-savvy. “Coders are what we need the least. A bunch of code sitting on a pier somewhere isn’t going to help anyone,” Alfano says. “We need to solve problems that people actually have, address them in ways that are effective. We need to let people know about them.We need marketing. We need anything needed to launch a business … so many pieces that need to come together to take an idea from code and having impact.” Last weekend’s events started Friday night with a brainstorming session combined with a mix-and-mingle in City Hall’s Caucus Room. Participants wrote their ideas on large sheets of white paper and laid them on the circular conference table. They also had one minute to promote their ideas. Other participants showed their support for a concept by adding a star-shaped sticker on the idea’s page. On Saturday, the participants broke into teams to work. On Sunday, each of seven teams had five minutes to present its work at the city’s new Municipal Innovation Lab in the Municipal Services Building. A panel of five experts, including City Commissioner Al Schmidt and Chief Integrity Officer Hope Caldwell, then offered feedback to help the

teams move forward. There was no monetary prize. Tim Wisniewski, the city’s chief data officer, and his team developed a website with “Ward Leader Baseball Cards,” to provide information about the leaders of the city’s 66 political subdivisions. Before describing the project in detail, he had a few questions for the audience: How many people knew the names of the current candidates for Council at-large? Who knew any judicial candidates? Who knew their party’s ward leader? The response was as dismal as he expected, with only one or two people able to raise their hands. “These ward leaders are an underground elite class of citizens who have a dramatic influence on the elections on the city of Philadelphia,” Wisniewski said. “They’re really powerful, but not a lot of people know

‘I think a lot of them are ready to stand on their own. It’s unlimited what they can achieve.’ who they are or what they’re about or what influence they have or what their qualifications are. … (This site) shows who the biggest unelected power brokers are.” The concept was well-received. Among the suggested improvements: Provide details of how the ward leaders fund their PACs; add a graphic explaining what a ward is, how it’s divided and where it falls in the scheme of things; examine the connection between a ward leader’s endorsements and his or her eventual voting data. Caldwell also suggested the site include information on how one becomes a ward leader. “I think people want to get involved, but they don’t know how to,” she said. “Some people think they need Bob Brady’s blessing to do anything.” “Now you have his phone number,” Wisniewski quipped. Chris Brown and Nathan Zimmerman, both employees of the Philadelphia-based tech firm azavea, presented Social Vote, a platform aimed at increasing voter participation. They based it on a 2008 study in Flint, Mich., that showed that social pressure can have a big

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impact on elections. (As part of the study, researcher sent fliers to homes in specific neighborhoods with phrases like, “YOU ARE BEING STUDIED” and “DO YOUR CIVIC DUTY — VOTE!” The flier threatened to let neighbors know who didn’t go to the polls.) Brown and Zimmerman said it cost them $20 to obtain information about Philadelphia’s 990,000 registered voters, active and inactive, from the commonwealth, including their voting histories. The data they received needed a lot of cleaning and team members worried they wouldn’t have a final project. But they pushed through, even saying a Saturday spent cleaning data was “fun.” “Now we have something we can use going forward,” Brown said. Added Zimmerman, “Other people, when they found out what we were working on, they wanted it and it pushed us to get it done, to help others.” Schmidt noted a similar data-gathering operation by the group PA Working Families went terribly wrong shortly before the general election in 2014. The organization mailed reminders to about 30,000 city voters, urging them to get out and vote and providing their polling place’s hours and location. But the information on most of the postcards was incorrect, resulting in many calls to the City Commissioners’ office. “It would be interesting to see what would happen if this was done right,” Schmidt says. After the presentations, Alfano said he was excited by what he’d heard: Some of the ideas were ready to launch.

Others needed a bit more work, but Code for Philly would happily help. “Philly has an opportunity to show the world once again how a city should be run. We have a rich legacy of demonstrating ways to work together,” he says. “We can connect people who want to do things with people who are running the city, and together we can change lives.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

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URBAN FARMS

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DIGGING INTO FOODJUSTICE ISSUES

Philly Farm Crew volunteers clear away winter debris, spread compost and plant seedlings in an effort to help urban farmers with their spring crops. THE PHILLY FARM CREW launched its second season last weekend when 35 volunteers turned out to help local farmers spread compost, prep growing beds and turn over soil for planting at the Urban Roots Farm, Heritage Farm and Greener Partners Guild House West. The program — a partnership involving the Jewish Farm School, Repair the World and Philadelphia farms

SPRING PLANTING: Volunteers for the Philly Food Crew at Heritage Farm. TALI SMOOKLER

— seeks to help the local growers and build community around food-justice issues. In addition to helping with the farming, the volunteers meet up every month or two for a potluck dinner and a discussion about food insecurity. “Food justice… [is] everyone having the resources to have access to affordable, healthy, and culturally appropriate food,” says Bridget Flynn, a Food Justice fellow at Repair the World in Philadelphia. The volunteers who attend the potlucks have a lot to talk about. The U.S, Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has reported that 23.5 million Americans live at least a mile from a grocery store; about half of that number —13.5

million people — come from low-income neighborhoods. A 2013 study conducted by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health found that 307,000 Philadelphians live in food deserts — areas where it is difficult to purchase affordable or quality fresh food — and a story published the same year by the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger showed that 22 percent of Philadelphians experience food insecurity, a lack of reliable access to affordable, fresh food. Tali Smookler, a team leader with Repair the World, was inspired by these statistics to help start the Philly Farm Crew

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in March 2014. “[We were] looking for a way to get … hands-on volunteering in Philadelphia. … We thought this would be a really great way to mobilize people,” Smookler says. In its first year, the Philly Farm Crew engaged 200 volunteers in 11 sites across the city, offering 41 different volunteer opportunities from March to November 2014. Volunteers have weeded, planted, seeded, spread compost, harvested plants, cleared and prepped beds and cleared plots of land so farmers could later use new parts of their fields, Smookler says. “Supporting local community farms and building a stronger community around food and other justice issues in the process is one piece of the puzzle in the fight for food justice. … By bringing volunteers to these urban farms and gardens, we aim to both provide extra support in the farm work, as well as expose volunteers to the injustices in our food system while building a stronger community that cares about these issues,” Smookler wrote in an email. “Philly Farm Crew is an opportunity to support the food-justice efforts that these various urban farms are taking. … We bring extra people out to help the farms,” said Nati Passow, co-founder of Philly Farm Crew and cofounder and executive director of the Jewish Farm School. Smookler and Passow hope to use the successful turnout on Sunday morning to keep growing the initiative. “We’re looking to expand to more farms,” Smookler says.

The volunteers leave with “a better sense of how our local food system in Philadelphia works.”

Passow credited the programs with educating people about urban and organic agriculture so that volunteers leave with “a better sense of how our local food system in Philadelphia works.” Passow also hopes the Philly Farm Crew will inspire participants to farm a bit more on their own. “I’d love to see some of these people ... come out and start to get more involved in farming,” Passow said. “Maybe they’ll start working on an urban farm.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

PREPPING THE SOIL: Philly Food Crew launched its second season of helping urban farms and gardens prosper. Thirty-five volunteers turned out on Sunday morning. TALI SMOOKLER

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Oil trains carrying as much as 3.6 million gallons of crude roll through Philly every day. After a derailment in West Virginia sent a fireball into the sky, some are asking if we’re doing enough here to reduce the risk.

THE HEART OF THINGS: Some 710,000 Philadelphians live within a half mile of the freight train lines, which are located near popular walking trails, parks and the Schuylkill.

UNDER WATER: An oil train sits on flooded train tracks in this image taken at 4 a.m. on May 1, 2014.

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Thomas Leonardi

by Jon Hurdle

Maria Pouchnikova

Tommy Leonardi’s leafy Fitler Square neighborhood offers some of the most attractive aspects of urban living: river walks, public parks and easy access to Center City. But the peaceful scene is increasingly menaced by hundreds of black-clad tank cars that roll past at all hours, just 100 yards from Leonardi’s house, and even closer to a popular playground, a baseball field and a dog park. These are the oil trains, each capable of carrying up to 3.6 million gallons of crude, that are an increasing presence here as the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in South Philadelphia processes more oil from North Dakota’s booming Bakken Shale, boosting output, but also fueling fears of derailments, leaks or deadly explosions as the trains snake through the city’s densely populated neighborhoods. Leonardi, a commercial photographer, loves his neighborhood and has no intention of leaving the house where he has lived for 17 years, but he’s increasingly worried about whether he, his neighbors and those playing in the local parks are in danger from the potentially lethal cargoes sliding by just a few yards away. “People are just beginning to realize the risks that these trains represent,” Leonardi told City Paper in an interview conducted a few yards from the tracks. “I’m not trying to be a fearmonger, but the risk is still there.” As more trains feed the PES refinery, there’s a growing recognition that local residents, who would be most affected by a rail disaster, have little say over where and when the trains run, and under what conditions, because the trains are operated by a fed-

erally regulated industry. Instead, city officials can only urge the federal government to tighten safety rules and try to pressure the railroads to ensure that their tracks, bridges and tank cars are safe. Some 710,000 Philadelphians, including 167,000 children, live within half a mile of freight lines that carry oil trains, in a zone that could be evacuated if a derailment or explosion occurred, according to the environmental groups PennEnvironment and FracTracker Alliance. In the West Philly zip code of 19143, more than 53,000 people live in the evacuation zone, giving that area the biggest exposure to the trains of anyplace in Philly, according to a report by the two groups, issued in early March. Statewide, 16 of the 25 zip codes with the most people at risk are in Philadelphia, the groups said. After a series of highly publicized oil-train derailments and explosions elsewhere in North America — most notably in a small Quebec town where 47 people died when a runaway oil train exploded in 2013 — Philadelphians have good reason to be on high alert to the consequences of a serious accident here. Indeed, the city dodged a bullet in January 2014 when an oil train derailed on a bridge over the Schuylkill Expressway. No one was hurt and no oil escaped, but the incident stoked critics’ claims that it was only a matter of time before the city had to deal with its own oil-train catastrophe. Leonardi, 49, said his concerns were heightened by the February derailment and explosion in West Virginia of a train carrying the same type of crude oil as carried by the train that exploded in Quebec. Both were hauled by the same company, CSX, that runs oil trains past his house. He said he has taken his concerns to his City Council representative, but was told that the city has little control over the trains, and so he should approach his federal representatives. Mark McDonald, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter, said the mayor has urged the Obama administration to require the industry to build safer rail cars, renew tracks and bridges and increase federal oversight of companies that haul crude oil. The mayor also backs Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s efforts to get the federal government to require a reduction in the volatility of the crude oil carried by the trains, to tighten speed restrictions, and step up inspection of rail infrastructure. While it can’t control the speed or frequency of the trains, or the integrity of the tracks they use, the city must plan for what happens if a train derails or explodes, and has been working with federal authorities, the rail industry and the refinery to figure out how to deal with any such accident, McDonald said.

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‘PEOPLE ARE JUST BEGINNING TO REALIZE THE RISKS THAT THESE TRAINS REPRESENT.’ He said the City’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has plans for emergency notification, evacuation and “mass sheltering” in the event of an oil-train incident, and that the city knows — but does not make public — train routes and the frequency of traffic on them. The OEM has been meeting with the rail companies and Philadelphia Energy Solutions, and last fall held an exercise with CSX. The city agency has also held talks on “preparedness and response” with federal agencies including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), McDonald said. Rob Doolittle, a CSX spokeman, said the railroad is more frequently inspecting the tracks on which its oil trains run, and has installed trackside devices designed to detect defects such as irregular noises or excessive heat in oil tank cars. He declined to say whether the devices had found any problems since they were installed in February 2014. CSX has also provided training to local first resonders so that they are familiar with cars’ shutoff valves that would enable them to respond effectively to any derailment, he said. But he was unable to specify any improvements that CSX has made to the oil trains that pass through Philadelphia that would make them any safer than the ones that exploded in West Virginia. “The trains that we move through Philadelphia are essentially the same type of train that was involved in the incident,” he said. “We believe that all the trains that we operate are safe.” The real power to prevent oil-train disasters rests with the railroads and the federal government, and neither is doing enough, argues Jim Hall, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Hall, who chaired NTSB from 1994 to 2001, said most derailments are caused by worn or fractured rails, and that detection of such problems is largely left to the railroads because regulators don’t have the resources to adequately monitor track quality. “The Federal Railroad Administration is not adequately staffed to provide oversight for track maintenance,” Hall said in an interview. “You are really dependent on the rail world that is transporting the crude.” The frequency of recent oil-train derailments indicates the railroads are not ensuring the integrity of their tracks, which should be upgraded at the industry’s cost, he said. The Associated Press reported that rail shipments have risen sharply from 9,500 carloads in 2008 to more than 435,000 carloads in 2013, as the result of the boom in oil coming from the Bakken patch. But trains hauling this oil have been involved in major accidents in Virginia, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Alabama, in addition to the accidents in West Virginia and Quebec, the wire service said. “There is no reason that the industry should not tax itself to provide that safety,” Hall said. “This is far too risky a business to have these oil trains going through the center of our major cities, and not address what might occur — something similar to what occurred in Quebec,” Hall said. “The regulators and the industry have failed to protect the safety of the American people.” Hall said the NTSB has called for tank cars to be built to a higher safety standard, including thicker shells that would be more resistant to puncturing. Ocean-going oil tankers were not required to have double hulls until the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska in 1989, and

RED SIGNAL: Protesters last July made their objections to the oil trains known with signs and speeches.

the rail industry should not be allowed to wait for an equivalent disaster before taking equivalent steps for its oil cars, he argued. Asked whether cities like Philadelphia should be given more control over hazardous cargoes like crude oil, Hall said the need to promote interstate commerce is likely to ensure that the federal government retains control over the industry. But he urged local leaders to enter a dialogue with the rail industry to ensure that incidents like the Quebec disaster are not repeated. “If I was the mayor of Philadelphia or I was on the City Council, or the governor, I would certainly want to use my bully pulpit,” said Hall, who now runs his own consulting firm. “All of these railroads are looking to the goodwill of the communities in which they operate, so I think there’s a lot of public pressure that can be put on.” Planning for how to deal with an oil-train disaster, rather than how to prevent one, is the focus of legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, who urged support for the measure at a Philadelphia press conference on March 16. Casey said there’s no chance that the federal government is going to transfer control of the railroads to cities like Philadelphia, but called for funding to support a higher level of emergency preparedness. “We have to make sure that … if there is a derailment there is an action plan ready to deal with a derailment,” Casey said while promoting his RESPONSE Act, a bill that would provide funding for a task force on derailments and recommend training for first responders. In the interests of preventing a disaster, critics have called on government and the railroads to reroute the trains away from densely populated areas; to make the public and first responders better informed about train movements; to upgrade aging infrastructure such as tracks and bridges, and to require train companies to have insurance coverage that would cover the cost of a disaster like the one in Quebec. David Masur, executive director of the PennEnvironment Research and Policy Center, said the train company involved in the Quebec explosion had only $25 million in insurance coverage, not nearly enough to cover the accident’s estimated $200 million cost. Masur also argued that opposition to the oil trains among city leaders has been muted because the trains are essential to the development of Philadelphia’s proposed “energy hub,” a complex of refineries, petrochemical plants, pipelines and factories that would transport and process oil and natural gas, boosting the economy. “If you talk to leaders and policymakers and even first responders, why aren’t they more actively and vocally concerned?” Masur asked. “If Philadelphia didn’t have the energy hub and these were just trains rolling through Philadelphia on the way to Baltimore, I think continued on p. 16

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PROXIMITY: (below, left) Only a wiremesh fence separates this playground from the tracks that carry the oil trains. Also nearby are a dog park and baseball diamond. (below, right) Oil trains are a common sight to those tilling a community garden located within a few yards of the railroad tracks.

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They should be examining all their tracks and replacing any suspect sections “in an aggressive manner,” he said. The 25th Street viaduct is a major source of concern for local people who have long complained about its deteriorated condition, said J.G. McMillan, secretary of the West Passyunk Neighbors Association. People fear being hit by falling chunks of concrete and icicles that form during the winter months, McMillan said. The concerns are heightened in the case of two schools in the shadow of the tracks at 25th and Snyder, he said. “It looks to be in pretty rough shape,” he said. “The best we can do is to work with CSX.” Norfolk Southern, whose oil trains roll across a trestle high above the 30th Street rail yard and through the Penn and Drexel campuses, spends some $2 billion a year on infrastructure such as its West Philadelphia tracks, said spokesman Dave Pidgeon. He said the company voluntarily installed “wayside detectors” every 40 miles on its oil-train routes, alerting officials to any defects in tank cars; inspects its crude oil track to a higher standard than is required by federal regulators, and has paid for additional training of first responders to raise the level of preparedness in the event of a derailment. Pidgeon argued that the recent series of highly publicized oiltrain incidents are, in fact, the exception to an industry-wide operational record that has reduced the number of accidents involving hazardous materials, including crude oil, by 91 percent since 1980. He said that tank cars operated by Norfolk Southern include the DOT-111 models that have been involved in some of the derailments. He noted that the cars are owned or leased by customers such as oil producers or refiners, and that the railroad is required to haul them if they are deemed safe by the federal government. That’s why Norfolk Southern is pressing for higher federal safety standards, which are expected to be tightened by the U.S. Department of Transportation this spring, he said. While local representatives try to wrest some control over the trains, some residents don’t know how to translate their concerns into tangible safety measures. John Barrett, vice president of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, lives at 20th and Cherry streets, three blocks from the tracks on the east bank of the Schuylkill, and well within the evacuation zone. Barrett said association members met with their councilman, Council President Darrell Clarke, and that he has written to the media about their concerns. “At this point in time, there’s not much we can do about it beyond expressing our fear that this is a very dangerous situation,” he said. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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Ariell Johnson doesn’t love just comic books — she obsesses over all aspects of geekdom. But that’s not quite what separates the 32-year-old founder of Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse from the fangirl stereotype we see most often in the media. Rather, it’s her understanding of geek culture’s importance to marginalized groups that separates Johnson and her community-centric store (which is slated to open in early June at the corner Frankford Avenue and Huntingdon Street) from the pack. Her unusual ideological stance will permeate the entire operation, from the titles on the shelves to special events. We caught up with Johnson to ask her about her love of comics, why she’s linking that passion to coffee and baked goods and the importance of diversity in geekdom. Here is a condensed and edited version of our conversation. City Paper: What got you into comics culture in the first place? Ariell Johnson: My dad, who passed when I was young, was very geeky and encouraged that in me. I’m an ’80s baby who grew up watching Thundercats and Transformers. … It was one of those things I never quite grew out of. And in the ’90s, Fox had their X-Men show, and that was the first thing to introduce me to something in comic books. Then, in high school, I started reading a friend’s comics before buying my own in college. That’s the time when I first got the idea for Amalgam.

NEED PLANS THIS WEEKEND? CP: Does your passion for comics extend to coffee and cooking? AJ: My grandma instilled a love of baking in me when I was young. As an adult, I keep baking things for family get-togethers. Amalgam will start mainly with coffee and baked goods — the things I’m good at — and we’ll see if people want other things, like sandwiches. CP: Did you get “Amalgam” from the ’90s DC-Marvel Comics imprint? AJ: No, but I knew about the imprint. When I got the name, I worked with a trademark lawyer to make sure it was all right [laughs]. And it was fine, since that’s not something they use anymore. But I was talking to a college friend and realized that [the store] was an amalgamation of things, and I thought it was the perfect name. It works because we are a blending of not just comics and coffee, but we want to combine all aspects of geek culture. So if you geek about comics, manga, video games, whatever — we want to embrace all of that. It’s not like we just do this one thing — we want it to be a safe haven where you can go and talk to somebody about what happened last night on The Walking Dead. I don’t think comics spaces are usually conducive to that, since there’s nowhere to sit or anything like that. Creating that space where people can geek out and be comfortable, and build community around that, is important.

A SPACE FOR EVERYBODY: Ariell Johnson plans to open the Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse at 2578 Frankford Ave. in June. Photo by Hillary Petrozziello

CP: In an interview with Geekadelphia, you spoke about the need for diverse spaces in geek culture. Is it important for Amalgam to be one of these spaces? AJ: Yes, comic book culture is still very whitemale-dominated. Any time I meet someone, especially a Black girl, who makes a reference to anime or something, we have a really excited conversation. We don’t often see people who look like us in comics, and the genre isn’t heavily marketed to us, so we always feel like we’re off in a corner. With the Internet, people with niche interests can find others like them, but it can be isolating to be reading by yourself in your house. It becomes more fun when you can physically connect with other people. This is a space for everybody, I don’t want to exclude anyone, but I especially want to be one of those places where people of color, women, and the LGBT community can show things. I think about my niece, who’s 13 and loves video games, and all the stuff with Gamergate and the vitriol aimed at women — and her being a young Black woman in a space that doesn’t necessarily welcome her. … I think it’s important to create a space which makes others’ lives a little easier. —Sameer Rao

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26, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 319A N. 11th St., Suite 2H, philadelphia.tigerstrikesasteroid.com. MICHELLE ROTHWELL: BIOMIMICRY Rothwell, an associate professor at UArts, discusses her unique process in an artist statement: Her “hyper-realistic virtual-sculptures” are“created with the same digital 3-D tools that produce video games and animated films,” she says, and for this show’s new collection of pieces, “Spirit Eggs,” she was inspired by an Australian wildflower called banksia, a bizarre plant that releases its seeds from little pods that crack open. Like the seeds in their pods,

A sketched briefcase exploding with colorful documents floats on top of the line ‘Congrats on quitting your shitty job.’ A SHEET OF COLOR: Izhar Patkin’s Theseus & Minotaur, part of his show “My Name is Izhar Patkin: A Tribute to Agha Shahid Ali,” at Twelve Gates Arts this Friday. TWELVE GATES ARTS

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KELSEY STOLER: LOOK IT’S NOT YOU IT’S EVERYTHING

We’ll tell you this right off — M. Night Shyamalan tweeted that he’s “Going down to @ indyhall arts this Friday to see some new Philly artists.” There may be a convoluted plot twist involved in this plan, but, you know, be advised. Indy Hall continues its series of springtime First Friday art shows with Philly artist Kelsey Stoler’s premiere solo exhibition. Her “stream of consciousness illustration style,” as seen on her website (sunshinejarstudios.com), is represented by dozens of charming drawings of moments both everyday and thrilling

— a sketched briefcase exploding with colorful documents floats on top of the line “Congrats on quitting your shitty job”; a nude woman made of dozens of squiggling lines reclines on a shape; a pair of doodled legs sits in front of a Netflix screen. This show features Stoler’s figure studies and portraits, and is sure to gain this Philly artist some attention, whether or not Shyamalan tweets about it. Friday, April 3, 5-9 p.m., Indy Hall, 22 N. Third St., indyhall.org. RYAN BECK: MAZE GENERATION Ryan Beck’s ethereal abstractions seem to breathe and shift on the canvas — what he

calls “muted and watery tones with defined marks and vibrant colors” have captivating depth and energy. This new solo show follows Beck’s viewing of a documentary about The Shining and the maze patterns therein — the hedge maze, of course, along with plenty of other labyrinthine subtleties. Beck then applied “maze generation” (as in, their creation) to his own work, re-evaluating his process and his “application and approach to color.” His paintings are mazelike, indeed — you can get a little lost in them. Friday, April 3, 7-10 p.m., exhibit through April 25, Space 1026, 1026 Arch St., space1026.com, ryanbeckart.tumblr.com. KELSEY COSTELLO: UNCONTAINED Costello’s statement on this show explains that she “[weaves] epic American tales” on her handmade ceramic vessels. She’s got some stories, for sure: Costello’s worked as a long-haul truck driver around the country and hiked the Appalachian Trail. During this, her first solo exhibition, you’ll see her narrative come to life in her work. She says, “I drove through the great forests. There were beautiful towns, but all the stores turned into thrift shops, the signs said out of business. Small vignettes of existence, then extinguished.” Friday, April 3, 6-10 p.m., exhibit through April

she says, “our whole existence is enveloped inside nature. … I am now contemplating the container of the natural world as it holds the man-made world within.” Be sure to carefully examine Rothwell’s work —you’ll see the reflected view of a landscape in an element of one of her works only if you look closely. Friday, April 3, 6-9 p.m., CRUXspace, 700W. Master St., cruxspace.com, michellerothwell.org. IZHAR PATKIN: MY NAME IS IZHAR PATKIN: A TRIBUTE TO AGHA SHAHID ALI This exhibit has been open since March 6, but if you’re in Old City for First Friday, Twelve Gates Arts is a space you’ll want to check out. New York artist Patkin, born in Israel, collaborated with Ali, the Kashmiri-American poet, for Patkin’s 2014 retrospective. The two had worked together for two years before Ali died. The works are dreamlike large murals, painted on delicate tulle. “The paintings … are inspired by themes of memory, loss, love and exile in Ali’s poems,” Twelve Gates writes. Don’t miss a talk with the artist tonight from 6-8 p.m. at the gallery, along with a poetry reading by Jamal Elias. Friday, April 3, 5-8 p.m., exhibit through April 24, Twelve Gates Arts, 51 N. Second St., twelvegatesarts.org, izharpatkin.com. (mikala@citypaper.net, @notjameson)

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(Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, Feb. 24, 385 pp.) I’M NOT A BIG mystery or crime fan, but I gobble up every new novel by Philadelphia writer Duane Swierczynski (a former City Paper editor, though I never worked with him directly or even met him) because they guarantee a frenetic fun read. Plus, they’re all set in Philadelphia, with specific geographic references (McGillin’s! Wawa!) and some thinly veiled ones (The City Press: Hmmm, what free weekly paper could that be?). I confess, I’m hooked. In Canary, Swierczynski uses his lean, tight prose, sudden bursts of action and smartly plotted unpredictable twists to tell the story of Serafina “Sarie� Holland, a 17-year-old college freshman whose little favor of a crosstown ride for a cute older student turns into a nightmare. Sarie doesn’t realize she’s driving D. to buy drugs from “Chuckie Morphine� until she’s arrested by Ben

‘In Canary, even supporting characters emerge in artful detail.’ Wildey, a Philly narcotics cop who insists that she become a confidential informant — that is, a canary. Unwilling to implicate D., she promises to deliver other drug dealers, even though she’s barely ever sipped a beer before, and she’s determined to pass her finals too. Sarie’s journal, addressed to her dead mother, provides insight into her initial panic and the quirky “Honors Girl� talents she eventually employs, but he also provides detail in third person about Wildey, Sarie’s brother and father, and some shady drug world characters, as well as transcripts of texts and phone calls. A variety of typefaces keep all this clear, even as point of view shifts multiple times within one scene. What’s different about Canary is its depth: Swierczynski reveals nonessential yet fascinating insights about both Sarie’s and Wildey’s worldviews and family histories as well as their unique idiosyncrasies. In Canary, even supporting characters emerge in artful detail that — propelled by his expertly crafted bullet train of a story — far exceeds genre requirements. Call it “literary.� Or just call it damn good. (m_cofta@citypaper.net)

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HE TOLD HER TO CALM DOWN: Joanna Liao as Katherine and J Hernandez as Petruchio in Lantern Theater Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew. MARK GARVIN

SHAKESPEARE’S TAMING OF THE SHREW challenges modern American theater companies and audiences with an unpalatable story. While we pat ourselves on the back for being post-feminist, women still make less money than men for the same work, still battle for reproductive freedom and are still treated as sexual property. What do today’s injustices have to do with an early (1580s) Shakespeare comedy? Not much, in the Lantern’s production. Not that Lantern isn’t aware of the issues. The company’s “In Conversation� panel discussion series features a talk about “Taming Today.� On stage, though, the taming is definitely yesterday. Though transplanted to the 1930s, modern sensibilities receive not a nod. Little effort is made to disguise, interpret or justify a woman’s forced subjugation for a contemporary audience. It feels OK, though, because it’s funny, right? The play-within-a-play’s other love story unspools entertainingly: David Bardeen, MattTallman and Ahren Potratz play rivals for Bianca’s (K.O. DelMarcelle) hand, but she can’t marry until older sister Kate (Joanna Liao) does, says their dad (Nathan Foley). J Hernandez plays Petruchio, who agrees to marry Kate, sight unseen — but then must “tame� her, which means publicly embarrassing her and denying her basic comforts. When she finally agrees with everything he says, a happy ending is achieved. In Elizabethan times, maybe. Dave Johnson and Bradley K. Wrenn give big, boisterous performances as clownish servants, and Wrenn scores the night’s biggest laugh by wearing a dress. I’ve seen productions in which Kate matures from youthful petulance to a shared insight with Petruchio, resulting in a unique, even inspiring, partnership — but here, Kate doesn’t grow, she just accepts her leash. But it’s just entertainment, right? Nothing we need think about. That guy in the dress is hilarious! (m_cofta@citypaper.net) Through May 3, $20-$39, Lantern Theater Company at St. Stephen’s Theater, 923 Ludlow St., 215-829-0395, lanterntheater.org.

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WOMAN IN GOLD

/C / Attempting to crowbar folksy jokes and feel-good touches into circumstances that don’t feel good at all, English director Simon Curtis’ latest is that odd type of World War II movie that seems unwilling or unable to check its own tone. In telling the real-life story of Maria Altmann, a Holocaust survivor who fought the Austrian government for possession of priceless family artwork stolen by the Nazis, Woman in Gold takes an inelegant look back in time, and its misused cast can’t do anything to smooth out all the Hallmark Channel wrinkles. In 1998, Altmann, played here with a sort of Philomena lite grumpiness by Helen Mirren (look, she makes strudel!), learned that she might have a claim to a number of Gustav Klimt works hanging in a Vienna gallery, most

NEW KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER // C-

Some variation of the phrase “This is a true story” has opened countless films, with varying degrees of reliability. Those words are the first

thing we see in Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter as well, but with the even more dubious distinction of referring to another film. The claim belongs to the Coen Brothers’ Fargo (and is, of course, completely false); it’s seen here warped and degraded via a paused VHS image on a TV screen.

notably Klimt’s opulent painting of her late aunt, Adele BlochBauer. Tapping family friends to seek the legal advice of their son, an unqualified lawyer (Ryan Reynolds), Altmann ends up on a journey through complex international law, navigating America’s dense legal circuit and revisiting her home country for the first time since the Nazi occupation. As a courtroom drama, Woman in Gold is a tough sell, as even Reynolds seems bored by the carousel of shuffling papers and demonstrative judges. Katie Holmes, as his smiley, supportive and permapregnant wife, is barely in the mix at all. Altmann’s present-day dealings, which Curtis makes sure to serve with extra sides of schmaltz, are accompanied by grayed-over flashbacks to her happy family life before the rise of the Third Reich. Though these set pieces, complete with pallid chase scenes and evil Nazi operatives in distressed leather dusters, are stilted, they at least flirt with the most interesting aspect of Altmann’s past: her close relationship with Aunt Adele, who sat for the iconic portrait in question. Her role, in life and on canvas, as “the Mona Lisa of Austria” is an under-explored angle that loses screen time to weaker, safer explorations.—Drew Lazor (Ritz Five) Written and directed by another pair of brothers, David and Nathan Zellner, Kumiko follows a lonely, directionless woman (Rinko Kikuchi) as she steals away from her Tokyo job as an Office Lady a la Janet Leigh in Psycho, setting out for the actual Fargo to track down the briefcase full of cash that

Steve Buscemi buries in the Coens’ film. Given her extreme alienation from everyone and everything around her, it’s unclear whether Kumiko is more compelled by the prospect of instant wealth or by the blank white landscape of Fargo, which seems to have erased

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823 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. The Karate Kid (1984, U.S., 126 min.): “Get him a body bag!” Sat., April 4, 11 a.m., $5. Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2014, U.K., 160 min.): Theatercast of David Hare’s unpredictable play, set in slums surrounding the Mumbai airport. Sun., April 5, 1 p.m., $20. Open Screen Monday BMFI celebrates its 10th year with this edition of its local filmmaker series, affording area directors an opportunity to show their work. Mon., April 6, 8 p.m., free. Man of Iron (1981, Poland, 154 min.): Historical drama based on the Gdansk Shipyard strikes of 1980, which sparked the anti-Communist movement in Eastern Europe. Tue., April 7, 7:15 p.m., $12. Still Moving: An Evening with Experimental Filmmaker Scott Stark Haverford prof John Muse hosts a screening and discussion of Stark’s original work, with the director in attendance. Wed., April 8, 7 p.m., $12. THE COLONIAL THEATRE

227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-917-1228, thecolonialtheatre.com. Videodrome (1983, Canada, 87 min.): David Cronenberg’s postmodern parable tells the twisted story of Max Renn (James Woods), a struggling TV producer who comes across a disturbing, exploitative and surreal program out of Southeast Asia. Fri., April 3, 10 p.m., $9. COUNTY THEATER

20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-348-1878, countytheater. org. Keep on Keepin’ On (2014, U.S., 84 min.): Music doc exploring the relationship between jazz trumpeter Clark Terry and Justin Kauflin, a 23-year-old blind piano player. Thu., April 2, 7:30 p.m., $10.50. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE

3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The Gold Diggers (1983, U.K., 89 min.): An important piece in the feminist cinema movement of the 1980s, Sally Potter’s feature chronicles the relationship between a bank clerk (Colette Laffont) and a reclusive film star (Julie Christie). Shot with an all-woman crew. Thu, April 2, 7 p.m., free (RSVP required). Chihwaseon (2002, Korea, 116 min.): In this Cannes winner, Choi Min-sik plays acclaimed painter Jang Seung-up, a poor man thrust into the affluent class thanks to his talent. This 35 mm screening is, in part, a benefit for The Shane Campaign, supporting a local boy fighting the rare brain cancer DIPG. Fri., April 3, 7 p.m., $9. Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists (2014, U.S., 104 min.): A documentary about the lasting influence of the Imagists, a group of artists who came together in 1960s Chicago to shake up the abstract art establishment. Sat., April 4, 8 p.m., $9. On Strong Shoulders (1995, U.S., 30 min.) and United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012, U.S., 93 min.): The Scribe Video Center’s collaborative documentary, which brings together 12 Philly filmmakers to capture the struggle against HIV/AIDS, followed by Jim Hubbard’s history of the AIDS activism movement. Tue., April 7, 6:30 p.m., $10.

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MOVIE SHORTS any trace of humanity as far as the eye can see. Although Kikuchi does much to suggest the pained inner life behind Kumiko’s unfocused, downcast stare, the character remains a cypher, one that the Zellners cast as a fairy tale figure in her red riding hoodie and wraparound quilt. She meets a variety of Coen-lite eccentrics along her trek, but few of them amount to anything more than strained whimsy. True or not, it’s less a story than an accumulation of precious affect.—Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)

Scherfig’s half-realized film never bothers to address the origins of the problem or explain why it persists. First-year Oxford students of upper-crusty origins, Max Irons and Sam Claflin are quickly recruited into a barely disguised version of that university’s real-life Bullingdon Club, a private, all-male dining group notorious for drunken

THE RIOT CLUB // C

Most of us would agree that disaffected blue bloods are deserving targets for our ridicule and derision, but there should be more to it than gently chiding rich dicks for acting like rich dicks. That’s all The Riot Club is able to accomplish. Based on a play by Laura Wade and ostensibly about class warfare, Lone

debauchery. As preparations for a blowout dinner progress, Irons’ skeptical liberal grows increasingly wary of the club’s entitled Tory membership, a divide that comes to a head over a meal that turns deviant and violent. Wade, who wrote this screenplay in addition to the source material Posh, is so focused on highlight-

ing the insane sense of entitlement these brats tote around that she doesn’t seem to consider that most of us already get it. They’re paid, they’re powerful, they’re connected, they stomp on the backs of the working class to get where they need to go — we know. The public’s resentment for this good-old-boy network, and its grip on national politics, is so well-documented that limply pointing out its existence with a little tsk-tsk seems like a squandered opportunity. “I am sick to fucking death of poor people!” Claflin’s character screeches at one point. Yup, and they’re sick of you. What else have you got?—Drew Lazor (Roxy)

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THE DECEMBERISTS

AFTER YEARS OF HIDING BEHIND literary conceits and high-minded adventure shantys, Colin Meloy seems to want address his audience directly. That’s certainly one way to look at a song like “The Singer Addresses His Audience”: “We know we belong to you. We know you threw your arms around us in the hopes we wouldn’t change,” he sings. “But we had to change some, you know, to belong to you.” It’s kind of a sad little song, and its “Axe Shampoo” reference gets a chuckle the first time but later reads like a hopeless shrug at the Infinite Jest-like dystopia artists find themselves in these days. The saddest interpretation? We don’t even know the real Decemberists. They had to change for us to like them in the first place. —Patrick Rapa

THE FAIR MAID OF THE WEST

$20 // Through April 18, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective at the Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad St., 215-5511543, philartistscollective.org. THEATER The Philadelphia Artists’ Collective rescues a seldom-seen high seas adventure, staging Thomas Heywood’s late 1500s comedy about pirate queen Bess Bridges, played by Barrymore Award winner Rachel Camp. It’s essentially an Elizabethan feminist tale, says director-adaptor Charlotte Northeast, “about a woman who betters those around her by her actions, her intelligence, her cunning, and her awareness that the world can be changed.” Add sword fights, silly accents and Katherine Fritz’s leather-booted swashbuckling costumes for a classic wild romp. —Mark Cofta

WEST PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA

$10 // Thu., April 2, 9 p.m., with the Raya Brass Band and RJD2, Underground

BALKAN Not quite representative of its namesake neighborhood’s racial demographics, the West Philadelphia Orchestra revels in Eastern European musical traditions. Every month, the brassy 14-member ensemble throws a Balkan dance party at Underground Arts. In February, the band’s entry in NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert contest earned a place in the top 10 out of 7,000 competitors. —Sam Fox

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LITURGY

$12-$14 // Fri., April 3, 8:30 p.m., with Sannhet and Horse Lords, Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 977-435-9849, bootandsaddlephilly.com. ROCK The Ark Work (Thrill

CHANGED FOR US: $43.50 // Tue., April 7, 8 p.m., with Alvvays, Academy of Music, 240 S Broad St., 215893-1999, kimmelcenter.org. AUTUMN DEWILDE

Jockey) opens with a strident brass fanfare, traditional enough — seemingly — until it warps into a queasy, disorienting tussle between real and synthetic horns. In truth, though, almost the entire album functions as an epic, unrelenting fanfare; a near-constant, cacophonous crescendo of celestial axe-throttling, spluttering digital scree, Greg Fox’s convulsive drumming,

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s monkish, incisive chants: a sonic density so maddening you almost don’t notice the bagpipes. It’s album as full-body drum roll. Forget the genre wars Liturgy has incited in the past: Whatever this stuff is, it’s too blinding to be black, too molten to be metal. —K. Ross Hoffman

JOE LOUIS WALKER

$20 // Fri., April 3, 8 p.m., Puck, 1 Printers Alley, Doylestown, 215-348-9000, pucklive.com. BLUES After the athletic

bob-and-weave blues of Joe Louis Walker’s Hellfire in 2012, it was hard to imagine the guitarist-singer doing better or bolder. Well, it

er-y richness. And his band — including Reese Wynans on organ and piano — is pretty damned sweet, too. —A.D. Amorosi MICHAEL WEINTROB

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looks like he upped the ante with adept fingering and emotional sway on both acoustic and electric guitar on the recently released Hornet’s Nest (Alligator). As a vocalist, he’s found a deeply felt grit somewhere between soul’s classic lover man and gospel’s preach-

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and depth; employing the lavish orchestral and choral arrangements and warm, meticulous production that are the hallmarks of this long-haired Virginian’s Spacebomb operation (q.v. Natalie Prass’ spellbinding 2015 debut) to establish a tone of effortlessly laid-back, almostdrowsy languor. There’s a fine line, somewhere, between hushed reverence and dull, self-contented mumbling, but it’s hard to mind much when the tunes slide so smoothly by. —K. Ross Hoffman

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year hiatus — finds him still sharpening his signature freneticism. —Sam Fox

$10 // Sat., April 4, 9 p.m., with The Bernhardt Family Band, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave., 215-7399684, johnnybrendas.com. ROCK/POP TJ Kong and co. are no stranger to these pages; we like the way they do drunk, smart, soulful rock ’n’ roll. They’re still riding high on last year’s Kong EP and a SXSW run, but they’ve got

Expect new material from Early Surf — the group’s second full-length and first off of Ty Segall’s God? record label. —Nikki Volpicelli

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$18-$20 // Sat., April 4, 6 p.m., Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com. HIP-HOP Hyper-literate hip-hop heads unite! Sage Francis is coming. The Providence rapper’s rambling flow and dense lyricism have earned him a loyal underground following and mostly kept him off the charts. His most recent record — last June’s Copper Gone, which ended a four-

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4.6

1807 AND FRIENDS $17 // Mon., April 6, 7:30 p.m., Academy of Vocal Arts, 1920 Spruce St., 215-4384027, 1807friends.org.

CLASSICAL This venerable chamber music series, named after the Sansom Street address where orchestra members used to gather for intimate music-making for their own pleasure, has quietly presented concerts of the highest quality for a generation now, and at bargain prices. The latest in their regular Monday evening gatherings includes

the superbly elegant pianist Cynthia Raim as guest, for music by Brahms, Beethoven and a work by the most obscure of the Russian “mighty five,” César Cui. — Peter Burwasser

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DIARRHEA PLANET

$12-$14 // Tue., April 7, 8 p.m., with Left and Right, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org. ROCK/POOP There’s a Southern tinge to Diarrhea Planet, whose six members all hail from Nashville and know how to treat their audience to punk rock singalongs, dialed up and down and up again. They are loud, energetic and, well, let’s talk about their name. Do poop jokes make you cranky and irritable? You probably won’t get this band. They’re having fun and they want to make sure you are too. Watch for

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SNACK TIME: Small plates are the way to go at William Street Common. NEAL SANTOS

and a no-tipping policy. Whether you’re grabbing a pitcher of Tröegs IPA, a round of rot-your-teeth-sweet Cool Rye Lemonades or a turkey schnitzel sandwich, a 20 percent surcharge is added in lieu of a tip to every check. “To that 20 percent, the house adds another 20 percent,” Hornik explains. “The entire staff is paid $15 an hour from that and anything extra is divided between them according to a three-point scale.” If it’s a slow night and there’s not enough to pay everyone, the house makes up the difference. The decision to go no-tip was because “we wanted guests to feel like they could spend a long time here. We didn’t want them to feel the pressure to leave and turn tables.” And unlike other so-called no-tip restaurants, the friendly young staff here will not accept anything extra. “We’ve chased people

A classier breed of hangout with skee-ball, tap wine and communal picnic tables.

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COMMON DENOMINATOR

Avram Hornik gets in on the no-tip game at William Street Common. AVRAM HORNIK WANTS you to know he’s getting older. He has a wife and three kids. He’s changed. And so has his nightlife company, Four Corners Management: “We’ve been moving away from drinking as a form of entertainment toward entertainment as a form of entertainment.” Sure, he still operates two bars called Drin k er’s, but more recent ventures (Morgan’s Pier, Union Transfer, reboots of Ortleib’s and Boot & Saddle, virtually every

beer garden and summer pop up in town) have proven well-rounded in the food, beverage and music departments — and have cemented Hornik as one of the city’s de facto space-makers. In November, he jettisoned Drinker’s West, a self-fulfilling prophecy for the Penn/Drexel set, and renovated and reopened the place as William Street Common, a classier breed of hangout with skee-ball, tap wine, communal picnic tables created from old storage locker doors

WILLIAM STREET COMMON // 3900 Chestnut St., 215-397-4693, williamstreetcommon.com. Mon.-Wed., 5-10 p.m.; Thu.-Fri., 5 p.m.-midnight; Sat., 10 a.m.-midnight; Sun., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (bar Wed.-Sat. until 2 a.m.). Snacks, $5-$13; sandwiches, $7-$12; desserts $5.

out the door to give them their money back.” You order at the bar from a menu of snacks and sandwiches by chef David Gilberg, who spent last summer at Morgan’s Pier after closing his restaurant, Koo Zee Doo, and wound up becoming Four Corners’ culinary overseer. Water, napkins, silverware are self-serve. Food is delivered to your table. The three sandwiches I tried were problems on fantastic crusty bread from South Philly’s Artisan Boulanger: boring braised short rib, under-seasoned pork belly with banh mi accoutrements, mushy eggplant Parm. (The skin on the eggplant was so tenacious, I couldn’t break through it with my teeth.) The Niçoise-style socca (chickpea crêpe) was a greasy complement to a plate of uneven veggies roasted without finesse. If you want to eat well at William Street, follow these adjectives: bready, brown and round. They will lead you to crunchy croquettes filled with molten smoked eggplant, feta and mint, and to seared “Albany-style” pierogies nuzzling spicy housemade kimchi — a hat tip to Hornik’s former Polish and Korean roommates when he lived in the New York capital. Glossed in melted butter, the drop-dead-delicious pretzel bites were apricot-sized clouds I could have taken a nap on. The ugly apple fritters looked like victims of a fryer malfunction, but inside their dark, craggy shells, I found light, fluffy cake that tasted strongly of spiced roasted fruit. (adam.erace@citypaper.net, @adamerace)

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EASTER AND PASSOVER PLANS PASSOVER MESIBAH AT ZAHAV Fri., April 3, $54 // The Zahav crew is hosting a one-night-only Passover celebration with a six-course tasting menu, complete with reimagined matzoh ball soup, hummus with English peas served with house-baked matzoh and an over-the-top edible and symbolic Seder plate with roasted marrow bones with smoked cinnamon, hard-boiled eggs brined in tangy mango pickle relish and charoset made with walnuts and dates. Zahav, 237 St. James Place, 215-625-8800, zahavrestaurant.com. EASTER SUPPER AT THE FAT HAM Sunday,April 5, $30 // The Fat Ham is hosting a Southern-inspired, family-style Easter dinner complete with glazed ham served with bacon green beans and an Alabama white barbecue sauce. Also on the built-for-a-crowd menu are Fat Ham favorites like hot chicken, shrimp and grits, collard greens and macaroni and cheese. The Fat Ham, 3131 Walnut St., 215-735-1914, sbragadining.com/fatham.

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FOUR NEW RESTAURANTS TO CHECK OUT JOE’S STEAKS + SODA SHOP // The second outpost of the 66-year-old cheesesteak spot formerly known as Chink’s is now open on the corner of Frankford and Girard Avenues. Along with their classic menu of Americantopped steaks with sides of pickles and neon yellow banana peppers and hand-spun milk shakes, the Fishtown Joe’s is adding meat-free options to their roster, including a vegan cheesesteak, a weekly grilled-cheese special and hand-cut fries. Bonus points for staying open until 3 a.m. late-week because every neighborhood needs a solid post-last-call steak option. Open Sun.-Wed., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Thu.-Sat., 10-3 a.m. 1 W. Girard Ave., 215-423-5637, joessteaks.com. JOE’S STEAKS + SODA SHOP

BOOZY EASTER BRUNCH AT THE TWISTED TAIL Sunday, April 5, pay-as-you-go // The Twisted Tail is taking Easter brunch as an opportunity to roll out a whole menu of new Southern-inspired breakfast dishes along with a full Bloody Mary menu and some seasonally appropriate infused cocktails. Standards like biscuits and gravy and a selection of country hams are being served alongside plates like fried quail and waffles, lamb bacon Benedict and wild boar hash. The Twisted Tail, 509 S. Second St., 215-558-2471, thetwistedtail.com.

HELM // Stateside and Fork alums Kevin D’Egidio and Michael Griffiths aren’t breaking any new ground with their new BYO, Helm, but the opening menu for this blackboard menu Olde Kensington spot is looking good. Relying heavily on food from local farms, the focus is on starters and features like red beets with long hots and Boursin, and a sharable monkfish for two with carrots and dill. Expect the menu to change along with the crops from nearby urban farms, meaning on a nearly daily basis, especially this time of year. Open Tue.-Thu., 5-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 5-10:30 p.m. 1303 N. Fifth St., 215-309-2211, helmphilly.com.

ITALIAN-AMERICAN EASTER AT PALLADINO’S Sunday, April 5, pay-as-you-go // Easter seems like the ideal opportunity to check out this Passyunk Avenue newcomer’s over-the-top new brunch menu. Kick off with a cocktail like the Shakerato, La Colombe espresso shaken with grappa and sweetened with simple syrup or go for a Bloody Mary finished with an antipasto skewer. The brunch menu is full of all sorts of good-looking options like Italian eggs Benedict with creamed Tuscan kale, prosciutto, and a roasted tomato hollandaise or a stracchino-filled flatbread topped with smoked salmon, scallion crème frâiche and salmon caviar. Palladino’s, 1934 East Passyunk Ave., 267-928-4339, lukepalladino.com.

TRIA // The fourth addition to the Tria family, this one on scenic Fitler Square, is offering the same lineup of hard-to-find wines, rare beers and cheeses. (The staff is ready and able to school you on the finer points of gamay versus garnacha.) But what’s setting the newest Tria apart is an expanded menu, courtesy of newly instated exec chef Karen Nicolas. It includes more substantial seafood and pasta plates along with the sandwiches, salads and truffled egg toast Tria is known for. Open Mon.-Fri., 4 p.m.-2 a.m. (kitchen until 11:45 p.m.); Sat.-Sun., noon-2 a.m. (kitchen until 12:45 a.m.). 2227 Pine St., 215-309-2245, triacafe.com.

GREEK EASTER AT ESTIA Sunday, April 12, $65 // The Estia family of restaurants in Center City, Radnor and Marlton are celebrating Greek Orthodox Easter with a four-course lamb-centric menu. Beginning with your choice of avgolemeno, a lemon egg-drop soup or mayeritsa, a lamb soup with scallions, dill and spinach, the menu continues with roasted lamb and potatoes and a chopped salad and finishes up with Greek cookies and a sweet, phyllo-wrapped semolina custard. Estia, multiple locations, estiarestaurant.com. (caroline@citypaper.net, @carolinerussock)

ISOT // Opening quietly in Queen Village, Isot fills a gap in Philly’s Mediterranean scene with a Turkish restaurant. The menu begins with a selection of hot and cold meze and salads like borek filled with kashkaval cheese and a gavurdagi salad with chopped vegetables and walnuts in pomegranate sauce. It’s rounded out with kebabs and kofte and a selection of seafood entrees. This BYO (bring along a bottle of anise-flavored raki — if you can find one) offers Turkish coffee and tea plus desserts like baklava and an oven-baked rice pudding. Open daily 11 a.m.-11 p.m., 622 S. Sixth St., 267-457-3622, restaurantisot.com.

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