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State legislators urge the Liquor Control Board to close the legal loophole that led to the pop-up beer garden craze. Has there been a rash of hammock- and cornholerelated injuries we don’t know about?

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Eagles player Keelan Johnson is arrested for allegedly shoving a police officer following a bar brawl in Arizona. Asks Johnson,“Would it help my case if I told you I was trying to grab his butt?” 22

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Armed robbers steal $180,000 from Caesars Casino in Atlantic City.“Amateur hour,” says Phil Ivey.

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Moody’s downgrades Pennsylvania’s bond rating from Aa2 to Aa3. Experts agree this is both a huge deal and not at all important.

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Rapper A$AP Rocky is sued for $75,000 in damages for allegedly slapping a woman at last year’s Made in America concert. He is downgraded to AaRo¢ky :(.

[ + 1 ] Catholics gather at the Cathedral Basilica

of Ss. Peter and Paul in Philly to pray in the presence of a holy relic — a vial of blood from Pope John Paul II. Now’s our chance to see whether he was saint doping.

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A new L&I regulation requires large construction and demolition sites to add a sign with important information about the project.The main message of the signs will be “RUN.” A man steals a police bicycle in South Philly and unsuccessfully tries to sell it in Northern Liberties. “I gotta admit,” says the bike, “it was nice to ride with the flow of traffic for once. And that guy didn’t take me up on the sidewalk, either.”

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SugarHouse Casino breaks ground on its $164 million expansion, which will add restaurants and a poker room. And a combined parking garage/day care complex.

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Wary of disease, Gov. Corbett says Central American immigrant children coming to Pennsylvania should be taken care of and sent home. Yeah, we don’t want those kids getting into our water supply.

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catching fire: You’re totally not imagining it — there are more lightning bugs than usual around Philly this summer.

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increased lightning There’s a bumper crop of fireflies this year — in Philly and across the country. By Emily Guendelsberger

get migraines, and a few hours before a bad one hits, I start seeing small, flashing points of light in my peripheral vision. So, during dinner a couple weeks ago, when I caught a small, repeating flash out of the corner of my eye, I figured I was in for a nasty couple of days. Then I noticed my two cats were raptly tracking my migraine around the room. The flashes were from a lightning bug (interchangeably called “firefly”) that had somehow gotten into the apartment, a miracle bug/laser-pointer hybrid that appeared to blow everything the cats had experienced up to that point out of the water. When I mentioned this later, several other people related that they’d had a lightning bug get inside, too! None had ever had it happen before, either. Anecdotally, people agreed that it seemed like there were more fireflies than usual this year, but it was unclear how to verify that, or figure out why. Maybe Philly stopped using a pesticide in the parks? Maybe one of their natural predators was having a bad year? Maybe people were just noticing it more because the weather’s been so nice? “There are a lot more fireflies this year, I think pretty much

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everywhere, and that’s because it’s been a really wet spring,” says Sara lewis, an evolutionary ecologist at Tufts university who’s done a lot of research on fireflies. In fact, she’s on sabbatical writing a book on them, Silent Sparks, due out from Princeton university Press next summer. “So many people are curious about fireflies. We’ve learned a lot about their evolution, behavior and chemistry over the past 20 years, but it’s mostly hidden away in the scientific literature,” she says. “With the book, I’m trying to translate science into plain English.” For example, lewis says, if you’ve ever puzzled over how something as complicated as the firefly’s bioluminescent mating signals could possibly have evolved: “All of the scientific evidence points to the idea that firefly light first evolved in the juvenile firefly as a warning, like how monarch butterflies are brightly colored as a warning signal that tells potential predators, ‘Don’t eat me, I taste really awful!’” Since most nighttime predators can’t see colors, she says, “The light from fireflies first evolved as a way to warn nighttime predators, ‘I taste really awful!’ It wasn’t until later that that signal got co-opted by the adults for courtship and finding mates. “Believe it or not, there are fireflies everywhere in the u.S.,” says lewis, “but not all those fireflies light up.” Plenty of species, sometimes called glowworms, never moved beyond the original “don’t eat me!” larval bioluminescence. Since the glowing larvae are under-

The glow began as a warning to predators.

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✚ Report: the DEP is deeply fracked Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale issued a scathing 146-page audit accusing the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) of not adequately monitoring the impact of natural-gas drilling on water quality. According to the audit, the DEP failed to order polluters to remedy water contamination as required by law, and “chose instead to seek voluntary compliance and encouraged operators to work out a solution with affected parties.” The soft-touch oversight means the “DEP risks losing the relevance and authority it holds as a regulator. ” Of 15 cases reviewed where the DEP had confirmed a complaint of water pollution, the agency “issued just one order to an operator to restore/replace the adversely impacted water supply.” The DEP issued a response, claiming that “orders were not necessary” in those cases because operators “had already remediated the affected water supplies without an order” and that the audit discovered “no instances where DEP failed to protect public health, safety or the environment with respect to unconventional gas drilling activities.” The agency also said that because the review only covered the period of 2009 to 2012, “most of this audit reflects how our Oil and Gas Program formerly operated” — not current practice. The Auditor General’s report backs environmentalists’ criticism of the way that Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, whose campaigns have been heavily backed by energy interests, has handled the state’s booming natural-gas industry. “The report could not be clearer: DEP needs additional funding, more cops on the beat and a much more robust inspection system,”

according to a statement released by John Norbeck, vice president of the environmental group PennFuture. “It also points to a failure in leadership — and a startling lack of transparency and accountability.” The DEP, he writes, is “effectively allowing the industry to police itself.” According to the Auditor General’s report, the DEP disagreed with every single one of the report’s critical findings but rejected only seven of its 29 recommendations for improvement. The audit also found that the DEP failed to clearly communicate findings to citizens who made complaints, did not share adequate data and inspection findings with the public, did not have a clear policy for inspecting gas wells, and monitored shale waste using data self-reported by the industry — the accuracy of which was never verified. In a letter accompanying the report, DePasquale, a Democrat, states that the agency has not kept up with the natural-gas industry’s growth and has been left “underfunded, understaffed” and without the necessary infrastructure. The audit also notes that the Auditor General did not have “full access” to DEP’s documents because of the agency’s “egregiously poor” documentation. The audit comes at a sensitive time for Corbett. Natural gas drilling has sparked widespread concern over water pollution. Many have also been critical of the governor’s refusal to impose a severance tax on drilling in the face of massive education budget cuts. Demo cratic challenger Tom Wolf is strongly outpolling Corbett and likely to make both matters top issues ahead of the November election.

“Startling lack of transparency.”

—Daniel Denvir

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the taxi advantage ➤ Compact Philadelphia, where many

stops are a short ride away, has about as many taxis per person as sprawling, auto-oriented Houston, Dallas and Los Angeles. Even with the 45 new medallions the Philadelphia Parking Authority (our taxi regulator) just issued for wheelchair-accessible cabs, we only have 1.12 cabs per 1,000 people. Compare that to Washington, D.C., which has 12 cabs per 1,000 people. New York City, considering all its types of rides-for-hire, has about 6.3 cabs per 1,000 people. In Chicago, it’s 2.6 cabs per 1,000. In Philly, the number of taxi medallions — which confer the legal privilege to operate a taxi — is capped at 1,845. To get to Chicago’s ratio, the PPA would need to double the number of medallions. Whether the PPA should run the city for the taxi riders, or for a handful of wealthy medallion owners, is an issue that needs to be debated at the state and local level because it has huge consequences for how our city develops. My neighborhood, Bella Vista, and others around the city, can’t handle any more cars. If we want to keep growing, we’ll have to figure out how to add more people without adding more cars. The answer is cabs. Many of the infrequently used second and third cars people have now could go away, and with the need for car storage reduced, we could add more parking-free housing and welcome more carless households. Luckily, an inexpensive new service may be coming to town that could do just the trick. E-hailing apps Uber X and Lyft — cheaper versions of the Uber licensed black-car service, which allow people to rent out empty seats in their personal cars to strangers via smartphone — are illegal in Philadelphia. But state Sen. Wayne Fontana (D-Pittsburgh) has introduced a bill to legalize them under a “transportation network company” category. That would take the PPA out of the regulatory driver’s seat and open the door to lower prices, more competition, a higher cabs-to-population ratio — and ultimately a more walkable, bikeable city. ✚ Jonathan Geeting is engagement editor at PlanPhilly.

The views expressed here are his own. Contact him at @jongeeting and jgeeting@gmail.com.

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ground most of the time, many people assume fireflies just don’t exist west of the Rockies. But while 2014’s bumper crop is most obvious on the East Coast, Lewis says, it’s likely happening all over the U.S., even if it’s only glowing underground. Karen Verderame, invertebrate specialist at Philly’s Academy of Natural Sciences — she’s responsible for the museum’s live insect displays, and helped put together last summer’s “Glow: Living Lights” exhibit — has definitely noticed. Though there’s no way to say anything conclusive or scientific right now — “They may have that data a year from now, after doing all the surveying” — she says that entomology listservs and “the invert community” have been chattering about 2014 being a great summer for fireflies. Verderame describes the ideal firefly habitat as basically a forest — tall grasses, bushes and shrubs, a good water source and plenty of damp, rotting leaves, wood and mulch to lay their eggs in — which is why they do so well in damp, humid weather. “Philadelphia, in particular, has a lot of good forest area and has been improving a lot of gardens that make good habitat for fireflies,” she says, though if no rotting logs are handy, “some will make do with overgrown abandoned lots where there’s tall grass and weeds growing.” Any firefly boom in Philly this year is probably mostly because of the wet weather, says Verder ame, but she sees other potential local factors. “People have been getting more connected to their environment, planting local species in their gardens, that could contribute. … Also, Philadelphia has done a great job improving a lot of their park areas and not using as much pesticide.” Both Verderame and Lewis agree that the more developed an area is, the worse a habitat it is for fireflies, because they can’t escape. “Fireflies aren’t really very good fliers, and they don’t disperse very well; the larvae also live underground, so they don’t get around much,” says Lewis. Fireflies spend their whole life cycle within a fairly small radius of the place they hatched; if that habitat is destroyed, they aren’t good enough at flying to go find a new one. “If you’ve got a spot that’s good for fireflies and you do a lot of construction, disturb the soil — even if you put it back very nicely, like as a golf-course development, you won’t have fireflies there when you’re done,” says Lewis. “The fireflies are gone. They’re out of there, they’re dead.” Fireflies are also ill-suited to cities because of light pollution. Like many night-flying insects, they use the moon to figure out which way is up, says Verderame. “When a moth comes to a light, it’s going, ‘Ooh, shiny bright light! Are you the moon?’ It messes their navigation up. It’s no different for fireflies — when you have a lot of light, it confuses their flight patterns and communication signals.” Light pollution is doubly rough on fireflies because “it obscures the signals that fireflies use

to find their mate,” says Lewis. There are very few studies on the subject, but she mentions one look ing at how artificial streetlights in a town in Switzerland appeared to affect a species of European glowworm. The females of the species don’t have wings; they attract flying males by climbing onto a low perch and displaying their glow. The Swiss study found that “females didn’t seem to pay any attention to the streetlights in terms of choosing their display spot. But the males flying around looking to find the females by their glow only searched outside the lights, in dark spots. That means that all the females under streetlights never got mates.” You can see the firefly aversion to light even in areas where there aren’t streetlights, says Verderame. For example, her house in Montgomery County is

Females under streetlights didn’t get mates. lucky enough to have a backyard that borders some woods and an unmowed field; in the summers, she says, “Everything in my back is aglow.” In this comparatively natural setting, you can observe how firefly activity waxes and wanes in counterpoint to the phases of the moon. In the light of a full moon, “there won’t be as many out,” she says. “On the nights of a new moon, that’s when I take my 4-year-old daughter out, because they’ll be all over the place. “They’re starting to taper off now; their peak season is from mid-June to right about now,” she said on July 9. “In August, you’ll see some fireflies, they’re probably the late emergers. But by the time you go back to school, you don’t see them anymore. Even now, there’s not nearly as many as there were a month ago.” (emilyg@citypaper.net)

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FRACK IS WHACK ➤ “Pennsylvania is a state where it takes

years for people to admit they’ve made mistakes, a lifetime to correct them.” James Browning perfectly describes Pennsylvania politics in his debut novel, The Fracking King. The book calls attention to the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing — aka fracking — for natural gas in northwestern Pennsylvania. With a last name that rhymes with “truth,” it’s as if Winston Crwth was born to expose government corruption. Win finds himself at Hale Boarding School for Boys — his third high school in as many years — on a full scholarship awarded by Dark Oil & Gas, named for the family that is doing everything they can to cover up the damage fracking is doing. After encounters with exploding tap water and toxic cattle, Win makes it his mission to reveal the truth behind fracking. His only chance to get to the capitol is to get to the state Scrabble championship; winning will land him in front of the governor. The names are allegorical and the characters are fairly eccentric, and the novel tells a unique story of environmental consciousness through the eyes of a Holden Caulfield-esque prep schooler. Win endures class on Saturdays, unrequited love for the headmaster’s daughter — the only female at Hale — and a fraud of a professor, all in a place that is dark, depressing and literally toxic. His hometown is Philadelphia, but Browning focuses the novel on the Pennsylvania outside of Philly. Overall, The Fracking King is a little slow, with some plot parts never coming to full fruition, but it’s hard to pull away when you’re waiting to see how Win helps to crack down on the frack. —Kathryn Krzaczek

✚ The Fracking King

James Browning (New Harvest, 2014, 208 pp.)

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ALWAYS SUNNY: ASDiG has members in Philly, Brooklyn and Sydney. Zoe Jet Ellis

[ rock/pop ]

Day’s Long Journey On the road with A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Philly bedroom band turned multinational pop conglomerate. By A.D. Amorosi

n route from Arizona to Missouri in a van with no AC and lousy phone reception, A Sunny Day in Glasgow — Phila delphia’s finest practitioners of experimental shoegaze pop — have little to do between gigs besides appreciate nature and laugh. “The few spots with no reception are places with the most beautiful scenery,” says drummer Adam Herndon. “I like seeing cows or wondering what life is like for people who live in lone shacks in the desert.” This tour is one of the longer cross-country drives in the history of the band. “There’s joke-making and music-listening happening,” says singer Jen Goma. “I split my time between reading and sleeping with a wet rag over my face,” says guitarist and keyboardist Josh Meakim. Long trips are nothing new for an ensemble whose membership is scattered across the globe. ASDiG mastermind/founder Ben Daniels currently lives in Sydney, Australia. Goma and bassist Ryan Newmyer live in Brooklyn. “I’m still here in South Philly,” chimes in Meakim; his apartment is a couple of blocks away from drummer Herndon’s place in Pennsport. “We drink beers in his amazing backyard.” Everybody living so far apart makes things take longer, obviously.

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“The distance is a novel obstacle, so the result is novel as well,” says vocalist/cellist Annie Fredrickson, referring to the band’s most recent record, the sharp, strange Sea When Absent (Lefse Records). It was recorded over the course of three years in producer Jeff Zeigler’s Uniform Recording studio in North Philly. Before that, ASDiG preferred the cozy recording confines of Daniels’ bedroom. Sea When Absent is a radical departure from both what ASDiG has done in the past — on electronics-heavy albums such as Ashes Grammar — as well as from the shoegaze genre, with the new album’s echoless tones. Sea When Absent might be ASDiG at their best, or it might not sound like them at all. “It’s hard to say what distance does, but I’m glad it hasn’t stopped us from making music together,” notes Goma before righting a rumor that’s run rampant in the press. “When people say, ‘No two members were ever in the same room’ — that’s untrue. We made Sea When Absent over a long period of time, so yes, there were moments when we weren’t all there, but for a large portion of the recording, a majority were in that studio together.” That all ASDiG members are part of the dialogue — the writing, the arranging, this interview — comes down to the band’s slow-but-sure democratization with Daniels ceding several daily

“The distance is a novel obstacle, so the result is novel as well.”

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➤ joyce manor | A-

➤ sia | B+

From a distance, Never Hungover Again (Epitaph) shouldn’t work. The songs feel undercooked. The sequencing seems illogical. The whole thing doesn’t cross the 20-minute mark. Relax; it’s all part of the charm of these SoCal punks. The fat, John Hughesian synth that sneaks into “Falling in Love Again” makes sense because it’s the last thing we’d expect, and singer Barry Johnson’s throat shredding on “Catalina Fight Song” wouldn’t be as devas—Marc Snitzer tating if the song didn’t end so abruptly.

Guess Sia Furler managed to save a song or two for herself after all these years of churning out hits for others. 1000 Forms of Fear (RCA) is more than just a master class in popular songcraft, because Sia’s vocals are recorded so cleanly and rendered so naturally that every strain and scratch and soar, every delightfully mangled enunciation on pop song of the year “Chandelier” adds particularity to already resonant lyrics. This is Top 40 for sentient life forms. —Dotun Akintoye

➤ dj dodger stadium | B Jerome LOL and Samo Sound Boy — two L.A. beatsters with terrible taste in monikers — join forces on Friend of Mine (Body High), an understated but emphatically heart-sleeved house record that recalls Moby’s Play in its bubbly accessibility and incessant soulful vocal loops. It also evokes Fatboy Slim’s excitable filter work, gospel predilection and thumping repetition. Such reference points are hardly enticements to modern technophiles, but this stuff’s so pretty it’ll win them over with the rest of us. —K. Ross Hoffman

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➤ riff raff | B Kitchen-sink pop-culture references + Mad Libs rhyme games + sports-nerd free-association + eclectic braggadocio (“I can shoot a BB through a frosted Cheerio”) + absurdly divided Metacritic scores + Rick Ross x Soulja Boy ÷ Big Sean - Vanilla Ice + “the white [insert random black celebrity]” +Swisha House ratchet-trap + hallucinatory autotune gloss-pop + (Diplo-produced, B-52s-esque) surf-rap [why is this not a thing?] + aw-shucks tearjerker hick-hop + dolphin noises … = NEON iCON (Mad Decent). —K. Ross Hoffman

[ movie review ]

boyhood [ a ] With the Before Sunrise trilogy, Richard Linklater proved himself to be

an insightful chronicler of the changes wrought by time on a relationship. With Boy hood he develops that notion even further, watching one young boy’s growth and maturation over the course of nearly three hours, like time-lapse photography of a plant blooming. Linklater’s unconventional approach — filming a short segment each year for 12 years — has been well-publicized, but in practice it never feels like a gimmick. Despite precedents in series of films (Linklater’s aforementioned trilogy, Michael Apt ed’s Up), seeing characters age during a single film without using makeup or switching actors is unexpectedly moving and evokes the loss and change that are part of any life. The focus is on Mason (Ellar Coltrane), who is introduced as a 6-year-old pondering the heavens to a Coldplay soundtrack and exits as an 18-year-old college freshman. His round, chubby face takes on angular definition and his inquisitive boyishness sharpens into an actual personality. But we watch his family age and grow as well. His older sister Samantha, played by the director’s daughter Lorelei, goes from a teasing annoyance singing Britney Spears songs, to jad ed teenager, to thoughtful young woman. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke appear as Mason’s divorced parents, who reluctantly settle into maturity, their less-dramatic physical changes showing the burdens and wear of time. As we check in on their progress year after year, what we see are not necessarily the most dramatic moments; crucial events unfold offscreen and banalties accumulate. If nothing in Mason’s experience is particularly novel, it’s stunning to watch how the same truths become new discoveries in each person’s life on the road to becoming an individual. —Shaun Brady

A 6-year-old ponders the heavens.

SALAD DAYS: Mason (Ellar Coltrane) grows from a chubby-faced boy into an 18-year-old on the cusp of adulthood over the course of 12 years.

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➤ Levi Buffum, 32, has been constructing

an enormous model of Center City out of Legos; you can follow his progress on the Facebook page Legodelphia. City Paper : How did this project start? Levi Buffum: It started when I ran out of the [Lego] Architecture series — I did all the models in that series and I wanted to build more. Lego Digital Designer [is] a 3-D modeler with their pieces built in. So I was fooling around with that, trying to make my own Lego-style Liberty Place. When I had done that, I decided to do a couple more blocks. CP: How high and how low does it go? LB: The northernmost point is the top edge of Race Street; the bottom is Spruce Street. CP: How big is it? LB: It’s 5 feet 4 inches from river to river [by] 20 inches wide. CP: How do you go about creating a 3-D model? LB: I put together a scratch in the Lego program — they have just about every possible piece they’ve ever created as a part you can put in the 3-D space in the program. I referenced mainly Google Earth to get the overall look of the city. CP: Were there any particularly tricky areas or buildings? LB: Some random buildings had a creative architect, [with] shapes that were more of a challenge. CP: What do you plan to do with it when it’s done? LB: It’d be really cool if there was a building in Philly that wanted to display it, City Hall or the Comcast building. I just would like to see it out there. (emilyg@citypaper.net) ✚ Read the extended interview at citypaper.net/blogs.

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“I don’t know what goals I had at the start of this.” responsibilities to his bandmates. With Zeigler as producer, Meakim helped guide ASDiG’s sound with the aid of Newmyer, while Goma handled a lion’s share of the lyrics. This opened Daniels’ arching, testy pop to different emotional experiences. ASDiG’s expansive sound grew ardently dissonant and more severe. “I love sharing the writing of the lyrics because in the end it’s just trying ideas and seeing what works,” says Daniels. In his estimation, ASDiG’s lyrics are more about getting the right sound. “I think the best words come out of when one of us changes something in a slightly different way the other person had not thought of at all,” says Fredrickson. “Mostly I’m writing about wizards and ghosts,” says Meakim. When I ask Goma if Daniels is always amenable to changes, she laughs. “Always amenable is a funny first option. We have disagreements about how something should go but we were all open to sharing ideas for this last album. We grew a lot as a group making this.” ASDiG’s metamorphosis has yielded catchier melodies and a surprisingly dry sound without the

reverb that was once the band’s signature. “It doesn’t feel naked, just good to have dry and wet vocals — and everything in between — as an option,” says Goma. “I had a definite sound I was going for overall that I kept in mind while mixing — less reverb, more low end,” says Daniels. With the changes he and the band have gone through since 2006 when Daniels played with his two singing sisters (Robin and Lauren), it’s a wonder he even recognizes A Sunny Day in Glasgow. “These six people right now have been in ASDiG longer than anyone in this band’s history. I don’t know what goals I had at the start of this, but the feel and aesthetics are definitely different in the best possible way.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net) ✚ Sun., July 27, 9 p.m., $12-$14, with

Pattern Is Movement and Myrrias, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

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Films are graded by City Paper critics a-f.

“BOLD, ORIGINAL & INVOLVING.” TODD MCCARTHY, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“CONSISTENTLY ENGAGING AND UNPREDICTABLE.” TIM GRIERSON, SCREENDAILY.COM

I Origins

: new and so it goes A haiku: Disappointingly, the title is not a Kurt Vonnegut reference. (Not reviewed) (Wide release)

boyhood | a See Shaun Brady’s review on p. 17. (Ritz Five)

hercules A haiku: A buff warrior does anything for money. His name is The Rock. (Not reviewed) (Wide release)

i origins | cLike his first film, Another Earth, Mike Cahill’s I Origins attempts to strike a balance between grand ideas and intimate human drama. Here he depicts the debate between science and spirituality as a love triangle with a scientist played by Michael Pitt at its center. Pitt’s research deals with the evolution of the human eye, the complexity of which has often been used as evidence of intelligent design. As he makes breakthroughs in the lab with his partner, played with alluring intelligence by Brit Marling, he’s also in the process of falling in love with a model (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) whose beliefs are less rooted in the rational world. The contrast between hard logic and irrational passion is lyrically, if too rigorously, drawn in the film’s early scenes, but that line becomes fuzzier in the second half, dragging the writer-director’s arguments and the film down with it. An

obvious devotee of popular science, Cahill nonetheless manages to do a disservice to both sides, making Pitt’s secular worldview too strident and humorless while giving a pass to hoary New Age name-calling. (Are we really going to let that “playing God” accusation just hang there, unanswered?) Unfortunately, Cahill here amplifies the flaws rather than the promise of his first film, with a conclusion meant to convey ambiguity that feels more like the drowsy shrug at the end of a night of dorm room philosophizing. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)

lucy Read Shaun Brady’s review at citypaper.net/movies. (Wide release)

a most wanted man | aAnton Corbijn’s moody Le Carré adaptation gains inevitable, and almost unbearable, poignancy from featuring one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final performances. (All that remains is Mockingjay, although he died before its completion.) But had he never played a role other than Günther Bachmann, he would still have been one of his generation’s greatest actors. Günther, whom Hoffman plays with a heavy German accent and a heavier weight on his shoulders, is the head of a secret German intelligence unit that operates in the moral and legal netherworld. As he explains while barely suffering the questions of an oversight panel, “We make the weather.” Hoffman plays the line as a statement rather than a boast: He may wield power, but he does it without vanity, beaten down by a past error that cost the lives of several informants. Although A Most Wanted Man is set in the present — or at least emphati-

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cally post-9/11; echoes of the Hamburg cell are everywhere — Corbijn strands the film in a gray nowhere, the better to depict a landscape that no one, least of all Günther, knows how to navigate. The plot, which involves tracking down a Chechen militant who may have trained with Islamic terrorists, is relatively low stakes by espionage-thriller standards, but that’s entirely to the point: What changes there are to be made will be small, and even those will come at a cost. The drama is about personal integrity and trust, not ticking bombs and rogue nukes. Though there’s not a shot fired or a body dumped, it’s still thrilling, because Günther’s struggle is never farther away than Hoffman’s

magnificently worn face. —Sam Adams (Ritz East)

: ContinuinG obvious child | b As statements of purpose go, it’s hard to beat the one that opens Gillian Robespierre’s first feature, where comedian Jenny Slate regales an audience with a standup routine about vaginal secretions. But where a movie like 22 Jump Street marshals gross-out humor for its own sake, Robespierre’s simply marking out her territory: This is a movie about what goes on down there; those with fragile

sensibility need not apply. Slate’s Donna is a go-nowhere protagonist whose already-tenuous existence is wobbling as she approaches 30. But the movie is uncharacteristically frank about Donna’s situation, especially when she accidentally gets pregnant during a one-night stand and quickly decides to have an abortion — too quickly, in fact. It’s less an achievement of the film’s than a sad commentary on the culture surrounding it that this is even remotely notable, and to her credit, Robespierre doesn’t treat Donna’s decision as a wrenching dilemma: She’s single, semi-employed and practically bankrupt; what else would (or should) she do? But if Donna’s choice is an easy

one, it doesn’t make much sense to use it to frame the film as a whole, which therefore lacks much in the way of dramatic tension or anything beyond low-grade moping around. Robespierre wants to steer clear of off-the-shelf self-actualization, but she doesn’t replace it with anything. Fortunately, Slate proves a winning companion; it’s a hang-out movie, and she’s fun to hang out with. —SA (Ritz at the Bourse)

sex tape | cFor all its racy promise, Sex Tape is a dull drop in the “edgy” rom-com bucket, approaching the beaten-dead topic of post-kids coitus so deliberately that it’s easiest to just lay there,

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waiting for it to end. Sex-crazed college sweethearts turned busy married parents, Jay (Jason Segel) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) just don’t have time to do it anymore, thanks to his career doing something vague with music and her burgeoning reputation as a mommy blogger. (“How do you get it back?” her Carrie Bradshaw internal monologue ponders while she sits in front of her laptop wearing a sensible house outfit.) When an opportunity for a night without the little ones presents itself, Annie comes up with a zany idea — recording a marathon screw sesh using one of Jay’s work iPads! But when he accidentally syncs and shares the video with dozens of friends — unrealistic since it’s impossible to successfully sync anything with anything — they embark on a frantic mission to contain the clip and prevent embarrassment. The stakes are remarkably low, but that doesn’t stop the characters from running around like they’re trying to defuse the nuclear bomb from the last Batman movie, backing into a stable of useless fringe characters along the way. It’s proof that self-conscious raunch, even in the hands of likable comedic actors, is usually just boring. —Drew Lazor (Wide release)

venus in fur | b+ Flaubert said that the artist should be like God in his work: everywhere sensed but nowhere seen. But artists are not divine, and the human selves they reveal can be ugly. For 37 years, Roman Polanski has been shadowed, as he should be, by the fact that he sexually assaulted a minor and fled the legal consequences. And for much of that time, critics have attempted to find a line between where the man stops and his work begins. With Venus in Fur, Polanski blurs that line. Thomas (Mathieu Amalric) has written an adaptation of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch’s novel and he’s auditioning actresses. In struts Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner), who seems an immediate fit for the part. She’s cunning and domineering, wearing naught but lingerie under her trench coat. Vanda’s audition, which takes her so thoroughly into the world of the play that we hear the tinkle of china as Thomas stirs invisible tea with an invisible spoon, starts off as a battle of wits. She wants something; the director has the power to grant her 22 | P h i l a d e l p h i a C i t y Pa p e r |

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wish. But it soon becomes clear that their conflict is a play of Vanda’s own creation, and that it is not she who will be finally stripped bare. The director thinks he is invisible in his work, but he hides in plain sight, both fearing and longing to be discovered. Polanski, a Holocaust survivor whose pregnant wife was murdered as part of a bloody spectacle, has both known and caused more trauma than any person should. What’s striking, and discomfiting, about Venus is how fluidly the directors inhabit the role of both perpetrator and victim, and how neither character stays one or the other for long. —SA (Ritz at the Bourse)

wish i was here | c Cue up the Bon Iver, ’cause our guy Zach Braff is unsure about life shit again! The occasionally grating writer/director’s Kickstarter’d followup to Garden State, co-written with his brother, Adam, presents itself as a film about family — fathers and sons, husbands and wives, siblings and so forth. But it requires only a surface reading to determine that it’s yet another feature about Braff, and the insufferable manchild archetype he assumes all American males can relate to. As luck-free actor Aidan, Braff provides very little for his gainfully employed wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson) and young kids (Pierce Gagnon and Joey King). When his difficult father (Mandy Patinkin) tells him he can no longer afford to pay for

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the children’s private education due to his cancer returning, Aidan cranks his privileged ambivalence to unforeseen levels, wringing his hands over the adolescent playtime fantasies he shared with his estranged brother (Josh Gad) while struggling to “home school” his son and daughter. Braff gifts himself all the best lines, never bothering to spec out his supporting cast, especially Hudson, who’s never permitted to be anything beyond a patient back-patter. All the Big Meaningful Moments, executed at an even clip as if to fulfill some sort of government-sanctioned weeping quota, get old early, the whiny consternation surrounding Aidan’s selfish hopes and dreams diminishing any chance for emotional context. —DL (Ritz East)

3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. After Hours (1985, U.S., 97 min.): A little-known masterpiece by Martin Scorsese about New York City’s dark side. Fri., July 25, 8 p.m., $9. Best of the Ottawa Inter-

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clark park 4398 Chester Ave., friendsofclarkpark. org. Jingle Bell Rocks! (2013, U.S., 94 min.): A look at the alternative Christmas music industry, featuring John Waters, the Flaming Lips and others. Thu., July 24, 9 p.m., free.

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national Animation Film Festival 2013: Highlights from the fest. Sat.,

July 26, 7 p.m., $9. Le Petit Soldat (1963, France, 88 min.): Two rarely screened shorts by Jean-Luc Godard precede the screening of his oncebanned political movie. Wed., July 30, 7 p.m., $9.

531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org. Fateful Findings (2013, U.S., 100 min.): Considered a midnight movie hit, this very low-budget film centers around a computer hacker with paranormal abilities. Sat., July 26, 7:30 and 10 p.m., $10.

liberty lands 926 N. American St., nlna.org/libertylands-2. Dazed and Confused (1993, U.S., 102 min.): “All right, all right, all right.” Sat., July 26, 9 p.m., free.

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JENNY ANY TIME: Jenny Lewis plays the Susquehanna Bank Center on Saturday as part of WXPN’s XPoNential music fest. autumn de wilde

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ANDY: A Popera, Stage 2 $10-$25 | Through July 27, The Bearded Ladies at the Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St., 215-5467824, wilmatheater.org. Stage 2 in The Bearded Ladies’ unique collaboration with Opera Philadelphia on a cabaret inspired by the life, fame and philosophy of Andy Warhol con24 | P h i l a d e l p h i a C i t y Pa p e r |

tinues this week, with an added 10:30 p.m. performance Friday to accommodate demand. Stage 2 includes the short pieces that have been performed in nontraditional spaces (grocery stores, street corners) over the past months, and the completed Popera will debut next spring. This run in The Bearded Ladies’ Wilma Theater home is very much developmental, and changes from night to night. The Bearded Ladies’ growing fan base knows that artistic director John Jarboe and composer Heath Allen combine irreverent humor with musical expertise and daring. In ANDY, we meet Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, Marilyn Monroe, Dr. Peter Never and the iconic soup cans, as well as a new cocktail created for the show, “Special Soup.” The central question, Jarboe says, is the Warholian head-scratcher, “Is immortality worth dying for?” —Mark Cofta

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XPonential Music Festival $27-$140 | Fri.-Sun., July 25-27, Camden Waterfront, Camden, N.J., xpn.org/xponential-music-festival. WXPN’s annual three-day jam across the river is a crazy, mixed-up grab bag, and if you can’t find enough stuff to like in that lineup, then you’re the problem. I’m most intrigued by a couple of favorite songwriters who threw curveballs this year: Beck, who dropped a paranoid folk-rock record in February and is releasing the guest-filled Song Reader comp soon, and Jenny Lewis, the ex-Rilo Kiley frontwoman who just gave us a featherweight pop song with heavy-hearted lyrics (and a star-studded video) in support of The Voyager

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(Warner Bros.). As for the rest of XPoNential, you’ll find Ryan Adams, Band of Horses, The Districts, Old 97s, The Hold Steady, Marah, Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Lawsuits, Strand of Oaks, Man Man and more either at Wiggins Park or the Susquehanna Bank Center. —Patrick Rapa

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Oneida $10 | Fri., July 25, 8:30 p.m., with Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band and I IM EYE MY, Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 267-639-4528, bootandsaddlephilly.com. It’s never safe to predict exactly what you’ll get from an Oneida performance. The Brooklyn band juggles noise, minimalism, psychedelic and Krautrock influences without ever really caring much which elements stay in the air and which crash to the ground. Their current summer run

will be accompanied by a tour-only cassette release, and the first track to emerge from that is “RPT,” seven minutes of elastic-buzz-saw guitar and heady organ whorls over Kid Millions’ shape-shifting rhythms. This follows the pair of 20-minute space-psych jams that made up the band’s last album, A List of the Burning Mountains, so the best bet would be to expect large doses of aggressive mesmerism. —Shaun Brady

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The Upright Citizens Brigade $15-$17 | Sat., July 26, 8 p.m., World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com. Listing the individuals

affiliated with the Upright Citizens Brigade is an exercise in celeb name-dropping: Amy Poehler was one of the founders, Tina Fey and Conan O’Brien still stop by occasionally to perform and past cast regulars include Ed Helms, Aubrey Plaza and Jack McBrayer. Called “the CBGB of alternative comedy,” UCB’s theaters in New York and L.A. continue to offer classes in improv, sketch and standup, and nightly performances. Philly will get a taste this weekend when UCB’s touring arm arrives with a 90-minute improv show featuring on-the-rise comedians from New York and L.A. Long-form improv means they’ll create a whole performance of linked characters, ideas and scenes that they make up on the spot. Sounds dangerous. If it’s the sort of danger you’re into, you can take a two-hour, $35 “Improv 101” course with the

cast before Saturday’s show. —Mikala Jamison

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The Wytches $10 | Sat., July 26, 8:30 p.m., with Harsh Vibes and The Love Club, Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 877435-9849, bootandsaddlephilly.com.

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You probably can’t remember the last time a young British band rocked you right, but the next time might be Saturday night at the Boot. These swaggering Brighton boys do

it garagey and dramatic, but scratchy and chaotic. Imagine a pack of dirty street cats in Nirvana shirts attacking the Strokes. The Wytches don’t really sound like that, but it’s quite a visual. Their debut, An-

nabel Dream Reader (Partisan Records), doesn’t drop till August; this might be your I-saw-them-when moment. —Patrick Rapa

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KBD Sonic Cooperative $6-$10 | Sat., July 26, 8 p.m., with Keir Neuringer and Veronica Jurkiewicz & Friends, Angler Movement Arts Center, 1550 E. Montgomery Ave., museumfire. com/events2. In the hands of most impro visers, the combination of guitar, trumpet and drums would be a recipe for explosive noise. KBD Sonic Cooperative takes that trio in the opposite direction, however, manipulating minimal sounds with electronics until those three distinctive instruments meld into hazy drones and textured hums. Drummer Michael Kimaid, guitarist Gabriel Beam and trumpeter Ryan Dohm began making sounds together in 2006 and have continued to develop their

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restrained but absorbing noise collages ever since, even as Dohm relocated to the West Coast. All three recombine for this weekend’s performance. —Shaun Brady

7.27 sunday [ rock ]

Fat Creeps $5 | Sun., July 27, 8 p.m., with Bugs & Rats, Teri’s Bar, 1126 S. Ninth St., facebook.com/teriscafelive. Last summer, these beloved Boston rockers toured with Philly faves Bleeding Rainbow, which makes a lot of sense since the two bands share a lot of the same punky-sweet DNA and have a similar scrappy, lo-fi charm; equally given to scuffed-up riffs, dreamily drony haze and

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pretty swooning melodies. This time they’re making the rounds behind super-infectious debut long-player Must Be Nice (Sophomore Lounge), which balances out their

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Neal Santos clicks and tells

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The Baseball Project $17 | Mon., July 28, 8 p.m., with The Split Squad, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

self-styled “lazy” garage-rock crunch with plenty of dark, moody spaciness, Mariam Saleh and Gracie Jackson’s dead-eyed close-harmony coos and Saleh’s deliciously looseslung surf-pop basslines. —K. Ross Hoffman

This all-star band (featuring players from R.E.M., The Dream Syndicate and Minus 5) dedicates every note and line to the national pastime. On their latest, 3rd (Yep Roc), they hit close to home with an upbeat little number called “From Nails to Thumbtacks” about legendary Met-turned-Phillieturned-convict Lenny Dykstra. “I lived in a mansion/ I lived in a car/ You gotta fly high to fall

➤ The Break Date: May 17, 2014, noon Location: 16th and Chestnut streets The Story: Lunch breaks in Center City lend themselves to great moments like these. People flock out of businesses, schools and offices and are forced to make fleeting interactions in condensed areas. Here, several construction workers rest along 16th Street as a young woman on a cell phone walks past. A moment that speaks for itself, and one I consider timeless. (neal.santos@citypaper.net) Follow Neal Santos and City Paper on Instagram @nealsantos and @phillycitypaper.

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this far.” With that resilient chorus and those vibrant guitar licks, it sounds pretty glib for a song about a hero’s ignoble fall, but this band knows better than anyone: There are already too many sad songs about baseball. —Patrick Rapa

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Brubeck Brothers Quartet $10 LUNCH SPECIAL FRI - SUN until 5PM Any $6 Beer, Sandwichs & Chips Monday to Friday: Happy Hour Special 1/2 Off Small Plates

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Free | Mon., July 28, 8 p.m., Wiggins Waterfront Park, Camden, N.J., 856-216-2151, camden county.com/concerts. Although it was released nearly five months before his death, the Brubeck Brothers Quartet’s 2012 CD LifeTimes already felt like a tribute to Dave Brubeck. His sons, bassist Chris and drummer Dan Brubeck, worked closely with their father on arrangements of his compositions

for the album, and the back cover depicts him, white-haired in a white jacket, exiting the stage with his arm around Chris. Since Brubeck’s passing in December of 2012, his boys and their quartet have taken that tribute on the road, combining their original tunes with warm, relaxed reprisals of some of their father’s most famous tunes (including, inevitably, “Take Five”). —Shaun Brady

7.29

tuesday [ reading/signing ]

Brando Skyhorse Free | Tue., July 29, 7:30 p.m., Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St., 215-686-5322, freelibrary.org. Horrible childhoods can make

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cocktailhour By Adam Erace

The Muse ➤ some drinks are served on the rocks.

Some are served neat. Others, like the martini, are served up.Very, very few are “served down,” according to Jesse Cornell, cocktail man at Kevin Sbraga’s eponymous restaurant. “I’m a sucker for drinks that are served down. I feel very manly drinking brown liquor out of a rocks glass without ice.” The Muse, a haunting Cornell invention, is served down at Sbraga. The amber elixir of Laird’s bonded apple brandy, Drambuie, Dolin blanc vermouth and Cynar rises less than halfway up the shallow rocks glass. I lift, I drink. The cocktail slides around the cup in lazy swells, leaving leggy streaks around the inside like a pour of off-dry Riesling. You want to sip it slowly — preferably by a campfire on a cool summer night, though Cornell’s perch at the Sbraga bar ain’t so bad. The Muse is a redux of an older drink on Sbraga’s menu that involved krupnikas, a Lithuanian honey liqueur. When Cornell started having trouble importing the rarity, he set to work systematically replacing it with other spirits. He settled on apple brandy and Drambuie with Dolin Rouge and Cynar, but “it was sweet on sweet on sweet then Cynar.” When he put the work-in-progress on the service bar for staff sampling one night, server Nicole De Jessa suggested swapping out the sweet vermouth for blanc. “The Dolin blanc added levity, it was much brighter,” says Cornell. “I told her I was going to name the drink after her, but I figured the Nicole didn’t have a good ring to it, so I came up with The Muse.” ➤ make it

• 2 big peels of orange rind • 1 ounce Laird’s bonded apple brandy • 1 ounce Drambuie liqueur • 1/2 ounce Cynar • 1/2 ounce Dolin blanc vermouth • 3 healthy dashes Angostura bitters Twist one of the orange peels, run it around the inside of a mixing glass and discard. Add ice and the rest of the ingredients except the second orange peel and stir. (Cornell does about 40 revolutions.) Strain into a rocks glass. Twist the remaining orange peel over the drink and drop it in. (adam.erace@citypaper.net) 28 | P h i l a d e l p h i a C i t y Pa p e r |

HANDS ON: Handblended cheese, signature spiced sauce and unique dough are the building blocks of Florida Style’s Inside Outs. Mark Stehle

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Inside Track The Inside Out pizza has nothing to do with Florida and (surprisingly) everything to do with South Philly. By Caroline Russock FLORIDA STYLE PIZZA|2052 S. Beechwood St., 215-755-7946. Mon.-

Thu., 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m.

hen passing by the unassuming pizza shop on the corner of 22nd Street and Snyder Avenue, more than a few pizza enthusiasts have wondered aloud, “What is Florida style pizza?” Pizza is a fiercely regional topic. There are deep-dish Chicago pies, charred New Haven slices, Detroit squares and, of course, our own Philly bakery tomato pies. It is important to note, though, that the Sunshine State is not home to any long-practiced pizza traditions. Vinny Golini, owner of the Florida Style Pizza shop, tries to spell out the history of his South Philly place. “Back in 1972, the owner was Greek and Florida was half swamp,” he says. At the time, it was in vogue to tack the word “style” onto the name of your pizzeria — hence the number of ’70s and ’80s places with names like New England Style or Family Style. Golini isn’t

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sure why this guy chose Florida as the word to pair with style. Golini started working at the pizza shop in 1986 as a delivery driver when he was in college.But he moved into the kitchen when he got a new car and “didn’t want to mess it up.” He’s the go-to guy when it comes to describing the shop’s biggest seller, the Inside Out. “There’s nothing better than a Florida Style Inside Out,” Golini says, “little pillows of heaven.” Perhaps more of a zeppelin than a pillow, this is one style of pizza you won’t find in Florida and not that many other places in Greater Philly. The Inside Out is custom-blended sauce and hand-grated cheese wrapped in a specifically (and secretly) concocted pizza dough that’s deep fried until the insides are super gooey and the outside is crisp, golden and delicately blistered. It’s Florida Style’s competitive take on the similar, predecessor panzarotti, a signature offering of the long-shuttered Mr. Panz shop that opened up across the street in the mid-1970s threatening Florida Style’s business. After working his way up the pizza chain of command, Golini took over the business in 1999 from the original owners. “When he was ready to sell he offered it to me. That’s rare. The Greek guys usually sell it other Greek guys,” he says.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing better than a Florida Style Inside Out,â&#x20AC;? Golini says. Putting in 60-hour weeks with his wife and brother, Golini was hand-making each and every Inside Out, a labor-intensive process that involves hundreds of pounds of hand-grated and blended cheese, custom spicing a signature sauce and kneading countless batches of that special dough. It meant a steady business of regular pies and Inside Outs, hoagies and steaks until last year when Golini suffered a heart attack. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a blessing in disguise,â&#x20AC;? Golini says, forcing him to slow down and reevaluate his business. At the time, he was considering getting rid of the shop, but with a little (mandatory) time to think about the future, he decided to get into the wholesale business. Steak â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Em-Up, the 11th and Shunk cheesesteak spot known for its totally amazing and super South Philly commercials, was Florida Styleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first wholesale account. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They gave it the kick in the ass we needed,â&#x20AC;? Golini says. Then he reached out to other clients in the city, the suburbs and Jersey. Now Inside Outs are available at Tony Lukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (â&#x20AC;&#x153;His name is gold!â&#x20AC;? Golini says); Goombaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Colmar; Angeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pizzeria in Haddonfield, N.J., and at Pastificio deli in South Philly, where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teamed up to make a custom margherita Inside Out, using Pastificioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house-made mozzarella. The Inside Outs are also available at the Bocce Club around the corner from Florida Style and Maddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Poolside CafĂŠ in Aldan, Pa. The beauty of the Inside Out is its customizable nature. The dough-sauce-cheese-base can be filled with any manner of pizza topper, from classics like pepperoni, mushrooms and sausage, to Buffalo chicken and cheesesteak, both of which are big, big sellers. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently experimenting with dessert Inside Outs filled with Nutella and Marshmallow Fluff and has plans for a new mac and cheese Inside Out, available with or without bacon. Without a website and with a storefront thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far from flashy, Florida Style Pizza is still something of a cult-pizza phenomenon. But Golini and his wife, Anitra, are changing that via social media. Golini is quick to admit that up until last year he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a cell phone. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was always at the shop if you needed me.â&#x20AC;?) But now he heads up a Florida Style Instagram account. Golini attempts to entice customers with Inside Out glamour shots depicting daily specials, happy customers and lots and lots of molten cheese spiced up with the occasional cat, dog or kid picture. Dominating pizza-centric social media is one thing, but Golini has plenty more in mind for his Inside Out empire, including more collaborations and even a possible second location with a little more foot traffic than deep South Philly. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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NOT FAIR You don’t treat people right according to your own mother! I just don’t understand the games that you play and why are you always nice to the people that hurt you in your family! I love my family too, but sometimes you gotta walk away from their nonsense and just try to do what you need to do for yourself. I don’t understand how happy you pretend to be this is not going to work with you and your games! I love

SHIT HAPPENS! You were complaining that your boyfriend was cheating on you and you thought that I was going to feel a little compassion for you and that was not the case. I really don’t have any compassion for you! How dare you go through all of his things and do what you did! I can’t believe that you even do some other things that you do...no wonder he is having an affair with the cleaning lady at the job! Oh yeah.. sorry I forgot to tell you that they are sleeping together and they told me not to say anything about it and they would pay my cell phone bill for 3 months.. no matter how long it takes you will never catch up to me mentally! I was playing you all the long while you thought I was your friend..who knows I might sleep with him next...the laugh is on you!

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stupid park that still looks like shit. Your a fuckin idiot. Do something creative for the neighborhood than worry about cutting the grass. You do that once a month anyway,dumbass. By the way dickhead, I`ll be litter 3 times a week. So you could have something to do,prick. Not unless you're beating your fat wife.

SEE YA’ ROUND CAMPUS I love rolling past you on campus. I’m sorry for almost running you over all those times - I just couldn’t stay away. You’re so magnetic. I want to rollerblade into your heart! We could read medieval

Ok...here the fuck we go again...why doesn’t everyone have a car..what is the deal with Septa everytime I turn around they are doing something trying to disrupt everyone’s lives threatening to strike! And what is up with the big concern about the fucking Phillies game! Who gives a shit about the Phillies games...people are trying to get to and from fucking work trying to keep children fed, pay bills and just live..what kind of people are you guys...and you guys have the same issues as us people that don’t work for Septa, bills, family, mortgages, etc. I hope that you don’t go on strike not only for my sake for everyone else’s! Consider someone else for a change and not only yourselves! Sign Six

WHO CARES! Nobody cares if you are dating someone and nobody cares if you are not dating someone else! For God’s sake get a life! You walk around the city with your little girlfriend and she is an asshole and she could eat a dick already! She doesn’t look better than me, dress better than more and doesn’t have the sex appeal that I do have..so you wanna be in love with that bitch..well the both of you guys can have each other and eat a dick! I am done already and trust me I already moved on!

YO...LET’S ALL BUILD POOLS Yo Philly… let's all get pools, no? Yo, we’ll still walk around all miserable and hawt like normal, only now we’ll have pools! Some of youz are sayin, yo, this idea is hawt, but how do I build a pool? Yo you jus need a shovel for nem jawns, and if you don’t got no shovel, jus get one a nem baby poolz. Yo, people are busy and the skool system is down to Monopoly Money, but yo, fuck all that. Lets all pass GO and GO build pools. We could even order hoagies. Thad be so hawt. ✚ 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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