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Philly-based MasterChef contestant Krissi Biasiello gets in trouble for writing racist tweets. And for making her SousSlave write the apology.
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Plans to upgrade the Schuylkill River Trail include a 2,000-foot-long boardwalk. Overlooking the South Philly White Fish Sanctuary.
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The city is attempting to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes on lap dances given at city strip clubs. Psst: Plenty of money around the front, too.
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According to Yelp, Philly’s hipsters are centered around NoLibs/Fishtown and East Passyunk. Representatives from those neighborhoods agree: “What’s a Yelp?”
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Ex-Eagles cornerback Lito Sheppard confirms that Donovan McNabb did vomit on the field in the 2005 Super Bowl. OK, next question:Was it chunky? (Bell Curve would like to apologize for making you think about barf and/or the ’05 Super Bowl.) The School District reveals that $196,000 worth of computers, cameras and more are missing from 11 Philly schools. If these losses had been prevented, their budget would have a shortfall of only hundreds of millions of dollars. Philly artists Joan Myers Brown and Laurie Olin receive National Medals of Arts from President Obama. “In fact,” says the president, “I’m going to give everyone a medal, and if you take it off, I’ll know.”
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A man with a history of identity theft and sexual assault is accused of causing the explosion of a house in Wissinoming by stealing the copper pipes inside. Still, everyone agrees he was the most upstanding Traffic Court judge in the land.
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Officials say fireworks may have been the cause of the stampede on the Parkway on July 4 that injured 89 people. That, or a whole bunch of people suddenly realized it was, like, 100 degrees and they were standing ankle-deep in garbage listening to John Mayer and some sort of survival instinct kicked in.
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CITING EYESORES: The Snyder family, which owns blighted buildings in Old City, was unsuccessfully sued in Municipal Court multiple times before being dragged into Common Pleas Court. NEAL SANTOS
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EARLY DISMISSAL Why Philly slumlords can hide in plain sight. By Ryan Briggs
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n the wake of last month’s unthinkable building collapse, all eyes fell on the Department of Licenses & Inspections, the city agency responsible for code enforcement. L&I, along with the Revenue Department, is supposed to act as the city’s shield against negligent property owners. But even when L&I has cited owners — like Richard Basciano’s STB Investments, which owned the building at 22nd and Market, or Michael Lichtenstein’s York Street Property Development, whose decrepit factory burned down and claimed the lives of two firefighters — its threats have lacked teeth. A scroll through the court dockets for Philly’s most notorious slumlords reveals why: The vast majority of cases are taken to Municipal Court, where the case hits a roadblock if the address on file for a landlord turns out to be phony or out of date, meaning a court summons can’t be served. As a result, the same outcome appears over and over again: Cases marked “dismissed without prejudice” for lack of service, and buildings allowed to continue crumbling into blight. Among those who have benefited from this loophole: Basciano, Lichtenstein, Landvest mega-slumlord Robert Coyle and every member of the Snyder family profiled in our story “The Trouble with Old City” [April 11, 2013], about the neighborhood’s enduring blight. In a quintessentially Philadelphian bureaucratic twist, the city has even failed to serve other government agencies, including the
Philadelphia Housing Authority, the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority and, amazingly, itself (someone had apparently switched offices, according to court records). The city’s Law Department Code Enforcement Unit blames insufficient staffing and outdated computers, but insists strides have been made. More code-enforcement cases are being pursued — and more aggressively — than before, and are benefiting from recently enacted laws. Still, the pace of litigation, in some cases around buildings that present urgent safety concerns, is agonizingly slow. The way the system works is relatively straightforward. If a property owner fails to comply with three L&I citations, the case is turned over to the Law Department. City attorneys may prosecute landlords either in Municipal Court, which can only issue fines, or in the more powerful, but slower-moving, Court of Common Pleas, which can actually order an owner to fix violations. It’s a sort of triage approach, says Andrew Ross, the deputy city solicitor who oversees the Law Department’s Housing and Code Enforcement Unit.The more serious cases — dangerous properties, repeat violators and big-time slumlords — theoretically go to Common Pleas. But the vast majority of complaints, nearly 90 percent, are quickly processed in Municipal Court, with the hope of scaring owners into compliance. The problem is volume. The division filed nearly 5,500 propertymaintenance cases last year, on top of thousands of other unrelated
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cases such as health-code violations. Just seven city attorneys handle this caseload; only three of those deal with Municipal Court cases, and even they are not on L&I’s cases full-time. Personnel constraints have been exacerbated in recent years, despite the growing public attention to the city’s blight problem. “Our numbers, like all city people all across the board, have been shrinking,” Ross says. Meanwhile, demands on the department have grown. Code enforcement had a big year in 2011, thanks to Act 90, a state law that came into effect allowing municipalities to attach L&I liens to a property owner’s other assets. A city ordinance that enables L&I to cite certain vacant buildings for missing doors and windows was also enacted in 2011. The Nutter administration trumpeted a new “Blight Court” to take down deadbeat property owners once and for all. (Ross clarified that this term is actually a euphemism for the increase in his division’s code-enforcement efforts.) The result: There were 7,373 code-enforcement cases put forth in Municipal Court that year, the most by far in a decade. Given that, up until 2011, L&I employees with no legal training brought these cases to Municipal Court, the city can call the current situation an improvement, says L&I spokesperson Maura Kennedy. Back then, far fewer complaints were filed and many went nowhere — often due to lack of service. But the problem is ongoing. In a random sample of 100 L&I cases filed in Municipal Court this April, 40 percent fizzled out after service wasn’t made. Ross says that recently the Law Department has been taking more no-service cases to Common Pleas Court. At that point, “We will actually do some more research, if necessary, to nail down the actual owner and the actual place where we can serve them.” There have been some results: The Snyder family, who received
dozens of Municipal Court complaints, have finally been hauled into Common Pleas Court. But far fewer cases are brought to Common Pleas: just 400 in 2012. Among those who have seen cases against them die out at the Municipal Court level is YML Realty LLC, which the Lichtenstein family still uses to hold properties in Philadelphia. That case was dismissed just one month after the 2012 fire and has not been brought to Common Pleas Court. Ross notes it’d be easier to pursue such cases with modern computer systems. L&I is currently running on a nearly decade-old system that doesn’t communicate with the software used by the Revenue Department or the courts. In addition to allowing slumlords to keep getting permits, this situation forces city lawyers to search through each database, a time-consuming process. Kennedy says L&I plans to overhaul its system, but the process has a long way to go. On top of that, Ross said Act 90 powers don’t allow the city to pierce the corporate veil. If a landlord owns properties under an LLC that has no other assets, the city has little recourse. Beth McConnell of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations says the result is delay after frustrating delay: “A lot of violations, a small number of attorneys, combined with absentee property owners that just ignore citations, and you have a long, slow slog.” She knows from personal experience — such a dilapidated property sits on her own block in South Philly. “L&I visited three times, 30 days apart, cited the property owner, who failed to respond, and the case went to court in November. The process has taken about a year so far,” she says, “and the property has not yet been secured.” (ryan.briggs@citypaper.net)
Forty percent of the cases fizzled out.
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³ JESSICA MEYERS IS the picture of a proud homeowner, sitting on the porch of her three-bedroom rowhouse in Mill Creek, pointing out recent improvements and chatting with neighbors. Only, the eight-year resident doesn’t own this house, and doesn’t rent it. She’s a squatter.And squatters’ rights don’t amount to much, especially when the property belongs to the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA). On July 16, the house will go on the block for the second time in two years, as one of 200 properties auctioneer Max Spann is selling for PHA. Meyers is scrambling to assemble the funds to buy the house herself — but she has no guarantees. Given the state of the neighborhood and of the house when she moved in, “I would consider us more homesteaders than squatters,” she says. But “every time I try to purchase the property the legitimate way, they make it impossible to do so.” Meyers is now trying to crowd-fund her bid via the website Indiegogo.com; by Tuesday, she’d raised just $1,064 toward a $10,000 goal. But she has a better shot than at the last PHA auction, when her home was bundled with five other properties. She couldn’t match the winning bid: $36,000. But apparently neither could the winning bidder, who never paid up — which is why the house is back on the block. Meyers says PHA has halfheartedly attempted to evict her and her housemates once or twice. The last time, in 2010, the PHA officer assured her he couldn’t evict her if she wasn’t physically present on his next visit. PHA did not respond to a request for comment. City Council President Darrell Clarke announced the auction at a press conference, arguing that blighted PHA properties are a drag on neighborhoods. But Meyers says her home has been a stabilizing force. She says she kicked junkies out of the house when she first moved in. The house next door is abandoned, with a partly collapsed roof and a backyard piled 4 feet high with debris. Russell Johnson has lived on the block since 1949 — next door to another PHA property choked with trash and weeds — and watched the neighborhood deteriorate. The squat house, he says, is one of the few properties on the block that gives him hope. At least 200 neighbors and friends have signed a petition supporting Meyers. She’s also planning a protest outside the auction, which will be at First District Plaza, 3801 Market St. Meyers insists it’s not just her own fate, but also the block’s that’s at stake. “What is the option if we’re not here?”
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MARKET VALUE: (From left) Corrine Goodman, 9, McKenzi Custus, 14, Siani Garrison-Lloyd, 14, and Hannah Carr, 14, train to participate in the West Philadelphia Youth Entrepreneurship Program. MARK STEHLE
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MINOR VICTORIES A teen-run market in a poor part of West Philly aims to grow a generation of business leaders. By Samantha Melamed
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ast year, thanks to a microloan and training from Villanova Business School, Siani Garrison-Lloyd was able to launch a start-up business, develop a clientele and double her net worth, all in just a few months. It’s impressive, given that Siani is only 14 years old. This summer, the self-assured teen is planning to take her business — a stand selling accessories crafted from duct tape — to the next level. But asked if she wants to run a store of her own someday, she says no. “I want to own more than one store,” she explains. Siani is one of 25 young entrepreneurs participating in a summer-long weekend market that launches Saturday, July 13, in a vacant lot in Cobbs Creek, where teens will be hawking everything from homemade water ice to hand-embellished iPhone cases every Saturday through August. The newly minted West Philadelphia Youth Entrepreneurship Program is a pilot initiative run with support from Villanova, the Enterprise Center, Junior Achievement of the Delaware Valley and Wells Fargo. While the businesses it contains may look like mere lemonade stands and craft tables, collectively they could represent something more: a scalable model for combining microlending, entrepreneurship training and mentoring to help transform the outlook for a generation of young people — and their economically depressed neighborhood, too. It’s a lofty ambition, but it wasn’t born at Villanova. In fact, it began in an unlikely setting: within the walls of Graterford, the state prison in Montgomery County. Villanova business professor Ronald Hill, who has been teaching classes at Graterford for the past 18 months, says the concept came out of conversations with an inmate named Aaron Fox. Fox, who’s been in Graterford 33 years, was despairing over the number of kids from his old neighborhood in West Philadelphia who kept washing up inside the penitentiary. He wanted to turn back that tide, and thought Hill could help. The two men began brainstorming answers to one key question, says Hill: “How can we help the young men and women in this community
aspire to something other than street life?” The entrepreneurship program is, at a fundamental level, an answer to that question. Hill recruited Darryl Goodman, also a former Graterford inmate and now the force behind the Public Safety Initiative Youth Transformation Project, which pairs at-risk youth with mentors who’ve been in their shoes. Last year, they developed a sort of prepilot program: Five kids, including Goodman’s daughter and son, were given entrepreneurship lessons and “loans” of $250, then challenged to create their own businesses. Goodman took the kids to block parties and street fairs — wherever they thought there’d be a market for duct-tape barrettes and lemonade. Siani finished the summer with $500 in the bank. She was surprised by her success and learned a lesson about niche marketing: “I targeted only girls, so I thought I wouldn’t make as much as if I sold to guys and girls.” Goodman’s daughter, Corrine, 9, who bought lightup toys to sell, ran across a different marketing problem: During the day, the toys just weren’t that impressive. Eventually, Goodman took her to some evening events, and sales took off. Still, she finished the summer $30 in the red — and was deeply relieved to learn the $250 loan was, in fact, a gift to be saved or reinvested. This year, the teens have more formal assistance developing their business plans, with grants from Wells Fargo and the option of participating in a weeklong entrepreneurship camp at the Enterprise Center. The program kicked off on a Saturday afternoon in June, with a crash course in business from Junior Achievement’s Gerri Vattimo. With about a dozen kids and their parents, she covered market research, product development, pricing and marketing — all in under two hours. She told them: “You have skills. You have ideas. What could you do?” Corrine, having learned from last year’s struggles, wants to go with a surefire seller on a hot summer day:
The idea was conceived in Graterford state prison.
homemade water ice. She thinks a 50-cent price point will be a draw. Goodman says parents need to be involved and help kids develop their businesses, troubleshoot and manage funds. Getting kids involved at an early age — he's targeting teens aged 12 to 15 — is critical, he says. It’s easy for him to help teens 18 and older find jobs, but for younger ones there are more challenges. “That’s where the problems and the crime kick in, when the youth doesn’t have anything to do,” he says. “Some of the kids we have here just haven’t been given the chance. They’re under the impression that [success] will never happen for them.” With extra help fine-tuning their enterprises, Goodman and Hill hope the children will succeed in their new businesses. “But at the end of the day, it isn’t about the money, it’s about the lesson. And the lesson should be: There are lots and lots of opportunities,” Hill says. “I’ve seen too many men in the prison system who have matured into fine people. If someone had intervened when they were 12 or 13 years old and shown them a different path, they could’ve done anything they wanted.” If all goes well, Hill hopes to replicate and expand the program next year, reaching other areas with high rates of incarceration and poverty, like North Philadelphia, Chester and Camden. He also wants to publish a scalable model that could be adopted in cities around the country. That is to say, the stakes are high — and not just for the young entrepreneurs. Eventually, the program could provide an economic catalyst for an entire neighborhood, says Wyatt Schroeder, an M.B.A. student who’s acting as the program coordinator in West Philly. “This is one of the poorest zip codes in the city of Philadelphia, so by putting a market there we’ll hopefully help bring this depressed economy up. We want to help 60th Street develop into a business corridor,” he says. “The goal is to generate foot traffic to that area.” But at the very least, the kids will learn what it takes to run a business. The hope is that they will continue growing their businesses on their own — selling their wares (with parents’ support) in between Saturday markets or during the school year. Siani, for one, hasn’t stopped developing new products. Schroeder says that’s how he knows the program works: “The whole point is for this to be a lifelong process that just happens to start this summer.” (samantha@citypaper.net) ✚ West Philadelphia Youth Entrepreneurship
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Church have revealed in recent years. The Polish drama In the Name Of offers a surprisingly sympathetic, fictional examination of the issue. The film follows a gay priest in a small town who works with troubled boys released from a reformatory school. Writer/director Malgoska Szumowska stands dispassionately removed as the priest, played movingly by Andrzej Chyra, treads a tricky line between sexuality and pedophilia. Both, according to the clergyman’s church and his oath to it, are morally reprehensible, but he views his problem as the same basic struggle with sexual urges that any priest must face. The fact that his charges are on the cusp of adulthood and that he finds himself transferred out to the sticks for some unspecified past transgression suggest more troubling issues that Szumowska leaves viewers to negotiate on their own. As Mines sees it, both sides of the gayrights debate struggle with one’s own essential philosophy, whether spiritual or sexual. “A lot of the people who preach against it are concerned more with how they look than they are with healing people,” he says. “I’m at peace within myself, but the people who are supposed to serve as our examples are preaching hate. I believe that if you feel that you want to help me, change or deliver me from this lifestyle, you have to love me first. Until you can preach love to me, you can’t get my attention.” (s_brady@citypaper.net) ✚Fall to Grace plays Sat., July 20, 2:15 p.m., Ritz
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parts of one being. I’m at peace with that. I don’t struggle with it, I don’t go back and forth about it, about whether this is a phase. I know who I am, I’m comfortable and confident, and I know that God accepts me for who I am.” Although Mines has a cult following as a porn star, his self-discovery has not been nearly as public as that of former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey. Since McGreevey’s scandalous resignation and outing in 2004, he has followed a different path than many gay men, moving closer to the church rather than farther away. The HBO documentary Fall to Grace catches up with the ex-gov as he studies to be an Episcopal priest and mentors women incarcerated in the New Jersey penal system. Of course, those who already wear the collar also have their own struggles, as the mounting scandals within the Catholic
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sweet, glamour-hungry man behind the woman behind the drag icon. The film begins as Divine’s life ends, at the moment of greatest triumph for the former Glenn Milstead, as the success of Hairspray promises unexpected mainstream success for the actor and longtime director John
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is too diffuse to shape that awe into understanding. Its superficial details are fascinating, but we don’t emerge knowing much more than when we started. —Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse, Sun., July 21, 2:15 p.m.)
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Deee-liciously bad, this cheesy romantic drama plays like a cheap, direct-toDVD flick, complete with gratuitous nudity. Ex-cop Steve (Eric Presnall) is a cutthroat ad exec threatened by the arrival of cocky newcomer Mark (Gregor Cosgrove). They immediately, intensely loathe each other, but about 23 minutes into Capital Games, the two men — lost in the desert during a team-building exercise — start kissing, jerking and cuddling. But, they insist, they aren’t gay. Hmm. Mark is even engaged to a woman! Still, the
guys conspire to be alone together, and when Steve puts on his old uniform to frisk Mark, he likes it — until he doesn’t. Hmm. These bi-curious/ bisexual boys sure are bipolar! Will they end up together? One has to see
the constant use of Natalie Farr’s caterwauling to underscore the drama is grating. Despite its many, many flaws, there are some quaint flashbacks to Chris and Devon’s teenage romance, and Angelo, who co-produced, is an engaging screen presence. —GMK (Ritz East, Fri,, July 12, 9:15 p.m. and Sun., July 14, 2:30 p.m.)
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the unintentionally hilarious final reel to find out. Full of WTF moments, Capital Games also features fabulous eye candy in the form of ex-baseball player Shane Keough as Mark’s gay roommate. —Gary M. Kramer (Ritz East, Fri., July 19, 9:30 p.m. and Sun., July 21, noon)
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The gay deceiver in the modest but not unlikable low-budget drama The Deception is Chris Quinones (David Busse, stiff), a closeted politician running for an open Senate seat. Engaged to the moneyed MaryAnn (Anne Roser, shrill), Chris finds himself unexpectedly reconnecting with his hunky, troubled ex Devon (Jerry G. Angelo). In deciding what to do about his oldbut-new-again lover, Chris is forced to choose between coming clean and dirty politics. The Deception is far too earnest to be truly forceful; its politics are more simplistic than savvy. In addition, there are some laughable sequences — and not just when the guys have sex in a hospital bed. Moreover,
THE HAPPY SAD | C+
It is certainly refreshing that the young, attractive and affectionate characters in the melancholic comedydrama The Happy Sad are sexually fluid. Sure, they have hang-ups about truth and trust in their relationships, but not about having sex. When Stan (Cameron Scoggins) and Annie (Sorel Carradine) break up, they each seek out same-sex partners. She begins an affair with Mandy (Maria Dizzia), while he hooks up with Marcus (LeRoy McClain). However, Marcus — who recently agreed with his partner of six years, Aaron (Charlie Barnett), to have an open relationship — unexpectedly develops feelings for his fuckbuddy. As the regrouping lovers expose their complications and flaws, The Happy Sad, which is based on a play by Ken Urban, feels increasingly stagebound. The characters are meant to be “real” in their display of annoying quirks, but they just seem phony. Except for Marcus: McClain injects The Happy Sad with the gravitas it sorely needs. —GMK (Ritz East, Sat., July 13, 7:30 p.m.)
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Waters. A massive heart attack on the morning he was set to begin a recurring role on Married with Children cut that momentum tragically short, but Schwarz traces Divine’s rise from a shy closeted kid in Baltimore to the ferocious persona that turned drag on its head. Waters has plenty to say, of course, but the most affecting interviews are those with Milstead’s mother, Frances, who touchingly recounts her initial rejection and ultimate reunion with her son. —Shaun Brady (Ritz East, Fri., July 19, 9:45 p.m. and Sun., July 21, 5 p.m.)
■■■ INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR. | B Those predisposed to view James Franco as a dilettante will find plenty of ammunition with his latest project, which aims to recreate the quasihardcore footage purportedly cut from William Friedkin’s notorious Cruising. But stick with it and it turns out
I AM DIVINE | B+
In Pink Flamingos, Divine famously branded herself “the filthiest person alive,” and proceeded to prove it. In Jeffrey Schwarz’s endearing doc, however, we meet the winningly
Lauren, whose discomfort with filling the role of Al Pacino’s possibly closeted undercover cop doubles Cruising’s view of uncontrollably fluid sexuality. The movie’s not indulgent so much as meta-indulgent, self-aggrandizing and self-critical in equal measure. —SA (Ritz East, Fri., July 12, 7 p.m. and Sat., July 13, 12:15 p.m.)
Franco has something slipperier and more interesting in mind: What starts as a narcissistic featurette morphs into a character study of actor Val
IN THE NAME OF | B+
With various shirtless, muscled young men on display, there is a real homoerotic vibe at work in the Polish film In the Name Of. This tender character study concerns Father Adam (Andrzej Chyra), a gay priest who watches over delinquent boys and struggles to control his same-sex desires. Director Malgoska Szumowska deliberately never paints Father Adam as a bad man, just a flawed one, and Chyra makes his character’s anguish palpable. The plot thickens when Father Adam develops an attraction to a troubled boy, Lukasz (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz), and cultivates intimacy with him by teaching the youth to swim and later playing a game of seduction in a wheat field. When the priest’s queer bent becomes the source of rumors and graffiti, he debates whether he should flee the small town or stay. In the Name Of is certainly critical of the church, but this artfully made film is compassionate toward its characters, ending on an appropriately provocative note. —GMK (Ritz at the Bourse, Thu., July 18, 5 p.m. and Ritz East, Mon., July 22, 6 p.m.)
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The Palestinian homosexuals in Yariv Mozer’s documentary are outcasts twice over. At home, they fear for their safety in a virulently homophobic culture — Louie, who serves as the movie’s main character, still bears a scar on his face where his father cut him with a knife. Sneak across the fence into Israel, and they’re fugitives. It’s a tragic plight, brought home by Louie’s perpetually sad eyes and palpable longing for home; he hires cabs to drive through Tel Aviv’s Arab quarter, then nervously whispers “speed up” as they drive by his family’s kiosk. Mozer doesn’t take his portrait much farther than stirring up sympathy — there’s little sense of how, or if, the political climate might shift in his subjects’ favor — but their
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³ IF IT’S OK with you, this is all I want to talk about for the next few months: Creep Records/East Coast Ghost’s Dennis McHugh has made the unthinkable happen — a reunion of Philly’s holy hardcore ’80s legends Ruin, Aug. 31 at Union Transfer, with a live DVD of the event (shot by Woodshop Films) and vinyl reissues of their classic albums He-Ho and Fiat Lux out in November with newly recorded tracks. Glenn,Vosco and Damon have been playing in South Philly at Roger Rags’ Apex studio, but I’d been sworn to secrecy about the rehearsals for a while. Now that the Ruin corps is comfortable, the next job is to fly its other members in from all points abroad. Look for a Kickstarter soon. ³The Discovery Channel loves Philadelphia. Exhibit A: The reality/travel network delivers the Fishtownbased Philly Throttle starring Adam Cramer’s Liberty Vintage motorcycle shop (and Fran “Scareho” Gelicson) every Friday night. Exhibit B: Now Discovery is eyeballing another colorful Philly character: Joey Eye, the boxing promoter and cut man whose patter is faster than his deal-making. Eye is currently filming his online talk show, The Joey Eye Show, with producer/director Sonny Vellozzi (Robert Bizik and Joe Polito are in on the behind-the-scenes action). Discovery is apparently thinking of following Eye around in his day-to-day dealings with pugilists, managers and assorted goofballs. Sounds like a hoot if it happens. ³ Sad news in the world of Philly arts: Phil Sumpter III, the rah-rah PR guy for Old City’s Painted Bride Art Center,wrote to tell me that he is gone from the staff of PB. “Major changes on the funding landscape have adversely affected the Bride’s fiscal forecast resulting in organization-wide budget cuts,” wrote Sumpter, before going on to say that his three-year tenure has been a remarkable experience and that Bride exec director Laurel Raczka would be taking over some of his duties. Phil Sumpter III comes from a long line of Phil Sumpters and has been responsible for curating and promoting some of Philly’s funkiest art jams. You’ll hear from him soon. ³Another local calling it quits (but of his own volition) is Patrick McHugh, the singer/guitarist who is putting his roots-rocking, Fringe Fest-friendly fiddle band Grubstake to rest after about a decade. Instead, he will fold some of Grub’s members into his new band, the Dirty Three-like trio The Deadeyes. ³ Tonight, July 11, restaurantrepreneur Steve Simons’ Cantina Dos Segundos (on North Second Street) hosts an El Mayor tequila dinner with guest speaker Graciela Gonzalez,the third-gen master distiller of her fam’s 100 percent Weber blue agave. The tequila will be paired with a four-course menu from exec chef Mark McKinney.³ Free chips and salsa at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
STICKING POINT: Mark Khaisman’s packing-tape portraits of Birkin bags at Pentimenti Gallery.
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UNPACKING TAPE Making art about luxury goods out of materials from Staples. By Marissa Oswald
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ark Khaisman’s hands move quickly, layering colored, translucent strips of packing tape onto a homemade plexiglass light box and then slicing the roll away. The abstract shapes seem at first to be a frenetic kaleidoscope, but gradually a sharp jawline emerges from the chaos. He steps back to inspect what now is clearly the face of Victoria Beckham, part of a series he’s working on to show at CONTEXT Art Miami during Art Basel this December. It took him a while to get here, though. Khaisman’s parents, artists themselves in the Cold War-era U.S.S.R., urged him toward the Moscow Architectural Institute and a comparatively practical career. After Khaisman and his wife moved to Philadelphia in 1989 to start a family, it was a challenge to visit home, especially with the collapse of the Soviet Union a couple of years later. But, per his parents’ wishes, Khaisman found work as a freelance architect, which entailed, he says, trying “to fit 20 office spaces into a building that only fit 18.” He also worked at a stained-glass studio; though it wasn’t artistically fulfilling, either, it did lead him to his current work. A decade ago, he noticed the way the tape marking designs on a stained-glass work-in-progress created an array of gradients of shadows in its overlaps. Intrigued, he created his first tape image
solely from brown packaging tape, slowly building the layers into an identifiable film still from Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Khaisman chose this image for a reason, he says — black-andwhite films obviously lend themselves to the medium of monochrome tape, but also because the scene was so iconic. “The tape image is kind of incomplete, so you must recognize and be familiar with the image so your brain can complete it for you. In a way, you feel like you unconsciously participated.” After years of feeling “stuck” on stained glass and architecture, Khaisman felt he had finally arrived at his destined medium. But with a wife and three children to support, being a full-time artist wasn’t immediately financially viable. “Being an artist is a struggle, especially if you have family obligations,” he says. He held on to his jobs for years, making pieces in his spare time. Then the Internet found him. In early 2008, a reporter from the Daily Telegraph in London got in touch, looking for an interview. Confused, Khaisman asked how he’d found him. “He told me to look myself up online,” he laughs. When Khaisman Googled his own name, he says, he was surprised to turn up thousands of hits. Images of his tape works had gone viral on Tumblr and design blogs. Press inquiries from all over the world started pouring into his inbox. Khaisman has since been the subject of a documentary in Tokyo, featured in exhibitions from Barcelona to Korea and written into textbooks read by German art students; an ad campaign feat-
“He told me to look myself up online.”
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Danish electro-art-pop outfit When Saints Go Machine approach their third album as if determined to out-weird themselves, bookending Infinity Pool (!K7) with an incongruous Killer Mike feature and 80 out-of-nowhere seconds of trebly break-beat rave. In between comes a maze of meandering melody and textural abstraction that only occasionally approaches the sublimity of 2011’s curiously elegant Konkylie. But there’s real beauty underneath all that woozy circuitry — and, bizarrely, hooks too. —K. Ross Hoffman
Perennially plucky Brit-rock underdogs/ serially self-reinventing Stones fetishists Primal Scream seem to average one truly killer album every 10 years. If the ambitious More Light (Ignition) isn’t an unequivocal jaw-dropper on the level of Screamadelica or XTRMNTR, it’s still enough to satisfy as this decade’s allotment; echoing both of those landmarks (the former, most blatantly/gleefully, on rapturous finale “It’s Alright, It’s OK”) amidst a back-catalog-blenderizing, psych/ blues/punk/gospel/orchestral/acid-funk melting pot of ecstatic, fullthrottle jams. Spring for the deluxe edition if you can — even the —K. Ross Hoffman bonus tracks kick.
³ rock/pop/shoegaze The four tracks on Whirr’s new Around (Graveface) — the shortest of which pushes six minutes — feel like different tangents within the same dream. The lush male-female harmonies and sprawling guitar hooks recall the melancholic drone of original shoegazers Slowdive and My Bloody Valentine. Whether it’s a nod to Smashing Pumpkins’ softer side (“Swoon”) or the heartfelt resonance of opener “Drain,” the hypnotic rhythms connect one song to the next. —Matt Schickling
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³ documentary “Pussy is a devious word … the best translation is deranged vaginas.” That’s the kind of fundamentalist orthodoxy Moscow rockers/activists Pussy Riot are up against. What gives animus to their subversive feminism and punk ethos is the union between Russia’s patriarchs, temporal and spiritual. In the HBO doc A Punk Prayer, the trial and its forgone conviction prove to be the band’s greatest performance — a show of contempt, irony, courage and humanity. And Putin hovers invisibly over the proceedings, achieving what all authoritarian power desires: to be present in every conversation, every mind, every room. —Dotun Akintoye
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THE WAY, WAY BACK [ B+ ] WHILE MOST coming-of-age vehicles waste time spackling narrative cracks
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a small gesture. Roots/Americana music master Pokey LaFarge has a new self-titled CD on Third Man, a cameo in The Lone Ranger and music in Pawn Shop Chronicles. He’ll also be on Letterman on July 16, the night before he plays World Café Live. And none of this might have happened if old Juice, who ran Jake’s Pizza in Normal, Ill., hadn’t let his love of the blues run rampant. “It was like a blues museum!” recalls LaFarge of Jake’s. Pictures of all the early blues greats from Ma Rainey onward lined the walls, with Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy tunes making a big impression on him as a young man. “I always liked the higher-pitched blues singers like Sleepy John Estes.” LaFarge says it’s only recently he’s been opening up his own lower register. “The rawness and soul hit me. It was way different from anything a 13-year-old kid was exposed to. [Now] I hear that about my stuff, people say it’s refreshing.” Blues, country, western swing and roots rock inform his sound. Get him started on the topic of singers like Larry Sparks and band leaders like Bob Wills and you will definitely run out the clock. “This was my education. I was an amateur historian.” Doing the intense listening and digging, “You get a better idea of what quality is to you. It becomes important to preserve the quality stuff, in hopes of making this country a better place.” You’ll hear early jazz and pop throughout LaFarge’s compositions, but don’t flatter him by saying they sound just like the early stuff, he’s not having it. “You can hear I’m contemporary. But if you listen to all the old stuff, it’s sure to color your work.” (m_armstrong@citypaper.net) ✚ Wed., July 17, 8 p.m., $15, with Ataloft, World Café Live,
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Adolescence, awful aches and all.
GROWING PAINS: Gawky teen Duncan (Liam James) lumbers through puberty while trying to woo his neighbor Susanna (AnnaSophia Robb).
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“I told them... I refuse to be in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” uring his work won a Silver Lion for best design at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes. (The ads were for, naturally, tape.) He’s even been approached by Ripley’s Believe it or Not. “They contacted me for ‘craziest art’ — some stupid, stupid stuff,” says Khaisman. “I told them I’m in fine art, and I refuse to be in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” Khaisman’s been very into Hermès’ Birkin bags lately, as seen at an exhibition at Old City’s Pentimenti Gallery this spring and in the Victoria Beckham series. The Miami show expands pixelated paparazzi snapshots of Beckham toting some of her many Birkins — a few years ago, her collection was valued at more than $2 million — into kaleidoscope-like portraits. Like the Hitchcock film still, the Birkin was partially chosen for its recognizability. But Khaisman also sees in it something of a parallel to the art world. Birkin bags start at between $5,000 and $10,000; bags made from saltwater crocodile leather or encrusted with diamonds can sell for upwards of $150,000. Further, the Birkin resale market, like the fine art market, is speculative — prices of individual bags can increase with time, and the resale value can be huge, particularly in Asia. The high value placed on a Birkin is, as with art
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sold in high-end galleries, highly subjective. Birkins are handmade in France “with very high-quality craftsmanship, but that doesn’t determine the price,” Khaisman says. “It’s only priced like this because there are people that would buy it for all that money.” How, the Birkin series seems to ask, do we assign value to objects? What distinguishes a $1,000 bag from a $10,000 bag? What’s the difference between artwork that sells for hundreds and artwork that sells for millions? Khaisman is unsure how to feel about the pricing of his own art, especially given how the roots of his success are online, where, as people say, everything wants to be free. “Most of the time, your works are posted without permission. I feel OK about it if intentions are not commercial,” Khaisman pauses. “Unfortunately, if we were paid, like, 100 bucks every time they were posted, we’d be rich.” (editorial@citypaper.net)
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hile Forcefeel’s latest album is just a $6 download away, the Connecticut electro-noise artist is hoping you’ll want a more physical musical experience. That’s why the 15track Harvesting Monsanto is also available as a limited-edition cassette release (just 100, total). Put out by Philly label Good Behavior, the tape comes complete with “a nutrition label, a rubber glove and a short pitch for a cutting-edge corporate product.” This will make sense once your have your copy. Or maybe it won’t. Timh Gabriele, aka Forcefeel, says the idea is to leave things up for interpretation. If you want, you may infer a theme of insidious mutation, and you might not be far off considering the album’s experimental upbringing. Gabriele spent years compressing, expanding, adding one loop after another. Certainly the title Harvesting Monsanto brings to mind certain corporate/biological connotations. All of which is a far cry from Good Behavior’s small, cooperative business model, putting out music by working artists with minimal expectation of profit. Their resident graphic designers, photographers and filmmakers work on label-related projects as a way to break free of the creative constraints they face in their day jobs. A focus on physical releases strives to ground the listener in the moment. “We want to return people to a sacred space with music,” says label founder Donnie Felton, frontman of Philly band Grubby Little Hands. He’s talking about the drop of the needle on vinyl or the pop of a cassette. Records and tapes are the two preferred mediums for Good Behavior (though some releases have a paywhat-you-wish download option). “You notice it sitting on your shelf. It has presence and the format adds to that, since, unlike an MP3, you’re generally listening straight through,” says Felton. His hope is that everyone involved will benefit from the shared buzz, knowledge, resources and collective talents of the group. “Donnie’s whole concept is this idea that we do all different kinds of art, but let’s see what happens when we put them altogether,” says filmmaker Brian Melton. [Editor’s Note: Yes, this story contains a Felton and a Melton.] Where budget concerns limited previous video projects, Melton’s recent shoot for Grubby Little Hands’ “Unring a Bell” was able to make use of the greater Good Behavior brain trust. The video stars musician and artist Kira Abribatt and Vincent Patalano. Abribatt runs Slaughterhouse Gallery in Fishtown with her sister Claire — who acted as stylist and created a creepy papier-mâché elephant head for Patalano to wear. “If we want to do a video, we can do it to our liking. If we want to do a photo shoot, we have the people for it. We’ll make ends meet with the budget we have, and hopefully that attracts new people with new ideas and talents. And, hopefully, a larger budget,” says Melton. His partner, Patrick Lucy, did the collage cover of Grubby Little Hands’ Grass Grew Around Our Feet, which came out in September — Good Behavior’s first release. But the idea for the label is at least seven years old, dating back to a time when members of what is now Grubby Little Hands shared a house with other musicians in South Philly. “It all came about organically,” Kira Abribatt says of the cooperative. Besides making Slaughterhouse Gallery available for Good Behavior-related shows, she’s working on two different music projects for the label. One is an album of experimental solo work; the other is by The Looks of It, the pop/rock band she’s in with sister Claire and Grubby Little Hands guitar player Joey Primavera.
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SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE: Harvesting Monsanto, the latest album by Forcefeel (above), is available as a limited-run cassette from Good Behavior. (Rubber glove included.)
And experimental music is more where everyone at Good Behavior is leaning, says Cincinnati’s Matt Stein, aka Sky Ship. He says they’ve all shifted from traditional rock to something stripped down and reworked by instinct. For instance, his upcoming 100-cassette release was inspired by the spontaneity of live vocal and guitar looping to capture stream of consciousness. Timh “Forcefeel” Gabriele and Stein are both former Philadelphians who say the cooperative keeps them from feeling isolated now that they live several states away. Gabriele points to the yet-unnamed collaboration he’s doing with Felton, with each using snippets of the other’s work as a basis for new songs. Felton lifts segments of Gabriele’s stuff for loops, which he adds to, while the latter breaks down, shreds and expands tracks. “We try to tap into deeper feelings and get more layered by triggering the subconscious,” Felton says of the loops, jumbled or backwards vocals and the “skeletal sketches of melodies” the two exchange. That same goal is what Good Behavior’s new visual curator, Sean Martorana, will apply to the upcoming Sky Ship release. Besides running his own art and design company, Martorana is also the art curator at Indy Hall, a shared workspace in Old City full of freelance creatives. Felton, who rents space there as an energy consultant, recently brought Martorana and Adam Teterus, who helps run Indy Hall, into the Good Behavior fold. “We’re creating something special, something unique,” says Felton. “As a fan, you’re getting closer to what we’re building.” “Once you pop that cassette, there’s a certain warmth similar to that of vinyl,” says Stein. “With that, you’re being drawn into what drives us.” (editorial@citypaper.net)
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V/H/S/2 | BThe sequel to last year’s found-footage anthology film V/H/S is essentially more of the same, though mercifully a bit less — there are only four short pieces this time around, shaving the running time down to roughly 90 minutes. That comes as a relief, given the relentlessly jarring firstperson approach taken by each of the pieces here, with predictably variable results. Adam Wingard, who directed the first film’s framing story, is promoted to the main roster with “Phase I Clinical Trials,” which unfortunately replicates the weakest elements of the original shorts — namely, meek writing and casual misogyny. Wingard plays a man who receives an experimental implant in his eye following a car accident, giving him the ability to (stop me if you’ve heard this one before) see dead people. He meets a cynical goth girl whose cochlear implants give her a similar aural ability, naturally leading to her tearing off her shirt and having sex with him. Otherwise, Wingard’s short is little more than a diminishing series of jolts, as is the final segment, a manic kids-chased-by-ETs jumble directed by Jason Eisener. Eduardo Sánchez and Gregg Hale, who are in large part responsible for the found-footage horror subgenre as producers of The Blair Witch Project, offer a first-person zombie transformation that finds a fresh way
to travel well-trodden territory. The strongest piece in either of the two films is “Safe Haven,” by Timo Tjahjanto and The Raid director Gareth Huw Evans, a giddily overthe-top marathon through the compound of a religious cult with apocalyptic intentions. The throwaway wraparound story, directed by Simon Barrett, is the only place where the titular format comes into play; it adds nothing to the film as a whole, serving only to raise the question of why all these digitally shot snuff films were transferred onto archaic tapes. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)
THE WAY, WAY BACK Read Drew Lazor’s review on p. 19. (Ritz Five)
✚ CONTINUING 20 FEET FROM STARDOM | A “I’m in love with melody,” Lisa Fischer informs us early on in Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From Stardom, the discernible timidity in her speaking voice suggesting she’d find the chat more natural with a microphone in her hand. Fischer is just one of the many 20 Feet vocalists who’ve chiseled together a career in session and backup singing, and while it’s a gift to watch them work, it’s even more fascinating to listen to them articulate their many regrets and aspirations. Commingling backup singer legends (Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Darlene Love) with hopeful future stars (recent The Voice contestant Judith Hill), Neville captures the cruel and fickle ride that is the recording business — plenty of opportunities to punch a time card, but few, if any, chances to reach the top. Each performer has a different explanation for why she never broke through, but it all becomes irrelevant once they take the stage, whether in the
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A HIJACKING | AThe first indication that A Hijacking is unconcerned with Hollywood-style heroism comes when the pivotal, titular action on which the gripping Danish drama turns, the takeover of a cargo ship by Somali pirates, happens offscreen. While the pirates are boarding the ship and herding its frightened crew below deck, writer/director Tobias Lindholm places us in
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Muddling harmless adult humor up with kiddie-pleasing creatures, gadgets and physical comedy, the sequel to Despicable Me boasts just one discernible difference from that well-made 2010 hit animated feature: They’ve decided to make the bad guys even more likeable. Embracing daddy mode with his three adopted daughters, sweetheart baddie Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) has all but left behind his life of crime, repurposing his sinister lab for a pursuit slightly sweeter than stealing the moon: producing a line of artisanal jams and jellies. But he’s back in the game once the cloak-and-dagger Anti-Villain League, repped by spastic Lucy (Kristen Wiig), recruits him to locate a stolen serum that turns any cute-’n’-cuddly being into a psychotic killing machine. Gru’s yolk-yellow “minions” are the obvious stars of this franchise, but writers Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul deserve the real daps for their skill weaving grown-up themes into the action. —DL (Wide release)
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a corporate office half a world away, where the CEO of the company whose ship is being taken is engaged in a tense negotiation with a group of Japanese businessmen. That multimillion-dollar business deal will prove to be a cakewalk next to the prolonged negotiation with the pirates, which is the chief concern of Lindholm’s film. There’s never a suggestion that the situation will end with anything other than the payment of ransom, so the film’s taut suspense is generated not from death-defying action but from a protracted psychological tug-of-war. —SB (Ritz at the Bourse)
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mask, determined to bring Dan’s killer to justice. Cannibalism, macabre hallucinations, dark bouts with PTSD, greed-fueled genocide, whorehouse proprietors with shotguns as legs (Helena Bonham Carter) — all that plays a part in the bizarre route Verbinski follows to his otherwise coherent and traditional climax. It’s several unrelated movies in one, and none of them is good. —DL (Wide release)
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | ANothing screams vanity project like an A-list director gathering a group of friends at his house for a tossed-off movie shoot, but the blitzkunst approach suits both Joss Whedon and his material, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. In contrast to Kenneth Branagh’s ossified film version, Whedon’s Much Ado is light on its feet, populated with a repertory company drawn from veterans of Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse and Firefly. It might be easy to write this off as the Bard done Comic-Con style, but Whedon’s not handing out favors. Even those who’ve never set foot in the Whedonverse should find it an intriguing staging, more in the vein of the Globe Theater’s rapidly rotating productions than the overstuffed affairs that have since supplanted them. —SA (Ritz at the Bourse)
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WHITE HOUSE DOWN | BPacked sardine-tight with well-timed wisecracks, incompetent redshirts and even a Samson-size Germanic henchman, Roland Emmerich’s return to the residence he blew up in Independence Day is jingo cinema at its stars-and-barsiest. On the verge of signing a momentous Middle East peace agreement, streetwise President Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) suddenly finds 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue teeming
way, theawesomefest.com. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982, U.S., 115 min.): Let’s be honest: While the glowy hand-touching scene was awesome when we were younger ... it’s a little creepy now. Fri., July 12, 9 p.m., free.
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one time, at magic camp ... Mon., July 15, 3:30 p.m., $7. Vertigo (1958, U.S., 128 min.): Hitchcock makes acrophobics out of us all. Wed., July 17, 7 p.m., $10.50.
COLONIAL THEATRE LIBERTY LANDS PARK 926 N. American St., theawesomefest. com. Crystal Fairy (2013, U.S., 98 min.): A devil-may-care road trip to find a magical hallucinogen takes a turn when the eccentric Crystal Fairy is invited along for the ride. Philly premiere! Wed., July 17, 9 p.m., free.
with domestic terrorists. Lucky for the chief, Capitol Policeman and decorated war vet John Cale (Channing Tatum) happens to be touring the building, his vocalized neuroses fueling a mission to protect Sawyer while serving up John McClane stained tank top realness. With nearly every element of a proper ‘80s actioner in place — bad jokes, bad fights, bad guys who earn eventual bad treatment — White House Down’s appeal lies in its garish predictability. It’s as junky and satisfying as the Doritos you smuggled into the theater under your shirt. —DL (Wide release)
Picnic Grove, 3001 Street Rd., 888588-7279, parxcasino.com. Labyrinth (1986, U.S., 101 min.): Jim Henson’s last act as a director was to create something truly ... a-maze-ing. Wocka wocka wocka. Sat., July 13, 9 p.m., free. Purple Rain (1984, U.S., 111 min.): Prince’s own küntstlerroman about Prince becoming Prince. Sat., July 13, 11 p.m., free.
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BALCONY AT THE TROC 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, theawesomefest.com. Willow (1988, U.S., 126 min.): “Ignore the bird. Follow the river.” Mon., July 15, 8 p.m., free.
DREXEL PARK 32nd Street and Powelton Avenue, universitycity.org/drexel-park. Spaceballs (1987, U.S., 96 min.): Mel Brooks’ great sci-fi spoof/air-ransom romp solidified Rick Moranis’ general inability to be disliked. Thu., July 11, 9 p.m., free.
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AMBLER THEATER 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-3457855, amblertheater.org. Wet Hot American Summer (2001, U.S., 97 min.): “Well, guys, we’ve made it to the end of the summer in one piece, except for a few campers who are lepers.” Sun., July 14, 9:15 p.m., $9.75. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, U.S., 115 min.): Where archeology is interesting and snakes are scarier than Nazis. Wed., July 17, 7 p.m., $9.75.
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227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-9171228, thecolonialtheatre.com. Blobfest 2013: The annual celebration of The Blob (1958, U.S., 82 min.) in the town where the Steve McQueenstarring horror flick was filmed. The weekend’s big event, a Friday-night recreation of the famous scene in which people run screaming from the Colonial Theatre, is long since sold
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FRIENDS OF PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY Free Library, Philadelphia City Institute Branch, 1905 Locust St., 215-685-6621, freelibrary.org. The Proud Ones (1956, U.S., 94 min.): Saloons, gunslingers and a restaurant offering all you can eat for 50 cents. Wed., July 17, 2 p.m., free.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Xanadu (1980, U.S., 93 min.): Not the worst movie ever made for three reasons: anthemic roller-skating tunes, ELO and Olivia Newton-John. Fri., July 12, 7 p.m., free. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953, U.S., 105 min.): What people did with diamond earrings before Pawn Stars. Sat., July 13, 7 p.m., $9.
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PHILAMOCA 531 N. 12th St., 167-519-9651, philamoca.org. Eraserhood Forever (2013, U.S., 93 min.): The world premiere of a short film on the neighborhood north of Chinatown in which David Lynch lived for a while, accompanied by Lynchthemed music, art and burlesque. Fri., July 12, 6 p.m., $10.
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✚ BEAUTIFUL DECAY
Through July 14, $22-$35, Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-5467824, balletx.org.
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✚ COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) This outdoor portion of Com-
in East Falls and next Sunday (July 21) in LOVE Park. —Mark Cofta Through July 27, free, various local parks (some with rain locations or rain dates), 610-202-7878, commonwealthclassictheatre.org.
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✚ THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA The Delaware Shakespeare Festival’s 11th annual outdoor summer production sets this romantic comedy in the roaring ’20s. “It was that time of history when we just got out of the war and everybody was going crazy and doing whatever they wanted,” explains director Samantha Bellomo, also People’s Light & Theatre
Company’s resident director. From jazz music to speakeasies, a societal “release” occurred, which Bellomo — a five-time Barrymore Awardnominee for both dance and fight choreography — sees paralleled in the Bard’s adventure about two friends who fall hard for the same woman. The cast features Brandon Pierce and Adam Darrow as the title characters, Philadelphia stage beauty Emilie Krause as the object of their desires, and Philly’s Griffin Stanton-Ameisen as Launce — whose dog Crab will be cast along with several stage-savvy shelter pooches, all available for adoption after the run. —Mark Cofta July 12-28, $10-$15, Rockwood Park, 4651 Washington St. Ext., Wilmington, Del., 302-415-3373, delshakes.org.
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✚ THE TOTALLY BIASED STANDUP TOUR FX’s Totally Biased with W.
Kamau Bell may look like a Daily Show copycat; the sharpwitted host introduces each episode with observational send-ups of current events, yields the stage to a writer for a Lewis Black-style diatribe and concludes with an interview of a prominent media or entertainment personality. There is, however, a key difference: While Stewart and co. act like they’re just joking, the afro’d Bell and his diverse writing staff fearlessly flaunt just how biased they are. The show’s disparate segments — a debate on rape jokes, a monologue about Frederick Douglass’ exclusion from Spielberg’s Lincoln — are unified by a sophisticated anti-prejudice stance that enlightens without being preachy. In anticipation of the show’s second season, Bell and a rotating lineup of writer/comedians (including Aparna Nancherla, Janine Brito and Dwayne Kennedy) touch down at Prince Music Theater for a performance and Q&A that
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—Deni Kasrel
monwealth Classic Theatre Company’s expanded summer season — to be followed by an indoor Macbeth in August — is its ninth annual free tour of city and suburban parks. The Reduced Shakespeare Company (actor-writers Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield) introduced the madcap Complete Works of William Shakespeare( Abridged) in 1987, and it’s been a hit ever since. Director M. Craig Getting’s (The Lantern’s Heroes) cast of energetic young men (Andrew Albitz, Rob Cutler and Eric Scotolati) will be sweating away pounds for our enjoyment while referencing all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in two hours, including a rap Othello and Titus Andronicus as a cooking show. The RSC encourages producers to add local and current jokes, so expect a little Paula Deen, DOMA and Mayor Nutter mixed in. Philly performances include tonight at the Morris Arboretum, next Wednesday (July 17) at McMichael Park
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Canadiens de Montreal and Nacho Duato’s Compania Nacional de Danza — generates buzz on the international ballet scene for his detailed dances that deftly balance architectural design and poetic movement. His world premiere here, Beautiful Decay, explores how we change in both mind and body as we grow older. Featuring two longtime stalwarts of the Philly dance scene, Brigitta Herrmann and Manfred Fischbeck of Group Motion Dance, local dance pros will no doubt show up in force to catch this production, which should tell you something.
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✚ JULIA HOLTER/ JESSICA PRATT
gem — Vashti Bunyan being the nearly inescapable point of comparison, though you’ll also hear a far less jumpy MilkEyed-era Joanna Newsom.
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Sat., July 13, 4:30 p.m., $47.35, with Mac Miller, Meek Mill, The Internet and Vince Staples, Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing, Columbus Boulevard and Spring Garden Street, 215-6253681, livenation.com.
✚ CHANCE THE RAPPER
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Sat., July 13, 8 p.m., $13-$15, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-2221400, worldcafelive.com.
Twenty-year-old Chancelor Bennett, alias Chance the Rapper, is having more infectious fun than just about anyone in hip-hop since the Pharcyde or maybe prime Ludacris. His colorfully eclectic Acid Rap mixtape bounces between sounds like a DJ at a multi-generational block
7.14 [ latin/dance ]
✚ NUEVOFEST DJ Rahsaan Lucas’ AfroTaino
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Classically informed chamberpop chanteuse Julia Holter (pictured) made waves among academically inclined listeners with last year’s fascinating, if rather chilly, Ekstasis, which drew on both ancient and highmodern literary sources. Loud City Song (Domino), her third album in as many years, seems poised to carve out a slightly larger niche when it sees release next month. While no less arrestingly strange, it’s notably warmer, more outgoing and rhythmically dynamic. For now, Saturday’s performance should preview the album’s inclinations toward mid-century pop,
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Fri., July 12, 8 p.m., $22.50-$25, Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St., 215893-1999, princemusictheater.org.
party, from throwback horns, Hammonds and harmonies to chilled-out jazzy psychedelia, Chicago juke-style beats and crowd-friendly classic soul samples. He’s not joking about the rapper part either: The kid can spit, his deft, generously witty flow (punctuated by rowdy, excitable yelps) recalling a goofier Kendrick, a more levelheaded Wayne, a slightly more relatable Danny Brown. And while he keeps things mostly lighthearted, he’s not afraid to get deep transcending weed-rap platitudes with some real talk on the complex emotional fallout of Chiraq’s summertime street carnage and also tackling one of hiphop’s rarest commodities with several legitimately affecting love songs.
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dreamy ambience (sometimes both at once, as on a velvety cover of Barbara Lewis’ torch classic “Hello Stranger”) and Joni Mitchell-esque collaborative excursions into modern jazz. In contrast, the placid finger-picking and sweetly affectless alto of her fellow Californian Jessica Pratt feels practically artless. Pratt’s selftitled debut (Birth) would pass with nary a squint as a lost, turn-of-the-’70s pastoral folk
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joined saxophonist Pharoah Sanders’ first band after the death of Sanders’ mentor, John Coltrane. He melded Sanders’ “The Creator Has a Master Plan” transcendentalism with modern fusion gestures to create sounds that would be endlessly sampled by hip-hop artists a generation later. Though he hasn’t released new music in 15 years, Smith is once again leading a version of the Cosmic Echoes, which he’ll bring to Camden’s waterfront this week.
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Keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith is one of those rare musicians who bridge jazz history from the cosmic experimentations of the 1960s to the radio-friendly smoothand-acid jazz trends of the 1980s. On albums like Cosmic Funk and Expansions with his
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new-age-inflected funk-jazz band Cosmic Echoes, Smith helped lay the groundwork that would later devolve into those vapid genres. But he was more concerned with consciousness-raising than with hit-making. A veteran of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis’ most funk/ rock-inspired bands, Smith came to prominence when he
Mon., July 15, 8 p.m., free, Wiggins Waterfront Park, Mickle Boulevard at the Delaware River, Camden, 856-2162170, camdencounty.com.
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FROM SEED “Just the pure expression of oak and agave from Jalisco,” explains Suro-Piñera. ³ WHEN DAVID SURO-PIÑERA opened Tequilas, his haute-Mexican 16th and Locust spot, he was struck by the lack of knowledge and respect that tequila received in the American market. Determined to take the agave-based spirit out of the salt-shot-lime shadow and into the civilizedsipping spotlight, Suro-Piñera founded Siembra Azul, a small-batch tequila distillery, in 2007. More than 20 years in the making, the path to Siembra Azul — which translates as “blue harvest” — was long in the incubation process. Suro-Piñera’s agave farm is located in the highlands of Jalisco, Mexico’s premier tequila region, located near the Pacific coast just northwest of Mexico City. “Are you familiar with terroir?” Suro-Piñera asks. It’s the romantic term that more or less means“a sense of place expressed though taste,” and it has everything to do with tequila production. Siembra Azul is made from blue agave grown in the highlands, approximately 7,200 feet above sea level. Due to the drier, colder climate, the agave plants mature less quickly, allowing them to develop a higher sugar content. This sweeter agave makes for a more complex tequila, one with more fruity, herbaceous and floral notes than ones grown in Jalisco’s lowlands. For the past six years, Suro-Piñera has been importing three of his tequilas: an unaged blanco and two barrel-aged options, a three-month-rested reposado and an 18-month-aged añejo. This week, he’s introducing two extra añejo offerings to the market. One is the super-mellow Piñera Extra Añejo, which has been aging in charred French oak since 2005. Suro, Siembra Azul’s other new addition, gets treated a little differently than other tequilas. The majority of aged tequilas are rested in American or French oak barrels previously used for bourbon, whiskey or Cognac production. Suro-Piñera, however, opted for virgin casks made from oak harvested in the Ozarks. The virgin barrels don’t bring in flavors from other spirits. “Just the pure expression of oak and agave from Jalisco,” explains Suro-Piñera. Both Suro and Piñera Extra Añejo will be available through special liquor order from state stores and online beginning this week. (caroline@citypaper.net)
BOARDWALK: Morgan’s Pier’s pork board is home to nose-to-tail rillettes and croquettes. NEAL SANTOS
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PIER PLEASER With George Sabatino at the helm of Morgan’s Pier, it’s going to be a very good summer. By Adam Erace
MORGAN’S PIER | 221 N. Columbus Blvd., 215-279-7134, mor-
ganspier.com. Hours: dinner, Sun.-Thu., 5-11 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 5-10 p.m.; lunch, Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m.; late-night menu, Sun.-Thu., 11 p.m.-1 a.m. Bar open until 2 a.m. Appetizers, $3-$15; sandwiches, $7.50-$9.50; boards, $17-$30; desserts, $5.
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he clouds crept in from Jersey. They hung around the shoulders of the Ben Franklin like wet black gym towels, drip, drip, dripping onto the iron PATCO caterpillars rumbling along the iron seams. The wind picked up, pushing the precipitation piñata across the river, More on: where the bridge’s sky-blue spires gutted its belly and dumped tanks of water on Morgan’s Pier. By the time I arrived at Four Corners Management’s riverside beer garden, currently in its second season, the rain was beginning to taper off. Customers who didn’t cash and dash were huddled like refugees beneath the canopied bars, attending to their wet clothes and watermelon slushies. Last summer, there would have been no reason to visit Morgan’s Pier in weather this dismal. Though the built-for-speed menu, concepted by David Katz of now-closed Mémé, was tasty and fun, the al fresco environment and endless-summer vibe were the
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true allures of this hip waterfront paradise. This year, it’s the food. Four Corners’ Avram Hornik snapped up rising star George Sabatino to direct 2013’s culinary offerings. The newlywed chef is coming off a banner year, earning best-restaurant daps for his work at Stateside, the whiskey den he left in March. Morgan’s Pier is a mere six-month layover for Sabatino, a detour en route to his own restaurant with wife and cocktail whiz, Jennifer Conley. But he’s hardly cooking like it. Petals of scallop, lightly cured with fennel seed, wear pea shoots, pickled shallots, tomatillo puree, fresh blueberries and blueberry dust in an elegant crudo befitting a restaurant with four-bell ambitions and, you know, walls. Globe-shaped baby eggplants soften in a 78-degree mint-brine sous vide, then hit the pan, where the halves are seared until crispy outside and creamy inside, a mild foil for sous chef Mike Blau’s white-boy kimchi laced with peach scraps. Custardy chèvre shoulders summer melon in four forms: extra-juicy honeydew and cantaloupe comMORE FOOD AND pressed with ginger beer, smoky planchaDRINK COVERAGE charred watermelon and pickled waterAT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / melon rind. Sabatino recalls one guest’s M E A LT I C K E T. reaction to the dish, laughing: “She said to a server, ‘Who is this George Sabatino and why can’t he make me a watermelon-feta salad?’” Managing expectations — of his corporate employers and of everyday guests for whom a ramp is something to roll wheelchairs up and not to forage for — has been a challenge. “At Stateside, no one told me what to put on and not to put on [the menu]. I was cooking every night, and if I wanted to try something, it just hap>>> continued on page 36
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³ THE WEEK IN EATS South Street Hot Dog Crawl Sat., July 13, noon, pay as you go ³ July is National Hot Dog Month, according to … someone with a financial stake in the health of the hot-dog market, we assume. No matter; we hardly need an excuse to get psyched for a hot-dog crawl. Starting at O’Neals Pub at noon, join a band of dedicated hot-dog enthusiasts just like yourself on a quest to down dogs at 14 different South Street spots from the obvious (Hot Diggity, Brauhaus Schmitz) to the “huh!” (Blackbird). Specials will be offered to those wearing an official Crawl T-shirt ($20, $30 for two), but unofficial pop-ins are welcome, too. Check the website for the full schedule of stops, plus plenty more hot-dog-themed revelry throughout the rest of the month. Various locations, hotdogmonthphilly.com. Sidewalk Sizzle and Ice Cream Freeze at Reading
Southwark Dinner with Chef Brian Ricci Wed., July 17, 7 p.m., $45-$55 ³ You may know Brian Ricci as the chef at Kennett Restaurant. Or you might be familiar with NIFTY, his line of seasonal chutneys, ketchups and other condiments for sale at the Fair Food Farmstand at Reading Terminal. Or maybe you just like dinner. All good reasons to pencil in this four-courser, hosted by Southwark chef Nick Macri, highlighting Ricci’s preserves. Also on the agenda is a preserving “discussion,” which sounds surprisingly staid — but the meal’s beer or wine supplement is going for a mere 10 bucks and should help keep things lively. Southwark, 701 S. Fourth St., 215-238-1888, southwarkrestaurant.com. (carly@citypaper.net)
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Terminal Sat., July 13, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., pay as you go ³ As it happens, July is also National Ice Cream Month — and this one was declared by Ronald Reagan, so you know it’s serious. Reading Terminal Market is celebrating this weekend with an outdoor barbecue serving up plenty of frozen stuff in addition to a ton of other food, including the technically irresistible draws of dollar dogs and giant turkey legs (go on and gnaw — it’s what the Gipper would’ve wanted). There will also be plenty of games, live music and arts-and-crafts projects to keep the kids entertained while they work up an appetite for that second cone. Reading Terminal Market, 12th and Filbert sts.., 215-922-2317, readingterminalmarket.org.
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The coral sheen on corn on the cob is lobster butter. pened.” That’s easy to do when you’re cooking for 50 seats. Five hundred, not so much. To start the season, Sabatino ran two separate menus: one of speedy snacks like baskets of outrageous root-beer-brined peanuts whose warm, soft, fatty meats taste like the offal of some exotic, delicious species; the other, a loftier prix-fixe tasting. “I bought a whole rib eye, cold-smoked it, and I thought it was the most badass thing ever. We sold, like, three.” Now the two have merged into a single collection that flows effortlessly between spruced-up street food and haute cuisine, but even the lowbrow bites show a serious level of care and refinement. The coral sheen on corn on the cob is lobster butter, born of steamed and seared crustacean bodies. Crumbles of house-made ramp-and-scallion sausage scent the bowl of steamed Manila clams. Addictive kale croquettes on a stripe of hazelnut romesco ooze aged Grafton Village cheddar. Wings are garlic-onion cured, applewoodsmoked, stock-poached, fried, glazed in a mahogany sauce charged with lemongrass, ginger and orange and garnished with scallions, poppy seeds and electric pickled-chile relish. Repeatedly, the ultra-intensive prep lists defy the super-cheap prices, but none of it is all that impressive or unusual until you consider the daunting volume. Those wings are prepped nine cases at a time. Potatoes? Eighteen hundred pounds a week. “Before we opened, we prepped 3,000 burger patties. They lasted from friendsand-family on Tuesday, May 9, till Monday the 15th.” A month later, on Independence Day, Sabatino counted 1,200 covers when he stepped off the line at 10:30 at night. He leads a team of 16 cooks, including his chef de cuisine, Paul Lyons, a fellow Barbuzzo alum, who make these eye-popping numbers feasible. Recently, to keep morale up during the lethal service, he offered a pig’s head to any cook who was game. One turned out creamy face-and-ear rillettes with tamarind chutney, a winner that later graced the glorious family-style pork board, a hearty spread also featuring a plump Victory Summer Love beer-infused sausage link on tangy rhubarb puree, lush pork-belly rillettes dotted with pickled mustard seeds and housemade “Bac-Os,” and a crispy Latin pork croquette shot through with garlic, cilantro and citrus. Desserts are the only area that need some work. I loved the pink watermelon water ice, but would have loved it more in a waxed-paper cup instead of a salad bowl. (And, what, no pretzel rod? Are we barbarians?) The funnel cakes were too crispy and their root-beer caramel didn’t taste like root beer. Served in a paper-lined basket, the ice-cream sandwich leaked not-minty-enough mint-chocolate-chip semifreddo all over the table. Fortunately, the dessert-time downers don’t detract from the overall experience of Morgan’s Pier 2.0. Sabatino is serving food that impresses on many levels, the highest of which is its ability to be laid-back and cerebral, at a price point accessible to the wide cross-section of the city the Pier attracts. When you’re serving 1,000 guests a night, it’s impossible to please everyone, but Sabantino gets damn close. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)
HOW WE DO IT: The restaurants, bars and markets listed in this section rotate every week and are compiled by City Paper editorial staff. If you have suggestions or corrections, email restaurants@citypaper.net.
✚ CAFE CAFÉ L’AUBE
The newest Café L’Aube has a pretty swank address, just steps off Rittenhouse Square. (NB: The easily missed cafe entrance is on Locust.) L’Aube Torrefaction coffee is a draw, but the crepes are the real stars. If you’re hoping for something with a bit more heft, croques madames and messieurs are available, too. Open weekdays, 7 a.m.-7 p.m., weekends, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. 222 W. Rittenhouse Sq., 215772-3051, cafelaube.com.
✚ CHINESE XI’AN SIZZLING WOKS
Xi’an Famous Foods is a NYC brand with wide-ranging recognition — so if there was a bit of confusion when an unrelated Xi’an Famous Foods opened in Philly recently, it was understandable. The name was changed in no time, but the food remains the same, and it’s a welcome addition to the Chinatown scene. Cold liangpi noodles are a must-try; cumin-spiked “burgers” are another highlight. Open daily, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. 902 Arch St., 215-925-1688.
✚ DELI THE AVENUE DELICATESSEN
Lansdowne’s newest resident seeks to merge Italian and Jewish deli cultures into a cohesive whole — not always in one dish, though chef Laura Frangiosa’s menu does include Reuben arancini and Jewish wedding soup (that’s meatballs and matzoh balls). Becca O’Brien (Green Aisle Grocery, Creperie Beau Monde) is in charge of the in-house pickle-and-preserve program. Open Tue.-Sun., 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 27 N. Lansdowne Ave., 610622-3354, theavenuedeli.com.
✚ INDIAN TIFFIN BISTRO
The space that once housed Kris is now a part of Munish Narula’s growing empire. This latest iteration fills the midrangeBYOB-shaped gap between the existing Tiffin locations and the very swank Tashan. Chef Kirti Pant has developed an affordable menu that mixes basics like saag paneer and chicken tikka masala with less-common entrees like lamb kolhapuri. Open Sun.-Thu., 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Fri.-Sat., 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. 1100 Federal St., 215468-0104, tiffin.com.
✚ NOODLES CHEU NOODLE BAR
After a couple of years of wildly buzzy pop-ups and plenty of speculation, chef Ben Puchowitz (Matyson) and business partner Shawn Darragh have finally set
up shop — and they’ve been playing to a full house pretty much every night. New tastes include fish ribs and barbecue pig tails; keep an eye out for more noodle options being crafted in-house (including gluten-free rice ones). Open Mon., Wed., Thu., Sun., noon-2 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., noon-2 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. 255 S. 10th St., 267639-4136, cheunoodlebar.com.
✚ PIZZA PIZZERIA BEDDIA
No one’s going to accuse Joe Beddia of rushing to market. He’s been making careful study of pizza for years, and early responses to the American-style pies coming out of his Fishtown spot suggest that all that homework’s paying off. His thin-crust pies are fired on a gas deck and the concept is the picture of simplicity: The menu is limited to 16-inch red pies with a small handful of optional toppings. You can’t get it by the slice, and there’s not much in the way of seating — but good pizza doesn’t require much adornment. Open Wed.-Sat., 5:30-10:30 p.m. 115 E. Girard Ave., pizzeriabeddia.com.
✚ BARS DOLPHIN TAVERN
If there’s one thing Philly loves, it’s a bar with character. The Dolphin had it in spades, so when it shut down last year, it was rightly and intensely mourned. Recently it reopened under new management and, thankfully, the new guys realized they shouldn’t fix what wasn’t broken. Inside, the space is largely the same with major overhauls only where they really count (i.e., the draft list and the bathrooms). The dancers who make the place what it is are back, and with some help from R5 Productions and Making Time’s Dave P., the DJ nights have become a serious draw in their own right. Open daily, 5:30 p.m.-2 a.m. 1539 S. Broad St., 215278-7950, thedolphinphilly.com.
STRANGELOVE’S BEER BAR
Husband-and-wife team Leigh Maida and Brendan Hartranft (Memphis Taproom, Resurrection Ale House, Local 44) have finally ventured into Center City, but they’ve managed to bring along some of the neighborhood feel that’s made their other bars so successful. Of course, an expert tap list and some good food don’t hurt. Chef Paul Martin has put together a menu with plenty of touches that reflect his time cooking in New Orleans, from catfish po’ boys to Crystal-spiked ketchup. Vegans will find themselves very well taken care of; the full menu is available until midnight. Open daily 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. 216 S. 11th St., 215-873-0404, strangelovesbeerbar.com.
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EX IS A TWAT You souless evil cuntless monster. You have given my heart cancer and turned it into a tarry useless mass. I do not wish the best for you I wish the worst for you. I wish plagues upon you, raining bull frogs, raining fucking bull frogs, drought, famine, vaginal dryness, anal boil the size of baby fists. Your declarations of love insult the marrow of my soul. So be gone wench. Wolf and trouble me no more. i want you to erase every memory of me you still have. I am done wench you shall affect me no more.
day I saw you getting out of your friends car I knew I had to make you mine, we’ve been together for over a year now and you still turn me on more than anyone has before. I love the feeling of your tight body against mine while I fuck you into a coma. I’ve never enjoyed fucking anyone as much as I enjoy fucking you. What I’m trying to say is thank you for being there for me for the past year and for fucking me so good!! Forever yours M-Bear.
JOE AKA BELLO As you know my zodiac sign is the communicator, so I often need to communicate verbally to feel like I am breathing. I guess it is like your zodiac
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WE ARE A NATION... of civilian cowards. On the 4th of July, during a celebration of past war, while our troops are currently at war, and while watching fireworks symbolize our magnificence, some people thought they heard a gunshot at the art museum. This triggers a mindless stampede of people running like cattle, clearing out at least most of my viewing area. Overheard afterwards: “Once you start running, keep running.” I’ve never been so scared in my life, I just ran of Center City.” I left my shoes back there.” “I thought re-assess later-that’s the smart, healthy thing to do.” A cop explains, “It was fireworks, just fireworks.” No wonder we let the government monitor our phone calls and mail, allow intrusive searches at our airports, and even declare war against potential threats from other countries. We are a nation of civilian cowards. I’d love it if we weren’t.
HONESTLY You keep approaching me because you wanna hang out...I am not a hang out person. It is weird to me because you are very persitant with it and it gets on my nerves. I am not the person who you think that I am...if we are going to be friends, then let’s just do that...but if you desire more than I don’t know what to tell you. I am a very private person, and would love for it to remain that way. Do me a favor, say hi and keep going.
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You made love to me and we haven’t done it since my birthday. It felt so nice and satisfying, I went right to sleep I couldn’t believe how fast I went to sleep, you made me feel incredible. I said to myself, if he ever leaves me I am really going to be fucked up because the sex is so fucking good. All I have to say is fucking wow! I never can understand how I got addicted so quickly...everything that you do is fucking incredible. ✚ ADS ALSO APPEAR AT CITYPAPER.NET/lovehate. City Paper has the right to re-publish “I Love You, I Hate You”™ ads at the publisher’s discretion. This includes re-purposing the ads for online publication, or for any other ancillary publishing projects.
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WE MADE LOVE sign having to have adulation from everyone. You need it like you need air. I am writing this hoping to really break through your almost impenetrable shell. Maybe no guy has ever expressed his feelings for you so strongly as I have, but I want you romantically, sexually intellectually, emotionally and any other way that end in “ally”. I believe you also may want those things from me too, but you find it hard after having been burned a few times to let go and let me in your shell. I get it having also been burned to a crisp by someone. I believe you and I could be great for one another and we could have something amazing for however long
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Every song on the radio reminds me of you! I keep playing this song over and over and I can’t help but think about you being inside me and doing what you do best! I love you so much and I wish that you and I can be together and defeat all odds of the pursuit of happiness. I love the fact that you game me a sad voice and I fell right along into it. I want to be with you so much you just don’t know..you are in the air that I breathe you are in my dreams with the white horse us running side by side together
I know that this may sound silly but I want you to dress up like a construction worker and give me some work! I miss you and love the way that you look in jeans! You look as if you are the only one that is going to be in charge and you look like you just demand respect! And I am the one that is going to give it to you in the bedroom. I love when you call my name. I love when you say it twice then look at me like as if to say I belong to you and I love that feeling, YES I belong to you! I can’t wait to fuck you again and again!
I call you and you don’t pick up the phone, then you call me back and leave a long drawn out fucking message saying happy 4th of July and continuing on to say that you couldn’t answer the phone because you were fucking someone, again huh, damn now which guy is this now? I am tired of calling your fat ass and you give me excuses after excuses, I think that you are stupid because you aren’t getting any money for doing what you are doing you still a broke bitch! And do us all a favor and stop leaving those messages because me and my cousin are tired of laughing about it amongst ourselves. You a just a lame bitch!
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I know you will probably never see this. It was a Saturday afternoon in the food court of the Shops at Liberty Place. I was wearing a suit, eating a chicken sandwich on my lunch break and you were at the next table, with a plastic chess board in front of you. From your tee shirt, I thought you might’ve been a veteran. You asked me to play and I agreed even though it took some coaxing. You told me your name was Bill, and you played a pretty good game. You took a bishop and my queen. I had your knight, a bishop and a castle by the time I had to get back to work. I snapped a photo with my phone so I could remember where we were and I asked if we could finish tomorrow at 3:30. I don’t know if you were homeless but you asked me for money and I said I didn’t have any. That was a lie. I’m so used to saying no that I didn’t realize I wanted to give you something until I was walking away. I thought about the game all night and I came into the food court the next afternoon, hoping to hear your story and buy you lunch. You weren’t there. Our unfinished game haunts me. Wherever you are Bill, I hope you’re alright.
You wrote me a letter telling me that your mom came to visit you in prison! I am happy to know that she did that. You requested me that I come there to see you and I am telling you once again. I am not the prison chick, I am not going to some prison to see you. Sorry but our relationship is over we are just friends and even though it is hard to deal with that is life! I think that you and I aren’t on the same path anymore and it is time to cut the strings..I will always love and care for you but us being together is better if we are apart!
it lasts. You say you like to speak things into existence, well I like to believe things into existence. Let’s stop with the ridiculous, shallow stupid shit that could derail this before it even really gets on the tracks. Go ahead Bello, grab my hand and take the leap with me, we may be free falling but the landing with be smooth, wondrous, mysterious and most of all amazing!! Babe
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Thank you. Thank you for showing me how to love, how to treat a woman right. I apologize that it had to come at the expense of breaking your heart multiple time years ago, leaving you and then coming back to you, begging like a loyal dog gone astray. Thank you for teaching me patience and virtue, and waiting for me to change, even though I would never change when I was with you. Thank you for putting up with my emotions and thank you again for being friend than lover. As I sit here while my soulmate tells me that I am the most wonderful thing ever, I have to think back where I came from, and that moment that I decided to do right by women and not treat them objectively. Yes, it was years ago, but you taught me to grow up and I hope and pray that you find happiness like I have. You did dirt too, I know, but the bad guy should not have the last laugh, you should. Take care my friend, wit luv.
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48th St. Efficiency $515+ elec private entry, sec. deposit, 610.990.6008 Lansdowne Ave. Efficiency $650 utils inc., w/d & cable inc. 484-469-0753 W. Phila. Apts for 62 & older, brand new eff, 1 & 2BR units. Call 215.386.4791
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11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BLDG Single rms $400, double rooms $600. Rms w/ba $500, Rms w/ba & kit $600. Fully furn w/ full size beds, fridge, & dresser. Couples welcome! SSI/SSD/VA, Payee services, Public assistance ok. Also SW, S., W., N. 267.707.6129 12xx N. 56th St. $500/mo. Clean, furn rooms. Call 267-241-6583 1547 S. 30th St. furn, fridge, $125 week, $375 move in. no kitchen. 215-892-7198 15th & Federal, 51st & Chester, 61st & Arch, 52nd & Girard. Rooms for rent. Share kitch. & bath, $375 & up. SSI ok. Call 267-888-1754 1xx N 52nd - 3 wk deposit no pets, drugs, or smoking, $125/wk + 215-915-2678 23rd & Montgomery - newly renov, furn, SSI OK. $80+/week. Call (267) 784-2578 2420 N Chadwich St & 2549 N. 16th St. New reno rms, $90/wk. 484.885.6903 45xx N. 17th St. - Brand new clean rms, single occupant $350/mo. 215-921-1986 53xx N. Broad St. Rm & Apt. Full fridge, 27" TV, AC. 267-496-6448 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $130 week priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 Broad & Allegheny furn rms, bed, fridge, micro $90/wk $225 mvn. 215-416-6538
Broad & Erie - Rooms for rent. Near transp. Broad St. line. 267-880-8571 Broad/Olney furn refrig micro priv ent $115/$145wk sec $200 215.572.8833 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 GERMANTOWN: furn rooms everything incl., cable ready $435/mo. 267.467.4595 Hunting Park: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, A/C. Call 267-331-5382 LaSalle Univ area $125/week Renov furn rooms 215-843-4481 Logan: All new New furn rm, $110/wk, 1st fl, $330 sec, No drugs. 215.313.9462 N, SW, W Germantown $350-$500 incl. cable & utils. 215-806-7078 OLNEY LOGAN $400-$500 Clean, drug free rooms. 267-474-0827 SW PHILA - $325-$425/MO UTILS INCL, NO DRUGS, MED & LG, KIT, 267.591.6058 SW PHILADELPHIA Room for Rent, $95/week, SSI ok, call 484-461-2798 SW Phila room, $300 to move in, $100 week, clean, drug free, (267)414-7805 Temple Hospital area - newly renov., $450-$500 utils. incl. 267-872-5424
WEST PHILA FURN ROOMS AVL $85-100/wk 267-228-1143, 215-416-2075 W.Phila - 214 N 54th St $500/mo move in $1000, Fridge/Stove 610-454-0292 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren, Spacious clean & peaceful, SSI ok, 267.255.8665
homes for rent 15XX BAILEY ST 3BR $675+ avail now! 215-680-7011
26XX Hobson St 2br $825 + utils newly renov, sec 8 ok. 215-651-0057
5233 Beaumont Ave 3BR/1BA $750.00 Family house near shopping, public transport and food. Call today! (215) 783-6234
SUMMER ST Spac 3br/1ba $800/mo inc water Sec8ok! Sheila 267-784-6480
6606 Haddington Lane 3br/1ba $995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
25XX MARSHALL ST 3BR 1BA 2sty row $700+ Sec 8 ok! 267-252-4511 28xx N. Vanpelt St. 3br/1.5ba $850 Incl. brand new crpt, fridge, stove & W/D. Lrg bkyrd & front porch. 267-596-2016 3xx W. Courtland St 3br $750 1st, last, + 1 mo sec. Call 215-758-5120 or 215-473-8827
Temp Hosp area 3/4Br sngl fam Avail Now, Move in Special 215-386-4792
67xx North Broad St. 5BR/2BA $1400 utils Sec. 8 OK 215-224-6566 OGONTZ AVE 2br/1ba $900/mo +utils. Call 267-333-1063 OGONTZ AVE Lrg 2br/1.5ba $1100/month +utilities. Laundry room & finished basement! Call 267-333-1063
35xx Braddock St, 19134 PHA SEC 8 OK. 2 br, 1 ba, 1 blk from public transp, front porch, yard, wash/dryer refrig. $700/mo,+util. 215-946-6000
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automotive Cadillac Seville 1978 $6,000 48K mi. excl cond. Call 302-333-3677
DODGE CHALLENGER SRT 2009 $27,000 5k miles, hemi, loaded. 215-233-5145 Mercury Grand Marquis 2004, Luxury 4 door, new body style, few original miles, like new $6,950. Mary 215-922-6113 DUTCHMAN 2001 20 ft. $7,500 Sleeps 4, very clean. 717-768-0745
FORD F-350 Dump Truck 2000 $13K ob v10, automatic, 78k miles, new inspection & new brakes. 484.576.3988
Ford Mustang 1967 $12,500 Convertible, originally S-Code, 302 5 SPD now, Needs paint, 484-802-5796
Ford 2000 Luxury Hightop Conversion Van (new body style) a/c, full power, few original miles, Clean, BO. 215-928-9632
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Chevy Mailbu 2002 $1,000/OBO 115K, 6 cyl., lifter noise. 267-975-4483 Chevy Malibu 2001 $1750 4 Door, Loaded, Clean, 215-518-8808 Chrysler Sebring LXI 1999 $1,700/OBO coupe, 108K, 6 cylinder, sunroof, very clean, like new tires. 267-975-4483 Dodge Grand Carivan 1998 3 seats 8 pass Mini-Van, full pwrs, A/C, garage kept. $2,975. Call 215-922-2165 Ford 2000 F-150 deluxe pickup truck, 4Dr, A/C, extended cab w/fiberglass cover $4,985. light comm. 215-922-5342
Ford F-150 XL 1994 $950 5 Spd, 6 Cyl, 136K Miles, 215.620.9383 Ford Mustang GT 1991 $3,750 OBO 302 V8, 5 Spd, 1 owner, Garage Kept, Loaded, New Tires, Brakes, 610.476.9568 HYUNDAI ELANTRA GT 2006 $4,850 4Dr, Auto, Lthr Int, Very Clean, 1 Owner, 610-506-5759 Lincoln 1995 Luxury 4 dr Towncar, mint cond., original miles, special car for a particular buyer, $3,475. Call 215-922-5342
Mercedes Benz Luxry 300 SE 1993 $4975 4 dr w sun roof, positively flawless, senior citzen, sac substantially less than book value, deluxe sound sys 215-922-5342 Oldsmobile Delta 88 1985 $1800 Settling estate, exc. 610.667.4829 Plymouth Voyager SE 1994 $1250 Auto, New Insp, Runs Exc, 215.620.9383 Pontiac Firebird 2000 $4,900 v6, automatic, AM/FM, 110k, runs perfect. Call 484.576.3988
Pontiac Grand Am SE 1996 $1350 Auto, cold AC, insp. 215-620-9383
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Your premier magazine featuring everything Philly! 30 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT J O U R N A L I S M | C I T Y PA P E R . N E T
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around the world words by Emily Guendelsberger // illustration by Evan M. Lopez The availability of really good food from other cultures depends mostly on a city’s immigration demographics — for example, it’s tough to find good, cheap Thai in Philly, but good, cheap Ethiopian is available in every third bar in West Philly. You just need to know where to look. It takes
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a while to suss out where to get kimchi, diamond sweets, mofongo or pierogies like grandma used to make — a lot of the time, the really authentic food is clustered in a small area with a large immigrant population, and these clusters can be a long subway trip or even drive from Center City.
You’ll have to find specific restaurants on your own, but this map is a great starting point for where to start looking.
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