Philadelphia City Paper, June 5th, 2014

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Short of PROFILES

EMERGING AUTHORS

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NAKED CITY | Even the heavy-duty demolition equip-

ment wore black for a funeral for a Mantua row home.

YOU CAN JUDGE A BOOK BY OUR COVER STORY

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COVER STORY | Here are five up-and-coming

Philly authors you ought to make room for on your bookshelf soon.

SPACE IS NOW AND EVER SHALL BE THE PLACE

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MUSIC | King Britt and Kate Watson-Wallace as-

semble an all-star cast to pay tribute to famous Philadelphian/Martian Sun Ra.

DOUBLE PLAY

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THEATER | David Fox reviews Wilma’s The Real

Thing and Arden’s Incorruptible.

BEER WEEK COUNTDOWN

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FOOD | With only four short days to enjoy the bacchanal/ blackout that is Philly Beer Week, we’ve set up a day-by-day guide to the can't miss events of PBW VII. Spoiler: there are box car derby races, beer cage matches and hops vaping involved. In other food news Adam Erace ventures out to University City to check out Rick Bayless’s fastcampus-casual Tortas Frontera, offering up Mexican by way of Chicago. NEAL SANTOS

BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE

WE CAME TO DROP NAMES

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EVENTS | Here’s who to see and what to do, and where, and why: Zoe Strauss, Divers, Andres Serrano, King Khan, Opera Philadelphia, Kishi Bashi, Ray LaMontagne, Birdie Busch, First Aid Kit, La Roux, The Notwist, etc.

NEWS 6 Bell Curve; 7 More questions at the dailies; Wheeltalk: No filtering // A&E 19 First Friday Focus: Dropping yarn bombs and chasing bulletproof booths // MOVIES 24 Drew Lazor on Edge of Tomorrow and Shaun Brady on Words and Pictures // CITYPAPER.NET Photographer Meredith Kleiber shoots up Sharon Jones and The Roots Picnic; Dan Denvir writes stuff about schools, probably // COVER Photograph by Neal Santos; design by Allie Rossignol

STAFF Publisher Nancy Stuski Editor in Chief Lillian Swanson Senior Editor Patrick Rapa Arts & Culture Editor Mikala Jamison Digital Media Editor/Movies Editor Paulina Reso Food Editor Caroline Russock Senior Staff Writers Daniel Denvir, Emily Guendelsberger Staff Writer Ryan Briggs Copy Chief Carolyn Wyman Associate Web Producer Carly Szkaradnik Contributors Sam Adams, Dotun Akintoye, A.D. Amorosi, Rodney Anonymous, Mary Armstrong, Meg Augustin, Bryan Bierman, Shaun Brady, Peter Burwasser, Mark Cofta, Alison Dell, Adam Erace, David Anthony Fox, Caitlin Goodman, K. Ross Hoffman, Deni Kasrel, Alli Katz, Gary M. Kramer, Drew Lazor, Gair “Dev 79” Marking, Robert McCormick, Andrew Milner, Annette Monnier, John Morrison, Michael Pelusi, Sameer Rao, Elliott Sharp, Marc Snitzer, Tom Tomorrow, John Vettese, Nikki Volpicelli, Brian Wilensky Editorial Interns Maggie Grabmeier, Jim Saska, Diane Bayeux, Katie Krzaczek, Indie Jimenez Production Director Michael Polimeno Editorial Art Director Allie Rossignol Advertising Art Director Evan M. Lopez Senior Editorial Designer Brenna Adams Editorial Designer Jenni Betz Staff Photographer Neal Santos Contributing Photographers Jessica Kourkounis, Mark Stehle 4 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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Mayor Nutter says the city will not attempt to host the 2024 Olympics because the timing isn’t right. “My fellow Philadelphians, you have to agree: We’re way more than a decade away from presentable.”

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The Sixers say they are considering building a facility in Camden. If the players continue to play like they have been.

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Philly-based actor David Morse is considering making a movie based around the prom at Pennsbury High School in Bucks County. “I’ll be in it, of course,” says Morse. “Only for about 10 minutes. Just long enough to be like ‘Oh yeah, I recognize that dude.’”

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A shipwreck diver from Doylestown is being held in jail in Honduras on gun-smuggling charges. “I just thought of a better idea for a movie,” says David Morse.

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The state House passes a bill that permits Pennsylvania schools to post “In God We Trust” on school buildings.“Just fund your fucking schools,” says God.

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A Delaware County man is charged with stealing $350,000 worth of human skin grafts from a Philly hospital between 2011 and 2013. Everybody thought he was just a normal, mild-mannered jerky salesman.

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Sightings of black bears are on the rise in Bucks County. Snooty polar bears reach over and lock their car doors.

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The new “Towns of the Philadelphia Countryside” marketing campaign encourages people to visit destinations outside the city. It was created by bears.

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A former South Philly body-shop owner is accused of de-frauding auto-insurance companies by creating “fictitious deer accidents” using pieces of deer carcasses. He’s facing a lengthy prison term and a Knight Arts Foundation grant.

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FAREWELL: A gospel choir, flowers and speeches are part of the funeral ceremony for the row home. MARK STEHLE

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DEARLY DEPARTED A “funeral” for a Mantua row home draws a crowd of 300. Shortly thereafter, the tumbledown structure was demolished. By Jon Hurdle

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ho would think that the best way to make a point about preservation was to tear down a dilapidated row home? The ceremonial demolition of the derelict Mantua house on Saturday was designed to encourage Philadelphia’s neighborhoods to work harder to save their history rather than being so quick to tear down the buildings that contain centuries worth of memories, hopes and dreams. Patrick Grossi, project manager of the event, titled Funeral for a Home, said he wanted to highlight the value of one unremarkable building as a rich repository of social history, in the hope the event would lead others to think twice before replacing their old homes with new ones. “We are focusing on just this one little house on this quiet block in a neighborhood in West Philadelphia to offer a moment of pause, and a reminder that these houses come down far too often,” Grossi said in an interview. “The core idea is that we are taking this one house down so that we can keep many of the others that remain standing up.” He spoke after a excavator tore the cornice off of 3711 Melon St.,

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beginning the process of demolition, after an hour-long ceremony attended by about 300 people to celebrate the life of the house which had stood near the corner of 37th Street since about 1872. Speakers and neighbors recalled Leona Richardson, who bought the house in 1946, and lived there with her son, Roger, until the 1990s when she moved into a nearby house. Vacant and neglected, 3711 then became a magnet for drug dealers, according to 91-yearold Audrey Davis, who has lived across the street since 1948, and had a grandstand view of Saturday’s ceremony from a chair on her front porch. “It was an eyesore, and it was causing a lot of problems, with a lot of people going in and out,” Davis said. She welcomed the demolition, and said the ceremony united the community, as well as attracted people from around the city and the country, including two nieces of Richardson who came from Ohio and California. Davis said she wasn’t sure why the ceremony was taking place or what improvements it would bring to her neighborhood, but she hoped it would be a force for good. “I’m surprised and excited and I wonder why they are having it because this is the first time I ever heard of a house having a funeral,” she said. “I think it’s a good thing, it’s a new thing, and, to me, I want to see how it’s going to work out.”

The house at 3711 Melon St. was an eyesore.

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✚ AFTER TRAGEDY STRIKES, UNCERTAINTIES LIE AHEAD FOR THE CITY’S DAILIES Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz, who died alongside six others when a private jet crashed in Massachusetts, was being memorialized this week as a savvy businessman, charter-school advocate, political heavyweight and generous local philanthropist. But for most Inquirer and Daily News reporters, Katz was first and foremost their boss. On May 27, Katz and philanthropist Gerry Lenfest defeated South Jersey political boss George Norcross in a nasty public battle for ownership of Interstate General Media (IGM), which controls the Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. The struggle between the two ownership groups had torn the company apart. And it had become uncomfortably personal. Norcross backed the firing in October of editor Bill Marimow, whom Katz and Lenfest waged a successful legal battle to reinstate. Norcross’ daughter, Lexie, was placed in a leadership role at Philly.com and quickly made newsroom enemies for her TMZlike sensibility. Katz’s longtime companion, Nancy Phillips, is the Inquirer’s city editor, and was accused by Norcross allies of meddling on behalf of Marimow. Just as it seemed things were settling down at the media company, the tragedy struck. Katz and the others were killed when the jet they were aboard failed to take off from an airport runway Saturday night and crashed into a gully. Federal investigators this week searched for the cause of the fiery crash and said they had found the plane's black-box voice recorder. The company has announced that Katz’s 42-year-old son, Drew,

will take his father’s place on the IGM board. It’s impossible to say how he will tackle the company’s enduring problems: a muddled and self-destructive web operation, the sometimes puzzling existence of three competing newsrooms and the question of how to make money in an industry that is hemorrhaging it. One notable thing has already changed in the wake of the sale: The Inquirer’s editorial page returned on Monday to a full twopage spread after being cut in half last year. It was also announced that Lexie Norcross will be leaving as vice president of digital operations once the company’s sale is completed, and that former owner Brian Tierney will return to the paper as a consultant to Lenfest. Lenfest became the paper’s interim publisher after Bob Hall, a Norcross ally and Marimow rival, stepped down. Katz and Lenfest’s purchase of the papers for $88 million did not eliminate the uncertainty over the company’s future. Many reporters feared the real-politicking, heavy hand that Norcross’ absolute rule could have brought to the papers. Critics said that the papers were too wedded to an archaic and mediocre status quo, and were unenthused about a staunch Marimow supporter taking the helm. But the sale gave reporters some opportunity, after years of institutional-existential fright, to return their attention to reporting. “It’s very hard to comment, or write, about the future,” says Inquirer columnist Karen Heller. “But, if anything, I would imagine this tragedy would strengthen our resolve and mission to put out a great paper and websites, and realize Lew’s vision.”

How will the company tackle its problems?

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PINNED: Three men briefly subdue a fourth on Walnut Street after he struck one of them. Onlookers take it all in. TED KNIGHTON

wheeltalk By Nicholas Mirra

FILTERING, A RISKY GAMBLE ➤ DEAR WHEELTALK: What’s the law about

filtering? At what point does forward progress beside a car become illegal? — Slim Fit Bicyclist Dear Slim: This question sent me into the musty caverns of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code and Philadelphia Code. They’re disquieting places, where one can pass the time by playing the “Spot the rule that’s not enforced” game. Filtering refers to biking through stopped traffic, typically to reach an intersection. I’m no lawyer, but I could not find anything directly saying, “Bicycles shalt not filter.” Our laws regarding bicycles (or “pedalcycles” in the state code) are an incomplete patchwork. Many hinge on what is “practicable” to expect from a bicyclist. But what concerns me is not the strictly legal, but the safe. I wince every time I see a bicycle squeezing up on the right of stopped cars. The driver at the front may be looking left, not signaling, preparing for a right turn. They’re not expecting a bicycle to pass them in that moment, and I’d argue it isn’t “practicable” to expect them to. It’s foolish for cyclists to expect everyone else on the street to be the World’s Most Considerate Person. Ride where people expect you. Squeezing to the front of an intersection is inviting a spin of the Random-Crash Wheel. It’s cab-door city. Rocketing into the crosswalk, you hit a pedestrian. Looking for cars, a driver turns into you. You encounter a pothole and have no space to maneuver. The list goes on. (It’s a big wheel.) I’d bet a handle of the good stuff that the legal ambiguity I found in the law might also manifest if you do get in a crash. Do you want to argue with a driver, and later a cop and an insurance company, that you had a right to squeeze to the front of the intersection? There are easier ways to ruin your week. Bottom line: dubiously legal, risky and cocky. If that’s your Twitter bio, fine. But you’re not contributing to a safer, more predictable street, and that’s what bicyclists need more than any other group. (wheeltalk@citypaper.net) ✚ Nicholas Mirra works for the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, and knows many things about getting around on two wheels. Send him your bike questions.

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She welcomed the prospect of new homes going up across the street. “I would love to see new houses, not just empty lots,� she said. Like many neighboring properties, 3711 was built as a rental unit for Irish-American manufacturing workers. After Richardson’s 2002 death, it was bought by West Philadelphia Real Estate, a developer that plans to build affordable-housing rental units on the lot and adjoining parcels, Grossi said. The ceremony was billed as a “Homegoing Celebration,� but the organizers sought to create a funereal atmosphere, wearing black suits and dresses and handing out black-bordered order-ofservice cards. Even the excavator had a black sash tied around its steel arm. The event was produced by Temple Contemporary, the exhibitions and public programming department at Temple’s Tyler School of Art, and won a grant of $160,000 from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Grossi said. It was designed by brothers Billy and Steven Dufala, local multimedia artists. Speakers reminisced about the Mantua they had grown up in, drawing murmurs of acknowledgement from the crowd. Ardie Stuart Brown, 67, an educator who has lived in the neighborhood since 1951, recalled a drug store, a butcher shop and a fire station that had been familiar features in earlier years. “Let us never forget 3711 and the other attached houses that were here,� Brown told the audience. “So long, 3711, your presence will last in our memories.� Pastor Harry Moore Sr. of the Mount Olive Baptist Church around the corner on 37th Street rebutted questions about the value of the ceremony by telling “mourners� that the demolition represented an opportunity for renewal in a predominantly African-American community that has been hurt by high levels of crime, poverty and unemployment. “This funeral ceremony is a symbol of a resurrection,� said Moore, speaking at a lectern built with sections of 3711’s front door, complete with a real estate agent’s combination lock. After fond reminiscences and promises of renewal, the mood briefly turned dark when the excavator’s menacing black claw began its work, plucking a thick wreath of flowers from the full width of the house’s cornice. After gently dropping the flowers in a black dumpster, the machine tore at the cornice, sending down a shower of broken lumber and mortar, the first debris of the full demolition that would take place later in the day. The demolition of one row house may be the latest step in a process of renewal that got a boost earlier this year with President Obama’s selection of Mantua as one of five national Promise Zones, offering extra federal help for economic development. De’Wayne Drummond, president of the Mantua Civic Association, said many residents were unclear

about how the Promise Zone status is going to help the neighborhood, but he expressed hope that the community will be energized by the row-house funeral combined with the federal program. “I think this is a wake-up call, that the community is going to realize that we are on a national stage and there are resources there for us so that we can come out of this poverty-stained mindset,� Drummond said. Grossi argued that the strength of community shown on Saturday was a sign that the Promise Zone process, though currently amorphous, will reflect the wishes of Mantua’s residents, and not those of outside agencies, or the market forces that could lead to gentrification. “Whatever is going to happen here is going to happen on our terms,� he said.

“This is a wake-up call� for the community. With 3711 gone, one side of that block has only two homes standing, a reminder of the “gaptooth� pattern of many older blocks where empty lots and abandoned buildings — together totaling an estimated 40,000 properties citywide — surround the homes of occupants who struggle to hold back urban blight. That battle might be easier to win if people adopt the lessons of Funeral for a Home, and work harder to preserve the buildings that are an essential part of Philadelphia’s identity, Grossi argued. “In many ways, Philadelphia’s built environment is defined by the row home,� he said. “It is really the most important piece of Philly’s architectural iconography, and we’re losing it.� ✚ Jon Hurdle is a Philadelphia-based writer. Contact him at jonhurdle@ gmail.com.

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Five emerging writers worth watching Twelve years ago, I moved back to Philly after spending nearly two decades in the bookpublishing industry in Manhattan. I brought with me my young family and my belief that important literary events took place mostly in New York. Sure, I knew that Philly had some top-of-the-charts stars such as Jennifer Weiner and Lisa Scottoline, but I soon learned that we also have a deep bench of talented writers — across the genres — who live here because they want to be here, and who derive inspiration and support from our city and from each other. Liz Moore, author of the novel Heft, speaks enthusiastically of the collaborative spirit that exists in Philly among writers and artists, and Hidden City’s Nathaniel Popkin, who has just published his first novel, Lion & Leopard, with a local press, says: “To be a writer in Philly means … being able to access an extraordinarily wide range of fellow writers — at your fingertips — from poets to journalists to critics and novelists.”

Here’s a brief look at five emerging writers whose talents I think are likely to shine even brighter in the years to come. They and the many other scriveners toiling here make Philadelphia a town where you are sure to get your words’ worth. — Lynn Rosen ✚ Lynn Rosen, an editor and author, is the director of Open Book, a program of classes, workshops and events for readers and writers. Contact her at lynn@lynnrosen.com.

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Violet Kupersmith

Book Quarterly 5 up-and-coming writers plus 3 philly-rich books by lynn rosen

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Violet Kupersmith, only 25, calls herself “a baby author” and finds it surreal to see a volume of her work in the local library. In April, Random House’s Spiegel & Grau imprint published the Doylestown native’s first book, The Frangipani Hotel, a collection of short stories based on traditional Vietnamese ghost stories. The book, drawn from her own heritage, has received excellent reviews and active commentary in the blogosphere. In fact, says the author, “I stopped reading my Goodreads page because I was obsessing over it!” Kupersmith’s mother left Vietnam when she was 13, and the author has returned to the country numerous times to visit, including on a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and to research the Mekong Delta. In her writing, Kupersmith treats her cultural legacy with respect and a touch of irreverence. For example, when a girl asks her grandmother for her story of leaving Vietnam so she can use it a school assignment, she says it will help her more than her father’s story: “That’ll get me a B if I’m lucky. But your boat-person story? Jackpot. Communists! Thai pirates! Starvation! That’s an A-plus story.” A book-launch party for The Frangipani Hotel was held at the Doylestown Bookshop, which Kupersmith said felt like a homecoming. “I grew up there and spent all my allowance there. I saw all the authors they had there for signings when I was a junior writer growing up.” The party drew a big crowd, and her book sold out. “All my people came and also a lot of strangers showed up,” she says, “and my mom made spring rolls!” Kupersmith is currently writing a novel, which keeps her out of circulation. “I can be a bit of a

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recluse. Writing is a lonely job that you’re just sort of doing by yourself in your sweatpants in front of your computer.” The novel follows two Vietnamese brothers and their dealings with the spirit world. One brother is a Saigon policeman looking for his missing fiancée. The other is a Hanoi low-life running an illegal cobra hunt in the mountain highlands. Kupersmith has a network of local writer friends with whom she sometimes exchanges work. “You need a community, otherwise you’ll go crazy as a writer making up stories and talking to made-up people in your head all day. You get into novel writing, you forget to shower — you need someone to phone you and say, ‘Are you alive? Come out and talk about something not related to your Vietnamese ghost stories!’” Lately, she’s been back and forth to New York City for book parties. In comparison, she really appreciates what Philly has to offer. “As a book town, I think we have even cooler literary credentials that inform the scene today. We can claim Ben Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe and Doylestown has James Michener. [Philly’s] a young city now, and I think it is infinitely more badassed than New York!”

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Rahul Mehta “It got me out of my house and out of my head, and meeting people in my neighborhood who love books. And I have great conversations with people about books — what better thing is there to do?” Not only has it helped Mehta build a community of fellow book lovers, it has also helped him develop a better sense of the challenges that indie bookstores face, as well as who’s buying books and why. “I feel like I have such a stronger sense of people’s connections to the world of literature,” he says. “Sometimes, as writers, we get stuck in the story and forget the way that books connect with people — it’s really great to see that. I often hear writers talking about the importance of reading like a writer. There’s something lost when you don’t read like a reader.” When Rahul Mehta and his partner, Robert Bingham, were living in western New York and teaching at Alfred University, they’d dream of quitting their jobs and moving somewhere new. In their minds, Philadelphia was always the place where they’d land. And sure enough, Bingham matriculated in a Ph.D. program in dance studies at Temple University two years ago, and suddenly here they were, living in Mt. Airy. Mehta’s first book, Quarantine, is a collection of short stories, some of which focus on Indian-American immigrant families and “several of them have queer characters,” he says. HarperCollins published it in 2011. His next project, a novel, deals with an Indian immigrant family living in western New York in the ’80s and in India in the ’90s. “Writing this novel has been a process of selfdiscovery,” says Mehta, 41. “I said to my partner recently: The thing that I’m most proud of … is not only the book itself, but the person I’m becoming in the process of writing the book.” Because he was writing at home, it was hard at first to make friends. But frequent visits to Big Blue Marble bookstore in Mt. Airy turned into a job when one of the employees moved away.

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The Removers by Andrew Meredith (Scribner, July 15)

Andrew Meredith’s father’s career as a literature professor is destroyed after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct and his dad winds up as a remover, taking away the bodies of people who die at home. A father/son rift develops. When Andrew’s life later veers off course, he goes to work alongside his father. This coming-of-age memoir tells the story of the work and its impact on their relationship. The author grew up in the Northeast, where the story takes place, and currently lives in Los Angeles. He has been awarded several writing fellowships and holds an M.F.A. from UNC-Greensboro. This is his first book.

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Charlotte Boulay As two foxes frolic on a backyard trampoline, one of them revels in bouncing like a kangaroo in a YouTube video that has drawn more than 21 million views. Charlotte Boulay borrowed from that 5-year-old video in naming her first book, a collection of poetry published in April, Foxes on the Trampoline. In her title poem, the foxes “find the ground so suddenly springy” while a viewer peeking out a window yearns for something elusive, perhaps the simple joy the foxes are experiencing. Boulay’s publisher, the Ecco imprint of HarperCollins, claims a long history of publishing distinguished poets. Boulay is its first new poet since 2008, making this a major publishing event. Originally from Boston, Boulay moved to New Jersey in 2010 for her husband’s job as a professor at the College of New Jersey. In 2011, they moved to Chestnut Hill. With the publication of her book, Boulay, 35, says she’s ready to get to know the local literary community. “I had a great community in grad school at the University of Michigan,” she says. “After grad school, I was ready to be done for a while with workshops and getting a lot of other feedback on my work. I needed time to deal with it myself and develop my own confidence in it, instead of looking to others. Now, I’m coming out of that. I would like to have other people read my work again.” She knew little about the local writing scene upon arrival in Philadelphia. “I’m just kind of exploring what might be out there,” Boulay says. She began by reaching out to Al Filreis, faculty director

of Penn’s Kelly Writers House (KWH). She’s grateful to him for looping her in on the many goings-on at KWH, as well as to Karen Rile for inviting her to submit to Cleaver magazine, which Boulay calls “amazing.” Bit by bit, she’s getting to know other writers in her adopted hometown. “I think writers in general have a lot say to each other about the loneliness of the process and supporting each other — in terms of how you balance writing and other parts of your life, how you make money at your day job, and how you make things work best in terms of supporting your writing life.” Boulay’s own day job is as a grant writer at the Franklin Institute. Asked if readers are intimidated by poetry, Boulay responds: “Me! I feel intimidated by poetry!” She is eager to do what she can to get her work to more readers. “My attitude about poetry is — if anyone in America asks you about or shows any interest in poetry, it should be your pleasure to oblige them.”

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Endangered by Jean Love Cush (HarperCollins, July 1)

The 66th Philadelphia Writers’ conference

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the Conference, which will take place Friday through Sunday at the Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District Hotel in Old City, will offer workshops for novices and seasoned writers in writing fiction, memoirs, poetry, journalism and social media. For more information and costs, go to pwcwriters.org. New York Times best-selling author William Lashner will open the conference with a talk on Friday morning. Lu Ann Cahn, an award-winning journalist for NBC 10, will give the keynote address on Saturday night. In November, Cahn published I Dare Me, a book about recharging by pushing yourself to do one new thing every day. The book grew out of her blog, One Year of Firsts. For an excerpt from her book, go to citypaper.net.

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The provocative plot of this novel involves an African-American teenager accused of a crime and his mother’s fight to save him. She agrees to allow lawyers to use a controversial defense on his behalf. The story speaks to race, class and justice in America. Jean Love Cush, a Philadelphia native, worked for the city District Attorney’s office directly out of law school. She now lives in Illinois.

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as a writer is teaching. Over the past several years, she has taught creative writing at the Abington campus of her alma mater, Penn State, and through The Word Studio, run by another local writer and writing coach, Janet Benton. Currently, Eve, 46, is a lecturer in the creative-writing program at Bryn Mawr College. “That’s one way I’ve been a writer outside of my house,” Eve says. “I invest time in those kinds of relationships [with students]. I’ve learned so much about my own writing from my teaching. It sounds clichéd, but I get as much from my students, or more, than they get from me.” Now that Henna House is about to be published, she says she’s looking forward to getting out and about in the local literary community.

Elkins Park native Nomi Eve was living in Boston when her first novel, The Family Orchard, was published in 2000. Fourteen years later, she’s about to publish her second, and this time she’s back home. Between books, she’s been busy raising her three children. Henna House, set in Yemen in the 1920s, tells the story of a character named Adela and the passions and trials of her Jewish community. It will be published by Scribner in August. “I’m pretty much a hermit,” Eve says of her tendency to shy away from the local writing community. Then, she explained a bit more: “I’m one way of being a writer. I’m home with my kids. I’m a PTO mom, and I write. That’s my community.” For five years, Eve was part of a writing group with several other local authors, including Robin Black, Rachel Pastan and Rachel Cantor, who now lives in Brooklyn. Although she loves being with other writers and going to readings, the demands of her suburban family lifestyle make that challenging. “When I make my book,” she says, “I’m just home making my book.” What she does love and what inspires her

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Cosby: His Life and Times by Mark Whitaker (Simon & Schuster, Sept. 16)

This is a major biography of Philly icon Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than 60 friends and associates, the book provides a frank account of Cosby’s life and legacy. The book is timed to the 30th anniversary of The Cosby Show premiere and the 50th anniversary of Cosby’s album I Started Out as a Child, which won him his first Grammy Award. Mark Whitaker is author of the memoir My Long Trip Home, and formerly worked for CNN Worldwide, NBC News and Newsweek, where he rose to become the first African-American leader of a national newsweekly.

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Yolanda Wisher says she became a poet at age 8. Last month, 30 years later, she proudly published her first book of poetry, Monk Eats an Afro, from Hanging Loose Press. Wisher isn’t worried about how long it took. “I’m always convinced [that] it’s the right time when it’s the right time,” she says. Besides, in the intervening years, she’s done a thing or two, including serving, at age 23, as Montgomery County’s first poet laureate.

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Born in Philadelphia, Wisher grew up in North Wales, where her family has lived for generations. She came back to the city for graduate school in 1999 (Wisher holds an M.A. in creative writing/English from Temple), and has been here ever since. She lives in Germantown, where she’s active in the local arts community, and works full-time as the head of the art education department at the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Wisher sees poetry as a collaborative art. “I definitely saw early on the job of the poet being [to create] a collective and collaborative experience. I love the solitary experience of writing and mulling over and reflecting on things. But something about the exchange, whether it’s through a reading or a workshop, … the communal experience of poetry really speaks to me,” she says. She also enjoys seeing someone catch “the poetry bug,” and takes the shared role of poetry very seriously. “It’s not just entertainment or a way to create a pedagogical tool,” she says. Instead, like the murals she works with in her day job, she says poetry “has potential as public art.” Wisher is a great believer in the power of art to build and sustain community. She was recently appointed a “cultural agent” for the newly created U.S. Department of Arts & Culture, which, while not an official federal entity, describes itself as “a new citizen-powered initiative to cultivate the public interest in art and culture and catalyze art and culture in the public interest.” Wisher’s first task is to create an event, called an “imagining,” in which community members brainstorm ways to use the arts to improve community life. “I’m thinking hyper-local about how artists could be the first frontier of a social entrepreneurship,” she says. “How do we solve some of the community problems here through the lens of arts?” She plans to focus on Germantown, her home of 15 years, with initiatives she hopes will spread throughout the city, calling Philly “a very rich place to be right now.”

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➤ PAINTED BRIDE Melissa Maddonni Haims has yarn bombed her husband’s head, and once, a municipal employee’s bicycle as part of April Fools’ joke concocted by Mayor Michael Nutter. Haims, 42, is showcasing 10 years’ worth of yarns and other artworks in the exhibit “in retrospect.” They Are Dying All Around Me is a quilt Haims made entirely of her grandparents-in-law’s address books. The theme of loss haunts Haims’ retrospective. A soft sculpture in honor of her deceased mother, titled Heaven, looks like knitted icicles dripping from the ceiling. Through June 22, reception Fri., June 6, 5 p.m., 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org. ➤ ASIAN ARTS INITIATIVE Last week, international artists Keir Johnston and Ernel Martinez staged a procession through North Philadelphia. They carted two reconstructed bulletproof glass booths (the kind seen in corner stores throughout the city) down sidewalks and around abandoned lots and The Piazza (pictured). The booths eventually made their way to the Asian Arts Initiative, where they are now part of the exhibit “Corner Store (Take-Out Stories),” which looks at the corner store as a meeting ground for city residents of all stripes. Through Aug. 22, opening Fri., June 6, 6 p.m., 1219 Vine St., 215-557-0455, asianartsinitiative.org. ➤ TIGER STRIKES ASTEROID Local artist Andrea Gaydos Landau’s hand-cut drawings and collages are inspired by the concept of the double negative, and the empty space snaking through her geometric shapes is often as appealing as the shapes themselves. Through June 29, opening Fri., June 6, 6 p.m., 319A N. 11th St., second floor, 484-469-0319, tigerstrikesasteroid.com. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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OUT THERE King Britt, Kate Watson-Wallace and more celebrate a century of Sun Ra. By Shaun Brady ne hundred years ago (give or take a couple of weeks), one of two events took place, depending on which version of the cosmic reality one chooses to reside in. Either Herman Poole Blount was born in Birmingham, Ala., or Sun Ra arrived on the planet Earth from his home in the vicinity of Saturn. In either case, the century that followed would see space/time significantly warped by the music of the Arkestra leader, who arrived in our world in one form or another in May 1914. That legacy will be celebrated in many ways over the course of the year in Philadelphia, which Sun Ra called home for 25 years (and famously also called “the worst spot on Earth” and “death’s headquarters,” but he meant it affectionately). This weekend, King Britt and Kate Watson-Wallace will present a tribute performance inspired by Ra’s Afrofuturist innovations at FringeArts, incorporating improvised music, live video and dance. The show will feature guitarist Vernon Reid of Living Colour, percussionist Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces, vocalist Imani Uzuri, keyboardist Marlo Reynolds and bassist Anthony Tidd, with Britt manipulating the live audio as well as “micro-samples” of Sun Ra’s music. Video artist Jason Senk will incorporate footage of

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the Arkestra into his live visuals, with dance by Watson-Wallace’s partner in the anonymous bodies art collective, Jaamil Kosoko. “Me and Sunny go way back,” said Britt, wincing at the pain from a pinched nerve in his shoulder at One Shot Café on Memorial Day afternoon. “My mom was friends with Sun Ra and would go to his house for rehearsals once a month or so. As a kid I thought it was too much, but I did look at those guys as superheroes. There was something going on that I didn’t understand, but it stuck with me and now it’s part of all the music that I do, regardless of genre. With this collaboration I wanted to take it to the next level, so I thought about who we could invite that has been really influenced by Sun Ra and grasps the idea that futurism embraces science fiction.” The first name that came to mind, naturally, was saxophonist Marshall Allen, a key member of the Arkestra for most of its history who has led the ensemble for nearly two decades. But Allen, only a decade short of his own centennial, is on tour in Europe with the Arkestra, so Britt decided to steer the tribute in a more radical direction, eschewing jazz instrumentation for electronic sounds. That led him to think of Reid, whose own multifarious influences are legendary; Shabazz Palaces, who Britt referred to as “like Sun Ra’s sons;” and Uzuri, who he likened to longtime Arkestra vocalist June Tyson. Watson-Wallace says that she has long been familiar with Sun Ra,

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“He didn’t even think he was from this planet.” but her knowledge of his work and influence have increased exponentially since she and Britt became a couple a little over two years ago. “I’m interested in the Afrofuturist connection, the idea that he didn’t even think he was from this planet,” she said. “I don’t come out of his lineage at all, but a lot of the way he made work was actually how me and my creative partners are making work, in a really non-linear improvisation-based way.” The Beautiful Noise: A Special Tribute to Sun Ra will be the couple’s first collaboration in what they intend to be a series of multidisciplinary works. It also serves to introduce Britt as the third member of a reimagined anonymous bodies, which Watson-Wallace hopes will help transform the perception of the collective from an experimental dance company to a more expansive artistic umbrella. “There’s a little bit of segregation in Philadelphia in terms of all these amazing art communities that don’t always overlap,” she explained. “This evening and some of the events we’ll do in the future come from a long-standing desire to cross-pollinate and get all these amazing improvisers in a room together.” Britt summed up the idea more succinctly: “It’s like Voltron.” Long known as a DJ and producer, Britt hopes anonymous bodies will feed his experimental side. “Improvisation is where the magic happens,” Britt said. The collective’s expansion also provides each member a safety net that encourages them to venture further out, WatsonWallace said — similar to the role of the Arkestra. “It gives you permission and support to go into artistic realms which you don’t have a lot of experience in. I think to be a good artist you always have to go into the unknown and be totally uncomfortable, be really bad at what you’re doing and stumble around in the dark until something arises. I feel like Sun Ra did that a lot.” (s_brady@citypaper.net) ✚ The Beautiful Noise: Special Tribute to Sun Ra, Fri., June 6, 8 p.m., $15-$20, FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd., 215-413-1318, fringearts.com. 20 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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➤ THE REAL THING Third time’s the charm? Almost. Prior to the Wilma Theater’s The Real Thing, I’d seen Tom Stoppard’s play in two different productions, and neither was satisfying. The first time, the cast played it so archly, with every line delivered as a bon mot, that I was thoroughly put off. In the next, it was the opposite problem — the actors strove so hard to be “real� that I could barely hear them. I felt like an unwanted guest, and I wasn’t even reviewing it. When I mentioned this to a wise friend, he pointed out that these are the two potential pitfalls of the show in production. It needs to be theatrical, but not too theatrical. And real, but not too real. Let me explain. In The Real Thing, two couples confront questions of honesty, fidelity and secrets. (“Couples� is an oversimplification —these four men and women have complicated, intersecting relationships that change over time.) The play is unusually straightforward for Stoppard, but he does have some tricks. All four of the characters are in show business — Henry, the principal male, is a playwright, and the other three — Annie, Charlotte and Max — are actors. This allows Stoppard free rein to riff on the vanity and obsessions common to this world. Here, not every scene is exactly what we think it is. (I won’t say more — you should discover it for yourselves.) It’s a brilliant structure because it strikes to the heart of the title question — can we ever know what’s real? At the Wilma, my heart soared in the first few minutes — the four main actors seemed to get the balance exactly right, and, in fact, they continued to do so throughout (especially Kevin Collins as Henry, and Karen Peakes as Charlotte). Was this finally The Real Thing I’d been waiting for? Alas, not quite. Soon into the proceedings, director David Kennedy introduces a new and unexpected pitfall — he presents the entire piece as a play-within-a play. This frame not only makes everything look too busy, it also nullifies Stoppard’s central theme — within this world, by definition, nothing can be real. It’s really the only misstep in this production, but it’s bad mistake. To the extent that we can ignore the gimmick and focus on the scenes, there are satisfying elements here. But with less interventionist direction, it could have been so much more. Meanwhile, I’m going to keep trying to find that perfect production. Hope springs eternal. Maybe next time will be the real thing. Through June 22, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-8939456, wilmatheater.org.

➤ INCORRUPTIBLE So how was the play? I’ll get to that, I promise. But first, let me take a moment to celebrate the exceptional pool of talent we have here in Philadelphia. Eighteen years ago, when the Arden gave the world premiere of Michael Hollinger’s Incorruptible, the cast seemed pretty much perfect — and impossible to equal. Damned if they haven’t done it. The team Arden has put together for this revival — Josh Carpenter, Michael Doherty, Alex Keiper, Mary Martello, Paul Nolan, Ian Merrill Peakes, Marcia Saunders and Sam Sherburne — are exceptionally skilled comedians, all 22 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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going at it with brio. Simply on their own, they may be reason enough to enjoy the show. But, of course, this is more than a collection of vaudeville turns. So again — how was the play? That’s a more complicated question. Incorruptible, set in a medieval French monastery, is framed around a nearly unsolvable problem — how can the monks continue their good work of saving souls without any money? The larger issues Hollinger takes on — faith, poverty, ethics — are on a Shavian scale, though the play doesn’t always deliver on its ambition. Some of it is very funny. Some of it is creepy, grotesque and thought provoking. The best of it is all those things at once. My point is that the tone is tricky. There’s no doubt that it often calls for very bold comic acting. But it would also benefit from something more grounded and complex. It isn’t fully realized in the Arden’s current, handsomely designed production. Director Matt Decker has paced the play so fast that it’s not always possible to follow plot points (and there are a lot of them). Everything is amiable and generalized. I longed for a world that also included something secretive, shadowy, dark. (The dark part I mean literally — the Arden stage is always flooded with light, which looks nothing like a real monastery.) The performances that truly stand out are the quieter ones, especially Carpenter as the sweetly credulous Brother Felix, and Peakes, whose dry wit really scores as Brother Martin. But in the key role of Jack, the local con artist, the talented Doherty goes too far into the world of shtick — he seems gripped by his own antic energy, rather than the master of it. Incorruptible at the Arden is entertaining, but I think it could be more than that. To be fair, though, some of this problem is hardwired in the script, particularly in the second act, where the abrupt shift from high farce into piety feels insincere — Hollinger wants to have his faith and eat it, too. Through June 22, Arden Theatre, 40 N. Second St., 215-922-1122, ardentheatre.org. (d_fox@citypaper.net)

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✚ NEW EDGE OF TOMORROW | B Screwing with how nerds tell time, even under the anythinggoes auspices of science fiction, is a good way to enrage continuity freaks and confuse the hell out of everyone else. Luckily, director Doug Liman handles the big and little hands with the precision and flash of a blackjack dealer, ensuring Edge of Tomorrow concedes as little edge as possible. Blessed with more vigor and personality than the director’s last swing at sci-fi, 2008’s flaccid Jumper, Liman’s latest has plenty of special effects, with polished CGI bringing mechanized soldiers, plus the nasty alien race they hate, to scrappy life. There are no star-power issues, either, with Tom Cruise making large-toothed Tom Cruise-y faces all over the place. But it’s the storytelling that’s ultimately responsible for the movie’s kiddish allure, combining the infinite-lives appeal of a shoot-’em-up video game with a military puzzle pandering to armchair strategists. Sometime in the non-specific future, Earth is colonized by hostile invaders known as “Mimics,” ghastly tentacled monsters that make landfall in Western Europe, launching brutal expansion campaigns in every direction. As the world’s powers band together to form a single super-army, silver-tongued ad man-turned-CNN regular Maj. William Cage (Cruise) makes a living in front of the lens, talking up the strength of the neo-allies to any media outlet that will listen. A pretty-boy PR officer with no actual fighting experience, Cage bristles when the supreme general (Brendan Gleeson) forces him onto the frontlines of a massive Normandy-like beach siege to “sell the invasion” to the public. Shanghai’d for resisting the order, he’s thrown into live combat by Kentucky-fried master sergeant (Bill

Paxton) and promptly dies a bloody death. That’s not a spoiler: The second he perishes, the day inexplicably reboots to the very beginning of his service, giving him the opportunity to improve — and bolster the chances of unlikely war hero Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt) uncovering, and destroying, the source of the Mimics’ power. Conceptually, Edge has a bit in common with Duncan Jones’ 2011 sleeper Source Code, focusing on an investigator who’s somehow able to use time as a treadmill en route to a shrouded endgame. Liman, however, is more nimble in his efforts to sidestep redundancy, even managing to have a little fun at his own expense. —Drew Lazor (Wide release)

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Read Drew Lazor’s review at citypaper.net/movies. (The Roxy)

WORDS AND PICTURES | BThe title of Words and Pictures refers to a flirtatious “war” between two teachers at a New England prep school, who each argue for the supremacy of their chosen discipline. There’s a more subtle battle happening in the film itself, albeit one between participants with a shared goal: Gerald Di Pego obviously intended his contrived screenplay to be both an old-fashioned romantic comedy and an inspirational drama in the Dead Poets Society mode, while director Fred Schepisi and stars Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche have conspired to make something that more or less achieves those goals in spite of the trite material they’re handed. Schepisi, who emerged from the Australian New Wave of the late 1970s to become a reliable Hollywood journeyman, directs with a deft but subtle hand, eliding the story’s many flaws by steering away

focus from the overloaded plot and toward its complicated leads. Owen plays that old type, the once-promising writer turned alcoholic English teacher; Binoche is a renowned artist who turns to teaching when her rheumatoid arthritis interferes with her work. Both transcend their Screenwriting 101 caricatures and create full-blooded, deeply flawed characters whose attraction is founded on ideas and passions. Their bickering repartee is archly written, but the chemistry between them steers the relationship back toward the intended Hepburn-Tracy path. Both are wrestling with the loss of their youthful talents while barely concealing their still-burning passions under a protective layer of cynicism. —Shaun Brady (Ritz Five)

✚ CONTINUING CHEF | B+ Little details make a big difference in Jon Favreau’s searingly sincere peek into the insecure world of modern chefs, where passion and creativity fight for breath amid a crush of egos as puffy as well-set soufflés. A former hotshot who’s lost direction but refuses to admit it, Carl Casper (writer/director Favreau) walks out on his cantankerous boss (Dustin Hoffman) after a brutal writeup from a wide-reaching web critic (Oliver Platt). After starting a viral Twitter spat with the reviewer, the chef parlays the buzz into a food truck he hopes will coax him back into relevance. There’s never any question whether or not cheffy will get his groove back, but the predict-

ability of the proceedings is tempered by the growth of Casper’s bond with his young son (Emjay Anthony), who’s eager to pick up pop’s trade. Favreau mostly avoids culinary cliché by reminding us that many sets of human hands are responsible for what’s placed on your plate. —DL (Ritz East)

THE DANCE OF REALITY | ABreaking a 23-year dry spell, cinematic provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky returns to the screen with a movie about his childhood in the seaside town of Tocopilla, Chile, during the 1930s. This being Jodorowsky, his remembrance of things past abounds with disfigured miners who sing about the dynamite explosions that deformed them, a hunchback love interest and a shocking (and nearimpossible-to-fake) scene in which his mother urinates on his father to cure him of the plague. Unlike his earlier work, The Dance of Reality has a relatively straightforward narrative, which makes it easier to digest all of the symbolism that baffled viewers of his more free-form, psychedelic films. Raised by Jewish-Ukrainian parents, Jodorowsky (Jeremias Herskowits) is a sensitive boy who’s treated as an outsider by the anti-Semitic locals. His stern father, Jaime (played by Jodorowsky’s real-life son Brontis), reveres Stalin, and fashions himself in his image, cultivating a thick mustache, wearing army fatigues and testing his son’s bravery and tolerance for pain. Now 85 years old, the director reimagines events from his youth with surreal flourishes, and these vivid scenes, personal yet profound, are seared into the viewer’s memory

in a way they won’t soon be forgotten. —Paulina Reso (Ritz at the Bourse)

IDA | AStark and stone-faced, director Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida reveals itself slowly. In its opening minutes it appears to be a near-silent Bressonian drama set in a Polish convent. But then the young, pretty novitiate known as Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is called before the mother superior, who encourages her to visit her only living relative before taking her vows. Thus Anna meets Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a former state prosecutor who informs her niece that her name is not Anna but Ida, she’s Jewish, and her parents were killed during the Nazi occupation. The pair set off on a road trip to find their graves, providing Anna with her first exposure to the outside world, including “carnal thoughts,” anti-Semitism and John Coltrane. The Paris-based Pawlikowski, returning to his native country for the first time in his career, keeps the focus on the two women and the subtle ways in which their journey changes them. At first they’re bemused by one other; Wanda stifles laughter at her niece’s unsullied innocence, while Ida reacts to her aunt’s cynicism and provocations with the self-satisfaction of the genuinely faithful. These small gestures are indicative of the film’s tone, which faces unfathomable horror with subtle grace, making its conclusions all the more harrowingly resonant. —SB (Ritz Five) THE IMMIGRANT | B+ Although the Weinstein Company’s release plan is more reminiscent of clandestine border crossings than entering through Ellis Island, James

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Gray’s evocative period piece follows Marion Cotillard’s wayward Pole through the golden door and onto the mean streets of Manhattan. She quickly falls prey to Joaquin Phoenix’s mercurial wheeler-dealer, who treats her like an object of affection one moment and a piece of property the next. Gray doesn’t spare the portentous symbolism (see the prostitute garbed as Lady Liberty for proof), but he’s working in an old-fashioned idiom that supports it. The film’s classicism can be stifling — it has a touch of the self-willed masterpiece about it — but it falls away when Jeremy Renner comes on the scene as a stage magician whose dedication to sleight of hand makes him paradoxically honest. The movie’s centerpiece, a pageant for quarantined deportees at Ellis Island, is a tragic encapsulation of the American Dream in all its chimerical promise, part aspiration, part lie — and one of the most thrilling sequences in recent memory. —Sam Adams (Ritz Five)

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST | C Taking a disorganized scratchpad of frontier standup bits and stretching it into a two-hour A-List feature, Seth MacFarlane manages to squeeze some significant laughs out of a simple premise: The Wild West, or at least our movie-exaggerated understanding of it, is unsafe for human consumption. But once all the gory joke kills and fart-and-poop material is exhausted, it’s clear what the Family Guy creator is actually offering: a self-serving vehicle so desperate to be edgy that it takes broad liberties with privileged

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material. MacFarlane, as wishy-washy sheep farmer Albert Stark, loses the girl of his dreams (Amanda Seyfried) after wussing out at a high-noon gunfight. He gets a chance to redeem himself once mysterious Anna (Charlize Theron), quick with the pistols and preternaturally interested in Albert, arrives in town, hoping to wriggle free of her domineering outlaw husband (Liam Neeson). Though it’s near-impossible to buy one of the most beautiful women in the world falling for MacFarlane, whose face looks like a canned ham covered in pancake makeup, there is an ease to their interactions that shows a slight bit of sweetness. But all that’s overpowered by the script’s wagon train of reactionbaiting racist and sexist cracks, not so much offensive as they are lazily conceived. The movie’s best sequence, by far, involves Albert tripping balls on peyote, which goes to show how undesirable MacFarlane’s earthly setting really is. —DL (Wide release)

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6.5 thursday [ rock/pop ]

KING KHAN & THE SHRINES

exactly a precise vocalist, more of a gruff R&B shouter than a loving crooner, but his true talent is leading his stalwart Shrines ensemble and brass unit through the dedicated roar of husky, ’60s-inspired psychedelic garage soul. While 2007’s What Is?! is utterly faithful to that above description, 2013’s Idle No More finds Khan toying with anthemic choruses, broader string-soaked arrangements and even the occasional ballad. —A.D. Amorosi

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$15-$19 | Thu., June 5, 8 p.m., TLA, 334 South St., 800-745-3000, tlaphilly.com.

FREE | Through June 22, Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St., 215-898-7108, icaphila.org.

Not since Dr. John donned the ceremonial headdress of New Orleans’ frontline maestro has a man so dedicated himself to musical shamanism (or at least its head gear). King Khan is not

Remember in 2012 when appeals to amplify voter ID laws threatened disenfranchisement for a huge number of Democratic-leaning seniors, immigrants, minorities and

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poverty-stricken individuals? Zoe Strauss does. A judge struck down such a bill in Pennsylvania, but in Florida, American citizens were denied the right to vote because they did not have access to ID cards, and Zoe Strauss was right there with them, taking photographs. As a part of its 50th anniversary season, the Institute of Contemporary Art welcomes Strauss for “Zoe Strauss/Andres Serrano: Works 1983-1993.” Inspired by a visit to the ICA in 1994 (Strauss is a lifelong Philadelphian) to see the work of Andres Serrano, she dove into the world of photography, focusing in on the gritty beauty of Philadelphia. At first, Strauss only used the digital slideshow practice as a way to demonstrate the order of her photographs in her yearly I-95 exhibitions (in which she hung her prints to the highway pillars under I-95 in South Philly), but she eventually

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integrated the medium into her formal exhibitions, and has since shown slideshows at the Whitney Biannial and the PMA, to name a few. There’s a sad kind of magic upstairs at the ICA, as Strauss’ slideshow turns still photographs into a moving dialogue about America. —Maggie Grabmeier

frontwoman Emily Ana Zeitlyn — who first won our hearts and minds with The Weeds — sings from the gut, wrenching punchdrunk emotion from breathy bridges and sneakily catchy choruses. Divers shows are rare as hell. Here’s hoping Friday’s gig at the Boot signals a sea change. —Patrick Rapa

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DIVERS $10 | Fri., June 6, 8:30 p.m., with Kate Faust and Sonja Sofya, Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 267-6394528, bootandsaddlephilly.com. Classically informed but also kinda dreamy and brazen, four-on-the-floor Philly band Divers are just as likely to rock you in their arms as twirl you on the dancefloor. Weary-soul

A COFFIN IN EGYPT $31-$115 | June 6-15, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-8933600, operaphila.org.

Grand Opera will go down in history as the piece that lured mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade from retirement. With strains of Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna in its tale of aging beauty and deceptive behavior, librettist/director Leonard Foglia’s Coffin focuses on the grand lady of Egypt, Texas, “Myrtle Bledsoe” (von Stade) and her murderous, jealous rage. It’s a tour-de-force where von Stade never leaves the stage. Magical. —A.D. Amorosi

[ rock/pop ] As the third production from Opera Philadelphia’s American Repertoire Program, this one’s got quite the backstory. This one-act chamber opera by composer Ricky Ian Gordon is not only famous for starting life as a play by Horton Foote — this co-production between Opera Philadelphia, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and Houston

KISHI BASHI $15-$19 | Fri., June 6, 9 p.m., with Buried Beds and Our Griffins, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-2599, tlaphilly.com. K. Ishibashi’s brilliant — terrifically good, but also jewel-like — new album on Joyful Noise takes its title from Aram Saroyan’s minimalist poem Lighght. Even with the (si-

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lently) gargle-inducing doubled consonants, though, that’s probably underselling it: The sometime Jupiter One/Of Montreal fiddleman traffics in only the most giddily buoyant of musical substances, with his swooping, ever-looping violin frippery and boyish, helium-laced falsetto both equally liable to zip into the stratosphere like a loosed balloon, while synths, harp and possibly a hurdy-gurdy flesh out the generalized syrupy gloss. It’s about the furthest thing from minimalist, packing in plenty of wispy folk and thumping electro-disco amongst the candy-coated indie pop and flights of neo-classicist fancy, while hearkening frequently, unabashedly, to the sunny prog of Yes, Kansas and the Electric Light Orchestra. —K. Ross Hoffman

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$12-$14 | Sat., June 7, 9 p.m., Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com. Lovable folk star Birdie Busch presents the fourth installment of her annual Philly Opry, this

year with Philly’s Hawaiiansounding Slowey and the Boats and soul/jazz outfit The Sermon! bookending a set by Birdie and her band, the Greatest Night. Though Birdie says the theme of the evening is inspired by travel and her recent trip to New Orleans — which, to her, is all about “having a good time and shaking a tail feather” — the lineup may be defined by its classic instrumentation: Between the three bands, the stage will see a steel guitar, an upright bass and a huge B3 organ (plus all the usual boring guitars and stuff). This concert is truly Birdie’s brainchild, and she was just as excited to talk about her decorating theme as she was to talk about the music. Expect everything at the Opry to be both grand and ole. —Maggie Grabmeier

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RAY LAMONTAGNE $29.50-$69.50 | Sat., June 7, 8 p.m., with Jason Isbell and Belle Brigade, Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J., 800745-3000, livenation.com. Ray LaMontagne has forever used his smooth and salty voice on rumbling mid-tempo tracks with earnestly emotional lyrics. That’s nice. Whether he could (or should) sustain a career of mellow moments and

blissed-out words of comfort has been broken by Supernova (RCA) and its cutting, reverb-drenched sensual sound produced by Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. Suddenly, LaMontagne has guts and dynamism on songs such as “Lavender” and the prog-rockish “Pick Up a Gun.” Surely LaMontagne will play from his catalog of ruminative smoothies, but if you need some guaranteed sonic cotton, get to Camden early for Jason Isbell. —A.D. Amorosi

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TEMPESTA DI MARE $30-$50 | Sat., June 7, 8 p.m., Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

[ pop/electronic ] $28-$30 | Sat., June 7, 8 p.m., with Big Data, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com. Just in time for summer, here comes flame-haired electro-pop ice queen Elly Jackson — now actually the solo act everybody always mistook her for — bursting back on the scene

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laser synths — think Madonna and Wham!, not just Erasure and Yaz — Trouble in Paradise (Polydor), due next month, doesn’t quite pull a full Random Access Memories, but there’s a human-after-all refreshingness, not to mention plenty of funky guitar licks on atypically jaunty earworms. —K. Ross Hoffman

6.8 sunday [ comedy/theater ]

As anyone familiar with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons knows, baroque composers were fascinated with the sounds of nature, and slyly incorporated imitations of earth, air, fire and water into their compositions. This is the theme of the final concert in the new Perelman Theater series for the acclaimed period-instrument orchestra Tempesta di Mare. Music of Marais, Rebel and Telemann will conjure the world of the woolly outdoors in the comfort of an air-conditioned theater. —Peter Burwasser

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THE BERSERKER RESIDENTS FREE | June 8, 15 and 22, FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd., 215-413-9006, fringearts.com. Ah, Fringe festivals. Philly’s will elegantly usher us into fall, but the world’s largest, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, takes over Scotland in August. The Berserker Residents, Philly’s own off-the-wall theater group, will be part of the action across the pond this year, and before they take off, they’re reworking their 2013 Philly Fringe Festival hit The Talkback. (They’ll call the deconstructed, then reconstructed work The Post Show in Edinburgh.) Sundays in June are your chance to see this revamped comedic work evolve for free. For each of the three performances, the Berserker Residents will have an extra hand in reworking the show — in the first week, Pig Iron Theatre Company’s Dan Rothenberg will direct, Comedy Sportz’s David Jadico will pitch in during week two, and comedy writers will assist with new content for week three. Artists Justin Jain, David Johnson and Bradley K. Wrenn are cutups — The Talkback takes jovial jabs at the very theater and arts institutions Fringe fests celebrate, and the New York Times has called the Berserkers “specialists in site-specific overgrown kid theater.” We imagine these guys take that as the highest compliment. —Mikala Jamison

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6.9 monday [ rock/pop/folk ]

FIRST AID KIT $20-$22 | Mon., June 9, 8:30 p.m., with Willy Mason, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-2322100, utphilly.com.

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Well, here come those obnoxiously angelic Söderbergh sisters, with their meticulous, positively geosynchronous harmonies and melodies as

is amazing but there’s only so much acoustic beauty we can put up with, right? Well, here’s Stay Gold (Columbia) and I’m not hearing any flecks of Led Zep, but whatever, this thing is basically the most pristinely manicured and enigmatically gorgeous folk record you could hope for. Just utterly, infuriatingly, unforgivably lovely. —Patrick Rapa

6.10 tuesday [ rock/pop ]

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phase producing their true high-water mark, 2002’s Neon Golden) has shown a Notwist that’s restlessly adventurous. Where they’ve landed, with this year’s smashing Close to the Glass (Sub Pop!), is solidly in the center of all those genres, and then some. Filled with memorable melodies and grouchy arrangements, the Notwist don’t so much jump from sound to sound as move purposely and ooze seamlessly. —A.D. Amorosi

THE NOTWIST $18-$25 | Tue., June 10, 8 p.m., with Jel, TLA, 334 South St., 800745-3000, tlaphilly.com.

sweet as a bunch of baby larks in a honey-whiskey birdbath. Ugh. Picture them, just chirping and splashing around. With 2012’s The Lion’s Roar, we were like, OK, this

Anyone who has followed Germany’s brothers Acher — Markus and Micha — since their initial albums of 1990 and 1992 wouldn’t recognize the Notwist of 2014. Moving from Teutonic hardcore punk to ringing pop to blip-electro and baroque post-rock (the latter

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FULL TORT TORTAS FRONTERA | 301 Locust Walk, rickbayless. com/restaurants/ tortas-frontera. Mon.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-7 p.m. $1.95-$8.95. ➤ DURING MY FOUR years at Penn, I subsisted on MexiCali sweet potato burritos, Cosi Signature Salads (with chicken) and bowls of customized Rice Krispies at Cereality, the short-lived, pimpmy-cereal restaurant. I thought I had it good. But these kids today … If I had a cane, I’d wag it at their spoiled PENN sweatpant-ensconced asses. The Class of 2015 and beyond now feast on the likes of Rival Bros. coffee, Southern a la Sbraga, Bobby Flay’s “crunchified” burgers, Pitruco pizza and more — not to mention coZara, Zavino, Joe coffee and Shake Shack at nearby Drexel. One newcomer is an outpost of Chicago chef Rick Bayless’ Tortas Frontera, housed on Penn’s bucolic main thoroughfare. With the school year wrapped, the campus is downright ghostly, and there are plenty of open tables surrounding a circa-1920 fireplace in Tortas’ loungey dining room. I still had to wait, partially because most of the food here is made to order, partially because of the staff, which has slow-mo down to an art form.There were so many employees standing around doing little to nothing, I felt like I was at a union construction site. (Scared to see how they’ll handle the crowds in September.) Bayless’ menu is mostly the same as the Tortas’ in Chicago, but modified for Philly with local farms and producers, something I appreciate. The attention to flavor and textural contrast in the tortas, the menu’s beefiest section, is something I appreciate more. Purple laces of pickled onion lent crunch and brightness to the conchinita pibil, slow-braised pork on a soft, griddled roll dressed with black-bean spread and habanero salsa. The warming red chile caldo brought to mind posole with its heady broth, hominy, avocado, cotija and hunks of melting short rib; I’ve got it earmarked for fall. There are three styles of molletes, a Mexican breakfast staple featuring black beans smeared on an openfaced roll. I tried the one with bacon and Chihuahua cheese, but the queso had the over-crisp texture of an Ellio’s pizza left in the toaster oven too long. Squeaky dog toy-rubbery cubes of bacon in the loaded guacamole made bacon 0-2 here, but it was nothing a long pull of coconut horchata couldn’t cure. (adam.erace@citypaper.net) 32 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Your guide to making the most of the remaining days of Philly Beer Week, and a few postPBW recovery tips. By Caroline Russock hilly Beer Week is upon us once again and the city is crawling with amateur zymurgists and hop heads. All manner of beer enthusiasts have descended upon our city to enjoy everything from rare barrelaged barley wines to bracing Berliner Weisses More on: and everything in between. We’ve put together a Thursday-to-Sunday guide to getting the most out of the last four days of the hundreds of events (and thousands of brews) that make up Philly Beer Week 2014. And if you’re feeling a little rough around the edges afterward, well, we’ve got a couple of tips to ease back into post-PBWweek life for you, too.

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➤ THURSDAY, JUNE 5 Percy Street Barbecue (900 South St.) is taking the way-back machine to the year 1982 for Fast Times at Percy Street, a night of Cameron Crowe-inspired excitement with craft-can specialists Oskar Blues. They’ll be debuting Oskar Blues Chaka, a serious Belgian-style

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ale in a handy resealable 16-ounce can, and cracking open Dales Pale Ale, Gubna and Mama’s Little Yella Pils. But the real excitement here is that Percy Street’s channeling their inner San Diego surf bros and bringing in a mechanical surfboard for the occasion. It’s the perfect excuse to knock back a couple, embrace those Sean Penn-Spicoli vibes and hang loose. Percy Street is grilling up $5 sliders, but we’re pretty sure no one’s going to give you a hard time if you try to order pizza. Keeping with the Vetri Family’s fondness for a little friendly competition, Alla Spina (1410 Mount Vernon St.) is pitting two semi-local brewers against each other for the last in their series of Beer Week cage matches. This one puts Sansom Street’s Nodding Head and Delaware’s Dogfish Head head to head, if you will. From MORE FOOD AND 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Alla Spina will be offering DRINK COVERAGE four courses with two beer pairings from AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / each brewery for $45. Diners can weigh in M E A LT I C K E T. on their preferred pairing and the winning brewer earns a spot on the Italo brewpub’s Sunday Suds & Grub menu. ➤ FRIDAY, JUNE 6

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TOUCH ME I was begging for you to touch me in the most intimate way! You make me feel like I am on top of the world. Your caring nature, your strong hands, makes me feel like I am floating or something. I just want us to be happy, I want us to have a friendship, and a good understanding of this is what life is truly about, finding someone and settling down. You mentioned to me that you wanted two kids. I want that also. I can’t wait until our bodies become one! I love you!

WHAT DID I DO! Damn, I keep thinking to myself what the fuck did I do. I think about you all the time when I wake up! It is fucking crazy, I can’t stop thinking about you, and you do things that men my age don’t even do! I am tired of falling for you men and end up getting let down! Just as easy as I was in your life before, I can drop out of your life again! I hope that you understand what I mean and what I am going through. I just want it to be over! Have a good life!

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