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[ + 1 ] A land-mine-detection dog soon to be

deployed to Iraq gives a demonstration at a Kensington elementary school. “Oh my, no, you must be mistaken,” says dog. “I’m trained to dig up metal Frisbees, for which I am given treats. I expect more of the same on my upcoming business trip overseas.”

[ + 2 ] After years of controversy, Chink’s Steaks

in Wissinoming changes its name to Joe’s Steaks & Soda Shop. “WHO DARES TO DISHONOR ME?” says vengeful ghost of the business’ founder, Lord Chink. “I GOT THAT NAME BECAUSE I HAD ORIENTAL EYES, NOT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING RACIST! BUT REALLY, THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS CHANGED,THAT’S JUST A FACT.AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON OBAMACARE.”

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The Inquirer interviews several people who are upset by the Chink’s Steaks name change. At a PhillyMag staff meeting.

FILL IN THE BLANK: The block of Farragut Street across from the 46th Street El station was cleared last November. Its redevelopment prospects remain hazy due to lack of funds and tenants. NEAL SANTOS

[ + 2 ] Philadelphia Zoo officials want a SEPTA station opened nearby.“Oh yeah? Well, we’d like a pony,” says SEPTA. The animal has since been delivered, and construction is under way.

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The Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities dispatches clowns to direct traffic to raise awareness about distracted driving. The stunt was successful in its secondary goal, in that hundreds of clowns are now dead.

[ + 1 ] On April Fool’s Day, the Phillies tie balloons with tickets inside at different places around town. Haha, they’re all for Kyle Kendrick starts.

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No one is injured when SEPTA’s Norristown High Speed Line slips off its tracks near 69th Street. “My bad,” says the train operator. “I was just zooming along, when I thought I saw a horde of wretched, horrible clowns. And I guess my natural instinct was to try to run them over. What’s that? Yes, trains have steering wheels.”

[ + 1 ] The Dave Matthews Band donates money

to aid a New Jersey oyster-conservation group. “No, thank you,” say oysters.

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BUILDING BLOCK A local nonprofit razed a West Philly block to clear the way for new development. But will anything rise in its place? By Ryan Briggs

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n November, part of a $1.1 million state grant was used to raze a row of homes and businesses on Farragut Street in West Philly, across from the 46th Street El station. In its place, there’s now a sprawling empty lot and a vision for something greater: a multi-million-dollar, transit-oriented development called Enterprise Heights, featuring 100,000 square feet of commercial space. But The Enterprise Center (TEC), the nonprofit economic-development corporation behind the project, has no secure funding or major tenants in place to make that a reality. That’s left some critics worrying that the demolition of this relatively dense cluster of businesses on an already-underutilized block was premature or, at worst, a miscalculation that could hamper the area’s revitalization. Della Clark, TEC’s president, says the demolition was necessary: It made holding the land “cheaper” and created a “blank slate” that would finally entice investors. But after nearly 13 years, four complete redesigns and a handful of failed partnerships, some, including several former TEC employees, worry that the nonprofit may not be able to bring Enterprise Heights to fruition. Enterprise Heights has been one of TEC’s flagship projects since around 2000. With a $429,000 architectural grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration,

plans were drawn up for a series of four enormous towers encompassing most of the 4600 and 4700 blocks of Market Street. The project, to be constructed in four phases, would eventually encompass 500,000 square feet of retail and office space. With an astounding $75 million price tag, the project did not lack ambition. Clark saw Enterprise Heights as a way to fulfill TEC’s (federally funded) mission to spur minority business participation, creating a landing pad for the organization’s success stories. She also envisioned it as a transformative force for the struggling area. “The idea of the project is really to springboard 46th and Market, in conjunction with the 46th Street Station, to bring new businesses and build a retail strip,” she says. But financing such a large project on this hardscrabble block was not easy. An early commitment from Citizens Bank fell apart sometime in the mid-2000s. Further complicating matters was the fact that TEC owned only a small portion of the land in their plan. Most of the 4700 block was held by Community Care and Development Corp. (CCDC) and Mohawk Community Investments Inc., two nonprofits run out of the office of a for-profit investment firm in Bala Cynwyd called Veloric Asset Management LLC. All three are run by Daniel and Michael Veloric, a politically connected father-and-son team who formerly operated an elder-care provider, Geri-Med, that shut down following federal investigations in the ’90s over a series of nursing-home deaths. Clark says that in 2000, TEC sought to acquire those lots from the Velorics. It even included

It’s 13 years and four redesigns later.

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✚ DANGER SIGNS

✚ CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

The abstract concept of the sequester has, recently, become very real for Philadelphians getting furlough notices or seeing unemployment checks slashed. For people living with AIDS, activists worry, it could be deadly. The federal spending bill to fund the government through September didn’t continue the $35 million for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) or $15 million for Ryan White Part C clinical care the president announced in 2011. That means about 8,000 people could lose access to drug assistance nationwide. “It has me really, really frightened,” says Jose de Marco, a member of ACT UP who relies on ADAP to supplement his insurance. “The cheapest [antiretroviral] regimen may be $15,000 a year. … I don’t know anyone who can afford [that].” In Pennsylvania, ADAP funds two-thirds of the Special Pharmaceutical Benefits Program 1, which helped 7,300 people last year at an average benefit of $10,466. The Foundation for AIDS Research figures 500 Pennsylvanians will soon lose that aid. If Pennsylvania doesn’t participate in Medicaid expansion, matters will get worse, city Health Commissioner Donald Schwarz told City Council recently. He estimates there are 235,000 uninsured Philadelphians, and 4,000 who don’t know they have HIV /AIDS.“Federal Ryan White dollars for HIV and AIDS are being cut back … because of the sequestration; they will continue to be cut back because the expectation was that, with more Americans insured, there would be less need for [such programs].” Expensive HIV-prevention treatments like pre-exposure prophylaxis also would be covered by Medicaid, he said — if only Pennsylvanians had access to it. Schwarz noted that studies have shown that, where Medicaid was expanded, deaths declined, unpaid medical bills were reduced and access to care increased. In those studies, “ironically, Pennsylvania was considered a control state.” —S.M.

Recently, Councilwoman Marian Tasco outright accused Mayor Nutter of stalling a rec-center rehab in her district for political reasons. But that’s not the only project that has taken an extraordinarily long time.“We do a ribbon-cutting and say we’re going to bring you something new,” Councilman Curtis Jones said at budget hearings, and “it’s like Christmas that never comes.” So how long do projects take in Philly? “Too long,” city Budget Director Rebecca Rhynhart conceded to Council. A report completed by FTI Consulting for the city in February put a number on it: 74 to 489 weeks. That is, up to 10 years. FTI reported that this partly has to do with extra steps in the bidding process that could be removed or streamlined. For instance, just bringing design work in-house could reduce delays by up to 46 weeks. Rhynhart said the city is acting on some of those findings, including hiring about 40 Parks and Rec Department workers to tackle small capital projects. This news of reform, though, didn’t exactly lift the spirits of Councilman Jim Kenney. He said that he and others had been working on this same issue — three years ago — in a previous reform effort sparked after another capital project took seven years and 137 steps to complete. “That was shut down by the administration,” Kenney complained. Now that the city is tackling the very same problem, he said, “I find it on the one hand kind of funny, and on the other hand kind of annoying.” In Tasco’s case, though, the delays seemingly had little to do with the bidding process; she said in hearings that she was told to ask the mayor to clear it. Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison responded that this was normal: “Everything in this city comes through the Mayor’s Office.” —Samantha Melamed

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³ IN 2009, AMID a budget crisis, Philly courts stopped paying the private lawyers appointed to represent poor Philadelphians in criminal cases, juvenile-delinquency hearings and civil cases where parental rights are at stake. The reason? It deemed them “nonessential vendors.” Those lawyers, many of whom took out loans in order to keep appearing in court in the interim, don’t see it that way. Now, eight of them — who say payments are still insufficient and chronically late — are asking the state Supreme Court to compel the First Judicial District to formalize their role and set up a long-promised panel to review their fees. “We don’t demand a lot of money,” says Gary Sanford Server, one of the petitioners. “But we would like our fee structure reviewed and that we be recognized for what we do — and that we not be called nonessential vendors.” The petition to the state’s highest court comes as the city weighs creating a single Office of Conflict Counsel to manage most of these cases. “The court-appointment system in Philadelphia is probably one of the worst in the country in terms of [pay],” says Mingo Stroeber, another petitioner. She points to a current case she’s been representing over seven years and at least 50 court appearances: payments for that case ended years ago. Improvements in the court system making it more protective toward juveniles — like a requirement that a lawyer be present for each and every juvenile case listing, instituted in the wake of the Luzerne County, Pa., “kids for cash” scandal — are laudable, Stroeber says. But these increased responsibilities have not been accompanied by supporting pay increases. The issue made headlines in Philly in recent years, after attorney errors led to numerous capital convictions being overturned. That led to an increase in pay for homicide cases only. Attorney Sam Stretton, who has been litigating the issue since 1989, says the court agreed to put a review panel in place back in 2005. That panel was never convened. He calls it a failure of leadership by the court, which he says hasn’t sought the needed funding. “Pay was supposed to be increased each year by 10 percent. And now, 21 years later, it grossly underpays lawyers. And it prevents lawyers from having the ability and time to do the defense they want to do.” Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison says making payments more timely is a priority. But he believes the new conflict office could improve the system overall. Petitioner Joseph Canuso is dubious. “Promises, even contracts, that were in existence heretofore should be followed, rather than abrogating them and going to some other kind of system.” —Samantha Melamed

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the land in “hypothetical” renderings of Enterprise Heights. But the deal “fell through,” Clark says, after TEC couldn’t raise the funds. Beyond that, Clark says, TEC “never” had any involvement with the Velorics. However, according to Mohawk’s and CCDC’s most recent financial disclosures, “assisting The Enterprise Center” and creating a “master plan for the use of the 47th and Market Street property” are among the nonprofits’ primary objectives. The documents indicate that, in 2008, TEC gave Mohawk $100,000 worth of legal and environmental remediation services. Whatever the true nature of their relationship, the Velorics’ land was stripped from the Enterprise Heights plan by the mid-2000s, around the same time TEC hired former Universal Companies vice president Omowale Crenshaw to helm the project. With no financing and a major chunk of land out of the picture, new iterations of the plan started to emerge. The block-spanning complex was scrapped in favor of a single, flashy 235,000-square-foot tower called the Plaza at Enterprise Heights. But what might have seemed like a reasonable move by Crenshaw to rein in a potential white elephant sparked dissent among TEC employees. “The idea behind [Enterprise Heights] was to develop a place where The Enterprise Center’s successful entrepreneurs could locate their businesses in West Philadelphia in order to keep jobs in the neighborhood,” said Imanni Wilkes Burg, a former TEC community organizer. “In my opinion, the nature of the project strayed from its community-centered goals under Omowale Crenshaw’s management.” The Plaza was to include 160,000 square feet of market-rate condos and, according to Wilkes Burg, “a day spa.” The notion of a luxury residential community on a neglected block just feet from roaring El trains fueled doubts about the project’s viability. Wilkes Burg says Crenshaw’s “market-oriented” vision caused friction between him and Clark. However, under Crenshaw, government investment started trickling in: In 2009, TEC secured a $5 million state brownfield-redevelopment grant and loan package. It was also awarded a $1 million Growing Greener sustainable-development grant, and a $135,000 state loan for a proposed geothermal system. Two state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grants were awarded in 2009 and 2010, worth a combined $1.1 million, a portion of which will cover the completed demolition. But the project was still millions short of the funds it needed to break ground. As Crenshaw pushed forward, the project kept changing, contracting along with an imploding real-estate market. It evolved, eventually, into its current version, half the previously proposed size. But other staff members worried about the toll that delays and ever-changing plans were taking on TEC’s organizational credibility. Wilkes Burg says those doubts adversely affected other TEC projects, such as the Hamilton Center for Culinary Enterprises (CCE), a food-business incubator that opened in 2012. “Fundraising for the CCE was complicated by the fact that several local, state and national organizations had provided

grants and loans for Enterprise Heights without seeing results. [That] probably hindered potential funders’ and community members’ faith in [TEC’s] ability to get things done.” Crenshaw did not respond to requests for comment. He left TEC in 2010, and Clark assumed control of the project. New management has seemingly done little to kick-start the development. A $10 million state grant opportunity in 2010 was nixed by the Corbett administration. 2011 brought another blow, as a crucial $26-million deal to house the Department of Homeland Security’s office of Citizens and Immigration Services was snatched away by another nonprofit-driven project just a few blocks to the east. The rival development, 2.0 University Place, was under the management of

The project strayed from its goals. former Vince Fumo ally Tom Leonard and West Philly affordable-housing magnate Scott Mazo. Sources close to the deal characterize it as a power play by the two political heavyweights at TEC’s expense. Now, TEC had lost an anchor tenant and a key funding source. But they pushed forward with the demolition. Clark says neighbors are glad the buildings were razed, and she hopes to have new tenants lined up soon. “Bringing tenants there to see the lot and see those buildings was actually a negative. By having a clean lot we’ve actually had more interest,” says Clark. “[Before,] people were, like, ‘What is this going to be?’ People couldn’t see it.” Hopefully she’s right. The only tragedy left for the 46th Street corridor, beset by vacant lots and mangled by 10 years of El reconstruction, would be for a banner redevelopment plan to end up just another blank slate. (ryan.briggs@citypaper.net)

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lines or anything.” About a year into his project, Ebersole had a tattoo artist ink over his mini-bars, which had blobbed together, replacing them with a massive set that dominates his left leg. “I decided if I was gonna do the book I would have the biggest one,” he says. “It ended up not being the biggest.” Who took that title? “A guy named Jimi in Salt Lake City. He was in prison for 16 years, and over the course of 16 years he had this guy stick-and-poke it in his gut.” You’ll find Jimi Germ and his gigantic bars on page 209 of the book. Instead of solid black rectangles, his tattoo bars frame a scene depicting the alleged

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OVER THE COURSE OF 16 YEARS HE HAD THIS GUY STICK-AND-POKE HIS GUT. neys, while by no means guaranteeing friendship. “You know they come from the same background,” says Ebersole. “I don’t think you have that with the lips and tongue.” And then there are the tattoos themselves. So many of them, Ebersole points out, are just really, really ugly. “Most of the time they aren’t professionally done,” he smiles. “Or if they are professionally done, they still don’t look all so hot.” “They’re pretty much all bad,” laughs Castaldi. “First of all, they’re not even black anymore, they’re blue.And they’re not — there’s nothing straight about the

crime that got him thrown in jail: he and some friends flipping over a cop car and setting it ablaze during a riot. “He’s out, and now he’s becoming a librarian,” says Ebersole. The bars’ simplicity has led to myriad creative variations.A guy in Toronto has them made of bacon strips (p. 137), while a woman from Massachusetts went with a lipstick motif (p. 133). One dude in Wisconsin let his brother brand the bars onto him below his navel (barely visible on p. 186). The bars on a hairy arm in Albany are overshadowed by a nearby mushroom cloud erupting from a toilet (p. 71). The bars never seem to be anybody’s only tattoo. Ebersole lives in Nyack,N.Y.,and works continued on page 14

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WHEN CONSIDERING IF any other band has come close to matching what Black Flag and Pettibon achieved with the bars, the mouth logo John Pasche designed for the Rolling Stones comes to mind.“OK,so say you’re going to do Lipped for LifeorTongued for Life, what are those people going to say when you ask them

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By the time Stewart Ebersole got his first Black Flag tattoo, the legendary ’80s hardcore band had already imploded and broken up. And, truth be told, he hadn’t much cared for their last few albums. But still, their killer early music, and the defiant punk ethos that went with it, was enough to send him into a tattoo shop with his copy of 1984’s Slip It In to get a tiny set of the “bars” inked onto his right leg. Those four staggered bars were designed by artist Raymond Pettibon, brother of guitarist Greg Ginn, when the band was just getting started in Hermosa Beach, Calif., in the late ’70s. Meant to symbolize anarchy, a kind of antithesis to the white flag of surrender, the logo appeared on pretty much every album, flier and T-shirt the band produced. Somewhere along the way, however, the bars picked up a new, less concrete meaning, something more ambiguous and oddly tribal. As detailed in Ebersole’s new book, Barred for Life: How Black Flag’s Iconic Logo Became Punk Rock’s Secret Handshake (PM Press, March 1), the logo these days signifies not so much an appreciation for a band — it’s worth noting that Black Flag’s sound and fanbase mutated with

each of its many lineup changes — but a vague sense that the person with the tattoo knows what it’s like to be a little different on some level. “If Black Flag never got together again, people would still keep getting the bars,” Ebersole says when he and photographer Jared Castaldi sit down for an interview at Tattooed Mom. It’s Castaldi’s first look at the finished book, and he flips through it quietly. On each page there’s a large, black-and-white image of a knuckle or a wrist or a scalp permanently affixed with the bars. The symbol’s resilience and mutability were a big part of what inspired Ebersole to assemble a crew and embark on a six-year mission to collect photos of and interviews with proud bar-bearers across the country. Having played and toured with a few basement-level punk bands in his day, he had the connections to book himself at rock clubs and bookstores in Vegas, Chicago, San Francisco and dozens more places.“It was basically us being in a punk band but not playing music,” Ebersole says. The largest tour put him and his crew on the road for more than 50 days straight. It all could have added up to a zine — a medium Ebersole has dabbled in before — but he saw the potential for something more. The resulting Barred for Lifeis part photo book and part memoir, interspersed with lengthy interviews with Black Flag alums.

about their tattoo? ‘Rolling Stones are the best band ever!’” shrugs Ebersole. “Those kinds of tattoos are, like, ‘Oh, I got wasted at the Spectrum in ’85,’” jokes Castaldi. He helped launch the Barred project,but had to bail on the big tour when he landed a day job. His photos dominate the first 80 or so pages of the book, after which Ebersole did the shooting. Barred’s subjects, some in their 20s, many in their 30s and 40s, are all over the map when it comes to the meaning behind their tattoos.“We got far more non-Black Flag answers than we got answers about the band,” says Ebersole. Several subjects make a point of saying Black Flag is not, in fact, their favorite band. A few allude to the bars as a secret handshake, or as symbolic of an unspoken bond that ties strangers together as punks and ex-punks on similar jour-

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as a marine geologist, but he grew up in York and lived in South Philly until recently. As a result, a large number of locals made it into Barred for Life. The bars on the shin of Philadelphia rocker/competitive eater Ryan “Chubb� Pasquale (p. 19) look like crayon scrawls, but were actually the result of a tattoo machine he built with a small motor, a toothbrush, a pen and an eraser when he was 16.“Fuck if my dad didn’t walk in on me while I was doing it,� Pasquale says in the book. ALL OF BARRED FOR LIFE Ssubjects were asked to name their favorite singer, song and album from the Black Flag catalog. Perhaps not surprisingly, the answers often involved a lot of mixing and matching of eras. The “fantasy game� responses would drive Ebersole a little nuts; he’s an outspoken guy, not averse to arguing music minutiae. But he gets it. After all, Black Flag’s roster changes are the stuff of legend, with guitarist Greg Ginn being the only constant and vocalist Henry Rollins — whose tenure started with the

’81 classic album Damaged and ended with the band’s breakup in ’86 — being the most famous. In fact, as you read this, two versions of the band are prepping for summer tours. Both look like fantasy teams. The simply titled Flag is composed of original singer Keith Morris backed by bassist Chuck Dukowski (’77-’83) and drummer Bill Stevenson (’81-’82, ’83-’85), along with guitarist Stephen Egerton (from fellow punk veterans the Descendents and ALL). Ginn, meanwhile, has put together a new Black Flag, with singer Ron Reyes (whose original run with the band lasted a mere seven months from ’79 to ’80) and drummer Gregory Moore, best known for playing with Ginn’s other band, Gone. Ebersole has little interest in these revivals — “you might as well go see the Grateful Dead minus all their members except Bob what’s-his-name� — but he did interview several alums for the book. He hung out with Morris in his L.A. backyard and watched a Super Bowl

with singer and guitarist Dez Cadena (’80-’83). Ginn and Rollins, however, turned him down. “I talked [Reyes] into an interview that he didn’t want to do. Now he’s in Black Flag again,� Ebersole says. “[Dukowski] said he had no interest in reliving the past. Now he’s in Flag.� “[Bassist Kira Roessler] said,‘You sure you even want to interview me? If you aren’t a big Black Flag fan, why do you

disgust for the later Black Flag albums. “I listened to Annihilate this week and it’s horrible. I listened to Family Man and it’s intolerable,� he says. “They had all this really great music before they became shitty.� Did any of his subjects name songs and singers from the shitty era?

THEY HAD ALL THIS REALLY GREAT MUSIC BEFORE THEY BECAME SHITTY. even want to know these things?’� he laughs. “And I was, like, ‘Don’t you think this makes a much more objective book if I thought you guys sucked when you were in the band?’ She thought that was hilarious and invited us over and we had a blast.� Ebersole pulls no punches about his

“Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, everybody did,â€? he says. “Are you familiar with the concept of patterning? When a duck or a chicken is hatched, they’ll become attached to the first thing they see.â€? When it comes to Black Flag, “That’s how everybody is. ‌ I still listen to Damaged all the time. When I’m pissed off, it’s my go-to.â€? (pat@citypaper.net)

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season, zombies need something to do (besides hanging out in the Piazza not buying anything). Enter Andrew Hudis and Dave Feinman, two enterprising collegiate entrepreneurs — Wharton and Temple Business, respectively — and their 16-city 5K Zombie Run infestation, a series that begins here in their hometown this Sunday morning at FDR Park. They’re turning the skate park into something like a movie set, with abandoned cars and helicopters. The objective: to run through the course and not get your balloon popped by a zombie (that’s not innuendo). Hudis and Feinman met as kids in Bucks County, ran high-school marathons and were looking for more rewarding challenges when Carrie Snyder (founder of the ODDyssey Half-Marathon) came along.The threesome started The Zombie Run. “I was always a big zombie-movie fan and spent my Octobers hopping around the haunted houses outside of Philadelphia,” says Hudis. “But haunted houses aren’t realistic. Who would walk through one?” See! Zombie people think this is all real, that a zombiepocalypse a la World War Z is near, and — damn, I’m still pissed they didn’t shoot that movie here. Anyway, Hudis got top Philly monster-makeup maven Ruby Muro to doll up the undead for an evil challenge with good as the ultimate goal. Then again, that is probably what a zombie would say. Partner charity Active Heroes benefits military vets and families. Check thezombierun.com. ³ I have it on good authority that the newly purchased Prince Music Theater on Chestnut Street is gearing up for some concerts to go with all the theater and film on its schedule. Live music will be a large-ish component of the new Prince’s main stage (beyond its swellegant black-box cabaret) sooner than you think. ³Which reminds me: You know all this so-called new news that Joanna Pang from the Trocadero bought the old South Philly wrestling hub Asylum Arena,with live music to follow? Everyone’s all excited by the orange liquor-license sticker, but a bunch of other bloggers and I told you last year that she bought the place and has been doing construction inside for some time. As for the liquor license, did you think she was going to serve milk? And now mark these words: Don’t be too certain that wrestling is not in the picture. ³ I ran into Renee and Don Freeman from Philadelphia’s Gift of Life chapter the other day. The designing couple, whose charity involves organ and tissue donation, reminded me to check my mail for an invitation to The Party: Donors are Heroes event, on Fri., April 26, at the Four Seasons Hotel. Call and email 215-557-8090, kkeener@ donors1.org to get in on the action. ³ More Ice at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

PRINCES OF MARS: L-R, Kiel Everett, Mike Sneeringer and Michael Polizze of Purling Hiss.

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GREATEST HISS Purling Hiss’ Drag City debut magnifies what was already there. By A.D. Amorosi

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ulti-instrumentalist and singer Michael Polizze has always made music that was both loud and soft, poppy and not so poppy. Listen close to the albums he made as a guitarist for Philly’s Birds of Maya and those first one-man, lo-fi, homemade recordings under the Purling Hiss name. They have the raw appeal of primal early Stooges albums, with unexpectedly subtle and memorably melodic hooks. Yet for Purling Hiss’ Drag City label debut, Water on Mars, Polizze’s usual mix of the blisteringly bombastic and the serenely somnolent sounds refreshingly new, magnified significantly by additional full-time players (drummer Mike Sneeringer, bassist Kiel Everett) and time spent in a real studio (Philly’s Uniform, with producers Jeff Ziegler and Adam Granduciel). “The old records were recorded at my home on an old four-track, and my resources and engineering knowledge were limited,” says Polizze of albums and EPs such as Public Service Announcement and Lounge Lizards, which were little more than demos until WFMU-FM’s Brian Turner brought them attention. Then pal Kurt Vile encouraged Polizze to expand his sound and his expectations. “It’s really hard to tell where it would have gone,” Polizze says when asked about the encouragement of Turner and Vile — the latter dragged Polizze along on one of his early tours. “I think at

the time, I was just working on recording, and figuring out my sounds and what I liked to hear. I think in the back of my head, though, I did want to eventually start a band, and Kurt inviting me prompted that to happen.” Water on Mars may have started out of necessity — a live band working together as a power trio to prepare for a tour — but the noisy result was three guys who bonded quickly and hit upon like-minded touchstones in psych-rock, blues and punk. “While my old recordings were more cerebral and lo-fi,” says Polizze, “this new album was inspired by having that live band and some real song composition.” Considering that expansion in size, range and intention, Water on Mars feels like the first real album that Polizze totally and forcefully meant to make, from its skuzzy blustering blues down to its mellowest melodic cuts, “She Calms Me Down” and “The Harrowing Wind.” For the most part, Polizze doesn’t suffer foolishness (“Think about white noise,” he remarks when asked about his band’s name), and considering he’s been making music for more than a decade, it must be odd for him to see Purling Hiss get all this attention now. “I personally feel like I established an identity as a writer and as an artist a while ago,” he says. “However, there have been a lot of changes over the years, from being in other bands to recording at home, and now with having a live band. I understand that it feels new to people because they’re just catching up.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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The festival-opening performance of Bach’s tremendous, three-hour St. Matthew Passion, the orchestra’s first in nearly 30 years, organized the drama of the oratorio without mitigating the gorgeous sheen of the music. The vocalists didn’t “act,” per se, but moved through the passion play on a raised stage in the center of the orchestra. The instrumental ensemble was divided into two chamber groups, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin found a delicate texture in this unusual grouping. The singing was superb, in particular the nuanced tenor of Andrew Staples in the central role of the Evangelist. —Peter Burwasser ³ THE BEARDED LADIES

The setup of Wide Awake: A Civil War Cabaret (through April 6) involves spiritual possession by Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and defiant southern belle Dixie. More serious topics are woven through silliness and great songs (like a mashup of “John Brown’s Body” and the Beatles’ “Come Together”). The Bearded Ladies’ low-tech aesthetic soars here, with inventive use of shadow puppets, flashlights and cardboard props. —Mark Cofta

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(through April 14) is sort of about the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, but more about cultural transition, media saturation and American hysteria. Directed by Gedney Barclay with a choreographer’s eye, it’s a mélange of late-Cold-War miscellanea, vintage footage of the Gipper, musical interludes, outbursts of pop culture and surreal hallucinations. —Dotun Akintoye ✚ These are just a few excerpts from our ongoing, comprehensive festival coverage. Find reviews, photos and videos at citypaper.net/PIFA.

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ensemble-created works, The Golem and The Assassination of Jesse James,were unique, moody, multilayered experiences staged with flair. They set a high standard. The Life (and Death) of Harry Houdini doesn’t meet it. This bland biography outlines the famous escape artist’s life from humble birth in 1874 to untimely death in 1926. Some of Houdini’s escapes are described, but there’s little sense of his dramatic effect on audiences; the closest is a scene where he crashes a rival’s show.We’re told he’s great, but never shown it — not that his often-dangerous escapes need to be duplicated, but Houdini’s Wikipedia page provides more excitement about his showmanship. Robert DaPonte plays the Budapest native, born Erik Weisz, as an intensely driven social outcast and not much else. The staging falls short, too: Set designer Doug Greene seats the audience on the Plays & Players stage, making the 101-year-old theater’s house a backdrop to action squeezed onto the stage’s narrow apron. Since this is EgoPo’s vaudeville season, the theater’s red seats and faded murals suggest the theaters in which Houdini launched his career. In practice, though, the space feels hollow and underused. Insight peeks through late in the 75-minute play, when “the highest-paid act in America and abroad” dabbles in the era’s psychic-phenomena craze. Could he contact his mother? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “the torchbearer of spiritualism,” thought so, but Houdini, unconvinced, was an obsessive debunker of mediums and the paranormal. His famous promise to come back from the other side, if he can, provides a momentary thrill — but it’s hard to expect this Houdini to return from death when he never comes to life. (m_cofta@citypaper.net)

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Gomorrah is a barbed satire on the false promises of reality television. The two films, both of which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, are starkly different, the latter’s overflowing ebullience a marked contrast to the former’s grim severity. But both share a wide-ranging breadth of observation and a meandering pace prone to curious digressions. On the surface, the craven yearning for fame via reality TV is the laziest of satirical targets. But Garrone is hardly one to tug at low-hanging fruit, and in Reality he manages to find ripe flavors further out along the most gnarled branches. Luciano (Aniello Arena) is no glib, spoiled youth expecting attention as a reward for existing. He’s a friendly, seemingly content fishmonger in Naples surrounded by family and friends who encourage his hammy tendencies. Arena’s story is even more remarkable than his character’s; a gangster serving a life sentence for a triple murder, he was discovered by Garrone acting in a prison theater workshop. Perhaps because he realizes that he’ll only be able to experience the outside world for as long as the cameras roll, Arena exudes a rabid desire for acceptance that turns increasingly sour as the film progresses. On a whim, Luciano attempts to land a spot on the Italian version of Big Brother, but gradually his pursuit becomes all-consuming. Garrone observes Luciano’s passions within an equally frenzied frame, melding a King of Comedy cynicism with Fellini grotesqueries. At its root, there’s a more fundamental crisis of spirituality in his quest; Big Brother becomes less a goal than a promise of paradise. The increasingly delusional Luciano responds like any aspirant to transcendence: He prostrates himself before his unseen judges, by turns repentant and angry at their silence. When he finally breaches the walls of the garish TV house, it is, like every heaven, one that exists only in the eyes of the faithful. —Shaun Brady

A barbed satire of reality television.

FAME-HUNGRY: Luciano (Aniello Arena) is a friendly, seemingly content fishmonger in Naples who dreams of appearing on Italy’s Big Brother.

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Not a happy ending: That’s common enough. And not one that ties up the loose ends of a complicated plot, because that’s what a mystery is for. A good ending — the kind that crystallizes what has come before, and refracts back the business of plot, character and theme, elevating it all — is hard to do. Which is why it’s so remarkable when one works, especially when an ending accomplishes something the novel hasn’t until that point. The last few paragraphs of Fiona Maazel’s Woke Up Lonely (April 2, Graywolf) pull off that trick, shifting perspective and recasting an ambitious, but not always successful, sprawl into a miniature, tangential moment. Woke Up Lonely is a self-consciously big novel: Maazel sets her action in an alternate 2005, where anger over a stolen election has given way to a desire to reach out, with a growing number of people connecting through the Helix, a cult of sorts that fights loneliness through oversharing, presided over by incredibly lonely Thurlow Dan, who only wants his wife and daughter to return to him. But Thurlow’s simple desire for his estranged family is complicated by increasingly absurd circumstances: His recent trip to North Korea has attracted the government’s wrath; his wife works for the CIA and has been spying on him; subsets of his followers have begun agitating for secession. Maazel knots all these disparate strands together — self-help and surveillance, Pyongyang and isolation — with warped, spiky sentences. Of childhood dinners, Dan remembers that “family congress was more like antecedent to purdah among friends,” and in North Korea, “filth seems meticulous and prolific in its outreach — even the soap can’t stay clean.” But the Helix and the Hermit Kingdom are too big, nebulous and ill-defined for her language to seem precise. Instead, it’s distanced and ironic. So when Woke Up Lonely ends on a human scale, it expresses the point of the book better and more economically than anything that goes before, with a single two-paragraph vignette, as one character grows “his heart just enough to fathom her own.” Jesse Weintraub, in Jennifer Gilmore’s The Mothers (April 9, Scribner), seems like just the kind of person ready to grow her own heart some; the novel is Gilmore’s account, drawn from her own

experience, of the grueling process of open domestic adoption. Jesse is often juvenile and selfcentered. When she’s found out, for instance, after disregarding a decision she and husband Ramon made together (about prenatal drug use in a birth mother), she digs in her heels: “Suddenly none of this felt like it was Ramon’s choice to make.” Jesse’s oftenglaring imperfections are some of the strongest choices Gilmore makes. In fact, part of what drives Jesse is how completely she’s consumed by her wants. Gilmore tracks Jesse through an often-torturous process with a careful eye for detail: A garden party, with its constant conversations about motherhood, takes place on “a lawn filled with white people and white babies. And two or three Asian girls, each over 10 years old.” And even smaller

Crystallizing and elevating the plot. moments are as delicate, like the fight that ends with Jesse “brushing by” Ramon and “touching him gently enough to hurt him,” before going downstairs to parents she’s angry at and a newly pregnant little sister. That delicate moment is a pivot for Jesse, a point where she chooses to begin becoming a better person by mending her relationship with the sister who has the pregnancy she wants. And Gilmore almost pulls this off: The sisters do reconcile and begin to make plans for Lucy’s daughter’s arrival that April. But it’s also calculating and controlled, especially when it gets reflected back in The Mothers’ ending. Because the novel doesn’t end in April with a warm extended family; it ends in February with an adoption referral. And whether Gilmore intends it, that ending — where Jesse is the only mother in The Mothers — is tougher and more complicated than anything that preceded it. (j_bauer@citypaper.net)

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³ 2424 STUDIOS The last time Jason Hackenwerth exhibited at 2424 Studios, he brought 40,000 balloons with him. In 2009, the New York-based artist weaved the balloons together to create gigantic, colorful creatures that looked like they had emerged from either the depths of the ocean or a Jim Henson film. They were bizarre, intricate and stunning. Now Hackenwerth is back, this time without a single inflatable. Don’t let that worry you, though. There are plenty of similarities between “The Song of the Silken Mermaid” and his 2009 show. Hackenwerth found his new inspiration in a place that most would probably consider ordinary. He was standing in a room covered with painter’s plastic and a wind swept in. The plastic filled with air and, suddenly, it looked like a beautiful, billowy cave. Hackenwerth’s new exhibit is filled with these caves (pictured) and other tunnel-like structures, made from extremely thin, lightweight plastic. The pieces are huge: up to 17 feet high, according to curator Eileen Tognini. And like the balloon structures, they are extraordinarily fragile. Tognini describes the show as a natural step forward for Hackenwerth. “The balloons were remarkable in terms of their execution, but they also felt very entertaining and magical,” she says. “This is definitely more meditative.” While this new show may be less psychedelic than the balloon extravaganza, it’s just as ephemeral. So catch it during the three short days it’s here. Thu.-Fri., April 4-5, 6-9 p.m., and Sat., April 6, noon-9 p.m., 2424 E. York St., 215925-7676, 2424studios.com.

³ PAINTED BRIDE Michele Kishita just snagged her first solo show

ever. So naturally, she decided to completely change her artistic direction. Always a playful, abstract painter, she’s gone bigger in “Of Water and Wood.” Her paintings are larger, her fields of color have grown, and her white space has exploded. “In retrospect, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever done,” Kishita says. “Who gets the opportunity to do their own solo show and does something entirely different?” The show features paintings on wood, as well as an installation of lumber wrapped in delicate

Japanese papers. The materials appear to have made Kishita’s technique — usually whimsical — more deliberate. “I had to be calculating because of painting on wood grain,” she says, “since once it was painted, that’s it.” It was so spontaneous, in fact, that she admits that she’s still trying to figure out what it all means. As the exhibit’s title suggests, the pieces allude to bodies of water. After growing up surrounded by mountains, Kishita lived next to a Japanese beach from 2001 to 2003. It was a mystical, powerful experience that she’s been thinking about ever since. “You could look at the ocean and tell if it was going to rain,” she says. “I decided to make it part of my life forever.” Through May 19, opening Fri., April 5, 5 p.m., 230 Vine St., 215925-9914, paintedbride.org.

³ AND THEN THERE’S … If you’ve got High Line envy, CITYSPACE is hosting a fundraiser for Philly’s own elevated green space, known as the Reading Viaduct Project. There will be wine, hors d’oeuvres, photographs and a fashion show. Fri., April 5, 5 p.m., $25-$100, 2200 Walnut St., 215-600-3674, philadelphiarealestatehub.com. At Dylan Gallery, Rutgers University instructor Thomas Paul Raggio is showing off his pleasing, linear paintings that are filled with dynamic colors. Through Fri., April 5, 6 p.m., 1050 N. Hancock St., Suite 84, dylangallery.com. The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s exhibit “Changing Scenes: Points of View in Contemporary Media Art”

is all about the self. “The show is about how we perceive the world, how we imagine it,” says guest curator John Hanhardt. It will include videos, installations and a screening room. Through summer, opening Fri., April 5, 6 p.m., 1214 Arch St., 215-5618888, fabricworkshopandmuseum.org.

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ric Bresler has been disappointed by most local film festivals. So the founder of cinedelphia.com and director/curator of the Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art took on the responsibility of running his own cinematic escapade. His goal? A festival that would be “classy, weird and quite well-rounded.” More than anything, Bresler wanted his Cinedelphia Film Festival to be Philly-centric without being parochial and Shyamalan-ist (despite mocking M. Night’s Lady in the Water at the closing party). It would also have to reflect his eclectic tastes without being pedantic, flaunt the city’s film past without being passé and avoid relying on Hollywood or indiebiz-buzz fare. To make sure viewers didn’t feel hustled and rushed, this jam-packed series, which touches down at various points on Philly’s filmic timeline, would need breathing room. It won’t run just for four days, like the XPN Music Film Festival, or even for 11 days, like the Philadelphia Film Festival, but for 24 substantial days packed with off-the-wall screenings and events, all somehow related to Philly. “When I decided to do this, my goal was to make the programming diverse and to involve as many local film-related organizations and individuals as possible,” says Bresler, who turns 34 on the last day of the fest. With his unconventional background and strong ties to underground cinema, he’s just the person to do it. After moving to Philly in 1997, he volunteered for the Reject Film Festival, which showcased flicks denied acceptance into other festivals. Hosted outside traditional theaters, most of Reject’s films were screened in Old City art galleries. “Their DIY approach immediately appealed to my punk self, an ethos I still follow,” says Bresler. Before founding cinedelphia.com, an online hub for the local film community, he was managing director of the Philadelphia Film Society (“just prior to the big split of late 2008”), where he sought to end embittered rivalries between organizations and individuals. As someone who shuns divisiveness, he’s no fan of the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival (“very insular”) or the current incarnation of the Philadelphia Film Festival, which he calls “a ritzy, celebrity-obsessed Hollywood-worship outlet.” But Bresler loved the PFF under the direction of TLA Video’s Ray Murray. Participants were treated reverentially, whether they were debuting their first film or showing a follow-up, something Bresler experienced firsthand when he screened his anime fandom documentary Otaku Unite! at the festival in 2004. With Cinedelphia, he’s doing something similar by building partnerships with local film groups, which he sees as being vital to the continued success of Philly cinema as well as to his festival. For Cinedelphia’s inaugural year, he’s convinced Temple’s Urban Archives to air some of its rarely seen shorts and has worked with Exhumed Films’ Joseph A. Gervasi to compile the festival’s “Loud! Fast! Philly!” event, a visual history

of this town’s hardcore/punk scene featuring clips of squatter-punks hanging around Stalag 13, Killtime and House of Conflict, where Bresler once lived. The fest is also Bresler’s way of familiarizing viewers with a broad spectrum of cinema in the way the old PFF once had. “I always had the impression that the whole TLA crew really cared about world-cinema history, not just contemporary buzz films or standard Hollywood output,” he says. In deference to the group, one event, “For the Love of Film: The History of TLA,” will have Ray Murray reflect on how the company promoted, distributed and supported film, both local and international. “The history of TLA isn’t recorded anywhere in detail,” Bresler notes, “just [in] broad strokes.” The same can be said of other niche groups receiving their due at Cinedelphia, such as the provocative video collective Termite TV (soon to be celebrating its 21-year existence), African-American film promoters

Celebrations of accomplished pasts. Reelblack and this city’s wealth of filmic punk-rock archivists. “I see these retrospective programs as not only celebrations of accomplished pasts, but as a chance for young audiences to be exposed to the city’s film history,” says Bresler. Along with honoring the past, Bresler also wants to help move Philly cinema into its future. That’s why Cinedelphia is premiering 11 films, among which are the rockumentary The Crumbles, done in partnership with the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, and 21st Century Classical Music, a documentary on Philly’s theremin-fueled Divine Hand Ensemble, with a performance following the screening. Indeed, there are numerous discussions and live shows accompanying films. As lofty as Bresler’s ambitions may seem, he still understands the value of little extra add-ons: “I’m quick to embrace gimmickry in order to keep people interested. Live scores, live commentary tracks, special guests — things like that are going to grow in importance with our continued evolution.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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the mood, a snippet from the 1982 Ken Wahl thriller The Soldier will get the adrenaline pumping. “Only one scene was shot in Philly — a big shoot-out on the Parkway — but it’s pretty wild,” Slifkin says. “People remember this amazing scene but nothing else about the movie!” —Gary M. Kramer

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Fri., April 5, 8 p.m., $9, Freeman’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, 1808 Chestnut St., thesecretcinema.com.

³ THE SCOTT AND GARY SHOW RETROSPECTIVE Public-access television is, by its nature, as arid as it is ripe to be exploited. So goes the story of Scott Lewis and Gary Winter, two facetiously smug Brooklynites who, in December 1983, threw a wrench into the NYC local-television-program-

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³ FILMADELPHIA To most observers, Philadelphia might seem camera-shy, with only Rocky and a smattering of M. Night Shyamalan films readily coming to mind when thinking of depictions of the city in movies. But Irv Slifkin, a local film fixture and native, knows how photogenic the city can be. What began as a hobby of tracking down Philly-shot films eventually amounted to a full-fledged book (and Quizzo gold mine), Filmadelphia: A Celebration of a City’s Movies. “Philadelphia is a great city for films,” the author enthuses. “You can go from modern to vintage and from seedy to very nice in a couple blocks. It’s one of the advantages of the city.” At a 90-minute showcase during which viewers will probably tingle with recognition, Slifkin will unspool clips spanning decades and genres including some from the 1957 film noir The Burglar — shot in Narberth, Manayunk and Bryn Mawr — and the 1962 romance David and Lisa, which boasts scenes shot in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Main Line and Center City. To round out

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The days of drive-ins and silent-movie theaters may be long gone, but Jay Schwartz, a projectionist and zealous film collector, is keeping a slice of old-fashioned cinema alive. For 21 years, he’s been reviving locally made pictures that have fallen into obscurity as part of Secret Cinema, a series held one to three times per month. Known for screening “films you won’t see anywhere else,” he’s culled the best Philadelphia-related shorts from his massive collection for this event. The selected flicks, some of which haven’t been shown in several years, each offer a view of “extreme local interests that show Philadelphia as it was at different times.” There’s a picture on urban renewal made by the city in the ’50s, back when demolition and new construction were all the rage; an upbeat tourism film from the ’70s and a detective mystery concerning a counterfeiting ring at the now-defunct Moyamensing Prison. The event, held at the oldest purpose-built auction house in the country, will also include an illustrated talk on the history of Schwartz’s alternative-repertory-film program. —Paulina Reso

ming machine with The Scott & Gary Show. An absurdist reinvention of American Bandstand for ’80s punk kids and misfits, the program quickly reached cult status after its fiveyear run thanks to high-volume eccentricity, a campily low production budget and performances by decade staples the Butthole Surfers, Half Japanese and a pre-Def Jam Beastie Boys. For the show’s 30th anniversary, Video Pirates, an oddball found-footage project, is hosting a retrospective of The Scott & Gary Show and all of its wink-wink-nudge-nudgery, with Lewis and Winter screening and commenting on a bestof compilation. Afterward, because there’s certainly room for more goofiness, the two will pass out 3-D glasses and recreate an episode live, joined by musical guests The Beatoes. Party on, Scott and Gary. —Marc Snitzer

The world premiere of 21st Century Classical Music, a documentary shot by Temple alum Sergio Valentino, chronicles Philadelphia’s Divine Hand Ensemble — led by maestro, founder and acclaimed thereminist Mano Divina — throughout 2010, its first year in existence. The film adds to a mostly unknown and uncanny history of the local ensemble, and will be followed by a concert where the nine-piece group will debut new music. Even though the ensemble is adventurous and eclectic, it is Divina’s touch with the mysterious theremin, known to most as ’50sera UFO music, that keeps audiences coming. So acutely has he mastered the nuances of his instrument that he can use it to carry half of Léo Delibes’ famous “Flower Duet” — this on a device so sensitive that, within a certain range, a buzzing fly can alter the pitch. A 93year-old instrument played without contact? That’s past, present and future. Pitch and volume determined by movement and positioning within an electromagnetic field? That’s mind and body. But when Divina makes that theremin sing, well, that’s soul. —Dotun Akintoye

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GIMME THE LOOT | B An off-the-cuff valentine to the spirit of pre-Giuliani NYC, Adam Leon’s raggedly ingratiating Gimme the Loot follows teens Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana Washington) on a long-winded quest for graffiti glory. Their goal is to tag the apple that pops up out of its housing in center field whenever the Mets hit a home run at Shea Stadium — referring to it as “Citi Field” immediately marks you as an outsider — which, in turn, requires rounding up $500 so a security guard will sneak them in. The schemes that follow, some legal and some less so, force the constantly sparring friends (who are, of course, unconsciously attracted to each other) to fan out across the city, calling in debts, selling off sneakers and, for Malcolm, trying to rip off a college student (Zoë Lescaze) whose stoned flirtatiousness turns to class- and race-inflected shaming once her friends drop by. Loot’s world is more of a ghetto utopia than the dog-eat-dog environs of Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop, and Leon doesn’t have anything like Bahrani’s feel for real-world poetry. But there’s a rambling energy that keeps Loot alive, a delight in the rapid banter and empty boasts of teenage life along with a hint of the more care-laden life to come. —Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)

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STARBUCK | BThe sweetest movie about semen you’ll ever see, Ken Scott’s Starbuck pities and celebrates the worst cinematic father figure since Daniel Plainview. French-speaking slacker David (Patrick Huard), barely holding onto his delivery-driver job at his family’s Montreal boucherie and in with some lowlifes for $80K, has always made a buck through odd jobs. As a much younger man, that included innumerable donations to the sperm bank he lived next to. After being confronted by an attorney for the lab, he learns that he inexplicably created more than 500 children, 142 of whom have filed a class-action suit to force the man behind the alias “Starbuck” to reveal himself. (The name refers to an infamously fertile cattle sire, though the Moby Dick nod is noted.) Deciding to drop in on his kids’ lives to see if he can “help,” David wrestles with his decision to stay hidden, doubling the ennui he feels over his future with newly pregnant girlfriend Valerie (Julie LeBreton). As raunchy as it could’ve been, Scott’s approach is not far from the traditional American rom-com, meaning its cornball moments cast off more glare than he probably intends. But the earnest, exasperated Huard is hard to hate and easy to root for, as are most well-intentioned males who dress exclusively in track jackets. —Drew Lazor (Ritz Five)

✚ CONTINUING ADMISSION | C Both Tina Fey and Paul Rudd are capable comedic commodities who alienate few and amuse many. So why does this rom-com’s rollout feel so lethargic? The action’s steered, in the most neurotic sense of the word, by Portia (Fey), a Princeton admissions officer with a stunted sense of self-worth. After John (Rudd), head of an alternative high school, lures

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Sally Potter’s Ginger & Rosa enlivens a pat coming-of-age tale with striking performances by Elle Fanning and Alice Englert. Setting the young women’s intellectual and sexual awakenings against the backdrop of the Cold War (and just before the Beatles) seems terribly on the nose, and Potter, never one to shy from blunt symbolism, draws her topical parallels with broad strokes. Fanning may not have the gelid perfection of elder sister Dakota, but she taps reservoirs of feeling far beyond her years (she’s younger than Ginger’s 17), making her character’s well-worn struggles seem as if they’ve never happened to anyone before. Englert, whose mother is director Jane Campion, is more sullen and impetuous, a dark narcissist to Fanning’s rosy-haired idealist. Potter’s take on the ’60s occasionally slides into Big Chill cliché, but with her actors, she’s on virgin ground. —SA (Ritz Five)

Clutching Jack Kerouac’s peripatetic roman à clef like a besotted sophomore, Walter Salles trails Kerouac and Neal Cassady’s novelistic doppelgängers like an eager puppy. Salles doesn’t reshape or reinterpret the book so much as act it out, with the grace and intelligence of an ad hoc production staged in front of a blank bedsheet. Sam Riley’s Sal Paradise (the Kerouac figure) is appropriately moody and withdrawn, but Garrett Hedlund’s Dean Moriarty (Cassady) is less a Benzedrined philosopher than an antic loudmouth, his nervous twitching exacerbated by Salles’ incessantly handheld camera. Kristen Stewart does haunted melancholy — hush, haters — with aplomb. Poor Amy Adams, however, is stuck batting lizards out of trees with a wobbly rake, which aptly mirrors On the Road’s scatterbrained desperation. —SA (Ritz East)

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In 1986 a young girl is raped and murdered in a wheat field alongside a dirt road in a small German town. The crime goes unsolved for more than two decades, but director Baran bo Odar isn’t interested in preserving the mystery. The Silence opens with the crime and reveals its perpetrators. Twenty-three years later, another girl disappears from the same spot under identical circumstances. This time it’s unclear what’s happened, but as the investigation methodically proceeds, Odar focuses less on the evidence and more on how it affects everyone involved. The Silence is a film about those on the periphery of the tragedy: the recriminatory and guilt-ridden parents of the missing girl, the mother of the original victim who is constantly

AMBLER THEATER 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-3457855, amblertheater.org. Native Boy (2012, U.S., 25 min.): A boy tries to capture the sun. Q&A with cast and crew post-screening. Sat., April 6, 4:30 p.m., $18. Dial M for Murder (1954, U.S., 105 min.): An ex-tennis pro plots his wife’s murder. Sun., April 7, 12:30 p.m., $9.75.

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. FrackNation (2013, U.S., 76 min.): A controversial doc made in response to Gasland. Wed., April 10, 7 p.m., $15.

ihousephilly.org. Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012, U.S., 77 min.): Shot over a decade, this doc shows the famous photographer’s painstaking process. Fri., April 5, 7 p.m., $9. Little Fugitive (1953, U.S., 86 min.): A boy runs away to Coney Island after being tricked into thinking he murdered his brother. Sat., April 6, 7 p.m., $9. My Brooklyn (2012, U.S., 85 min.): An examination of the forces behind Brooklyn’s gentrification and its effects on class and race. Director Kelly Anderson in attendance. Tue., April 9, 7 p.m., $10. Short Works by Jean-Gabriel Périot: A collection of shorts highlighting the director’s unique archival editing process. Périot will be present for an introduction and Q&A. Wed., April 10, 7 p.m., $9.

WOODMERE ART MUSEUM 9201 Germantown Ave., 215-247-0476, woodmereartmuseum.org. The Interpreter (2005, U.K./U.S./France/Germany, 128 min.): A Secret Service agent overhears an assassination plot. Tue., April 9, 7 p.m., $5 suggested donation.

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Based on a story by Stephanie Meyers, she of Twilight fame, The Host is laughably bad. Putting aside its good-enough-for-Syfy production value, banal set and costume design, secondrate effects and amiable, if tepid,

THE SAPPHIRES | B+ Nineteen-sixties Vietnam might not immediately come to mind as a place where dreams are made, but in Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires, it’s where an Australian girl group gets a shot at stardom. Inspired by a true story, the film opens at a talent competition

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OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN | C+ Gerard Butler stars as a Secret Service agent pulled from President Aaron Eckhart’s detail after failing to save the First Lady during a car accident. Unfortunately, he was apparently the only agent trained not to run chest-first into oncoming bullets, so he’s forced into a rescue mission when the Koreans shoot up the White House and kidnap the leader of the free world. Especially in the early scenes, director Antoine Fuqua walks a fine line between his usual grit and Stallone-style goofiness; yes, Butler deals out death via a bust of Lincoln, but no, he doesn’t make a presidentially-appropriate quip afterwards. The result is sometimes mindlessly entertaining, but often just mindless. —Shaun Brady (Wide release)

reminded of her loss, and the recently retired detective whose life was irrevocably altered by his inability to solve the crime. They all seem tuned into a mutual wavelength of grief and mourning that excludes those who haven’t suffered in the same way. Odar can’t resist a God’s-eye-view wheat field shot, and his often suffocating sense of style and elegiac tone make for a glacial pace. It’s arduous at times, but ultimately pays off in the unexpected resonance of the final moments. —SB (Ritz at the Bourse)

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DreamWorks was boldly formulaic in hammering together its latest sureto-be-smash, but it’s amiable and imaginative enough to tickle animation fans of all ages. The Croods follows that clan, hunter-gatherers led by dad Grug (Nicolas Cage), and their ho-hum existence inside a boulder-doored cave. While family members Ugga (Catherine Keener), Gran (Cloris Leachman) and Thunk (Clark Duke) don’t seem disenchanted by their lot, young Eep (Emma Stone) longs to roam. After meeting Guy (Ryan Reynolds), Eep gets her wish, as the family flees lands crumbling from the rapid breakup of Pangaea. The Croods’ Disney-style believe-in-yourself sentiment is spread on quite thick, but co-writers/co-directors Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco make the most of the prehistoric creative license. —DL (Wide release)

where three Aboriginal sisters deliver a honeyed rendition of a Merle Haggard tune and lose to a weak-voiced, fair-skinned competitor. The sisters’ luck turns when the community center’s piano player Dave Lovelace (Chris O’Dowd) hollers that the show was fixed and subsequently convinces the songstresses to drop the countrywestern act and opt for soul instead. Joined by their cousin Kay (Shari Sebbens), a Melburnian passing as white, the Sapphires book their first gig playing for American soldiers in Vietnam. The movie’s pace quickens once the shows begin, and the camera flits from budding romance to family drama to sappy reminiscence, leaving little time for character development. Despite the film’s flustered storyline, it’s kept afloat by toe-tapping performances, Lovelace’s outlandish humor and a subtle exploration of race relations. In need of some polishing, The Sapphires still manages to dazzle. —Paulina Reso (Ritz Five)

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acting, its screenplay is characterized by an underdeveloped romance (even after two hours), clichéd musings about the human race and nonsensical dialogue. The decision to render the protagonist(s)’ internal conflict – Saoirse Ronan is both host (Melanie) and alien parasite (Wanderer) – as audible conversation/meta-commentary offers up some of the most distracting voice-over work since Harrison Ford was forced to mutter his way through Blade Runner.And, unsurprisingly, the conventional ending leaves the chance to develop sequels, since this is, after all, more product than picture. —Dotun Akintoye (Wide release)

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Portia out for a recruiting visit, she finds herself drawn to the witty, flannel-wearing headmaster himself and Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), an unconventional student who John claims is the son Portia gave up for adoption years before. Like always, Fey stumbles, Rudd bumbles and it’s as cutesy and inoffensive as ever. It’s the movie’s many out-of-character decisions that make it hard to buy. Too much about Admission rings lazy, and a guidance counselor would probably say the same. —DL (Wide release)

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MIGHT BE TIME FOR SOME RENOVATIONS: Philly band Restorations plays the First Unitarian Church on Friday. MIKE VORRASI

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✚ THE PRESCOTT METHOD It’s 1966, and two women are feeling trapped: Peg is abandoned by her ambitious husband, while Veronica can’t escape her six children. In Michael Whistler’s charming new play, these wounded souls meet

in Peg’s orange, yellow and avocado kitchen so that Veronica can learn to bake bread. Peg uses the titular Prescott Method, explained for us by Mrs. Prescott herself in her fantasy black-and-white TV kitchen; she caps each lesson with a cute rhyming couplet. Over many increasingly intense baking sessions, Jessica Bedford’s Peg and Madi Distefano’s Veronica learn about and from each other, guided by Susan Riley Stevens’ ultimate homemaker. Veteran actor Greg Wood directs with delicate insight in the Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3; with Glen Sears’ two-kitchen set, Thom Weaver’s detailed lighting, Mary Folino’s vintage costumes and three endearing performances, Whistler’s understated script receives as ideal a premiere production as anyone could hope for. —Mark Cofta Through April 14, $36.25, Independence Studio on 3, Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St., 215-574-3550, walnutstreettheatre.org.

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✚ THE AMERICA PLAY Plays & Players’ American History season concludes with director Suzana Berger’s local premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks’ early surrealistic comedy. In The America Play, a black Abraham Lincoln look-alike (Steven Wright) offers himself for “assassination” by wouldbe John Wilkes Booth for a small fee (a situation that also occurs in Parks’ Pulitzerwinning Topdog/Underdog). When he disappears into a “great hole in history,” his wife and son embark on an adventure to find him. Plays & Players also commissioned two companion 10-minute plays — both titled Other American Cousins, after the play Lincoln watched at Ford’s Theatre the night he was killed — by Philadelphia playwrights Quinn Eli and Kimmika WilliamsWitherspoon that prologue The America Play. The three together offer a multifaceted black-American response to

the resurgence of interest inspired by the film Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation’s 150th anniversary. —Mark Cofta Through April 21, $25-$30, Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, 800-595-4849, playsandplayers.org.

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✚ GOLDEN GRRRLS Close your eyes: It could be any time, from the early ’80s on, when Glasgow’s Golden Grrrls play their shambling, lo-fi indie-pop. Drummer Eilidh Rodgers sings in a soft, sweet voice that blends in with the group’s enthusiastic guitar lines; Ruari MacLean’s got a warm, deep baritone that slides in and out like their here-and-gone low end; and Rachel Aggs’ casually cool coo is always slightly out of focus. When the three of them braid their voices together, as on “Paul Simon” and “Date It,” from Golden Grrrls (Slumberland), it feels as much like luck

as skill. Those fleeting moments of imperfect perfection never last long — by their very nature, they’re only really felt once they’ve already passed — but, cumulatively, they leave a lovely impression. —M.J. Fine Thu., April 4, 10 p.m., $8, with Sea Lions, Literature and Royal Shoals, AUX at Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St., third floor, 215-238-1236, voxpopuligallery.org.

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✚ RESTORATIONS Every bit of press Philly’s Restorations has collected over the past couple of years quickly introduces the band as “punk rock for adults,” “dad punk” or some such thing. It’s not entirely far-fetched, especially if you pay attention

to Jon Loudon’s introspective lyrics, his character often coming off as a battered, bluecollar version of The National’s Matt Berninger. In practice, though, this band builds up as many genre boxes as they tear apart. Their second full-length, imaginatively titled LP2 (SideOneDummy), opens with “D,” a blazing and soulful rocker with “Amazing Grace” accents. It’s a fitting introduction to the record and the band, as their three-guitar sound is huge but not in an arena way. These are anthems for everyone — dads included. —Marc Snitzer Fri., April 5, 8:20 p.m., $10, with Self Defense Family (End of a Year), Exploded Drawings and Psychic Teens, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 215-563-3980, r5productions.com.

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✚ THIRD SPACE Avant garde is almost a quaint concept in classical music these days, but it can be refreshing at the very least,

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✚ ALLISON WEISS Is Allison Weiss even capable of writing a bad song? It’s hard to say, since she’s so prolific, with a long trail of EPs and YouTube videos in her rearview mirror, but if she’s hit a bum note,

—M.J. Fine Fri., April 5, 5:30 p.m., $10, with Pentimento, Candy Hearts and Placeholder, The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave., 215-634-7400.

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✚ ARTSY AS FUCK Every first Friday, the Bangarang DJs get to mix and match all available art forms. The sound — ranging from house to dubstep to drum ’n’ bass and more — is the backbone of the party, of course, while visual artists, live performers, dancers and more express themselves throughout the night. Attendees are encouraged to participate, interact and just let go.

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April 5-12, free-$20, various venues, 215-848-7647, networkfornewmusic.org.

What You Mean (No Sleep), comes out April 16 — three days after she turns 26 — so help her get a head start on the celebrations. Yeah, the synthy, angsty “Nothing Left” finds her dancing around heartbreak again, but her nonstop Instagram posts suggest she and her band are always up for a good time.

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—Peter Burwasser

she’s hidden it well. With every release, the Michigan-born, Athens, Ga.-educated, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter reveals a different side — emofolk, smarty-pants power-pop, electro-queercore — and does it with aplomb, zest and everything in between. Weiss’ second full-length album, Say

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and invigorating at its best. No other local music group has maintained as bold a commitment to the truly new as Network for New Music, and during the next week they are pulling out the stops with a mini festival that celebrates the use of computers and other electronics in music. There will be five events that will include a bevy of new works, as well as a few classics from venerable pioneers in the field. The ultimate challenge of the festival is to blend traditional and electronic instruments and visual effects in order to create a “third space.” The concept is a throwback to the far-out ’60s, but how wonderful that this spirit still exists.

—Gair “dev79” Marking Fri., April 5, 10 p.m., $10, Arts Garage, 1533 Ridge Ave., 215-765-2702.

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✚ STRATAGEMS FOR COMMON PEOPLE Subtitled “A Pop-Up Performance of New Theater and Dance Works,” this collaboration by Fringe Festival favorites SmokeyScout Productions and Kensington troupe Hella

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—Mary Armstrong Sat., April 6, 6 p.m., through Sun., April 7, 7:30 p.m., Main Building, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut St., ragasamay.org.

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✚ REDD KROSS Between The Clean, Imperial Teen and Teenage Fanclub, Merge Records has made itself quite the respectable home for aging power-poppers. Last year, the label managed an unexpected and especially sweet feat by dropping the first new album

retaining plenty of the power part of the equation — check the title track’s snarling punk-blues stomp, for instance — while balancing it with a bevy of bouncy, Byrds-y janglers which manage to stuff an impressive amount of melodic invention into three minutes or less. —K. Ross Hoffman Sun., April 7, 8 p.m., $17, with Far Out Fangtooth and Psychic Blood, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.

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Rae in the largely forgotten footsteps of forebears like Joan Armatrading. It’s all tasteful stuff — smooth, smoky and readily gratifying, if not massively memorable. But among the dapperly dusky torch ballads (one of which has already turned up as an underthe-radar Simian Mobile Disco sample), there are glimmers S Q U I Z H A M I LT O N

since 1997 by the long-dormant SoCal brotherhood of ampedup Beatlitude, Redd Kross. Researching the Blues, despite its studious-sounding title, is no mild-mannered, reticent reemergence: It finds the grunge progenitors (and onetime suburban teenage snot-punks) JON KROP

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brainstormed after one show.” They dreamed of bringing to the West the kind of festival that is common in India, where ragas are performed at the time of day for which they are intended. The result is something they say hasn’t been performed in this hemisphere in decades. There are 15 different sets, carefully combining both instrumentalists and singers, male and female, traditional instruments like sitar and sarod and more recent additions. Two of Ravi Shankar’s musicians — Tarun Battacharya on santoor and Snehasish Mozumder on mandolin — will be part of a sunrise set on Sunday to honor their late mentor on the 93rd anniversary of his birth. That’s about midway through a cycle that begins and ends with sunset.

of something bolder and more distinctive, particularly in the scrappy, funk-looping grit of “Forget” (produced by Matt Hales), the Supremes-y sophistication of “Au Cinema” and the ice-cream-loving title track’s exuberant, 6/4-time throwback swagger. —K. Ross Hoffman

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✚ LIANNE LA HAVAS Is Your Love Big Enough? (Warner/Nonesuch) introduced Lianne La Havas as, by and large, a rank-and-file member of the U.K. folk-’n’soul brigade; crooning like an understated Adele, fingerpicking like a calmer, bluesier Laura Marling, and generally following alongside Michael Kiwanuka and Corrine Bailey

Sun., April 7, 8 p.m., $20, with Jamie N Commons, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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ETERNAL FLAME Much like the Loft District ’hood where it’s located, Bufad’s pies could use some sprucing up. By Adam Erace

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mong the charred skeletons of boxy buildings, the blown-out windows, the shadowed alleys and the abandoned rail line crusted like a shipwreck with earth-bound barnacles, optimism lives in the Loft District. The long-ascendent neighborhood north of Chinatown is famous for two things: Eraserhead, the David Lynch film More on: its sinister past is said to have inspired, and the Reading Viaduct, the old rusted elevated traintrack bed upon which area homeowners, urban renewalists and architecture buffs have pinned their hopes for a floating meadow a la New York’s spectacular High Line. They say upholstering the viaduct in flowers and grass could take years, but the Loft District’s residents are a patient, dedicated bunch. Among their leaders are Mike and Jeniphur Pasquarello, who opened the zone’s de facto coffee-and-brunch club, Cafe Lift, in 2003 and craft-ale oasis Prohibition Taproom in 2008. In February, they added a third restaurant to their Loft District portfolio, Bufad, a wood-fired pizzeria whose name is an American bastard-

ization of l’abbufatta, Italian for binge, feast, gorge. The couple turned a Chinese takeout joint into a good-looking mash-up of industrial and baroque elements, with scrolling wallpaper (custom designed by a graphic-artist pal), white subway tile and exposed brick pouring down to herringbone pine-and-concrete floors. Big windows and lamps like bundled tanning bulbs light wood-topped tables on red metal legs. Across the way, a distressedwood-paneled bar and marble counter divide the open kitchen from the 30-seat dining lane, home to a wood-burning EarthStone oven with gas assist that produces Bufad’s two styles of pizza. The first: Roman, long, rectangular and resting at room temp under a glass cabinet built into the counter. As in the Eternal City, a cashier snips off squares with sharp scissors to order. Tucked in a box branded with Bufad’s mustachioed mascot — a swarthier version of the W.B. Mason guy whose lushly MORE FOOD AND tattooed guns would inspire the envy of DRINK COVERAGE East Passyunk — the slices work great for AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / harried neighbors in need of a heat-and-eat M E A LT I C K E T. dinner. But it’s the two-minute Neapolitans, the second style, that occupy the young, energetic, eat-in crowd. Mike and chef Lauren Weitman, a pastry specialist by trade, ferment Neapolitan four-ingredient dough (flour, yeast, water, salt) for two days and the Roman version (those ingredients plus a lot of olive oil) for one. Weitman and the oven share the success of the Neapolitan pies’ wonderful crusts, chewy and light with an ashy black perimeter that tastes like winter in New York. But as for the toppings, well, you can’t blame an appliance for those. I tried two of Bufad’s pies and, sad to say, the excellent crusts

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³ AT FIRST GLANCE, Judy Wicks’ biography reads strikingly similar to those of two of her contemporaries, Alice Waters of Chez Panisse fame and Ruth Reichl, former restaurant critic for the New York Times dining section and editor of Gourmet magazine. The trio came of age in the same era, opening restaurants that promoted simple, farmto-table eating during a time when sourcing locally wasn’t, well, let’s just say as in vogue. But while the similarities exist, Wicks’ story is one that’s unique to Philadelphia. In her newly released memoir, Good Morning, Beautiful Business (Chelsea Green, April 3), she recounts her journey from opening the proto-Urban-Outfitters Free People’s Store with then-husband (and current URBN honcho) Dick Hayne to the first days of the 30-year-old Sansom Street stalwart White Dog Café — and how these experiences led her into not only the world of entrepreneurship, but of food and human-rights activism. As a restaurateur, Wicks sought to bring a level of consciousness and kindness to the products that her kitchen worked with, citing Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s as inspirations. In addition to single-handedly hipping Philadelphians to the benefits of locally sourced goods, Wicks founded Fair Food, a nonprofit devoted to bringing close-to-home produce to markets all over the city. Wicks will be talking about her new biography at the Central Library (1901 Vine St.) on Monday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. as well as signing copies at the Rittenhouse Farmers Market (corner of 18th and Walnut streets) on Saturday, April 13, from 9:30 a.m. to noon. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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But cooking time and temperature were persistent pests. couldn’t rescue either one. The “porcini cream� spread across a nightly special was more like condensed mushroom soup that liquefied in the 860-degree oven. Greensgrow watercress was a smart idea, but the pastprime leaves lacked their token zip, and piled on the wet, brown surface, gave the pizza the look of a muddy freshwater swamp. I didn’t know whether to eat it or look for beavers. Alas, the second pizza was worse, combining two ingredients that are a logistical juggernaut to cook simultaneously: potatoes and eggs. Buried under fontina and gobs of pushy prosciutto, the former, sliced into thin rounds, had no chance of turning creamy or crisp. Cracked on top, the latter emerged with a properly runny yolk surrounded by whites so raw they should have been called clears. “Break it with a fork and spread it all around,� the helpful server suggested. I followed her instructions, hoping the residual heat of the pie would cook the clears. Instead I wound up with a pizza streaked with snotty goo. The Roman slices, dubbed SPQR for the city’s official insignia, didn’t fare much better, their focaccia-like foundations supporting undercooked beets with goat cheese on one version, more halfraw potatoes and rosemary on another. The pair of vivid tomato-pie-like “rossas� were way better, one spicy with guanciale and chile, the other tomato-only (and vegan). Bufad’s small selection of starters showed promise, like a letter-perfect escarole/apple salad with a surprising rye personality from a warm speck-and-raisin dressing. But cooking time and temperature were persistent pests. Perched on undercooked Brussels sprouts, beautiful, breadcrumb-topped burrata came too cold for its straciatella center to spread. The antipasto plate “served room temp,� the menu specifically stated, also wore a flavorblunting chill. Too bad, as the components (beets in orange gremolata, roasted carrots in salsa verde, a perfectly softboiled egg with capers and anchovy, sweet pickled fennel, lovely olives with citrus and garlic) were all great. Unlike the antipasto, the house-bottled water was room temperature and tasted like it had been left out on the bedside table overnight. Instead I drank BYO wine from dusty glasses and later, a Pellegrino blood-orange soda poured over honey-rosemary gelato. The float came with little orange cookies, displayed under a pretty glass cake dome near the SPQR pizzas. I had a pudding-like chocolate panna cotta as well, drizzled with what looked to be Hershey’s syrup but was, in fact, balsamic vinegar, a combination that was clever and thought-provoking. The same can be said for the future of this neighborhood. With a few more ballsy entrepreneurs like the Pasquarellos and a tighter attention to detail at Bufad, the district has the potential to count great food among its amenities. Nasty pizzas are no less offensive than an abandoned railway or a derelict warehouse, but they’re a whole lot easier to fix. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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Funny how you make me giggle even when I’m alone. Seriously I often times find myself cracking up about how school girlish it is. Daydreaming about different ways to make you. Feel. Real. Good. I didn’t see this coming. Me looking forward to cooking real breakfasts and enjoying cups of chai tea sweetened perfectly with hints of cream in these late nights and early mornings. It’s so dreamy. You with your dry hands after a long day of work sweating, lifting, building, and be so fucking productive turn me on! Man hands. You ambitious, hard working, intelectual, compassionate, and simply beautiful soul I’m enjoying this ride. Mmm mmm mmm. Savory sweet culinary pornography that you lay in my lap as you grin eagerly pleased to watch me take a sip and tell you how good it is. I can taste it. I will taste it. We should have our own private taste testing session, gulp. I’m thinking salad, fruits, nuts and some beef sausage! I can be greedy but you will appreciate the appetite. Chucking that your computer program was called innuendo boy you have no idea.

I’m sick and tired of seeing you eating food and/or drinking beverages on the bus plus having to find a relatively clean seat after you have been there (not to mention the sticky floors). At least you could have had the decency to take your bottles and trash with you! Also, you ladies and kids with oversized bags and backpacks. Please watch where you’re going as I’m tired of being hit by them when you pass by me on the El or bus. Let’s ALL keep our public transportation clean (and don’t get me started on hogging more than one seat with a bag, having long, loud conversations on cell phones and putting your feet on the seats)! Let’s all be mindful and respectful of one another.

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my hand in marriage...I know that he is serious and I have to think about my future...I am definitely time of the whole thing...can you please do the right thing and sign over your rights to our child so that I can move on and be happy... don’t you want me to be happy? There is no way to smooth things over this time you really crossed the line...

UGLY BITCH

Hey guy on train you are the fakest guy that I have ever seen you knew that girl was only 17 years old and she was way too young for you. And you know what you are a piece of crap because she really didn’t want to be bothered with you. You were all in your Islamic gear and you were doing that pick up crap on the fucking bus. You are pathetic and a waste of fucking skin and air. I was so not shocked at what I saw you need to be ashamed of yourself.

Who gives a fuck if you speak or not...bitch remember you are the new kid on the block...don’t you know that you aren’t going to get welcomed with open fucking arms no matter how much you kiss up and suck ass. As a matter of fact you are a ass. Trust me honey nobody I mean nobody is worried about you or missing your ugly company.

WHAT’S EXPECTED

GERMAN CHOCOLATE I see you gaze and stare at me each day at work and I watch you, too. I know you want me. Why else would you show me your tits outside the Crazy Horse Too after we all came outside as a group? Not only did you show them to me, but you let me touch them. I watch you shake your ass as you walk up and down the hall at work (I’m not the only one). Everyone looks at your tits and you LOVE it. I see you look at my bulge everyday. Don’t think that I don’t. You’ve even commented on my big dick. One day my big dick is going to slam into you like a train. I’m going to make your cervix open and shut like a trap door. I know you think about it. Love: Your Pimp

across...I hate you and your style...I hate everything about you and just your own existence... nobody seems to not be able to say anything to you without you snapping like a fucking animal...you only think about yourself and I think it is fucking pathetic...your son needs you to be a fucking man... you are a fucking child trapped in a body of a man...I hate you so fucking much...nothing I mean nothing is gonna stop me from hating you...

GUY AT THE BANK

I MISS YOUR SEX

You are the worst teller that I could ever have met...you seem like you are easy on the eyes but

I keep seeing pictures of you and I think to myself WOW what the fuck...I really miss sleeping with

nitely for the intrigue of the last decade, as you’ve opened my eyes to many things, I have no doubt you will be the ones to close them. so, you see, you didn’t really ruin my life, because I had 27 years without you, which was most of my life, and it was wonderful. you may have dimmed my perception of the world, but I know there are still great people out there doing good things.

You are supposed to have a job...you are supposed to be a man...and if I remind you about that...am I wrong or something...I think it is bullshit how you treat everyone that is around you...there is no change in your behavior maybe just alittle since you are not used to getting money...you are a fucking loser...I can’t believe you just wasted 2 years of my fucking life...I just want to get away from you...I will be really quiet around you because I just am sick of you...don’t expect me to act any different..

IT’S OVER! This honestly was a good relationship...I really don’t know what happend...honestly at this point I don’t care...I have my ex-boyfriend asking for

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merchandise market BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 CABINETS KITCHEN SOLID WOOD Brand new soft close/dovetail drawers Crown Molding 25 Colors, Never Installed! Cost $5,300. Sell $1,590. 610-952-0033 Diabetic Test Strips Needed pay up to $25/box. Most brands. 610-453-2525 FILMS - 8mm, 16mm, projectors, screens, etc. Best Offer. Call 856-478-2461 Sunset Memorial Park, Beautiful setting. 2 burial plots for sale, (918)865-7110 TELEMARKETERS: Need Leads? All you want, 1st (25) FREE - all locations. Reply, RPM - P. O. Box 28117, Philadelphia, PA 19131.

BD a Memory Foam Mattress/Bx spring Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399 610-952-0033

BED: Brand New Queen Pillowtop Set $175; 5pc Bedrm Set $345 215-355-3878 Bed lthr Q$169 K$220 P-top matt set Q$175 K$275 exfurn.com 215-752-0911

Two Phillies tickets, Hall of Fame private club seats, April 6 & 7 other dates avail. $85/ticket. Call 570-906-9978

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Broad & Windrim 1BR Newly renov., must see. 215-885-1700

Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-639-0563

Church Lane Court-600 Church Lane Fieldview Apt-705 Church Lane Julien-5600 Ogontz/Eli Ct.1418 Conlyn Studio, 1bdr & 2bdr -From$450-$850 Move in specials-215-276-5600

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Coins, MACHINIST TOOLS, Militaria, Swords, Watches Jewelry 215-742-6438 I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787 I Buy Guitars & All Musical Instruments-609-457-5501 Rob JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. Up to $300 215-888-8662

apartment marketplace 73xx Wheeler St 1 bd $650 mth +utl Call 267-738-0834

Apartment Homes $625-$875 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

2424 North 29th St. (2) - 1BR/1BA $600/mo Water included.- $1800 move in Section 8 ok. Call: 267-701-7845

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000

everything pets pets/livestock Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.

Bichon Poodle Mix Pups - Ready March 15th. Vet checked, shots. (717)278-0932

Cavalier King Charles - M/F, tri-color, home raised, parents on prem 5 yr guar., ready now. Call 610-485-4020

DACHSHUND PUPS - Minis, vet checked, 1st shots, M $400, F $450. 908.692.7560 DOBERMAN PUP for Adoption Ears cropped, $850 . 856-491-7929 LAB PUPS - Yellow & black, grandfather, BOB, Westminister. Call 570-589-1465 PIT BULL TERRIER Blue Bullie-$1000. 3 fem., great bloodlines, registered, 1st shots, 610-999-9420. Price negotiable

BOXER PUPPIES - 3M, 3F, Shots, Dewormed, T Cropped. 302-655-5957

POODLE PUPS Toy, AKC, black, male & female , $700. Call 856-220-9794.

Cane Corso Pups, ICR reg, vet check fems blue/fawn. $800. 215.360.4727

Yorkie Pup - Male AKC 10 wks 1st shots, Vet checked, $650. Call 215-882-4270

16xx Elaine 1BR/Den $685+utils W/W, W/D, Md Kit/Ba, 267-357-0250

1414 W. 71st Ave 1br $625, 2br $800 both incl utils. Close to trans & shopping. 215-574-2111 1927 Middleton 1BR/1BA $600 plus utilities. Call 215-796-4108 Broad Oaks 1BR & 2BR Lndry rm. Special Discount! 215-681-1723

4662 Penn St. Effic & 2br $450 & $625 w/w, close to transp. Call 267-235-5952 Harrison St. 3br/1ba $800/mo. Water included. Call (267) 808-9792

109XX NANDINA CT. 2BR $800+ util. 2nd flr, new crpt/appl, gar 267-304-4253 4340 Teesdale 1BR/1BA $650+utils Very nice, 1st floor. Call 215-317-2565 4825 Longshore Ave 1BR/1BA $550 Plus hot water and elec. Small, cozy 609-792-2359 5707 Charles St. 1BR/1BA $550+utils 1st floor, 267-456-8383 6708 Harbison 1BR $725 + elec. 1806 Fuller St 3BR $1300 + utils Call 215-669-7166 or 267-970-2269 9926 Haldeman 2BR/1BA $785/mo + CA, w/w crpt, DW, 1st flr, (215) 317-3577 Cottman Ave Vic 2br $695+utils wall/wall carpets. Call 267-251-5675 FKD area 3BR 1BA row, renov’d, laminate flr. Sec8poss. $975+ 267-210-5277 Lawndale 1 & 2/BR/1BA Starting at $625/mo. + utils A/C, Terrace, AARP Discount Call 609-408-9298 Clifton Heights beautiful 1 & 2 BR Spring Special, 215-681-1723

11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BUILDING Single rms $400, double rooms $600. Rms with bath $500, Rms with bath and kitch $600. Fully furnished w/ full size beds, fridge, & dresser. Couples welcome! SSI/SSD/VA, Payee services, Public assis tance ok. Also SW, S., W., N., and Frankford. Please call 267-707-6129 15th & Lehigh Large rooms starting at $400-500/mo. 215-834-4445 21st / Erie Ave. Rooms $75/wk& up. seniors welcome. Call 215-982-0832 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $375/mo. Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659

29xx OXFORD St. - Large Rooms $75 & up. SSI ok, no drugs. 215-240-9499 33rd & Ridge Ave. $100-125/week. Large renovated furn. rms near Fairmount Park & bus depot. 215-317-2708 51xx N. Broad St. 1BR/1BA apt. Room, fridge, 27" TV. Call 267-496-6448 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $115$145wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 60th & Reinhard $440/mo. incl. utils, newly renovated, near trolley 11 & 13. Call 267-266-4904 880 N. 41st, room @ $425/month shared kitchen & bath, 215-713-7216 AFFORDABLE ELEGANCE - Lrg rms for rent in the Strawberry Mansion area, fully furn w/priv ba, clean, well-kept. Ranging from $125-$150/wk, Only those that want the best need call owner, Bobby (267) 476-0165 (Drug free environment) Broad/Olney furn refrig micro priv ent $115/$145wk sec $200 215.572.8833

Bryn Mawr Suburbs, Serene, A/C, Cable, Near Trans, no kitch or laundry, No Smoke. $425/mo. Call 610-525-5765 Caster and Winghocken, 54th and Lancaster, 15th and Federal 55th and Media 1BR apt 60th and Kingsessing Ave. Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 & up, no security deposit, SSI OK. 267-888-1754

Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 GERMANTOWN: furn rooms everything incl., cable ready $435/mo. 267.467.4595 Germantown Quiet newly renov.near trans., $125/wk, $300 sec., 1st week rent req. Call Mrs. Mac at 267-351-5547 LaSalle Univ area $125/week Renov furn rooms 215-843-4481

Near Broad & Roosevelt Blvd. MOVE-IN NOW for $580! Clean Updated furn. ROOMS-2 left. Rent due May 1st: $530. One person ONLY! NO WINDOW SHOPPERS PLEASE! Call AL: 267-235-6555 Website: www.safehavenhomesllc.net North Broad St. XL Room. $410/mo. W/W Carpet. Call 267-882-3423 NorthEast room, $125/wk, kitchen use Nice House Call 267-312-5039 N. Phila - $75 & up, SSI & Vets+ok, drug free, Avl Immed. 215-763-5565 N. PHILA $75 & up, SSI & Vets+ok, drug free,Furn, Avl Immed. Call 215-817-0893 N. Philadelphia, $85-$100/ week, 1 plus 1 Needed, 215-669-0912 N Phila. - Furnished rooms w/ prvt. entrance, $85/wk. No cooking, 55 + community, SSI ok. Call 215-236-8518 N. Phila. furnished room. Washer/dryer available. $90 & up. Call 347-430-0939 N. Phila Furn Rms SS & vets welcome. No drugs, $100 & up, 267-595-4414 N Phila: Rooms for rent. Furnished, w/d No smoking, $400 - $500 /mo+cable. Call (215)221-5538 South Hampton $745/mo +Utls Private Living room/bath no pets early payment discount sec dep 215-364-7443 S. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-357-5148 SW,N,W Movein Special! $90- $125/wk Clean furn rms SSI ok 215-220-8877 SW/Penrose Rm: $100 & up SSI & Disability ok. (267)225-0603 SW. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-357-5148

SW Phila room 58th & Beaumont newly renov. $125 week. 347-262-3485 WEST OAKLANE $110/wk. Furn, a/c, pvt entrance. Call 215-205-2437 West Phila, furnished rooms, Seniors Welcome, Call (267)401-8831 W. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-586-6502

homes for rent Philadelphia 3BR Section 8 approved 215-843-4481

Center City 10th & Pine 1BR/1BA $1,750 House for Rent, wash/dryer, dishwshr, fireplc, patio, no pets, May 1. 215-574-7678

54xx Addison St 3br/1 ba $850 New Kit,Ba,w/w carpet 1st mo rent 2 months security sec 8 ok 610-668-1784

54xx Florence Ave, 3br/1ba $795 full bsmt, fully rehabbed, 215-354-0404 7xx S 59th St. 3br/1.5ba large corner property, W/D, 215.879.1962 West Phila 1br- 6br $800+ Sec. 8 housing. w/w, h/w, w/d, Call 267-773-8265

75xx Sherwood Rd. 3br $1100 +utils. C/A, bsmnt, garage. 610-284-5631 Overbrook Park 3BR Call 610-642-5655

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2216 W. Tioga 2br/1ba $695/mo. With den. Call 215-409-8383

Lawncrest: 5xx Anchor St 3br/1ba Voucher ok. Call 215-407-2559

39xx Delhi St . 3BR/1BA $750/mo. porch, yard. Call Carol at 610-872-1797

59 E. Garfield 3BR/1BA $850 + utils Lg., remod, twin, sec 8 ok 215-499-2364

7xx E Allegheney 3BR/1BA $795 section 8 ok, no pets. Call 215-539-7866 KENSINGTON 4BR/1.5BA $800p/m House. Section 8 accepted. Freshly painted. Hardwood floor. 267-210-5810

1823 Wakeling St. 2BR/1BA $725 + utils Very cln, close to pub. trans. 215.817.5734

4654 James 2BR/1.5 BA $650 Twin, newly refurbished, quiet street, nice backyard. Available April 1st. Call 215- 624-7100 8xx Scattergood St. 3BR Sec 8 Apprvd, new remod 267-939-6965

Broad & Lehigh 2BR/1BA $575/mo. 1st floor, sec. dep. Call 267-226-9709 MAYFAIR 3BR/2.5BA $1250+utils Close to transp. / shops, full bsmt. 215694-4089 or 215-947-2805 8am-8pm

Chester - 2209 W. Third St. 4BR/2BA Large. $900.Sec 8 ok 610-772-3220

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Boston Terrier Pups - ACA, beautiful, S&W, $595. 610-286-9076.

5211 Greene St. 1br $650+utils Great location. Call 610-287-9857 DO YOU HAVE A SECTION 8 VOUCHER? Apts in Germantown and Olney-SPECIALS 1bdr&2bdr- GAS, WATER, HEAT FREE! Quiet, New Renov, Safe Living Community Call to schedule appt- 215.276.5600 West Oak Lane 3BR $930/mo Remodeled kitchen & bath contact. Call 215-477-5583

27XX Cranston Rd 2BR 1st flr duplx nice st. 2c.gar/bsmt nr trans w/d, $900+ utils credit chk + dep. Call Mr. Dennis 215820-4280 or Mrs. Dennis 267-205-9185

41xx Aspen St. 3br/1.5ba $795/mo. 215-409-8383

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2013 Hot Tub/Spa. Brand New! 6 person w/lounger, color lights, 30 jets, stone cabinet. Cover. Never installed. Cost $7K. Ask $2,850. Will deliver. 610-952-0033.

18xx S. 5th St. 2BR/1BA $900 New reno, W/D, sec 8 ok. 215-748-3076

MT. AIRY (Best Area) $130/wk SSI ok. Furnished, Cable. 215-730-8956

City Line Area 2br Apts beautiful, Spring Special 215.681.1723 Old Philly Cobbles Halves $90.00 Jumbos $175.00 per ton Delivery Available. 215-852-0547

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Lincoln cartier 1993 $4700 124 K MI Like New, 267-334-7832 Mercury Cougar XR7 1993 $995 6 cyl. 1 owner. Low mi. 215-620-9383 Pontiac Montana 2003. $2500 obo. Cold air, runs exc, V6, 484-363-9311 Saturn Station Wagon 1997 $1150 auto, nw insp, runs nw. 215-620-9383 Toyota Corolla CE 1999 $1,200/OBO 4 dr, 5 speed, 211k, NJ insp, 9/30/13, needs minor wk, Call 267-975-4483 Toyota Corolla LE 1995. $1500. 4 door, 4 cylinder, 5 speed, 151K, PA insp, needs no work. 215-620-9383 Volvo V90 SW 1998 $1,950 auto, nw insp, runs nw. 215-620-9383

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Cadillac 2000 Catera Gas Saver, 4 door, female driver, 35,000 ORIGINAL MILES, like new, garage kept, $4,975. Call Carol 215-627-1814 Chevy Astro 2004 Mini cargo van Fully equip, AC, light commercial $4985 Corporate disposal. Call 215-922-2165 Chrysler Sebring Conv. 2004 $4000 44K miles. Call 215-850-0061 Ford Crown Vict LX 1997 $1550 all pwr, insp, runs new. 215-620-9383 Ford Crown Victoria LS 2003 Luxury 4 dr, absolutely perfect, senior citizen, must sac today! $4950. Call 215-922-5342 Ford Explorer 2003 $5000 Blue Leather int 4x4 107,000 miles a/c cd player runs great. Call 267-595-0521

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