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ART 33 Passing Through Bill Viola’s video work confronts death head-on.

COVER STORY 6 Pop’s Culture Labeled a deadbeat dad, one father questions the effectiveness of the child-support system.

PHILLYNOW 4 Holy Shit Why does PA care so much about banishing Sharia law?

SCREEN 34 One-Trick Pony War Horse is Steven Spielberg doing what he does best.

MUSIC 36 Forgotten Philadelphia:

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Feedback State of the Arts Regarding Nicole Finkbiner’s cover story about local artists reviving alternates to the mainstream gallery system: Finally! Sounds like the way the art scene was around N.Y.C. in the ’60s and early ’70s. That’s what draws people in—catchy excitable stuff.

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Galleries have an important role in the life of an artist. I like what Patchell had to say about Brave New Worlds business practice: “If we sell our artwork for under $20 and someone doesn’t pay with a credit card, they won’t take a commission.” That is called not paying taxes. Galleries take a cut of which they need to in order to stay open. At the end of the day an art gallery is not the devil and should never be viewed as such. It is a small business that is simply trying to survive. It makes it hard to look and buy artwork without a gallery.

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Growing Pains Regarding Michael Alan Goldberg’s article about opposition to a medical marijuana plant being set up in Upper Freehold Township, N.J.: I’m an Upper Freehold Township resident. I am for medical marijuana and for the legalization of it. What I am against is having the facility in my backyard. This thing will resemble a prison. I might be OK with something that is nondescript, but what Breakwater is having to build is far from it. Since no soil is needed, the growing compartments will be placed on cement and there is no requirement for sun, why don’t they place their facility in an industrial/ business park like The Mattrix? This would make more sense then on the corner of some country road, near a school, in a town with no police force. Everyone stop making this about marijuana being a scary drug and more about the actual facility.

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Holy Shit Why does PA care about banishing Sharia Law?

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What you don’t know can most likely kill you. That’s at least the thought process behind a new bill that’ll be considered in the Legislature when it reconvenes next year. Rep. RoseMarie Swanger of Lebanon County has introduced House Bill 2029, which would amend Title 42 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, prohibiting “the application of foreign law which would impair constitutional rights.” And her bill is being supported by more than 40 state reps for one reason: Fighting commonwealth Islamic Jihad within the walls of state government.

It might sound crazy, but in a June 14, 2011, memo to all members of the House (titled “American and Pennsylvania Laws for Pennsylvania Courts–Sharia Law”), Swanger writes bizarre phrases like, “America has unique laws of liberty which do not exist in foreign legal systems, particularly Sharia Law.” And: “We are a nation of laws. Unfortunately, increasingly, foreign laws and legal doctrines—including and especially Sharia Law—are finding their way into U.S. court cases.” Also: “The embrace of foreign legal systems such as Sharia Law, which was inherently hostile to our constitutional liberties, is a violation of the principles on which our nation was founded.” And the bill she introduced to the state House mirrors legislation

introduced and passed across Red America in recent years (Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Louisiana, Tennessee).

But there’s a problem: Like the voter-ID legislation, which will also be considered in 2012, this is a solution without a problem.

There is no visible threat of Sharia Law—a set of Islamic principles some Muslims live by—taking over Pennsylvania.

And in banning all foreign laws from Pennsylvania courthouses, some critics claim Swanger is not just using her own cynical form of xenophobic demagoguery over the people of the state and her district, but will make it harder for Jews and Christians, too, to settle personal, civil legal matters.

“The echoes for me are strong of Germany in the 1930s,” says Rabbi Linda Holtzman of Reconstructionist synagogue Mishkan Shalom in Roxborough, “when repeatedly, Jewish Law was brought forward and defamed in the courts as a way of defaming all Jewish tradition.”

When news spread of the anti-Sharia Law last week, Jewish and Muslim leaders from Pittsburgh to Philly began organizing press conferences and meetings rallying against this bill. One such press conference happened last Wednesday, in which the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) organized with local interfaith leaders to decry this bill. Holtzman joined CAIR Philadelphia Executive Director Moein Khawaja, Temple University Religion Professor Dr. Khalid Blankinship, CAIR National Staff Attorney Gadeir Abbas, CAIR Philadelphia Civil Rights Director Amara Chaudry and others. The news of this bill was not taken lightly.

Holtzman says this bill and others like it are used to “villainize” Muslims, and perhaps the lawmakers who signed onto this

bill haven’t thought through the ramifications of banning all foreign law. “They’re putting this forward and somehow think that we won’t pay attention to the antiMuslim feeling that underlies these laws,” she says. “It may surprise those of us who are not lawyers to realize how often the legal systems of other religious groups are considered and treated with respect in the legal system.”

For example, Orthodox Judaism doesn’t recognize civil divorce, and women aren’t allowed to apply for a religious one. Civil divorce settlements may require husbands to obtain a religious divorce. If he doesn’t, the civil courts sort it out often in order to create an opportunity for a divorced woman to continue living in her community. Other Jewish laws are often brought into the legal system in dealing with state inspection of kosher foods, and autopsies.

“My fellow Jews need to buck up,” says Eric Dondero, editor of Libertarian Republican.net, over the phone from Houston. “The big problem right now is Islam and Islamism invading our country. And if they want to continue to move in, we need to fight back. Their culture is coming here.”

Dondero, a former staffer for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, has blogged extensively about what he calls “creeping Sharia Law” over the past several years. He says if you want to know what Sharia looks like in the United States, all you have to do is look at Europe, where he claims Muslim Europeans have “invaded” the countryside.

“They’re invading Switzerland and a Swedish island called Malmo, where the Muslims are raping all the European and Swedish women,” he says, recalling that city’s reports of lawlessness between the Jewish, Muslim and Neo-Nazi populations. And he fears that if Sharia Law isn’t banned in all states the way it was banned in his, the U.S. is next.

Those at the press conference in Philadelphia see things a bit differently. “The idea is that Muslims only want to apply this law to themselves for matters of personal status, marriage, things like that,” says Blankinship, who has been practicing Islam since the 1970s. “So if somebody writes up a will now and includes Sharia in that law, is the will therefore invalidated?”

The director of Temple’s Religion Graduate Studies says what he perceives to be anti-Muslim fervor is out of control, and this bill is evidence of that. “It is beyond description to say, ‘the Muslims will come

in and impose Sharia law on all of the Americans’ when the Muslim population of the U.S. is about six-tenths to eight-tenths of 1 percent, and that community is marginalized put upon and extremely divided amongst itself,” he says. “The idea that this tiny and marginalized minority is going to impose this, that would seem to portray the American public as being very weak individuals, that they want this group to walk all over them and control them.”

For her part, Swanger hasn’t made any statements regarding her bill since last week’s public firestorm. She did not respond to requests for comment from PW. But it’s unlikely she’ll back down come 2012, even though CAIR’s legal team has vowed to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court. A plethora of Republican presidential candidates have made similar arguments against Sharia Law and frontrunner Newt Gingrich has even based several of his newsletters on this very

“... All of a sudden, you see a bunch of women with burkas all over the place. And we don’t want that to come to our country. We like our women to be sexy and busty and blonde ... you know?” subject, especially during the controversy surrounding the building of a mosque near Ground Zero in N.Y.C. But its enactment into law doesn’t even seem like the real problem. According to CAIR Civil Rights Attorney Amara Chaudry, Swanger’s rhetoric is “nativist” and “is signaling me out and saying I am foreign and I am dangerous because I am foreign.”

According to Dondero, that’s true. “We like sex, booze and rock ‘n’ roll. Sharia Law and Islamism is the exact opposite of that,” he says, claiming he saw the ‘Muslim invasion’ of Europe while backpacking across the continent a few years back. “It went from topless beaches in the south of France to, all of the sudden, you see a bunch of women with burkas all over the place. And we don’t want that to come to our country. We like our women to be sexy and busty and blonde; obnoxious sexually, you know?” n

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n a chilly, rainy day in late October, I stared into the eyes of a killer.

They were the eyes of a man who had mercilessly butchered four people, including a 3-year-old girl.

It was Thurs., Oct. 27, and John Eichinger and I were being escorted from a Montgomery County courtroom by a different set of officers on the same elevator. He was making yet another appearance to appeal his death sentence. I had been incarcerated since Fri., July 15, for being in arrears on child support, which is a contempt of court. I was ordered to pay $5,000 of the $17,000 that I owe or serve six months at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. As fate would have it, Eichinger and I were placed in the same holding cell after our hearings that afternoon.

When you see the faces of these types of cowards on the news, you don’t fathom in a million years that you could actually come within arms’ reach of choking their necks. I wanted to bash his head against the concrete wall, but I had a decision to make. Only moments prior, I was granted my freedom after spending three and half months in a county prison.

There I was, a 36-year-old native of two of Philadelphia’s roughest housing projects, without even a misdemeanor on my record. In the other corner was Montgomery County’s most notorious killer of all time, sentenced to death for slaughtering Heather Greaves, 27, Lisa Greaves, 23, and Heather’s 3-year-old daughter, Avery Johnson, in King of Prussia. Those murders also implicated Eichinger in the 1999 stabbing death of 20-year-old Jennifer Still, of which he was also convicted in 2005.

All I could do was shake my head and pray. I wondered what the rules were regarding putting a death-row inmate in close quarters with someone who was being held for a contempt of court. It was the longest three hours of my life. I reminded myself repeatedly that it would be over soon. I reminded myself of how far I had come since that beautiful sunny day in July, my last day of freedom.

One of the worst nightmares of my life began on Mon., June 13. It was the

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morning after I had successfully hosted the annual Odunde Festival in South Philadelphia. I was exhausted from the hustle and bustle of running the stage at one of Philadelphia’s longest-running outdoor events.

I was also still on a high from being awarded a certificate at the festival from Mayor Nutter for more than a decade of community service as a volunteer track coach and mentor to hundreds of youth. I was awakened early that morning by four armed officers from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. They came into my North Philly apartment and informed me that I was under arrest for failing to appear at a scheduled court hearing. I was handcuffed, shackled and led from my apartment into a squad car. I was not allowed to take my cell phone, money or any form of identification. The four officers, who were split between two squad cars, stopped for a leisurely breakfast at a Dunkin’ Donuts before moving on to a residence in North Philly to arrest another man who was also behind on child support.

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They arrested a Latino man near Eighth and Cambria and gave him the same cuff and shackles treatment. He spoke no English. Moments before he was led to the other squad car, neighbors rallied to his rescue and convinced the officers that it was a case of mistaken identity.

One man translated while a woman entered his home and returned with paperwork which confirmed his identity. The officers removed his shackles without so much as an apology for terrorizing and embarrassing him right on his own front steps. He puffed a cigarette furiously as we pulled away from his curb.

At the courthouse, the prosecutor tried to convince Judge Emanuel Bertin that I was a flight risk and stressed that I had not made a child-support payment or done anything for my daughter since 2009.

It was absolutely true that I had not paid anything directly to child support, but I informed the judge that my daughter Skye had actually spent a little more than a month with me during the summer of 2009 in Los Angeles, where I resided at the time. She was front and center for all of the hysterics that surrounded Michael Jackson’s funeral. I also reminded him that less than 24 hours prior, I had been given an award by the mayor. He let me go immediately and set a date of July 15, 2011, for me to re-appear and explain why I was $17,000 in the hole.

In the meantime, I had a hearing in late June to update the custody agreement. Judge Kelly Wall entered a temporary agreement until she would decide on a more solid custody arrangement in October. It wasn’t what I wanted, but it would have to suffice until we returned.

Before moving to California in August 2008, the agreement gave me custody of my daughter from Sunday through Wednesday, and various holidays, depending on the year. Four days and three nights.

Since my daughter’s mother had her from Wednesday through Sunday, four nights, the courts determined it was she who deserved to be paid child support. For years, when I would explain that to my friends and family they would look confused or wrinkle their foreheads as if I were speaking an alien language.

Trust me, no one is more confused than I. I’ve taken care of my daughter since the day she was born and was still ordered by a court to pay child support.

That court order, so many years ago, was the beginning of the running tab that began to put me in great debt. It was not filed by the state or welfare, but by my daughter’s mother, who has abused the system to the tune of more than 50 court appearances in 10 years. On Fri., July 15, I returned to the courthouse in Norristown, only to discover that I was going before a different judge than the one I saw on June 13. The experience was night and day.

I was in the presence of Judge Rhonda Lee Daniele, a loud, obnoxious woman who berated me, and others, that day as her long white hair hung over her narrow face.

Daniele yelled at everyone who came before her without giving an ounce of genuine attention to what they were saying. She shuffled papers and stared around the courtroom, making it painfully obvious that she had made up her mind before the defendants had even stepped foot in her courtroom. I would learn later that an overwhelming number of men who come before her on Fridays are thrown into prison. Typically, they are ordered to pay a fine ranging anywhere from $500 to $15,000, depending on their arrears, or serve six months in jail.

It was no different when I took the stand to explain my case. She ranted like a Judge Judy wannabe and disregarded the great contribution I have made to my daughter’s development. She told me that I was a poor excuse for a father and that Men United for a Better Philadelphia made a gross mistake in 2008 when they gave me a Father

of the Year award. In her eyes, being in arrears on child support makes a man worthless and fit only for jail. Because after all, being a good father is all about being up to date on child-support payments. Right?

Daniele informed me that I must pay my child support first, even before I pay rent or buy my daughter a pair of shoes. Anything outside of the $532 per month payment is only a gift, she barked. I will never consider a bowl of spaghetti, getting my daughter’s hair braided at a salon or providing good ol’ PGW heat a “gift.”

I am well aware that there are many deadbeat fathers roaming the streets of Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs. I am the product of one. I get it. But this is not about them. This is about the millions of men who bend over backward to do right by their children and are still

"This is about the millions of men who bend over backward to do right by their children and are still terrorized by the system."

terrorized by the system. Statistically, it’s impossible that nearly every man who comes before Daniele is a total deadbeat who deserves to be in prison. I met a middleaged white man who did his entire six-month sentence for a mere $625 fine. It cost taxpayers more than that to provide medical and dental care, shelter and food for him for a week.

So who is really being punished here?

Like many single parents, I am faced with the dilemma of making the child-support payment, which I can’t afford, or using the money to actually take care of my daughter when she’s with me four days in any given week.

For the last decade, I have made a living as an author, freelance writer, motivational speaker and media consultant. Even with all my hustle, I have not earned more annually than when I worked full-time as a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News in the late ’90s. Yet the courts have held me to that standard of income despite my not having worked as a full-time staff reporter since before my daughter was conceived.

The reality of harsh economic times apparently has not reached the likes of Daniele, who suggests to collegeeducated men with mounds of financial responsibility to get a job at Burger King or Walmart. She has an obsession with J.P. Mascaro & Sons, a waste-removal company based

in Norristown. She mentioned them by name a dozen times in her courtroom rants as she sent numerous men off to jail. (Men who already had jobs, by the way.)

I watched that day as she threw several others into prison. These were men who tried unsuccessfully to explain why they had fallen behind on their payments. I wondered what good they were to their children behind the walls of a prison other than a warm-blooded body for the county to profit from.

At the end of the day, it is not about justice being served.

It is very much about keeping the Montgomery County Correctional Facility filled to capacity. As violent and murderous criminals roam free, law enforcement is busy tracking down nonviolent child-support offenders and piling them on a gym floor in country prison. Bodies on the floor equal cold hard cash.

Companies such as J.P. Mascaro overwork and underpay inmates who are obligated to pay $140 a week to the prison for rent before a dime is allocated to their childsupport debt. So, in six months the meter continues to run and a grossly insignificant amount of debt is chipped away. Eventually, the inmate is released and the child-support debt is even higher than when he entered the prison.

The winner in this scenario is Mascaro and the prison which both got paid while the children in the equation are separated from their fathers and are barely receiving enough to buy groceries.

The system certainly does nothing to foster happiness, peace and civility within the family structure. In the past four months, I have met men who are emotionally at the end of their ropes. One inmate, who I’ll call “Brian,” was filled with rage. He was a black man in his late 20s who had a major chip on his shoulder. “Fuck her and them kids,” he said. “That bitch is going to make me hurt her so I’ll just see the kids when they’re 18.” When you can see that rage in someone’s eyes, it’s time to be afraid.

My friend Thurayya Berry-Petteway spent four years working as a hearing officer for the Domestic Relations unit of Philadelphia Family Court. An altercation over child support caused her to take a different career path.

Petteway, who now works as a school psychologist, recalled an incident in 2007 when a disgruntled father began attacking the mother of his children with an aerosol can from her desk. Petteway had just informed him that his support payment amount was going up.

“He was kicking her and screaming ‘die bitch,’ and she was bleeding from her scalp,” Petteway recalled. “I had to take off six weeks due to stress after that incident. I loved my supervisors and my co-workers … but that system as a whole does not bring the family together, it just breaks them apart.”

My daughter was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder due in part to our separation. It was the first time ever that her father was not there to throw her a pizza party at school on her birthday. That didn’t matter to Judge Daniele, because at the end of the day I am considered a deadbeat.

My first few nights in prison were spent on the floor of a sweltering basketball gym with 55 other inmates. Two industrial-sized fans blew hot air over our sweat-soaked bodies. There were no windows and both exit doors were closed. We were given thin blue mats, a set of sheets and a gray wool blanket, and told to find a spot on the court.

I squeezed myself between a pot-bellied black man in his 60s and a guy named Vaun who I’d met earlier that day at the courthouse. Vaun and I were both in for child support and arrested within 20 minutes of each other.

We were served three meals a day, which we had to eat on the floor. A television sat on a metal cart in the far corner of the room. It was never turned off, and inmates crowded around it throughout the day and well into the night.

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I had not been in the presence of so many heroin-addicted men since I moved from the Richard Allen Projects in August 1993. At least a dozen of them coming down from the dope-fiend high surrounded me on all sides. They moaned in pain and tossed and turned all night.

Some vomited while others shamelessly urinated in the water fountain or plastic cups because they could not contain their bladders until officers opened up the doors for a bathroom break.

It was nearly impossible to rest but I managed to fall off into a decent sleep on Sunday evening. Not long after I drifted off, I was awakened by the shouts of a pack of inmates. I rolled over on my pancake-thin blue mat to see what all of the commotion was about. It was Sun., July 17, my last night on the gym floor, and all eyes were on the television set. Many of the inmates were beside themselves because the nation’s most hated defendant, Casey Anthony, had been released from prison earlier that day.

I rolled back over and pulled the blanket over my head in sheer disgust at the thought that Anthony was as free as a sparrow, as I lay imprisoned for essentially being a bad father.

All I could think about was my beautiful, sweet daughter and how that was supposed to be our weekend together.

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I was told then, just as I was before my latest incarceration, that I would be able to make a phone call in the courthouse, but that phone call never came. I spent two nights at the correctional facility before a social worker discovered the ridiculousness of me being imprisoned for $700, and let me make a phone call. I was released within a couple hours.

Fast forward to 2011, and there I was again. On Monday, July 18, Vaun and I were transferred from the gym to Q-Pod, designated for inmates who were deemed workrelease-eligible by their specific judge. I was supposed to see a nurse upon admittance, but I would not see anyone on the medical staff for nine weeks. Thankfully, I don’t have a communicable disease, or it would have been curtains for more than 200 inmates.

It was no surprise that an overwhelming number of men I spoke to over three and a half months were within those prison walls by way of Daniele. They were black, Latino, Asian and white, and came from all different academic and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Many of them were decent people who, for a variety of reasons, were not able to keep up with their payments. Some of them had multiple children, which complicated their situations even more.

Admittedly, there were others who were a total waste of skin. They could This wasn’t the first care less about spending time I was in Montgomtime with their children ery County jail. or providing for them I was detained and financially. In my opinion, shipped to the same they don’t deserve to be facility in August 2008 fathers, but I still quesafter getting into a tion why sending them to verbal altercation with prison is an option.

Judge Thomas Delricci.

With all the drug dealI spent three days in a ers, sex offenders and different section of the violent criminals who Montgomery County have been given house Correctional Facility arrest as a punishment, before I was bailed out it makes me wonder why for $700 after already the taxpayers are footing paying $511 three days part of the bill for those "I languished for more than 100 days as a hostage of sorts, all the while prior. I couldn’t contain charged with a contempt wondering how the separation was affecting my daughter." my anger after hearing of court. him give a cliched spiel Although I was workabout the importance of release-eligible, I never being a good father and the cost of groceries at Genuardi’s. stepped one foot outside of the prison.

He had judged me without cracking open the file in front of One of the correctional officers confided in me that I had him to see that my daughter lived with me four days out of been Googled, which meant everyone on staff knew who the week, and had since the day she was born. I reminded I was and what I did for a living. I was told that they were him that it was I who had provided clothing, food and shel- not going to waste a job on me because it was assumed that ter. It was I, the alleged deadbeat, who figured out how to I would quickly be bailed out. That would not be the case. manage and maintain her head of beautiful hair, while also A passive case worker, Michael Rothman, allowed me paying her kindergarten tuition at a Montessori school to use the phone on occasion but with no access to my that I discovered near our home. cell phone or phonebook, I had no way of contacting the I was blessed to have been there to see Skye take her most essential people in my life. It was heartbreaking to first steps and speak her first words. I taught her how to check my email and Facebook messages upon my release read by playing old rap songs and having her write the and read dozens of messages from friends, family and words down. colleagues who had no idea where I was. I languished for Delricci refused to let his court clerk use the Internet to more than 100 days as a hostage of sorts, all the while check and see if I made the payment as I stated under oath. wondering how the separation was affecting my daughter I was ordered to pay $700 but they wouldn’t allow me to and what my incarceration would mean for our future. go downstairs to the ATM. Someone else had to come and I would eventually lose 30 pounds and four inches from pay it, he ordered. And there I was thinking that getting my waist. Aside from the food being terrible, there was the money to the kids was the absolute priority, when it the issue of poor hygiene of the inmates selected to serve was truly all about getting me in shackles. meals. It’s hard to keep an appetite when the servers con-

sistently leave the bathroom without washing their hands or prick themselves to test their blood-sugar levels while standing over the buffet.

Aside from me being drug-free my entire life yet slowly looking like an ungroomed crack head, there were other ironies on the work-release unit. The correctional officers brought in bootleg movies for inmates to watch on one of two 36-inch flat screens. Considering that selling bootleg films is a crime, it’s baffling that the powers that be see no harm in showing Planet of the Apes, even though it’s still in theaters across the country. I often skipped the movie showings and retreated to my cell to write in my journal.

I knew that the day would come when I would have to speak up for other single fathers and divorced dads who were faced with very tough decisions to make with regard to child support and the rearing of our children. Why is it acceptable for fathers to be emasculated and stripped of all of their parental joy in the name of a dollar? Is it no wonder that the bonds between fathers and their children are broken? How can anyone expect men to have healthy relationships with their children when they associate them with hardship, judicial harassment and imprisonment?

I refuse to be the type of father who constantly tells my daughter that I can’t provide anything for her because I have already made a child-support payment and it wiped me out for the week. If she wants a new Wimpy Kid book, a pair of boots or an ice cream cone I should be able to buy it for her without fear that it will count as nothing in a court of law. So long as a scoop of cookies ’n’ cream makes her smile, that’s what is important to me. Fatherhood is one of life’s greatest blessings.

Recently I had a hearing in custody court for an emergency petition to modify custody that I filed back on May 12, 2011. It was postponed from Oct. 20 due to my threemonth incarceration at the time and rescheduled for Tues., Nov. 29.

One of the main reasons I filed the papers for more custody is that I am only 1.5 miles away from my daughter’s Center City elementary school, whereas her mother’s residence in West Norriton is 25 miles from the school.

So, on Nov. 29, I thought that Judge Kelly Wall would make an actual decision especially considering that the school year is well under way. It would not be so. She gave a flimsy excuse that she didn’t know that the hearing was to determine a new custody order, even though I had written her a letter requesting a new date upon my release, per her instructions.

She continued the insanity be declaring that she would not hold a hearing to decide custody for the school year until March 5, 2012. So in a nutshell, me and my daughter suffer because of her incompetence. How’s that for efficiency and fairness to the proactive parent who filed during last school year to prepare for the current year.

What I have learned in my decade of parenting is that a mother’s emergency and a father’s emergency are handled much differently. I am sure that many other dads can relate to getting railroaded in such a manner.

With this kind of system in place, on both the custody and child-support side, it should be no wonder to anyone why fathers throw up their hands and walk away. Everyone has a breaking point and unfortunately for the children named in black and white on so many court documents, many judges do not seem to care.

I have been through hell in the last 10 years. Those nearest to me have seen the insanity up close and personal.

Imagine having the police called on you twice at your child’s school for picking her up an hour earlier than what a custody agreement states. (The first time was during a mandatory citywide early dismissal due to excessive heat in 2008.)

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Scandal at the Katrashian Christmas Pageant

f you’ve been naughty this year or just want to be, check out Tribe of Fools’ The Return of Dirty Santa . The annual holiday burlesque event from the physical theater company responsible for last September’s Philly Fringe hit Heavy Metal Dance Fag, Dirty Santa is decidedly nonkid-friendly holiday entertainment. The show features six different burlesque routines, all hosted by Dirty Santa (Peter Smith). A juvenile delinquent version of Old Saint Nick, Dirty Santa will be assisted by his raunchy helpers Nasty Frosty (Meghann Williams of Flashpoint Theatre Company) and Horny Rudolph (Bryan Clark from Theatre Exile). In addition to performances by Miss Calico Punk and Lil’ Joey Kangaroo, the evening will include a dirty Mad Libs contest, a raffle (prize promised is “free booze and lots of theater tickets”) and even a chance to have your picture taken with Dirty Santa himself. Proceeds go toward Fools’ 2013 Fringe production Goat Song. J. Cooper roBB

This holiday season, the Dumpsta Players play off the Kardashian klan’s 2011 publicity woes in a cat fight meets beauty pageant, where incomparable, always impeccably dressed, Messapotamia Lafae wins Miss Universe over the Katrashian sisters, who vie to reclaim the crown. Featuring a cast of characters that include a spy who can potentially ruin Messy’s reign and the always naughty Snooki, who plans on seducing Santa Claus, the Dumpsta Players are sure to provide a night of laughs and outrage as they highlight what everyone secretly loves about Christmas but is too afraid to admit—endless drama. Kyle Bella 10pm. $1.99. Bob & Barbara’s, 1509 South St. 215.545.4511.

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Kwanzaa Fair Kwanzaa, the nonreligious, week-long African-American festival, includes a tradition of giving gifts that are handmade.

Tonight, Tribal Home in Old City will host a pre-Kwanzaa celebration, where you can shop for gifts, learn about the festival during a short lecture and partake in a candle-lighting ceremony, all while enjoying refreshments and listening to live African music.

Every single item at Tribal Home was made by hand by artists in Africa or Philadelphia. The pickings include cards, stocking stuffers, jewelry, furniture, dolls, masks and art. ada Kulesza

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Secret Pants Yuletide Variety Show Take a break from the holiday rush to put some “merry” back in your Christmas. Local impov group Secret Pants is back to lift the holiday blues with their “Keep the Change Ya Filthy Animal: Yuletide Variety Show.”

Featuring a wide selection of some of Philly’s finest homegrown acts, including the Camp Woods troupe, comedy duo the Feeko Brothers and Chip Chantry, the show is sure to have your belly shaking like a bowl full of jelly. Julian lopez 8pm. $7-$10. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com

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Spacin’

6pm-2am. $10. Various locations in Fairmount. upcomingevents.com

9pm. With Boogie Witch. Little Bar, 738 S. Eighth St. littlebarphilly.com

Reindeer Romp

Through Jan. 7. $10-$20. Curio Theater School, 4740 Baltimore Ave. 215.525.1350. curiotheatre.org

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Put on your antlers and prance from bar to bar during the 14th annual Reindeer Romp. Sam Adams will provide $3 bottle and draft drink specials at each of the 10 locations. All you need to bring is $10 and a small toy or lightly used coat or jacket.

Drop off your donations, which will go to Feel the Warmth’s coat and toy drive, at one of the starting point bars: Brown Street Pub, Bishop’s Collar, St. Stephen’s Green or Philly Pub ‘N’ Grub. There, you’ll receive a pair of antlers and a map of all participating bars. Brenda Hillegas

The first pearl bestowed upon us in the form of a side project from Philadelphia’s finest gnarled-out Psych trio Birds of Maya was guitarist Mike Polizzes’ Purling Hiss, and now we have bass player Jason Killinger with his very killer and very screwy new project, Spacin’. Originally a basement-only solo thing consisting of Killinger playing guitar through a pyramid of amps accompanied by a drum machine, Spacin’ has started to squeak itself above ground and into the barrooms of the city with a fully functioning lineup. The dude doesn’t even need the drum machine anymore; he’s got his wife Eva pounding the skins! Sneak previews of their upcoming debut full-length Deep Thuds, shows a unit who knows the economic gain to be had from a good, hypnotic riff. For those who have ever gotten lost for days in the strains of the Velvet Undergrounds’ “Sister Ray,” Jonathan Richmans’ “Roadrunner,” Hawkwinds’ “Silver Machine” or even Deep Purples’ “Space Truckin,’” repeated listening to Spacin’ is required in excessive doses. Tony reTTman

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The best-known play by Nobel prize-winning playwright Dario Fo is based on real events that transpired in the late ’60s when an Italian man, Giuseppe Pinelli, fell from a fourth floor window of a Milan police station after being intensely interrogated about an anarchist bank bombing. The result is a slapstick comedy with dim-witted detectives attempting to cover up a suspicious death while being questioned by a fast-talkin’ maniac posing as an investigating judge. The maniac tricks the officers into contradicting themselves and admitting to the cover up of the anarchist’s death in a series of Monty Python-esque antics. aBigail Bruley

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4pm. Free. Tribal Home Old City, 56 N. Third St. 215.592.4215.

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and raised by stepdad Ornette Coleman, which seems like a lot of DNA for one kid.

“The material is both angular and aggressive with bits of remorse, regret and painstaking beauty,” says Covatta. Jennifer Kelly 8pm. $5. With Otto von Walmart + Starwood.

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Chris Covatta may be best known for playing lead guitar in Aderbat, but he’s got serious jazz credentials, too, from Berklee and the Princeton Conservatory. In Mi Hed Ur Hed, he wanders the spikey, difficult territory between jazz and rock along with saxophonist Bryan Rogers (Shot X Shot), drummer Carl Bahner and bassist Todd Erk (Hoots and Hellmouth, Birdie Busch). He calls his outfit the bastard child of Fugazi and Steve Albini, a Balkan prostitute

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Its slick beats and odd electronic warbles provided other-worldly grooves and cosmic textures for Christina’s haunted melodies to drift above. This is pop music for the future— perfect for a spaceship dance party where the ravers rave the past away while Earth goes up in flames. With opening sets by South Philly producer/MC Lushlife and Philly deep-funk five-piece Buffalo Stance (named after the 1988 hit single by Neneh Cherry, the daughter of avant-garde jazz legend Don Cherry), Ryat’s in good company tonight. eLLioTT ShARp 8pm. $8. With Lushlife + Buffalo Stance. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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Escape to Toyland Twenty years of seeing the Nutcracker annually with Mom and Dad grows old. Fast. If you’re looking for an alternative to the run-ofthe-mill holiday festivities before bunkering down with the ’rents on Christmas Eve, head down to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for a trip to the roaring 20s. Escape to Toyland, the last entry in the museum’s “Art After 5” series will recreate a retro winter wonderland.

Music will be provided by Drew Nugent & the Midnight Society (esteemed house band down at the Farmers’ Cabinet) and the Minksy Sisters will be tapping through a fun routine in which they turn from toy dolls into young ladies. Transport yourself to the days of blue skies and endless credit, forgetting about the inevitable crash that’s pending. dARRen WhiTe

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Director Lisa Jo Epstein (who conceived the piece) explains that the production will draw on elements the company has employed in its well-received adult shows such as original music (in this case a klezmer-based score), puppetry designed by the brilliant Martina Plag and G&E’s trademark moving scenic set pieces. The 4 p.m. performance also includes a Chinese buffet, giving you an opportunity to fulfill your lifelong dream of celebrating Hanukkah and using chopsticks at the same time. J.C.R. 11am and 4pm. $16-$25. Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. sasandelectricarts.org

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The Wizard of Oz If you have kids, are a friend of Dorothy’s, or are the sole remaining adult on the planet who has never been charmed by L. Frank Baum’s story, then head to the Merriam Theater this week for the stage version of The Wizard of Oz. Based on the acclaimed 1988 production from England’s Royal Shakespeare Company, the touring production differs from other Oz inspired shows like Wicked or The Wiz. The production is solely intended as a celebration of the 1939 film. Applauded for its spectacular special effects and explosive pyrotechnical displays, Oz fanatics will be thrilled that this production includes not only all the classic songs like “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” but also restores the legendary dance sequence the Jitterbug that was unceremoniously cut from the film. J.C.R. 2pm and 7:30pm. $20-$85. Merriam Theater, Broad and Spruce sts. 215.731.3333. kimmelcenter.org/broadway

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If you’re looking for something to do on the day after Christmas (or “Boxing Day,” as the

Brits call it)—aside from enjoying your gifts or crying over the ones you didn’t receive (what, no bow-wrapped Lexus?)—we suggest a walking tour of the 51 outdoor sculptures that line the Parkway and Kelly Drive. They are artistic gifts to Philadelphia that keep on giving. To aid in that pursuit, there’s Museum Without Walls, the free, downloadable audio program from the Fairmount Park Art Association. As you’re standing in front of whatever piece of sculpture that strikes your fancy, you can dial 215.399.9000, enter the stop number on the sign, then listen to history and insight from someone connected to the artwork—perhaps the artist and/or critics, curators, scientists, educators and others. And yes, the Rocky statue is part of the program, lending a somewhat different meaning to Boxing Day. M.A.G.

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Reggae star Matisyahu brings his “Festival of Lights” to the TLA this Christmas Eve to the delight of not only those who celebrate Hanukkah. The catchy beat of his hip-hop/rock and his uplifting message appeals to people of all faiths and even nonbelievers. Matisyahu, whose recently shorn beard is the subject of much philosophical debate, is expected to commemorate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah by lighting a menorah during the concert

and his infamous creation, the dreidel disco bill, will light the stage. Teenage singer-songwriter Cris Cab will support. LAuRA GoLdMAn

he great Frank Zappa has been gone for nearly 20 years, but his music lives on, and not just by sitting in your den and getting baked while listening to Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Dweezil Zappa’s been going around the world the past several years with his Zappa Plays Zappa tours, and New York’s Project/Object have also been re-creating Frank’s oft-brilliant and complex compositions on global stages since the mid-’90s. But they’re more than a mere tribute act, having brought many of Zappa’s former sidemen into the fold. Tonight, longtime Zappa singer/guitarists Ike Willis and Ray White join the combo to help zap tunes from the inimitable Zappa songbook to life. MiChAeL ALAn GoLdbeRG

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Use Your Noodle The delicious hand-drawn noodles at Yummy Lan Zhou come with a show.

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Sliced Beef Noodle Soup: Just one of the stellar noodle dishes at Yummy Lan Zhou.

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My Yummy Lan Zhou review plans fell through recently when my babysitter canceled last minute. In an act of scheduling desperation, I packed up my 1-year-old daughter and brought her along to Chinatown, praying that she’d either a) fall asleep in the high chair or b) be adequately distracted by the Cheerios I’d planned on scattering in front of her at the table to allow me to focus on the food.

Turns out I hadn’t even considered the entertainment factor: For the next hour and a half, she sat there utterly mesmerized by the slapping and twisting and stretching of the dough in the kitchen window, her joy egged on by my guest and the charming waitstaff. Who needs coloring books and crayons when you have live entertainment like this?

As for the food, it justifies what so many of us have muttered beneath our breath while waiting for a table at Race Street’s Nan Zhou: Chinatown needed another hand-drawn option, if for no other reason than space.

And what an excellent option it is. Spacious and elegant, the chandeliers cast a mustard-toned glow against muted yellow walls. The service is exceptionally friendly, even when there are language issues.

The menu is in a state of flux right now. As the kitchen continues to expand its repertoire, you’ll likely find unexpected gifts throughout the meal. The “aromatic mixed platter” appetizer, for example, was only supposed to contain beef, tendon and pig ears. That would have been just fine with me. The cool sliced meat, all nutty and striated, was like some sort of perfect leftover brisket; the tendon snapped with each bite; the gently spiced ears did their little gelatin jiggle in the grip of the chopsticks. But the real star

of the plate was the unexpected (and unlisted with the platter) marinated intestines, thin strips of organ topped with a frizzle of villi that looked like some sort of bird’s nest in cross-section. It was among the cleanest-tasting, most easily lovable intestines I’ve eaten all year.

Beef ribs, which aren’t on the menu yet but should be soon, are also reason enough to stop by. Slow-cooked for hours and nearly falling off the bone, these thick slabs of meat had been permeated by the earthy spice of their cooking liquid, as different in texture and flavor from their American counterpart as anything in the neighborhood, totally devoid of the seemingly requisite slick of sticky, honey-and-hoisin glaze on top and all the better for it. (Our waiter brought out tastes to a couple tables, ostensibly as a way to gauge customer reaction.)

Noodles, however, are the expected star here, and the real reason for a visit. Noodle with pork soy sauce relied on a mound of silky pasta slightly thicker than standard ramen in gauge. It looked basic enough upon arrival: bone-colored noodles and the deep-umber pork ground up and glistening.

Mixing it all, however, revealed a base of sweet-salty soy, ribbons of lettuce, and the occasional fleck of chili. Taken together, it’s easily one of the most satisfying $5 you can spend in the city.

Seafood noodle soup was notable for its broth, a clear, light-bodied liquid taut with five spice whose aromatics had permeated both the springy strands as well as the generous selection of seafood. And while the scallops were a touch tough, and the fish balls bland and briny at once, the shrimp were thick and scented with star anise, the clams like little jewels.

Shaved noodles are where Yummy Lan Zhou really makes its mark. The ragged-edged noodles are like sponges for whatever sauce they’re anointed with. They shine especially bright with egg and vegetable, the delicate savoriness of the soy-based sauce, the bright chlorophyll snap of the baby bok choy, the earthy egg all layered together into a study in subtlety.

Yummy Lan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House is one of the more exciting and affordable Chinatown openings this year. You can eat beautifully for around $10 a person and still bring some home for any midnight emergencies you may have. And if you have kids, bring ’em along: They’ll love the show, and it sure beats shelling out more money for a babysitter. n

Yummy Lan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House 131 N. 10th St. 215.923.2222.

Cuisine type: Noodle-centric.

Hours: Sun.-Thurs., 11am-9:30pm; Fri.-Sat., 11am-10pm.

Price range: $2.50-$9.

Atmosphere: Comfortable and welcoming.

Food: Delicious noodles, and well-prepared meat and offal.

Service: Enthusiastic and helpful, with some language issues.

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Bill Viola’s video work “Ocean Without a Shore” confronts death head-on.

By Katherine Rochester krochester@philadelphiaweekly.com

Death becomes him: Bill Viola visualizes what crossing over between life and death might look like.

When Ben Franklin quipped that the only certain thing in life was death and taxes, he may well have spoiled someone’s appetite.

After all, death is rarely considered good dinner conversation; it’s a subject that we seriously avoid talking about. But internationally renowned video artist Bill Viola is on Ben’s side when it comes to facing the

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inevitable. In his newly acquired, threechannel video installation at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Viola insists that while death is certain, our attitude toward it should be reconsidered.

“Ocean without A Shore” (2007) is an immersive, 90-minute video that visualizes what crossing over between life and death might look like in a culture in which death is taboo. On three screens hung above minimalist altars on deep gray walls, people materialize out of static. As they advance, the fuzzy vagueness gradually falls away until it is shattered entirely by an invisible rush of water. Once on the other side of the waterfall, these ghosts assume sharp color and

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exquisite shadows. They gaze directly at the camera with looks of longing, anguish, tenderness or contentment, and then they recede into the buzzing static once more.

The chapel is dark, and the looping cycle of 24 actors is entrancing. It’s both a visitation and a seance, and the cumulative effect can verge on spiritual, if you’re in the mood.

In fact, “Ocean Without a Shore” has sacred origins. Originally created as a sitespecific installation at the 2007 Venice Biennale, it was installed in the 15th-century church of Oratorio San Gallo, in Venice. In an attempt to retain the hallowed air of its initial presentation, PAFA built out the gallery to almost exactly replicate the dimensions of the Venetian church. The effect hits home. The haunted sanctuary hums with intensity. “I’m interested in placing death back in our culture,” says Viola. Quoting a line from Senegalese poet Birago Diop, he adds: “The dead are not dead.”

Mysterious insights of pantheistic spiritual flavor are par for the course in Viola’s art.

Which is no surprise, since Viola is about as Zen as they come. With a prayer bead bracelet, a meditative goatee and a studio in California, he sometimes drones on a bit like a talented self-help manual might read.

But his art has some serious depth.

“This is one of the most important of my works that exists in this country,” says Viola. Coming from an artist who’s been active since the 1970s, that’s saying something. As one in an edition of only three copies in the world (the other two are in Australia and Korea), we’re lucky to have it here in Philly.

It’s a significant coup for Curator Julien Robson, who has delivered one exciting show after another since his arrival from Louisville, Ky., in 2008. “This new addition to the collection is something I have been working on for 20 months,” says Robson.

“Its a major acquisition that signals, in a big way, PAFA’s commitment to contemporary art as well as demonstrating that there is real continuity in the collection. It’s a very exciting moment for us.”

But if you don’t quite know what to make of “Ocean Without a Shore,” that’s OK— neither does Viola: “I don’t think I’ll ever get to the bottom of this piece,” he reflects.

Best instead to consider a poem by the Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi, whose lines partly inspired Viola’s piece: “The Self is an ocean without a shore. Gazing upon it has no beginning or end, in this world or the next.”

As the video loops, the repetition of rushing water and passing shades may make you feel like death is something worth talking about after all. n

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War Horse is just Steven Spielberg doing what he does best.

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The Thief (1952): The introduction of sound to motion pictures may have liberated the medium, but it killed a certain breed of filmmaking: the kind told almost exclusively via moving images (and the occasional intertitle). Even Charlie Chaplin held onto the torch, stubbornly releasing the mostly silent Modern Times nine years after The Jazz Singer. Deep into the 1950s, little-remembered filmmaker Robert Rouse paid homage to this era with this gimmicky noir, in which nuclear physicist Ray Milland tries to evade the FBI after leaking secrets to an enemy country.

The hook: no one speaks, and the deafening silence is meant to mirror our anti-hero’s guilt. There’s no other reason to remember it than for the gimmick, but it’s enough.

Le Révélateur (1967): Arguably more so than JeanLuc Godard, Philippe Garrel (Regular Lovers) was likely the most formally daring filmmaker to emerge from France in the 1960s. Case in point: his nightmarish abstract horror-thing concerning the vague plight of a 4-year-old and what appear to be his parents, filmed in inky B&W and, most importantly, without sound. No dialogue, not even a score. Silent.

Silent Movie (1976): Silent comedy is perhaps the saddest casualty of sound’s advent, though some have tried to resuscitate it, albeit with quotation marks. Riding high on Blazing Saddles, Mel Brooks sent up the era with loving retro gags and sound effects; the only voice you hear belongs to Marcel-Marceau. (See also: Charles Lang’s 1989 Sidewalk Stories, a nod to Chaplin’s The Kid, and 2005’s Keaton-esque Dr. Plonk.)

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Juha (1999): No shock that Finnish deadpan master Aki Kaurismäki (late of Le Havre) would make a silent film, with intertitles. There was some shock that he chose the schtick for one of his darker, not-sofunny efforts.

Cowards Bend the Knee (2005): In which Guy Maddin, our most beloved retro filmmaker, finally got to make a silent feature. This loopy serial was originally an installation that forced viewers to watch through peep holes on bended knee (heh). Later, The Brand Upon the Brain!, also silent, was originally mounted with live orchestra, narrators and foley artists.

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lad doesn’t take well to his beloved horse, named (rather unpoetically) Joey, being sold into the cavalry once this goddamn war finally breaks out.

Not gonna lie, I spent the first half hour of War Horse rolling my eyes and groaning. There’s an ersatz old-timey quality to the farm sequences, as if Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski were shooting for an approximation of three-strip Technicolor and ever so slightly missed their mark.

But it gets better. I finally surrendered when Tom Hiddleston arrives as the forthright British officer taking ownership of Joey. Hiddleston didn’t impress me much as the villain Loki in Thor, but in Midnight In Paris he played a flawless F. Scott Fitzgerald. Saddled here with some seriously unfortunate dialogue, the young actor acquits himself marvelously and sets the table for this movie’s recurring motif—folks in impossibly ugly situations rising to the occasion by reaching out to one another with simple acts of kindness, more often than not provoked by this strangely magnetic horse.

Of course, it’s corny. This is a Disney movie directed by Hold your horses: Albert (Jeremy Irvine) must turn his horse over to the Steven Spielberg. What were you expecting? cavalry when WWI breaks out.

So we go, carried by the first Great War. Adopting the structure of Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar as if At this stage of the game, referring to a Steven Spielberg weaned on a diet of Victor Fleming movies, Spielberg folmovie as “manipulative” probably qualifies as redundant. lows Joey the horse (oh, how I wish they’d changed that The most prodigiously gifted craftsman of his (or perhaps name!) through a long procession of various owners and any) generation, Spielberg too often undercuts himself with occasionally harrowing vignettes. a weird, seemingly pathological need to pander, simplify Watch how slyly Spielberg manages to keep the picture’s and work over the audience’s emotions in bold, blunt strokes family-friendly rating while still expressing these ghastly unbecoming of such a graceful technician. After so many battlefield horrors. The most vicious kills are rendered years, I have at last made peace with this … or maybe I’ve through misdirection, with a face cutting to a gun barrel— just finally found more important things to get angry about? or my personal favorite, when a windmill blade lopes into The most brazenly schmaltzy movie of the year, War frame and obscures a point-blank execution. He’s a crafty Horse is just Steven Spielberg doing what Steven Spielberg one, that Steven.

War Horse’s high point arrives when our title stallion does. And even if that ain’t your kind of thing, there’s still gets tangled up in barbed wire, bleeding out somewhere no denying that he’s ridiculously fucking good at it. in No Man’s Land between British and Based on Michael Morpugo’s 1982 chilGerman trenches. A couple of gutsy, dren’s book, which was recently adapted obviously animal-loving soldiers, one into a smash hit London and Broadway War Horse from each side, wave white flags and play by Nick Stafford, War Horse arrives Grade: B etched in the simple, bold strokes of a venture out to cut him loose. Shot Director: Steven Spielberg passed-down fable. primarily in wide shots obscuring the Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Shortly before the outbreak of World actors’ features, it’s a very long and surWar I, on a Southern English tenant prisingly funny scene—warring sides Watson and David Thewlis farm owing so much to John Ford’s blarbriefly united, bantering and enjoying ney rustics that I half-expected Victor one another’s common humanity, if McLaglen to drop by, rascally drunkard only for long enough to help a defensePeter Mullan spends all the money his less creature that somehow got dragged family set aside for a simple plowhorse on this magnificent into their mess. title steed.

I don’t think I’m spoiling anything by revealing young Facing eviction by the nasty local landlord (David Albert eventually ends up in the war, and that he and his Thewlis, who probably should’ve grown out his moustache beloved pet may eventually meet up again one day? Honjust a mite longer so he could twirl it for effect), Mullan’s estly, the only suspense is how shamelessly and mercilessly foursquare, comically noble young son Albert finds a way to Spielberg wrings every last possible tear from their recontrain this unruly beast and attempts to save the family farm ciliation, pumping up War Horse beyond the point of kitsch into something I found quite crassly sublime. through a combination of compassion and “inspirational” Closing on a patently phony crimson-hued soundstage platitudes. sunset borrowed from Gone with the Wind, War Horse Played by newcomer Jeremy Irvine, Albert has the works you over. Spielberg does what Spielberg does. Resislantern-jawed looks of Christopher Reeve—if Reeve was tance is futile. n perpetually on the verge of tears. Our exceedingly sensitive

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feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com urge to try to capture what I was experiencing on a record.

That’s when I bought my Moog, my recorders, set up my studio, and decided to make the leap from the man in the gray flannel suit to Dreamies.”

Holt soon bid farewell to his Fedora-sporting buddies and holed himself up in his basement for 15 months to record Auralgraphic Entertainment. He split the album between two long pieces titled “Program Ten” and “Program Eleven,” both exquisite examples of handcrafted beauty rife with squiggling synths, simple acoustic riffs and whisper-light vocals. The snippets of JFK and Mohammed Ali monologues were thrown in to give the album, in the words of Holt, “the feel of a time capsule inside of a psychedelic trip.”

On paper, this might sound like the work of a raving lunatic, but both pieces have a very focused and meticulous— though extremely stoned—flow. Holt cites John Cage and the studio experimentations of the Beatles as inspirations, but feels the album has more to it than that. “The principle influence is not musical; it was the Cold War, the assassinations, more things like that. The music was just a way of expressing all that the best I could.”

When Holt discovered sometime in the ’90s that the LP had a cult following and read online that he was considered a pioneer in the art of sampling, it got the creative juices pumping again. He re-issued Auralgraphic Entertainment on CD through his own Wilmington Studios label and started maintaining a website (dreamies.com) showcasing his audio/visual collages, which touch on the issues of today, much like the time capsule motif of his debut LP. “The times we’re living through right now are worthy of a Dreamies time capsule,” says Holt. “Economic upheaval that’s all tangled up in war; the rise of capitalist extremism; the first black president has to produce a birth certificate. Crazy times. I love it.’ n Revisit Dreamies at dreamies.com

Critic's Pick Strummerville Benefit hat better way seize the seasonal spirit than by celebrating punk’s patron saint—Joe W Strummer—and contributing to his namesake charity, which, naturally, helps young, broke musicians make their mark. The lineup’s strong, highlighted by Taggart, a local fixture harking back to underground rock’s golden age during the half-decade leading up to Nevermind. The guitars are sweet and crunchy like Super Sugar Crisp, purveyLittle Women ing tasty hooks coated in distortion and jagged edges with gruff, half-yelped vocals reminiscent of Eric Bachmann (Archers of Loaf). Versatile trio Mean Streets’ medium is punk rock in the vein of acts like the Addicts and Toy Dolls. It’s catchy, boisterous stuff you might describe as pop-punk before Blink-182 came along. The Successful Failures specialize in blending melancholy jangle pop and alt-rock fury. The bill’s The Future Unwritten filled out by the Groovement’s frontman Leland Plumridge, bloozy classic rockers the Future Unwritten, and high-energy pop-punkers Tonight We Strike. (Chris Parker)

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Free Association: Her weird bubble voice was built for retro-sounding Christmas times.

For Fans Of: Beach Boys in December, Monsters of Folk, Home Alone, New Girl.

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The Christmas Album, Volume 2 (Columbia) Sounds Like: Those little twits who can

barely sing crap out another best-selling slew of well-produced, polished turds of seasonal joy to inject the holiday with gayness.

Free Association: Get your Repub uncle one of these for Xmas. He’ll be weirded out.

For Fans Of: Grease x Hairspray, X-Factor/The Voice/The Singoff, no-talent success.

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For Fans Of: Wayne Newton, Shania Twain/Puppini Sisters, Dr. Seuss narrators.

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Under The Mistletoe (Island) Sounds Like: The 17-year-old superstar’s

second record (ever) is a Christmas album with guest spots from Usher, Mariah, Boyz II Men and Busta—this world is weird.

Free Association: Buy this to guarantee he vacations with Selena Gomez as he wishes.

For Fans Of: David Archuleta x Zac Efron, Jonas Brothers, hip-hopped carols.

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Christmas Symphony (American Gramaphone) Sounds Like: Chip Davis has electrified

classical music with synths and symphonies for decades, pumping out new-agey, corny versions of classics year after year.

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For Fans Of: Kraftwerk x Yanni, Jars of Clay, family Star Trek viewing parties.

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Free Association: Tie favorites—“Itsa Very Queer Christmas” or “Visions I Had While High.”

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If you’ve ever had the good fortune to get an earful of Auralgraphic Entertainment—the record Bill Holt recorded in a Delaware County basement circa 1973 under the moniker Dreamies— you’d imagine the guy was born in a perpetual lotus position, drinking mushroom tea and talking to the cosmos like it was his Auntie Mable. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Prior to making his homespun psychedelic classic, Holt was a slicked-back Center City sales executive with a corner office primed to take over the world. “The executive job was pretty much how that era is portrayed on the TV show Mad Men,” says Holt today from his home in Wilmington, Del. “The man in the gray flannel suit. It was all men. All white.

Chain smoking in the office. Martinis at lunch. A black guy parked the cars. A shapely young woman typed the letters.

Corporate life mirrored America at the time.”

As Holt slugged it out in the corporate trenches, major world events such as the Kennedy assassinations to Vietnam occurred around him. He was already starting to grow queasy on the so-called American Dream, but when he found himself in an intervention-style meeting over his hair length, the facade of corporate life definitely fell. “I was just turning 30, watching the world turn inside out,” Holt remembers. “I wanted to be a part of it. I had this incredible

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My sexy GGG husband and I fuck a “good friend” semiregularly. He’s hot, young and game to fuck about every other week. We started out wearing condoms, but we’ve had the safe-sex conversation and our good friend isn’t banging anyone else, so we’ve moved to condom-free sex. A month ago, we had a hot threesome. Our good friend fucked me, but came on my tits. My husband fucked me, too—that night, the day before, the day after. Now I find out that I’m pregnant. I’m 99 percent sure that it’s my husband’s, but a tiny part of me worries it could be our good friend’s child. What are the chances that it’s my sexy friend’s child and not my husband’s? Without our good friend coming inside me? And with all the semen left in me by my husband? Could our “other” sex partner’s pre-come get me pregnant?

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I’m a submissive gay man. All anal sex guides stress that when done right, anal sex should cause no pain. But what if I want pain? Over three years, my boyfriend and I have proceeded from having lots of anal foreplay to lube-it-up-andstick-it-in. I love it, and once it stops hurting, as it does after a while, I have amazing orgasms. So does he. There’s a definite line between the arousing kind of pain and too much pain. But that line has moved closer to more intense pain and I’m worried about injury. Then again, we’re not sticking progressively bigger objects up my ass, just the same object with less foreplay. Is this risky?

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It depends, BUTT. You can enjoy lube-it-up-and-stick-it-in anal without incurring too great a risk of injury so long as your boyfriend isn’t shoving his entire dick up your ass in one thrust. If he’s pushing his dick in you gradually but firmly, giving your poor butt a chance to relax and adjust as he “forces” his way in, then you’ll probably be OK. (Probably is the word of the day.)

That said, BUTT, while it’s a fine thing to enjoy a little pain during sex—or “sensation play,” as the kinksters have taken to calling it—making your asshole the focus of erotic pain isn’t a sensational idea. Anal fissures and tears take forever to heal and even a small one can put your ass out of commission for months. A big one can put your ass out of commission for years.

There are plenty of ways your boyfriend can make you hurt during anal without brutalizing your hole. He can slap your ass, yank on a pair of tit clamps, pull your hair, crank up the juice on an e-stim unit. You’ve got nerve endings all over your body, not just in and around your hole. If your boyfriend can walk and chew gum at the same time, BUTT, he can work some of those other nerves while he works your hole.

I’m a gay man in my 20s. While I love reading your advice for red-state kinksters, married folks and lesbians with hymens, I’m wondering where the gay has gone. Can we get a column or two with an assortment of questions addressing the problems facing gay men in their 20s? Something for gay boys at that stage of life that falls between “it gets better” and “it gets domestic”?

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Post-sex texting is tacky, WTF, and it’s thoughtless. I can understand why you were annoyed.

I can also understand why your girlfriend has refused to apologize. If one ill-timed text sent your panties so far up your crack that it unleashed a “fury that could not be contained”—if you raged at your girlfriend for being uncharacteristically inconsiderate (it sounds like she usually makes with the postcoital hugs, kisses, compliments, etc.)—then yours was the greater offense.

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Pre-come can contain “live, viable, pregnancyinducing sperm,” says Dr. Joel Maurer, assistant professor in OB/GYN and dean of admissions for the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. “Most [studies have found] that it contains very little, if any, sperm,” says Maurer, but the possible presence of those live, viable, pregnancy-inducing sperm cells means it could be your good friend’s child, not your husband’s.

It’s also why many—including Maurer—regard “pulling out” as an ineffective birth-control method.

“For every 100 women who use withdrawal correctly, four will become pregnant every year—this number jumps to 27 if not used correctly,” says Maurer. (For every 100 women who use condoms correctly, two will become pregnant, 18 if they’re using condoms incorrectly, which is why some argue that withdrawal is nearly as effective as condoms.)

Backing up: Pre-come is produced by the Cowper’s gland and some other gland whose name I can never remember, PIT, while sperm cells are produced in the nuts. Sperm doesn’t get mixed up in the seminal fluid—produced by the prostate and a couple other glands whose names escape me—until the guy starts to ejaculate. So if your good friend didn’t have an orgasm shortly before he fucked you and he didn’t come inside you and there were no stray swimmers in his pre-come for some other reason, odds are slim that the baby is his. It’s possible, PIT, but nowhere near probable.

“A paternity test after delivery of the child is the safest advice I can give should it remain an important issue to her and her husband,” says Dr. Maurer. “An amniocentesis can make this ‘diagnosis’ before delivery, but the procedure comes with a small risk of pregnancy loss. As such, most doctors would consider it unethical to perform amniocentesis for the sole purpose of paternity testing without a co-existing medical reason.”

To all the other nonmonogamous straight couples out there: Not using condoms with your other is fucking stupid. Using condoms with others is important not just to prevent disease but, if your other is a dude, to prevent paternity scares like the one PIT is having. And you should be using condoms with your other, male or female, regardless of safe-sex conversations or assurances that your other isn’t banging anyone else. Unless your other lives in a cage in your basement—very hot, not very practical—you have no way of knowing for sure that your other doesn’t have other others.

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