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Whether or not you agree with Occupy Philly’s mission and goals, their anger is not going away. In this week’s cover package, we round up the stories of the people who make Occupy Philly what it is.

feedback Tough as Nails Regarding last week’s cover image: PW certainly made a bizarre photo choice for the cover of The Food Issue. That pic has made me swear off brownies and ice cream forever! I actually gagged at my desk when I saw it. Seriously, did you have a casting session for the ugliest hand in Philadelphia? If you looked up “hammerthumb” in the dictionary that same photo would be in there. The jail tats are a nice touch, too. Personally, I don’t want hands like that anywhere near my food. I can only imagine what that vile meat hook is sprinkling all over that tasty treat.

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Vote of Confidence Regarding last week’s election guide: Thanks for the guide. I always wish that Philly elections were held on evennumbered years so more people would be interested in voting. Having it on an odd year pretty much guarantees that the least amount of people possible will care.

JOSEPH, via philadelphiaweekly.com I’m surprised you did not talk about the mayor’s race, since that asshole Nutter is being opposed, which apparently, is your criteria for covering the district council races. Karen Brown, is more of the democrat than Mr. Potato Head will ever be. And all you talked about was Jewell Williams.

Cheri Honkala has done much more to contribute to the race, and was extensively covered. I encourage you all to vote for both Brown and Honkala, two strong women who will take this city into the future.

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Electoral College Dropouts PA Republicans’ plan to change the state’s voting structure will disenfranchise Democrats.

By Randy LoBasso rlobasso@philadelphiaweekly.com

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here’s a storm brewing in Harrisburg. And if you’re a conservative, it’s perfect.

State Republicans hold more power now (in the state House, Senate and governorship) than they’ve had in decades.

And they’re not wasting it. Over the last 10 months, the party’s gone all out against the citizens, legislatively: Attempting to kill women’s rights through bizarre architecture legislation and state-sponsored torture; repressing poor and homeless voter’s rights through Voter ID legislation; potential drug-test rules for people on welfare; and Arizona-style immigration legislation.

Up next: Senate Bill 1282, a shady electoral college plan to give out Pennsylvania’s electoral votes by district instead of population. Add to that the fact that Republicans will be redrawing those very same congressional districts this year, and we’ve got outright gerrymandering on our hands.

The plan, thought up by Sen. Dominic Pileggi of Chester, would change the way Pennsylvania distributes its 20 electoral votes in presidential elections. Currently, Pennsylvania uses the winner-take-all system, meaning that whoever wins the state’s popular vote gets all that state’s electoral votes. Pileggi’s plan would separate

electoral votes by congressional district instead of by population, which many say would benefit Republicans, since the state’s Democratic bookends (Philly and Pittsburgh) have tipped the scales toward Democrats in the last five presidential elections.

In local practice, it’d look like this: Philadelphia’s two majority congressional districts (District 1, held by Bob Brady; and District 2, held

by Chaka Fattah) are highly Democratic and potentially make up millions of Democratic votes.

All the votes in these districts are currently added up with the rest of the state’s popular vote and the winner takes all (Pennsylvania formerly had 21 electoral votes; it’s getting cut down to 20 in 2012, due to a sluggish 3.5 percent state population growth). According to Pileggi’s plan, if the presidential candidate won Philadelphia, he or she would get at least two electoral votes in the next election—whether that candidate wins Philadelphia by a single vote, or, as was the case in 2008, about 400,000.

Therefore, in the next election, even if President Obama wins the statewide popular vote, he could end up with fewer electoral college votes than his Republican challenger. If the law had been in practice in 2008, when Obama won the state by 10 points, he’d only have taken 11 of the then21 votes. (Both Pennsylvania senators, Bob Casey and Pat Toomey would have a vote, too, and would give them to the candidate who wins the majority of the state.)

Pileggi insists his plan is not a partisan one. But that’s exactly how criticism and praise has broken down.

State Sen. Anthony Williams (D) of Philadelphia has called Pileggi’s electoral college plan “chilling” because it marginalizes the most diverse portion of the state.

“We [of Southeastern PA] have people of all persuasions and all faiths,” he said at a recent hearing. “To suggest that we take

away their voices is duplicitous.”

But state Rep. Babette Josephs, who represents Pennsylvania’s 182nd District, sees something more sinister at play. She says this bill, along with Voter ID and antiimmigration legislation, is meant to crush Philadelphia’s often-lopsided state representation due to a heavy population and need of resources.

“I think there has been a plan to lessen Philadelphia’s standing in the state,” she says. “We’re the people who bring out the Democratic vote. This is where the Democratic votes are concentrated … and I think the Voter ID requirements and others are aimed in that direction.”

The bill could also hurt Pennsylvania’s standing in national politics, as well. “[Pennsylvania’s spot as a swing state] highlights the state … The economic payoff and civic pride that comes to a state that gets that kind of national attention cannot be replicated by anything,” Josephs says.

“If Pileggi’s bill is passed, Republicans will effectively be doing their damndest, outside outright ballot stuffing, to hijack the 2012 elections.”

Of course, Gov. Corbett responded favorably to Pileggi’s plan (as did the state’s 12 U.S. House Republicans). “There are huge portions of Pennsylvania that voted for the other candidate in many of the elections, and their vote really didn’t count,” he said earlier this fall, when the plan was introduced. And if he really feels that way— ‘representative democracy’ be damned— then he’s in the right place at the right time. After all, last year was a census year.

Which makes this year a redistricting year.

With Republicans controlling Harrisburg, they’re required by law to redraw the state’s congressional map before the electoral college plan comes into play. The majority party always does this to make it as hard as possible for Democrats to take back one-time “swing” seats, an added benefit of doing all this, now.

It’s like this: This year’s new congressional and legislative maps are drawn by a panel consisting of two Democrats and three Republicans, then sent to the House and Senate for a vote. Some potential legislative maps have already been released, but none yet voted upon. At least one of those maps eliminates the 169th District in the Northeast. The seat would potentially be moved to York County, where a more conservative Republican could take the helm.

For the U.S. Congressional maps: Though at first it was assumed the eliminated district would be in a Pittsburgh suburb, several anonymous sources have been leaking to the Harrisburg press that, on second thought, why not combine Reps. Chaka Fattah’s and Allyson Schwartz’s respective Philadelphia and suburban Philadelphia districts? This would, as a news source pointed out in March, create a “battle between suburban whites and Philadelphia blacks” and be “the kind of bloodbath the Republicans would pay to see.”

Eliminating a Democratic House seat isn’t the only consolation prize for Republicans. They can strengthen their own seats, too. Especially suburban “swing” seats, like Pennsylvania’s 7th and 8th Districts, held by freshman Republican Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick and Pat Meehan, respectively.

If they redraw both seats to consist of fewer Philly suburbs and more red state rural areas, they’ve got a deal.

And reason would say they’d do the same thing in liberal Harrisburg and Pittsburgh suburban districts, too. So if Pileggi’s bill is passed, and the state is redistricted the way it likely will be, Republicans will effectively be doing their damndest, outside outright ballot stuffing, to hijack the 2012 elections.

It’s the perfect storm of power grabbing, gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement and douchebaggery.

“Certainly, from the standpoint of a Republican, it’s a winner,” said former state senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum in September. Actually, he called it a cheap victory. “Republicans will come out ahead in Pennsylvania in every election.”

Babette Josephs agrees. “I want people to understand what sore winners these Republicans are,” she says. “They control the whole state. They look at one set of rules under which they can’t win—I mean they could work to bring out their own vote; that would be a way to win—but they say, ‘Let’s do it the easy way. Let’s change the rules.’” n

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Looming over the Roosevelt Boulevard past Rising Sun Avenue, a bleak, lifeless community subsists of a few scattered business and weathered homes. The neighborhood remains one of the few areas in Philly that’s seen a decrease in population over the last 10 years. The landscape is no better a half-mile away at North Front and Duncannon streets, where Tiffanni Williams pushes a stroller past Olney Field, a beaten bed of scorched grass and dirt. “They could make something out of it,” Williams says of the field. “Make it all nice; It’d be real good for the community.”

The field is in such bad condition that Elaine Tomline, 42nd Democratic ward leader since 2001, prefers making the trip to Temple University’s track to exercise than to risk injury walking around Olney Field’s endlessly punctured track. “You’ll roll an ankle walking around that track,” says Tomlin, peering through the field’s rusted fence. It’s been that way for over a decade and Tomlin says with a disappointing sigh that it’ll be that way for another decade.

“It’s just sitting here,” fumes Mike McCrea, a committeeman in the 42nd Ward. “They haven’t done anything to it in so long, it’s just pathetic.”

The delapidated state of Olney Field is a symbol of the neighborhood’s overall decline and neglect. And just one of its many social and political problems that Tomlin can’t fix because its ward (a political boundary that’s smaller than a Council district) is divided by three councilmanic districts—the 7th, 8th and 9th. The field itself is divided by two districts.

Tomlin says the outdated ward boundaries “reduces your community crowd. People who live here don’t know who’s representing them because there’s three of them.” And that, she adds, makes it difficult for her to obtain services from the city, like repairing Olney Field. “For 10 years, we sent letters to each councilperson, the last time in June. We basically asked if we could have one councilperson to represent the ward,” says Tomlin. City Council ignored her requests and her recent testimony at last month’s redistricting hearing.

Under Council’s newly passed reidistricting map, at least a dozen of the city’s 66 wards are divided by two or more districts—bringing the total number of cracked wards to at least 17.

The city’s got a disorientated representation of political power and that “minimizes a neighborhood’s ability to plan and to ensure infrastructure investment,” says Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez. “There is an underlying issue here that we won’t address … the ward structure needs to be totally redone. Wards no longer represent neighborhoods.”

“The sizes are too different [because of the population changes],” Quiñones-Sánchez adds.

“Everyone ends up getting pieces of this ward and that ward. One neighborhood could be in three councilmanic districts.

Even though Philadelphia’s Home Rule Charter mandates the city to redraw new district boundaries every 10 years, it doesn’t have any specific language that compels ward or division redistricting. So the last time city officials remapped Philly’s wards was in 1965, under Mayor James Tate. In fact, the closest

the city has gotten to restructuring its wards is splitting some and labeling them “a” or “b,” like wards 39a and 29b. But “that’s ignoring the problem,” Quiñones-Sánchez says.

Wards are extremely political creatures.

Each of the city’s divisions are represented by committee people of both political parties elected by voters. The committee people then select their respective party’s ward leader, giving each of the city’s wards both a Democrat and Republican leader. They all share concerns and problems about their respective neighborhoods, while the ward leader is supposed to act as the liaison to Council.

But liaising is nearly impossible when two or more districts split wards and a ward leader must communicate with multiple council members to deliver a single service, like the 42nd ward. “I can understand two councilmanic districts because of the natural divide [of the Roosevelt Boulevard.], but not three,” says Carol Golden, Tomlin’s Republican counterpart. “It’s kinda awkward.”

The 42nd Ward isn’t the only ménage à trios included in the newly voted on district map. The 18th Ward, which includes parts of Fishtown and Port Richmond, is split between the 1st, 5th and 7th districts.

Traveling south toward the 2nd ward, its rectangular frame extends a little more than a mile between Broad Street and Columbus Avenue and another mile from Wharton to South Streets. It’s a hodgepodge of Italian, Asian, Spanish and other cultures, but like most of Philly, it struggles to maintain a Republican presence. The slender ward is broken by parts of three Democratic state House seats: The 182nd, 175th and 186th.

“In Philadelphia, there’s no area where Democrats can’t be successful,” says state Sen. Mike Stack III. “No matter how custom you draw it, it will always become Democratic.”

Stack controls the 58th Ward, which sits in the 172nd state House District. It’s one of the largest wards in the city with more divisions than any other. In fact, it’s so big, he can barley identify how many districts are in it. “At least three legislative districts,” he initially counts, before realizing there are actually four.

But even if the political will was strong enough to change ward boundaries, it’s nearly impossible to do so in Philadelphia, and it showed in the most recent major attempt to redistrict the city’s wards during the mid ’70s.

Shortly after Democratic state Rep. Mark Cohen was elected into the House in 1974, he encouraged support for new legislation that would make it nearly impossible for Philadelphia to restructure its wards. Today, he says, “there’s no such thing as an elected official that represents the ward ... There’s no need to,” Cohen says.

While it’s easier for elected officials to maintain the politically uncompetitive status quo of the city, now would be a good time to redraw ward boundaries and bring Philly’s neighborhoods back together. Until that happens, Council’s recent redistricting map falls short of addressing real political restructuring and the block-by-block needs of the people. n

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The Evolution of Tent City

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ou may agree with Occupy Philly’s (albeit unclear at times) mission and goals. You may not. It doesn’t matter. Their anger is not going away. Which is why we think it’s time to reflect on the movement, one month in. In these pages, you’ll find a few different stories about the people who make Occupy Philly what it is. Michael Alan Goldberg finds Occupy’s original facilitators and discusses how the movement has evolved since it started Oct. 6. Randy LoBasso, of course, remains obsessed with the similarities between Occupy and the Tea Party. And Tara Murtha explores the curious—and controversial— Ron Paul tent. Sprinkled throughout you’ll see photographs documenting the dramatic physical changes that have taken place at Tent City these last few weeks.

How Did We Get Here?

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When did it start?

Was it when financial institutions traded bad debt in the stock market? Was it when free trade agreements in the ’90s led manufacturers to close their plants in the United States and open them up in China?

To the people who can barely scrape together a living, it doesn’t matter when the Great Recession began.

What does matter is how you’re going to pay the rent/ mortgage, the credit-card bills you’ve racked up to buy groceries, and the oil you’ll need to keep your house warm this winter.

This is the struggle that brought some people to pitch tents outside City Hall last month and join Occupy Philly—a nonviolent resistance targeting people and corporations living large while others suffer, wielding the levers of economic power at home and lethal force abroad.

And compassion for those who are struggling to survive has brought some people to do the audacious: for example, staging a sit-in the Comcast Center to get arrested. Gwendolyn Snyder, executive director at Jobs for Justice, was one of the “Comcast Nine” detained Nov. 2, and she’s the bottom-liner for Occupy Philadelphia’s labor committee. She explains that Occupy Philly—one of hundreds of offshoots of Occupy Wall Street—is a response to economic conditions.

“We’re seeing record unemployment. We’re seeing the continuing policies that benefit the richest people in our society, that treat corporations as people with the same rights as people.”

Having been participating in Occupy since Day 1, Snyder explains the demographic of those living in the tents. “I think we’ve got a wide range, from people on unemployment, to people who’ve got legitimate medical or behavioral issues that really need and deserve care and services that they haven’t been able to receive because of the central services cuts.”

Then there are the people who did everything right on the path to the American Dream. They got loans

so they could go to college, or they used credit to start businesses. “(There are) folks who really have invested in getting an education, have worked hard to make sure they’re on the path to getting a job and were promised that if they paid for college, they got a job,” Snyder says.

And it all crumbled. They live in deteriorating conditions, scraping together a living half-mired in debt.

Alan Ford, 39, gestures to a high-rise apartment building north of Dilworth Plaza, asking, “What other purpose does a building like this serve but to elevate people over others?” He was a part of Occupy’s initial general assemblies but didn’t think he’d wind up being one of the occupiers—until his heating and air-conditioning business dissolved.

He’s been living in Dilworth Plaza since Oct. 6, and works in the Safety tent.

Prefacing that his opinion doesn’t represent the rest of Occupy Philly, he says, “The divides in Philadelphia are very much socio-economic. Many of the people participating in the movement in Philadelphia were homeless before we occupied this space … The people who weren’t homeless before they came here who have begun to call this their home are now in the same position … Now they’ve got the label ‘homeless,’ like they’re less than us, as if they’re broken.”

“The main reason I’m here is … maybe there is a way we can actually make this whole thing work for everyone … the world will maybe operate fairly,” he continues. “For me that’s not about redistribution of wealth. It’s about changing the system we’re governing ourselves with so that it’s inclusive and not exclusive.”

Sitting on the steps of Dilworth Plaza, soon to be demolished in a 27-month construction project, he points towards the Comcast Center, the tallest building in Philadelphia. “Tell me, what is created in those buildings?” he asks. “What value to the human race is created, tangible value? What food is made there? What shelter, what clothes? What philosophy is generated there that benefits all mankind?” Having worked as a cooling and heating tech in those buildings, he says he hasn’t seen any.

“This is a conversation we all need to have,” he continues. “The middle-class job, the middle-class career that I had no longer supported a middle-class lifestyle.” n

Protesters reflect on how the movement has changed their lives.

By Michael Alan Goldberg mgoldberg@philadelphiaweekly.com

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As the cold wind whips past the rows of tents outside City Hall on the 31st morning of Occupy Philly, bleary-eyed Anthony Griggs slowly emerges from his tent and shakes out his blanket. Here since the start of the occupation on Oct. 6, the 51-year-old forklift operator from South Jersey says that before joining the movement to support “everyone fighting for more jobs,” he’d never done much camping, much less on the freezing, hard cement in the middle of a city. It hasn’t been easy. But he insists the experience has been transformative.

“Before this, usually I just walked past people and never paid them no mind,” says Griggs, who’s been out of work for three months. “I didn’t worry about other people’s situations, just my own. But seeing what it’s like to live this way and talking to all these different people, now I’m thinking about everybody and their concerns.”

For those who’ve been a part of Occupy Philly since the first day, the one-month anniversary has given them the opportunity to reflect on how the movement has impacted their lives, how it’s fared in practice rather than theory, and what the future might hold.

Throughout the encampment, perspectives like Griggs’ are common. “Seeing people from all walks of life coming together and being so organized in standing up for what they believe in, it’s exciting,” says Jean, a 41-year-old freelance writer who joined the movement to demand health insurance and other benefits for contract workers.

In others, however, frustration is evident.

“I really hope we’re gonna finally get something out of this because, come on man, it’s been really cold every night,” says Mikhail, one of Jean’s tent-mates. The Russian-born 34-yearold—a former gas station employee who says he’s made his living the past year by playing backgammon for money—says he won’t be happy until Occupy protests force gas prices below $1 a gallon. “You don’t wanna be out here doing this and nothing changes,” he says. “It’s gonna make us look stupid.

Like, just some noise by a bunch of crazy people who came for a couple months, protested and left.”

Nik Zalesky, one of Occupy Philly’s early organizers, says that the movement has gone a little more differently than he’d imagined at the outset. “I envisioned that everyone would get along and everyone’s concerns would be met, and that hasn’t always been the case,” says the 29-year-old. “I thought there would be more marches, and there aren’t. And because it’s

direct democracy, it’s not as quick a process as many people might want. But we never said we were perfect, and we’re still working some things out.”

Still, Zalesky points to Occupy Philly’s (and the Occupy movement as a whole’s) accomplishments: Helping shame Bank of America into rescinding its plans for a $5-a-month debit-card fee. Compelling President Obama to unveil a new student loan-forgiveness program. “Chasing [U.S. House Majority Leader] Eric Cantor out of town,” Zalesky laughs.

(Cantor, a vocal critic of the Occupy movement, canceled a scheduled Oct. 21 speech at Penn; Zalesky says Occupy Philly’s protest outside Penn “scared him off.”) And, he says, “we’ve changed the national conversation to where people are finally acknowledging there’s something fundamentally wrong with the system and the wealth disparity in this country.”

Yet even as it tries to transform the outside world, Occupy Philly’s internal dynamics are troubling to some. At the first Occupy planning meeting on Sept. 29, 41-year-old North Philly musician and artist Dayvt Vaune expressed to PW his concerns about unity among protesters. Six weeks later, the gregarious Vaune—at 6-feet-5-inches tall and with long dreadlocks, a distinctive presence at Occupy Philly—says that while he remains positive and has been inspired by the ideals at the heart of the movement, he’s disturbed by ongoing divisiveness along racial lines.

“We’re supposed to be out here seeking change, but what I find is a lot of people are following the same lanes that they’ve been following all along,” Vaune says.

For example, he says he’s seen many white people try to stifle discussions about slavery—and the lingering racism, poverty and social injustice borne from it—which is “at the root of black people’s anger at the system,” according to Vaune.

“They’re like, ‘That’s the past, we shouldn’t talk about it …’

Well, we need to talk about it so we can move past it,” he continues. Meanwhile, he says many minority protesters refuse to let go of their mistrust of whites and want to self-segregate from the rest of Occupy Philly. Vaune says he’s spent much of his time at the encampment trying to convince people otherwise.

“I’m like, for you to separate off—haven’t you watched the Nature channel? Animals that separate from the group, they

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get fucked up. We all gotta stick together.”

Zalesky claims there’s an even bigger schism: Protesters who want to maintain Occupy Philly’s low-key, cordial demeanor and others who want to ramp up the agitation factor via more belligerent sit-ins—echoing the tactics of Occupiers in Oakland, Boston and Wall Street—at banks and corporations, or by blocking bridges and roads. Which could potentially lead to police retaliation replete with tear gas and rubber bullets.

“Conflict can drive a news story a lot quicker than a bunch of people sitting around talking about the books in the library we’ve put together,” Zalesky admits. “But I don’t want to see that kind of violence happen here. It’s counter-productive.”

Shawn McMonigle—another distinctive Occupy denizen with his bushy red beard and long hair (some people have taken to calling him “Jesus guy” on Twitter)—doesn’t plan to start throwing rocks through windows, but he’s among those stirring things up a bit. The 24-year-old was one of nine people arrested during last week’s sit-in at the Comcast Center (he was detained for nearly 12 hours and charged with defiant trespass, a misdemeanor).

“I’m not sure I want to agitate beyond [sit-ins],” McMonigle muses. “For me, that’s just about trying to bring awareness to the movement. When arrests happen, people get interested.”

Many Occupy protesters who spoke to PW are resigned to an eventual PPD crackdown, perhaps by next week when the city intends to clear out Dilworth Plaza for a construction project. “The city’s cooperation has benefited us in many ways, but in no way do I believe they’re in support of what’s happening here,” says Ashlee Niedospial, 24. “There’s gonna come a day when they want us to leave, and then I think the city will show its true colors.”

Niedospial says she won’t go quietly: “If I don’t stand my ground and fight for the future of this movement, I think it will be the only regret I will ever have in my life.”

Griggs says he’ll bail if things start to get ugly. “I don’t need to get beat up by no cops,” he says.

Others aren’t sure what they’ll do. “This is my life,” says McMonigle. “If it doesn’t work out, I’m probably gonna go live in a monastery. I can’t see myself going back to a regular life.

My parents have asked me, ‘Do you think you can get a job out of this?’ That thought hasn’t even entered my mind. [Occupy Philly] is my full-time job.” n

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A month ago, I wrote a column in PW comparing the Tea Party and the Occupy movement. Specifically, why the American Right decided to immediately embrace one and not the other. It was a fairly tongue-in-cheek question. One look at who the Occupiers are, and who their enemy is, supplies the answer. But the point—Tea Partiers and Occupiers won’t admit it, but they’ve got more in common than they think—still holds true. Often in sinister ways.

As the Occupy movement has proceeded, the liberal and conservative causes have overlapped on several fronts, including their shared abilities to take over the Internet with their messages, “occupy” the headlines and infuriate the other side. They both think they’re essentially the civil rights movements of the 21st century, too. Some Occupiers, like Anna Kauffman, 66, of Northeast Philly, have even begun calling on the government to lower taxes, saying the burden on small businesses is too much—which is essentially the entire point of the Tea Party movement.

“I see similarities with the Tea Party,” says an Occupy Philly protester named Matthew at the ‘Occupy Mitt Romney’ protest last week. He pauses. “But then again, I don’t know much about what the Tea Party stands for.”

Others at the same protest said the main difference is that Occupy hasn’t been taken over by corporate interests.

One consists of predominantly young people, the other old. One’s got a clear, on-point message (lower taxes; stop subsidizing American “losers” who can’t pay their mortgages) and strategy (elect Republicans). The other’s got a series of messages, one of which I recently overheard was the complete annihilation of the current two-party system of government. (Also: eliminating corporate influence over themselves; getting lobbyists out of government; raising the minimum wage; getting our military out of the Middle East.) “[The Occupy] movements are spreading all over the place,” author Corey Robin told PW when the protests began. “They’ve spread a lot of imagination and momentum but they haven’t actually proposed actually doing something that would really threaten Wall Street. But I think until they have a clear political agenda, that will start resulting in a fundamental transfer of power.”

A month later, clear political agendas are forming. And that’s where Occupy Philly and the Tea Party seem to agree: The slow climb of the bruised American economy must be stopped dead in its tracks until the “war” on the respective movements—and, by extension, the American people—are done. And when will that be? For Tea Partiers, it’s when Republicans are in the White House. For Occupiers, it’s when

the entire system changes for good.

Last Sunday, Occupy Philly unanimously passed a resolution calling for “a Constitutional Amendment to purify the political process”—essentially ending what’s called “corporate personhood” in the United States. Corporate Personhood is the Supreme Court-sanctioned idea that corporations get the same free-speech rights as regular Americans in the political arena, as persons are defined according to the 14th Amendment. It was recently legalized in a 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

And it is set to unleash a corporate-funded 2012 political campaign unlike any we’ve ever seen. Several independent groups, like Wolf PAC, and even President Obama, have decried the decision. Wolf PAC has called for a Constitutional Convention that would result in the outlawing of corporate influences over politics.

But what’s Occupy Philly’s plan to help stop this? Simple.

Encourage the destruction of the economy through “national strikes,” “national work stoppages,” and “Refraining from buying anything other than Essential of life purchases.”

That’s at least what was passed last Sunday.

The Tea Party, on the other hand, supports Corporate Personhood, as well as any form of money tossing that could be construed as “free market capitalism,” because that’s what their ideal of America is based on. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently said at a campaign event that “corporations are people too,” when asked about the law.

Melissa Brookstone of the Tea Party Nation recently posted a similar declaration on that group’s website. She called for small-business owners, whom she believes are “the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country,” to “not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.”

Her reasons come from the usual Tea Party place: “The Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Senate, in alliance with a global Progressive socialist movement, have participated in what appears to be a globalist socialist agenda of redistribution of wealth, and the waging of class warfare against our constitutional republic’s heritage of individual rights, free market capitalism.”

Whether you’re a small-business owner or a consumer, intentionally hurting the economy by not contributing to it ultimately produces the same result, even if for entirely different reasons. And the economy is already circling the toilet pretty well on its own, thank you very much. Unemployment is stuck at 9 percent and jobs are growing at a slower rate (about -5 percent since 2007) than almost every other industrialized country (Canada, the U.K., Japan, Italy, Germany) that suffered from the initial 2008 recession brought on by decades of greed and deregulation, even though our GDP has basically bounced back to pre-recession levels.

Which is probably a testament to the American work ethic.

But it also means it’s going to take more work to get our economy off the ground.

Any further attempts to further demolish the economy— on top of the congressional GOP’s ongoing efforts to focus on cuts rather than jobs—could have disastrous effects.

Which brings us back to the reasons the respective groups have this goal in mind. For the Tea Party, it’s to elect Republicans. For Occupy, it’s to change everything. And while the means may be the same, that’s probably the most important difference between the groups. n

Right as Ron The strange odyssey of the Ron Paul tent.

By Tara Murtha tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com Ron Paul supporters and Occupiers make for strange bedfellows: While Paul’s supporters and Occupiers agree that this country is in big trouble, they advocate wildly different solutions. On a recent afternoon, a Paul supporter hanging outside the Ron Paul tent on the Northwest corner of Dilworth Plaza explained the ideological rift. “[Occupiers] basically want the government to help them,” says a 56-year-old man who didn’t want to give his name. “[For Ron Paul supporters], the view is [the government has] helped plenty. They helped so much that it’s destroyed us financially.”

Differences between the camps don’t stop with fiscal policy. Lots of liberals who want to “end the Fed” can’t get behind Paul’s anti-choice rhetoric and conservative stance on issues such as gay rights and immigration.

The presence of the Ron Paul tent has kept some wouldbe Occupiers away. These are posts from the Democratic Underground message board: “Frankly, that Ron Paul tent and message is a huge turn-off to me and antithetical to what I thought the ‘Occupy’ movement was about.”

“I really wish the Ron Paul group would start their own gig and just stay away from OWS,” posted a user named Zorra. “If they threw a party, hardly anyone would go to it. So they have parasitically attached themselves to our ultra-progressive revolutionary movement because we are what’s real and what’s happening, in order to push their junk without doing any heavy lifting.”

The tension played out on the Plaza. Throughout October, the Ron Paul group heard rumors about other Occupiers’ efforts to have them banned from the Plaza.

While Occupy spokespeople say they’ve never heard of any such efforts, other Occupiers say they have.

“Some [Occupiers] have tried to get [the Ron Paul supporters] banned,” says 33-year-old Melanie Bartlett, a Philadelphia school district administrator. “My husband’s an immigrant, and Ron Paul people, and Ron Paul, have very different ideas about immigrant policy.”

“I don’t trust him to be an anti-racism ally and this movement is built on that,” adds Bartlett. “I can’t stress enough that they don’t represent the views of most people here.”

Then there’s the matter of the gun. Some Occupiers have kept their distance from the Ron Paul tent because Fernando Antonio Salguero, who runs a sideline business teaching people off-the-grid survivalist techniques, regularly carries a Colt .45 slung on his hip. He has a permit to open carry, and has unapologetically and consistently worn the weapon every day he’s been on the Plaza.

“The 2nd amendment protects the 1st Amendment,” he likes to say. “I have the right to protect my DNA,” he says, which is his way of saying he has the right to defend himself from harm if necessary.

Though Salguero sees the gun as a peacekeeping tool (“An armed society is a polite society”), it freaks out other Occupiers.

“You’d really catch a lot less attention if you were naked than with a .45 on your hip,” say Chris Goldstein, spokesman for Occupy Philly.

A few weeks ago, the tension between the Ron Paul tent and other Occupiers reached a tipping point. Salguero says that in the middle of the night on Oct. 19, a stealthy intruder broke into the empty Ron Paul booth as the overnight staff snoozed in a tent set up next door. “They

for Ron Paul, it shows there is a more 3-D nature to this whole conceit—its not just the homeless or the kids at class right now.”

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a different path. “We are softening our image,” says Salguero. “We don’t want to be known as the Ron Paul tent.” Last Friday, Salguero revealed he’s been working on a new bigger, better, winter-ready structure— without the Ron Paul signs. “We’re not eliminating Ron Paul, but we’re not going to hang the giant 8-foot Ron Paul signs. It’s not going to be glaring or in your face. We want to have [the new structure] open to everybody.”

They erected the new 18-foot structure over the weekend. They're calling it the “Occupy Philly warming station.” Using a combination of his survivalist know-how and experience as a firefighter, the new modular temporary structure is impressive, huge by tent standards and meets fire code. It cost $800 in materials and took a week to build.

After assembling the structure last Saturday night, they set it up across the street in the Thomas Paine Plaza in front of the Municipal Building, a space city officials have stated could be a good spot for Occupy to move so construction can begin.

When police arrived, some Occupiers found themselves in the odd position of defending “the Ron Paul tent people.”

Goldstein was impressed. “[They] sort of do their own thing but last night I saw them get involved in the overall process,” says Goldstein.

For now, the structure has been moved back the original spot on Dilworth Plaza. No Ron Paul signs adorn it. Salguero says he’s already given away plans and building material lists to other camps who plan to tough Occupy out through the cold.

At this point, except for the pile of shit, it’s almost like an Occupy fairy tale: the “Ron Paul people,” formally the pariahs of Occupy, just may be key in helping the rest of the camp take the movement further into winter.

Salguero’s excited about the prospects.

The first night he opened up the new structure, he says people from all over the Plaza came to warm up and hang out.

“It was wonderful, actually,” he says.

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The strange thing about all the prominent Ron Paul signage is that after talking for a while, it becomes clear that Salguero disagrees with Paul on the same points many of his critics do, like abortion and gay rights. Stranger still, the so-called Ron Paul tent isn’t a Ron Paul tent at all. Though a pedestrian or fellow Occupier wouldn’t know it from the signage, Salguero and company are actually representing the group “Truth, Freedom, Prosperity.” According to its meetup page, TFP “strongly support[s] the principles of truth, individual liberty, personal success, self defense, nonaggression, and true free trade.”

While hanging giant Ron Paul signs created a rift between the group and the rest of the Occupiers, the intended message was one of diversity. “To me, every other tent out here is basically the same,” says assistant organizer Jerry Hartman. “[We are] not protesting the protesters, but showing the other side of it. Though we’re not here just

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took 100 percent of our literature and DVDs, then stole all the flashlights, propane tanks and two-thirds of food and water supplies,” says Salguero, sitting beneath a sign tacked to the wall that lists “George Washington’s Rules of Civility.”

“Then they took a hot steaming shit right here,” says Salguero. He leans over and slaps the cold concrete floor in the center of the booth with his gloved hand.

Asked if he knows who did it, Salguero says it doesn’t matter in a way that implies he does. Perhaps, he offers, it’s the same person who tore down the Rosa Parks tent last week.

But rather than be pissed off, Salguero’s grateful. The shit backfired. “Up at the General Assembly, they said, ‘Look, we don’t agree with Ron Paul, but we’re sorry that that happened.’” Salguero says the attack didn’t just ingratiate Ron Paul people with the rest of Occupy, it also galvanized his own camp. “The fact is we only had a small Ron Paul sign in the beginning,” says Salguero. “[After the incident] I put a call out to our group, and people dug into their basements.” Supporters found old Paul campaign placards, taped “2012” over “2008” and hung them on the tent. “Someone taking a … dump could’ve been the best thing that happened to us,” says Salguero.

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stAge Two disgruntled workers try to kill their boss in Fat Cat Killers.

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Corked and Forked Impress your next date with your knowledge of food and wine pairings and maybe get extra brownie points by learning how to make them a meal from scratch. This week, the Wine School of Philadelphia’s president, Keith Wallace, shows off recipes from his latest book, Corked and Forked. The class promises no wine snobbery and will include four food and wine pairings with a step-bystep cooking demonstration. Known for his playful eccentricity, Wallace is of the most in-demand wine connoisseurs and teachers in Philly. He’s also worked as both a professional chef and winemaker to boot. TRISHULA PATEL

7:30pm. $61.99. The Wine School, 127 S. 22nd St. 800.817.7351. vinology.com

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Locksley The four Wisconsin lads that make up Locksley last rolled into town a few months ago in tuxedos as sharp as the blaring, white-hot rock ’n’ roll they furiously churned out in front of a stunned crowd. With no consistent frontman, the three nondrumming members rotate positions in a kind of musical Chinese fire drill between songs, lead vocalist on the center mic. The quartet released a self-titled LP earlier this year, their most polished work to date. “The Whip,” has already become a favorite of sports arenas, with its jarring guitars and euphoric chorus of “whoa”s and “oh”s. Recently, the band rearranged it into an ominous, apocalyptic soundtrack for the EP Ghosts. KEVIN BROSKY 8pm. $19-$39. With Will Hoge. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY November 9 - 15, 2011

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Once a month, the curious, the inquisitive, the elite and the bespectacled gather together to do what they do best: listen to lectures, ask questions and form thoughtful opinions. You can call them nerds—a name they sport like shiny sheriff badges—but we all know that “nerd” is the new cool. For six bucks, you can get a giant pretzel and a beer, or, for eight, a beer and a sausage—the perfect compliment to Jay Parrish’s talk on “Art, Deception and Image Processing,” Caroline Grace Ashurt’s “Demystifying Acupuncture” or Physiologist Rocky Parker’s titillating discourse on “Sexy Serpent Smells: A Sense of Snake Scents.” The high-bred affair is even accompanied by the music of the Philadelphia String Quartet. Be there and, as always,

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Kurt Vile and the Violators

Umberto Eco Italian author Umberto Eco (The Name Of The Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum) constructs elaborate fictional worlds where behind every mysterious door waits a mysterious book that contains a mysterious map to another mysterious door (where there waits another mysterious book containing another mysterious map). Merging philosophy, semiotics, colorful historical context and bizarre conspiracies, solving a murder is never as simple as solving a murder. With an interview conducted by Chronicle Of Higher Education critic Carlin Romano, Eco discusses his latest book, The Prague Cemetery, tonight at the Free Library. In Paris, on the eve of the 20th century, misanthropic forger Simone Simonini crafts a document about a conspiratorial meeting in a Jewish cemetery in Prague where elders of Zion plot to dominate the world. Like much of Eco’s past work, it provides insightful, but discomforting, commentary on the inseparability of myth and history. ELLIOTT SHARP 7:30pm. $7-$15. The Free Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

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Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Despite his many and varied crimes against humanity (his championing of “Dadrock” at the height of Britpop, wishing AIDS upon various Blur members, simply being related to that simian gobshite of a brother, Liam ...), it’s hard not to warm to Noel Gallagher. He did write one of the great debut albums of all time in the shape of Definitely Maybe, as good a summation of British working class dreams as you’ll ever get. He has an undeniable knack for stadium-rousing anthems, and, in person, he’s witty, hugely entertaining, and quite the raconteur. Oh, and his new solo album is pretty damned great, with most of the elements that made Oasis so initially attractive, intact (minus monkey boy of course). Come forth, Britpop nostalgists and unreconstructed Anglophiles, and bow down before his monobrowed magnificence. NEIL FERgUSON 8pm. $25-$95. With the Hours. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust sts. 215.893.1999. academyofmusic.org

ho doesn’t like some dark humor? We’re talking some serious-

ly Black comedy. Well, Michael Ian Black. The comedian returns to the Trocadero for the first time since his visit in March, a performance that was filmed for his Comedy Central special Michael Ian Black:

Very Famous. (Keeping with that trend of stating the sarcastically obvious in his tour names, this goaround is titled “Black is White.”)

Best known for MTV’s The State and his work in the movie Run, Yes. We write about Kurt Vile every time he plays town. So what? Wanna fight about it?

Philly’s psych folk prodigy has blown up the last couple of years, partially because this affable longhair always seems to have a gem of a release at the ready. This year’s Smoke Ring for My Halo, a critically acclaimed tour de force, may have been his most shining accomplishment to date. This week Matador releases his newest EP, So Outta Reach, which features bonus cuts from the Smoke Ring sessions, and a cover of Springsteen’s “Downbound Train,” a staple of recent live sets. What’s more, attendees of Saturday’s gig will receive a free 7-inch rekkid, only available at the gig! Just another reason to go watch a man who has invented his own distinct style of guitar plunking. K.B. 8:30pm. $14. With Blues Control + Far-Out Fangtooth. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215.232.2100. utphilly.com

Fatboy, Run, Black always displays a somehow charming and distinct blend of awkward and clever. Local laughster Doogie Horner, who won the 2010 Helium Comedy Club contest for Philadelphia’s Phunniest and has been featured nationally on America’s Got Talent, will also be on hand. Tickle your funny bone at this seated show and find out what happens once you go Black. ASHLEY KOLE Fri., Nov. 11, 8pm. $20. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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It’s OK 2 Laugh If you’ve bowed to the Queens of Comedy, you now have a chance to check out the Angels of Comedy. A new comedy show is bringing the funny but holding the curses for a night of family-friendly chuckles. It’s OK 2 Laugh presents an all female, all clean, Gospel comedy show featuring comediennes Lady Luncha Bell, Tee-sah, Darlene Sistrunk, and headliner Miss Clareese. The event will be jam packed with inspiration and entertainment with additional performances from Gospel recording artist, Pastor Lorraine Logan, spoken word artist Kina the Prophetic Poet and will be hosted by 88.7’s own Denise Hillery Jones. DJ Praize will be spinning gospel jams throughout the night to keep spirits high. LAcEY c. cLARK 7:30pm. $22. Freedom Theatre, 1346 N. Broad St. 215.715.9486. itsokay2laugh.com

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Like beer? Like good beer? The owners of various bars around the city—including Kraftwork, Bishop’s Collar, Kite & Key, the Institute and Johnny Brenda’s—have teamed up to provide intimate tastings of their finest brews in a pub crawl that spans the city. From 11 a.m. to 9 p.m, those who are both passionate and knowledgeable about their beverage of choice, will get a feel for each of the 12 participating bars before moving on to a new location. The best part? Tickets are only $10 and allow access to the shuttle buses ingeniously provided to herd tasters’ increasingly drunk selves around the city. Tickets are limited to prevent overcrowding, so snap yours up either online or at any of the participating venues. KIRSTEN STAMN

Somewhere between Vampire Weekend and Ra Ra Riot, Beirut brings trans-global energy to the notoriously starched genre of chamber pop. Early releases, notably their 2006 debut Gulag Orkestar, feature a strong Balkan flavor, suggesting an even moodier DeVotchKa, as well as shambling psych/folk in the vein of Neutral Milk Hotel. With their latest, The Rip Tide, the ethnic influences recede in favor of a more urbane orchestral mien brushed by subtle electro-pop undercurrents. The result’s fussier, but strangely more alluring. Absent the gypsy sway, a crisper, prettier Beirut emerges with their most mesmerizing melodies to date from the circus swell of “Payne’s Bay” to plucky, burbling keyboard-driven hometown ode “Sante Fe.” ChRIS PARKER 8pm. $25. With Basia Bulat. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

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or those who closely follow the international travel and budget backpacking scenes, author and freelance writer Rolf Potts is often viewed as the movement’s messiah. In his first best-selling book, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of LongTerm World Travel, Potts laid out an easy-to-follow yet philosophically deep approach to achieving the travel dreams so many of us assume we have neither the time or money for.

Tonight Potts shares the little-known story of Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, a prolific and visionary entrepreneur who was commonly referred to as the “Henry Ford of Literature.” Throughout his career, the Philadelphia-born Haldeman-Julius published roughly 300 million copies of his pocket-sized “Little Blue Books,” which were sold through the mail for mere pennies.

According to Potts, who’s spending the year in West Philly as UPenn’s current ArtsEdge resident, Haldeman-Julius essentially foreshadowed today’s information superhighway with his controversial booklets, which covered everything from feminism and sexuality to philosophy and religion. And although the Little Blue Books have since become hard-to-find collector’s items, a limited number of free copies will be given away during tonight’s program. DAN ELDRIDGE

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There remains an idiotic assumption that sports fans are anti-intellectual. That’s false.

You’ll find more compelling reflections on the human condition in John Feinstein’s book on legendary Indiana Hoosier’s coach Bob Knight, A Season On The Brink, than you will in anything written by Aristotle or Slavoj Zizek. Bo Jackson’s autobiography Bo Knows Bo’s the realization of Socates’ famed advice that one must first and foremost “Know thyself.” Frankly, if you’re not reading sports writing, you’re the idiot. Tonight at The Free Library, Football Outsiders/ESPN/ New York Times sports scribe Mike Tanier’s dropping science on his new book, The Philly Fan’s Code: The 50 Toughest, Craziest, Most Legendary Philadelphia Athletes Of The Last 50 Years. From former Eagles linebacker “Concrete” Charlie Bednarik’s notorious shittalking to 76er Wilt Chamberlain’s punishing skills on-the-court (and in-the-bedroom), Tanier offers a fail-proof ranking system to determine who is Philly’s wackiest, most badass athlete. E.S. 7:30pm. Free. The Free Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

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It’s been 11 weeks since the School Reform Commission unanimously voted to fire public school boss lady Arlene Ackerman. The former superintendent may be gone, yet tensions between community members and the SRC are far from over, especially since the committee is in the midst of closing more public schools and replacing them with charter schools.

Inside Building 440 on North Broad Street last week, anger was stewing and about to reach its boiling point. Sitting in front of the SRC—a currently crippled three-person committee that is designed for five—were armies of agitated community members, baffled students and indignant parents, bracing in suspense for a reality they knew had been coming. Student enrollment has dropped, revenues are down and maintaining the district’s 249 schools—some of which are nearly half-empty—isn’t sustainable.

Leroy Nunery, the acting superintendent and Ackerman’s old right-hand-man, waits two hours into the meeting, at 5 p.m., to announce that the SRC is considering closing nine schools, and many more could be on the way.

“We don’t want to leave assets and buildings stranded,” Nunery says.

The news isn’t surprising. School district data show just 47 percent of schools made Adequate Yearly Progress in the 2010-2011 school year, a sluggish improvement over recent years. The school district also announced in February that it had 70,000 vacant seats. Enrollment in Philly’s public schools has been steadily

dropping, from 200,000 in 2001 to about 154,000 in 2010 and to just 146,090 today. Meanwhile, enrollment in charter schools has catapulted from 12,000 in 2001 to 44,000 last year, according to the Pew Charitable Trust. Today, about 46,000 students are enrolled in the city’s 80 charter schools.

“They have to start closing and consolidating [public] schools and really manage the decline of the school district, because charters are going to take over,” Councilman At-Large Bill Green said last May during a budget hearing for the school district. “And frankly, they do a much better job.”

School District officials hope to save between $500,000 and $1 million a year by closing some schools and consolidating 14,465 seats. They hope to consolidate 35,000 seats by 2014.

But public school advocates hope to reverse the charter trend by capitalizing on charters’ weaknesses. For instance, public school advocates, like the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and other teacher unions, blasted charters after an April 2011 study from Stanford found that 17 percent of Pennsylvania charters schools are performing better than public schools. Fifty percent are the same and 33 percent are doing worse. They chanted “I told ya so” after the Office of the Controller reviewed the city’s charter schools and released a report in April 2010 that found 13 charters abused taxpayer money due to financial mismanagement, fraud and questionable spending practices, largely because of a lack of school district oversight.

“There are good charters and there are bad charters,” Green says. “There are good public schools and bad public schools. The difference is that public schools don’t close. Charter schools can and should close if [they’re] not performing well. That act of enforcement hasn’t been done by the SRC.” But that’s changing now. In fact, according to Green, it’s just a matter of time until the district collapses and an entirely new model takes over (he particularly likes the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York). He often goes to SRC meetings, inconspicuously tucked into the back corner, jotting down notes or whispering to an aide. He’s predicted—and called for— public school closings for a long time.

“The point of school is to prepare children in Philadelphia for life,” he says, adding that having a district with close to a 50 percent graduation rate isn’t doing that.

“That’s a broken system. Perpetuating that system without providing competition doesn’t make sense if it’s about the children and not about the grown ups.”

As charters continue to replace public schools, the power of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers has been weakening. The 17,000-member union is the city’s largest, but it lost about 4,000 teachers over the past decade. With the loss of members comes a loss of thou-

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The numbers are impressive, but Jordan says that schools shouldn’t promote any particular ethnicity. “We go back to our separate and unequal system that we had in this country since Brown v. Board of [Education],” he says. The school, not operated by a lottery system, is inclusive of its community. Stetson’s principal did not return calls to PW. The proposed closures of the nine schools reflect a trend happening across the nation, largely due to the influence of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who praises charters. But the PFT still stands as the city’s largest union and has maintained its political muscle.

Its recent endorsement of Mayor Nutter during the city’s primaries could put pressure on him to influence the SRC and slow down school closures.

Green says that’s already been happening. Over the past three years, he says the SRC has put a “moratorium” on new charters. “Last year, the SRC didn’t even

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sands of dollars of dues the union would have collected, since most charter schools do not have unions.

“Certainly the charter schools caused our number to decline,” says PFT President Jerry Jordan. “If you put the city’s charter schools together in one district, they’d be the second largest district in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.”

Not all public school teachers despise charters. Hope Moffett—the Audenried High School teacher who was sent to teacher-jail (the place teachers are sent if they are about to receive disciplinary action) after speaking out about the school district—had her job saved because of the PFT’s efforts to not let an intimidating school district bully teachers.

Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers from the mid-’70s to the late ’90s, also endorsed charters, leading what was at the time a progressive movement.

Yet teacher unions are now on the defensive. The PFT stands against charters because, Jordan says, “charters changed from their original intent.” Some have.

Those with selective admissions are far from the core of the “public” part of public education.

But the growing surge of charters should allow for more community input into how to best restructure Philadelphia’s education system, and they at least offer more accountability than public schools. For instance, Stetson Middle

School of hard knocks: The John Wanamaker Junior High School at 12th and Montgomery streets is undergoing a $250 million renovation. The south side of the former public school will, in part, be constructed into a charter school.

put out applications for charter schools,” Green adds.

The SRC has been forced to proceed with caution, as to not ignite the wrath of the public that sent Ackerman packing.

But in light of the city’s dismal graduation rates, Nutter’s recent appointments to the SRC are “safe and not bold, and the decisions they will make will probably be that—safe,” Green says. “We need bold.”

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A Matter of Choice Controversial school voucher plan is back in Harrisburg.

By Eric Augenbraun feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

For the f irst time in more than a decade, school vouchers have a legitimate chance of becoming a reality in Pennsylvania.

On Oct. 26, the state Senate voted 27-22 to approve Gov. Corbett’s education initiative. If SB 1 passes the House, it will undoubtedly be hailed by supporters as a victory for “school choice.” But a coalition representing students, parents and teachers have quite a different view of the bill.

“It is a wholesale transfer of funding already dedicated to public schools to the private sector,” says Beth Olanoff, executive director of PLUS and former director of the Office of Policy at the state Department of Education. “In effect, that is robbing poor Peter to pay poor Paul. And that’s just poor public policy.”

The Opportunity Scholarships and

Educational Improvement Tax Credit Act includes provisions for expanding charter schools and increasing funding for tax credits toward private school tuition. The most controversial feature of the bill, though, is the voucher proposal.

In the first year, the bill would make vouchers available to low-income students in one of the bottom 143 performing schools on state math and reading tests; 88 of these schools are in Philadelphia. In the second year, eligibility would expand to include students enrolled in private schools but who live in the attendance zone of one of these 143 schools.

And by the seventh year, it would include students in schools where 50 percent or more of the students scored below proficient on state tests.

For a family to qualify, they must have an income of 130 percent or less of the

federal poverty line—or $29,000 for a family of four. A voucher could be worth from $5,765 to $13,905 depending on the school district.

Proponents of vouchers claim that by assisting with tuition expenses for private and parochial schools they would allow poor children in underperforming and dangerous schools to have a chance at a quality education. State Democratic Sen. Anthony Hardy Williams, a sponsor of SB 1, said in a statement on his official website, “It should be parents, not bureaucrats, who decide which environment is best for their children. And once they’ve made that decision, money the state makes available for that child’s education should follow him or her to that school.”

However, to “Pennsylvanians Opposed to Vouchers”—a coalition of state

organizations including the American Federation of Teachers (AFT-PA), the Parent Teacher Association (PA-PTA), the Pennsylvania League of Urban Schools (PLUS) and Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY)—the reality of vouchers is far less appealing than the rhetoric. Not only have vouchers proven ineffective in other states, they argue, but the bill would represent a bold step toward gutting an already vulnerable public education system.

Opponents criticize the bill on a number of fronts, but the focus is on three main points. First, they note that money is allocated to vouchers at the expense of public school districts. Estimated at approximately $100 million in the first two years and even more in subsequent years. “We’re talking about districts that are already underfunded to the tune of

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Party and the conservatives, this is an agenda item,” says Ted Kirsch, president of the AFT-PA. “When you’re talking about vouchers, you’re talking about privatization … talking about profits.

would take charter schools and vouchers to fix the school district. “I didn’t even see vouchers as a viable option until recently, because my work and my focus was on changing the system from within

There’s money in this game and that’s what’s behind it.”

And now former Philadelphia’s schools superintendent Arlene Ackerman has thrown her support behind the vouchers. At a Philadelphia Inquirer event last month, Ackermen said she believes it

for parents,” Ackerman said. Proponents of the bill believe that Ackerman’s support will help bring attention to the cause.

Recent polling done by Terry Madonna of Franklin and Marshall College has found opposition to vouchers in the state

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tens of thousands of dollars per classroom,” says Olanoff.

Second, because of the provision in the bill that students already attending private or parochial schools will be eligible to receive vouchers, the money will likely not go to help students in underperforming public schools. As the Education Law Center points out, the state Senate’s own report on the bill estimates that 65.3 percent of all vouchers would go to students already in private or parochial schools. Meanwhile, only 7.6 percent would go to students in the 143 worst performing public schools. In effect, the bill would siphon off funds for public schools while not even providing the opportunities it purports to offer to students.

Third, PTA President Julie Lesitsky points out that the bill in fact runs counter to the concept of “school choice.”

“We don’t feel that this bill has anything to do with parental choice because those schools are not mandated to take every student,” she says.

Not since Tom Ridge was governor has a vouchers bill been so close to passing in Pa. From 1996 to 1999, Ridge pushed for vouchers on three separate occasions, but the bill was narrowly shot down in the state House each time. Now, riding the recent wave of anti-public education, anti-teachers union, and anti-government spending sentiment, Corbett has reintroduced the idea. “With the Tea

to be consistently above 60 percent. In addition, Public Citizens for Children and Youth has canvassed parents of children in public schools. According to Tai Marie Adams, co-director of Education Policy, the polling data is corroborated by their findings: “Along with what the polling shows, parents that we talk to are desperate to keep any funds—if there are any more funds available—in their public schools for their kids.”

And yet, despite this apparent public opposition to vouchers, the state government continues to trudge ahead with the proposal. Critics believe that this is due to the influence of pro-voucher monied interests in the political process. For example, during his failed run for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2010, Williams received as much as $5 million in campaign contributions from the provoucher PAC, Students First. “We don’t have the amount of money that the pro-voucher forces have in this battle,” Kirsch states frankly.

Whether the bill passes remains to be seen, as support for it in the House is lukewarm compared to the Senate.

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Torta al Pastor at Los Gallos, you’re quite the authentic dish!

I’m from San Mateo, Puebla, just like chef/owner Luis Jimenez, who wanted his restaurant to serve the food he grew up with. He based my recipe on the tacos al pastor popular in Mexico.

Tell me a bit about yourself and your nickname, “El Monstruo.”

The nickname comes from my large, Mexican-style roll. Americans aren’t the only ones who like oversized portions. I’m basically spread with refried beans, mayo and avocado, then stuffed with roasted, spiced pork and topped with pineapple, pickled jalapeños, tomatoes, sauteed onions and romaine. Not for the faint of heart or stomach.

Yowza. Can you dish on what gives you your spice?

Jimenez remains true to tradition, cooking me with a gyro machine, which gets the fat to cook out but maintains all the flavor. I’m marinated with a special blend of spices— dried chili, brown sugar, walnuts, almonds, vinegar and lemon juice.

Definitely my queso oaxaca, which is mixed into my marinated pork, where it melts into gooey perfection. Oaxaca is like a Mexican mozzarella: a mild, stringy cheese with a distinct fresh flavor.

What would you say is the difference between you and the tortas at other Mexican joints in Philly right now?

I don’t try to be something I’m not. I’m a sandwich. A big-ass, tasty sandwich.

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At first glance, Love Park one rainy day a few weeks ago was the scene of the food-truck version of David and Goliath, or Douglas versus Tyson. There sat the Lucky Old Souls burger truck, festooned in beautifully designed graphics and wink-wink descriptors along its flank (“speakers,” “front wheel,” “menu,” each with a loosely-drawn arrow pointing at the appropriately referenced bit), blasting impeccably chosen jazz, blues and standards. It idled there regal, proud, full of visual and aromatic consequence, the warm smell of grilling grassfed flesh surrounding it like a glorious cholesterol-packed cloud.

Off to the side, and on the complete opposite end of the truck-couture spectrum, the Mini Trini truck executed a dozen-point turn in order to back into its allotted space, caddy-corner to its more well-dressed automotive neighbor. The only music it brought to the block was the whirr of its engine, the only indication of what gems it hid inside a modest, rectangular flag bearing its name against a stylized version of the proud red-black-and-white flag of Trinidad.

But what gems they were. Even after I rudely started her day with a request for one of everything on the menu, Iman Marcano, who owns the truck and Chestnut Hill’s Calypso with her mother, Claudette Campbell, simply shrugged her shoulders and got to work.

It’s clear, from first bite, that this is a labor of love. Mini Trini delivers fabulous, compulsively delicious riffs on the flavors of what is one of the great culinary heritages

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of the Caribbean, its combination of Indian, African, European and countless other influences somehow both crystal-clear and well-integrated into each dish on the limited yet well-executed menu. (Most dishes are partially prepared at Calypso and finished here on the truck, which, by the time this review runs, will have been given a makeover and total body-graphics wrap.)

Harvest corn soup is an immediate surprise with its hefty disks of sliced corn on the cob. The broth itself— a beautifully house-rendered water base lovingly seasoned by Claudette with plenty of fresh thyme and the gently throat-tingling heat of a top-secret spice blend— highlights the starchier nature of the marquis ingredient. Lentil soup plays in more familiar territory, save the perfumed lift of spice (it tasted like coriander, but I was told it’s something else that I couldn’t be privy to).

Bake and saltfish is an intense, finely layered sandwich stuffed with so much of what’s good and tasty in life—sweet, soft fried plantains, razor-thin cucumbers, saltfish buljol (cod mixed with peppers, onions, olive oil and other goodies) with an intensely concentrated, tamarind-rich hot pepper sauce. Sandwiched between fried bread and squashed together till the filling starts to extrude from the sides, it’s like some sort of miraculous, soft-souled Caribbean panini.

The Indian influence on the cuisine is more clearly expressed in the curry-perfumed chicken roti. In it, generous, tender chunks of bird commingle with heady pieces of potato, both given more depth with chickpeas and cosseted in a huge, homemade roti of remarkable freshness. Wash it down with a mango lemonade: the surprising florality of the fruit is a nice counterpoint to the curry’s heat.

For $3, “doubles”—curried chick peas, Trinidadian pumpkin and cured mango are hugged by a couple of slices of bhara, the split pea-flour bread so beloved on the island—are a serious vegetarian treat that even avowed omnivores could love. Sweet potato puffs, all nutty and snappy outside, gloriously glutinous and chewy inside, are among the top fried-starch dishes I’ve tasted all year.

All of this is to say that Mini Trini is yet another winning entry into our city’s ever-swelling ranks of standout food trucks. It’s also proof, yet again, that appearances can be deceiving: The lack of visual flash here bears absolutely zero relation to the fireworks they send out.

Perhaps, though, the David and Goliath comparison is inaccurate in this case. Because on this little corner of Love Park, the real winners are the smart people who come out to take advantage of a seriously tasty and justifiably tempting little patch of our city. n

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Men at work: Sean Lally (left) and Robert DaPonte come up with a half-baked plan in Fat Cat Killers.

Flashpoint Theatre Company kicks off its season with Adam Szymkowicz’s timely but consistently unfunny satire Fat Cat Killers.

The 90-minute play focuses on two 20-something guys, Steve (the reliable Robert DaPonte) and Michael (the promising young actor Sean Lally), who work at a nameless and soulless corporation in present-day America.

Their jobs are mindless and dreary, and Steve admits that most of his time is spent on useless activities. The two are soon laid off, victims of corporate downsizing. Seeking revenge, our heroes hatch a half-baked scheme to kidnap the company’s CEO Dave (an appropriately confident and charismatic Damon Bonetti), who makes millions while the company flounders and sheds lower-level employees.

Given the current Occupy encampment in front of City Hall, the play’s subject matter

about corporate greed and the inequitable distribution of wealth in America is undoubtedly timely. Unfortunately, timeliness is about the only thing Szymkowicz’s play has going for it.

Structured as a series of short episodes, the story is so choppy and fragmented that Director Noah Herman’s production struggles to gain any momentum. More importantly, though, it intends to be comical; but Killers is about as amusing as a pink slip and a foreclosure notice. Herman exploits the rhythms in Szymkowicz’s language to good effect, but the plot is more stupid than absurd and the characters display such broad stereotypes that the actors have little to work with.

Still, the production does manage a few good moments, mostly in its latter stages. Alone with their hostage, Steve explains to the bound and gagged Dave how he plans to proceed.

“If I hit you and I don’t like it, I’ll stop. If I hit you and it makes me feel better, I’ll do it some more.” Daponte delivers the warning with just the right mix of courtesy and menace and with the help of noted fight choreographer Michael Cosenza, it is one of the few times that any of the characters feels like a real person.

Such moments of authenticity are rare in this clunky, cartoonish play. We want to empathize with Steve and Michael, but chronic unemployment and corporate greed are too much of a harsh reality to be funny. n

Fat Cat Killers Through Nov. 19. $5-$20. Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 215.665.9720. flashpointtheatre.org

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Inspired by Jan T. Gross’ book Neighbors and based on real events in the village of Jedwabne in rural Poland, the story (Ryan Craig wrote the English version) focuses on five Jewish and five Catholic classmates. We first encounter the group as youngsters and friends, but the innocence is short-lived. As the students grow into young adults and Poland is occupied first by the Soviets and then the Germans, the friendships become increasingly strained and soon broken.

Catholics turn on their Jewish friends and neighbors with horrifying consequences.

In Director Blanka Zizka’s starkly brutal, unflinching production, all of this is both sickening and scary as hell. And that’s just the first act.

Performed on a stage adorned only with the trunks of dead trees, scattered chairs and a structure that looks like a greenhouse but is utilized for a very different purpose, Zizka fashions a world that is both surreal and frighteningly familiar.

What’s more disturbing is that the murdered are not buried and forgotten. Instead, in Zizka’s visceral, magnificently physical and remarkably well-acted production, the deceased never retreat from sight. They remain on stage with the living, haunting the minds of their killers—the people who now occupy their homes and sleep in their beds.

What makes Our Class so frightening is that the perpretrators are so ordinary. Yet as disturbing as the events in the play are, it concludes with a roll call of the living, reminding us that life, however tragic it may be, is a gift to be treasured. (J.C.R.) n

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Histoire de Melody Nelson: The French troubadour/horndog’s lush, sleazy 1971 concept album is arguably his artistic zenith, but it also tells the following story: a middle-aged rogue hits a teen girl with his Rolls. He seduces her, they have sex in a hotel, then she perishes in a plane crash, her luggage washing ashore on a remote island and creating a “cargo culte.” There was also a TV special.

Rock Around the Bunker: The most inexplicable product of the ’50s revival wrought by American Grafitti finds Gainsbourg writing rockabilly songs inspired by his youth as a Jew in occupied France.

Try not to bounce along to “Nazi Rock”—and try not to get creeped out by the appearance of “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.”

Je T’aime ... Moi Non Plus, the movie: Like many visionary musicians, Gainsbourg dabbled in filmmaking. None were crazier than his debut, which took the name, if not exactly the plot, of his most notorious hit. Joe Dallesandro plays a gay man who falls for a boyish woman (Jane Birkin).

Of course, he derives no pleasure from vaginal sex, so has to do her from behind. But she finds anal too painful, and her screaming gets them booted from hotels. This film happened.

“Evguénie Sokolov”: Gainsbourg had a bizarre penchant for toilet humor; most of the lyrics on the sonically chill album Vu de l’extérieur are on subjects like flatulence and pretty girls going to the bathroom. His acme, or nadir, in that respect is on his second reggae album, which features Sly & Robbie doing their business under the sounds of farts.

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When the host tried to downplay Gainsbourg’s advances, Gainsbourg corrected him, proclaiming, in English, “I said I want to fuck her.”

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DiCaprio is just awful. Burdened with horrific, science-fiction old-age makeup for the majority of J. Edgar’s running time, he rants and raves to a collection of biographers, providing cheap and lazy narration where none was required.

(Remember how Clint’s amazing backto-back 1980’s biopics Bird and White Hunter, Black Heart didn’t require any explanation?)

Leonardo’s closeted, ham-fisted Hoover is frankly a chore to spend time with (as his real-life counterpart probably was) and I endured most of J. Edgar just wishing to get away from him, if only for a second. There’s no outside perspective, no relief from his drama queen shenanigans.

Burdened with a Freudian bushel-full of mother issues, thanks to a Mommie Oh, Leo: You were so not made for this biopic.

Dearest turn by Judi Dench, the stout stutterer invents library card catalogs and revolutionizes crime-fighting techniques across the land. Dame Judi tells him that isn’t enough, so he eventually tries The worst thing about having heroes is that they always on her nightgowns. let you down.

Enter Clyde Tolson. Played by The Social Network’s Clint Eastwood isn’t just my favorite director, he’s always seemed like a good role model for life. A stubborn- Winkelviii Armie Hammer as a frittering, flighty queen of the FBI, the two pledge to have lunch and dinner ly man’s man, he does things his own way and doesn’t together every day for the rest of their lives. listen to anyone else. But after watching J. Edgar, I’m I’m sorry, but the sight of two handsome 30-somebeginning to think that might not quite be the best way thing actors crushed under absurd old-age makeup, to tackle things. having an elderly bare-knuckle kiss-fight was around This is an excruciating film, almost impossible to sit the point that the picture teetered into camp. through at well over two hours. Leonardo DiCaprio It’s a deeply silly movie. American history as kitsch, takes the part of the grumpy, septuagenarian, homunplayed out like a drag show. Lindbergh baby, check. culear Hoover dreadfully seriously, and that might be Kennedy assignations and assassination check, and let’s his downfall. not even get into Hoover’s deeply racist, possibly psyLeo is a movie star who desperately chotic obsessions with Martin Luther wants to be a character actor. But King’s sex life, because the movie he just can’t cut it. The kid has a J. Edgar shies away from that, too. smirky, preternatural charisma that Grade: D+ Eastwood brings out some of the he seems determined to hide under Director: Clint Eastwood worst one-note celebrity impersona bushel. At his best, there’s nobody ators I have ever seen. Bobby Kenbetter at forging a sly, conspiratorial Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, nedy is just as bad as Shirley Temple, relationship with the audience. At Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts but if you think they’re laughable just worst, DiCaprio feels like a kid playwait until Richard Milhous Nixon ing dress-up in a school play. rears his ugly head.

And no movie feels more like a school I stayed up all night trying to fathom how this picture play than J. Edgar, with Dustin Lance Black’s screenwent so wrong. Even despite the obvious miscasting. In play skipping along the decades allowing Hoover to the end, I just don’t think Eastwood is good at grandeur. outfox presidents from Roosevelt to Nixon with his His best movies follow a sparse handful of characters newfangled Federal Bureau Of Investigation and secret over a very short period of time. He doesn’t seem to files. know what to do with production values and is really It’s a great story, and in many ways J. Edgar Hoover bad with crowds. is the classic Eastwood character we’ve been watching Despite his newfound prestige with the Academy since before Dirty Harry—a principled, ever-stalwart of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, Clint shoots fellow who lets his own, un-wavering workaholic tendencies and private codes destroy his personal life, until best going lowbrow, from the gut. This is why Letters From Iwo Jima was so much better than Flags Of Our moral gray areas blur into darkness. This is the same Fathers, and Gran Torino way more rewarding than The movie Clint Eastwood has already made 40 times over Changeling. the past several decades.

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It bothers us when people compare us to ... “every twobit Native American named band that has sprung up in our shadows. Petty, but true.”

The best album of the year so far is totally ... “7 by Puerto Rico Flowers. It’s elegantly gorgeous, stoney dark music made by and for the type of person who thinks black roses make a nice gift. Just about the most sincere thing I can stomach.”

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Time ... “times are tough, got us drinking out of fucked-up cups. We’re still counting on Y2K to wipe out our bad credit.”

The thing you wouldn’t know about our drummer, Meg Baird, by listening to her phenomenal album Seasons On Earth is ... “that she’s not just the only one of us who can drive stick, she’s also got the most wicked jumpshot in all of Watery Love.”

We can’t stand it when ... “the evening sun goes down.”

Titus Andronicus just got pissy with Kurt Vile on Twitter for allowing “Baby’s Arms” to be used in a Bank of America commercial. As a personal friend of Kurt’s we feel ... “that the Phillies play at Citizen’s Bank Park, the Eagles play at Lincoln Financial Field and Black Sabbath have played at the Susquehanna Bank Center. The other members of Watery Love and I eagerly await our piece of the pie.”

On our next album we ... “will feel a swell of pride and a sense of accomplishment. An entire album is a lot of songs. I hope it’s a good one.”

Get the fuck outta here with ... “all the applause at the end of our set. It’s deafening and we rarely give an encore.”

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We’re bonafide road dawgs, touring all the time. One of the most surreal things we’ve seen in our travels is ... “the night Hunter Thompson died we stayed with a dude in Phoenix who claimed to be a computer programmer, yet he had to jump the gate to get in to the complex where he lived in an apartment with no furniture at all, just a stack of gay porn in the bathroom and a huge sack of weed on his kitchen counter. We woke up in the middle of the night and he was standing over us holding a butter knife. We were rolling with our dog Rebel, and she was tough, so we fell back to sleep and snuck out in the morning. Also, a few years later while we were driving through Alabama, we saw a fullgrown cougar run across the interstate in broad daylight.”

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Watery Love are a gang of Philly-based misfits who play plodding, simplistic and fuzzy punk screeds.

Both bands play Little Bar this week (Sunday and Monday, respectively), a new-ish spot in Bella Vista owned by Michael D’Addesi, who hopes to see the former sports bar become a cultural center that promotes and supports local art.

We started a couple sentences and asked Indian Jewelry and Watery Love’s singer/guitarist Richie Charles to finish them. We call it Fill in the Blanks. Enjoy.

It thrills us when people compare us to ... “any of the awesome bands that did it for us when we were kids. The obvious ones people say are Buttholes, Suicide, the Fall, Royal Trux and Throbbing Gristle. When King Coffey [of Butthole Surfers] came up to us at a house party years ago and told us he dug what we were doing, we knew we were on the right track. Our biggest thrill was when Longmont Potion Castle used some of our music as background noise on a CD.”

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A shaggy-haired punk kid in a tough denim jacket slowly drags the lip of an empty Coca-Cola bottle against a chain link fence in the video for Wooden Shjip’s “Black Smoke Rise.” He posts up like a hooligan underneath dreary power lines and chugs another. He chucks the fucker against the pavement near a desolate baseball diamond and stares blankly at the sun, like he’s testing the guts of the big, flaming bastard. He’s one more soda away from lassoing the fiery star and setting earth ablaze.

San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips have been making hardpunching and foreboding Krautrock-drenched psychedelicrock music since 2006. The quartet hasn’t deviated much from the original template of 2007’s eponymous Holy Mountain LP—Motorik drum and bass grooves carrying glistening, stabbing and often improvised guitar and organ meltdowns—but their latest, West (Thrill Jockey; 2011), sounds mightier and more irate: The perfect soundtrack for gulping whiskey while playing wicked games with switchblade knives and motorcycle chains.

When Shjips thunder into cities like deranged acidstoned vikings, people get scared. Like when Brando’s

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Black Rebels Motorcycle Club cruised into that unsuspecting town in The Wild One, it’s probably best to lock your doors and hide your daughters. Actually, Shjips’ recent European tour was absolutely nothing like that.

“We had relatively short drives so we’d stay in the hotel until we had to check out,” says organist Nash Whalen.

“Then we’d check into the next hotel as soon as we could.

We just wanted to get back and lie down in bed. After the show maybe we’d have a beer, but we didn’t want to keep the party going on too long. We went to bed as soon as we could.”

It turns out looks, or in this case, sounds, can be deceiving. While Shjips produce gritty, shotgun-pumping rock ’n’ roll, they’re actually just four really friendly, polite guys— two of ’em are approaching 40, and 40 has come and gone for the rest.

“We would’ve gotten in a lot of trouble if we were 20 years younger,” Whalen admits, laughing. “The bottom line’s that moving gear around and spending all this time in clubs wears us out really quickly. We’re ready to go to the hotel as soon as possible.”

Shjips may not be wild ’n’ crazy on the road—don’t expect a Mötley Cruë-era cocaine-and-hooker fueled tour vid anytime soon—but the tunes pack enough danger to make Nikki Sixx seem like a choir boy. “We don’t make light-sounding music,” says Whalen. “There’s something about the four of us playing that pushes out onto the edge of darkness—it always has to be heavy and rocking.”

“It’s timeless—something humans have heard for thousands of years,” Whalen says about Shjips’ steadily hellbent drum and bass scaffolding. “It gets into your head and body, creating a foundation for the listener to feel the groove, opening them up for whatever else is coming. We don’t even know where we’re gonna go each night.” n Wooden Shjips perform Fri., Nov. 11, 8pm. $10. With Birds Of Avalon + Moon Women. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com.

Critic's Pick Tesco USA Industrial Music Festival he machine-led violence of modern capitalism—against both body and spirit—necessitated the birth of an equally violent T music that harnessed those destructive powers for transgressive purposes. In 1970s England, bands like Throbbing Gristle merged harsh electronics, punk and avant-garde disregard to craft brutally noisy music that The Extremist sounded like a million jackhammers leveling a factory. The anger spread to Germany—cf.

Einstürzende Neubauten—where Tesco Records launched in 1987 to elevate the nation’s scene, mutating it into power electronics/power noise. The wrath spread in 2001 when Tesco launched a U.S. label to advance the Yanks’ post-industrial clique, and tonight’s festival celebrates the anniversary. Headliners KE/HIL, a German duo grinding for more than 25 years, detonate piercing flash bombs of skronk and New York’s Yellow Tears propel noise grenades into the post-apocalyptic Nothing. Philadelphia’s secret weapons Jonathan Canady and James Plotkin represent the new U.S. generation of metal-infused, mildly ambient, posteverything industrial demolition men. (Elliott Sharp) Sat., Nov. 12, 9pm. $10-12. With KE/HIL, Yellow Tears, Jonathan Canady, James Plotkin + the Extremist. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com

Audio, Video, Disco (Ed Banger) Sounds Like: The French duo’s power-

fully successful formula of skronky electronic dance music is catchy and popular with the kids. Thank goodness they’re maturing a bit.

Free Association: No “D.A.N.C.E.” here, much less radio-friendly; that’s a good thing.

For Fans Of: Basement Jaxx x Air, Daft Punk, robot porn, sweaty Frenchmen.

The Beets

Let The Poison Out (Hardly Art) Sounds Like: Quirky-to-the-max trio

of Queens dudes making jangly, low-fi weirdo rock with simplicity and rough polish.

Free Association: The whole “We don’t really play well” thing has got to go soon.

For Fans Of: Ramones x Yuck, Thee Oh Sees + Hunx and His Punx, D.I.Y. everything.

The Barr Brothers

The Barr Brothers (Secret City) Sounds Like: Brothers (ex-the Slip)

plus a lady on dulcimer and a guy on vibraphone create folk that’s gorgeous and vaguely African in its rhythms and spirit.

Free Association: Listen, the Slip’s a great band, despite their jam band flirtations.

For Fans Of: Bon Iver x the Dodos, Fleet Foxes, delicious white people folk.

Wale

Ambition (Maybach/Warner Brothers) Sounds Like: One of the biggest disap-

pointments of my adult life—D.C.’s Wale—turns in an ill-conceived, poorlyexecuted sophomore hip-hop album with no discernible hits.

Free Association: Virtually devoid of the joy, spirit and musical diversity of his debut.

For Fans Of: D.C.? Meek Mill x Rick Ross, Lupe + weak Young Chris, monotone rap.

Jane’s Addiction

The Great Escape Artist (Capitol) Sounds Like: Well, well, the reunion

happy band that started more than 25 years ago last put out a crap LP in 2003. It took eight years and TV On the Radio’s Dave Sitek to do it again.

Free Association: It’s like a supergroup made of supergroups on an assignment.

For Fans Of: Lu Lu x Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, Supernova (that band ROCKS).

Florence + the Machine Ceremonials (Universal) Sounds Like: The South London

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Free Association: Her debut got played out and this one will too—dig it while you can.

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I’m an evangelical Christian in a country where that is not a political statement. My husband and I have been married five years. We have great sex several times a week despite having two kids under age 2. We get along so well that even a couple of my atheist friends have admitted they want what we have. What most of them don’t know is that we waited until after the wedding to have sex—or even kiss.

Most secular folk would consider it reckless to tie the knot before making sure we were “sexually compatible,” whatever that means. You seem like a pretty secular guy, so let me ask you: What exactly were we supposed to watch out for?

Consider our specific situation: Two adult virgins, ready to promise to our God, friends, family and government that we will stick together until one of us dies. Is there anything we could have learned about each other through sex that would have changed our minds?

I’m not stupid (I’m a physician), but I can’t figure this one out. Please tell me what disaster we might have brought upon ourselves by not going for a test ride first.

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For someone who claims she isn’t stupid, HMW, you’re doing a pretty convincing job of playing dumb.

You damn well know what “sexually compatible” means, HMW, as you’re lucky enough to be married to a man with whom you’re sexually compatible. You want the same things he wants (I’m taking your word for that), you satisfy each other equally (taking your word for that) and you’re both content (taking your word for that). That’s what people mean by sexually compatible.

That you wound up married to a man with whom you’re sexually compatible despite not fucking him once or twice before marriage can be credited to one of two things: You were smart (you figured you two would be sexually compatible and those calculations proved correct) or you were lucky (you hoped you two would be sexually compatible and, as luck would have it, you were). But don’t pretend that your happiness was guaranteed by waiting or by God. It’s understandable that you’re pleased that everything worked out for you, HMW, but your smugness and self-satisfaction seems a little un-Christian, if I may say so. Where’s the humility? Where’s some of that there-butfor-the-grace-of-God-go-I stuff? There are plenty of people out there who made the same choices you did—they waited, they made a solemn promise before God, family, friends, etc.—and their marriages fell apart due to issues of basic sexual incompatibility.

And finally, HMW, I can think of a million examples of things you “could have learned about each other through sex” on your wedding night that might have led you to change your mind about waiting. I’m just going to toss one out there: Suppose your husband announced when you got to your honeymoon suite that he wouldn’t be able to climax unless you took a massive shit on his chest before vaginal intercourse commenced. Would that have changed your mind about the advisability of marrying him without fucking him once or twice first?

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You know that scene at the end of Inglourious Basterds when Brad Pitt’s Nazi-killin’

character pulls out a huge knife and carves a swastika into the forehead of the one Nazi he isn’t allowed to kill, because he wants everyone to know the dude was a Nazi even after the war? Unless your friend G is willing to do something similar—carve her initials into the forehead of every rando dude she fucks—she can’t complain when a friend accidentally hooks up with a guy she hooked up with two years, two months, two days or two hours ago.

G is not right to make you feel like crap, HSF, and I recommend that you fuck the shit out of this guy at least two more times to drive that point home.

The wife and I regularly attend a straight sex club here in Texas. There’s another couple who comes to the parties. They’re very attractive.

They get naked, they have sex with each other, but they don’t play with others. Basically, they hang out with swingers, but they don’t swing themselves. We think that amounts to prickand twat-tease behavior on their parts. Do we have a legit beef?

Husband And Wife Together

No, HAWT, you don’t.

The website for the sex club you attend emphasizes more than once that couples who attend are not obligated to swing or play with others. It would be unfair to extend an invite like that—come and enjoy the sexually charged atmosphere, play only with each other or not at all, it’s all good!—and then slap a “prick- and twat-tease” label on a couple who comes and doesn’t play with others.

And just because this couple isn’t swinging today, HAWT, doesn’t mean they won’t be swinging someday. Perhaps after they see that swingers really do respect their limits—once they’ve seen, again and again, that they’re not going to be pressured into doing anything they’re not ready to do—they’ll become comfortable enough to start playing with others. Glaring at this hot couple from across the room, HAWT, will only serve to delay the arrival of that happy day.

Speaking of sex clubs: Last week the Portland Press Herald reported about the closure of a club in Sanford, Maine, where oppositesex-attracted adults were having opposite-sex sex in a building that was—THINK OF THE CHILDREN—kinda close to a public library that wasn’t open when opposite-sex-attracted adults were gathering to indulge their sick opposite-sex desires. But, you know, still!

Adults were having sex in a place that was kinda close to a place where children who don’t have access to the Internet at home sometimes go to “read”!

The owners of the club didn’t have a permit to operate an adult business in Sanford, and they’re not going to get one, because Sanford doesn’t issue permits for adult businesses, which means one more small business has been destroyed by burdensome government regulation. (Where are the teabaggers when we need ’em?)

Anyway, this quote from the police spokesperson in the Portland Press Herald’s report jumped out at me: “The officers were appalled at the number and variety of sexual acts being performed—and one of the officers has worked vice crimes—right out in the open where everybody was sitting.”

My goodness! Opposite-sex-attracted adults were having opposite-sex sex in front of, gee, other opposite-sex-attracted adults who paid to get in and wanted to watch. But at least the children of Sanford are safe from the adult sex parties that they couldn’t attend and didn’t know were going on until the details were splashed all over the front pages of a daily newspaper that’s available for their perusal in the public library where they go to look at porn on the Internet.

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23RD & PINE Beautiful Two Bedroom, HW floors, High ceilings, Bright, Heat & Hot water incl, Laundry on site. AVAILABLE NOVEMBER! $1585

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2731 Cambridge St. 3 3sty 4bd/1.5ba w/orig wd flrs & fp, rear yard w/Private Parking 2301 Cherry St. #12A Corner spacious 2bd/2.5ba w/river & city views, secure garage pkng, private balcony 756 N. Bucknell St. Bright & Spacious, 3bd/3ba on tree-lined street, open layout, h/w flrs, High Ceilings 2134 Race St. State of the Art Luxury home in Center City, www.2134Race.com

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Coldwell Preferred 1st Quarter Winners w aBanker rd W i n Award ne rs RITTENHOUSE SQUARE / FITLER SQUARE / AVENUE OF THE ARTS 2001 Chestnut St. #401 3bd/1.5ba condo, corner, 1370sf, elevator bldg $290,000 1912 Waverly St. Reduced! Charming historic home offers 2br/2ba, garden, fab kitch w/heated floors $409,000 219 S. 18th St. #412 Pet friendly 927sqft hi-rise, 1bedrm “PARC” Rittenhouse condo, pool/gym $449,000 327 S. 25th St. Architects hm, house sits on edge of Schuylkill River Park, 3bd/1ba, e-I kit & lrg garden OPEN HOUSE $489,000 440 S. Broad St. 1, 2, and 3br luxury condos, 7 yrs left on tax abatement, garage parking available, pool fitness & luxury amenities incl., in condo fees, 1 yr builders warranty OPEN FRI, SAT, SUN 12-5PM $499,900 1111 Walnut St. Unit #9 2 bd/1.5 bth, 1700 sq. ft. bi-level home of luxury & amenities. Sellers are including one year paid parking as well! $584,900 219-29 S. 18th St. #520 Luxury living. Lrg 2bd/2ba luxury condo. Gym, pool, lounge, screening room $750,000 1209 S. Broad St. AOA Mansion & art gallery, 6bedrm home, original details & garden, Fab location $965,000

NEW CONSTRUCTION 1833-A Christian St. Bi-lvl 2br/2ba TH w/Open living/dining area, deluxe kit, HW flrs & rear garden 855 N. Uber St. New Construction. 2 bed, 2 bath, bilevel condo, GORGEOUS! 827 N. 20th St. Just Reduced $25,000! 3bd/2.5ba, 7yrs young, C/A, S/S Kitch, must see this one of a kind hm 2331 Madison Sq. New Cons 3bd/3ba/1900sqft TH w/HW flrs, FP, SS appl, master suite, fin bsmt 1808 Cecil B. Moore Ave. Enormous brand new TH conveniently located just blocks frm Temple’s Campus 4415 Saint David’s St. New Construction TH a short walk from downtown Manayunk w/amazing features 747 N Uber St. Gorgeous New Cons w/CC skyline views, 3bd/3.5ba, tiger wd flrs, gourmet kitch

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SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1028-30 Pine St. #4 Bright & spacious 1bd, hdwd flrs, C/A, granite/SS, washer/dryer, lg courtyard, LOW condo fees $319,000 540 Cypress St. REDUCED! Charming, totally restored historic colonial 2br/1.5ba hm on cobblestone st in heart of Society Hill OPEN HOUSE $374,900 1111 Locust 2G Luxury loft, 12ft ceilings, 1020sqft, parking avail, tax abatement $379,999 720 Chestnut St. Unit D 2Bd/2ba 1300sqft condo in boutique bldg. Hi ceilings, wd fl, granite & SS, priv outdoors, FP $399,900 603 Addison St. 2bd/1ba, TH w/HW flr, wd-brng FP, SS appl, granite counters & roof deck $415,000 929 Clinton St. #2R Fabulous 2 Bd w/den, 2BA Multi-Lvl TH design in boutique condo building OPEN HOUSE $415,000 1034 Spruce St. Unit 601 2BA/2BR Corner unit with floor-to-ceiling windows & dramatic panoramic skyline view. $499,900 440 Lombard St. Society Hill Gem: Townhome 4 BR 2.5 BA, EIK, SS Appls, HWFLR, FP, CA, Courtyard & Parking. Great location! $639,000 250 S. 13th St. #14B Incredible 3bd/2ba penthouse featuring lrg landscaped terr w/extraordinary views $899,000 QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA. 2414 S Jessup St. Great house on a quaint street in Lower Moyamensing with a beautiful modern kitchen.

310 Gladstone St. Wonderful 2br home w/extra lrg bath, new kit., rear yard, many extras, 2nd fl laundry.

2832 Mildred St. Beautiful move-in ready South Philly hm, hdwd flrs, new c/a, easy parking 2431 S. 3rd St. Rehab a few years ago, HWD floors throughout, reduced 1016 S Reese St. Beautifully renovated 2 bd townhome in Queen Village. Hardwood floors. Gourmet kitchen.

200-10 Lombard St. #622 Perfectly located and updated Abbot’s Square condo w/gourmet kitchen and sunny balcony!

525 Fitzwater St. #11 REDUCED TO SELL! AbbottsCourt.com, 2 bd/1.5ba, gated crtyrd, grmt kitchens, & H/W Flrs 2030 Pemberton St. Spacious, updated 2bd/1ba hm w/HW flrs t/o, desirable flrpln & lrg backyard 1718 Rodman St. Lovely renovated trinity home (kitchen on 1st flr) 1.5ba, charming st., nice garden space 928 S. 2nd St. 2br/1ba 1092sqft w/HW flrs, SS appl, granite, exp brk, balcony, & 3 fireplaces 1715 S. 10th St. Completely renovated townhome features HWflrs, lrg rear patio, full finished bsmt 1825 S. 12th St. Newly renovated townhome in Passyunk features 4br, HW flooring, large rear patio 1817 Catharine St. Right-sized 3br/1.5ba TH w/updates, wd-brng fireplace, Juliette balcony 924 Catharine St. REDUCED! 1800sqft 3bd/1.5ba, exposed brk, new hdwds/carpet, lrg yrd, skyline view, must see 2053 Pemberton St. Roof-top deck 360 Center City Views! New Luxurious construction, 3br/2.5ba 629-31 S. 13TH St. Unit A Stunning 3 bed/3 bth new contruction. Luxurious finishes, Roof Deck, Parking + Tax Abatement

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810 E. Chelten Ave. Income producing, fully occupied 4 unit bldg. Great investement opportunity 6147 Hawthorne St. Two –Unit corner lot, features two 2br/1ba units. Live in one, rent out the other 139 S. 50th St. Reduced Triplex, newer upgrades, freshly painted 2339 S. 18th St. Duplex, Complete Rehab, awesome renovations, reduced 2438 S. 3rd St. Investor Opportunity-store front (deli/grocery) & 1bd Apt (leased), well maintained bldg!

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810with S. 3rd –Beautiful BR +2.5 Den with floors t/o, yard + parking. e 3 BRlarge +$2500 Den home with hardwood floors t/o, yard +large parking.

End of +the pier,home North side, 2bdrms Modern 33bdrm, bth home home w/ highhardwood 3 $2500 bdrm, 1.5 bth hm w/2 cr$2500 –N/C parking.

1119 3 BR $2500 E. +den, Media Palmer St 3–N/C BA, 3Fp, H/W BR +t/o, Media Fp, Rm, 33BA, +H/W cart/o, parking.

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1101 S. 2nd Street Coming Soon Phase 3. Beautiful N/C w/ 3 bdrms, 2.5 bths, hrdwd flrs, deck & garage. $499,000

749 E. Passyunk Ave. Rarely offered Foster Wilson Design on the Golden Mile, 3+den/2+2, hrdwd flrs, fp,grdn & 2 cr prkg. $599,000

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