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10 Making a scene Feeling ostracized and mistreated by mainstream galleries, local artists are finding alternative routes to

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PhillyNOW 7 Enemy of the State Activists say New Jersey’s medical marijuana law was “designed to fail.”

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Pa. moves closer to an abortion-free state.

ARTs & CulTuRE 16 Calendar PW ’s picks for the week. fOOD 28 Indian Giver Tashan, a modern Indian joint on S. Broad, is pretty damn incredible.

sTAgE 31 Right-Wing Nuts Why Torture Is P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY December 14 - 20, 2011

Wrong and the People Who Love Them rails against political conservatism.

ART 32 Double Take There’s more than meets

On the Web PhillyNOW Occupy Philly: Check regularly for ongoing coverage of the anti-1 percent movement.

The Trouble With Spikol Food for Thought: Plus-sized models deemed too fat.

Film New Release: Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey.

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sCREEN 33 Shadows of Its Former Self The newest Sherlock Holmes installment is bigger and louder, yet so much less.

MusiC 37 Old Yelle 10 things I saw, heard and learned at Yelle’s show.

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Of Two Minds Regarding Tara Murtha’s recent column about conflicting accounts of Occupy Philly’s eviction night: There were 1,000 cameras and 2,000 video cameras that night and not one image of police brutality. The Occupiers are losing their credibility.

Here’s another truth: From day one the WHOLE GOAL was to have a confrontation upon eviction. Police Commissioner Ramsey, who apparently had experience from his days in Washington, D.C. literally and symbolically outflanked the leaderless, aimless and clueless.

TANKSLEYD, via philadelphiaweekly.com 6ABC has video of the horse up on the sidewalk after rushing the crowd.

The horse was already out of control after the officer had pushed it to go onto the sidewalk ahead of the other officers and horses. The other horses remained on the street while this one officer lost control and his horse charged the sidewalk. I think PW needs to clarify what they consider police brutality. Michael Alan Goldberg (and I hate the stuck-up tone this reporter has had throughout his coverage of Occupy Philly) is quoted in this article as saying: “I saw a couple people grabbed by cops and swung around by their clothes, a couple others tackled.” That sounds somewhat excessive to me, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Yes, no one was shot. No one was pepper sprayed. But there definitely was some excessive force amiss on the streets of Philadelphia. The first indication of that is that there were a reported 500 police officers compared to about 100 to 150 nonviolent but rowdy protestors.

ANONYMOUS, via philadelphiaweekly.com I was there to bear witness, not as an Occupier or as a member of the media, and I witnessed no acts of brutality. I stood beside Ramsey at numerous points in the night, watched everyone get put on the buses, chased police and protesters around, and I saw nothing of the sort. I certainly sympathize with the global movement, to a large extent, and this is wiping away what sympathy I have left for this local chapter.

THE CLASSY TAXI, via philadelphiaweekly.com This was not a movement. It was a bunch of losers who did little more than shout out a couple of slogans and piss in public. They were looking for an altercation so they could justify their pathetic existence. When that didn’t happen, what do they do? They lie and say they were the victims of brutality. This is the end for these whining bitches, and they know it.

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Good Old Boy Regarding Matt Prigge’s review of Tomboy, a film about early sexuality: I think it’s a tragic shame that society brands “the budding sexuality of the very young” as a moral issue, rather than a normal human comingof-age event. Guess what folks? We become sexual beings long before the magical, arbitrary line in the sand of age 18. And society ignores this fact at the peril of the very people (yes, children are people too) it imagines it is protecting.

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Sound It Out Regarding Elliott Sharp’s review of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew: I’d love the idea of having a meet-up at a cafe somewhere in town and feature a listening session of a “difficult” album. Everyone bring an offer, and play one each night.

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New Jersey’s medical marijuana law hits another roadblock.

By Michael Alan Goldberg mgoldberg@philadelphiaweekly.com michael alan goldberg

Hit the road: Residents are up in arms over a pot farm that wants to move onto Rues Road in Upper Freehold.

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bring in people in wheelchairs, and everybody says ‘Ohhhh’ and their hearts melt and they say, ‘Give them whatever they want,’” says Evans.

If the Upper Freehold ordinance is passed this week, Breakwater plans to challenge it in court. “We will use every means at our disposal to enforce our right to own and operate a greenhouse facility that complies with existing zoning regulations,” the company vowed in a written statement.

Goldstein believes that Christie and members of the New Jersey Legislature could put a stop to all the delays and maneuverings by publicly exerting pressure on municipalities to comply with the act. But, he says, their silence speaks volumes.

“It’s all politics—they can have the appearance of being compassionate, but at the same time they can know that on the ground they’re never really going to have an operating program,” says Goldstein, who believes that most patients in New Jersey have given up hope for legal medicinal marijuana.

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find suitable locations for their operations, with the provision that they first had to get approval from local municipalities.

So far, that has proved difficult. In October, Compassionate Sciences ATC’s proposed location in Maple Shade was rejected by the township’s zoning board. And the Compassionate Care Foundation ATC is facing opposition for its planned facility in Burlington County.

But things have reached a fever pitch in Upper Freehold, where Breakwater ATC wants to set up its marijuana grow operation. Hundreds of outraged people packed a local school auditorium on Nov. 22 to express their concerns over a possible increase in crime, as well as the stigma of being home to a pot farm. In the wake of that meeting, the Upper Freehold Township Committee is set to pass an ordinance this Thursday that would ban any enterprise that violates federal law.

“It’s not a decision about whether medical marijuana is right or wrong, or right in Upper Freehold Township or another town,” insists Upper Freehold Mayor LoriSue Mount. “It’s strictly that it’s prohibited by federal law, and if we stop paying attention to the laws, where do we end up?”

But Chris Goldstein, spokesman for the Coalition of Medical Marijuana New Jersey, says that’s bogus. He believes Christie purposely delayed implementation of a law he personally despised under the guise of concerns about federal prosecution— which Goldstein says would be “remarkably unlikely”—for as long as he could, and now

“It’s not a decision about whether medical marijuana is right or wrong ... It’s strictly that it’s prohibited by federal law, and if we stop paying attention to the laws, where do we end up?”

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Rues Road—which winds through an idyllic and remote area of Upper Freehold Township, New Jersey, past lush farm fields and the occasional McMansion set back on a sprawling parcel of land—doesn’t look much like a battlefield. But it has become ground zero in the fight over the state’s Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, which has been in limbo for nearly two years since former N.J. Gov. Jon Corzine signed the bill on his last day of office in January 2010.

A pot farm wants to move onto a property on Rues Road, residents are up in arms, and medical marijuana advocates say a tiny but zealous group of anti-weed activists is behind efforts to stall the act indefinitely. And while many eyes here have been focused on New Jersey’s nascent medical marijuana program as a potential model for Pennsylvania to adopt, the only lesson that seems to be coming out of the Garden State is how to pass a law without ever actually implementing it.

In July, Gov. Chris Christie, who has made no bones about his disdain for the law, reluctantly announced that New Jersey was forging ahead with the delayed and highly regulated program because the federal government—which still classifies marijuana as an illegal substance with no medicinal value—assured him it would not prosecute state or local employees at facilities growing or dispensing the drug.

The announcement gave the green light to six nonprofit alternative treatment centers (ATCs)—mandated by the act as the state’s sole providers of medical marijuana—to

the tactic is being employed on the local level.

Noting that a Rutgers-Eagleton poll issued on Nov. 30 found that 86 percent of New Jersey residents support medical marijuana, Goldstein believes that just a handful of people are coordinating efforts across the state to stymie ATC approvals.

“What you’ve got is sour-grapes opposition who lost the battle for the bill reorganizing opposition in each of the places there’s a land use hearing,” says Goldstein, pointing to one foe in particular: 64-yearold Belvidere lawyer David Evans, a longtime anti-pot crusader.

Goldstein accuses Evans of using “reefer madness” scare tactics—through phone calls, emails and other means—to rile up residents and officials in Upper Freehold, Maple Shade and elsewhere against ATCs. He says Evans or his close allies have “been spotted at many of these hearings,” an assertion backed by fellow medicinal pot advocate Chuck Kwiatkowski, 40, who suffers from multiple sclerosis and smokes weed to help deal with its effects.

Kwiatkowski says he traveled from his North Jersey home to the Nov. 22 meeting in Upper Freehold because he figured Evans would be there. Evans wasn’t, but Kwiatkowski claims that some of Evans’ people were, heckling him and chanting slogans like “Up with hope, down with dope.”

“They treated me like I was the devil,” says Kwiatkowski.

Reached by phone, Evans says the accusations being leveled at him are ridiculous. He denies attending any hearings anywhere in the state relating to ATC approvals. He says he’s spoken with one member of the Upper Freehold Township Committee (whose name he says he can’t recall) “briefly on the phone” and “I may have talked to a council member in Montclair,” where Greenleaf Compassion Center is trying to open a pot dispensary.

“I have not had an ongoing communication with any of these people,” says Evans.

“The only thing I’ve done was I’ve sent them the arguments why [medical marijuana] is illegal under federal law, and I’ve tried to show them news stories about what’s been happening in other states and how local people are objecting to it.”

Evans also denies that he’s responsible for any kind of effort to stir up local residents.

“What [medical marijuana advocates] would like to do is blame this all on me instead of saying that there are people in the state that don’t like this,” he says. “It’s a lot easier to make me into a bogeyman than accept the reality of what’s going on here.”

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Upper Freehold resident Kimberly Lima, a 40-year-old mother of two small boys, says she has spearheaded local opposition to Breakwater primarily out of concern for her family’s safety. She insists she’s never heard of Evans, and resents the suggestion that he’s behind the furor.

“I find it so highly offensive that we would need an outside influence to tell us what we can do in our neighborhood,” she fumes.

“Most of the reason why we’re so against Breakwater coming here is because we know our area. And we know how this is going to change the character of the area.”

Evans says that while he’s not responsible for the opposition to Breakwater and other ATCs, he’s delighted by it. He believes smoking marijuana is harmful, especially to sick and dying individuals. And he thinks the public is being hoodwinked by medical marijuana activists whose real goal is the legalization of recreational weed, which, he says, “would be a disaster.”

“These medical marijuana people make very compassionate arguments and they

PA moves closer to an abortion-free state.

By Ada Kulesza akulesza@philadelphiaweekly.com a da ku l e s z a

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On a recent Friday this month, women in an abortion clinic in Philly sit under the fluorescent lights of the waiting room.

They’ve been there for hours. A patient is called in and one woman perks up, watching the other head through a door to the back.

She deflates, saying, “Damn, I’ve been here since 9:30.”

Another woman asks, “What time is it?”

She looks at her phone, sighing, cursing under her breath. “It’s 4:30.”

“Shit, it’ll be worth it, though,” another woman says, shaking her head.

One of them already has seven children.

Like hens in a coop, the others cluck their disbelief. “Seven?!”

“Yeah, there is no way I can have another baby.”

The women talk openly about how they got there, and the mistakes they made. They talk about the birth control they will start using after all this is over and the herbs and “folk” remedies they tried in order to avoid being where they are now. And they speculate about how painful the procedure will be.

In the future, abortions might not be so accessible. If a few bills slowly making their way to Gov. Corbett’s desk are enacted, abortions could become more expensive and generally harder to obtain.

Two near-identical bills—Senate Bill 3 and

House Bill 1977, which passed the House Monday night—seek to take away insurance coverage for abortions under Obamacare (aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). The president’s plan will require states to establish a health exchange for people to buy medical insurance.

“I think 70 to 80 percent of policies currently cover abortion,” says Maggie Groff, vice president of External Affairs at Planned Parenthood Southeast Pennsylvania. “Some women aren’t even aware that their health insurance covers abortion. You don’t know you have coverage until you need it. This would be a dramatic change.”

If Obamacare takes effect in 2014, abortion will not be covered under any of the policies on the state’s health exchange.

Women who can afford to, can buy separate coverage from a private insurer outside the exchange system. But low-income women whose health care is subsidized won’t get coverage if a pregnancy poses a serious health risk and abortion at a hospital is necessary.

“I’m just amazed at the people who are going to vote for this bill,” said Rep. Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia) before the 146-45 vote. “They trust their constituents to vote for them, but not to make decisions for their own lives. That is unacceptable.”

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Pennsylvania’s laws already prohibit using any public money for an abortion for a woman who qualifies for state medical health assistance, unless her life is danger or the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. A “medical emergency” amendment that would provide an exception for pregnant women with conditions causing irrevocable physical harm such as severe illness or infertility without abortion of her pregnancy, was rejected.

“If a patient needs a higher level of care, she may need to be seen in a hospital where there are specialists,” Dr. Courtney Schreiber, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania, writes in an email to PW. “(This legislation) makes no exception for catastrophic health situations such as … paralysis, organ failure and infertility. These bills are a true threat to women’s health.”

In a clinic, an abortion can cost from $350 to $425 and up in Philadelphia.

About 80 percent of private insurance plans would cover this procedure in a clinic or a hospital, Schreiber writes.

However, in a hospital, the price would be much higher.

“This is a very interesting dynamic here, by legislating what private insurance companies can or cannot cover in their services,” says Rebecca Foley, director of Public Policy at Women’s Way, a Philadelphia-based fundraising and advocacy group centered around women’s issues.

HB 1977 will now move to committee in the Senate, according to a staff member of the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Donna Oberlander (R-Clarion County) and SB 3 will move to the House for approval, according to Joe Pittman, the chief of staff of Sen. Don White (R-Indiana County), who authored the bill. Pittman says the state is exercising its right to decide what elective care will be covered on the health exchange.

Groff, of Planned Parenthood, smells politicking. “(In) the fact that it seems that they’re in a rush to deal with bills about abortion before these exchanges are even set up yet.” (With an election looming and the possibilities of a GOP ouster, it makes sense for a conservative legislature to get its laws on the books.) Another bill that passed the House on Monday night, HB 732, would require abortion clinics to renovate their facilities to comply with surgical standards—costly renovations that could potentially shut clinics down or raise the fees for services, Groff says.

“Between January and June of 2011, the Pennsylvania Legislature has spent over 30 percent of their time on the floor talking about abortion,” Groff says. “Really our lawmakers should be focusing on improving the health care system, instead of using bills as a political divisor.”

“No one goes out and decides to get pregnant and then have an abortion,” says Rachel Lawton, the President of the League of Women Voters of Philadelphia.

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PA House Passes Abortion Bill That Would Force Most, If Not All, Clinics to Close

By Tara Murtha tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com Legislators got heated on the state House floor last night as they debated—then ultimately passed—two bills with big impact on (read: chiseling away of) women’s rights in Pennsylvania.

Rep. Daniel Frankel (D-Allegheny) tweeted at approximately 7 p.m: “#PAHouseGOP majority forcing vote on abortion restrictions bill. Instead, we should focus on #JobsJobsJobs.”

First up was Senate Bill 732. Passed in the wake of the arrest of Kermit Gosnell, the West Philly doctor charged with killing viable babies, critics have called this bill a “back-door ban on abortion.”

Experts say that if 732 is enacted, most, if not all, of the 20 freestanding abortion clinics in Pennsylvania will be forced to shut down. And the cost of an abortion, if you can find a provider, will skyrocket from approximately $350 to $1,000.

Currently, only 10 of our 67 counties have an abortion provider, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Long story short, SB 732 mandates expensive and, according to safety reports issued by the Department of Health, seemingly unnecessary architectural renovations to upgrade abortion clinics to the same facility standards as “ambulatory surgical centers.”

“Under the guise of reform, it will shut down access,” Frankel said. “It will create more [Kermit] Gosnells, because women will not be able to afford or have access to a clinic.”

All the amendments proposed by House Democrats—including increased safety such as establishing a toll-free complaint hotline and mandating an inspection within 72 hours of a serious occurrence—were shot down, despite claims that the bill is intended to increase patient safety.

It’s telling to note that SB 732 lacks the support or endorsement of medical societies. In fact, in a letter of opposition, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists wrote that they “disagree vehemently” with the bill. “These additional requirements do nothing to increase patient safety ... and will serve only to diminish access to quality health care for women of the Commonwealth.”

The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood have already promised to file litigation challenging SB 732. Similar, though less severe, legislation has been successfully challenged in other states.

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Dino-mite: South Philly native Yis Goodwin, aka "Nose Go," covers the city with his vibrant street art.

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Sick of the Mainstream, Philly Artists Revive the Alternatives

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n December’s First Friday, an early crowd fills Little Bar in South Philly for a night of punk-rock music and artwork titled “Useless Scumbags.”

While everyone else chats over beers and tacos, exhibiting artist James Anderson bounces around the bar, his nervous energy increasing with the steady flow of friends and supporters pouring in to check out his work. “I started drinking at 10 this morning,” says the 24-year-old scruffy-faced Boston transplant.

Anderson’s humorously demented works—crudely nailed to the bar’s red-lacquered walls—compliment the quirky decor of the dimly lit space. “I Kissed An El Bar Girl and I Liked It,” reads a poster of a man with a can of beer for a head. In another, cheesesteaks protrude from the head of a zombie donning a leather jacket. Both pieces are a part of Anderson’s ongoing “Weirdadelphia” series.

His newer work, on the other hand, is a little more true to life.

“These Overdraft Fees Are Killing Me,” reads the type scrolled across a colorful

graphic of an ATM keyboard. “I’ve got like 10 dollars in my pocket and have to walk to work,” says Anderson (who was laid off from LTL Prints in Old City a few days after the show at Little Bar). “I’ve been living in an abandoned building illegally rented out by some sleaze ball and I’m way behind on my student loans and taxes.”

It’s Anderson’s second exhibition at Little Bar and having been cut off by the bartenders the last time, he’s happy to be invited back. He’d choose a bar over an art gallery any day. “Skipping out on the gallery scam is what I am all about,” he says.

“Because I really could never afford to pay the insane overhead fees that some galleries want to charge.” Plus, Anderson adds, “I don’t want no snooty Old City person looking at my stuff and being like, ‘Oh, let’s really analyze this.’ That’s why I do [shows] either at bars or people’s houses, like DIY stuff. That’s the people I’m trying to get to.”

With seven art shows under his belt within the last year and a half, that approach seems be working for him.

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It’s an attitude shared by many local artists—both by choice and necessity. For one reason or another—the high-ticket art work, snooty clientel and money-grubbing owners—many local artists see the traditional gallery scene as an outdated commercial system. Or, as Anderson—also known by his guerilla art name “GRIMGRIMGRIM”— calls it, “touristy art shit.”

And they want no part of it.

Feeling ostracized, marginalized and mistreated by the mainstream gallery system, many local artists—and more of them—are taking alternative routes to creative success.

“Artists in Philadelphia are taking the art back,” says Christian “Patch” Patchell.

“It only makes sense that this city’s artists work outside the mainstream gallery system. We utilize shops, friends, craft shows and the city itself as our gallery space. It’s an interesting time to be living in Philly and working as an artist,” he says, emphasizing that waiting to be “accepted by some gallery” isn’t going to get you anywhere.

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Patchell, a Chestnut Hill-based illustrator and cartoonist with years of gallery experience behind him, says he “was really

into the art scene in Philly, like 10 years ago.” But then he started encountering recurring issues such as not getting paid in a timely manner—if at all. The 37-year old says the final straw was when one Old City gallery ripped him off about seven years ago. “Because of my dealings with them, I stopped showing artwork at galleries.”

To fill the void, he spends up to 40 hours a week freelancing, lending his art to comic books, greeting cards, T-shirts and even a line of zombie teddy bears. He recently released a book chronicling his battle with tongue cancer titled, “I Put the Can in Cancer: A Journey Through Pictures.” He also teaches illustration at the University of the Arts, and design at the Antonelli Institute in Glenside. “I tell [my students that] artists today need to do everything,” Patchell says. “You cannot dismiss any avenue … any means of creating an audience for your work. With the economy being the way it is, it makes sense to do a print; it makes perfect sense to do a T-shirt,” an option he notes is frowned upon by a lot of high-end galleries.

Fellow illustrator and cartoonist Bob Dix agrees. “No gallery coordinator or art director or critic should be the reason we fail. That we didn’t think of a way around

them is why we should fail … it takes true creativity and ingenuity to find a new way, a different track to success—however that’s measured.”

The 40-something art vet has done a little bit of everything during his 20-year career: making balloon banners for his father’s hotair balloon company; teaching illustration; designing brochures and postcards; and currently, bartending at Bob & Barbara’s.

Dix also has a long list of bad experiences —from stores losing his artwork and companies giving it away for free to designing the logo for the popular ’80s band Bricklin without ever seeing a dime for it. “That’s just sour grapes at this point,” he chuckles.

“For every good job that’s out there, there’s 10 bad ones.”

He looks back fondly on his days as a member of the Well Fed Artist Gallery, one of the many artist-run co-ops in Old City that catered to unknown artists and a younger audience. As more businesses began moving into the neighborhood and rents soared, Well Fed and other artist-run spaces were pushed out. “There hasn’t been a good gallery down there in years,” Dix says.

The result is that artists like Dix and Patchell have been forced to seek less traditional venues. They both praise the support they get from comic-book stores like Brave New Worlds in Old City. “They promote the crap out of whatever you’re doing,” Patchell says. “If we sell our artwork for under $20 and someone doesn’t pay with a credit card, they won’t take a commission.”

Dix points out that the slew of craft fairs and festivals that have sprung up in the past few years have been a blessing. “One summer I did like 20 festivals,” he says, adding that at the Punk Rock Flea Market this summer, he made his entire month’s rent in three hours. With his illustrations focusing on monsters and fantasy related stuff, Dix does particularly well at what he calls the “odd-ball festivals” like Monster Mania in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Blobfest in Phoenixville. “They’re picking up the slack,” says Dix, who is working on a mutated Alice in Wonderland series just in time for the slew of upcoming holiday craft shows.

As longtime members of the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, a grassroots art collective founded by three local artists in a Fishtown basement 14 years ago, both Patchell and Dix feel like they have an entire support system behind them. “There’s no dues or anything like that, just people who like to make comics, cartoons and artwork,” Patchell says. “We help each other move house and home, get each other work and help teach classes together and guest lecture.” He adds that “many of my former students are now members of the Society and we exhibit side by side. If that’s not a symbol of an improving art scene in Philly I don’t know what is.”

The fact that Philly artists are coming together and making it happen is nothing new— hence the city’s many longtime artist collectives like the Sketch Club and alternative spaces like Vox Populi. The difference is the renewed surge. “The energy here is

really amazing,” says Andrew Suggs, executive director of Vox. Now that many of the city’s original art collectives and co-ops like Vox and Nexus have become more established—becoming nonprofits and opening their programming to include artists outside of Philly—it’s the start-ups in North Philly like Part Time Studios, Little Berlin and extra extra that are offering spaces for young artists to make the kind of artwork they want and actually have it seen. “It’s a community situation for them, but not necessarily an exhibition opportunity,” Suggs says.

Gary Steuer, the city’s chief cultural officer, says the alternative art scene has “really picked up steam within the last two to three years.” And he expects that trend to continue. “As Philly becomes more and more recognized for these alternative ventures, more artists want to come here.”

Steuer says the reality is that “no one is coming to Philly to buy an original Robert Rauschenberg, But if you’re looking for the next Robert Rauschenberg, that you will find.”

For Suggs, the idea that in many ways, “you’re not in competition with the commercial scene,” is one of the most exciting things to happen to the art scene in Philly.

Despite having been shooed away (on behalf of complaining gallery owners) by officials from the Department of Licenses & Inspections earlier this past summer, the decades-long tradition of hawking art on the street appears unfazed. During last month’s First Friday, local artisans braved dropping temperatures to sell their array of works—jewelry, knits, ceramics, prints, you name it—along Second Street in Old City just as they have since spring. “Caricatures, one dollar! One dollar! Caricatures, one dollar!” yells one young woman aggressively pursuing the attention of pedestrians quickly bustling in and out of many of the fine-art galleries on the strip.

Dix points out that “all those people on the street are people who could never even imagine trying to get into those galleries.”

And really, they don’t need to.

Alex Styer, program director for Philly Art Alliance, agrees that things have changed over the last three to five years, and that while galleries are still relevant, they’re just not as vital to an artist’s success as they once were. “You don’t need gallery representation,” Styer says. “Marketing doesn’t have as much weight as it used to … you don’t need to have your show mentioned in the Inquirer’s Sunday Arts Preview.

That’s not the end all, be all in the art scene anymore.”

As one of the few local artists making a living solely on their art, Yis Goodwin aka “Nose Go,” is a prime example of this liberating movement—he got his first big break while in college when he entered and won Converse’s nationwide sneaker design and his shoe was distributed worldwide. In addition to having covered the city with his vibrant street art—two murals with Mural Arts Program and installations in too many places for him to count—the South Philly native has exhibited work in galleries across the country. An original Nose Go

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currently sells for an affordable $300$400 while commissioned pieces garner $1,000 to $2,000. “I’m often told I under price it,” Goodwin says. “But I don’t need to sell it for like a ridiculous price.” Goodwin’s production company, Broken Compass Studios, also just launched its first iPhone app—a hand-painted game called “Cat Ball Eats It All.” “It’s meant to feel like you’re playing a piece of art,” he says.

Still, as successful as the 26-year-old has been traveling the nontraditional route, there’s a sense of acclaim that comes along with gallery acceptance that, deep down, every young artist can’t help but want.

Two summers ago, Goodwin co-curated “Made in American,” a group show at TRUST Gallery. It was a dream come true. “I was so stoked that I got to be doing a show inside of it and have all the artists that I wanted,” he says. But his excitement was quickly squashed. “I guess some of the work wasn’t the owners’ cup of tea so they made us take down the entire show after the opening night,” says Goodwin.

Fortunately, he always has the streets.

Goodwin recently participated in “WheatPaste Your Heart Out,” a citywide project Phil Weekly_Dec14:10x5.375 12/7/11 curated by friends Dietrich Meyer and Linnea Vegh—two artists with no interest in

trying to get into the Old City commercial galleries.

Back in September, the two 24-yearolds nailed 30 large wood panels to walls of abandoned buildings and other public areas across the city where, for about six weeks, they served as a blank canvas for

“I don’t want no snooty Old City person looking at my stuff and being like, ‘Oh, let’s really analyze this.’"

Philly street artists. “We put up the panels in various parts of the city to see what would happen, to essentially let them grow organically over time and leave them up to the elements,” says Vegh, a New Jersey native who recently graduated from the 9:27 AM Page University of the1Arts.

The duo originally intended to go the legit

route and ask local businesses to agree to display the panels, but that didn’t pan out. “A lot of businesses didn’t like the thought of inviting people to come and essentially put graffiti up on their walls,” says Meyer, an Art Institute dropout who’s living off his savings. “They were afraid it would invite people to go and actually deface the buildings themselves.”

So they took matters into their own hands.

“Wheatpasting is fun because it’s anonymous,” says Vegh, a barista by day. “You can just put stuff up, you can make a statement, you don’t have to answer for it and you don’t have to worry about finding gallery space.”

After spending the past few years immersed in the alternative art scene sprouting up in Fishtown, Kensington and Port Richmond, Vegh and Meyer finally got to see their artistic experiment come to life last month, as every inch of wall space inside Vox’s AUX Space was temporarily wheatpasted— the array of artwork including everything from photo collages and poster art to hand-drawn illustrations and paintings. Underneath, the wooden boards the two young artists had spent months agonizing over were almost undetectable.

Capping off the installation, a graffiti-covered honor box and construction divider were placed in the center of the room.

On a large map of the city, Vegh meticulously denoted the original locations

of all 30 panels with pushpins. By the time she and Meyer went back to retrieve the panels, a total of nine had been jacked.

Those that remained had been covered from top to bottom.

While a DJ blasted club beats in the corner, Vegh’s boyfriend manned a makeshift bar selling craft beers and raffle tickets for a chance to win one of the plywood panels.

With the exception of only one panel, the entire instillation had been the work of their friends, many of whom had been there alongside them till 3 a.m that morning helping to install the show and had now returned to join them in celebrating.

“Seeing the panels finally up was one of the most gratifying things I’ve ever felt,” Meyer says. “I couldn’t believe it. I still can’t believe it.”

Obviously, “success” is a rather elusive

concept in the art world. But these young Philly artists have a whole other model for “making it.”

A few days after the “Useless Scumbags,” opening at Little Bar, James Anderson laments the loss of his job. “Its almost like being an artist is asking to be broke,” he says. “It’s nice to make a sale to recoup on supplies and overhead but I really just dig when people tell me they are into what I’m doing.”

Anderson says that Philly’s art scene is a “dysfunctional, close-knit family of weirdos. Some of us will make it somehow and others will just give up. But I’m not going anywhere anytime soon.” n

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Summer Fiction Summer Fiction, the lovely indie-pop combo headed up by veteran Philly singer-songwriter Bill Ricchini, headlines JB’s tonight as part of WXPN’s free Key Studio Sessions series. If you’re into the lush, semi-orchestral psychpop of Arthur Lee’s Love and such dreamy acolytes as the Clientele, Felt and even Belle & Sebastian, then you’ll want to be in the room tonight. Summer Fiction’s melodies are both delicate and unstoppable, Ricchini’s voice is equally wistful and comforting, and the band’s songs will drape over you like your coziest winter blanket even as they remind you of warm July nights. This gig is free, but you have to RSVP with WXPN to secure your spot on the list. MichAel AlAn golDberg 9pm. Free. With Pink Skull + Attia Taylor. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com

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Best of the Fest For the past five years, the ghoulish gentlemen behind Exhumed Films have delighted devotees of shocking cinema with their annual 24hour horrorthons. Alas, most of the celluloid corpses disinterred by these awful archivists are best left unseen by mortal eyes. Every so often, however, their scary screenings include

movies so beguilingly bad that they demand to be seen again. This double feature is comprised of two such flicks emanating from the 1980s, which were first shown at 2009’s Fright Fest. Raw Force combines elements of action, kung fu and zombie movies, with some white slavery thrown in for good measure.

Lady Terminator is an Indonesian rip-off of James Cameron’s The Terminator, right down to the infamous eyeball scene, but it also contains a dash of supernatural sexploitation.

Dreck this awful can only be appreciated when surrounded by an audience of 300 like-minded souls, so crawl out of your crypts and enjoy the proceedings. rAyMonD siMon 7:30pm. $12. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. exhumedfilms.com

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Glorious Christmas Philadelphia Orchestra’s “Glorious Sounds of Christmas” is a wonderful way to welcome in the holiday season. Scrooge himself would get into the holiday spirit after hearing the stirring renditions of “Gloria” and “Hark!

The Angels Sing.” The sounds will transport the audience back to their childhoods spent listening to William Holcombe’s “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” narrated by Pat Ciarrocchi of CBS3. This year’s concert, which will be conducted by Rossen Milanov, combines the talents of four of the city’s leading musical organizations. Besides the orchestra, choral singers from the Mendelssohn Club, leading violinists from the Curtis Institute and star performers from the Opera Company of Philadelphia will all perform on stage. lAurA golDMAn 7pm. $10-$107. Kimmel Center, 260 S. Broad St. 215.893.1999. philorch.org

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Phonte + 9th Wonder You know how they say absence makes the heart grow fonder? Well, it appears that since MC/singer Phonte Coleman and producer/ DJ 9th Wonder haven’t been in each other’s lives for a while, they’ve been making up for it lately by being sort of inseparable. The former partners in the North Carolina hiphop group Little Brother (along with Rapper Big Pooh) had a bitter falling-out a few years back when 9th left the group to pursue other projects. However, the two old pahtnas reconciled, eventually working on one another’s latest releases: Coleman’s solo joint Charity Starts at Home and 9th’s long-awaited effort The Wonder Years. Now, they’re making up for lost time by hitting the road together. As they make a stop in the City of Brotherly Love this week, these two brothas are out to show it’s nothing but love between them these days. Now, if they can only get Pooh to join in on the love train. crAig D. linDsey 8pm. With Rapsody, Median + Sela. $18. TLA, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. tlaphilly.com

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ichard Kern has a knack for illuminating New York City’s subterranean culture. His early zine, The Heroin Addict, told stories of the dopers and outsiders wandering the East Village in the early 1980s. He switched to film soon after, becoming a leading figure of the Cinema of Transgression movement. Examining the bleak Village underworld of deviant sex and dope in his films, Kern pulled actors from the underground music/art scene (Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth members, Henry Rollins, David Wojnarowicz, et al.). International House screens six of Kern’s 1980s shorts tonight—including Stray Dogs and the Butthole Surfersscored Submit to Me—and two more recent ones. In 1992’s The Bitches, a threesome goes awry when the two ladies start, um .... (just go see it). And, like his recent portraits of adult entertainment workers (like Sasha Grey) for Vice’s VBS.tv, 2011’s Face to Panty Ratio shows close-ups of girls in panties set to the music by Thurston Moore. elliott shArP Wed., Dec. 14, 7:30pm. $9. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. ihousephilly.org

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Aaron Dessner, who plays guitar in the National (clearly another of these outfits), called the record “ridiculously good” and “incredibly ambitious sonically,” pointing to the way that simple song structures got blown to outsized, anthemic scale. And indeed, WOD frontman Adam Granduciel has a way of hitching roadtoughened, working man’s rock to a knob twiddler’s smorgasbord of interesting effects. Live, the band emphasizes its arena-rocking, blue-collar tendencies, though they’re swirled in drone and dipped in haze. JenniFeR Kelly

Ugly Christmas Sweater Soiree Pull out that hideous sweater your GramGram got you. The kids at CHOP will thank you. The Blockley is hosting a night of drinks and prizes honoring ugliest outfits to help out the Matt Mullin Memorial Fund. Proceeds from this evening will benefit the cystic fibrosis center at Children’s Hospital. The cost of a ticket, available in advance or at the door, will get you five hours of open bar plus special holiday White Russians. Mullin, who died suddenly in 2009, was great with children and loved throwing parties. With so many friends showing up to his gatherings, it was a no brainer to keep the party going after he died.

His family and a few close friends raise money at various events throughout the year with proceeds always going to help causes related to children. BRenda hillegaS 8pm. $40. The Blockley, 38th and Chestnut sts. giving.chop.edu/goto/Ugly.Sweater.Party

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The Philly Improv Theater house team Mayor Karen has just been accepted to the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival and to help alleviate the traveling costs for all eight members, the crew is inviting you to test your knowledge of the comedy biz while possibly tinkling a little in your pants. Unlike the cutthroat bar trivia you might be accustomed to, players are actually encouraged to come up and take a prize whenever they feel like they deserve it. Best of all, you’ll be amongst a crew of some of the funniest folks in Philly. So even if you don’t know how many times Alec Baldwin hosted SNL or who the highest paid comedian currently on TV is, you’re pretty much guaranteed to leave feeling like a winner. nicole FinKBineR 8pm. $5. O’Neal’s, 611 S. Third St. 215.574.9495. onealspub.com

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Sheer Terror was always the odd duck out in the New York Hardcore scene of the late ’80s.

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the ones with an actual sense of humor. In between songs that sounded like a malfunctioning bulldozer with a heavy backbeat, vocalist Paul Bearer would bring the pain like a tattooed Don Rickles cutting down any muscle bound skinhead or weekend creampuff punk that dared to step to the front of the stage. Their recent reunion shows have proven that Bearer has not mellowed with age, and neither has the band.

Maybe if you’re lucky, they’ll play their cover of Jethro Tull’s “Hymn 43.” If that’s not reason enough to put on your moshing shoes and leave the house, then we don’t know what to tell you. Tony ReTTman

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Hip-Hop Awards The “Philly Support Philly” motto has really gained steam in the past year in the local hip-hop community. At this year’s 2011 AllFlamerz.com and Urban Celebrity Magazine Hip Hop Awards, the city gets to put on for itself instead of waiting for some other award show to recognize them. The show will be hosted by Batcave Studio’s P-Funk and PW fave Tone Trump with DJ No Phrillz on the ones and twos. This year, there’ll be performances by Trump, King of Philly, Gillie Da Kid, Cassidy and newcomer Young Savage, and a new award will be given out named after some guy named Will Smith.

MC Breeze and Lady B will present the 2011 Philly Hip Hop Legend Award. Ryan SmiTh 5-11pm. $20. Park Avenue Banquet Hall, 4942 Parkside Ave. 215.839.6840.

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Lantern Theater Company is serving up one of Britain’s most deliciously funny comedies with their new production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives. The story focuses on the enchanting duo Amanda (Genevieve Perrier) and Elyot (Ben Dibble). Divorced five years earlier, Amanda and Elyot run into each other again while honeymooning with their respective new spouses.

One of the wittiest, silkiest plays ever written, Director KC MacMillan hopes audiences will discover that there’s more to Coward’s script than just its’ sophisticated humor and effervescent dialogue. “Coward’s laughs come out of the absurd truths of his characters, not their shallowness” explains MacMillan, who last season helmed Lantern’s gripping Uncle Vanya. MacMillan says there will be no shortage of glamour in costume designer Mark Mariani’s sparkling evening gowns or Meghan’s Jones’ set, which he describes as “a jewel box with a few elements of magic to it.” J. coopeR RoBB 7pm. $20-$36. St. Stephen’s Theater, 10th and Ludlow sts. 215.829.0395. lanterntheater.org

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Cold Roses

Casey Desmond

Philly’s Cold Roses borrowed their name from a Ryan Adams song, and their sound from country rockers like Neil Young, the Band and the Kings of Leon. Robert Clancy, the band’s leader, is not afraid of an incendiary, electro-powered guitar solo, nor does he shy away from the sweetness of close, soaring harmonies. His rhythm section Jamie Briggs on drums and Brandon Porter on bass crank a hard-punching, slow-moving beat that embodies perseverance, blunted longing and a wary acknowledgement of the worst-case scenario. “Let Me Go,” the big crowd pleaser, arouses thirsts that can’t be entirely quenched by a longneck, an aching for true love, a good fistfight and the open road. J.K. 8pm. $5. With Mat Burke, the Holy Mess Ramblin’ Road Show + Corporate Hearts. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

Slogging it out in the Boston club scene for a few years just wasn’t cuttin’ it anymore, so spunky electro-pop diva-in-waiting Casey Desmond took her auburn hair and four-octave voice to NBC’s The Voice. She sang Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” during auditions. She was coached on the show by Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. And she lost. OR DID SHE? Desmond has parlayed that appearance into a rising national profile and an East Coast tour that hits town tonight. She’ll be decked out in handmade outfits and Aladdin Sane-inspired face makeup. She’ll bring lots of vintage synths and other electronic doodads. She’ll jump around, get kooky and belt out her new Gaga-ish single “Talking to God,” among other tunes. “I’m a robot-loving, rocket-riding crazy person,” she says, adding that her songs “make people shake their butts.” Sounds like a winner to us. m.a.g.

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Dan Dan noodles at han Dynasty, you are quite the authentic dish! Can you tell us where you hail from?

I’m a traditional Chinese street food and my particular recipe is Szechuan, so I am spicy and saucy. But much like your kind, Dan Dan come in all kinds of flavors and colors, with or without sauce, spicy or mild. so you might visit three different restaurants serving Dan Dan and have three different dishes?

Exactly! I got my start with street vendors carrying two baskets—one with noodles, the other with sauce—on either end of a pole hoisted across their shoulders. This action in Chinese is called “dan dan.” Each vendor prepares their noodles differently according to their location, available ingredients and preferences.

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Fans of han Dynasty claim that owner han Chiang sprinkles crack on you because you’re so irresistible. Can you set the record straight on exactly what ingredients hook these addicts?

Really, I’m just fresh noodles, from the frozen section of your local Asian grocer, topped with my sauce made of sesame paste, chili oil, soy sauce, a bit of sugar and minced pork. On Chiang’s “spice scale” I’m a six out of 10, but he’s happy to prepare me with as much or as little heat as you like.

You sound like a straight-forward dish, but do you have any special techniques that help make you the most popular menu item?

My minced pork is pre-cooked with preserved veggies, which are packed with a lot of salty, flavorful goodness.

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Prawn jawn: Tandoori shrimp were perfectly tender and shown real respect.

It shouldn’t have been as unexpected a sight as it was, but the entirety of the composition was almost jarring. A couple, both in what had to be their late 60s, sat at their table one recent evening at Tashan, sipping vividly colored cocktails and cooing over a tableful of food. Modern Indian music pulsed in the background, like some kind of subcontinental Thievery Corporation. The gleaming open kitchen, all silvery and bright, stood sentinel over a dark, appealing dining area.

At first glance, Tashan looks like the kind of place that would win over a younger crowd with its entire M.O.—the music, the crepuscular sexiness of the space, the iPad beverage lists. So what was going on with that couple up front?

The answer: They were on to something. Tashan picks up the torch from the departed Bindi and runs with the (shouldn’t-berevolutionary-at-this-point) idea that Indian food in Philly can be more modern and creative than it’s given a chance to be.

Executive Chef Sylva Senat is just the man to do it. His resume is impeccable (Buddakan, Aquavit, Tiffin, and more), and the urban and urbane nature of his path is brilliantly brought to bear on the menu here on S. Broad Street. Tashan’s owner also has impressive bona fides: Munish Tarula, of Tiffin fame, is a local food revolutionary in his own right.

So much is so good here. Tandoori shrimp, a usually humble preparation of reliably overcooked shrimp and fairly monochromatic seasoning, was shown real respect. Popping-tender and kissed with smoke, these savory pink commas were the beneficiaries of a hung-yogurt crust and made maple-y by the addition of herbal fenugreek. The flavors were both familiar and bracingly exotic. The tandoors were also used brilliantly for pink-centered lamb chops mysterious with Kashmiri paprika and protected by a papaya glaze complicated with mustard oil and honey.

Goat cheese taftaan sang too, the unctuous, paste-textured chèvre given snap on its base of onion-seed bread and fullthrottle excitement by its crown of crystallized-ginger-flecked raisin-pineapple murabba. Think of this as an Indian, goat version of Brie with marmalade, but a thousand times better and more interesting, and without the necessity of going to your mother-in-law’s house to have it.

When working with otherwise familiar dishes, Senat brings his keen sense of creativity to the task and typically shows them in a new, unexpected light. Chicken vindaloo, that hoary warhorse of Indian dining in Philadelphia, has been deconstructed and reassembled here in an altogether intriguing way. Organic chicken

sausage sings its own aria of fenugreek, cardamom, ginger, onion and more, its throne of Bombay-style bhel chaat snapping and crackling with each bite, the house-made chili paste a searing riff on Sriracha but infinitely more complex. Even a humble sweet potato impressed, all smoky from the clay oven and cumin, all tangy and high-toned from the mint-cilantrotamarind anointment.

There were occasional misses, like the pleasant but underwhelming gol-gappa, the gently tingling potatoes tucked inside the durum shell less than riveting even with a splash of mintcilantro water. Palak tikki, a spinach patty scented with screw pine and filled with a pistachio-paneer center, should have been more balanced, the saffron-morell cream sauce nearly obliterating the other flavors.

But those were rare missteps from a kitchen that is on its way to becoming one of the most intriguing in the city. Its work is framed nicely with a cocktail program by Beverage Director and Sommelier David Costanzo; many of the drinks incorporate the spices and flavors of India and harness them to mightily successful ends. The dhoom in particular is among the most deceptively simple and food-friendly cocktails I’ve had recently: Macallan 12 and peach brulee was a seamless no-brainer. And the wine list is intelligently composed, especially given the challenges of the menu.

Turns out that older couple knew exactly what they were doing. Food this creative and well-executed should never be age-specific. I’m looking forward to watching Tashan grow and evolve. It’s already an exciting, challenging and damn-wellneeded addition to the local dining scene. n

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Obsessed with theater, she views the world with a mixture of terror and confusion, which isn’t surprising considering her husband is a lunatic who enjoys incinerating squirrels before breakfast.

“I don’t really know what normal is” she confides to Torture chamber: Paul Nolan (left) and Ed Swidey (right) interrogate Sam Henderson (center), who plays Felicity. “That’s why I go a mysterious guy named Zamir in this bizarre political satire. to the theater, to discover it,” she explains. (StrangeFeaturing violence that is too silly to be disturbing, bufly enough, her favorite show is Wicked.) foonish characters and a surreal visit to Hooter’s, ChristoDurang has never emphasized character development pher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who in his work, and in Torture the people we see are more Love Them rails against the conservative right—but the caricatures than characters. Nolan and Saunders stand playwright’s satirical punches have little weight and the out; their animated performances complement the script’s blows he lands are glancing at best. cartoonish qualities admirably. Unfortunately, HenderTorture, its Philadelphia premiere being presented by the son’s Zamir is not as effectively realized, though to be fair New City Stage Company at the Adrienne Theatre, focuses it’s tough to play a character whose chief characteristic is on Felicity (Ginger Dayle). A woman of indeterminate age a lack of a discernible identity. Widdall is more successful, (a trait she shares with everyone else in Durang’s tale), and his engaging performance as the “porn-again” pastor Felicity awakens from a night of what we can only assume is reminiscent of Dennis Hopper’s eccentric journalist in Apocalypse Now. New City favors plays that explore the darker aspects Why Torture Is Wrong of life. Its early winter productions have often provided a Through Jan. 8. $22-$24. Adrienne Theatre, welcome dose of reality during the otherwise relentlessly 2030 Sansom St. newstagecity.org joyous holiday theater season. But by the end of Torture’s painfully unfunny first act, you may find yourself yearning to see Tiny Tim hobble across the stage. Under Michael was near-death intoxication to a strange man named Zamir Brophy’s direction, the audaciously theatrical second act is (Sam Henderson). Unable to recall any events from her a slight improvement, which is not to suggest that Torture night of carousing, Zamir informs her that they spent the needs two acts (the play is simply far too long). Durang’s night having sex. And since Felicity isn’t the sort of girl full-length works have a tendency to stretch a single, who sleeps around, before lovemaking they got married by often intriguing idea to the point where we eventually lose a minister who moonlights as a director of pornographic interest. films (Russ Widdall). Felicity insists they have the marriage Torture is neither funny enough to be a successful comedy annulled. Zamir proposes instead that he beat the crap out or dark enough to work as a provocative satire. In the end, it of her. Soon the newlyweds are off to meet Felicity’s parunintentionally succeeds in making the dire consequences ents, and from here the story gets even more bizarre. associated with the paranoid-driven patriotism espoused Despite her drinking habits and poor judgment, Felicby some conservatives (including several running for the ity, it turns out, is by far the most stable member of her Republican presidential nomination) seem more like a bad joke rather than a real threat to our civil liberties. n family. Her father, Leonard (Paul L. Nolan), is a gun-

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about her work: It needs no context beyond itself. Mapping 18 paintings and three suites of prints on paper, the mid-career retrospective (her first) presents a body of work that functions forcefully within the logic of its own universe.

At first, the show reads clean: a steady march of identically sized canvases evenly spaced on white walls. But a few paintings begin to muddy the air. “Big Joy” (2004) is a vortex whose dishwater-brown smears clot in a dense fog at the center; “Medusa” (2006) has a similar brown globule, but plies it with runny earthy and blushing flesh tones.

In both paintings, the eye is buffeted by a shifting surface that blurs softly out of focus in one quadrant only to slam sharply into crisp detail in the next. This process of constantly adjusted vision is a theme throughout von Heyl’s work, usually achieved though pairing depth with bold flatness. In a painting like “P.” (2008), whose gray void is

tightly ringed by a brutal pattern of black jags, the eye zooms manically between near and far vision. We sink into the center of the painting only to hit a matte wall in the spikes surrounding it. Whirling through dizziness, we often crest a wave of insight as we stare at von Heyl’s work. Through zooming forward and reeling back, her paintings persuade us to travel vast optical distances in a relentless effort to confront the inscrutable.

Enacting another shift in distance, von Heyl describes her approach as “painting in reverse,” an act of effacement that sometimes scrubs out an original form, or obsessively layers paint over earlier impulses. Using hands, rags, spatulas and brushes, she sands, rubs and wipes the surface of the painting away, which, paradoxically results in even more painting.

Upstaged by wriggling trails of color and caustic jabs of charcoal, this process of effacement is an invisible backstory, hinted at only in the hefty texture that weights certain areas of the canvas.

Von Heyl's titles, just like her paintings, bear many layers of meaning. Consider “Igitur” (2008), in which a darkly liturgical talisman floats on a lilac vapor. The title quotes an unfinished Mallarmé poem, while the painting itself hovers between the gravitas of a religious icon and the irreverent wash of a commercial lithograph. Like many of her best paintings, it’s an amalgam of references that stops just short of being recognizable.

Only twice does she stray too literally into citing giants of Modernism. Standing in front of “Yellow Guitar” or “Time Waiting” can trigger a disappointing bout of Picasso fatigue thoroughly absent from her more boldly nonreferential works.

Grappling with Picasso and Abstract Expressionism is inevitable, and von Heyl’s strategy unfolds largely in terms of color and optical gymnastics. Thumbing her nose at the jockeying machismo of the New York scene at the height of painters such as Jackson Pollock, von Heyl describes her work as “melodramatic abstraction,” paintings saturated with an excess of pathos whose contours escape precise delineation. Her dramatic colors back her up; her works are punctuated by acid yellows, plastic purples and oranges that make the eyes ache. But even then, flat plains of black charcoal turn us from the rhythm of these high-gloss brush strokes like a tonic. Operatic in tenor, von Heyl’s paintings avert our eyes even as they scream to be seen. n

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The Kid (1921): The Muppets promotes Communism—or so you would think if you believed a recent Fox News piece lambasting the presence of a villain who’s wealthy, therefore allegedly brainwashing children into hating the rich. Nevermind that the message, if one is even intended, is against being heartlessly wealthy. The age of the Internet and the 24-Hour News Cycle demands constant fresh material, and one result is that some on the right have come to believe their manufactured outrage, and have thus become as humorless as the worst of the “PC police.” If this paradigm had existed in the past, Charlie Chaplin would’ve been enemy No. 1. An outspoken lefty, he would’ve been tarred as a Socialist—which he was—and The Little Tramp written off as a 99 percenter who would have a job if he wasn’t so lazy.

Bambi (1942): A cute deer proselytyzed kids into caring about both animals (who should be shot and eaten, or at least shot) and the environment.

It wasn’t the first assault on “American values” by Walt Disney: Fantasia features a section depicting the earth’s genesis by non-Biblical means, when we all know the world is 6,000 years old and dinosaur fossils are fakes laid by God as a sort of joke.

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946): Poor, demonized Mr. Potter. Don’t viewers realize he’s a “job creator?” (See also: Ebenezer Scrooge.)

Pollyanna (1960): Foreigner telling country folk how to live their lives. And kind of a socialist, too.

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WarGames (1983): To some, to portray the military as anything less than saintly is to be against the troops. (That even includes depicting the real hardships encumbered by soldiers and veterans. Don’t get PTSD, apparently.) When they’re actually WarGames the villains, it’s whine time. It Shakespeare in Love happened with Super 8, and it would have happened with this Cold War what-if, as well as Small Soldiers and The Hugo The Skin I Live In Iron Giant. n Immortals

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He’s also Southern—another bugaboo!

moustache in tow, and sadly little of their easy banter.

Rachel McAdams makes a too-brief return before vanishing to set up the next sequel, I presume. This leaves us stuck with Noomi Rapace. The original Girl With a Dragon Tattoo seems to be pronouncing all her lines phonetically, delivering exposition and mysticism. The nicest thing I will say about her performance is that she can almost speak English.

Holmes can’t even be bothered to solve much in what there is of this mystery, and eventually Jared Harris turns up as a sorely outmatched Professor Moriarty. The mad doctor has a lab full of WMD, and is hankering to start a war. Moriarty, if you recall, was built up big in the last movie, never showing his face but pulling strings behind the scenes as some kind of super-evil genius. Everybody from Brad Pitt to Daniel Day-Lewis was rumored for a role in this sequel. Instead, we get Jared Harris. He’s remarkable on Mad Men, actually. But in Game of Shadows, Harris can’t handle going toe-to-toe with Robert Downey Jr. even when the latter is working at half-speed. Professor Moriarty is one of the great, iconic villains in literature.

Bros before hoes: Watson (Jude Law, right) cuts his honeymoon short But he’s so underwhelming here. Moriarty and Holmes to fight off the evil doctor with Sherlock (Robert Downey Jr.). finally duke it out during a chess game, and there’s no question who’s gonna win the match.

Once they finally get together, Holmes and Watson seem to spend the majority of the picture running from exploI worry that Robert Downey Jr. is turning into Johnny sions. Guy Ritchie really likes his artillery fire, ramping Depp. up the shutter speed and slowing down the exposure for Guy Ritchie’s 2009’s Sherlock Holmes will never be a great deal of sound and noise that doesn’t really signify mistaken for a great movie. But it was clever, light on its much of anything. The homo-erotic banter between our feet and at least offered the winning spectacle of Downey heroes can scarcely be heard over all this cacophony. and Jude Law bickering like a couple of old queens. The Downey just appears sullen, staggering from scene to dude-ish, bare-knuckle brawling Sherlock Holmes upset scene as if looking for a missing paycheck. His face is most dedicated followers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s sunken and resigned; there is no joy in original stories, but I could roll with this performance. He looks tired and the reinterpretation. old. Oh, how I used to treasure this Not so with this sorry sequel, landSherlock Holmes actor, with his quicksilver line reading in theaters this week with a thud Grade: D+ ings and off-kilter reaction shots! But like a lump of Christmas coal.

Director: Guy Ritchie he really has become Johnny Depp A Game of Shadows suffers from Starring: Robert Downey Jr., here, wandering from one budgetwhat I like to call Jewel of the Nile Jude Law and Jared Harris busting set piece to another, halfsyndrome. You go to see the sparking heartedly pretending to be loutish. chemistry between the two leads, but By the time Ritchie pulls out a the movie does its best to keep them waterfall—curiously located on top of apart for as long as humanly possible. a mountain, in defiance of all laws of It’s all bigger and louder, and so much physics—I was genuinely shocked that he went for Doyle’s less. career-killing “Final Problem.” (Honestly, I didn’t think Downey returns as Sherlock, briefly glimpsed guzzling Guy Ritchie even knew how to read.) But the buildup is embalming fluid but also working on a weird sort of autonot enough, grappling for an epic showdown that hasn’t pilot. He’s phoning the role in, never appearing engaged been earned. or excited, and sorely lacking the prankish spirit that The BBC recently mounted a wonderful series of kinda carried the previous picture. Downey is one of my Sherlock pitcures starring Benedict Cumberbatch and favorite living actors, but here he might as well be playing the original U.K. Office’s Martin Freeman as splendidly Captain Jack Sparrow. There’s a deadness to his delivery, splenetic Watson. Updating old stories for the smartphone hitting overfamiliar beats as if he’s walking through a era, there are some terrific nail-biters in there, with all theme park instead of a movie. the wit and levity that’s missing from Sherlock Holmes: A Jude Law’s poor Watston was supposed to be off on his Game of Shadows. n honeymoon, grumpily returning for duty with his prissy

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Few could have guessed when his debut, 2000’s George Washington, wowed festival audiences that Director David Gordon Green would ever make, or be capable of, a film that opened with a bout of Color Me Badd-backed cunnilingus. Or in which the day is saved in part by Method Man. Or that featured Jonah Hill intoning at length on the virtues of a movie like The Devil Wears Prada. Granted, neither could few have predicted a pot-fused action comedy (Pineapple Express) or an ’80s-style fantasy romp boasting a severed minotaur penis (Your Highness). But of Green’s unexpected segue into trash filmmaking—not wholly shocking, given his enthusiastic forward to the epic Steven Seagal study, Seagalogy—The Sitter is the farthest of the three from his personality and the closest to a don’t-give-a-fuck for-hire job.

There’s a germ of a subversive idea here: that the prospect of Jonah Hill babysitting kids is a terrible, not cute, idea. Hill’s Noah shows no interest in his three charges, and within minutes on the job, he’s taking them on a trip into New York to score drugs so he can score tail at a Greenpoint house party. En route, Noah introduces them to stealing, rampant profanity and the world of a psychotic gay dealer (Sam Rockwell) who stocks his office with shirtless, gyrating bodybuilders.

Of course, Noah’s apathetic-hostile attitude soon drops, and soggy life lessons abound. What initially sought to play as a dark(er) Adventures in Babysitting simply turns into Adventures of Babysitting with dick jokes, as well as hugely appealing work from Hill.

Relaxed and strangely confident in his final movie before shedding his weight, he’s able to rise above dicey material, escaping with dignity. Green, not so much.

His attitude is too-cool-for-school but open to the occasional goofy aside or nod to junk cinema favorites (notably the Dolph Lundgren nonclassic I Come in Peace). Sometimes the nonapproach works; other times you wish he’d at least try. That Green’s camera, which once sought to emulate Terrence Malick, is now being used to drool over cleavage, need not necessarily cause alarm. But after three comedies of decreasing merit, one hopes he’d go back to imitating master filmmakers. Otherwise the next logical step isn’t more faux-hackwork. It’s actual hackwork. n

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There are unlikable protagonists, and then there’s Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), the anti-hero of Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s reunion outing, Young Adult. Most movie assholes tend to be either joyful in their assholedom (W.C. Fields) or crying on the inside (Ben Stiller in Greenberg). Mavis is neither. A ghost writer of tween novels with a drinking problem (both with booze and Diet Coke 2-liters), she handles a mid-life crisis with characteristic tact: by schlepping from the big city to the small town from which she escaped, where she’ll try to win back her high school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson). Of course, this tactic requires stealing this seemingly oblivious, patchy-bearded schlub from his wife and their newborn. If that weren’t enough, she’s played by Theron, in a performance that heroically avoids compassion, joy, smiling— anything that would make us even slightly wish for her betterment. Pathetic without deserving pathos, she lights up only after six bourbons or while flirting with a married father. Not since Tom Hardy in Warrior has a lead performance been so epically uninterested in being liked.

Give Cody credit for two things: utterly avoiding her trademark demonic catchphrases—Mavis’ one redeeming facet is she’s too sour to curse the world with a phrase like “honest to blog”—and stopping short of the barndoor broad Midwestern characterizations of, say, Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt. The characters Mavis encounters aren’t overtly cartoonish. There’s even a rich character in Mavis’ unlikely ally Matt (Patton Oswalt), a former classmate and nerd who won’t let a go-nowhere life and debilitating high school-era injuries keep him from acting like Patton Oswalt. In a beautifully calibrated performance that one-ups his Big Fan turn, the comedian portrays a sadsack who can still build up the confidence and wit to cheerfully mock Mavis’ demonic intentions, all the while finding enough similarities with her to remain her friend, doormat and occasional accomplice. Only when it’s time to wrap things up does this experiment go haywire. In a fit of screenwriterly panic, Mavis suddenly gets an 11th-hour tragic revelation, a failed attempt to humanize a uniquely miserable protagonist. What follows is a total muddle that, one that—just like Reitman’s Up in the Air —mistakes not knowing how to wrap things up for ambiguity. n

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that stage hard with frequent trips to both sides, dance moves for days and endless enthusiasm. “Are you ready to dance, Pheelee!?” she screamed and the crowd responded in equal parts, “Yeah!” and “Oui!” Oui, by the way, isn’t easy to turn into a scream—it ends up sounding like “Wheyyyyyyy!”

5. The gays have been hip to Yelle for a while, but not

many were in attendance. Anyone who’s been to a Kylie Minogue, Ke$ha or Robyn concert would’ve thought, “Am I at the wrong show?” No, it was heaps of youth in ecstatic mania. There were parents outside Union Transfer waiting to pick up their children. My friend noticed some of these kids mouthing every word. It’s impressive—American white people knowing every word of a foreign-language pop record? Unfathomable. In fact, there was even a family who looked quite French, who brought their 3-year-old and 5-year-old girls in matching turquoise hoodies. It’s OK, they had earplugs in, but that mom totally used to party.

Frenchie in fringe: Girl came out mad stealthy.

My Frenchie flag was flying high as Yelle concluded her Safari Disco Tour of the U.S. in Philly. She turned out to be quite the performer. A pop phenomenon abroad, the French export nails her own brand of electronically inspired, hip-hop-kissed dance pop. With her second record, Safari Disco Club, she’s kept her momentum toward eventual stratosphere-status.

1. She came out in a crazy, leafy, camouflage costume. The kind of thing deep-cover, stealthy intel soldiers would wear when trying to infiltrate enemy lines. In the jungle. Clearly, this is the urban jungle and she had come to penetrate our hearts with charm and our eardrums with ze funk.

2. She played a song early in the set, after she’d taken off her

3. There are probably a half-dozen of her songs from her two records whose titles I know by sight and sound: “A cause des garcons,” “Ce jeu,” “Je veux te voir,” and “Safari Disco Club.” My French is still intermediate. But when you listen to a record and focus more on beats, instrumentation and moods, which her records have in spades, there’s less importance laid on a cognitive connection to a title. You hear the first few notes of an American pop song and think “Oh, this is ‘Party in the USA’ by Miley,” but when you don’t know the language you think, “Oh, this is that song that sounds kind of like dancehall.” It makes for a different experience.

4. After removing her camo cloak, she revealed a color-

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7. A favorite of mine from SDC is “Chimie Physique,” which she killed at Union Transfer. It translates into “Physical Chemistry” and she follows the title phrase with “entre nous”—“between us.” It sounded a lot better live with a fuller percussion sound. Bien fait.

8. Her third and final outfit was a marvel. Honestly, I was expecting a little more visual flash: projections, props, lasers and light shows. Luckily, the UT folks tend to do a pretty bangup light show, but SHE was more show than I could’ve expected. She worked a full-body singlet, like head to ankle, that looked like a cuckoo Nordic ski racer’s suit; a red-andblue unitard with detailing down the legs. I wonder if she has to wash it after every show—girl got sweaty.

9. Their chit-chat was so damn charming. Before the encore, Perrier, a tall, handsome Frenchman, made us make some noise. He lifted the microphone stand and hovered it above the crowd at the lip of the stage. “Do you know how to scream?!” he asked in his thickly accented English. The crowd did, naturally, know how to scream, and he pulled the mike stand back to his face and said “OK, you know eet.”

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poncho of leafiness, that I could swear was a Robyn song. It had the melody and the production that sounded like “Who’s That Girl,” the 2005 gem from her self-titled “comeback” record. It totally was. Yelle recorded it as “Qui est cette fille?,” part of an iTunes Foreign Exchange program. Robyn laid down “A cause des garcons” as “Because of Boys.” Must.

Get. That. ASAP.

6. One song had a straight-up drumline drum beat that could’ve come from a Diplo production (or Stomp The Yard).

Yelle’s sound is hard to categorize and that’s one of the most intriguing things about her. Not only does her language not form a barrier, the sheer magnetism of her production draws fans from many walks of music. Other artists that come to mind who go for this are CSS, Uffie, Peaches and Ladyhawke, with a mix of Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco and Hercules & Love Affair. Then, of course, her newest is totally disco-inspired, with disco drum beats all over it and all up on that stage with a kickass live drummer named Jean-Francois Perrier. How French is that?

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Once a wild card, Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox settles a bit with Atlas Sound.

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Found money and fame, but I found them really late.

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My first encounter with Bradford Cox was in 2007, when his band Deerhunter played a small venue called AS220 in Providence, R.I. The Atlanta band was touring in support of their sophomore album, Cryptograms—a nasty psychrock situation that concealed its pop-core beneath layers of dirty effects and gut-curdling vibes.

Bradford crawled onto the stage on his hands and knees wearing a dress. Between songs, he taunted the audience, repeatedly mocking us for attending the show because indie tastemakers Pitchfork had recently given Cryptograms an 8.9 rating with a “Best New Music” tag. He implied we were only there because the culture-overlord had told us it was the “cool” place to be. It got ugly.

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students for being Ivy Leaguers and Rhode Island School of Design students for being art school kids. When he wasn’t berating the audience, he creepy-crawled around his bandmates, hid behind amplifiers and poked his head out to glare like a psychotic snapping turtle. Booing and cursing ensued, and Deerhunter’s set was quickly cut off by the soundman when Bradford lit a cigarette on stage. Everyone seemed upset (and confused), but I loved it. When I chatted with Deerhunter guitarist Lockett Pundt in the bathroom afterward, he apologized for what Bradford had done. I shook his hand and said, “Never apologize.”

Though he’s never apologized, Cox has changed a lot since those early days. There’ve been no reports of similar Jim Morrison-esque antics, and musically—with Deerhunter and his Atlas Sound solo project—he’s allowed free reign to his pop impulses. Released last month, Parallax, his third Atlas Sound LP, is a gorgeous display of kaleidoscopic instrumentation, angelic melodies and raw emotional honesty.

“Pretend you know the way out of the trap/ And we will go to sleep/ And we’ll have the same dream,” he sings on “Te Amo.” Like Brian Wilson, Cox’s songs are the confessions of a dreamer who understands the relentless “traps” of the world—a shared dream is one of the only places where genuine human connection can happen. “I am the man that fell to earth in a lot of ways,” Cox recently told Rolling Stone in an interview about the nervous breakdown he suffered prior to recording Parallax. “I don’t have a connection to anyone, besides my family.”

That’s a drag, but it’s this sadness that allows him to create such intimate music. In his songs, Bradford takes listeners by the hand and gently leads them away from a tragic universe and to a place where tortured souls aggregate their isolated fragments of joy to build a new world.

Whether he feels it or not, Cox has a profound connection to everyone who experiences his music. n Atlas Sound performs Fri., Dec. 16, 8:30pm. $15. With Balkans + Carnivores.

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Critic's Pick Wu-Tang Clan

In his book, The Wu-Tang Manual, MC/producer RZA quotes a Ch’an Buddhist proverb: “When you see a swordsman, draw your sword. Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.” However, this advice may not apply to the Wu-Tang Clan, because ever since its 1993 classic, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), they’ve Little Women transformed their verses into fatal flying guillotines. Armed with raw slang, kungfu films, Supreme Mathematics, Taoism and hip-hop swagger, the Clan created a new-age Shaolin in which cloaked monks met behind temples, exchanging secret handshakes and forgotten wisdom. Though they’ve chopped many heads as solo artists—GZA’s Liquid Swords, Method Man’s Tical, Ghostface Killah’s Supreme Clientele, Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, and so on—their lyrical daggers are deadliest when they collectively converge like Voltron. They’re doing it tonight, as founding members RZA, GZA, Meth, Ghostface, U-God, Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa rock the Troc. (Elliott Sharp)

Fri., Dec. 16, 10pm. $45. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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Lioness: Hidden Treasures (Universal Republic) Sounds Like: Bless her heart, one of the

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Free Association: B-sides, demos, duets, all showcasing her massive pipes.

For Fans Of: Billie, Dusty, Nina, Ronnie, Etta, Sharon Jones x Adele, posthumousness.

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Camp (Glass Note) Sounds Like: Donald Glover’s a 28 yearold actor/comedian (Community) who’s

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Free Association: Pitchfork HATES this guy; reason enough to enjoy a few spins.

For Fans Of: Kid Cudi x Odd Future, Kanye/Rick Ross veneration, misguided ambition.

Real Estate

Days (Domino) Sounds Like: The laidback Jersey

quartet’s second is tighter and shinier than their debut, but it gets a lil repetetive with song after song of surfy, looping echoey guitar pop.

Free Association: At least we’re only seven months from river tubing weather, man.

For Fans Of: Woods x Ducktails, Kurt Vile, low-fi dreams, hazy, lazy times.

Robin Thicke

Love After War (Geffen) Sounds Like: His fifth has 17 songs; a

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Free Association: The Lil’ Wayne joint’s pretty sick, too, but it ain’t no Sex Therapy.

For Fans Of: Justin Timberlake/Maxwell/Chico Debarge, Diff’rent Strokes, soul patches.

The Roots

Undun (Def Jam) Sounds Like: Lucky 13 for our hometown

heroes proves to be shockingly brilliant, the fictional tale of Redford Stephens with stunning production and potent guests.

Free Association: Takin’ it back to Things Fall Apart-style, listen to it for years (on repeat).

For Fans Of: Bilal, Big K.R.I.T., Dice Raw, Mos Def/J-5/Tribe/Gang Starr, keeping it real.

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Here’s the thing: His abusive behavior is my kink—spanking. In all my past relationships, spanking was light, playful and consensual; with her ex, it was about pain and humiliation to the point of tears and bruising. She knows about my kink (as a Savage Love reader, I knew to bring it up after a couple of weeks) and understands that my motivations around spanking are completely different from her ex’s, but she has zero interest in anything approaching fetish play—and that’s fine, because I feel so connected to her that I don’t need my kink indulged to feel fulfilled. But I find myself feeling guilty for having the kink in the first place. The thought of her enduring what she did brings me to tears. How do I get past this?

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If your girlfriend’s ex-husband had manipulated or bullied her into vaginal intercourse—if he had repeatedly and brutally raped her vaginally during their terrible, awful, no good, very bad marriage—would you feel guilty about an interest in consensual, vanilla, missionary, penis-invagina intercourse? No. You would hopefully have reacted in a similarly compassionate manner, LACA, after learning about her sexual history. You would have been willing to stick to oral, mutual masturbation and whatever else your new girlfriend was comfortable exploring and capable of enjoying. And you would have looked forward to the day when she felt ready to enjoy sensuous, consensual and mutually pleasurable vaginal intercourse again. And if that day never arrived, well, then perhaps you would have been willing to forgo vaginal intercourse for the rest of your life to be with her.

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Your willingness to drop your harmless kink is evidence that your priorities are in order, LACA, your heart is in the right place, your cowboy hat is white, etc. Any time you start feeling bad about your kink, just remind yourself that consensual kink isn’t abuse for the same reason consensual vaginal intercourse isn’t rape: Because it’s consensual. You can love this woman, LACA, and make this relatively small sacrifice for this woman (spanking ain’t vaginal), without having to shame yourself or retroactively define all your past spanking experiences as abusive.

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2. The younger woman sent me—and other people in our lives—an explicit, lengthy email detailing everything they did. (I hate to paint this as “bitchez be crazy,” but sometimes bitchez be crazy.) It’s not how I found out, but it certainly hasn’t helped. Ironically, our sex life has only gotten better since I found out exactly what they did—it turns out that we are both far more GGG than the other ever knew. But sometimes we’re

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1. LTRs are only possible if we’re willing take “yes” for an answer. He says yes he loves you, and you will yourself to believe him; he says yes he’s having sex with you because he’s attracted to you, and you will yourself to believe him; he says he strayed and is sorry and swears he won’t do it again … and you will yourself to believe him. And while the passage of time makes monsters of us all, SIP, it can strengthen a sexual connection even as sex itself becomes less important when weighed against everything else your LTR is or should be about. In the words of singer-songwriter Tim Minchin: “Love is made more powerful by the ongoing drama of shared experience and synergy and symbiotic empathy, or something like that.”

2. Angry cheated partner: “You did what with that person? I would’ve done that with you!

And I have kinks and fantasies, too, you know!”

Contrite cheating partner: “I was afraid to ask you to do that! I was afraid you would hate me—wait, you have kinks? What are they?”

Conversations like that one are why affairs—if the relationship survives the betrayal—sometimes kick-start a couple’s sex life. With all the kink-and-whatever-else cards on the table, the couple starts going at it like they have nothing to lose—because in that moment when breaking up is on the table, they actually don’t have anything to lose.

As for those troubling mental images: The passage of time is your body’s enemy on the physical-perfection front—and his, too—but it’s your best friend on the searing-mental-images front. The more time you two spend perfecting X, Y, and Z sex acts, the more X, Y, and Z becomes about you two and your connection.

As you take ownership over X, Y and Z, and over each other again, the mental images will come to you less often, they’ll be less vivid and gradually they’ll cease. Give it time.

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THE PAPERMILL- Community of Artist. 2825 Ormes St. Affordable Artist Studios staring at $100 for 130 sf. Four large floors of open or private studio space for Painters, Sculptors, Dance, Theatre, or Creative companies. A community of artist practicing their talents in custom sized studio workspaces.

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$9,750

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$1,625

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237 s. 18TH sTREET

1420 LoCusT sTREET

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258 s. 18TH sTREET

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$3,999,999 Call Jody Volpe or Karen Joslin

ARTISAN 2 15TH & KATER ST Bold contemporary, 4br, 2.5b, +/-3,000-5,600sf, chef’s kitchen, roof deck, 2-car garage, optional elevator, 10 yr tax abatement

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$1,190,000

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204 ½ S 3RD ST OPEN SUNDAY 12/18 12 - 2PM Spacious contemporary, 3br, 2b, f/p, patio, deck, secure deeded parking, new price!

$699,000

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519 N 19TH ST Historic renovated Victorian 5br, 2.5b, +/-2600sf, granite & marble kitchen, finished basement, h/w flrs

$599,900

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Combined home with 4Br + den, 4Ba, large balcony with art Museum view , upgr. kit. and baths 3,904 sf 3Br, 2.5Ba, wood floors, beautifully renovated designer kitchen, large balcony, river views 2,028 sf 2Br, 2Ba with views of the art Museum and Center City skyline, upd. kit., large private balcony 1876 sf 1Br, balcony, wood floors, updated kitchen and bath, custom walk-in closet in bedroom 1,397 sf 1Br, beautifully renovated kitchen with wood cabinetry and breakfast bar, panoramic sunrise views to the east overlooking the Fairmount neighborhood, wood floors throughout, pristine condition 1166 sf

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$479,900

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712 sf

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765 sf

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637 sf

$359,900

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RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE BarClay

$365,000 $409,900

3,293 sf

$2,900,000

3,467 sf

space, lavish master suite

3,682 sf 4,338 sf

$1,750,000

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$1,695,000

2,306 sf

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$399,000

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2Br, 2Ba, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on rittenhouse square 1,075 sf

1,200 sf

Bi-level penthouse, 2Br. 2.5Ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views

$775,000

2Br, 2Ba, open floor plan, luxurious master suite, marbleBa, wood floors, lots of light 1,199 sf

2 Br, 1 Ba, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows

indePendenCe PlaCe

$859,000

2Br, 2Ba, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble bath, wood floors 1,272 sf

The warwiCk

$1,195,000

2Br + den, 3Ba, south facing views in all rooms, wood floors, chef’s kitchen, marble baths 1,614 sf

ParC riTTenhouse

$1,450,000

3Br + den, 3.5Ba, open floor plan, chef’s kitchen, marble bath, north and south city views 2421 sf

$549,900

wAShingTon SqUARE

2Br + den CooP overlooking rittenhouse square, custom chef’s kitchen, lavish master suite, formal entertaining space

soCieTy hill Towers

$950,000

opportunity to create a custom home in a luxury, boutique condominium building on independence Mall 2017 sf

soCieTy hill Towers

3Br, 2.5Ba, magnificent Tieenhouse square & sunset views, pristine condition, great entertaining space, marble baths

The warwiCk

$1,975,000

Bank Building

$1,100,000

raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking independence Mall 3,068 sf

$2,395,000

Townhome with 5Br plus den, 3.5Ba, private garden, lots of natural light, beautifully restored, original details with modern updates

riTTenhouse Plaza

Bank Building

2,025 sf

3Br, 3.5Ba, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master bath, custom kitchen,

220 w. riTTenhouse sq. Magnificent custom home with 3Br’s, 2.5Ba, balcony over rittenhouse square, chef’s kit., wonderful enter.

The riTTenhouse

Brand new 2 Br + den, 2.5 Ba home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designerBa, services available from adjoining oMni hotel

3 Br + den, 3.5Ba, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone

exquisite detail throughout.

2228 sPruCe sTreeT

SociETy hill Bank Building

floors, 3 gas fireplaces lanesBorough

583 sf

sTriCkland row

2Br, 1Ba, bi-level, open kitchen, wood floors

1,387 sf

$699,900

928 sf

$299,900

928 sf

$269,900

857 sf

$209,900

The Bank Building 421 ChesTnuT sTreeT

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, split floor plan on high floor, eat-in kitchen, spacious living/dining room, 1314 sf

Brand new home with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, high-end custom finishes and features throughout, 2025 sf

$365,000

$1,100,000

Condo Fees: $958

Condo Fees: $1,210

Condo Fees: $682

Taxes: $311

Taxes: $261

Taxes: $240

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $2590

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $4831

The warwiCk 1701 loCusT sTreeT 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, corner unit, marble baths, designer kitchen, 1199 sf

$585,000 Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $2661

Allan Domb Real Estate 215.545.1500 • www.allandomb.com

“wE COOpERATE wITh ALL REALTORS®”

Mortgage Financing available

Melissa Tagye 610-639-0984

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