Philadelphia City Paper, September 18th, 2014

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The majority of the Maurice Sendak collection, currently housed in the Rosenbach Museum in Rittenhouse Square, will be moved to create a Sendak Museum in Connecticut. You trying to Barnes us, Connecticut? We invented Barnesing. We Barnesed Barnes. We Barnesed Barnes!

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Urban Outfitters again causes controversy with one of its products, this time a fakeblood-spattered Kent State sweatshirt. “We are truly, deeply sorry,” says UO representative, “that we still have not unveiled our 9/11 adult onesie collection. In the meantime, check out these Ebola-themed booty shorts. If you look closely, you’ll notice we found a way to make them racist.”

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The Darby Free Library, the oldest continuously operated public library in the country, faces possible closure due to budget cuts. And the Internet. The Pennsylvania Prostate Cancer Coalition launches the “Don’t Fear the Finger” campaign, featuring bus ads and giant foam fingers. Yeah, see, making the finger that big is kind of a turnoff. We might be into the foam, though. SugarHouse takes 63 gamblers to court for failing to repay $520,000 in markers, or “casino loans.” The defense argues that the money was returned to the casino “pretty much immediately.” Franklin Mills has been renamed Philadelphia Mills and will undergo a multimillion dollar overhaul that includes skylights and landscaping. Except for the Western Annex, which will remain under possum control as per the Treaty of 1998. Fans rally to support South Philly wrestler Ophidian The Cobra after his mask and other possessions are stolen from his front porch. “I suspect this is the handiwork of my arch-nemesis/roommate Orpheus The Mongoose! He is always pulling shit like this because I forget to fill the Brita sometimes.”

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BY LETHAL INJECTION: State executions are carried out at Rockview state prison. Gov. Corbett has issued a temporary reprieve in the death sentence for Hubert Michael Jr. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

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ennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett issued a temporary reprieve of execution for Hubert Michael Jr. last Friday after City Paper and three other newspapers asked a federal judge to unseal court records identifying the supplier of drugs to be used in lethal injections. Corbett indicated that the Department of Corrections is having trouble procuring some or all of the drugs. “Today’s signing of the temporary reprieve was necessary to allow the Department of Corrections (DOC) to complete its acquisition of the injection agents required to carry out lethal injection as mandated by Pennsylvania law,” according to a statement from Corbett’s office. In July, Corbett signed a warrant for Michael’s execution, which had been scheduled for Sept. 22, but was stayed by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in August. Corbett, who faces a long-shot re-election bid in November, says he will sign a new death warrant for Michael once the DOC obtains the necessary lethal-injection drugs. The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania last week filed suit to disclose the drug suppliers on behalf of City Paper, the Guardian US, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and seeks to intervene in a class-action lawsuit filed by death row inmates against the DOC. That lawsuit, Chester v. Wetzel, contends

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that the state’s lethal-injection procedure is unconstitutional because it carries the risk of extreme pain and suffering. Among other claims, the plaintiffs contend that the pentobarbital that the state might use for executions could fail to anesthetize condemned inmates. In 2012, U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson ordered the DOC to provide the plaintiffs with the identity of the supplier of drugs to be used in lethal injections, but also directed that all such information otherwise be kept confidential. The ACLU motion contends that the identity of a supplier from which the DOC obtained drugs in 2012 has been revealed in numerous confidential filings, including documents concerning a Food and Drug Administration investigation. An expert testifying for Michael, according to the ACLU brief, identified numerous problems with DOC drugs, including “a concentration of the pentobarbital” that “appeared to be different from that normally found on the market” and “from the concentration called for by Pennsylvania’s protocol.” The expert also found that the vials were labeled contrary to standard medical practice. Lethal injection, the primary method used in all states with the death penalty and by the federal government and military, has recently come under scrutiny in the wake of reports of botched executions in several states where prisoners were observed gasping for air for between 20

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✚ AND NOW THERE ARE TWO Former city solicitor Ken Trujillo on Wednesday was expected to formally announce his candidacy for mayor, becoming the second candidate to join the race. Former Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Director Terry Gillen earlier announced she would run in the May 2015 Democratic primary. While widely known among the city’s political elite, Trujillo’s name will be relatively unfamiliar to voters, a product of years spent working in powerful positions outside the limelight. His resume includes heading the city’s Law Department under Mayor John Street; prosecuting labor corruption and drug cases as an assistant U.S. attorney, and sitting on a number of important boards, including the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (which oversees Philly’s finances), the Delaware River Port Authority and the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board. Outside of government work, Trujillo has been a successful lawyer and businessman, owning a radio station and a handful of other small businesses. Dave Davies has reported on WHYY’s NewsWorks.com that Trujillo is ready to spend a sizable amount of his personal wealth in the race. Trujillo has already put together an impressive — and presumably expensive — campaign staff. If elected to replace Mayor Michael Nutter when his term ends in January 2016, Trujillo would be the city’s first Latino mayor. Gillen would be the city’s first female mayor. They are getting a head start in what many believe will be a crowded primary race. State Sen. Anthony Williams, Councilman Jim Kenney, former District Attorney Lynne Abraham, former

Councilman Frank Rizzo Jr. and City Controller Alan Butkovitz have all expressed an interest in running. Other names mentioned for potential runs include Council President Darrell Clarke, city Managing Director Rich Negrin and former Common Pleas Court Judge Nelson Diaz. Negrin and Diaz would be particularly unwelcome competition for Trujillo, as both are Latino. Latinos make up 13 percent of Philadelphia’s population. Even without Negrin or Diaz in the race, it’s unclear whether the city’s Latinos would rally behind Trujillo, who has had a famously testy relationship with influential community members that include former Councilman Angel Ortiz and Al Día publisher Hernan Guaracao. —Jim Saksa

✚ ACTIVISTS TAKE AIM AT COMCAST OVER “NET NEUTRALITY” RULE A crowd of about 75 activists demonstrated in front of the Comcast Center to protest the cable company’s stance on “net neutrality” and its proposed merger with Time Warner Cable. Monday’s “Rally to Save the Internet” was organized by a coalition of local and national organizations led by Free Press and the Media Mobilizing Project. The protest coincided with the end of the public-comment period for the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed rule to let Internet service providers (ISPs) like Comcast establish fast and slow lanes for Internet traffic. Under the proposed rule, ISPs would be allowed to charge content websites a premium to gain fast access. Net neutrality proponents have lambasted this proposal as a threat to the Internet that would drastically shift the balance of >>> continued on page 6

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SKY TYPING: After a few failed attempts, artist Dave Kyu on Sunday finally pulled off his neighborhood skywriting project called “Write Sky.” Teachers from the Folk ArtsCultural Treasures Charter School and Roman Catholic High School chose the wording, referring, Kyu says, to the state of education in Philly. The full message included the words “science” and “justice,” written in Latin and Chinese, respectively. ROB LYBECK

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Houston where nobody bikes. What should I know about driving next to bikers in Philly? — All Hat, No Saddle Dear All Hat: I don’t have the space to list every way to be safe and courteous around bicyclists. But some include: Use your turn signals! Check for bikes before turning or opening car doors. Get off your cell phone. When a jerk bicyclist cuts you off, don’t take it out on the next bicyclist you see. God forbid you hit someone, stop to see if they’re OK. I’m going to focus on four things. First, know the laws. Every bicyclist has been yelled at to, “Get on the sidewalk!” Nope. Wrong. Incorrect. The Bicycle Coalition website posts the laws in layman’s terms. Next: Stop honking. A bicyclist cannot tell the difference between “Honk, I’m here!” and “Honk, I’m a psycho with the patience of Cookie Monster picking up his Pepperidge Farm CSA.” That horn is super jarring to everyone but you. Car horns should be as loud inside the car as they are outside. Third: Don’t park in bike lanes. The anger this generates may seem outsized, but Philly bike lanes are hard-earned space that gives bicyclists safety and legitimacy. Parking in those lanes strips that legitimacy and makes bicyclists feel marginalized and disrespected, while forcing them to weave into traffic. Lastly, treat bicyclists (and everybody) as human beings.That’s not “a dirty cyclist” ahead of you. It’s just a woman on a bicycle, riding in the middle because that’s legal and safe. The power dynamic between you two in that moment is very unbalanced. She’s vulnerable, but she’s not foolish. She’ll be turning soon, or stopping to let you pass. She’s not your arch-nemesis Crazy Dr. Inconvenience. Choose to be patient. Put into the world what you want from it in return. Rage begets rage. Kindness begets kindness. (wheeltalk@citypaper.net) ✚ Nicholas Mirra works for the Bicycle Coalition of

Greater Philadelphia, and knows many things about getting around on two wheels. Send him your bike questions.

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power to just a handful of ISPs. The rule proposal is the latest in a byzantine ongoing regulatory debate that has activists joining forces with huge Web content providers, including Netflix, against broadband providers, including Comcast and Verizon. In 2010, the FCC adopted “open Internet� regulations prohibiting ISPs from charging websites to prioritize their traffic or prioritizing their own content. Those regulations were vacated in January in a ruling by a federal appeals court in Washington. Net neutrality proponents argue that those open Internet regulations would survive legal challenges if the FCC first classified ISPs as “telecommunications services� under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The FCC has previously regulated ISPs as an “information service.� By changing this classification, the FCC would have broad authority to regulate broadband Internet access. In a statement provided to the press, Comcast said that it “supports an open Internet and network neutrality. We are the only Internet service provider in America legally bound by full Net Neutrality rules.� However, Comcast is only bound by those rules as part of a deal it with made with the FCC to gain approval of its acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2011. As Comcast wrote in its annual Securities and Exchange Commission filing, “Comcast remains bound by the FCC’s original ‘open Internet’ regulations as a condition of the NBCUniversal Order and the NBCUniversal consent decree from the remainder of the term of those orders.� The orders terminate on Sept. 1, 2018. The FCC has received 3 million comments about the proposed rule, demolishing the previous record for FCC comments, the 1.4 million complaints the agency received after Janet Jackson’s infamous nipple slip at the 2004 Super Bowl. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has expressed hope to have the rule finalized by the end of the year, but there is no actual deadline. Usually, administrative rule proposals receive no more than a few dozen arcane comments from a small community of law professors, activists and industry insiders. The large number of comments can be linked to prominent awareness campaigns by a wide-ranging and diverse collection of activists, companies and organizations. On Sept. 10, Free Press worked with websites that stand to benefit from strong net neutrality rules, including Netflix, Tumblr, Dropbox, Upworthy and Reddit, to participate in an “Internet Slowdown� protest. Monday’s street protest was staged as a complement to the earlier Internet-based activism. While the volume of comments speaks to the public’s interest in net neutrality, it doesn’t necessarily mean the FCC will take the public’s side: Despite 1.4 million complaints, the FCC never fined CBS for the wardrobe malfunction. After the advertised slate of speakers, the organizers opened up the microphone to the public.

Burton Caine, an antitrust law professor at Temple University, called the proposed ComcastTime Warner merger “the worst case of antitrust I’ve ever seen.� Multiple speakers also recounted personal bad experiences with Comcast service. The company’s customer service has often ranked among the worst in surveys and a recording of a customer-retention call went viral earlier this summer. The protest was held at 17th Street and JFK Boulevard. Across the street, onlookers barely acknowledged the gathering. Despite the chants and loudspeakers, the protest could hardly be heard along the steps to the Comcast Center. Confused by the velvet ropes and extra security guards, some would-be patrons for the Center’s food court opted to eat elsewhere.

Comments to the FCC surpassed the nipple slip. In many ways, Comcast is the perfect bugaboo for net neutrality activists. It’s a massive company that spent $18 million on lobbying last year, putting it seventh on the list of top lobbying spenders. Comcast’s infamously poor customer relations make it an easy punching bag. “Comcast is a onestop shop,� said protest organizer Hannah Sassaman, policy director of Media Mobilizing Project. In a blog post published on Monsday, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen wrote that the company supports open Internet rules, but opposes reclassification of broadband as a telecommunications service because “it would harm future innovation and investment in broadband and because reclassification is not necessary to put in place strong and enforceable Open Internet protections.� —JS

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If drugs are not made properly, they will not work properly. minutes and nearly two hours before their deaths. “The information sought by our clients is central to today’s debate about capital punishment,� said ACLU of Pennsylvania senior staff attorney Mary Catherine Roper in a statement. “If the drugs are not made properly, they will not work properly, and the public should be very concerned about that possibility given the gruesome executions we have heard about in other states.� Pennsylvania, like other states, has recently had to scramble to find lethal-injection drugs in the face of European Union export controls and manufacturers’ opposition to the use of their products for executions. Pentobarbital appears to be only available from compounding pharmacies, which are lightly regulated companies that make drugs to order. The DOC contends that public disclosure could make the death penalty difficult to carry out. In a 2012 statement to the court, DOC Secretary John Wetzel said, “It is my belief that if the identities of the supplier are revealed in this litigation .... they will no longer agree to provide the necessary drugs.� Wetzel said many of the suppliers fear reprisals by those opposed to the death penalty.

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But the newspapers contend that reporters need information about the drug suppliers to substantively report on whether they are produced to acceptable standards. “Our readers have a clear First Amendment right to know who is supplying the drugs that the commonwealth of Pennsylvania intends to use,� said City Paper Editor Lillian Swanson. “In a democracy, we have a basic right to report on how the criminaljustice system operates. How can that right be denied when the state decides to exercise its harshest form of punishment?� Pennsylvania’s last execution was in 1999, when Philadelphia serial killer Gary Heidnik was put to death. Hubert Michael pleaded guilty in the 1993 kidnap and murder of Trista Eng, 16, of York County, whom he was also accused of having raped. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

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The basic framework is a group of college students LARPing a game scenario where rising oceans have flooded much of the East Coast and created millions of refugees and an outbreak of disease, leaving only a few safe havens. The acting of the six-member cast is flawless, and this is great theater in the deep sense of that word. Because some scenes take place simultaneously in different rooms, choices have to be made, scenes missed, and because the actors are so brilliant, every missed moment feels almost physically distressing. Closes Sept. 19. —Dotun Atinkoye ➤ IT WAS ALL DOWNHILL AFTER FLEETWOOD MAC

Much of Brian Shapiro’s description of “Life with Father” is fascinating and fun, albeit a little sad. It’s “my story about the stories my father told and sold,” he explains,“not just to those around him, but to himself.” Shapiro the Elder achieved fortune and notoriety managing the historic rise of Fleetwood Mac. Growing up spending weekends in dad’s jet-fueled world and weekdays at mom and stepdad’s house, where “life was lived at a slightly different pace,” must have been dizzying and depressing. It’s a fun 65-minute romp, but Shapiro stills leaves us wondering, and wanting more. Closes Sept. 20. —Mark Cofta ➤ SUSPENDED

This show presents the following: chocolate-covered asses; singing/cigarette-smoking plastic vaginas; girls pretending to vigorously screw guys from behind; exposed breasts and fake blood-infused boxing matches and absolutely unapologetic, humorous, intimate and beautiful displays of the human body doing things that most certainly not every human body can do. I say hooray. This is the absolute celebration of movement and technique, along with the observance of just how both sensual and silly human sexuality can be.We are surrounded every day by messages telling us to fear or condemn nudity and be ashamed of sexuality. To hell with that, JUNK, the presenting dance company, says. Closes Sept. 20 —Mikala Jamison ✚ For full reviews, visit citypaper.net/nakedcity. 14 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

TWILIGHT ZONE: Juliette Binoche stars opposite Kristen Stewart in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria.

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T-DOT SCREEN SHOTS Hits and misses from last week’s Toronto International Film Festival. By Sam Adams

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he Oscar race came out of the Toronto International Film Festival pretty much the way it went in. Eddie Redmayne heads into the fall as the Best Actor favorite for his turn as a young Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, and Julianne Moore vaulted to the head of a weak Best Actress pack when Sony Classics picked up Still Alice, in which she plays a woman experiencing the symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer’s. You could have guessed those two by skimming the catalogue. Toronto’s status as an Oscar bellwether is overblown — last year, we were bowled over by 12 Years a Slave; two years ago, everyone agreed that Argo was solid but unexceptional — but it remains one of the best places to see the world’s masters ply their trade, and to watch new ones solidifying their grip. With more than 300 features to be absorbed in a maximum of 11 days — most out-of-towners stay a week, give or take a day or two — Toronto’s a difficult place for unknowns to gather momentum; it wasn’t until the end of 2012’s festival, after I’d missed all my chances to see it, that I started to get wind of Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio, a dazzling homage to Italian giallo that coaxes existential horror from the slicing of vegetables. But I went

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in this year with Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy high on my list, and it surpassed my already substantial expectations. Strickland takes his time clarifying Duke’s central relationship between Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara d’Anna, so I’ll be vague except to say that they’re playing some sort of dominant-submissive game in a turn-of-the-century mansion filled with the bodies of butterflies, whose beautiful captivity provides an apt, if not overlabored, metaphor for the duo’s rapport. Their bond is built around fetishes, so Strickland worships at the boots of ’70s softcore titans Jesús Franco and Radley Metzger, but the film’s superficial perversity overlays a story that’s almost mundane: what happens to a relationship when the initial ardor begins to cool. It’s a canny, and eventually devastating, way to explore a condition so familiar we rarely pause to give it thought. An even less easily defined bond between women is at the heart of Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, which stars Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart as an international movie star and her personal assistant, a situation that both riffs on and inverts their real-life roles. As Binoche prepares to revisit the play that launched her career — this time playing the destroyed older woman in a lesbian romance rather than the young seductress — she and Stewart engage in an ongoing debate about the nature of acting, taking on roles as they run lines with each other and

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Andrew Garfield feels more alive than he has in years. finding it difficult to slip back out again. Clouds can feel disjointed and thesis-driven, but Stewart shows none of the mumble-mouthed hesitancy that drives her haters nuts: It’s one of her best performances, and one of Binoche’s, too. In Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes, playing a construction worker who takes a job with the real estate broker (Michael Shannon) who foreclosed on his house, Andrew Garfield feels more alive than he has in years, while Reese Witherspoon brings the engrossing prickliness of How Do You Know to her role in Wild, Jean-Marc Vallée’s up-the-middle adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir. But one of Toronto’s most surprising turns came from Anna Kendrick, who hoists Richard LaGravenese’s The Last 5 Years on her shoulders. The through-sung musical about the end (and the beginning) of a marriage is gracelessly adapted from Jason Robert Brown’s stage production, but Kendrick has the rare ability to act a song as well as sing it. Given the lack of a Les Miz showstopper, her magnificent performance probably won’t generate much in the way of awards chatter, but between The Last 5 Years and the forthcoming Into the Woods, it’s safe to say we’ll

be talking very differently about Kendrick this time next year. Excess reigned in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julie Taymor’s quickie document of her phantasmagorical stage production, and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Eden, a personal history of French EDM that feels more like untamed autobiography (her brother, a former DJ, co-wrote the script) than an epic rave.There’s no beat and you can’t dance to it. But even though it was slightly trimmed in its new “director’s cut,” Neil Young’s Human Highway, originally released (so to speak) in 1982, was hard to beat. An allegory about nuclear power and social conformity set in a studio-bound wasteland with Devo as a radiation-soaked cleanup crew, where every radio plays songs from Trans and Dennis Hopper serves sausages at a roadside diner? Sign me up, please. (s_adams@citypaper.net)

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✚ NEW THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM | BReviewing The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them by way of the film that’s opening in most cities (including Philly) is akin to basing an opinion on the longest trailer ever created. Ned Benson’s ambitious debut was envisioned and created as two separate movies, subtitled Him and Her, that trace the dissolution of a marriage from the distinct perspective of each spouse. This Weinsteinmandated variant, subtitled Them, stitches pieces from both together into a single story that constantly reveals the scars of its uneasy Frankensteining. We first meet Jessica Chastain’s Eleanor and James McAvoy’s Conor during a dine-anddash date, obviously carefree and in love. But immediately after the title appears, Eleanor is throwing herself off of a bridge and Conor is nowhere to be seen. The tragedy that drove them apart is only gradually and obliquely revealed; its details remain largely hidden due to the fact that everyone involved — not only Eleanor and Conor but her parents (William 18 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

Hurt and Isabelle Huppert) and his father (Ciarán Hinds) — are unwilling, unable or forbidden to talk about it. Benson isn’t so much concerned with the cause of their grief but its aftermath, the way that people can only deal with the deepest of sorrows in their own individual ways, and how that can drive even the most loving of couples apart — to paraphrase Eleanor’s namesake Beatles song, where at least some of the lonely people come from. Unfortunately, Them forces a false reconciliation by artificially uniting the pair’s disparate perspectives, hopefully pointing audiences toward two seemingly more interesting films (Him/Her, set to screen as a double-feature later this fall) rather than driving them away altogether. —Shaun Brady (Ritz East)

THE GREEN PRINCE | B Nadav Schirman’s account of the relationship between Shin Bet agent Gonen Ben Yitzhak and Palestinian informant Mosab Hassan Yousef is described as a “documentary thriller,” with the emphasis on the latter word. Although its primary-source footage is almost exclusively composed of

talking-head interviews, Schirman jazzes up the proceedings with stock footage, re-enactments and other postproduction tricks, including slapping a filter on a shot of Yousef to make the recording look like interrogation-room footage. The result can be legitimately thrilling, especially when focusing on the psychological chess match between spymaster and informant — Ben Yitzhak clearly sees it as a game, at one point referring to his informants as “toys.” But by limiting the scope to their back-and-forth, Schirman ducks the larger issues, specifically how Yousef could turn on his father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of Hamas, with what seems to be relatively little in the way of inner torment; his post hoc rationalizations don’t suffice to convey what happened in the moment. No single film can do justice to the complexity of the region’s history, of course, but this one doesn’t even try. —Sam Adams (Ritz Five)

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU | C Everybody’s got problems, but the problems of affluent, unhappy, white Judeo-Christian clans just translate better to film, don’t they? This Is Where I Leave You, based on Jonathan

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Tropper’s novel, takes this theory and stretches it to the point of snapping, peddling enough prepackaged dysfunction to stock Jennifer Weiner’s cupboards for a calendar year. After the passing of their father, bickering siblings Judd (Jason Bateman), Wendy (Tina Fey), Phillip (Adam Driver) and Paul (Corey Stoll) convene at the home of their pop-psychologist mother Hillary (Jane Fonda), as dad’s dying wish was to have his secular progeny sit shiva for seven days. And wouldn’t you know it, they don’t get along. Judd, newly cuckolded thanks to wife’s affair with his scumbag boss (Dax Shepard), plays exasperated referee to the squabbles, centered around sex, money, kids and business, while reigniting a relationship with Penny (Rose Byrne), a lighthearted townie on heavy antidepressants. Things get busy quickly with this many miserable people under one roof, and the clutter drowns out the handful of genuinely warm moments the kids are able to cobble together. The supporting cast, worked for laughs (Ben Schwartz as a zany rabbi) or what could be construed as sympathy (Timothy Olyphant, as a neighbor with a brain injury?),

represent even more frayed dreams and ambitions, as if this family didn’t have enough of those already. —Drew Lazor (Wide release)

TUSK | C Starting as a spitball podcast premise and ending as a feature film, Kevin Smith’s latest is proof that ideas are rarely as glorious as your best friend says. Inspired by a bizarre online listing the director and longtime collaborator Scott Mosier came across and cheered into existence by their “SModcast” audience, Tusk begins in the classical Smith sense, with undergrown men-children laughing at their own jokes. Wallace (Justin Long) and Teddy (Haley Joel Osment) run a sophomoric podcast called the “NotSee Party,” where the more socially gifted Wallace breaks down topics for his travel-averse bestie. After a work trip to Manitoba proves to be a bust, Wallace prepares to pack it in, but not before coming across a cryptic handbill, promising fantastical tales to anyone who will listen, in a bar bathroom. The author of the posting, a mysterious wheelchair-bound man named Howe (Michael Parks), wows Wallace with his rich adventures, but

it becomes clear that he’s interested in more than just fireside chats. To go into further detail would be a disservice, but just know that Smith navigates the tricky discipline of body horror with uncompromising zeal, while getting some nationalistic licks in at the expense of both Yanks and Canucks. Despite these strengths, plus confident comic turns from Parks and Johnny Depp, Tusk never transcends its original status as fuel for an elongated B.S. session. It feels like a drawn-out version of a inside-joke stoner convo, because that’s exactly what it is. —DL (Wide release)

✚ CONTINUING BOYHOOD | A With Boyhood, director Richard Linklater proves himself to be an insightful chronicler of the changes wrought by time on a relationship as he shows one young boy’s growth and maturation over the course of nearly three hours. 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. 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 older sister Samantha, played by the director’s daughter Lorelei, goes from teasing annoyance to jaded 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. What we see are not necessarily the most dramatic moments. But 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. —SB (Ritz Five)

CALVARY | B Director John Michael McDonagh reteams with The Guard star Brendan Gleeson for Calvary, where the laughs come with an almost overpoweringly bitter aftertaste. The film begins in the confession booth, where Father James Lavelle (Gleeson) is confronted by a victim of childhood sexual abuse who declares his intention to kill Lavelle a week later, as murdering a good priest would make a stronger statement than vindictively killing a bad one. Lavelle spends

the next several days attending to his parishioners as he grapples with how to deal with his impending doom. He is well aware of his determined murderer, even as he refuses to disclose that identity to the local bishop, the would-be killer or the audience. Gleeson is adept at sketching a character’s history with just a few reactions, so that even those townsfolk who only appear for a scene or two are given a life and a history. Unfortunately, McDonagh doesn’t draw them quite so deeply, and ultimately the film becomes a schematic argument about redemption and forgiveness rather than a fully fleshed-out story. —SB (Ritz Five)

GET ON UP | BYears from now, there’s a good chance we’ll talk about Chadwick Boseman’s James Brown the same way we discuss one of Robert Downey Jr.’s most memorable parts in passing: Hey, didn’t Iron Man play Charlie Chaplin one time? In other words, a meaty biographical role will eventually outgrow its vessel and stand alone as a feather-in-cap point in a superstar’s career. Opening with the elderly Brown rushing his office with a shotgun, then leaping back decades to a harrowing plane ride over violent Vietnamese airspace, it’s clear early on that director Tate Taylor (The Help) has chosen to avoid the boring frontto-back storytelling that so often slows down biopics. But there are still far too many clichéd music-movie contrivances — drugs, drama, infighting, Brown leaning on a sink in deep emotional pain (fave!) — for the flower to blossom fully. —DL (Wide release) MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT | C+ Magic in the Moonlight isn’t Woody Allen’s worst movie, but it’s one of his least necessary. Stanley (Colin Firth) is a magician who beguiles audiences in between-the-wars Europe with his tricks under the guise of the “Oriental” conjurer Wei Ling Soo. Despite the deception inherent in his profession, Stanley is obsessed with unmasking the deceptions of others, especially spiritualists like the American Sophie (Emma Stone), who’s entranced a British dowager (Jacki Weaver). At some point, it becomes clear that Magic in the Moonlight is meant to be a romance, despite the evident lack of chemistry between its stars and the fact that Stanley’s behavior merits nothing so much as a swift kick in the balls. Firth finds the character’s sympathetic corners,but

at its core, the movie seems to think that a man treating a woman with cruelty and disdain is reason enough for her to fall for him. —SA (Ritz Five)

A MOST WANTED MAN | AAnton Corbijn’s moody Le Carré adaptation gains poignancy from featuring one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final performances as Günther, whom Hoffman plays with a heavy accent and a heavier weight on his shoulders, the head of a secret German intelligence unit that operates in the moral and legal netherworld. Although A Most Wanted Man is set in the present, 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, Günther’s struggle is never farther away than Hoffman’s magnificently worn face. —SA (Ritz East)

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Don’t miss our weekly battles and tedious arguments, is a large part of what made 2011’s Trip so odd and compelling. Coogan, as the mega-jaded thesp frustrated by his lot in Hollywood, and Brydon, as the lowerbrow but commercially virile U.K. small-screener, revealed much of their nature, and the nature of their business, in tête-à-têtes over three squares. Very little has changed this time around — fine if you’re still hungry for more drawn-out Michael Caine goofs, but redundant if you’re looking for the fellows to play it something other than safe. —DL (Ritz Five)

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THE TRIP TO ITALY | BThey say travel is the surest way to get to know someone — but how do two wanderers pass the hours once they can read each others’ neuroses like a road map? That’s the main problem mucking up Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s second Michael Winterbottom-booked sojourn together, a question of retread that negotiates the tricky line between giving the people what they want and giving them something new. Just like the initial BBC series that Winterbottom converted to a full theatrical feature, this Trip sees exaggerated versions of Coogan and Brydon on the clock, eating their way through high-end restaurants as research for a piece on regional dining. While the first journey placed them in the misty north of England, this sun-kissed assignment spreads them across Italy’s boot, where they down plates of incredible-looking pasta and lightly trace the movements of the Romantic poets. Bargain-brand Byronic heroes both, the actors’ appetites and insecurities get them into plenty of shit, but there aren’t many characters or devices driving them in one direction or another. This laissezfaire approach to storytelling, ballasted by Coogan and Brydon’s impression C I T Y PA P E R . N E T | S E P T E M B E R 1 8 - S E P T E M B E R 2 4 , 2 0 1 4 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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FRINGE TILL YOU DROP: Tangle Movement Arts performs Loop at Philadelphia Soundstages starting Thursday.

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thursday [ fringe/theater ]

SISTERS OF ELLERY HOLLOW $20 | Thu., Sept. 18, The Swing at MacGuffin at the Adrienne Theatre, 2030 Sansom St., fringearts.com. Producer, writer and actress Rachel Holt follows last year’s FringeArts premiere, Surrender, with Stephen Spotswood’s eerie 2011 play. 20 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

Holt and UArts grad Brittany Kvitko play orphaned sisters who survive their hard lives by transforming their painful childhood into tall tales. Ostracized by those around them, they retreat into yarns about their impossible birth, their adoption by a strange caretaker and a confrontation with the Hairy Man of the Forest, a terrible creature with a secret that threatens to destroy them. —Mark Cofta

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ROUNDING THIRD $28-$35 | Through Oct. 12, Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-654-0200, act2.org. Act II Playhouse’s 16th season starts with a crowd-pleasing 2002 comedy about an odd couple of Little League coaches. Company artistic director Tony Braithwaite plays an executive and baseball neophyte, reluctantly roped into

coaching for his son’s team, and New York actor Michael Basile is a house painter who channels his frustrations into his win-at-all-costs coaching. Playwright Richard Dresser was horrified when his son shared that his Little League coaches were planning to cheat in the playoffs, which he saw as “a perfect example of how the desire to win in children’s sports has gone wildly off track,” and a great idea for a play about the “obsession with achievement at the expense of simply doing what’s right, which seems to permeate our entire culture.” —Mark Cofta

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FENCES $42-$62 | Through Oct. 5, People’s Light & Theatre Company, 39 Conestoga Rd., Malvern, 610-6443500, peopleslight.org. People’s Light & Theatre Company opens its 40th season in

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Malvern with August Wilson’s 1987 Tony- and Pulitzer-winning drama. The sixth in Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle — 10 plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century (including Seven Guitars, which People’s Light produced in 2012) — takes place in 1957, and follows former Negro League baseball player Troy’s struggles with racism. Kamilah Forbes directs for the first time at People’s Light, with company member Melayne Finister as Troy’s wife Rose, Philadelphia actor Brian Anthony Wilson as Troy’s friend Bobo, and Broadway, TV and film actor and playwright Michael Genet as Troy. —Mark Cofta

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LOOP $20 | Thu.-Sat., Sept. 18-20, Philadelphia Soundstages, 1600 N. Fifth St., tangle-arts.com, fringearts.com. A genre as intriguing as

“circus arts” demands to be explored. Luckily for Fringe audiences, Tangle Movement Arts has a record of quality-yet-accessible shows — simultaneously lovely and exhilarating — to convert the apprehensive. Instead of words or even a floor-bound stage, the all-female cast uses aerial hoops, trapezes, hanging ropes and silks to tell its stories. This year’s show’s title refers to not only the artists’ tools, but to “the knots of human relationships” explored exclusively via movement. Expect plenty of midair back bends and rapid-yet-graceful weaving through suspended ropes, plus a healthy dose of “Oh my God, how did they do that?” —Julie Zeglen

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BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO $20-$25 | Through Sept. 21, Main Stage at the Adrienne, 2030

Sansom St., temple.edu/theater, fringearts.com. The timing of this acclaimed play’s Philadelphia debut, which is also the opening production of Temple Theaters’ fall season, could not be better. Coming only days after President Obama announced military action against ISIS, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo offers a creative look at the U.S. invasion of Iraq that mingles perspectives of American soldiers, Iraqi civilians, Uday Hussein and a “liberated” Bengal tiger — and its ghost. Whether this production’s cast of Temple thespians will match the high-caliber lineups of previous iterations (the 2011 Broadway debut featured the late Robin Williams in the title role), Bengal Tiger will certainly offer new relevance to old (and sobering, continual) questions about mortality in the midst of absurd armed conflict. —Sameer Rao

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Philadelphia, SHADOW Company has never been solely about theater. Tackling broad strokes of socio-political topics, SHADOW homes in on the concept of mercy for its newest production, ________ V. ________. A culmination of the group’s workshop Trials of Paradox from last year’s Fringe, this show interprets mercy through the lens of the 1985 MOVE bombing in West Philadelphia and the 1993 murder of Fishtown teen Freddy Adams, along with some non-local events. It feels like quite the

Come on. Cabaret and corpses were pretty much made for each other, and director Rosey Hay, a UArts Brind School professor, has the format down to a T (it’s pretty amazing that this weekend hasn’t sold out yet too). Did I mention free cocktails? —Marc Snitzer

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task, given the theater group’s relative youth in comparison to the acts of violence and tragedy they will portray (through performance art and song), but perhaps that’s the draw. These teens weren’t around for such devastating moments in our city’s history, but telling these stories through as many different tools as we can may help us understand the broader angles, even when filtered through concepts as large as mercy. —Marc Snitzer

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THE WAY OF ALL FLESH: A GRAVEYARD CABARET $20 | Fri.-Sat., Sept. 19-20, 7:30 p.m., Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Ave., revtheatrecompany.org, fringearts.com. It seems like it doesn’t get much more fun than being undead, amirite? Just ask REV Theatre Company, whose The Way of All Flesh: A Graveyard Cabaret performances have sold out completely the past two years. Complimentary cocktails? Yep. Apropros graveyard setting, courtesy of the high-spook caliber of Laurel Hill? Undoubtedly. Three entertaining lost souls/Greek chorus-types, singin’ and dancin’ their way between life and whatever comes next? 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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Class is in session, suckas. In the year Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Seven, in the reign of The Mad King Ronald Reagan, MC Shan, protĂŠgĂŠ of the legendary progenitor Marley Marl, released “The Bridge,â€? asserting that Queensbridge, New York, was the home of hip-hop. KRS-One, then head of Boogie Down Productions and fellow rapper (now doubling as a hip-hop pseudo-philosopher of dubious use), released “South Bronxâ€? in response, to which Shan retaliated with “Kill That Noise,â€? leading to KRS’s now infamous escalation, “The Bridge Is Over.â€? These are some of the critical battles in what we now call The Bridge Wars. Special guest lectures tonight from the kiggety-kings of the stiggety-style, Das EFX. —Dotun Akintoye

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HARRY SEFARBI RETROSPECTIVE FREE | Sun., Sept. 21, through Nov. 15, Wayne Art Center, 413 Maplewood Ave., Wayne, 610-6883553, wayneart.org. For six decades, Harry Sefarbi thought and taught the Barnes Foundation way. Long before its wretched (for some) move to Philadelphia, when the housebound museum

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was frozen in Merion’s exotic bubble, Sefarbi went to Albert C. Barnes’ classes and learned the curator’s personal methodology, an exotica that Sefarbi brought into his own paintings. When Barnes passed, Sefarbi stayed at the Barnes, continuing to teach the method, like a thespian at Lee Strasberg’s feet. Sefarbi (1917-2009) and his paintings happily hold the Barnes-brand stamp of approval, but his dreamy colorful work — playful figures at parties, mothers and sons, looks at town and country long forgotten — is also his own. —A.D. Amorosi

much a disorienting eccentric as Young Thug. Actually, it’s very much in the same way; Keef confounds every type of expectation and convention. So, can the world learn to love Sosa? The buzz for his upcoming Bang 3 is enormous. On the first single from Bang 3, “Fuck Rehab,” he rhymes: “I could be on the block running ’round shooting shit up like Rambo/ But the judge gonna lock me up for smoking a little dope.” Keef’s boy and chief beat maker Young Chop says the song was some label bullshit: “You know we got harder shit than that.” —Dotun Akintoye

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DOUBLE BATMAN $12 | Sun., Sept. 21, Biello Martin Studio, 148 N. Third St., fringearts.com.

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Writer and performer Frank Perri’s bizarre nickname came from a heartfelt — and inappropriate — inside joke between college roommates, which is part of what his oneman show is about. He tells his

tuesday [ rock/pop ]

FROGBELLY AND SYMPHONY $10 | Tue., Sept. 23, 8 p.m., with Dixy Blood and Three Bad Jacks, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.

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personal story of an orphaned boy dealing with the burden of losing his adoptive parents and coping by repressing his emotions and developing a protective cynical sense of humor. Eventually, Perri found that he had to work past his jaded outlook, open up and grow up. —Mark Cofta

Producer Martin Bisi’s output is legendarily wide-ranging — his credits include John Zorn, Swans, Sonic Youth, Afrika Bambaata and Herbie Hancock, among countless others — but it’s easy to hear why Frogbelly and Symphony appealed to him. The band, whose members hail from Brooklyn and Sheffield, har-

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monday [ rap ]

CHIEF KEEF $35 | Mon., Sept. 22, 8 p.m., with Bigg Homie & Major, Pretty Gutter, Louie V Gutta, and Trap Street Moe, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, tlaphilly.com. In his own way, Keef is just as

ken back to an early-’90s breed of Gothic art-rock that Bisi specialized in, with morose vocals, prog-folk arrangements and an air of rathskeller theatricality that suggests a seedy cabaret or a gypsy caravan decamped in a factory town. They’ll offer a preview of

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wednesday [ metal ]

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their upcoming Bisi-produced full-length debut at this show. —Shaun Brady

READING RAINBOW TOUR $12 | Wed., Sept. 24, 6:30 p.m., with Burial Mound, The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave., 215-634-7400, ticketfly.com. No, this isn’t a victory lap for LeVar Burton’s Kickstarter success story. That name refers to Reading, Pa., the coal-country hometown of Rivers of Nihil (pictured) and Black Crown Initiate, two rising stars on the death metal scene, both of whom fold elements of prog rock into their sound. Rivers of Nihil’s debut, The Conscious Seed of Light (Metal Blade), is the first of four concept albums on the seasons, though its spring theme doesn’t exactly translate to im-

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ages of sun-dappled fields and butterflies. BCI’s upcoming debut follows last year’s Song of the Crippled Bull EP, a single four-part suite that alternates meat-grinder riffs with elegant acoustic interludes and vocals that soar rather than growl. —Shaun Brady

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Bardot | From the great minds that brought you East Passyunk Avenue beer haven The P.O.P.E. comes Bardot, a sexy new spot in NoLibs with decidedly boudoir vibes. P.O.P.E. owner Dennis Hewitt tagged Rhett Vellner (formerly of Resurrection Ale House and Petruce) to run the kitchen and he’s crafted an elegant and approachable French-accented menu to complement the bar program of cocktails named for the films of Godard and Truffaut. Open daily, 11 a.m.-2 a.m., 447 Poplar St., 267-639-4761. Tuk Tuk Real | Bringing together two cuisines that aren’t often spotted together (aside from side-byside takeout menus), Tuk Tuk Real is a fast-casual marriage of Thai and Mexican from the Circles folks. Circles chef Alex Boonphaya and his sous, Silvestre Rincon, crafted the menu of this Thai taqueria to include small plates like lamb massaman nachos and lemongrass carnitas tacos along with larger plates, including ssam mixto enchiladas and banh mi tortas. Open Mon., 5-10 p.m.; Sun., Tue.-Wed., 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Thu.-Sat., 11 a.m.-2 a.m. 429 South St., 267-639-2396, tuktukreal.com. Capofitto | The folks behind a sensational mini chain of gelaterias, Capogiro, have debuted their Neapolitan-style pizzeria, Capofitto. Along with morning offerings like La Colombe and pastries and all-day gelato (obviously) and a full bar, Capofitto is serving a menu of wood-fired pizzas (hello, artichoke and guanciale!) beginning at 5:30 daily, plus a selection of salads and antipasti (think eggplant meatballs and beef-and-pork varieties, and arancini). Open Mon.-Thu., 7:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m.; Fri., 7:30 a.m.-1 a.m.; Sat., 9 a.m.-1 a.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-11:30 p.m. 233 Chestnut St., 267-457-2854. Got A Tip? Please send restaurant news to restaurants@ citypaper.net or call 215-735-8444, ext. 207.

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HUSKY SECTION Blue Corn soars above typical Italian Market Mexican fare. By Adam Erace BLUE CORN| 940 S. Ninth St., 215-925-1010. Mon.-Thu., 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri., 10 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sat.-Sun., 7 a.m.-2 a.m. Appetizers, $5.50-$12; entrees, $6-$20.

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tand on Ninth Street, stick out your arm, point your finger and spin. Stop. Chances are, no matter which way you’re pointing, it will be in the direction of tacos. The tipping of the Italian Market’s flavor to South Philly’s rising Mexican population is not a new story. It’s been this way for years now, to this city’s collective gustatory benefit. But with few exceptions, the taquerias that have sprung up like wildflowers beneath the corrugated awnings are interchangeable. Even those with destinationworthy specialties — Prima Pizza’s banana-leaf tamales, Taquitos de Puebla’s tacos al pastor, Mole Poblano’s titular dish — aspire to little more than serving the best version possible of their food. Nothing wrong with that. But when a place opens up that aspires to more, you notice. At Blue Corn, where diamond-patterned place mats pad the tables and ceviches marinate in housemade “bruja” (witch) vin-

egar, it doesn’t take long to figure out this white space trimmed in nautical blue is aiming for something beyond the typical Ninth Street dining experience. Its owners, Armando Sandovar and his brothers and sister, show their Susanna Foo background in details that speak to a restaurant more fully developed than its neighbors: a verbal menu of nightly specials, for example, and dessert. Blue Corn has a bar — a bar! — with palomas and tamarind margaritas and chile piquin-rimmed elixirs of a kind similar to the drinks at Distrito, La Calaca Feliz and the Cantina twins. And when I drained the Alacran, a tall, grenadine-pink, tequila-grapefruit cocktail with a sunken treasure of chopped papaya, an eagle-eyed woman bearing a jangly pitcher was an empty-water-glass assassin. She seemed to have no other purpose except keeping customers hydrated and folding the napkins into precise paper-plane points that stack perfectly in the upright plastic cones on each table. The Sandovar clan has invested in visuals, too, lining the walls with curved mirrors and paintings depicting the restaurant’s namesake vegetable. Even the obligatory Virgin Mary statue seems unusually decked, watching over the restaurant in a watermelon-hued robe and fiery aurora. Pendant lamps dangle from the drop ceiling like exotic fruits, flattering the colorful cooking served on terra-cotta pottery tattooed with yellow flowers. The colors that

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vibrate within these walls are so saturated that it’s like you’re looking at everything through an Instagram filter. I blinked a few times and peered at the shiny pomegranate seeds beading Sandovar’s stuffed chiles en nogada. My nose was so close I could see the individual kernels suspended within each glistening fuchsia droplet. This is the color of pomegranate seeds? I felt like I’d spent the past 30 years seeing dried cranberries. Of course, none of this — not the $7.50 cocktails, the eager service, the trippy pomegranates — matters if the food sucks. Fortunately, Sandovar and his siblings can cook; they share chef duties at Blue Corn, where the menu is based on — you guessed it. Dried and ground, the azure ears become everything from dusky tortillas to desserts, crusting a silky mascarpone cheesecake and baked into an amazing, steamy, muffin-like cake I wanted to split, toast and butter for breakfast the next morning. The blue huarache was an oblong masa cake layered like a pizza with refried beans, queso fresco, grilled cactus and crumbles of chorizo bleeding scarlet fat. The Sandovars hail from Puebla, but brew the most complex Yucatan pibil I’ve ever tasted — robust, sour, spicy. Instead of the typical pork, they braise chicken in the sauce, pull and redress the meat, then pile it onto tender, silver dollar-sized sopecitos with cilantro and crema. Ringing the pibil’s ruddy scarlet is a blue iris. The sopecitos pibil are a third of the “Fundacion Olmecaâ€? sampler. Crispy chalupas paved in queso fresco and zippy salsa verde and soft tlacoyos filled with refried beans and wreathed in rajas round out the platter. You get two of each item for 10 bucks, a perfect starter to share with a date or hoard for yourself as an entrĂŠe. There’s also gorgeous sopa poblana, a creamy tomatoand-pepper puree garnished with meaty strips of charred pepper and hunks of panela cheese that melted ever so slightly, and the “Charrito,â€? an unusual but enjoyable salad of roasted beets and sliced chayote flanking a meadow of fresh watercress. The menu says goat cheese and Maggi dressing, Maggi being a soy-like sauce beloved in Mexico, I learned later. Strange that the salad needed salt. The fabled chiles en nogada, a special, also could have used a salty element to combat its sweetness. Dried papaya, raisins, nuts and sweet spices mined the ground beef filling of this fat-roasted poblano pepper blanketed in white walnut-cream sauce. Pomegranate seeds speckled the surface of the pepper, and came on the side like a trove of jewels. Sliced fresh apple and sticks of more dried papaya also complemented — pretty, but less useful than, say, a dusting of salty queso fresco. That might be an unexpected addition, but then again, so is Blue Corn to Ninth Street. One that makes everything better. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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